Muse Honours honors femmes

NY Women in Film and television does exactly what it does best on Wednesday, praising women on the market, by adoring Claire Danes, Christine Baranski and Martha Stewart within the 31st annual Muse Honours for Vision and Achievement. Danes was selected on her behalf body at work, particularly her recent be employed in the Showtime drama series "Homeland" and Cinemax telepic "Temple Grandin." Baranski can also be feted on her behalf career achievements, including "The Truly Amazing Wife," which gave her a homefield advantage since the CBS drama contacts in Gotham. Marcie Blossom, co-founder and co-prexy from the new the new sony Pictures Classics, and Nadine Schramm, prexy of Budd Companies, may also be honorees. NYWIFT, which has a handful of,000 people representing the various faces in the NY-based entertainment biz, is striving to achieve equality on the market. Although there is notable progress for femmes lately -- in disparate areas within the raunchy- comedy success of "Bridesmaids" to director Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win for "The Hurt Locker" -- there's still much play the role of accomplished, states Terry Lawler, NYWIFT's executive director. "It seems like for any very long time every every occasionally some lady -- through gargantuan efforts -- remains able to make a film and doesn't seem to level the playing area," Lawler states. "We're not where you need to be yet." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com