Hawaii
More gags over Waikiki
mold worriesYOU may think it a kapu subject, but so does entertainer Sam Kapu. While ruminating this week he wondered aloud, "When they built the Kalia Tower, they didn't throw away the mold." Something else for the Village People to "room-inate" ... Some months back, a TV pilot called "The Last Resort" started filming at the Kona Village Resort with "Baywatch" hunk Kalai Miller as host, but the producers opted to set up their personal digs at the newer and more sumptuous Hapuna Beach Hotel. They discovered hair stylist Paul Brown at the salon he's operated at the Hapuna for the past year or so, and hired him to do hair and make-up for the four couples who are the subject of the show. Brown and his staffers are even scheduled to appear on camera in the show, which gets underway Aug. 11 on the Family Channel. Brown and staff will be on the episode airing Wednesday, Aug. 14 ...
THAT Honolulu Country Club benefit for the Miss Hawaii Scholarship Program was such a success it's sure to become an annual event. Former Miss Hawaii Billie Takaki put the program together and managed to round up 15 former Miss Hawaiis (including herself) to join 2002 Queen Kehaulani Christian and to nobody's surprise, singing honors went to Traci Toguchi and kudos were heaped on solo hula dancer Bev Noa ...
Hat chic
FROM the hot chicks at the Miss Hawaii program, both onstage and off, to the hat chic personified by the chapeau created by milliner Emi Azeka Preston of A Living Garden on Maui. Some of her elegant, hand-dyed and hand-sculpted straw hats will be among the exhibits on view at the Made in Hawaii Festival at the Blaisdell Aug. 16-18. If you purchase and wear one of her hats, you'll find yourself in the company of such customers as Barbara Bush, Barbi Benton, Tracy Polland, Barbara Lassaroff (aka Mrs. Wolfgang Puck) and Oprah Winfrey, who bought seven of Emi's hats ..WHEN Eddie's, the burger and frozen custard spot on Waialae, celebrates its grand opening Saturday, attorney Jim Sattler is bringing some appropriate wheels from his large collection, including a '57 T-Bird, a '58 Impala and a '59 Ford with retractable top. And there's a report, possibly aprocrophal, that Midweek three-dotter Eddie Sherman dropped in for a pre-opening look, and offered to provide an 8 by 10 photo of himself for the wall. It was only then that he learned the place is named for owner Ed Wary ...
The Ring Cycle
WITH "Lord of the Rings" now out on DVD, you can see your own rings fit for a lord at Tiffany's through Aug. 28. Ladies: Take your fiance and point out the 34.56 carat yellow diamond ring, and he might just upgrade what he intended to buy for you. You can also see a sunset-colored sapphire from Sri Lanka, and a yellow-reddish imperial topaz — favorite jewel of the Russian Czarinas from the 18th to 19th centuries. There are affordable (to some) diamond rings on view, too, but for fun a 5-carat Burma ruby, 9-carat Kashmir sapphire and 10-carat Colombian emerald, will all be on display through August ...
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