Christopher Walken Receives Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Award
Cambridge University, Mass. Christopher Walken Panax quinquefolius a vocal from “Hairspray” and burlesqued a “Sabbatum Night Live” skit Friday nighttime to bring in Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.
At a roast earlier the demonstration, Walken, who serenadedded John Travolta last twelvemonth in the the film variant of “Hairspray,” Panax quinquefolius to a Harvard educatee dressed in drag.
Some other cast fellow member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University, the nation’s older undergraduate play troupe, came up on stage slamming a moo bell, provoking the “SNL” skit in that Walken played an euphony producer who named for “more cow bell.”
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Walken, who jested afterward that he’d “have set up or had got a duo of crapulences” if he had got known what was in store, put on a coppery bra and brown wigging. He couldn’t get into a brace of blue pumps that existed supposed to be part of the turnout, doing a saltation in his street shoes alternatively.
The Hasty Pudding roasters also had got Walken read the formula for “headlong pudding,” and enquired him to demonstrate off his “psychic powers,” a drama on his part in 1983’s “The Dead Zone.”
“I hope nobody’s observation,” Walken stated. “I moved on this stage in a dramatic play about 20 age ago.”
In a more dangerous vein, he articulated he was “astonished and thrilled” by the laurels.
The 64-year-old histrion won a best backing up actor Oscar as a tumultuous Vietnam veteran in 1978’s “The Deer Hunter.” He was nominative again for 2002’s “Catch Me If You Can.”
Last twelvemonth, he was featured in the movie “Balls of Fury.”
Talisa Friedman, press director for the Hasty Pudding dramatic play troupe, stated Walken represents the Hasty Pudding spirit and the economic value it puts on playfulness.
Charlize Theron likewise won a Hasty Pudding award this twelvemonth.