Hawaii
TORA! TORA! TORA!" may have two endings -- one for Japanese showings and one for the rest of the world -- no kidding. 20th Century Fox officials say history won't be rewritten, but emphasis and stress can be shifted somewhat. Director Dick Fleischer says the U.S. version ends with Adm. Yamamoto saying, "All we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve." Vietnam War critics can interpret that however they wish. The Japanese version may end with a quote from Adm. Bull Halsey. (June 3, 1969) ... 1969: Pearl Harbor
movie revised for
Japanese viewersTHE WEEK THAT WAS
ONE OF THE great things about this country is that, surrounded by a national catastrophe like Watergate, we can still maintain a sense of humor. Nightclub comics have enough Watergate material to last for months. Several comedy albums have been made. Bumper stickers abound. The subject has even interjected itself into comic strips like "Doonesbury." Many people have tired of hearing so much about it, but the ability to laugh is important. Sometimes, too, nonrelated subjects become funny after Watergate. For example, audiences at "The Day of the Jackal" at the Varsity Theater have exploded with laughter when a security man tells a member of the French Cabinet that he's bugged all the Cabinet members' phones. And the fact that we can laugh about Watergate (though it's a personal tragedy for many involved) indicates that the country won't come toppling down, even though some individuals may. So laugh it up. (June 4, 1973) ...
WHEN JACK LORD got an invite to see artist Pegge Hopper's paintings at the Downtown Gallery, he took off from work to get down there. The only trouble was that he was a week early -- the Hopper works only went on display yesterday. (June 5, 1974) ... There are some mighty familiar faces in and around the Kapalua Bay Hotel these days. Burt Reynolds and current lady friend Loni Anderson (on the cover of the current People magazine) were ensconced there this week, just a hop away from good pal Carol Burnett, who lives at the Ironwoods of Kapalua. Mac Davis is in house there, as are the Johnny Carsons, though the "Tonight" show host can most often be found on the hotel tennis courts. (June 4, 1982) ...
LOOK at the Chinese beauty queens who're admiring new engagement rings: Darlene Pang, Miss Chinatown 1982, was married last month. Her successor, Sandra Young, gets married this month. The 1984 Miss Chinatown, Sari Choy, has a July wedding date set, and the 1985 queen, Deborah Young, opted for August wedding bells. Nice to see the four queens take on new names in the order of their reigning years. Oh yes, and in September, Miss Chinatown Hawaii 1986, Danelle Chung, will crown the 1987 queen. With all the marital activity around her, she should be ready for the altar soon. (June 3, 1986) ...
THEY FIRST MET at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C., and since then Shari Nakahara and Dr. Barclay Lew commuted between L.A. and San Francisco to see each other. They termed their relationship "A United Affair." When the former Stryker-Weiner public relations exec and Dr. Lew got married at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel recently, they kept the airline motif: Wedding favors were white chocolate airplanes in suitcase-shape boxes with a United luggage tag that read, "To happy landings forever, Love, Barclay and Shari." The couple entered the reception to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," now best known as the United Airlines theme, and instead of the traditional garter toss, Shari flew a paper airplane into the crowd of eligible men at the reception. The fellow who caught the plane received a pair of round-trip tickets for two to a neighbor island. (June 4, 1992) ...
"The Week That Was" recalls events culled from Dave Donnelly's columns over the past 30 years. Donnelly continues to write his Hawaii column Tuesdays through Fridays in the Star-Bulletin.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com