Scarlett Johansson and Ben Stiller Are the Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2007 Favourites Recipients

This year’s favourites of the America’s oldest undergraduate drama group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, are Ben Stiller and Scarlett Johansson. The students of Harvard University have been selecting every year a pair of actors who have impressed them much during the year.
The actors will take part to a dress parade, and then to a performance by Harvard’s student drama group. In the latter event they will also take part practically.
On the 15th of February, Scarlett Johansson will lead a parade through Cambridge and then attend a roast in her honor, followed by her received the traditional Pudding Pot prize. Ben Stiller’s ceremony will take place on the 23rd of February.
The last year’s favourites were Halle Berry and Richard Gere. The Pudding, as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals are formerly known, has been awarding actors since 1951 for Women and since 1967 for Men.
The first lady who had ever received a Hasty Pudding award was Gertrude Lawrence, and the first man was Bob Hope. Since then many famous actors have been elected by the students, actors like Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Liza Minnelli or Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, Sandra Bullock, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Robert de Niro or Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, Martin Scorsese, Robert Downey Jr., Tim Robbins.
Scarlett has been involved in many projects, like “The Prestige” (opened on the 20th of October 2006), “The Black Dahlia”, “The Nanny Diaries” or “The Other Boleyn Girl”. So her schedule was very “crowded”. Ben Stiller is in the same situation, as he has no more than six upcoming films for 2007 and for 2008: “The Mirror”, “Madagascar 2: the Lost Island”, “The Heartbreak Kid”, “Tropic Thunder”, “Blades of Glory” and “Date School”. The two actors will make time however for the students, as they are honored by their being elected.

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