Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Today Anne Hathaway was honored in Cambridge, Mass., as Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year (previously reported.) This honor is traditionally presented to the deserving celeb by a host of Harvard's finest gents.

Upon her arrival at the John Harvard Statue Anne playfully greeted it with: “Hi, dude.” Hathaway was treated to a parade in her honor around Harvard Square. The 27-year-old actress and two of her dolled-up escorts were ferried down Massachusetts Avenue in a red Bentley.

Later that afternoon, the actress, fresh from the snowy parade of Harvard Square with the Hasty crew, donned sequins and serious heels for her roast inside the New College Theatre, where she endured the incessant teasing of hosts Clifford Murray ’10 and Derek Mueller ’10 and a Brokeback Mountain skit.

Poking fun at her turns in the film The Princess Diaries and its sequel, Murray and Mueller called her “the second most famous Anne to keep a diary.” Hathaway never once lost composure, however, coolly shooting back, “Love that Anne Frank line.”

Not even Princess Diaries co-star Julie Andrews could faze her. “What are a few of your favorite things?” sang an ersatz Andrews, played by Walter Klyce ’10.

“A few of my favorite things, besides Harvard … ” Hathaway replied, before launching into song with, “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens …”

“Yes, that would be the correct answer for me,” Klyce shot back. “But I think you meant to say, ‘Appearing topless in movies.’”

“I get a little overeager and excited about things,” explained Hathaway, who didn’t trust herself enough to wing an acceptance speech. So she read a poem she’d penned herself. “I feel warm and gooey inside,” read Hathaway, “joyous with my reddened backside, that your roast smacked upside. My rump is swollen with pride.”

Hathaway’s Man of the Year counterpart Justin Timberlake will be at Harvard on Feb. 5.

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