Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band breaks into his theme song, Hawaiian Crooner Don Ho rides the spotlight in like a surfer on a 30-footer at Makaha. Except for a red lei ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island...
...entertainer with an ability to read the mood of an audience." According to Ho's reading, his fans have left their inhibitions on the mainland and want a come-on-strong virility. They don't even mind his occasional bathroom humor. There is a pidgin Hawaiian expression, "Letta go your blouse," roughly meaning "anything goes." That is Ho's approach-and appeal...
Hipper than the Hawaiian tradition of tinkling ukuleles, Ho has chucked the cloying Sweet Leilani, and only under audience pressure retreats to the Hawaiian Wedding Song. His beat ranges from big to bongo...
...discrepancy. A cowboy buff since childhood, he has read 35 books on the subject, once spent a month researching the Old West in the Library of Congress. When he asked Eli Wallach to star in his latest Italian western, the actor cracked: "That must be something like a Hawaiian pizza." Wallach learned different when he arrived in Spain to shoot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and found that Leone had meticulously reproduced settings and costumes from copies of old U.S. newspapers and photo albums. "He has a fantastic sense of composition and color," says Wallach. "He uses textures...
...Agriculture Department: Griffen, Inc., Huron, Calif., $2,397,073 (cotton); South Lake Farms, Five Points, Calif., $1,468,696 (cotton and feed grains); J. G. Boswell Co., Corcoran, Calif., $2,807,633 (cotton); Salyer Land Co., also of Corcoran, $1,014,860 (cotton and feed grains); and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Honolulu, $1,236,355 (sugar). Eleven other farms collected more than $500,000 each; 258 received between...