Show Biz
Cazimero joins in pre-Easter gathering
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
RAINBOW CONNECTION: Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris and wife Ramona participated in an early Easter celebration last Saturday at the Salvation Army's Women's Way Program, a project supported by a group from First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu. Eileen Lum, an organizer from the church, said an audience of young women with drug addictions, who are part of a rehab program had gathered with their keiki for the event.
Ramona danced two hula, with Hizzonner tending to the taped music, and not until Robert Cazimero's lilting voice on "Hawaiian Lullaby" (you know, the Sunday Manoa hit often mistakenly called "Where I Live, There Are Rainbows") did the children stop fidgeting and crying. "I looked around the room and got chicken skin," Lum said. "You could have heard a pin drop."
She wrote Cazimero a note, stating, "I had never experienced anything like that."
Irmgard Aluli, Beebe Freitas, Roslyn and pastor Dan Chun also participated ...
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PERSONALITIES: So where's Sharie Shima, you ask? The new weather anchor at KHNL-8 still is training, but station g.m. John Fink says Shima, who left KITV-4, is expected to debut sometime next week. Once aboard, Shima will do the weather at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. weekdays. And Kim Sheree will continue to do weekend weather on Channel 8 ...
Jay Larrin gives a pre-Easter show from 7:30 p.m. April 14 at the Sheraton Waikiki's O'ahu Suite. Tickets: $25. Call 371-2910 ...
Augie Rey's four-night closing week at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki's Harry's Bar was an emotional roller-coaster. "I felt like I was graduating from high school," said Rey, buried with beaucoup leis. A string of locals showed up: Jimmy Borges, Mai Tai Sing, Tony Ruivivar, Kimo Kahoano, Al Waterson, Alfredo Romero, Cecilio Rodriguez, Jeannette Trevias, Pauline Wilson, Nancy Ortiz, Benedict Palmeri. Since closing, Rey has had a string of offers, but he's focusing on getting out a new CD instead. One of his originals: "This Is My Paradise," a line in which goes, "My roots may be somewhere else but my soul is in this land" ...
Mitchell Brendli, a 10-year-old fifth-grader from Clifton, N.J., is here with his family as grand prize winner of "Hoku's Hawaiian Hangout," a Radio Disney contest. Among his prizes: a lunch with Hoku Ho of "Another Dumb Blonde" success ...
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AROUND 'N' ABOUT: Did you catch that David Copperfield "Tornado of Fire" TV special the other night, in which the world's No. 1 magician defied death in the flaming man-built tornado? Hawai'i co-starred in the segment in which Copperfield transported himself and a guy from the studio audience to a tropical beach, a stone's throw from the Turtle Bay Hilton on the North Shore ...
Dates to circle: Tuesday, May 29 is the date for this year's Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, with KFVE-5 televising it live, as usual ...
Tom Moffatt promoted a Three Dog Night concert May 2, 1975, at Blaisdell Arena and created a poster that went on to win a national award. The former deejay and entrepreneur has donated an original for a Hawaiian Humane Society "Woofstock" auction tomorrow at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Linda Coble and Kirk Matthews will emcee ...
And that's Show Biz ...
Wayne Harada's Show Biz is published Wednesdays and Fridays. He can be reached at 525-8067; e-mail wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com; fax at 525-8055.
