Laughs, emotion color WIF awards

June 14, 2009 From Jennifer Aniston's self-deprecating remarks about her personal life to Universal executive Stephanie Sperber's recounting of her emotional personal story, laughs and heart were in attendance at Women in Film's 2009 Crystal + Lucy Awards. On a more serious note, Aniston said that no matter how much the entertainment industry may try to distill movies into pure science or pure business charts, powerful and authentic stories will be told. While Dorothy Arzner Directors Award recipient Catherine Hardwicke made a call for the room to write "beautiful parts for women of all ages, color and shoe sizes" and Lucy Award honoree Holly Hunter thanked everyone from her presenter Jodie Foster to the writers on her TNT show "Saving Grace," it was Universal executive vp of partnerships and licensing Sperber who moved the crowd with her story of battling breast cancer.

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