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AT least that truck driver didn't become the sole "Survivor," which is what I feared all along. In fact, Susan Hawk's diatribe Surviving
guilty pleasureagainst Kelly Wiglesworth, one of the two finalists, was so over-the-top I thought it would ensure the victim's victory on a sympathy basis. But Richard Hatch, won, as he schemed to do as effortlessly as possible from Day One and is now, as his name states, rich. A million dollars worth. It's almost a guilty confession to admit I got hooked into watching the series, and I don't see a similar series luring me into its tangled web again. Certainly not "Big Brother," which puts a group of the world's most boring people into a camera filled house to prove just how uninteresting they are. And as bad as Susan, the tapioca-loving trucker in "Survivor," came off, Rudy Boesch, the 72-year-old geezer Seal, and Colleen Haskell , the cute 23-year-old innocent, came across the best, the first for keeping his word and the second for changing her mind based on what she heard. Go figure ... Glenn Muranaka, president and G.M. of Meadow Gold Dairies, staged a similar "Survivor"-type test of ingenuity, communication and team-building skills. Employees selected for the retreat, staged at a mystery location, didn't have to bump off the other players like their TV counterparts to reach their goals, instead they had to work together ...
Mysterious ways
AFTER officiating at the wedding of Steve Hunt and Delta flight attendant Janine Hathaway at the Hunt Estate on Kauai, Bob Turnbull got absent-minded. Turnbull, the former Chaplain of Waikiki Beach, placed his wallet on top of his rent a car while cleaning it out, and forgot it. He got a call the next morning from another hotel guest who'd spotted the wallet and retrieved it, and wanted to return it. The man refused a reward, stating, "Finding wallets is my call in life. I must have found a dozen like this in the past 20 years." During their chat, Turnbull learned that the Good Samaritan was not only from California, but from Orange County. And not only that, but from Turnbull's hometown of Mission Viejo. Turns out they live eight blocks from one another and, in two weeks, all will gather for a celebratory dinner at the Turnbull house. All together, now: "It's a Small World." ...YOU weren't seeing things if you thought you saw a sumo wrestler squeezing himself into an Atlantis submarine the other day. It was Grand Champion Wakanohana, and Japan's Nippon Television was filming a 90-minute documentary on his life leading up to the danpantsu shiki, the removal of the topknot at his official retirement ceremony in October. Wakanohana is retiring at 29, having suffered injuries for much of his career. I can see how, if he keeps squeezing into submarines ...
IF someone says to you, "Come up and see my etchings," it may be on the up and up. "Stretching the Point" is a demonstration of artists etching and drawing in a free demonstration at the UH Art Gallery Sunday through Sept. 22 ...
Evita replaces Annie
THOUGH the Army Community Theater had announced "Annie Get Your Gun" was on tap, the holders of the rights suddenly withdrew them. Reason? A revival of the show with Bernadette Peters has been a hit on Broadway and a touring company is expected to play in Honolulu next year. The Army dates may conflict, so ACT is replacing the Irving Berlin musical with "Evita," by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It'll play throughout the month of May ...
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