Show Biz
Ruivivars call it quits, one day at a time
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
COCONUT WIRELESS: They've started telling family, friends and associates, and indeed, it's both sad and stunning news: Tony and Karen Ruivivar (he's the Society of Seven leader) are going separate ways after 30 years of marriage. Initially, it's a trial separation, and the couple — still cordial, still friends — will take it a day at a time. She's off to New York, to see son Anthony Ruivivar, a co-star on NBC-TV's "Third Watch," but will return to Hawai'i, then consider options. He's doing the SOS shows at 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays (with 6:30 p.m. performances added on Tuesdays and Fridays) at the Waikiki Outrigger Hotel, through Nov. 10. The SOS Las Vegas, currently at the Las Vegas Hilton, will swap gigs, returning Nov. 13 (and following the same show schedule, though the 6:30 p.m. performances run only through Nov. 30), with the original SOS going back to the gambling capital ...
The SOS, by the way, will be featured in a patriotic halftime show at the Feb. 2 Hula Bowl at the Maui War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku. The football classic also will feature Mel and Pam Tillis, the father and daughter country singers, plus nostalgia act Otis Day and the Knights, according to Lenny Klompus, Hula Bowl producer ...
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HERE 'N' THERE: Michael Paulo, the stellar jazz saxophonist, is on a tour of Japan with Eiichi Yazawa, trekking through Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Sendai, Nagano, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Miyasaki and more, before moving on to Okinawa. Kalapana's Kenji Osano is musical conductor for the gigs, and the band includes David Bowie's guitarist, Earl Slick. Paulo is preparing a compilation CD, due out shortly ...
Take 6 logged the Honolulu Symphony's first pops concert sell-out last Saturday at Blaisdell Concert Hall. Member David Thomas and manager Andy Dixon picked up a new habit: golf, at Ko'olau ...
Ken Robbins, Honolulu attorney and a member of the Honolulu Symphony board, bid on an auction package at the recent Symphony Ball. He retrieved his prize last week; in full Spanish costume, he guest-conducted the orchestra in the "Toreador Song" from "Carmen," with wife Shaunaugh and friends cheering him on...
Entertainer Jim Nabors, who performed last week at the casino in Suttons Bay, talked old times with Michael Tiknis, ex-executive director of the Honolulu Symphony, who caught Mr. Golleeee in concert. "He was really in the best voice ever," said Tiknis ...
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NAMES 'N' FACES: Phil Arnone, veteran TV producer-director, is retiring his post as director of local programming at KTVU-TV, the Fox affiliate in Oakland after 12 years, and is "retiring" in Hawai'i. His wife, Michelle, already is here, setting up their Portlock home. "I bought a one-way Aloha Airlines ticket and I fly home Christmas day," said Arnone, who turns 65 this month and had a 26-year run with KGMB-9 before moving to the Mainland ...
Poor Diane Ako, the KHNL-8 anchor-reporter, who got married yesterday. On assignment Tuesday at Sand Island Beach Park, the news car was broken into and she lost about $1,000 worth of things — cash, computer, cell phone, wallet, monetary gifts for the wedding and sentimental items, too.
And that's Show Biz ...
Wayne Harada's Show Biz runs Wednesdays and Fridays; reach him at 525-8067, e-mail at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com or fax 525-8055.
