Eddie Sherman

The Days Of Our Lives With Don Ho

Eddie Sherman — 2007-04-25T10:00:00+00:00

In 1957, I was a bachelor and shared an apartment in Waikiki with Flash Miller, who managed the popular Queen’s Surf nightclub. Flash asked me one day if I knew of someone who could replace his star attraction, Sterling Mossman, at the Barefoot Bar.

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-12-28T10:00:41+00:00

GATHER ‘ROUND, FOLKS, here’s a little scoop: The time has come for me to say aloha to 3-dot journalism. Gonna retire. I’m leaving with enough memories to write a few books - and hope to do at least one. After much deliberation, the decision kinda snuck up on me. So, here’s my last column of the year - and career ... Why? Simple. I wanna do other things before my time runs out. Tackle different challenges. Oportunities have presented themselves.

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-12-21T10:00:50+00:00

DRUMBEATS FROM MANHATTAN: Hard to believe, but Hawaii’s homegrown international star Bette Midler just celebrated her 60th b’day. It was a big bash in New York loaded with stars. Even her roots were honored with hula dancers that reportedly brought tears to her eyes ...

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-12-14T10:00:44+00:00

MELE KALIKIMAKA: Once again islanders thrilled to Jim Nabors’ (and friends) annual Christmas extravaganza at the Hawaii Theatre. This was his ninth year. Here is one of America’s greatest entertainers, a Hawaii resident for over 30 years, again showing his tremendous aloha for his adopted state. And he has never yet taken one penny for his services. What can Hawaii say but bless you, Jim ... USA Today predicts stardom for Lost‘s bad guy Josh Holloway. (Robbed one recent ayem at his Hawaii Kai home).

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-12-07T10:00:13+00:00

HONOLULU NEWSSTAND: According to those supermarket gossip rags, Evangeline Lilly, sexy star of the hit Lost TV series, reportedly dumped her Canadian hockey player Murray Hone a few months back. The magazines are hinting of a romance with another Lost star, Dominic Monaghan, because they’ve been seen together. So wot and big deal. After all, they do work together and quite naturally, are friends ... Among his many local friends saddened by the news of actor-comedian Pat Morita‘s death last week was

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-11-30T10:00:49+00:00

FACES OUT FRONT ... Entertainment tip: Despite recent herniated opu surgery and a new pacemaker to help the ol’ ticker, Genoa Keawe (just turned 87) is readying a concert Dec. 2 at the Lili’u Theater (3rd floor of the Convention Center). The lady legend is indestructible ... Because U.S. Army Gen. (Ret.) Fred Weyand and wife Mary recently celebrated their fourth wedding ann’y and agree it was “kismet” or “fate” that brot them together, they just hadda be sponsors of the Army Community Theater’s current musical Kismet, starring

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-11-23T10:00:07+00:00

THE REAL STUFF: A sparkling throng of dignitaries from all walks of life, friends, family and hundreds of admirers jammed the Hilton Haw’n Coral Ballroom last week to honor a true-blue American hero - Capt. Jerry Coffee. For those who don’t know the true story of this fellow MidWeek columnist, Jerry survived a horror none of us will ever experience - seven years as a prisoner of war after being shot down in his Navy fighter plane over North Vietnam.

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-11-16T14:00:26+00:00

AUTUMN IN NEW YORK ... The Big Apple ... or deli-heaven - where the white fish smokes ...The pastrami is okie-doke ... The corned beef is delish ... And, so is a knish ... The Stage Deli fills your belly ... An egg cream is a dream ... Barney Greengrass (deli) is a gas ... Lox and a bagel plus a shmere is dear ... On arrival at the airport, my wife was blown away when we were greeted by John Walker and his limo.

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-11-09T14:00:56+00:00

CONCH SHELL ECHOES ... Maui’s Shep Gordon, being a former show biz manager (and still handling folks like Alice Cooper), his recent wedding on the Garden Isle brot out some famous faces like Michael Douglas and Helen Hunt, to name two.

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Eddie Sherman — 2005-11-02T14:00:06+00:00

WELL, GOLLL-EEE ... A few weeks ago Jim Nabors (head-lining at an Indian casino in Minnesota) was strolling thru the gambling spa, when a lady at a blackjack table remarked, “Why you look just like Gomer Pyle. And you even talk like him.” Jim smiled, “Well, I am Jim and Gomer.”