HOLIDAZE: Star-gazers spotted Marcia Cross, who is Bree Van De Kamp on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," shopping at Macy's Ala Moana and pausing at the Pineapple Room a few days back. Even without her usual makeup, she was recognizable. ...

And Nicollette Sheridan, Edie Britt on "Housewives," and singer Michael Bolton enjoyed vegetarian fare from Chai Chaowasaree's Singha Thai Cuisine last Wednesday. The same night, actor Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Eko on Season 2 of ABC's "Lost," ordered takeout. ...

"Lost" cast and crew were fit to try Thai at Singha last month — among them, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia, Harold Perrineau Jr., Emilie de Ravin, Daniel Dae Kim, Dominic Monaghan and Maggie Grace. ...

Owen Wilson, of "The Wedding Crashers," also had a quiet meal at Singha. ...

And the earlier-mentioned Bolton gave New Year's Eve revelers a treat when he joined singer Sonya Mendez and her band on the Kahala Mandarin Oriental stage to belt out "My Girl." Mendez and her Just Two Girls partner, Mimi Conner, will return to the Hilton Hawaiian Village's Shell Bar on Jan. 13, ending a year's break so keyboarder Conner could get her license in massage therapy. ...

Out Maui way, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is Melinda Gordon on CBS' "Ghost Whisperer," bought a Maggie Coulombe silk knit dress over the holidays. It's the same garment that the designer will present in the luxe hoopla surrounding the Golden Globes later this month. ...

ITEMIZATIONS: With Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" surpassing his "Cats" as the longest-running Broadway musical this coming Monday in New York (it will be the 7,486th performance), many of the actors who have played the phantom will be involved, including Cris Groenendaal, Craig Schulman and Kevin Gray, who will participate in the second curtain call. They'll rehearse the procedure with director Hal Prince and choreographer Gillian Lynne, and also attend a gala at the Waldorf Astoria. The milestone 18-year run will boast a commemorative playbill, which may be ordered ($25) from the playbill.com Web site. And if you're a "Phantom" fan, you'll be able to see and hear Groenendaal, Schulman and Gray in person when they appear together Jan. 26, 28 and 29 at the Hawai'i Theatre, with more shows on Maui and the Big Island. ...

FINALLY: We spent New Year's Eve at Shanghai Bistro, where keyboarder Don Conover and singer Rex Nockengust shared a rare bag of tunes with decided elan, style and sentiment — in a New York bistro-style format — with guitarist Fred Oshiro and drummer Bill Wiley on drums aboard for the special holiday shebang. The Conover-Nockengust concoction surely is for the discriminating listener, tapping songs of old that haven't tarnished with time. Restaurateur Li May Tang knows a good thing when she has one, so the usual Sunday-only gig will be expanded to include Fridays, starting tomorrow. And if you don't hear 'em, request titles from "The Fantasticks," the off-Broadway fave that Nockengust appeared in previously. ...

Local boy Daniel Bess, a busy Hollywood actor, spent the holidays with family. Dad is publisher Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, mom is Ann Rayson. Daniel recently completed filming two episodes of "CSI," the Las Vegas edition, a guest role on "Medium," another on "Grey's Anatomy" and a pilot for J.J. Abrams (of "Lost") titled "What About Brian."

Bess also is in Steven Spielberg's "Munich" epic. He portrays a U.S. gymnast who sneaks into the Olympic village after a night of drinking and inadvertently lets Palestinian terrorists into the compound. ...

And that's Show Biz. ...

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