The Eighth Annual
Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, held last Saturday at the Los Angeles
home of Susan Harris and Hayward Kaiser, was its typical
celebrity fest.
The Eighth Annual
Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, held last Saturday at the Los Angeles
home of Susan Harris and Hayward Kaiser, was its typical
celebrity fest. The setting sun cast a golden glow on so many
recognizable faces at the cocktail reception you would be
forgiven for mistaking a commoner for someone from
The Hills
. Lance Bass appeared smitten with his dark-haired date; Eve,
sporting long golden locks, stuck to the periphery, while Mark
Wahlberg, proving you can take the guy out of South Boston but
you can't completely turn him Hollywood, stood in a throng
of people close to the bar, wearing a gray T-shirt, jeans, and
his phone clipped to his belt. Angie Harmon and her QB husband
Jason Sehorn loomed a few inches over from Jamie-Lynn Sigler,
Amanda Bynes, Chelsea Handler, and the cast of
Entourage
.
Chrysalis is a
25-year-old nonprofit organization that helps homeless and
economically disadvantaged people in greater Los
Angeles find employment through job-preparation
classes, mentoring, and access to everything from interview
clothing to bus passes and fax machines.
The evening's
three-course charity dinner event, emceed by
Family Guy
's Seth MacFarlane, honored the good work and social
consciousness of
Entourage
creator Doug Ellin as well as
Milk
producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen (pictured
below). MacFarlane's hilarious roast of everyone
from attendee Courtney Love to the notably absent Jeremy Piven
helped raise over a half million dollars for Chrysalis. The
last pledge of the night came when MacFarlane matched a $15,000
donation and made good on a promise to jump in the pool with
his clothes on. He turned down a more lucrative offer to do it
naked, saying, "I'm not going to show you my
penis."
Even charity has its
limits.
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