Honolulu Advertiser Covers IZ Book

Honolulu showbiz eminence grise Wayne Harada mentioned my IZ book in the Advertiser last week, quoting a press release that I think came out from the Mountain Apple Company, IZ's record label.

...with New York-based writer Dan Kois (a former Honolulu resident who has contributed to The Advertiser and Honolulu magazine) zooming in on the late Island entertainer's "Rainbow" connection, thanks to "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World."

Well, I do hope the book will zoom in on a lot more, but I'm grateful for the mention. Thanks, Wayne!

Vacay

We are off for a week in the sun -- escaping the bone-shattering cold just in time.

In the meantime, the Cribbie nominations have been released. Hollywood cheers and weeps, you know, depending.

Choice quote from the press release:

Matt Damon's nomination for Best Actor in THE DEPARTED came as a sweet surprise. "Despite the fact that I gave the best performance in that movie," Damon said in an interview, "everyone fucking ignored me in favor of Leo, and Jack, and goddamn Marky Mark. Marky Mark! This Cribbies nomination is pretty great. Suck it, everyone else." Asked how it felt to be nominated five times in his career, Damon said it felt great. "I'm proud of all five nominations, with the possible exception of my nomination for Best Bit Part in 2005, when I was nominated as a puppet version of myself who could only retardedly slur my own name, in TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE."