Hawaii
That’s mighty
white of him
to point it outDID ANYONE else notice, as sitcom writer/ director Ken Levine discovered, that on Martin Luther King Jr. Day so many stores featured "white sales"? ... Pals of games inventor and teacher Joli Kansil threw a 60th birthday party for him at L'Uraku the other night, and he proved either he still had a lot of life in him or he was a blowhard, because he extinguished the 60 candles on his cake with one mighty "whoosh." Other nearby diners, including one other rather large birthday gathering, were so impressed that they joined the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday." There followed among the unholy five throwing the little party a telling by each of their favorite joke, grossest joke and limerick, most of which are and will remain unprintable ...
SO who does the Professional Women's Network choose to be guest speaker at the group's monthly luncheon meeting Jan. 30 at the Hale Koa Hotel but a man, Dr. Reynold Feldman. Oh, OK, they also have a woman speaker, Marian Stephens. Both are authors who've written on "women's wisdom" in the workplace, the back-slapping theme of the meeting ...
Say it with cookies
GIRLS who are potential Women's Network members of the future, namely the Girl Scouts, have kicked off their 2003 cookie selling campaign, carrying the theme "Think Big." Lots of promotions for the girls are taking place through Feb. 17, and entertainers, TV personalities and VIP volunteers are needed to be "Celebrity Cookie Sellers" during the campaign. If you'd like to sign up to sell cookies for an hour or two in front of various stores on all islands, call volunteer coordinator Mona Wood of Ikaika Communications at 373-9837 ... Designer Clarence Lee who designs U.S. Postal stamps and posters for each animal in the Chinese calendar, including his current "Year of the Ram" design, also came up with an "Operation GS Cookies" poster ...COMIC Ralphie May, who's appeared on "Mohr Sports," "Comedy Central," "Spy TV" and more, guested on the Perry & Price show from the Hanohano Room Saturday to promote his appearance at the Queen Kapiolani Hotel. One of the people he met there was KSSK promotions director Jamie Hartnett. So you can imagine his response of "such a small town" when he went to lunch at Dixie Grill on Ward Avenue and found the self-same Hartnett doing likewise ...
April in January
FLYING in from L.A. to give her deposition in a lawsuit against her former lawyer is TV producer April Masini. She's suing Cades Schutte and law firm partner Vito Galati for a host of things and according to her current lawyer, Philip R. Brown, "This case is strong and moving forward. April kept excellent records and the facts are well documented." Brown says that April delivered thousands of documents and correspondence pertinent to the suit, each of which had been organized, categorized and labeled, then put in order by date. Brown expects the depositions to take place within the next month ...
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