Tim Ryan, Local Scoopmeister

For those of you who don't already know about Hawaii's answer to PageSix (minus the venom), let me introduce Tim Ryan, our resident entertainment writer whose weekly Wednesday column in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin has become an institution of sorts among Hawaii's local film and TV community. Tim reports the entertainment industry rumblings and mumblings floating around Hawaii and Hollywood. Here's Tim's story:

Tim Ryan was born and raised in Hollywood, California where his father Tim Ryan was a screenwriter and sometimes actor whose writing credits while under contract to Monogram Studios included several of the "Charlie Chan"and "Bowery Boys" film series. Tim Jr. first visited Hawaii in 1952 when Tim Sr. appeared in the classic Pearl Harbor attack flick "From Here to Eternity." Tim started at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in March 1984, and after six years of covering Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' residency and legal troubles while in Hawaii, moved on to the entertainment beat. Tim's first newspaper job was at the 3,000 circ. weekly "The Cambria" on the Big Surf coast. He is the Hawaii correspondent for People, US Magazine, and Daily Variety, and contributes regularly to travel magazines including Islands, Frommer's Budget Travel, and Sunset.

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