SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014 Dame Helen Mirren twerks at Harvard

ame Helen Mirren twerked as she accepted bigger, stronger and mentally stronger than I am.” her Hasty Pudding award. ‘The Queen’ actress The British actress also praised Beyonce, saying: “I Dwas named Harvard University’s Hasty thinks she’s quite extraordinary. I had the great Pudding Woman of the Year 2014 which saw her opportunity to be on the same stage as her, not on honored with a parade, where she was driven around the same time, but I was in the wings ... She had this the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a con- incredible sense of concentration and energy and vertible with members of the university’s theatre preparation. I was very impressed by that. Standing troop dressed in drag. A little later, at the ceremony in the wings watching her was this explosion of ener- to collect her award, she fielded a number of ques- gy. Quite spectacular.” This year’s Hasty Pudding Man tions and was a good sport when asked to shake her of the Year is Neil Patrick Harris, who will be honored bottom in a raunchy Twerking dance move, which in another ceremony, held next Friday. she admitted to having practiced before. She said: “[I] tried in my bedroom. It was absolutely humiliat- ing.” Helen, 68, was also asked who would win in a fight between her and Meryl Streep, to which she graciously replied: “Meryl would win, definitely. She’s Anna Kendrick is afraid of clowns Miley Cyrus

he ‘Up in the Air’ actress feels traditional circus entertainers are an outdat- ed concept and doesn’t think even children find them fun anymore. She Ttold website The Huffington post: “What am I most afraid of? I guess, clowns. I feel like I just heard that most children are afraid of clowns. Like 60 per- gets ‘nervous’ cent of children don’t like clowns, or something like that. I don’t know why they’re still around.” A fear of clowns is called Coulrophobia and is a condition Anna shares with many other famous people, including P. Diddy, Johnny Depp, Daniel Radcliffe and Billy Bob Thornton. Anna, 28, also admits to on the red carpet having a recurring dream which makes her panic, where “I don’t know my lines for a role that I did in my last stage performance.” The actress also admitted it’s easy to make her cry - but with compliments rather than by scaring her. She added: “When we wrapped ‘Into The Woods’. Whenever anybody says something nice to me, I’m kind of he ‘Wrecking Ball’ hitmaker says she only sticks a blubbering mess. And when we wrapped, [director] Rob Marshall her tongue out when she gets her picture taken said goodbye to everybody, because he’s like the world’s kindest Tbecause she gets “embarrassed” at being the human being, and I was trying to hold it together and I lost it.” centre of attention. Discussing her infamous expres- sion, she explained: ‘It’s because don’t like getting my picture taken, I kind of get embarrassed. “You don’t see it, on the red carpet the people taking your pic- tures are yelling at you. and it gets you a little nervous. They’re screaming I don’t know what to do so I just stick my tongue out because I don’t know what else to do. “People are doing it, Madonna’s doing it. It’s all good.” The 21-year-old singer also urged Justin Bieber to build a club at his house in a bid to keep out of trouble. Asked by talk show host Jay Leno what advice she would give the trou- bled teenager, she said: “You’ve got a lot of money. Pay people to make sure you don’t get in trouble, and party at your house. “Buy a house, and add a club to it.” The former ‘Hannah Montana’ star spoke about the criticism she receives, insisting it isn’t always fair as none of her antics are “illegal”. She said: “You know it’s funny cos today I was looking, my fans had put all these mugshots up and they were like, ‘I don’t see a Miley mugshot yet.’ “I get the most flack from anybody but I don’t do any- thing illegal. ‘I’m doing a lot of stuff but I’m not doing anything illegal - so that’s alright. ‘Everything I do is legal in California.”