I almost ran smack a Tony Award-winning actress today.

So I was at the Tony Awards rehearsal this AM with Jim and Steven. Radio City Music Hall. We got to watch all the fine tuning and behind-the-scenes action. Jane Krakowski was there – she's the great blond comedienne on 30 Rock.

On the way through exit 26 I nearly walked into a woman. We both stepped back and apologized, and I stepped aside to let her pass through. Turns out was Bernadette Peters. Such a minor story, but you have to collect Diva in New York stories, don't you? (For the record, Bette Midler smiled to me from a moving car in the West Village once. Those are about all the Diva stories I have.)