James B. Nicholson, Trustee vs. Harmon - Witness James MacArthur

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRUSTEE

David C. Farmer, Successor Trustee
vs.
Bobby N. Harmon

(Formerly Mary Lou Woo vs. Harmon and James Nicholson vs. Harmon)

CV05-00030 DAE/KSC

United States District Court, District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

JAMES MacARTHUR

In a career spanning more than four decades, James MacArthur has developed a body of work which is wonderfully dynamic in both scope and range. Portraying everything from crazed killer to stalwart defender of law and order, frustrated teenager to cynical senior supervisor, he has appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage productions since his career officially began back in 1955.

Although he had been performing in parts during summer stock productions since 1949, making his stage debut in The Corn Is Green his ‘real’ acting career did not begin until he starred as the complex and misunderstood teenager in John Frankenheimer’s Deal a Blow....

Westerns and war dramas predominated the next phase of MacArthur’s career with appearances in television programs such as Branded, 12 O’Clock High, Gunsmoke, Combat!, Hondo, Bonanza and Death Valley Days, in addition to the films Ride Beyond Vengeance, Mosby’s Marauders, and Hang ‘Em High.

It was his appearance in this last which would ultimately lead him into the role of Dan Williams on Hawaii Five-0. When Leonard Freeman found himself looking for a replacement to play complex sidekick to Jack Lord’s powerful Steve McGarrett, he went looking for the young actor he remembered from just two or three days' work on his low-budget spaghetti Western.

The juxtaposition of MacArthur’s still-boyish good looks with his ability to bring a convincing toughness and sincerity to the role made him one of the best-remembered and well-admired actors of 60s and 70s popular television. Even today, more than twenty years after the program stopped production, it is broadcast in syndication in markets all over the world. Its ‘Book ‘em, Danno’ catchphrase is still as much a part of our popular culture as that famed line from another show of the same era: ‘Beam me up, Scotty.’...

April 2003 marked his return to the stage as Father Madison in Joe Moore's original play Dirty Laundry. Rumors abound that another attempt will be made to turn Hawaii Five-O into a feature-length film which will include MacArthur. Development of a one-man show based upon his extraordinary life and career is ongoing, with the possibility of an accompanying autobiography. On 6 November 2003, the Hawaii International Film Festival chose James MacArthur and Hawaii Five-O as the recipient of their annual Film in Hawaii award, an honor both well-deserved and especially significant, coming as it did from the people and the State of Hawaii. Plans continue to feature MacArthur in a new television series set in the Hawaiian Islands, though nothing more definitive has been arranged as of this writing.

Recently, James MacArthur co-directed a revival version of Twentieth Century, a play co-written by his father, Charles MacArthur, and Ben Hecht, and first produced in 1932. The play ran from 11-27 February 2005 at the Diamond Head Theatre.

http://www.jamesmacarthur.com/

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THE JAMES MacARTHUR PHOTO GALLERY

http://www.hawaiifive0.org/oct02.shtml

www.jamesmacarthur.com/CharlesMacArthur/CharlesMacArthur.shtml

www.jamesmacarthur.com/TwentiethCentury/TwentiethCentury.shtml

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http://www.jamesmacarthur.com/CVTheatre.shtml

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http://starbulletin.com/96/10/21/features/story2.html

http://starbulletin.com/96/10/21/features/story1.html

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/hawaii-five-o.htm

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GOOGLING FOR JAMES MacARTHUR

and

THE CATBIRD SEAT

THE MacARTHUR FOUNDATION

BILL & HILLARY CLINTON

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

BISHOP MUSEUM

HAWAII STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE & THE ARTS

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NEW DISCOVERY (09-09-08): Undisclosed relationships between David Farmer and James MacArthur, Walter Dods, Oswald Stender, Faye Kurren, Tesoro, others...

October 1, 1996

Here comes Walter Dods.

By Streeter, ABA Banking Journal

Walter Dods keeps a dog outside his office. Not a live dog , but a modest-sized sculpture of one that the bank purchased from a local artist. The vaguely oriental-looking animal wears a curious expression. It almost seems to be smiling, yet the look also suggests tenacity. Not everyone at the bank likes the dog, but Dods does. And so there it sits on a cube at the entrance to his outer office.

If you were to spend three days observing and trying to keep up with the fast-moving chairman and chief executive officer of First Hawaiian, Inc., you might sense that the sculpture and its caretaker are kindred spirits.

The man who will be president of the American Bankers Association for the next 12 months is an affable, down-to-earth fellow who is at home speaking with anyone. At the same time, he is by all indications an aggressive competitor, a hands-on manager with an almost uncanny grasp of detail, and a boss who gives his subordinates free rein to innovate, but also holds them accountable. Thus, like the sculpture outside his office, there's a certain yin and yang to Walter Dods--personable yet demanding....

Hawaiian Horatio Alger

Walter A. Dods, Jr., 55, is the oldest of seven children. His father was a policeman and his mother worked as a cashier at a Waikiki restaurant--both are retired now.

A 1970 Honolulu magazine article about Dods (he was then 29 and a newly minted First Hawaiian VP), described the Dods family as very close. Everyone learned to hustle early because, as Dods put it, "The last one to the table got the leftovers." That hustle has never left him.

Beginning at about 14, Dods paid his own way working nights and weekends at service stations, Chinese restaurants, a pineapple cannery – sometimes one place during the day and another at night in the summer months.

True, some of Dods' earnings went toward souping up cars--the policeman's son even admits to some hot rodding and drag racing as a teenager. He's long since rechanneled that energy, but an interest in cars remains. He owns a 1957 Ford Thunderbird (the type with "portholes" in the hardtop), which he bought from James MacArthur of the "Hawaii Five-O" television show.

When Dods graduated high school, his father urged him to go to college. But, says Dods, "I was too 'smart' to go to school, so I went to work instead." His first full-time job was as dead files clerk at First Insurance Co. Gradually Dods realized his mistake and began taking night classes to get a college degree.

Doris also did a five-year stint in community relations and advertising at Dillingham Construction Co. before answering an ad for public relations director at First Hawaiian Bank. He landed the job and was promoted four times within 23 months, becoming vice-president for advertising, public relations, and business development by age 29. In the process he caught the attention of First Hawaiian CEO John Bellinger....

http://www.allbusiness.com/finance/579261-1.html

www.kycbs.net/Google-First-Hawaiian-Bank.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY - 06/14/08: DAVID FARMER’S UNDISCLOSED RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE, JAMES MacARTHUR, THE MacARTHUR FOUNDATION, GOLDMAN SACHS, ROBERT RUBIN, BILL CLINTON, HENRY PAULSON, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, FAYE KURREN, HAUNANI APOLIONA, KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS, WALLY CHIN, HENRY PETERS, BISHOP MUSEUM, ADELE SMITH SIMMONS, BRAD HEPPNER, MARSH & McLENNAN, JAMES WRISTON, JUNE JONES, JOE MOORE, JAMES NICHOLSON, RON REWALD, JUDGE REY GRAULTY, ETC....: