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Harry Jay Katz on the mend, breaks six ribs in series of falls

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Harry Jay Katz on the mend, breaks six ribs in series of falls

POSTED: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 8:09 AM

Dan Gross

Katz, Cruz and Schwarzenegger last year at Center City cigar bar Mahogany (1524 Walnut).

Harry Jay Katz says he's in the worst hurtin' pain of his life after breaking six ribs Tuesday in two falls at his East Falls home and one off a barstool at Chops (401 City) in Bala Cynwyd.

Katz, 68, a reformed playboy, is a big drinker, but swears that he had only one drink that day, a vodka and grapefruit juice at 11 a.m., and that he was sipping ice water at the steakhouse when he fell off the stool.

He says that he felt dizzy and had fallen at home while dressing to go out that night, and also felt dizzy at the bar.

Chops owner Alex Plotkin says that he offered to call an ambulance, but that Katz declined. After he fell again at home that night, Katz says that girlfriend Debra Renee Cruz took him to the Lankenau Hospital ER. He also hurt a finger during one of the falls.

Katz, whose doctors told him that he'll need a few weeks to recover, is upset that he will be forced to miss the funeral of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Katz, a longtime friend of Maria Shriver and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, last week attended the private funeral of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:28 AM, 08/27/2009

Nice to read about Katz after all of the canine stuff this week.

— mick314

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:29 AM, 08/27/2009

LOLZ

— Sweet Lou

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:51 AM, 08/27/2009

Why is Harry Jay Katz newsworthy? Being old and alcoholic is sad.

— Palestra Jon

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:16 AM, 08/27/2009

Vodka at 11am? I guess it's 5 o'clock somewhere.

— WWTDD

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:32 PM, 08/27/2009

Who is Harry Jay Katz?

— scars73

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:55 PM, 08/31/2009

I have said this before and I`ll say it again.."what is the fascination you and your predecessor have for this perverted fossil?" please stop!

— billyl

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:36 AM, 12/17/2009

Vodka and grapefruit at 11AM? Stuff and nonsense. You could set your clock by this guy's rituals. Coffee between 8 and 9AM (depending how much blow and how late the night before) followed by a call to his mother followed by Bloody Mary's by 10AM, followed by blow, Skye vodka or perhaps a merlot or beaujolais, rinse and repeat till 4/5AM finishing with sleeping pill. Such is the life of an old bipolar, drunk addict. Hope his gal pal got alotta dough to support Harry's dirty habits. LOL

— tallblonde