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Benefit to raise funds for ailing DJ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friends and fans will gather Sunday to raise some much-needed cash for ailing Atlanta bartender and DJ David Seymour at Felix’s on the Square, 1510 Piedmont Ave. N.E. in Midtown. For the past month, the musical mixologist (who has memorably spun at clubs like Halo under the moniker Mellow D) has been on and off a respirator in ICU at Crawford Long hospital while being treated for pneumonia and most recently, congestive heart failure. Felix’s rep Gary Dean told Buzz Friday that Seymour’s many pals in the city’s hospitality industry have donated restaurant gift certificates, gift cards, spa treatments, bar tabs and cash for the benefit scheduled from 2 p.m. till close Sunday.
So exactly how beloved is Seymour?
His benefit is being hosted by duelling drag queens Ruby Redd of Amsterdam and Kitty LeClaw of Blake’s on the Park (ordinarily, these two would be trying to re-create that Patty Duke and Susan Hayward wig-flushing scene from “Valley of the Dolls” if caught in close proximity …).
“David’s a great friend and this is what friends do for each other,” explained LeClaw’s alter ego David Stark Friday.
For more info or to donate: 404-249-7899.
RAFFLE REDUX
There’s good news for the attendees of Monday night’s Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention benefit at the Woodruff Arts Center who forgot to snag a raffle ticket for the 2007 Maserati graciously donated by Maserati of Atlanta. The raffle has been extended through June 6, via gcapp.org where you can buy as many tickets as you’d like (G-CAPP founder Jane Fonda was keeping hers safe in her cleavage the other night). Possibly due to the growing economic skittishness, many of the fund-raiser’s innovative live auction items went at bargain basement prices. But when bidding inexplicably stalled on a New York shopping spree featuring tickets to “The View” and “The Martha Stewart Show” and a meet-and-greet with luxe jeweler David Yurman, Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne gallantly stepped on stage to assist. After the New Yorker donated dinner and unlimited movie conversation with himself, the price shot up to $18,000. A bowling party for 50 with Fonda at Ten Pin Alley at Atlantic Station went for $20,000 after a little enticement from the Oscar winner herself. Cracked Fonda of her bowling skills: “It’s easy to beat me!”
Related links: Fondas in hot seat at Alliance, Photos
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Saturday: Actor-director Dennis Hopper is 72. Singer Pervis Jackson of The Spinners is 70. Singer Taj Mahal is 66. Actor Craig Ferguson (“The Late Late Show”) is 46. Musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is 43. Singer Jordan Knight (New Kids on the Block) is 38.
Sunday: Actor Bill Macy (“Maude”) is 86. Country singer George Strait is 56. Comedian Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) is 38. Musician Jack Johnson is 33.
If you have a tip, call 404-526-2749. Or fax 404-526-5509. Or e-mail: buzz@ajc.com.
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