NAMES IN THE NEWS : Actor’s Tongue-in-Cheek Gripe
Woody Harrelson jokingly says he returned to Indiana because he mistakenly thought he was going to receive an award from the governor.
The actor, who plays bartender Woody Boyd on “Cheers,” actually flew into Ft. Wayne on Friday to present “Sagamore of the Wabash” awards to his former theater professor.
Before presenting Hanover College professor Tom Evans and his wife, Barbara Farrar, with Sagamores, the highest award given by the governor for contributions to Indiana, Harrelson said he was “kind of embarrassed, because I flew all the way out here, and I kind of thought this award was for me.”
Harrelson, who was born in Texas, graduated from Hanover in 1983. His character on “Cheers” is from Hanover.
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