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Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets Harvard’s Hasty Pudding honour

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Actor, director and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been named the Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization, announced Thursday that Gordon-Levitt was selected not just because of acting talent but because he is a “visionary entrepreneur who developed a revolutionary platform for artistic content creation and distribution.”

Gordon-Levitt will be roasted and receive his pudding pot on Feb. 5.

He said in a statement that after looking at the list of previous winners he is “simultaneously struck with intense delusions of grandeur and mild waves of humility.”

Previous winners include Clint Eastwood, Robert deNiro and Harrison Ford. Chris Pratt won last year.

Gordon-Levitt will next be seen in Oliver Stone’s “Snowden,” playing Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents.

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