SHOW BIZ
'Lilo & Stitch' stars sing tunes at Chiko's

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor

SIGHT 'EMS: After last week's Waikiki premiere of Disney's "Lilo & Stitch," Hawai'i-rooted voice stars Tia Carrere and Jason Scott Lee and their kinfolk wound up in karaoke mode at Chiko's, McCully and King streets.

Hollywood producer (and island resident again, since he's moving here) Chris Lee brought the pair to the local hangout, one of his favorite haunts. Carrere and Lee "did a show-stopping duet of 'Stop Draggin' My Heart,' with local customers uninhibitedly dancing backup," said Lee. Both stars accommodated fans with autographs and pictures, with cameras mysteriously appearing from nowhere.

Lee's friend, a Kane'ohe chap, runs the place, and he wonders: "Maybe Honey's started this way?" ...

COCONUT WIRELESS: For the first time in two decades, Guido Salmaggi won't be singing the National Anthem on July 4 as has become his custom at the Outrigger Canoe Club Macfarlane Regatta in Waikiki and at Pearl Harbor's Independence Day celebration.

Reason: wife Maria is ill and unable to fly here from their Florida home. Instead, Salmaggi will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a couple of Sarasota events July 4. ...

Sumotori Musashimaru watched the World Cup from the VIP room at Zanzabar a few nights back, and later hopped on a plane to Japan — to catch the match there. ...

Pete Peterkin, dubbed "the world's greatest impressionist," brings his stable of stars to Waikiki in a Fridays and Saturdays run starting July 5, at the 'Ainahau Showroom of the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel. Peterkin impersonates a gallery of folks like James Brown, Don Ho, Neil Diamond, Luther Vandross, Chuck Berry, Johnny Mathis, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones, Garth Brooks, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Sammy Davis Jr. He's a one-man "Legends in Concert." Tickets: $25 (half-price for children). Call 591-3888. ...

For those who can't afford the hard ticket for "Lolo No Ka Oi" tomorrow night at the Sheraton Waikiki, local stand-up Paul Ogata will fill in for Mel Cabang at the Emporium Lounge in Waimalu ($5 admission). And starting Saturday, Ogata headlines a five-week run at the Emporium.

He was part of the sold-out Saturday Night Laffs last weekend at Wave Waikiki, one of those rare times when a comedy show was heard across the Pacific. Translation: opening act Kehau Lee's fiance was in Australia, so she asked a friend to hold a cell phone for the duration of the show, so he could hear it. ...

NAMES 'N' PLACES: Actor James Caviezel, star of such films as "Angel Eyes," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Pay It Forward," "The Thin Red Line" and "High Crimes," dined a few nights back at Pacific O' on Maui. ...

Golf sensation Michelle Wie enjoyed sushi at Sansei at Restaurant Row recently. ...

Henry G. Akina, general and artistic director of the Hawai'i Opera Theatre, has been directing "Turandot" in Germany. The sold-out performances are so popular that Akina has had to triple-cast the production for the 27 performances, part of the prestigious Salzberg Festival. Each performance draws 3,000. ...

Steve Knox, Ballet Hawai'i's executive director, is off to Jackson, Miss., for the International Ballet Competition, joining the organization's president, Susie Schull, already there with ballerina daughter (and movie star) Amanda Schull, a member of the San Francisco Ballet. Amanda will present an an award to two of the winners in the junior division and there will be local-style hoopla, complete with lei and an invitation to perform in a Ballet Hawai'i summer concert Aug. 16. ...

And that's Show Biz ...