The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 31

Inside this section: People D2 Ann Landers D9 Show Biz D11 mm The Honolulu Advertiser Thursday, November 30, 1989 The A WHAT: Grady Timmons autographs his book, "Waikiki Beachboy. WHEN AND WHERE: 11 a m. to 2 p.m. today at The Willows; 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Hawaii Maritime Center; 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Bishop Museum. BOOKS: Not yet In bookstores, the book can be obtained at autograph sessions or at any first interstate Bank hi Hawaii for $25 ($5 off the regular price of $30). INFORMATION: Outrigger Duke Ka-hanamoku Foundation, Outrigger Canoe Club, 623-1585. -J V4 iPi Mil: -mm mm ill i tii i B-i Ford to revive the "royal sport of surfing." Or was a member of the rival Hui Nalu of the that Duke Kahan-amoku helped start in 1911.

Ford's Outrigger group, mostly haoles, put up a couple of grass huts next door to the Moana Hotel. The Hui Nalu, composed of Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, didn't have a place of their own; they met at the Moana Bathhouse, located in the hotel's basement. 'The beachboy story probably began soon after the Moana opened in 1901," said Grady Timmons, 37, who has however, that the beachboys became organized. Sometime betWeen 1916 and 1920 the captain of Hui Nalu, Dude Miller, contracted with the hotel to start the first Waikiki beach concession. His clean-cut boys, known as the Moana Bathhouse Gang, taught tourists to authored a new book, "Waikiki Beachboy" (Editions Limited, $30) on the subject.

"It's likely that hotel guests were interested in water activities and there were plenty of local guys around to offer encouragement and instruction." It wasn't until years later, His simple romance tells a deeper story Vj 1 i I "3 1 I 1 i I fX; if I Circa 1920: Dude Miller (far left) and his beachboys. (From Grady Timmons' new book, "Waikiki surf and took them for rides in outrigger canoes. "It wasn't an easy fraternity to break into," Timmons said. "You had to be accepted by the other guys and demonstrate certain skills in the wa-See Looking back, D-3 Above, filmmaker Kim U-son, whose "Yun's Town" is a nominee for the East-West Center award in the Ninth Hawaii International Film Festival. Left, a scene from the film.

"When you bring up the subject of Koreans in Japan it quickly comes down to the bottom line: What are they doing there? How did they get there?" says Kim, winner of Japan's Best New Director Award. nese Korean, Kim Soo-kil, who wrote the story at 18 in 1981. Kim U-son encountered more than his share of obstacles in making the film, from trouble with financing to reluctance by Japanese theaters to show it. He finally got financing: one-third from the Korean community, two-thirds from a studio that scorns controversy, Kim said. On one level, the film is a typical rather tame teen romance: two young people fall in love but must See Ethnic, Page D-4 -til I I Y'- I1 -A Is surt tmr.

By Ronn Ronck Advertiser Writer THE name of the very first Waikiki beachboy, if there ever was one, has been lost in the surf. Perhaps he belonged to the Outrigger Canoe Club, founded in 1907 by Alexander Hume Frankly, my dears Frank DeLima Na Kolohe bring their comedic madness to a new location, the Queen Ka-piolani Hotel Peacock Room, beginning tomorrow night. Information: 922-1941. Thumbs up "Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion" (1990 edition, Andrews and McMeel, 950 pages, is a tube fan's necessity, a convenient and often provocative sampling of more than 850 film reviews by the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper and television critic sans the bickering with Gene Siskel. Besides the analyses, Ebert offers interviews in a "Film Clips" section, a convenient glossary of movie terms and a chapter on "Why i Love Black and White." With this guide, you needn't be stuck with a dog of a home video.

Gettin' crafty The popular seasonal Pacific Hand-crafters Fair takes over Thomas Square across from the Blais-dell Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and it's bound to be the busiest one of the year. Information: 538-1600. Look who's singing again Actor Bruce Willis, who provides the baby's voice in "Look Who's Talking," is moonlighting as a singer tor the second time.

"If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger" (Motown MOT-6290) is a 10-tune hit pack that revives "Save the Last Dance for Me" and "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." Willis indulges in blues and soul (Willie Dixon's "Crazy Mixed Up and even turns composer on "Pep Talk," "Turn It Up (A Little Louder)" and "Here Comes Trouble Again." One not to miss: "Soul Shake," a duet with former Ray Charles Raelette Merry Clayton. By the sea, by the sea The Hawaii Maritime Center at Pier 7 is celebrating its first birthday with boat rides and boat tours, sea shanties and hula halau, videos and picture-taking for 'junior Luau shoo-bop, Shoo-bop Well, not a luau, really, but a party to celebrate "Rosie's Baby Luau," the first birthday of the Rose City Diner at Restaurant Row, with entertainment from noon-4 and a sock hop from 4-6 on Saturday. TV tips If you've got cable, you can preview the Disney Channel free this weekend (call cable company for channel number); the new Ann Jillian show premieres at 7:30 p.m. Sunday on NBC, KHON-Chan-nel and Angela Lansbury stars in Rosamunde Pilcher's bestselling novel, "The Shell Seekers," a two-hankie romance, at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC, KITV-Channel 4.

Christmas yuks Chevy Chase cames back to the big screen tomorrow in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (Waikiki Kailua Drive-In). It's bound to be soph-omoric but he's also bound to get off a good line or two. The Pau Hana "done work" column runs Thursdays in the Advertiser Living section. For a complete listing of each weekend's events, see The Great Index to Fun each Friday in the Advertiser. By Peter Rosegg Advertiser Film Reviewer KIM U-son darts back into one of the Varsity Twins as his film, "Yun's Town," begins to roll.

He's just introduced the movie to packed houses in each of the twin theaters as part of the ninth Hawaii International Film Festival. Now, he wants to check the color for the first U.S. showing. Out he darts again, worry lines on his brow. The color's OK, he tells his translator, but the subtitles are cut in half.

A consultation with the Consolidated projectionist solves that problem. Now, with a sigh of relief, Kim is ready to repair to a nearby lounge to talk about the film that won him Japan's Best New Director Award. Never before in the award's 28-year history has a Japan-born Korean been so honored. As Kim, 36, begins to speak in a soft-toned yet straightforward style his words translated by UH professor Jim Kenney, who often helps the festival in this way it's clear Kim U-son has a lot on his mind. "People of my father's generation, who were brought to Japan from Korea during World War II as forced labor, were robbed of many things.

"They were prohibited from using the Korean language and forced to speak Japanese. They were forced to take Japanese names. They were even forced to take up Japanese religion," he says. As a result, many of the 700,000 to 1 WHAT: Party launching the game HonoMuO- poiy, to oenen Housing Corp. afit the Honolulu Ecumenical WHO: Entertainment by Eddie Sax, Jaz Ka-ner, Bo Ervine and other Honolulu comics.

WHEN: 6:30 to 9 tonight WHERE: Restaurant Row Garden Lanai. TICKETS: $25, Including drinks, pupus and entertainment Monopoly on Hawaii's game time By Vicld Viotti Advertiser Staff Writer NOTHING beats the feeling of building hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, even if they're only made of red plastic and they tower over a mere square on a piece of cardboard. But here in far-flung, far-too-expensive Hawaii, we build our castles in the air over Kahala and Waikiki. And starving University of Hawaii students dream about how nice it would be to own a chunk of Moose McCillicuddy's, or some other collegiate watering hole. These thoughts have occurred to two entrepreneurial sorts on the Mainland, who this Christmas season are WHAT: "Yun's Town a nominee for the East-West Center award in the Ninth Hawaii International Film Festival.

WHO: With director Kim U-son In person. WHERE: 6:30 and 9 tonight at me Aikahi Theatre (first come-first seated and 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Varsity, call 944-7000 for ticket availability). ALSO: The Hawaii International Film Festival continues through Saturday on Oahu, moving to the Neighbor Islands next week. See today's schedule on Page D-10.

INFORMATION: $44-7000. million Koreans in Japan today try to hide their background from a society that still discriminates against them (and other resident Asians) as second-class "foreigners," even though their families may go back three and more generations in Japan. Like other "foreigners," Kim has a passport-like identification card that must be renewed every five years. And he must submit to finger-printing. All through elementary and high school in Osaka, where he was born and raised, Kim tried at his parents' urging to hide his Korean heritage behind the Japanese name Kaneda a deep secret shared with no one.

But at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, Kim decided to declare himself and use his Korean name. "I realized that while many years had elapsed since the war, years of so-called democracy, not that much had changed," he said. "Koreans were still being told to take Japanese citizenship and become Japanese if they introducing their respective clones of Monopoly, the game that, for the past half-century, has splayed American greed all over the American card table. One of these knock-offs, HonoluluOpoly, will make its formal debut at a party tonight at Restaurant Row's Garden Lanai (see information box). The party proceeds (as well as 50 cents from each $24 game set) will benefit the Honolulu Ecumenical Housing Corp.

The manufacturers, NationalOpoly of San Diego, have issued similar games in other cities, said Jeannie Edge, who founded the company with husband Alvin. All of them differ enough from the original to satisfy the Parker 1 wanted good jobs." At Waseda, Kim studied theater and film theory, playing around with an 8mm camera. After graduation, a friend got him a job literally at the bottom of the business sweeping sets. Eventually, that gave Kim a chance to start at the lowest rung on a four-layered climb to directing: assistant to the assistant director. He also freelanced at major studios, working for well-known directors such as Kaneto Shindo.

"Yun's Town," his directorial debut, is based on a story by another Japa- Brothers Division of Tonka which owns the rights to Monopoly's design. There are 44 squares instead of 40, many edged with a city skyline instead of the familiar color borders, and most of them containing what amounts to advertising for local properties and businesses. In this fantasy, the Holiday Inn Waikiki Beach costs $3,900 and The Black Orchid restaurant commands $2,800. MeanwUe, Hawaiiopoly has "appeared in the UH Bookstore while the legal wrinkles are still being ironed out. The game is one of 41 versions tailored to college campuses across the nation and produced by Late for the Sky Production a Above, Production Co.

Advertiser photos by Bruce Asato Hawaiiopoly, produced by Late for the Sky Left, HonoluluOpoly, by NationalOpoly. Cincinnati firm. The board has features (like the squares resembling Monopoly's "Chance" spaces) that have put frowns on the faces of ParkerTonka attorneys. But Late for the Sky founder Robyn Wilson denied any serious conflict Wilson devised the first board in 1984 to amuse college mates at the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. Players travel around the board using textbooks as tokens and buying nearby businesses and campus buildings.

"If you could own the administration building, that would be pretty good." Wilson said "That's where they keep the transcripts, right?".