On the way into a two-and-a-half-hour award ceremony, many event-going New Yorkers might ask, is this going to be worth the time? So forgive us for asking a friend who had attended the Glamour Women of the Year awards in the past as we headed to our seats at Avery Fisher Hall at this year’s event. “Definitely,” she assured us. “There’s not a dry eye in the house.” After a modest preshow cocktail party (there was no big after-party this year), the show got off to a powerful start, with Mary J. Blige singing U2’s “One.” And the steady stream of formidable women that followed on the gold-toned stage got energetic reactions from the crowd. By our count, the recipients of nine of the 12 awards—including tennis star Venus Williams and model-turned-tsunami-survivor-turned-activist Petra Nemcova—got standing ovations after Oprah-ready videos told their tales.
Each honoree also got a glowing introduction from a high-profile friend, and for a magazine award show in New York, it was a pretty high-profile list: Steven Spielberg introduced Melissa Etheridge, Martin Short introduced Goldie Hawn, Meg Ryan introduced Christiane Amanpour, Queen Latifah introduced Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Maureen Dowd—not a movie star, but she was on the current cover of New York magazine—introduced Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland.
Meanwhile, there were women in charge behind the scenes, too: Glamour’s Jennifer Peters ran the event while nine-months pregnant. (What was that like? “Crazy,” she said the next day.) Leane Romeo’s production company, Overland Entertainment, produced the show, and Dina Wise of Wise & Company managed the front-of-house and ticketing.
Posted 11.08.05
Each honoree also got a glowing introduction from a high-profile friend, and for a magazine award show in New York, it was a pretty high-profile list: Steven Spielberg introduced Melissa Etheridge, Martin Short introduced Goldie Hawn, Meg Ryan introduced Christiane Amanpour, Queen Latifah introduced Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Maureen Dowd—not a movie star, but she was on the current cover of New York magazine—introduced Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland.
Meanwhile, there were women in charge behind the scenes, too: Glamour’s Jennifer Peters ran the event while nine-months pregnant. (What was that like? “Crazy,” she said the next day.) Leane Romeo’s production company, Overland Entertainment, produced the show, and Dina Wise of Wise & Company managed the front-of-house and ticketing.
Posted 11.08.05
