SHOW BIZ
Star-studded stunt reroutes Waikiki traffic
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
THEM'S THE BREAKS: When the makers of the Fox-TV pilot "The Break" took to the streets of Waikiki last week, passers-by may have noticed a peculiarity: counterflow traffic heading makai on Monsarrat Avenue in front of the Waikiki Shell parking lot.
The scene from John Stockwell's pilot, groomed as the next from-Hawai'i series, had star Dylan Bruno pursuing a heavy, played by Shane Garcia (with Danny Kim as stunt double), from Kapi'olani Park to Monsarrat, culminating in an accident: A "Hot Malasadas" truck heads down the street and hits a dummy runner suspended from a cherry-picker gizmo. The impact was so great that the truck's left headlight broke and the dummy's left leg was "severed." All in a day's work. ...
Actor Bruno, who lives in Los Angeles, is keeping his options open in case the series gets the "go." His only other film in the can is "Grand Theft Parsons," in which he plays a motorcycle cop, due out this year. ...
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COMINGS 'N' GOINGS: Cynthia Yip, former local broadcast journalist and widow of Honolulu police captain Alvin Nishimura, has moved to Texas and showed up to support Miss Hawai'i USA candidate Alicia Michioka in San Antonio, where the Miss USA Pageant was held last week. Michioka placed in the final 10, said her gown designer Takeo. Although she was the shortest candidate at five feet, "she stood tall and proud," Takeo said. Michioka's trainer, Matt Jones, and Takeo's partner, Eric Chandler, were among 25 locals cheering her on ...
Michael Marks, general counsel for Alexander & Baldwin, got a call from Barbara Loflin, a former Honolulan and girlfriend who's now married and living in San Francisco. She made a long-distance introduction to Frederica von Stade, the mezzo soprano and opera fave who sang in two Honolulu Symphony Orchestra concerts recently. Marks, a 25-year member of the Hawai'i Opera Theatre board, wound up at both of her concerts, played golf with her and fellow lawyer Gunner Schull at O'ahu Country Club ("She's a great shot ... and an incredible voice") and clearly has a new friend in "Flicka." Ballet Hawaii president Susie Schull, Gunner's wife, joined them for lunch. ...
And that's Show Biz ...
Wayne Harada's Show Biz is published Tuesdays and Thursdays. Reach him at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com, 525-8067 or fax 525-8055.
