On Moorea, we stayed at the Club Bali Hai Hotel, which sits on Cook’s Bay and has breathtaking views of the bay and the peaks of the island.

In 2005, I went to French Polynesia to write a story about the last two surviving Bali Hai Boys, the trio of Newport Beach guys who chucked it all to move to Moorea in June 1960 and ended up ...

Visit Kauai, Moorea or Bora Bora, and tour guides will tell you that each is Bali Hai. True, Kauai and Moorea were film locations for the movie. ... and I believe that often happens in art." ...

In 2005, I went to French Polynesia to write a story about the last two surviving “Bali Hai Boys,” the trio of Newport Beach guys who chucked it all to move to Moorea in the early 1960s and ...