Jamie Lee Curtis unleashed the scream that made her famous in the horror movie classic Halloween yesterday and accepted her brass pudding pot at the 50th annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year award ceremony.

Sporting leather pants and a three-quarter-length leopard print jacket, Curtis paraded through the streets of Harvard Square before her pudding pot ceremony, surrounded by the flamboyantly costumed Hasty Pudding cast--including a shiny green dragon with wings.

Llamas, sheep, a caged pig, four state troopers on horses and the Harvard University Band marched in the parade for Curtis. Ballroom dancers, the juggling club, the Harvard and Radcliffe Dance Company and a bagpipe player from the Celtic Society also turned out.

After the parade, Curtis sashayed into the theater to the tunes of the Pudding orchestra, and said to the audience, "I flew all the way here, let's hear it guys."

On the Hasty Pudding stage, Curtis was 'roasted' by Sarah A. Knight '00, president of the Pudding theatricals and Robert E. Schlesinger '00, vice president of the cast, who jokingly quizzed Curtis about the weapons she used to fend of serial killer Mike Meyers in her three Halloween horror movies.

Schlesinger--with a red rose between his teeth--then tangoed with Curtis across the stage. After the dance was over, Curtis took the rose from Schlesinger, and stuck it in the front of her shirt.

Schlesinger called Curtis a "talented comedian and action star."

But before she could get her pudding pot, Curtis had to exercise her lungs.