MOVIE NEWS – Michael Keaton has slipped back under the Batman cowl again, but this time it wasn’t for a trip to Gotham. He picked up Harvard’s Man of the Year honor at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals festival, and the whole thing veered into wonderfully strange territory. The video includes a bargain-bin cape, a Bat-Signal, and a sword-fight involving an Oscar statuette.
Michael Keaton spent a long stretch away from playing Batman, but after stepping back into the role for The Flash and the now-scrapped Batgirl movie, he doesn’t seem able to stay away from that famous mask. In a video recorded during his Man of the Year award presentation at Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals festival, he was once again dressed in a familiar – and extremely low-budget – cape and cowl before getting pulled into a very odd sword-fight with an Oscar statuette.
If all of that sounds a little surreal, you’re not the only one thinking it. As the video below shows, Keaton was in Cambridge on Friday to accept the pudding pot at Farkas Hall and took the good-natured ribbing in stride, a world away from the Academy Awards, where two years ago he shared a “moment” with former Batman villains Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
During a segment of the event titled “Salooney Tunes”, Keaton was roasted over his lack of Academy Awards, the Bat-Signal lit up the wall above him, and his battle with a gold morph-suit opponent kicked off.
Elsewhere in the show, Keaton tossed out a few stand-up-style jokes with Boston as the punchline, and he also pulled on a McDonald’s uniform for a sketch tied to his Ray Kroc role in The Founder. As his presentation wrapped up, Keaton revealed he’d been offered the same award 30 years ago but couldn’t accept it because he was filming and couldn’t make the trip. Good things come to those who wait.
Keaton now joins the many recipients of an honor established in 1967, a list that includes Clint Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, and, most recently, Jon Hamm.
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