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Hawaii
THAT little boy I said stole the show at the Jim Nabors Christmas concert at the Hawaii Theatre is 7-year-old Trent Nakamura, a Trent ID’d
as show stealersecond grader at Wilson Elementary. Everyone from friends, the Wilson principal and Trent's dad, Craig Nakamura, responded to my wonderment about who he was, since everyone in the house was watching him. Trent's a member of Carolee Nishi's troupe of performers and has been practicing with them only since mid-October. He and his fellow second graders will be performing at Kahala Mall Friday from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m., doing a dozen Christmas songs. Hawaii Theatre G.M. Burton White remembers three years ago when young Nakamura attended the Nabors show and wormed his way backstage. White says he overhead the youngster say, "Some day I'll be in this Christmas show." And was he ever! ...
FORMER Miss Hawaiis have been eclipsed by Angie Baraquio, who went on to become Miss America, but her immediate predecessor as Miss Hawaii is still here. Candes Meijide Gentry will sing Broadway and movie tunes at the Diamond Head Grill tomorrow at 8 p.m. She'll be joined by Laurence Paxton for a duet and have Stephanie Smart join her on "Colors of the Wind." You can enjoy the music over dinner or cocktails ...
Dry roast
IT was a relatively dry roast of longtime printing exec Anita Liptak yesterday, and while it's hard to think of her as either shy or retiring, she is in fact retiring -- from business at any rate. I was one of those invited to participate in a mini-roast of Liptak, who used to prefer a "wet lunch" to a dry roast, especially at the old Press Club. I ended with the story of her wanting to give something back to her community by running for the Neighborhood Board. You'd think working in the print business she might get T-shirts printed up without a typo, but no. Her shirts came out reading, "Vote Liptak -- Neighborhood Broad." It appealed to her sense of humor so much that she and her supporters all wore them ...SCARY scenario: With George W. Bush surrounding himself with so many of his daddy's men -- James Baker etc., what if another of Bush Sr.'s men, Dick Cheney, suddenly died or became incapacitated and had to step down as vice president? Are you ahead of me here? Who is out there ready to step in and make George W. look like a Rhodes scholar by comparison? Why Dan Quayle, daddy's V.P. choice, of course ... The stench from a horse which had died in a pasture just feet from a school building at Kailua High resulted in the students being released to leave early. They now believe in the adage, "You can't beat a dead horse." ...
Shopping rest stop
AMONG those stopping by Malama, the Aveda Lifestyle Salon Spa next to Neiman Marcus on the third floor at Ala Moana Center, was Congressman Neil Abercrombie. (No, his massages aren't half-priced, and stop being cute.) Owners Mary and Max Suiter, who already own the Malama in Manoa and are opening another in Kailua, greeted a spa-full of invitees at the grand opening. But stealing the show, and more than a few of the women's hearts as well, was Aveda President Dominique Conseil, a handsome Frenchman who had to stop at a nearby store and purchase a colorful shirt to conform to the "aloha attire" called for on invites. Abercrombie asked about buying a gong used as decoration in the spa, quipping, "This would surely come in handy on the House floor." ...
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