Show Biz
Rip Taylor to appear on TV, radio, pageant
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
RIP RIP HOORAY: Comedian Rip Taylor, on the home stretch of his Hawai'i vacation, is keeping busy down to the wire. He just got word that his "$1.98 Beauty Show" (which he hosts) will start up Sept. 1 on the Game Show Network (they're vintage shows, newly syndicated), so he's frantically dialing pals to let them know. He'll do his confetti-toss entrance at the Perry and Price Hanohano Room show tomorrow morning at the Sheraton Waikiki (KSSK listeners will have to imagine the burst of the paper scraps). And tomorrow night, he'll join the likes of Jack Cione to judge the Miss Teen and Miss Hawai'i Islands pageant at Mamiya Theatre ...
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NAME-DROPPING: June Jones, Kenny Loggins and Pauly Shore dined — separately — at Kimo's in Lahaina ...
The Brothers Cazimero and Kapena will perform at the Kaua'i Museum Association's "Na Kahu 'O Kaua'i" event marking the 40th anniversary of the museum, from 4:30 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Kaua'i Marriott Resort. Tickets are $60 each, and include a performance plus Hawai'i Regional Cuisine tastings ...
Using the on-air name of Double D, Doug Durocher has joined Laurie Ann Salomon during the morning drive on KPOI-FM. He was at the station from 1998 to 2000 but was at KUCD-FM for the past 15 months ...
After a recent morning shoot in the new Luce Pavilion at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Ho'okena picked up their instruments and serenaded the staff during a morning coffee break ...
Del Courtney's 91st birthday will be celebrated, big-band style, at a tea dance slated Sept. 9 at the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel ...
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RANDOM NOTES: Rick and Nancy Enos (he's the owner of Compadres Bar and Grill at Restaurant Row) have been holidaying at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, but taking time out to catch the Society of Seven Las Vegas at the Outrigger Waikiki, where daughter Lauren, a University of Colorado senior, got on stage to do the Chicken Dance a few nights back. Son Scott, home for the past five months, served a family gathering at Compadres, where he's working as a waiter and presumably learning the ropes about dad's domain ...
Heads turned at Compadres, too, when Kanekaolei Sydney Fernandez Fasi, the new Mrs. Hawai'i, lunched there. Same thing happened when Fasi and Dede Guss, Mrs. Hawai'i 1999, huddled at Starbucks in Kahala, about the Sept. 21 Mrs. America Pageant before a live audience at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. The taping will be aired Oct. 13 on Pax Television ...
Entertainer Keith Haugen was given the Chamber of Commerce of Hawai'i's Spirit of Aloha award recently for his 25 years of work with the military community, including the songs he has composed for the men in uniform, and for Pearl Harbor and the USS Missouri ...
Gail and Archie Thornton, former ad executives from the Islands, took in Jimmy Borges' concert at the Del Mar Fair in San Diego last month, where Borges paid tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes, backed by the U.S. Navy Band playing Sinatra's arrangements. Gail was celebrating her birthday, and Borges dedicated a number to her, recalling another special occasion — their wedding reception in 1994 — when he sang for them ...
And that's Show Biz ...
Wayne Harada's Show Biz runs on Wednesdays and Fridays; reach him at 525-8057, wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8055 (fax).
