Hollywood Power Women

The Hollywood Reporter's Top 100 Women in Hollywood event was a lot of fun. I had the pleasure of being the offstage voice announcing such stars as Glenn Close and Sigourney Weaver.
Here's a look at the technical team on the balcony of the ballroom at the Beverly Hills hotel, with me as the "voice of goddess." The celebrity participants didn't exactly follow the script but everyone improvised and the program came off quite well.

We also got a sneak peak at "Prayers for Bobby," a new Lifetime movie starring Sigourney Weaver as a conservative mom who can't accept her gay son. Weaver gave an impassioned speech about Proposition 8, the recent decision by California voters to ban same sex marriage. Glenn Close was a class act as she accepted the Sherry Lansing award for leadership in the entertainment industry.
Oprah Winfrey joined studio chiefs Anne Sweeney and Amy Pascal for a panel discussion. Despite having the combined net worth of a medium-sized country, all of these women were authentic and down to earth.

Many thanks to my friend Jacquelin Sonderling for inviting me to participate. She produced the program for the Hollywood Reporter and its ace events coordinator Karen Smith.

I also got a chance to catch up with USC adjunct professor Gretchen Goldsmith, now the proud mother of twins along with her partner, Joann Alfant of Lifetime. Seeing all these accomplished women gives me hope that Hollywood will be more accepting of what we have to offer the industry.