BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 16, 2007
Elle Magazine Honors "Women In Hollywood"
Pays Tribute To Six Actresses And A Director For Career Achievements
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Play CBS Video Video Johansson Honored At Harvard ShowBuzz RAW: Four-time Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson received the traditional "Pudding Pot," given by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation's oldest theatre group.
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Video Connelly: Traveling Mum Actress Jennifer Connelly tells Rene Syler that being a mum for her is slightly complicated logistically because of all the traveling she has to do on the job. Connelly has two sons, Kai and Stellan.
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Video Acting With 'Reservation' Actress Jennifer Connelly speaks with Hannah Storm about the joys of family life as well as her new movie, "Reservation Road."
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Scarlett Johansson in Dreamworks' "The Island." (DREAMWORKS)
Guests at Elle magazine's annual "Women in Hollywood" celebration Monday night included 14-year-old acting newcomer Keke Palmer and 81-year-old screen legend Lauren Bacall.
"It's great that the focus is on women, who are functioning, who are all working, who are productive," Bacall told The Associated Press. "I've always been in favor of that, and I've always known that women are capable of going as high as they want to go."Photos: Elle Honors "Women In Hollywood"
The seven honorees were director Julie Taymor ("Across the Universe"), and actors Bacall, Diane Lane ("Unfaithful"), Kate Bosworth ("Superman Returns"), Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind"), Amy Adams ("Junebug") and Scarlett Johansson ("Lost in Translation").
"There's this idea (Hollywood) is this deep, dark place. In reality, I think that it's a reflection of society in general," said Johansson, 22, when asked how she has avoided running into trouble like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
Like Johansson, Diane Lane, 41, started her career early (as a teen in 1979's "A Little Romance"). Over the decades, she said she has seen improvements for Hollywood women of all ages.
"There's a lot more opportunity for young women, and that's great, and I like to think that I was there to help pave a few stones," Lane said. "It's wonderful to have all the different stages of a woman's life acknowledged and appreciated."
Each honoree, perhaps not coincidentally, has at least one major movie coming soon. Amy Adams has two: the Disney romance "Enchanted" and the action-drama "Charlie Wilson's War" with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. She said both films are spoils of her 2005 Oscar nomination for "Junebug."
"The opportunities that it presented are really fantastic," she said of the Oscar experience.
The honorees are profiled in November's Elle magazine.
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