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Video: Bruce Vilanch Live With Billy Masters
By Mister D
April 25, 2025

Billy Masters LIVE (S05E1) – 4-25-25 – One of our most popular guests returns to Billy Masters LIVE. Bruce Vilanch is a writer, an actor, a personality, a raconteur, and a helluva good time. In his latest book – “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time”, he brings us behind the scenes of some of Hollywoods most misguided events – from the Academy Awards to variety shows. And he does it all with his trademark wit and candor.

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Oscars: WWTT Bruce Vilanch Podcast – 2013 – Four Score and Seven Oscars Ago
By Mister D
May 5, 2025

Hey Oscars fans, welcome to the 2013 Oscars for the films of 2012 — a year when Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln was poised to sweep based on a(mother) legendary performance by Daniel Day Lewis.  But instead…it was the second worst night in Lincoln’s life.  All in all, it was a pretty strange year for the Academy Awards — from the winners, non-winners, snubs and even the host!  So join Bruce Vilanch and Adam “Tex” Davis as they share their insider’s perspective on who won and why (and who should have won) — as well as why Seth Macfarlane will never host another Academy Awards show again.

Movies Mentioned

A Million Ways to Die in the West 

Ted

Ted 2

Lincoln

Life of Pi

Les Miserables

Silver Linings Playbook

Argo

Amour

Django Unchained

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty

Minecraft

Sinners

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Avengers

The Hurt Locker

The Master

Flight

Moonrise Kingdom

Batman: The Dark Knight

There Will Be Blood

Boogie Nights

The Hobbit

Brokeback Mountain

The Piano Teacher

Funny Games

Cache (aka Hidden)

The White Ribbon

Silkwood

The Impossible

The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming

Inglourious Basterds

The Big Lebowski

Raising Arizona

Barton Fink

Sessions

As Good As it Gets

Norma Rae

Places in the Heart

Forrest Gump

Mrs. Doubtfire

Pulp Fiction

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Anna Karenina

Red Sparrow

Under the Skin

La La Land

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Bootleg Betty
Oscars: WWTT Podcast – In An Oscars, Far Far Away With Bruce Vilanch
By Mister D
April 22, 2025

Welcome Oscars: WWTT? Fans to the 1978 Oscars for the films of 1977 — the year that changed movies forever. That’s because this is the year Star Wars came out. But did Star Wars win the Oscar? And if not, what legendary movie rose up to beat it? And what other legendary film about outer space creatures by a luminary director wasn’t even nominated that year. And what movie about dancing was nominated over Saturday Night Fever? Join us as we look back at a truly amazing year of movies, awards, oversights and possible snubs. And as always, Bruce Vilanch shares his personal stories with some of the stars and filmmakers of the era — including how he was cast in the opening credits of Footloose and how he wound up writing the Star Wars Holiday Special!

MOVIES MENTIONED

Spinal Tap

Manchurian candidate

The Odd Couple

Airplane

Airplane 2

Casablanca

Singing in the Rain

Star Wars

Julia

The Turning Point

The Goodbye Girl

Annie Hall

Jaws

Gravity

Arrival

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

West Side Story

Gypsy

Saturday Night Fever

The Duelists

Three Women

Goodbye Mr. Chips

The Owl and the Pussycat

Play it Again Sam

The Sunshine Boys

Funny Lady

Footloose

Equus

A Special Day

Parasite

Moonlight

Anora

The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold

The Empire Strike Back

Sleeper

Love & Death

The Godfather

The Godfather II

The Graduate

The Pumpkin Eater

Klute

The Miracle Worker

Opening Night

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

All the President’s Men

Bridge on the River Kwai

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Horse’s Mouth

Oh God!

The Late Show

Hannah and Her Sisters

Midnight in Paris

Citizen Kane

A Bridge Too Far

Slap Shot

Snow White

French Connection

The Deer Hunter

Rocky

The Star Wars Holiday Special!

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Podcast: Bruce Vilanch On NPR’s Bullseye
By Bullseye
April 16, 2025

Bruce Vilanch was the head writer for the Academy Awards for 14 years. It’s the kind of entertainment he writes for where he really excels: star-studded variety shows with big, brassy musical numbers. A Bruce Vilanch show will almost certainly have bits where the A-list actor turns to the camera and winks at a joke she just told about herself.

He’s worked on countless such TV shows dating back over 50 years. Sometimes, those shows turn out great! Think of Billy Crystal at the Oscars, or sellout live shows for Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams and more. The stuff that’s not so great, well, you can read about it in his new book: It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote. This includes things like The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, awkward bits at awards shows, the now infamous Star Wars Holiday Special.

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Oscars: WWTT? Podcast – Welcome to an Oscars full of murder, greed, corruption, violence…
By Bruce Vilanch
April 7, 2025

Welcome Oscars: WWTT? fans to the 2003 Oscars for the films of 2002. In the US we are in post-9/11 recovery; in the Middle East the Iraq War has just begun and on the Oscar stage it’s a battle between the hit musical adaptation of Chicago VS. The Hours, Gangs of New York, The Pianist and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. So, which film about murder and/or death takes home the gold and why? And who else should have been considered? That’s what we’re here to find out as we re-examine an Academy Awards show that was equal parts razzle-dazzle and controversy — including some things that would never fly today!

MOVIES MENTIONED

Bowling for Columbine

Chicago

Gangs of New York

The Hours

The Pianist

Frida

Road to Perdition

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Adaptation

Far From Heaven

Talk to Her

About Schmidt

Catch Me if you Can

Spiderman

Oliver

Joker 2

The Aviator

Shutter Island

The Lord of the Rings

25th Hour

Minority Report

Spirited Away

Y tu mama tambien

The Quiet American

Leaving Las Vegas

One Hour Photo

Punch Drunk Love

Uncut Gems

8 Mile

Secretary

Igby Goes Down

Unfaithful

The Deer Hunter

Entrapment

About a Boy

Winged Migration

Roger & Me

Fahrenheit 9/11

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

The Lion King

A Hard Day’s Night

Cats

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

The Departed

Amelia Perez

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