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00:00Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to one of the best nights of the year.
00:05And the good news is I am going to be one of the only men on stage tonight.
00:08So we can clap for that.
00:13At Variety, it is our privilege to be able to have a print magazine every single week.
00:18And so we are so proud of our four cover stars.
00:21Can we please give them another huge round of applause?
00:24Zoe, Bella, Amy, and a newcomer actress named Carol Burnett.
00:33One of the big perks of this event is the infamous Variety gift bag.
00:37You will all be receiving one at the end of the night.
00:40And you will also be receiving a print edition of Variety.
00:43And we are so proud again of our print product.
00:45We are so grateful that we get to come out and print every single week.
00:49Invest in photography, invest in long-form journalism.
00:52And I wanted to thank everyone in this room for your support of print.
00:55So can we please give a big hand to print journalism?
01:01Speaking of which, I just wanted to take a second to brag about our newsroom.
01:05For the past 28 consecutive months, Variety has been the number one newsroom covering the business of Hollywood.
01:12And every time we do one of these dinners, that number goes up.
01:15So I am really, really proud of our entire staff.
01:17And just wanted to say thank you to some of them in the room tonight.
01:20Angelique Jackson.
01:23Emily Longoretta.
01:25Katsy Stefan, who wrote some of the cover stories.
01:28Carol Horst, who worked on the impact list.
01:31Haley Kluge, our creative director and ASME-winning journalist.
01:35Jennifer Dorn, who worked on all the visual direction.
01:38And I want to thank some of our partners on the business side.
01:41Donna Penestri, where are you?
01:43You should have your own Power of Woman cover.
01:46Millie Chiavelli, all the way from New York, my partner in crime.
01:51Daya Lawrence, our chief operating officer in pink.