Christopher Walken gets his Hasty Pudding

The Hasty Pudding 2008 Man of the Year is Oscar winning actor Christopher Walken. at the New College Theatre at Harvard University.  He joined this years woman of the year Charlize Theron, when he was given the Hasty Pudding Award by the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachussetts.  Walken, sang a song from Hairspray and spoofed a Saturday Night Live skit, and joked after the performance that he’d “have prepared or had a couple of drinks” if he had known that the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year roast was to include donning a bra, brown wig, and heels that he couldn’t squeeze his feet into.  The Hasty Pudding roasters also had Walken read the recipe for “hasty pudding,” and asked him to show off his “psychic powers,” a play on his role in 1983′s “The Dead Zone.”  In a more serious vein, he said he was “amazed and thrilled” by the honor.  The 64-year-old actor won a best supporting actor Oscar as a troubled Vietnam veteran in 1978′s “The Deer Hunter,” said he was “amazed and thrilled” by the honor.