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Birds of a feather flock to NBC gala
Will & Grace's Eric McCormack already has been told how the long-running series will end its final season.
"I used to think a gay wedding for Will should be the way to go, but that feels a bit 'stunty' now," he said. "It's going to be a really beautiful ending that will please longtime fans."
Many guest stars from earlier seasons will return, he said, "parents and the various people who have played our friends and love interests throughout the years."
Chenoweth, who identifies herself as the "conservative Democrat/liberal Republican" daughter of a Texas oilman, offered her bipartisan pick for whom she'd like to win West Wing's presidential race: "I would love to see someone of ethnicity elected, like Jimmy Smits. But then it might be interesting to have a likable Republican (Alan Alda's character) shake things up."
A singer who released a Christian album in April, Chenoweth enjoyed the evening's closing performance by Amy Grant, who will host NBC's wish-fulfillment show, Three Wishes. Chenoweth said, "I freaked out when I met her."
Crossing Jordan's Jerry O'Connell said his brother Charlie is still blissfully in love with Sarah Brice, the woman he chose on the most recent edition of ABC's The Bachelor. "It's serious," Jerry said. "She's moving out to L.A.; (they'll be) living together and she's close to our family."
As for his own girlfriend, O'Connell couldn't stop raving about Rebecca Romijn and her starring role on a show slated for midseason — on WB.
"It's typical of me to come to an NBC party and talk about a Warner Bros. project, but Pepper Dennis is my favorite," O'Connell said. "Rebecca's a modern-day Lucille Ball, and I'm really proud of her."
In a nod to Romijn's blue X-Men character, Mystique, plans are underway to have Pepper sprayed in the face with blue paint. O'Connell said Romijn has just begun work on X-Men 3, which will involve "finding a cure for mutants."
In other Marvel Comics superhero news, Medium's Patricia Arquette said her partner, Thomas Jane, has begun bulking up for The Punisher sequel, set to shoot this winter.
One star went the entire evening without shaking anyone's hand: self-described germophobe Howie Mandel, whose OCD will be featured in his new series, Hidden Howie: The Private Life of a Public Nuisance on Bravo (an NBC subsidiary).
For their 25th wedding anniversary in March, his wife, Terry, gave him an automated toilet-seat plastic-sleeve replacer for his private bathroom. "You just wave your hand, and it replaces the plastic," Mandel raved. "I feel my love for Terry from the bottom of my (bottom)."
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