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Dean Fearing cooks for a music industry legend, 'supermensch' Shep Gordon

Chef Dean Fearing is back in Dallas after a visit last week to the Maui home of music industry legend Shep Gordon.

The Dean-Shep connection was revealed in last year's revelatory documentary Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon by Mike Myers. Having been manager for acts as diverse as Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx, Gordon turned to managing his chef friends.

"I was the first chef to sign up with him back in the '80s," says Fearing, "then Emeril [Lagasse], then Daniel Boulud." Then came Wolfgang Puck, Paul Prudhomme and many others.

Shep Gordon (left) and Alice Cooper in an archival image used in "Supermensch."
Shep Gordon (left) and Alice Cooper in an archival image used in "Supermensch."(AP Photo / RADiUS-TWC)

Myers first met Gordon while shooting the movie Wayne's World with a musical performance by Gordon client Alice Cooper.

When Myers arrived at Gordon's Maui house to film, he met houseguest Fearing.

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"I just happened to be there," says Fearing, "but Mike Myers said, 'Hey, be in the film.'" And so he was.

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What one learns after watching Supermensch is that Gordon is essentially the king of Hawaii. So as part of last week's annual Hawai'i Food and Wine Festival, chef-restaurateurs Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong organized a dinner in honor of Gordon.

"All of Shep's friends were a part of it," Fearing says. "There was Robert Del Grande from Houston, Mark Tarbell from Phoenix, Nancy Silverton from L.A. and me. We did a dinner for Shep and 400 people at the Hyatt in Lahaina on Maui. It was just a blast."

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New name at Georgetown

Before Dallas businessman Scott Ginsburg became a multimillionaire in radio and before he started his Boardwalk Auto Group, he worked on Capitol Hill for Sen. John Culver of Iowa. Ginsburg was a staff director and general counsel of the U.S. Senate's Labor Subcommittee on Employment.

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Last week, the former senator was among the guests at Georgetown Law School when the school officially named its athletic center the Scott K. Ginsburg Sports & Fitness Center. Other guests included Ginsburg's three sons and his daughter, Laura Ginsburg Pierson, Georgetown law class of 2009.

A graduate of the law school's class of 1978, Ginsburg created an endowed fund to support the complex's expenses for equipment, maintenance and furnishings.

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At the event, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia reminded guests of the Jesuit tradition of cure personalis or "care of the whole person."

The last word

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet van Horne