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Posted on: Friday, January 16, 2004

THE LEFT LANE
Play piano, instantly

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Chris Martin's opening piano line on "Clocks" probably wasn't written in a day, but you might be able to learn how to play it in one. "Instant Piano For Hopelessly Busy People" is a course that promises all the goods you'll need to play any song in a single 3 1/2-hour session. Students interested in the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Outreach College course should have a basic understanding of the piano and simple music reading ability. Instructor Rober Laughlin will teach one course only, 6-8:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at the UH-Manoa Music Building, Room 7. Cost is $85. More information: www.outreach.hawaii.edu. Register at 956-8400.

Parenting singly?

If you're finished with the bar scene, the blind dates and the hunt for Prince Charming, and feel your biological clock ticking, is it OK to visit the sperm bank and raise a child on your own?

Whether it's a tale of adoption or going through pregnancy on your own, tell your single-parenting tales, worries and woes to relationships writer Tanya Bricking Leach at Kisses and Misses, The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802 or e-mail kissesandmisses@honoluluadvertiser.com. Your letters may be used in future columns. Please include a phone number.

Makeover magic

He's done makeovers for The Rock, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen and other stars who've come to Hawai'i for movie and television shoots.

Now, Heaven on Earth Day Spa stylist James Sartain is offering his talents in an "enter to win" contest tied to the Jan. 23 opening of "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton."

The film's star, Kate Bosworth, was a Sartain client when she filmed "Blue Crush" in Hawai'i. The makeover is a spinoff from "Win a Date": Bosworth's character enters a contest to win her dream date with one of Hollywood's heartthrobs.

Sartain has also worked on celebrities such Ben Stiller, Rachel Hunter, Carmen Electra and Pam Anderson.

Registration forms are available at Heaven on Earth, 1050 Alakea St., or by calling 599-5501.

Marathon madness

The 2003 Honolulu Marathon had a good run in Japan, reaching 2.2 million households when it aired Monday as a 55-minute Tokyo Broadcasting System special.

It helped that the marathon had a first-time Japanese winner in Eri Hayakawa, left, a 22-year-old college student who ended a seven-year domination of the women's races by runners from the former Soviet bloc.

Highest viewership (1,028,000 households) was in Tokyo and surrounding areas.

Thus, Hawai'i got major exposure from a marathon the state doesn't subsidize, marathon officials said.

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