Dan Gross: Spike Lee directs lunch here

FILMMAKER Spike Lee, whose beloved Knicks played the Sixers last night, stopped for lunch yesterday at Table 31 inside the Comcast Center, where he chose fall vegetable soup and salmon.

"NYPD Blue" actress Kim Delaney and Greater Philadelphia Film Office head Sharon Pinkenson were also at Table 31 in a separate party. Delaney, a Roxborough native, went for margarita pizza and cavatelli.

Rachael Ray goes to Melrose

Rachael Ray surprised customers at the Melrose Diner (15th & Snyder) yesterday morning, when the cooking-show host accompanied the 6ABC morning team for its "Breakfast Is on Us" stops. That's when the station randomly picks up the check for a diner full of customers. Ray, whose show airs at 10 a.m. weekdays on 6ABC, joined Tamala Edwards, Matt O'Donnell, Karen Rogers and David Murphy, signed autographs and posed for pictures with several fans.

Geena & Jane here

Actresses Geena Davis and Jane Seymour join astronaut Mae Jemison tomorrow and Friday for Vision 2020: An American Conversation about Women and Leadership, at the National Constitution Center.

The conference, presented by the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University's College of Medicine, is co-chaired by the Institute's chair Lynn Yeakel and longtime health-care-reform advocate Rosemarie Greco.

For tickets, e-mail Melissa.Scott@ drexelmed.edu or call 215-991-8198.

At the film fest

Kerry Washington ("Ray," "Lakeview Terrace") and writer/director Tanya Hamilton will attend the Philadelphia Film Festival's screening of "Night Catches Us" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Prince Music Theater (1412 Chestnut). The film was shot in part in Germantown last year. Washington will later be the guest of honor at a private Philadelphia Style magazine party at the Chestnut Club (1529 Chestnut). Washington was the cover story of the magazine's summer issue. "Night Catches Us," with a score by The Roots, also screens at 12:30 Saturday at the Ritz Five (214 Walnut). For tickets visit filmadelphia.org.

Local face in 'Jersey Boys'

Not that she has much down time, but starring in "Jersey Boys" is a bit of a homecoming for Somerton native Alayna Gallo.

Gallo plays several roles in the show, which is at the Forrest Theatre through Dec. 12. The actress, who appeared in the show in Chicago and several other cities, got interested in theater while attending St. Hubert's, where she was the lead in "Hello, Dolly."

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