After golfing six of his eight days on Maui, actor and body beautiful Kevin Sorbo ("Hercules," "Andromeda") declared, "I feel like I am in Scotland. ... The Dunes (golf course) is great ... it's challenging." He paused at Mauna Lani's Clubhouse to lunch with Evangeline Yacuk, p.r. consultant with Yacuk & Associates, and Walter Hester of Maui Jim Sunglasses. ...

TROPICAL TOPICS: 'Ukulele wizard Eddie Bush of Honolulu was a guest performer at the Northern California 'Ukulele Festival last Sunday in Hayward, Calif., and his appearance triggered "Bushmania" among strummers. Bush also toured Bay Area cities. ...

Danny Kaleikini and a Golden Nugget delegation from Las Vegas paused Saturday at Lewers Lounge of the Halekulani Hotel, where Glenn Medeiros and pianist Geoff Adair were performing. Since the latter also sings, there were some sweet, sweet harmonies. Medeiros and Adair have been pinch-hitting, but more gigs are inevitable. ...

Adam Suapaia is new G.M. at Don Ho's Island Grill at Aloha Tower Marketplace. ...

DisGuyz will don Emme Tomimbang's Island Moments fashions from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at Macy's Pearlridge. The guys will have their moms (also wearing Emme's garb) in tow and, yep, they'll perform, too. ...

"You Can't Take It With You," the Hawai'i Pacific University hit playing for the final times this weekend at HPU's Windward campus, has been plagued with bad luck. You may recall that the scripts vanished during the rehearsal period; one recent performance had to be done amid fluorescent lighting, keeping the audience area lit, because the stage lights didn't work. Then last Friday, main actor John Hunt had to be hospitalized, sending understudy John Mussack front-and-center (Hunt has since returned). For director Joyce Maltby, such occurrences have been rare, with an actor unable to appear only once previously.It was when she directed Diamond Head Theatre's production of "You Can't Take It With You" in 1984 ...

Mel Cabang's "Dude 'n Dawg" TV show, premiering at 11 p.m. today on KIKU (Oceanic analog 9, digital 009, Craig TV 10), turns out to be an infomercial where he and Marvin Franklin peek at merchants and their wares, with Cabang's comedy pervading. ...

SHORTS OF SORTS: Kaitlin Kiya, the Kalei'opu'u Elementary School sixth-grade girl portraying a boy, Oliver Twist, in Army Community Theatre's "Oliver!" musical opening on Thursday, is quite the kid off stage, too. She's student-body president. ...

When the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Awards Dinner, honoring ex-Gov. George Ariyoshi and the late Myron "Pinky" Thompson, is held tomorrow at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, there'll be entertainment by the Diamond Head Theatre Shooting Stars, Ballet Hawai'i, Halla Pai Huhm and the Kamehameha Elementary School Jazz Band. ...

Harry B. Soria Jr. plays host to a tribute to The Surfers from 5 to 6 p.m. Sunday on KINE-FM. ...

And that's Show Biz ...