Hawaii
HOW is it possible that a local lad, a graduate of Mid-Pacific Institute and the Mid-Pacific School of the arts, could get a recurring role in what may be the hottest new show on TV, and no word of it gets out. The young man is Daniel Bess. The '95 grad has a regular role on the new Fox TV series, "24," which premieres tonight. "24" is a 24-hour episode set in real time, 24 hours in the life of counter-intelligent CIA agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland. Bess plays the blind date of Sutherland's daughter (played by Elisha Cuthbert) and his character expands from that. The role is a giant step in the acting career of Bess, whose dad is Benjamin ("Buddy") Bess of Bess Press and whose mom is UH English professor Ann Rayson ... Isle actor, Bess, has role
on new Fox series, ‘24’JUST back from Washington is David Farmer, head of the State Foundation of Culture and the Arts. The reason for the trip was a meeting with reps from five invited states (Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio and South Carolina) who were recognized for forging trailblazing arts education partner- ships between state arts agencies, departments of education and alliances for arts education. While there, Farmer caught a production of A.R. Gurney's drama, "Far East," a story of forbidden love set in 1954 centering on an American sailor in Japan who falls in love with a local girl during the Korean War. He's now wondering if a Honolulu production could be on the horizon ...
Wrong Wright: When I referred to Harold Wright of Cades Schutte Fleming and Wright as "the late," it came as a surprise to colleagues who'd seen him the day before. Sorry, wrong Wright. This one is very much alive ...
Millions for education
BACK in 1982, John T. Moir Jr., a sugar plantation exec and his wife, the former Gertrude Fisher, a school principal in Hawaii, set up a trust in which UH-Manoa and HPU would share in the proceeds. The UH, for example, was to be given $2 million from which $100,000 would be distributed to students in scholarships which would be renewable for up to four years. One hitch: The trust would only be allotted to the universities upon the death of the Moirs' two children, who would receive proceeds of the trust until their deaths. The final Moir offspring has now passed on and the schools are preparing distribution of the annual monies they'll receive ...WHEN Konishiki was in town promoting his golf tournament to benefit the Konishiki Kids Foundation, he made a promotional visit to the Perry & Price Saturday show at the Sheraton Waikiki's Hanohano Room. During the interview, the sumo legend mentioned he has a popular radio show in Japan and joked with Michael W. Perry and Larry Price that "you guys better hurry and get old so I can come in." ...
Vic still trading
THERE'S no longer a Trader Vic's in Hawaii, but an extraordinarily expensive new one is about to open at Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto, the 14th Vic's in operation worldwide. It was Victor J. "Trader Vic" Bergeron, who created the original Mai Tai in his Oakland restaurant in 1944. A suggestion that Don Beach of Don the Beachcomber may have been the originator of the drink, draws nothing but snears from Trader Vic fans ...
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