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...Puns. The show has lots of them. All the characters' names are puns. Much of the dialogue is punny. Often, even the title is a pun. (In 1989, the show was called Whiskey Business. Two years ago, it was Romancing the Throne. This year it's A Tsar is Born. You get the idea.) Every show contains a pun on the words "Hasty Pudding," as well as a "punrun"--a run of puns on one theme...
This year's show, A Tsar is Born, was co-authored by Mark Baskin, a Dunster House senior, and Jason Cooper, a junior from Kirkland House. Baskin and Cooper met two years ago, when both were in the cast of Romancing the Throne...
DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...PAUL GETTY JR., 62, billionaire philanthropist, and VICTORIA HOLDSWORTH, 44, a former model and his companion of 20 years; both for the third time; on Dec. 29; in Barbados. RESTORED. MOSHOESHOE II, 56, exiled King of Lesotho, banished by the country's ruling military council in 1990; to the throne; in the capital, Maseru. More than 10,000 subjects watched as Moshoeshoe's son King Letsie III, who had been installed after Moshoeshoe's dethronement, formally abdicated and handed back the crown to his father. DISMISSED. FAUSTO ALZATI, 41, Mexico's Minister of Education; by President Ernesto Zedillo; after...
...tells the story of George's decline and recuperation. At the same time, it follows the scheming of his son, the foppish Prince of Wales. George IV is tired of warming the bench for George III, and plans to take advantage of his father's illness to claim the throne...