Posted on: Friday, February 22, 2002
SHOW BIZ
Beamer may partner on score for war movie
By Wayne Harada
THE LOCAL ANGLE: Keola Beamer, the award-winning Maui-based singer-composer, is in negotiations with producer Jeff Kramer to help compose the musical score for "Five Stones," a flick with World War II links starring Val Kilmer and Adam Beach. Beamer would collaborate with Neil Gerardo, a composer-guitarist who is the husband of rocker Pat Benatar. The film starts shooting on Maui sometime in April, with additional filming in Los Angeles ...
Beamer's documentary, "Ki ho'alu – Loosen the Key," was recently shown at the New York Film Festival, further expanding his slack-key reach. The film was directed and produced by Kenneth Burgmaier ... Hawai'i-born Kevin McCollum, one of the producers of "Rent," is a co-producer of Puccini's "La Bohème," the inspiration for "Rent," when the opera makes its Broadway debut Dec. 8 at the Broadway Theatre. The opera is produced by Baz Luhrmann, who produced and directed the Oscar-nominated musical, "Moulin Rouge," which starred Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor and won a best-picture Golden Globe. Luhrmann also created "Strictly Ballroom" in 1992 and adapted the Leonardo DiCaprio-Claire Danes "William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet" in 1996 ...
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NAMES 'N' PLACES: Keith and Carmen Haugen, the husband-wife singer-hula team who have been a Waikiki fixture for 30 years, will mark 16 years at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel March 20. They'll do three shows that night, from 6:30 p.m., to mark the milestone ...
Carmen, one of the most photographed performers the past three decades, recently joined the ticket-counter crew of Continental Airlines at Honolulu International Airport. Keith, who sings under his name, and also as Cordell (a country handle), now is part of The Patriots, too, a trio that also features Gordon Manuel Freitas and Don "Geezer" Humphrey, in which they do patriotic music, both familiar and new. FYI, The Patriots perform from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. March 1 in the Kapi'olani Park Bandstand ...
It was unmistakably boxer Mike Tyson who dined a couple of nights in the row recently at Keo's Thai Cuisine, posing for a photo with restaurant owner Keo Sananikone for the wall of fame ...
Deejay Jimmy "Da Geek" Bender and wife Tracey, now of Phoenix, will be home for a March 1-9 visit with son Tyler, 8 months, in tow. "He is almost crawling and 'talks' up a storm – he got that from his dad," said Dad ...
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ITEMIZATIONS: Quite an unexpectedly mixed crowd showed up at the Palace at the 'Ohana Reef Towers Hotel when Frank DeLima opened his "Noodle Shop Days" show: University of Hawai'i president Evan Dobelle and his wife, travel writer Paul Theroux and his publicist wife Sheila Donnelly, 'Oahu Concierge magazine publisher Pam Davis, Catholic Herald editor Patrick Downes (who also writes parodies for DeLima), and, of course, his manager, Millie Fujinaga, and mom Pearl DeLima ...
That recent "Salsa After Dark " Valentine Latin Love Affair – at Rumours had a romantic note. Deejay Rod "El Moreno de la Salsa" Moreno asked main squeeze Evelyn to marry him (she said yes), and it was flashed on 32 video screens. Also, Nancy Ortiz of Alma Latina Productions and hubby John celebrated their 21st anniversary with cake and champagne ...
Melody Farias, a freshman at Gonzaga University (and daughter of singer Karen Keawehawai'i and husband Jackie Farias), made the President's List (3.7 or better grade point) for her first semester away at college. Atta girl! ...
And that's Show Biz ...
Wayne Haradas Show Biz runs Wednesdays and Fridays. Reach him by e-mail at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com, phone 525-8067 or fax 525-8055.
