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HAWAII
Tomorrow is last day for All Star Hawaii

All Star Hawaii, a sports bar and restaurant at 2080 Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki, will shut down after service tomorrow.

General Manager Nicole Hankins confirmed the plan to close, but would divulge no other information, saying the owners also would not be commenting.

Management at King Kalakaua Plaza, where the eatery first opened as the celebrity-owned Official All Star Cafe in 1998, could not be reached.

Local jazz band the Bruce Hamada Trio wrapped up two years of Friday-night-gigs last week, according to host, promoter and sidekick Don Gordon. Gordon hosts jazz shows Monday through Friday nights on Hawaii Public Radio's KIPO-FM 89.3.

All Star hosted an annual Pro Bowl party last night.

The trio began its performances on the eatery's second floor, when restaurateur Don Murphy served as a consultant to All Star.

A private party in the second-floor restaurant one night led Gordon to suggest the trio play downstairs, at street level, "and all of a sudden, people on the street would come in, and it was just like, happening every Friday night," he said.

Last night the restaurant hosted its final annual Pro Bowl party.

NATION
Google's 'lock up' ends Monday

SAN FRANCISCO » Google investors may be more anxious than usual Monday.

That is when the door opens for company insiders to sell 177 million shares, well over half the firm's outstanding stock. The ability for previously restricted shareholders to sell could potentially flood the market with Google stock and cause the firm's share price to drop, although few experts predict a major decline.

Wall Street has been waiting for Monday ever since Google's high-profile initial public offering six months ago. It marks the end of the company's so-called lock-up period, a normal condition of an IPO that places limits on when insiders, employees and early investors can cash in.

Analysts don't expect a big sell-off of Google's shares. But they do anticipate a few days of volatility that may send the stock, which finished trading yesterday.

What makes Google's lock-up so remarkable is its size. Nearly 62 percent of the company's outstanding shares will become eligible for sale. Google now has a float of 127.7 million shares. As part of its IPO, Google sold 19.6 million shares.

All 12 Disney directors re-elected

LOS ANGELES » In sharp contrast to just a year ago, shareholders of The Walt Disney Co. overwhelmingly re-elected all 12 board directors, including Chief Executive Michael Eisner, whose vote was withheld by dissident investors Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold.

A preliminary tally of proxy ballots counted about 1.7 billion shares, or 92.2 percent of shares voted, in favor of returning all directors to the board.

The new one-year terms also apply to Chairman George Mitchell and President Robert Iger, whose name continues to surface as a possible successor to Eisner in 2006.

"It's been 20 years since I put on my first Mickey tie ... and I believe the prospects have never been brighter," said Eisner at Disney's annual shareholders meeting yesterday in Minneapolis.

The 62-year-old executive discussed Disney's future accompanied by Iger, who seamlessly began speaking after every few phrases completed by Eisner. Shareholders at the meeting continued to advocate that Disney search outside the Burbank-based company for a new CEO.

Chairman Mitchell reiterated that the company is considering internal and external candidates.

"We approach this decision with good faith and open minds," he said.