Scarlett Johansson was honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year today in Cambridge. She was cause of more traffic snarls in the Harvard Square area than the icy road conditions yesterday's storm brought. The festivities began with a parade through the streets of Harvard Square followed by a roast at Agassiz Theatre and a press conference, both on Radcliffe Yard. Being the Year of the Woman 2.0 (madam speaker Nancy Pelosi,......

Last year Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the student group at Harvard, brought Halle Berry and Richard Gere as honorees. Berry's parade route through the streets of Cambridge was a bit different than it had been for honorees past, the gentle handshake Gere was given just took place somewhere else. The change happened as The Pudding had been displaced from their quarters at 12 Holyoke Street for the first time since 1888. Construction on the site......

Bostonist had the opportunity to watch the start of the Hasty Pudding parade this afternoon in Harvard Square. At first it was a delightfully civilized affair, sporting all the basics of a good parade - unicycles, sousaphones, Harvard boys in drag, and of course cows and llamas. The chaos started when Halle Berry's motorcade showed up - preceded by a massive truck full of photographers and cameramen. (And followed semi-patheically by a car carrying "Miss......