‘Cutters’ to Trim Prices Along With Hair to Help Fight AIDS

Jose Eber and hundreds of other pricey “cutters” (what they call hairdressers hereabouts) will clip for charity Oct. 13.

It’s the first Cut-A-Thon, with the proceeds going to the AIDS Project L.A. More than 70 shops will be open on the Cut-A-Thon Sunday, with normally much higher-priced haircuts going for a minimum $15 contribution. Of course, at the salon of committee chair Jose Eber--where he and his staff hope to do 100 ladies--the minimum contribution will be his regular price, $100 a head. Jose (who cuts the likes of Ann-Margret and Victoria Principal) and his committee, including his client Morgan Fairchild, expect to raise $150,000 from the 70 shops--but admit it’s a low estimate.

And nobody has to eat any banquet chicken, either.

LOVE BUZZ--Hollywood is crazy with the news that actress Debra Winger has split with Nebraska Gov. Bob Kerrey. Who’s she dating? Movie types say none other than Al Pacino. . . . Bruce Boxleitner and his pretty wife, Kitty, are expecting a second child this fall--just about the time his movie “Passion Flower” airs on CBS. The hot and heavy romantic scenes are expected to change his boy-next-door image.

CELEBRATING--When Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney becomes Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg, Tunney & Phillips, the star clients of the new name partner, entertainment division head Lee Phillips, will celebrate with a party. It’s at Jimmy’s, Oct. 24, and the hosts include Barbra Streisand, David Geffen, producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Journey’s Steve Perry and Mac Davis.

BYE-BYE BOSS--It’s well known that on his just finished tour, Bruce Springsteen brought up someone from the audience to do his “Dancing in the Dark” number with him. On Wednesday, the last night of his year-plus tour, Springsteen had an apt dancing partner--his bride, Julianne Phillips. In blue jeans, natch. Springsteen’s become careful--or superstitious. When he sang “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” the title song from his 1978 album, he switched the lyrics from “I lost my money and I lost my wife” to “I almost lost my wife.” Also, the person Springsteen has to thank for the 5 1/2-pound cheesecake he received earlier this week is deejay Rick Dees, a big cheesecake fan himself.

POLITICALLY PARTYING--The former (and he hopes future) Lt. Gov. Mike Curb continues his well-practiced skills of getting around. He’s on the board of the Boys Club of L.A. and when they hold their dinner Dec. 2, who’s being honored but Gov. George Deukmejian. . . . Curb’s good friend Jerry Weintraub manages to fit in politics wherever he goes. In Hawaii, to produce “Karate Kid II”--with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita--Jerry and wife Jane had dinner with Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi and his wife, Joyce. Staying in a home on the water at Diamond Head--their three daughters fly over for the weekend--Weintraub’s going to be sure to keep close track of the follow-up of “Karate Kid,” which has now grossed more than $100 million.

MORE LETTERS--Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, in a personalized letter to his friends, has invited them to attend a Dec. 1 Century Plaza event “commemorating the fifth anniversary of my election as speaker.” There’s a gourmet dinner, special guest, music for dancing and “my sincere desire to share this evening with you.” The tab? $5,500 a table. P.S. “Our Assembly leadership and I have designated this dinner as our singular most important event of this year.” Of course, but what about ‘86?

CHOCOLATES FOR LOVE--The running line about chocolate promoting the same brain hormone as does being-in-love--used in Henry Jaglom’s new film “Always”--could make Swiss Miss chocolate drink the hottest aphrodisiac since champagne. When the love-starved Lucy is found sitting in a bath loaded with Swiss Miss, she explains the chococate-love theory. Why not just eat it? “What, and get fat? And get pimples?”

WOMEN’S WRAP-UP--At Palms Junior High School Sunday afternoon, the massive post-U.N. Decade for Women Conference will be held, with a list of sponsors that goes from Jewish Federation Council to the Junior League to the National Council of Negro Women to the National Women’s Political Caucus. Esther Coopersmith, the former U.N. representative and a member of the U.S. delegation to the Nairobi conference, will speak. . . . The Woman’s Building pays tribute to 11 women artists and arts supporters at a benefit brunch Oct. 20 at the Westin Bonaventure. Being honored are sculptor Claire Falkenstein, choreographer Bella Lewitsky, Peg Yorkin, Margarita Galban, poet Eloise Klein Healy, KABC-TV’s Inez Pedrosa, Eleanor Antin, Susan E. King, Dolores Hayden, Mary Jane Hewitt and Councilwoman Joy Picus.

OUT-OF-TOWNERS--Sen. Steve Simms, the Idaho Republican designated as Sen. Bob Dole’s No. 1 priority to reelect, will be feted at a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser by Gerald A. Isom, the president and CEO of the Transamerica Insurance Group, and David R. Carpenter, the president and CEO of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance. At the Tower Restaurant, Oct. 21.

EATING OUT--Ethel Kennedy, on the afternoon of her dinner at the Bistro and wearing what looked like an old blue trench coat, met Don Kostimier and Andy Williams for lunch at the Bistro Garden. At a nearby table, Marc Nathanson (not the one who owns Falcon Communications) was lunching with good buddy Greg Bautzer. Nathanson says he and Bautzer and Rona Barrett are all early risers and talk on the phone before 6 a.m. Bautzer stopped by for a quick kiss from his bride, Niki Dantine, having lunch with a crowded table that included Nancy Livingston.