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Week of Friday, March 29, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 13

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Kailani Hart and mom Rebecca Hart take a break on the lanai of the Art Cafe Hemingway on Kuhio Highway in Kapaa. ON THE COVER: The Harts share a laugh.

A FAMILY JAM

Keiki records first single using mom’s rap lyrics JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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hen 11-year-old Kailani Hart started recording her first single, “Wild Hart,” she didn’t have the whole thing written.

But she did have an idea.

“Galaxies,” she said, remembering the November

recording session about four months prior from a riverside bench at Art Cafe Hemingway in Kapaa.

The finished product is reminiscent of a dance party through space, reverberating with messages of following intuition, embracing exploration and continuing on through hardship. The lyrics cruise through a musical score that makes you tap your toes.

“The first line is ‘liquid drifting through the galaxy,

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JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS REVEALS LAST SEASON STORY LINE OF ‘VEEP’ JOHN CARUCCI ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Selina Meyer is going to try to make ulia Louis-Dreyfus still had a run for the presidency, tears to shed as she said yet again. She’s her official farewell to “Veep.”The only problem is she been veep.

LouisShe’s been Dreyfus forgot to bring tissues. the president.

Shooting wrapped for the series in December, but those She wants to be the president again. But it’s extreme this tearful goodbyes were not enough as she and the cast of season. We definitely push the the HBO comedy series walked edge of the envelope, and it’s the red carpet for the last time going to get pretty raucous,” Louis-Dreyfus said.

Tuesday.

The final season of “Veep” “No. I suspect there will be premieres Sunday night on more tears this evening. Oh, HBO. After the show’s sixth seaGod. I hope not too many. son, Louis-Dreyfus announced I didn’t bring any Kleenex,” that she had breast cancer.

Louis-Dreyfus said.

After a successful round of The multiple Emmy chemotherapy, she returned to Award-winner, who plays politician Selina Meyer, shared the show.

“It was an absolute godsend what fans can expect from her character in the political come- to come back to the show, and to be able to focus on making dy’s seventh and last season.

like special counsel Robert really funny stuff with my dear were usually not stranger than Timothy Simons joked about what an episode of “Veep” Mueller’s report was about to dearest friends. It was all joy, all the reality.

Actors Matt Walsh and would be like if something be released. the time,” Louis-Dreyfus said.

Showrunner David Mandel called Louis-Dreyfus a fighter, so he had a strong feeling she would return. But it wasn’t until the first day of shooting that he realized everything was back to normal.

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about, either. The keiki plays in the band “Flying Phoenix,” already has a yoga teaching certification, and is an advocate for plastic-free living. She’s also an everyday, fun-loving kid who you’ll frequently find cartwheeling down the beach with her friends.

While the single is finished and is hitting the internet this week on platforms like Spotify, Kailani isn’t stopping at one tune. She and Rebecca are working on an album.

“I have all of this music, an album of instrumental, and I’ve been looking for a lyricist,” Rebecca said. “I’ve got one right here.”

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my heart goes on, goes on,’” Kailani said. “(Then it goes) ‘I feel the pulse through the universe my wild heart goes on, goes on …’”

The title refers to a free spirit — which perfectly pinpoints the spunky Kauai keiki — but it also harkens to the family name, and the wanderlust that motivates them to explore, travel and live creatively.

The single was sparked at the piano, when Kailani wasn’t playing anything in particular. She played a chord combination that resonated, so she took it to her music teacher. Together, they pieced together a semblance of a song.

“Then, she played it and I

laid on the floor and closed my eyes and thought of lyrics,” Kailani said.

Once they had the rough outline of the song down, they started recording at Kailani’s house, with the help of her musical mother, Rebecca Hart.

“I would shout my ideas (for the song) from another room when they were working on it,” Rebecca said.

Most of those ideas didn’t make the cut, Kailani admitted, but what did make the final version was a rap Rebecca wrote when her daughter was 7 or 8 years old. The words talk about the same concepts of expansion and life without fear.

“It was the perfect fit,” Rebecca said.

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ROLL THE DICE FOR HANALEI SCHOOL ‘Game Night’ fundraiser set for April 6 at Princeville JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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ress like people from your favorite decade on the first Saturday in April and play some ping-pong at the Princeville Resort Kauai in support of the students at Hanalei School.

The Starry Nights 30th anniversary party is happening April 6, and table tennis is just the beginning.

There will also be Foosball tables and other games.

“This year we’re doing ‘Game Night’ as the theme,” said Lana Shea, an organizer.

Hosted by the Hanalei Parent

and Teacher Association, the annual event is a fundraiser for programs at Hanalei School like physical education, gardening, theater and art. The

PTA also helps with technology and program supplies, and sometimes even picks up the check for parttime teachers, Shea said.

“Because Hanalei is a smaller school, we don’t get as much state and federal funding,” Shea said. “We rely on the community to make sure the kids have a more well-rounded experience and have fun, hands-on stuff (to do).”

The Game Night party is a 21-and-over celebration with a cash bar, plenty of food, a costume contest and a silent auction that will boast items like hotel stays, restaurant gift cards, helicopter rides and jewelry.

A deejay will be playing music through the decades, touching on different styles and selections as the evening moves on.

In true carnival style, tokens will be sold to get you into the games and the admission ticket sets you up with two free tokens to get started.

“That’s the extra way to pitch in and support,” Shea said. “It’s not a kids’ party, but all of the money does

go to the kids.”

Organizers are crossing their fingers for good weather on that Saturday, as their 2018 Starry Nights fundraising event was held at the beginning of April storms.

Those storms dumped record-breaking amounts of rain and separated some of those in attendance from their families on the North Shore.

“The heavy rain started that Friday night,” Shea said. “I had to get up the hill so I wouldn’t miss this party, little did I know. This year, though, we’re hoping for sunshine and rainbows.”

The Starry Nights Hanalei School Game Night fundraising party runs from 6 to 11 p.m. Advance tickets are $50, $60 at the door.

More info: www.hanaleipta.org ••• Jessica Else, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@ thegardenisland.com.

A SYMPHONY OF DEBAUCHERY IS ‘THE BEACH BUM’ LINDSEY BAHR ASSOCIATED PRESS

gives and bares (nearly) all for this film. And it mostly works.

Korine, with the help of his innately charismatic star and atthew McCotalented cinematographer naughey is at his Benoit Debie, nearly pulls dirt bag finest as a good-time Charlie stoner-poet off an incredible trick having named Moondog in Harmony made a flagrant and aggresKorine’s “The Beach Bum” (two sively R-rated celebration of South Florida hedonism and and a half stars out of four), a bizarre and transfixing carnival depravity that’s also kind of funny and even, sometimes, of vulgarity and vice.

In some ways it’s the part he oddly sweet and charming.

It’s hard not to stress just was born to play. Whether or not that’s a good thing for him, how strange a movie “The Beach Bum” is, although or unsuspecting audiences, anyone familiar with Korine’s is unclear, but McConaughey

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He is a giggling burnout supreme with an ever-present PBR tallboy, who you suspect might be homeless, or at least other films, “Spring Breakers” veering toward that state. probably being the most mainstream of the batch, won’t Suffice it to say, it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that he be all that surprised. has a wife, Minnie (Isla Fisher), Moondog is introduced a grown daughter, Heather in resplendent glory in the Keys, where the cannabis and (Stefania LaVie Owen), and a waterfront mansion back in women are as plentiful as ocean water and there for the Miami. “I forgot how rich we are,” Moondog opines to Mintaking, and the bras and tops scarce. He is tanned to a crisp; nie, who is the walking embodiment of trashy affluence. with a mop of fried, shaggy blond locks framing his nearly She too is having an affair with a wealthy weed dealer named unrecognizable face.

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Lingerie (Snoop Dogg).

But for some reason she loves her loser husband. “He’s from another dimension,” Minnie coos, as an apparent way of explaining away all of his unconventional ways.

He’s a genius, we’re told, and a celebrated poet whose agent (played by a very over-the-top Jonah Hill) is itching for a follow-up. When things go awry and he loses everything, it’s his typewriter that he brings along with him.

The success of the whole endeavor might come down

to exactly how on board you are with Moondog’s pursuit of fun, which starts to seriously curdle during an overextended segment with Zac Efron, who plays a deviant who Moondog goes on an escape-from-rehab bender with. The destruction and havoc he incites starts to feel less like comedy and more like a horror movie. By the time you get to meet Martin Lawrence’s Captain Wack, Moondog and the film have truly checked out of planet Earth and settled entirely on this other dimension.

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‘DUMBO’ REMAKE TAKES FLIGHT ON ITS OWN JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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he original “Dumbo” was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and war was ••• breaking out MOVIE REVIEW in the Pacific.

Crafted as a simpler Disney fable after the more extravagant “Fantasia” disappointed at the box office, “Dumbo” (three stars out of four) — only 64 minutes in length — took flight just as far more chilling creations were taking to the air.

Almost eight decades later, “Dumbo” is alight again in Tim Burton’s somber and sincere live-action remake of the animated classic. Burton has refashioned “Dumbo” as a sepia-toned show-business parable tailored to more animal rights-sensitive times.

“Dumbo” is the latest in a circus parade of Disney remakes (“The Lion King” and “Aladdin” are due out later this

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Dumbo soars under the big top in this scene from “Dumbo.”

year) that brings classic characters into seemingly more real worlds with the aid of digital wizardry. None of them will overwhelm anyone by their necessity. Movies, after all, aren’t smart phones that require software updates.

That said, Burton’s “Dumbo,” while inevitably lacking much of the magic of the original, has charms and melancholies of its own, starting, naturally, with the elephant in the room.

Of all the CGI make-overs, this

Dumbo is the most textured, sweetest and most soulful of creatures. Like the original, he doesn’t speak and trips over his floppy ears. Whether cowering at a new height or finding astonishment as he, with a sneeze, is sent airborne, the digitally rendered Dumbo is one precious pachyderm.

The film opens in 1919 on the heels of World War I. Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell, who has grown into the most sensitive and consistent of leading

men) returns from war, minus an arm, to his two children, Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe

(Finley Hobbins). Though Dumbo endures separation from his mother in Burton’s film, the deeper grief in “Dumbo” has been transferred to the humans: The children’s mother died while Holt was away at war from an influenza that, as one character says, “hit like a hurricane.”

Other things have changed, too. The traveling circus where the Farriers make their home has fallen on hard times. Settling down in Joplin, Missouri, the camp is half its former size.

Its owner, Max Medici (Danny DeVito, spectacular), has sold off the horses that Holt rode in his act. Medici sinks all his remaining money into an

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elephant that he hopes will revive the circus, only to feel swindled when she produces such a droopy-eared offspring, discovered at birth beneath a heap of hay.

Of course, Dumbo’s stock rises once he does, too, and Medici’s suddenly sensational circus quickly attracts the interest of a much more bigleague circus impresario, V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton, in a devilishly slick performance), who brings Medici’s whole circus to his Coney Island kingdom as a means, we immediately grasp, of luring Dumbo away and dispensing, like a vulture capitalist, with the rest.

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A PILOT, A PLANE AND THE ‘FORBIDDEN ISLAND’ BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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bout a year or so after I started working at The Garden Island nearly six years ago, Keith Robinson of the Robinson family on Ni‘ihau stopped by our office with a book he wanted me to read. It was titled, “Before and Beyond the Ni‘ihau Zero: The Unlikely Drama of Hawaii’s Forbidden Island Prior To, During and After the Pearl Harbor Attack,” and was written by Syd Jones.

Jones was given rare access to Ni‘ihau and allowed to interview its owners and those who lived there.

The result of this book, published in 2014, is a detailed account of what happened when a Japanese Zero damaged in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor came to land on this privately owned island, a place

where residents were not aware of the raid at Pearl.

As the back cover tells us, “The Zero pilot survived for almost a week on what locals call the ‘Forbidden Island,’ assisted by a local worker, while terrorizing the island’s population before being killed by a native Hawaiian.”

Such is usually the stuff of movies.

But this was real life. It happened.

Daniel A. Martinez, Pacific War historian, wrote, “The incident at Ni‘ihau will probably not be remembered as it was during the war. Folklore and legends were part of the local memory. The saying in the islands that “you have to shoot a Hawaiian three times before he is mad” stems from the shooting of Ben Kanahele by the pilot Nishikaichi. In 1943, a popular song blared on the radio from New York to Honolulu. Titled “They Couldn’t Take Ni‘ihau No-how,”

told of the herosim of the Hawaiian Ben Kanahele. Perhaps that is part of the story that is often eclipsed in other author’s renditions.”

This book contains numerous photos, reports and documents

that provide an inside look at what happened, the people involved and how it affected their lives.

The wreckage of the plane was not forgotten. It later became part of an aviation museum in Hawaii.

“The Zero display brought to the forefront what happened the day of the attack, the conflict that ensued on the island in the days that followed, while unexpectedly generating a modern controversy in the process,” according to the back cover summary.

If you really want to know more about the fascinating story of the Zero that crashed on Ni‘ihau on Dec. 7, 1941, then read this book. It asks and answers many questions.

It is history, and written as such. But one paragraph puts well what was at stake for the Zero pilot, Naval Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi: “Nishikaichi was in a tough spot.

He was being held on an enemy island, with a growing likelihood of being given over to U.S. military officials. His weapon, the papers and map he had used during the attack had already been taken away; his only path to possible escape was the radio in his plane to make contact with the submarine — if it was still nearby. At the same time, he needed to destroy the valuable Zero and its secrets before the enemy got their hands on it. Somehow, he would have to find a way…”

This happened on an island you can see from Kauai.

Keith Robinson, by the way, is mentioned several times in the book, and I thank him for bringing this to my attention.

••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@ thegardenisland.com.

LOCASH OFFER A BRO-COUNTRY HOOT OF AN ALBUM MARK KENNEDY ASSOCIATED PRESS

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f there’s a such a thing as Bingo for country song references, go ahead and spin the latest LOCASH album, “Brothers,” and brace yourself. You’ll get a whole lot of trucks, beer, jeans, dogs, back roads, mom’s cooking, God and weekend parties. And that’s just the first few tunes.

The vocalist duo of Chris Lucas and Preston Brust may seem comfortable around lyrical cliches but thank goodness they know a good tune, too, because

“Brothers” is a bro-country hoot, filled with catchy, poppy tunes that fizz like a just-opened Bud. In fact, two are ready-made for brewski commercials — “Cold Beer Kinda Night” and “Beers to Catch Up On.” What’s really refreshing is that it’s clear everyone’s invited. Right out of the gate is “One Big Country Song,” which opens its arms wide, something some country songs don’t. “A city boy, a country boy, yeah we all just tryna survive,” the lyrics go. “Everybody’s got holes in their blue jeans/If you bought ‘em that way or not.”

This is welcome-all party country, not afraid to add dashes of rock, dance, pop or some guitar solos.

The bulk of the 11-track “Brothers” is produced by Lindsay Rimes, who has worked with such artists as Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett and Dylan Scott. The songwriters include Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure, Corey Crowder, Jordan Schmidt and Chris DeStefano.

Lucas and Brust contribute songwriting to three songs — the really nice title track, the throwaway “Feels Like a Party” and the first-

class rocker “Secret Weapon.”

A sunny, optimistic tone runs through the album, reaching a high with “Summer in a Truck,” an infectious ode to curly fries and wearing no shoes. You can try and hate on it but that’s like hating on a Lab puppy.

The duo get religious in “God Thing” — but always grateful and in awe; they’re not the hellfire kind — and are heartfelt in the album’s outstanding power ballad “Kissing a Girl,” a superb bit of song-crafting that traces a romance from a “couple kids playing grown-ups” to being a daddy.

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rad Hiranaka, president and commissioner for Kauai Youth Football, said the motivation for holding the KYF second Shoreline Fishing Contest was the lack of good fishing contests.

KYF hosted the contest at the behest of local fishermen who confided in Hiranaka that there weren’t enough shoreline fishing contests on the island. This year’s copntest concluded with the weigh in Sunday at Nawiliwili Park with the help of community volunteers.

Lawai Dickens pocketed the purse for the largest ulua, at 58.2 pounds, and Michael Valmoja was a double winner, claiming top honors with a six-pound oio and a kahala that topped 11.7 pounds.

The James Javinar ohana was another winning group, with father James topping the others five pounds and les category with with a 4.8-pound nenue. His son, Jonah was the keiki division winner in the others five pounds and over category with a nenue that weighed in exactly at 5 pounds, and son Sage was the keiki winner in the others five pounds and under class with a nenue that scaled in at 4.8 pounds.

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