Hawaii
All’s fair in love and
baseball during wartimeTHE 2003 baseball season got underway in earnest yesterday after a single game on Sunday night. Perhaps that'll reduce at least a little of the total consumption of war news from Iraq, though some may go so far as to note that Texas, appropriately, bested the Angels in that first game of the year ... Restaurateur Don Murphy took wife Marian to the Ihilani for brief respite from all the St. Patrick's Day festivities, and as he lay by the pool he heard two youngsters conversing. "Wanna play some catch?" asked one. "Nah," came the reply, "I'm gonna go inside and watch the war for a while." ... A spokesman for French's mustard responded to anti-French sentiment in the U.S. by stating, "The only thing French is the name, as the company is actually owned by a British conglomerate." ... And a reader of Irish descent swears the following names are all Irish: Holland, English, German and French ...
Let's hear it
LOCAL boy Dean Pitchford may soon be rolling in the chips. After winning an Oscar for "Chicago," exec producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are planning to reinvent Pitchford's 1984 hit, "Footloose," as a full-scale musical for Paramount. Pitchford says he may write a few new tunes for the show, though the album of the original film was a huge-selling hit thanks to tunes like "Let's Hear It For the Boy." He'll also be exec producer of the film and, of course, a new album will be part of the deal ...MORE on Hollywood. "The Hours" producer Scott Rudin was so convinced Paramount blew the "Best Picture" award for his film due to under-marketing, that he skipped the Oscar ceremony in favor of a Hawaiian vacation ... Can't you just see the liner notes: "Music by Gordon Broad, lyrics by Jesus Christ." I'm referring to a CD called "Jesus Said." It is the entire 103 verses of the "Sermon on the Mount" from the book of Matthew, chapters five, six and seven, put to music by Broad. It took him three-and-a-half years to complete
CLARIFICATION: What singer Dita Holifield will be missing due to her Far East swing, isn't the Susan G. Komen race, in October, but a fund-raiser for the fund on April 8 at Compadres ... Matthew Holton from Kula, Maui, will be running in the Paris Marathon Sunday, hoping to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004. His trip was sponsored by Safeway, which also gave him a job ...
Good Marks
BEAUTY queen Liane Mark, who's suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, is on the MS Ambassador's Team sponsoring the walk Saturday beginning at McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Beach Park. You can register at 6:30 a.m. for the 7:30 race. Update on Marks: She had an MRI in December, the first since her diagnosis in February of 2001. The difference, she acknowledges, "was astonishing. Most of the damage had disappeared." The joy was short-lived -- she had an attack around Valentine's Day showing how unpredictable MS can be. But she's continuing her travels, raising awareness and funds for research ...
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