New York, November 8 – Note to self: must get subscription to Glamour magazine. Those people are doing something right, their annual their Women of the Year Awards is glutted with stars. This year’s honorees included Kate Winslet, Alicia Keys and Kelly Ripa as well as brave soldiers, businesswomen, journalists,activists and fashion designers. The awards were on Monday at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, and for the first time, will be broadcast nationally beginning on November 13.

Predictably, the question flying around among all the serious journalists was about Tara Reid’s recent exposure mishap; and Kelly Ripa deadpanned, “If that had happened to me, they would have thought it was a fly and swatted at me.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar, riding high on the success of her hit movie, The Grudge, presented the award to Ripa. Others doling out the trophies included Susan Sarandon, Natalie Cole, Pierce Brosnan, Jon Stewart, Ethan Hawke and Katie Holmes.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson dashed over to the gala after working the red carpet at the premiere of his new Christmas-themed movie The Polar Express. And the couple must have been having a great time at the Glamour bash; they decided not to show at his movie’s after-party at Rockefeller Center, leaving Bruce Willis, director Robert Zemeckis and a lot of gossip columnists disappointedly sipping hot chocolate and skating on the famous ice rink.