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JEANNETTE PAULSON was honored at "A Tribute to Asian Films: The Launching of www.asianfilms.org" in L.A. March 21. Jeannette received an award for creating the Web site and for promoting international cultural understanding. The pre-Oscar event was sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC and sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science. "It was fab," Jeannette said, "with tents of Asian food, drink, entertainment, media exhibits, new Asian film clips playing on large screens outside under the stars, and lots of excitement about the launching of the Asian film Web site I have been developing since l996." Among the 200 guests were actresses Vivian Wu, Lisa Lu and Rena Owen, and director Sherwood Hu, a UH grad ... Paulson is honored
for Asian films site
Jean, Darian step out
FORMER Isle gal about town Jean Dickinson, with Hill and Knowlton in L.A., went to the Oscars and the Governor's Ball. She congratulated Marsha Gay Harden, chatted briefly with Jennifer Lopez and said "aloha" to The Donald (Trump), "who was not very friendly," Jean said. She also took photos and "didn't get busted" and strolled the red carpet twice. Jean said ex-islander Darian Robin, with M1 advertising in L.A., went to Vanity Fair's bash at Morton's, Dreamworks' party at Dominick's and Elton John's fund-raiser at Moomba ...ONWARD: Debora Bridges is new communications chief at the Kahala Mandarin. Lynell Totoki is working with her ... Joe Oba, former Iolani and UH gridder, resting at home after hip replacement ... The theme for Alan Beall's birthday party April 11 at the Row Bar is cool eyeglasses ... Songs by the AT&T Diamond Head Theatre Shooting Stars gave Coldwell Banker's party a lift at DHT Thursday, prior to the performance of "Steel Magnolias" ... Harry Soria's "Territorial Airwaves" offers Hawaiian music stars of the '60s and '70s on 105 KINE-FM tomorrow at 5 p.m. ...
BULL HAYNES, former heavy-machinery dealer for isle plantations, celebrated his 85th birthday in Sprecklesville, Maui, March 18. Bull's kids, Warren, Linda, Tommy and Jimmy, and daughter-in-law HoneyBun Auld Haynes tossed the party. Rick and Crystal Rose Towell, Bamboo Opperman and his daughter, Beth Andrewes, flew over from Oahu for it, and Jack Ackerman, Barbara McNamara, Jerry McDonald and Zadoc and Hilary Brown were part of a Maui group. The stars were Honeygirl Hoomananui and her mom, Nancy Puulei Piilani. They checked in from Kauai and sang and played the uke ...
Capping the act; Krall next
TENNILLE started slowly with ballads in her pops concert last Saturday and got better and better. The Concert Hall crowd was hers by the time the Captain drifted on stage. The Cap looked somewhat lost as he made a cameo appearance at the keyboard and they did their hits such as "Love Will Keep Us Together." Tennille could have worn her gorgeous backless gown with plunging neckline to the Academy Awards. And the Captain really wasn't lost at sea, it was just part of the enjoyable act. Don't miss the next Concert Hall pops spectacular starring jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall, April 13-15. She's terrific ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com