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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, September 30, 2008

SHOW BIZ
Psychic Schear is doing an Island gig

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Columnist

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Psychic Dayle Schear, a former Island resident, will renew ties with her local and visiting followers in a "Crossing Over Into the Future" program at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Turtle Bay Resort on O'ahu's North Shore.

The event, in the hotel's Kuilima Ballroom, will involve audience participation, as "seer" Schear makes connections with the past, present and future of willing participants. Her session will tap everything from career goals to rekindling memories of loved ones who have died and, yes, could spill over to romantic alliances, current or past.

Beverly Lyons will be a guest psychic aboard; Bernadette Mendoza will host.

TICKETS: $27 in advance, $30 at the door. Call 293-6000. The hotel also has special hotel packages. ...

HER 'N' THERE: Nice to hear ex-Isle deejay Mike Evans' Hollywood reports back on KSSK's morning drive show with Michael W. Perry and Larry Price. He defected, briefly, for a "Sunrise" TV gig at KGMB9, but the format works better on radio. ...

When the Outrigger's Frannie Kirk joined Frank DeLima to help Millie Fujinaga, his ex-manager, celebrate her birthday recently, Kirk had a bad toothache — so gingerly elected to eat only soft food at Momoyama. In the days following, Kirk had to have four root canals done — not a pleasant experience. The worst is over and she can chuckle about it now. ...

AND SPEAKING OF DELIMA: He's Las Vegas-bound this fall, performing at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 at the California Hotel. He continues to slim down, so his Vegas show proclaims, "Laughing With Frank DeLima is Good for Your Heath." Call 702-388-2705. ...

TRASH 'N' TREASURE: Honolulu Theatre for Youth costume designers Morgan Lane-Tanner and Samantha Fromm swept last Thursday's Trash to Fashion event — part of the Discover Recycling Fair at the Blaisdell Center Arena. They spent several weeks fashioning dresses out of trash, household and industrial discards, fabric scraps and foliage ... literally making good the notion that someone's trash can be another's treasure.

Of the 25-plus entries and five awards, HTY's miracle workers walked away with the two highest awards: "most beautiful" and "most inspired use of materials." Next up: Lane-Tanner is hard at work prepping costumes for HTY's upcoming production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," opening Oct. 17; while Fromm is prepping for the Dec. 5 launch of "A Christmas Carol" at Tenney Theatre. ...

WHEE, THE PEOPLE: David Talisman, a sometimes writer-director who runs an Internet business, has been in Bangkok, Thailand, for cancer treatment. "I think Uncle Don (Don Ho) may have come to the same hospital (Ho had undergone a stem-cell procedure in Thailand) ... I am really feeling 1,000 percent better, and the doctors are giving me a very positive prognosis," he said in an e-mail. Political unrest in Thailand has been somewhat unsettling, he said. "Interestingly, business and tourist traffic continues pretty much unaffected, except a number of countries have put Thailand on their 'travel warning' lists," he said.

Ever the entrepreneur, Talisman also is tinkering with recording again; he was a singer way back when. "I decided I better get back in the recording studio while I still can and fulfill a promise to myself to record my own CD." Even has a tentative title: "David 'Kawika' Talisman: Heartprints in the Sand." Glenn Medeiros (yes, the "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" hitmaker from yesteryear) was his best man — and provided "some awesome vocals," said Talisman. ...

SWEET MEMORIES: Compadres is gone, but the memories remain: those crunchy tortilla chips and salsa to munch on while perusing the menu; the li-hing margaritas, the Mexican club sandwich, the tortilla soup with side of Caesar salad, the roasted chicken, the fried ice cream; the Thai quesadilla; the chili cook-offs in the first decade; Taco Tuesday. It was a place to party, an after-movie nosh zone, a frequent aftertheater celebration spot for actors; and more. Thanks, Rick Enos, ol' amigo. You and your establishment will be missed. ...

The swarm of folks trotting to Compadres when word of its imminent closure spread included Al Waterson, Nancy Bernal, Carole Kai, Wendy Nagaishi, Patty Sherman, Judge Vicki Marks, Norma Spierings, Jojo Watumull, Janie Davis, Justine Brownfield, Jerry Santos, a Ballet Hawaii crew of Susan Schull, Jim Hutchison, Pam Taylor Tongg, John Parkinson, Judy Muncaster and Lesley Brown; Steve Knox, John Michael White, Indru Watumull, John Wilbur and media types like Kanoa Leahey, Paul Drewes, Dick Allgire, Terry Hunter and Ron Mizutani. ...

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.