Danes takes her tour
Claire Danes, who has won back-to-back Golden Globe awards as Best Actress (for the Showtime series “Homeland” and HBO’s biopic “Temple Grandin”) can now add another trophy to her collection, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Pudding Pot. Named the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Danes and her husband, Hugh Dancy, took a tour of Harvard Yard early this afternoon, prior to the parade and roast that accompany the Hasty Pudding honor. Danes, who seemed at home on the Harvard campus, blended in as throngs of students rushed to class. Learah Lockhart ’12 led Danes on a tour of Massachusetts Hall, the Memorial Church, Widener Library, and the John Harvard Statue. After dissuading Danes from rubbing the statue’s shoe, Lockhart went on to describe the Harvard tradition known as “Primal Scream,” in which hundreds of students strip down and run around Harvard Yard on the last night before final exams. “Wait, a few hundred...