An artist's vision of some legendary ladies...

The fabulously talented artist Glen Hanson told me it took him about a day to draw each of these entertainment legends for a Smithsonian salute this week. It seems easy to me to see who is who but I will identify them anyway. (Top row): Rose Marie, Angela Lansbury, Esther Williams (Middle row) June Lockhart and Tippi Hedren (bottom row) Phyllis Diller, Carol Channing, Florence Henderson and Julie Newmar.

"This was an honor to pay tribute to these women, each one of them is such a legend. I could do 50 caractures of each one of them because they've had amazing careers on stage and on television and in movies. Just amazing. The fact that they're all still around, I had to jump at this. Had to. I studied every eyelash...you gotta get it right down to the eyelash!"

Glen's work has appeared on MTV and in such publications as Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, The New York Times, L'Uomo and Variety. To learn more about him, go to www.GlenHanson.com

Here is a group photo taken yesterday of seven of the nine ladies (Lansbury and Diller are absent) along with the evening's emcee's Dick Van Patten and Jo Anne Worley: