Posted on: Monday, November 10, 2003
THE LEFT LANE
'Survivor' snubs Osten
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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| Hairy Rupert Boneham may score. |
"Survivor" talk is buzzing again for "Survivor: Pearl Islands" (7 p.m. Thursdays), in the seventh season of CBS' hit reality game show.
Two weeks ago, exhausted and whiny Osten Taylor became the first player to ever quit the game. He begged his teammates to vote him off. Host Jeff Probst, angered, granted his wish by telling Taylor to "go home," instead of reciting his trademark line "The tribe has spoken." Last week, two previously ousted tribers returned. The reason? The competing tribes, Morgan and Drake, lost a challenge last week to the Outcasts, a new third tribe made up of reject players.
Rupert Boneham, the bearded, bulky, outspoken giant who epitomizes this season's pirate theme, has become the breakout star. A former grave digger and bartender, Boneham, 39, is favored to win the $1 million booty. The winner will be announced Dec. 14.
Jewelry of India
Jewels of India, among the most ornate and elaborate gems in the world, are on display at the Honolulu Academy of Arts as part of the exhibition "Gems From the East and West: The Doris Duke Jewelry Collection." Find out more at a free lecture by Usha R. Bala Krishnan, a fine-arts consultant and expert in Indian cultural history, 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the museum's Doris Duke Theatre. In her lecture, "Bird of Gold: the Gems and Jewels of India," Krishnan will discuss the 5,000-year history of Indian jewelry.
The 'Paradoxical' life
The sequel to Kent M. Keith's mega-successful inspirational book "Anyway" (originally "The Paradoxical Commandments") is out from Maui's Inner Ocean Press. "Do It Anyway" (Inner Ocean, hardback, $15) offers specific examples of how people are living the "paradoxical commandments" and how to apply them in one's life. A number of the people quoted in the book are Islanders. Keith, 54, senior vice president for development and communications for the YMCA of Honolulu, started it all with a list of 10 principles he wrote when he was 19, called "The Paradoxical Commandments."
