Is "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" returning to Hawaii for a quick shoot?
Could be; Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Katniss Everdeen, has told the Belfast Telegraph that more camera work is on the agenda in March, but she didn’t specify where — Atlanta, where preliminary work was done, or Hawaii, where the film completed shooting last month. "We’ll go back and finish principal photography in March sometime, I think," she was quoted.
Lawrence already is a Golden Globe winner and could add an Oscar trophy for "Silver Linings Playbook" next month. And she’s due to film the "X-Men: First Class" sequel shortly, reprising her role as the mutant Mystique.…
WHEE, THE PEOPLE: Aidan James, the ukulele tyke, is having quite a weekend. He’ll be among the 400 strummers when Roy Sakuma‘s students back Train on its pregame "Hey, Soul Sister" performance at today’s Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium; he also has a solo on field during a timeout and was scheduled to play at a tailgate event Saturday. …
Curiously, the Train tune has been Aidan’s ticket to fame; his YouTube video of the tune has notched 18 million views to date. Train lead singer Pat Monahan has become very supportive of Aidan, even following him on Twitter. And Aidan, if you recall, played "Hey, Soul Sister" on "Hawaii Five-0" last season. …
FYI,the uke players recorded the song at a Saturday rehearsal as a backup, so don’t be surprised if the taped track (like Beyoncé lip-syncing the national anthem at President Barack Obama‘s inauguration) fills in instead of the "live" performance. Bowl games commonly use this practice. Whitney Houston did it at a previous Super Bowl in what is considered one of the greatest renditions of the anthem to date. Beyoncé will perform again before a large crowd when she rocks the Super Bowl halftime show Feb. 3 in New Orleans. …
Aidan, by the way, joins Daniel Ho and Tia Carrere in the "Breathe" concert Feb. 15 at the Hawaii Theatre. The kid is everywhere. …
TUBE TOPIC: The Manti Te’o story — you know, the footballer with the faux girlfriend in a cruel hoax — could wind up as TV fodder.It has all the elements for filmic storytelling: a gridiron star who gets caught in an online romance with a pretty young woman he’s never met whose identity was stolen, all apparently executed by another young man who dupes the athlete amid the media spotlight.
At least, that’s the current buzz. The "catfishing" element is a natural for a Lifetime biopic or in some kind of police procedural, like a "Law & Order," which commonly takes real headlines and rewrites them into a dramatic script. Since this curiosity has a Hawaii local in the eye of this still-whirling hurricane, maybe even a "Hawaii Five-0"? Names will change, of course, to protect the individuals involved. …
FINALLY: Eddie Sherman, the three-dot columnist who often was a walking, talking show in life, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday at age 88. His adoring wife, Patty, was the best thing ever to happen to him in their 15-year marriage; she cherished him but also nourished him, i.e., steered him away from edibles bad for him. "I had theride of my life," she said of their time together. She bid $5 at a charity event to dance with him, and it’s the best five bucks she ever spent. …
Yes, he was a character; it was easy to mistake or misread his outgoing fervor. He took me under his wing when he was the ranking columnist in town and I was a cub reporter. And he frequently introduced me to folks as "my illegitimate son from a previous relationship," a joke that reflected his caring, nurturing nature.In memory ofSherman, Burton White of Hawaii Theatre put the columnist’s name on the downtown marquee hours after word of his death was out, a gesture Sherman requested for himself after the honor was accorded to his good friend, the late publicist Lisa Josephsohn, following her death in 2009. …
And that’s "Show Biz." …
