When Premier Magazine – the movie magazine owned by Hachette Fillipachi – folded a few years back, Elle Magazine - Hachette’s biggest title – inherited the annual Women in Hollywood dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Doheny. Always glam, always fun, highlights have included Carrie Fisher writing a speech for Meg Ryan in which Ryan announced, “I’m cute – and I know it makes you want to throw up.”

The so-called “award” and honoring part doesn’t have much meaning in the real world – it doesn’t cause an actress’s quote to go up or help her get a better part – but there’s a lot of press at the event, and it’s a pat-on-the-back fest with a lot of estrogen, good dresses, fun movie clips, and a veritable quote fest. This year’s honorees are many of the recent new moms in Hollywood: Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Salma Hayek and Isla Fisher will all be in attendance (Fisher just had a baby with her husband Sasha Baran Cohen, aka “Borat”) – perhaps they will all compare exercise routines and baby photos. No doubt, all of it will end up in Elle Magazine. Also being honored will be Jane Fonda, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Hathaway and “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke. Calvin Klein Collection, Euphoria Calvin Klein and Moët & Chandon will serve as the evening’s sponsors. We suspect there will be some diapers in the gift bags. No matter what, you can’t argue with the honorees.

If you think “Sex and the City” was a fun female movie with great fashion and beauty – just wait till this fall’s “The Women,” directed, written and produced by “Murphy Brown’s” Diane English, starring Meg Ryan as Mary Haines, a woman who’s society architect husband has an affair with Crystal Allen – a perfume counter girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, played by Eva Mendes. Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith play various well-dressed catty friends friends, and Bette Midler plays The Countess – a woman who’s been married and divorced more times than Elizabeth Taylor. It opens on September 12, right smack in the middle of NY fashion week – perfect!

In case you’ve been under a rock, original “The Women” from 1939 is one of the funniest sassiest movies ever – starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell as a bunch of Park Avenue socials all fighting over each other’s men.

A number of scenes in the new version were shot in Saks in New York and Boston, and as a celebration of the nail polish immortalized in the movie – the way Norma Shearer found out her husband was having an affair with through a manicurist who tells her all the women are wearing “Jungle Red.” (The manicurist in the new version is played by Debi Mazar.) She’s way too demure for the blood curdling shade – but by the end of the movie, she announces to her movie (Candace Bergen in this version), “I’ve grown claws, mother – Jungle Red!” And indeed, she gets her hooks in – and gets back her man from the horrible hussy.

Makeup artist Francois Nars named his most famous shade of polish after the movie – and now Nars and Saks are teaming up to issue an exclusive box set of Nars’ Jungle Red polish lipliner pencil and lipstick. The set will retail for $55 and will be exclusive to Saks this fall – Nars’ Jungle Red lipstick is semi-matte, and stays on forever – longer than most marriages. It will look delish with this fall’s greys, blacks and deep blues.