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flieHonohiluAdTOtifKT Wednesday, May 1, 2002 F3 111 lilo Stitch': Friendly Kaua'i tour guide helped transform film rivate and Group Lessons for FROM PAGE Fl 77 rV Children and Adults Kaimuki Aiea Mililani Kaneohe Call 732-3739 5 Entertainment For All Occasions www.ukulele-roysakuma.com HE17 ARRIVALS CARP (KOn FABRICS If: i IHMlff (Wit i h) a. ii MMakA AiiaBiAiiiifAH aa-W UnlLUKcN UHANUHANKU Vtbl 3 rf sf i "iaiMiiitlii'iy i Disney Enterprises, Inc. The Islands can be credited for providing a theme for Disney's "Lilo Stitch," which was rewritten to incorporate the concept of 'ohana. FUTON (BLANKETS) ISLAND CRAFTS FABRICS 1284 Kalani St Suite D-102 City Square Shopping Center Hours 9:30 am 5 pm PhoneFax: 847-0603 Visit us at the Blaisdell Spring Expo. May 3-5, 2002 BOOTH 14 Salisbury: New book looks at boyhood FROM PAGE Fl Salisbury's latest release is "Island Boyz" (Wendy Lamb Books, hardback, a collection of short stories written over a period of years, drawn from his youth on O'ahu and the Big Island.

He is well known for "Blue Skin of the Sea," "Under the Blood-Red Sun," Shark Bait" and "Jungle Dogs," each one an award winner I This collection comes off as a bit closer to the bone and blood than some of the previous stories, perhaps because, Salisbury said, he drew heavily from his own life: "I took some jewel, some gem or painful image from my life and built a fiction aroundit" "Doi Store Monkey," for example, a story that will strike painful and guilty chords in many, grew out of a time when he and some other high schoolers treated a schoolmate badly. "What then seemed ordinary and acceptable now seems way over the top," Salisbury said. Readers will find delicious (and G-rated) first love in "Angel-Baby," a goodly dose of humor CForty Bucks" and "Frankie Diamond is Robbing Us and some heavy issues for the Salisbury's world is gone but still relevant because the issues raised remain the very ones that young people especially young men continue to tackle: an inability to articulate amid conflicting emotions, the painful transition to adulthood, peer pressure and parent expectation, having to learn tilings the hard way and a certain "Three Stooges" idiocy that seems still to afflict the school yard. Mother's Day Sale 1AV DmmIUn llMMU CDPt? P.J aHom ti.ZA IoHom A IneMo Pnrfnutnd 1 "On a research trip (in Hawai'i), everybody spoke of 'ohana. For Stitch and his transformation, what would be better than 'ohana? He comes to know what ft means to have family.

It struck a chord and really resonates in a wonderful way. It will be great for cultures outside of the USA who might not have heard about it." Sanders is forever grateful to a tour guide he refers to only as Francis, "who knew everybody everywhere we went on Kaua'i, which made me realize what a tight-knit community Hawai'i was," he said. "The idea was that there were broader implications of 'ohana; that Stitch, the ultimate orphan with no parents, would come to be part of an 'ohana. We rewrote our entire film." DeBlois said that Stitch was all about being an isolated sort, from a broken family. "The great thing about 'ohana is that family is not defined by parents or uncles.

It can be a whole community," he said. "It works well with Stitch as part of a nonconventional family. It's an idea that's accepted, encouraged and celebrated" The movie will be unusual because Sanders and DeBlois, who earlier collaborated on Disney's "Mulan," tweaked some of the Disney formula. "Lilo Stitch" bucks tradition in two ways: The tale begins with a shipwrecked Stitch, an alien from space who lands on Kaua'i, who starts off "bad" and ends up "good." The film also revives a bygone wa-tercolor animation style (instead of using mostly computer-generated graphics); The technique was last used in "Dumbo." It is being used to capture the lush, organic and luminous flavor of the Islands. "It originally was a story pitch, a children's book," said Sanders, of the screenplay he co-wrote and co-directed with DeBlois (Sanders also provided the voice of Stitch).

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"But heroes are hard for normal people to aspire to; they're too good. This film begins with the capture of a villain, the would-be hero; every character has good and bad qualities; the bad aspire to be good, but there are frailties. Sanders, a Disney animator since 1987, counts among his credits storyboarded sequences for "Beauty and the Beast." DeBlois helped mold and shape "Lilo," with both creators story-boarding their screenplay together instead of having a story team work on it. Thus, they said, the vision and nuances of their story remained constant. "Lilo" is the second animated film to be produced at the Walt Disney Animation facility in Florida; most features are produced in Bur-bank, Calif.

"Hawai'i works for the film," said Spencer, a 12-year Disney veteran who most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of Florida Disney operations. He said the co-writersdirectors "made-every effort to authenticate local elements, from hula to surfing to pronunciation of Hawaiian words. "We worked with a former Honolulu hula teacher, Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu, who now lives in Oakland, and through him and various sources, we were able to (film) real hula dancers and work out an original Hawaiian chant. Plus, we got a choir from Kamehameha Schools to sing 'He Mele No lilo." Because Sanders was an FJvis Presley fan, the movie incorporates The King's music. "In creating Lilo's character," Sanders said, "we have her as a devotee of records, gyrating to FJvis with an old-fashioned record player instead of CDs.

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