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Producers are scrambling to find a childless, middle-age, wealthy woman to connect with a parent-less kid for eight weeks. The Fox prime-time reality show "Heir," slated for the fall, will document their lives, current and past. The producers' first choice is the Big Island's Chandi Heffner who, in 1988 at age 35, was adopted by occasional Hawaii resident Doris Duke. TV show seeks wealthy
woman with no kidsThe tobacco heiress believed that Heffner was a reincarnation of her long-dead daughter Arden. She gave Heffner a ranch on the Big Island and included Heffner in her will (Heffner was disinherited in 1991, but in the end won a settlement of more than $30 million) ...
Paramount Network TV's Hawaii-based cop series "808" for CBS is dead, at least for the remainder of this year. Filming was to begin this month ...
The world premiere of filmmaker Heather Giugni's biopic, "Daniel K. Inouye: An American Story," will be held at a fund-raising event either at or on the USS Missouri on April 5. Details are still being worked out ...
NBC's "E.R." will use the Hawaii Film Studio at Diamond Head next month during its two-week filming. The Adam Sandler production "Fifty First Kisses" is next in line for the studio, filming here for six weeks in April. Sandler will reunite with his "Punch Drunk Love" producer Will Weiske ...
Ben Stiller's film project will use 50 extras a day for three of its five shooting days on Oahu, including several dozen bikini-clad women for a major scene at Kualoa Ranch's Secret Beach. There will also be a hotel and airport scene ...
Fox Television has given the green light for a second two-hour "Baywatch" reunion show next year, but filming will likely be in the Caribbean or Bahamas, says executive producer Doug Schwartz. Schwartz and "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff are also discussing a TV series on Oahu based at a hotel resort.
"Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding," airing on Fox Feb. 28, will be featured in TV Guide and on the cover of the U.S. edition of FHM, the men's lifestyle magazine, on newsstands Feb. 3. The show will also be promoted on "Entertainment Tonight" and "Access Hollywood."
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