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LEAVE it to an airline exec to take a limo to a "Walk." Norm Reeder, United's top man in Hawaii, was invited to join a gathering of Hawaii's top visitor industry leaders for a group photo promoting the upcoming Charity Walk. He told Walk chairman Noel Trainor, G.M. of the Trainor deaf to ‘can’t’
Hilton Hawaiian Village, he couldn't make it due to a UAL breakfast seminar he was hosting that morning. Stuff and nonsense, replied the Irish-born Trainor, and he immediately arranged for the Hilton limo to pick up Reeder at his meeting, whisk him off to the photo session and back with hardly anyone noticing his absence. You'll be seeing the photo, with Reeder actually in it and not digitally added, in ads for the Charity Walk, slated for Saturday, May 20. Last year, more than 175 local charities benefited from the $780,000 raised by walkers on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Isle ...
REHEARSALS for "Deathtrap" at Manoa Valley Theater must be strenuous. They're the equivalent of a weight loss plan. One cast member, Jesse Michael Mothershed, was already pretty buff, and is now even more so after rehearsals and the Body for Life program. Also on the same program, Greg Howell is down about 20 pounds from his last MVT appearance in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." And even Dwight Martin, who plays the lead in the show, says his rehearsal regimen and strict rationing have knocked 20 off him as well. The show opens May 17, the same night "Phantom" holds its big opening party at Diamond Head Theater ...
Bronster Bash
The Professional Women's Network is having former Attorney General Margery Bronster as its next speaker May 24 at the Hale Koa Hotel. Men are welcomed to attend, and many do. This could be an interesting "over the back fence" type of talk, however, if Bronster shares such war stories as her battle with the Bishop Estate Trustees and then the legislature, which refused to confirm her for another term. You think the lawmakers didn't get lobbied pretty effectively by the estate gang? Maybe Bronster will have insights into the matter ...AT the cooking demonstration on the Royal Hawaiian lawn put on by chefs from various resorts along the Kona-Kohala Coast this week, emcees were Kim Genaulla of KGMB-TV and Guy Hagi of KHNL. Though they work for competing stations, they're very much on the same wave length personally ... Travel writer Bob Bone was among the many peripatetic scribes chowing down, and he brought along his wife and daughter, the latter visiting from the Mainland. "Her husband's a songwriter," Bone told me. Anything I might have heard of? "Well," he replied between chews, "he wrote a tune called 'You Light Up My Life.' " Residuals on that song alone have to be substantial. And once again I reminded the travel writer of the staffer's hope that Bob's canine pet would die, prompting the headline, "Bone Buries Dog." ...
Fame just a mouse click away
SO you'd like to be a symphonic conductor? Your dreams could just be a click away. The Honolulu Symphony is holding an online auction, the first to raise money for a non-profit organization in Hawaii, and one lucky bidder can win conducting lessons from Maestro Sam Wong and then conduct both "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Hawaii Pono'i" to kick off one concert in the coming season. To bid, log onto www.honolulusymphony.com ...
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