Redheads. I’ve dated a few. I even married one.
A redheaded friend of mine, Kathy Finley, says she goes to a stylist every few weeks “to remind my hair that it’s red.”
Michael Feld, a redheaded Cherry Creek High grad now earning his master’s in film at the University of Southern California, has made a 30-minute movie about redheads and what makes them tick. Titled “Better Red Than Dead,” it screens for free at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cable Center at the University of Denver. Call 303-804-0911 for info.
Feld read in National Geographic that natural redheads will be extinct in 100 years. And that got him thinking.
“The movie looks at redheads in a world of blondes and brunettes,” he says. “Whenever I come across someone with red hair it’s like we’re in a secret club, that we experienced something together.”
Women like to be redheads. Guys, not so much.
“I don’t know of any men who would dye their hair red, he says. “You have Ron Howard and Carrot Top and Conan O’Brien. Men not known for how good-looking they are, but for how goofy they are.”
And don’t forget Bozo!
Arf! Arf!
Pat “Gabby Gourmet” Miller is set to present her fifth annual Give Paws dinner, a special gathering of chefs and animal lovers to help out the Dumb Friends League.
This year she moves to Gourmet Fine Catering headquarters, where guests will eat in the kitchen as the cooks do their thing. And we’re taking major toques like Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Alex Seidel, Sean Yontz, Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerard, Jamey Fader, Michael Bortz and Gourmet Fine Catering’s own Keith Taylor.
Bertha Lynn and Ernie Bjorkman will emcee — and Bjorkman is auctioning off an unworn (he swears) pair of Ellen’s Underpants he received from being a guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” For the $125 tix, call 303-751-5772, ext. 7214.
Notes.
Sheryl Renee plays Ella Fitzgerald in Music of Freedom, a homage to George and Ira Gershwin, 7 p.m. Tuesday at Congregation Emanuel, again at 7 p.m. March 22 at Montview Presbyterian Church, tix $18 and $15 . . . Local musicians gather 5-10 p.m. today at Herb’s to jam and help out Ellyn Rucker’s daughter Kristen, who is battling lupus and cancer . . . Earl Klugh is back at the Broadmoor March 26-28 for the Weekend of Jazz with Spyro Gyra, Jessy J and Bob James . . . Lisa Bell delivers the old-fashioned supper club experience 6-8:30 p.m. March 29 at Nissi’s in Lafayette.
City spirit.
Patty Ortiz, executive director and curator of the Museo de las Americas, is leaving for San Antonio — with a send-off Tuesday from KeyBank . . . Strings fed 100 kids fighting cancer Friday before they bused it to Aspen for a week of skiing with Shining Stars . . . Sightems: Kenny Loggins at DIA on Friday morning, Milan Hejduk at Lucy restaurant at Landmark . . . Meet Chauncey Billups 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday at Dillard’s Park Meadows as he models Perry Ellis . . . Morton’s DTC shows you the ritual of preparing and drinking absinthe 6 p.m. Friday . . . Sez who: “While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.” Mark Twain
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