Posted on: Thursday, October 21, 2004
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SHOW BIZ
A '70s evening with 'surprise' guests
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
TOGETHER: The Captain & Tennille — that's Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille — will be "surprise" guest performers in the Honolulu Symphony's next pair of Hawaiian Airlines Pops Concerts, 8 p.m. Oct. 29 and 30 at Blaisdell Concert Hall.
To date, the event had been promoted as a "Seventies Tribute," with Anita Hall and Zanuck Lindsey featured. Matt Catingub will conduct. The Captain & Tennille last joined the orchestra in March 2001. Their performance this time will be at the end of the concert, where they'll do some of their hits, including "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me One More Time." She sings, he mans the keyboards.
Their distinctive love sound has produced five gold albums, six gold singles, two platinum albums and one platinum single. ...
LAND AHOY: Filmmaker Vilsoni Hereniko, director of "The Land Has Eyes," has had a busy month. His movie was screened in New York a few weeks back, and now he's in Toronto, Ontario, where "Land" was the opening film last night for the ImagiNATIVE Film and Video Festival, an indigenous film festival. Upon his return, "Land" has a round of Island screenings: Oct. 28 on Kaua'i, Oct. 29 in Hilo and Oct. 30 in Kona. ... Hereniko got a surprise Oct. 13 when he toured the Kon Tiki Hale waterfront estate, owned by Bill McEuen, a part-time Honolulu resident who produces Steve Martin's films. Hereniko and wife Jeannette Paulson Hereniko were guided through the estate by RE/MAX agent Nancee Jenko Crispin, who had the property listed, thinking they were looking at the home with stepdaughter Holly Paulson Sereni. When they passed the swimming pool, 60 pals of Hereniko shouted "Surprise!" Hereniko's stunned look of disbelief was captured on film by Michael May, a local producer and cameraman. Tepa Moore, a Tahitian dancer who had the lead in Hereniko's play, "Fine Dancing," coaxed the 50-year-old Hereniko to dance. Moore also did a dance in memory of Josie Over, for years a Tihati Productions performer; McEuen's $3.5 million estate was built for Josie by her late husband, Don Over. ... WHEE, THE PEOPLE: With 52 Saturday nights in a year, wouldn't you know that the Hawai'i Theatre was "double booked" last Saturday! That meant the theatre's board chairman Bob Midkiff went to the Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education event at the theater, where he gave the annual award to designer Clarence Lee. Then he raced off to Neiman Marcus, where "The Caper," a Hawai'i Theatre benefit, was under way. Midkiff and the missus, Evanita, made it in time for dinner at Mariposa, having missed the treasure hunt but in time for the live auction. That's when Erik Ludwick was the winning bidder to "Light up the Hawai'i Theatre," meaning he'll go down in the history books as the fella who throws the switch that "formally" lights up the newly installed neon marquee on Nov. 5. And for that night, the Midkiffs are certain they don't have another booking. ... Hard to believe that the noted modern-dance company, Paul Taylor's, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Now there's a local link in the company's executive director, Wally Chappell, ex-artistic director at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth (1975-1979) before serving with the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, St. Louis Repertory Theatre and American Ballet Theatre. He joined Taylor last April and will be here for the Nov. 10 Ballet Hawai'i fund-raiser at Hawai'i Theatre. Tickets are available at the box office. ... FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Maui chef James McDonald (Pacific 'O, I'o in Lahaina) is back from Philadelphia, his old stomping grounds, after visiting family and friends. He whipped up a Pacific Rim luncheon for 100 seniors at the Miflin Court Advanced Living Center. "I brought shell lei with me, and I have to say that some of those senior women are still quite frisky," he remarked, after giving each one a lei — "with a kiss, of course." ... Maui's Roselani Ice Cream maker Cathy Nobriga Kim received a fan e-mail from San Francisco, saying, "Yeah, we have ice cream (if you want to call it that) in our neighborhood, but nothing satisfies the craving I get for your haupia ice cream. Is there any store that carries your product in my area?" The answer is no, at least not yet. It's an only-in-Hawai'i treat. ... And that's Show Biz. ...
Show Biz is published Tuesdays and Thursdays. Reach Wayne Harada at 525-8067, wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com, or fax 525-8055.
