People: Feb. 25, 1985

“In my career I’ve rarely been a receiver of awards. Mostly I get something in Rolling Stone saying what man I was with or how my belly button was showing.” Though her belly button was safely under wraps, Cher, 38, still got treated to a healthy helping of abuse last week at Harvard’s annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals awards. After the requisite raucous parade through Harvard Square, featuring jugglers and Pudding actors in drag (“We’re on the cutting edge of androgyny,” boasted one), the pop singer-turned-actress was presented with the traditional pudding pot and ribbed about her wiry physique (she was given an oversize bra), her unorthodox attire and her one-word name (suggested new last names: “Cropper” or “of the Pot”). Sallied Cher: “I don’t know what the other recipients did with their pots, but I’m going to make an earring out of mine.”