Actress Mitzi Gaynor is returning to Kaua'i for the first time since filming "South Pacific" there half a century ago.

The Kaua'i Visitors Bureau said yesterday that Gaynor will make two appearances in early October.

The first will be at the reopening of the St. Regis Princeville Resort, which is at the same location where actor Rossano Brazzi sang "Some Enchanted Evening" in the classic musical released in 1958.

Gaynor's second appearance will be "An Afternoon with Mitzi Gaynor" at the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club, during which the 77-year-old actress will reflect on her career and the filming of the movie, which featured her singing "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair."

Gaynor says Kaua'i was "undoubtedly the most beautiful setting" she's ever worked in.

KENNEDY 'HAUNTED' BY CHAPPAQUIDDICK

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in a new book that he was not romantically involved with young Mary Jo Kopechne and that he never escaped the despair he felt after she died in the 1969 car crash that has been seared into the national consciousness as "Chappaquiddick."

He acknowledged that he enjoyed women and drink — sometimes too much so — but said reports of wild Kennedy excesses were exaggerated. He said he always has accepted the conclusion that a lone assassin killed his brother John and that Kennedy family members had worried about the emotional health of his brother Robert following John's death in Dallas in 1963. He said it "veered close to being a tragedy within a tragedy."

Yet it was the specter of Chappaquiddick that Edward Kennedy, the youngest brother, never could shake.

"That night on Chappaquiddick Island ended in a horrible tragedy that haunts me every day of my life," Kennedy wrote in a memoir, "True Compass," to be published posthumously on Sept. 14. The Massachusetts senator died last week at 77 following a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

2 NEW FACES JOINING 'SNL' CAST

"Saturday Night Live" will begin its fall season with two new cast members.

A person close to the show confirmed that Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad have joined the show. The person requested anonymity because NBC has not made an official announcement. Slate previously partnered with Gabe Liedman for the comedy show "Gabe & Jenny." Pedrad, born in Tehran, Iran, previously had a one-woman show, "Me, Myself & Iran."

RAPPER SENTENCED TO 75 YEARS IN PRISON

Rap artist Max B and his stepbrother have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a deadly robbery at a northern New Jersey hotel in 2006.

Max B — whose real name is Charly Wingate — was ordered yesterday to serve 75 years.

Co-defendant Kelvin Leerdam received a life term plus 35 years after jurors found he fatally shot one of the victims. Prosecutors say the defendants and Wingate's ex-girlfriend plotted to rob two men she had met.