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JUST back from Sydney, where he attended the Australian Film Festival and eyed several potential movies for the Hawaii International Film Festival, is new director Chuck Boller. The outgoing Aussies Boller declines
to host starswere aghast at how he handled the situation when he was puttering in his Lanikai home and heard, "Is this where the party is?" He looked up and there was actor Ben Affleck, here for "Pearl Harbor" shooting, and his very close personal friend Gwyneth Paltrow, who'd slipped in the back door. Rather than say, "Oh yeah," Boller directed them to the house next door where another "Pearl Harbor" actor was renting. I think I'd have invited them in ... And speaking of "Friends," one of them was frolicking on a Big Isle beach the other day. That would be Courteney Cox Arquette, there with new hubby David Arquette, and I know, what does she see in him? One onlooker described her as looking "skinnier than a bony barracuda." ...
ALSO looking extremely slender, though not totally by choice, is Sheila Sanford, widow of late man-about-town Sam Sanford. Following her seemingly successful battle with cancer, the awful disease returned with a vengeance. Learning of this, Don Murphy volunteered his bar and grill for a fund-raising event for Sheila to help with medical bills. It'll take place Thursday at Murphy's at 5 p.m. For $25 you get plenty of pupu from Don's grill and two concoctions from the bar. Be prepared to bid for more goodies, donated by Sheila's many friends in the community ...
Competing with Monica
YOU may have read where Monica Lewinsky, trying something new in her life, is now designing handbags and offering them on the Internet. Thatdoesn't deter Sunny Hawaii owner Cheryl Schaefer, who proudly refers to herself as a "bag lady." Her tropical print bags are now being carried by Fred
Segal of Beverly Hills and in less than a year she's added 40 accounts to her client list ...
WITH some 20,000 Lions dispersed throughout Waikiki - not all drinking coffee - and another ferocious feline, Tiger Woods, taming the feared Pebble Beach Golf Course like nobody ever has in the U.S. Open, what's left for an animal encore? One cat who's every bit as happy as Tiger would have to be Star-Bulletin cartoonist Corky Trinidad. He appears to be putting his vacation to good use and on Saturday carded a hole-in-one at the Prince Course ...
SINGER Shari Lynn and husband Michael Acebedo are off to France and Italy to celebrate their 25th anniversary, but she's lined up talented replacements to sit in with
Fascinatin' Rhythm at the Warrior's Lounge of the Hale Koa in her absence. Guesting tonight, before taking off for a jazz festival in Vancouver, B.C., is singer Jimmy Borges Then on June 27 Sonya Mendez will liven things up and on July 4, Al Romero sits in ...
Whiter shade of pale
ALL the hoopla over the 30th anniversary of the Lahaina, Kaanapali & Pacific Railroad, and the pounding of a golden spike to mark the occasion, brought back a memory. I dug into the files and uncovered a photo of the original golden spike being hammered in 1970. Roger Ritchie of Hawaiian Airlines took the photo, which he labeled "A witness to our times." And there I was, black-haired and black-bearded, staying in shade under an umbrella and soon to be the first passenger to board the train for its initial run. A colleague, eyeing the photo, quipped, "Ah, you used Grecian Formula back then." ...
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