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Hawaii
NOT such a safe way to shop. Aaron Placourakis, the Supermarket
crime spreerestaurateur who owns Aaron's atop the Ala Moana Hotel and Sarento at the Top of the Ilikai, should have known better. But rather than just grab something at one of his eateries to take home to serve mainland guests, he stopped into a supermarket for a lemon and herb chicken and ended up chatting with an old friend, Judy Holden. On leaving, he discovered his cellular phone was missing and suspected someone had lifted it. Holden, apparently an amateur sleuth, had Placourakis use a store phone and dial his cellular number while she scurried about the store looking for a ringing phone. Alas, Holden surmised, it probably had already left the premises. A week later, Holden was at the same store, and set her $150 designer sun glasses down to write a check, and as she was about to check out discovered they'd vanished. She reported it to the manager who stated that they couldn't accept responsibility for articles left on a counter. But a letter to corporate headquarters resulted in an apology and a check for $150 ...
HOW old Don Ho? Don Ho fine, how you? Or so goes the old gag about a telegram sent to Cary Grant. But some people have no idea about Ho's age. When a young woman on "Jeopardy" had to respond to, "He sang the Academy Award-winning song 'Sweet Leilani' in the 1937 movie, 'Waikiki Wedding,' " her response was, "Who was Don Ho?" Don was just a youngster when Bing Crosby sang that song in the movie ...
Gabbing with Gusto
GUSTO Magazine's Jo McGarry does a talk show on KCCN called "The Gustophiles," and she nabbed a couple of lulus for tomorrow's show. Between the better part of 4 to 6 p.m., McGarry chats and mostly listens to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt ("Angela's Ashes," " 'Tis.") and his brother, Malachy ("A Monk Swimming.") She interviewed the two when they were special guests at the Maui Writer's Conference in September. Both McCourts talk about their lives and their mother, Angela. Asked how she would have viewed the beauty of Hawaii, Frank McCourt responded, "She could never comprehend this, but I would love to have seen her, just once, walk down to the beach and put her poor, tired feet into the water." ...WHERE else would music promoter Tom Moffatt stay during his just concluded trip to Bali but the Hard Rock Hotel? Yes, they even have one in Bali. He was meeting with his Far East promoting partner, a chap calling himself Banana Dan, about upcoming shows in Guam, Saipan, Palau and Bali. (Dan is some producer -- his wife is 19 and they already have two kids.) Moffatt wanted to get some Balinese shirts to bring home as gifts, and was assured there were plenty at the airport. He discovered one tiny problem -- they were all Local Motion shirts from Hawaii ...
Boots on the Beach
THE American Cancer Society is $120,000 richer thanks to a fund-raiser at Waialae Country Club called "Boots on the Beach." Donning Western attire to lend a hand, pardner, were the likes of Doc Buyers, Richard Dahl, Jim Schuler, Don Murphy and many more who helped raise the money in memory of Patti Schuler, who died in March after battling ovarian cancer. In the auction, one hell-raiser bid on and won a new Harley Davidson for $18,500. A crowd favorite: The tequila shooter girls, armed with tequila shot glasses on a sling. Howdy, pardners ...
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