Word: roast
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Award last Friday night, the “Spider Man” and “Pineapple Express” star not only had to prove worthy of the honor—he had to prove that he was a man. Franco, who maintained a sheepish demeanor throughout the roast, first had his manhood called into question when Hasty Pudding Theatricals producer Pierce E. Tria ’10 brought up Franco’s admission to The New York Times that—despite growing up with a Jewish mother—he had never had a Bar Mitzvah...
...charm missing from Oxford’s “sandwich (n.)”. Suddenly, I was in a world where everyone else was a secret sandwich expert and I would never possibly know enough. My friend from Long Island, a connoisseur of Boston’s roast beef sandwiches, gave me alarmingly detailed accounts of various sandwich shops. Another friend described the “Fat Bitch,” which far and away takes the prize for—I don’t know, something. Originating in a grease truck on Rutgers’ campus...
...awaiting the parade’s scheduled 2:30 p.m. start time. But it was not until 3:00 p.m. that members of the Harvard Juggling Club first bounced down Mass. Ave. on stilts. The procession ended at the New College Theatre, where Zellweger was led inside to be roasted by Andersson and Compton. Zellweger, who punctuated the roast with bouts of hysterical laughter, was repeatedly confronted by iconic roles from her past, as she met “Bridget Jones’s body double" and a jealous “Catherine Zeta-Jones,” with whom...
...Publicity Manager Talisa B. Friedman ’10. Franco graduated from UCLA this spring with a degree in English and is currently working toward an MFA at Columbia University. Hasty Pudding producers Pierce E. Tria ’10 and Charlotte E. Twaalfhoven ’10 will roast Franco at New College Theatre Friday evening before presenting the actor with the traditional “Pudding Pot.” Friedman said she expected the roast to be “younger, maybe raunchier” than last year’s, when the group honored Christopher Walken...
Hasty Pudding producers Pierce E. Tria '10 and Charlotte E. Twaalfhoven '10 will roast Franco at New College Theatre Friday evening then present the actor with the traditional "Pudding...