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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
Manoa’s Sam Cooke --
time is on his sideIF time is money, Sam Cooke must be loaded. We're not talking the "You Send Me" Sam Cooke, but the local philanthropist of the same name. It was a timely choice for Tiffany & Co. to honor Cooke as a community leader in a nationwide celebration of the new Tiffany Mark watch collection. Cooke has the reputation locally of being a stickler about time and is adamant that his meetings start and end on time. He even pulls out his father's old pocket watch and places it on the table to monitor the time spent in meetings. If you'd like to get a close up look at the display of 30 Tiffany timepieces from the archive collection, it's on view at the Ala Moana Center store through June 8 ...
FORMER isle sportscaster Mel Proctor, wife Julie and kids Billy & Maile arrived in Maui yesterday for a 10-day visit with Julie's family, who still lives there. Proctor left Palm Springs and the TV work he was doing there to work full time with the L.A. Clippers. He did 40 of the NBA team's games this past year and will do twice that many next year. He still does some Major League baseball games, too, for the Fox Network. He called the Philadelphia-Houston game Saturday. He even has a new Web site: melssportsbooks.com ...
King of the road
FORMER Lt. Gov. Jean King writes that she was sorry illness kept her from attending the production of "The Weir" I directed at the Actors' Group's Yellow Brick Studio. But she got a kick out of reading how former "Hawaii Five-O" publicist introduced her to bagels, as indicated in an old item from a Sunday "The Week That Was" column. In her latest trip to the West Coast she reports she stopped at Noah's in Westwood and Goldstein's Bagel Bakery in Pasadena, adding, "Thank you, Lenn Weissman." Sounds like she's become a bagel-holic ...DJ Kamasami Kong has returned to his job on the airwaves in Osaka, Japan, after undergoing eye surgery locally. He'll doubtless be plugging the Osaka display of Hawaiian quilts from the Academy of Arts during its four-city tour ...
Play on
AND with "The Weir" over, I've been able to see some other theater. I took in "Proof" at Manoa Valley Theatre and while I didn't think the play was deserving of winning a Pulitzer as well as a Tony Award, the cast did good work, particularly Laura Bach in the key role ... At Kumu Kahua Sunday I took part in "King Kalakaua's Poker Game." The play, written by localite Alan Sutterfield and directed by Betty Burdick is a drawing room comedy, set in King Kalakaua's boat house, of all places. It humanizes the monarch and gets some laughs out of mistaken identity, sexual and otherwise. Coming up tomorrow is "The Vagina Monologues" starring Kelly Hu at Hawaii Theatre and I can't wait to see if she's comfortable with some of the stunningly personal stories about you-know-what. Then Friday, Diamond Head Theatre brings back Stephen Sondheim's "Follies," with some great Sondheim-lich maneuvers. There are other theatrical opportunities, but I figure four in one week is enough for now ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com