Category Archives: hawaii

2009 Hawaii International Film Festival Teaser with Daniel Dae Kim

This one’s for the readers in the 808. The Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) takes place October 15-25, 2009. Check out this 2009 teaser for the festival starring Daniel Dae Kim from LOST. Look for the premiere of the official trailer around September 30, 2009. We can’t wait!!

Stateside there’s a bunch of film festivals in October including the 2009 DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival (October 1-10, 2009), the 2009 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (October 9-11, 2009), and the 2009 San Diego Asian Film Festival (October 15-29, 2009).

2009 Hawaii International Film Festival Promo with Daniel Dae Kim

Former model Deborah Lin marries into the Sopranos

Former model Deborah Lin, 40, and Sopranos star James Gandolfini, 46, and got married on Saturday, August 30, in her hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii at Central Union Church. Deborah Lin wore a white gown made of Italian lace while her tuxedoed groom stood waiting as a harpist played the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” in the background. The pair exchanged vows in front of about 100 people, mostly close friends and family. After the 20 minute wedding ceremony, the newlyweds made their way in a white stretch limo to a nearby resort for an evening reception.

At the reception, the newlyweds sat at a raised table looking toward the 200 guests in the filled ballroom. The menu for the evening was a fusion of Chinese, Hawaiian, and Italian. Food at the reception included lobster, pork and seafood hors d’oeuvres (pupu in local Hawaiian lexicon). The sit-down dinner included Ahi tuna, Chinese roasted duck breast over angel hair pasta and steamed bok choy, broiled Mahi Mahi and filet mignon. The final course featured tiramisu and cannolis.

Lin and Gandolfini dated for about one year before becoming engaged in late 2007. They made their first public appearance as a couple on the red carpet in March 2007 for the New York City premiere of the second half of the final season of “The Sopranos.” The weekend marriage is the first for Lin and the second for Gandolfini.

Deborah Lin’s only film credit is as a Runway Model in The Red Shoe Diaries 7: Burning Up

Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula

From tourist kitsch to old Hollywood movies, many people are familiar with romanticized images of women dancing the hula in Hawai’i. While few are aware of the sacred traditions of the dance, the role of male hula dancers has long been overshadowed by Western concepts of gender and sexuality. From ancient times, when men learned the dance along with the martial arts of battle, to the suppression of the dance under missionary ban, the hula survived underground for many years until the cultural renaissance of the 1970’s.

In 1975, at the height this revival, master hula teacher Maiki Aiu Lake asked her student, legendary entertainer Robert Cazimero, to open a school for only male dancers. With six young high school students, Robert Cazimero founded Halau Na Kamalei and it suddenly became ‘hot’ for men to dance hula again. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula tells a story of Hawaiian pride through the examination of male roles in Hawaiian culture both in the past and the present.

This premiered on PBS yesterday, so check your local PBS listing for repeat airings.

Watch the trailer for Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula

Free Comedy Show with Bobby Lee

Secret Standup with Bobby Lee in Hawaii

Free Admission. 18 & up. First Come, first serves

where:

Laugh Factory @ Manao Grand Ballroom

Honolulu, HI

when:
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Doors open at 7pm

Show starts at 8pm

For free admission, bring a copy of your Myspace profile with Secret Standup in your Top 8.

Here’s a clip of Bobby Lee performing standup:

You can add Bobby Lee as your friend on myspace. According to his myspace page, this will be bobby’s 7th and final season. Catch him on MADtv while you still can.