Kathy Griffin has been added to the list of participants for Liza at 80! A Celebration in Song and Dance at Carnegie Hall on June 25^th.  One assumes she will neither sing nor dance, but others on the bill who can do both include Mario Cantone, Andrew Rannells, Kristin Chenoweth, Donna Murphy and Beth Leavel.  Will Liza actually appear?  Minnelli issued a statement: “I am grateful and honored that my collaborators and career are being celebrated at Carnegie Hall this Summer…I hope to see all my New York friends at the performance.”  I hope to see Matt Bomer naked, and that’s more likely to happen than Liza performing onstage at Carnegie Hall.  Here’s an idea.  Kathy Griffin always travels by private plane.  If it is wheelchair accessible, maybe she can give Liza a lift.

The first time I was at Carnegie Hall was to see the legendary Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz.  Fun fact – my first extended onscreen interview was with Celia – even though, as she said, “my English is not too good looking”.  Cruz will be the first Afro-Latina artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Azucar!

Another legendary diva got quite a thrill on her 85^th birthday.  Ann-Margret was honored by the USO for her “decades of service”.  In one of those moments of kismet, the day she was presented with the commemorative USO Challenge Coin was also the organization’s 85^th anniversary.  “Those tours and all my guys mean the world to me.  I remember all of them…ALL of them.”  Congrats.