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Being a Politician RequiresCompromise, Dirty Dealings and Ruthless Tactics. H. Ross Perot'sa Natural. irst, let's think about American big business. We don't know much about it, and never will, because the people who run it don't answer to you and me. We live in the circle of fog that they spray The underneath themselves, and unless a conscientious underling Secret spills the beans to the U.S. Lfil!gl_lage �®,-· Attorney, or the Securities and Exchange Commission - of the usually exacting political revenge on orders from the J�ong White House - decides to go Wollle after somebody, it's a diet of n Donald-Marla gossip forthe rest of us. -Pagell Continued on Page 6 @ 1qq1 JOHii! S. PRITCHETT Art Kazu Hayashida, the Board's man Honey Alexander, wifeof Bush's ager and chief engineer. The Board's Education Secretary, Lamar On June 21, the annual American announcement did not indicate the Alexander, was elected vice-chair Civil Liberties Union awards dinner cost of the study. person ... Hawaii County's popula will have a most interesting keynote tion is growing 2.5 times faster than speaker - former National the national average and Maui's is Endowment for the Arts chairper Sex growing at three times the national son John Frohnmayer. Forced out by According to American rate ... Hawaii has the fourth highest George Bush in a flap catalyzed by Demographics magazine, some old rate of state and local tax revenue Pat Buchanan's threat to make the sexual notions have recently been per $100 of personal income - NEA's fundingof "controversial"art confirmed, and some new discover $14.21. The three regions with a campaign issue Uust before ies have overturneda fewtime-hon higher rates were New York (3), Richard Nixon allegedly told ored sexual myths. Sexologists have Districtof Columbia (2) and Alaska Buchanan to cool it), Frohnmayer confirmed that spring and early sum (1). The U.S. average tax rate is should have lots of anecdotalia with mer are the sexiest months - that $11.17 ... Spam Lite, with 25 percent which to astound the gathering, is, 30 percentof Mainland American "less fat"is a runaway sales success; among them the new controversies youths lose their virginity in June or Hawaii was the firsttest market for aswirl around recent vetoes of art July, "right after classes end," the new product... Some San work depicting nudity. (Male nudity, according to one sexologist. On the Francisco Bay area mortuaries con particularly, seems unnerving to The revised contemporaneous view of tinue to charge up to $285 extra to Power Structure.) As the scene sexual activity: According to a large handle AIDS-infectedbodies, despite "A shaka-ingly good read that can'tbe vetoed" becomesmore and more uptight,arts "sex institute" study, the share of federal laws and regulations; AIDS awardees and honorees are defect women aged 15 to 19 who are sex related deaths in San Francisco now ing: Such disparate artistsas Wallace ually active rose 6 percentin the last exceed 1,400annually ... The Bishop Stegner, Stephen Sondheim and Def three years, from 47 percent to 53 Museum Press has just released Gary Gill Leppard have recently refusedNEA Political Hack percent. The same survey also indi La'au Hawai'i: Tradi tional WHY WE READ THE and other governmental arts com cated that one-third of all teenage Hawaiian Uses of Plants by Isabella mittee awards,citing "concern" over females still use no protection the Abbott; it's billed as the first com the directions mandated by various first timethey have sex (though the prehensive description of those uses overseers. Frohnmayer's replace use of condoms and birth control written fora general audience... Two ment, Anne-Imelda Radice, recently methods has increased overall female hookers regularly patrol w� told Congress thatshe was fullypre among teenagers). Now for the Kuhio Avenue weekdays from5:30 pared to veto grants and awards that Weekly's infonnal one-school sur to 7 a.m., only slightly alteringtheir Find the Honolulu Weeldy every Wednesday in your neighborhood! dealwith what she chose to call "dif vey: According to the custodianwho come-ons: Now it's, "Like a little I ficult subject matter." And the bleat helps reload the condom machines date this morning,honey?" • goes on. in the restroomsof one of our Oahu Aiea Kabala Kapahulu Moiliili community colleges, condom sales Jelly's Comics Expre5?0, Go Bananas Anna Bannanas HONOLULU &Books BravtSStmo Irifune Ba-le tripleduring the last fewdays of the Tower Records Frame Shack Island Triathalon Bubbies Food semester, "right toward the end of Downtown Subway & Bike Greek Comer The Center for Science in the finals." The lowest sales period? Kahuk'u A Little Bit Kapahulu Wine Hawaiian Graphics Public Interest, a nonprofitconsumer "The first three weeks of every of Saigon Kahuku Wave Waikiki-Kapahulu Kaplan Education advocacy group that publishes nutri Arcade Building Connection Library Center semester," our expert avows. Asia Mall Kailua Joe's International Kokua Co-op tion info, has issued its newest list Vol. 2, No. 24 -June 10, 1992 Ba-le (FortStreet) Ba-le Kitchen Maple Garden of foodfacts for the curious. Here Ba-le (KingStreet) Ciao! Ciao! Gelato! Manoa Mama Mia's Pizza are some highlights: 1) Percentage Home Beef Bowr Gecko Books CoffeeMa noa Marco Polo Apt. Publisher and Managing Bishop Street Cafe & Comics Coffeeline Bldg. of Harvard Medical School faculty Those interested in sovereignty Editor Laurie V.Carlson Cafe Cafe Hungry Ear East-West Center McCullyBicycle who ate red meat fouror more times fornative peoples might have missed Senior Editor Julia Steele Che Pasta Jaron's Manoa Health Mart & SportingGoods a week in 1982: 56 percent; in 1991, the following news, since it was Arts & Calendar Editor Chinatown kailuaLibrary Manoa Marketplace McCully Shopping 11 percent. 2) Percentage of Derek Ferrar Gateway Plaza Michael'sLiquor UH Business Center reduced to a few terse lines in the Mainland parents who say that Calendar: Circuit Courthouse Ron's Place Administration McCully-Moiliil middle pages of our mainstream Associate Editor Dillingham The Source Bldg. Library chicken nuggets are one of their newspapers. Last month, over 50 Matt Uiagalelei Transportation Tusitala Books UH CamJ?.USCen ter Rainbow Books kids' favorite foods: 51 percent. Buildmg Kaimuki UH Hamilton Restaurant Row percent of the eligible voters of Contributing Editor Ditto's Chaminade Library Ciao! Ciao! Gelato! 3) Percentage of 1,946 meat sam Canada's Northwest Territories John W. White Gateway Gallery University UH Kennedy Mailroom ples in a USDA survey that con (which stretchfrom the Yukon to the Film Critics Grosvenor Center Library Theatre Paradise Bakery tained hormones that couldn't be Bob Green, Mary Brennan Krung Thai Columbia Inn UH Krauss Hall Rose CityDinner Atlantic, comprising over one-third Theatre Critic Restaurant Gecko Books UH Manoa Gardens Sunset Grill identified: 15 percent. 4) Dollars of Canada's total land mass) Karyn Koeur LaTropicale &Comics UH Music School Waikiki the USDA gave the Kentucky approved a boundary line that, in Contributing Writers Mauna1
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The gov down to a dribbly halt and roll up you could do it forhours. ernment, the airlines, your bank - against the net. Bureaucrats espe Another reason you must show all are notorious for it. cially hate long pauses becausetheir your faceis that it's hardfor bureau Join The Club. Bureaucracy is a fact of life, like boss might glance over and see that crats to realize you actually exist out-of-controlhair, lack of parking Nothing Is Getting Done. Silence until they see you in front of them. Join the dub with a floatingclubho use: a 48-foot, ketch-ri ed (Even then, they're likely to "c.c." gg and confusingtax forms.All but the and a "Yeah, so ... ?" facewill cause trimaran that's yours to cruise on whenever you please. a memo to other members of the most fortunate of us have to cope eruptions of clarity and concision Learnsailing skills, meet new, interesting people. with it on a regular basis, and this that will astonish even the bureau departmentto get their opinion.) 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The Wa terfallGaller y Progressives makenew inroadsat the state's 199 2 DemocraticConvent ion Welcome to The Machine he biennial Democratic State Julia Steele Harbor, the expansion of the Convention has come and Hawaiian language immersion pro Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm gone, leaving in its wake apparent in a fewof the resolutions gramin the public schools, the enact 1160:A Nuuanu • Downtown between Beretania & Pauahi Sts. thousands of sheetsof paper, that passed, resolutions that were ment of campaign-spendingreform millions of frayed nerves blatantly pro-military spending and measures, the protection of a and a few substantive reso pro-development. (The convention, woman's right to safe and legal abor lutions - both good and afterall, was chairedby Rick Egged, tion and the creation of on-site, elec 521-6863 bad (depending, as always, on one's a deputy director of the state tion-day voter registration. perspective). The convention wasn't Department of Business, Economic Two measures that failed in com the knock-down, drag-out event it Development and Tourism, and mittee later passed on the floor: A could have been - three weeks ear Linda Rosehill, director of human resolution calling for the state to lier, the Big Island and Kavaicounty resources at Oahu Sugar, an Arnfac increase spending on public educa conventions had proven tumultuous subsidiary.) The Party adopted reso tion from 25 percent of the budget and divisive, and delegates werewait lutions in favorof Star Wars rocket to at least 30 percent, and a resolution ing to see if the discord would spill launching and testing on Kauai, to prevent spying activities at the over into the state convention, which retaining Pohakuloa as a military East-West Center. was held the weekend before last at training area and calling for the Party members disagree on the the Sheraton Waikiki . maintenance - and even expansion importance of convention resolu Much to the relief of the Machine, - of the military's presence tions. Some say they create sound however, the Party emerged intact statewide. The Party also adopted a and fury but result in little substan and unified, probably due to the will resolution in support of geothermal tive action, while others see the res ingness of hardliners and progres energy development. It defeated olutions as useful organizing devices sives to compromise; the hardliners measures that would have restored - a barometer of sentiments within were eager to stave offthe public's county land-use initiativeand halted the Party that can help lead to new increasing alienation from traditional construction on H-3 until the archae legislation. politics, and the progressives wanted ological significance of sites in Overall, the consensus among pro to garner support for the Honolulu Halawa Valley could be determined. gressives in the Party seemed to be mayoral candidacy of activist attor Further, the Party seemed unwill that things had gone better than they ney Michael Wilson. A few pro ing to issue invitations to outsiders, could have: mayoral candidate gressives emerged from the fray defeating a resolution that would Wilson was well received by many further disillusioned, however. have encouraged the lieutenant gov of the delegates (in the absence of a Several Big Island activistsindicated ernor toprovide additional informa popular Machine candidate); ties they would leave the Party and join tion to the public on ways to become were strengthened between the the Greens, and long-term housing involved in Party policymaking. largely Oahu-based Rainbow and community activist Jim Brewer But it wasn't all business as usual. Coalition and Neighbor Island pro - who is also running formayor of A resolution calling for a tax to dis gressives; and there was a small but Honolulu - announced his resig courage real estate speculation significantincrease in the number of nation fromthe Party, citing "those passed, as did one that would allow progressives elected to the Party's greed- and power-motivated forces the public to vote on the desirability state central committee (the which now control the Democratic of another state constitutional con sovereign body that meets once a Party." vention. Other resolutions urged an month betweenconventions to deter The influence of those forces was end to nuclear defueling at Pearl mine Party policies). •
my 9448-071 form?" book. (It's a bonus if you can pull "Who transferred you here?" out Remembrance of Things Past or "I don't know, it was ... " some other tome indicative of your "Just a second." (Muffled con incredible ability to persevere.) Do Bureaucracy versation in background.) not rant at their slowness. Do not sigh "O.K., I think we've got it now. and drum your fingersat every delay. This was your 9884-107 form?" Never check your watch; in fact, Continued from Page 3 "No, my 9448-071. It's ..." don't wear one. Just sit there. Make as you are offthe phone or out of "Oh, I see. Well, I don't know." it perfectly clear that you have noth their line of vision you are an unper "Could I..." ing betterto do, nowhere better to be son, and all inconveniences related to "Just a minute." (Click. Three than there in their office,unbudgi ng. your transactionare summarily ren minutes �f KAIM, followed by 18 This is particularly effective in air dered void. Naturally, they are there rings.) line ticket lines, whereyou can main foredelighted to have you out of the "Hello, you have reached the tain a casual demeanor as the other way as soon as possible, or, as they Committee for Selection of Board customers, hissing and complaining would say, "ASAP" (rhymes with Staffers.Our officesare now closed in line behind you, raise the bureau "pay, sap"). A typical telephone con forthe day. You may call tomorrow crat's blood pressure to peaklevels. versation might go like this: after8 a.m., and our staffwill beglad Watching a bureaucrat's forehead "Hello, Board of Staffing to assist you." becomeshiny and his shirt develop Selection Committee." circles under the arms is more sooth "Uh, hi. I had a question on this Have all the time ing than a shiatsu massage. WS 9448-071 form." in theworld "Just one moment please." (Click. Do not strideinto the office,stand Neverget angry Forty seconds of K-LITE.) with arms folded across your chest Calm is all. You never want to let "Hello, Staffing ofSelect Board and say briskly, "I've got a lunch a bureaucrat see you rattled. Before Committees." meeting in 15 minutes, so let's get being hired, they are screened to "Hi. About my WS 9448-071 down to business here." Bad idea. determine whether they possessspe form, I was wondering ..." Bureaucratsfeel that they are in tune cial glands that secrete endorphins "Yourwhat?" with the t:fckingof the Cosmic Clock, whenever they see anyone else expe "My 9448-071 ?" and they take perverse pleasure in riencing rage, frustration or misery. "Oh, I don't know why they sent the discomfort of those who presume Any display of anger on your part you here. Hold on, please." to hurry their pace. will stimulate your bureaucrat's lit "But..." (Click. Two minutes of Instead, amble gently in, settle tle sadism glands, and he will com KUMU.) down in the nearest chair (even bet plicate your affairs even further, "Hello, Selected Board Staffers ter if they have a couch) and give delightinginwardly as your face red forCommittee s." every appearanceof settingup camp. dens, your veins stand out and your "Is this where I call to ask about If they ask you to wait, pull out a ears emit smoke. • June JO, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly• 5 Continued from Page 1 A rich man makes his own myth in push the North Vietnamese torelease Every once in a while a real story this country, and not many people American POWs. Perot ran breaks, so we know that for every ask questions. But in truth,it's fa ir to antiprotester, pro-Nixon ads in news Boesky, Milken,Gutfreu nd, Trump, say that Ross Perot, a certifiable papers in various cities. The ads, as Roger Smith, Finley and Kumble, right-winger in many aspects who's Wi lliam Satirerecently wrote in the there are a thousand barbarians at a contributed to many Republican New Yo rk Times, contained a hundred gates whom we've never politicians and committees over the coupon that people were supposed heard of, and never will. And they past dozen years, owes it all to to clip and return - postpaid proof make the L.A. looters look like the Lyndon Johnson. Because without of the existence of the Silent impostors that they are. the Medicare and Medicaid laws of Majority - but Perot never did If Henry Ross Perot's candidacy 1965, Perot would ... well, he'd prob dump them with greatfanfare on the forpresident gives us nothing else, it ably still be rich, but he might not White House lawn as he'd promised. will open a window on the Big have done what he did, which was Perot also failed, according to Corporate Mansion and let us all figuringout a completely new way to another recent report, to come peek in. Certainly, peeking into be rich. through on a pledge of a $50 mil Perot's world is not easy; from his Until Medicare and Medicaid lion public-relations campaign to North Dallas compound, where you became the law of the land, Perot's buffup Nixon's image (Perot denies see only trees, a gate and a guard EDS hadn't set a sagebrush on fire, ever making such a pledge). when you drive by, to the corporate let alone the world. One $250,000 Nevertheless, the Texan was an occa officepark a few miles away where contract from the federal Office of sional guest at White House dinners a visitor is shown what they want Economic Opportunity, a fewother and was made a trustee of the you to see and nothing else, Perot small bites of the public apple and Richard Nixon Foundation. has successfully sequestered himself that was about it. But then, enter the Probably Perot's finest reward from anyone who might want to Great Society, Texas Blue Shield and from the Nixon administration snoop. a Dallas banker named James Aston came from Elliot Richardson. In But Richard L. Connor, publisher who was, happily, a champion of September 1972, when Richardson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Perot's and a Blue Shield bigwig, was head of the Health, Education inched the window open with a col and We lfare department, he person umn he wrote last month. He ally intervened to approve awarding described how, in July of 1989, his Perot's firm a $2 million-a-year paperran a piece on the controversy Medicare contractto process claims surrounding a contract at Alliance in Ohio and West Virginia. There Airport, which was beingdeveloped was a small curiosity, though: Perot's @ 1qq1 JOHN S. PRITCHETT by Perot's son, Ross Jr. This same Inside the Electronic Data Systems Federal, a Ross Jr. was competingwith another subsidiary of EDS, was the highest businessman fora management con of three bidders, and its bid was in tract. There were mighty implica World of factthree times as high per claim as vague, are not favorable. "All I can vatelywith Rockefeller. Miraculously, tions, Connor wrote, that Perot Jr. the lowest bid. Then, in November, directly recall was that there was a EDS was reinstated. Inexorably, the was using political pressure. just after Nixon won a landslide re problem involving an audit," logic that takes hold when two bil The day after the piece ran, H.Ross election, two of Perot's top deputies Richardson says, "and I remember lionaires sit down together to talk Connor got a call fromPerot Sr. He - these were the days before con that we could have lowered the turkey began to assert itself. In dished out the expected abuse, and tribution limits - combined to boomon it, but decided not to. I can't March, the previously eliminated then tacked toward an approach that, donate almost $200,000,roughly 10 remember why we didn't." Asked EDS was one of three companies to say the least, startled Connor. Perot percent of the amount of the con to explain what "lowering the boom" that got a $60,000 evaluation con Here's Connor's story: tract, to the Committee to Re-Elect would've meant, he said: "We could tract.And in May, afterRockefeller Besides, he wanted to know, who the President. have disallowed charges (that Perot had made an agreement with state were we to be scrutinizing them, As Perot acknowledged, he was requested), raised questions or per legislativeleaders promising that his when our own house was not in getting phone calls from CREEP haps sued." (Perot did not respond office would work with them on order? chairmanMaurice Stans and Herbert to written querieson this or any other studying the transition, he reneged He said something to the effe ct and the profitcolumn gushed like an Kalmbach, Nixon's private lawyer matter.) and the state Department of Social that the newspaper was being com uncapped oil derrick. As Robert who later pied guilty to running an The General Accounting Office Services awarded a $125,000con promised, that we had conflicts of Fitch tells the story in his profile of illegal fundraising operation, solic investigated and issued a report in sultingcontract to EDS. It was a key interest of our own. Perot publishedin Ramparts in 1971, iting huge contributions. Perot him August 1973. When I inquired after step along the way to winning the I asked what he meant. Perot was working part time for self demurred,but Milledge Hartill a copy, a spokeswoman at GAO $30 million contract.But, after ques He said he was certain I was Texas Blue Shield in late 1%5 when and Thomas Marquez, two EDS replied that "the file seems to be tionsabout thestate 's award to EDS aware of a relationship between one the Social Security Administration executives,chipped in $87,000and missing." But a congressionalmemo were raised by various city and state of our employees and a cityoffi cial. gave Blue Shield a contract to $111,000,respec tively. from August 1973 detailed some of officials,.Gov. Rockefeller decided I infe rred that he was alluding to develop softwarefor pr ocessingand (Interestingly, Perot explained his the findings in the report: that the to drop the whole matter, and the a rumor of sexual impropriety. paying Medicare claims. This Perot reason fornot giving to Nixon to award "was not consistent with the state never did take over the city's I said I thought I understood what did. Blue Shield quickly turned the New York Daily News in Social Security Administration's claims. he meant, and said there was no around and awarded EDS a subcon 1973. Coming from a man who, with stated policy of fostering competi proof of it. tract to take over data processing of his wife, has given $72,850 in cam tion"; that an SSA evaluation con ne more contractstory bears The fa ct is, even iftrue, it was its new Medicare program, at which paign contributions during the last cluded that the contract award "was telling,a fight in which Perot irrelevant. point Perot quit his part-time job - 12 years, and who now proposes to not warranted"; that EDSF's pro most blatantly used his polit It was at this juncture that he taking with him, of course, the com pour $100million into his own can posal was $ I million peryear higher ical muscle to win back a refe rred to photographs he said puterization system he'd developed didacy, the explanation is memo than that of the qualified lowest bid contract from which his provedhis charge. with public money. Aston, chief of rable: "Cash in a campaign is a der; and that though Nationwide con company had already been Photographs! Now there 's a can the Republic National Bank of Dallas disease.") The governmentacknowl tended otherwise, EDSF's competi eliminated through the nor do guy! Perot has denied the story, and a Blue Shield director, loaned edged at the time that Richardson tors were qualified in every aspect mal process. but Connor stands by it 100percent. Perot the money he needed to get his had personally approved the contract of the bid requirements. EDSF kept In 1980, the $2 billion Medicaid And, really, who would doubt it? operation going and helped smooth award, which technically was with the contracts, but Democratic con contractwith the Texas Department Perot, after all, is a man who gets Perot's way with other Blue Shield Nationwide Mutual Insurance, the gressman L.H. Fountain of North of Human Resources was up fo r things done. And if you want some executives. Business started rolling prime contractor forthe two states. Carolina said that "there has been an renewal. An EDS subsidiary, thing done, and people are in your in, and by the time Fitch's article Nationwide executives, too, inexcusable disregard forfair com National Heritage Insurance Co., way, you move 'em out of the way. came out, Perot had contracts in 11 defended the award to EDSF.But at petitive procedures and a reckless held the contract. When the com And to do that, you findthe dirt. For states, his profit margin was around the same time, a congressional sub waste of the taxpayers' money. It is peting bidders were winnowed Ross Perot, friendof Nixon, buddy 40 percent and his billings repre committee was asking why a con long past time forthis sort of thing to down, National Heritage and of the CIA's Bobby Inman, deal sented the second-largestitem on the tract was awarded that would cost be stopped." Bradford National, a New York maker with Nelson Rockefeller, con entire Medicare part B administra the taxpayers in one of the dirt-poor based firm that did similar work, tractorto the PeacockThrone, donor tive budget. Thus was born, as est states in the union, West Vrrgini a, t continued. In the early 1970s, emerged as the finalists. NHIC had to Oliver North, intelligence adviser Ramparts named him, "America's about 90 cents per processedclaim, New York governor Nelson far more experience than Bradford, to Ronald Reagan and America's First Welfare Billionaire." while a competing bidder said it Rockefellerwas pushing forthe but still, when the DHR rated the First Welfare Billionaire, it's all in a could do the job for 31 cents per state to take over New York proposals, Bradford's scored 680 day's work. hat's Part One of the Great claim. City's welfare claims process points while NHIC's tallied 567. American Success Story. Today, Richardson says he can't ing. In January 1973, the state Bradford's bid came in an estimated ou know all about the Part Twoinvolves politics. recall personally approving the issued a request for proposals $20 million to $50 million lower than Texarkana child, the Boy It's usually a pretty short award to Perot, but adds that he for$60,000 contracts to conduct pre NHIC's. On July 15, 1980, the three Scout, the Annapolis grad, walk from the first mil-few "didn't often" intervene in such mat liminarystudies. Twelve companies member DHR board met to vote on the supersalesman at IBM lion to a taste forsome seri- ters. He says he recalls no White responded. All these companies the agency's recommendation. They who once met his yearly ous political play-making. House pressure: "I don't think I had would then have a leg up on win voted unanimously to award the con sales quota by Jan. 19 and If the Johnson administration ere any direct dealings with him, and I ning the big prize, which, it was tractto Bradford. the plucky risk-taker who ated Perot's financialoppor tunities, don't remember any direct commu reckonedat the time, would beworth Perot was in London when he had only $1,000 in start-up money it was Richard Nixon who made nications from the White House. I $30 million a year. Five companies heard the news. He flew back to to create Electronic Data Systems, Perot a player. know that no one ever put any pres were shortlisted, but EDS, which had Texas immediately and set to work. the computer services company he In OctoQer 1969, Perot announced sure on me forPer ot." made a bid, wasn't one of them. Perot reportedly made private visits sold to GM for$2.5 billion in 1986. a campaign to support Nixon and His memories of Perot, though Then, on Feb. 9, Perot met pri- to all three board members: chair- 6 • June 10, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly MAI was in sad shape in 1985. team, but its success owed far more in 50 states in a matter of weeks. Housed in Harlem, where only a to luck than to skill, as Perothas con fractionof the 1.9 million-piece col ceded. In fact, the two men got out in et, forall the above, forall lection left byfounder George Heye a jailbreak that also released 11,000 the ties, deals, fixes and could beexhibited at any given time, other prisoners. And after all, what trade-offs, we face in the museum was in desperate shape. werethe EDS guys doing in Tehran? Perot's candidacy a stark For two years, the MAI had been They were under contractto one of contradiction: That is, he trying to work out a deal with the the great butchers of our century, the is a genuine populist. Don't American Museum of Natural shah, computerizing Iran's social make the mistake of equat- History to keep the collectionin New security programs. ing "populist" with "good," straight York - as Heye's will expressly Then again, fromNixon on, Perot off; after all, Hiram Wesley Evans, stipulated it should be. Negotiations hasn't seemed too picky about the founderof the Ku Klux Klan, was a involving the Indian museum, the company he keeps. He's an old pal of populist in every sense of the term. Natural History museum, the city CIA superspook Bobby Inman. He But the fact must be recognized and the state had limped along, with was named to the Foreign that Perot is making lots of sense to no agreement. So when a member Intelligence Advisory Board by lots of people. Rolling Ston£:'s of the museum's board of trustees Ronald Reagan, and he gave $2 mil William Greider, who by dint of his who knew Perot approached him lion in 1986 to Lake Resources, the current book, Who Will Te ll the about a possible move to Texas, bells phony Swiss company set up by People?, and a recent Frontline spe went off in two places: Perot was Oliver North. Lake was a phony cial has emerged as democracy's intrigued, and several trusteeswere account that served as a repository Zola, observes the following:"What apparently d�lighted at the prospect through which North moved money he's done already is extraordinary, of getting the thing offtheir hands. from Iranian arms sales to the running even in the polls. If he does Perot and the Southland Contras. No evidence ties Perot nothing else, it's already quite amaz Corporation offered a deal. they explicitly to the contraeffort. He was ing, and a demonstrationof how vul would pay $35 million each to relo financing a mission to rescue nerable the status quo is. I think it's cate the collectionto Texas. Together, American hostages in Lebanon, wonderful." Greider hastens to add they were planning on building a which failed. that he hasn't yet done any in-depth patriotism theme park outside Dallas reporting on Perot; so when we - on the land surrounding H. Ross hat we've got here is a spoke, he presumably didn't know' Perot Jr. 's Alliance Airport. pretty firmly estab some of the things you know from Presumably, displays of Native lished m.o.: Something having read this piece. But Greider American relics would be part of a doesn't go your way, sees Perot as a vehicle forreb ellion cowboys and Indians subtheme; a make it go your way. against all the awful people andsys respectable collection of art would Go to the top. Get a tems he writes about. make the place a little classy, and private meeting.Apply It's absurd, of course, to call Perot man and cattle rancher Hilmar on every aspect of the thing. He had perhaps provide some tax relief. For pressure. Dig up dirt. Make threats or an outsider after having taken note of Moore, Austin attorney Terry Bray copies of indictments, newspaper their part, most of the trustees- led promises. Screw anybody in your his relationships with Watergate and San Antonio restaurateur Raul clippings, the whole thing. It was way. Win. crooks, Company spooks and Oliver Jiminez. Afterthe Perot visit, Moore unbelievable. I think he's better than So if the man's done business this North. But he has emerged ·outside was saying that the board might have the CIA at getting information." way for25 years, are we really sup the two-party system, and, even if made a mistake. The board decided On Oct. 21, Perot announced that posed to believe that he's running he's just the jerk at the end of the bar to have the bids reviewed by an inde "information that will come to light By Michael for president as the opposite: the who happens to have $100million to pendent consultant. Speaking today, in the next few days will encourage bashful candidate, an "only if the throw around, he's showing that you Bray says he has no memory of such Bradford to pull up stakes and go people insist on me" -type thing? can run for president without being a meeting, though it was reported by back to New York." Four days later, Tomasl,y Sharon Holman assures me it's so. beholden to the primaries,to the par Te xas Business and other papers, Perot produced New York state sen Holman was, until recentlythe cam ties, tothe political press, to the "pro including The Washington Post. ator Richard Schermerhorn, a con paign spokeswoman. When I called cess." This horrifies all those who Moore certainly recalls it: "Perot servative Republican, who told a h�r fromNew York to set up a meet run the process.In this sense, Perot's came to me and he said, 'Look, you DHRboard meeting that Bradford's by chairman BarberConable, freshly ing, and asked if I had a shot at indeed an outsider. If he does well, people have been led down the handling of the New York Medicaid retiredas a longtimeRepublican con speaking with the great man him that means, ipso facto,the "process" wrong road on this, and I'm going program .was in chaos, which had gressmanand then head of the World self, she chuckled and mentionedthe does poorly; and shouldn't we cheer to show you why."' Throughout the little basis in truth. Schermerhorn Bank - were ready to jump. 1,500 interview requests ahead of for that? battle, Perot maintained that (who was later convicted of unre But Edmund Carpenter,an anthro mine. By the time I got to Dallas a "I think, under the most hopeful Bradford wasn't big or sophisticated lated fraudcharges) flew to Texas in pologist and MAI trustee, was few days later, the number was up scenario," Greider says, "we are at enough to handle the job, and,Moore Perot's plane. appalled, both by the prospect of the to 1,800. the beginning of a very long period says, Perot demonstratedto him that Eventually, the DHR board collection leaving New York and by Holman has worked forPerot off of disarray and reformation of our NHIC's bid was actually cheaper on decided it couldn't decide, and it the thought of these artifacts ending and on for 25 years. She's got that national politics. You can't rebuild a per-claim basis. Moore adds he reopened the bidding process. up in an amusement park. He saw a zippy enthusiasm about her as she democracy from the top down. That admired Perot then and still does, Bradford stayed out, and Perot won. note that Perot had written to another sits with me in the office of the contradicts thewhole idea. And yes, and that he hadn't believed his orig Today, very few people, even trustee affirming his interest in the "Perot Petition Committee" and because people are trained by the inal vote to go with Bradford was · Bradford officials,want to talk about museum. "The starkness of his explains this "gras�roots phe press to seek celebrities, someone binding. the episode publicly. Calls to former words struck me," Carpenter says. nomenon" and then escorts me like Perot will catch on in a way that Meanwhile, Bradford chairman Bradford executives were unre "He said it in the simplest phases. around the famous phone bank room. a genuinely promising person Peter Del Col learnedof Perot's pri turned. Jerome Chapman and Wesley He said he'd pay $70 million to You remember the phone banks. couldn't. It's impossible to create vate meetings when a reportercalled Hj ornevik were the commissioner move it if he had to, to create a Perot himself couldn't get an out anything real with somebody like to ask how he felt about losing the and the deputy commissioner, world-class museum. That's his word side line, the number wasn't even Perot." But, says Greider, if he's not contract. Del Col charged that the respectively,of the DHRat the time. foreverything, world-class." published and still thousands of peo good for building, he may serve us meetings were illegal, citing Texas' Both men resigned in the middle of Carpenter foundan ally in New ple were calling every day, and well for tearing down, which, after 1976 AdministrativeProcedure Act, the controversy and both are retired York Attorney General Robert finally they had to hook the lines all, needs doing first. which prohibits private discussions now. Reached at their homes, they Abrams. "Perot tried to steal the through the Home Shopping However, there's something to between board members and inter went quiet fast. museum, that's basically what he Network's phone systems in Florida. worry about here. Without saying ested parties without the other party '1 don't talk abouttha t," Chapman did," says Tim Gilles, Abrams' chief And to think it all began with a that Ross Perot is Adolf Hitler, and present. Bradford took out a full said. "I just don't talk about it. I still aide. "He was engaged in allkinds of throwaway line spoken on Larry without asserting that his supporters page ad in Texas dailies to lay out have too many friends around, too manipulations behind the scenes. It King's television show in are the moral equivalents of good the situation,and hiredthe New York many people who still work in the was crazy." February. "It started Feb. 20," Germans, it is reasonable to point PR firmof David Garth to counter department who might be hurt." Perot needed a court order to Holman says. "It absolutely did. It out that the types of people who are attack. "After those full-page ads, "I have no comment at all," change the terms of the Heye was a Thursday, I think,and I walked expressing support for Perot reflect we had editorial support in all the Hjorneviksaid. "I just don't want to bequest, so the collection could be in with him from the parking garage in many ways the types of people major papers against Perot," says talk aboutit. And it was so long ago, moved out of state. The matter went Friday morningand said, 'Hey, you who supported Hitler in 1932: petite Maureen Connelly, then a Garth I wouldn't trust my memory any to court. A state supreme courtju s kinda tookus by surprise with what bourgeoisie buffeted by bad eco political consultant. "But the board way. " tice authorizeq Abrams to depose you said on Larry King last night,' nomic times; small entrepreneurs wouldn't budge." Perot. Almost immediately, Perot and he said, 'Aw, it'll probably all and shopkeepers; largishportions of Perot kept the pressureup. Just as, ell there's a little bit withdrew his offer. blow over by Monday."' Don't buy the lower middle class. And, to draw years later, Perot made references to about how Perot does it. In fact, as Peter Elkind reported it out one step further, Perot is "photographs," so here did he start business. Now let's lso in the extracurricular in the Dallas Observer, Perot engi opposed by most of the ruling class, lookingfor bodies. In a private meet take a quick look at his vein, we have the matters neered the King appearance after as was A.H. And EDS was run in a ing, after Perot explained why he extracurricular activi that made Perot famous: studying other announcement-venue rather Fascistic manner: the strict believed NHIC's bid was actually ties. Perot's attempt, in his private foreign policy alternatives. Recall, now, Safire's rules about employees' clothing and the cheaper, Mooresays, "He started 1985, to buy the col exploits, fromhis tangling piece. Safire avers that. the Silent facial hair; the credo that an feeding me the things about lection of the Museum of the with the Reagan/Bush Majority coupon campaign - the employee must devote him/herself (Bradford), about how they once American Indian and move it to a administrations over coupons never delivered to Nixon fully to the company; the way in were involved with defrauding the patriotismtheme park - you read Vietnam MIAs to his supposed res - were in factthe firstdirect-mail which Perot was the corporation's Navy, aboutindictments ... I have to it right - in Dallas must rankas one cue of two EDS employees who list forPerot for President. That was father-leader. And the idea of putting tell you, I've never been more of the greatest adventures in cultural were in Gasr prison in Tehran in 1970. And let's face it: You don't Indian artifacts in a patriotism shrine infpressed by a man's thoroughness imperialismsince the Elgin Marbles. 1979. True, Perot hired a commando get election lawyers on the payroll Continued on Page 16 June JO, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly • 7 All culcndw 01Junnutwn11u1. ,c hl' H'Cci1·cd ln 11mm on \\'r dm·,du) ttt·o ttwk.shrfm r /whltcution. Cu/l 521:i-1286 CALENDAR June 10 ...June 16
la DirtyDancing, or surf. a la Point Break. from Ireland to Oklahoma Indian territory in They wind up doing a combo number: a 1892) and plenty of sly peeksat Tom Cruise Film wicked pas a deuxin a flood. The usually in various statesof undress. Tom is poorbut C1iticism Q}'Bob unlessGreen othem isenoted. wonderful ArtMalik stars as a caricature of an priapic and his love-interest (Cruise's real Music Pick 'i', the \f!a>k/y'., dingbat of approml, indicates evil slum godfather; Pauline Collins is me life wife, Nicole Kidman) is wealthy. They Slack-key great Sonny films of more than averageinterest. requisite British nurse wim a heart of gold. a born want freedom. and leave Ireland for Chillingwortb. brimming clinic and a barren phannacy. The Boston and then head out to Oklahoma for First Run abysmal script was thrown togeilier by Mark me land rush. Music- and plenty of it -by Bt7ej'retiewsof selected.first-n111.films in toun. Medoff. Directed by Roland Joffe ( TbeKilling John Williams. direction by Ron Howard Confirm theaters, dates andtimes. Fields) - at gunpoint, one can only assume. (Backdraft ). Alien 3 Music-video auteur David Fincher -JuliaSta>le Ferngully... The RainforestLast Latest in directs this much-troubled sequel to the first ClassSometimes Act it seem� like Hollywood tl1e new batch of kids' eco-movies, d1is ani two Alien films. (The movie went through has been lJ1\lking me switched-identity story mated fe-ature about d1e rainforest boast5 an additional millions of dollars of scripts, direc line since even beforemovie; were in\·ented. in1pressive collection of vtlices. Crysta. Pips, tors and re-shooting before it finally found This time out, d1e school records of a lxJOk d1e BeedeBoys and Batty live in a wondrous, Ethno 0ut1 release.) Sigourney Weaver returns as Our worm are switched wim those of a juvenile threatened world. Tin1 Cuny, Christian Slater, Hemme Ripley. who crash-lands on a prison delinquent. Starringrappers Kid (as d1e book Grace l.abriskie and Robin Williams all do The gooo tolks werat tht Univer,ity of R Md's mu-;1� dep,1 rtmrf'\t h�ve put togetl1er planet where she must re-confront the Mon worm) ·n Play (as the j.d.). M1Vs Pauly 'ihore some of the talking in di.is adventure among ,1 serie� of ethnic musk and cL,nce prograr1s at Orvis •\uditorium mJune and July. ster, who this time tries to knock her up. Or makes an appearance as a "cool" surfer. the tall trees. -M.B. Thev re ca!ling it E�mer92, and it kkks oft this week with perfom1ances something like that, anyway -d1e film reput The Cutt.lgDirected Edge by former Starsk;1 Goodbye Paradise A locally written, pro by five Hawaibn chantersand slack-key guitargre1t SonnyCh llliqworth. edly has two or three endings, which are a11d Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser. the duced and directed film purporting to be The fesll\·al hegms tllis Fridai with 7belit of tb1;Chanter, '1 program of traditional being tested in different markets. timely, or perhaps timeless, or perhaps tardy. about changes in d1e Honolulu lifestyle (a Ha\\aiian chanting stylesarotmd :he themes "Mauka to \Iakai and "Kamehamd1a, 'i' American Me Edward James Olmos Cu ttingMge is one of tl10se comedies which friendly bar is closing. about to be dL5placed featurin6 the Big Island's Kamuela Chun, M:1ui's Ke'ali'i Reichel and Oahu's (Standand De!ii'f!I)makes his directing debut seems like it ought to star Kristy .\lac;:-.;ichol. by a Big Dealbuilding project). It's an earnest, Kalani Akana,Lehua Hulihe'e and Harbin Mosier. with this urban drama, which spans three A macho hockey player is partnered wiili a well-meaning film full ofinside jokes and On Saturday, ChiUingworth wiU perform both solo ,md with an ensemble in a pr<.> decades in the lives of a Hispanic-American prim figure skater; together tl1ey advance in recognizable local perfonners. Claustropho gram titled KiHo'alu (Hawaiian for slack key). Considered one of the great slack family. Olmos begins with the Pachuco riots couples competition. Plenty of knee-high bically filmed, it might as well have been key virtuosos,Chill ingworththis year won a Hoku Award for Lifetime Aduevement. in Los Angeles in 1943 and steers the film shots ofthe camera following the silver blades shot in downtown Detroit; the chief irony is He will tracethe highlightsof hiscareer in the localmusic scenewith the help of his through the '70s, starring as an ambitious around me rink; apparently me two stars that ilie film is lacking what its storyline pupils and friends Oz Kotani,GeCltge Kuo, Peter Medeiros,bassist Teqy Bright and criminal who directs gang activities even aren't Ice Capades material. -M.B. appears to want to endorse- the beauty Matthew Swalik.anvich, a 14 year olclwho studies withChillingworth thluugh a state when he is behind bars. -Mary Brennan � DeepCover A good cop (LanyFishburne and social tolerance of Hawaii. Worth see apprenticeshipgrant. Chillingworth's healthhas been poor of late, sothe mance to The Babe Goodman,John one of our most of Boyz Nthe Hood) goes undercover to infil ing as a curiosity. see hin1 istrea a t. underratedfilm actors, here essays the role of trate a drug ring ... and becomes so personally Hawaii - Born in Paradise An IMAX tourist-oriented tour of our state, fe-,ituring a Ne$tweek, ttiefost will feature salsa;Puerto Ri<:' Film sponsors allusions that has something to do with a sion). 259-7373 UH SummerSession a festivalof new coroner who courts three women, all of RandyTravis Speaking of automotivespon filmsby i- Mexicandi rectors whom have offed their husbands. The film is sorships, thisgood ol' boy is brought to you reminiscentof Greenaway'sProspero s Books, by them rambunctious wrasslers over to d1e except it's a lot more fun. Recommended, GMC Truck division. Randy should do 'em cautiously. Academy Theatre, 900 S. Bereta proud: He's a trueblood country singer nia St.: Wed. 6/10, 7:30 p.m. $'!. 532-8701 stamped in d1e Grand Ole Opry mode, an 'iJFK 0991) Politicos who early on dis all-American twanger whose songs stick to missed this Oliver Stone opus on John F. the timeworn themes of d1e genre: the per Kennedy's assassination and thesubsequent manence of "true" love; the odd accompa (Stone alleges)government cover -up are now nying paradox of perpetual, insurmountable running scared. They apparently hadn't heartbreak; and, of course, theflag-waving counted on propaganda more skillful than virtues of patriotism (hell, his latest album's their own. The ftlmwon two well-deserved even got a song calledPoint of Light). The 33- Oscars - for best editing and best sound. year-old Traviswas born Randy Traywick in Hemenu•ay Theatre, UH Manoa campus: Cheatham County, Tenn., and was a "wild Wed. 6/10 - Sun. 6/14, 5:30 & 9 p.m. $3.50. 'un" during his youth in North Carolina ("he 956-6468 drank, tookdrugs, drove without a license,·· 1hePrince of Tides (1991)Barbra Streisand reveals one article, "he drove without a directs Nick Nolte in this Pat Conroy tale of license whiledrinking and drugs"),doing but a South Carolina teacher discovering the he cleaned up his act once his careertook off secrets of his dysfunctional familywith the aid and he moved to Nashville. Now, when he's of a New York shrink. Hemenwa)' Theatre, not on the road (which he is 200 or so days L'H Manoa campus: Tue. 6il6 - S�n. 6/21, 6 a year), he just likes to "kick back" by ridin' & 8:30 p.m. S3.50. 956-6'168 his horses and shootin' his guns. No won Overseas 0990) A winnerat Cannesand at der he's such a crossover sensation. the Seattle Film Festival, Ol'erseas is set in Openingfor Tr avis willbe Cyril, Bia and Mar French colonialAfrica of the 1950s - when tin Pahinui, Gabby's sons, who this month, the empire is about to come crashingdown. will release their first album together as a Usinga narrativestructure, the filmexplores group. BlaisdellArena, m Ward Ave.: Fri. the lives of three French sisters caught in the 6/12, 7 p.m.: $20 - $25. 521-2911 Franco-Algerian war and, in thegrand tradi tion of Rashomon, dissectsthe war from the viewpointof each. Academy Theatre, 900 S. Club Acts Band schedulesare subjectto change. Please Beretania St.: Thur. 6/11, 1 & 7:30 p.m.; Fri. callvenues/ or latestinf ormation. Consult the 6/12, Sat. 6/13 & Mon. 6/15, 7:30 p,m.; Sun. Lite Music Ven ueslist fo r kxationsand phone 6/14, 4 p.m. $4. 532-8701 numbers. 'iSullivan's Travels (1941) Writer-director Preston Sturgessatirized himselfin thissome 10/Wednesday times hilarious,sometimes too ellipticalcom edy about a Hollywood director (Joel Almost FamousVa riety; Coconut Willie's. 9 McCrea) who decides that his usual mind p.m. - 1:30 a.m. less movie fare simply isn't enough and Augie Rey& City Uglrts Dance; Nicholas embarks on a quest to do "relevant" com Nickolas. edy. Our Di.rectorthen disguises himself as a Blue KangarooVa riety;Jolly RogerWa ikiki. ost North Americans assault: According to Estrada,85 per Bobby Dunne Band Pop, Rock; Irish Rose Julia Steele bum to see how the real world lives. The know as much about cent of the 200 theaters in Mexico somewhat self-congratulatoryending might Saloon. Mexico's cinema as City - invariably the best theaters BradoJawaiian, Classical,Jazz; ShoreBird 4 comedies, adventures, very impor strike you as evasive, but thereare some big they know about the with the best sound and projection -8 p.m. tant feministmovies - a very wide laughs along the way. With Veronica Lake. country's history: not capabilities - screen American DesperadoRock; Jazz Cellar. spectrum." Movie Museum, 3566 Harding Ave.: Thur. much. Asked to name a films. "A very important Mexican 6/11 & Sat. 6/13, 8 p.m. $5. 735-8771 EddieChang Guitar; Jolly Roger Fast. Five of the most acclaimedrecent EddyRock; Zany Scuttlebutt's. Mexican filmpersonal film will open in eight theaters in Mexican independent films will EdenDance Rock; Wa w Wa ikiki. ity, your average Yankwould prob- Mexico City," Estradasays, "while screen at UHthis weekend and next, Emie SheaJazz; Mahina Lounge. ably cite Speedy Gonzales. Yet the 2 will open in 30 or 40 sponsored by the university's sum Te nninator Hawaiian Time Contemporary Hawaiian; saga of Mexico's relationshipto film theaters." (Ironically, the areas where Music mer session and Compadres restau MontereyBay CannersPearlridge. is a varied and dynami,e one. From Mexican films consistently rant. In addition to Estrada's are Howard & Russ Mellow Contemporary; the first film ever shot in Mexico, shown arethe country's rural, impov Concerts Bandito's. Bandidos, the UH will screen Ciudad ElhnoSummer92 SeeMusic Pick Page 8. made by a young erished regions, where illiteracy pre on Horizon Hawaiian; Oasis. Don Juan Te norio, de Ciegos (City of the Blind), a look HonoluluConununity Concert 55- BandA engineering student in 1898, to Luis vents viewers fromreading subtitles.) Hyena Rock; MooseMcGill ycuddy'sUn iwr at the lives of individuals and fami piece amateur ensemble featuring doctors, B ufiuel's 1965 religious allegory Distributors must also contend sity. lies who inhabit a single Mexico City lawyers, teachers, et al. The band's spring Simon de/ desierto, to the the wild, with state-regulated ticket prices; cur J.P. Smoketrain Rock; No Na me Bar. apartmentfrom the 1940s to the pre concert will feature works by Tchaikovsky, Jim Blakemore Contemporary Hawaiian; telling and vibrant films coming out rently, the cost of a movie ticket in sent; Returno a Aztlan (Return to Webber and others. Ka imuki High School MontereyBay CannersWa rd. of the country today, movies have Mexico is roughly $1.50, a fee set Auditorium, 2705 Kaimuki Ave.: Sat. 6/13, Aztlan), a tale set in the days before Jon Basebase Contemporary; Horatio's. long provided a language for by the governmentand standardized 7:30 p.m. Free. 531-7511 the Spanish Conquest, in which Kevin Mau Variety;_Coco nut Willie's. 12:30 - Mexicans to speakabout their lives, throughout the nation's 2,000 the Mana'oCompany Check out thisfunky local Emperor Motecuzomatries to end a 3:30 p.m. their cultures, their beliefs, their aters. Distributors, who would natu band,which helpedput Jawaiianon themap four-yeardrought by sending emis Kontrast RocR; Moose McGillycuddy's desires and their struggles - rally like to see film revenues rise, and then dividedit into therepublics of con Wa ikiki. saries to Aztlan, the mythical birth temporary Hawaiianand Island reggaewhen amongst themselves and with the rest want that fee increased. Still, since Leroy KahakuContemporary; Black Orchid. place of the Aztecs, to seek mercy thetraditionalists cried foul. This is thefirst in of the world. the average cost of an independent 6-9p.m. from the goddess Coatlicue; Lola, this summer's free "AT&T Wildest Show in Last year, approximately 65 fea Mexican filmis (by Hollywoodstan Uve ParadiseVa riety; Sp indrifterKa bala. the story of an impoverished young Town" concertsat the zoo, so if you get there ture-length films were made in dards) a minor $500,000, and since Loretta Ables Trio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. mother strugglingto create a life that early you can talk to the animals for noth Mexico. One of Mexico's most cre the government generally fronts 40to Mahi Beamer Contemporary Hawaiian; will fulfillher; and Mentras Piadosas ing. Honolulu Z:00, Kapiolani Park: Wed . 6/10, Andrew's. ative new directors, Luis Estrada- 60 percent of financingcosts, many 6 p.m. Free.531-0101 (White Lies), a story of the desire Mana'o Company Hawaiian: Malia 's who will be at the University of Mexican filmsbreak even at the least Monster Jawaiian Jam Just when you and ambition of two marriedlovers Cantina. Generally, 50 percent is recouped in thoughtyou'd never see one of these again, Hawaii this weekend to present his - Israel, the owner of an herb store Natural TransitionJazz; Paradise Lounge. film - separates the 65 Mexico; the restcomes fromEurope, along comes Peyton Entertainment with a • Bandidos and creator of small scale models, Ohana Two Hawaiian; Bay View Lounge. films into two categories: 50 were Asia, the U.S. and various festivals. "who's who of Jawaiianmusic" to celebrate PandanusHawaiian; Club Nick 'sFish ma,ket. and Clara, a bureaucrat -who scan KCCN-FM lOO's 2nd birthday. On the bill are "very commercial, very bad films" Estrada says new ways of generat Raga & Star Williams Jazz; New Orleans dalize their families by moving in Kapena, Ho'aikane, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole made in largepart for the home video ing revenues from films - home Bistro. together. and the Bully Aku Band, Mana'o Company, industry; 15 were independent,"qual video, cable, TV - are also helping Roots Natty Roots Reggae; Anna Ban Mexican filmmakers face a num Willie K. and Lawai'a. Wa ikiki Shell, 2805 to muster funds. nanas. ity," filmsmade by inventive young ber of obstacles in getting their MonsarratAve .: Sat. 6/13, 5:30 p.m. $12.50 - directors (and supported in part by Despite the prevalence of govern Shirleywalker Va riety;Jo lly RogerFast. 4 - movies shown, and none is greater $17.50 521-2911 7 p.m. the Mexican government). Unlike in ment financing, Estradasays there is Peter MoonBand And you thoughtcorpo _ than Hollywood's global Silent RageRock; C-5. the United States, where the label "no problem with censorship. In the rate sponsorship was only for M1Vstars. In Steep CliffRock; Jazz Cellar. "independent" generally refers to past it was very hard,very tough. But thisshow, perenniallocal favorite Moon and lbe Krush Contemporary Hawaiian; Out the mode in which a film is 2 in the last three years, I don't knowof his combo willplay theirmellow Island tunes riggerRee /Towers. fri. 6/1 forWaipahu Toyota's SummerConcert Series. financed, in Mexico "indepen heB lind, any problems. We have a ratings Veroa Tiki Jazz; Orson's. Cit)'of t If that's not enough of a draw, the day will dent" tends to connote non-com . 6/13 board- that's the only kind of cen Warren Johnson & Gator Creek !3and nd;ts,sat 14 also fe-,1ture waffledogs, prizegiveaways and Country; Pecos RiverCafe . mercial, non-exploitative subject sa , sun. 6/ sorship." Estrada says the new "special one-day specials on all cars." o Aztlan Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; Banyan matter. Return t Mexican administration has been Wa ipahu Toyota, 94-757 Farrington Hwy.: "The most interesting aspect of 6/19 much more openabout the artsthan Ve randa. LOia, fri. Sat. 6/13, 11:30 a.m. Free. 677-3161 'quality' Mexican films today," 6/20 its predecessors. Thecou ntry'stwo PunaluuBlend Contemporary Hawaiianfare e es,sat . 11/I'hursday Estrada says over the phone from Whit u Manoa film schools are also heavily sub is the go atthis installment of Sea Life Park's oriU111, UH AlmostFamous Va riety; Coconut Willie 's. 4 Mexico City, "is that no movie has Art Audit sidized by the government, and Kama'aina Friday Night family programs, which are freewith the priceof admission to p.m. - 1:30 a.m. the same characteristics of another .m. all niglltS· $4 students who attend may do so AugieRey & CityUglrts Dance; Nicholas one. Each of the movies is very spe 7:30p virtuallyfor free. But the schools the park. Sea Life Park, Makapuu Point: Fri. 21 6/12, 8:30 p.m. $5.25 (without park adrnis- Nickolas. cific in its own terms. We have gs&,72 are small - each accepts only AzureMcCall & Co.Jazz; Nick 'sFish market. Continued on Page 12 June JO, 1992 • Honolulu We ekly • 9 ParadlscHillDn Lounge, Haw.man Vi llage, 2005 Katia Rd9494321 llVf MUSI( Vf NUfS l'mlsCafe, Rh Ras lnanclo& New HorizonsBand Reg One People Mellow Contemporary; Ban SC.A>l 11\E. P�,y Fo� s \)(I== lo.l �oue.STOM AtH gae; Steamer's. dito 's. PQo�PEc:tS, ANO s�..io Tll-l �OU !=EEL Alllt.WA�D 1"'1111S1Sl.€HI.\Tt: �A�<;;' At.IQ lJl\lfoJ�RAL. Reml & Friends Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. OpenFire Rock; Jazz Cellar. TOWAl2:o A l-l- �TI" £'2. Roble & Troy Contemporary Hawaiian; Pagan Babies World Dance; Anna Ban l.001<-1..lG R\V'P.L�. Moose McGillycuddy'sUniversity. nanas. Royal Hawaiian BandContemporaiy; Iolani Raga & Andrea Young Jazz; Mabina Palace. 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lounge. O· Shirley walkerVa riety; Jolly RogerEast. 4 - Rapbn Contemporaiy Dance; Black Orchid 7p.m. Remi & Friends Va riety; Wa ikiki Broiler. S:UPP�\;c; �OUR VRC,E.m 5ToP T1.,HT C.�1N$. STl>.tJO PO!:.ITlON �ouR.S£L-f Silent Rage Rock; C-5. Midnight - 2 a.m. Robie & Troy Contemporary Hawaiian; R\.J r,J OUT' TuE:. DooR.. UP ST�AlC:,t-ff. Oo..i'T STRATEG1C.AL.l.� AND Steep CliffRock; Jazz Cellar. Moose McGillycuddy'sUniversity. S<:'2.E.AM1NG, 5C.RAT(�vlU£.t..f, (£T R�o�10 APPl2oAtH Steve FriasKeyboa rd; Ramsay Galleries& Shirley walkerVa riety; Jo lly Roger East. 4 - OR.BE APPRoACt-lE.D. Cafe . 6 -9 p.m. 7p.m. TheKrush Contemporary Hawaiian; Out Silent Rage Rock; C-5. Midnight - 2 a.m. rigger Reef To wers. Steve FriasKeyboard ; Ramsay Galleries & 03 Tito & LemyContemporaiy Hawaiian; Mon Cafe. 6 -9 p.m. tereyBay Ca nners Wa rd. The Krush Contemporary Hawaiian; Out Tommy D & the D Band Rock; Mai Ta i rigger Reef To wers. Lounge. Tito& LemyContemporaiy Hawaiian; Mon Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band terey CaBay nners Wa rd. Country;Pecos River Cafe. Tommy D & the D Band Rock; Mai Ta i TIDES - June 10 to June 16 Wendy andAileen Guitar & Flute; Wa rd Lounge. WEDNESDA Y THURSDAY FRIDA Y SATURDA Y SUNDA Y TUESDA Y Centre. Noon - 1 p.m. ""' ...... HOON 14/Sunday 13/Saturday Augie Rey & City Ughts Dance; Nicholas Alisa Randolph & Musica E Jazz; Cafe Nickolas. Sistina. Billy Kurch Piano; LewersLou nge. Almost Famous Rock; Coconut Willie's. 4 BobbyDulUl8 Band Rock;Coco nut Willie's. p.m. -1:30 a.m. p.m. Moon Phases: LAST QUARTER - Jun 22 NEW MOON -Jun 30 FIRST QUARTER-J un 7 FUU. MOON -Jun 14 4-9 Tide times and heightsare forHonolulu Harbor. Tide and moon information supplied by Doug Paine Design. Augie Rey & City lightsDance; Nicholas BryanJulie & Huddy Rock; Coconut Willie's. Nickolas. Noon - 3:30 p.m. Azure McCall & Co.Jazz; Nick'sFisb mamet. DesperadoRock; Jazz Cellar. BettyLoo Taylor & RachelGonzalez Jazz; RapbnContemporaiy Dance; Black Orchid '/beRow. Betty LooTaylor & Derry! McKay Jazz; Ed Pantiles Guitar; Irish RoseSal oon. New OrleansBistro. ShirleyWalker Variety; JollyRoger F.ast 4 - Horizon Hawaiian; Oasis. New OrleansBistro. EddyZany Rock; Coconut Willie's9 p.m. - Blue KangarooVa riety; Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. 7 p.m. Island Heart Hawaiian; SurfboardLounge. BigDawg Rock; C-5. 1:30 a.m. BluesBandits Blues; Ja ron 'sKa ilua. Silent Rage Rock; C-5. 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. BlueKangaroo Variety; JollyRoger Wa ikiki. EdenDance Rock; Wa ve Waikiki. Bobby Dunne Band Pop, Rock; Irish Rose The Krush Contemporary Hawaiian; Out- J.P. SmoketrainRock; No Na me Bar.5 - 7 BluesBancf'rts Blues; Reni's. Ernie SheaJazz; Mabina Lounge. Saloon. riggerRee f To wers. p.m. BMW Blues; Scuttlebutt's. Exit 8 Contemporary Hawaiian; Monterey BradoJawaiian, Clas.sical,Jazz; Shore Bird. 4 Tito & LemyContemporaiy Hawaiian; Mon- Jesse Vance Boden Guitar, Flute; Proud BobbyDunne Band Pop, Rock; Irish Rose Bay CannersPear/rid ge. - 8 p.m. terey Bay Canners Wa rd. Peacock. 4 - 9 p.m. Saloon. Jam Night with Hyena Rock Jam; C-5. Bryai Huddy Mellow Contemporary; Ban- Tommy D & the D Band Rock; Mai Tai Jimmy Borges Jazz; Paradise Lounge. BradoJawaiian, Clas.sical,Jazz; ShoreBird. 4 Jesse Vance Boden Guitar, Flute; Proud dito 's. Lounge. Joanie Komatsu Contemporary Island; -8p.m. Peacock. 4 - 9 p.m. DesperadoRock; Jazz Cellar. VeroaTiki Jazz; Orson 's. Wa ikiki Beachcomber. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Bryai & JuleHuddy Rock; Coconut Willie 's. KapenaHawaiian; Malia 'sCa ntina. Eddie Chang Guitar; Jolly RogerF.ast. Warren Johnson & Gator Creek Band JonBasebase & VinceAndrada Contem Noon - 3:30 p.m. LedwsdKaapana Hawaiian; &ll BradoJawaiian; CoconutWill ie's.4 -8:30p.m. writerand performerClaire Dowie to Hawaii Crossover Hawaiian; Malia 's Cantina. to perform her one-peison play, Why IsJo hn Danny Rock;Dez No Name Bar. Lennon Wea ring a Skirt. It was a powerful EdMoody Jazz; Orson's. piece - simultaneously hilarious andseri EdParelles Guitar;Irish Rose Saloon. ous, personal and political. Now she's back Eddy ZanyRock; Coconut Willie's. 9:30 p.m. withAdult Child/Dead Child, the winner of - 1:30 a.m. two play-of-the-year awards in England. ErnieShea Jazz; Mahina lounge. Kawaiahao Theatre, Mid-Pacific Institute, Exit 8 Contemporary Hawaiian; Monterey 2445 Kaala St.: 6/12, 13, 18, 19 & 20, 8 p.m.; BayCanners Pear/ridge. Sundays6/14 & 21, 4 p.m. $8 - $12. 942-1942 Giomi Rock; C-5. Dance Extravaganza See Dance Pick on HotJava Jam NightJam Session; Hot Ja va. Page 8. Kevin MauVa riety; Coconut Willie 's. 12:30 - GeorgeM! You don't haveto be aRepubli 3:30 p.m. canto get into DIITsproduction of thismu si LeeJones & RioCountry; Pecos RiverCafe. cal tribute to thegreat jingoist George M. LeroyKahaku Contemporary; Black Orchid Cohan... but it would probablyhelp. Maybe On theleft, Uve Paradise Variety; Sp indrifterKa bala. it was just the Wednesday night subscriber Chinese; Mondo Incognito Rock; Moose McGilly audience, but I feltlike I was at alocal G.O.P. cuddy'sWa ikiki. ont he right, fundraiser(aloha attire required). If you don't Nalu Moose know who George M. is, thisshow aimsto Nushu. Contemporary Hawaiian; McGillycuddy'sUn iversity. tell ym- thoughby its end,you still don't Natural Transition Jazz; ParadiseLounge. really know who he is,you justknow thathe PaldanlsClub Hawaiian; Nick 'sFishmarret. authored all those damnably hummable, Paradox Jazz, R&B; Oasis. politicallyincorrect tunes, like Ya nkeeDoodle Raga & Derryl McKay Jazz; New Orleans Dandy, Yo u 're a GrandOld Flag and Over Secret Script of the Bistro. There. 1n thismusical, George is born into a Rendezvous Dance; Nicholas Nickolas. showbiz familyand grows up singing and Russ Donnelly Folk, Country;Jo lly Roger dancing withmom, his dadand sisteras ''The Wa ikiki. Four Cohans" (hence the famous line «J' Shirley Walker Variety;Jolly Rog er East. 4 - thank you ... my father thanks you... my SwornSi sters 7pm mother thanksyou ... "). Before long, he writes, ShotgunRock; Ja zzCe llar. sings and tap dances wayhis off the podunk Tommy D & the D Band Rock; Mai Ta i circuit and onto Broadway (''I've got some Lounge. thing this country needs," he declares), and everal centuries ago, neglected until the Cultural Revolu Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; Banyan soon cabbies are leaning out of their win women in a remote region tionperiod, when Communists called Veranda. dows, saying, "There's the manwho owns of China's Hunan province Nushu "evil" and claimed that the Broadway!" Cohanhas hisfall and hiscome 16/I'uesday back - and at the end, he doesn'tregret mysteriously, and with utter women who used it were sorcerers. AlmostFamous Var iety; Coconut Willie's. 4 anything. James Pestana in the title role is originality, invented their Linguists began studying Nushu p.m. - 1:30 a.m. too mellow to bring the egomaniacalshow own secret written lan seriously in the 1980s, but by that Augie Rey & City UghtsDance; Nicholas biz machineto life, though he doeswell as guage, called Nushu (liter time there were only about a dozen Nickolas. the aging, introspective George. The leads ally, "women's writing"). elderlywomen who could read it and Betty Loo Taylor & Derryl McKay Jazz; must allcontend with woodendialogue and Denied formal education, gener three who were able to write it. Very New OrleansBistro. piche-drivenaction, but they dotap danceup ation after generation of these fewNushu writings survive, because Blue KangarooVa riety;Jolly Roger Wa ikiki. a storm. The Company- the show's singing women, in an area s·urrounding the women customarily had them BobbyDunne Band Pop, Rock; Irish Rose and dancingchorus - has a littlemore life; mountainous Jiangyong County, burnedat the timeof their death; they Saloon. theydo .a funny gallery of stagestruck char learnedto read and writeNushu from believed the writings would then be BradoJawaiian, Classical,Jazz; Shore Bird.4 acters inthe first act. The set, by BroeSmith, is uninspired - the crudebackdrops look their female elders. Keeping it secret translate Nushu into English. On in a form they could access in the -8 p.m. CoolBreeze Jazz; Coffee Manoa. like they were done by third-gradeis with afterlife. fromthe men was not difficult,since Friday night, Guillory and Lantzwill Duke«Pnmes Dance Rock; Wa veWa ikiki. red,white and blue crayons. -KarynKoeur. men assumed that, as a "women's read excerpts from their work in One of Nushu's most passionate Ed MoodyJazz; Orson's. DiamondHe ad Theatre, 520 MakapuuAv e.: progress at the UHWo men's Center, researchers is Gong Zhebing, a Eddie ChangGuitar; Jolly Roger fust. Wed. 6/10 - Sat. 6/13, 8 p.m.; Sun. 6/14, 4 scholar at the CentralSouth China Karyn Koeur located at the University YWCA. EmieShea Jazz; MahinaLounge. p.m. $8 - $35. 734-0274 Nushu is a written language of National Minorities Research Hawaiian Time Contemporary Hawaiian; Once UponTime One UH's Kennedy The about 600 monosyllabic, phonetic Institute,who believesthat the "main MontereyBay Canners Pear/ridge. atrerevives last September's full-length kid's matter," it was not important. The words, each with multiplemeanings. function" of Nushu was "recording Howard & Russ Mellow Contemporary; musicalfeaturing ye aide fairietales adapted women used the language to create The letters are written from right to the miseries experienced by Bandito's. by localplaywright Lisa Matsumoto (B � Bye, their own unique literature, which left, unpunctuated, most often in a women." He visited Gao Yinxian Howling Beddies Rock; Moose McGilly Ha na ButtahDays) . A sampling of thecast of characteistells all: RoseRed Haku( who mainly consisted of poetry in the format of seven words per line, and YiNianhua, two women in their cuddy'sWa ikiki. Island BlendHawaiian; Surjboa.rdLoun ge. meets Da Mean Mongoose on the way to formof correspondencebetween two though five-word and free-verselines 80s who knew the script. They had a 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Tutu's house), Da WickedQueen (who tries women that related their life stories. are also written. The men dubbed it collection of 13 "women's books," J.P. Smoketrain Rock; No Na me Bar. to poisonNoelani with a taintedmango) and Nushu poems were also exchanged the "mosquito" language because of written on cloth, loose paper or Jim Blakemore Contemporary Hawaiian; Kekoa and Maile (who discover a by women from differentvillages at the use of slightly curved, diagonal bound notebooks, which included Afo ntereyBay Canners Wa rd. macadamia-shortbread house). Directed by regional festivals and marriages and strokes, but that label suggests that autobiographies, friendship pacts, Ka'au Crater Boys Hawaiian; Compadres. UH Prof TamaraHunt, who has reunited composed as prayers to local it's scratchy or puny. In fact,Nushu letters, transcripts of Han songs and Kevin MauVariety; Coconut Willie's. 12:30 - most of the originalcast, with original music godesses. on the page is bold and rhythmic, a "Liberation Song" celebrating the 3:30 p.m. by Paul Palmore. Kennedy Theatre, UH The majority of women in feudal with a vital energy. birth of New China. "The surviving LeeJones & RioCountry; PecosRiver Cafe . Manoa campus:Thur. 6/11 -Sat. 6/13, 8 p.m.; Jiangyong suffered greatly; most had No one is certainof the genesis of specimens of women's books sug Leroy KahakuContemporary; Black Orchid Sun. 6/14, 2 p.m. $5 - $9. 956-7655 Uve Paradise Sp indrifte r Kabala. bound feetand wereconfined to their Nushu, which is thought to have gest that most of the women's Variety; Loretta AblesTrio Jazz; Lewers Lounge. homes. They were responsible for been in use forthe past 200 years. heartaches stemmed from natural Love Gods Dance Rock; Wa ve Wa ikiki. all the work that sustained the fam One legend attributes it to a Sung afflictions," he writes. Yet he shares Mana'o Company Hawaiian; Malia 's Art ily: child rearing, weaving, grinding Dynasty woman, forced to serve the this extract from Yi Nianhua's auto Cantina. grain and cooking. To lighten their imperial palace as a concubine, who biography: Mike Barques Popular Hawaiian; China Opening load, the women would gather for invented the strangenew characters town Gateway Park.Noon - 1 p.m. ScottieJulie & Recent watercoloisby Kerns what they called "sitting singing" to pour out her loneliness in letters to Mother-in-law spoke ill of me. Nalu Contemporary Hawaiian; Moose Schaper & Flamm. Opens Sat. 6/13, runs while they worked, thereby sharing her parents. A more scholarly the She said I cooked eggs fo r McGillycuddy'sUnive rsity. through7/1 1. Gallery31 7, 317 KamakeeSt. their burdens and baring their souls, ory is that it evolved from a very myselfon the sly. Natural TIW!Sition Jazz; Paradise Lounge. 521-2288 in poetryand song. In Nushu, it was ancient language, dating from 221 How can I provemy innocence? Ghana Two Hawaiian; Bay View Lounge. ShakingTree the A benefit artshow forthe Club customary for the writers to adopt B.C. when the First Emperor of the "We sleep on the same bed at Paldanls Hawaiian;Nic k'sFish marret. Factory. OpensSun. 6/14, runsthrough 7/5. Remi & Friends Variety; Wa ikiki Broiler. Tbe Facto1y, each other as "sworn sisters." Qin Dynasty promoted the stan night, Mum. 1065Kapiolani Blvd. 536-4899 I always wait on you during the Rolando SanchezSalsa & Hawaii Latin; Sometimes one woman would ask dardization of Chinese dialects. Anna Bannanas. day. someone to compose in Nushu a let Nushu may have survived because Shirley Walker Variety;Jolly Roger&1st. 4 - Continuing ter of intent to her friend, express of Jiangyong County's geographical How could I possibly do such a 7p.m. Apollo Oils of marine life and Hawaiian ing her esteem and devotion. Once isolation.While men needed to adopt thing?" SlutPuppies Dance Rock; Wa ve Wa ikiki. plants. Ongoing. RestaurantRow, 500 Ala established in the sisterhood, the the prevailing language for their She did me an injustice. The Krush. Contemporary Hawaiian; Out Moana Blvd.532-1200 women were safe to express their daily affairs, women could preserve Kneeling down on the ground, rigger Reef Towers. Artin ParisWa tercolois of Parisand its envi rons, created in France by GeorgeWoo llard innermost feelings. the old language in their private Mother-in-law pressed her lips Wes Hamrick Classical, Jazz; Banyan to the dust three times, Ve randa. and studentsfrom UHManoa. Through6/17. Though it's the only known realm. InternationalSavings and LoanBank Foyer , instance of a special "women's lan Nushu surfaced in contemporary Then cursed me to the High Wesley FurumotoGuitar; Sheraton. ZigZag Rock; Jazz Cellar. 1415 KapiolaniBlvd. 523-4369 guage," scholars have only begun China in 1958, when a Jiangyong Heaven. BernardMoriaz Mixed media. Through 6/20. studying Nushu seriously in the past woman visited Beijing and no one She accused me of doing no Bakkus Gallery, 928 NuuanuAve. 528-4677 decade. Recently, Nushu works have could understand her dialect. Her good. Fading Into ColorWa tercolois by Su Shen been translated into Chinese by the written message was, sent to the She beat me in my room. Theater and Atta.Through 6/26. Ramsay Galleries & C,afe, "National Written Words Reform 1128 Smith St. 537-ARTS Ta iwan-based, feministAw akening Gong's translation of Nushu into Committee" and classified as German Expressionist Printsand Draw,, Foundation Press. And last year, two Chinese was published in the Dance localpoets, Stella Guillory and Sarah "Jiangyong County Women's AdultChild, DeadChild Last year, Starving ings Thirtyworks of German graphic art from the early 20th century. Included are Lantz undertook the first attempt to Characters." The language was �ontinuedon Page 12 Artists Theatre Company brought British June JO, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly • 11 lithographs, illustrations, woodblock prints Ve rbano Italian Restaurant, 3571 Wa ialae this workshop to enable students to share noon. $16.50 plus $10 supply fee. 735-1860 and etchings by such masters as Paul Klee Ave. 735-1777 family history and tradition through stories. Women Make Movies Four videos cover and Max Beckmann. Through 6/28. Hon Na Wai O Hawaii Oil paintings by Louisa Windward CommunityCollege, 45-720 Keaa different stories about violence against Whatevahs olulu Academy of A11s, 900 S. Beretanja St. Cooper. Through 6/21. The Contemporary hala Rd.: Sat. 6/13, 9 a.m. - noon. $25. 235- women. UH Wo men s Center, 1820 Univer AlohaState Games Hawaii may never get 532-8712 Museum, 2411 Makiki Hts. Dr. 526-1322 7433 sityAv e.: Thurs. 6/11, 5 p.m. Free. 942-7762 to host the Olympics, but sports fans can Hawaii Imported Arts andCrafts Pieces Paintings of Micronesia Watercolors by Hawaiian LegacyHawaiian arts and crafts watch or participate in tl1e many events dur from China, Thailand, Burma, Bali and more. Ruth Glenn-Little. Through 6/30. Aris of Par are alive and well, thanks to a few dedic-Jted ing thisweek-long spo1.sfest. Call Aloha State Ongoing. Wa terfallGalle,y, 1160A Nuuanu adise, International Marketplace. 924-2787 artists who "strivefor the most accurate recre Game, for complete venue schedule: through Ave. 521-6863 Scratchon the Surface Two dozen paint ation of ancient Hawaiian crafts." 11lis one Kids Sat. 6/13. Free. 522-0700 HawaiianLandscapes Oils andwatercolors ings and multi-media works by Milan Heger. hour documentary proftles eight craftspeople. Discoveriesat theShore Comb the beach AlohaUnited way MaidenVoyage Set sail by Carter Black. Through 7/11. Pauahi Tower, Through 6/16. Paul Brown Gallery, 1347 KHE T, channel 11: Fri. 6/12, 9:30 p.m. and learn about shorelife. For parents and - so to speak - witha boat-building con 1001 Bishop St. Kapiolani Blvd. 947-3971 How to WriteYour Own UfeThe biogra kids ages 4 to 7. Wa ikiki Aquarium, 2777 test and race at Magic Island. MagicIsland , Hiroshige: TheJames A. MichenerCol SomeFlowers Polaroid dye-transfer mono pher's biographer, Leon Edel, reads from an Kalakaua Ave.: Tues. 6/16, 9 - 11 a.m. $12. Ala Moana Beach Park: Sat. 6/13, 10 a.m. - 1 lectionmajor A exhibition of 236 woodblock printsbased on a study of flowers by Shuzo autobiographical work-in-progress. Con 923-9741 p.m. Free. 536-1951 prints from the Japanese master Utagawa Uemoto. Through 6/26. Keiko Hatano Stu noiwur magazine recently calledthe Pulitzer From Our Family to Yours Local oral his ChessTou rnament Sanctioned by the U.S. Hiroshige (1797-1858). Through 7/12. Hon dio & Gallery, 903 Waimanu St. 536-4899 Prize-winning Edel "thegreatest living biog torian and storyteller 'Emili Wo lfgramm and Chess Federation. PakiHale, 3850 Paki Ave.: olulu Academy of Arn, 900 S. Beretania St. South Bronx Hall ofFame Live casts by rapher."Art Auditorium, UH Manoa campus: his family share theirmusical traditions and Tues. 6/16, 5 - 9:30 p.m. $10 fee. 732-0430 532-8712 John Ahearnand RigobertoTo rres. Through Sun. 6/14, 2 p.m. Free. 956-7235 explore the use of Polynesian poetry at Filipin,oFiesta Exhibits, arts, crafts,food and Kaikainahaole Family QuiltsTwenty-one 8/9. The ContemporaryMuseum, 2411 Makiki LookingTowacls the Encl Anthony Lenzer this campfire program. Bishop Museum, entertainment from the P.I. BandStand, Kapi Hawaiian quilts from three generations of Hts. Dr. 526-1322 discusses the different aspectsinvolved when 1525 Berrlice St.: Fri. 6/12, 7 - 9 p.m. $6. olani Park: Sun. 6/14, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free. the John Williams Kaikainahaole family. Young Artists of Pakistan Ceramics by preparing forthe end of caregiving to an 848-4149 296-9696 MissionHo uses Museum, John A. Burns 3rd Floor Conference GoodVibrations Kids ages 6 to 8 can learn Kaiwa Ridge Hike Through 7/26. 553' Aisha Ghaznavi. Through 7/3. elder family member. The Hawaiian Trail and S. King St. 537-0481 Hall, East-West Center, 1777 East-West Rd. Room, Honolulu Medical Group, 550 S. Bere to play music with a fork, a bottle, rubber Mountain Club says "bring a flashlight'' for this LeadedGlass Stained glassfrom fiveHawaii 944-7666 tania St.: Wed. 6/10, noon - 1 p.m. Free. 538-- bands, straws and othergadgets. Hall of Dis 3-mile novice trek through moonlit Lanikai. artists. Through 6/26. Ramsay Galleries & 3400 covery, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St.: Ka ilua Beach Park, opposite Buzz's Steak Cafe, 1128 Smith St. 537-ARTS Pop,Up Paper Constructions Former HNA Sat. 6/13, Session I: 9 - 11 a.m.; Session II: House: Sat. 6/13, 6:30 p.m. $1. 261-7814 Ught-Hearted IslandArt Acrylic with pen art critic Marcia Morse teaches the basic engi noon - 2 p.m. $9. 848-4149 Kamehameha Day Hike Wa lking shoes and-ink paintings by Glenn Steinberg. Learning neering in constructing a pop-up book. Ho n Let's Paint Parents and kids ages 4 to 5 can required for this tour of tropical plants and Through 7/30. An Cove, Wa rd Warehouse, Bicycling Fundamentals 111.is classcovers olulu Printmaking Wo rkshop, 826-A express themselves with fingerpainting, island natural history. 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Restaurant Row Gallery, 500 Ala Car Care: Vehicle Inspection These are a new spin on an old sport. KCC Chapel, thereofcan take a walk through a "botanical sumably point out interesting undergrowth. Moana Blvd. 532-1200 thetires; this is the engine; here's thetrunk Diamond Head campus: Tues. 6/16, 7 - 8:30 wonderland" during the fullmoon. Wa imea Call -the Hawaii Na tureCenter for meeting Michael G.B. Tom Recent abstract rnixed - the basics will be taught to auto owners p.m. $5. 734-9211 Falls Park, 59-864 Kam. Hwy.: Sat. 6/13 & place and time: Sat. 6/13. $3. 955-0100 med ia works. Through 7/5. Honolulu with linlited mechanical background. Wind Stop the Violence Self-defense demon Sun. 6/14, 8:30 p.m. $5 donation per family. Makiki LoopTrail Hike A half-hour earth Academy of Ans, 900 S. Beretania St.' 532- ward CommunityCollege, 45-720 Keaahala strations and a speaker from the HPD are 638-8511 care project is included in this 3-hour mod 8712 Rd.: Saturdays 6/13 & 20, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. $59. highlightedin thisworkshop geared to teach Parent.Sibling ForClass 3 to 10 year olds erate hike to explore ecology and natural Mixed MediaFurniture Featuring works by 235-7433 lesbians, gays, women and vulnerable minori who may be wondering if thenew baby can history in the Makiki forest. Call theHa waii Shirley Reo Beene, Vicky Chock and Roy Geothennal:A Risky Hawaii'sBusiness in ties how not to fall victim to hate-motivated be returned formerchandise credit at Liberty Na tureCe nterfor time and meeting place. Venters. Through 6/23. The Gallery Haat waii waoKele O Puna Rainforest 11lis hour crimes. University YWCA , 1820 University House, this class will feature discussions Sat. 6/13. $3. 955-0100 Loa, 45-045 Kam. Hwy. 233-3174 long video explores concerns about geother Ave.: Sat. 6/13, 9 - 11 a.m. Free. 951-7000 about being an older sibling and a tour of New EnglandContra Dance Kick up your Music:When Soft VoicesPhotographs Die mal development in Hawaii. Olelo, channel Turtle Fashion a turtle with Chinese knot the Queen's maternityarea. Queen s Medical Yankee heels to music by the Cast Offs and of the "undeveloped" land surrounding 22: Thur. 6/11, 8 p.m. ting to make a good luck toggle for a key Center, 1301 Punchbowl St.: Fri. 6/12, 6:30 - learn contemporarydances from NewEngland Haleiwa and Waialua �d urban "renewal" GrowingRoots Through StorytellingPro chain. Te mari Center fo r Asian and Pacific $:30 p.m. $15 per family. 547-4823 and beyond. MartialArn Building, UH Manoa in Honolulu by Tad A. Llng. Through 6/30. fessional storyteller Stephany Indie designed Arn, 1329-A 10th Ave.: Sat. 6/13, 9 a.m. - Pots forTots 11lis six-week ceramics course campus: Sat. 6/13, 7 - 10 p.m. Free. 293-9074 is geared towards kids 5 to 12 years old. l'tlslu\\unml's \Wlq Seealtic leonPage11. WindwardCo mmunityCollege, 45-720 Keaa Palm Fronds Guest weaver Libert O'Sulli hala Rd.: Tuesdays 6/16 - 7/21, noon-1 p.m. van lectureson weaving techniques.Call the $50. 235-7433 Hawaii Na ture Centerfor location: Sun. 6/14, China'sNu shu RainbowReel: filmFun for FourKids films 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. $3. 955-0100 about elephants: Whazzat?, a legend from Puu Manamana Hike Continuedfrom Page 11 John Hall leads this Lantz has an MFA in Creative Questions of Nushu's true origin India; Rudyard Kipling's How the Elephant advanced 6-mile hike, which requires some Awakening Foundation's Nushu, the Writing from Warren Wt lson College and relationship t·o Chinese will Got His Trunk, the claymation piece Un cle steep climbing along the Windward coast Only Wo mens Script. The publica in North Carolina, and has published probably occupy scholarsfor a long Elephant; and Elephant, a look at the big, line. IolaniPalace, mauka side: Sun. 6/14, 8 tion wasoverseen by Cheng Chihuei, in Denver Quarterly, Calyx, and time. But the immediate impact is wrinkly critters in their native habitat. a.m. $1. 373-1525 whose sister, Guillory,, was born in other magazines; Guillory has pub heartening to women everywhere: ArtAuditorium, UH Manoa campus: Sat. 6/13, WhatMakes Music?The FranklinInstitute China's Fujian Province and now lished in Bamboo Ridge, and was a Nushu was used by Jiangyong 10 a.m. $2. 956-7221 has developed this interactive exhibition on lives in Honolulu. Guillory has a winner this year of the Associated women primarily to validate their the science of sound and the art of music Ph.D. in chemistryfrom Cornell and Writing Programs Award. She also life experiences. Poet Guillory feels making. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St.: spent 13 years as a biochemical contributed to Bamboo Ridge's the legacy of Nushu that "shines Through 9/7. $5.95 847-3511 • researcherat UH before awakening recent anthology of writing by through" is the enjoyment the to her interest in poetry. Last year, women, Sister Stew. women experienced in writing about a lot of references to the cliches of at a poetry writing workshop taught Guillory translates into English their lives creatively and indepen American Westerns - the kids are by Naomi Nye, Guillory reada poem from the Chinese edition, then she dently. outlaws, pursued by the law and by about her sister's fe minism and and Lantz both work to refine the In 1986, Gong Zhebing invited the Continuedfrom Page 9 enemy gangs ... it's the good guys and involvement with Nushu. Lantz, a English translation. Their goal is clar octogenarian Gao Yinxian to reside 14 students. The other way to break the bad .guys." mother of two young children, orig ity, of course, but also a translation at his home for several weeks to into the field, Estrada says, is to work Will Bandidos be seen widely in inally from Carbondale, Ill., was that reflects the artistry of the origi share her knowledge of Nushu. in the industry, "a better school than the U.S.? Estrada doubts it. "They greatly impressed by Guillory's tale. nal Nushu poems. They've given Duringher visit with Gong, she spent school itself." will probably screen my film twoin "The idea that such a language themselves a year to finishthe pro most of her time writing, enjoying The majority of people creating cities; it's the classical situation - existed was amazing," Lantz says. ject. The following is a sample of the seclusion and freedom fromher films in Mexico todayare very young New York or Los Angeles, for one "It was almost too good to be true their work, a translation from a let daily tasks. In the final days of her ("I'm 30, andI'm one of the oldest," week."Indeed, one of the greatfrus that in a country with such a history ter between two sworn sisters, writ stay, she wrote: says Estrada), and, in marked con trations of Mexican filmmakers - of oppression against women, they ten on a fan: trast to the American film industry, and filmmakersaround theworld - would have created Nushu - and In the chamber; I do nothing is the unwillingness of the U.S. indus I write, sending my care, my many of them are women. Of the 15 passed it on. So, with great nerve, I I do nothing but writing. try to distribute foreign-language thoughts. "quality" productions shot last year, approached Stella, not really know films.But just becauseEstrada 's film In this letter; Iadvise you, moth- eight were directed by women (the ing her, though I did respect her The writings she composed dur won't be shown widely in theUnited erless one, do not cry. commercial films made in the coun work" She asked if anyone had done ing that visit are included in Nushu, States doesn't mean that people won't To grieve and tire is useless. try arestill dominated by men, how the English translation, and when The Only Wo men's Script. This pro have a chance to encounter some I resent that we are out of luck. ever). Demographically, most of the Guillory said no, Lantz volunteered lific Nushu writer died shortly after semblance of it. Ironically, the film We must avoid getting burdened directors tend to be from the urban to work on it. her stay with Gong. • was such a hit at last year'sTo ronto down. upper-middleclass, but this fact does "I hadn't even thought about it," Film Festival that representatives of The news of your misfortune not appear to hamperthe diversity of Guillory says, "but right away, I an American studio negotiated to buy spread like wildfire. their subject matter. thought, maybe it can be done. I the rightsto the story; rather thandis Indeed, you deserve sympathy. ry Bandidos is Estrada's second fea talked to my sister, and we decided a Guillo tribute Estrada's film, they will Thousands of chores await you, Stell tz ture-length film; it is set at the tum of to proceed last December." They've ah Lan remakethe movie, with anAmerican .but do not do them. nd sar the century, during the Mexican been working on the copyright tech a their director, an American crew and Your two sons grow like a d frolll U Revolution. Four boys, aged seven nicalities and have started sending rea of Nush Americanactors . It will beset during breeze. lation to 12, pretendto bebandits and cross proposals to publishers. Though trans enter the American Civil War. And as for Befo re we were married we men's c the country. "My film is a homage scholars in this country arekeenly UH wo Ave Mexican images to be found on shared our tears. iVersitY . to the old masters of the American interested in the discovery of the lan s2 Un film-Howard Hawks, John Ford," screen in the U.S.? Well, if you miss Like two boats, we sail and lean 1 0 7 the UH program, chances are fairly guage, according to Lantz and F i. 6/12, :30 p.111. says Estrada. "I'm a big fan of all of on each other. r good you'll be able to find Speedy Guillory, it appears that no one else the We sterns, musicals andthrillers of free somewhere on cable. • has yet takenon the project. 942-7762 the '30s, '40sand '50s. The story has 12 • June 10, 1992 • Honolulu We ekly Inourbook, you get morethan you pay for.� :::::;;;;;;;��� .... ne of the acts at the Ohio sword must be dull so they won't Renaissance Festival was slice up your throat on the way Thom Selectomy, a sword down. But the point can be sharp, swallower. He invited per the better to impress the rubes, pro sons from the audience to vided the sword isn't long enough to ------inspect his props, the puncture the bottom of your stom ------, swords. From all appear ach. (If it does, you're in trouble; I ances the weapons seemed to be you could get peritonitis.) The I authentic. He then proceeded to sword should be wiped before and I "swallow" rapiers of varying afterswallowing: beforeto wipe off I lengths. Once he ingested two at a any dust, which might cause you to I time, extracting them separately. At retch; after to remove acid that I another point (no pun), he allowed could corrode the metal. £r��r�qpCo����� I the weight ofthe hilt (no hands) to Mannix eventually became dis I - - .. r.,_·e!ilt: ·- ::.:·: �.. ·- ·- .• -.. "�- · · - - -t fo rce the blade down. Th om also satisfiedwith swords, partly because - - - - - I inflated and swallowed one of those many smart-arse spectators were . ,'! , .� \ long, skinny balloons. (He did not convinced the blade somehow .J pull the balloon out). Please, tell folded up into the handle. He began me he used deception - it simply swallowing neon tubes, then all the -----� us d Chee� cannot be possible to master con rage among the more daring carnies. r ----- e \ - i t1on I trol of the esophagus to permit the The tube was specially fabricated $10 For Your � cial1ns ttu ingestion of such objects. ( I gag of thin glass and doubled over into ccount. \ thinking about it.) a tight U so that all the electrical er F�·anChe cking A -Gloria Hodgson, connections were on one end. The From AnY. Othew Bau.�oh , Pardeeville, Wisconsin lighted tube could be seen glowing We'\\c edit your n r J through your skin, proving you had r------�--�I' If people can swallow Ross Perot swallowed it. ·'A lovely act," I � - - - - - , for president without gagging, I Mannix quotes a fellow performer - - - - don't see what's so amazing about as saying. "I was very nearly taken I a sword. Fact is, professional sword sick myself." The drawback was I swallowers are totally (well, mostly) that the tubes sometimes shattered Free! 6-month I legit. Testimony on this score comes in the throat, bringing the swal Introduction I from Dan Mannix, a onetime car lower's act, career, and sometimes I nival sword and flame swallower life to an abrupt end. 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Genuine South Indianfas t food at the Apply to: Laurie Carlson, Publisher Madras Cafe andRes taurant THE HONOLULU WEEKLY • 1200 COLLEGE Wm. Sum 212 • PHONE 528-1370 he Madras Cafe and sils, and eat. Take-out is easily done Restaurant, the city's best Alan Young and readily available. Besides the source of Indian food, is states) are ubiquitous. There is a vegetarian thali, or plate ($4.75 for tucked away in one of the mung dahl daily (mung dahl is a rice and three vegie choices), there slots across from Old legume resembling most closely the are chicken thalis ($5.50 for curry, Stadium Park, in the mini split pea); oftenthere are two kinds, $5.75 for tandoori and $5.75 for , mall between Pay 'N Save made with a variety of different tikka) and shrimp thalis ($6.25 for • ,�,, - empqwerin vocacygte>up tor and the Hula Supply Co. The restau ingredients: eggplant, peppers, shrimp in a Sri Lankan curry sauce). peoplewith HIV/AIDS & their rant's high-ceilinged, white concrete onions, squash. The two spiciest There's an array of a la carte condi friends & supporters room - with ceiling fans that don't vegetable dishes are the potato and ments and other goodies to light up move and a hyper air conditioner - chick pea masalas, both tangy, your bite: samosa (spicy potato filblrday houses 10 tables toppedby Plexiglas piquant and somewhat torrid. There filledpasties), baji or pakora (mixed sheets covering colorful pieces of are also vegie stir fries - I had one vegetable fritters in a spiced gar June 20 that Indian bedspread we all bought that featured mung dahl fried with banzo bean batter) and, my favorite, at Cost Plus in the mid-'60s. On a whole dried chilies and rounds of vadai (South Indian spicy dahl few select tables, carved teak ele waterchestnut. Nice. Snappy. wafers, friedbrown and crispy). phants are at play among small salt Authentic. The most popular dish There are also chapatis (Indian tor and-pepper shakers. Walls are the restaurant serves is a North tillas), toasted papadum (thin spicy bedizened with rice-straw pictures Indian coconut-milk cauliflower urid dllhlrounds), raita (yogurt and of bucolic scenes, framed batiksand · kurma that is pleasant, mild and goes cucumber); mango or lime pickle the inevitable ethnic travel posters. with everything. At least six vege and mango chutney. The pickle and A large portraitof Ganesha, the ele tarian selections are available daily. chutney are imported fromIndia and phant god of good fortune, sits on You have a choice of jasmine rice are also available in the small gro the far wall. The kitchen, in plain (fragrant basmati imported from cery on the premises (which is view, is highlighted by a one-gallon Thailand) or lemon rice (a pretty known as India Bazaar). The sweets glass jar of ochreousyellow turmeric yellow pilaf with fried dahl, are made by Kumala: gulab jamun (not to mention the half-full jar of turmeric, cashew nuts and lemon (milk-based, intensely sweet, fried lurid orange cayenne). juice). dumplings in scented syrup) and The place is named the burfi(sugary and much like halvah) Madras Cafe for good reason. - typical North Indian offerings. Robin (owner-cook-manager) is On Saturdays from noon till 3 an American but his wife, p.m., the restaurant has begun serv Shamala (mother-cook-man d as Cafe ing masala dosa and idli. The for Ma r re ager), and her mother, Kumala 2320 s. Kings t et mer -probably the most popular (dessertmaker-cook), are from i,w.ll snack food in India - is a thin Shinanagar, a district of Madras 94.� pancake made from a batter of City, Tarnilnadu state, South India Mon. - sat., slightly fermented ground riceand - one of this writer's favorite 30 . . urid dahl, fried and served with 11 a. .•8: p 111 areas of the world. I spent a few 111 nda s spicy South Indian potatomasala, months there in the early '70s in Closed su y coconut chutney (fresh-made) the Mylapore districtof Madras and and san:ibar, a soupy South enjoyed it very much... but I digress. Indian dahl. The latter is a sim- You get a lot of Ta mil-style food The Madras ilar rice/urid dahl mix, steamed into at Madras Cafe - popped mustard Cafe is a self-service sort of affair round spongy cakes. Yummers! seeds and curry leaves (a tasty, reminiscent of high-school lunch Each is $4.75. Guru out and eat. I��� slightly resinous leaf common to the rooms. Pick out what you want, get LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY. • A public service message by this newspaper and Propaganda Faktory. cooking of all the South Indian your beverage, a napkin and uten- • June 10, 1992 • Honolulu Weekly • 15 >' tional rights to fight drugs, he mistake. "I sense that they're going Foggy Bottom, and presume not so he pledged $8 million, to be responded: "So? How would that be to try to knock him offearly, and merely to betheir equal but to think donated in $2 million installments different? Haven't Reagan and Bush they should try to play a much you can rule over them as president. over a four-year period. After the ConPetinuedrotfrom Page 7 suspendedthe constitution,in Libya, smarter game than that. First of all, They needn't conspire to finishhim firstyear, renovations weren't going is roughly akin to putting Judaica on in Panama, in a hundred ways?" they've both got big problems, so off, but their collective power, even to Perot's taste. He annulled the display in a Nazi theme park. He was being slightly flip,but his they should both get their own against his, isn't a fair fight. pledge. Not only did he say he Of course, Perot isn't Hitler, and point is spot on. Maybe all these houses in order. And they should let That's unfortunate in its way. But wouldn't give the remaining $6 mil the U.S. forall its bloated contradic peoplerecognize how fully they've him be a candidate for a while, if anybodydeserves to lose, he does. lion, but he c.skedfo r thefirst $2 mil tions isn't Weimar. But Fascism, in been duped. Maybe they want Ross because the more he looks like a can A man who has played the game in lion back - with interest! The man's addition to being an ideology and a Perot, without much caring what didate, a politician, the more he goes every conceivable way for25 years, even mean to trees. political system, is a mass psychol specificallyhe says or stands for, to down." who has plotted his "spontaneous" • ogy. When people are sufficiently save them from themselves, or at All correct. But what's likely to candidacy perhaps foralmost as long, suppressed and frustrated- by the least from theconsequences of their happen is, Perot will be reined in, and who has stolen away contracts church, by the economy, by the gov own reaction. and his candidacy eventually ruined. that were awarded to competitors Additional reporting by Billy ernment - they may well come It's one thing to be a filthy rich, can't appearin 1992 and present him Treger and David Moorman together to act, in defiance of all an he win? Sure,says David entertaining redneck who's quick self as having a clean slate. logic, directly against their interests. Garth, who did the media with those snappy Texas one-liners; My favorite Ross Perot story, for Of course, peoplehave beendoing consulting for John it's quite another to set your sights all the Nixonian double-dealings, precisely that in this countryfor the Anderson's independent on the Ivy League, Social Register involves a pledge he made to the last 12 years. When Greider was campaign in 1980. Garth habitues of the Times boardroom, Dallas Arboretum. Perot wanted to asked about Perot's statement that says Bush and Clinton are the WASP investment houses and make the arboretum "world-class," g he'd be willing to suspend constitu- making an early tactical Source: Villa e Voice r------, Haw ai'i Monitor AnJ,u JependenLMo nl:bly__J\Te wtileUer ahouL Politiu andMoney. He re '.!your chanceto Jufucribe tothe Ha waiiMo nitor. Clip out thi, coupon and JeniJit intod ay! ... only minutes from Volcanoes National Park. 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