THR's Women On Top In 2005
The Hollywood Reporter has released its annual "Women in Entertainment Power 100" list, an event that momentarily sates the industry's appetite for numerical rankings of influence while subtly reinforcing Hollywood's cherished glass ceiling. In THR's estimation, 2005's most powerful lady is Anne Sweeney, an executive who's come a long way, baby, from a Good Morning America page to co-chairman (ahem, chairwoman, THR?) of Disney Media Networks. Congratulations, Anne, etc etc. We're getting a little misty for the old days, when our girl would bring us a pipin' hot cup o' joe as we read Variety's "Top Ten Dames from the MGM Typing Pool We'd Like To Bang in 1943."