Word: hpt
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...Pomey ’02 filed motions to suppress her statement to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and to be tried separately from her co-defendant Randy J. Gomes ’02 following allegations that the two stole over $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT...
...choose our winners because they have made a lasting and significant contribution to the field of entertainment,” says HPT press manager Joanna S. B. O’Leary ’03,who is apparently already comfortable with hokey-sounding PR platitudes. The HPT executive board meets over the summer to consider which stars to honor. O’Leary, who is not directly involved in the selection process, does not detail the selection timeline but emphasizes that the executive board knows who is booked for Man and Woman of the Year well before the information...
...Lampoon’s success in bringing stars to campus actually extends to the Man and Woman of the Year festivities, according to a Lampoon editor who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Although the event is HPT-sponsored and the final decision of whom to honor rests with HPT’s executive board only, “the Pudding often uses the Lampoon’s connections to the entertainment and media industries to secure celebrities for Man and Woman of the Year,” he claims...
According to this source, the relationship between HPT and the Lampoon began in 1989, as the Pudding looked to line up Crispin Glover, up-and-coming co-star of Back to the Future Part II (he played George McFly). Unfortunately, Glover had already committed to shooting the film Where the Heart Is and cancelled his appearance at Harvard only two days in advance. “Pudding members pleaded for help from the Lampoon, and staffer Glenn McDonald ’89 immediately went to work,” the Lampy editor writes in an e-mail...
...Poonster also claims that when Lampoon members discovered earlier this year that HPT was planning on honoring Jessica Simpson this February (an allegation Pudding members unequivocally deny), they urged HPT to look for a person more appropriate and deserving of the award. Whether it was at the Lampoon’s recommendation that HPT secured Sarah Jessica Parker for today’s parade is unclear, but regardless of who swayed the votes, parade viewers can savor the celebrated actress and style maven instead of America’s third- or fourth-favorite pop princess, who is actually more resistible...