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Hawaii
THE frost may be on the pumpkin, as the poem has it, but while it was nippy in the Big Apple yesterday they escaped the onslaught of winter. Honolulu's Dave Sayre was back in New York yesterday on business for Aston Hotels, and, as he did last year, showed up on the NB Isles plugged
on ‘Today’C "Today" show. He was holding a sign that read, "Cold? Warm up with Aston Hotels Hawaii" ... There was another Hawaii connection for Sayre because showing up on "Today" was actor David Hasselhoff, who, as Katie Couric noted, had left the "Baywatch" babes behind and was about to appear (and sing) on Broadway in "Jekyll and Hyde." Sayre also got to take in the ticker tape parade for the the World Series winning New York Yankees. Since Wall Street no longer uses ticker tape, confetti and shredded papers are dropped from buildings along the parade route ...
ONE localite with an eye on Broadway would have to be Punahou grad Beth Fagan. For five years she worked by day for a San Francisco investment firm and at night fulfilled her inner dreams by singing in Bay area jazz clubs and performing in plays. She's now taking a gamble by giving up her day job, moving to L.A. and waiting discovery. She has other, undiscovered talents as well. Fagan co-wrote, directed and acted in a play called "Pantheon," which was showcased at the Globe Theater in West Hollywood and received standing ovations. Tim Fagan, Beth's brother (Punahou '97), now a senior at the University of Michigan, composed and recorded the original musical score for "Pantheon." ...
Cash and Carey
IT took the persuasiveness of the Society of Seven to get a ballroom full of people (including Gov. Ben Cayetano and Mayor Jeremy Harris and their wives) onto the dance floor to gyrate to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." The scene was the Governor's Ball, the annual March of Dimes recognition for community contributions, which this year went to Outrigger Hotels' CEO David Carey. The governor and Ann Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of FDR, presented the award. And after everyone had done the "Chicken Dance" to his or her heart's content, another Outrigger exec got a special treat. Max Sword, who was a lounge singer before changing professions and becoming the hotel chain's VP of industry affairs, was invited by singer Mary Gutzi to join her on stage and do a duet of "Black Magic" with Dr. T's Big Band. It was a dream come true for Sword, who hopes money raised will help many dreams come true throughout the community ...LOCAL attorney David Farmer appeared in a couple of "Hawaii Five-O" shows here in the '70s, but never mentioned to either Jack Lord or James MacArthur that his aunt was the famous actress Frances Farmer. The reason was simple: Aunt Frannie appeared in a Playhouse 90 episode with Lord in 1957 and that same year did an Armstrong Circle Theater episode in which she played MacArthur's mother. Given her reputation for outspoken negativity toward men playing opposite her, lawyer Farmer didn't want to take the chance she'd blasted either of them ...
Well-Known Wally
HE sold his company and the use of his name but Wally Amos is still famous in the community and he'll share his grit and determination in the face of adversity at the Small Business Hawaii luncheon tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. at the Blaisdell Pikake Room. Bet he'll play kazoo, too ...
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