Hawaii
[THE WEEK THAT WAS]
JACK LORD is guest of honor at the Press Club tonight on the eve of the fourth season of shooting for "Hawaii Five-O." All the doomsayers who predicted early death for the series, meekly raise your hands. (April 14, 1971) ... Honolulu magazine's Anita Liptak has been known to show up late for work and then complain to her fellow workers that they should have called her. This week they got even. At 5 a.m. on Monday -- her birthday -- Anita received a call and heard a cheery answering service operator say, "Happy Birthday and a cheery good morning." Asked why she was calling, the operator informed Anita that her fellow workers had purchased a 5 a.m. wake-up for her for the next 12 months. Anita's response: "Damn! I was hoping it was an obscene phone call." You mean it wasn't? (April 12, 1974)... 1971: Jack Lord
lauded for 4 seasons of
‘Hawaii Five-O’IT was a memorable Easter for Kenny Rogers and wife Marianne. They spent the day at the Diamond Head estate of Layla and Essam Khoshoggi. Darcy Cook hired a six-foot-tall Easter Bunny to help the Rogers' son, Christopher, in an egg hunt. Turns out it was a double celebration -- Easter was also the wedding anniversary for the Khashoggis. (April 12, 1985)...
TIME, as they say, flies. Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the first show held in the Blaisdell Arena, then known as the Honolulu International Center. It was the first "Million Dollar Party," sponsored by Arena Associates, an outfit which consisted of Tom Moffatt, Ron Jacobs and Tom Rounds, all K-POI disc jockeys. Look at the cast of rock 'n' rollers on hand for the show: Bobby Rydell, Teddy Randazzo, Jan & Dean, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Johnny Crawford, Ray Peterson, Paul & Paula, April & Nino, the Dovells and Leslie Gore, who got the measles and couldn't go on. Chuck Berry was to have appeared, but his parole officer said he couldn't leave the country. This, mind you, five years after Statehood. The cost for all the above was $2. That's no typo -- two bucks for all seats was the charge. (April 11, 1989) ...
AFTER 26 years of government service, mostly with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Malcolm Barr retired at what seems like a propitious moment. Barr, who formerly worked both for the Star-Bulletin and the Associated Press in Honolulu before entering government service, returned last week and looked up some old pals. He retired shortly before his boss, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and others (including Brown's press secretary whom he knew well), died in the plane crash in Croatia. Might he have been on that flight? "I could have been," he says. (April 8, 1996).
The Week That Was recalls events culled from Dave Donnelly's three-dot columns over the past 30 years. Donnelly continues to write his Hawaii column Tuesdays to Fridays in the Star-Bulletin.
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