The first course she had to pass was English. The emcees demanded that Danes earn her overdue college degree before receiving the award. Fitzpatrick said that the two years Danes spent at Yale is “a normal amount of time to spend at a community college.” Halprin ’12, were not shy about bashing Harvard’s Connecticut rival during their roast of Danes. Fitzpatrick ’12 and vice president Ryan P. The two emcees, Hasty Pudding Theatricals president James P.
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Danes, a Yale dropout, had to prove herself worthy of the award by completing a series of tasks-including a recital of a faux-Elizabethan monologue about genitals and a dance-off with a virus. “This is so contrary to what we associate with Harvard,” said Danes, who described the experience as “wackadoodle” and “utterly trippy.”ĭanes, a versatile actress who has appeared in films like “Romeo + Juliet” and theater productions like “Pygmalion,” was named the Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year after winning a 2012 Golden Globe Award for her role on the television series “Homeland.” With that award, Danes now has three Golden Globes, an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award under her belt, in addition to the Pudding Pot that the Hasty Pudding Theatricals bestowed upon her on Thursday in Farkas Hall.īut the Hasty Pudding Theatricals did not simply hand over the Pudding Pot to the actress. Claire Danes realized Harvard was home not just to bookworms but also to drag queens on Thursday during the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2012 Woman of the Year celebration.