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Oscar party benefit
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Looking for a philanthropic way of staving off boredom between the “Little Miss Sunshine” best picture and Helen Mirren’s best actress Oscar wins Sunday (oh, er, were we projecting just then…)?
You and your friends may want to head over to the Park Tavern in Midtown to the “And the Winner Is…” viewing party benefiting Atlanta’s AIDS Survival Project. The fund-raiser, an expansion of Atlantan and Oscar fanatic Craig Eister’s annual home-viewing Oscar soiree, raised $7,000 for the charity in 2006 at Red Chair.
Organizers tell us the evening upstairs in the skyline-adorned Piedmont Room will feature various screens to take in the Oscars, plus food and — gasp — Sunday bar service. We’re told that the dress code is everything from formalwear and coming in costume as your favorite Oscar-nominated character to our personal preference, “jeans and a tube top.”
The party also has a significant tie to Sunday’s Elton John’s annual Oscar party on the Left Coast. Like the Peachtree Road resident’s annual Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit at the Pacific Design Center, guests entering “And the Winner Is…” Sunday will be asked to fill out an Oscar ballot.
The guest who picks the most winners will receive an actual shoulder-displacing gift bag from the benefit in West Hollywood, courtesy of EJAF-Atlanta and ASP board member Barron Segar, who will be busy rubbing shoulders with singer James Blunt in California. In addition to selflessly (and some would argue foolishly) handing over his much-coveted Clinique counter-size stash of facial and skin-youthening products, Segar informs us that Sir Elton himself will also autograph an Oscar party program for the winner.
Tickets to “And the Winner Is…” are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. VIP tickets are $100 each or $175 per couple. Online: www.andthewinneris.bizevent.htm, or call 404-874-7926, Ext. 16.
Overscene
Comic and “I Think I Love My Wife” director/producer/writer/actor Chris Rock taking in the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show at the Georgia World Congress Center downtown Monday. Sporting jeans, white Adidas and a sky blue-and-white jacket, Rock gamely signed autographs for about 90 minutes. We’re told that in a shrewd move designed to fit in with the locals, the “Everybody Hates Chris” namesake’s only request was a glass of sweet tea.
A stack of money
As it turns out, we somehow missed an opportunity to fill our pie hole full of free pancakes Tuesday. The International House of Pancakes (or IHOP, as it is commonly referred to while stumbling from a cab at 4 a.m.) celebrated National Pancake Day on Fat Tuesday by giving away about a million free flapjacks nationwide in exchange for donations to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. Locally, Coca-Cola was on board to make a matching donation of up to $10,000. Early estimates indicate that $500,000 was raised nationally during this year’s flapjack feeding frenzy.
The bald facts
If organizers have their way, there’ll be a lot of skin on display at tonight’s Hawks-Spurs game at Philips Arena. Alas, it will be on the tops of heads. The Hawks are hoping to gather a world record-setting number of bald guys at an event sponsored by 790/The Zone, St. Baldrick’s Foundation and Bald Guyz grooming products. The Hawks are donating game tickets to St. Baldrick’s Foundation for families of children with cancer. The follically challenged fans are being asked to gather at 7 p.m. in Sections 204 and 206.
Happy birthday
Actress Rue McClanahan is 72. Record company executive David Geffen is 64. Actor Anthony Daniels (C3P0 in “Star Wars” films) is 61. Actor William Petersen (“CSI”) is 54. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 52. Singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 49. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 28. Actor Corbin Bleu (below) (“High School Musical”) is 18.
Contributing: Shane Harrison and news services.
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