Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Awkwafina and more stars overcame a dysfunctional teleprompter to toast one ar and ir charities at a women’s luncheon Friday in Beverly Hills. “I’m fine but Jen (Aniston) is freaking it back re,” DeGeneres said as harried staff struggled to fix broken screens that just a few minutes earlier h Awkwafina nervously winging it (“I can do a little tech support,” she offered) before calling someone to just bring up her phone so she could re her speech manually. But re’s thing like a few comedians to handle techlogical issues with grace and humor. Both h crowd in stitches despite mir chaos happening around m. 11th annual Variety Power of Women luncheon horing Aniston, Awkwafina, Chaka Khan, Mariah Carey, Brie Larson and Disney Television Studios chairman Dana Walden boasted a roster of A-list guests and presenters from DeGeneres, to Natalie Portman and Ryan Murphy who charmed and inspired well-heeled crowd of entertainers and industry insiders with speeches about ir charitable causes and ir commitment to empowering women in industry. Aniston was introduced by DeGeneres, who kept things light and didn’t mention recent social media uproar around her friendship with George W. Bush.

“What an hor it is for Jen Aniston to receive this from me,” DeGeneres said. “In a world where people are angry and mean she is one of nicest people I’ve ever met.”

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Aniston recalls meeting young girl fighting cancer  

Aniston wiped tears away as she recalled meeting a young girl fighting cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “Every child deserves to kw that y are seen and heard,” she said, remembering a time when an ult told her, at 11, that she didn’t have anything interesting to say. She said she carried that sentence with her into ulthood and often finds herself feeling like that 11-year-old at dinners. “ Morning Show” star said her “Friends” mom Marlo Thomas introduced her to hospital, which she has been working with for 25 years. And she said last two years in industry, following rise of #MeToo, has me her think a lot about messs “we send” young kids and girls. “ things we say and do can eir build m up or tear m down and make m feel like maybe ir voices don’t matter,” Aniston said.

She mitted that she never, “Actually thought about myself as powerful. Strong, yes, but t powerful...It’s a distinction I’ve actually been thinking about a lot lately because that word ‘power’ and its counterpart, ‘abuse of power,’ keeps coming up in light of what is happening in our country and in our industry — a rebalancing of scales.”

Aniston’s speech wasn’t only one to touch on cancer. Ryan Murphy, who credited Walden with giving him a chance in television when one else would, also thanked Disney executive for being re when he found out his 18-month-old son h a tumor a few years ago. Walden has worked with UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center since her own mor was diagsed a dece ago. 

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Mariah Carey stands for justice 

Justice and empowerment were also on minds of Carey, who spoke about how her own experiences at a performing arts camp helped inspire her to begin Camp Mariah 25 years ago, and Larson, who ceded part of her speech to Equal Justice Initiative operations director Eva Ansley, woman she plays in upcoming movie “Just Mercy,” about vocacy organization’s founding. event, which was put on with help of presenters like Lifetime and sponsors like Audi, was tamer than in years past when celebrities used ir platforms to talk about everything from politics and patriarchy to Harvey Weinstein. But Carey mand to throw in a little spice of her own in remembering how she h to learn how to gain control over her career over men who wanted to dictate what she wore and who she worked with when she was just starting out.

“I want to thank each woman in this room and all women who have come forward with ir truths, ir harrowing experiences, and above all ir triumphs over misogynistic society of corporate (s) that we deal with every day,” she said.

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