Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many other Harvard endeavors, the Pudding show was fun and rightly displayed the talent of the people involved. But their bawdy performance is subsidized by a rumored $250,000 budget which seemed unaccounted for in the final product. The Pudding offered an occasionally vicious roast while Tom Hanks adeptly side-stepped any awkwardness with boyish aplomb...
...that all New Yorkers eat fatty, disgusting stuff. Some of that stuff does exist, but that's not what we eat all the time,...and the real stuff certainly doesn't taste like that." Shanies's friend, Benjamin W. Chauncey '98, isn't so picky. According to Chauncey, "The roast beef was pretty good." However, Chauncey does not call New York home, thus calling his reliability on the subject into question...
Harvard's glitterati turned out in predictable cocktail attire to watch the show's producers roast the star of 'Forrest Gump' and 'Big,' before settling down to watch the musical...
Other aspects of the roast included Hanks' pseudoperformance on a toy piano (producing noises slightly less musical than a junior high band) and the star's participation in "Nail the Nominee or Stab the Loser," in which he attempted to throw darts at pictures of the other 1995 Oscar Nominees for Best Actor...
...high point of the roast came after Hanks was presented with a reminder of his 'Bosom Buddy' days, composed of a dress, a wig, pink satin stilettos and of course the traditional Pudding sequined...