QUICK TAKES - June 9, 2009

Count Bret Michaels among the losers at the Tony Awards. He wasn’t even nominated and yet wound up with a nose fracture and a busted lip.

Michaels, who performed with his 1980s hair-metal band Poison on Sunday’s telecast, was hit in the head by a descending set at Radio City Music Hall in New York. He fractured his nose and had to get three stitches in his lip, publicist Joann Mignano said.

Although he’s “pretty bruised up,” Mignano said, Michaels was in good spirits. He wiped off blood with a towel and laughed backstage when host Neil Patrick Harris joked that the singer “gave head banging a whole new meaning.”