Pictured: Kate Walsh (in one of my favorite dresses of the night!), Hayden Panettiere, Mary Louise Parker, Olivia Wilde, Chloe Sevigny, Tina Fey, Marcia Gay Harden, Sarah McLachlan, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Sarah Silverman, Holly Hunter, Charlie Sheen and wife Brooke Mueller, Chris O’Donnell and his wife.

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Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey’s hit comedy 30 Rock is leading the charge for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards after landing a whopping 22 nominations.

The show will defend its title as Outstanding TV Comedy for the third year running, against Entourage, Weeds, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and Family Guy. The animated series’ inclusion is the first time a cartoon has been shortlisted for the prize since The Flintstones in 1961.

30 Rock’s leading stars will do battle in the male and female categories for the outstanding comedy actor awards. Hollywood star Baldwin is up against the likes of Steve Carell (The Office), Charlie Sheen (Two And A Half Men) and Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), while Fey is competing with Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?), Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program), and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds).

Meanwhile, Mad Men has scored 16 nods - including Outstanding Drama Series, which it won last year (08), Outstanding Lead Actor, Drama for Jon Hamm, and Outstanding Lead Actress, Drama for Elisabeth Moss.

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Tina Fey and Steve Carell spend a late night in SOHO filming scenes for their upcoming comedy “Date Night”

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Tina Fey gets a kiss on the cheek from Jon Hamm (”Mad Men”)–who will be doing several episodes of “30 Rock” while they film the Golden Globe award winning show on W. 87th and West End ave. today. Jon also rode a scooter and almost toppled off as Tina watched.

He looks so much hotter in Mad Men!

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Liz Lemon favors her right side. That’s because a faint scar runs across Tina Fey’s left cheek, the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five. Her husband says, “It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.”

You can hardly see the scar in person. But I agree with Richmond that it makes Fey more lovely, like a hint of Marlene Dietrich noir glamour in a Preston Sturges heroine.

“That scar was fascinating to me,” Richmond recalls. “This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life. When you have that kind of thing happen to you, that makes you scared of certain things, that makes you frightened of different things, your comedy comes out in a different kind of way, and it also makes you feel for people.”

I wonder how the scar affected Fey in high school. “She wasn’t Rocky Dennis developing a sense of humor because of her looks, like in Mask,” says Damian Holbrook, laughing. Liz Lemon’s blustery Republican boss, Jack Donaghy, played with comic genius by Alec Baldwin, tells Lemon, “I don’t know what happened in your life that caused you to develop a sense of humor as a coping mechanism. Maybe it was some sort of brace or corrective boot you wore during childhood, but in any case I’m glad you’re on my team.”

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