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...relationship is symbiotic: the celebrity receives publicity for winning the Hasty Pudding award; the Hasty Pudding receives publicity for receiving the celebrity. The most lasting image of the Hasty Pudding, the photograph of the Pudding members kissing the Woman of the Year’s cheeks, encapsulates the situation. The Pudding members and the celebrity are captured together in public, but the personal bonds forged behind the scenes are the ties that bind...
...public spectacle and the press spectacle of the Woman of the Year award take approximately two hours from start to finish. But Zeta-Jones spent the whole day in Cambridge. The real Woman of the Year event is designed to give Pudding members as much private face time with the recipient as possible...
Past Man of the Year recipient Kevin Kline, for instance, says the company seminar was his favorite part of the day and the part of his award experience that he remembers most. “It was amusing, entertaining,” Kline says...
...illustrious line of Hollywood heavy hitters, including Julia Roberts, Katharine Hepburn, and Meryl Streep. All came to Harvard for a gaudy photo-op, a gaudy production, and a gaudy brass pot—and ended up spending the day with Harvard students. Somehow, the Hasty Pudding has created an award that celebrities consent to and even enjoy winning...
This is perhaps because the purpose of the award —whether to honor a brilliant actress sincerely, to allow the Pudding members to interact with a celebrity, or to create publicity for the Hasty Pudding—has never been entirely clear. While the award is certainly a work of levity, it attracts the most serious of thespians. In 1967, Bob Hope was made the first honorary member of the Hasty Pudding (the following year, Paul Newman was officially named Man of the Year). But the award was treated as a joke; The Crimson reported...