WESSON Oil, anyone? That was MTV star Jenny McCarthy at Musicland in Aloha Tower Marketplace last week signing autographs of her new CD featuring classic surf music. Some people were a bit taken aback when a fan produced a squeeze bottle of mustard and asked Jenny to squirt it on him. To explain, she was on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine and inside there was a picture of her squirting a guy with mustard on her MTV show called "Singled Out." The fan merely wanted a repeat performance. On hand to record all this for posterity (and "Extra," the TV news magazine) was local TV producer Cynthia Yip. Now if only Dennis Rodman were on hand - there's a hot dog who could use more mustard ... SPEAKING of producer Yip, she recently did another feature for "Extra" on the making of a video profiling 10 of Hawaii's top swimsuit models. The producer of the video is Gina Bielmann, herself a swimsuit model. This video promises to be different from "surf bunny - Babewatch" shoots in that the models are all athletes and the scenes in which they appear show them doing things like surfing, windsurfing, bodyboarding, horseback riding, mountain climbing and kayaking. The video, tentatively entitled "Hot Lava," is due out in the fall, and Yip's "Extra" air before ...
FORMER local newsman Paul Addison has been named Tokyo bureau chief for Bloomberg Business News in Tokyo. There's quite a Hawaii contingent there at the moment with former Star-Bulletin staffer Floyd Takeuchi heading up the TV and radio end of things and Cynthia Emoto appearing on air. The two of them are on USA Cable Network about 5 a.m. every morning in Hawaii ... When Loretta Swit appears in "Shirley Valentine" at the newly refurbished Hawaii Theatre on Aug. 3, it'll mark the first nonmusical event to be held in the building, but I'd venture a guess it won't be the last ...
Nancy Bannick
SEEING an ad for Viking White Sewing Centers which began, "Attention all Sewers," brought back a memory to Nancy Bannick. She was at work on her first job out of journalism school when an editor, reading her copy, yelled across the room, "Nancy, what do you call women who sew?" "Seamstress," she replied, and was mortified to find she'd written "sewers." Like Bannick, I still think of sewers as something that takes rainwater to the ocean, but modern dictionaries consider it an OK substitute for "seamstress," or in the case of males, "seamster." ...
THE Hawaii FoodBank got some well-traveled goods at the conclusion of the West Marine Pacific Cup yacht race. Two years ago, Dr. Robert Nance, a Sacramento dentist, donated to the Hawaii FoodBank food supplies left over in his yacht at the end of the race. This year he encouraged all competitors to do likewise...
