Hawaii
LOCAL attorney Bob Miller is back from Ireland where he engaged in one of his favorite pastimes, and PETA advocates should avert their eyes at this point. He participated in a fox hunt, and with all the "to the hounds" cantering about on horseback, they managed to claim one fox. The hunters don't get their hands on it, incidentally, as the hounds consider it their personal property and you don't want to argue with them. This may sound like an unsavory activity to some, but to a lawyer it's just a day's work. (OK, cheap lawyer joke.) Just yesterday a story in the Star-Bulletin reported that Scotland has banned fox-hunting and there's a move afoot to do the same in England. As for Miller, Ireland is an exhilarating experience, fox hunt or no, and it became even more so when he discovered one sightseer in the same area of Northwest Ireland was former president Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, who was there with a boyfriend and some secret service observers who generally gave her some space ... Isle attorney in Ireland
runs into Chelsea ClintonIN a letter to the editor printed yesterday, historian Gavan Daws ("Shoal of Time") proved that not only does he write history, he rewrites it. My recollection of our wager 30 years ago is wildly at variance to his. Oh well, at least he got the name of the street where I lived correct ...
SPEAKING of yesterday's paper, I somehow typo-ed that "Song of Singapore" was first done at Manoa Valley Theatre in 1955 instead of 1995 when it was staged. I never even got to the Islands until 1956 and MVT hadn't been thought of yet ... And who needs eBay? The Star-Bulletin's new "bid for what you want" seems sure to catch on in an auction-crazed town such as this one ...
The (nearly) naked truth
THE sensuous Janet Jackson will wrap up her world tour Saturday at Aloha Stadium by unwrapping herself, so to speak, for the HBO-TV cameras. She's let it be known to insiders that viewers will get the kind of X-rated access never before seen where she's concerned. Since it's pay cable, Jackson is allowing cameras into the dressing (and undressing) room as well as on stage. "There's no way you're gonna see me naked," she hastens to add, "at the very most, a silhouette maybe." Call it a posture to raise ratings ...THE Beijing/Peking Opera "Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian" is the current UH mainstage production and in its authentic stylization, you can see why it took six months of rehearsal for the student cast to perfect. Bao, as played broadly by Joshua John Panene, and Qin Xianaglian, performed to perfection by UH drama student Cassandra Wormser the evening I saw it, were striking ...
Making Clint's day
FORMER Isle TV weather reporter Maria Quiban auditioned for the role of a TV reporter in Clint Eastwood's new movie, "Bloodwork." He met her and said he'd rather see her dead. Before she could protest, she was hired to play a crucial character who's killed at the beginning of the film, and the Eastwood character has her heart transplanted after suffering a heart attack. Throughout the film, he looks at photos of the beautiful Quiban to remind him of whose heart he now has. The film starts filming Tuesday ...
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