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Hawaii
IF Sports Illustrated keeps putting Tiger Woods on the cover, they're going to have to rename the mag "Golf Illustrated." Whoops, they already have one of those. After Woods won his third major tourney of the year, S.I. again turned to the Tiger for a cover headlined "Guts and Glory." The best of ‘Totally Tiger’
magazine anyone?all, probably not to be topped, however, was when he won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by 15 strokes and the only words on the cover to follow was, "Any questions?" I have one: why can't ABC's golf announcer Jim Nance get the simplest of Hawaiian pronunciation correct? Yesterday, as Tiger was wending his way through the "competition" at the NEC invitational at the once formidable Firestone course, Nance chronicled Tiger's incredible run. "It all began," said Nance, "at Cap-a-lua," pronouncing it as though someone were closing a toilet. It's "Kah-pa-lua," Jimbo ...
WHEN I saw that "The Computer Killer" was the name of the "Hawaii Five-O" episode shown Saturday on Channel 11, I remembered playing a small role in the episode. (My last royalty check was for 69 cents!) What I didn't remember was that the judge in the show was played by the late Jack Scott, then the publisher of the Star-Bulletin. Having a degree in theater, I'd appeared in several episodes before Jack Lord banished me (and my name) from the set. The fallout was over a cover feature on him and "Five-O" in TV Guide in which I was labeled the author of a parody of the actor in the Press Club Gridiron Show, then one of the high points on the social schedule of local newsmakers. Lord eventually sent me a card saying "Let's bury the hatchet," and we were friendly right up until his death ...
Grand fellows
WHEN Rip Taylor indicated an interest in being in a stage version of "The Producers," I told him he'd be great in the part played by René Auberjonois. He insisted Rene wasn't in the film, and I was so sure he was that I offered to bet him $1,000. I would have lost. Christopher Hewett played the part I had in mind, that of a transvestite director. Fortunately, Rip didn't bet ... Nicholas Cage believes in living on the edge. He appeared at a party at Kualoa Ranch where his latest film, "Windtalkers," is being shot, riding on a Big Hog motorcycle. What ever happened to limos? Then he showed up the other night at the Venus Night Club and enjoyed I-94's Club Night with Pablo Sato and Big Teez ...THERE'S going to be a release party to celebrate "Baywatch Hawaii" honcho Greg Bonann's new book, "Baywatch, Rescued from Prime Time." It'll be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. One person not likely to be there is new "Babewatch" babe Alicia Rickter, who was enjoying her first year on the show as a lifeguard recruit. She has been released ... New director of development at the Honolulu Academy of Arts is Judith M. Dawson, who held a similar position at Punahou before being named V.P. and Treasurer of the school ...
Chang a winner
SHE was hard at work all last week so she couldn't make the trip to New York to pick up her national award, but NPR correspondent Heidi Chang is still beaming over the Beamers. Chang, an independent contributor to NPR, won a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association. Her report was on "Asian American Issues," and was a profile of Nona Beamer, storyteller, musician and mother of singer Keola Beamer ...
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