The Phoenix Network:
 
 
 
About  |  Advertise
Adult  |  Moonsigns  |  Band Guide  |  Blogs  |  In Pictures
 
Media -- Dont Quote Me  |  News Features  |  Stark Ravings  |  Talking Politics  |  This Just In
Best of Boston 2009

Scarlett's web

  Photos: Hasty ladies plant piggie, Pudding Pot on 2007 Woman of the Year Scarlett Johansson
By CAITLIN CURRAN  |  February 15, 2007

scarlett02

hasty03

hasty02

scarlett001

hasty01

scarlett03

scarlett05

scarlett06

hasty04

scarlett007

scarlett08

scarlett09

scarlett10

scarlett11
Photo credit: Caitlin Curran

On the way to Harvard Square today, a male friend consulted me about the best way to solidify his potential budding relationship with Scarlett Johansson. Offer her a cigarette? Invite her to lunch? Lure her over to his house with promises of alcohol and Scrabble? As it turned out, he never had the chance – fans surrounded Johansson for her entire brief visit. Maybe next year, friend.

Johansson, Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year, made a fashionably late arrival in Harvard Square today, which provided an opportunity to take in the surroundings: An unadvisable number of press photographers were crammed into the back of a truck, while Miss Massachusetts, on hand to play a distant second fiddle to the actress, waited patiently in a green convertible. An enthusiastic group of men in sequined outfits and red lipstick danced around trying to keep warm. It was as though cross-dressers had taken over the world, made Miss Massachusetts their queen, and banished the paparazzi to prison for eternity. 

Hasty Pudding is Harvard’s theatrical student society, and as their Woman of the Year, Johansson was required to participate in the shortest parade ever -- about one block down Mass. Ave. -- and then retreat to one of Harvard’s theaters, so that everyone could stare and laugh awkwardly. Along the way, one fan managed to lob her a stuffed porker -- perhaps a passing reference to the Chinese Year of the Pig? -- which she graciously caught and kept.

For the frozen and celebrity-deprived men of Boston, the Hasty's Woman of the Year shindig has become a seasonal highlight. Last year Halle Berry famously danced for the crowd, and this year male suitors for Ms. Johansson lined the streets of Cambridge, holding up their camera phones, grinning uncontrollably, and shouting invitations to various Harvard parties. The most overheard statement was, inevitably, “She’s so hot!” No shit, sherlock.

Related: Crimson tied, Cheer of a black planet, Publish and Perish?, More more >
  Topics: This Just In , Celebrity News, Culture and Lifestyle, English Food and Cooking,  More more >
  • Share:
  • RSS feed Rss
  • Email this article to a friend Email
  • Print this article Print
Comments

ARTICLES BY CAITLIN CURRAN
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   SLIDESHOW: 'PAINT PENS IN PURSES' IN ALLSTON  |  April 27, 2009
    Gallery pops up in vacant liquor store
  •   STREETS OF GOLD  |  September 05, 2007
    Who is that stashed man?
  •   SCARLETT'S WEB  |  February 15, 2007
      Photos: Hasty ladies plant piggie, Pudding Pot on 2007 Woman of the Year Scarlett Johansson
  •   MIDLAKE  |  February 06, 2007
    The Trials of Van Occupanther | Bella Union

 See all articles by: CAITLIN CURRAN

MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed 



  |  Sign In  |  Register
 
thePhoenix.com:
Phoenix Media/Communications Group:
TODAY'S FEATURED ADVERTISERS
Copyright © 2009 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group