Show Biz
Actor Stiller spotted dining out on Kaua'i
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
ISLAND HOPPING: Ben Stiller, star of such films as "Zoolander," "Meet the Parents" and "There's Something About Mary," found something about Kaua'i that pleased him and his actress wife, Christine Taylor: dinner at Keoki's Paradise in Po'ipu. The Hollywood couple blended in with the crowd in the jungle-like environs that is Keoki's ...
That heavenly voice on the new Hawaiian Airlines commercial (pitching the quietest jet of 'em all, the 717s) belongs to none other than Big Islander Nona Beamer, beloved Hawaiian scholar, chanter, dancer and everyone's favorite tutu. She's also the mother and joins adoptive daughter Maile Beamer Loo in a Na Mele concert Nov. 3 at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Because Beamer and Loo are recreating a hula program the elder one did 53 years ago, they hope to recruit some of the old-timers who participated in the 1948 show. Call 285-8684 ...
Darlene Ahuna, Hilo-based songstress, is off on a Japan tour. The good news is that she'll have a new CD in November. The bad news is that she's got a kidney-stone problem ...
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AROUND 'N' ABOUT: Frank DeLima will do Christmas Eve with Jay Larrin at the Ala Moana Hotel ...
Besides Jim Nabors' "Merry Christmas with Friends and Nabors" Nov. 29 and 30, and Dec. 1 at the Hawai'i Theatre, DeLima will also offer "Frank DeLima's Holiday Special," from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (showtime, 12:30 p.m.) Nov. 25 at the Japanese Cultural Center in Mo'ili'ili ...
DeLima is off to the Mainland, too: This Saturday, he's in San Francisco, at the Holiday Inn Financial District; on Nov. 3, at the California Hotel in Las Vegas; and on Nov. 9 and 10, at the Normandy Casino in Gardena, Calif. ...
Hawai'i's Amanda Schull was among the San Francisco Ballet dancers honored at a post-show reception at Bali-by-the-Sea in the Hilton Hawaiian Village after Saturday night's superb performance at Blaisdell Concert Hall. There wasn't a weak link in the repertoire, and the soloists — five men, seven women (plus Schull) — were as versatile as they were remarkable. Those at the reception included Schull's parents, Gunner and Susan Schull (she's also president of sponsoring Ballet Hawaii), Jean Erdman, Carol Naish, Hilton's Kelly O'Sullivan, Michael Marks, Anne Namba and daughter Roxanne, travel writers Marshall Whitfield and Tracey Cabot, former Paul Taylor Dance Company member Rachel Berman, and BH artistic director Pamela Taylor-Tongg ...
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TRADE WINDS: To the long list of laurels accumulated in his career, mime Marcel Marceau will have a Hawai'i feather in his cap when the University of Hawai'i-Manoa awards him an honorary doctorate at a convocation Nov 2. He is expected to speak to an audience of dance, theater and art students. Marceau performs at the Blaisdell Concert Hall Nov. 1 and 2 ...
Danny Akaka, director of cultural affairs at Mauna Lani Resort, and fellow entertainers Alan Akaka, George Kuo, Greg Sardina and Martin Pahinui are in Washington, D.C., this week, in shows at the Kennedy Center New Millennium Stage. "We hope to give everyone up there a rejuvenating shot in the arm of our aloha spirit and help restore some of the light out of all of this darkness," said Akaka, whose father is the U.S. senator ...
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