Here are some pictures from Monday's Matrix Awards luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom honoring eight women in the communications industry, yours truly among them. The other honorees were Joan Didion, Meredith Vieira, Cindy Adams, Omnimedia CEO Susan Lyne, Town & Country editor-in-chief Pamela Fiori, Citiggroup's Lisa Caputo, and Thelma Golden, chief curator of Harlem's Studio Museum (presenters included Barbara Walters, Nora Ephron, Rupert Murdoch, and Hillary Clinton).
Rosie O'Donnell was the emcee, rocking the room (and grabbing headlines with her in-your-face jokes about Donald Trump and Murdoch). We didn't know it at the time, but this would turn out to be one of her last public appearances before her bombshell announcement about leaving "The View."
The 2007 Matrix Award winners and their presenters
With host Lisa Judson and N.Y. Women in Communications president Betsy Morgan
Presenter Martha Stewart and Matrix Award winner Susan Lyne
Presenter Danny Meyer and Matrix Award winner Pamela Fiori
Matrix Award winner Meredith Vieira and presenter Joy Behar
Emcee Rosie O'Donnell
Rupert Murdoch and Matrix Award winner Cindy Adams
Senator Hillary Clinton presenting Lisa Caputo's award
Presenter Sen. Hillary Clinton and Matrix Award winner Lisa Caputo
With Presenter Barbara Walters
Presenters Rupert Murdoch and Barbara Walters
Matrix Award winner Thelma Golden and presenter Anna Deavere Smith
Presenter Nora Ephron and Matrix Award winner Joan Didion
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
The Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria
All photos courtesy of Maryanne Russell Photography