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• 6/23/14  /
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How to Write Jokes for the Academy Awards

In this excerpt from Mike Sacks’s new book of interviews with comedy writers, Bruce Vilanch discusses how he puts together the script for the Oscars telecast.

By Mike Sacks

• 2/1/11  /
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James Franco Won’t Get to Dress Up Like Cher at the Oscars

Bruce Vilanch: "We had a great bit where James Franco was going to come on as Cher and be interrupted by [the real] Cher."

By Bennett Marcus

• 7/9/07  /
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Robert Zemeckis Delivers Four Jim Carreys in Your Christmas Stocking

A Carrey Carol: Jim Carrey will play Ebenezer Scrooge plus the three ghosts who haunt him through the dual miracles of performance capture technology and his own rubbery face in Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol for Disney. Anyone who goes to see this movie deserves what he gets.

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