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...club sent its new members to Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres" to show off their legs and moves while dancing to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." In another unrelated incident, another final club initiate grunted through "Astronomy 14" and "Economics 1011" dressed as a caveman...
...bosses have often been unbearable and will continue to be. "The caveman who sat around the fire and picked up the stick and hit the other guys on the head became the leader, and things haven't really changed," explains Stanley Bing, author of Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them. "The really great bosses are not really great human beings. Gandhi was a terrible boss...
...Caveman has enjoyed sold-out runs in nearly every major city from San Francisco to Chicago. The show has done so well in Boston, that it will run at the Wilbur Theater for two additional weeks. When asked if he could have anticipated the immense popularity of the show which he calls "an affectionate comedy about relations between the sexes," Becker immediately replies that he always had confidence in the show...
Becker's inspirations for Caveman are numerous. He describes a party that he attended with some of his female friends. Inevitably the discussion turned to relationships and the male gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them...
Becker acknowledges the power of his show. He has attracted psychologists, historians and even graduate students in the field of anthropology to his show. Comments from his audience have had a huge role in the development of his show. He calls Defending the Caveman "a dialogue between the audience and himself...