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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
1979: Arnold alludes to
private muscle-flexing exhibitionADMAN Bill Myers and wife Jean understandably grieved: Some weirdo fed barbiturates and opium to their pet gibbon ape, killing the creature they treasured like a child. We're beginning to come around to the opinion that when people speak of "blowing their minds," they really mean it! (May 4, 1971) ...
THINGS got a bit wild over at the Hawaiian Village Garden Bar Sunday night. A fellow named Jim Larkin sent a note up to Nephi Hannemann on stage that he wanted to buy the house a round. Nephi's first thought was that someone was having a joke, but he asked the guy to stand up anyway and found he was for real. Larkin told Nephi that he used to be a Matson captain. Lo and behold, he dug deep, and several hundred dollars later, the house was happily drinking up and Nephi obliged by answering Larkin's request to play "Kalua." Seemed the least he could do. (April 27, 1973) ...
THE third week in June should be a memorable one. Sunday, June 17, is Father's Day; Leonard Bernstein will be conducting the N.Y. Philharmonic on Monday at the Waikiki Shell; summer begins officially on Thursday, and on Saturday the 23rd, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans will perform at the Shell ... Dining at the Third Floor last week was muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger, there with photog Mary Ann Chang and models Zoe Ann Roach and Dori and Lei Ho. Lei conquered her shyness just long enough to ask Arnold if he'd flex for her. "Well," he replied coyly, "I retired from competition. Now I only do it privately -- in homes!" Blush, blush. (April 29, 1979) ...
THE Gilbert Minn family will be glued to the TV set Sunday night for the first episode of the five-part miniseries "The Contender," which stars their son-in-law, Mark Singer. Mark is married to the Minns' daughter, Haunani, an actress in her own right who is currently rehearsing an off-Broadway play called "Music Lesson." Besides the family ties, the Minn family should take special interest in "The Contender," since it deals with boxing, a sport all the Minns have been involved in either as participants or as referees. (April 27, 1980) ...
THE theme of the "Preservation Parade" to be held Friday at Grosvenor Center is "The Old and the New." The Grosvenor block is a likely place to hold the party since it contains a shiny new skyscraper and the old Dillingham Transportation Building. (April 27, 1980) ...
FLYING in today to bless the new "Kamaaina Suite" dining room Randy Lee is introducing at the Willows is Monsignor Charles Kekumano, who's probably happy to find climes warmer than his current Alaska diocese. The blessing is at sunset on May Day, after which Kekumano must head back to his chilly parsonage. (April 30, 1981) ...
DINING three nights in a row at the House of Hunan was His Holiness Ganden Tri Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist leader second in rank to the Dalai Lama. He's been in town for a week lecturing at the East-West Center. One reason for choosing the House of Hunan is that owner Sandra Hsu is a Tantric Buddhist. Dining in the same party was Lily Sun, granddaughter of the great Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen. (May 1, 1985) ...
CITY Councilman Neil Abercrombie came up with a couple of good ones during his head-to-head exchange with state Rep. Fred Hemmings on KHVH yesterday. Abercrombie spoke of George Bush's first hundred days -- "that's spelled D-A-Z-E," and quipped that when the vice president deplaned here at 2 a.m. en route to Australia and Southeast Asia, "he looked like he was on Quayle-udes." That's when Dan Quayle made his memorable remarks: "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is part of the United States that is an island that is right here." Quayle may never compose anything anywhere nearly as illuminating as, say, the Federalist Papers, but he's the veep and we're stuck with him. (May 3, 1989)
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