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...sees fit. However, I was extremely disappointed with your review of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 159th show, which indicated a lack of appreciation for the Pudding as a performing group and the tradition of the Pudding production. I’m going to venture a guess that Richard Beck has never seen a Pudding show until this year. This alone is somewhat confusing; The Crimson Arts Board sent a Pudding virgin to review the highest-grossing show on campus. This is a pretty safe assumption, seeing as everyone I’ve spoken to who has seen previous Pudding shows...
...Beck did get something right: The Pudding is vulgar, crass, outlandish, pun-filled, and wrought with sexual innuendo to the point where one more reference to fellatio is like beating a dead horse. No pun intended. It’s a lot like Shakespeare: boys in drag, rapid wordplay, sex everywhere. And people love it; they come back year after year to sit in their seats and be offended, to enjoy the comic material that would be edited from primetime and bleeped out on basic cable. Even matinees (which boast a median age of around 63) contain audiences filled with...
...Celeste M. Beck, the Study Pool coordinator, says that compensation is intended merely as “a source of spending money from time to time...
...Average pay, according to Beck and the Study Pool Web site, is only $10 per hour, and participation is capped at 15 hours per semester...
...What is the What’ wasn’t about me,” Eggers said, “but I’ll write another book that’s stylistically more exuberant, I guess.” —Staff writer Richard S. Beck can be reached at rbeck@fas.harvard.edu...