Hawaii
THIS has to be a first, but all four former Advertiser three-dot columnists of old are in town at the same time. Somehow I've managed to outlast all of them. Eddie Sherman, the original 'Tiser three-dotter, is still living here and writing a once-a-week column in MidWeek. His successor, George Daacon, living in Florida, is back with his local-born wife this week and was lunching at the New Otani. The man who followed Daacon, Tom Horton, is also back in town this week with wife Karen (who also toiled for the 'Tiser) and daughter Kate. And of course Don Chapman, who took over the job when Horton left, is now both with MidWeek and its sister publication, the Star-Bulletin, writing the "My Kind of Town" serial that runs on the page opposite this one. After four daily three-dotters, the Advertiser gave up the genre ... Former 3-dot columnists
converge on HonoluluTry to remember: "The Fantasticks" closed in New York after a 42-year run. (It opened eight years before this column began.) Longtime Honolulu actor Don Pomes, who'd been in the show, was sad about its closing but mightily surprised to get a call from James Barron of the New York Times to talk story about his days in the show, playing The Man Who Dies (the Indian), in particular, his performing for two first ladies, Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson ... Another ex-"Fantasticks" cast member, Rex Nochenguist, was also lamenting the show's closing. He and fellow performer Gene Allen were joined by Karen Ruivivar and her mother, Ethel Walker, in getting some New York City-style victuals at Auntie Pasto's Kapahulu. All agreed it reminded them of days dining Italian in Greenwich Village ...
On the move
THE head of the Hawai'i International Film Festival, Chuck Boller, often hosts members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the local film fest, and now they've turned the tables on him, inviting him to the Golden Globes they host in Hollywood. He'll be in the glittering audience during the Sunday show, filmed for national television ... Bob Zix, known on the radio as Kamasami Kong, has been enjoying some time off from the Osaka radio station where his show ranks No. 1 in its time slot, and visiting old pals in Hawaii, where he worked for years before taking up residence in the Ritz-Carlton, Osaka 13 years ago ...
YOU can pick the performer of your choice during the run of "The Vagina Monologues" when it plays here this month and next. Joining the two original performers in the cast Jan. 22-27 will be Mackenzie Phillips, who overcame a well-publicized drug and alcohol addiction and returned to showbiz. Taking over her role Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 will be Loretta Swit, "Hot Lips" on "M*A*S*H." And lucky folks on Maui will get to see Brooke Shields in the show Feb. 5-10 ...
Hooky for hooking
SOME 40 kids from the Big Isle's Kealakehe High School got an approval to get out of school to get in some golfing instruction and practice from driving to chipping and putting Tuesday at Hualalai. Taking the kids under their wings were golf pros Larry Nelson, a former U.S. Open champ and two-time PGA champ, and Joe Inman, who was on the PGA tour from 1974-86 and winner of the '76 Kemper Open and now on the senior tour ...
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