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YOU may not have heard of Chris Botti, but chances are you will. Particularly if you attend the Sting concert tonight at the Maui Arts Cultural Center or tomorrow at Blaisdell Arena. Rising star joins Sting
Botti is the trumpet player (and Verve recording artist) who's featured on Sting's "Brand New Day" tour. The trumpeter gained early attention for his Verve debut album, "First Wish," his score for the film "Caught" and his '97 release "Midnight Without You." His most recent album, "Slowing Down the World," contains eight original compositions. In addition, he's backed such artists as Paul Simon, Natalie Merchant and Joni Mitchell, so those attending the Sting show may be getting an early look at an artist of the future ... ON the "Today" show yesterday, much hype went into the opening of a time capsule in Huntington, W.Va. which then "Today" host Dave Garroway and chimp J. Fred Muggs helped bury in 1956, to be opened April 25, 2000. Well, holy Al Capone, Batman! Inside Al Roker and some town politicos found nothing but a pile of rank-smelling newspapers which didn't hold up well after being in a capsule underground for 44 years. Not very interesting stuff in the papers, either. As Roker put it, "It smells like my old gym locker." And Geraldo Rivera must have enjoyed a good laugh. He's taken much joshing over the years for his greatly anticipated live TV opening of Al Capone's vault in Chicago some years back where he found nothing at all ...
Queries
WHY can't KHNL weatherman Guy Hagi ever use the word "of" between "couple days" or "couple feet?" It makes him sound stupid, which he couldn't be and still date KGMB weather reporter Kim Gennaula, who's quite bright ... Why hasn't anyone explained what the father of the Schweitzer twins meant when he told Judge Rikki May Amano, "I might just blow your court right off the door." Say what? Did he mean blow the door off the court? And if so, why? ... Why do the ads for a Donna Mercado Kim fund raiser headline the event, "Enter the Dragon 2000?" Are they trying to paint her a new image, or is she already considered dragonesque? ... Was it because she was bonding with another attractive young woman, KHON's Malia Mattoch, that Britney Spears sounded so sweet and bright in a TV interview, and unlike her image of being an airhead? ... NOW where do you suppose a woman like Alice Gorlington, a former member of the Hawaii Opera Theater, would spend her 75th birthday? How about Hank's Cafe Honolulu. The septuagenarian, who now lives in Napa Valley, didn't need a microphone to fill the house, accompanied by Hank's Saturday night regular Pierre Grill and Honolulu Symphony violinist Romy Gepner. Some of the Nuuanu Ave. regulars must have wondered if they'd walked into the wrong bar by mistake, with arias from "Barber of Seville" and "Carmen" filling the air. The birthday girl was accompanied by her daughter, Nancy Ruden and florist friend Linda Hamilton ...
More O.J.
LOCAL adman Marty Schiller has heard from his showbiz brother, Lawrence Schiller, that a four-hour mini-series of his book, "American Tragedy" has been picked up by CBS. It's about the O.J. Simpson case, particularly the "dream team" of attorneys who got O.J. acquitted. Schiller will direct the mini-series with a script by his pal, Norman Mailer ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
His columns run Monday through Friday.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com