Is anyone in the world nicer than Kristen Chenoweth?

The “West Wing” co-star played Glinda the Good Witch on the long-running Broadway play “Wicked” and bought a bunch of wands for the little girls who would come backstage to meet her after the show.

“I just loved the look on their faces when I gave the wands to them,” says Kristen in that adorable sing-song voice.

Kristen’s a favorite of critics, especially those who remember her singing to a few of us late one night in the Ritz Carleton hotel during a past TCA tour. She was starring in her self-titled sitcom for NBC.

After the critics lavished her with praise for her singing, she suddenly turned and looked at us all and said, “Hey, wait a minute. You hate my TV show, don’t you?”

It’s not easy being a critic.

Kickin’ back at the Claremont

Hunky Jerry O’Connell (“Crossing Jordan”) says he spends a lot of time up in the Bay Area now that he’s with Berkeley’s Rebecca Romijn.

“We were just up there staying at the Claremont,’’ he says. “That’s a great hotel, so beautiful and classic.”

O’Connell says he loves the fact that Rebecca’s from the Bay Area.

“She’s smart and doesn’t take all this L.A. stuff seriously,” Jerry says. “She knows what’s important in life.”

Seth don’t need no stinkin’ critics

Seth Green, who co-stars in the midseason NBC comedy “Four Kings,” had to get reprimanded for trying to ditch reporters at the NBC stars’ party at the Century Club.

So he begrudgingly took a few questions about the show that centers on the familiar story of four friends sharing a New York apartment.

But while he kept trying to get away from everyone as quickly as possible, he did get charged up about his latest venture: a comic book called “Freshman.”

“We sold out immediately and might go into a second printing,” he said, showing the same excitement he had exhibited when he thought he had escaped us at the party. “I stored a few and I think they are going to be really valuable.”

That’s right. Talk comics and Seth turns to putty.

Lady with a baby

A scant few weeks ago, Angie Harmon gave birth and then here she was up on the NBC stage to promote her new show “Inconceivable” about life in a fertility clinic.

A publicist said that Angie wouldn’t be going to the party because she was still recovering and had already torn a stitch out.
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