David was one of many starry types to turn out for the Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Gala on 22 October. The gala was raising funds for research to find a cure, a cause David has long been involved in. Here’s a snippet from The Jewish Daily Forward:
“Alzheimer’s took both my grandfather and my father,” said David Hyde Pierce, who whimsically informed, “Yes, I used to be Niles” — a reference to the character he portrayed in the long-running TV sitcom Frasier, currently in reruns. “There are two dozen drugs in clinical tests at this time,” Pierce said. A star of such recent Broadway hits as Spamalot and Curtains, Pierce, who also had a supporting role in the 1988 film Crossing Delancey (back then, he was known as David Pierce), admitted that being “unemployed” was the reason he was able to attend the gala.
Wonderful that David and other high profile people are putting their all to raise more visibility and work doors treatment and cure for AD. Was really impressed by the story of Rita Hayworth and AD as told by her daughter in the 2009 documentary “I Remember Better When I Paint” and all that her daughter is doing to combat this disease.