Wood Craft
THE hour-long documentary "Surfing for Life," with senior surfers Rabbit Kekai, John Kelly, Woody Brown, Fred Van Dyke and Peter Cole, and narrated by Beau Bridges, airs tonight on KHET at 8:30. Women surfers in the film include Anona Napoleon, Shay Bintliff and Eve Fletcher. The surfers range in age from mid-60s to mid-90s. Rabbit talks of passing on surfing knowledge given to him from Duke Kahanamoku. The shots of monster waves are gorgeous. Scenes of old Hawaii are included. Music in David L. Brown's film is by Gabby Pahinui, the Sons of Hawaii and Tom Disher. A two-page photo spread runs tomorrow in the Sunday New York Times showing surfers in the film at Waimea Bay ... Seniors stand tall
in ‘Surfing for Life’
Hickam aloha and shaka
THE CREW of our spy plane arriving at Hickam Thursday was a feel-good day at the air base. One crewman flashed the shaka sign more than once on national TV. Harry Soria e-mails that he knows the mom of a crewman of the spy plane that was forced down. However, her son was not on the last mission. The crewman says the Chinese pilot came very close on past missions. A photo showing the Chinese jet up close, taken during a previous mission, was included in Harry's e-mail ...CALIFORNIA Pizza Kitchen launches its line of frozen pizzas here with a benefit for Variety School April 24 at the Kahala Mall CPK, 6 p.m. CPK co-founders Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield, two lawyers who gave up their legal pads for pizza cutters in 1985, will attend. A buffet dinner of pizza, pasta, salad, beer, wine and dessert is offered at $40 per. All $40 goes to Variety School for kids with special needs. Call 732-2835 ... Dixie Grill offers 50 percent reduction in food prices for striking public school teachers and UH instructors and their families ... L'Uraku marks its fifth anniversary April 20, 6 p.m. Chef Hiroshi Fukui lays out a fab spread for such events. The popular singing group Na Leo will perform. Tickets are $65 ...
HAPPY birthday today to Coldwell Banker VP Margaret Murchie, one of Canada's greatest exports, who, for her special day, bought a red BMW plus a gown from Neiman that she will wear tonight at Contempo ... Marking his 70th today is golf pundit Frank Steinmiller, a big gun in Roosevelt athletics in his day, who is well known at Kailua establishments ... Sales people at Neiman were dressed in their Sunday best Tuesday, taking care of InCircle party customers. On the third floor, which had an Asian theme, Neimanites Vince Motas and Henry O'Neal looked like a pair of Arabian knights. "It was Indian attire," Vince insists ...
Mandarin meanderings
HOKU'S Chef Wayne Hirabayashi and his staff are gearing up for a Shellfish Extravaganza at the Kahala Mandarin, a selection of shellfish creations, Thursday through April 28 ... Kumi Iseki, owner of Tokyo Tokyo at the Mandarin, holds a benefit for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawaii at her fine dining Japanese restaurant Thursday. Tickets are $100 and $250. Call 973-5683 ext. 240 ...THE END: What, not even a third-place award for Star-Bulletin cartoonist Corky Trinidad in the Hawaii Publishers Association's Pa'i awards? That's laughable ...
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