Catching up with Phylicia Rashad...

Phylicia Rashad did not win the Emmy last Sunday (she was robbed!) for her wonderful performance in the television movie "A Raisin in the Sun." But she can be consoled by the fact that she did win the Tony Award for the stage version of "Raisin" and got to work with co-stars Sean Combs, Audra MacDonald and Sanaa Lathan again.

"We had such a good time," she said when we chatted at a pre-Emmy party last week.. "It was a lovefest. It was the absolute best. When you're making these films for television, you don't really have a lot of time to make them. But because we had performed together - the four main characters - on Broadway, we knew the story very well , we knew who we were and we knew each other. So it just deepened the entire experience."

The actress further left her television persona of Claire Huxtable of "The Cosby Show" behind with "Raisin" then a lead role in the Broadway production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

"I'm really enjoying this time, I must say," she said. "And before 'Cat on a Hit Tin Roof' I had my first professional Shakespeare at Lincoln Center and that was wonderful."