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Walk through Fantasy's four floors of office space in downtown Honolulu--a city chosen for its almost equidistance between Hollywood and Tokyo--and you'll see sleep-deprived animators getting strands of our heroine Aki's hair to waft just so, or watching endless video loops of voice talents James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Ming-Na and Ving Rhames trying to make their characters' lips move in exactly the same...
...artists expressed the verve and virtuosity of classic-era pop as smartly as Benjamin Keakahiawa Nawahi. The Honolulu native taught himself the acoustic slack-key guitar (resting on the lap, it is played with one hand manipulating the strings and the other moving a steel bar). He then adapted the Hawaiian style to almost every form of music percolating through vaudeville, speakeasies and grange halls. He was as comfortable playing Broadway songs, New Orleans jazz and country laments as he was his native tunes. And with versatility went a distinctive instrumental voice, one that smiles at the extra few notes...
Nawahi was born in 1899, one of 12 children. As a teenager he played for pennies in the parks of Honolulu, often teaming with Sol Hoopii, who was later Bennie's chief rival as a steel guitar star. By his early 20s, and now adept in guitar, mandolin, ukulele and one-string cigar-box fiddle, Nawahi was ready for the mainland--and vaudeville...
Since January, the L.A.P.D. has sent recruiters from New York to Honolulu on a 30-stop barnstorming tour, touting the California climate and a competitive starting salary: $41,000, plus a $2,000 relocation bonus. The department wants to add 1,000 officers to the 9,600 it now employs. Recruiters for the N.Y.P.D. spent $10 million last year on advertising that they say nabbed 1,500 new hires who will enter the police academy this September. The Seattle police have snared a high-profile ad agency to create glitzy sayings like "Bungee Jumpers at Space Needle. A job like...
DIED. ELLERY CHUN, 91, native Hawaiian who created the brightly colored aloha shirt in 1931; in Honolulu. The short-sleeved silk shirts, originally decorated with palm trees, pineapples and hula girls, were designed to drum up business during the Depression...