Hawaii
Jennifer and Brad’s
happy birthday dateYESTERDAY was Jennifer Aniston's 34th birthday, and hubby Brad Pitt flew out to see her while she was filming on the North Shore. I'm hoping the two took time to watch the re-run of "Friends" Monday night. That was the episode when Pitt guest-starred as a high school fatty-turned-hunk, who hated Rachel, Aniston's character, since high school and even formed an "I Hate Rachel" club. The episode was filmed when the two were dating, and knowing the stars' personal off-screen lives made the episode all the funnier ...
SPEAKING of people named Rachel, Sir David Willcocks and his wife, Lady Rachel, departed the islands yesterday after house-guesting with John & Betsy McCreary. Sir David, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1977, is one of the most famous choral conductors in the world, and at 83 still travels the world conducting workshops and concerts. Those at St. Andrew's Cathedral Sunday got to see him conduct the Bach Choir and chamber orchestra in an all-Mozart concert. Wait 'til the Mozart-mad Joe Moore hears what he missed. All the music performed was written especially for Saltzburg Cathedral by Mozart ...
Keeping in touch
THROUGH an interpreter at the anniversary of the Ehime Maru Sunday, Tatsuyoshi Mizuguchi, father of a 17-year old whose body was never recovered, told reporter Rosemarie Bernardo that he keeps up on happenings in Hawaii by visiting the Star-Bulletin Web site daily ... Another daily visitor is former isle sportscaster Mel Proctor who says he reads this column religiously online "to get my Hawaii fix." He's currently sports director for the CBS-TV affiliate in Palm Springs, Calif., and does the on air sportscasts nightly, something he hasn't done since living here. In addition, he does 25 L.A. Clippers games and also works the Fox baseball games. He's still happily married to wife Julie, who he married at the defunct Columbia Inn Round Table, and they have kids Billy, 21, and Maile, 19 ...ANOTHER face familiar to Hawaii TV news viewers has popped up on the air in California. Patti Lee has left Ohio, where she went from working at KHNL here, and is now morning anchor on KQVR in Sacramento. She was hired by former KGMB news director Jim Lemon, despite the fact they didn't know each other when each worked for competing stations in Honolulu ...
HARD to believe Hudson, co-host of Star 101.9's morning show with Scotty B., has been a mom for almost a year. She and hubby Steve Hott will host baby Julian's first birthday, and never one for doing things half way, she's invited all her listeners to a baby luau Sunday at Bishop Museum ...
"Frasier" Hamada
HE'S not really a radio psychiatrist, but KHVH talk show host Rick Hamada has something in common with "Frasier," the character played by Kelsey Grammer on NBC-TV. Both have a "Roz" running the board as producer. Frasier's Roz is played by Peri Gilpin, while Hamada has the real thing, a producer named Roz -- no last names please. She gets razzed enough as it is ...
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