A-to-Z Circuit

Summertime is a trying time on the party circuit. People RSVP affirmatively to events they don’t intend to attend, and sometimes party organizers feel free to fib about who’s invited.

For instance, 21 big names were on the guest list for the recent premiere of “The Fugitive,” but only four of them showed up. And at the premiere of “Amongst Friends,” several of those named on the list weren’t even in town.

However, hope springs eternal that the promised party-goers may show up, so Buzz has assembled this guide to guest lists:

* A list: The top of the heap. CEOs, venerable screen legends and multiple Oscar winners.

* B list: Not quite Madonna or Schwarzenegger, but good solid faces you’d recognize without prompting from a publicist.

* Z list: Bottom of the celebrity barrel. People who would go to the opening of a pack of cigarettes if there was a photographer there to record the occasion.

* Fun list: If your idea of fun is Elvis impersonators, infomercial celebrities and campy stars of yesteryear, you’ll have a blast.

* Young list: Anyone over 25 who attends will feel Jurassic. Probably some cast members from “Beverly Hills 90210” and more than one person named Corey will be there.

News From the Nightclub Front

* Closings: Prague, the after-hours spot of choice during the first half of 1993, held its closing party Friday night at its Western Avenue location. And the dance rock club Grindhouse-a-Go-Go is no more, though it may resurface in the fall.

* New locations: Flirt has moved to Friday nights at the Improv in Santa Monica, where you can now flirt until 4 a.m. Saturday. The peripatetic multimedia dance club Fuzzyland, which turned up in a bowling alley in July, is back at Rudolpho’s restaurant in Silver Lake for the moment. She, the Saturday night club “for women and their friends,” has moved to Cafe Ibiza in West Hollywood.

* Openings: Acoustic guitarist Phrank will be the inaugural performer at Plush, a cabaret that begins Sept. 1 at Casita del Compo in Silver Lake. The latest venture of the guys behind the wildly successful club Dragstrip 66, Plush will feature low-priced live entertainment each Wednesday night.

Dining With the Dalai

The most exceptional invitation we received this week was from the American Himalayan Foundation. It is to a fund-raising dinner Sept. 17 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire with the Dalai Lama. Our co-chairs: Actor Richard Gere and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

Since we’ve seen myriad Hollywood celebrities at occasions like this, we wondered how the organizers deal with a religious one.

It seems they don’t have to do much special. His Holiness eats regular hotel ballroom food, has an entourage of seven (minuscule by Hollywood standards) and eschews formalities, so the event won’t be black-tie. It’s also not a fund-raiser that will run late. The Dalai Lama is always in bed by 9 p.m.