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Hawaii
IT looks like April Masini still has pull with "Baywatch Hawaii." One of her clients, Universal
beauty returnsJoyce Giraud, who was here as Miss Puerto Rico when Masini and her then husband Al, staged the Miss Universe contest, returns to the isles tonight. Now busy modeling and appearing in many new TV pilots and movies plus a national Coca Cola spot, Giraud will appear as herself in "Baywatch." ... Also doing well on the lifeguard series shooting in Hawaii is Stacy Kamano, who's now tooling around town in a silver Mercedes. Quite a move upward for a young model whose previous claim to fame was the cover of Honolulu magazine ... And while David Hasselhoff's new series has been canceled even before it aired, there are no plans for him to return to "Baywatch," except for a possible cameo ...
WAKING in the middle of the night sometimes has its advantages. I arose early yesterday morning and noticed it was appreciably darker outside than it had been when I went to bed. I then remembered the lunar eclipse was on, so I repared to my lanai with a telescope and had a better-than-birdseye view of the rare event just overheard ... And in another area of town, former Honolulu Press Club manager Elva Johnson and her roommate went onto their patio to see the eclipse when -- wham! -- the wind blew the door shut. No key on them, obviously, so Elva had to hoist her roomie up and force entry through the kitchen window of their Hawaii Kai residence. With all the burglaries going around, it's a wonder the cops didn't show up ...
Spanning the globe
FORMER Isle TV reporter Dalton Tanonaka is enjoying his anchor position with CNN in the Far East. With the help of former Kalani High classmate Ron Mullers, now a business leader in Jakarta, Tanonaka scored an interview with Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. The next night he interviewed CINCPAC Adm. Dennis Blair on his program ... And on the other side of the world, Lolly Susi, familiar to local theater goers, is appearing in "Orpheus Descending" in London, with talk of moving it to Broadway. Helen Mirren stars in the play, and Susi compares being on stage with her to playing tennis with Pete Sampras. She and Mirren have become good friends and she calls her, "one of the world's greats." ...CHEEK by jowl on Nuuanu Avenue Friday night was Indigo, elbow-to-elbow with people listening to music and doing the party-party-party scene. And next door at Havana Cabana, Bob Jones & the Hard Drive wailed away, and appeared to be well-named. The addition of brass to the group, which appears there on Fridays, gave them a sound much like Chicago, which made its sixth appearance on NBC's "Today Show" that morning ... Having breakfast relatively in cognito at Sam Choy's Breakfast Lunch & Crab yesterday were former Gov. George Ariyoshi and wife Jean, as lovely as ever ... You can almost make out the "bud," "wise" and "er" at the new Kapiolani Bandstand these nights. Seems some very vocal bullfrogs have taken up residence there and are happy to serenade nighttime park revelers -- and each other ...
June gives thumbs up
WHILE being interviewed by an ESPN Magazine reporter at A Pacific Cafe in Ward Centre last week, UH football coach June Jones got a phone call from a radio station in New Orleans. He's much in demand. Chef Jean Marie Josselin was all smiles when the coach gave his restaurant a flattering endorsement to the folks in the Big Easy ...
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