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YOU hear so much about the early calls and long days of actors, Cage carouses
at Pipelinebut it hasn't seemed to have an effect on Nicolas Cage. The seemingly tireless Cage has been making the rounds from this club to that -- he stopped in recently at Don Ho's Island Grill -- but if he had to pick a favorite it might well be the Pipeline Cafe on Pohukaina. Cage, who's in town filming "Windtalkers," stopped by the club three times in the past week, and with six more weeks of filming, may well return. He got his groove back on the dance floor and his drink favorite, you should pardon the expression, was Sex on the Beach ...
ONE localite who might well seek out Jimmy Buffett when the singer/author appears here in concert is Honolulu P.R. man Joel Kennedy. He read Buffett's book, "A Pirate Looks at Fifty," and was captivated when the singer talked about tooling around France with his good pal, Guy dela Valdene. The very same dela Valdene attended the tiny New England prep school called Kent School, where Kennedy was one of his classmates in 1963. Is the world getting smaller, or what? ...
STILL doing the coochie coochie after all these years is Charo, who performed for several years at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. She's one of the stars appearing on the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon Sunday and Monday on KITV. Charo still keeps in touch with Al Bardi, her conductor for 13 years, who's living in Honolulu and spending much of his time golfing these days ...
Good neighbors
THE location managers for "Jurrasic Park III," filming on the North Shore, wrote those who worked in the vicinity of their shoot and thanked them for cooperating. While making the feature, location managers Val Kim and Marilyn Mick invited Ken and Cynthia Anderson to lunch and to watch location filming for the dinosaur sequel at Dillingham Field, which is directly behind Ken's skyline business, Drop Zone. Turns out they had lots of friends in common, among them Leo Reed, head of the Teamsters Union in L.A., which deals with the moviemakers on a regular basis; and Gary Compton, head bodyguard for Sylvester Stallone. As if "Rocky" would need muscle! ...FIRST we had Mimy Chen recording Hawaiian songs in Chinese. Now we have Cindy Wang singing Chinese songs in Chinese. Wang was a leading soprano at the Shanghai Opera before taking up residence in Hawaii. Her CD, "Flower in the Mist," was arranged by Pierre Grill of Hawaii, David Zou of San Francisco and Sun Yun of China, a truly international effort. It's on sale at Border's in Ward Centre. So, too, is Greg Bonann's book, "Baywatch, Rescued from Prime Time," beginning tomorrow. It'll be unveiled tonight at a private party at the Hilton Hawaiian Village ...
Wieners and Schnitzel
DON'T expect mere hot dogs when D.K. Kodama of Sansei Seafood cooks for a party of 10 at the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile on Sept. 9. Winner of the party in a KCCN contest, sponsored by Kraft, also gets 10 tickets to the UH Warriors' home opener that night ... Meanwhile, Alfred Vollenweider is enjoying a little vacation in his native Switzerland, but will be returning, and to celebrate being back is preparing a special dinner Sept. 15-17 at Alfred's in Century Center. It'll consist of half of a lobster Thermidor and an aged New York steak, soups to dessert included, all for less than $30. Warning, at that price it's only for those three nights ...
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