Jack Nicholson gets most of the attention, but the Bronx-born actress and director Penny Marshall is a regular at Los Angeles Lakers home games, too. Marshall, 64, who played Laverne DeFazio opposite Cindy Williams’s Shirley Feeney in the sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” from 1976 to 1983, has season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers. Her seat at Staples Center is along the baseline, cater-corner to the visitors’ bench. During halftime of a playoff game against the Jazz, Marshall stood to stretch her legs and, while surveying the Utah bench, answered a few questions. KAREN CROUSE

WHY SIT NEAR THE VISITING BENCH AND NOT THE LAKERS’ BENCH? When you sit near the Lakers, they don’t let you near the players. Here I have clear access to the those players. I’ll talk to them and we’ll carry on conversations.

WHOM AMONG THE VISITORS ARE YOU PARTICULARLY FOND OF? There’s Andrei Kirilenko. [She waves and winks at Kirilenko, who smiles back from his seat on the Jazz bench.] And Deron Williams is terrific. He’s adorable. Any more tattoos and he’s going to get traded to the Nuggets.

LAKERS GAMES DRAW LOTS OF STARGAZERS. DO YOU FEEL AS IF PEOPLE ARE WATCHING YOU WATCH THE GAME? No. The fans don’t bother me. And actually, the camera that pans cuts off right there. [She points a couple of seats away.] I’m not on camera most of the time. Poor Jack’s on camera all the time. I don’t want to be on camera. I’m usually eating and things are dribbling out of my mouth.