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Today sex comes to this city. Sarah Jessica Parker, recently crowned Woman of the Year by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT), will strut down Mass. Ave. flanked by men whose sense of style rivals Carrie Bradshaw’s. The celebrated actress hits Cambridge courtesy of HPT’s annual celebrity roasts. In a week, Man of the Year Bruce Willis will get his roast as well. According to HPT staff, it is usually not tough to convince megawatt stars to accept the nationally recognized Man and Woman of the Year awards. It is more difficult, however, to pick...
...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...
...first-year, he immediately immersed himself into Harvard theater life by snagging a lead part in an HRDC production of City of Angels. Kevin began his career with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) as a sophomore, successfully auditioning again as a junior. This year, he was one of the co-writers of the Pudding’s 154th show, “Snow Place Like Home...
...WHRB for the past three years. But he says, “although I thought about becoming the next Bob Costas, I’d rather be the next Stephen Sondheim.” And he steadily works towards to achieve that dream. Along with having written the HPT play, the History and Literature concentrator is currently taking a playwriting tutorial with Adrienne Kennedy...