How does one of the town’s top attorneys, Michael Green, get involved in trying to land one of the greatest fights of all time — a bout between Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather — for Aloha Stadium?

They came to me, two of Pacquiao’s representatives, said Green. He said he may have been contacted because he is former chairman of the Stadium Authority, is connected to Hawaii’s large Filipino community and has long been involved with sports, including representing National Football League players from Hawaii. Pacquiao will be in Hawaii Nov. 18 to 21. The Pacman is a colorful guy. Other than boxing, he is a professional singer and through his widespread popularity has even been mentioned as a potential candidate for the presidency of the Philippines. Mike Green has won many courtroom battles. Let’s hope he can win this fight against several big cities who are vying for a Pacman fight. …

THE LUXURY ROW Presents EuroCinema Hawaii Awards Gala 2011, an outdoors event at the Moana Surfrider Saturday night, was quite a blast. Plenty of good food, sparkling wine and women in high fashion, many with stylish heels that sank in the grass. Hawaii News Now’s Malika Dudley was filmed and shown on a large screen as she briefly interviewed incoming celebrities and guests. Celebs included Gregg Sulkin, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O’Quinn, Kelly Hu, Tamlyn Tomita, Jimmy Borges, Andy South and Daniel Zucapa. Scottish director Lynn Ramsey’s thriller, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” took three of the Tiffany-designed trophies: best director for Ramsey, best actress for Tilda Swinton and the Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale Award for best film. Best actor honors went to Peter Mullan for his role in “Tyrannosaur.” Gregg Sulkin won the rising star prize. University of Hawaii’s Lana Dang was awarded $3,000 for her “Pa‘ahana,” winning best student film. …

THE EUROCINEMA festival is a festival within the Hawaii International Film Festival presented by Halekulani. Jeannette Hereniko, who founded HIFF in 1981 (when she was Jeannette Paulson) and directed it from 1981 to 1996, attended the EuroCinema awards. Jeannette, a longtime pal, revealed a story about how film critic Roger Ebert “rescued her” in Cannes and included it in his memoir, “Life Itself,” released last month. She said years ago she had arrived in Cannes for the film festival at 5:30 a.m. and could not check into her hotel because it was too early.

“I had no francs because the money exchange places were not open and I was desperate for a cup of coffee,” she said. “On the way over I had been reading Roger’s book about the Cannes Film Festival, ‘Two Weeks in the Midday Sun,’ and I felt I could find my friend Roger by following his own directions to Le St. Antoine, a cafe (where) he goes to greet the sunrise each morning he is in Cannes. Surely he would buy me a cafe’ au lait. And so I found him, and he graciously bought me that cafe’ au lait — plus a croissant.” …

Halekulani is featured in the November issue of Condé Nast Traveler in the annual “Readers’ Choice Awards,” which ranks the best hotels, resorts, cruises, islands and cities in the world. Halekulani ranked No. 36 among the “Top 200 Hotels in the United States.” Halekulani is the only Hawaii hotel in the 200. … The last name of Kalei and Tiare Sadarananda was misspelled in the Sept. 23 Wood Craft. …

NICKI LIVINGSTON, 65, died Oct. 14 of cancer. She is survived by her husband, Fred Livingston, former owner of Don Ho’s Island Grill and other restaurants. Services for Nicki will be held Monday at Diamond Head Mortuary, starting with visitation at noon. …