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Hawaii

By Dave Donnelly

Wednesday, October 24, 2001


Hoover Dam cops
divulge island ties

IN the wake of 9/11, we sometimes find ourselves in strange situations. Take Royal Guard Security honcho Rags Scanlan, for example. He attended a class reunion and while crossing a street, he reports, "Two DAM cops stop me!" What do you expect? These were Hoover Dam Police Department personnel, and one of the cops, Leevonnie Kates worked for Royal Guard Security in 1997-99. The other "DAM cop" was Richard Melim, now chief of DAM police, who was the younger brother of Charlie Melim, who grew up with Rags in Kapahulu. Small world ... Local investment advisor Wesley Yamamoto reports New York is alive and well, post 9/11, and after dinner at the packed Gotham Bar and Grill, he took in jazz bassist Ray Brown's 75th birthday at the Blue Note. While every building in the financial district has a security check, things are gradually getting back to as normal as they'll get ... Barbara and Todd Kaplan escaped to Maui from their digs in Edison, N.J., across the river from Ground Zero. But now they're looking forward to the Hawaiian Christmas Dinner that James McDonald of Pacific'O and I'o restaurants in Lahaina will prepare at the James Beard House in New York on Dec. 14 ...

KOHALA Hospital administrator Herb Yim was contacted by Verizon and told the facility's one and only pay phone, used by patients and visitors alike, was about to be disconnected. He got hold of Verizon's chief accountant, Johnelle Yamamoto, and begged and pleaded for the only pay phone in the isolated hospital. Yim must be some salesman because by the time he'd finished, Verizon agreed to leave the pay phone at the hospital for free! ...

Shockingly good

THE theme of "Equus," Peter Shaffer's play about a young man blinding the horses he loves, is the shock and discovery of how it came about. Suffice it to say it deals with his inabilities to connect with humans, including his mother, father, psychiatrist and parti- cularly a young woman who attempted to be his first sexual partner. Both the young man and the somewhat more experienced girl appear naked in every sense of the word in Brad Powell's production for TAG in the tiny theater on Keawe St. The young man is portrayed brilliantly by Noah Johnson and the girl by a brave young UH student, Devon Leigh. The key role of probing shrink is played by Eric Nemoto, but his stripping is limited to the revealing of his own psyche. If you fear total nudity, stay away, and don't go just to see a skin show because it's so much more than that ...

The living and the dead

I SAW two bits of theater during my recent San Francisco trip. Lily Tomlin was amusing although a bit dated in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." The American Conservatory Theater's double bill of Harold Pinter works from his earliest, "The Room," to his most recent "Celebration," a hilarious antidote to the somber "Room" written years later. ACT's next production is the musical version of James Joyce's "The Dead," which opens tomorrow. That same award-winning show will be produced locally at Hawaii Pacific University opening Nov. 9 ...



Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.

Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com



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