Posted on: Thursday, May 19, 2005
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SHOW BIZ
Trias hopes to shoot video in Hawai'i
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE: If Jasmine Trias has her way, her first music video — the selection is yet to be determined, but it will be from her self-titled debut CD, "Jasmine Trias" — will be shot in Hawai'i. "I'd love to do it here," she said the other day. Her record label, ClockWork Entertainment, will issue the CD July 12. Honolulu is on the radar as a possible location.
Meanwhile, Trias is waiting out another milestone in her budding career: her first movie, "All Girl Band," which starts filming later this summer.
MEDICAL NOTES: At St. Francis Medical Center, an electric piano has been installed in the operating room where blocked tear duct laser surgery is conducted, according to Dr. Jorge G. Camara, one of the pianists of the Four Doctors and a Patient Concert for the Aloha Medical Mission. The keyboards, Camara said, "will allow the surgeon to play for patients as they are being put under anesthesia; during surgery, the piano plays by itself, using pre-recorded music by the surgeon." When the patient awakens, the music continues. It's a healing concept advocated by outgoing Honolulu Symphony maestro Samuel Wong, an ophthalmologist before he took on the baton full time, who will be a guest at the blessing of the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Telemedicine Center at noontime today at the hospital. Dr. Arthur Harvey, a University of Hawai'i researcher on the relationship of music and medicine, also will be on hand, with Camara demonstrating the process. ... And laughter helps the medicine go down at The Queen's Medical Center, where a "Chuckle Channel" is available for viewing by patients. The rotating footage taps Andy Bumatai's "High School Daze," Rap Reiplinger's "Rap's Hawai'i," and Queen's nurse Hob Osterlund's "When Push Comes to Shove," a one-woman show — she plays a character named Ivy Push — filmed earlier at the Manoa Valley Theatre. Osterlund is in charge of Queen's pain management department. HERE 'N' THERE: Make an effort to catch Army Community Theatre's "The Secret Garden," through May 8 at Richardson Theatre. An underappreciated musical, not on everyone's radar, it boasts a marvelous cast led by Larry Paxton, Randl Ask, Mary Chesnut Hicks, Bryna O'Neill and Channing Weir, whose voices are beacons in the otherwise somber theme of the musical. ... Susie Schull, president of Ballet Hawai'i, led a ballet delegation to San Francisco to see the San Francisco Ballet's production of "Romeo and Juliet." The travelers included Marion Philpotts Miller, who dances annually in "Nutcracker" along with her two young daughters, and staffers Steve Knox, Pam Taylor-Tongg and Judy Muncaster. Appearing in the male title role was principal dancer Joan Boarda, whose technique is highly acclaimed in the dance world, and the company included Honolulu's Amanda Schull, Susie's daughter who starred in the movie "Center Stage." Amanda has been branching out into journalism, her college major, and if you recall, she contributed a story in The Advertiser last year plus a piece for Pointe magazine. ... The Surfers will be spotlighted on Harry B. Soria Jr.'s "Territorial Airwaves," Sunday on Hawaiian 105 KINE-FM. Thus, music of Clayton Naluai, the late Alan Naluai, Patrick Sylva and Bernie Ching (who was replaced by Joe Stevens) will be heard. ... Ramsay, the artist, and her husband, Dr. Norman Goldstein, took a break from their intensive work on this week's conference for the National Society of Arts and Letters to enjoy drinks at the bar in Ruth's Chris Steak House before returning to their Chinatown offices. The conference will honor Jim Nabors Saturday in a black-tie ceremony at the Royal Hawaiian's Monarch Room. Ramsay is chairing the overall national event. And that's Show Biz. ...
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