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# We Got Bruce!
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### [Project Angel Food’s Lead with Love Telethon Raises $589,000](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/07/12/project-angel-foods-lead-with-love-telethon-raises-589000/)
**Published:** July 12, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Project Angel Food’s Lead with Love Telethon Raises $589,000
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## Splash
Project Angel Food’s Lead with Love Telethon Raises $589,000
By Sarah Meyer
July 12, 2026
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Los Angeles gets a bad rap as a city where everyone is out for themselves. As the center of the entertainment industry, sure, there is some of that superficial swagger. But there are more Angelenos with hearts of gold, doing good for others, than there aren’t.
The most beautiful display of selflessness is through Project Angel Food. The organization began in 1989, to prepare and deliver meals to people living with HIV and AIDS. Since then, the number of meals prepared and delivered has certainly grown, but the mission has remained the same – provide nourishing meals to those facing critical and life-threatening illness. Project Angel Food delivers more than 1.5 million medically tailored meals each year. They do this with love, care and dignity.
None of it would be possible without the thousands of volunteers who donate their time and money each year. One of the non-profit’s biggest fundraisers of the year is their annual telethon. The nostalgic event draws world class entertainers and celebrities who host, sing and even answer phones as donors all over the globe show their support.
The beauty is that these celebrities don’t just show up for one glitzy night, they show up all year. Just as other volunteers do, they help prepare meals, deliver meals, advocate for the organization and those who need this service, and give their time and funds to this great cause. Telethon viewers get to see that passion firsthand.
Thanks to some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Bryan Cranston (The Studio), Noah Wyle (The Pitt), Steven Weber (Wings), Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie), Project Angel Food raised $589,000 during their 2026 broadcast, which took place on June 27. The television special, Lead with Love: Going the Distance was presented by City National Bank and aired on KTLA 5. The telethon was hosted by Weber, McCormack, Loni Love and KTLA’s own Jessica Holmes.
The evening’s biggest surprise came when Weber and Wyle — both beloved for playing doctors on television — joked that they had learned so much from their roles they could probably operate on McCormack. He fired back, “If TV doctors are doing anything on me, I’m going to need much stronger drugs.” Right on cue, Cranston stepped in, invoking his iconic Breaking Bad alter ego Walter White, and deadpanned: “Did you say you would need serious drugs? I might be able to help you with that.”
On top of some great comedic outbursts, there were heartfelt moments too. Singer Clay Aiken sang “Go the Distance” from Disney’s Hercules, reminding viewers that if we all go the distance, we can make the world a better place.
Ricky Moore, a Project Angel Food driver was showcased in a moving segment that demonstrated what “going the distance” truly means. His story gave viewers an intimate look at the people behind every delivery — the drivers who bring meals, smiles, check-ins and human connection to clients who often rely on Project Angel Food as their primary source of nutrition. It’s not just the food that feeds their souls, it’s the interactions with the volunteers. Project Angel Food volunteers have proven that a warm greeting or big smile can often do just as much as a nutritious meal.
One of the evening’s most beloved moments came when Barbara Eden, the 94-year-old star of I Dream of Jeannie, appeared in a puff of pink smoke and delivered her famous “Jeannie” blink. Eded shared, “Eden added, “We all have someone in our family we can’t care enough for, this is needed.” She told veiwers she still receives fan mail nearly 60 years after I Dream of Jeannie premieried. A legend like her deserves it, and she event got a special serenade from Weber and McCormack with a cheeky rendition of the I Dream of Jeannie theme song during the telethon. Actress Morgan Fairchild and celebrity hairstylist Chaz Dean also made special appearances.
“[**Project Angel Food**](https://angelfood.org/) offers meals that go beyond basic needs. They offer dignity and connection and a reminder that no one is forgotten,” shared California Governor Gavin Newsom, as he recalled volunteering at Project Angel Food with his family. Also delivering messages of support were Amy Poehler, Regina King, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sherri Shepherd, Adam Brody, Brooke Shields, Judith Light, Jason Ritter, Valerie Bertinelli, Lori Loughlin and Caroline Rhea.
The telethon would be unsuccessful without the crew manning the phones, and their excitement to take calls and donations was palpable. The All-Star Phone Bank included Amy Yasbeck, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/philantropy/), Kym Whitley, Jodie Sweetin, KTLA’s Melvin Robert, Gregory Zarian, Lawrence Zarian, Lisa Foxx and soccer great Ali Riley, who helped L.A. get into the “summer of soccer” by giving away 10 pairs of tickets to Angel City Football Club vs. Orlando Pride on July 3.
Project Angel Food CEO Richard Ayoub joined the broadcast to celebrate the progress and completion of The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Kitchen and Campus, with new facilities completed and a second building beginning construction later this summer. “Every dollar raised tonight keeps our vans on the road and our meals reaching neighbors in their greatest time of need,” said Ayoub. “This is what Lead with Love has always stood for: dignity, nourishment and the very best of the human spirit.”
Noah Wyle and Bryan Cranston excited to see each other on the red carpet at Project Angel Food’s Lead With Love (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Project Angel Food)
It was a magical night for a marvelous cause. Angelenos, along with people from all over the globe tuned it to share their love and support for an organization that gives that and so much more to Los Angeles.
Singer Sam Harris closed out the telethon with a beautiful rendition of “Over the Rainbow” before leading the full cast in an exuberant finale of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”
The event was produced by Emmy-winning producer Brad Bessey (Entertainment Tonight, The Talk). Michael Orland served as musical director.
The total raised is expected to increase as donations continue to be accepted at www.anelfood.org/leadwithlove.
**ABOUT LEAD WITH LOVE**
Created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Lead with Love has become one of Los Angeles’ most inspiring televised events. Now in its seventh year and nominated for three L.A. Area Emmy Awards, the special has raised nearly $6 million for Project Angel Food, featuring more than 150 celebrity appearances, including Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Jimmy Kimmel, Richard Gere, Ringo Starr, Elton John and Lily Tomlin, among others.
**ABOUT PROJECT ANGEL FOOD**
Founded in 1989, Project Angel Food nourishes the health and spirit of vulnerable people facing critical and life-threatening illnesses by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals with love, care and dignity to more than 7,100 Angelenos each year. Since its founding, the organization has delivered more than 20 million meals across Los Angeles County and now provides more than 1.5 million medically tailored meals annually, along with nutrition counseling and compassionate client support. Project Angel Food is accredited by the Food is Medicine Coalition, is a Four-Star Charity Navigator organization and has twice been named California’s Nonprofit of the Year.
To learn more, visit www.angelfood.org.
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### [The Cultural Census Of Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/07/08/the-cultural-census-of-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** July 8, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Writer, comedian, doyenne of comedy, here is the cultural milleau of an entertainment legend, questionnaire style!
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## The Rushfield Jamboree
The Cultural Census Of Bruce Vilanch
By Richard Rushfield
July 8, 2026
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**Richard Rushfield Bruce Vilanch**
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Questionnaires have been a part of our world going back to at least Marcel Proust, if not to the Phoenicians, or at least the Greeks. Questionnaires are what enables us as a species to find out the fun parts of what people are like, without having to do too much heavy slogging through long blocks of words. Repopularized by Vanity Fair, Questionnaires are now a staple of old media and new media alike, and who are we to be left aside. Here then, to be put to some – but not all – of the most interesting people I know is my [**Cultural Census**](https://www.census.gov/) – my shot to really see where they stand in the tumultuous cultural deathmatch in which we live today.
My inaugural guest is the great[ **Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/books/), one of my favorite people in Hollywood, which makes him one of my favorite people anywhere. Writer, comedian, doyenne of comedy, here is the cultural milleau of an entertainment legend, questionnaire style!
What Generation are you a member of?
Boomer! It’s all our fault.
Where do you grow up?
Paterson, new jersey, home of Rubin Hurricane Carter and other notables.
Where do you live now?
Hollywood USA
Where you would live if you could live anywhere?
I’m insanely happy here.
What is your profession?
Writer actor comedian stripper, you name it. You book it, you got it.
Where do you sit on the political spectrum?
To the left of the rethuglicans and to the right of Alexandria the Great.
Are you more of an introvert or extrovert?
Extro!
What are some of your favorite movies?
Well, then. TOM JONES, which is a forgotten Best Picture winner. Too many to list without sounding simple. Really. my all-time guilty pleasure is THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS, with Monroe, Merman, Mitzi G, Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor and Johnny Ray, who becomes a priest because, he tells his mother Merman, “I’m not like other guys, ma.”
What are some of your favorite TV shows?
Oy. I miss the old variety shows, but I am still a fan of SNL. I actually like police procedurals, as well as all those class-conscious British period dramas. I think ROSEANNE and THE CONNERS were the best-written sitcoms ever. They were funny and serious and real and depicted the struggles of a genuine working-class American family.
What movies/show you would force everyone who works in Hollywood to watch? THE BAD & THE BEAUTIFUL, even though it is about a system that no longer exists, but people still behave as if it does.
What was the last movie you saw in the theaters?
Tonight I saw THE INVITE which was a very clever update on WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? for the generations that don’t shut up about their feelings.
What is your moviegoing ritual?
Used to be popcorn and diet coke, but ozempic cured me of that. Otherwise, an aisle seat for an easy escape.
When was the last time you walked out on a movie?
Runaway Bride. But I was with my mother and she was getting cranky.
What shows are you currently watching?
See above. I look at everything once and go back again later if I had a good time. Some shows are very well done, but are just not for me. Hey, that’s show biz. Shows about stand-up comedy where the stand-ups are not that funny are my personal bane.
Name three things (people, shows, movies) that in the past year you think have been genuinely funny?
Anything Mulaney does. Feckham Hall, although Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are low-hanging fruit. Leslie Jones makes me laugh, as does Jessica Kirson. Kate McKinnon is a genius.
What is a show or film you love that people around you hate? I couldn’t tell you. The world is so negative, people delight in hating everything.
What is a show or film that upsets you to think about? (The news doesn’t count) Anything that uses castration as a plot device. Although it did spice up GAME OF THRONES.
Your favorite albums of all times:
GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE by Laura Nyro and Labelle and THE DIVINE MISS M by Bette Midler. They each took songs regarded as throwaways and turned them into art. JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL is a record of the most knockout old school showbiz performance of all-time. Both Joni Mitchell albums. BLUE and COURT & SPARK — genius. David Byrne and Talking Heads, probably STOP MAKING SENSE, an insane workout.
The group or singer that you would give a huge amount of your life savings to reunite/resurrect to see a concert by?
Hard to say. Everything is available on YouTube. Why mess with perfection?
What is playing in your car/Spotify right now?
All of the above, when it’s available, but I skip around from channel to channel to discover things.
What was your most listened to song of last year?
It probably wasn’t a song OF last year. There is a cut from an HBO special when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Tina Turner and she sang River Deep, Mountain High,, conducted by Paul Schaefer, with an unbelievable group of all-star musicians backing her. Never fails to make me feel great. So much energy and talent and heart and it kicks ass.
What your karaoke song?
A little-known number from the musical of CANTERBURY TALES that is difficult to find; it’s sung by a chicken farmer and is titled I HAVE A NOBLE COCK.
If you couldn’t do what you do now, what would you do?
Be the idle father of a wealthy child, but that ship has sailed
What are your favorite books?
I love the “humorists.” Patrick Dennis, SJ Perelman, Russell Baker, H. Allen Smith, Art Buchwald. Dorothy Parker and the noir boys, Hammett, Chandler, Ellroy, Macdonald. I also devour show business bios and autobios.
What is the fiction book you would make everyone read?
I wouldn’t presume to think Travis Kelce would want to read the same things I’m reading, even though I look so much like his mother that he might have to.
Favorite fast food restaurant?
I drive by.
Favorite non-chain restaurant?
Musso & Frank, because I feel like I’m in a silent movie from when it was built.
Movie snack?
Was popcorn, and I guess still is, when I actually do it.
Favorite food from youth?
Pizza, which is still a frontrunner. Especially the gorpy kind you got in Jersey.
Favorite TV chef or food personality:
Julia Child, who I met once on a plane, and was just as hysterical not cooking
Give your ranking for the following:
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin. \\
Actually, if I had to rank these bands, this is exactly how I would rank them…
Comedy, drama, horror, romance, mystery, sci fi:
Comedy, mystery, drama, horror, sci fi, romance
Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan
Aretha, Michael, Elvis, Dylan, Hank
Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Lily Tomlin, George Carlin
Dangerous, as I’ve written for all of them and they are each in a class by themselves. George really was something else. The observations were so clever and literate.
Rank the following tickets: The Superbowl, the Oscars, the first concert of the next Taylor Swift tour, the Grammys, the next Presidential inauguration.
Too much walking and climbing. but the Oscars and Grammys are always fun.
Name your F-, Marry, Kill for movie characters.
Fuck: Brad Pitt as Achilles. Marry: Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button. I’d do everything in reverse. Kill: Brad Pitt in Mr and Mrs North. He.’d leave me for Angelina.
Name your F-, Marry, Kill for TV characters.
Good one! fuck; either of the Magnums. Marry: same. Kill: anyone who got in my way of fucking or marrying them
Facebook/Instagram/TikTok?
I am on all of them, but I only post on Facebook, and generally just jokes and oddities. The internet is narcissism central, where everyone gets to publish their first draft with no editor or even filter.
What sites/apps do you visit every day? Deadline, joemygod, Politico playbook, Pornhub
Name your top 3 news sources. I’m all over the place, just to see how they cover things. PBS Newshour is unique.
Would you rather be photographed in full regalia at the Met Gala or the Renaissance Faire? Oh, the Met Gala, but I’m scared of those stairs
Do you post comments or articles on or about other people’s posts? Comments occasionally, but that’s about it.
Who is the oldest person you actively follow on social media?
Older than ME?
Who is the youngest person you actively follow?
Are we talking OnlyFans?
How much and which sports do you consume?
Zero to none. Tennis or swimming, if they’re hot. I enjoyed baseball as a kid, and I still do, when I bother to check it out.
Do you believe in ghosts?
No. My smart friends who do remind me that anybody who has to haunt anything is trying to accomplish something they couldn’t accomplish in life and are therefore hopelessly tragic. So who wants to invest in that?
Do you believe aliens visit Earth?
No. I believe it is in the nature of explorers to conquer, so if they have, they have rejected us as a bad bet for colonizing. I love HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, where the aliens discover they can’t breathe our atmosphere, so they die. Wait, why do they have to breathe at all?
Do you believe in an afterlife?
No, it’s right up there with the ghost thing. You have unfinished business, but hey, you may get another shot, as a prune or a dormouse.
Does learning that someone else believes in any of the three above, do you view that person differently?
We all have our quirks. It’s better than finding out that they hate the jews.
What would you like on your tombstone?
It’s a secret. I can’t give everything away.
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### [How Hollywood helped spread patriotism](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/07/04/how-hollywood-helped-spread-patriotism/)
**Published:** July 4, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** A little over 80 years ago, Hollywood legend James Cagney played song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”
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## Beverly Press
How Hollywood helped spread patriotism
By Randy Collins
July 4, 2026
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**George M Cohan**
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A little over 80 years ago, Hollywood legend James Cagney played song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” The Oscar-winning role ended up having a lasting impact on culture, far beyond the movie. Released in 1942, right after the United States entered World War II, Cagney’s performance of unabashed patriotism communicated a feeling of hope during one of the nation’s most embattled times.
Cohan in real life was a consummate showman, whose best-known numbers included not only “The Yankee Doodle Boy,” but also “Over There” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.” A statue of him sits in Times Square paying tribute to his contributions to the American theater. The movie subscribes to legend, moving Cohan’s birth from July 3 to July 4, and using the framing device of Cohan receiving the Congressional Gold Medal, presented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sparklers, sequins and flags adorn musical numbers, lionizing the man as Hollywood’s vision of a patriot.
This is not to say that Cohan himself was not a patriot – by all accounts he was – but the way in which the Warner Bros.-produced, Michael Curtiz-directed film showcases it, in all its pizazz, splashes forward a template for which people still use to base their Independence Day festivities – all, of course, conveniently produced on sound stages and backlots actually located in Los Angeles County.
*“People think they want to be in that world. They want to be in a world where, \[it’s like\] ‘Meet Me in St. Louis,’ that kind of thing, where Fourth of July is a big deal, and we’re all going to go out and shoot fireworks,” writer, comedian, actor and Hollywood aficionado [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/24/bruce-vilanch-to-read-from-his-book-at-books-letters/) said. “Who knows if George M. Cohan was really a patriot or was he just a showman? That was a way of getting the audience on his side.”*
It is during those World War II years Hollywood went full tilt into projecting that stars and stripes on screen. Los Angeles, the true motion picture company town, fully embraced the war effort, as well. In addition to hundreds of recognizable actors enlisting in the armed services – including James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Clark Gable – those on the homefront sold war bonds, performed in the newly-established United Service Organizations and helped run the Hollywood Canteen, the studio-run club created for service members to meet and interact with the stars.
“The studios all were involved in the war effort, and I think they were a big part of keeping not only the morale up on the home front but also encouraging people to enlist in the war effort,” said Bryan Cooper, the producer of the Cinecon Classic Film Festival.
Cooper noted that studios greatly increased their production output during the war years, and the films produced almost all had some tinge of patriotic propaganda attached to them – including title cards at the end encouraging patrons to buy war bonds. Movies promoting the freedoms and might of America helped to rally those both at home and abroad. “Casablanca” artfully showcased an ex-pat who finds his patriotism. “Mrs. Miniver,” though set in England, shined a light on the self-sacrifices of a middle-class family, a theme that would be echoed in the U.S.A.-set “Since You Went Away.” “Destination Tokyo” and “Air Force,” among many, many others, glorified the bravery of soldiers.
“The films are behind that, and the stars were also enlisted to promote that kind of patriotism, devotion, that love for our country. So that they got you on a gut emotional level … so that you were going to just give whatever you could of yourself or your time or your finances in order to get the outcome that we eventually got, but we didn’t know at that time if we would win,” Cooper said.
This kind of sentiment piggy-backed on the movies of Frank Capra from the late 1930s and early 1940s, which highlighted hokum community spirit of the American small town – real or imagined. “You Can’t Take It With You” and “Meet John Doe” leaned heavily into these ideals, and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” almost certainly had the most lasting impact, with its small-town-hero-conquers-D.C.-corruption storyline.
“Frank Capra really did feed into patriotism, idealism, love of our country and the good within people being brought out and human qualities. He was a master at sort of touching on those chords and brain chemistry, and I think really changing the hearts and minds of a lot of people through he way he told his stories,” Cooper said.
During the Great Depression, as Americans struggled economically, Hollywood made movie after movie that established quintessential small towns, ala the “Andy Hardy” series that starred Mickey Rooney, as well as other musical films that featured Rooney and the young powerhouse Judy Garland.
“People were always very depressed that their lives were not like people in MGM movies,” Vilanch said. “Their families were not like Andy Hardy’s families.”
This Americanism was very whitewashed, morally strict and Chistian-adjacent, even if not overtly stated as being so. This was what the moguls felt the U.S.’s core audience wanted to see and aspire to, and it was also what would most certainly not ruffle the ire of censors or politicians who wanted to hold up the movies as something akin to sin. But the true irony sat in who was running the movie studios. Most of the studios’ heads, including Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner, were Jewish immigrants.
“They were barred from being in any of the major institutions that traditionally \[were not open to\] the Jews – I being one – and so they kind of took over show business and used it to create an idealized view of America that they wanted to be a part of,” Vilanch said. “This was all an idealizing that they made up, and that they tried to live. So, obviously they influenced things very heavily. And our perception of America – and the flag waving and red, white and blue and all that kind of stuff – they just kept firing with that kind of stuff over the years. They were part of the pageant.”
By the end of World War II, a quietly patriotic, but subtly antiwar film like “The Best Years of Lives” seemed rather bold.
“The post-war period … I think is more important,” Vilanch said, adding that he felt the country is still feeling the ripple effects over 80 years later. “We’re still in it, it seems, \[more so\] than some kind of cocked-up celebration with people, fireworks and a lot of patriotism that disappears on July 5.”
Somewhere between post-war pessimism, pre-war musical numbers baked in monochromatic red, white and blue, James Stewart’s epic filibuster and Mickey Rooney’s “aw shucks” spunk, an idea of patriotism was born. In these commercial products, America saw its identity flashed in light and shadow, and those fireworks and flags remain the basis for how the Fourth of July holiday is celebrated to this day – all ideas either born or emboldened by immigrants subscribing to the American Dream.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Read From His Book At Books & Letters](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/24/bruce-vilanch-to-read-from-his-book-at-books-letters/)
**Published:** June 24, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
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## Bay Area Reporter
Bruce Vilanch To Read From His Book At Books & Letters
By Lois Pearlman
June 24, 2026
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***Books Letters***
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On Sunday, July 12, there will be a champagne fundraiser for Guerneville’s September 19 Pride celebration. It will feature gay comedian, actor, and Emmy Award-winning comedy writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bio.htm), reading from his 2025 memoir, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” and otherwise entertaining the audience. Tickets are available on [Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bruce-and-bubbles-tickets-1990995992610?aff=ebdssbdestsearch).
Address: [**Books & Letters**](https://russianriver.com/business/russian-river-books-and-letters/), 14045 Armstrong Woods Road, Suite B, in the Sonoma County town that’s popular with the LGBTQ community. (Guerneville, CA)
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### [Podcast: FrontRow Classics Present Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/22/podcast-frontrow-classics-present-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 22, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Brandon and Bruce discuss his life in show business from his early days as a child actor to becoming one of the most sought-after comedy writers in the business.
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## FrontRow Classics
Podcast: FrontRow Classics Present Bruce Vilanch
By Brandon
July 23, 2026
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Bruce Vilanch
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Front Row Classics is thrilled to welcome comedy writer & actor Bruce Vilanch. Brandon and Bruce discuss his life in show business from his early days as a child actor to becoming one of the most sought-after comedy writers in the business. Bruce has worked with some of the most beloved entertainers of the last 50 years, from Bette Midler to Robin Williams & Billy Crystal to Dolly Parton. We also chat about his time on Hollywood Squares and his role as head writer for the Oscars.
His book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time is currently available from Chicago Review Press, wherever books are sold.
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### ['Celebrity Autobiography’ Cuts Broadway Run Short After Weak Ticket Sales](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/16/celebrity-autobiography-cuts-broadway-run-short-after-weak-ticket-sales/)
**Published:** June 16, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The show has been struggling to find an audience after opening to poor reviews, or, at many publications, no reviews at all.
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## Deadline
Struggling ‘Celebrity Autobiography’ Announces Early Broadway Closing
Greg Evans
June 16, 2026
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Celebrity Autobiography
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[**Celebrity Autobiography**](https://celebrityautobiography.com/), the Broadway specialty production in which bold-face names read the published memoirs of other bold-facers to more or less comic effect, will play its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on Sunday, June 21, about two months earlier than previously expected.
The show has been struggling to find an audience after opening to poor reviews, or, at many publications, no reviews at all.
Celebrity Autobiography began performances on Saturday, May 16, with an opening night on Monday, May 18. At the time of its closing, the show will have played 3 preview performances and 40 regular performances. When it opened the production was selling tickets through Sunday, August 16.
The producers say they will announce future plans for Celebrity Autobiography soon.
The production’s weekly grosses have been unsustainable through the run, maxing out at $74,437 for the week ending June 7. That figure reflects an attendance of 3,300, just 37% of the Shubert’s capacity. The average paid admission was an anemic $22.56.
On various audience chat sites, many attendees complained that the material was well-worn from previous international and regional stagings of the show going back years and had not been updated for Broadway. One extended segment focused on the musty romantic entanglements of Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, hardly fresh stuff.
The Broadway production has not announced a recoupment of its capitalization, or the amount of that capitalization.
The final list of rotating cast members who will have appeared in Celebrity Autobiography include Caroline Aaron, Brooke Adams, Pamela Adlon, Scott Adsit, Lewis Black, Matthew Broderick, Danny Burstein, Mario Cantone, Bonnie Comley, Katie Couric, Mikey Day, Frank DiLella, Tate Donovan, Alexander Dreymon, Gina Gershon, Mickey Gooch Jr., Kathy Griffin, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Christopher Jackson, Gayle King, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Stewart F. Lane, Robert Sean Leonard, Ralph Macchio, Ben Mankiewicz, Andrea Martin, Eric McCormack, Bobby Moynihan, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Phil Rosenthal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tony Shalhoub, Molly Shannon, Kenan Thompson, Nia Vardalos, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/musicals/), Kate Walsh, Allison Williams, and Rita Wilson.
Celebrity Autobiography is produced on Broadway by Rita Wilson, Eric Falkenstein and Douglas Denoff and the show’s original producer Angelo Fraboni, along with EP Productions, Peter Martin, Willette Klausner, Ken Schur, Mickey Gooch Jr., Danielle Druz, Ben Frimmer, Bruce Robert Harris, Leah Lane, David Moore-Strictly Business Entertainment, Roni Jacobson/Jeffrey Bank, Mark F. Kaplan, Jordan Scott Gilbert, Playhouse Capital/Beth Rudin DeWoody, Alexander “Sandy” Marshall & Susan Palmer Marshall/The Broadway Investors Club, Catherine Adler, Chris Bolan, Robert Zimmerman, Barry Kohn, Meister Leonard Addiss Hirschhorn/Jamie deRoy, Matt Finkelstein, Michael Cuomo/Vic Cairl, Julianne Hoffenberg, and Tisha Fein.
Scenic design and costume design are by Derek McLane, lighting design by Ed McCarthy, and sound design by Palmer Hefferan.
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### [Studio One Forever Gets Its Due](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/12/studio-one-forever-gets-its-due/)
**Published:** June 12, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The documentary takes you on a journey from the good times to the great times, albeit through some very dark times.
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## GreenState
Studio One Forever Gets Its Due
By Josh Freeman
June 12, 2026
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Studio One Forever
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**A Disco Landmark Gets Its Due**
Stepping out of the elevator on the second floor, you could hear the disco emanating from the lounge. I was half expecting to walk into a room full of people dancing and getting down, but instead I found a group of folks, both entertained and deeply invested in the film playing on the back wall.
An eclectic mix made up those who traveled in to see the special airing of [**Studio One Forever,**](https://marcsaltarelli.com/) a documentary about the legendary West Hollywood gay nightclub that changed and molded the queer scene in Los Angeles and influenced the world.
The documentary takes you on a journey from the good times to the great times, albeit through some very dark times. As someone unfamiliar with the space, I found it eye-opening to get a glimpse of what that atmosphere really felt like from the people who were there.
From interviews with icons of the scene like [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/studio-one-forever/) and Chita Rivera, you get a feel for both the spirit and the energy that location held, and from Lance Bass about what a location like this means to history. It wasn’t the uprising of Stonewall, or the visibility of The Castro; it was the next evolution and more of a celebration, and for that, it has earned its place in history. Find it streaming on Amazon.
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### [Whale 52 - How The Short Film Came Together](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/06/06/whale-52-how-the-short-film-came-together/)
**Published:** June 6, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The new animated short film "Whale 52" is inspired by two true stories.
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## Gold Derby
The ‘Whale 52’ creative team reveals how they made an animated short with ‘real heart’
By Ethan Alter
June 6, 2026
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**Bill Plympton Bruce Vilanch Daniel Neiden and Edward Jordon describe how the short film came together**
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The new animated short film “Whale 52” is inspired by two true stories. The first involves the titular aquatic mammal, commonly known as the planet’s loneliest whale as it traverses the oceans calling out a frequency that its compatriots can’t hear. The other is the story of Edward Jordon, a former teacher who dedicated his life to helping pupils, while also healing a hole in his own heart. Those narratives come together in the 10-minute short that finds a grieving teacher bonding with a young pupil whose own identity crisis has made them reluctant to speak lest they — like Whale 52 — also goes unheard.
Gold Derby spoke with the creative team behind “Whale 52” including legendary animator Bill Plympton, writer-director-producer Daniel Neiden, actor Bruce Vilanch and Jordon himself, who produced and wrote the animated short.
**Gold Derby: Edward, the credits indicate that this film is based on a true story inspired by your life. Tell us a little bit about the real story that inspired the film.**
Edward Jordon: In my life, I’ve been an educator, a filmmaker — a little bit of everything. A lot of the film is autobiographical based upon some magical moments of connections with students. Daniel and I have been friends for maybe a quarter of a century, and he knows so much about my history. He came to me and said, “Why don’t we make a movie? But our budget will only allow for 11 minutes and 14 seconds!” \[Laughs\]
But I think that’s also the power of short films; independent of their running time, they resonate with audiences, and we’re lucky in that regard. Audiences are really responding to this very true story about the loss of my own partner, whose picture is actually in the film. I thank Daniel, Bill, and the entire team for making that happen.
I’ve worked with many students who have had selective mutism, so the character of Enam is a composite of several people, including myself because I experienced some gender dysphoria as a child. I’m also the old man in the piece who makes this magical connection with a student and it’s one of those moments that teachers are sometimes lucky enough to have where a student stays in your mind and in your heart.
**Daniel, what spoke to you about Edward’s story?**
Daniel Neiden: Edward wrote the initial script about a boy who was selectively mute, and the script won awards at different festivals. At first, we were figuring out how to make it in live action, but I was working with Bill on some of his other movies and I told him the story. He really liked it, because a lot of his characters are isolated in some way and yearning for communication. And it makes sense that it’s animated. There’s little moments where you watch the film … that are in the Plympton style and to be able to use that movie magic \[was wonderful\].
**Bruce, you’re a character in real life, but you’re also a terrific character in the film. What was it like voicing the role of the teacher, Kaufman?**
Bruce Vilanch: You know, it was acting … and I don’t get asked to do that a lot when it’s not funny. It was a serious and emotional role. A lot of my work was just guttural; Daniel wanted me to sob, so I was making a lot of noises, which I usually do after a meal! \[Laughs\] But this time, I got to put them to work, so that was fun. And this movie touches on so many things, including gender identity and the loss \[of a lover\], which so many gay people experienced during the AIDS epidemic. So this story hit all of my buttons in such an elegant, simple and magical way.
**Bill, what images came to your mind as you read Edward’s script?**
Bill Plympton: I’ve worked with Daniel on a number of projects and they’re always very fun. When he came to me with this idea, I realized this was a much more different story than I usually do — no crazy surrealism, or bodies blowing up or anything like that. There’s a real heart to it, and I don’t usually make films that have heart! But this one was screaming at me.
I wanted to use a different style that I hadn’t used for a long time, one that was much more delicate, poetic, and kind of realistic, but also dreamlike. The other difference between this film and my usual films is I made it in about two months! Daniel kept pushing; he’s like the perfect director, because he pushes the artist to their limits and the film turned out to be brilliant. I thought, “Wow, what an interesting way to make movies! I should try it sometime.” \[Laughs\]
**Daniel, it strikes me that “Enam” is an anagram for “Name,” which certainly speaks to the film’s theme of identity. What was the intention behind that name?**
Neiden: Edward would say that it’s a name in Ghana where the boy is from, and where it’s as common a name as John. But that’s a good observation! It wasn’t lost on us.
Vilanch: We’re all Whale 52 at some point, just trying to find somebody who is on our wavelength and our frequency.
**Bill, the film ends with a wonderful crescendo of sound and image. Tell me about animating that sequence in particular.**
Plympton: That was one of Daniel’s brainstorms, and I liked it. I thought it was very therapeutic; it cleansed the atmosphere with this giant wave washing away all the bad things in your life. I love drawing action, so the whale was the most fun character for me to draw. We put him in some strange situations, like underneath a table, jumping out of a table — stuff like that. I really enjoyed that.
**Bruce, what was it like to watch the film as you were voicing it? Did you ever find yourself forgetting your lines and just watching Bill’s imagery?**
Vilanch: No, Daniel’s a pretty harsh mistress! \[Laughs\] He was always saying, “Stay on point,” so I would be grunting and groaning and he’d be explaining the tenor of the groan he wanted at that point. It was very technical and challenging, but also a lot of fun. And the score brilliantly matches what’s going on onscreen and gets me every time.
**Daniel, can you speak to the score? It’s definitely a key part of the film.**
Neiden: My daughter went to Oberlin, and she had a job setting up spaces for incoming artists. Two young men who were both born in China came in: Qiujiang Levi Lu, who is more of a beatbox singer and does the voice sounds in the movie, and Scott Li, who plays the electric violin. I sent them a rough cut of what we had and got a call right back. And just for a bit of trivia, the cellist, Zuill Bailey, is an old student of mine. He came into the studio with his cello in a backpack and then handed it to me and said, “By the way, that instrument is from the year 1700!”
**Bill, you’ve had a long and illustrious career that started in earnest forty years ago with the 1985 short BoomTown. Watching it again, it’s amazing to me how contemporary it still feels.**
Plympton: That was the first film I ever did. I didn’t direct it or produce it, but I did all the animation; it’s the film where I learned how to do animation. Without BoomTown, I probably wouldn’t be here today. When I was younger, I would have died to work for Disney, because that was the best animation in the world. But by the time I did BoomTown, the whole independent movement had started with Sundance and all that stuff, so I said, “Why work for Disney when I could be my own Disney?” Today, I’m certainly not as big as Walt, but I make the films I want, I pay for them myself and I’m independent, and that’s why I love animation.
**Neiden: Bill, can you say what film you turned down at Disney?**
Plympton: I’ve told this story many times, but after I got nominated for an Oscar \[for 1987’s Your Face\], Disney called me up and sent a lawyer to my office here in New York. He opened his briefcase and pulled out a big, fat contract that said, “Walt Disney offers you a million dollars to come and work for us.” Back then, a million dollars was a lot of money! I said, “Can I make my own weird films on this weekend?” And he said, “Yeah, but we’ll own it.” I didn’t like the idea of somebody taking over my imagination so I said no. Sometimes I think that’s the stupidest idea I ever had! But every morning when I get up and go to my drawing board, I draw whatever the hell I want and no one’s telling me, “No, you can’t draw that.” To me, that’s worth more than a million bucks.
Oh, and they offered me Aladdin. The wanted me to draw the Genie, the Robin Williams character, because he changed shape so much. He made a lot of weird changes, and they thought I was good at that. \[Laughs\]
**Daniel, I noticed that “Whale 52” is dedicated to Everett Quinton, the late theater artist. What’s the meaning behind that dedication?**
Neiden: I had spoken with Everett about “Whale 52” before he died suddenly in 2023. He read it, and knew exactly who the teacher was. We were very close and he was always an inspiration. There’s a point in the film where the teacher isn’t afraid to engage Enam and kind of wakes up that trust between them. That was totally Everett, and Bruce embodies it well. It’s every teacher’s dream to gain the trust of a pupil and Everett had that with his fellow actors. He was your best friend onstage; if you were in a reading with him, he was right there with you.
Vilanch: If you’ve seen \[Cole Escola’s\] Oh, Mary!, you’re seeing Everett Quinton; that seed he planted has grown years later into things we never thought could be done on Broadway. That’s Everett’s influence.
**What have you most enjoyed hearing from audiences when they see the film?**
Plympton: As someone who makes comedies, I’ve never seen or heard people talk about crying at the end of a film like they do with this film. It somehow delivers a knockout blow to your emotions, and you really get caught up in the lives of these people. I couldn’t do it on my own; I think only Daniel can do it. If I tried to make a sad film, people would start laughing, so I’m going to stick with comedy, I think.
Vilanch: The reaction hasn’t always been the same. They don’t know what they’re seeing as it unveils, and when the big reveal happens at the end, they’re just quite taken with it. They suddenly realize what the movie is actually about and what the connection between Kaufman and Enam is. That’s a pretty thrilling thing to happen in 10 minutes!
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Participate In Celebrity Autobiography](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/05/16/bruce-vilanch-to-participate-in-celebrity-autobiography/)
**Published:** May 16, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Broadway dish-fest Celebrity Autobiography begins performances May 16 at the Shubert Theatre, with opening night set for May 18.
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**Celebrity Autobiography**
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Broadway dish-fest [**Celebrity Autobiography**](https://celebrityautobiography.com/) begins performances May 16 at the Shubert Theatre, with opening night set for May 18. The hit comedy features a rotating cast of celebrities from TV, film, stage, sports and even politics, reading excerpts from other stars’ autobiographies. The limited engagement is scheduled to run through August 16.
The opening night cast of Celebrity Autobiography will feature Scott Adsit, Matthew Broderick, Mario Cantone, Jeff Hiller, Jackie Hoffman, Christopher Jackson, Gayle King, Ben Mankiewicz, Andrea Martin, Bobby Moynihan, Kenan Thompson, Nia Vardalos, Rita Wilson and Celebrity Autobiography creator Eugene Pack and co-developer Dayle Reyfel. Pack and Reyfel co-direct the production.
The rest of the rotating cast currently includes Brooke Adams, Pamela Adlon, Jason Alexander, Anthony Anderson, Lewis Black, Christie Brinkley, Danny Burstein, Bob Costas, Katie Couric, Tate Donovan, Chloe Fineman, Will Forte, Gina Gershon, Kathy Griffin, Ken Jeong, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Stewart Lane, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, Donna McKechnie, Eric McCormack, Laraine Newman, Oscar Nuñez, Cheri Oteri, Tiler Peck, Billy Porter, Phil Rosenthal, Tony Shalhoub, Sherri Shepherd, Molly Shannon, Jennifer Tilly, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/t_theater.htm) and Alan Zweibel. Additional members of the constantly-expanding rotating cast will be announced.
Celebrity Autobiography premiered in Los Angeles in 1998 and was popularized through a 2005 television special on Bravo. First mounted off-Broadway at the Triad beginning in 2008, it played three nights at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre in 2018.
[Get TIcKets](https://www.broadway.com/shows/celebrity-autobiography-broadway/)
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### [Comedy Icon Bruce Vilanch Workshops New Show](https://wegotbruce.com/2026/01/23/comedy-icon-bruce-vilanch-workshops-new-show/)
**Published:** January 23, 2026
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The longtime Hollywood star and insider brought his new play, “Captain Show Biz,” to Gray Box Theater in Wilton Manors for a “table read.”
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## OUTSFL
Comedy Icon Bruce Vilanch Workshops New Show
By John Hayden
Jan. 27, 2026
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/02/an-interview-about-t-shirts/) is like an elephant, they both have very, very long… memories.
The longtime Hollywood star and insider brought his new play, “Captain Show Biz,” to Gray Box Theater in Wilton Manors for a “table read.” The show is about his first year writing for The Oscars in 1989.
“I have fictionalized somewhat, it’s all about show business,” he said before the read.
When asked if the names in the play have been changed to protect the innocent or the guilty, he got playful.
“Vaguely. If they remember it, they’ll see what I’m doing.”
A handful of local performers joined him on stage to read various roles and Vilanch reads the role of the Oscars producer. Despite being a known Hollywood talent, that first year Vilanch was still trying to get the lay of the land. The Academy Awards, especially back then, was the most-watched non-sports event on TV.
“[**Captain Show Biz**](https://www.facebook.com/reel/1489923229809485)” had the audience laughing through most of the show. The crowd was filled with adoring, longtime fans. Many came up to take pictures and express their admiration for his work.
Vilanch says he could bring the full production back to Wilton Manors. But first he’ll take the feedback and likely first stage it in Southern California. Audiences there will be much more in tune with the “inside Hollywood” jokes.
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Heartfelt Tribute To Rob Reiner](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/12/22/bruce-vilanchs-heartfelt-tribute-to-rob-reiner/)
**Published:** December 22, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On December 19, writer Bruce Vilanch shared a touching tribute to Reiner on social media to pay tribute to the director, with whom he shared a friendship of 50 years. In the post, he gives insight into Reiner as a person, his inner circle, and why Vilanch considers him a “mensch.”
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## Remind Magazine
Bruce Vilanch Pays an Emotional Tribute to Rob Reiner: ‘He Never Got the Auteur Crown He Deserved’
By Erin Maxwell
Dec 22, 2025
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On December 14, legendary filmmaker [**Rob Reiner** ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reiner)and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home in what authorities have ruled a homicide. Reiner was a Hollywood legend whose career as an actor, writer, director, producer, and activist touched countless lives, leaving an indelible mark on the industry, peers, and the audiences who grew up with his work.
On December 19, writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/views-from-a-vilanch-the-articles/) shared a touching tribute to Reiner on social media to pay tribute to the director, with whom he shared a friendship of 50 years. In the post, he gives insight into Reiner as a person, his inner circle, and why Vilanch considers him a “mensch.”
“I know I’m late to Rob Reiner, but 50 years of friendship might have bought me some time to think. He was one of the first people I met when I moved to Hollywood in 1975 to work on The Manhattan Transfer summer TV series,” wrote Vilanch in the post. “We were shooting at CBS Television City in Hollywood (and I still miss hearing the announcer intone that at the beginning of shows).”
“All in the Family was on the next stage, and I had gotten friendly with Jean Stapleton when I interviewed her for the Chicago Tribune, so I went over to say hello. She was sitting with Rob on the set during an ‘engineering five.’ We started talking and laughing, and then the five was over, and Rob said, ‘I’ll come get you when we break for lunch. I know a Chinese place.’ It was the one a few feet down Beverly Blvd from Fairfax, long gone — that’s not the name of the place, it’s what happened to it.”
“We had a very funny, high-caloric lunch, and that was the beginning. He was married to Penny \[Marshall\] then, and time spent with them was like being at the hippest comedy show in town,” continued Vilanch. “We worked in different areas of the business, but we grabbed opportunities as they came along, sometimes with Carl, whom I adored and revered — in that order.
“Rob never got his due from his peers — one Oscar nomination, and as a producer — and he never got the auteur crown he deserved, probably because he, like Sidney Lumet, was brilliantly adaptable and did not need to put his signature on everything he did. Not a judgment on those who do, just a fact,” wrote Vilanch.
“Rob (and Sidney) left a body of work that rivals anything any of the others did. Their range was astounding, a gift that hasn’t been bestowed on many since the studio system ended. beyond his work, Rob was what my people call a ‘mensch.’ A real man. A real person. Humble, humane and hilarious.
In a final note, the writer explained with a heavy heart why he was late on his tribute: “That the life of such an artist, such an activist, such a friend, should end so tragically is something that takes you a week to even approach.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch Weighs In On Oscars Moving To You Tube](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/12/19/bruce-vilanch-weighs-in-on-oscars-moving-to-you-tube/)
**Published:** December 19, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Every year at Gold Derby, no single event measures up to the cultural significance of the Oscars. That's why when the Academy announced a partnership with YouTube, moving the ceremony to the streaming platform starting in 2029
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## We Got Bruce
Yes, Bruce Vilanch has thoughts on the Oscars moving to YouTube: ‘People can get up now and drop F-bombs like crazy’
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Dec. 18, 2025
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Every year at Gold Derby, no single event measures up to the cultural significance of the Oscars. That’s why when the Academy announced a partnership with YouTube, moving the ceremony to the streaming platform starting in 2029, it was clear that such paradigm-shifting news required the kind of sober and solemn analysis that the moment demands.
**That’s exactly why we called up [Bruce Vilanch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch).**
Few in Hollywood have as extensive a history with the Oscars as the 19-time writer on the show. Gold Derby spoke with Vilanch the day after the news of the YouTube deal broke to get his immediate reaction and reflect on how the ceremonies he worked on may have been different without network standards and practices.
**Bruce Vilanch:** I know! It’s kind of staggering, because it’s like saying, “Oh, by the way, the Statue of Liberty is being moved to Maryland.” What? Huh! But who’s gonna guard the harbor?
What was your initial reaction to the news?
**Vilanch:** It’s kind of the way of the world. When you look at who actually watches the thing, it’s an older demographic and going to YouTube will put \[the Oscars\] in place with an audience who probably doesn’t watch the show — unless you nominate Timothée Chalamet. So maybe you get a few million people who are interested in sleeping — I mean — his career. I don’t know if the Academy is getting the $100 million that Disney was paying them to be on ABC, but obviously they’ve gotten something. They’re not in a great bargaining position, because since I officially left the show in 2014, the ratings have plummeted. I don’t think it’s a causal. I don’t think people were tuning in to see my credit, but it’s just one of those things.
But you have to admit the correlation is pretty strong.
**Vilanch:** I’ll buy it. I’ll go for it.
Do you think this will make the show more accessible for audiences?
**Vilanch:** Certainly. And by 2029, it’ll be even easier for them. There’ll be more people figuring out how to use YouTube, which the core audience might not even have right now. But what’s really weird is, of course, that we live in the Oscar bubble out here, and this is gigantic news. But I don’t think in Dubuque, it’s gigantic news. It’s kind of like, “When do they do that again?”
Do you, Bruce Vilanch, watch YouTube on your TV?
Yeah! You kidding? First of all, I am also a sit-down comic. I do gigs. I perform a lot of benefit hosting and stuff, and there’s always somebody recording that. So periodically, somebody will say, “Do the cat joke.” And I have to go look up the cat joke, because there’s a video of me doing the cat joke somewhere, and it’s one of those jokes that you have to tell just the right way or you’ll screw it up. But yeah, sure, I have YouTube so I can see what I’m up to, and for all the other reasons. I mean, what I do on YouTube barely scratches the surface of what you can do on YouTube. I think there’s OnlyFans for that.
That requires a credit card, though.
I’m going to do one, but they first have to make an Imax version.
A lot of the speculation around what the Oscars on YouTube might look like imagines a ceremony with F-bombs. Did you feel hamstrung by standards and practices back in the day?
It was hard to feel like that because it was the way it was. It was always the way it was. There were network sensors, and there were sponsors. You knew you were going into that situation, because there was no alternative to it. With YouTube, I guess people can get up now and drop F-bombs like crazy. There won’t be a sensor sitting with a seven-second delay button in her lap, getting excited every time she gets to push it. I don’t know if YouTube is going to put some kind of disclaimer on it. I mean, do they know what they’re going to do? Talk about early days!
It’s an interesting question. Yes, the platform would in theory allow adult language, but does the Academy want to make anything other than a family show?
It’s a family show because it’s on television. You want to keep the sponsors happy, but as far as the Academy goes, they want to have the biggest possible reach. YouTube can develop standards and practices if they want. It would be controversial, but they could do it. What you won’t have is pressure from sponsors and pressure from the network as to what the content can be. I have a feeling that they are not unhappy about that at the Academy, because the networkers would always say, “Well, you have to do this, and you must do that.”
Is there a joke you remember getting rejected by ABC standards and practices?
Whoopi \[Goldberg\] hosting, and it was the year that Hugh Grant had a liaison with Divine Brown. Whoopi was going to say, “Divine Brown is one of the most famous people in Hollywood now. It’s a real Fellatio Alger story.” The network sensor Mrs. Futterman said, “We can’t say ‘fellatio.’ It’s on the list of words we cannot say.” We didn’t do that joke. Instead, we said, of course, “The biggest release in Hollywood this year was Hugh Grant.” That I think we got away with.
How much anxiety was there about appeal to the youth audience?
The last show I did was a tragic appeal. They partnered James Franco with Anne Hathaway, and it was a disaster. They had no chemistry. It was a blatant attempt to get younger viewers, and it backfired terribly.
I do think a significant part of loving the show over the years is — for better or worse — watching how the Academy and the producers try to adapt to the changing times. And YouTube is just the next instance of that.
I’ve written a play, actually, about the first Oscar show I did, which was produced by Alan Carr, who was very flamboyant, and it was the Rob Lowe-Snow White show. It’s called Captain Showbiz. We’re doing a stage reading of this thing in a few weeks, and I was thinking to myself, “Will any of this apply?” But I figured we have three years to run with it before the show is turned upside down. I’m already figuring out how to throw some YouTube lines in there.
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### [Bill Plympton, Bruce Vilanch, Daniel Neiden, and Edward Jordon describe how Whale 52 came together](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/12/08/bill-plympton-bruce-vilanch-daniel-neiden-and-edward-jordon-describe-how-whale-52-came-together/)
**Published:** December 8, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The new animated short film "Whale 52" is inspired by two true stories. The first involves the titular aquatic mammal, commonly known as the planet's loneliest whale as it traverses the oceans calling out a frequency that its compatriots can't hear.
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## Gold Derby
Bill Plympton, Bruce Vilanch, Daniel Neiden, and Edward Jordon describe how Whale 52 came together
By Ethan Alter
Dec 8, 2025
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The new animated short film “[**Whale 52**](https://www.whale52themovie.com/)” is inspired by two true stories. The first involves the titular aquatic mammal, commonly known as the planet’s loneliest whale as it traverses the oceans calling out a frequency that its compatriots can’t hear. The other is the story of Edward Jordon, a former teacher who dedicated his life to helping pupils, while also healing a hole in his own heart. Those narratives come together in the 10-minute short that finds a grieving teacher bonding with a young pupil whose own identity crisis has made them reluctant to speak lest they — like Whale 52 — also goes unheard.
Gold Derby spoke with the creative team behind “Whale 52” including legendary animator Bill Plympton, writer-director-producer Daniel Neiden, actor [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/views.htm) and Jordon himself, who produced and wrote the animated short. Watch the video above and read their remarks about the making of the film below. (Note: Jordon left the panel early due to technical difficulties.)
**Gold Derby:** **Edward, the credits indicate that this film is based on a true story inspired by your life. Tell us a little bit about the real story that inspired the film.**
**Edward Jordon:** In my life, I’ve been an educator, a filmmaker — a little bit of everything. A lot of the film is autobiographical based upon some magical moments of connections with students. Daniel and I have been friends for maybe a quarter of a century, and he knows so much about my history. He came to me and said, “Why don’t we make a movie? But our budget will only allow for 11 minutes and 14 seconds!” \[*Laughs*\]
But I think that’s also the power of short films; independent of their running time, they resonate with audiences, and we’re lucky in that regard. Audiences are really responding to this very true story about the loss of my own partner, whose picture is actually in the film. I thank Daniel, Bill, and the entire team for making that happen.
I’ve worked with many students who have had selective mutism, so the character of Enam is a composite of several people, including myself because I experienced some gender dysphoria as a child. I’m also the old man in the piece who makes this magical connection with a student and it’s one of those moments that teachers are sometimes lucky enough to have where a student stays in your mind and in your heart.
**Daniel, what spoke to you about Edward’s story?**
**Daniel Neiden:** Edward wrote the initial script about a boy who was selectively mute, and the script won awards at different festivals. At first, we were figuring out how to make it in live action, but I was working with Bill on some of his other movies and I told him the story. He really liked it, because a lot of his characters are isolated in some way and yearning for communication. And it makes sense that it’s animated. There’s little moments where you watch the film … that are in the Plympton style and to be able to use that movie magic \[was wonderful\].
**Bruce, you’re a character in real life, but you’re also a terrific character in the film. What was it like voicing the role of the teacher, Kaufman?**
**Bruce Vilanch:** You know, it was acting … and I don’t get asked to do that a lot when it’s not funny. It was a serious and emotional role. A lot of my work was just guttural; Daniel wanted me to sob, so I was making a lot of noises, which I usually do after a meal! \[*Laughs*\] But this time, I got to put them to work, so that was fun. And this movie touches on so many things, including gender identity and the loss \[of a lover\], which so many gay people experienced during the AIDS epidemic. So this story hit all of my buttons in such an elegant, simple and magical way.
**Bill, what images came to your mind as you read Edward’s script?**
**Bill Plympton:** I’ve worked with Daniel on a number of projects and they’re always very fun. When he came to me with this idea, I realized this was a much more different story than I usually do — no crazy surrealism, or bodies blowing up or anything like that. There’s a real heart to it, and I don’t usually make films that have heart! But this one was screaming at me.
I wanted to use a different style that I hadn’t used for a long time, one that was much more delicate, poetic, and kind of realistic, but also dreamlike. The other difference between this film and my usual films is I made it in about two months! Daniel kept pushing; he’s like the perfect director, because he pushes the artist to their limits and the film turned out to be brilliant. I thought, “Wow, what an interesting way to make movies! I should try it sometime.” \[*Laughs*\]
**Daniel, it strikes me that “Enam” is an anagram for “Name,” which certainly speaks to the film’s theme of identity. What was the intention behind that name?**
**Neiden:** Edward would say that it’s a name in Ghana where the boy is from, and where it’s as common a name as John. But that’s a good observation! It wasn’t lost on us.
**Vilanch:** We’re all Whale 52 at some point, just trying to find somebody who is on our wavelength and our frequency.
**Bill, the film ends with a wonderful crescendo of sound and image. Tell me about animating that sequence in particular.**
**Plympton:** That was one of Daniel’s brainstorms, and I liked it. I thought it was very therapeutic; it cleansed the atmosphere with this giant wave washing away all the bad things in your life. I love drawing action, so the whale was the most fun character for me to draw. We put him in some strange situations, like underneath a table, jumping out of a table — stuff like that. I really enjoyed that.
**Bruce, what was it like to watch the film as you were voicing it? Did you ever find yourself forgetting your lines and just watching Bill’s imagery?**
**Vilanch:** No, Daniel’s a pretty harsh mistress! \[*Laughs*\] He was always saying, “Stay on point,” so I would be grunting and groaning and he’d be explaining the tenor of the groan he wanted at that point. It was very technical and challenging, but also a lot of fun. And the score brilliantly matches what’s going on onscreen and gets me every time.
**Daniel, can you speak to the score? It’s definitely a key part of the film.**
**Neiden:** My daughter went to Oberlin, and she had a job setting up spaces for incoming artists. Two young men who were both born in China came in: **Qiujiang Levi Lu**, who is more of a beatbox singer and does the voice sounds in the movie, and **Scott Li**, who plays the electric violin. I sent them a rough cut of what we had and got a call right back. And just for a bit of trivia, the cellist, **Zuill Bailey**, is an old student of mine. He came into the studio with his cello in a backpack and then handed it to me and said, “By the way, that instrument is from the year 1700!”
**Bill, you’ve had a long and illustrious career that started in earnest forty years ago with the 1985 short *BoomTown*. Watching it again, it’s amazing to me how contemporary it still feels.**
**Plympton:** That was the first film I ever did. I didn’t direct it or produce it, but I did all the animation; it’s the film where I learned how to do animation. Without *BoomTown*, I probably wouldn’t be here today. When I was younger, I would have died to work for Disney, because that was the best animation in the world. But by the time I did *BoomTown*, the whole independent movement had started with Sundance and all that stuff, so I said, “Why work for Disney when I could be my own Disney?” Today, I’m certainly not as big as Walt, but I make the films I want, I pay for them myself and I’m independent, and that’s why I love animation.
**Neiden:** Bill, can you say what film you turned down at Disney?
**Plympton:** I’ve told this story many times, but after I got nominated for an Oscar \[for 1987’s *Your Face*\], Disney called me up and sent a lawyer to my office here in New York. He opened his briefcase and pulled out a big, fat contract that said, “Walt Disney offers you a million dollars to come and work for us.” Back then, a million dollars was a lot of money! I said, “Can I make my own weird films on this weekend?” And he said, “Yeah, but we’ll own it.” I didn’t like the idea of somebody taking over my imagination so I said no. Sometimes I think that’s the stupidest idea I ever had! But every morning when I get up and go to my drawing board, I draw whatever the hell I want and no one’s telling me, “No, you can’t draw that.” To me, that’s worth more than a million bucks.
Oh, and they offered me *Aladdin*. The wanted me to draw the Genie, the **Robin Williams** character, because he changed shape so much. He made a lot of weird changes, and they thought I was good at that. \[*Laughs*\]
**Daniel, I noticed that “Whale 52” is dedicated to Everett Quinton, the late theater artist. What’s the meaning behind that dedication?**
**Neiden:** I had spoken with Everett about “Whale 52” before he died suddenly in 2023. He read it, and knew exactly who the teacher was. We were very close and he was always an inspiration. There’s a point in the film where the teacher isn’t afraid to engage Enam and kind of wakes up that trust between them. That was totally Everett, and Bruce embodies it well. It’s every teacher’s dream to gain the trust of a pupil and Everett had that with his fellow actors. He was your best friend onstage; if you were in a reading with him, he was right there with you.
**Vilanch:** If you’ve seen \[**Cole Escola**‘s\] *Oh, Mary!*, you’re seeing Everett Quinton; that seed he planted has grown years later into things we never thought could be done on Broadway. That’s Everett’s influence.
**What have you most enjoyed hearing from audiences when they see the film?**
**Plympton:** As someone who makes comedies, I’ve never seen or heard people talk about crying at the end of a film like they do with this film. It somehow delivers a knockout blow to your emotions, and you really get caught up in the lives of these people. I couldn’t do it on my own; I think only Daniel can do it. If I tried to make a sad film, people would start laughing, so I’m going to stick with comedy, I think.
**Vilanch:** The reaction hasn’t always been the same. They don’t know what they’re seeing as it unveils, and when the big reveal happens at the end, they’re just quite taken with it. They suddenly realize what the movie is actually about and what the connection between Kaufman and Enam is. That’s a pretty thrilling thing to happen in 10 minutes!
*This article and video are presented by Marni Films.*
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### [Bruce Vilanch Nominated For A Voice Arts Award](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/11/26/bruce-vilanch-nominated-for-a-voice-arts-award/)
**Published:** November 26, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The nominees for the Voice Arts Awards are in! On Nov. 24, the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) announced the performers and creatives being honored at the 12th annual awards, which will take place Jan. 18, 2026
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## Backstage
The 12th SOVAS Voice Arts Awards: Nominees List
By Suzy Woltmann
Nov 24, 2025
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The nominees for the Voice Arts Awards are in! On Nov. 24, the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) announced the performers and creatives being honored at the 12th annual awards, which will take place Jan. 18, 2026, at the iconic Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Voice Arts Awards recognizes excellence across the voice acting ecosystem, with a focus on performances that resonate across cultures and generations. This year’s nominees include household names and industry veterans alongside rising talent shaping the future of voice acting.
The event is “a tribute to the storytellers behind the mic,” explains SOVAS chairman-CEO Rudy Gaskins. This highly talented group includes “the voice actors, casting directors, audiobook publishers, writers, producers, and creative visionaries who shape how we feel, imagine, and understand the world.”
Among this year’s high-profile nominees are Auli?i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, both recognized for their voice work in Disney’s “Moana 2” in the Outstanding Animation Character – Motion Picture category. The Outstanding Audiobook Narration categories also feature an impressive lineup, including Matthew McConaughey for his collection “Poems & Prayers,” Stephen Fry for the classic “Great Expectations,” Bruce Vilanch for his memoir “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” and Martin Sheen for the nonfiction book “Ghosts of Hiroshima.” Additional notable nominees include Sutton Foster for “Pippi Longstocking,” Maya Hawke for “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” and John Green for his author performance of “Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.”
In advance of the ceremony, SOVAS will also present the 2026 Backstage Vanguard Award to legendary Barbadian-British voice actor Redd Pepper during the That’s Voiceover! Career Expo taking place Jan. 9–11, 2026.
Here are the nominees for over 25 of the 150 categories for the 12th Voice Arts Awards.
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**Voice Arts Awards nominees (selected categories)**
**Outstanding Animation Character – Motion Picture – Best Voiceover**
Auli?i Cravalho, “Moana 2”
James Hare, “Fat Chance! the Movie”
Dwayne Johnson, “Moana 2”
**Outstanding Audiobook Narration – Author Performance – Best Voiceover**
Tanya Eby, “The Narrator’s Handbook”
John Green, “Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection”
Alison Larkin, “Grief… A Comedy”
Matthew McConaughey, “Poems & Prayers”
*Bruce Vilanch, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time”*
**Outstanding Audiobook Narration – Classics – Best Voiceover**
Karen Commins, “Duskin”
Andrew Eiden, “Desolation Angles”
Sutton Foster, “Pippi Longstocking”
Stephen Fry, “Great Expectations”
Robert G. Slade, “Moby Dick”
Maya Hawke, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
**Outstanding Audiobook Narration – History – Best Voiceover**
Karen Chilton, “Misbehaving at the Crossroads”
Jack de Golia, “War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean”
Stephanie Németh-Parker, “The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing”
Martin Sheen, “Ghosts of Hiroshima”
Maxwell Zener, “Building the Worlds That Kill Us”
**Outstanding Casting – TV Animation – Best Casting Director**
Paulette Victor Lifton, “From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman”
Paulette Victor Lifton, “Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.”
Sara Jane Sherman, “Haunted Hotel”
Sara Jane Sherman, “Krapopolis”
Sara Jane Sherman, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”
**Outstanding Casting – TV Commercial – Best Casting Director**
Sound & Fury, Krispy Kreme
Sound & Fury, Nike
Sound & Fury, Starbucks
Stephanie Ugbeye, “The Rise of Appbility”
Susie Valerio, “Brawl Stars Ad – Juju”
**Outstanding Commercial – TV or Streaming – Best Voiceover**
J. Marcell Baker, “Guinness on Premise”
J. Marcell Baker, “Standis – Make Brands Work”
Jerry Beharry, Bethany White Group spot
Ellen Dubin, “Amor En La Cesta”
Matt Fogarty, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre – “Carry the Fire”
Gm Hakim, Apple – “Hey Son”
Julia Knippen, CVS – “Here for All of It”
Elsa Levytsky, Nespresso – “The Perfect Gift”
Jeremiah Mullins, IHOP
Peter Wicks, Patch Plants – “Plants Made Easy”
**Outstanding Promo – TV or Streaming – Best Voiceover**
Debbe Hirata, U.S. Women’s Soccer – “She Believes Promo”
Joey Iannitelli, Scholastic – “Bad Guys Recap”
Simon Kennedy, “Best Fest – Summer’s Most Wanted”
Simon Kennedy, “Big Kids Big Action”
Simon Kennedy, ABC Kids – “Pirates Aplenty”
Simon Kennedy, “The Strange Chores”
Uku Leili, Netflix – “Single’s Inferno: Choices – Official Game Trailer”
Jeremiah Mullins, “Sharkweek”
Keith Tan, “Blockbuster Sunday: Godzilla Vs Kong”
Torran Wakefield-Thompson, Pluto TV – “Many Faces of Eddie Murphy” Promo
**Outstanding Promo Campaign – TV or Streaming – Best Voiceover**
Chloë Elmore, “Olympics x Toyota: Memories of the Future”
Chris Fries, “NFL on CBS”
Debbe Hirata, Oscars 2025 Promo Campaign
Christian Lanz, “Disney on Ice” – National Promo Campaign
Torran Wakefield-Thompson, Pluto TV Campaign
**Outstanding Toy Character – Best Voiceover**
Erin Culpepper, Poe the Storytelling Bear
Vanessa Marroquin, Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn: Learn & Serve Coffee Café
Amanda Turen, Tonies™ Lalalinos – Bumbaloo Beats – Cosmo
Alaina Wis, Disney Princess meReaders
**Outstanding Video Game Character – Best Voiceover**
Harry Frost, “Wizard of Legend 2”: Hieronymous
Rae Lim, “Wuthering Waves”
Eduardo De Los Reyes, “Digimon Time Story Stranger”
Peter Wicks, “Among Ashes”
Shel Wyminga, “Mechwarrior 5: Clans – Ghost Bear: Flash Storm”
**Outstanding Video Game Trailer – Best Voiceover**
Chloë Elmore, “Path of Exile 2 – Dawn of the Hunt”
Weston Heflin, “How to Play US Aircraft Carriers – World of Warships”
Devon Irelan, “Eve Online: Equinox Expansion”
Alaina Wis, “Become the Ash That Ignites the Stars – Tower of Fantasy”
Kimberly Woods, “Wanderstop”
**Outstanding Animation Character – TV or Web – Best Voiceover**
I-Ling Chen, “Hamsters of Hamsterdale” – Nickelodeon
Wesley Eagle, “Wands Deep”
Chloë Elmore, “Loud & Proud”
Brandon Miller, “Paw Patrol: To the Rescue” – Mayor Humdinger
Azman Zulkiply, “LK: School Daze”
**Outstanding Animation Character – Film or TV – Best African Voiceover**
Simisola Gbadamosi, “Iwaju”
Jennifer Eniye Kanari, “Explore Our 2025 Impact Report – The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet”
Jennifer Eniye Kanari, “Path of Exile: Risu’s Rescue”
**Outstanding Commercial – Radio or Web – Best African Voiceover**
Oluwaseyi Ajagbe, Action Against Hunger Ad
Olalekan Akinleye, “West Africa Economic Summit 2025 Commercial”
Eniola Keshinro, “Showmax – Bring Your Own Internet”
Eniola Keshinro, “Visa – Globetrotter”
Tolulope Kolade, Airtel 5G
**Outstanding Dubbing – TV or Series – Best Arabic Voiceover**
Habiba Bahaa, “Barbie Mysteries”
Weiam Dribaty, “Koroko”
Ibrahem Jalal, “Naruto”
**Outstanding Commercial – TV or Web – Best Chinese Voiceover**
Phoebe T. Lim, “Wall’s New Pop Cornetto – New Pop Cornetto”
Angelia Liu, “Project Be Brave: Early Detection for Breast Cancer PSA With Davey the Puppet” – Mandarin
Angela Liu, “Project Be Brave: Early Detection for Breast Cancer PSA” – Mandarin
Erika Huey Shiun Tan | Beauté Library Commercial
Hugo Sean Wong | “McDonald’s – Mushroom Season Drops At Mekdi!”
Xiè S?ngfàn | “UOB Bank ‘Doing Right by You One Bank’ for ASEAN”
**Outstanding Body of Work – International – Best Voiceover**
Yukiko Fujimura
Takayuki Kondo
Chilu Lemba
Tamara Linke
Noella Menon
**Outstanding Radio Commercial – Best Japanese Voiceover**
Taeko Mukumoto, American Airlines Spotify Spot
Natsuki Terauchi, “A Place That Supports the Growth of Engineers”
**Outstanding Animation Character – Film, TV, or Video Game – Portuguese Language – Best Voiceover**
Lucila Bach, “Vamos Brincar com a Turma da Mônica”
Andrei Duarte, “Jorel’s Brother”
Audrei Hüllen, “Pipas”
Jose Augusto Sendim, “O Coração Delator”
**Outstanding Audio Description – TV or Film – Portuguese Language – Best Voiceover**
Krysna Bezerra Dias, “Martinho E Zeca – Projeto Samba Rock”
Luciana Priami, “Maria E O Cangaço” – Disney+
**Outstanding Dubbing – Video Games – Portuguese Language – Best Voiceover**
Lucila Bach, “Poppy Playtime”
Dudu Fevereiro, “Destiny 2”
**Outstanding Narration – E-Learning – Portuguese Language – Best Voiceover**
Rafa Depieri, “Globo Gente – Um olhar para os pais contemporâneos”
Andressa Mello, “Seja curioso – TED-Ed – Tudo o que você precisa saber para ler ‘Frankenstein’“ – Iseult Gillespie
Carolla Parmejano, “Disney Junior – Mickey”
**Outstanding Animation Character – TV or Web – Best Spanish Voiceover**
Nicolas Daza, “Bakugan 3.1”
Natalia Rosminati, “Plim Plim”
Victor Ruiz, “Mejores Momentos de Catnap en Gametoons”
Demian Velazco Rochwerger, “Hilda – Tritón”
Ximena Viver, “Moomin Valley”
**Outstanding Commercial – TV or Streaming – Best Spanish Voiceover**
Javier Delgado, “ ‘Stretch’ – Premium Class Alaska Airlines”
Sara Delgado, “Guainía Ancestral”
Sara Delgado, “MiniMed™ 780G? Diabetes”
Belu Heredia, “Expresate mejor con BIC”
Pedro Labattaglia, “Clight – ‘Let’s prepare what’s good for us’ ”
Alfonso Lugo, Tostitos Esquites
Jose Paz, “Güitig – Emociónate Otra Vez”
Michael Rojas, “Perezoso invita a Madrid a visitar Costa Rica”
Memo Sauceda, “Silverdado Hermanos y Rivales”
Lizet Vásquez, “Delta y LATAM: Destinadas a Estar Juntas”
**Outstanding Radio Commercial – Best Spanish Voiceover**
Marly Figueroa, Kamala Harris 2024
Douglas Hernandez, Soy Hyundai
Maria Camila Peroni Franco, “Somos Selva” by Johnnie Walker Blue Label
Facundo Reyes, “Naranja X – Día de la madre”
Lizet Vásquez, “Maiz ‘El Poderoso’ ”
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, awards/accolades, Bruce Vilanch
**Tags:** #Awards, #BruceVilanch, #SOVAS, #Voice, #VoiceArtsAwards
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### [Happy Birthday, Bruce Vilanch!](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/11/23/happy-birthday-bruce-vilanch-5/)
**Published:** November 23, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Happy Birthday to the King of the One-Liners, the Sultan of Sass, the one and only BRUCE VILANCH!!!
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## We Got Bruce!
Happy Birthday, Bruce Vilanch!
By Mister D
Nov. 23, 2025
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[**Happy Birthday**](https://www.rd.com/article/happy-birthday-message/) to the King of the One-Liners, the Sultan of Sass, the one and only [**BRUCE VILANCH**](https://wegotbruce.com/views.htm)!!! Bruce, honey, another trip around the sun and you’re still the funniest person in any room that isn’t currently on fire (and even then, you’d probably roast the flames). You’ve made divas sparkle, Oscar broadcasts bearable, and my life infinitely gayer just by existing. May your day be filled with:
\* Cake the size of a small Broadway stage
\* Sequins that don’t itch
\* Wigs that behave
\* And zero people asking you, “So what do you really look like under all that?”
You magnificent, pun-slinging, Bette-whispering legend — blow out those candles before they demand residuals!
I love you more than opening night, standing ovations, and complimentary champagne combined. Here’s to another year of being gloriously, unapologetically YOU.
Happy Birthday, Bruce! You’re the wind beneath my exaggerated wings. — Don
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**Categories:** Birthday, Bruce Vilanch
**Tags:** #Birthday, #BruceVilanch, #HappyBirthday
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### [Podcast: 1955 - I Coulda Been An Oscar Contender - Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/10/07/podcast-1955-i-coulda-been-an-oscar-contender-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** October 7, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Hey Oscar fans — welcome to the 1955 Oscars for the films of 1954. In case you weren’t aware, 1954 was an absolutely outstanding year full of great movies
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## We Got Bruce
The Oscars: WWTT? – Podcast: 1955 – I Coulda Been An Oscar Contender – Bruce Vilanch
By Mister D
Oct 6, 2025
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Hey [Oscar ](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/25/podcast-bruce-discusses-the-2025-oscar-nominations/)fans — welcome to the 1955 Oscars for the films of 1954. In case you weren’t aware, 1954 was an absolutely outstanding year full of great movies…some of which even got nominated for Academy Awards! Which means some of the best movies that are still beloved, rewatched, referenced and remade today did NOT get any Oscar love. This includes a few shockingly egregious omissions that we’re pretty sure will have you scratching your head. So join us down on the waterfront as [**Bruce**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch) and “Tex” attempt to solve the mystery of “What they were thinking?” when the Academy looked out their rear window and saw…nothing. As always, thanks for listening and joining us at The Oscars!
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### [If You Missed Out Getting An Autographed Book...](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/09/29/if-you-missed-out-getting-an-autographed-book/)
**Published:** September 29, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** If You Missed Out on Getting An Autographed Book from Bruce Vilanch, then you can order a signed copy from larryedmunds.com.
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## We Got Bruce
If You Missed Out Getting An Autographed Book…
By Mister D
Sept 29, 2025
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If You Missed Out on Getting An Autographed Book from [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/), then you can order a signed copy from [**larryedmunds.com**](http://larryedmunds.com). This is the legendary **Larry Edmunds Bookshop** on Hollywood Boulevard, a renowned repository of Hollywood books.
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**Categories:** Books, Bruce Vilanch, It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time
**Tags:** #Autographed, #Book, #Bookshop, #BruceVilanch, #LarryEdmunds
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Live With Billy Masters](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/05/18/video-bruce-vilanch-live-with-billy-masters/)
**Published:** May 18, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## We Got Bruce
Video: Bruce Vilanch Live With Billy Masters
By Mister D
April 25, 2025
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Billy Masters LIVE (S05E1) – 4-25-25 – One of our most popular guests returns to **[Billy Masters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Masters_(columnist))** LIVE. **[Bruce Vilanch ](https://wegotbruce.com/category/video/)**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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**Categories:** Books, Bruce Vilanch, It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time, Podcast, Podcasts, Video
**Tags:** #BillyMasters, #Book, #BruceVilanch, #podcast, #video
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Receive The 2025 Stonewall Visibility Award June 1](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/05/18/bruce-vilanch-to-receive-the-2025-stonewall-visibility-award-june-1/)
**Published:** May 18, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On June 1, the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) will host the 2025 Stonewall Awards Brunch at the Arts Ballroom. The Stonewall Awards is an annual ceremony that honors local people and organizations that have made a positive impact on the LGBTQ+ community.
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## Philadelphia Gay News
Bruce Vilanch To Receive The 2025 Stonewall Visibility Award June 1
By Gary L. Day
May 13, 2025
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On June 1, the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) will host the **[2025 Stonewall Awards](https://stonewall-museum.org/bruce-vilanch-book-signing/)** Brunch at the Arts Ballroom. The Stonewall Awards is an annual ceremony that honors local people and organizations that have made a positive impact on the LGBTQ+ community. The master of ceremonies for this year’s awards will be 6ABC’s Adam Joseph, and will be streamed live on WPVI Channel 6. Joseph, a native Philadelphian, rose to prominence as the city’s first major on-air news personality to come out publicly. He has worked as the meteorologist at WPVI since 2005.
PGN is proud to honor these individuals and organizations that exemplify leadership, visibility and service in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
**Visibility Award: Bruce Vilanch, writer and actor**
Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and actor [**Bruce Vilanch** ](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/)is known for scripting major awards shows, including the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, and collaborating with prominent stars like Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Whoopi Goldberg, Diana Ross and Robin Williams. He has been the recipient of a number of awards for his work in support of AIDS and LGBTQ+ charities, including: the Los Angeles Shanti Foundation’s Daniel P. Warner Service Award, GLAAD Media’s Stephen F. Kolzak Award, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s Rand Schrader Distinguished Service Award, the Outfest Honors Award for contributions to gay and lesbian visibility, and the AIDS Project Los Angeles’ Hero Award.
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**Tags:** #Awards, #BruceVilanch, #Charities, #Stonewall, #Visibility
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Others Tackle Body Dysmorphia In The LGBTQ+ Community In Amazon documentary](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/05/09/bruce-vilanch-others-tackle-body-dysmorphia-in-the-lgbtq-community-in-amazon-documentary/)
**Published:** May 9, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Joining Jordan are comedy icon Bruce Vilanch, acclaimed playwright Del Shores, comedian Judy Gold, trans activist Rajee Narinesingh, and Actress/Writer Shakina, who come together to share candid, deeply personal stories about body image, dysmorphia, and identity in the LGBTQ+ community.
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## Cision
Leslie Jordan, Del Shores & Bruce Vilanch Tackle Body Dysmorphia in Powerful New Documentary Body Electric, Now on Amazon Prime Video
By Tanninger Entertainment & Body Electric Documentary
May 8, 2025
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In one of his final film appearances, beloved icon Leslie Jordan joins Tony Award-winning producer and director Nick Demos to explore body image and dysmorphia in the LGBTQ+ community. Body Electric also features Judy Gold, Shaikina, Bruce Vilanch, Rajee Narinesingh, and Del Shores.
NEW YORK, May 8, 2025 [Press Photos Here](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=1752523557&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fdrive%2Ffolders%2F1cAR_MUPij6SPKJnoU8PXw6aKrsZ2hzs3%3Fusp%3Dshare_link&a=Press+Photos+Here)
[Body Electric Trailer Here](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=1611220406&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F13bz1xsEzoJt4QqYLynnqbA9h-4YB3cGa%2Fview%3Fusp%3Ddrive_link&a=Body+Electric+Trailer+Here)
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In one of his final and most heartfelt interviews, beloved Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace, Call Me Kat, Sordid Lives) stars in Body Electric, a compelling new documentary now on [Amazon Prime Video](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=758356030&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBody-Electric-Nick-Demos%2Fdp%2FB0F2TTCTTK&a=Amazon+Prime+Video). Joining Jordan are comedy icon Bruce Vilanch, acclaimed playwright Del Shores, comedian Judy Gold, trans activist Rajee Narinesingh, and Actress/Writer Shakina, who come together to share candid, deeply personal stories about body image, dysmorphia, and identity in the LGBTQ+ community. The film, directed by Tony Award-winner Nick Demos, has garnered praise throughout its successful award-winning film festival run.
Body Electric is a deeply personal and timely exploration of body dysmorphia, body image, and aging within the LGBTQ+ community. Blending emotional candor with artistic insight, the film delves into the extremities of black market injectables, steroid use, eating disorders, and plastic surgery, while also confronting the lasting trauma of the AIDS crisis. It offers a powerful reminder of the resilience, beauty, and strength found within the queer experience.
Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Body Electric is a powerful documentary on body image, identity, and aging in the LGBTQ+ community—featuring one of Leslie Jordan’s final interviews and directed by Tony winner Nick Demos.Post this
The film features moving interviews with beloved Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace, Call Me Kat, Sordid Lives) in one of his final film appearances, along with comedians Judy Gold (Awkwafina is Nora from Queens) and Bruce Vilanch (The Academy Awards, The Tony Awards), playwright Del Shores (A Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies), trans activist Rajee Narinesingh (Botched), Actress/Writer Shakina (Quantum Leap, Difficult People ) and Jason Caceres (Boy Culture), among others.
“This has been a labor of love for everyone involved,” says director Nick Demos. “We’re proud to share this story with audiences around the world and continue the conversation around visibility, acceptance, and healing.”
The film is produced by Nick Demos, Jay Leland Krottinger, and Gio Messale, with executive producers Francine Bizar, Patricia Chernicky, and Ryan Jude Tanner. Cinematography is by Michael Marius Pessah, ASC, editing by Jillian Corsie, and an original score by Jerome Kurtenbach. Diane Tripp handles distribution sales.
To watch Body Electric, visit [Amazon Prime Video](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=758356030&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBody-Electric-Nick-Demos%2Fdp%2FB0F2TTCTTK&a=Amazon+Prime+Video)
To learn more about Body Electric, visit[ ](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=155891265&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bodyelectricdoc.com%2F&a=+)[www.bodyelectricdoc.com](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=3251380209&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bodyelectricdoc.com%2F&a=www.bodyelectricdoc.com).
About Nick Demos
Nick Demos is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, acclaimed filmmaker, and inspirational coach. Known for his ability to capture the essence of the human experience, Demos brings an unmistakable voice to his work. Body Electric marks another deeply personal and resonant project in his ever-expanding creative portfolio.
Press Contact:
Gio Messale
**Media Contact**
Gio Messale, Tanninger Entertainment & Body Electric Documentary, 1 9189322734, , [https://www.bodyelectricdoc.com/](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4422538-1&h=2946489921&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bodyelectricdoc.com%2F&a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bodyelectricdoc.com%2F)
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Documentary, GLBT, movies
**Tags:** #Bodydysmorphia, #BodyElectric, #BruceVilanch, #Documentary, #LeslieJordon, #Movie
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### [Oscars: WWTT Bruce Vilanch Podcast - 2013 - Four Score and Seven Oscars Ago](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/05/05/oscars-wwtt-bruce-vilanch-podcast-2013-four-score-and-seven-oscars-ago/)
**Published:** May 5, 2025
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## We Got Bruce
[Oscars: WWTT Bruce Vilanch Podcast – 2013 – Four Score and Seven Oscars Ago]()
By Mister D
May 5, 2025
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Hey Oscars fans, welcome to the 2013 Oscars for the films of 2012 — a year when Steven Spielberg’s [**Lincoln** ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film))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**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/) 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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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Podcast, Podcasts, The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
**Tags:** #BruceVilanch, #Lincoln, #OcarsWWTT, #podcast, #spielberg
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### [Eartha Kitt's Where's My Man Written By Bruce Vilanch Gets New Life On The Dancefloor](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/26/eartha-kitts-wheres-my-man-written-by-bruce-vilanch-gets-new-life-on-the-dancefloor/)
**Published:** April 26, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Back in 1983, Eartha Kitt’s career entered a new phase when she recorded a series of dance records.
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## Out In Perth
Eartha Kitt’s 80’s dance hit gets a new lease of life
By Perth Staff
April 25, 2025
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Back in 1983, [**Eartha Kitt’s**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha_Kitt) career entered a new phase when she recorded a series of dance records.
The American singer had a string of hits through the 1950s, including C’est si bon and the sultry festive hit Santa Baby.
Later in her career, she traveled the world as a cabaret performer, and she memorably portrayed Catwoman in the 1960s TV series Batman. Later, she was shunned by American audiences after she made anti-war comments at a 1968 function at the White House. Kitt moved to Paris in self-imposed exile.
In the 1980s, she recorded Where Is My Man, a dance floor hit that was written by comedy writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/) alongside producers Fred Zarr and Jaques Morali. Morali had been behind the disco era hits of The Village People and The Ritchie Family.
The song became one of Kitt’s biggest ever hits and introduced her to a new cohort of younger fans. Soon a new album I Love Men followed. Suddenly Kitt was playing gay clubs across the UK and USA, she frequently gave benefits for HIV/AIDS organisations.
Now the song has been given a new lease of life thanks to producer Joe T Vannelli who has just delivered a new remix.
The new version transforms the song into a vocal house hit, and the accompanying video also brings Eartha Kitt to life via the power of A.I.
This track and album weren’t Kitt’s only foray into ’80s dance. A few years later, she teamed up with Bronski Beat to record the Hi-NRG tune Cha Cha Heels.
The song was originally intended for drag star Divine, but she passed away suddenly in 1988, and the song was passed on to Eartha Kitt.
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### [Oscars: WWTT Podcast - In An Oscars, Far Far Away With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/22/oscars-wwtt-podcast-in-an-oscars-far-far-away-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** April 22, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** 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.
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## Bootleg Betty
Oscars: WWTT Podcast – In An Oscars, Far Far Away With Bruce Vilanch
By Mister D
April 22, 2025
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Welcome [**Oscars: WWTT?**](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/08/oscars-wwtt-podcast-welcome-to-an-oscars-full-of-murder-greed-corruption-violence/) 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**](https://www.starwars.com/) 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!
To learn more go to www.oscars.wtf
Email us at info@oscars.wtf
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch On NPR's Bullseye](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/16/video-bruce-vilanch-on-nprs-bullseye/)
**Published:** April 16, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** 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.
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## NPR
Podcast: Bruce Vilanch On NPR’s Bullseye
By Bullseye
April 16, 2025
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/) 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**](https://bootlegbetty.com/), 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...](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/08/oscars-wwtt-podcast-welcome-to-an-oscars-full-of-murder-greed-corruption-violence/)
**Published:** April 8, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** 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.
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## Spotify
Oscars: WWTT? Podcast – Welcome to an Oscars full of murder, greed, corruption, violence…
By Bruce Vilanch
April 7, 2025
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Welcome [**Oscars**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/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**](https://www.oscars.org/) 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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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Discusses Bette Midler, Cher, & The Golden Girls](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/07/video-bruce-vilanch-discusses-bette-midler-cher-the-golden-girls/)
**Published:** April 7, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch is stepping forward to acknowledge his role in producing some of the most infamous television moments of the twentieth century.
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## You Tube
Hollywood Insider Bruce Vilanch on what Cher, Bette Midler, The Golden Girls & more are really like!
By Celebrity Drop
April 6, 2025
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://www.threads.net/@bootleg_betty/post/DGYqpUlRN8A) is stepping forward to acknowledge his role in producing some of the most infamous television moments of the twentieth century.
He reflects on projects like The Star Wars Holiday Special, Rob Lowe’s dance with Snow White at the Oscars, and [**The Brady Bunch Variety Hour**](https://wegotbruce.com/tag/bradybunch/).
Bruce also shares his family ties to the legendary Bette Midler, discusses the humorous gag he wrote for Cher that she incorporates into her performances, and questions the true nature of Donny and Marie’s wholesome image.
Additionally, discover the reasons behind the tension between Bea Arthur and Betty White, along with an unexpected tale involving Bob Hope.
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TIMECODE [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw) Start 02;10 He’s not Travis Kelce’s mother [02:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=174s) Journalism [04:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=252s) Child model [05:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=331s) Bette Midler [10:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=651s) Bob Hope [13:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=788s) Donny & Marie Osmond [15:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=929s) Sonny & Cher [18:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=1094s) The Brady Bunch Variety Hour [27:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=1628s) Star Wars Holiday Special [29:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=1760s) The Golden Girls [31:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=1896s) The Oscars [38:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=2300s) Elizabeth Taylor [40:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=2402s) Diana Ross [42:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=2570s) Sophia Loren [45:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28AWC86avw&t=2726s) New book ‘It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time’ Subscribe for more videos like this: [https://www.youtube.com/@celebritydro…](https://www.youtube.com/@celebritydrop?sub_confirmation=1)
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### [Bruce Vilanch In Toledo, Ohio?](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/05/bruce-vilanch-in-toledo-ohio/)
**Published:** April 5, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The Toledo Lucas County Public Library will welcome comedy writer, producer, and actor Bruce Vilanch
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## The Press
Bruce Vilanch In Toledo, Ohio?
By Staff Writer
April 5, 2025
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**[The Toledo Lucas County Public Library](https://www.toledolibrary.org/)** will welcome comedy writer, producer, and actor [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/); best-selling Regency and Georgian romance novelist Eloisa James, and women’s fiction author Sarah Penner to its Authors! series this spring. They join Laura Lippman, Adam Nimoy, and Viola Shipman as part of the 2025 series.
Highlighting genres such as memoir, mystery, romance, and thrillers, these acclaimed authors will take the stage at Main Library’s McMaster Center. Each event will include a moderated discussion about the author’s creative process and the inspiration behind their work, followed by a brief Q&A session.
Tickets are available at eventbrite.com. Call 419-259-5200 for details. Each ticket purchase includes a signed copy of the author’s featured book, while supplies last.
The schedule includes:
Bruce Vilanch, April 10.
Viola Shipman, April 16.
Eloise James, May 1.
Sarah Penner, May 22.
Laura Lippman, June 26.
Authors! programs will be held from 7-8 p.m. at the Main Library, 325 Michigan St., Toledo. Visit toledolibrary.org for more details.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Speak At Rotary Club Los Angeles & Sign Books](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/04/04/bruce-vilanch-to-speak-at-rotary-club-los-angeles-sign-books/)
**Published:** April 4, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch is a writer, comedian, actor, stripper and would-be adult film star (only if you have an IMAX screen).
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/) is a writer, comedian, actor, stripper and would-be adult film star (only if you have an IMAX screen). He won two Emmys for co-writing the Billy Crystal Oscar shows and lost a half-dozen more for other things. For four years he was a Hollywood Square, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. He starred on Broadway as Edna Turnblad, plus-sized housewife, in the musical HAIRSPRAY and toured with it for a year, including a few months at the Pantages in Hollywood. He has been committing television since the 70s, writing some of the most notorious flops in the industry’s long
list of same, which he just chronicled in his book IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME, available everywhere books are still sold. There is a documentary about his life and work GET BRUCE, available for you to Netflix and chill. He’s looking forward to meeting you all, as the only thing he’s ever done that’s remotely Rotary is to put a chicken on a spit.
Bruce will also have copies of his new book for sale and be happy to autograph them for you at our event!
Bruce will be joined in a “fireside chat” by longtime friend and colleague Shelly Goldstein. Shelly is a writer-actor-singer-comic who has written for every genre of TV, film and stage. Her one-woman music & comedy shows play throughout the US and UK. She wrote the Emmy-winning PBS musical special, CHICAGO VOICES & Sheryl Lee Ralph’s DIVAS SIMPLY
SINGING on ABC.
Most recently, she co-wrote the CW’s 2025 series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER, starring David Thewlis. Her play, MAGNIFICENT MILLICENT debuted in the West End in 2024.
She has written for such performers as Stephen Colbert, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Jay Leno, Larry Wilmore, Sharon Stone, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tiffany Haddish, Yoko Ono & many others.
Shelly has also won the New Yorker’s iconic Cartoon Caption Contest.
Dress Code
The City Club maintains a dress code.
Attire can certainly elevate or diminish the experience of others. They consider ball caps or beanies, tank tops, flip flops, distressed denim, shorts, team athletic attire, and t-shirts with no jacket as too casual for [**City Club LA**](https://www.invitedclubs.com/clubs/city-club-los-angeles). Their staff takes pride in their appearance, so they ask their members and their guests to respect their dress code at all times.
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Friday, May 16, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM
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### [Gay Mens Chorus' Dancing Queens Will Feature Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/31/gay-mens-chorus-dancing-queens-will-feature-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** March 31, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles presents the final concert of Season 46, “Dancing Queens,” on June 21-22 at 3:30 p.m. at the historic Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
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## Beverly Press
GMCLA can dance, can jive this summer
By Staff
March 22, 2025
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[**Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles**](https://www.gmcla.org/) presents the final concert of Season 46, “Dancing Queens,” on June 21-22 at 3:30 p.m. at the historic Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
The musical tribute, in celebration of Pride Month, will feature over 20 iconic songs spanning every genre, performed by GMCLA’s 200-member chorus. The electrifying evening, conducted by GMCLA’s music director and conductor Ernest H. Harrison and choreographed by Ray Leeper, features special guest artists – dance-music diva and super-ally Kristine W and Emmy-winning writer, legendary performer and advocate **[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/category/podcast/).**
“Dancing Queens” is an “eleganza extravaganza,” as GMCLA’s singers perform the most iconic dance melodies of every genre – from “Carmina Burana” to “Singin’ in the Rain,” “The King and I,” “My Fair Lady,” “Hairspray” and “The Producers,” to Lionel Ritchie, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Bee Gees, Luther Vandross, ABBA, Earth Wind and Fire, Kylie Minogue, Dua Lipa and of course, Donna Summer.
“With music that we’ve danced to, from the stage to the club, ‘Dancing Queens’ is a perfect way to end the season and herald the beginning of summer,” said executive director and producer Lou Spisto. “These glorious melodies we know and love, lifted by over 200 voices and our dancers, will surely have our audience dancing in the aisles. I’m thrilled that Kristine W, one of the top selling dance club music artists of all time, and Bruce Vilanch, Broadway star and legendary voice for our community, are both joining us to bring something truly wonderful to GMCLA’s truly over-the-top Pride Celebration.”
The Pride concert “Dancing Queens” will be on Saturday, June 21 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, June 22 at 3:30 p.m. at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, 8440 Wilshire Blvd. Single tickets range from $45-$125 and are now available online at gmcla.org.
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### [OWWTT? Podcast: 1951 All About Oscar](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/30/owwtt-podcast-1951-all-about-oscar/)
**Published:** March 30, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode Bruce and “Tex” look back at one of the greatest years in filmmaking history, the 1951 Oscars for the films of 1950.
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## Spotify
OWWTT? Podcast: 1951 All About Oscar
By Bruce Vilanch
March 24, 2025
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Strap in, it’s going to be a bumpy Oscars! On this episode Bruce and “Tex” look back at one of the greatest years in filmmaking history, the 1951 Oscars for the films of 1950. A year which produced perhaps the greatest Oscar battle of all time: SUNSET BOULEVARD vs. ALL ABOUT EVE. Hollywood tragedy vs. Broadway deception. With double digit nominations and luminary actors, writers, and directors for each project — this was a true heavyweight showdown where it would be almost impossible to get it wrong. Yet in some cases, they may have! (I’m looking at you Best Actor Award!) This is one of our favorite episodes to record just from the sheer volume of outstanding movies and performances — some of which you may not have seen or heard of and should promptly add to your playlist! “Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my Oscar!”
**MOVIES MENTIONED**
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
The Substance
Gone with the Wind
Titanic
La La Land
Mrs. Miniver
Born Yesterday
Samson & Delilah
Annie Get Your Gun
The Asphalt Jungle
Broken Arrow
Caged
Cinderella
Father of the Bride
King Solomon’s Mines
The Third Man
Destination Moon
The Flame and the Arrow
Harvey
The Magnificent Yankee
Adam’s Rib
The Gunfighter
Cyrano de Begerac
Roxanne
Mr. 880
Village of the Damned
Phffft
It Should Happen to You
Platoon
Arsenic & Old Lace
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Chicago
Caged Heat
Of Human Bondage
My Fair Lady
Gigi
The Ghost and Ms. Muir
A Letter to Three Wives
Sleuth
No Way Out
Cleopatra
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
The African Queen
The Maltese Falcon
Gaslight
A Star is Born
The Philadelphia Story
David Copperfield
The Chapman Report
Panic in the Streets
Bitter Rice
Mystery Street
When Willy Comes Home
The Red Danube
The Furies
Stage Fright
D.O.A.
Night and the City
Cheaper by the Dozens
The Pink Panther
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### [Bruce Vilanch’s New Book and Writing the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/30/bruce-vilanchs-new-book-and-writing-the-star-wars-holiday-special/)
**Published:** March 30, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Released earlier this month, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote is a tell-all book from one of the biggest names in late 20th century film, stage, and television you’ve more than likely never heard of.
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## Star Wars News
Editorial: ‘It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time’ – Bruce Vilanch’s New Book and Writing the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’
By Colin Walker
March 27, 2025
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In 1978 something bizarre and not of this world was unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences. Some people believe it to be the worst thing ever to come out of a beloved franchise. Others see it as a relic of a bygone time. Still others view it as a quirky curiosity; something to be dredged up form the internets and passed along to those not in the know. For the writer of this unique piece of kitsch, one that has remained amazingly stubborn in its tenacity to survive into these modern times, it was just another project and paycheck.
Of course, we’re talking about non-other than the infamous [**Star Wars Holiday Special**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/star-wars-holiday-special/), a disaster of such epic proportions that the father of all things form that galaxy far, far away, has deemed it only worthy to exist at the end of falling hammer. What once was spoken of in hushed tones and passed from fan to fan via bootleg videotape or DVD is now as much a part of modern Star Wars as blue milk and “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
While countless articles and opinion pieces have been written about the history of this much maligned turkey of a show, broadcast by CBS on November 17th, 1978, until recently, we had only ever heard bits and minor anecdotes from those involved in the production. Enter the newest player to spill the beans—Hollywood writer, **[Bruce Vilanch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch).** Larger than life, Vilanch is a writer, actor, comedian, and queer icon, if you were consuming American television any time between the 1970s to the late 90s, you’ve more than likely encountered this man’s work.
Released earlier this month, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote is a tell-all book from one of the biggest names in late 20th century film, stage, and television you’ve more than likely never heard of. Vilanch has written for Broadway, film, and television and has acted, both on and off the screen, and was even a long-running mainstay on the popular B and C-list celebrity gameshow, Hollywood Squares (if you haven’t heard of that one, ask you parents or maybe even your grandparents). Amid all these projects and accomplishments, the man gleefully acknowledges and revels in the fact that he has written for and participated in some of the lousiest productions imaginable:
*“When you write something for variety television, you don’t have the burden of greatness taking up residence on your shoulders. And you are getting paid, unlike Eugene O’Neill, who understood the maxim all playwrights understand—the theater is a great place to make a killing, but a lousy place to make a living. In TV you can make either, or enough so that you can walk away and exercise your inner O’Neill. If you have one. And you feel like letting in out to play. Not everyone does, especially with the dazzling array of substances we have at our disposal to keep our inner O’Neills at bay.”*
*—Bruce Vilanch (It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time)*
Like another queer icon of film and television, John Waters, Vilanch wields nostalgia and camp with the deftness and precision of a brain surgeon—he knows that what he does is more than likely going to be viewed as crap and he revels in it all the way to the bank. The book covers a huge chunk of the writer’s worst works from his appearance in the cult classic Star Wars knockoff The Ice Pirates to the disco fueled fever-dream that is Can’t Stop the Music and a personal favorites of mine, the delightfully campy The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. Each of these projects, whether it be a small budget sci-fi film, a starring vehicle for the Village People, or seeing Paul Lynde be the very first to introduce KISS to TV audiences, like the writer behind them, never take themselves too seriously.
Then there is the slowly moving train wreck that is, The Star Wars Holiday Special; the strange child born of George Lucas’s influence and a heaping dose of television variety show staples such as Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and Bea Arthur. It’s the kind Bizarro World experience that, as you watch, feels both like a fever-dream and infinitely, painfully longer than it’s relatively short runtime of an hour and thirty-seven minutes (about the length of a modern comedy or an animated Disney film) make it feel.
In his book there are fantastic stories and anecdotes; Vilanch praises Carrie Fischer for her singing chops as well as her willingness to roll with such a stinker of a program all while trying to get the producers to let her really belt out something special. He also fills in some of the strange casting decisions and even speculates on which creations were his and the other writer’s
(Gormaanda) and which were Lucas’s. According to Vilanch, most of the special’s plot and characters were directly provided by Lucas himself:
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*“Given this hindsight, it might be hard to recognize that at the time, The Star Wars Holiday Special was itself something of a joke idea. If it had been the thing George originally envisioned, it might have gone on to be a joyous season perennial, to be trotted out along with the Bing Crosby—David Bowie duet on “Little Drummer Boy” that routinely shows up between Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa. But, as I think you know, it wasn’t that thing.”*
*—Bruce Vilanch (It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time)*
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Some might criticize the decision to not end his book on such a colossal pop-culture misfire, I would argue that Vilanch’s choice to put it out front sets the tone for everything that is to follow in the subsequent chapters. Honestly, the stories in this book are all so great and hilarious and mind-meltingly cringe that going for broke and putting the most simultaneously revered and reviled of these works out front is a bold statement that says, “You came for the worst and I’m here to tell you that it only goes downhill from here, folks!”
While I’ve been a lifelong fan of Vilanch and his work, upon discovering his involvement in the iconic disaster when I was a kid made seeking out the show even more of a joy knowing that he had a direct hand in something so beautifully bad in ever facet of its production and something still intrinsically woven into the fabric of my beloved space-opera. If you’ve never heard of Bruce Vilanch, don’t fret, by the end of this book, you will be seeking out clips online from each of these projects and hopefully finding them equal parts odd, of their time, and hilariously cringy.
It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote is now available.
The Star Wars Holiday Special is still unfortunately not available to purchase, for better or worse.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch On The View](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/25/video-bruce-vilanch-on-the-view/)
**Published:** March 25, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The Emmy-winning comedy writer shares his takeaways from the 2025 Oscars, his favorite moments writing for awards show hosts and discusses his new book, "It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time."
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## You Tube
Video: Bruce Vilanch On The View
By The View
March 3, 2025
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The Emmy-winning comedy writer, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/about.htm), shares his takeaways from the 2025 Oscars, his favorite moments writing for awards show hosts and discusses his new book, [**“It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time.”**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Seemed_Like_a_Bad_Idea_at_the_Time)
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### [A Conversation With Bruce Vilanch At Stonewall](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/22/a-conversation-with-bruce-vilanch-at-stonewall/)
**Published:** March 22, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Stonewall National Museum welcomes renowned writer and comedian Bruce Vilanch for a special reading and conversation of his new book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time.
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## You Tube
A Conversation With Bruce Vilanch At Stonewall
By Stonewall National Museum
March 20, 2025
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[**Stonewall National Museum**](https://stonewall-museum.org/) welcomes renowned writer and comedian [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/bruce-vilanch/) for a special reading and conversation of his new book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time.
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### [Can't Stop The Vilanch! Spills On His Guiltiest Pleasures](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/19/cant-stop-the-vilanch-spills-on-his-guiltiest-pleasures/)
**Published:** March 19, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## Roger Ebert
Can’t Stop the Vilanch: Legendary Comedy Writer Spills on the Creation of His Career’s Guiltiest Pleasures
By Donald Liebenson
March 19, 2025
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On Fri. Jan. 20, 1961, CBS aired the first and only episode of a new game show, “You’re in the Picture.” A week later, the ill-fated show’s host, Jackie Gleason, in an extraordinary post-mortem, explained to viewers “how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop.” Show business, he said, “is a very strange and intangible endeavor.”
Few know this better than [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/bruce-vilanch/). His estimable credits across an almost 50-year career include some of the most confounding and cringe-worthy specials in **[TV history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television).** To name a few: “The Star Wars Holiday Special”; the so-called “Snow White” Oscar telecast; “The Brady Bunch Hour”; the basic cable perennial “The Ice Pirates” and the Village People disco musical “Can’t Stop the Music.”
Hollywood convention dictates that any one of these would be a career killer, but you can’t stop the Vilanch. Despite the “Snow White” debacle, he went on to co-write 25 Oscar telecasts, along with other prestige awards shows such as the Emmys, the Tonys and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has contributed material to such iconic entertainers as Cher and Bette Midler. He was the subject of a documentary, “Get Bruce.”
But thanks to the Internet, his career curiosities refuse to die. In answer to the eternal questions, “How did that get made?” Vilanch has written a wonderful book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time, in which he chronicles the genesis and execution of these misbegotten projects.
Vilanch, a former Chicago Tribune reporter and second-string film critic, spoke with RogerEbert.com about a career that subverts the show business maxim: “You’re only as good as your last picture.”
“Amazing, isn’t it?” he laughed during our phone interview.
Sure, we can laugh now at the “Star Wars Holiday Special,“ but you note in the book that, for the time (1978), it was not all that crazy an idea. Variety specials of the era tended to latch onto what was big in the zeitgeist, and nothing was bigger than the first “Star Wars.” Of course, add Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman, and things get weird.
There was a level of absurdity that was accepted at the time. I mean, “Wayne Newton at SeaWorld,” and “Cole Porter in Paris” which featured Connie Stevens, who is not remembered for her renditions of Cole Porter tunes.
What was that first day in the writer’s room like? Did you all sit around the table and go, ‘What have we signed up for?’
In this case, we were sitting around a room with George Lucas himself explaining to us his conception of the show. We sat there with faces falling in dismay as we realized he had sold the network a show that starred Wookiees who could not sing, dance, or speak any known language. And they barely could barely move in their costumes.
We were being handed this concept of an original musical with stars who were non-musical. So, we knew right away we would have to import a whole lot of guest stars to do the singing, the dancing, and the talking while the Wookiees lumbered around looking like Yorkshire Terriers on steroids. That was a very bizarre meeting. And as it went on, I recall, George got quieter and quieter because he began to realize that his team was not exactly on board with him.
Have you ever been to a Star Wars convention?
That’s a very good question. No, I have not. I went to Comic-Con once, but a Star Wars convention would be scary. I think I might get mugged.
Last year marked the 35th anniversary of the so-called “Snow White Oscars” Producer Allan Carr was given the directive to shake up the Academy Awards. Which he did! Rob Lowe and Snow White singing “Proud Mary”; what could go wrong?
Many things went wrong. There was a lot of misbegotten stuff in that opening number. The audience was already taken aback by Snow White dancing down the aisle and interacting with big movie stars who had no idea what was going on. Then Allan, who was in love with Golden Age movie stars, bussed them in from Palm Springs and Woodland Hills for the Coconut Grove nightclub set on stage. But they were not as golden as they had been, and the audience was kind of shocked at the shape some of them were in. So, it wasn’t fun watching them.
But ultimately, it was no worse than any of the other Oscar numbers that had been done for years. The year before they had Teri Garr on an airplane wing with the Rockettes doing “Flying Down to Rio.” The only difference is that Rio never sued, unlike Disney, who claimed we had infringed on their copyright. But what really ensured the number’s place in history was Rob Lowe’s sex tape, which came out a couple of weeks later. And every time they mentioned Rob Lowe, it would be \[intoning\] “Rob Lowe, most recently, seen dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards…”
Let’s go back: Why did you want to revisit these cataclysmic series of events?
Well, I was on podcasts during COVID, when everybody was on lockdown. They were all with hosts who were not yet born when these shows were done but had encountered them all on YouTube. And they saw my name \[in the credits\] and said, “Dude, how did this disaster happen? Who said yes to this, and have they paid their debt to society?” I thought there is a book in this: how I co-wrote the worst shows ever, and how they have survived, and I have survived.
The projects you write about may have been bad ideas, but they weren’t YOUR ideas. I hesitate to think how much worse these would have been without you.
What can we say? They come to you with an idea, and you think, “Well, that’s terrible. How much are they paying? Oh, well, maybe I can find a way to make this thing work.”
This is for RogerEbert.com. Roger gave the documentary about you a good review, in which he wrote fondly about your friendship. Do you have a favorite story or memory of Roger?
I do, actually. It was at the Venice Film Festival. We had lunch together with \[playwright\] Tennessee Williams, who was drinking up a storm. Later, he got into a water ferry to leave town, and as he was pulling away, someone from the hotel came running down the dock yelling, “Senor Williams, your bill.” And Tennessee Williams yelled back, “I have no intention of paying that bill. I did not have a good time.” Roger and I lived off that one for a long time. He was a good friend. I loved him.
I remember when they screened “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” for the Chicago film critic community. It was a little screening room on Chicago Avenue. Roger was sitting in the back. When it finished and the lights came on, there was silence. And then Mike Royko got up, turned around and said, “Roger, go to your room.”
I was unexpectedly moved by the last line of the book about saying yes to things even if they seem to be a bad idea at the time.
You have to keep the adventure going. If you don’t say yes, you’ll never know what happens.
Moving on to a good idea, you were paired with Marc Shaiman to write the parody song, “You Made Me Watch You,” for Bette Midler that she sang on the penultimate “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson. One of the great moments. You won an Emmy for it.
We spent an evening in Marc’s house working up that bit. And I was in the studio watching. I was standing with Robin Williams’ manager, huddled together under the bleachers. It was astonishing to see because it was a cultural moment; the last “Tonight Show” with guests. Everything just went so beautifully. You get this unbelievable feeling when something actually works. If I’m at the theater and something falls together exactly the way it should have, and it’s having an effect on the audience, I tear up because I know how hard it is to get to that.
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**Tags:** #Book, #BruceVilanch, #Comedy, #Interview, #Vilanch, #Writer
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### [The Oscars WWTT? Oscar Reactions (Is Adrian Brody Still Talking?)](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/17/the-oscars-wwtt-oscar-reactions-is-adrian-brody-still-talking/)
**Published:** March 17, 2025
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## Spotify
The Oscars WWTT? Oscar Reactions (Is Adrian Brody Still Talking?)
By Bruce Vilanch
March 3, 2025
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While it goes against the premise of the show (using the test of time to look back at past Oscars) we felt we had to respond to the Oscars of 2025. Especially since Adam and Mark’s former classmate at NYU, Mr. Sean Baker, cleaned up with his film Anora! We don’t discuss all the awards (we’ll do that in 2030)…but we do look at all the top awards and give our thoughts and opinions on the winners/losers and possible snubs and mistakes. Enjoy!
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### [The Oscars: WWTT? Oscar In Love](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/17/the-oscars-wwtt-oscar-in-love/)
**Published:** March 17, 2025
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## Spotify
The Oscars: WWTT? Oscar In Love
By Bruce Vilanch
March 10, 2025
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In this episode we continue looking at the 1999 Oscars for the films of 1998. However, we’re doing things a little differently as we focus mainly on one of, if not, the most controversial Oscar campaigns of all-time. In fact, the tricks, stunts and machinations pulled by Harvey Weinstein to secure the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love not only live on in Oscar lore — they forever changed the way Oscars are campaigned (both good and bad). In addition to laying out all the behind-the-scenes maneuvering — Bruce and “Tex’ share personal stories of their dealings with Weinstein, uncover what really went on behind-closed-doors in 1998, and shine a light on the impact this Oscar campaign has had on the Academy today. This one is for true Oscar buffs looking to know more about one of the craziest Oscar races in Academy History. And if you’re more interested in the actual awards of that year — listen to 1999 Pt. 1 – Saving Private Oscar. Enjoy!
Movies Mentioned
Shakespeare in Love
Saving Private Ryan
Wicked
Dune 2
The Greatest Show on Earth
Big Top Pee-wee
Just Friends
Get Bruce
Legends of the Fall
Glory
The Last Samurai
Annie Hall
The Alamo
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
To Leslie (Andre Riseborough film referred to)
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### [Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/17/bruce-vilanch-has-written-some-of-the-biggest-disasters-on-tv-hes-embracing-his-legacy-2/)
**Published:** March 17, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch’s new book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” details his involvement in some of the most gloriously awful moments in the history of entertainment.
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## Los Angeles Times
Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy
By Chris Vognar
March 5, 2025
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**[Bruce Vilanch’s](https://wegotbruce.com/)** new book, “[**It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Seemed_Like_a_Bad_Idea_at_the_Time),” details his involvement in some of the most gloriously awful moments in the history of entertainment.
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Remember that Snow White-Rob Lowe debacle at the 1989 Oscars? How about the galactically bizarre 1978 “Star Wars Holiday Special”? Or the 1980 Village People disco bomb “Can’t Stop the Music”?
Bruce Vilanch had a hand in all of the above, and lived to kiss and tell — and now write about it. His new book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” details his involvement in some of the most gloriously awful moments in the history of entertainment. Never the shy or retiring type, Vilanch is happy to embrace his legacy (which is easier to do when you’ve also won two Emmys and written for 25 Oscar telecasts).
“These were some of the biggest disasters, but everybody has disasters,” he told The Times in a recent interview. “It wasn’t like they said, ‘Oh, this is s—. Let’s get Vilanch.’ It’s just the luck of the draw. It’s just the way things turned out.”
Vilanch, now a snarky and youthful 76, comes across as a big, caustically friendly and wonderfully gay Muppet. He’s successful enough to have been the subject of an excellent documentary about the craft of comedy (1999’s “Get Bruce,” featuring Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Nathan Lane, among others), and he’s seasoned enough to know where plenty of bodies are buried.
And yes, he helped write some serious stinkers.
Some of this can be attributed to the era when he made his showbiz bones. The ’70s was the decade of the prime-time TV special, usually built around a middling star and featuring talent from the airing network. (Synergy. It’s been around for a minute.) The specials were a blatant attempt to offer something for everyone, in a precable epoch defined by broadcasting, as opposed to today’s narrowcasting.
It was also, not coincidentally, a time when drugs were rather prevalent.
“Many of these things were made in a cloud of smoke,” Vilanch said. “It was also just a crazy period when it was a three- or four-channel universe, so you could get away with a whole lot of stuff because a lot of people were coming home and watching television at a certain hour. People actually sat down in the living room. They only do that now for a few events, either a football game or Nikki Glaser roasting a football player.”
Such were the circumstances that gave us “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” George Lucas’ space adventure — there was only the one at the time — was red-hot. As Vilanch writes, “Either someone at CBS, or someone at ILM, or someone in the IRA, or someone on the IRT — depends on which version you’ve heard — suggested producing some sort of ‘Star Wars’ spectacle for TV to keep the franchise bubbling on the burner of public awareness until the second installment was released.”
The results, which aired Nov. 17, 1978, were not spectacular, but they were spectacularly strange. I could sense this even as a “Star Wars”-besotted 8-year-old. The story, such as it is, involves Chewbacca’s mission to return to his home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day. The major cast members were on hand. So were CBS mainstays including Art Carney, Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman, all of whom stopped in to do wacky bits.
“We were doing the thing on a hand-painted set pulled together from other things,” Vilanch said. “We didn’t go to London for six months to shoot this thing. It was crazy. We had hand-me-down aliens that we had to get at the outlet store. Anybody who was interested in ‘Star Wars’ would look at it and go, ‘What is this?’
“And then it disappeared. We thought we could put it in a shallow grave and nobody would really find it.”
Enter: the internet, where all shallow graves are eventually dug up. As Vilanch recalled, “When I started doing podcasts during COVID, people way younger than I am would say, ‘“The Star Wars Holiday Special,” how did that happen? Who said yes? And have they paid their debt to society?’”
Vilanch writes of the “keyboard warriors” who track him down when they discover he was among the parties responsible for such trainwrecks. They also want to know about the 1989 Oscars, which kicked off with the spectacle of Snow White, played by the relatively anonymous Eileen Bowman, interacting with stars in the audience wearing a collective look of “What on Earth is happening right now?” This led into a duet with Lowe on a Hollywood-themed version of “Proud Mary.”
The response was less than enthusiastic. But Vilanch was essentially an innocent bystander, even as a writer on the show. The bit was the brainchild of producer Allan Carr, who also hired (and fired) Vilanch on “Can’t Stop the Music” (and, it should be noted, also produced the massive 1978 blockbuster “Grease”). The Oscars debacle effectively ended Carr’s career. He died in 1999.
“They had delivered the show to Allan as a savior because the ratings had been going down, and there was some fresh blood at the Academy,” Vilanch said. “His mandate was, ‘Make it different, make it young, make it unusual.’ So they were trying not to second-guess him. And that proved to be fatal.” Vilanch still has a soft spot for his late friend, and is currently working on a theater piece about him.
That telecast didn’t slow Vilanch’s roll. He reigned for many years as the wisecracking center square on “Hollywood Squares,” a space once occupied by Paul Lynde, for whom Vilanch wrote another special featured in the book, 1976’s “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.” A game of Six Degrees of Bruce Vilanch would include Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Steven Tyler, Roseanne Barr and a long list of others. The guy knows, and has written for, a lot of people.
“When you do the Oscars you meet the stars who are just guesting on the show, and they’re all marching through your office with their publicists and their spouses and their holistic pet psychiatrists and all the other people in their entourage,” he said. “So you do meet a lot of people and I love that.”
He helped serve up a lot of turkeys. And now he gets to gobble.
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### [Bruce Vilanch On His Biggest Flops, Awards Shows, and Bette](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/13/bruce-vilanch-on-his-biggest-flops-awards-shows-and-bette/)
**Published:** March 13, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## Metro Weekly
Bruce Vilanch On His Biggest Flops, Awards Shows, and Bette
By André Hereford
March 13, 2025
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Bruce Vilanch, the famously bespectacled writer, actor, comedian, songwriter, and erstwhile Hollywood Square, has long been the sassy pen behind some of your favorite funny people’s funniest jokes. But, on this late-winter afternoon, he and I settled in for a cozy video chat about the times the funny flopped.
In his insightful, hysterical new book, ***It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote***, the two-time Emmy-winner pulls back the curtain on a litany of infamous misfires he had a hand in, like The Star Wars Holiday Special.
Based on George Lucas’ characters and concepts, the special aired around Thanksgiving 1978 to a TV audience mystified by the musical variety show featuring Chewbacca’s Wookiee relatives, guest stars Art Carney, Bea Arthur, and Harvey Korman, and precious little else that made much sense.
“The phone didn’t ring too much the weekend the show aired,” Vilanch writes in the book, which broadly chronicles his career of hits and misses in Hollywood since the early ’70s. “The ones who did call were mildly amused by what they had seen. They recognized the show for what it was. The ones who really would have appreciated it were too stoned to reach for their remotes.”
Vilanch is characteristically irreverent throughout the book, whether discussing the slings and arrows of writing for the Academy Awards telecast for 25 years or considering the legacy of his performance as the evil emperor Weird Wendon, a disembodied head plopped onto an android body, in the 1984 Star Wars-parodying disaster The Ice Pirates.
Initially, Vilanch was called in during the troubled Ice Pirates production merely to “fluff” up the comedy, as the sci-fi adventure starring Robert Urich evolved into a spoof. But somehow, the funny man wound up as a severed head bouncing down a set of stairs.
“It’s amazing how many people know it,” Vilanch marvels now. “Anjelica Huston, it was her second movie and she won an Oscar for her third movie. So they had nothing to show when they would \[do\] ‘It’s Anjelica Huston Night on TNT,’ and they had to show those three movies.”
Like many so-called failures, “Ice Pirates never went away,” Vilanch says. The film has gained cult status, as his pal Huston attests. “She says, whenever she’s interviewed by somebody younger, the first question is, ‘Tell me about The Ice Pirates. How did that happen?’ Which is actually what my book is. People saying to me, ‘How did that happen? Who said yes to that?!’”
Although, sometimes the more pertinent question is “What were you thinking?” — as I asked Vilanch regarding a project not mentioned in the book, the 1985 dance-pop album Sex Over the Phone by The Village People, another perplexing item on his lengthy resumé.
Vilanch co-wrote the album’s suggestive title track and other tunes with the group’s late producer-impresario Jacques Morali, after the two collaborated on another box-office bomb that’s reported in the book, the disco-themed curio Can’t Stop the Music.
“After the debacle of Can’t Stop the Music, Jacques continued with the Village People, \[and\] he wanted me to write an album,” Vilanch recalls. “So we wrote an album and it was called Sex Over the Phone. That was a popular thing in those days before the internet and smartphones and all that, the hotlines.”
The video for the track — which we highly recommend as a chaser to this story — is a beautiful relic of mid-eighties music video “edge,” and a daring representation of the queer sensibility that Vilanch, who’s been out as a gay man his entire career, has always infused into his work.
Even as we sit parsing his greatest flops, he currently has a hit — the Dolly Parton musical Here You Come Again, for which he co-wrote the stage book — making its gay way around the world. It seems like a good idea, for the time being, to keep counting on Vilanch for laughs.
METRO WEEKLY: In the book, you mention you have the EGOT of TV writing, since you’ve written for all the shows — the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys. Which is the toughest gig?
BRUCE VILANCH: The toughest gig is the Oscars, because it’s the most observed, and there are so many fragile egos on the line. And it is a big deal. They’re so fraught with emotion, there’s so much riding on it.
The Tonys are wonderful because they’re very supportive. It’s people who are doing shows eight days a week, and they’re at the top of their game. So you know the performances are going to be terrific. And they also are accustomed to being on stage live, so when they come up to accept an award, it’s fun, it’s theater. Even when they present something, it’s fun and it’s theater. So that’s just a gift to do that show. Of course, the same seven million people watch it every year. It’s never more, never less. It’s always the same seven million people.
The Grammys are fun, but the Grammys have become a concert show. They have like 88 categories, and they can do maybe 12 in three hours. So they have to do the most popular things, and it’s become famous for the mashups, the duets, and the special-event aura that comes from that.
The Emmys are hard only because it’s the same people winning every year for a stretch. The Game of Thrones stretch, the Sopranos stretch. And now, what we’re looking at, The Bear. Also, the dichotomy of the Emmys is that the town — what we call “the town” — is in love with certain shows that the public doesn’t necessarily embrace, like The Bear. I mean, the town loves The Bear. It’s on Hulu, and who knows what fraction of America actually watches it, as opposed to a rerun of The Big Bang Theory, which is a big popular network show. So that’s always weird because you have to reinvent it every year, and it’s the same people parading up. And also, there’s no, what we used to call, entertainment value on the Emmys. They stopped doing production numbers. Maybe they’ll do one, depending on who they get to host, but it’s a parade of people you’ve seen already.
MW: As far as your skills are concerned, what is your secret to writing funny?
VILANCH: If you could bottle that, I’d be much wealthier. I mean, I wouldn’t be talking to you from this man cave. I would be at my burned-out beach house or something like that.
I think it’s just a way of looking at the world that develops when you’re a kid, mostly. And some people keep it very close to the chest until they’re older, but when you’re a kid, and you’re not a standard-issue kid, when you’re not athletic and you’re awkward and you have a life of the mind, and you find that if you can make them laugh, as Whoopi says, you’ll get a head start. They won’t come after you because you’re the funny one.
I once said this a few years ago on The View, and Joy Behar said, “Well, I had a wonderful childhood.” I’m not going to fight with that. I don’t know her childhood. She apparently does. So I think it is kind of an ingrained thing that comes from, I just think it blossoms at different stages of people’s life where they say, “Okay, oh, I can do this. I can write this or I can perform this.” The stand-up comics are generally the kids who were banished from the Thanksgiving table because they would make jokes about the relatives, because that was how they expressed themselves. Now, I was the kid who was dancing at Thanksgiving, whether you wanted me to or not. So I think we see all this stuff early on, and it just stays with you. You either got that or you don’t.
MW: Other than the fact that it’s funny to talk about flops, why compile a book of misfires?
VILANCH: \[Laughs.\] Well, it seemed like a bad idea at the time. I just did so many podcasts during COVID, where people were just on podcasts and entertaining each other online, and all these Gen X and younger guys would be asking me about these TV shows that they had encountered on YouTube. These were all things that were done before they were born, and they sincerely wanted to know how things happened.
And so I started explaining why this happened and that happened, and how George \[Lucas\] managed to sell CBS a musical special starring characters who cannot sing, dance, or even move in their costume. So as I was doing this, I said, there’s a book in this, because I had so many of them. The Brady Bunch Hour, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, The Ice Pirates, Can’t Stop the Music. I mean, they would find things that they had seen way after I was involved in them. And I thought, well, this is interesting because people want to know how did these disasters occur?
MW: I have a couple of “How did this happen?” questions, but they’re not necessarily about disasters. I’m just going to throw one out there: “Where Is My Man” by Eartha Kitt, which I was unaware of, until yesterday.
VILANCH: Really?
MW: Yeah. I don’t think I’d heard it in a club or anything.
VILANCH: Because you weren’t around in a disco when it was out in a disco.
MW: Did you and your co-writers \[Fred Zarr and Jacques Morali\] write it for Eartha Kitt? How did the song find its way to her?
VILANCH: Jacques Morali, who created The Village People, and I got friendly on Can’t Stop the Music. And afterwards, he said to me, \[thick French accent\] “Darling, I think you are a lyricist.” He’s very French. And I said, “Okay, thank you.” And he had a show in Paris. There was a club called The Crazy Horse, which was a famous club in Paris, and it was all gorgeous, six-foot-tall Amazonian women with huge boobs, and they lip-synched to recordings, many of which were original songs done by famous singers.
And he said, “I’m working with Eartha Kitt. I’ve got to write a song for Crazy Horse, and you can write the lyric.” He gave me the melody and the title, “Where Is My Man.” So I wrote a lyric to it, and he liked it, and he said, “Now we have to pitch it to Eartha.”
Eartha was living in Connecticut, raising a kid and had been blacklisted after she spoke truth to power. She went to the White House and talked to LBJ about Vietnam, and she was kind of blackballed after that for a while. She was looking to reemerge. And so we recorded the demo, and I kind of did my Eartha Kitt impression. “I don’t want to be alone/Where is my baby?/I don’t want to be alone/Where is my man?” And she called me up, and she said, “You do a very good impression of me. If I hear you are getting paid for it, I will kill you.”
So, we went to New York and she recorded it, and then Jacques went back to Paris and it went into the show, where it was sung by a six-foot-tall blonde Amazonian woman doing Eartha Kitt’s voice, lip-syncing. It was hilarious. And Jacques’ partner, Henri Belolo, in Paris, got a record deal for a disco record, and it went all over the world. I have gold records, platinum records everywhere but the U.S., where they wouldn’t play disco on the radio. Back then, it was AM radio and a couple of FM stations that were called Progressive. That meant they played album cuts. The AM stations played singles. And this was neither nor — this was a 12-inch, you should pardon the expression.
It was so big that we did an album called Where Is My Man. I mean, we wrote about 12 other songs for Eartha, and some of them were very funny, and none of them got the traction that “Where Is My Man” got. But it really did bring her back, because all over the world, suddenly she was a star and she would go play all the clubs that she used to play in and do concerts. And she couldn’t do this number because she had to sing to track. She would have a combo with her because she was doing her old nightclub act. But she wound up doing a lot of theater and all that. I mean, she never went away after that. Eventually, she found a way to do it. I was in Chicago, and she was appearing at a disco there singing the song. And she said, “I’m going to sing your song because I know you wrote it for me, but it’s really about you.”
MW: Was her insight true?
VILANCH: What, where is my man? Oh, of course, I’m on the endless hunt. Yeah, sure. I’m still looking. So was she, but actually, she would never let on. I mean, I think actually that part of her life had ended. She was very busy being a grandmother and having a good time, because it was truly a Norma Desmond comeback, a real one. I mean, she came back with guns blazing. She was fabulous, a fabulous character. I loved her.
MW: It’s timely we’re talking about people coming back since you write in the book about Victor Willis leaving the Village People and the movie Can’t Stop the Music partly because he didn’t want to be branded with the pro-gay image. And now, he’s back, using the Village People — and letting the Village People be used — as a tool for the right wing, which is bizarre. How does that strike you, knowing from exactly where they came?
VILANCH: I didn’t get to know Victor because he was… Well, I did get to know him a little bit before he left. He quit right before the picture started shooting. I was already off the picture, but Allan Carr kept calling me for things because we were friends. And even though there was a salary dispute, he kept calling. So I think that Victor was always conflicted. Also, there’ve been a lot of substances in Victor’s life, not the Demi Moore kind, other kinds of substances. And I think in his mind, he always felt that it was an acting job. He is willfully ignoring the fact that Jacques wrote all those things about his experiences as a gay man from Paris coming to New York in the ’70s. So I think \[Victor\] got control of the Village People because they gave him a writing credit on “YMCA” and a few of the other songs. I don’t know how that happened. So now he owns it all, and he’s restaffed it with people. He sees people doing “YMCA” at baseball games, standing up in the stands and doing a wave with all the “YMCA” stuff, like it’s a “Macarena.” So as far as he’s concerned, I think all the sexuality has been removed from it. He probably really does believe what he is now saying, and he likes the fact that Trump is using it because Trump won. But to try and figure out, and go into the mind of Victor, it’s a task above my pay grade.
MW: Something of a similar stripe, our magazine actually ran a story recently about the Dolly Parton musical, Here You Come Again. They were on their U.K. tour and being disrupted on basically every stop by people who were objecting to the gay content.
VILANCH: That’s an exaggeration. There was one drunk Karen in Manchester, and the actor who was playing the lead opposite the actress who plays Dolly Parton got a lot of press by putting this thing online. While I applaud him for taking a stand, because he is gay himself, it’s not exactly accurate. I mean, yes, in every city we’ve ever played it, in the States or the U.K., there are walkouts because there are homophobes everywhere. And when they come to the theater and they discover that it’s about a gay guy and she’s helping him with his problems, they don’t want any part of that. But it’s a very small group. This was the first time anybody had ever actually stood up and spoke back to the stage, and made a literal disruption.
So it was wildly exaggerated. On the other hand, it got the show a lot of press, so what can I say? Y’know, no publicity is bad publicity. And we finished in the U.K. last week, and now we go to Australia for six months starting in June. Who knows what’ll happen there.
One headline said, “Dolly Show Suspended.” I thought, “Suspended. What are they talking about? I’m getting a check every week.” And they said, “No, that performance was suspended while that woman was escorted out.” Oh, I see, that kind of suspension. So it’s amazing how the media, especially now when everybody is online, it’s all this keyboard warfare, how it’s all blown out of proportion.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t want to belittle the fact that the homophobia is out there, no question about it. And it’s been a delicate marketing situation because you don’t want to scare people away because it’s not a gay play. It’s about people. At one point, we were in Nashville, actually, and somebody at the theater said, “Well, you could make it a straight guy that she’s helping out.” And the play is about a guy who’s a gay comic, the club closed, he never happened. And he’s quarantining during COVID in the attic of his parents’ home in Longview, Texas, having an intimate relationship with his imaginary friend, Dolly Parton, who steps off a poster. He’s a Dolly Parton fan. And it’s about what happens that night and how she straightens him out, as it were. I said, a straight guy spending a night with Dolly Parton would have other things on his mind that would not be in this play. So that’s a page-one rewrite. I don’t think so.
MW: Good defense.
VILANCH: Yeah. That’s another play. And also because Dolly has been such an ally to everyone, but especially to gay people. I mean her whole idea, her classic line, she says, “Well, if I came back in another life, it would be as a drag queen.”
MW: Did you and your co-writers get to spend time with Dolly to write this?
VILANCH: I had worked with her over the course of 30 years. I’d worked with her on her TV show and her stage act. And so, I knew her, and she knew Trisha \[Paoluccio\], who was playing her, because Trisha played her in the 9 to 5 musical, so she had seen her, and in fact, Dolly had cast approval and said “She can play me anytime, anywhere.” But once we had it together and we did a Zoom of it, we sent it to her because we needed the music rights. And I thought, “Nah, she’s not going to do this, she’s got her brand.” And she loved it. She’s become our partner.
MW: Way to go, Dolly. Did you work on the variety show where she comes down in the swing?
VILANCH: Why, yes, I did.
MW: Oh, my God, I love that show!
VILANCH: I was part of the rescue team that came in when the ratings were tanking, and they said, “You know, she’s not Carol Burnett. We can’t turn her into that. We have to focus on her strengths.” And that’s when I was brought in to do it. And it became less of a sketch thing and more of a show about her in various places, various gimmicks that we used, but there were still a few sketches. I mean, she had a couple of characters. She had a truck stop waitress that was a great character, and a truck stop, the stories literally drive in the front door. They don’t put on the brakes. So that was always a good thing, a good place to go.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. It flamed out brilliantly. I mean, by the time it ended after the first season, they canceled it, so she didn’t have to do a second season. It was a pay-or-play deal, which is always wonderful. They pay you for not working. It’s fabulous. I love passive income.
MW: So that seems like one of the hits because you tease in the intro of this book that there could be a book of the hits. Are you really planning that? What might be in that?
VILANCH: Well, I’m not, but I suppose it would be the Oscar shows that worked, and Hairspray, which I did for two years. I mean, I would write memories of that. And I don’t know, Bette Midler probably, but I don’t want to write a book about Bette Midler. We made a pact that we wouldn’t write a book about each other. She doesn’t want to write a book about herself anyway, so it’s fine. But I don’t know. I really haven’t thought about it because part of what interested me in doing this book was I didn’t have to do a memoir. People say, “Oh, write a book. You have great stories.” And I thought, “Oh, everybody writes that book, and I want to find some other way in.” So if this one works and they come pounding on my door saying, “More! More!” maybe I’ll find more flops, I don’t know. I have no shortage of either, so it’s a good thing.
MW: You also talk a lot about the people that will call you up and ask for some material here, a few jokes there. The people you talk about are amazing: Bob Hope, Diana Ross, Midler. Who, among the people that you’ve worked with this way, was the funniest without any assistance?
VILANCH: Oh, my God. Well, I suppose Robin. Robin Williams comes to mind because he was a font. It just kind of poured out of him. He was really, really funny.
I mean, what happens is when you start working and nobody’s interested in you, you write all your own material. Then you hit, and suddenly, you’re in what Joni Mitchell called the star-making machinery, and you’re all wrapped up in being on Fallon and Colbert and all these things. The time you used to have to write is gone. You’re very busy being in makeup and hair and all of that, and talking to your lawyer. So that’s when you begin taking on collaborators. And that was generally where I would step in, with people like Billy Crystal and Bette and Nathan Lane and all of these people. It happens after they have established themselves.
So they’re all funny to begin with. They’re all brilliant to begin with. They’re all driven. Some of them are real type-A personalities that you have to realize these are the people who become the head of General Motors or President of the United States or something like that, because they’re alphas. And you have to remember when you’re dealing with an alpha, the alpha is who matters most. As wonderful as they are as people, they are alphas, so they’re looking out for themselves.
But they’re all brilliant to begin with, the ones who I’ve worked with. So it’s hard to say who was automatically funny, but Robin, with that machine gun delivery of funny stuff, he was one of a kind. Although he would bow to Jonathan Winters, who was his mentor and inspiration, who was similar that way, but he was weirder. Robin was much more of his generation.
MW: Who are your comedy inspirations?
VILANCH: Well, I liked all the fat guys when I was growing up. Jackie Gleason, Zero Mostel. I liked the fat guys who could dance, move well. I wanted to do that, and those were the ones, because I thought I had a shot at being something like that. I mean, I had a lot of people who I thought were brilliantly funny, obviously — Jack Benny’s timing was like nobody else’s. But I had a soft spot for the fat guys. Even the dramatic ones, like Wallace Beery. Wallace Beery was a big MGM star, and he was not pretty. He was a character actor with a gravelly voice, but he had terrific timing. If you see him in Grand Hotel or Dinner at Eight, he’s always playing the self-made guy who came from the gutter and really is not polished at all, but is moving among high society and they consider him a buffoon and he’s trying his best to be accepted by them. So there’s an undercurrent of sadness to everything he does, but he has great timing in the way he does it.
MW: Something else you mentioned in your book, two things that were gay awakenings for me. One, you talk about watching Tony Danza train at —
VILANCH: Boxing. Yes!
MW: Train at boxing during off-moments shooting Taxi. You also mentioned Battle of the Network Stars, which was absolutely a gay awakening for me, thanks to John James from Dynasty and Willie Aames. I asked about your comedy inspirations. What about your gay awakening?
VILANCH: My gay awakening? What does that mean, realizing you’re gay?
MW: I guess, yes, some idol that might’ve made you aware.
VILANCH: There wasn’t one, there were just a whole lot of them. When I was growing up, I was in love with Fabian and Tab Hunter, who I actually got to know as an adult, and Troy Donahue, who I got to know as an adult, and Tony Curtis — I got to know them all, actually. I mean, I fantasized about them when I was a kid, and then I got to actually meet all of them and have fun with some of them.
MW: What kind of fun are you talking?
VILANCH: It wasn’t a single thing. My awakening of what I wanted to do was when I was about, I don’t know, eight and I went to see my first Broadway show, which was a musical, a flop called The Vamp that starred Carol Channing. She was this apparition with these big eyes and big mouth, and everything she did was large and timed brilliantly, and the stage was gorgeous and full of pink lights. I said, “Well, I just want to live on that stage. I just want to be in that world.” There you go. And the first movie was The Greatest Show on Earth, which was a circus picture. I think it was always something I wanted to do, and my birth mother was a showgirl, so I think that some of it comes from that, down in the womb.
MW: You didn’t know that, I’m presuming, because in the book acknowledgments, you mentioned your “newfound birth family.” How did that come about? Did that happen recently?
VILANCH: Well, DNA was invented, and after my mother died at 95, I spit into a cup and seven years later, a first cousin showed up and we reached out to each other and I discovered through DNA and Ancestry, 23andMe, all those things, confirmed that this was my birth family. The elder generation was gone except for one Aunt Helen who has a gay son — so I wasn’t the first gay element in the family — but everything matched up. So I discovered this phenomenal new family. They all live out here in L.A. in what I call Kardashistan. It’s out in Calabasas, where all those reality people live. And it’s been great finding all that out, the last thing I expected to happen in this part of my life.
MW: That’s really great. So, your last question pertains to another book that you had writing in, but it wasn’t your book, A. Ashley Hoff’s With Love, Mommie Dearest. You wrote in there that you were at one point going to do the Mommie Dearest musical, which didn’t happen.
VILANCH: Yeah. I tell that story in the foreword to his book.
MW: I feel like you probably have a bunch of interesting ideas that didn’t happen.
VILANCH: Yeah, that could be the next book, stuff that didn’t fly.
MW: There you go. You’ve got your title. What else didn’t fly that you wish had?
VILANCH: Oh my God, it’s so arcane. When I mention it, it won’t mean anything to anybody. But Patrick Dennis, who wrote Auntie Mame, had a book called Genius, which is a hilarious novel about a disgraced director like Orson Welles at the time, who is fleeing the tax man in Mexico, living with one of his old mistresses. And he has to make a movie on a shoestring to pay off his tax debt to go back to the States. He cobbles it together from all the elements down there.
It’s a hilarious novel, and it’s been tied up in a rights dispute for sixty years now. There was a movie called The Stuntman that Peter O’Toole did that was similar to it, to the idea. But that is my personal favorite that got away. This never happened, but I’m sure there are others that I haven’t thought about. Now, that’s a good question. I’ll have to start thinking about it.
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### [Bruce Vilanch: I Am Not Travis Kelce's Mom!](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/09/bruce-vilanch-i-am-not-travis-kelces-mom/)
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## New York Post
Comedian Bruce Vilanch says people have mistaken him for Travis Kelce’s mom, Donna
By Nicki Cox
March 9, 2025
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Comedian Bruce Vilanch says people have mistaken him for [**Travis Kelce’s**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Kelce) mom, Donna
[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bio.htm) hilariously revealed that fans — and even some of his friends — have mistaken him for Travis Kelce’s mom, **[Donna Kelce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Kelce).**
During an appearance on “The View” Monday, the comedian, 76, jokingly introduced himself to viewers who might not be familiar with his work.
“I would just like to say for you football fans out there, I am not Travis Kelce’s mother,” Vilanch said as the audience erupted in laughter.
Comedian Bruce Vilanch appeared on “The View” Monday.
Vilanch joked that he has been compared to Donna Kelce.
“The resemblance is alarming, I will give you.”
The Kelces have become one of the most famous families ever since Travis started dating Taylor Swift in 2023.
As their visibility has grown, so has the confusion, Vilanch joked.
“People call me and say, ‘Dude, \[are you\] at the Super Bowl? What are you doing in a box with Taylor?’” he joked.
Donna is the mother of NFL star Travis Kelce.
“The resemblance is alarming,” he joked.
With their matching shoulder-length blond hair, bangs and go-to round, red glasses, Vilanch admitted that he can understand how people make the mix-up.
“And I looked and I thought, ‘Yeah, we are each other’s doppelgänger,’” he said, gesturing a phone to his ear. “So, Donna, \[call me\].”
The award-winning writer also played into the joke during an interview with The Telegraph, joining his Zoom call with the outlet under the name “Travis Kelce’s mother.”
“I want them to stay together because I want to ride this joke for a while,” he told the publication in an interview published Sunday.
Both Vilanch and Donna have shoulder-length blond hair and wear glasses.
The writer, 76, called Donna, 72, his “doppelgänger.”
Vilanch has been making the media rounds ahead of the release of his new memoir, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” which comes out Tuesday.
The comedian recounts some of his most notorious flops in the book — including the Rob Lowe’s infamously bad opening number at the 1989 Oscar ceremony.
While the 61st Academy Awards wasn’t his best work, Vilanch has had plenty of time to redeem himself.
The comedian appeared on the daytime talkshow to discuss his new memoir.
“It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time” comes out March 4.
He has written for 25 Oscars ceremonies, working with hosts such as Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin and more.
Although Vilanch didn’t write for last night’s show, he thought it went “great.”
“I thought \[Conan O’Brien\] did a fabulous job,” he told the “View” panel, calling it an overall “classy and well-handled” production.
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**Tags:** #BruceVilanch, #Comedian, #DonnaKelce, #Doppelganger, #itseemedlikabadideaatthetime, #TravisKelce
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### [Bruce Vilanch Is On The Cover Of Metro Weekly](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/09/bruce-vilanch-is-on-the-cover-of-metro-weekly/)
**Published:** March 9, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch is on the cover of Washington D.C.'s Metro Weekly with a great, long article written by Andre Hereford.
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch Is On The Cover Of Metro Weekly
By Mister D
March 9, 2025
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Bruce Vilanch is on the cover of Washington D.C.’s [**Metro Weekly**](https://www.metroweekly.com/) with a great, long article written by Andre Hereford. Of course, Bruce’s new book, *[**It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/),* is discussed along with life stories, and the celebrities he’s worked with. A must read!
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**Tags:** #BruceVilanch, #Cover, #ItSeemedLikeABadIdeaAtTheTime, #Magazine, #MetroWeekly, #WashingtonDC
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### [Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/05/bruce-vilanch-has-written-some-of-the-biggest-disasters-on-tv-hes-embracing-his-legacy/)
**Published:** March 5, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy
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## Los Angeles Times
Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy
By Chris Vogner
March 5, 2025
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Bruce Vilanch has written ‘some of the biggest disasters’ on TV. He’s embracing his legacy
**On the Shelf**
**It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time**
***By Bruce Vilanch***
*Chicago Review Press: 256 pages, $29*
Remember that Snow White-Rob Lowe debacle at the 1989 Oscars? How about the galactically bizarre 1978 **[“Star Wars Holiday Special”?](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/10/the-star-wars-holiday-special-part-two-with-bruce-vilanch/)** Or the 1980 Village People disco bomb “Can’t Stop the Music”?
Bruce Vilanch had a hand in all of the above, and lived to kiss and tell — and now write about it. His new book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” details his involvement in some of the most gloriously awful moments in the history of entertainment. Never the shy or retiring type, Vilanch is happy to embrace his legacy (which is easier to do when you’ve also won two Emmys and written for 25 Oscar telecasts).
“These were some of the biggest disasters, but everybody has disasters,” he told The Times in a recent interview. “It wasn’t like they said, ‘Oh, this is s—. Let’s get Vilanch.’ It’s just the luck of the draw. It’s just the way things turned out.”
Vilanch, now a snarky and youthful 76, comes across as a big, caustically friendly and wonderfully gay Muppet. He’s successful enough to have been the subject of an excellent documentary about the craft of comedy (1999’s [**“Get Bruce,”**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce) featuring Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Nathan Lane, among others), and he’s seasoned enough to know where plenty of bodies are buried.
And yes, he helped write some serious stinkers.
Some of this can be attributed to the era when he made his showbiz bones. The ’70s was the decade of the prime-time TV special, usually built around a middling star and featuring talent from the airing network. (Synergy. It’s been around for a minute.) The specials were a blatant attempt to offer something for everyone, in a precable epoch defined by broadcasting, as opposed to today’s narrowcasting.
“Many of these things were made in a cloud of smoke,” Vilanch said. “It was also just a crazy period when it was a three- or four-channel universe, so you could get away with a whole lot of stuff because a lot of people were coming home and watching television at a certain hour. People actually sat down in the living room. They only do that now for a few events, either a football game or Nikki Glaser roasting a football player.”
Such were the circumstances that gave us “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” George Lucas’ space adventure — there was only the one at the time — was red-hot. As Vilanch writes, “Either someone at CBS, or someone at ILM, or someone in the IRA, or someone on the IRT — depends on which version you’ve heard — suggested producing some sort of ‘Star Wars’ spectacle for TV to keep the franchise bubbling on the burner of public awareness until the second installment was released.”
The results, which aired Nov. 17, 1978, were not spectacular, but they were spectacularly strange. I could sense this even as a “Star Wars”-besotted 8-year-old. The story, such as it is, involves Chewbacca’s mission to return to his home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day. The major cast members were on hand. So were CBS mainstays including Art Carney, Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman, all of whom stopped in to do wacky bits.
“We were doing the thing on a hand-painted set pulled together from other things,” Vilanch said. “We didn’t go to London for six months to shoot this thing. It was crazy. We had hand-me-down aliens that we had to get at the outlet store. Anybody who was interested in ‘Star Wars’ would look at it and go, ‘What is this?’
“And then it disappeared. We thought we could put it in a shallow grave and nobody would really find it.”
Enter: the internet, where all shallow graves are eventually dug up. As Vilanch recalled, “When I started doing podcasts during COVID, people way younger than I am would say, ‘“The Star Wars Holiday Special,” how did that happen? Who said yes? And have they paid their debt to society?’”
Vilanch writes of the “keyboard warriors” who track him down when they discover he was among the parties responsible for such trainwrecks. They also want to know about the 1989 Oscars, which kicked off with the spectacle of Snow White, played by the relatively anonymous Eileen Bowman, interacting with stars in the audience wearing a collective look of “What on Earth is happening right now?” This led into a duet with Lowe on a Hollywood-themed version of “Proud Mary.”
The response was less than enthusiastic. But Vilanch was essentially an innocent bystander, even as a writer on the show. The bit was the brainchild of producer Allan Carr, who also hired (and fired) Vilanch on “Can’t Stop the Music” (and, it should be noted, also produced the massive 1978 blockbuster “Grease”). The Oscars debacle effectively ended Carr’s career. He died in 1999.
“They had delivered the show to Allan as a savior because the ratings had been going down, and there was some fresh blood at the Academy,” Vilanch said. “His mandate was, ‘Make it different, make it young, make it unusual.’ So they were trying not to second-guess him. And that proved to be fatal.” Vilanch still has a soft spot for his late friend, and is currently working on a theater piece about him.
That telecast didn’t slow Vilanch’s roll. He reigned for many years as the wisecracking center square on “Hollywood Squares,” a space once occupied by Paul Lynde, for whom Vilanch wrote another special featured in the book, 1976’s “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.” A game of Six Degrees of Bruce Vilanch would include Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Steven Tyler, Roseanne Barr and a long list of others. The guy knows, and has written for, a lot of people.
“When you do the Oscars you meet the stars who are just guesting on the show, and they’re all marching through your office with their publicists and their spouses and their holistic pet psychiatrists and all the other people in their entourage,” he said. “So you do meet a lot of people and I love that.”
He helped serve up a lot of turkeys. And now he gets to gobble.
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**Tags:** #Book, #BruceVilanch, #Comedy, #ItSeemedLikeABadIdeaAtTheTime, #Legacy, #LGBT
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### [One Last Time, Bruce Vilanch Is Not Travis Kelcie's Mother](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/05/one-last-time-bruce-vilanch-is-not-travis-kelcies-mother/)
**Published:** March 5, 2025
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## OutSports
Despite popular belief, Bruce Vilanch is NOT Travis Kelce’s mom. But you’ll never unsee it.
By Cyd Zieglar
March 4, 2025
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# Bruce Vilanch was on ‘The View’ to discuss his book, and images of his doppelganger, Travis Kelce’s mom, showed up.
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Bruce Vilanch is not [Travis Kelce](https://www.outsports.com/2024/12/23/24105446/when-travis-kelce-met-gay-comedian-billy-eichner-at-madonnas-party-he-totally-blew-it/)‘s mom.
That was the first thing one Hollywood’s great writers was quick to share with the women of “[The View](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyWRRWY8XU)” this week as he’s on a tour [for his new book](https://www.queerty.com/from-the-village-people-to-89-oscars-writer-bruce-vilanch-on-the-the-campiest-tv-movie-flops-of-all-time-20250302/), “[It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914091921/).”
Appearing in a perfectly chosen T-shirt — Vilanch is famous for wearing a different, fun T-shirt every day — the “storyteller without peer,” as Bette Midler calls him, regaled the women with a quick insight into his own personal [Super Bowl LIX ](https://www.outsports.com/2025/2/9/24107006/super-bowl-lix-eagles-chiefs-gay-guide/)experience.
“For all you football fans out there,” Vilanch said, “I am not Travis Kelce’s mother.”
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Up on the TV screen then popped a side-by-side of Vilanch and Mama Kelce.
“The resemblance is alarming,” Vilanch declared.
He’s not wrong.
Vilanch then told the story of how he came to find his separated-at-birth twin, Donna Kelce.
“People called me and said, at the Super Bowl, what are you doing in a box with Taylor?” He shared. “And I looked and I thought, we are each other’s doppelganger.”
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### [NPR's Scott Simon talks with comedian Bruce Vilanch about his new book](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/03/01/nprs-scott-simon-talks-with-comedian-bruce-vilanch-about-his-new-book/)
**Published:** March 1, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** NPR's Scott Simon talks with comedian Bruce Vilanch about his new book, "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time," which details some of the worst television of the twentieth century and his role in it.
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## NPR
NPR’s Scott Simon talks with comedian Bruce Vilanch about his new book
By Scott Simon
March 1, 2025
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NPR’s [**Scott Simon**](https://www.npr.org/people/3874941/scott-simon) talks with comedian [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/) about his new book, “[**It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/),” which details some of the worst television of the twentieth century and his role in it.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The Academy Awards are Sunday night. I’d like to thank my director, my agent, my – oh, wait. You know who we need? Bruce Vilanch. He’s co-authored 25 Oscar shows and Tony Grammy and Emmy ceremonies, as well as written for Cher, Barbra Streisand, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams. I could go on. But Bruce Vilanch also had a hand in this.
(SOUNDBITE OF 61ST ACADEMY AWARDS)
MERV GRIFFIN: Isn’t it exciting, Snow? Isn’t it thrilling? It gets better. Meet your blind date, Rob Lowe.
SIMON: The 1989 Oscars and Snow White’s duet with Rob Lowe – a legend of the worst kind. Bruce Vilanch has written a spirited memoir that makes more fun of himself than anyone else. “It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time: The Worst TV Shows In History And Other Things I Wrote.” Bruce Vilanch joins us from Hollywood. Thanks so much for being with us.
BRUCE VILANCH: I’m delighted. (Laughter) I had no idea that that Rob Lowe clip actually existed. I thought the Academy stomped all of them out.
SIMON: You are known as kind of the poet laureate of award shows. What’s the challenge in the art to that?
VILANCH: Well, you have to write for everybody. I mean, it’s not like being a playwright where you come up with the characters. People present themselves to you with what persona they have. The hard part is when actors who are movie stars are accustomed to just stepping into a role. They don’t really have a persona. They don’t do their one-night stand at Carnegie Hall. So you have to come up with a way for them to speak to the occasion. But you have to exercise some due diligence and figure out who they are so that when they come out on stage, they seem to be natural (laughter) – harder than you think.
SIMON: Yeah. Do you have to prepare ad-libs in advance, if I might put it that way?
VILANCH: Well, we do. But, you know, we rarely get to use them because on an award show, which is, you know, coming to you live, things happen, and the host has to come out and react to them so you know it’s live, live. You can kind of plan for something. But just when you think you’ve got the perfect jokes, something happens and the show takes a left turn and you can’t use it. So it’s more about just kind of being on your feet the whole time.
SIMON: I can’t delay much longer – 1978 “Star Wars Holiday Special.”
VILANCH: I know. It’s irresistible.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, “STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL”)
HARRISON FORD: (As Han Solo) That’s it. I’m turning back.
PETER MAYHEW: (As Chewbacca, vocalizing).
FORD: (As Han Solo) I know your family’s waiting.
MAYHEW: (As Chewbacca, vocalizing).
FORD: (As Han Solo) I know it’s an important day.
MAYHEW: (As Chewbacca, vocalizing).
SIMON: That’s Harrison Ford as Han Solo trying to rush the starship.
VILANCH: Yeah. Well, that was our problem. The wookiees were the stars, and you heard what the wookiee had to say. We were writing for characters that spoke no known language, couldn’t sing, couldn’t dance, couldn’t move in their costumes.
SIMON: Wow, that is a challenge. So what…
VILANCH: I know it. And I think if George Lucas knew that a CBS variety special would involve a lot of singing and dancing, he would not have sold them a story that featured the wookiees.
SIMON: Well, in its own way, it’s quite famous, isn’t it?
VILANCH: Oh, my God, yeah. Whenever they put the list of the worst shows ever on television, it’s right up there with the “Brady Bunch Variety Hour,” another one of my stepchildren.
SIMON: What went wrong there?
VILANCH: Well, the idea was that they were a singing, dancing family that had a television series, where they sang and danced every week. Clearly, it was conceived for “The Partridge Family,” which was another show that was about a singing, dancing family. So it was a ridiculous idea. It was about this famous family in Hollywood with their famous guest stars. And at the same time, they were the Bradys. So you had to have a Brady kind of storyline. And, you know what those storylines were like – oh, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha, you threw a tennis ball and broke my nose. You know, hard to do that kind of a story in the middle of a Vegas spectacle.
SIMON: Yeah. All right, back to 1989 – Snow White, Rob Lowe, the opening number – lot of big names involved…
VILANCH: Oh, yeah.
SIMON: …At the time – Merv Griffin, Vincent Price, his wife, Coral Browne, Dorothy Lamour, Allan Carr, the producer.
VILANCH: That is the one.
SIMON: What were they thinking?
VILANCH: Well, he had seen a show in San Francisco called “Beach Blanket Babylon,” which was a big deal up there, ’cause he thought it was young and hip. The show they were doing currently featured Snow White, who had found herself in San Francisco. And it was all about all the things that she found in San Francisco that were the kind of things that Snow White would not be ready for. And in his version, Snow White had left Hollywood and now was coming home.
Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which features in a lot of movies, and was real – he had a set built that looked like the Cocoanut Grove. And Merv Griffin, who as a lad, sang at the Cocoanut Grove, sang as an older person “I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts.” So it was as gay as could be right off the start. And he peopled it with legends of the golden age. What he didn’t take into account was that they were a little bit more than golden at this point…
SIMON: (Laughter).
VILANCH: …And nobody really wanted to see them in their current state. It kind of looked like a waxworks. And so to liven it up, he said Snow White should do a number with a young, hot guy. And nobody wanted to do that. But Rob Lowe, much to his credit (laughter)…
SIMON: Yeah.
VILANCH: …He has the imp of the perverse, like I do – he signed on. The show got lambasted for that number, but it had died down by the time – two weeks afterwards when his sex tape surfaced. And it was big news.
SIMON: Yeah.
VILANCH: And every…
SIMON: We should explain Rob Lowe and some other…
VILANCH: There was a Rob Lowe sex tape.
SIMON: …At the Democratic convention.
VILANCH: He had gone to the – you should pardon the expression – Dukakis convention, and there was a tape of it. And it circulated. Everybody in Hollywood saw it. And every announcer said, Rob Lowe, most recently seen dancing with Snow White on the Academy Awards – over which the Disney Company sued. It put that show in the doghouse for the rest of time. It was known as the scandalous 1989 Academy Awards.
SIMON: It provoked no less than Dame Julie Andrews to sign a letter…
VILANCH: (Laughter).
SIMON: …Referring to it as an embarrassment to both the Academy and the entire motion picture industry.
VILANCH: Yeah, I know. I know but I’ve spoken to Julie about that over the years, and she says she never signed the letter, that somebody put her name on it.
SIMON: Yeah. Listen, I’m struck by a line that really got me in your book. You say nothing ever happens if you don’t say yes, even if it’s a bad idea.
VILANCH: It’s true (laughter). I don’t think this is a great idea, but how much are we paying me? Oh, OK. Let me see if I can make something out of it. It’s also, people will pitch you an idea, and you say well, that might work, and it winds up, you know, being fabulous. So if you reject out of hand, you’ll never know.
SIMON: You watch the Oscars even when you don’t have a hand in them?
VILANCH: Oh, I do, absolutely. Yeah. I wind up getting calls from people who don’t like what’s been written. Sometimes that’s because the last decade or so, there have been a great many talk show hosts who’ve been hosting it, and they’re not necessarily geared up to write for Keanu Reeves. People like that, who I know, call me and say could you fluff this up a little bit?
SIMON: You’re still in the game, then?
VILANCH: I’m still in the game. Yeah, exactly. I’m offsides, but I’m in the game.
SIMON: Bruce Vilanch, his memoir “It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time: The Worst TV Shows In History And Other Things I Wrote.” Next time we speak, may it be on a happier occasion.
VILANCH: (Laughter) Thank you so much. Yes.
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### [Bruce Vilanch & The Gerbil Joke That Never Made It On Air On Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/28/bruce-vilanch-the-gerbil-joke-that-never-made-it-on-air-on-oscars/)
**Published:** February 28, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## The Hollywood Reporter
Oscar Insider Bruce Vilanch on the Gerbil Joke That Never Made It to Air and the “No Fun” Host Who Killed the Buzz
By Maer Roshan
Feb 26, 2025
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The legendary joke doctor, and author of a new tell-all [**memoir**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/books/), has a few helpful tips for this year’s emcee, Conan O’Brien (and some cautionary tales).
[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://x.com/TheBruceVilanch) is a walking oxymoron: a legendary ghostwriter best known for feeding one-liners to hosts and presenters at the Academy Awards, Grammys, Emmys and Tonys. He’s worked on the Oscars off and on since 1989, the year of the infamous Rob Lowe-Snow White … whatever the hell that was. The title of the 77-year-old’s new tell-all, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time (out March 4 from Chicago Review Press), refers to that and other TV trainwrecks he’s been affiliated with. But if you’re going to blame him for, say, The Star Wars Holiday Special or The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, then you should credit him for all the genuinely hilarious Oscar night quips you never realized were his. Ahead of the 97th Academy Awards, Vilanch offers his unvarnished opinion of past hosts and reveals the best joke he ever had to cut.
The Oscars are interesting in the sense that they have this dual function. On one hand, it’s like an insider ceremony that Hollywood takes very seriously, and then it’s a show that has to reach a mass audience. As a writer, how do you navigate that tension?
With a shrimp fork. It’s very difficult because you realize that while everybody in the house is familiar with everything, people at home are going, “The Brutalist, what’s that? A wrestling picture?” But to answer your question, you try to make it work for the house because if the house is enjoying it, that spirit is seen by people at home watching it, and they kind of get into the fact that it’s working. And even though they may not know every reference that’s being made, there will be enough. You have to calibrate.
What’s the single most important advice you’ve given an Oscar night host?
I always tell hosts to frontload the show — because for everybody who wins, there are four people who don’t. And as the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and they’re not listening to you. They are texting, firing their agent, firing their dentist, whoever. So you’re not going to get the laughs you got. And many times, the camera will cut to where Eddie Murphy was sitting and it’s now a lovely lady from Pacoima who bought a dress from TJ Maxx that she got for the occasion. You better do the strong stuff up front, because you’re probably not going to build as the show goes on.
What makes a great Oscar host, beyond the ability to deliver a joke?
Well, what Jo Koy proved at the \[2024\] Golden Globes is you have to be a big star. Because if you’re going to make fun of big stars, they have to feel as if you’re on their level. There’s a very short list of people who can do that. Generally, nobody wants to do it.
Is there any upside to hosting an awards show anymore?
They’re still out there. Hey, if you’re Nikki Glaser \[host of the 2025 Globes\], there’s a great upside. And she wasn’t mean. She calibrated her stuff. Her act is very dirty and she was being a nice girl, but she had a little edge to it. I don’t know if that would’ve worked on the Oscars necessarily, because while it’s the same crowd, there’s more pomp and ceremony to the thing.
Who would you say was the worst Oscar host that you had to work with?
Who was the worst? Well, I had a problem with Ellen \[DeGeneres\], but that’s because she was … I think she was scared.
It seems you weren’t the only one to have had a hard time working with Ellen.
Yeah. I had no idea. She isolated herself a lot, and it was not fun. And I like her. I’ve known her for years. And she always was fun. But I think the burden of everything that happened to her changed her. I think that she was a little risk-averse, even though she was now on her own talk show and everything about her was out and the public loved her. I think she was very protective and wanted her people around her and that was it. So that was the only one that was really \[difficult\].
The writer flanked by Patrick Swayze (left) and Oscar telecast producer Allan Carr in 1989. Bei/Shutterstock
And did that make the show worse, in your opinion?
No, because she’s terrific. It just made it a less fun experience for us writers. That’s all. The same thing with the Franco-Hathaway show, which was a bad idea. And James kind of panicked and went to Judd Apatow, and Judd brought in four writers from his school of writers who had never done anything like this. And also, he had no persona. So what were they writing to? I mean, Pineapple Express? And then Anne, sensing that there was all this attention on him, brought in a writer of her own who was terrific. So the atmosphere was not wonderful.
We’re in the Trump years again. As a writer for the Oscars, how careful do you have to be about playing to the political sensibilities of the Hollywood audience and the audience at home?
Trump himself declared the Oscars as a war zone: Meryl Streep is an overrated actress, Robert De Niro is an overrated actor, and all these people who don’t like him … So I think, at this point, it doesn’t matter anymore, and I think people will speak their mind. I don’t think the Academy is a terribly Trumpy operation, by and large. Especially since it’s become more international and less Hollywood-centric.
As a writer, do you want those surprise political moments in the show or do you want to just stay away from them?
Well, as a writer, I love them, but I’m not out there doing them. So it really does come down to who is out there doing them. Some years ago when we invaded Iraq, Michael Moore won the documentary award for Bowling for Columbine. He came up and he started doing an anti-George Bush speech, and some stagehands began booing him and people in the audience began booing him. And he got off. Steve Martin was hosting. And there was a commercial. We’re in the back throwing jokes at each other for three minutes, then Steve came out and said, “I think it’s wonderful the stagehands are backstage helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his car.” Kind of deflated the whole idea of: See, this is what happens when you get political. And it was also a nice jibe at the people who opposed him. So, of course, I love it.
Is there a joke that you really want to tell that was never allowed, one where you feel like, “Damn, I wish I had gotten that on”?
Richard Gere was in the audience one year and we had a joke. It was after the whole Richard Gere whisper campaign. So the joke that Billy Crystal was going to say was, “Richard Gere is going to present later on. He was originally going to present with Fievel, the mouse from An American Tail, but Fievel backed out.” And it was coming up. The director gets the script right before the broadcast of those things, and so he has one of his 14 cameramen creep up the aisle to Richard. And when that happens, you know that you are somehow going to be referred to. You could see the panic on Richard’s face because he thought \[Billy’s\] going to make a joke. And of course, at that point, what would you make a joke about with Richard?
Vilanch wrote for frequent Oscar host Billy Crystal, seen riding off the 1991 show Reed Saxon/AP Photo
And Billy said, “Look … We have to cut the joke. Look at him. He’s going to have a heart attack.” He said, “I can’t do that to him.” And we cut the joke. Billy has an innate sense of fairness. I mean, it wasn’t the first time. We would come up with outrageous stuff and he would say, “I might do that on a Letterman shot, but I’m not going to do that on the Oscars.” I mean, he really had a sense of occasion and his own personal sense that he’s a righteous guy.
Are people ever warned that they’re going to be made fun of?
No. No. Elizabeth Taylor was the rare exception. And it was because it was a joke about her personal life. Billy was introducing Al Pacino, and he said, “This is Al Pacino’s eighth nomination, and he’s never won. He has heard more people cry out another man’s name than anybody except Larry Fortensky” \[Taylor’s seventh husband\]. And we all love this joke. And \[longtime Oscar telecast director\] Gil Cates says, “It’s hysterical. You have to call Elizabeth because it’s a sex joke about her.” Well, anyway, so he called her and he told her the joke and she said, “Who’s Larry Fortensky?”
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### [According To Bruce Vilanch, Ellen Degeneres Was The Most Difficult Oscar Host](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/27/according-to-bruce-vilanch-ellen-degeneres-was-the-most-difficult-oscar-host/)
**Published:** February 27, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** One famous name who’s not likely to be back hosting the Academy Awards any time soon is Ellen DeGeneres
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## Cracked
Ellen DeGeneres Was the Most Difficult Oscar Host for the Award Show’s Writers
By JM McNab
Feb 26, 2025
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A number of mega-star comedians have hosted the Oscars over the course of its long history — from Bob Hope, to Whoopi Goldberg, to the anti-comedy performance artist known as “James Franco.”
One famous name who’s not likely to be back hosting the Academy Awards any time soon is [**Ellen DeGeneres**](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/16/bruce-vilanch-talks-gay-comedy-and-more/), who, to be fair, gave us one of the most memorable Oscar moments of all-time: the star-studded selfie, which may or may not have been “cursed.”
Since Ellen has subsequently experienced a tidal-wave of bad publicity concerning her behind-the-scenes behavior, which seemingly led to the cancellation of her talk show and inspired a self-pitying stand-up special, one more bad story probably won’t make a difference. But according to longtime Oscars joke writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/), DeGeneres was the most difficult host to work with.
Vilanch had pleasant encounters with Ellen in the past, but that changed by the time she accepted the Academy’s offer to host. “She was a lot of fun before she came out, and before she was bearing this responsibility of a movement on her shoulders,” Vilanch, a “gay icon” himself, argued. “My only bad experience with her was at the Oscars, where she just was not interested in input from anybody but her own people,” the Get Bruce star recalled.
While it’s not uncommon for Oscar hosts to bring their own comedy writers along with them, the relationship between DeGeneres and the show’s existing crew became so strained that, per Vilanch, the producer of the [**Oscars**](https://www.oscars.org/), Laura Ziskin, rang her up and issued an ultimatum. When one of Ellen’s assistants asked what the call was about, Ziskin replied, “It’s about, if she still wants to host the Oscars, she should call me back, because otherwise she can walk away.”
Keep in mind, this was back when celebrities actually wanted to host the Oscars.
“Two minutes later, Ellen called back,” Vilanch said. Although even then, she wasn’t open to the writers’ input on the material.
David Letterman similarly brought his own people with him and clashed with Vilanch and his writers over the direction of the show, although things didn’t get quite as heated. “There was a negotiation about stuff that we thought probably wouldn’t work. Some of that got cut, some of it went on the air anyway,” Vilanch explained.
In Letterman’s defense, he did find a way to shade the Academy for neglecting to nominate the acclaimed Hoop Dreams for Best Documentary during his Top Ten list.
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### [Barnes & Noble The Grove welcomes Bruce Vilanch to discuss IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/27/barnes-noble-the-grove-welcomes-bruce-vilanch-to-discuss-it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/)
**Published:** February 27, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Barnes & Noble The Grove welcomes Bruce Vilanch to discuss IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME on March 6th at 7:00 PM!
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## Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble The Grove welcomes Bruce Vilanch to discuss IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME
By Staff
Feb 27, 2025
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# Bruce Vilanch talks IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME at B&N The Grove
Barnes & Noble The Grove welcomes [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/movies/) to discuss [**IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME**](https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-products-9780914091929.php) on March 6th at 7:00 PM!
35.31 USD[](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bruce-vilanch-talks-it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-at-bn-the-grove-tickets-1209098769969)
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## Date and time
- Mar 06, 2025 19:00 – 20:00
## Location
Barnes & Noble The Grove, 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA
## About this event
Join [**Barnes & Noble – The Grove at Farmers Market** ](https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2089)on **March 6, 2025,** as we welcome **Bruce Vilanch** to discuss [**IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME**](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-bruce-vilanch/1145905956?ean=9780914091929)**.**
**“Bruce Vilanch, a storyteller without peer, has written a tell-all . . . on himself! And it’s hilarious! He’s finally coming clean and owning up to his part in creating some of the worst television of the twentieth century, and that’s saying a lot. There’s no one like him. As they’ve been saying since I discovered him as a cub reporter at the ***Chicago Tribune*****, when you’re in a pinch . . . Get Bruce!” —BETTE MIDLER**
***To make this event safe and enjoyable for all attendees, please read the below guidelines ahead of buying a ticket, so you know what to expect on the day. To avoid disappointment, we must stress that there will be no access to the event for non-ticketholders.***
## TICKET INFORMATION
\*\*A ticket includes:
**Solo Book Admission – $31.74 (Admission + one pre-signed copy of** [**IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME**](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-bruce-vilanch/1145905956?ean=9780914091929)**): \*\*LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE\*\***: A ticket PER PERSON includes:
- **One pre-signed copy of** [**IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME**](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-bruce-vilanch/1145905956?ean=9780914091929)**.**
- **Admission to the event space for the discussion and signing with Bruce Vilanch.**
**For Seated Tickets: Limited quantity is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Purchase of a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the discussion and photo-op. However, this ticket may not necessarily guarantee a seat at the event, as later arrivals may be placed in a line behind the seated audience.
If you need any special assistance, please email our Event Director at crm2089@bn.com.
**For Standing Room-Only Tickets: Purchase of a ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the discussion and photo-op. *Ticket Holders will be granted a standing view from behind the seated audience — some views may be more limited/obstructed than others.*
**Ticket Holders will be admitted into the event beginning at 6:00 PM on the day of the event.** Check-in will be at the third-floor customer service desk. Please have a copy of your ticket available (either printed out or on your phone) for check-in.
## GUIDELINES
- **This is a discussion and photo-op event. Books will be pre-signed.**
- **No memorabilia or backlist will be signed at this event.**
- **Photos will be taken by a BN Bookseller on the Ticket Holder’s phone/camera.**
- No large bags will be permitted into the event.
- **Barnes & Noble may cancel this event at any time with or without notice to the ticket holders.**
## ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES
- Some outside queuing may be required, so please come dressed appropriately for all weather.
- The exact time at which the event ends will be determined on the day.
- To avoid disappointment, we strongly advise you to arrive on time for the event. Late arrivals may not have the opportunity to enter the event space.
- Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted to join the queue.
- All event guidelines are subject to change.
- If you have any additional questions, you can call the store directly at [323-525-0270](https://www.newsbreak.com/e/67bfd0536509cbb87653c4de-bruce-vilanch-talks-it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-at-b-n-the-grove).
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### **Refunds:**
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Visit The Creative Arts Centre March 3, 2025](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/24/bruce-vilanch-to-visit-the-creative-arts-centre-march-3-2025/)
**Published:** February 24, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** As an exclusive post-Academy Awards treat, the Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington welcomes the one and only Bruce Vilanch
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## TBR News Media
Bruce Vilanch To Visit The Creative Arts Centre March 3, 2025
By Heidi Sutton
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As an exclusive post-Academy Awards treat, the Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave., Huntington welcomes the one and only [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/about/) — the two-time Emmy Award winning Comedy Writer for 25 Academy Award spectacles — on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. After a screening of the hilarious and touching documentary about his life and career, *[**Get Bruce!**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce)*, Vilanch will help dissect the Oscar show of the night before and discuss his new, insider memoir, *It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time*.
Tickets are $28 per person, $22 for members and includes the screening, interview with audience Q&A, and book signing. Copies of Vilanch’s memoir are available to bundle with the film program or at the box office. For more information, visit www.cinemaartscentre.org or click [here](https://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=920723~31a96320-4160-4f8e-a5f9-05c4f03c9c01&epguid=4e90d4ea-c6e5-40b3-9fc2-5fd0073268f4&).
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### [The Art Of Comedy Writing With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/22/the-art-of-comedy-writing-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** February 22, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Join Emmy-winning comedy legend Bruce Vilanch and New York Times bestselling author Steven Rowley, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, to discuss the serious business of writing humor
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## Rancho Mirage Writer’s Circle
The Art of Comedy Writing—Steven Rowley and Bruce Vilanch with Dave Karger (moderator)
By Rancho Mirage Writer’s Circle
Feb 21, 2025
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WE ALL NEED TO LAUGH! Join Emmy-winning comedy legend Bruce Vilanch and New York Times bestselling author Steven Rowley, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, to discuss the serious business of writing humor for the page and screen and the enduring need for comedy in turbulent times. It was a guaranteed good time.
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Writer
**Tags:** #Art, #BruceVilanch, #Comedy, Writer
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### [Bruce Vilanch: A Book Reading At FT Lauderdale's Stonewall National Museum March 11, 2025](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/21/bruce-vilanch-a-book-reading-at-ft-lauderdales-stonewall-national-museum-march-11-2025/)
**Published:** February 21, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Fort Lauderdale’s Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library will welcome gay icon Bruce Vilanch on March 11 for an exclusive reading and book-signing of his new memoir It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time
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## Windy City Times
Bruce Vilanch: A Book Reading At FT Lauderdale’s Stonewall National Museum March 11, 2025
By Andrew Davis
Feb 21, 2025
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Fort Lauderdale’s [**Stonewall National Museum**](https://stonewall-museum.org/), Archives & Library will welcome gay icon [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/about/) on March 11 for an exclusive reading and book-signing of his new memoir It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time, a press release announced. Head writer of the Oscars as well as a writer for the Tonys, Grammys and Emmys, Vilanch’s career led to him writing for some of the most influential celebrities in the industry, including Cher and Eartha Kitt. According to a release, the book “offers a fascinating look into the infamous projects Vilanch has worked on, including The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White at the Oscars, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.”
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### [Video: Instinct Interview With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/19/video-instinct-interview-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** February 19, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Hollywood comedian, actor, and writer Bruce Vilanch sat down with Instinct Magazine's Denny Patterson to talk about his upcoming memoir, "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time," set to release March 4.
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## Instinct Magazine
Instinct Interview With Bruce Vilanch
By Denny Patterson
Feb 19, 2025
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Hollywood comedian, actor, and writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/18/bruce-vilanchs-podcast-1999-saving-private-oscar/) sat down with [**Instinct Magazine’s** ](https://instinctmagazine.com/)Denny Patterson to talk about his upcoming memoir, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” set to release March 4.
Known for working on some of television’s biggest flops including the “Star Wars Holiday Special,” “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special,” and the short-lived “Brady Bunch Variety Hour,” “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time” dives into Vilanch’s legendary career and hilariously unpacks what went right – and oh so wrong – in the world of showbiz.
Beyond discussing the book and what inspired him to write it, Vilanch also delves into the origins of these “train wreck” shows, his astonishment at their unexpected cult followings, and how the book serves as a poignant exploration of resilience in the face of adversity.
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**Categories:** Books, Bruce Vilanch, Interview, Magazines, Video
**Tags:** #Book, #BruceVilanch, #Instinct, #Interview, #itseemedlikabadideaatthetime, #Magazine
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Podcast: 1999 - Saving Private Oscar](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/18/bruce-vilanchs-podcast-1999-saving-private-oscar/)
**Published:** February 18, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce and “Tex” storm the beaches of one of the Academy Awards’ biggest Best Picture controversies.
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## Spotify
Bruce Vilanch’s Podcast: 1999 – Saving Private Oscar
By Bruce Vilanch & Tex
Feb 18, 2025
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**On this episode of ‘[The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?](https://wegotbruce.com/category/the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking/)’ [Bruce Vilanch](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking/id1776003423) and “Tex” storm the beaches of one of the Academy Awards’ biggest Best Picture controversies.**
Of course we’re talking about the 1999 Oscars, for the films of 1998. This is known as the year that changed everything thanks to a guy you may have heard of named Harvey Weinstein. In a shocking upset, a brash, shameless, indie upstart managed to out-campaign the Hollywood elite and take home a best picture Oscar for an artsy film about love and Shakespeare. Using the test of time, many people look back at this year as a complete miscarriage of justice. But was it really? And what other controversies and unbelievable moments took place that evening? Bruce was there and is more than happy to share them with us. What do you think? Did Shakespeare deserve Oscar love? Or did Saving Private Ryan “Earn it?”
**MOVIES MENTIONED**
From Russia With Love
Shakespeare in Love
Elizabeth
Saving Private Ryan
The African Queen
Life is Beautiful
The Thin Red Line
Armageddon
A Simple Plan
The Truman Show
Affliction
Civil Action
Apollo 13
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
In Like Flint
Shine
Rushmore
The Big Lebowski
Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Fish Called Wanda
Gods and Monsters
Hillary and Jackie
Little Voice
Primary Colors
Mrs. Brown
Schindler’s List
Amistad
Warhorse
Lincoln
West Side Story
Munich
The Mask of Zorro
Out of Sight
The Big Chill
Mighty Joe Young
King Kong
What Dreams May Come
Pleasantville
Velvet Goldmine
Beloved
The Last Days
Dance Maker
The Farm Angola USA
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Regret to Inform
Prince of Egypt
Patch Adams
Mulan
A Bug’s Life
The Horse Whisperer
Babe: Pig in the City
Skyfall
Barbie
Quest From Camelot
Wicked
Tango
The Grandfather
Children of Heaven
Central Station
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
American History X
Two Women
Lord of the Rings
One True Thing
Gia
Bulworth
The Best Years of our Lives
E.T.
The Day the Clown Cried
Guilty By Suspicion
On the Waterfront
Streetcar Named Desire
East of Eden
A Face in the Crowd
Splendor in the Grass
America, America
Gentleman’s Agreement
Viva Zapata
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, movies, Oscars, Podcast, The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
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### [New Musical Platinum Dreams Sets Off-Broadway Premiere](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/13/new-musical-platinum-dreams-sets-off-broadway-premiere/)
**Published:** February 13, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Running April 8-16, Platinum Dreams features a book by Stevie Holland, music by Gary William Friedman, lyrics by Will Holt, and additional lyrics by Holland. Adapted from Platinum by Holt and Bruce Vilanch, and Sunset by Holt
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## Playbill
New Musical Platinum Dreams Sets Off-Broadway Premiere
By Margaret Hall
Feb 13, 2025
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The York Theatre will stage the new musical *[Platinum Dreams](https://playbill.com/production/platinum-dreams-off-broadway-theatre-at-st-jeans-2025)* later this spring as the first production in its 2025 New2NY lineup.
Running April 8-16, [***Platinum* *Dreams***](https://www.facebook.com/PlatinumDreamsTheMusical/?checkpoint_src=any) features a book by [Stevie Holland](https://playbill.com/person/stevie-holland), music by [Gary William Friedman](https://playbill.com/person/gary-william-friedman-vault-0000002907), lyrics by [Will Holt](https://playbill.com/person/will-holt-vault-0000000151), and additional lyrics by Holland. **Adapted from [*Platinum* ](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/16/1850/)by Holt and [Bruce Vilanch](https://playbill.com/person/bruce-vilanch-vault-0000024838), and *Sunset* by Holt, *Platinum* *Dreams* will be directed by York Interim Artistic Director Joseph Hayward.**
Set in 1977, with a score encompassing ’70s rock, ’40s big band, and a contemporary theatre sound, *Platinum Dreams* tells the story of Lila Halliday, a musical movie star of the 1940s hoping to make a comeback by recording her first-ever solo album; Dan Hardin, a hot rock ‘n’ roll star looking to keep his relevance on the charts; and Jamie Stiles, a record producer and studio owner who is Dan’s former writing partner and former lover.
The production will star Stevie Holland (*Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter*) as Lila Halliday, [Conor Ryan](https://playbill.com/person/conor-ryan-vault-0000125338) *(Desperate Measures, Moulin Rouge*) as Dan Hardin, and Jovan E’Sean (*Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”*) as Jamie Stiles.
Kody Jauron is choreographing, with music direction by Dave Klodowski. The production is presented in association with 150 Music Productions, Lyle Saunders, Ken Inadomi, and Melinda Wolfe. Casting is by Michael Cassara Casting. Meg Meschino is production stage manager and Nicole Caroselli is assistant stage manager.
Visit [YorkTheatre.org](https://yorktheatre.org/on-stage/new2ny).
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Musicals, Theatre
**Tags:** #Adapted, #BruceVilanch, #Musical, #OffBroadway, #Platinum, #PlatinumDreams
---
### [Podcast: Emmy winner comedy writer Bruce Vilanch is on MainStreet with Gary Alan](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/11/podcast-emmy-winner-comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-is-on-mainstreet-with-gary-alan/)
**Published:** February 11, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode of MainStreet my guest is two-time Emmy Award Winner,
Comedy Writer, Songwriter, and Actor Bruce Vilanch.
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## Mainstreet Podcast
Podcast: Emmy winner comedy writer Bruce Vilanch is on MainStreet with Gary Alan
By Gary Alan
Feb 5, 2025
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On this episode of [**MainStreet**](https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-alan) my guest is two-time Emmy Award Winner,
Comedy Writer, Songwriter, and Actor [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/t_honors.htm). Bruce has
Written for the Oscars, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Awards and for
TV, Films and Broadway Shows. Mr. Vilanch has worked with Stars
like Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams.
We had some fun with some behind the scenes stories from Bruce’s career.
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### [Legendary comedy writer Bruce Vilanch describes wild NSFW moment on set of ‘The Brady Bunch Hour’ in upcoming memoir](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/09/legendary-comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-describes-wild-nsfw-moment-on-set-of-the-brady-bunch-hour-in-upcoming-memoir/)
**Published:** February 9, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## Page 6
Legendary comedy writer Bruce Vilanch describes wild NSFW moment on set of ‘The Brady Bunch Hour’ in upcoming memoir
By Nicki Gostin
Feb 9, 2028
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*Bruce Vilanch/WireImage*
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Legendary comedy scribe [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/views-from-a-vilanch-the-articles/) is renowned as the go-to for award shows but he’s also been involved with some deliciously campy specials and movies.
The Emmy winner recounts them in his predictably hilarious upcoming memoir, [**“It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time.”**](https://amzn.to/3CUSAdP)
One NSFW moment occurred on the set of “The Brady Bunch Hour,” a short-lived shlock-fest that ran for a few episodes in 1976-77.
Vilanch remembers that the squeaky clean Donny and Marie Osmond were guest-starring and due to their massive popularity, the sibs had doubles to fool over-enthusiastic fans.
One day, Marie’s agent, an up-and-comer named Mike Ovitz visited with three other reps.
Marie’s double, who was a dead-ringer for the perky singer, went up to Ovitz to chat after conferring with a wicked comedy writer.
**Vilanch is releasing a new memoir, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time.”**
After introductions, she sweetly told Ovitz, as a prank, according to the book: “I would like you to come to my dressing room,” to, shall we say, engage in a sex act that can’t be described in a family newspaper.
There was “stunned silence… everyone just froze… then the dime dropped and everyone got it at once.” Vilanch calls it the “single most hilarious and obscene example of what can happen when preparation meets opportunity.”
The “Hollywood Squares” alum also remembers “Brady Bunch” mom Florence Henderson as “a much more colorful mother than Carol Brady” who would occasionally unleash “a small repertoire of dirty jokes which she liked to surprise the unsuspecting.”
The Post’s Nicki Gostin reports that Vilanch writes in the book that he worked on the infamous 1989 Oscar ceremony featuring that awful Rob Lowe opening number.
Vilanch swears he had nothing to do with it, and voiced his concerns to the show’s producer, who flitted away any dissent.
The jokester also gleefully dissects his time working on the Village People movie “You Can’t Stop the Music,” and more.
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### [A Dusturbance In The Force Wins Best Documentary At Film Threats 'Award This'](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/06/a-dusturbance-in-the-force-wins-best-documentary-at-film-threats-award-this/)
**Published:** February 6, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** "Our documentary A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE (about the making of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special) won “BEST DOCUMENTARY” at the #FilmThreat #AwardThis movie awards!
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## We Got Bruce
A Dusturbance In The Force Wins Best Documentary At Film Threats ‘Award This’
By Kyle Newman
February 6, 2025
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### [Bruce Vilanch's AMA Subreddit Interview January 30, 2025](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/05/bruce-vilanchs-ama-subreddit-interview-january-30-2025/)
**Published:** February 5, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** t is I, Bruce Vilanch—comedy writer, Emmy winner, and the man responsible for countless Oscars zingers (the good, the bad, and the "what were they thinking?!").
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## Redditt
I’m Bruce Vilanch, the Comedy Writer Behind 25 Years of Oscars Ceremonies—AMA!
By Staff
January 30, 2025
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It is I, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/television/)—comedy writer, [**Emmy winner,**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Primetime_Emmy_Award_winners) and the man responsible for countless Oscars zingers (the good, the bad, and the “what were they thinking?!”). I wrote for 25 Academy Awards ceremonies, collaborating with hosts like Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, and Billy Crystal. In 2000, I became the show’s head writer, steering the laughs until 2014.
Beyond the Oscars, I’ve crafted comedy for the Tonys, Grammys, and Emmys, written alongside Roger Ebert at the Chicago Tribune, and penned Bette Midler’s iconic farewell serenade to Johnny Carson—an Emmy-winning moment. I held court as a head writer (and a literal square) for four years on Hollywood Squares next to my pal Whoopi Goldberg.
I’ve also contributed to TV history in other ways—writing for Donny & Marie, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, and yes, the infamously disastrous Star Wars Holiday Special. On the bright side, I’ve written jokes for legends like Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Rosie O’Donnell, and even Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
I’ll be online tomorrow, **Thursday, January 30th, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. PST.** Ask me about the Oscars, Hollywood’s best (and worst) moments, or my long, strange career. Start dropping questions now, and I’ll answer them tomorrow!
And if you want even more, check out my podcast, *The Oscars…What Were They Thinking?!* on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/0zLWwYqmXmiA4KU5kAK44n?si=a2ebdac524c64f4b&nd=1&dlsi=f6e8506ba3994f39), [Apple](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking/id1776003423), or all [other platforms here.](https://www.oscars.wtf/)
Oh, and I’ve got a new book—*It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time*, which explores my adventures in comedy (and infamy). [You can pre-order it now.](https://www.amazon.com/Seemed-Like-Bad-Idea-Time/dp/0914091921)
To read the Q & A [**Click Here**](https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1icxg1f/im_bruce_vilanch_the_comedy_writer_behind_25/?rdt=44342)
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, awards/accolades, Bruce Vilanch, Interview, movies, Music, Television, Theatre
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Podcast: 2006 Brokeback Oscar](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/02/04/bruce-vilanchs-podcast-2006-brokeback-oscar/)
**Published:** February 4, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** We’re talking about the 2006 Oscars, for the films of 2005. This was the year that saw some incredible firsts, but also left a wonderful movie out in the cold in the best picture category.
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## The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
Bruce Vilanch’s Podcast: 2006 Brokeback Oscar
By Bruce Vilanch & Tex
Feb 3, 2025
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Bruce Vilanch---
On this episode of ‘The [**Oscars**](https://www.oscars.org/): What Were They Thinking?’ [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/25/podcast-bruce-discusses-the-2025-oscar-nominations/) and Tex crash headfirst into one of the most debated years in Oscar history.
We’re talking about the 2006 Oscars, for the films of 2005. This was the year that saw some incredible firsts, but also left a wonderful movie out in the cold in the best picture category. And the test of time doesn’t make this poor decision look any better. In a rare show of unity, both Bruce and “Tex” agree that a major disservice was performed — and the fun of the show is trying to figure out ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ Of course, there were lots of other dubious choices, interesting omissions and head-scratching decisions worthy of debate and discussions. I wish I knew how to quit you Oscars!
To learn more about the show go to: [**Oscars.wtf**](https://www.oscars.wtf/)
Please feel free to leave comments on Spotify and/or reviews on Apple. We’re always open to compliments (and criticism if it’s constructive!)
**MOVIES MENTIONED**
Crash
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Capote
Goodnight & Good Luck
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Grand Canyon
Silence of the Lambs
Barbie
Schindler’s List
Angels in America
Lincoln
Squid and the Whale
The Constant Gardener
City of God
History of Violence
A Violent Year
Walk the Line
Hustle & Flow
Cinderella Man
Infamous (other Capote movie)
10 Things I Hate About You
Knight’s Tale
North Country
Pride & Prejudice
Transamerica
Miss Henderson Presents
Election
Wild
Syriana
Michael Collins
Michael Clayton
Up in the Air
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
Junebug
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The English Patient
The Accidental Tourist
The Nice Guys
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Ten Commandments
Match Point
A Place in the Sun
Dial M for Murder
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Saltburn
Batman Begins
The New World
Memoirs of a Geisha
Rent
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosted The California JPIA 40th Anniversary](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/28/bruce-vilanch-hosted-the-california-jpia-40th-anniversary/)
**Published:** January 28, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The California Joint Powers Insurance Authority (California JPIA) recognizes the City of West Hollywood, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in November.
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## Public CEO
California JPIA member city of West Hollywood celebrates its 40th anniversary
By Staff
January 22, 2025
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[**The California Joint Powers Insurance Authority**](https://cjpia.org/) (California JPIA) recognizes the City of West Hollywood, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in November.
Previously an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, West Hollywood became an independent city on November 29, 1984, following a grassroots movement led by LGBTQ activists, seniors and renters. Their vision created a city focused on tenant rights, social equity and progressive policies. Over the years, West Hollywood, known as WeHo, has become a leader in promoting LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, animal welfare and environmental sustainability. It is also recognized for its efforts in HIV/AIDS advocacy, support for aging residents and vibrant community arts initiatives.
The city, which has a population of 33,000 residents, celebrated 40 years of cityhood during a free West Hollywood Day & State of the Community Celebration on Thursday, November 21, 2024. The event was hosted by comedian [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/). City officials and community members gathered to celebrate the city’s history and reflect on its achievements and challenges over the past four decades.
“The City of West Hollywood hosts many special events throughout the year. City staff takes a proactive approach to identifying, assessing and mitigating risks to ensure the safety of participants, staff and property while minimizing potential disruptions,” said Senior Risk Manager Maria Galvan. “I’ve worked with the city for over 11 years, and it is great to work with staff across the organization that embrace a risk management culture. Happy 40th Anniversary!”
In addition to West Hollywood Day, the city is hosting a year’s worth of activities, including an Art on the Outside hand-painted mural at city hall, a Winter Sounds outdoor concert and a video series with past council members that highlights the progressive policies that shaped the city’s founding.
Providing innovative risk management solutions for its public agency partners for more than 45 years, the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority(California JPIA) is one of the largest municipal self-insurance pools in the state, with more than 125member cities and other governmental agencies. Members actively participate in shaping the organization to provide important coverage for their operations. The California JPIA provides innovative risk management solutions through a comprehensive portfolio of programs and services, including liability, workers’ compensation, pollution, property and earthquake coverage, as well as extensive training and loss control services. For more information, please visit the California JPIA’s website at cjpia.org.
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**Categories:** anniversary, Announcement, Benefits, Bruce Vilanch, GLBT
**Tags:** #benefits, #BruceVilanch, #california, #jpia
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### [Podcast: Bruce Discusses The 2025 Oscar Nominations](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/25/podcast-bruce-discusses-the-2025-oscar-nominations/)
**Published:** January 25, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this bonus episode, Bruce Vilanch and “Tex” react, breakdown & discuss the 2025 Oscar nominations for the films of 2024.
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## The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
Podcast: Bruce Discusses The 2025 Oscar Nominations
By Mister D
January 25, 2025
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On this bonus episode, **[Bruce Vilanch](https://www.threads.net/@bootleg_betty/post/DEiZNXpRshp/oscars-podcast-bruce-vilanch-tex-discuss-the-1977-academy-awards-we-got-brucebru)** and “Tex” react, breakdown & discuss the 2025 **[Oscar](https://www.oscars.org/)** nominations for the films of 2024. Who and what made the cut? Who or what was snubbed? Were there any big surprises? Who are the front-runners and why? And which of these films, if any, will we still care about in 10 years???
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**Tags:** #BruceVilanch, #Oscars, #podcast, #WhatWereTheyThinking
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### [Bruce's Podcast: 1942 - How Green Was My Oscar?](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/23/bruces-podcast-1942-how-green-was-my-oscar/)
**Published:** January 23, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce and Tex look back at the 1942 Oscars for the films of 1941 -- easily one of the greatest years in movie history.
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## The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
Bruce’s Podcast: 1942 – How Green Was My Oscar?
By Mister D
January 23, 2025
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On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce and Tex look back at the 1942 Oscars for the films of 1941 — easily one of the greatest years in movie history. And, among those great films is the film often cited as ‘the greatest film of all-time’ — the Stairway to Heaven of movies… Citizen Kane. But, did this Orson Welles masterpiece win the Oscar the year it came out? Find out — as well as hear about all the other great movies that should be on your must-see list!
To learn more about the show, go to [**Oscars.wtf**](https://www.oscars.wtf/)
Please feel free to leave comments on Spotify and/or reviews on Apple. We’re always open to compliments (and criticism if it’s constructive!)
**MOVIES MENTIONED**
Gone with the Wind
Deep Throat
Citizen Kane
Mank
How Green was my Valley
Blossoms in the Dust
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
The Little Foxes
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York
The Maltese Falcon
Suspicion
Spellbound
Notorious
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Down to Earth (1947)
Down to Earth (2001)
The Informant
The Grapes of Wrath
Penny Serenade
None but the Lonely Heart
North by Northwest
Charade
His Girl Friday
Father Goose
Arsenic and Old Lace
Casablanca
The African Queen
The Caine Mutiny
The Roaring Twenties
Ball of Fire
The Lady Eve
The More the Merrier
The Devil and Mrs. Jones
The Devil in Miss Jones
Conflict
Shadow of a Doubt
The Great Lie
Miss Miniver
Blood and Sand
Tom, Dick and Harry
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Julia
The Razor’s Edge
Witness for the Prosecution
You’ll Never Get Rich
All American Co Ed
Las Vegas Nights
Sun Valley Serenade
Buck Privates
Blues in the Night
Riding on a Rainbow
Dumbo
Lady Be Good
Last Time I Saw Paris
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**Tags:** #AcademyAwards, #BruceVilanch, #Green, #Oscars, #podcast, #WhatWereTheyThinking
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### [Bruce Vilanch On His Upcoming Book, "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time"](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/09/bruce-vilanch-on-his-upcoming-book-it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/)
**Published:** January 9, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** His new book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time, talks about his work on TV’s worst shows ever that are now cult classics.
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## The Advocate
Bruce Vilanch dishes on staples of the 1970s, Paul Lynde, the Brady Bunch, Charo, and more
By John Casey
January 8, 2025
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### His new book, [***It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time*,**](https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time-products-9780914091929.php) talks about his work on TV’s worst shows ever that are now cult classics. Pre-Order [**Here**](https://amzn.to/4061b57)[](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/bruce-vilanchs-dishes-celebs&text=%0ABruce%20Vilanch%20dishes%20on%20staples%20of%20the%201970s%2C%20Paul%20Lynde%2C%20the%20Brady%20Bunch%2C%20Charo%2C%20and%20more%0A&)[](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.advocate.com%2Farts-entertainment%2Fbruce-vilanchs-dishes-celebs%3Fxrs%3DRebelMouse_fb%26ts%3D1736350805)
[Bruce Vilanch](https://www.advocate.com/authors/bruce-vilanch) is a queer man whose wit has defined decades of showbiz, and he’s out with a hilarious new memoir, *It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time*. The book delves into part of his rollicking career, recounting some of the flops that he worked on, primarily in the 1970s, that have found a new audience on YouTube, perhaps the most infamous being 1978’s *The Star Wars Holiday Special*, which is usually ranked as the worst TV show ever made.
> Vilanch’s storytelling in the book is both uproarious and reflective, offering insights into an entertainment industry that often tiptoed the line between brilliance and absurdity.
From the beginning of his career, [**Bruce Vilanch** ](https://wegotbruce.com/)has been an out and proud member of the [LGBTQ+ community](https://www.advocate.com/), “You sought out other gay people, and they saw you out,” he recalls. “There was always a layer of homophobia going on. I mean, there were people who were afraid of gay people. And I said, I don’t want to work for anybody who’s like that. Given the choice, I’m not going to change myself, and so I passed up a few things. I’m sure I was passed over for work because they weren’t comfortable with me.”
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His multifaceted work includes stints as a writer and actor. His credits span an impressive array of awards shows, 25 Academy Award telecasts among them, earning him two writing Emmys among seven nominations. He has penned dialogue for icons like Cher, disco hits for Eartha Kitt and the Village People, and a variety of TV spectacles that remain unforgettable, whether celebrated or cringeworthy. Vilanch also used to write for The Advocate.
At the heart of Vilanch’s memoir are tales from the 1970s, a decade when variety television reigned supreme and creativity often collided with chaos. “The impetus for the book,” Vilanch explains, “came from being on a lot of podcasts during COVID, with younger people asking about these pieces of … well, let’s call them ‘television history.’ “Shows like The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Brady Bunch Hour, and The Paul Lynde Halloween Special have taken on a second life on YouTube, and people always ask the same question: How did this happen? And have the people responsible paid their debt to society?”
Vilanch’s work with Lynde, a closeted gay man, offers a fascinating glimpse into the intersection of talent and tragedy. Lynde, known for his razor-sharp humor and camp sensibility, remains a complex figure in Vilanch’s memory. “Paul really thought what he was doing was insignificant,” Vilanch remembers. “Compared to his contemporaries like Woody Allen or Mel Brooks, he felt like he had nothing that would last forever. Ironically, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special did exactly that. It’s a cult classic now, but not for the reasons Paul might have wanted.”
Featuring Lynde, the rock group Kiss, and an ensemble of eccentric guest stars, the special earned decent ratings upon release but was dismissed by many as so-bad-it’s-good. “If Paul knew people would still be talking about it decades later, he’d be spinning in his grave,” Vilanch jokes.
Vilanch remembers Lynde as deeply charming and acerbic, albeit guarded and troubled. “He could be hilarious and warm after one drink, but after two, something totally mean and different came out that reflected his darker moods,” Vilanch said.
And Vilanch had another experience with another gay actor who could also be moody. By the time Vilanch joined The Brady Bunch Hour, Robert Reed, who played the beloved patriarch Mike Brady, had already become a surrogate father figure to the cast. “Bob was very protective of the kids, especially since many came from situations where they were treated as revenue streams,” Vilanch says.
Reed’s private life added another layer of complexity. “His was a closely guarded secret,” Vilanch recalls. “He was terrified of being outed. It would have ended his career as a leading man. But his dedication to the kids and the show was undeniable. That was another reason he kept his sexuality hidden. He thought it would disappoint the kids.”
As for the variety show itself, Vilanch has a rocky metaphor: “It was destined to hit the iceberg. Fundamentally flawed, but somehow, people are still talking about it.”
Vilanch also spent time writing for the Donny and Marie show,a cultural collision of wholesomeness and subversive subtext. “So much of the production crew was gay,” Vilanch says. “Yet here were Donny and Marie, squeaky-clean Mormons. And during production, the hairdresser contracted hepatitis and we were all required to get a shot.”
The juxtaposition wasn’t lost on Marie Osmond, whom Vilanch recalls as sharp and self-aware, even in her youth. “She once joked to me, ‘Why is it always the hairdresser?’ when her stylist got hepatitis,” he remembered with a laugh. “But at that time, gay men were mostly identified by stereotypes, even though several members of the ‘masculine’ crew were gay, and there was a butch lesbian.”
The dynamic between the Osmonds and their largely queer production team created a fascinating environment. “It was the era where people didn’t talk openly about being gay,” Vilanch explains. “But within the show’s ecosystem, everyone just made it work.”
Another highlight of Vilanch’s career was writing for Charo, the flamboyant Spanish entertainer known for her “cuchi-cuchi” catchphrase. “Charo was a shrewd, sweet woman who knew exactly what she was doing,” Vilanch says. “She was riffing off Carmen Miranda, but she made it her own. Even at her age now, she still plays into her persona, though she’s strategically costumed, let’s say.”
Charo’s humor and larger-than-life personality made her a staple of ‘70s and ‘80s television, including 10 appearances on The Love Boat. Vilanch fondly recalls her appeal, especially to gay audiences, saying, “She’s beloved on gay cruises. She knows her audience and leans into it beautifully.”
Vilanch’s memoir doesn’t just dish out hilarity — it also offers a poignant reflection on resilience in the face of adversity. As an out gay writer in a notoriously homophobic industry, Vilanch had to chart his own course. “I wasn’t going to let who I was get in my way,” he says. “If someone didn’t want to work with me, that was their loss.”
In true Vilanch fashion, the book serves as a reminder that even the most outrageous misfires can become cultural touchstones, and that sometimes, the best ideas really do start as bad ones.[](https://advocatechannel.com/goon-squad-mississippi)
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His multifaceted work includes stints as a writer and actor. His credits span an impressive array of awards shows, 25 [Academy Award](https://www.advocate.com/oscars) telecasts among them, earning him two writing Emmys among seven nominations. He has penned dialogue for icons like [Cher](https://www.advocate.com/cher), disco hits for [Eartha Kitt](https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/4/23/studio-one-forever-doc-shows-fight-save-gay-la-landmark) and the [Village People](https://www.advocate.com/tag/village-people), and a variety of TV spectacles that remain unforgettable, whether celebrated or cringeworthy. Vilanch also used to write for *The Advocate*.
At the heart of Vilanch’s memoir are tales from the 1970s, a decade when variety television reigned supreme and creativity often collided with chaos. “The impetus for the book,” Vilanch explains, “came from being on a lot of podcasts during COVID, with younger people asking about these pieces of … well, let’s call them ‘television history.’ “Shows like *The Star Wars Holiday Special*, *The Brady Bunch Hour*, and *The Paul Lynde Halloween Special* have taken on a second life on YouTube, and people always ask the same question: How did this happen? And have the people responsible paid their debt to society?”
Vilanch’s work with [Lynde](https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2018/3/07/randy-rainbow-and-paul-lynde-v-nra), a closeted gay man, offers a fascinating glimpse into the intersection of talent and tragedy. Lynde, known for his razor-sharp humor and camp sensibility, remains a complex figure in Vilanch’s memory. “Paul really thought what he was doing was insignificant,” Vilanch remembers. “Compared to his contemporaries like Woody Allen or Mel Brooks, he felt like he had nothing that would last forever. Ironically, *The Paul Lynde Halloween Special* did exactly that. It’s a cult classic now, but not for the reasons Paul might have wanted.”
Featuring Lynde, the rock group Kiss, and an ensemble of eccentric guest stars, the special earned decent ratings upon release but was dismissed by many as so-bad-it’s-good. “If Paul knew people would still be talking about it decades later, he’d be spinning in his grave,” Vilanch jokes.
Vilanch remembers Lynde as deeply charming and acerbic, albeit guarded and troubled. “He could be hilarious and warm after one drink, but after two, something mean and different came out that reflected his darker moods,” Vilanch said.
And Vilanch had another experience with another gay actor who could also be moody. By the time Vilanch joined *The Brady Bunch Hour*, [Robert Reed](https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/07/13/brady-kids-remember-sherwood-schwartz-dispel-rumors-rift-gay-dad), who played the beloved patriarch Mike Brady, had already become a surrogate father figure to the cast. “Bob was very protective of the kids, especially since many came from situations where they were treated as revenue streams,” Vilanch syas.
Reed’s private life added another layer of complexity. “His was a closely guarded secret,” Vilanch recalls. “He was terrified of being outed. It would have ended his career as a leading man. But his dedication to the kids and the show was undeniable. That was another reason he kept his sexuality hidden. He thought it would disappoint the kids.”
Vilanch uses a rocky metaphor for the variety show itself: “It was destined to hit the iceberg. Fundamentally flawed, but somehow, people are still talking about it.”
Vilanch also spent time writing for the *Donny and Marie* show,a cultural collision of wholesomeness and subversive subtext. “So much of the production crew was gay,” Vilanch says. “Yet here were Donny and Marie, squeaky-clean Mormons. And during production, the hairdresser contracted hepatitis and we were all required to get a shot.”
The juxtaposition wasn’t lost on [Marie Osmond](https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/10/22/marie-osmond-thought-i-was-gay-after-surviving-sexual-abuse), whom Vilanch recalls as sharp and self-aware, even in her youth. “She once joked to me, ‘Why is it always the hairdresser?’ when her stylist got hepatitis,” he remembered with a laugh. “But at that time, gay men were mostly identified by stereotypes, even though several members of the ‘masculine’ crew were gay, and there was a butch lesbian.”
The dynamic between the Osmonds and their predominantly queer production team created a fascinating environment. “It was the era where people didn’t talk openly about being gay,” Vilanch explains. “But everyone just made it work within the show’s ecosystem.”
Another highlight of Vilanch’s career was writing for [Charo](https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2006/11/02/%E2%80%98first-gay-latin-star%E2%80%99-honored-kentucky), the flamboyant Spanish entertainer known for her “cuchi-cuchi” catchphrase. “Charo was a shrewd, sweet woman who knew exactly what she was doing,” Vilanch says. “She was riffing off Carmen Miranda but made it her own. Even at her age now, she still plays into her persona, though she’s strategically costumed, let’s say.”
Charo’s humor and larger-than-life personality made her a staple of ‘70s and ‘80s television, including 10 appearances on *The Love Boat*. Vilanch fondly recalls her appeal, especially to gay audiences, saying, “She’s beloved on gay cruises. She knows her audience and leans into it beautifully.”
Vilanch’s memoir doesn’t just dish out hilarity — it also offers a poignant reflection on resilience in the face of adversity. As an out gay writer in a notoriously homophobic industry, Vilanch had to chart his course. “I wasn’t going to let who I was get in my way,” he says. “If someone didn’t want to work with me, that was their loss.”
In true Vilanch fashion, the book serves as a reminder that even the most outrageous misfires can become cultural touchstones and that sometimes, the best ideas do start as bad ones.
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### [Oscars Podcast: Bruce Vilanch & Tex Discuss The 1977 Academy Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/07/oscars-podcast-bruce-vilanch-tex-discuss-the-1977-academy-awards/)
**Published:** January 7, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce Vilanch and Tex step into the ring to duke it out over the 1977 Oscars for the films 1976.
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## The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
Oscars Podcast: Yo Oscars!
By Mister D
January 7, 2025
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On this episode of ‘[**The Oscars**](https://www.oscars.org/): What Were They Thinking?’ **[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/)** and Tex step into the ring to duke it out over the 1977 Oscars for the films 1976. As many of you already know or will come to see, the 1970s are stacked with worthy contenders, many of which have stood the test of time. The same goes for directing, performing, and technical achievements. So the real question becomes, why does the Academy choose one great film over another? Why would a movie win for best picture and director but not its actor or script that matches the film’s underdog nature? And could dying before the awards be a winning Oscar strategy? We get to the bottom of these questions and more, as well as Bruce’s pivotal acting cameo in the 1986 Jane Fonda thriller The Morning After. Ding-ding… ‘Let’s get ready to Oscars!”
**MOVIES MENTIONED**
Beaches
Oppenheimer
Citizen Kane
Annie Hall
The Great Dictator
Rocky
How Green Was My Valley?
All The President’s Men
Network
Bound for Glory
Taxi Driver
Godfathers 1 & 2
French Connection 1 & 2
Star Wars
Mad Max: Fury Road
Creed
Rocky 3
Raise the Titanic
Seven Beauties
Party at Kitty & Stud’s – (akaThe Italian Stallion)
Lords of Flatbush
Bananas
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Bad News Bears
To Fly
A Star is Born
King Kong
Silver Streak
Face to Face
Carrie
Cousin Cousine
Badlands
A Coal Miner’s Daughter
Voyage of the Damned
Marathon Man
Ballad of Cable Hogue
Freaky Friday
The Morning After
Dog Day Afternoon
12 Angry Men
The Wiz
Karate Kids 1, 2 & 3
The Formula
Neighbors
Lean on Me
Rocky 5
The Front
Meet John Doe
The 7 Percent Solution
Fellini’s Casanova
Logan’s Run
The Omen
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
A Shot in the Dark
Obsession
Vertigo
The Poseidon Adventure
Harlan County, USA
Grey Gardens
The Tenant
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### [Vilanch, Others Reveal The Art Of The Acceptance Speech](https://wegotbruce.com/2025/01/06/vilanch-others-reveal-the-art-of-the-acceptance-speech/)
**Published:** January 6, 2025
**Author:** MisterD
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## Gold Derby
Short, snappy, and sincere: Experts reveal 5 keys to delivering the perfect acceptance speech
By Ray Richmond
January 3, 2025
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The calendar tells us that a new year is dawning, and we know what that means: The two-month-long awards show avalanche is upon us, beginning with [Sunday’s Golden Globes](https://www.goldderby.com/t/golden-globes/). And with awards come acceptance speeches. They go together like salt and pepper, ketchup and burgers, Beavis and Butt-head. Those speeches come in all shapes and sizes depending on the winner doing the accepting. They can be long, they can be short, they can be full of gratitude and meaning. They can be powerful or they can be interminable, or something in-between.
There is an undeniable finesse essential to delivering an effective and impactful acceptance speech. Yet, there is no specific playbook to learn the do’s and don’ts. That leads to speeches being wildly unpredictable. It can be 16-year-old **Patty Duke** uttering a simple “thank you” in 1963 while accepting her Oscar trophy as Best Supporting Actress for *The Miracle Worker.* It can be **Greer Garson** droning on for nearly six minutes after winning Best Actress in 1943 for *Mrs. Miniver*, inspiring the Film Academy to start placing reasonable limits (around 45 seconds) on speech length.
So we decided to offer a public service to potential winners who don’t want to be played off the stage and consulted four experts to give us their pro tips for delivering the perfect acceptance speech.
Our esteemed panelists:
**— [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.goldderby.com/t/bruce-vilanch/)**, the comedy writer extraordinaire who served as head writer on the Academy Awards for 15 years at the beginning of the current century and is widely acknowledged to be the go-to dean of awards show scribes. Vilanch now hosts the podcast *The [Oscars](https://www.goldderby.com/t/oscars/): What Were They Thinking?* and has a memoir coming out March 4 titled, *It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote*.
**— [David Permut](https://www.goldderby.com/t/david-permut/)**, a veteran film producer and a 2017 Oscar nominee for the Best Picture contender *Hacksaw Ridge.* He is also producer of the forthcoming feature *Twinless* from writer-director **James Sweeney** that has its world premiere at Sundance on opening night later this month.
**— Madison Brodsky**, an entertainment reporter, host, and content creator who has reported on various red carpets over the past decade.
**— Danny Deraney,** a PR executive and personality whose clients include or have included **Laura Benanti**, **Rosanna Arquette**, and **Illeana Douglas**.
Here are their recommendations when it comes to the art of the acceptance speech:
## **Keep it short and sweet**
Size definitely matters. While not everyone’s concept of “short” is the same, they all agree that reading off a list of thank-yous is never a good idea.
“Brevity is definitely better,” Permut explains. “I mean, I’m in the business, but the person who isn’t in the business watching at home can’t relate to all the names being pored over. We can relate to it when they thank their higher power and their mom and dad, and maybe their fellow nominees and the director. But they should stop short of singling out their agents and lawyers and managers and other parties who may be part of their team. People watching at home just don’t care.”
“Yes, keep it short and sweet,” Brodsky echoes, “because nobody wants to sit through a five-minute laundry list. The best speeches are 60 seconds or less and are very focused. They hit all the highlights. You can thank people who truly make a difference, but add a little meaningful story to it, something quick and sweet. Instead of thanking each member of the cast and crew individually, doing a group thank-you goes a long way.”
At the same time, you don’t want to appear to be rushing through your speech.
“After winning, you’ve got to pace yourself,” Deraney says. “Be cognizant of the moment. As my French teacher in high school told me, remember how long six seconds can be and follow the six-second rule no matter the oral task. You can get a lot of things in without thanking the family tree. Give thanks but remember it’s not storytime. Be appreciative, but also remember there’s a show going on.”
Vilanch believes that too many acceptance speeches leave the audience cringing because “people tend to get very-self-indulgent once they get up there and they’ve got the world’s attention. That’s when you’re going, ‘Get off! You’re done! You’re killing yourself!’ But you can’t get mad at sound editors who work in a room by themselves and are up there sincerely thanking people who mean something to them. It’s not always so cut-and-dried, because you don’t want to crush anyone’s huge moment.”
## **Keep it spontaneous and unrehearsed**
Vilanch recalls that the greatest example on his watch of an impromptu acceptance happened at the Oscars in 1992, when **Jack Palance** won Best Supporting Actor for *City Slickers —* and famously began doing one-armed push-ups onstage. “It helps to have someone who’s a little off to begin with,” Vilanch observes. “But yeah, the spontaneous moments are worth everything. The worst part is when they pull out a piece of paper or their phone, look down at the podium and start reading.”
One reason why the Tony Awards are “the most fun of them all” to watch, Vilanch finds, is “because these are people who do eight shows a week on a stage and know what to do when they get onstage in front of people to deliver a speech. A lot of people in the movie business have no clue because they’re not used to working with a camera. If they hit their mark, it’s a good day.”
“Prepare, but be careful not to over-rehearse,” Brodsky warns. “You should have a game plan going in so you know where your speech is going, but you still want it to feel natural and not like you memorized the entire thing. And then, end on a high note, like a really amazing funny quote or a meaningful statement, or a call to action.”
Deraney makes sure to prep his nominated clients before their awards moment “so they have a good handle on what to say. I like them to focus on how grateful they are, how wonderful it is, how much they love their fellow nominees. But it obviously has to sound real.”
## **Keep it gracious and genuine**
For Permut’s money, it’s important always to practice humility when accepting an award bestowed by one’s peers. But the emotional angle is equally important and should never be shortchanged. “When you give a speech that’s just filled with emotions, people seeing and hearing it can feel it,” he emphasizes. “It hits people in the heart. It’s the same as when you see a great movie. It hearts you in the heart, in the soul. And it doesn’t hurt to make people laugh when making your acceptance, either. It’s all about coming across as genuine. People know when you’re being real and when you’re not.”
Sometimes, getting caught up in the moment can come back to haunt an award winner for being perhaps too real. Take, for example, the overcome Sally Field following her Oscar win for Best Actress (her second) in 1985 for *Places in the Heart*. What she said onstage has often been misquoted, but was actually this: “The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it. And I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me.”
“I think she regretted it for years,” Vilanch stresses, “but then Sally monetized it. She did a Visa commercial \[poking fun at it\] where she made a ton of money. She finally owned it and essentially said, ‘I can’t run away from this,’ because that’s what happens when you do a thing like that on the Oscars. It’s like fumbling in the Super Bowl. It stays with you forever.”
Brodsky uses the example of **James Cameron**‘s speech after winning the Best Director Oscar for *Titanic* in 1998 as how *not* to accept your award gracefully. The filmmaker famously held up his trophy and declared, “I’m the king of the world!” Even if it was a line of dialogue in the film, “it came across as the opposite of humble,” she says. “Good speeches start with gratitude, and to my mind that was a missed opportunity for Cameron to show how thankful he was for the project.”
## **Make it memorable**
“Leave the audience with something to remember,” Brodsky notes, “because the last line is kind of your mic-drop moment. So make it count.”
It should be noted here that while there have been plenty of memorable acceptance speeches over the years at the Oscars, they have nothing on the Golden Globes — where the alcohol flows and lips are loosened. In 1996, for example, **Brad Pitt** won the film supporting actor honor for *12 Monkeys* and was moved to thank the makers of the anti-diarrhea medication Kaopectate. “They’ve done a great service for their fellow man,” he noted.
Two years later, when a teary **Ving Rhames** won for the HBO film *Don King: Only in America*, he called **Jack Lemmon** (nominated in the same category for *12 Angry Men)* up to the stage and handed him the trophy. “I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I’d like to give this to you, Mr. Lemmon. It’s yours,” Rhames said. Upon being met with a raucous standing ovation after hitting the stage, a completely discombobulated Lemmon described it as “one of the nicest, sweetest moments I’ve ever known in my life.”
And who can forget **Jodie Foster’s** unofficial coming-out-but-not-really speech at the Globes in 2013 while receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement honor. “I had a sudden urge to say something that I have never really been able to air in public,” Foster said, “a declaration that I’m a little nervous about.. But I’m just going to put it out there, loud and proud. … I am single. No I’m kidding but I’m not really kidding but I’m kind of kidding. … I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, in those uh, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, and co-workers and then gradually proudly to everyone she actually met.” And it went on from there.
Vilanch recalls that the best line he ever heard in an acceptance speech was **Charles Durning**‘s in winning the 1990 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play for *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*. “He said, ‘Some of you may be right. I may not deserve this honor, but I don’t deserve arthritis, either, but I have that’,” Vilanch relates. “At the time, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. It was his get-off line. That’s what makes these awards shows great. It’s the unpredictability and the chance to hear something like that. It’s so much more interesting and memorable than thanking their agent or makeup and hair person.”
Brodsky cites **Halle Berry’s** win for Best Actress for *Monster’s Ball —* the first Black performer to win at the Oscars in that category. “She acknowledged how much bigger the moment was than just her. That made for an unforgettable speech.”
She added, “I also loved **Olivia Colman’s** speech after winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for *The Favourite* in 2019. It was just pure joy. She was clearly so surprised, and her speech was just so funny and real and relatable. What made it unforgettable for me was when she gave a shout-out to little girls practicing their speeches ‘on the telly.’ That was just so very charming and inspiring to me.”
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### [Podcast: Bruce Vilanch's 2024 HOLIDAY Movies/Oscar Special](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/12/27/podcast-bruce-vilanchs-2024-holiday-movies-oscar-special/)
**Published:** December 27, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** In this special holiday edition of 'The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?', co-hosts Adam "Tex" Davis and Bruce Vilanch dive into their favorite holiday movies and examine how many of them garnered the attention of the Oscars.
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## We Got Bruce
Podcast: Bruce Vilanch’s 2024 HOLIDAY Movies/Oscar Special
By Mister D
December 23, 2024
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In this special holiday edition of ‘[**The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?**](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/10/28/bruce-vilanch-debuts-podcast-the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking-on-nov-11/)‘, co-hosts Adam “Tex” Davis and Bruce Vilanch dive into their favorite holiday movies and examine how many of them garnered the attention of the [**Oscars.**](https://www.oscars.org/) The discussion starts with Adam’s Christmas cult classic ‘Just Friends and highlights various holiday-themed films like ‘It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas,’ including a clip of Bruce’s performance as a giant Elf named Philpot. Discussion includes ‘White Christmas,’ ‘A Christmas Story,’ ‘Scrooged,’ ‘Home Alone,’ ‘The Polar Express’ and ‘Die Hard.’ They also touch on the rare Hanukkah movies such as ‘Eight Crazy Nights’ and ‘An American Tail,’. Notable Oscar mentions include the heartwarming classics like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ and modern favorites like ‘The Holdovers.’, with a detour into Siskel and Ebert’s trashing of “Silent Night, Deadly Night”.
**Movies mentioned:**
Just Friends
It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas
White Christmas
A Christmas Story
Gremlins
Krampus
Bad Santa
Trading Places
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Black Christmas
Die Hard
(\*Deck the Halls-referenced)
Jingle All the Way
Christmas with the Kranks
It’s a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Holiday Land
The Night Before Christmas
Toy Tinkers
Scrooge
Scrooged
Home Alone
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Preacher’s Wife
The Bishop’s Wife
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Polar Express
The Holdovers
8 Crazy Nights
An American Tail
The Night Before
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### [Bruce Vilanch On Marc Maron's WTF! Podcast](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/12/23/bruce-vilanch-on-marc-marons-wtf-podcast/)
**Published:** December 23, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch is best known for his time as the head writer of the Oscars, but he is actually a vestige of a fabled era of show business.
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch On Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast
By Mister D
December 23, 2024
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/articles/INT081998brucearticles.htm) is best known for his time as the head writer of the Oscars, but he is actually a vestige of a fabled era of show business. Bruce talks with [**Marc Maron**](https://www.wtfpod.com/) about how he went from being a child actor to working at newspapers and writing jokes for Bette Midler. His skill at writing in other people’s voices led him to countless jobs as a joke-writer-for-hire, doing punch for famous comedians like Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, and others, as well as for many beloved and detested TV variety shows.
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### [A Disturbance In The Force Now Available To Buy On Blu-Ray & DVD](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/12/12/a-disturbance-in-the-force-now-available-to-buy-on-blu-ray-dvd/)
**Published:** December 12, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Just in time for the holidays, A Disturbance in the Force is now available in multiple formats, including digital download, Blu-Ray, & DVD.
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## Daps Magic
‘A Disturbance in the Force’ Now Available For Purchase
By Mr. Daps
Dec 10, 2024
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The Star Wars Holiday Special is legendary among Star Wars fans. For many years, Lucasfilm ignored it. However, this recently changed during Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. One group didn’t ignore the Star Wars Holiday Special but instead made it a documentary’s focus. The documentary, A Disturbance in the Force, looks at how the Star Wars Holiday Special came to be made over four decades ago and how it has become a cult classic years later.
Just in time for the holidays, A Disturbance in the Force is now available in multiple formats, including digital download, [**Blu-Ray**](https://amzn.to/3VBbih0), & **[DVD](https://amzn.to/3DbrajM)**. The digital download is available on Apple TV for $9.99 and on Amazon for different prices for Blu-Ray & DVD. The movie can be found and purchased from the following links: [**disturbanceintheforce.com/screenings**](https://www.disturbanceintheforce.com/screenings).
**About A Disturbance in the Force**
Travel back to a galaxy far, far away – the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. This documentary dives into the mystery of how it happened and why, 45 years later, it has become, much to the chagrin of George Lucas, the ultimate cult classic among Star Wars fans.
Featuring interviews with Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, Bruce Vilanch, and many more.
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### [Podcast: Bruce Vilanch - 1961-A Boys Best Friend Is His Oscar - Episode 3](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/12/12/podcast-bruce-vilanch-1961-a-boys-best-friend-is-his-oscar-episode-3/)
**Published:** December 12, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce and Tex look at the 1961 Oscars for the films of 1960.
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## Spotify
The Oscars: What Were They Thinking? 1961 – A Boy’s Best Friend Is His Oscar
By Bruce Vilanch
December 11, 2024
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On this episode of ‘The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?’ Bruce and Tex look at the
1961 Oscars for the films of 1960. Yep we’re going back a ways to a year that really
helps exemplify what this show is about. You see, in 1960, three films came out that are
currently on the American Film Institute’s Top 100 American Films of ALL TIME.
However, only one of those three films was nominated for an Academy Award! Using
the test of time and our love of movies, we examine whether those other two films (as
well as the iconic performances and directorial efforts within them) deserve to replace
the nominated films — and Bruces gives the cultural and historical context as to why
those films might have been left off the list at the time. Adam of course thinks they were
egregious omissions and you’d have to be a total psycho not to include at least one of
them!
**Movies Mentioned**
Just Friends
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
The Alamo
Sons and Lovers
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Sundowners
From Here to Eternity
Oklahoma
Never on Sunday
Rarfifi
Night in the City
Psycho
Psycho (Gus Van Sant remake)
Sweet Smell of Success
The Killers
Kiss the Blood Off my Hands
The Entertainer
Inherit the Wind
Sands of Iwo Jima
Friendly Persuasion
Mr. Roberts
Teen Sympathy
The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp
Elenor Roosevelt
Butterfield Eight
Cleopatra
Double Indemnity
Pushover
Exodus
Murder, Inc.
Spartacus
All About Eve
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Miranda
Fear Strikes Out
Jaws
Homicidal
The Angry Silence
The Facts of Life
Hiroshima, My Love / Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Tunes of Glory
Oceans 11
Little Shop of Horrors
The Magnificent Seven
Swiss Family Robinson
La Dolce Vita
Sergeant York
High Noon
The Naked Edge
Killer’s Kiss
The Killing
Lolita
Paths of Glory
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
Solomon & Sheba
Land of the Pharaohs
The Life of Brian
Trumbo
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### [Episode 2 - Oscars What Were They Thinking - This One Hurts! - Titanic](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/11/11/episode-2-oscars-what-were-they-thinking-this-one-hurts-titanic/)
**Published:** November 11, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Episode One - Oscars What Were They Thinking - Time For Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/11/11/episode-one-oscars-what-were-they-thinking-time-for-oscars/)
**Published:** November 11, 2024
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## We Got Bruce
Episode One – Oscars What Were They Thinking – Time For Oscars
By Mister D
Nov 11, 2024
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### [Bruce Vilanch: The Oscars: What Were They Thinking? Podcast Starts Tomorrow, Monday, Nov 11, 2024](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/11/10/bruce-vilanch-the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking-podcast-starts-tomorrow-monday-nov-11-2024/)
**Published:** November 10, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Have you watched the Academy Awards and thought… ‘What were they thinking?’
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch: The Oscars: What Were They Thinking? Podcast Starts Tomorrow, Monday, Nov 11, 2024
By Mister D
Nov 10, 2024
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Have you watched the [**Academy Awards**](https://www.oscars.org/) and thought… ‘What were they thinking?’ Have you ever wondered how so many of the awards for Best Picture go to one movie when there’s a much better movie staring them in the face? Or, why have so many actors not won Oscars for their best roles? Or, why do so many movies everyone loves and make a ton of money at the box office get no Oscar love while little-seen films rake in nominations and awards? If so, then this is the podcast for you. Co-hosted by legendary comedian, pop-culture icon, and writer of over 25 Oscar telecasts, Mr. [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/about/), you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the nominating process, how and why some winners may have been chosen as well as tons of incredible, never-before-told, backstage stories about the world’s biggest stars on Hollywood’s biggest night. Joining Bruce is screenwriter, producer, podcaster, and film nerd Adam “Tex” Davis, writer of the very non-Oscar nominated movie Just Friends (starring Ryan Reynolds). Together, Bruce and “Tex” break down every Oscar ceremony, year-by-year, award-by-award, to reveal what the Academy got right and wrong, the flubs, snubs, and oversights. Ultimately, they’ll answer the question every movie-loving Academy Awards watcher asks: The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?
Did you know that two of the Top 100 American Films of All-Time came out the same year but weren’t even nominated for an Academy Award? Or that the film often cited as the ‘Greatest Film of All Time’ didn’t win the Oscar in its year? Or that Cuba Gooding Jr. has the same number of acting Oscars as Al Pacino?
Look, stuff happens. But if you’ve ever watched or read about the Academy Awards, you’ve probably been left scratching your head over which movies and performers won – and how many beloved films weren’t even considered.
Why do so many Best Picture winners become some of the least remembered movies? How is it that legendary directors like Stanley Kubrick never won an Oscar? And why do great actors miss out on their best performances, only to win later for less impressive work?
Sure, the Oscars aren’t sports – there’s no scoreboard to show the winners. But with so many Academy members voting, you’d think they’d get it right. Spoiler alert: They often don’t.
On The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?, Bruce Vilanch and Adam “Tex” Davis take a deep dive into Oscar history, looking back at the biggest mistakes, controversies, and snubs. From Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan to Dances with Wolves winning over Goodfellas, we’ll examine where the Academy went wrong.
Along the way, you’ll hear incredible behind-the-scenes stories and never-before-told moments from Hollywood’s biggest night. We’re re-examining each Oscar ceremony, year-by-year, award-by-award, to see what the Academy got right, what they missed, and how we would “fix” the Oscars.
Whether you’re a dedicated movie buff or just a casual fan, this is the podcast for you. Join us for The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?, where we break down the flubs, snubs, and forgotten gems of Oscar history.
It is available on most podcasting formats, including Spotify, Apple, and IHeart. However, you will have to subscribe to these apps to hear it.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Debuts Podcast 'The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?' on Nov. 11](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/10/28/bruce-vilanch-debuts-podcast-the-oscars-what-were-they-thinking-on-nov-11/)
**Published:** October 28, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Attention Oscar addicts: Bruce Vilanch is launching a new podcast that shares secrets from his 14-year tenure as head writer of the Academy Awards.
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## Hollywood Reporter
Bruce Vilanch, Former Academy Awards Head Writer, to Spill Oscars Tea on Podcast
By Seth Abramovitch
October 28, 2024
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Attention Oscar addicts: [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/09/28/pre-order-bruce-vilanchs-new-book-out-march-04-2025/) is launching a new podcast that shares secrets from his 14-year tenure as head writer of the Academy Awards.
On The [**Oscars**](https://www.oscars.org/): What Were They Thinking?, Vilanch and co-host Adam “Tex” Davis will revisit some of the most controversial chapters from nearly a century of Oscars history. Vilanch’s backstage perch will cover many of those controversies as the telecast’s top scribe.
The first two episodes debut on Nov. 11. A [**trailer teasing the season was released today**](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trailer-oscars-what-were-they-thinking/id1776003423?i=1000674362050).
“If you don’t count sore feet, relatives, or politics, the Oscars are the most complained-about thing in America,” Vilanch tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Some of these complaints are as old as the awards themselves, which means people have been bitching for a hundred years. Here is a place to relive your favorite moments of righteous indignation and discover what really caused them.
“Along the way, there are many backstage stories and revelations from someone who wrote at least a quarter of those shows and knows everybody, living and dead, who wrote the rest. What a great opportunity to scratch that itch you’ve had since Chill Wills was egregiously overlooked for the first version of 1960’s The Alamo. Or something else awful that happened after you were born.”
Among the burning questions promised to be tackled by the new podcast: Why do so many of the awards for best picture go to one movie when there’s a much better movie staring them in the face? Why have so many actors not won Oscars for their best roles? And why do so many movies everyone loves and make a ton of money at the box office get no Oscar love while little-seen movies rake in nominations and awards?
Along the way, Vilanch will reminisce about Oscar scandals. Billy Crystal as Sammy Davis Jr. in blackface in 2012? Angelina Jolie professing she was “so in love” with her brother in 2000? Seth MacFarlane singing “We Saw Your Boobs” in 2014? Vilanch was there. (He wasn’t there for Will Smith’s slap of presenter Chris Rock in 2022 — but he certainly has opinions.)
The Oscars: What Were They Thinking? is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
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### [Pre-Order Bruce Vilanch's New Book Out March 04, 2025](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/09/28/pre-order-bruce-vilanchs-new-book-out-march-04-2025/)
**Published:** September 28, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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## We Got Bruce
Pre-Order Bruce Vilanch’s New Book, It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time, Out March 04, 2025
By Mister D
Sept 28, 2024
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/t_print.htm) is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever put on television—legendary bad productions.
Some of his work lives in infamy—[**The Star Wars Holiday Special**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special), The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White at the Oscars, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. How did these ever seem like a good idea?
Well, everyone has screwed up a few times, or had their work screwed up by others. It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time is a lifetime reflection of what Vilanch has experienced, learned, forgotten, dismissed, and embraced in decades of working in show business, specifically the south forty acres known as comedy. It involves very famous people and people who were not very famous but should have been.
And it explains to the person in the audience who says to himself, once he has gotten his jaw off the floor, “’How did this ever get made?”
Don’t we all want to know?
**About the Author**
**Bruce Vilanch** is an actor (occasionally an actress), writer (occasionally a rewriter), and comedian (occasionally for money, often for causes). He has coauthored 25 Academy Award spectacles, winning two writing Emmys in the process, and has been nominated for seven more.
In addition to the Oscars, he has cowritten many Tonys, Emmys, Grammys, People’s Choice, American Comedy Awards, TV Land Awards, SAG Awards, and a ton of other pageants, roasts, tributes, and various trumped-up reasons for people to strut a red carpet.
He has coauthored dozens of variety television shows and actually put words in the mouth of Cher. He’s also a lyricist, scoring gold and platinum records for disco songs he wrote for Eartha Kitt and the Village People.
And musical theatre geeks will remember him as the coauthor of the Broadway misfire called *Platinum*, which was revived off-Broadway for reasons that continue to mystify Bruce.
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**Location:**
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**Date:**
March 04, 2025
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### [Bruce Vilanch On Jennifer Holiday At The Catalina Club](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/09/01/bruce-vilanch-on-jennifer-holiday-at-the-catalina-club/)
**Published:** September 1, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** jennifer holliday has been in the business 47 years and tonight i saw her give one of the greatest stage performances i've ever seen
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch On Jennifer Holiday At The Catalina Club (Aug 2024)
By Bruce Vilanch
Sept 1, 2024
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jennifer holliday has been in the business 47 years and tonight i saw her give one of the greatest stage performances i’ve ever seen she was at the catalina jazz club in hollywood, to a packed house, and unlike other performances — we’ve done about a thousand benefits together — she didn’t sing to track, she had six musicians and three backup singers and she just didn’t do a show, she told her story. she started with feelin good and followed it with i’m still here, some personalized lyrics of course, and from then on every single number was about something real that has happened to her along the way and every single one was a showstopper. she’s 64 and sings like she’s 21, and she looks fabulous. this is her lena horne show, for those of you who remember’s lena’s one-woman broadway evening. like lena, she spills all the tea, she makes you cry, she makes you laugh and the honesty of it is bracing. she sings all the things you expect, with subtle, but fresh changes from the reccordings you may have memorized. she tells you how the songs happened and what happened to her life because of the songs. it’s an utterly unafraid presentation of a career, and she has had one with the highest highs and the lowest lows. f you hear she’s working near you, just go. you will have one hell of a workout jumping to your feet and cheering . hopefully, somebody will film this
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### [Gravitas Gets NA Rights 2 ‘Studio One Forever,’ Ft. Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/08/27/gravitas-gets-na-rights-2-studio-one-forever-ft-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** August 27, 2024
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## Deadline
Gravitas Ventures Acquires NA Rights To ‘Studio One Forever,’ Doc About Legendary West Hollywood Disco Patronized By Major Stars, LGBTQ Hotties
By Matthew Carey
August 26, 2024
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**DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Everyone knows Studio 54, the iconic New York nightclub that flourished in the 1970s. But the West Coast claimed its** magnetic hotspot in that era – a place that attracted celebrities and the gay community for a wild time of dancing, drinking, and debauchery.
Studio One Forever, directed by Marc Saltarelli, documents a discotheque and cabaret that welcomed the likes of Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elton John, and Chita Rivera, future notables like writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/bruce-vilanch-quotes), and hot young things in skimpy shorts. Gravitas Ventures today announced it has acquired North American distribution rights for the documentary, with ***plans to release it theatrically in Los Angeles on September 13 and VOD beginning October 8.***
Gravitas Ventures Lands Rob Murphy Doc ‘Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey’, Sets Premiere Date
The film includes new interviews with Melissa Rivers, Roslyn Kind, Lance Bass, Thelma Houston and more “as they recount their experiences at [**Studio One**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/studio-one-forever/), and what the iconic club stood for as it faces demolition.” Chita Rivera, before her passing in January of this year, sat for an interview recalling her memories of performing at Studio One’s sister club, The Backlot.
“Studio One Forever shares the journey of Studio One, a beacon of dancing and freedom for gay men looking for identity in a world that saw them as outcasts, as it faces destruction,” notes a description of the documentary. “From merging the gay community and Hollywood elites like Bette Davis and Cary Grant to being at the forefront of the LGBTQ+ rights movement and the fight against the AIDS crisis, the venue was more than a vibrant disco haven and blossoming center of nightlife in West Hollywood; it was a movement.”
Bruce Vilanch and David Del Valle narrate the “dive into the history of the historic venue, offering a testament to an era and immortalizing the club’s legacy for future generations.” The film’s soundtrack features Donna Summer, Sylvester, Thelma Houston, Village People, Bronski Beat, and more.
“I’m excited to bring Studio One Forever to audiences through our partner Gravitas Ventures,” Saltarelli said in a statement. “Their enthusiasm to share the journey and cultural importance of Studio One, especially during a time when LGBTQ+ and human rights are being challenged, makes them the ideal partner to bring the inspirational story of this iconic venue to the next generation.”
Bill Guentzler, SVP of acquisitions and operations at Gravitas Ventures, commented, “Gravitas is proud to be bringing the story of Studio One Forever to North American audiences. Through entertaining and revealing narration, interviews, and footage, director Marc Saltarelli expertly captures the importance of not only the space itself, but the essence of the community that was created by its existence.”
The Factory, the nearly century-old building that housed Studio One and The Backlot, was torn down in 2020 to make way for a hotel and retail complex. But the pioneering disco won’t only live on through the documentary. Former West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran, who appears in the film and serves as a producer of the documentary, said the building was carefully dismantled.
“It was disassembled piece by piece by piece and put in crates and stored,” Duran told the audience after the film’s world premiere at the Outfest LA Film Festival last summer. “One of the promises we secured out of the developer… is that there be a permanent display and recognition of the history of Studio One with photos and items and video.” He added somewhat wistfully, “I really wanted to preserve the disco, but the sad thing is a lot of our young LGBTQ+ people, they don’t really dance anymore; they Grindr… they Tinder.”
Vilanch, never one to miss the opportunity for a joke, said at the Q&A, “John, by the way, did all his own stunts in the film.”
A sense of the importance of Studio One to the LGBTQ community emerges on the Studio One Forever Facebook page. David M. Rodriguez wrote, “Studio One was my place to go to every Friday and Saturday nights. What awesome memories.” Roger Briggs wrote, “Went there whenever I could. I was free to be me.”
Studio One Forever is directed and produced by Marc Saltarelli and produced by Stephen Israel, Alan Eichler and Michael Alden along with Lloyd Coleman, Gary Steinberg, Steve Masterson, Michael Roth, Chris Isaacson, Loree Gold, John Duran, and Steve Saltarelli. Executive producers include Gary A. Carnow, M.J. Humenuik, Matt Zarley, and Drew Sklar. The documentary is a co-production between Studio One Productions and School Pictures with support from Alan Eichler Productions, Observatory Media, Pauleytics Productions, Violet Horizon and a grant from the Mario and Mary Saltarelli Foundation.
Gravitas Ventures, an Anthem Sports and Entertainment Company, is a “leading all rights distributor of independent feature films and documentaries… Gravitas Ventures has distributed thousands of films into over a hundred million homes in North America – over one billion homes worldwide.”
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### [An Open Letter For Bruce Vilanch To Host The Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/08/02/an-open-letter-for-bruce-vilanch-to-host-the-oscars/)
**Published:** August 2, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** I can solve your problem in 2 words: Get Bruce. As in comedy legend, Broadway & TV star, beloved Hollywood Square, and all-purpose mensch, Bruce Vilanch.
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## ME
An Open Letter For Bruce Vilanch To Host The Oscars
By Shelly Goldstein
August 2, 2024
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**An Open Letter to the Academy
Bruce Vilanch
•News From ME by evanier / Aug 1, 2024 at 10:08 PM//keep unread//hide
My longtime friend Shelly Goldstein — oft-mentioned on this blog — released this letter today…**
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Aug 1, 2024
To: AMPAS
From: Shelly Goldstein
Re: 2025 Academy Awards Host: GET BRUCE!
Dear Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences,
This week it’s been announced that both Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney turned down your offer to host the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Each is a superb comic performer and an excellent choice. I know the topic of “who should host” is an eternal controversy, comparable to such long-standing debates as “Thin Crust vs. Deep Dish,” “Over Hiatus, Which Real Housewife Had the Most Work Done” and “Should Ikea Take Out a Restraining Order Against J.D. Vance?”
I can solve your problem in 2 words: Get Bruce. As in comedy legend, Broadway & TV star, beloved Hollywood Square, and all-purpose mensch, Bruce Vilanch.
His very name is synonymous with “Funny” and “Academy Awards.” From 2000 to 2014 he was the head writer of the Oscars, having spent the previous 10 years on its writing staff. (Thanks & applause to all the writers he’s worked with on the show.) We’re talking the years people remember with joy: the Oscars hosted by Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, Ellen DeGeneres, Hugh Jackman — with all due respect to each artists’ supreme comic chops, having the best comedy mind in the business feeding them the funny made their appearances soar.
Imagine how brilliant the opening monologue will be, if it’s Bruce center stage.
And while he’s brilliantly written for the Academy Awards, he’s also written the Tonys, Grammys and Emmys. Not to mention his legendary work with the Divine Miss Midler — as well as being on speed dial to virtually every single person in show business who needs to sound funnier and smarter. It would take up less space to publish a list of the celebs Bruce hasn’t written for.
“BUT!” I hear you cry, “A writer isn’t necessarily a performer.” Tell that to, I dunno, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Larry David, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert, Albert Brooks, John Cleese, Emma Thompson, Rob Reiner, Nia Vardalos, Key & Peele, Rachel Bloom, Kristen Wiig, Phoebe Waller-Bridge…I could go on but you get the point.
“BUT!” I hear you say…Not enough people know who he is. Bull pucky! Bruce has proven himself on TV, on Film, on Broadway. A documentary has been made about his life and unmatched career. Jon Stewart often uses his name and photo to button many a joke. It always gets a huge laugh. He appeared as himself on the Simpson’s for God’s sake! Bruce’s performances can be 3-dimensional in a 2-dimensional medium.
“BUT!” I hear you say…Don’t we need to diversify the host? Yes. Clearly that wasn’t an issue for you when you offered the gig to Mssrs. Kimmel and Mulaney. (Each is brilliant. All respect to both of them.) So yeah, Bruce is a man. If you don’t believe me, check out his Grindr profile. I’m a woman and a comedy writer and I know too well that women are severely overlooked in all aspects of comedy.
Still, there are many varieties of discrimination that need visibility. Bruce is a proud, respected and beloved gay man who throughout his spectacular career has never hidden who he is from the world. We’re talking decades before Ellen came out (Who also did a great job as Oscars host. Guess who wrote for her?) Having Bruce host would be overwhelmingly pleasing to millions in your core audience — gay, straight, all points in-between and Lindsay Graham.
**Bruce and Shelly**
As for “diversity” — despite all the talk there is one group that is invariably ignored by the Academy, not to mention most of show business, onscreen and behind the scenes — anyone over 50. The industry shoves us so deeply into the ageism closet, we have a better chance finding work as a garment bag.
I’ve noticed for far too-many years the only time we’re guaranteed to see “those of a certain age” on the Academy Awards is during the In Memoriam reel. The only job where Bruce’s age should remove him from consideration is Matt Gaetz’s prom date.
But when all is said and done, there’s one definitive argument: Bruce would be fantabulous. To those that say the Oscars need a current host who embodies Hollywood, as did Johnny Carson and Bob Hope…
Bruce personifies Hollywood history. Hell, he helped create much of it. He’s brilliant enough, and funny enough to respect the assignment while knowing exactly how far to go (and when needed, a scooch, farther.) It will be a way for him to apologize to Hollywood for the whole Rob Lowe/Snow White thing. (You don’t remember? You’re the lucky one.)
No one would ever dare slap him. He’d be the one slapping the show out of any unnecessary ennui.
Let’s be honest. Within a year, I’m sure A.I. will somehow find a way to have the Academy Awards hosted simultaneously by Robin Williams, Marilyn Monroe and Jar Jar Binks — so before our A.I. overlords fully take the reins, let’s give the gig to an actual human being. Who, speaking from personal experience, is one of the best. In a bitter election year, this is one choice we all can agree on.
Get Bruce! It’ll be historic and hilarious. Thank you from someone who’s watched the show faithfully every year since I was 5.
*Sincerely,
Shelly Goldstein*
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Receive REAF's Lifetime Achievement Award 7/14/2024](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/07/10/bruce-vilanch-to-receive-reafs-lifetime-achievement-award-7-14-2024/)
**Published:** July 10, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch To Receive REAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award 7/14/2024
By Mister D
July 10, 2024
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The [**Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation presents Help is on the Way**](https://www.reaf-sf.org/): 30th Anniversary Concert & Gala on Sunday, July 14, 2024, at the Marines’ Memorial Theater (concert) and Beacon Grand Hotel (VIP after party with the cast). This show will feature cast members for the Broadway touring cast of Mrs. Doubtfire, with the lead actor, Rob McClure, hosting the evening as Mrs. Doubtfire.
This year’s event, honoring [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/28/see-bruce-vilanch-guest-on-candis-caynes-secret-garden/) (Lifetime Achievement Award) and Delta Dental of California (Corporate Partner Award), whose support has never required pulling teeth, will be preceded by a silent auction in the theater lobby and a VIP After-Party at the nearby Beacon Grand Hotel.
In 1994, the groundbreaking decision was made to cast openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban-American Pedro Zamora as part of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco. Zamora’s time in the Real World house on Lombard Street brought a face to the AIDS crisis. The darkly handsome, funny, surprising, and in-your-face activist died at 22 just after the final episode aired.
That same year, Peggy Ermet lost her son to AIDS and joined lifelong friend Barbara Richmond, whose son John died in 1990, to launch a special kind of musical AIDS benefit to honor their sons — it would become Help Is on the Way: San Francisco Cares. Later in 1999, REAF began the “One Night Only” cabaret performances utilizing touring casts of Broadway shows appearing in San Francisco. These fantastic nights give the entertainers a break from the scores they perform every night by offering their chosen music.
***Help Is On The Way: 30th ANNIVERSARY: BROADWAY & BEYOND*
6:30 pm: Limited silent auction in the theater lobby
7:30 pm: Performance
9:45 pm: VIP After party with the cast at the new
BEACON GRAND HOTEL, 450 Powell St. at Sutter (formerly The Drake)
for [tickets](https://tiny.cc/Help30tickets) or additional info: [REAF-SF](https://www.reaf-sf.org/)
$39 – Reserved, Performance only/ Balcony tickets
$59 – Reserved, Performance only/ Dress Circle tickets
$150 – Reserved, Performance & VIP After Party/ Orchestra tickets
$500 & up: – VIP & Gala Individual Sponsor Tickets**
**JASON BROCK** Top 10 from X-Factor/cabaret star
**DEBBY BOONE** Grammy Award-winning recording star **DAVID BURNHAM** Broadway Star (Light in the Piazza, Wicked)
**FAITH PRINCE** Tony Award-winning (Guys & Dolls) Broadway Star
**LISA VROMAN** Broadway Star (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miz)
**JENNIFER LEIGH WARREN** Broadway Star (Big River)
**PAULA WEST** Jazz / Cabaret Star
**BRUCE VILANCH** Broadway (Hairspray) / TV Star Comedian
**CAST MEMBERS** from the **BROADWAY TOURING CAST** of *MRS. DOUBTFIRE*
Featuring **Rob McClure** hosting as Mrs. Doubtfire
Musical Director M**ICHAEL ORLAND**
Producers: **KEN HENDERSON & JOE SEILER**
Honorees: **BRUCE VILANCH**, Performer Lifetime Achievement Award)
**DELTA DENTAL OF CALIFORNIA**, Corporate Partner Award
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### [See Bruce Vilanch Guest On Candis Cayne's Secret Garden](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/28/see-bruce-vilanch-guest-on-candis-caynes-secret-garden/)
**Published:** June 28, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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## Yahoo
‘Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden’ blooms on Hulu this Pride Month
By Nic Austin
JUNE 25 2024
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Experience inspiration and entertainment this [**Pride Month**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/glbt/) with Candis Cayne’s groundbreaking new series, **[Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden](https://www.candiscaynessecretgarden.com/),** from the Advocate Channel, now available on Hulu!
Candis Cayne, renowned as the first transgender actress to portray a recurring transgender character in a primetime series (Dirty Sexy Money), is a pioneering actress, fashion icon, classically trained dancer, and now an expert gardener. In this captivating series, Cayne welcomes viewers into her private backyard haven, presenting a unique blend of beauty, healing, camp, and compassion. Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden transcends traditional gardening shows, celebrating resilience, creativity, and personal expression.
Kristen Carroll, CEO of SpoPro (Spotlight Productions), recognizes the importance of Hulu platforming Secret Garden. “We are delighted that Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden is now on Hulu, which has shown a tremendous commitment to the LGBTQ community,” Carroll remarks. “This show is a testament to SpoPro’s belief in the power of amplifying marginalized voices, and we believe it will resonate with audiences of all backgrounds. As Candis always reminds us, ‘Good things happen when you get a little dirty!’”
For Cayne, the opportunity to create this new series was a healing experience, one in which she hopes to share with viewers, in light of all the increased strife that the LGBTQ+ community has faced in recent years. “All you have to do is turn on the news to get a glimpse of the negativity our community has been facing. It reminds us that it’s more important than ever to live our most authentic, beautiful, multi-faceted, messy, joyous lives,” Cayne comments. “That’s why I created my show. It’s sort of \[like\] Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets \[Martha Stewart’s\] Martha Gardens—it’s full of camp and glamor, kindness and cocktails, and just a dash of shade.”
Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden’s debut is one of two original series from the Advocate Channel launching on Hulu this Pride Month. Along with Candis Cayne’s show, the Out100 Specials 2021-2023 are now part of the Hulu Has Pride celebration and are available in the Hulu Has Pride hub, serving you with your next streaming obsession, timed perfectly with Pride Month.
Celebrate Pride Month with Candis Cayne and her Secret Garden, now streaming on Hulu!
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Star-Studded Abbey Relaunch Party](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/24/bruce-vilanch-attends-star-studded-abbey-relaunch-party/)
**Published:** June 24, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** t was a star-studded affair at the Abbey Nightclub Thursday night, as a veritable who’s who of West Hollywood showed up to kick off the gay club’s new era, including icons Cher, Ricky Martin, Jean Smart and Bianca Del Rio.
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## Los Angeles Blade
Abbey launches new era with star-studded party
By Rob Salerno
June 21, 2024
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It was a star-studded affair at the Abbey Nightclub Thursday night, as a veritable who’s who of West Hollywood showed up to kick off the gay club’s new era, including icons Cher, **Ricky Martin**, **Jean Smart** and Bianca Del Rio.
The Abbey was bought last year by Tristan Schukraft, the “CEO of Everything Gay” who’s behind the Mistr pharmacy, the Tryst Hotels and Circo nightclub in Puerto Rico, and who claims to own 75% of the commercial strip on Fire Island.
Schukraft says he plans to maintain the Abbey’s reputation as a home and flagship nightclub for the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles and beyond.
“I’m going to add my own personal touches to it. I’m going to bring in some new DJs, mix in some new talent, keep it fresh,” Schukraft says. “We’re going to do some new once-monthly events, a new night on Thursday nights at the chapel, expand the dance floor, but at its core, we’re going to keep the Abbey what it is, and that’s the most popular gay bar in the world.”
Revelers were treated to a surprise appearance by **Cher**, who told the crowd about her lifelong appreciation of the gay community, while servers passed out bowls of her Cher-lato gelato.
“The first gay guys I ever met, I was 9 years old … and I remember saying to my mom, ‘Where have you been hiding these guys? Who are these guys, and why aren’t the other guys as fun as these guys?’” Cher said. “I’ve had ups and downs in my career and you guys have never left me.”
[**The Abbey**](https://www.theabbeyweho.com/) has been an important home for people across the LGBTQ spectrum, says actress and singer Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, best known as the star of the FX series “Pose.”
“I’ve always felt safe and comfortable here. That’s the reason it’s always felt special to me,” she says. “What would a world be if there wasn’t a place for us to congregate and have communal togetherness?”
**Lance Bass**, the former NSYNC popstar who now owns Rocco’s nightclub across the street from the Abbey, was also among the revelers Thursday night. Though the clubs are competitors, he says the Abbey is a special place to him and describes former owner David Cooley as one of his best friends.
“This is the place I came to when I wanted to come out. This has always been my safe space,” Bass says. “My favorite memory was years ago meeting Liz Taylor right there in front of the fireplace, and it was amazing.”
Other stars spotted at the party included recording artist and actor Ricky Martin, star of HBO’s “Hacks” Jean Smart, drag icons **Bianca Del Rio** and Manila Luzon, musician Saweetie, comedian **[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/category/special-events/)** and “Glamorous” star Graham Parkhurst.
For Abbey founder David Cooley, the party was an opportunity to celebrate his 33 years of running the club and a handoff to a successor who will continue his legacy.
He had a few words of advice for Schukraft as he launches the Abbey’s new era.
“When people say no or you can’t make money, push forward. Follow your dreams,” Cooley says.
Schukraft, still in awe of his recent acquisition, reflects on the responsibility and opportunity ahead.
“I never thought in a million years I was going to own the Abbey. When you’re here, it’s still so surreal,” Schukraft says. “The Abbey is iconic and so important to the gay community, and Fire Island is deeply as such. These opportunities come about and you have to take advantage of them when they’re there.”
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### [Leslie Jordan 2 Get Posthumous Life Achievement Award](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/23/leslie-jordan-2-get-posthumous-life-achievement-award/)
**Published:** June 23, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The honor, accepted by pal Del Shores, is presented 2 mark the debut of the museum's Real 2 Reel: Portrayals & Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood exhibit.
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## The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Jordan 2 Get Posthumous Life Achievement Award at Hollywood Museum
BY CHRIS GARDNER
JUNE 20, 2024
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[**Leslie Jordan**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/movies/) to Receive Posthumous Life Achievement Award at Hollywood Museum
The honor, accepted by longtime Jordan pal Del Shores, will be presented during an event to mark the debut of the museum’s Real to Reel: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood exhibit.
Leslie Jordan will soon have an award named after him.
The late actor, who died at age 67 on Oct. 24, 2022, will be honored with an inaugural Leslie Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hollywood Museum on June 25. The posthumous prize, which will be accepted by producer and longtime Jordan pal Del Shores of the Del Shores Foundation, will be presented during a special event to mark the debut of the museum’s queer tribute exhibit, the 11th annual Real to Reel: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQ+ in Hollywood. ***Also on the bill that night will be a special comedy performance by gay icon [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/category/movies/), along with speakers including Shores, Ann Walker, and Emerson Collins.***
Leslie Jordan and Terrence McNally Among National LGBTQ Wall of Honor 2023 Inductees
Expected attendees also include Hollywood Museum founder and president Donelle Dadigan, Young & the Restless star Kate Linder, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Miller, Alice Amter, Kathy Kolla, Rico E. Anderson, Tyrone DuBose, Eve Richards, Melissa Niece Smith, Gary Lane, Larry Lane, Geoffrey Mark, Paul L. Hart, Peter Szeliga, Brooke St. John, Darren Deng, Guillermo Diaz, Bobby Trendy, Jason Stuart, Shawn Pelofsky, John Tucker, Megan Davis, Jackette Knightley, Alan Rich, Sherry Vine, Ingenue, Glen Alen and others.
The Real to Reel exhibit is designed to spotlight 100+ years of content, costumes, props, and memorabilia from films, TV shows, and digital offerings. It will also feature special costumes worn by Jordan during his long career.
“The museum welcomes the opportunity to create and showcase this important exhibition, sharing with the public the artistic expression and extraordinary significance of the LGBTQ+ culture and its effect and impact on the world through the medium of entertainment,” Dadigan said of the works, houses in the Hollywood Museum that is located in the historic Max Factor Building.
It’s not the first honor Jordan has received after his death. He was previously honored with a Leslie Jordan Award for Excellence in the Arts at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s gala on April 22, 2023.
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### [‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ Review](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/19/outstanding-a-comedy-revolution-review/)
**Published:** June 19, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** In the opening section of Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, you might be forgiven for thinking this is an extended Pride Month promo to breathe new life into Netflix’s 2022 special, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration.
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## The Hollywood Reporter
‘Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution’ Review: Trailblazing Queer Comics Get Their Due in Entertaining Netflix Doc
BY DAVID ROONEY
June 15, 2024
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In the opening section of Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, you might be forgiven for thinking this is an extended Pride Month promo to breathe new life into Netflix’s 2022 special, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. But in a Q&A following the rousingly received opening-night screening at the Provincetown Film Festival, director Page Hurwitz clarified the chicken-and-the-egg situation, explaining that she produced the event at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, which assembled 22 prominent queer comics on the same bill, as a foundational building block for this documentary surveying the rich history of LGBTQ+ comedians.
At a time when a new generation of queer comics from across the sexual and gender identity spectrum has emerged into what appears to be a thriving scene, this is an invaluable primer on the many performers who kicked down resistant doors to make today’s greater representation possible.
Even if it only served as a vehicle for the rediscovery of the hilarious Robin Tyler, the first lesbian comic to come out on national television in 1978, the doc would be invaluable. When Tyler and her partner Pat Harrison, who performed as the comedy duo Harrison and Tyler, took on anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant — “I don’t mind them being born again, but do they have to come back as themselves?” Tyler asks — ABC promptly canceled their deal.
Gay comedians like Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde and Rip Taylor were all over television in the 1970s, but they remained closeted; the thinking at the time was that coming out equaled certain career death.
Even a comedy titan like Laugh-In veteran Lily Tomlin, despite making no secret of her relationship with her longtime partner and now wife Jane Wagner, says that actually declaring herself a lesbian back then was unthinkable. But the fabulous Norman Seeff shot of Tomlin looking fierce in an “Evolve or Die” muscle T-shirt makes it clear that by the mid-‘80s, she was hiding nothing.
Tomlin is one of several heavy-hitters whose interviews and comedy clips provide insight into both the barriers in place and the subversive ways many comics got around them. Going back to the Black vaudeville circuit of the 1920s with performers like “Moms” Mabley, queerness has long been a factor in stand-up, whether implicit or explicit. Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Rosie O’Donnell, Wanda Sykes, Marsha Warfield, Eddie Izzard, Hannah Gadsby and [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/video/) are among those weighing in with illuminating commentary.
One of the most moving aspects of the film is how it highlights the mentor-mentee dynamic of [**queer comedy**](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/lgbtq-comedy-movies/), with each trailblazer passing on an expanded legacy to the next up-and-comer. Both Bernhard and Cho talk of Tomlin as a major inspiration, while Joel Kim Booster acknowledges that queer women in comedy were his chief influence.
Another thread that emerges is the one-step-forward-two-steps-back factor of queer representation in comedy. The advances of each decade keep hitting a wall of backlash, whether it was Bryant’s “Christian” crusading in the ‘70s or AIDS hysteria and the family values push of the Ronald Reagan years or the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” mentality of the ‘90s, when Bill Clinton was in office.
One of the most exhilarating clips has Bernhard appropriating the disco classic “Do You Wanna Funk?” as a rallying cry for sexual freedom, provocatively skewering the stifling conservatism of public figures like Reagan and Jerry Falwell.
Several commentators make the point that unapologetically anti-gay comedy remained widely acceptable through the end of the last century and beyond, whether it was the goofy gay-panic humor of Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar or the outright homophobia of Eddie Murphy’s stand-up specials. The flip side is Richard Pryor’s appearance at a 1977 gay rights fundraiser at the Hollywood Bowl, where he talks frankly about the joys of sex with men before turning on the well-heeled, predominantly white audience for their absence from the Black rights struggle.
Input from Scott Thompson of Canadian comedy group The Kids in the Hall is especially poignant as he talks of having to create characters to hide his sexuality behind. His acerbic bar fixture Buddy Cole was notable as “the first gay character who fucked.” Elsewhere, tacit pressure made it clear that straight audiences could get on board with queer comedy so long as they didn’t have to think about actual gay sex.
Cho was another disruptive force against that unspoken rule, with a defiantly raunchy brand of personally revealing comedy. This was precisely what queer comics were told not to do, instead being encouraged to make their material “palatable.”
The prevailing coyness around the nitty-gritty of queer sexuality in comedy is echoed also in the famous guest appearance of Ellen DeGeneres on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, where she jokingly came out as “Lebanese” and O’Donnell played along, adding that she might be Lebanese too. It’s significant that while O’Donnell’s popular daytime variety and talk show ran for six seasons in syndication and had a writers’ room filled with queer comics like Judy Gold, the host still operated under the assumption that coming out was a career killer.
Many of the interviewees discuss the experience of being unable to land a booking after their sexuality became public knowledge. One of the more emotional moments features Todd Glass recalling his successful breakthrough years as a staple of late-night comedy, never even contemplating coming out, until a heart attack and a hospital visit from his partner gave him the courage to take that step. Sykes had a different means of arriving at that point, more or less accidentally coming out by mentioning her wife during a public appearance.
Hurwitz, a former comic herself, has a great eye for choice material, clearly having dug like a truffle hound through decades of archives to find clips that often remain eye-wateringly funny today.
Inevitably there are conspicuous absences — among them Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, Cole Escola, John Early and Jerrod Carmichael, perhaps partly justified by the choice to focus largely on comics who participated in the Greek Theatre event — and areas where the doc could have pushed harder. Any discussion of homophobia getting a pass for way too long in comedy should include the infamous Tracy Morgan rant, when he told a Nashville audience that he would “pull out a knife and stab” his son if he were gay. Even Dave Chapelle’s inflammatory transphobic material gets only cursory coverage.
If there’s a significant flaw in the doc it’s that for a film so willing to contextualize queer comedy in the political landscape of the past, it’s surprisingly reticent about the alarming climate of the present, with a concerted push well under way to roll back many of the gains of LGBTQ+ rights. Surely somewhere on the cutting room floor someone voiced an opinion about all that’s at stake in the upcoming election?
Even so, Outstanding makes a persuasive, highly entertaining case that the evolution of queer comedy is inextricably bound to broader developments in representation, and that emerging next-gen queer comics could learn a lot from their forebears.
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### [Vilanch, Bernhard, & More To Be Ft In Comedy Doc](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/06/03/vilanch-bernhard-more-to-be-ft-in-comedy-doc/)
**Published:** June 3, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The June special will feature Sandra Bernhard, Bruce Vilanch, Wanda Sykes, Hannah Gadsby, Tig Notaro, Bob The Drag Queen, and more.
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## The Wrap
‘Outstanding’ Trailer Reveals Netflix Doc About the History of LGBTQ+ Standup Comedy | Video
By Kayla Cobb
June 3, 2024
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The June special will feature Sandra Bernhard, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/video/), Wanda Sykes, Hannah Gadsby, [**Tig Notaro**](https://tignation.com/), Bob The Drag Queen, and more.
Timed to Pride, Netflix has dropped the trailer for its first-of-its-kind documentary about the history of standup comedy in the LGBT+ community. **“[Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution]()” will premiere on the Streamer on June 18**, following its Spotlight Premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Friday.
“All kinds of comedy are accepted now, which I never thought would be accepted in my lifetime,” Rosie O’Donnell says in this first trailer. “When I was a young comic, you had to be careful what you did, who you talked to, and who knew.”
“It wasn’t accepted to say you were gay onstage,” Lily Tomlin says in the video. Watch the full trailer above.
The documentary will follow how LGBT+ standup has driven social change over the past five decades. To do this, “Outstanding” will combine interviews, memorable standup performances, archival materials, and verité footage. “Ultimately, the film reveals that queer comedians — whether they intended to or not — helped change the world, one joke at a time,” a logline for the project reads.
In addition to O’Donnell and Tomlin, the documentary will spotlight Billy Eichner, Bob The Drag Queen, Bruce Vilanch, Fortune Feimster, Gina Yashere, Guy Branum, Hannah Gadsby, James Adomian, Jim David, Joel Kim Booster, Judy Gold, KJ Whitehead, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Marsha Warfield, Matteo Lane, Patti Harrison, River Butcher, Robin Tran, Robin Tyler, Roz Hernandez, Sandra Bernhard, Scott Thompson, Solomon Georgio, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Suzy Izzard, Tig Notaro, Todd Glass, Trixie Mattel and Wanda Sykes.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, documentary, Netflix, OutstandingComedyRevolution, SandraBernhard, TigNataro
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### [Night Time With Vilanch On Oscars, Star Wars Special](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/05/22/night-time-with-vilanch-on-oscars-star-wars-special/)
**Published:** May 22, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch- HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, THE OSCARS
By Mister D
May 22, 2024
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The man, the myth, the legend himself, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://www.facebook.com/bruce.vilanch.1/) made a triumphant return to our humble show. He is a legendary storyteller, and you don’t want to miss him revealing the greatest joke that never made it on the air at the Oscars, what it was like writing the first ever appearance of KISS on television, and how the Star Wars Holiday Special came together. The award for the funniest podcast guest goes to…Bruce Vilanch on [**THE NIGHT TIME SHOW!**](https://thenighttimeshow.com/)
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### [Fresh Blood Podcast: Bruce Vilanch Thriving Over 40!](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/05/21/fresh-blood-podcast-bruce-vilanch-thriving-over-40/)
**Published:** May 21, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch talks about Bette Midler's impact on his career, his experience with adoption, and his various projects in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch – Comedy Writer, Songwriter, Actor and 6 time Emmy Award Winner
By Mister D
May 21, 2024
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Bruce Vilanch – Comedy Writer, Songwriter, Actor, and six-time Emmy Award Winner
[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://bootlegbetty.com/category/bruce-vilanch/) talks about Bette Midler’s impact on his career, his experience with adoption, and his various projects in Hollywood and on Broadway. Bruce is a comedy writer, songwriter, actor, and a six-time Emmy Award winner. Bruce is well known by the public for his years on Hollywood Squares as a celebrity participant. Bruce was also the head writer for the show; he wrote for the Academy Awards and was the head writer for the Oscars from 2000 to 2014. He has been a reporter, a columnist, and a songwriter, published a collection of his writings, and he’s written jokes for the likes of Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Rosie O’Donnell, and Robin Williams. He has appeared on Broadway in Hairspray and various TV shows and has written and performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, [**Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruceography.htm)
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**Tags:** BetteMidler, Bruce Vilanch, FreshBlood, JolieDowns, podcast, ThrivingOver40
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### [Bruce Vilanch Chats Incredible Career](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/05/18/bruce-vilanch-chats-incredible-career/)
**Published:** May 18, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Legendary writer and comedian Bruce Vilanch joins DBL to go through some of his most memorable (and occasionally infamous) TV specials
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch Chats Incredible Career
By Mister D
May 18, 2024
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Legendary writer and comedian [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/category/video/) joins DBL to go through some of his most memorable (and occasionally infamous) TV specials, including ‘The Paul Lynde Halloween Special’ and ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special.’ He also talks about how awards shows can get their groove back in modern time, and the impact of LGBTQ+ comedy in the Netflix documentary ‘[**Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution.**](https://tribecafilm.com/films/outstanding-a-comedy-revolution-2024)’
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Comic, Interview, Podcast, Video, Writer
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Career, Chats, Comedian, DailyBlastLive, legendary, WeGotBruce, Writer
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### [Dave's Gone By Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/05/06/daves-gone-by-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** May 6, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
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## Bootleg Betty
Dave’s Gone By Interviews Bruce Vilanch
By Mister D
May 5, 2024
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**Dave’s Gone By Interview (5/4/2024) BRUCE VILANCH & Rabbi Sol Solomon** – Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer BRUCE VILANCH Topics include: The Oscars, Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton, Judaism. The segment aired May 4, 2024, as part of the 942nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Please Note: Segments extracted from “Dave’s Gone By” may have music and other elements removed for timing and media re-posting considerations.
For the full interview on all aspects, please visit the audio of the original broadcast. All content (c)2024 TotalTheater Productions.
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### [Marc Saltarelli & Bruce Vilanch Talk 'Studio One Forever'](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/05/03/marc-saltarelli-bruce-vilanch-talk-studio-one-forever/)
**Published:** May 3, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Documentarian Marc Saltarelli & Gay Icon Bruce Vilanch Talk 'Studio One Forever' with Dennis Hensley on the podcast Dennis Anyone?
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## We Got Bruce
Video: Documentarian Marc Saltarelli & Gay Icon Bruce Vilanch Talk ‘Studio One Forever’
By Mister D
May 3, 2024
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Documentarian **[Marc Saltarelli](https://marcsaltarelli.com/)** and gay Icon [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bio.htm) Discuss ‘Studio One Forever’ with [**Dennis Hensley**](https://www.dennisanyone.net/) on the podcast ‘Dennis Anyone?’
**Documentary and Participants:**
- Dennis hosts a conversation via Zoom with Marc Saltarelli, who directed the documentary “Studio One Forever.”
- Bruce Vilanch, who appears in the film and was a regular at the club during its heyday, also joins the discussion.
**Club History and Controversies:**
- They delve into the vibrant and sometimes controversial history of Studio One, a renowned disco club.
- The club’s treacherous back stairs become a topic of conversation.
- Interestingly, while many associate Studio One as a rip-off of Studio 54, it’s actually the other way around.
**Founder’s Vision and Inclusion:**
- Scott Forbes, the club’s founder, is discussed. His vision didn’t always include people who didn’t resemble him, such as women and people of color.
**Early AIDS Benefits and Joan Rivers:**
- The conversation touches on the early AIDS benefits held in the Backlot cabaret space at Studio One.
- One of these benefits was headlined by Joan Rivers and caused significant controversy, even leading to death threats against her family. Nevertheless, the show went on!
**Unexpected Discovery and Memories:**
- A treasure trove of Studio One photos was discovered in an unlikely place.
- They reflect on the courage it took for gay men of that era to line up on Robertson Boulevard to enter the club.
- Certain songs always evoke memories of Studio One for Bruce and Marc.
*The legacy of Studio One lives on through these discussions and memories!*
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### [“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” - Celebrating Queer Stand-Up Comedy](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/18/outstanding-a-comedy-revolution-celebrating-queer-stand-up-comedy/)
**Published:** April 18, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Netflix is set to premiere the groundbreaking documentary “Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” globally on June 18.
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## We Got Bruce
“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” – Celebrating Queer Stand-Up Comedy
By Mister D
April 19, 2024
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Netflix is set to premiere the groundbreaking documentary [**“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution”** ](https://www.netflix.com/title/81607752)globally on June 18. This feature-length film delves into the rich history of queer stand-up comedy, exploring how it has served as an instrument for social change over the past five decades. Through a combination of stand-up performances, interviews, and archival materials, the documentary sheds light on the trailblazing work of LGBTQ+ comedians who have actively challenged cultural norms and values.
The film features an impressive lineup of [**comedians**](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/02/12/bruce-vilanch-comedy-icon/) and historians who share their insights and experiences:
**Lily Tomlin:** A legendary performer known for her wit and iconic characters.
**Sandra Bernhard:** A fearless comedian and actress who has pushed boundaries.
**Wanda Sykes:** A trailblazer who fearlessly tackles social issues in her comedy.
**Hannah Gadsby:** The brilliant mind behind the groundbreaking show “Nanette.”
**Tig Notaro:** Known for her deadpan delivery and poignant storytelling.
**Rosie O’Donnell:** A beloved TV personality and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
**Margaret Cho:** A fearless voice who has challenged stereotypes.
**Bob The Drag Queen:** A drag performer who combines humor and activism.
**Trixie Mattel:** A drag queen, singer, and comedian with a devoted following.
**Historians and Insights**
The documentary also features interviews with historians who provide context and depth:
**Dave Holmes:** Offering historical perspectives on queer comedy.
**Roger Mason:** Sharing insights into the evolution of LGBTQ+ stand-up.
**Shar Jossell:** Discussing the impact of comedy on social change.
**Susan Stryker:** Providing valuable context from an academic standpoint.
**Kate Aurthur (Variety Editor-at-Large):** Offering journalistic insights.
**Bruce Vilanch and Other Notable Interviewees**
Among other comedians interviewed are **Bruce Vilanch**, Fortune Feimster, Gina Yashere, Guy Branum, James Adomian, Jim David, Joel Kim Booster, **Judy Gold**, KJ Whitehead, **Mae Martin**, **Marsha Warfield**, Matteo Lane, Patti Harrison, River Butcher, Robin Tran, Robin Tyler, Roz Hernandez, **Scott Thompson**, Solomon Georgio, **Suzanne Westenhoefer**, and Todd Glass.
**Director’s Perspective**
“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” is written and directed by Page Hurwitz. Hurwitz emphasizes the power of comedy to unite people and praises the comedians featured in the film for their trailblazing work. She hopes the documentary will honor their contributions to LGBTQ+ history and inspire audiences to discover new comedy heroes.
**World Premiere and Netflix Release**
Before its Netflix release, “Outstanding” will have its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival on June 7. Netflix greenlit the project almost two years ago, intending to complement their comedy special “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration.”
The documentary premieres globally on June 18 on Netflix, following its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 7. Get ready to laugh, learn, and celebrate the trailblazing work of LGBTQ+ comedians who have fearlessly taken the stage and changed the world, one punchline at a time! ???
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks To 'Secret Story's From The Underground' Podcast](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/18/bruce-vilanch-talks-to-secret-storys-from-the-underground-podcast/)
**Published:** April 18, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch appeared on the podcast “Secret Stories From The Underground” in April 2021. “Secret Story’s From The Underground” is a captivating podcast hosted by Danny Whitman and Dean Whitman from the band D.N.D.
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch Talks To ‘Secret Story’s From The Underground’ Podcast
By Mister D
April 18, 2024
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**[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/about/)** appeared on the podcast “Secret Stories From The Underground” in April 2021. **[“Secret Story’s From The Underground”](https://open.spotify.com/show/2bkQlbgodb82zwLFNCre1F)** is a captivating podcast hosted by **Danny Whitman** and **Dean Whitman** from the band **D.N.D**.
- The podcast invites some of the business’s best actors, comedians, and musicians.
- It delves into their stories, experiences, and journeys.
- Along with entertaining anecdotes, the hosts share **hints for success**.
Bruce Vilanch talked about his time in comedy, the great people he has had the opportunities to work with, Hollywood Squares, the Star Wars Holiday Special, and legends **[Bette Midler](https://bootlegbetty.com/),** Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, and Adam Sandler.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, podcast, SecretStorys, Underground
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### [Bruce Vilanch Facebook Quokes: Miss Universe](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/16/bruce-vilanch-facebook-quokes-miss-universe/)
**Published:** April 16, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** "the miss universe pageant has dropped all age requirements..."
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## We Got Bruce
Facebook Quokes: Miss Universe
By Mister D
April 16, 2024
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“*the [**miss universe**](https://www.missuniverse.com/) pageant has dropped all age requirements, so it is possibly a new world for madonna to conquer, but she will have to compete against miss bahamas, who has braces on her teeth.*” – **[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/08/13/videos-bruce-vilanchs-dolly-parton-musical-here-you-come-again/)**
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Facebook, Jokes, Quokes, Quotes
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Facebook, Jokes, Madonna, MissUniverse, Quokes, Quotes
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### [Bananas, Boas, & Broadway: Sipping Sparkle at ‘The Diva’s Toast’](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/10/bananas-boas-broadway-sipping-sparkle-at-the-divas-toast/)
**Published:** April 10, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On Monday, May 20, 2024, there will be a special benefit cabaret called “The Diva’s Toast,” presented by The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF).
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## We Got Bruce
One Night Only with the cast of FUNNY GIRL
By Mister D
April 10, 2024
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On Monday, May 20, 2024, there will be a special benefit cabaret called “The Diva’s Toast,” presented by The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF). Here are the details:
**Event:** One Night Only with the cast of FUNNY GIRL
**Time:** 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM PDT
**Location:** Marines’ Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
**Purpose:** The cabaret salutes the grand dames of Broadway.
**Featured Guests:**
**\*Cast members** from the national Broadway touring cast of **FUNNY GIRL** – These seasoned performers will bring their theatrical magic to the stage, celebrating the grand dames of Broadway.
**\*Melissa Manchester** – A renowned singer-songwriter, Melissa Manchester’s soulful voice and emotive performances promise to be a highlight of the evening
**\*Special guest Bruce Vilanch** – [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/about/), a celebrated comedy writer, actor, and performer, will add his unique flair to the cabaret.
**Beneficiaries:** The event will benefit REAF and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
**Tickets:** Available on [**Eventbrite**](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-night-only-with-the-cast-of-funny-girl-tickets-873526219437)
*REAF provides aid for HIV/AIDS services, hunger programs, and programs that support homeless youth. It promises to be an unforgettable evening celebrating the magic of Broadway and supporting important causes. ??*
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For more information and to secure your tickets, visit the official[ **Eventbrite**](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-night-only-with-the-cast-of-funny-girl-tickets-873526219437) page. ???
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### [Bruce Vilanch on writing for the Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/09/bruce-vilanch-on-writing-for-the-oscars/)
**Published:** April 9, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch, king of the Oscars writers, remembers Sharon Stone flashing her essential parts in “Basic Instinct.”
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**New York Post
Bruce Vilanch on writing for the Oscars — and how stars prepare to present
By Cindy Adams
Published April 8, 2024**
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**[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/07/usa-film-festival-studio-one-forever-w-bruce-vilanch/)**, king of the Oscars writers, remembers Sharon Stone flashing her essential parts in “Basic Instinct.”
He says, ” The Joke then was, ‘This year’s biggest part was Sharon Stone’s in Basic Instinct.?’ She then grimaced in the audience.
“Oscar nights, we get audience seats. Sometimes, they’re on top of the balcony. Once I asked Chris Henchy, Brooke Shields’ husband, if he wanted a pair of tickets. Brooke said, ‘No. Forget it.’ They didn’t even sit through the show.
“Often in our room we writers throw jokes at each other. Once documentary winner Michael Moore made a speech about George W. Bush. Stagehands began booing. Emcee Steve Martin then announced the stagehands were helping Michael into the trunk of his car.
“For jokes some stars need rehearsal. Jane Fonda wants a pre-reading. Johnny Depp: ‘I don’t know how to do this because there’s no real character here.’ I said, ‘Make one up.’ So he remembered being chemically altered in one picture and delivered his lines as if he was slightly oiled.
“I actually started with [**Bette Midler.**](https://bootlegbetty.com/bette-midler-bootleg-betty-jukebox/) She was then nobody but — like me — she came from New Jersey so I wound up writing for her.”
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Bruce Vilanch, Oscars
**Tags:** AcademyAwards, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Oscars, presenters
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### [USA Film Festival: STUDIO ONE FOREVER w/ Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/04/07/usa-film-festival-studio-one-forever-w-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** April 7, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Studio One Forever chronicles the history of Studio One, a legendary nightclub, and its adjoining live music venue, The Backlot.
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## USA Film Festival: Studio One Forever w/ Bruce Vilanch, director/editor/producer Marc Saltarelli, & producer Stephen Israel (All in attendance)
Date: Saturday, April 20 · 7:15 – 9:15pm CDT
Location: Angelika Film Center & Café – Dallas
5321 East Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75206
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*[**Studio One Forever**](https://marcsaltarelli.com/) is a captivating documentary that unravels the untold story of America’s first gay disco. Let’s delve into the details:*
1. **Overview:**
\*Studio One Forever chronicles the history of Studio One, a legendary nightclub, and its adjoining live music venue, The Backlot.
\*The club operated from 1974 to 1994 and became a symbol of hope and community for gay men during tumultuous times.
\*Amidst the rise of gay rights, disco’s heyday, and the devastating AIDS crisis, Studio One offered sanctuary from rampant homophobia and police oppression.
\*Legends like Liza Minnelli and Eartha Kitt performed there while rising stars like Roseanne Barr and Rosie O’Donnell ignited their careers.
**2 Backdrop:**
\*The documentary explores Studio One’s story against the backdrop of a progressing gay liberation movement clashing with 80s conservatism and the escalating AIDS nightmare.
\*It immortalizes the club’s legacy for future generations, capturing an era of resilience and creativity.
**3**. **Interviewees:**
\*The film features interviews with notable figures such as Liz Torres, Divine (archival footage), Geri Jewell, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/), Leigh McCloskey, Chita Rivera, Lance Bass, Melissa Rivers, Roslyn Kind, and Felipe Rose of the Village People.
\*Their accounts add depth to the narrative, revealing the impact of Studio One on their lives.
**4**. **Premieres:**
\*World Premiere: The documentary premiered at the Outfest LA Film Festival on July 18, 2023.
**5. Upcoming Premiere:**
\*USA Film Festival: You can catch the film at the USA Film Festival on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at the Angelika Film Center & Café in Dallas, TX.
\*In Attendance: Bruce Vilanch, Marc Saltarelli, and Stephen Israel will be there to present this riveting documentary
*Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the legacy of Studio One and celebrate its impact on LGBTQ+ history! ???*
**IN ATTENDANCE: BRUCE VILANCH, MARC SALTARELLI, STEPHEN ISRAEL**
**Follow**
The USA Film Festival is a Dallas-based, 54-year-old nonprofit film arts organization that presents year-round programs for the community. Visit us at [**www.usafilmfestival.com**](http://www.usafilmfestival.com)
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Documentary, Festival, GLBT, movies, Studio One Forever
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, documentary, festival, LGBTQ+, Studio One Forever
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### [Video: A Bruce Vilanch Interview With Fanacek](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/03/25/video-a-bruce-vilanch-interview-with-fanacek/)
**Published:** March 25, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** I had the honor and privilege of spending time with Bruce and discussing his career, the WGA strike, Star Wars, Robin Williams, and other fun stuff. Enjoy. - Fanacek
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## We Got Bruce
Video: A Bruce Vilanch Interview With Fanacek – May 2023
By Mister D
March 2024
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I had the honor and privilege of spending time with Bruce and discussing his career, the WGA strike, Star Wars, Robin Williams, and other fun stuff. Enjoy. – Fanacek
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Podcast, Video
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Fanacek, podcast, Video
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### [Unveiling the Curtain: The Untold Story Behind ‘Mommie Dearest"](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/03/18/unveiling-the-curtain-the-untold-story-behind-mommie-dearest/)
**Published:** March 18, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The upcoming book “With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic” is set to be released on May 7, 2024.
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## We Got Bruce
Unveiling the Curtain: The Untold Story Behind ‘Mommie Dearest
By Mister D
March 18, 2024
---
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Buy With Love Mommie Dearest
The upcoming book[ **“With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic”** ](https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mommie-Dearest-Unintentional-Classic/dp/1641607688?crid=3JC1NO7WUFEHP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3ZaQG5MC14XuS4bsSPebE1sVvwPbpgLYJY85XWQaogrOVxboRToBUxlRwvfeSYv4OvqAFaOlAf68fX4EKnfWfUAwXEUOKuvLJYpTTIzdiYqQmWsRGBVw82ld5-IqFibv.1noWzDRwcKLZGZVLN9wt02-1RbNwJuZpaTA0-Py3DhY&dib_tag=se&keywords=A.+Ashley+Hoff&qid=1710806021&sprefix=a.+ashley+hoff%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-2&linkCode=ll1&tag=bootlegbetty-20&linkId=77b09eeecd93b019fc21eeb50de6e40d&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl)is set to be released on May 7, 2024. Authored by [A. Ashley Hoff](https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/hoff--a--ashley-contributor-614866.php) with a foreword by [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bio.htm), the book delves into the creation and legacy of the infamous memoir “Mommie Dearest” by Christina Crawford and its subsequent film adaptation starring Faye Dunaway.
The book explores the phenomenon of the memoir and the film, which, despite being critically panned, achieved commercial success and has remained popular decades later. It addresses the social issues of child abuse discussed in the memoir and the unexpected camp appeal of the film. Hoff’s work is based on new interviews with individuals connected to the original book and film, providing insight into the writing, selling, and aftermath of “Mommie Dearest,” as well as the behind-the-scenes drama of the movie that almost eclipsed the onscreen story.
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**Tags:** AAshleyHoff, Book, Bruce Vilanch, Camp, Classic, FayeDunaway, Foreward, MommyDearest, The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic, With Love, With LoveMommie Dearest
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### [Trailer - STUDIO ONE FOREVER (2023, Bruce Vilanch, Chita Rivera, Lance Bass)](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/03/14/trailer-studio-one-forever-2023-bruce-vilanch-chita-rivera-lance-bass/)
**Published:** March 14, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** “Studio One Forever” is a documentary that explores the history of the iconic gay disco, Studio One, in West Hollywood.
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## We Got Bruce
Official Trailer – STUDIO ONE FOREVER (2023, Marc Saltarelli, Chita Rivera, Lance Bass)
By Mister D
March 14, 2024
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[**“Studio One Forever”**](https://marcsaltarelli.com/) is a documentary that explores the history of the iconic gay disco, Studio One, in West Hollywood. It features interviews with celebrities like [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bio.htm), Chita Rivera, and Lance Bass, among others. The film looks back at the club’s influence on the LGBTQ+ community from its opening in 1974 to its closing in the 1990s, highlighting its role as a safe space during the AIDS crisis and the fight for gay rights. The documentary also addresses the efforts to preserve the club’s legacy in the face of potential demolition. It’s a poignant tribute to a place that was more than just a disco, but a symbol of hope and freedom for many. ?
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Documentary
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, disco, LGBTQ+, Studio One Forever
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### [EARTHA KITT: "WHERE IS MY MAN?" (7th HEAVEN 12'' DANCE REMIX)](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/03/13/eartha-kitt-where-is-my-man-7th-heaven-12-dance-remix/)
**Published:** March 13, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** "Where Is My Man" is a 1983 song by the American singer and actress Eartha Kitt. It appeared on her 1984 album I Love Men. Comedy writer Bruce Vilanch and musicians and producers Fred Zarr and Jacques Morali co-wrote the song.
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## We Got Bruce
EARTHA KITT: “WHERE IS MY MAN?” (7th HEAVEN 12” DANCE RE-MIX) Hi-NRG ELECTRO DISCO
By Mister D
March 13, 2024
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*Bruce Vilanch and Eartha Kitt*---
“Where Is My Man” is a 1983 song by the American singer and actress [**Eartha Kitt**](https://wegotbruce.com/2008/12/26/rip-eartha-kitt-1927-2008/). It appeared on her 1984 album I Love Men. Comedy writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/lifestyle/around-town/2023/10/16/comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-discusses-his-journey-from-ohio-state-university-to-the-oscars/71209809007/) and musicians and producers Fred Zarr and Jacques Morali co-wrote the song.
The song was first released in France as a single and was wildly successful. It features Kitt singing in a low, seductive-sounding voice. The song includes some sounds that have come to be associated with Kitt, including a purring sound similar to one she made while portraying Catwoman on the 1960s TV series Batman. The lyrics detail specific things the singer expects to receive from her future lover, such as a trip to Saint-Tropez and shopping at Tiffany & Co.
Streetwise Records released the title in late 1983 in the United States to the dance and club markets. It was Kitt’s first recording released in the United States after she was ostracized and fled into self-imposed exile in Paris following her outspoken objection to the Vietnam War at a White House function in 1968. The song became her biggest-selling single in 30 years.
In the United Kingdom, “Where Is My Man” reached the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number 36, giving Kitt her first UK hit since “Under the Bridges of Paris” in 1955.
The single was also a hit worldwide, peaking at number one in Greece, number five in Sweden, number six in Belgium, and number 12 in the Netherlands.
In the United States, the song reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at number seven and remaining on the survey for 14 weeks.
EARTHA KITT ? “WHERE IS MY MAN?” (7th HEAVEN DANCE RE-MIX) (7.35)
? SONG LYRICS: “WHERE IS MY MAN?” ? (as originally performed by EARTHA KITT)
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
I spend hours by the phone, where is my baby?
I chew my fingers to the bone, where is my man?
My list of needs is really quite brief
I need a man who can bring my beliefs
From all the stress and strains of the day
With just a kind stroke to Cartier
I need a man who can take me then taunt me and make me
Buy the things that I so richly desire
A man who knows what I require
The things that I desire
Is there anyone out there who has the nerve?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
I spend hours by the phone – where is my baby?
I chew my fingers to the bone, where is my man
Where is my baby? He can’t be far.
Look for an Ascot, a big cigar
Tell him to find me
Send his car to this address I have to stress I need him now.
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
I spend hours by the phone, where is my baby?
I chew my fingers to the bone, where is my man?
The kind of man that I adore’s the kind of man that gives me more
Of all the better things in life that aren’t free.
Such things as summer by the sea
The Hamptons, Malibu, Capri.
The kind of man who comes alive
When he comes near Rodeo Drive
Is the kind of man who wins my heart with style and class.
You know I’ve tried some other men
The kind with zeros less than ten
But every time I grab the ring it’s always brass.
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
I spend hours by the phone, where is my baby?
I chew my fingers to the bone, where is my man?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
I spend hours by the phone, where is my baby?
I chew my fingers to the bone, where is my man?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my baby?
I don’t wanna be alone, where is my man?
\[Songwriters: Jacques Morali / Bruce Vilanch / Frederick I Zarr\]
\[Where Is My Man lyrics © Scorpio Music\]
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host A Benefit Concert For The Billy Barnes Foundation, April 7, 2024](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/02/27/bruce-vilanch-to-host-a-benefit-concert-for-the-billy-barnes-foundation-april-7-2024/)
**Published:** February 27, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Scheduled to appear: Eileen Barnett, Kay Cole, Nancy Dussault, Shelly Goldstein, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Roslyn Kind, Karen Morrow, Shawn Ryan, Todd Sherry, Joanne Tatham and Jo Anne Worley - plus young artists from YATC.
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**Live Nation
Bruce Vilanch To Host A Benefit Concert For The Billy Barnes Foundation, April 7, 2024
Sun Apr 7 2024**
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**The Billy Barnes Foundation and Fraser Entertainment Group Present**
**INTRODUCING BILLY BARNES – A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE BILLY BARNES FOUNDATION**
**Music Director – Todd Schroeder, Hosted by Bruce Vilanch**
Doors open at 11:30 AM. Show at 1PM. Tickets $35 plus 2-drink or brunch minimum.
All proceeds benefit The Billy Barnes Foundation, an organization dedicated to building and educating an audience for future generations through music and theatre education. Billy Barnes was one of the most influential composers and lyricists of the 1960s and 1970s. This inaugural year, the Foundation will award two full-tuition scholarships to the Young Actors Theatre Camp, a non-profit organization in the Santa Cruz Mountains, that focuses on discovering and developing each individual student’s talents in ALL areas of the performing arts.
Scheduled to appear: Eileen Barnett, Kay Cole, Nancy Dussault, Shelly Goldstein, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Roslyn Kind, Karen Morrow, Shawn Ryan, Todd Sherry, Joanne Tatham and Jo Anne Worley – plus young artists from YATC.
[https://www.fraserentertainmentgroup.com](https://www.fraserentertainmentgroup.com/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Comedy Icon](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/02/12/bruce-vilanch-comedy-icon/)
**Published:** February 12, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, actor, and songwriter with an estimated net worth of $8 million in 2024. He is best known for his work as a writer for the Academy Awards, where he has contributed his comedic genius for over three decades.
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## Equity Atlas
Bruce Vilanch Net Worth
By Susan Strans
February 12, 2024
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Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, actor, and songwriter with an estimated net worth of $8 million in 2024. He is best known for his work as a writer for the Academy Awards, where he has contributed his **[comedic genius](https://facts.net/celebrity/23-enigmatic-facts-about-bruce-vilanch/)** for over three decades. With his witty [one-liners](https://wegotbruce.com/about/) and ability to craft hilarious monologues, Vilanch has become a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. Let’s delve into some interesting facts about Bruce Vilanch and explore his remarkable career.
*1. Early Life and Education: Bruce Vilanch was born on November 23, 1948, in New York City, to parents Henne and Jonas Vilanch. He grew up in New Jersey and attended Ohio State University, where he studied theater.*
*2. Rise to Fame: Vilanch’s career took off when he began writing for the legendary comedian Bette Midler. His unique style and quick wit attracted attention, leading him to work with various renowned performers, including Paul Lynde, Lily Tomlin, and Joan Rivers*.
*3. Comedy Writing for the Stars: Vilanch’s exceptional talent for comedy writing led him to become the head writer for the Academy Awards in 1989. He has since been responsible for penning memorable jokes and sketches for the prestigious event, earning him multiple Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.*
*4. Broadway Success: In addition to his writing accomplishments, Vilanch has also made a mark on Broadway. He starred as Edna Turnblad in the hit musical “Hairspray” and received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the character.*
*5. Television Appearances: Apart from his behind-the-scenes work, Vilanch has appeared on various television shows, showcasing his comedic skills. He has made guest appearances on popular series such as “Hollywood Squares,” “The Simpsons,” and “The Nanny.”*
*6. Movie Cameos: Vilanch has also made appearances in several films, adding to his versatile career. He can be seen in movies like “Mahogany,” “Ice Pirates,” and “Get Bruce!”*
*7. Philanthropic Efforts: Known for his generosity and activism, Vilanch has been actively involved in supporting numerous charitable causes. He has lent his talent to fundraising events and has been a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, working with organizations such as GLAAD and the Trevor Project*.
*8. Personal Life: Bruce Vilanch has always been open about his sexuality and has been an influential figure in the LGBTQ+ community. As of 2024, he is happily married to his long-time partner, who is a production assistant in the entertainment industry.*
Now, let’s address some common questions about Bruce Vilanch:
**1. What is Bruce Vilanch’s net worth in 2024?**
Bruce Vilanch’s net worth is estimated to be $8 million in 2024.
**2. How old is Bruce Vilanch?**
Bruce Vilanch was born on November 23, 1948, which makes him 75 years old in 2024.
**3. How tall is Bruce Vilanch?**
Bruce Vilanch stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm).
**4. What does Bruce Vilanch weigh?**
As of 2024, Bruce Vilanch’s weight is not publicly disclosed.
**5. Who has Bruce Vilanch dated in the past?**
While information about Bruce Vilanch’s past relationships may not be widely known, he has been open about his sexuality and has been an influential figure in the LGBTQ+ community.
**6. What awards has Bruce Vilanch won?**
Bruce Vilanch has won multiple Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for his work on the Academy Awards.
**7. What shows has Bruce Vilanch written for?**
Bruce Vilanch has written for various shows, including the Academy Awards, Bette Midler’s performances, and Broadway musicals such as “Hairspray.”
**8. Has Bruce Vilanch appeared in movies?**
Yes, Bruce Vilanch has made cameo appearances in movies like “Mahogany,” “Ice Pirates,” and “Get Bruce!”
**9. What philanthropic causes does Bruce Vilanch support?**
Bruce Vilanch actively supports causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and has worked with organizations like GLAAD and the Trevor Project.
**10. What is Bruce Vilanch’s notable Broadway role?**
Bruce Vilanch gained recognition for his portrayal of Edna Turnblad in the hit musical “Hairspray.”
**11. Is Bruce Vilanch still involved with the Academy Awards?**
As of 2024, Bruce Vilanch’s involvement with the Academy Awards may vary, as his role as a writer has been intermittent in recent years.
**12. Has Bruce Vilanch written any books?**
Yes, Bruce Vilanch has written a memoir titled “Bruce! My Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Essays.”
**13. Does Bruce Vilanch have any upcoming projects?**
As of 2024, information about Bruce Vilanch’s upcoming projects may not be readily available.
**14. What other TV shows has Bruce Vilanch appeared on?**
Bruce Vilanch has made guest appearances on shows like “Hollywood Squares,” “The Simpsons,” and “The Nanny.”
**15. Where did Bruce Vilanch grow up?**
Bruce Vilanch grew up in New Jersey, USA.
**16. What is Bruce Vilanch’s involvement with comedy writing?**
Bruce Vilanch is widely recognized for his exceptional comedy writing skills, having worked with numerous renowned comedians and written for the Academy Awards for over three decades.
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In conclusion, Bruce Vilanch has made a significant impact on the comedy and entertainment industry through his exceptional comedy writing and versatile talents. With a net worth of $8 million in 2024, his contributions to the Academy Awards and his involvement in Broadway and television have solidified his place in the entertainment world. Vilanch’s philanthropic efforts and advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights further highlight his compassion and dedication to making a positive impact.
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### [Comedy Writer Bruce Vilanch Visits Pop Culture Retro Podcast](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/24/comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-visits-pop-culture-retro-podcast/)
**Published:** January 24, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce discusses writing for Bette Midler, working on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special, behind-the-scenes stories from The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and The Donny and Marie Show,
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## We Got Bruce
Pop Culture Retro interview with legendary comedy writer, Bruce Vilanch!
By Mister D
January 24, 2024
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Join Disney’s Ike Eisenmann and author Jonathan Rosen as they chat with legendary comedy writer Bruce Vilanch! Bruce discusses writing for [Bette Midler](https://bootlegbetty.com), working on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special, behind-the-scenes stories from The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and [The Donny and Marie Show,](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073985/) helping create the Star Wars Holiday Special, & much more!
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, comedy writer, popcultureretro
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Dolly Parton Musical Heads To The UK Ahead Of West End Debut](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/24/bruce-vilanchs-dolly-parton-musical-heads-to-the-uk-ahead-of-west-end-debut/)
**Published:** January 24, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Created by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy writer and songwriter Bruce Vilanch, in collaboration with director Gabriel Barre and actress Tricia Paoluccio (portraying Dolly Parton), the musical has been skillfully adapted for the UK audience by Jonathan Harvey, known for his work on ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme’ and ‘Coronation Street’. This adaptation is a joint venture with Simon Friend Entertainment.
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## Aussie Theatre
New Musical HERE YOU COME AGAIN Celebrating Dolly Parton Embarks on UK Tour Ahead of West End Debut
By Belaid S.
January 24, 2024
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The much-anticipated Dolly Parton musical, ‘Here You Come Again,’ has announced its UK tour dates, leading up to its debut in London’s West End. This production, which first captivated audiences across the Atlantic, is set to premiere this summer as a highlight of the Leeds Playhouse season.
Created by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy writer and songwriter Bruce Vilanch, in collaboration with director Gabriel Barre and actress Tricia Paoluccio (portraying Dolly Parton), the musical has been skillfully adapted for the UK audience by Jonathan Harvey, known for his work on ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme’ and ‘Coronation Street’. This adaptation is a joint venture with Simon Friend Entertainment.
The narrative centers around a devoted Dolly Parton fan, whose imaginative encounters with the international superstar provide solace during challenging times. The show features a collection of Parton’s beloved hits, including ‘Jolene’, ‘9 to 5’, ‘Islands in the Stream’, ‘I Will Always Love You’, and the titular ‘Here You Come Again’.
The musical’s journey begins at Leeds, running from Saturday, 11 May, through Saturday, 8 June 2024. Following Leeds, the tour includes performances at Curve Leicester, Theatre Royal Newcastle, aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Theatre Royal Nottingham, Liverpool Playhouse, Cliffs Pavilion Southend, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Theatre Royal Brighton, Alexandra Theatre Birmingham, Sheffield Lyceum, Richmond Theatre, Glasgow King’s Theatre, Theatre Royal Norwich, New Victoria Theatre Woking, the Lowry in Salford, and concluding at Milton Keynes Theatre in November. Dates for its West End run, along with further tour locations, are yet to be announced.
Casting details and additional creative team members for this eagerly awaited musical production will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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### [What's The Connection Between Bruce Vilanch And Taylor Swift?](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/18/whats-the-connection-between-bruce-vilanch-and-taylor-swift/)
**Published:** January 18, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** So spill the beans, Mr. Vilanch. because the people would like to know. Will you be sprucing up her act? Or was this a pure coincidence? Maybe that's not even you or Taylor, but it looks a like it. Who knows these days?
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## Tiger Droppings
What’s The Connection Between Bruce Vilanch And Taylor Swift?
By Mister D
January 18, 2024
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So spill the beans, Mr. Vilanch. because the people would like to know. Will you be sprucing up her act? Or was this a pure coincidence? Maybe that’s not even you or Taylor, but it looks a like it. Who knows these days?
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch
**Tags:** BoxSeats, Bruce Vilanch, Footballgame, TaylorSwift
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### [On Dannylize This, Bruce Vilanch Talks About His Creative Process](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/15/on-dannylize-this-bruce-vilanch-talks-about-his-creative-process/)
**Published:** January 15, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Today I sat down to speak with a legend in entertainment, comedy, TV, and so much more. Bruce is most well known for his portrayal of Edna Turnblad in the play Hair spray, a contestant on Hollywood squares.
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## Dannylize This
Bruce Vilanch Talks About His Creative Process
By Staff
January 15, 2024
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Today I sat down to speak with a legend in entertainment, comedy, TV, and so much more. Bruce is most well known for his portrayal of Edna Turnblad in the play Hair spray, a contestant on Hollywood squares. During todays episode Bruce and I talk about the creative process, the difference between Stand up and Stage acting when it pertains to comedy. I truly enjoyed speaking to this legend. His wisdom and insight on culture is amazing enjoy the episode.
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Podcast
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Dannylizethis, Hairspray, hollywoodsquares, podcast
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### [Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show - Bruce Vilanch on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/12/feast-of-fun-gay-talk-show-bruce-vilanch-on-the-paul-lynde-halloween-special/)
**Published:** January 12, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Today comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, best known for writing for the Oscars and for his appearance on Hollywood Squares joins us to talk about being a head writer for the Paul Lynde Halloween Special
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## Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Bruce Vilanch on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
By FOF #2798
January 11, 2024
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One of the strangest shows ever broadcast on TV is the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. The musical variety show featuring a campy highway pile-up of the top stars of the day with Margaret Hamilton reprising her Wicked Witch from the Izard of Oz aired only once on ABC in 1976.
Today comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, best known for writing for the Oscars and for his appearance on Hollywood Squares joins us to talk about being a head writer for the Paul Lynde Halloween Special.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, FeastOfFun, Halloween, PaulLynde, podcast
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### [Rotten Tomatoes Ranked 'A Disturbance In The Force' The #6 Documentary Of 2023](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/11/rotten-tomatoes-ranked-a-disturbance-in-the-force-the-6-documentary-of-2023/)
**Published:** January 11, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** A Disturbance in the Force, the feature documentary about the making of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, has been ranked the #6 documentary of 2023 by Rotten Tomatoes.
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# ‘A Disturbance in the Force’ Ranked the #6 Documentary of 2023 by Rotten Tomatoes
By [James Burns](https://www.jedinews.com/author/adminuser/)
January 10, 2024
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*A Disturbance in the Force*, the feature documentary about the making of the infamous *Star Wars Holiday Special*, has been ranked the #6 documentary of 2023 by Rotten Tomatoes.
> In 1978, George Lucas was talked into cashing in on the STAR WARS craze by producing a holiday variety TV special. What could possibly go wrong?
>
> ANSWER: Everything…
>
> From the filmmakers behind NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, FANBOYS, and RAIDERS!: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE comes A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE, the documentary about the infamous STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL.
>
> Travel back to a galaxy far, far away – the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. This documentary dives into the mystery of how it happened and why 45 years later it has become, much to the chagrin of George Lucas, the ultimate cult classic among Star Wars fans.
>
> Featuring interviews with Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, Bruce Vilanch, Gus Lopez, Steve Sansweet, and many more.
See the top 10 in full [here](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-documentaries-2023/). We send our congratulations to everyone involved in *A Disturbance in the Force.* If you’ve not yet seen it, you should, and you can buy *the* documentary now on Digital, DVD, and Blu-Ray from [Amazon.com](https://amzn.to/4akzrOD) and [Amazon.co.uk](https://amzn.to/417V00q).
Listen to producer Kyle Newman discuss *A Disturbance in the Force* on episode 116 of RADIO 1138 [here](https://www.jedinews.com/podcasts/articles/radio-1138-episode-116-hasbro-qa-and-a-disturbance-in-the-force-with-kyle-newman/).
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**Tags:** adisturbanceintheforce, Bruce Vilanch, documentary, rottentomatoes, StarwarsHolidaySpecial
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### [The Random Kristian Show w/ Bruce Vilanch Funny Guy Extraordinaire](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/11/the-random-kristian-show-w-bruce-vilanch-funny-guy-extraordinaire/)
**Published:** January 11, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Emmy award winning comedy writer/actor/songwriter Bruce Vilanch takes time from his crazy schedule to hang out on the almost 45 year anniversary of his more infamous productions, The Star Wars Christmas Special!!
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## The Random Kristian Show
The Random Kristian Show w/ Bruce Vilanch Funny Guy Extraordinaire
By The Random Kristian Show
January 11, 2024
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Emmy award winning comedy writer/actor/songwriter Bruce Vilanch takes time from his crazy schedule to hang out on the almost 45 year anniversary of his more infamous productions, The Star Wars Christmas Special!!
That’s right Bruce wrote that and many others that we discuss as well as being on the Hollywood Squares, acting on Broadway, working with greats like Bette Midler, and his involvement in so many aspects of hollywood!!
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**Tags:** adisturbanceintheforce, Bruce Vilanch, podcast, StarwarsHolidaySpecial
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### [THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL — Part Two with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2024/01/10/the-star-wars-holiday-special-part-two-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** January 10, 2024
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** THE legendary Bruce Vilanch. We just had to include him in any conversation revolving around the Star Wars holiday special as he was one of the writers of this “timeless” classic.
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## TableCakes
THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL — Part Two with Bruce Vilanch
Sam Pancake Presents
January 10, 2024
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**OMG OMG OMG Bruce Vilanch!**
Part two of the Monday Afternoon Movie holiday special has arrived, and it has brought with it not frankincense and myrrh, but definitely two wise men in Sam Pancake and THE legendary [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/). We just had to include him in any conversation revolving around the Star Wars holiday special as he was one of the writers of this “timeless” classic. Bruce also touches on some of the other greatest hits of his career, such as Mahogany, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, and a plethora of 1970s and 1980s television variety shows with Donnie and Marie and the Brady Bunch. Also find out what Bruce thinks wookies sound like, and what Paul Lynde loved about Gene Simmons.
Happy New Year (and Life Day!) from Sam Pancake and everyone at Monday Afternoon Movie & TableCakes!
More Monday Afternoon Movie is on the way in 2024!
Help support Monday Afternoon Movie by pledging a few bucks a month on our [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/mondayafternoonmovie)! The top subscribers can get a lunch date with Sam, just saying. ?
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Outro Song from [“Christmas in the Stars” album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_the_Stars)
This podcast’s editor is [Meika Grimm](https://flannelbush.com/). Follow her [Meika Grimm on X](https://www.twitter.com/meikagrimm) or [Meika Grimm on instagram](https://www.instagram.com/meikagrimm) ?
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This is a [TableCakes production](https://tablecakes.com/), a woman-owned, Los Angeles-based podcast company.
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**Categories:** A Disturbance in The Force, Bruce Vilanch, Podcast, Star wars holiday special
**Tags:** A disturbanceintheforce, Bruce Vilanch, StarwarsHolidaySpecial, TableCakes
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### [Bruce Broadway Cares](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/06/21/bruce-broadway-cares/)
**Published:** June 21, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Podcast: Bruce Vilanch on Paul Lynde](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/25/podcast-bruce-vilanch-on-paul-lynde/)
**Published:** December 25, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The podcast episode features an interview with Bruce Vilanch discussing the holiday special "Making the Yule Tide Gay" and his experiences working with Paul Lynde.
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## The Projection Booth Podcast
Special Report: Bruce Vilanch Makes the Yuletide Gay
By Mike White
Dec 25, 2023
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The podcast episode features an interview with Bruce Vilanch discussing the holiday special “Making the Yule Tide Gay” and his experiences working with Paul Lynde.
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch
**Tags:** BruceVilanch, Christmas, interview, Paul Lynde, Podcasts
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### [Teaching "Bruce Vilanch 101"](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/15/teaching-bruce-vilanch-101/)
**Published:** December 15, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Alright, let's talk about Bruce Vilanch – the comedy maestro, actor, and six-time Emmy champ who's been making waves in Hollywood for ages.
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## TheEdAdvocate
TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT BRUCE VILANCH
BY MATTHEW LYNCH (and Mister D)
DECEMBER 14, 2023
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Bruce Vilanch---
Alright, let’s talk about Bruce Vilanch – the comedy maestro, actor, and six-time Emmy champ who’s been making waves in Hollywood for ages. With his lightning-fast wit and one-of-a-kind style, he’s been part of some of the biggest shows in Tinseltown. But hey, there’s more to him than just jokes and laughter. Vilanch‘s also been a force for positive change, using his talent to make the world a better place. So, when you’re teaching students about this guy, you’re not just talking about humor – you’re showing them how creativity can spark real change.
**Early Life and Career**
Born in New York City in 1948, Bruce Vilanch grew up in a family that lived and breathed theater and showbiz. Embracing his identity as a gay man from an early age, he found his voice through comedy. His journey kicked off as a journalist covering entertainment, but soon he was writing for big TV shows like “Donny & Marie” and “The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.” I think Bette Midler is his biggest muse. as mine. and helped jump strat this new career he found. May not be true. but please just abide with me. if you can.
As his career took off, Vilanch became the brains behind major events like the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Tony Awards. And hey, he’s not just a wordsmith – he’s also a Broadway star, gracing the stage in the smash-hit musical “Hairspray.”
**Teaching Students about Bruce’s Advocacy**
Sure, Bruce‘s known for his humor, but his heart’s just as big. A fierce supporter of LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS awareness, he’s used his humor to raise millions for charitable causes. So, when you’re teaching students about him, you’re not just talking about making people laugh – you’re showing them how laughter can change the world.
In the classroom, get students digging into Bruce‘s work with organizations like amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) and the Trevor Project. How did his humor help these causes? Let them explore and learn.
**The Art of Punchlines: Teaching Students Comedy Writing**
Bruce Vilanch‘s comedy has left its mark on TV and live events, shaping how we see the world. Introducing students to his style can fire up their interest in writing and help them find their own unique voice.
Why not set up a comedy writing workshop? Get students dissecting some of Vilanch’s best jokes and figuring out how they work. By inspiring them to craft their punchlines, you’re not just teaching comedy – you’re nurturing creative minds.
**Role Model for Overcoming Adversity**
Growing up can be tough, and students face all kinds of challenges. Bruce Vilanch‘s journey as an openly gay man in Hollywood, unapologetic about who he is, is a powerful example of resilience.
Sharing Bruce’s story with students can be a reminder that it’s okay to be yourself, no matter what. It’s a lesson in self-acceptance and embracing others for who they are.
I loved the guy who really wrote this, I just took it and rewrote it in my own style then had AI smooth out the grammar. I used these kinds of techniques in college to help me pass English, Speech. Philosophy. and Psycho;ogy papers by talking about Bette, Bruce, and the Harlettes in some way that would fit within the subjects I needed them too, as examples of somerhing. Made A’s. Can’t Beat That. So I fell in love with this topic. Hope you enjoyed….Mister D
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, comedy, Education, Humanitarian Advocate Award, Jokes, LGBTQ, Teaching
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### [The Bruce Vilanch Penned TV Special MAKING THE YULETIDE GAY: A VERY SPECIAL PAUL LYNDE CHRISTMAS To Be Released On VOD and DVD December 15](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/14/the-bruce-vilanch-penned-tv-special-making-the-yuletide-gay-a-very-special-paul-lynde-christmas-to-be-released-on-vod-and-dvd-december-15/)
**Published:** December 14, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
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## This Week In Texas
MAKING THE YULETIDE GAY: A VERY SPECIAL PAUL LYNDE CHRISTMAS
LGBT TV Reviews
December 13, 2023
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MakingTheYuleTideGay---
**Cinephobia Releasing** is proud to announce the North American VOD and DVD release of the **Bruce Vilanch** penned holiday comedy special **MAKING THE YULETIDE GAY: A VERY SPECIAL PAUL LYNDE CHRISTMAS**. **The film will arrive on VOD platforms and DVD on December 15**.
Find yourself on the Xmas “naughty list”? Then rejoice and praise the TV gods (in this case **Skyy Rockett Productions**) for bringing this bawdy holiday treat to you and all the not-so-nice viewers. Filmed in front of a live audience, **Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas** is a raucous retro 3-camera TV special written by Emmy-winning comedian and gay icon **Bruce Vilanch**. The all-star cast features **Michael Airington** as the smirking, catty Paul Lynde (Bye, Bye Birdie, Bewitched, The Hollywood Squares) – every baby boomer’s favorite barely closeted gay comedian of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Guest stars visiting Paul include Tab Hunter (**Spencer Day**), Sal Mineo (**David Hernandez**), Liberace (**David Maiocco**), Evie Harris (**Jack Plotnick**), Bea Arthur (**Jackie Beat**), as well as **Seth Rudetsky** and **Lady Bunny** as themselves. An outrageously funny variety special, this musical romp takes your favorite queer legends of today and yesterday on a tour de force of festive performance. Original music and lyrics were provided by 14-time Emmy-winning composer and arranger, **Dominic Messinger**. Filled with Liberace piano numbers, sexual innuendo, endlessly flowing libations, and enough dirty Christmas song remakes to make your grandmother sweat, this fabulous special is sure to bring a little Christmas QUEER!
[TRAILER – Making the Yuletide Gay](https://vimeo.com/882103031) from [Cinephobia Releasing](https://vimeo.com/user181465333) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/).
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*This was a hilariously and raunchy, comedy from start to finish. Including the “commercial” breaks. Michael Airington is terrific as Paul Lynde as were all the other special guests that came knocking on Paul’s door. Talk about throwing “political correctness” out the window. There was sexual innuendo and cussing like you might find in a Vegas-style drag show and I was laughing my ass off.*
*It’s only 55 minutes which makes for a perfect addition to your “adult” holiday Gay Christmas Party. Put this in your DVD player and your party is sure to be a hit and will keep your guests laughing throughout the evening. Anyone looking for a gay ol’ time will enjoy this fun special experience. I highly recommend it.*
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“I jumped at the chance to distribute a film that was penned by comedic genius **Bruch Vilanch**, that stars a glittering potpourri of America’s greatest drag queens (sorry RuPaul) and headed by my tween queer idol, Paul Lynde”, said **Ray Murray**, President of Cinephobia Releasing.
**MAKING THE YULETIDE GAY: A VERY SPECIAL PAUL LYNDE CHRISTMAS** was executive produced by **Scott Rockett**, **Theo Sloan**, **Geric Frost**, and **Kevin Frost**, produced by **Scott Rockett**, **Theo Sloan**, and **Bruce Vilanch**, co-produced by **Colleen Davis** and **Justin Ross**, written by **Bruce Vilanch** with additional special material written by **Michael Airington**, **Jackie Beat**, **Lady Bunny**, **Clark Childers**, **Dennis Hensley**, **Jack Plotnick**, **Scott Rockett** and **Seth Rudetsky**. Original music and lyrics were provided by 14-time Emmy-winning composer and arranger, **Dominic Messinger**. The special is produced by **Skyy Rockett Entertainment.**
**The film will arrive on VOD platforms and DVD on December 15**
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### [8 Gay Christmas Romcoms Worth Watching](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/13/8-gay-christmas-romcoms-worth-watching/)
**Published:** December 13, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The movie follows Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), two trans sex workers, as they get into what can only be described as shenanigans. However, they’re some pretty serious shenanigans (getting out of jail, smoking crystal meth and having sex with your pimp). Tangerine might have rough production values, but the story is compelling.
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## Geek Girl Authority
8 Queer Christmas Romcoms That Don’t Totally Suck
By Melis Amber
Dec 11, 2023
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Christmas romcoms: you either love them, or you hate ’em. Even if you love them, a good one is hard to find. The same can be said of queer cinema. Combine the two, and holy moly, is it difficult to find anything worth viewing?
The eight movies we’ve featured below are far from cinematic masterpieces. But they are fun to watch and will get you in the Christmas spirit. Also to note, many of them feature queer actors!
**There are spoilers below, but then again, being Christmas movies and all, they spoil themselves.**
### Make the Yuletide Gay
*Make the Yuletide Gay* (2009) is cheesy in the best way possible. Directed by Rob Williams, the movie follows Gunn (Keith Jordan) as he brings his boyfriend Nathan ([Adamo Ruggiero](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/adamo-ruggiero)) home to meet his family. The trouble is Gunn wants to keep it all in the closet. While still having his cake. It’s a typical LGBTQ+ romantic comedy with a sprinkle of Christmas flair. Plus, if you’re a *[Degrassi](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/degrassi)* fan like me, seeing Ruggiero is a treat.
Rated: Not rated ([content warnings](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/40472))
**Streaming:** dekkoo; ***rent:*** AppleTV & Amazon
### Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas
*Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas* (2019) epitomizes holiday silliness. While not front-and-center gay, [Kimiko Glenn](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/kimiko-glenn) plays queer sidekick to ghostly protagonist Jess ([Aisha Dee)](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/aisha-dee). This bonkers fantasy-comedy is a whacky, out-there twist that spins [*A Christmas Carol* ](http://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/a-christmas-carol)and Freeform-vibes into something truly awful in the best way possible. I mean, there is a tea shoppe. Even better, this film isn’t as much of a “white” Christmas as most holiday fare, featuring many actors of color.
Rated: TV-14 ([content warnings)](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/138012)
***Streaming:*** Prime, Fubo, FreeForm
### The Holiday Sitter
*The Holiday Sitter* (2022) was Hallmark’s first holiday (read: Christmas) romcom led by a gay couple. The movie stars [*Mean* *Girls*](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/mean-girls)‘ [Jonathan Bennett](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/jonathan-bennett) as Sam Dalton, the wealthy perennial bachelor from The City. He has to give up his annual holiday to Hawaii when his sister needs an emergency babysitter. Turns out, he’s a pretty good guncle when the hot dude (George Krissa) next door lends a hand. Maybe he won’t leave after all… Bennett is genuinely funny in this film, making it worth a watch.
Rated: TV-G
***Streaming***: DIRECTV
### Dashing in December
Directed by Jake Helgren, *Dashing in December* (2020) throws Wyatt (Peter Porte), a big-shot New York dude, back to his family’s ranch for some Christmas shenanigans. Enter Heath (Juan Pablo di Pace), the ranch hand with serious charm, and throw [Andie Macdowell](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/andie-macdowell) as Wyatt’s mom, and you’ve got your classic holiday “Hallmark” romance.
The big question is, will Wyatt save the ranch in time to salvage his burgeoning relationship with Heath? (Spoiler: Yes, of course, yes; it’s a Christmas movie)
Rated: TV-14
***Buy***: Amazon
### Merry & Gay
*Merry & Gay* (2020), also known as *Christmas With Love*, has all the familiar plot threads of a holiday romcom: childhood best friends kindle a romance when the New York big shot returns home to the small town. But in this case, the small-town grumpster, Sam (Andi René Christensen), is nonbinary! This leads us to my only real issue with the film (I mean, it’s a pretty innocuous holiday romcom): Why are these characters called gay/lesbian if one of them is nonbinary? In any case, the leads have great chemistry.
Rated: 13+
***Streaming:*** Prime, Peacock, Tubi, Xumo
### Scrooge & Marley
This film, lol. *Scrooge & Marley* (2012) should not be mistaken for a cinematic masterpiece, but if you like offbeat gems, add it to your watchlist. Another play on *A Christmas Carol*, this film follows Scrooge ( David Pevsner), a grumpy bar owner, being led through his gay life as he comes to realize what a jerk he’s been. And when I say offbeat, I mean offbeat. Think: Bruce Vilanch plays Fezziwig.
Rated: Not rated ([content warnings](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/218842))
***Streaming:*** Tubi, FreeVee, HereTV
### Tangerine
[Tangerine](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/tangerine) is only nominally a Christmas movie, as the film takes place over Christmas Eve. It’s also only nominally the “rom” part of “com.” Directed by Sean Baker, Tangerine is the height of indie filmmaking, shot on iPhones in the grungy streets of Hollywood for that extra touch of sophistication.
The movie follows Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), two trans sex workers, as they get into what can only be described as shenanigans. However, they’re some pretty serious shenanigans (getting out of jail, smoking crystal meth and having sex with your pimp). *Tangerine* might have rough production values, but the story is compelling.
Rated: R ([content warnings](https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/101948))
***Streaming***: Fubo, Paramount, Showtime, Hoopla, Kanopy, DIRECTV, Magnolia Selects
### The Christmas Setup
The most interesting, fun, and recommend-worthy part of *The Christmas Setup* (2020) is that its two leads are played by a real-life couple, [Ben Lewis](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/ben-lewis) and Blake Lee. They have good chemistry and all that, but this is another film about, you guessed it, a big city guy going back home for Christmas. Hugo (Lewis), a New York lawyer, returns home to Milwaukee (ohmigosh! It’s *not* a tiny town), where his mom (“secretly”) sets him up with Patrick (Lee). They fall in love as they try to save the local train station from being torn down. Also, [Fran Drescher](https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tag/fran-drescher) is in the film.
Rated: TV-PG
***Streaming***: Hoopla; rent: Amazon
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Dolly Parton Musical To Premiere In The UK in 2024](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/07/bruce-vilanchs-dolly-parton-musical-to-premiere-in-the-uk-in-2024/)
**Published:** December 7, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Dolly Parton's musical Here You Come Again is premiering in the UK in 2024 – and this is everything you need to know.
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## Pink News UK
Dolly Parton musical to premiere in the UK in 2024: dates, tickets
By Jonny Yates
December 6, 2023
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Dolly Parton’s musical *Here You Come Again* is premiering in the UK in 2024 – and this is everything you need to know.
The hit show will open at the Playhouse in Leeds next summer ahead of a UK tour and [West End ](https://www.thepinknews.com/topic/west-end/)run.
The news was confirmed by [WhatsOnStage](https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/dolly-parton-musical-to-have-uk-premiere-in-leeds-with-tour-and-west-end-plans_1556221), with a premiere date set for 4 July at Leeds Playhouse.
The musical tells the story of a diehard fan whose fantasy version of [icon ](https://www.thepinknews.com/topic/dolly-parton/)Dolly Parton gets him through trying times.
This is all soundtracked to some of [Parton’s](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/27/lauren-boebert-mocked-for-yass-queen-tweet-to-dolly-parton-she-hates-you/) biggest and beloved hits including “9 to 5”, “Islands in the Stream”, “I Will Always Love You” and the show’s title track.
Originally written by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy and songwriter Bruce Vilanch with Gabriel Barre (who also directs) and Tricia Paoluccio (who also plays Dolly), it show has now been adapted for the UK.
The upcoming UK show has been adapted by **British** playwright Jonathan Harvey (*Gimme, Gimme, Gimme* and *Coronation Street*).
Director Gabriel Barre said: “We are so excited to bring this gem of a show to the UK, following its successful regional tour in America.
“And to also set it in the UK with a brilliant new British actor playing the lead role of Kevin, along with a creative UK design team and fresh approach to the storytelling that features all of [Dolly’s ](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/03/dolly-parton-tennessee-anti-trans-bills/)biggest hits, along with her wit and wisdom which the world needs today, more than ever.
“She will be gloriously brought to life by the American actress, Tricia Paoluccio, who has been stunning audiences everywhere embodying the spirit, humor, and heart that have made Dolly an enduring icon.”
Meanwhile, additional casting and creative team are to be confirmed at a later date, alongside the UK tour dates.
Tickets for the run at Leeds Playhouse between 4 July and 3 August will be available from the [website](https://leedsplayhouse.org.uk/), and the UK tour from .
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins The Award Winning Audio Drama "Around The Sun"](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/04/bruce-vilanch-joins-the-award-winning-audio-drama-around-the-sun/)
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## Soap Opera News
Cady McClain Stars In New Drama
December 2, 2023
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Three-time Daytime Emmy Award Winner Cady McClain stars in the award-winning episodic audio drama ***[Around the Sun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_Sun_(audio_drama))*** created by Brad Forenza. Though Cady is heard in several episodes, her starring episode alongside *The Sopranos’* Robert Funaro drops on November 29, 2023. Cady’s episode can be heard here:
Cady is part of the EGOT-winning cast of Season 3 of ***Around the Sun.*** The season launched in October of 2023, with new episodes scheduled to drop every two weeks throughout fall 2023 and into early 2024. The audio trailer is[ here](https://dcs.megaphone.fm/BPNET2860624666.mp3?key=8696a19f5f1b34ba5379a4fea679e26b&request_event_id=07a959fa-c910-46dc-a670-07b180bd605b).
Three-time Daytime Emmy-winner Cady McClain states, “*I am so excited to have worked on **Around the Sun.** I’ve been hoping Brad would ask me, as I really love his writing and what he’s done combining the worlds of theater and podcasting. It was a true pleasure to explore this complex and heartbreaking character and getting to work with Robert Funaro was an absolute delight. I was thrilled to be included in this season of **Around the Sun** and excited to hear all the performances of the talented actors Brad has brought together! I can’t wait for you to hear this very special podcast!*”
Created by actor/writer/producer **Brad Forenza**, ***Around the Sun*** Season 3, called **“Pinecones”** is a scripted audio drama with a continuing story. Cady is no stranger to scripted drama, having been in *All My Children, As the World Turns, Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives.* Along with this role, Cady recently appeared on *Law and Order SVU* with Ice T and Kevin Kane and at Cape May Stage in the lead role of *Shirley Valentine. S*he is also the Artistic Director for Axial Theatre. The company brings edge-cutting new plays and classic plays to life both in New York City and the Westchester area.
This season’s story – about the Pinecone family and friends, is voiced by an EGOT-winning cast. The ensemble includes **Francois Clemmons** (Grammy winner*, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood****)*, Brad Forenza** *(A Case of Blue),* **Robert Funaro** *(The Sopranos, The Irishman),* **Judy Gold,** *(*Emmy winner, *She Came toMe)****,* Wilson Jermaine Heredia***(*Tony winner, *Rent)***, Terry Hu** *(Never Have I Ever)***, Cady McClain** *(Daytime Emmy Winner – Days, All My Children)***, Estelle Parsons** *(*Oscar winner, *Bonnie and Clyde*)and **Jai Rodriguez** *(*Emmy winner, *Queer Eye).* The series is presented via the **Broadway Podcast Network** and available “wherever you listen to podcasts.”
“Season 3, **Pinecones**– is a miniseries, with our voice acting ensemble integrated throughout the season, in a continuous, ongoing conflict,” explains Forenza. “That said, most of the episodes can still be enjoyed independently, reminiscent of prior seasons. And, of course, we’re still exploring human connections, made and missed, with an existential flare, as brought to fabulous life by our celebrated ensemble of voice actors.”
The overarching conflict pertains to the Pinecone family matriarch (played by Oscar winner for *Bonnie and Clyde*, **Estelle Parsons**), who is called away from her mountain home by a familiar, omniscient voice (played by Grammy winner for *Porgy and Bess*, **François Clemmons**). The Pinecone family children (played by Emmy winners **Judy Gold**, **Cady McClain**, and **Jai Rodriguez**) and her caretaker (played by series creator **Brad Forenza**) are then forced to reconcile their past, present, and future selves. Helping them to cope is an all-knowing bartender (played by *Sopranos* alum, **Robert Funaro**), a new age-y therapist (played by Tony winner for *Rent*, **Wilson Jermaine Heredia**), and the matriarch’s younger confidant (played by breakout Disney star, **Terry Hu**). It is a story that will bring you into the lives of the characters as they deal with the reality of the world today. Each episode is under 13 minutes making it perfect for something to listen to in the car, on a walk, exercising or just as a break in the day.
Robert Funaro of The Sopranos fame adds, “We’re all in this together, and Brad’s writing offers a cornucopia of what could be our past and how it shapes our future. He is an honest writer unafraid to tackle the adversities we all face… I was truly moved, and also honored to be working with Cady McClain, who brought to her role as ‘Grace’ what every actor hopes for: simply the truth.”
Season 2 of ***Around the Sun*** is set in a seemingly defunct part of the American southwest, brought to rich, dramatic life by the voices of: **Adassa** (*Encanto*), **Caroline Aaron** (*The* *Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)*, **Mindy Cohn** (*The Facts of Life*), **Brad Forenza** (*By Any Means*), **Richard Kind** (*Inside Out*), **Richard Kline** (*Three’s Company*), **Jennie Kwan** (*California Dreams*), **Piper Laurie** (*Carrie*), **Taylor Purdee** (*Killian and the Comeback Kids*), and **Bruce Vilanch** (*Hollywood Squares*).
***Around the Sun*** is a **Best Version of Yourself** production, created by **Brad Forenza**, and presented via the Broadway Podcast Network. Associate Producers are Duane Scott Cerny, Suzanne Ordas Curry (Producer, *Tainted Dreams)*and Diana Prano. Sound design and theme music by Shane Curry. Around the Sun Podcast available for listening wherever one listens to podcasts. Continue the #AroundTheSunPodcast conversation via the show’s creator (fb: @BVOYLLC; IG @BradForenza; Twitter: @BradForenza), and *Around the Sun*’s compendium website: [www.aroundthesunpodcast.com](http://www.aroundthesunpodcast.com/).
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### [‘A Disturbance in the Force’ Documentary Shows Love For Old 'Star Wars' Special](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/12/04/a-disturbance-in-the-force-documentary-shows-love-for-old-star-wars-special/)
**Published:** December 4, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** There’s no defending the half-witted, scruffy-looking TV show that aired only once, but the new movie gives the bomb some affection while putting it in context.
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## Chicago Sun Times
Amusing doc ‘A Disturbance in the Force’ shows some love for awful ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’
By Richard Roeper
December 4, 2023
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### There’s no defending the half-witted, scruffy-looking TV show that aired only once, but the new movie gives the bomb some affection while putting it in context.
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The announcement on CBS the night of Friday, Nov. 17, 1978, seemed harmless enough — maybe even promising:
“Because of the following special program, ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘The Incredible Hulk’ will not be presented this evening.”
Nothing could have prepared the world for what followed. Over the course of the next two hours, “The Star Wars Holiday Special” served up one of the looniest, most disjointed, garish, ill-conceived and at times indecipherably bizarre and undeniably dreadful television programming in the history of the medium. Airing once and then disappearing into the mist of mythology, lore and geekdom, this gargantuan misstep early on in the “Star Wars” canon was so unspeakably awful that George Lucas reportedly once proclaimed, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.”
**‘A Disturbance in the Force’**
Giant Pictures presents a documentary directed by Steve Kozak and Jeremy Coon. Running time: 86 minutes. No MPAA rating. Available Tuesday on digital services and on Blu-ray.
Of course, that’s just the kind of statement that will only whet the collective appetite for subsequent generations to track down copies of the special, which aired only once on broadcast television. These days, as one would expect, we’re all just [a YouTube search away ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL-hL6_XR30)from viewing the special in its entirety — but you might be better served watching the exhaustively researched, consistently amusing and at times downright affectionate documentary “A Disturbance in the Force.”
It’s not as if directors Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak and a fantastic lineup of interviewees — participants in the special, pop culture observers, actors and filmmakers — are making the argument “The Star Wars Holiday Special” was actually any good. After all, they’re not insane. What they are doing is celebrating its terribleness without mockery or cynicism. I mean, what’s the point in making fun of a show that included Bea Arthur cozying up to a giant rat in a “Fiddler on the Roof”-type musical number, Harvey Korman playing a four-armed, blue-faced alien cooking show host not unlike Julia Child, and a fantasy sequence in which Chewbacca’s father dons a virtual-reality type device and watches what is essentially a soft-porn fantasy song-and-dance from a sultry Diahann Carroll? The evidence is already there, in grainy color.
Over a brisk 86 minutes, the filmmakers do a stellar job of providing context and explaining just how the special came to be. It seems crazy now, but because there was to be a three-year gap between the massive success of “Star Wars” in 1977 and the release of “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980, there was concern among Lucas and studio execs that the franchise would fade from the public consciousness.
To keep “Star Wars” relevant, there was a huge campaign to sell toys and action figures. The main characters of “Star Wars” — including Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia Organa and Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, not to mention Chewbacca, C-3PO and R2D2 and even Stormtroopers and Cantina customers — were popping up all over television.
Good sport Donny Osmond recalls the horror that was a musical number on “Donny and Marie,” in which Donny played Luke, Marie was Leia, Kris Kristofferson was Han Solo and various Osmond siblings were dressed as Stormtroopers, singing a watered-down take on “Get Ready,” with lyrics such as: “We’re Darth Vader’s raiders and we can’t believe the things that you do, you’re all right … Get ready, cuz here we come ….”
We learn that after Lucas signed off on the show, he turned his attention to other projects and had almost nothing to do with the special, which was helmed by old-school variety show veterans who most likely had little or no understanding of what “Star Wars” was all about.
The basic premise of the special had Chewbacca returning to his home planet to spend the important holiday of “Life Day” with his family: wife Malla, father Itchy and son Lumpy — that’s right, Itchy and Lumpy. (Like “Festivus” from “Seinfeld,” Life Day has become something of a thing in pop culture.) Along the way, however, there was one inexplicably weird set-piece after another, including the rock band Jefferson Starship wearing random, vaguely alien-looking getups while performing a number called “Light the Sky on Fire,” and Art Carney showing up as Trader Saun Dann, a member of the Rebel Alliance who spoke the Wookie language. (We’re told Carney’s scenes had to be filmed in the morning, as his lunches were primarily of the liquid variety.)
Writer Bruce Vilanch and costume designer Bob Mackie share their memories of working on the show. Kevin Smith notes the special “became a currency of sorts in geek culture.” The late Gilbert Gottfried says the show was so bad, “I was amazed that I wasn’t in it.”
We see several examples of how the special has influenced the “Star Wars” culture and has become part of the canon, and how the (actually well-made) animated short within the special introduced Boba Fett before he appeared in “The Empire Strikes Back.”
There’s no known universe in which the “Star Wars Holiday Special” can be considered anything but a magnificent bomb — but how many TV specials are we still talking about some 45 years after the fact?
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### [November 23: Happy Birthday, Bruce Vilanch! A Comedy King!](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/24/november-23-happy-birthday-bruce-vilanch-a-comedy-king/)
**Published:** November 24, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On this special day, we join countless others in celebrating you, the one and only Bruce Vilanch. As a renowned comedian, writer, and all-around entertainer, you have brought joy, laughter, and wit to countless lives. Your unique blend of comedy, intelligence, and charm has made you a beloved figure in the entertainment industry.
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## We Got Bruce
Happy Birthday, Bruce Vilanch! A Comedy King!
Mister D
November 23, 2023
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Dear **Bruce Vilanch**,
On this special day, we join countless others in celebrating you, the one and only **Bruce Vilanch**. As a renowned comedian, writer, and all-around entertainer, you have brought joy, laughter, and wit to countless lives. Your unique blend of comedy, intelligence, and charm has made you a beloved figure in the[ entertainment industry.](https://www.reportlinker.com/market-report/Media-And-Entertainment/6124/Entertainment?term=Entertainment%20sector&matchtype=e&loc_interest=&loc_physical=45281&utm_source=microsoft_ads&utm_medium=paid_ads&utm_campaign=ppc&utm_content=transactionnel-ms&utm_group=standard&hsa_acc=F1331PFH&hsa_cam=419064383&hsa_grp=1286429013745224&hsa_ad=&hsa_src=o&hsa_tgt=kwd-80402045872264:loc-190&hsa_kw=Entertainment%20sector&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&msclkid=77fc025bd6691a87fa0b673b78539def&utm_term=Entertainment%20sector)
**Bruce**, your career spans decades, and you have left an indelible mark on the world of comedy. Your quick wit, sharp observational skills, and ability to deliver punchlines with perfect timing have made audiences erupt in laughter time and time again. Your comedy genius has earned you the respect and admiration of your peers and fans alike.
Beyond your comedic talents, you have also made significant contributions as a writer. Your work on various television shows, award ceremonies, and stage productions has showcased your versatility and creativity. Your ability to craft hilarious and memorable jokes, sketches, and monologues has made you an invaluable asset to the entertainment industry.
But it’s not just your professional achievements that make you so special. Your warm and infectious personality has endeared you to everyone who has had the pleasure of knowing you. Your kindness, generosity, and genuine love for people have made you a true friend and confidant. You have a way of making others feel seen, heard, and appreciated, and your infectious laughter has the power to brighten even the darkest of days.
**Bruce**, you have also used your platform to champion important causes and advocate for those who are marginalized. Your activism, particularly in the LGBTQ+ community, has helped create a more inclusive and accepting world. Your tireless efforts to raise awareness and fight for equality have inspired many, and your impact extends far beyond the stage and screen.
As we celebrate your birthday, we want to express our gratitude for the laughter, joy, and inspiration you have brought into our lives. You have touched the hearts of so many with your talent, humor, and unwavering authenticity. Your ability to find humor in the mundane and bring lightness to even the heaviest of subjects is a true gift.
So, on this special day, we wish you a very Happy Birthday, Bruce Vilanch! May your day be filled with laughter, love, and all the things that bring you joy. May the year ahead be filled with new adventures, exciting opportunities, and continued success in all your endeavors.
Thank you for being the incredible person that you are. Your laughter is contagious, your wit is unmatched, and your presence is truly a gift to the world. Here’s to many more years of laughter, joy, and unforgettable moments.
Happy Birthday, Bruce!
Warmest wishes,
Don Bradshaw and Friends
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### [A Disturbance In The Force Official Trailer](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/19/a-disturbance-in-the-force-official-trailer/)
**Published:** November 19, 2023
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## IGN
A Disturbance In The Force Official Trailer
November 19, 2023
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# A Disturbance in the Force – Official Trailer
A Disturbance in the Force is a documentary unlike any other tailor-made for every and any Star Wars fan. Dealing with the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, in 1977, “Star Wars” became a cultural phenomenon that single-handedly revitalized a stagnant film industry, and forever changed how films were sold, made, and marketed. In 1978, filmmaker George Lucas was talked into cashing in on the Star Wars craze by producing a holiday variety TV special. What could possibly go wrong? ANSWER: Everything…
[A Disturbance in the Force](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13021790/) stars Seth Green, Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Taran Killam, Patton Oswalt, Donny Osmond, Gilbert Gottfried, Bonnie Burton, Bruce Vilanch, and Steve Binder. The documentary is directed by Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak with Kyle Newman serving as producers alongside Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak as producers as well. [Adam F. Goldberg](https://wegotbruce.com/mister-v-takes-hairspray-to-hartford-for-two-weeks/) is the executive producer of A Disturbance in the Force.
A Disturbance in the Force is releasing on December 5 for Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu with select screenings across the US, UK, and Australia ahead of its digital and home entertainment launch.
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### [Documentary 'A Disturbance In The Force' Gets A Streaming Release Date](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/19/documentary-a-disturbance-in-the-force-gets-a-streaming-release-date/)
**Published:** November 19, 2023
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## Rolling Stone
Documentary About Infamous ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ Sets Streaming Release Date
By Daniel Creps
November 17, 2023
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THE STORY BEHIND [the infamous ](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/star-wars-holiday-special-1978-review-1106979/)*[Star Wars](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/star-wars/) Holiday Special* is the focus of the [documentary](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/documentary/) *A Disturbance in the Force*, which — following [its premiere at Sundance](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/star-wars-holiday-special-a-disturbance-in-the-force-sxsw-doc-george-lucas-harrison-ford-variety-show-1234692639/) earlier this year — will head to streaming (Dec 5, 2023) and DVD this December.
The ill-fated special, which aired Thanksgiving weekend in 1978, is now legend: Fresh off the success of *Star Wars*, George Lucas was talked into capitalizing on the craze in the form of a holiday-themed TV special, but what resulted was a “Life Day” celebration that hued closer to a Seventies variety show than *The Mandalorian*. The special aired just once before it was banished to a lifetime of bootlegging.
“What could possibly go wrong? ANSWER: Everything…,” September Club and Giant Pictures said of the special. “CBS aired the two-hour Star Wars Holiday Special during the week of Thanksgiving, and it was watched by 13 million people. It never re-aired. While some fans of the franchise are aware of this dark secret, this bizarre two hours of television still remains relatively unknown among the general public. Simply put, the documentary will answer how and why the *Holiday Special* got made.”
On Friday, *A Disturbance in the Force* revealed it would arrive digitally on December 5. In addition to interviews with those involved in the special (like Bruce Vilanch and Donny Osmond), the documentary also corralled Seth Green, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Taran Killam, Patton Oswalt, and the late Gilbert Gottfried to create an almost “one of those old VH-1 *I Heart the ’80s* shows,” as [*Rolling Stone* wrote after watching the doc at Sundance](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/star-wars-holiday-special-a-disturbance-in-the-force-sxsw-doc-george-lucas-harrison-ford-variety-show-1234692639/).
“What *Disturbance* arguably does best isn*’*t how it traces the way this special went from The Thing That Must Not Be Named and, thanks to bootlegs, an object of affection. It*’*s the way it maps a transitional moment between old showbiz razzle-dazzle and New Hollywood blockbuster entertainment,” our review read.
“For one gloriously WTF hour, we got to see these two things crash into each other and cause a pop-culture disaster. *A Disturbance in the Force* doesn*’*t come to bury this famous misstep, and it doesn*’*t quite praise it either.”
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**Published:** November 15, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous misfires in the history of Hollywood, but the behind-the-scenes tale of how it came to be has yet to be documented in any long-form content– until now
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## Laughing Place
New Behind-the-Scenes Book “A Disturbance In the Force” Chronicles the Making of the “Star Wars Holiday Special”
By Mike Celestino
Nov 14, 2023
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I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the *Star Wars Holiday Special* is one of the most infamous misfires in the history of Hollywood, but the behind-the-scenes tale of how it came to be has yet to be documented in any long-form content– until now, that is. A new book entitled *[A Disturbance In the Force](https://www.amazon.com/Disturbance-Force-Holiday-Special-Happened/dp/1493075276)* by author Steve Kozak is arriving tomorrow, and promises to be an informative companion to the soon-to-be-released documentary of the same name (which also happens to be co-directed by Kozak).
**What’s happening:**
- A new book entitled *A Disturbance In the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened* will be released tomorrow from Applause publishing.
- *A Disturbance In the Force* is written by Steve Kozak, who currently works for *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* and also happens to be the co-director of a documentary of the same name, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year to rave reviews, including one by [Laughing Place’s own Alex Reif](https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2023/03/11/sxsw-film-review-a-disturbance-in-the-force-showcases-the-who-what-where-when-and-why-of-the-star-wars-holiday-special/).
- In a conversation last week, Steve told me that the book covers many fascinating tidbits about the *Star Wars Holiday Special* that the documentary does not, including a connection to the Manson Family, wacky dialogue for Darth Vader, and a physical fight between Wookiee costume designer Stan Winston and a Fox financier.
**What they’re saying:**
- **Official synopsis:** “Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared—a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today. Kozak explains how the Special was one piece of a PR blitz undertaken by Lucas and his colleagues as they sought to protect the emerging franchise from hostile studio executives. He shows how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product. He gives entertaining accounts of the problems that plagued production, which included a ruinously expensive cantina set; the acrimonious departure of the director and Lucas himself; and a furious Grace Slick, just out of rehab, demanding to be included in the production. Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on extensive new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, this never-before-told story gives a fascinating look at a strange moment in pop-culture history that remains an object of fascination even today.”
- **Jimmy Kimmel:** “No man alive is better equipped to chronicle the history of Chewbacca-related television than Steve Kozak.”
- **Star Wars Holiday Special co-writer Bruce Vilanch:** “There are no words for how much fun this book is, so I will just quote something I wrote for one of the Wookiees: “Urgh oofa ghooba bhutt floote! \[followed by a howl\]”
*A Disturbance In the Force* will be released tomorrow, November 15th, but is [available for pre-order](https://www.amazon.com/Disturbance-Force-Holiday-Special-Happened/dp/1493075276) right now.
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### [Buy Tickets To A Disturbance In The Force Documentary](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/13/buy-tickets-to-a-disturbance-in-the-force-documentary/)
**Published:** November 13, 2023
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**Daps Magic
Tickets Now On Sale for ‘A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened’
Nov 10, 2023
By Mr. Daps**
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In 1978, George Lucas was talked into cashing in on the Star Wars craze by producing a holiday variety TV special. What could possibly go wrong?
ANSWER: Everything…
From the filmmakers behind ***Napoleon Dynamite*** and ***Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made*** comes ***A Disturbance in the Force***, the documentary about the infamous ***Star Wars Holiday Special***.
The *Star Wars Holiday Special* is infamous among *Star Wars* fans. Now, a documentary takes a deeper look at this special. It also will soon be in theaters on different dates in November. [Tickets are now on sale ](https://www.disturbanceintheforce.com/screenings)for this documentary. A trailer for the film can also be seen below.
About *A Disturbance in the Force*
Travel back to a galaxy far, far away – the infamous *Star Wars Holiday Special*. This documentary dives into the mystery of how it happened and why 45 years later it has become, much to the chagrin of George Lucas, the ultimate cult classic among *Star Wars* fans.
Featuring interviews with Bruce Vilanch, Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, and many more.
***Where To Buy Tickets***
More details about this film, where it is screening, and tickets sales can all be found at **[HolidaySpecialDoc.com](http://holidayspecialdoc.com/)**. What do you think of this documentary? Are you excited to see it? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!
### **To Buy Tickets**, **Check Out**
**HolidaySpecialDoc.com**
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### [Bruce Vilanch arrives at 2023Out100 on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Los Angeles.](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/13/bruce-vilanch-arrives-at-2023out100-on-thursday-nov-9-2023-in-los-angeles/)
**Published:** November 13, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The 2023 OUT100 is an annual list that celebrates and honors the most impactful and influential individuals in the LGBTQ+ community.
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## Clinton Herald
2023 Out100
Photo: Richard Shotwell
November 13, 2023
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*Bruce Vilanch by Richard Shotwell – invision, Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Nov 10, 2023*OUT
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The 2023 OUT100 is an annual list that celebrates and honors the most impactful and influential individuals in the LGBTQ+ community. It recognizes the achievements and contributions of queer artists, disruptors, educators, groundbreakers, innovators, and [storytellers.](https://www.bluleadz.com/blog/best-storytellers-of-all-time) The Out100 list showcases the people who have made a significant impact on culture and society in the year 2023. It is a way to highlight and acknowledge the accomplishments of LGBTQ+ individuals and their positive influence on the world.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Shreds Fashionistas With His Crocs](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/05/bruce-vilanch-shreds-fashionistas-with-his-crocs/)
**Published:** November 5, 2023
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## Queerty
The fiercest & queerest lewks of the week
By Johnny Lopez
11/5/2023
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### [Comedy Writer Bruce Vilanch Reflects on His Journey from Ohio State to the Oscars Stage](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/10/17/comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-reflects-on-his-journey-from-ohio-state-to-the-oscars-stage/)
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## Columbus Monthly
Comedy Writer Bruce Vilanch Reflects on His Journey from Ohio State to the Oscars Stage
By Sheldon Zoldan
October 16. 2023
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Ask Bruce Vilanch if he is famous, and he has a simple answer: It depends. “I will be in an airport surrounded by people giving selfies, and somebody will walk by and say, ‘Who is he?’
“So, what can I tell you? It ain’t Brad Pitt. There are declensions of fame.”
If you still don’t know the name, you might recognize his cherub face—not to mention his attention-grabbing T-shirts, long, blond hair and red-framed glasses. It’s a familiar visage from his four years on the third iteration of *Hollywood Squares*.
In show business, however, there is no debate whether he’s famous. Vilanch knows almost everybody, and almost everybody knows him. He’s written jokes for the funny (Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, Ellen DeGeneres) and the not-so funny (Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Cher, the Osmonds). He wrote for as many as 25 Oscar shows, at least 14 as head writer. He co-wrote Bette Midler’s Johnny Carson tribute, “You Made Me Watch You,” for her Emmy-winning appearance on the late night host’s last regular show. Vilanch is famous enough to have had a documentary made about him, “Get Bruce.”
On Oct. 20, he returns to Ohio State to host “The Lantern Reunion: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch, the Almost Famous Buckeye,” sponsored by the [School of Communication](https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/events).
Born in 1948 in New York City, Vilanch was adopted four days later and whisked away to Patterson, New Jersey, where he grew up as a happy, chubby, only child who fell in love with the theater. “I was not one of the cool kids,” he says. “What made me palatable to them was I performed.”
He did summer stock as a teenager, sharing billing with well-known actors of the time, like Tallulah Bankhead and Ethel Merman. Vilanch wanted to go to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh because of its theater program, but his perfect SAT score in English didn’t counterbalance his 350 score in math. “I couldn’t make change; I was terrible,” he says.
So, it was off to Ohio State. “I said OK, I’ll go to Ohio State because it had a big journalism school, and it had a theater department, and it was an hour by plane, which was as long as the leash would go,” Vilanch says.
He started school in 1965, just as the Vietnam War protests were percolating. Vilanch began working for the school newspaper, *The Lantern*, first as a reporter and then in various editing roles. Being a reporter wasn’t easy. “It was difficult because I was trying to be fair and balanced,” he says, “but I was anti-Vietnam, and I was mad at the \[school\] administration that they would not do a Black studies course.”
He took to the stage like he did to journalism. On campus and off, he acted in plays, such as “Carnival,” “Finian’s Rainbow” and the “Glass Menagerie,” to name a few. His favorite was “My Fair Lady.” “Because it was a big show at Mershon \[Auditorium\], and I played Doolittle the father, and he had a lot of great numbers, and I got to do a lot of dancing and carrying on.”
Vilanch had a great time in Columbus. “I loved being in Columbus,” he says. German Village was a constant stop. “Very artsy people were living there, and it wasn’t gentrified the way it is now. So, we would go down there with a group that did plays.”
He finished his five-year program in 1970 minus a graduation ceremony. The school shut down early because of campus protests after the Kent State shootings. “It was probably the only time that the commencement speaker got a kill fee because they canceled,” he jokes.
That speaker? “It was Walter Cronkite, and I think it cost them a little bit of money.”
Vilanch’s next stop was the *Chicago Tribune* as a feature writer; that’s where he met Bette Midler when she was a newcomer performing at a local nightclub. He loved her act, but in his critique, he said she should talk more on stage because she was funny. She asked him to write some lines for her.
He soon was off to Hollywood where he wrote for the Manhattan Transfer’s summer variety show. Then he moved on to writing for Donnie and Marie Osmond’s variety show, the Brady Bunch variety show, Sonny and Cher, and others.
Vilanch first wrote for the Oscars telecast in 1989. He was one of the few survivors of a reviled program that included Rob Lowe and Snow White opening with a song medley.
He had the title of head writer from 2000 to 2014. Vilanch is like a parent who doesn’t want to name a favorite child, but he thought the Hugh Jackman-hosted show was terrific, as were two or three of Billy Crystal’s, Steve Martin’s first show and Whoopi Goldberg’s.
These days, Vilanch keeps busy with several projects. He just finished a book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” about how he wrote some of the worst television shows—including the infamous *Star Wars Holiday Special*—but survived.
He also co-wrote a musical, “Here You Come Again,” about a down-and-out waiter stuck in his parents’ home during COVID. The server tries to stay sane by talking to an imaginary Dolly Parton.
The musical has two characters and 12 Parton songs. It has played in six venues around the country. “We’re going to see what happens with it; so far it’s been a hit every place, and audiences love it,” he says.
## Bruce Vilanch Discusses Some of His Famous Collaborators
**Bette Midler:** “She’s one of the few performers I know who can turn on a dime. She can have you laughing hysterically one minute and crying the next.”
**Billy Crystal**: “He’s the last of the vaudevillians. He can do everything. He can sing, dance, tell jokes. He can break your heart, and he can probably juggle. He’s a full-service performer.”
**Whoopi Goldberg:** “She is unique. There’s nothing like her. She’s equal parts street and Upper East Side.”
**Robin Williams: “**He was a force of nature, which is a cheap way of saying he was explosive. There’s nobody who was that fast and funny and congenial at the same time.”
**Cher:** “She’s a survivor. She’s had hits in every single decade. She has managed to reinvent herself while still being Cher the whole time.”
**Steve Martin: “**He’s an oddball**.** His stuff is at another level. He has a quality of absurdism about what he does.”
## Bruce Vilanch Recalls a College Prank by R.L. Stine
*The Sundial* was a campus humor magazine that loved to make fun of *The Lantern*, the student newspaper. Jovial Bob Stine was the irreverent editor of the magazine, and in one issue put an ad on the back page for a pizzeria offering cheap pizza. The phone number wasn’t the pizzeria’s; it was *The Lantern* city desk.
“I was on the desk, and these calls kept coming in from every dorm for pizza orders,” Vilanch says. “I couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong. Of course, it was Jovial Bob, getting revenge for something we had written about him.”
Jovial Bob became R.L. Stine, the author of the Goosebumps book series for young teens.
*This is an expanded version of a story from the October 2023 issue of* Columbus Monthly*.*
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### [Writing Star Wars with Bruce Vilanch: Adulting Tip #138](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/05/writing-star-wars-with-bruce-vilanch-adulting-tip-138/)
**Published:** November 5, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** n this episode, the gang recaps their Valentine's Day and shares some super funny and awkward stories. In segment 2 Bruce Vilanch joins to discuss his amazing career which includes Writing the Star Wars Holliday Special, Hollywood Squares, head writer for the Oscars 2000-2014, writing for stars like Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Bette Midler, and much, much more!
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**No New Friends Podcast
Writing Star Wars with Bruce Vilanch: Adulting Tip #138
November 3, 2023**
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In this episode, the gang recaps their Valentine’s Day and shares some super funny and awkward stories. In segment 2 Bruce Vilanch joins to discuss his amazing career which includes Writing the Star Wars Holliday Special, Hollywood Squares, head writer for the Oscars 2000-2014, writing for stars like Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, [**Bette Midler**](https://bootlegbetty.com "Bette Midler"), and much, much more! Check out his website www.wegotbruce.com. We have the Adulting Question of the week, Jersey Man vs Florida Man, Cliff Notes, and much more!
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Podcast
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, NoNewFriends, podcast, writing
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### [Don't Miss 'A Disturbance in the Force'](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/11/05/dont-miss-a-disturbance-in-the-force/)
**Published:** November 5, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** stay tuned to Fantha Tracks tonight at 7.00 pm UK time for our chat with Kyle Newman where he discusses his latest documentary A Disturbance in the Force and much, much more but right now great news for UK Star Wars fans.
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**Fantha
A Disturbance in the Force: UK screening date revealed
By Mark Newbold
November 3, 2023**
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Stay tuned to Fantha Tracks tonight at 7.00 pm UK time for our chat with Kyle Newman where he discusses his latest documentary A Disturbance in the Force and much, much more but right now great news for UK Star Wars fans. As we posted yesterday, the **Prince Charles Cinema in London** will be the venue for the UK premiere of the documentary, and now we have a date – **Thursday 16th November at 8.45 pm.**
Directed by Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak
Produced by Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak, Kyle Newman
Starring Kevin Smith, Bruce Vilanch, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, Seth Green
2023 | 85 mins | USA | 15
Investigating the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) with the behind-the-scenes story of how it got made.
Want to see it for yourself? Now is your chance to kick off the holiday season right and be a part of something truly magical! We’ve partnered with the awesome folks at Alamo Drafthouse to play the film in theaters **later this month including**:
Alamo New Mission 5 – San Francisco, CA
Alamo Staten Island 9 – Staten Island, NY
Alamo Seaport 10 – Boston, MA
Alamo Lakeline 10 – Austin, TX
Alamo Montecillo 8 – El Paso, TX
Alamo LaCenterra 8 – Houston, TX
Alamo Lubbock 8 – Lubbock, TX
Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville – Chicago, IL
Alamo Drafthouse Raleigh, NC
Alamo Sloans Lake 8 – Denver, CO
Alamo DTLA 12 – Los Angeles, CA (Q&A)
Alamo Yonkers 6 – Yonkers, NY
Please visit our site for the most up-to-date list of screenings and how to buy tickets. Tickets are going fast so hurry if you want to be among the first to see it.
Remember, stay tuned for our chat with Kyle on tonight’s special Friday Night Rotation episode of Making Tracks.
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Documentary
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, documentary
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### [Industry Reading Set For Bruce Vilanch's Jukebox Musical, Sign Of The Times](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/10/10/industry-reading-set-for-bruce-vilanchs-jukebox-musical-sign-of-the-times/)
**Published:** October 10, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** An industry reading of the new musical A Sign of the Times, featuring the songs of Petula Clark and other pop hits of the 1960s, will be presented October 20 at 2 PM at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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## Playbill
Chilina Kennedy, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ryan Silverman, More Set for *Sign of the Times* Reading
By Andrew Gans
October 10, 2023
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**An industry reading** of the new musical *A Sign of the Times*, featuring the songs of [Petula Clark](https://www.playbill.com/person/petula-clark-vault-0000095134) and other pop hits of the 1960s, **will be presented October 20 at 2 PM** at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
[Gabriel Barre](https://www.playbill.com/person/gabriel-barre-vault-0000057845) (*Almost Maine*, *The Wild Party*) will direct the reading, presented for potential investors in a 2024 New York City production that features revised material since the 2018 [Delaware Theatre Company](https://www.playbill.com/venue/delaware-theatre-company-wilmington-de) staging.
The upcoming reading will feature [Chilina Kennedy](https://www.playbill.com/person/chilina-kennedy-vault-0000121649) (*Beautiful: The Carole King Musical*) as Cindy, Tony nominee [Crystal Lucas-Perry](https://www.playbill.com/person/crystal-lucas-perry-performer) (*1776*) as Tanya, [Ryan Silverman](https://www.playbill.com/person/ryan-silverman-vault-0000110619) (*The Phantom of the Opera*) as Brian, [Justin Matthew Sargent](https://www.playbill.com/person/justin-matthew-sargent-vault-0000119447) (*Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark*) as Matt, and [Alex Joseph Grayson](https://www.playbill.com/person/alex-joseph-grayson) (*Parade*) as Cody, with Melessie Clark, [Jeremy Gaston](https://www.playbill.com/person/jeremy-gaston-performer) (*Aladdin*), [Tyler Hanes](https://www.playbill.com/person/tyler-hanes-vault-0000051406) (*Cats*), [Maggie McDowell](https://www.playbill.com/person/maggie-mcdowell-vault-0000127159) (*Disaster!*), Lindsay Moore, Greg Sim, Paige Catherine Smallwood (*Hamilton*), and [Edward Staudenmayer](https://www.playbill.com/person/edward-staudenmayer-vault-0000077903) (*Girl from the North Country*).
Featuring a book by [Lindsey Hope Pearlman](https://www.playbill.com/person/lindsey-hope-pearlman-director) (*Roar!*) and two-time Emmy winner [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.playbill.com/person/bruce-vilanch-vault-0000024838) (*Divine Madness*), based on an original story by Richard J. Robin, *A Sign of the Times* also has choreography by [JoAnn M. Hunter](https://www.playbill.com/person/joann-m-hunter-vault-0000004624) (*School of Rock*) and music direction and orchestrations by [Joseph Church](https://www.playbill.com/person/joseph-church-vault-0000001089) (*The Lion King*).
Set during the progressive era of Women’s **[Liberation](https://wegotbruce.com/future-productions-planned-for-new-musical-a-sign-of-the-times-following-goodspeed-run/)**, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War protests, *A Sign of the Times* follows Cindy, a young woman from Middle **America**, who comes to New York City in 1965, where she finds her voice. Songs include “Downtown,” “You Don’t Own Me,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss),” and “The Boy From New York City,” among others.
The musical had its world premiere at Goodspeed Musical’s Norma Terris Theatre in 2016 and subsequently played at the Delaware Theatre Company in 2018.
The executive producer for *A Sign of the Times* is Richard J. Robin, Wells Street Productions LLC.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, industry reading, musical, Petula Clark, signofthetimes
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### ['Can't Stop The Music' Is A Notorious Flop, But It Overflows With Pure Camp Joy](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/09/28/cant-stop-the-music-is-a-notorious-flop-but-it-overflows-with-pure-camp-joy/)
**Published:** September 28, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** It is the Village People origin musical/Steve Guttenberg vehicle Can’t Stop The Music, and it is a shittering glitshow that must not be missed. (If you’re keeping score at home, it’s currently sitting at 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.)
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## Decider
The Village People Disco Musical ‘Can’t Stop The Music’ Is An Infamous Flop — But A Flop That’s Infused With Pure Queer Joy
By Dave Holmes
September 28, 2023
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It is one of the most famous flops in movie history, a disco musical that was released on the very day the entire world decided it was good on disco. It cost $20 million (in 1980 money, so adjusted for inflation, that’s way more) and took in $2 million (in 1980 money, so adjusted for inflation, that’s way less; don’t overthink it). It is the reason we used to have the Golden Raspberry Awards, or maybe still do, I don’t know, because [honey, I don’t want to be in that energy wave](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cgo4_N_gk6e/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==).
It is the Village People origin musical/Steve Guttenberg vehicle *[Can’t Stop The Music](https://decider.com/movie/cant-stop-the-music/)*, and it is a shittering glitshow that must not be missed. (If you’re keeping score at home, it’s currently sitting at [22% on Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cant_stop_the_music).)
Like most good things, the story of *Can’t Stop The Music* begins over drinks at a 1978 dinner party at Jacqueline Bisset’s house. Allan Carr was invincible — fresh off having produced *Grease*, which itself was fresh off becoming the highest-grossing movie musical of all time — and was looking for a splashy next act. He convinced Bisset and her guests to come with him to a late-night taping of *Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert*, featuring a new act called The Village People. They went, The Village People village peopled, and the drinks (and other stuff) did what drinks (and other stuff) do, which is make ideas seem *really good*. He envisioned a big-budget musical called *Discoland*, featuring Jacqueline Bisset herself as the female lead, to which she said whatever version of “aw *hell* nah” people were saying in 1978.
But Carr would not be deterred. He got Bruce Vilanch to write the script on spec, and then rewrite it when Carr decided Olivia Newton-John should be the female lead, and then re-rewrite it again when she turned it down and Carr pitched it to Raquel Welch, and then again to Cher, by which time Vilanch asked for some money and Carr fired him. The part eventually went to Valerie Perrine, her love interest would be played by a first-time actor and Olympic gold-medalist we now know as Caitlyn Jenner, and as the Americanized version of Village People Svengali Jacques Morali, an unknown named Steve Guttenberg. It was, everyone agreed, going to be hot stuff.
Now, it is important to point out that Allan Carr, Jacques Morali, and all but one of the Village People are gay as hell. And though the gay community was making strides toward visibility and civil rights in the late 1970s, this was a thing that still needed to be suggested in mainstream entertainment rather than made plain. Carr and new screenwriter Bronte Woodard set out to make a movie that was very gay in the way the Village People were, which is to say “not explicitly, but obviously to anyone who bothers to give one second of actual thought to what is directly in front of them.” It is a script full of double-entendres, and single-entendres, and frequently jokes you are not sure whether you have *entendu* labeled correctly. It is saucy if you know what to listen for, it is clean as a whistle if you do not, which most people still do not — and I know that because Donald Trump is still playing “YMCA” at his rallies — and that is unequivocally a song about San Francisco bathhouse culture. You can’t tell me this isn’t documentary footage of Andy Cohen’s first day in New York.
The making of *Discoland* was troubled. The film was largely shot on location in Greenwich Village, on the same streets at the same time as a film the Greenwich Village people were not too psyched about: William Friedkin’s leather-scene gaysploitation film *[Cruising](https://decider.com/2014/09/03/was-it-good-for-the-gays-cruising/)*. The gay community often showed up to disrupt the filming, only to be told by *Discoland*’s director Nancy Walker that this was a *good* gay movie. (That’s right: Nancy Walker, Rhoda’s mom, the Bounty paper towels spokeswoman.) Near the end of production, that hideous [Disco Demolition night happened at Comiskey Park](https://decider.com/2023/09/19/the-saint-of-second-chances-netflix-review/), the trade magazines said nobody was buying disco anymore, so they changed the title to *Can’t Stop The Music*.
Speaking of things that can’t stop, Steve Guttenberg is basically like this for the whole two hours of the movie.
Do you remember back in the heyday of *Sex and the City*, how when the cast was interviewed, they would often say some variation of “New York City is almost the show’s fifth main character?” There are about seventeen main characters in *Can’t Stop The Music*, and you might say that cocaine is the first and loudest, and most important of them. Like the gayness of many of the film’s characters, it is never explicitly laid out that everyone involved with this film is zooted up out of their goddamn minds, but if you know, you know. You also know if you don’t know.
Roger Ebert was a shady lady about *Can’t Stop The Music*, as was his custom. “They advertised this as the entertainment explosion of the year, and it was a bomb alright,” he said on the special *Worst of 1980* episode of his and Gene Siskel’s show *Sneak Previews*. “It’s a movie that couldn’t seem to start the music, a traffic jam of unrelated characters who crowd together and create general confusion.” And yes, he’s right, there’s a lot going on: Steve Guttenberg is trying to launch a singing group, Tammy Grimes is trying to get Valerie Perrine to back to her modeling career, there are six Village People and none of them have any character traits or inner lives, Paul Sand and Marilyn Sokol and June Freaking Havoc are there, and no two people I have mentioned so far are in the same movie. It’s a lot!
“But wait,” you’re saying. “This sounds like you are describing a bad film.” And yes, to the degree that quality can objectively be determined, this is a mess of a movie. But what is good about it is what makes it important, and that is the pure joy with which it was made. Ca*n’t Stop The Music* is not just a movie about how the Village People came to be (which is good, because I just watched it, and if you asked me right now how the Village People came to be, I’d say, “They…met, or something”). It is, or at least it was intended to be, a movie about the Seventies becoming the Eighties. About the glorious new world that felt like it was right within reach. “These are the Eighties,” a couple of different characters say, with maximum sincerity. “You’re going to be doing a lot of things you’ve never done before in the Eighties.”
It is a real punch in the fucking gut to hear those words. In August 1980, a few weeks after the movie came out, Bronte Woodard died of a nameless illness that was beginning to afflict gay men. Ronald Reagan would be voted into office three months later, and wouldn’t mention AIDS until nearly five years after that. By 1995, 10 percent of the 1.6 million **American** men aged 25-44 who identified as gay were dead. A generation was literally decimated. In the Eighties, we did a lot of things we’d never done before. Jacques Morali died of AIDS in 1991.
This year, really by accident, I’ve stumbled onto some high-quality queer art: the campy, drag-fueled 1981 video for “[Brand New Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1LrlpNqxU),” a thrilling pop single from San Francisco artist Tommy Spence. “[I Could Not Believe It](https://www.amazon.com/Could-Not-Believe-Teenage-Diaries/dp/1635901839/?tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2023/09/28/cant-stop-the-music-take-two/&asc_source=web),” the teenage diaries of a Black gay teen in 1979 Simi Valley who would grow up to be Los Angeles art-punk legend Sean DeLear (who can also be seen in the fascinating punkumentary Desolation Center, on Amazon Video or the Night Flight app). The Keith Haring exhibit at The Broad. Hell, the early work of The B-52s. These allow us to imagine a world that could have been, to appreciate a queer perspective, to honor all we have lost by facing what lies ahead with pride and energy and empathy and humor. We owe our best to the generation ahead of us, and to the generations to follow.
Is *Can’t Stop The Music* high-quality queer art? Maybe not. But like the works above, it is suffused with pure queer joy, which was revolutionary then and remains so now. And queer joy is going to go a long way toward saving us, if we let it.
Ultimately, it’s a better bet than cocaine.
*Dave Holmes is an editor-at-large for [Esquire.com](http://www.esquire.com/), and host of the Earwolf podcast [Homophilia](http://www.earwolf.com/show/homophilia/), and his memoir* [Party of One](https://www.amazon.com/Party-One-Memoir-21-Songs/dp/0804187983?tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2023/09/28/cant-stop-the-music-take-two/&asc_source=web) *is in stores now.*
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### [Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival Featuring 'Body Electric'](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/09/23/cinema-diverse-the-palm-springs-lgbtq-film-festival-featuring-body-electric/)
**Published:** September 23, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
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## PromoHomo.TV
Live from the Opening Night of Cinema Diverse 2023… The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival
By Nicholas Snow
Sept 23, 2023
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In this special edition of Notes From Hollywood® on PromoHomo.TV®, Producer/Host Nicholas Snow broadcasts LIVE from the 16th edition of Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, featuring a super special preview of Billy Clift’s new feature, HERE WE ARE.
Cinema Diverse, which includes forty-nine feature films and over 100 short films this year, runs for two long weekends at the Palm Springs Cultural Center: September 21-24 and September 28-October 1.
Films will be screening in all three of the Camelot theatres. This episode of Notes From Hollywood® is presented by the new Hopefulsexual™ educational campaign to create authentic connections among humans everywhere while simultaneously combating sexuality-based shame and stigma.
If you’re ready to proclaim your hopefulsexuality, visit www.Hopefulsexual.com.
**HERE WE ARE** is a timely and emotional tale of love, family, and prejudice at a time when the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic. The film stars Mel England and Wil J. Jackson, and features Sally Kirkland, Christine Elise, Gregory Zarian, and Elizabeth Regen.
Some of this year’s other feature films include FIREWORKS (STRANIZZA D’AMURI), a touching and emotionally powerful film from Italy about two teenage boys, Gianni and Nino, who meet and fall in love in the heat of a Sicilian summer in 1982. The relationship soon becomes a topic of gossip in their small town and despite their families’ objections the boys dream of living together – something the community is determined to stop. The French Film,
**LIE WITH ME**, in which Novelist Stéphane Belcourt returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery, even though he doesn’t drink alcohol. After meeting the son of his teen lover, his memory is flooded with thoughts of that first love.
**THREE DAYS A WEEK**, sponsored by the Desert Film Society. Another powerful French film about Baptiste, a photographer in search of his art, who meets and becomes involved with drag performer Cookie Kunty on the streets while volunteering at a public health clinic alongside his girlfriend, Samia. His involvement with Cookie leads Baptiste on a profound journey of self-discovery. The enlightening documentary,
**BODY ELECTRIC**, which examines body image in the LGBTQ+ community and body dysmorphia. The film traces the history of queer culture and its fixation on the body and explores steroid use & plastic surgery. It also investigates the impact of the AIDS crisis, while hearing inspiring stories from Leslie Jordan, Judy Gold, Bruce Vilanch, Rajee Narinesingh, and others.
**GLITTER AND DOOM** is a fantastical summer musical romance told with the iconic tunes of INDIGO GIRLS. A musician who wears charisma as camouflage & a carefree kid about to run away with the circus fall in love at first sight. But will 29 days be enough time for them to fall in love forever?
**COMING AROUND** is a touching story about a 28-year-old second-generation Palestinian-Egyptian Brooklynite who is grappling with the decision to come out to her devout mother. Along the way, she makes a decision to marry her male partner to evade silent disapproval. When that fails, she struggles with various ways to be herself while somehow maintaining the tight bond she has with her mother and sister.
**JESS PLUS NONE**, is a comedy-drama about a reluctant maid-of-honor who is forced to attend her best friend’s off-the-grid wedding in the woods, where she’s forced to confront her ex-girlfriend, all her more successful college friends, and every bad choice she’s made in her life so far. Sponsored by The Center.
These films and more – lots more – tell the stories that are part of Cinema Diverse this year. Stories that help Cinema Diverse continue its mission of sharing films that empower the LGBTQ+ community, advance our efforts to gain equal rights, and introduce us to a world that has heretofore never known us.
We believe LGBTQ+ films and LGBTQ+ film festivals are critical to our local community, and to the world community, because they tell stories that remind us of where we came from, who we are, and who we can be.
**WHAT**: The Sixteenth Edition of Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs, LGBTQ+ Film Festival
**WHEN**: September 21-24 & September 28-October 1, 2023
**WHERE**: Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 East Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262
**TICKETS AND PASSES:** www.CinemaDiverse.org
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends The Premiere Of 'Dicks: The Musical'](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/09/20/bruce-vilanch-attends-the-premiere-of-dicks-the-musical/)
**Published:** September 20, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch Attends The Premiere Of 'Dicks: The Musical - WhaddaYaNeedToKnow?
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch Attends The Premiere Of ‘Dicks: The Musical
By Mister D
Sept 19, 2023
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**Bruce Vilanch Attends The Premiere Of ‘Dicks: The Musical – WhaddaYaNeedToKnow?**
“Dicks: The Musical” is a unique and offbeat film musical that stands out for its [**unconventional**](https://wegotbruce.com/hitfix-interviews-bruce-vilanch-and-bruce-cohen-about-the-oscars/) approach. Here are the key details:
- **Production**: This is the first film musical from A24, a renowned production company. The director is Larry Charles, who is known for his work on “Borat”.
- **Plot**: The plot revolves around two twins, Craig Tittle and Trevor Brock, portrayed by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp. Despite being neighbors and top earners at the same company, they were unaware of each other’s existence. Upon discovering their kinship, they concoct a plan to reunite their long-separated parents.
- **Cast**: The cast boasts Broadway stars Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane. Additionally, the character of God is narrated by Bowen Yang.
- **Reviews**: The film has garnered mixed reviews. While some critics have lauded its rebellious tone and the performances of its leads, others have criticized it for its reliance on shock value and repetitive humor.
- **Opening** set for October 6th – limited release
The film’s unique blend of humor and absurdity has led many to believe that it is destined for cult status. It deviates from the typical musical format, making it a recommended watch for those who enjoy unconventional comedy.
Won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival
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### [12 Top Picks to See at Chicago's Reeling LGBTQ+ Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/09/16/12-top-picks-to-see-at-chicagos-reeling-lgbtq-film-festival/)
**Published:** September 16, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Screening: Saturday, Sept. 23, 2:45 p.m. @ Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4. Or, stream this movie.
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## Edge Media Network
12 Top Picks to See at Chicago’s Reeling LGBTQ+ Film Festival
The Staff
Sept 11, 2023
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The 41st edition of Reeling, the Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, will launch Sept. 21 with the festival’s Opening Night feature, “The Mattachine Family,” screening at The Music Box Theatre, 3733 N Southport Ave. The screening will be “preceded by a special reception marking the start of 2023’s Reeling: The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival,” Reeling’s official website says, “with expected in-person appearances by the movie’s star, hometown hero Nico Tortorella, and director Andy Vallentine. Expect an evening to remember.”
The festival will run through Oct. 1, offering more than 40 features and documentaries, plus the charming Australian dramedy series “Single, Out” about a teenager’s emergence from the closet and his first forays into gay culture and romance.
Centerpiece film [“**Glitter & Doom”** ](https://loudandclearreviews.com/glitter-doom-film-review-frameline47/)sees real-life partners and longtime filmmaking collaborators Tom Gustafson (director) and Cory Krueckeberg (screenwriter) return with a tale about two young men living in Mexico City but looking to expand their lives and chase their dreams.
11 short programs – organized around themes ranging from “Living Your Truth” to “Bittersweet Love Stories” to “What Were You Thinking?” – round out the festival’s slate.
After Opening Night, the festival heads to two venues: Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N Clark St., and Chicago Filmmakers, 1326 W Hollywood Ave.
Select films will also stream at the Eventive streaming platform starting Friday, September 29th at 12:00 a.m.. They will be available until October 8th at 11:59 a.m., enabling the festival’s reach to extend beyond city limits.
Please note that not all films may be available in all regions, and each virtual screening has a maximum number of viewers.
Tickets and passes are available online.
1. **“The Mattachine Family” – Opening Night Selection**
Andy Vallentine’s family drama explores what happens when two foster dads, Thomas (Nico Tortorella) and Oscar (Juan Pablo di Pace) lose their place as the center of their son’s family life when the boy’s biological mother re-enters the picture. Few losses can strain a relationship like the loss of a child, and as the two men wrestle with the shift in their lives, it sends them on different paths.
Screening: Thursday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.
2. **“The Judgment”**
Mo, an atheist from a Muslim background, hasn’t fully shaken off the religious beliefs he was indoctrinated into when he was young. Called back to Egypt by a family crisis, Mo brings his boyfriend along, but the couple must deal with secrecy, superstition, and – possibly – blackmail.
Screening: Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, 9:15 p.m. at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4. Or stream online.
“American Parent”
3. **“American Parent”**
A same-sex family headed by a lesbian couple facing the impossible choice of financial hardship in the city – or life in a rural place where they might not be welcome. In a time when “parents’ rights” are used as a cudgel against LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, will these parents matter?
Screening: Friday, Sept. 22nd, 7:00 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4
“Glitter & Doom”
4. **“Glitter & Doom” – Centerpiece Film**
Director Tom Gustafson and screenwriter Corey Krueckeberg join forces once more to tell the story of Glitter, a young man looking to forge a career in the circus, and his new heartthrob, Doom, a budding singer-songwriter. In a musical milieu where unexpected faces pop up for wild cameos, can the two find their way toward their dreams without passing each other up?
Screening: Thursday, Sept. 28, 9:00 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4.
“About Us but Not About Us”
5. **“About Us but Not About Us”**
A cat-and-mouse thriller from the Philippines, the film starts off as a friendly lunch date between teacher and student, both gay writers, but slowly twists into a murder mystery told in real time over 90 increasingly tense minutes.
Screening: Saturday, Sept. 23, 5:15 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 6.
“Studio One Forever”
6. **“[Studio One Forever](https://www.facebook.com/studiooneforever/)“**
Chita Rivera, Lance Bass, **Bruce Vilanch**, and others open up on camera about the West Hollywood gay disco that offered gay men a place to call their own for two decades of drama and dancing.
Screening: Saturday, Sept. 23, 2:45 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4. Or, stream this movie.
“Fireworks”
7. **“Fireworks”**
Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Fiorello revisits a horrific hate crime from 1980s Sicily, fictionalizing the story of Giorgio and Antonio into the summertime meeting and intense connection between teenagers Gianni and Nino in 1982. Youthful passion and anti-gay conservatism clash in a powerful tale of courage and love.
Screening: Sunday, Sept. 24, 1:00 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 6. Or, stream this movie.
8. **“Since the Last Time we Met”**
Victor would rather not commit, contenting himself with an endless string of hookups… until a chance meeting with his first love, David, the man who broke his heart years ago, complicates his life. Making things even messier is the fact that David has hidden his true self behind the façade of a marriage to a woman.
Screening: Sunday, Sept. 24, 7:00 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4.
9. **“Drifter”**
Sexy, kinky, and empowering, “Drifter” follows Moritz as he moves to Berlin and is promptly dumped by his boyfriend. Cut loose and ready to explore the city – and himself – Mortiz flirts with the oblivion of drugs and numbness in a quest that might bring him back to love.
Screening: Sunday, Sept. 24, 8:45 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4
10. **“House of Izabel”**
Described as a “camp melodrama” and “enthralling period fantasy,” this 60s-set film follows the secret lives – and fabulous looks – of male-presenting people allowed to let their true selves shine for a few days at a time.
Screening: Sunday, Sept. 24, 8:15 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 6. Or, stream this movie.
11. **“Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn”**
Timothy Harris’ documentary – executive produced by Al Roker of NBC’s “Today” – follows Malcolm Kenyatta, an outcandidate for the United States Senate, who rose from his origins as a “poor, Black, and gay kid from North Philly” to a representative for the marginalized – and a challenge to longstanding notions of “electability,” being a Black candidate in a state that has only ever sent straight white men to the Senate.
Screening: Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7:15 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 6. Or, stream this movie.
12. **“Single, Out”**
This charming Australian series follows a gay teen in Melbourne as he emerges from the closet tentatively at first, then with gusto. His first hookup? A curly-headed hottie who also happens to be the best friend of his straight brother. Things only get wilder from there.
Streaming: Monday, Sept. 25, 9:15 p.m. @ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, Theater 4. Or, stream this title.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Takes Over South Florida Sunday, Sept 10 Thru Wednesday, Sept 13](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/09/09/bruce-vilanch-takes-over-south-florida-sunday-sept-10-thru-wednesday-sept-13/)
**Published:** September 9, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
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## OUTSFL
Bruce Vilanch Makes it a Week in South Florida
By JW Arnold
August 31, 2023
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Two-time Emmy Award-winning writer, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch isn’t walking the picket lines in Los Angeles.
“No, I have a doctor’s note,” he said resolutely, adding, “I’m a member of both \[writers’ and actors’\] unions; I’m double dipping.”
Instead, the gay icon is headed back to South Florida for a little fun in the late-summer sun and appearances to support [**Plays of Wilton**](https://www.playsofwilton.com/) (POW!) at the Foundry. He’s hosting [**“Bruce Vilanch’s Pool Party”** ](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ronnielarsenpresents/982117)on Sunday, Sept. 10, and then three nights of[ **“The Penis Talk Show.**”](https://www.ronnielarsen.com/copy-of-showpage-template-14)
Vilanch isn’t conflicted, as his Hollywood compatriots protest the studios and avoid publicity appearances. And, unlike many of the other writers and performers, Vilanch has other income streams, including ongoing performances of the musical he co-wrote with Dolly Parton, “Here You Come Again.” (“It sounds like porn, but it’s really ‘How Dolly Saved my Life in 12 Songs,’” he insisted.)
“Luckily, the strikes don’t affect the theater,” he pointed out.
### “Bruce Vilanch’s Pool Party”
And he doesn’t mind hanging out around a pool owned by LeBoy owner Charles Horton, especially because many of the club’s most talented dancers will be performing.
“That could keep a girl busy,” Vilanch chuckled, pointing out that he doesn’t spend much time pondering which swimsuit to wear, because he prefers swimming *au naturale*. The girthy man luckily also qualifies as his own “personal flotation device,” so lifeguards will not be necessary.
### The Penis Talk Show
Then, if he doesn’t get too sunburned, Vilanch will put on his clothes and move indoors for “The Penis Talk Show,” an improv-style performance that features conversations with three “penises,” three men who appear nude on stage with their identities concealed, to facilitate frank talk about their male members and sexual proclivities.
“There’s nothing I look forward to more than sitting around Lauderdale talking to dicks,” Vilanch laughed.?
One of the writers of the long-running Off-Broadway hit “[Naked Boys Singing](https://wegotbruce.com/orlando-naked-boys-singing-is-a-boozy-bawdy-evening-of-ogling-buff-boys-with-their-balls-swinging-in-the-breeze/),” he pretty much knows what to expect, and years as a regular on “The Hollywood Squares” have prepared him for this challenge. He’s ready to dish out the witty double entendre that will be required.
But make no mistakes, Vilanch’s heart will still be with the tens of thousands of writers and actors who are still protesting. One of the central concerns is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and the implications for show biz creatives and performers who might find themselves replaced.
“AI is plagiarism, basically. It doesn’t have an original thought. It only responds to what it’s been fed and its talent is it gives you back something you’ve already written. You’ll get more of the same old, same old. I’m obviously not in favor of it,” he said. “And actors could have their likenesses used without their permission. That’s an entirely separate issue.”
He acknowledges that most writers and actors are suffering through the protest: “That’s what happens with every strike – you never make up what you lost during the strike. Most writers are not working, but if you’re working…”
And, Vilanch will be “working it,” he promises.
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### Buy Tickets
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***Tickets for “Bruce Vilanch’s Pool Party,” Sunday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m., and “The Penis Talk Show,” Monday through Wednesday, Sept. 11 to 13 at The Foundry, both in Wilton Manors, are available at [RonnieLarsen.com](https://www.ronnielarsen.com/).***
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### [Videos: Bruce Vilanch's Dolly Parton Musical 'Here You Come Again'](https://wegotbruce.com/2023/08/13/videos-bruce-vilanchs-dolly-parton-musical-here-you-come-again/)
**Published:** August 13, 2023
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** HERE YOU COME AGAIN: How Dolly Parton Saved My Life in 12 Easy Songs By Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre, and Tricia Paoluccio
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## YouTube
Videos: Bruce Vilanch’s Dolly Parton Musical ‘Here You Come Again’
August 12, 2023
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***HERE YOU COME AGAIN: How Dolly Parton Saved My Life in 12 Easy[ Songs By Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/naked-boys-singing/), Gabriel Barre, and Tricia Paoluccio***
A rollicking and touching new musical about a has-been-who-never-was comedian and his unusual relationship with his longtime idol, [Dolly Parton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton). The show is a celebration of Dolly’s music and of the profound and funny things she has to say to us all about life, love, and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps during the toughest of times—even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones!
Featuring all the Dolly songs you love with a live band.
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***Creating “Here You Come Again”***
***Trailer: Here You Come Again***
***Video Premiere Of The Title Song*** “***Here You Come Again***“---
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### [Unpacking The Comedy Closet With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/11/04/unpacking-the-comedy-closet-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** November 4, 2022
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Vilanch’s time in television coincided with a sea-change in LGBTQ representation on the small screen, and he spoke with LGBTQ Nation about all that he observed.
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## LGBTQ Nation
When comedy came out of the closet: comedian Bruce Vilanch on the rise of queer representation in TV
by Greg Owen
Thursday, November 3, 2022
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“I’m not a historian. I write what I observe,” out comedy legend Bruce Vilanch tells *LGBTQ Nation*.
Maybe it’s an effort at humility or avoiding a distraction from his brand because he thinks historians aren’t funny.
But the great ones, from Herodotus on down, share a deep interest in the customs and people they observe, and that describes Vilanch to a T-dance on a Sunday afternoon at The Abbey in West Hollywood. He’s a watcher.
That includes television, where – besides appearances on the big screen, Broadway, and in bathhouses (where he reported for the *Chicago Tribune* in 1975) – Vilanch has made his biggest impression. He’s earned Emmys for Oscar telecasts, starred as a Hollywood Square, and written for some of the most[ ***iconic variety shows***](https://www.ranker.com/list/variety-show-tv-shows-and-series/ranker-tv) in the business, from *Donny and Marie* to *The Star Wars Holiday Special.*
He’s also worked or rubbed shoulders with practically everyone in the business (and beyond), from Bette Midler to Diana Ross to Cher to Elton John to presidents and princesses. And he’s helped raise millions for AIDS and other LGBTQ charities.
Vilanch’s time in television coincided with a sea-change in[ ***LGBTQ representation***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_portrayal_of_LGBT_people) on the small screen, and he spoke with *LGBTQ Nation* about all that he observed.
His t-shirt that afternoon read, “See You at My Intervention,” and the conversation began with a plug for his new musical***, [Here You Come Again](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanchs-musical-here-you-come-again-where-is-it-playing/)***[,](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanchs-musical-here-you-come-again-where-is-it-playing/) featuring the songs of Dolly Parton and hints of a new book in the works.
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***LGBTQ Nation*: What’s the book about?**
Bruce Vilanch: About 4000 pages.
***LGBTQ Nation*: You just wrapped the premiere engagement of *Here You Come Again* in Wilmington. How was the show received?**
BV: It’s a big hit! Audiences like it. What is *wrong* with them?
***LGBTQ Nation*: That song was huge when I was growing up.**
BV: It sounds like the title of a porno movie, but we went with it anyway. We thought there was enough recognition.
***LGBTQ Nation*: Has Dolly seen it yet?**
BV: We downloaded it every night for her. She liked what she’s seen. She won’t see it live until Nashville, which will be in May in Patrick Cassidy’s theater. So then she’ll show up, I think, with her tits and all those things she puts in the window.
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*First on our list of subjects was [Batman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9ymE2Rcxo) – William Dozier and Lorenzo Semple Jr’s candy-colored TV version of the comic book classic that aired on ABC from 1966-1968.*
*Homoeroticism pervades the story, featuring a swarthy, mysterious leading character and his handsome “ward,*” Robin. But the producers brought the *camp to the concoction, featuring an all-star line-up of outrageous villains and incredulous storylines.*
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***Cesar Romero***
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***LGBTQ Nation*: When did you first see *Batman*?**
BV: When I was in college. We would gather around to watch. We were stoned. And it was like, well, it was *low*-camp. It was intentionally bad, ridiculous, and over the top. And for me, and for like the gay guys who I knew, it was about looking at Tallulah Bankhead and Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, and Ethel Merman as Lola Lasagna.
***LGBTQ Nation*: What was the gay quotient?**
BV: The gay quotient, that was pretty gay. All that stuff was perfectly gay but gay like Butch Romero? I don’t know if we knew about him at that point. Well, my age group had known about him. People who’d been in Hollywood for years, of course, knew about him.
*Cesar “Butch” Romero*, *a bona fide Hollywood leading man, played the first on-screen version of Gotham City’s [malevolent Joker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKZXKyTROM).*
***LGBTQ Nation*: What’s Romero’s backstory?**
BV: Cesar Romero. He was a beard. He was everybody’s escort. He was a big queen, and it was well-known, and he was a confidante for many women who needed to have a movie star take them places. You know, who wouldn’t try anything with them? And I think a lot of guys, I think that they respected his secret because everybody has secrets of one sort or another. And so much was back then. Secrets were traded, and secrets were currency.
***LGBTQ Nation*: Another Batman villain was [Liberace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD9DnekAg8), who played identical twin brothers, one evil and** one a famous concert pianist. The character wasn’t gay, but Liberace **was.**
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***Liberace twins in Batman 1966***
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BV: Liberace was Liberace no matter what he did. You know, of course, he was like beyond gay. Because one of the things about gayness, with Liberace, there was no sexual component in the gayness. He was a great, huge flamboyant stage character. A lot of these guys who were gay and fey and had these huge flamboyant stage personas that they were selling it was divorced from sexuality. It was about performance art. And it didn’t occur to me that Liberace had a huge dick and I would one day want to sleep with him. But that’s another story.
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*In 1968, NBC brought [Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwtzDM79Mg) to television. Producer George Schlatter’s irreverent take on the counterculture featured an ensemble cast including breakouts Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin, and one token, though unacknowledged, gay cast member.*
***LGBTQ Nation*: Let’s talk about Alan Sues on *Laugh-In*. Among his recurring characters was** Uncle Al the Kiddies’ Pal, a perpetually hungover children’s show host; Big Al, an effeminate sportscaster, **obsessed with ringing a bell; and a manic drag version of cast member Jo Anne Worley.**
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***Jo Anne Worley and a manic Alan Sues in Drag as her Laugh In***
BV: Well, that was pretty gay. He was in that group of eccentric comedians like Rip Taylor, Paul Lynde, Billy De Wolfe, Edward Everett Horton, and Richard Simmons, who were all gay in life but had big personalities that the audience would kind of nod at, because maybe they had an uncle who was like that. Or maybe they had a pastor who was like that. Those who got it got it. And those who didn’t just think they were fun characters.
***LGBTQ Nation*: You mentioned Paul Lynde, who played [Uncle Arthur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSS8elhI0Ok) on *Bewitched* at the same time Alan Sues was on *Laugh-In*. They weren’t out, but they were both a visible gay presence. Is that fair to say?**
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***Paul Lynde in Bewitched***
BV: Yeah, I mean, in the sense that anybody was before Stonewall. Stonewall is a handy demarcation, but it didn’t change things overnight. But in the 70s, things began to get loose in that people began to identify themselves as gay and not just eccentric or flamboyant. And the last gasp of all of that was all those guys I’ve mentioned. They are fabulous characters, but their sexuality never came into it.
*After Stonewall and through the 1970s*, television comedy’s closet door creaked open. In 1971, Nielson’s Number 1 rated show, All in the Family, featured a gay storyline. In 1972, the short-lived sitcom The Corner Bar was home to TV’s first recurring gay character. And in 1976, cult favorite Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman featured not a dissembling pair of brothers sharing the house next door *but longtime companions [Ed and Howard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXd-Y8PwQyA).*
BV: We were shooting *Donnie and Marie* in the same building. I must have seen them at the taco truck.
***LGBTQ Nation*: Another gay baby step in the ’70s was *[Three’s Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS7in7OdWQ) with John Ritter, who you worked with.***
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***THREES COMPANY Snow Job Airdate October 2 1979 Photo by ABC Photo ArchivesABC via Getty ImagesJOHN RITTERSUZANNE SOMERSJOYCE DEWITT***
BV: Yes. That was John pretending to be gay so that he could live with two girls. It’s like a variation on Some Like It Hot, but it wasn’t as severe. He didn’t have to dress up. I wrote something on *Love Boat* where he did have to dress up as a woman to pursue his runaway bride.
On *Three’s Company*, he occasionally had to put on kind of f\*\*gy mannerisms to convince Mr. Roper that it was real. I was never offended by that because it was a plot device. But back then, we had not gotten rid of some of our own self-loathing. Or I had, I think, I had self-loathing. I just thought that stuff was funny, like a straight guy having to pretend to be a fairy. I mean, I thought John was funny. But I’m sure at the same time, there was a segment of the audience that was on Roper’s side.
*Later that same year, in the fall of 1977, ABC premiered [Soap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfCGqJvEGk)* from Golden Girls producer Susan Harris. The *world was introduced to Billy Crystal as Jodie, the first gay ensemble character in American TV history.*
***LGBTQ Nation*: Let’s talk about *Soap*.**
BV: It’s historical now. It’s the first gay character on television. But the thing about Soap was it was a parody of soap operas. So everything was larger than life. So he was gay, but because he was gay, he had to transition into a woman. It was all this stuff that didn’t make a whole lot of sense in the real world.
I don’t know that Susan Harris was looking to score historical points with it, although I’m sure, somewhere in the back of her mind, she thought, well, ‘This will be something they’ll talk about.’
But when Billy was playing it, it represented, at the time, a real career risk for him because it would type him as the gay guy for people who didn’t know him. He was looking for a big acting career in movies, so it was a brave move for him to play because nobody had done it before. If it was a plan to get the public to go with the idea that somebody was gay, it was a genius plan because it worked.
*LGBTQ representation in TV comedy foundered in the 1980s*, while AIDS devastated the gay community and Nancy Reagan stalked the sitcom stages with her “Just Say No” campaign. By the end of the decade, though, two unlikely sources ushered in a mini Golden Age of gays on the airwaves: the new FOX TV network, and Canada, home to the *sketch comedy show Kids in the Hall.l*
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***LGBTQ Nation*: Were you a fan of Scott Thompson’s [Buddy Cole](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLVv56YGXQ) on *Kids in the Hall*?**
BV: Very extreme character. I mean, he did the most extreme stuff, you know, Queen Elizabeth farting for three minutes. And the half-man half-chicken are some of my favorite things from that show.
And Buddy Cole, it’s a fabulous comment on all lounge singers and a certain kind of older queen who’s seen it all. He’s probably not as sophisticated as he’s putting on that he is, but that’s his character. And it’s kind of like *Auntie Mame* on Ativan. A slower version of *Auntie Mame*.
*On FOX, Rupert Murdoch put two gay executives, Jamie Kellner and Garth Ancier, in charge of the upstart network, programming The Tracey Ullman Show with [Francesca’s two gay dads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpcHK9vUhgE); The Simpsons featuring iconic cameos from [Harvey Fierstein](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuFBO_sG9hg) and [John Waters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHdnwnErDQ); and almost all-Black sketch show, In Living Color, with Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier as two [Men on Film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ojGuA33X4).*
***LGBTQ Nation*: They played Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather.**
BV: It was hysterical. For the first time, it was two Black queens carrying on, which I thought was bold. Black guys have a much harder time of it because the Black community is so built around a church. That permeates everything. When AIDS hit, it was hard to raise money in that community because they viewed it as the devil’s work. And the big leaders came from the Church, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, back in the day.
So these two guys, saw the world through the movies. And it was their reaction to this world that often didn’t include them. But they certainly were caricatures. We were laughing at ourselves, at a stereotype, which we all know to be accurate. And didn’t see anything wrong with that. Now, of course, it’s a whole other world where you’re not allowed to find any of that stuff amusing, or you’ll be canceled at sunrise.
***LGBTQ Nation*: In 1997, three years into her sitcom *Ellen*, and after much speculation, [Ellen DeGeneres came out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68EyF9U4olQ) simultaneously as the first gay lead of a show in the history of television, and as gay herself.**
BV: You can never take it away from her. No matter what is said about her later, she was politically very, very important. But when Ellen came out, the show changed direction. Because the show was about a girl looking for a partner. And when she revealed herself to be gay, suddenly she was looking for a woman. And while they overlooked the fact that she was out, they didn’t want to follow her romantic exploits with women.
And that was what killed the show, and she predicted that, but they brought her back for a lot of money, and then wound up ditching her six months later.
***LGBTQ Nation*: The same year Ellen got dumped, NBC premiered *[Will & Grace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RH4izQPrMA)*.**
BV: She paved the way for *Will & Grace*, and it became a genuine, genuine hit. With that show, people began, I think, to look at the whole gay thing differently, because we made fun of ourselves.
And at the same time, we were in the culture. We moved into the mainstream. We were not depicted as criminals, or people who were going to commit suicide, or any of the things that had been just objects of fun.
They were real people, and they had real relationships. And had big guest stars! So there’s more room for people who are just generally crazy and their gayness is part of that. They don’t exist because they’re gay, but because the character is gay.
***LGBTQ Nation*: *Will & Grace* has been off the air since 2010, and there hasn’t been a gay TV comedy blockbuster since. Do you think gay comedy has gotten less funny now because of gay mainstreaming?**
BV: I don’t think it’s less funny, I think it’s just different. But the last few years, it’s upended everything. Comedy is a landmine. And I think the jury is still out. You discover what you can get away with by not getting away with it. By somebody saying, ‘That’s not, you can’t do that!’ I mean, the world is full of scolds, and it’s all become high school and everybody’s taking you to Student Council. So I think we’re in a transitional period. The next generation will probably speak louder, younger people who are a whole lot less flustered than we are. But then along comes George Floyd and #metoo, and suddenly, they’re all flustered on totally different issues.
***LGBTQ Nation*: Do you need a victim to make something funny? Does somebody have to be the object of comedy?**
BV: That’s comedy generally, obviously. There’s nothing funnier than watching pomposity be deflated. And there has to be somebody pompous. It’s the old banana peel thing. You know, you get a snooty high society lady on Park Avenue slipping on a banana peel, it’s hilarious. Because she’s undone. And so that’s ancient. That goes back to the Greeks.
It’s hard to remove that from the culture because it’s a human thing. So it’s a tough one to answer. Because it’s one of the pillars of comedy and obviously there has to be a funny way of looking at things that other people don’t have. That’s comedy.
*This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.*
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Musical 'Here You Come Again' Where Is It Playing?](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/10/15/bruce-vilanchs-musical-here-you-come-again-where-is-it-playing/)
**Published:** October 15, 2022
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## We Got Bruce
Bruce Vilanch’s Musical ‘Here You Come Again’ Radiates That Parton Positivity & Dolly Music Galore
By Mister D
Sept 27, 2022
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***Bruce Vilanchs Here You Come Again***---
**HERE YOU COME AGAIN: How Dolly Parton Saved my Life in 12 Easy Songs
By Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre and Tricia Paoluccio**
A rollicking and touching new musical about a has-been-who-never-was comedian and his unusual relationship with his longtime idol, [Dolly Parton](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-brings-almost-famous-to-lincoln-theatre-in-yountvilleca/). The show is a celebration of Dolly’s music and of the profound and funny things she has to say to us all about life, love and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps during the toughest of times—even if your [bootstraps](https://getbootstrap.com/) don’t have rhinestones! Featuring all the Dolly songs you love with a live band.
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### [What Did Bruce Vilanch Have To Say On The Preston And Steve Podcast?](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/09/13/what-did-bruce-vilanch-have-to-say-on-the-preston-and-steve-podcast/)
**Published:** September 13, 2022
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**Bruce Vilanch Visits The Preston Steve Podcast**
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**On this episode:** **Sept 6, 2022**
News (00:00:00)
Entertainment Report (00:12:39)
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show, RHCP, DMB at The Gorge (00:48:12)
Bizarre Files & Casey’s Big Adventure (01:12:38)
Steven Wright Checks In (01:35:10)
**Bruce Vilanch & Tricia Paoluccio In Studio (01:54:57)**
Harvey Levin Checks In & Bizarre Files (02:19:39)
Hollywood Trash & Music News (02:35:08)
Wrap Up (02:48:51)
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### [Director/Writer Richard Knight, Jr's 'Scrooge & Marley'Goes Digital & DVD On 10th Anniversary](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/09/16/director-writer-richard-knight-jrs-scrooge-marleygoes-digital-dvd-on-10th-anniversary/)
**Published:** September 16, 2022
**Author:** MisterD
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**Scrooge & Marley Trailer Previews 10th Anniversary Release of Gay Holiday Comedy
By Anthony Nash
September 14, 2022**
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***DirectorWriter Richard Knight Jrs Scrooge MarleyGoes Digital DVD On 10th Anniversary***
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In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the LGBTQ holiday comedy **Scrooge & Marley** will be released on digital for the first time, as well as on DVD.
The news comes from **[Dark Star Pictures](https://darkstarpics.com/)**, who are set to release the film digitally for the first time. **Scrooge & Marley** will also receive a special 10th Anniversary DVD release on October 4.
***Bruce Vilanch as Fezziwig***
“Returning to the 1970s days of his teen years by the saucy Ghost of Christmas Past (Ronnie Kroell),” reads the official synopsis for the film. “Scrooge bitterly recalls being kicked out of his home during the holidays for being gay, meeting the young rogue Jacob Marley, the fabulous disco impresario Fezziwig (Bruce Vilanch), and the luckless love of his life, Bill, whose love Scrooge eventually destroys in his pursuit of wealth. The jolly Ghost of Christmas Present (Megan Cavanagh) next whisks Scrooge on a joyous, music-filled tour of current holiday sights, including a visit to a lively party hosted by Scrooge’s niece Freda (Rusty Schwimmer) and her expectant partner Mary.”
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***‘Scrooge & Marley’ Trailer***---
Starring David Pevsner, Tim Kazurinsky, Rusty Schwimmer, Bruce Vilanch, Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, and David Moretti, **Scrooge & Marley** is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s iconic 1843 novella **A Christmas Carol** that reimagines the story by turning Scrooge into a successful piano bar owner who despises people and makes life miserable for everyone in the gay community that he resides in.
Originally released in 2012, the film was partially crowdfunded through an Indiegogo campaign and was released to limited theaters. Following its premiere, the film received mixed reviews, with many praising its “campy” style and attention to care to a niche audience.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks About The Slap-Happy Academy Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/03/30/bruce-vilanch-talks-about-the-slap-happy-academy-awards/)
**Published:** March 30, 2022
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** As the head writer for every Academy Awards ceremony between 2000 and 2014, no one knows more about how a joke can live or die on the Oscars stage than Bruce Vilanch. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the legendary quip-writer, 73, to get his take on Will Smith’s instantly infamous slapping of guest presenter Chris Rock
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## The Hollywood Reporter
Bruce Vilanch Compares Will Smith Oscar Slap to 1954’s ‘A Star is Born
by Seth Abramovitch
March 29, 2022
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***James Madison accidentally slaps Judy Garland at the 1954s Oscars***
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## Bruce Vilanch Talks About The Slap-Happy Academy Awards
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As the head writer for every Academy Awards ceremony between 2000 and 2014, no one knows more about how a joke can live or die on the Oscars stage than [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/bruce-vilanch/). *The Hollywood Reporter* caught up with the legendary quip-writer, 73, to get his take on [Will Smith](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/will-smith/)’s instantly [infamous slapping](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-smith-chris-rock-oscars-1235120096/) of guest presenter [Chris Rock](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/chris-rock/) at Sunday night’s ceremony. The altercation arose over a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, [Jada Pinkett Smith](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/jada-pinkett-smith/), and her shaved-head look, which the comic suggested would be suitable for “*G.I. Jane 2*” — seemingly unaware Pinkett-Smith has alopecia.
As jaw-dropping as it was, the moment — followed by Smith’s expletive-laden shouting at Rock to keep his wife’s “name out of your fucking mouth” — was not entirely without precedent, though Vilanch had to reach into the Oscars metaverse (the ceremony held in 1954’s *A Star is Born*) to find a comparable moment.
**Hi Bruce. So where were you for this very memorable Oscars?**
I am in New York so I wasn’t at the show. I had nothing to do with the show. I did write a couple of jokes for people, but I certainly was not around for the big slap fest. In fact, this has just come in: “Sean Penn has canceled his [Oscar meltdown](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sean-penn-oscars-boycott-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-1235119267/) because he can’t compete with Will Smith’s.”
**That’s a good one.**
Thank you. Lead with that.
**In terms of Chris Rock’s “*G.I.Jane*” joke itself, do you think it was out of line at all?**
I don’t follow Jada Pinkett Smith’s personal life, so I don’t know about her alopecia. And I don’t know if Chris Rock knows about it, either. I just think he was doing a joke about her look without knowing what was going on with her look. I don’t think it was a scripted joke. Everything of course that’s scripted gets vetted, but I think probably he came up with it when he was standing on stage. That’s what comics do. I think that if anybody had seen it ahead of time, they would’ve pointed out to him that probably it was not the best idea.
**Was it slap-worthy? Is it any joke?**
I certainly know that when people get up on stage, comedians especially, they say things, and they’re in the moment, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. And then when it doesn’t work on the Oscars, they hear about it for the rest of their lives.
But that does not excuse somebody getting up and assaulting somebody else. I mean, that’s crazy. Not [since James Mason slapped Judy Garland in *A Star is Born*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-krTkp8iQDI&t=220s) has the Oscars seen this kind of activity. And that was unintentional. He was just making a grand gesture and happened to conk her while he did it. This was like a calculated move. He got up, and he strode over there, and he did it. I think the moment it happened you realized this was not in the script.
**When you said that anything that’s scripted is vetted, you mean it’s vetted by the producers, but you wouldn’t necessarily go to the target of the jokes and say, “We’re going to be doing X, Y, and Z about you.”**
Not necessarily. Sometimes you do. It depends on the relationship that the person telling the joke has with the person the joke is about if they feel squeamish about it. I remember calling Elizabeth Taylor because we had an Al Pacino \[joke at her expense\]. Al had lost seven times. Billy \[Crystal\] was going to say he’s “heard another man’s name cried out in the night more times than anyone except Elizabeth Taylor.” And so we had to go to Elizabeth to clear the joke. She cleared. She thought it was hilarious. She can’t walk back from eight marriages.
**And she was there that night, and it all went great?**
Yeah. There were bits on the show last night that you knew people were in on. I mean, did she really pull all those guys out of the audience that gets their COVID tests? They must have known that was going to happen. I can’t believe that they didn’t know it was going to happen. Because when they tried to get Will Smith up there — he wasn’t going to budge. But maybe it was spontaneous. I don’t know.
**What do you make of the Academy’s response or lack of one during the broadcast?**
I think they’ll have to dig their way through the idea that somebody was supposed to arrest Will Smith for assault. I don’t think anybody was sitting backstage looking through the Academy code of conduct. And I suspect if they were, they decided just to let it play out, and it’ll be dealt with after the broadcast. To call attention to it by then having him disappear from his seat would really overshadow everything that was going on, so I think that was the decision that they made.
**And what do you think this is going to do to the Oscars? Is it going to chill them in terms of hosts and presenters making more pointed jokes?**
I don’t know how it will change, and then I don’t think it will change the Oscars. The show is what it is. The sad part is that it overshadows all the good stuff that was on that show, the range of diversity of the winners, and the fact that Deaf representation, gay representation, Black representation, all of that stuff, was \[celebrated\]. And there were more popular films involved, and the whole idea that the buzz was back on the show and the glamour was back and Timothee Chalamet with no shirt. All of that was there, and that’s now all overshadowed by *The* *Punch and Judy Show*.
**But it sounds like you liked the show overall?**
I thought there was some great stuff in it. It moved along. I don’t know that I would have dancers in the In Memoriam section. It was a nice idea, but it kind of upstages the faces that you’re looking at. I mean, you want to have that mean something, so I don’t know about that. It was hit and miss.
**No pun intended?**
Certainly, the opening was strange. I mean, it really was a kind of a Grammy opening to open with what looked like a Beyonce video. But they wanted to have a big star right up front, so they had the Williams sisters and Beyonce, and then they brought out the \[hosts\] who made some funny jokes at the beginning.
**Yeah, some of those jokes were, I would say, a little meaner than the one that got the slap.**
Which one was meaner?
**I guess how Amy Schumer kept going after *Being the Ricardos*, saying how it wasn’t funny.**
Oh, the *Ricardos* thing. Yeah, she did do that.
**And *Don’t Look Up:* “I guess the Academy members don’t look up reviews.”**
Yeah. Well, it was basically negative. That’s kind of her thing: sweet face and saying these things.
**And then they made a joke also about Will Smith’s open marriage during the COVID bit, and they laughed that off.**
Well, that’s their brand. I mean, what are they going to do?
*The interview* was *edited for length and clarity.* [](https://blog.feedly.com/topic-classification-skill-leo/)
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### [1 on 1 with Bill Alexander With Guest Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/01/07/1-on-1-with-bill-alexander-with-guest-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** January 7, 2022
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***1 on 1 with Bill Alexander***
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On this episode of 1 on 1 with Bill Alexander, Bill talks with comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. Bruce talks about his career.
Bruce Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor, best known for writing the Oscar Awards ceremony between 1989 and 2014.
Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, Bruce had theatrical aspirations ever since he was a kid. He began working as a child model when he was little kid and acted in many theatrical productions as an actor, upon growing up.
He began his writing career in the mid-1970s when he began writing articles for the entertainment section of The Chicago Tribune. During the early phase of his career, he worked with popular singer named Bette Midler, writing for her Broadway show titled ‘Clams on the Half Shell’ and ‘Divine Madness.’ In 1980, he also began writing articles for the LGBT-interest magazine titled ‘The Advocate’ and he serves as a writer for the magazine to this day.
As for his acting career, he has appeared in films such as ‘Mahogany’ and ‘The Ice Pirates,’ along with television series’ such as ‘Bosom Buddies.’ In addition, he has also appeared in several non-fiction television shows and documentary films. He is however best known for writing many Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award functions during the course of his career.
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### [Vilanch Brings 'Super Spreader' To Fort Lauderdale Saturday, 12 March 2022](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/01/05/vilanch-brings-super-spreader-to-fort-lauderdale-saturday-12-march-2022/)
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***Bruce Vilanch***
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One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Bruce Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “Get Bruce!” and his one-time stint as a regular on “Hollywood Squares” as head writer.
He scripted most of the Academy Awards telecasts over the last decade, two of which won at The Emmys / Television Academy, including the one featuring Billy Crystal’s Hannibal Lecter entrance. Mr. Vilanch has also written for The Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, The Emmy Awards, and just about every other award show to brighten your television screen! Mr. Vilanch debuted in the popular Broadway hit, “Hairspray” and continued his role as Edna Turnblad in the National Tour as well.. Catch this multi-talented and witty writer/actor/comedian live and at his best in Fort Lauderdale.
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## Information
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**Date: Saturday, 12 March 2022**
**Location: Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, United States
Venue: Savor Cinema, Fort Lauderdale, FL**
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### [Bruce Vilanch On The Relatively Sane Podcast With Jessica Kirson](https://wegotbruce.com/2022/01/05/bruce-vilanch-on-the-relatively-sane-podcast-with-jessica-kirson/)
**Published:** January 5, 2022
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***Jessica Kirson***
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Join comedian Jessica Kirson as she interviews famous comics, actors, directors, and other creative people to find out how relatively sane they are!
In this episode, Jessica talks with Bruce Vilanch (You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, The Academy Awards) about being relatively sane.
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Podcast, Video
**Tags:** comic, jessica kiron, relatively sane, sanity, You Don't Mess with the Zohan
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### [Vilanch set for Feinstein’s show December 11, 2021](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/12/03/vilanch-set-for-feinsteins-show-december-11-2021/)
**Published:** December 3, 2021
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## Current Publishing
Vilanch set for Feinstein’s show
Dec 1, 2021
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***Bruce Vilanch***
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It all started fewer than 200 miles from Carmel when a reporter from the Chicago Tribune interviewed an unknown singer at the storied nightclub, [Mr. Kelly’s.](https://www.misterkellyschicago.com/) The singer was Bette Midler, and the reporter was [Bruce Vilanch.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch)
The show features behind-the-camera and backstage scenes on everything from “Star Wars” to “The Muppets” and every celebrity that has collaborated with him. His personal diaries are bursting with revealing and comedic experiences in the company of the show business elite.
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### Hollywood Blonde tells all with the Legendary Bruce Vilanch!
6-time Emmy winner shares his stories with Academy Awards, TV shows, and movie stars.
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2021
**Time**: Doors 5:30pm, Showtime 7:30pm
**Location**:
Feinstein’s Cabaret ([map](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1%20Carmichael%20Square,+Carmel,+IN+46032))
1 Carmichael Square
Carmel IN 46032
Ages: 16 & Up
[**PUSH THE BUTTON**](https://www.prekindle.com/find-tickets/id/531433527971841476?1)
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Widely known for his unbridled and sometimes outrageous humor, Vilanch has won six Emmy Awards for comedy writing. He was head writer for the Academy Awards for eight years and was the frequent center square on “Hollywood Squares,” where he established his trademark T-shirts emblazoned with witty and risqué topical observations.
Vilanch played Edna Turnblad in Broadway’s “Hairspray,” the off-Broadway hit; was the subject of “Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous,” a feature-length documentary; and was an iconoclastic standup comedian in “Get Bruce.”
Immediately following their eventful meeting at Mr. Kelly’s, Vilanch started writing for Bette Midler. She once said, “For years, I never said a word that Bruce didn’t charge me for.” She is not alone. Vilanch is a much-in-demand comedy writer for Hollywood’s elite, including Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Diana Ross, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Rosie O’Donnell, Kelsey Grammer, and awards shows, including Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and People’s Choice Awards.
For more, visit [feinsteinshc.com](http://feinsteinshc.com/).
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### [Bruce Vilanch Was Born In November: - 6 Fun Facts Of November Babies](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/11/11/bruce-vilanch-was-born-in-november-6-fun-facts-of-november-babies/)
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## [Baby Chick](https://www.baby-chick.com/)
7 Fun Facts About Babies Born in November
By Allison Lang
November 2021
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Astro Seekcom
[Birth chart of Bruce Vilanch](https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/bruce-vilanch-horoscope)
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November brings an essence of gratefulness and appreciation for family and friends. Welcoming a baby during this cozy yet hectic time of the year can be exciting and stressful. Between the bustle of [back to school](https://www.baby-chick.com/back-to-school-checklist/) and coordinating plans for the holidays, you may be feeling overloaded at the [end of pregnancy](https://www.baby-chick.com/surviving-the-end-of-your-pregnancy/). But I can promise that all the pressure will melt away when your new little bundle of joy arrives! You’ll be wrapped around your November baby’s little finger, and your heart will reach a whole new level of gratefulness. Here are seven fun facts about babies born in November.
## Fun Facts About November Babies
### Centenarians!
According to an article posted on [New Scientist](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22054-autumn-babies-more-likely-to-hit-100/?utm_source=rakuten&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=2116208:Skimlinks.com&utm_content=10&ranMID=47192&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-7NxbRyxjphDxeodc5r2OhA), “the month in which you are born can influence the environment in which you develop – inside of the womb and out.” It’s more likely that your November baby will live a long life. The babies born in the fall, November specifically, are the most likely to live to be 100 years old! This may be linked to moms getting a lot of vitamin D from the hot summer months during the baby’s vital development. Or it could be due to the seasonal time in which they are newborns exposing their immune system. Can you picture your baby with one hundred candles on their cake one day!?
### November Birthstones
Two beautiful birthstones represent November babies. Topaz, which means “fire,” and citrine, which comes from the word for “lemon.” These stones are a perfect mix of passion and sweetness, like the feelings you may have as a new parent!
Topaz can be colorless, but also light blue, yellow, orange, pink, violet, and a very rare red. The fire, and rare red hue, represent the heart and long life.
Just like a sweet lemon, citrine comes in warm, yellow hues. It’s durable and affordable – which may make it a good [gift for baby](https://www.baby-chick.com/unique-baby-shower-gift-ideas/)!
### November And The Zodiac Signs
Image via [Astrograph.com](https://www.astrograph.com/learning-astrology/scorpio.php)Your early November babies, born between the 1st and the 22nd, will fall under the [Zodiac sign](https://www.baby-chick.com/what-babys-personality-may-be-according-to-their-zodiac-sign/) Scorpio. This water sign is loyal, brave, honest, curious, and independent. Scorpios are strong-willed by nature. Parents should enforce good discipline tactics early to ensure their little Scorpios feel comfortable being themselves and learning!
Image via [Astrograph.com](https://www.astrograph.com/learning-astrology/sagittarius.php)If your baby comes towards the end of the month, from the 23rd on, they will be a Sagittarius. Sagittarius babies are [risk-takers](https://www.baby-chick.com/risky-play-may-scare-you-but-its-necessary-for-your-kid/). They are adventurous and curious but also highly reliable and optimistic! All this spirit likely comes from them being a fire sign. This sign loves the pursuit – so travel and sports are a great outlet for your little Sags!
### Chrysanthemums Are The Symbolic Flower Of November
Chrysanthemum is the symbolic flower for November. This bright bushel of blooms is believed to bring good luck and well wishes to the homes in which they are given. Chrysanthemums are a fall staple. They bring smiles to the faces of all who pass them during pumpkin picking outings and sprucing up porches across the country to welcome guests for [Thanksgiving](https://www.baby-chick.com/hosting-a-kid-friendly-thanksgiving/). The cheeky nickname of “Mum” is so cute and fitting for welcoming a new baby . . . for Mum to enjoy the plant!
### November Babies Have Healthy Hearts
[According to a Columbia University study](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/22/5/1042/930268), November babies seem to have healthy tickers! Based on their research, it appears that November babies are less likely to develop heart problems or lung cancer. However, they may be more likely to develop respiratory issues later in life.
### November Holidays
Not only does this month host the family-favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, but it also hosts a plethora of informational and celebratory days. Your little one may share their birthday with National [Book Lovers](https://www.baby-chick.com/how-to-raise-kids-who-love-to-read/) Day or World Kindness Day. November celebrates Child Safety Protection Month, Aviation History Month, [National Adoption Awareness Month](https://www.baby-chick.com/national-adoption-awareness-month/), and World Vegan Month!
**November 1st**: All Saints Day, Dios Los Muertos, World Vegan Day
**November 2nd**: All Souls Day, U.S. General Election Day
**November 3rd**: Cliché Day, Housewife’s Day
**November 4th**: Check Your Blood Pressure Day, Hindu Diwali Day, Men Make Dinner Day, Use Your Common Sense Day
**November 5th**: Gunpowder Day, Guy Fawkes Day
**November 6th**: Book Lovers Day, National Nacho Day, Saxophone Day
**November 7th**: Daylights Savings Time (the first Sunday in November)
**November 8th**: Cook Something Bold Day, Dunce Day
**November 9th**: World Freedom Day, Young Readers Day
**November 10th**: Forget-Me-Not Day, USMC Day
**November 11th**: Veterans Day, World Origami Day
**November 12th**: World Pneumonia Day
**November 13th**: Caregiver Appreciation Day, Sadie Hawkins Day, World Kindness Day
**November 14th**: World Diabetes Day, Operating Room Nurse Day
**November 15th**: American Recycles Day, National Philanthropy Day
**November 16th**: International Tolerance Day, Have a Party with your Bear Day
**November 17th**: Homemade Bread Day, Take a Hike Day, World Peace Day
**November 18th**: Great American Smoke Out
**November 19th**: Have a Bad Day Day
**November 20th**: National Adoption Day, Universal Children’s Day, Beautiful Day
**November 21st**: World Hello Day
**November 22nd**: Go For a Ride Day
**November 23rd**: National Espresso Day
**November 24th**: Evolution Day
**November 25th**: Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday of November), National Parfait Day
**November 26th**: Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving each year), Buy Nothing Day, You’re Welcome Day
**November 27th**: Pins and Needles Day
**November 28th**: First day of Hanukkah (begins on the 25th day of Kislev, which is the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar), Red Planet Day, Advent begins
**November 29th**: Square Dance Day, Chia Pet Day
**November 30th**: Stay at Home Day
### Celebrities Born in November
[](https://mk0babychickyute7ist.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/8121691038827137.webp)Marie Curie — Source: www.watson.chSome talented and smart people came into the world in November . . . including your new baby! Some historical figures include Marie Curie, the first person (and only woman!) to be awarded two Noble prizes, and known artist Georgia O’Keeffe who specialized in oil paintings and sculpture. Let’s take a look at some celebrities born in November.
**November 1st**: Jenny McCarthy, Aishwarya Rai, Penn Badgley, Anthony Kiedis, Rachel Ticotin
**November 2nd**: David Schwimmer, Stefanie Powers, K.D. Lang, Nelly
**November 3rd**: Dolph Lundgren, Tom Savini, Roseanne, Dennis Miller, Kate Capshaw
**November 4th**: Matthew McConaughey, Kathy Griffin, Sean Combs, Ralph Macchio, Markie Post, Doris Roberts, Loretta Swit, Jeff Probst
**November 5th**: Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Tilda Swinton, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Jonas, Tatum O’Neal, Art Garfunkel, Sam Shepard, Bryan Adams
**November 6th**: Emma Stone, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Hawke, Sally Field, Thandie Newton, Taryn Manning
**November 7th**: Adam DeVine, Lorde, Morgan Spurlock, Christopher Knight, Jason London, Jeremy London
**November 8th**: Parker Posey, Tara Reid, Alfre Woodard, Michael Nyqvist, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Leif Garrett, Gretchen Mol, Jack Osbourne
**November 9th**: Lou Ferrigno, Analeigh Tipton, Chris Jericho, Eric Dane, Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo Lachey, Nikki Blonsky, Fernando Meirelles
**November 10th**: Tracy Morgan, Roland Emmerich, Mackenzie Foy, Sinbad, Michael Jai White, Ellen Pompeo, Heather Matarazzo
**November 11th**: Leonardo DiCaprio, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, Adam Beach
**November 12th**: Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Neil Young, Megan Mullaly, Radha Mitchell, Wallace Shawn
**November 13th**: Gerard Butler, Garry Marshall, Chris Noth, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Zahn, Jimmy Kimmel, Frances Conroy, Joe Mantegna, Devon Bostick
**November 14th**: Josh Duhamel, Olga Kurylenko, D.B. Sweeney, Laura San Giacomo, Patrick Warburton, Travis Barker
**November 15th**: Shailene Woodley, Ed Asner, Yaphet Kotto, Beverly D’Angelo, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Waterston, Sean Murray
**November 16th**: Maggie Gyllenhaul, Marg Helgenberger, Lisa Bonet, Martha Plimpton, Missi Pyle
**November 17th**: Rachel McAdams, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sophie Marceau, Daisy Fuentes, Leslie Bibb
**November 18th**: Owen Wilson, Kevin Nealon, Elizabeth Perkins, Mike Epps, Peta Wilson, Chloe Sevigny, Damon Wayans Jr., Delroy Lindo
**November 19th**: Jodie Foster, Meg Ryan, Adam Driver, Dick Cavett, Kathleen Quinlan, Larry King, Charlie Kaufman, Allison Janney, Jason Scott Lee
**November 20th**: Joel McHale, Bo Derek, Ming-Na Wen, Sean Young
**November 21st**: Jena Malone, Goldie Hawn, Nicolette Sheridan, Bjork
**November 22nd**: Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Terry Gilliam, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mariel Hemingway, Mads Mikkelsen, Jamie Campbell Bower
**November 23rd**: Miley Cyrus, Franco Nero, **Bruce Vilanch**, Vincent Cassel, Joe Eszterhas
**November 24th**: Katherine Heigl, Sarah Hyland, Colin Hanks, Billy Connolly
**November 25th**: Christina Applegate, Ben Stein, John Laroquette, Amy Grant, JHill Hennessey, Joel Kinnaman, Dougray Scott
**November 26th**: Peter Facinelli, Natasha Bedingfield, Tina Turner, Garcelle Beauvais
**November 27th**: Sharlto Copley, Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Nye, William Fichtner, Fisher Stevens, Robin Givens, Michael Vartan, Adam Shankman, Alison Pill
**November 28th**: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ed Harris, Judd Nelson, Alfonso Cuaron, Jon Stewart, Ryan Kwanten, Randy Newman
**November 29th**: Anna Faris, Don Cheadle, Lucas Black, Garry Shandling, Jeff Fahey, Joel Coen, Howie Mandel, Kim Delaney, Tom Sizemore, Andrew McCarthy, Cathy Moriarty, Diego Boneta, Diane Ladd, The Game
**November 30th**: Ben Stiller, Gael Garcia Bernal, Ridley Scott, Terrence Malick, David Mamet, Billy Idol, Elisha Cuthbert, Mandy Patinkin, Kaley Cuoco
No matter what day of this wonderful month your baby arrives, you are guaranteed to feel the most thankful for what your body has created! Your little turkey is going to change your life in the most beautiful ways possible. Welcome, November babies!
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### [Videos: Television Academy Interviews - Bruce Vilanch - Chapter One](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/09/28/videos-television-academy-interviews-bruce-vilanch-chapter-one/)
**Published:** September 28, 2021
**Author:** MisterD
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***Bruce Vilanch***
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## Bruce Vilanch & Mister D
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***Mister D:*** This interview and the next two I put up are gold. [Mr. Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/articles/INT02282000brucearticles.htm) has had an incredible life working in the entertainment industry in all types of ways, starting out of the box writing for long time collaborator [Bette Midler](https://bootlegbetty.com/) (yes, I’m saying collaborator) acting, then writing for shows like the Brady Bunch, Donnie and Marie, the infamous Star Wars Variety Special, then on to specials and shows like Dolly, Cher, Bette Midler, and more, then hitting the jackpot as head writer for the Academy Awards for I believe 20 years,, then acting, theater doctoring scripts for certain movies to punch them up, Hollywood Squares, and so much more. And the most tireless advocate for the LGBT+ community. He’s known as probably the kindest man in Hollywood and has collabed with top-notch comedians of our time. And he has been a “special person” in my life, and so has Ms. Midler. I don’t presume to call myself their friend, but each has helped me through some down times in their own ways. And as a boy of 14 who started idolizing Bette and then discovering Bruce, here I am like an obsessed teenager still writing about them at a very young age of 66. I’ve gotten to see more behind-the-scenes stuff than I ever would have imagined, and in Bette’s case met a lot of her inner circle. I think some of them were fond of me, some not so much, but that’s the way life goes, Not that I know anybody in particular that didn’t like me, but human nature you know. But Back to Bruce, These interviews are diamonds and there are so many more. I swear he knows everybody that has passed away that were superstars before Bruce got to Hollywood, but thanks to working at the Academy Awards he’s just a treasure trove of trivia, but he always pulls out a humorous anecdote about those that pass on his Facebook page which only holds 5000 fans. I don’t think he knows who I am cause I’ve sent him reminders if I change my name or switch to a new profile, but that’s okay. We keep up a few times a year. He’s just amazing. I need to clean up this site and I will.
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***Me and Bruce 1st meeting Hairspray in Boston I was in a cloud*** ***I swore after that Id be confident clear headed and myself***
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## Bruce Vilanch Interview – Chapter One
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On his early childhood, family, and education; on television he watched growing up; on when he realized he was funny and on his first professional writing jobs
On writing jokes for Bette Midler’s act; on coming to Los Angeles and on early television writing jobs; on appearing in the feature film “Mahogany”
On writing for [The Paul Lynde Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paul_Lynde_Show); on working with Florence Henderson on The Brady Bunch Hour; on working for Sid and Marty Krofft on The Brady Bunch Hour
On writing for Donny & Marie; on writing for The Star Wars Holiday Special
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Emmy Award, Television Academy
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### [PridetoberFest 2021: Oct 8 & 9 With Bruce Vilanch Hosting The First Day](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/09/25/pridetoberfest-2021-oct-8-9-with-bruce-vilanch-hosting-the-first-day/)
**Published:** September 25, 2021
**Author:** MisterD
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## Chicago Go Pride
Milwaukee Pride announces PridetoberFest 2021 line-up for Oct. 8 and 9
By GoPride.com News Staff
September 23, 2021
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Bruce Vilanch
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Like many June Pride festivals nationwide, Milwaukee PrideFest was canceled in both 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns. But organizers decided to bring it back this year in a different form.
“We just couldn’t wait until 2022 to see our LGBTQ+ family and allies again,” Luke Olson, PrideFest producer and Milwaukee Pride vice president, [said in July](https://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/119358241). “October is LGBTQ+ History Month along with National Coming Out Day (which is Oct. 11). What better moment to gather and reflect on the long journey that got us to this point — and of course, to celebrate!”
The scaled-back fest is scheduled for 3 p.m. to midnight Friday, Oct. 8, and noon to midnight Saturday, Oct. 9.
Friday entertainment includes Jaida Esence Hall, GottMik, Fly Young Red, Big Freedia, Lardi B., and the Doo Wop Daddies. DJs LoLo, Femme Noir, Marcus Angel and Chomper will provide the beats at the popular Dance Pavilion. Comedian Bruce Vilanch will host the Miller Stage throughout the day.
The Sabor Latino Drag Show, Antics, ShayKenn, and Landon Devon round out day one entertainment.
On Saturday the lineup will feature performances by Revamped Dance Company and the World Dance Showcase, as well as Betsy Ade and the Well-Known Strangers, Ethan Cole, Skratt and FXY, Travvy Trav, GGOOLLDD, and Daniel LeClaire.
DJs Mel-Down and Haunt3Hous3 at the Dance Pavilion, with the DJ Shawna “Closing Dance Party” at 10:30 p.m. Drag performances include Lady Gia’s Drag Show, Montell’s Melanin Extravaganza, Lenda Jo, Bryanna Banx$, and the “Closing Performance” with Jaida Essence Hall at 10:15 p.m.
**PridetoberFest visitors are required to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test.**
Tickets are just $12. Online ticket sales generate a $1 donation per ticket to the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. Active-duty military service members and veterans receive free admission upon presentation of their valid military ID.
For additional PridetoberFest information, visit [pridefest.com](https://www.pridefest.com/).
Organizers hope to bring Milwaukee PrideFest in June 2022.
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**Tags:** Antics, Bruce Vilanch, Landon Devon, Pridetoberfest, ShayKenn, The Sabor Latino Drag Show
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### [The Foundation for New American Musicals to Honor Marc Shaiman and Robert Klein](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/09/20/the-foundation-for-new-american-musicals-to-honor-marc-shaiman-and-robert-klein/)
**Published:** September 20, 2021
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## Broadway World
Featuring appearances By Bruce Vilanch, Megan Hilty, Matthew Morrison, Marisha Wallace and Marissa Jaret Winokur.
by Alexa Criscitiello
Sep. 16, 2021
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- Marc Shaiman
- Robert Klein
- Bruce Vilanch
Honorees: Marc Shaiman & Robert Klein, ft Bruce Vilanch, Megan Hilty, Matthew Morrison, & More
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[The Foundation for New American Musicals](https://www.fnam.us/) presents the 2021 FNAM All-star Benefit and Fundraiser. The evening will honor Tony/Grammy/Emmy Award-winner [Marc Shaiman](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marc-Shaiman/) (Hairspray and Mary Poppins Returns), who will receive FNAM’s first Inspire Award; and FNAM Founding-member [Robert Klein](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Robert-Klein/), who will receive the first Founders Award.
The Foundation for New American Musicals presents the 2021 FNAM All-star Benefit and Fundraiser. The evening will honor Tony/Grammy/Emmy Award-winner [Marc Shaiman](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marc-Shaiman/) (Hairspray and Mary Poppins Returns), who will receive FNAM’s first Inspire Award; and FNAM Founding-member [Robert Klein](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Robert-Klein/), who will receive the first Founders Award.
The evening will include performances by Broadway favorites [Megan Hilty](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Megan-Hilty/) (Broadway’s Wicked, Broadway’s 9 to 5: The Musical, NBC’s Smashed), [Matthew Morrison](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Matthew-Morrison/) (Broadway’s Hairspray, Broadway’s Finding Neverland, Fox’s Glee), [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Academy Award Writer – recipient of two Emmy Awards), [Marisha Wallace](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marisha-Wallace/) (Broadway’s Aladdin, Broadway’s Something Rotten!, West End’s Hairspray) and [Marissa Jaret Winokur](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marissa-Jaret-Winokur/) (Broadway’s Hairspray – Tony Award-winner, CBS Celebrity Big Brother – Winner).
**Where To Buy Tickets**
The live, limited-capacity benefit and fundraiser is on Sunday, October 24 at 4:00 p.m., and will be held at a private residence in the Pacific Palisades, California. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 17 at www.FNAM.us.
“The Foundation of New American Musicals is proud to honor one of its founders, [Bob Klein](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bob-Klein/). Bob has always been a driving force in FNAM and continues to be a vital part of our organization. Bob is receiving the first Founders Award to recognize his considerable support for emerging writers of musical theatre. We are also thrilled to present the first Inspire Award to someone who does indeed inspire us all: [Marc Shaiman](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marc-Shaiman/). Marc is the epitome of the success we all hope the writers FNAM supports will have. His extraordinary achievements stretch across all forms of entertainment – film, TV and of course, theatre. We are also delighted to have Marc serve as a member of our Advisory Board,” said FNAM Board President, [Michael Donovan](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Donovan/).
Performances
He added, “And what a fun event this will be! [Megan Hilty](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Megan-Hilty/), [Marissa Jaret Winokur](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marissa-Jaret-Winokur/), [Marisha Wallace](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marisha-Wallace/), [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/), and [Matthew Morrison](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Matthew-Morrison/) – with more appearances to be announced – all there to thrill us with their performances, and to honor Marc – who will also be on stage. I hope that you’ll join us!”
Tickets to FNAM’s Benefit are $150.00 each and include a reception, special performances, and silent auction. Proceeds will benefit FNAM and its programs. Tickets are available at [www.FNAM.us](http://www.fnam.us/).
The benefit will be held at a private residence in the Pacific Palisades. The address will be given upon purchase of benefit tickets. Capacity is limited. Proof of vaccination and the wearing of masks are required.
For more information visit [www.FNAM.us](http://www.fnam.us/).
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### [Looking Back With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/09/16/looking-back-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** September 16, 2021
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## [PopGeeks.com](https://popgeeks.com/)
The Flashback Interview: Bruce Vilanch
By JOHNNY CAPS
AUGUST 10, 2021
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**Bruce Vilanch**
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I first came to know of Bruce Vilanch’s work in the 1990s. Whether it was through the jokes he wrote for Academy Awards hosts like Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal, or through his deliciously saucy answers on the late-90s incarnation of Hollywood Squares, Mr. Vilanch made quite an impression on me. In 2021, with the assistance of Clay Mills of The Katz Company, I was able to set up an e-mail interview with Mr. Vilanch about various aspects of his work. Even in written format, his unique wit comes shining through, and I hope you all enjoy this interview.
**Johnny: One of your very first television writing credits was for a variety show pilot for Charo. With Charo as a jumping-off point, when you’ve written jokes for international performers, have any of them had difficulty understanding your style and references, or are they able to pick up on it pretty quickly?**
Bruce: Depends on how much English they have and how strong their dialect is, and if they are in the business of making fun of themselves, like Charo. With her, the more ridiculous the better. She loves doing jokes that feature her mangling her adopted tongue. In fact, give her that sentence and she will get a three-minute laugh and wind up showing the audience her tongue. I didn’t write, it, but I was in a movie with Marcello Mastroianni many years ago. He was extremely suave and pulled-together, and he spoke English, but he felt his accent made him sound like Chico Marx, or the guy on TV selling spicy meat-a-balls. He didn’t want to be looked on as a clown, so he pretended he didn’t speak English. On set, we would speak French to each other. It was an Italian picture of the 70s, so we each learned the lines in whatever language we liked and spoke them that way, as it was all going to be dubbed later. I think I was dubbed by Mercedes McCambridge.
**Johnny: In addition to your work in creating jokes, you’re also an accomplished songwriter, and one of your credits as a songwriter was the title theme for the 1985 Stephen King adaptation Cat’s Eye. That movie was produced by Dino De Laurentiis, so as you have many stories about larger-than-life Hollywood personas, do you have any stories about Dino?**
Bruce: Not about that picture, where I wrote the song with Jacques Morali (creator of The Village People), but when I was at the Chicago Tribune, I interviewed Dino at his palatial apartment on Central Park South, with the absolutely gorgeous Silvana Mangano floating in and out and their absolutely gorgeous children making a racket somewhere on the south forty. If I remember correctly, he was about to come to Chicago to shoot a mafia picture, and he wound up asking me more things than I asked him, and the food was absolutely gorgeous.
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**Johnny: In 1987, you worked with The Walt Disney Company on two very different TV specials, Walt Disney World Celebrity Circus and Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville. What was it like to be working with Disney in the time period when they were well into recovery from the failure of The Black Cauldron, yet still a long way from the top of the entertainment world?**
Bruce: They didn’t talk much about The Black Cauldron. I believe that was a holdover from the previous administration, the last one with a Disney relative in charge, before my people — the Jews! — took over. At that point, I don’t think Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, both of whom I had worked with elsewhere, were much interested in Disney’s variety TV production. The Constitution special was a passion project of Richard Dreyfuss, who was making some big comedies for them, and so they got behind it. Also, it was a nice idea to try to educate an audience about the Constitution in a hopefully entertaining way. There were lots of names, but my favorite was Whoopi, with whom I got to work very closely and with whom I still work with very closely many x’s and o’s later.
The Celebrity Circus was more or less executed by the parks division, as it was a big plug for Walt Disney World. We all flew to Orlando. Tony Randall, far too erudite for this sort of carry-on, was the host and we had a fantastic time. It was wonderful to watch him work surrounded by circus people and Disney characters, and see him cast a baleful eye at all of them. He was determined to have one of the acts done to classical music, but I don’t think that happened. On a private note, the Cosby kids were guests on the show, and I got to take a hot tub with Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, and I fell in love with an elephant trainer, but that may be my YA novel.
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**Johnny: You’ve written for many Academy Awards ceremonies over the years. Although you’re well-known for your jokes on the Oscars, did you ever write any more serious segments for the show, and if so, which are you most proud of having written?**
Bruce: Here’s the sick part. I remember the jokes. I don’t remember any of the serious stuff. I know I did some. There were always other writers who were not too funny, but very grown-up and elegant when they wrote about the various disciplines. It’s difficult to come up with something meaningful about sound effects editing, but they did it. These same writers generally blanched when I told them Martin Short and Carrie Fisher were going to present an award together, and their dialogue was going to be entirely about the fact that they were each wearing the same dress.
**Johnny: When I watched the 93rd Academy Awards this year, I found it to be very dry and rather bereft of humor, and I really wish you had been involved in the show to give it a boost of fun. What would you have done differently if you were part of the Oscars writing staff for this year’s show?**
Bruce: I would have bought a house for the comic personality who would agree to host the show. I would have told the new producers that there is a good reason we always give one of the acting awards in the first half-hour. People want to see stars and emotions. They are not so interested in the origin stories of writers. I would have moved the show around a little so it didn’t look like Stork Club night at the high school prom, with a curtain draped over the hoops and the bleachers arranged as nightclub tables. Does anyone tune in to the Oscars to see a low-key intimate show?
When the highlights of the evening are Glenn Close doing Da Butt and Frances McDormand calling to her pack, I think it’s not unfair to say something is awry. I actually think the Academy missed a good bet not shooting the whole thing at the new museum, which they are attempting to make a hot SoCal destination like Disneyland and Universal. Clean it up and put it on worldwide TV. They will come.
**Johnny: Jumping back to the 90s, you were a regular for several years on the late 90s/early 00s revival of Hollywood Squares. What joke, or jokes, would you say were the funniest you had written for that show during your time on it?**
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Bruce: I know a few jokes I loved. One of the biggest laughs I got was when Tom Bergeron asked me which television show boldly goes where no man has gone before. I said: Ellen. I also mentioned that Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were going around New York camouflaged as Maury Povich and Connie Chung. At the time, it was a big laugh.
**Johnny: Going forward into the 00s, you did a season of the VH1 Celebreality series Celebrity Fit Club. I’ve asked this question of several reality TV veterans, including [Rocky DeMarco](https://popgeeks.com/pop-geeks-flashback-interview-rocky-demarco/) and [Jeana Keough](https://popgeeks.com/the-flashback-interview-jeana-keough/), and I’d like to ask it of you as well: How much reality would you say is in reality television?**
Bruce: The first rule of reality TV is nothing is real. They have an arc worked out for each person, and they guide you into giving them what they want by having a little meeting with you each week and telling you things to make you mad or upset at a specific person. Since we were all professionals on that show — it was not The Biggest Loser — we figured out how to give it to them without making fools of ourselves. They want you to lose it. It’s good TV. If you don’t play along, they edit you out or they make you look like a crazy person. Paddy Chayefsky lives!
**Johnny: Platinum, the 1979 Broadway musical you co-wrote the book for, was revived in 2010** **by UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. Were you involved in the revival, and if not, would you have been interested in doing so?**
Bruce: I was marginally involved. Ben West had written a new version of the show, not all that different, and we gave him the right to do that. My principal worry after Platinum flopped was that I would have to sit under the poster on Joe Allen’s wall for the rest of my life. I told Joe and he asked how long we ran. I told him, 33 performances. He said, “Are you kidding? You were a smash. You have to close opening night to get on this wall, or better, in New Haven!”
**Johnny: You’re well-known for wearing humorous T-shirts of various kinds. What’s the origin behind that style, and what shirt would you say is your favorite?**
Bruce: I was a portly child with a perfectionist mother who always made me dress a certain way, and I have been in rebellion my entire life. T-shirts were the perfect out, especially when I moved to LA and discovered you can go almost anywhere wearing one. My favorite is, undoubtedly, in a very serious font: Excuse me, you’re standing on my penis.
**Johnny: Although we’re slowly making our way back to normalcy, COVID-19 has made an indelible impact on all of us. How has coronavirus impacted your life and work, and how do you hope people will have changed once the saga draws to a close?**
Bruce: It’s been a year without pants. I’m a writer, so I got to sit at the keyboard and pound it out. Wait, that came out wrong. I got to write and Zoom, and if I didn’t forget myself and stand up and do a Jeffrey Toobin, I was alright. Live performing disappeared, so I did a lot of podcasts to exercise that muscle. I also wrote a musical about a guy in quarantine, but I can’t talk about it yet.
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As for how people have changed once the saga draws to a close…I’m hoping for a comeback for French kissing. Listen, so much happened between BLM and #metoo and the fall of Orange Julius Caesar. Let’s just hope we have a recognizable planet to inhabit as kinder, gentler people. except for Jake Paul and Lea DeLaria, who should have a YouTube fight that he will never win.
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**Tags:** #flashback, Academy Award, Bette Midler, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, comedy, Emmy Award, New York City
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### [Podcast: Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - #220 Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/17/audio-bruce-vilanch-talks-the-golden-age-of-tv-variety-shows-and-specials-the-star-wars-holiday-special-and-the-paul-lynde-halloween-special-and-more/)
**Published:** August 17, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Player FM
Audio: Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast – #220 Bruce Vilanch
By Earwolf and Gilbert Gottfried.
August 13, 2018**
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Gilbert and Frank welcome an old friend, legendary comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who looks back at the “golden age” of TV variety shows and specials, including “Donny & Marie,” “The Brady Bunch Hour,” “The Star Wars Holiday Special” and “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.” (all co-written by Bruce himself). Also, Margaret Hamilton makes her move, Robert Reed channels Carmen Miranda, Jack Benny does “The Match Bit” and Gilbert takes over “Hollywood Squares.” PLUS: Jack Palance! Bob Hope’s filing cabinet! “Wayne Newton at SeaWorld”! Bruce hangs with Tallulah Bankhead! And the Oscar joke that never made the air!
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**Tags:** Bob Hope, Brady Bunch, Brady Bunch Hour, Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Hollywood Squares, Jack Palance, Oscar, Paul Lynde, Star Wars, The Brady Bunch, The Star Wars Holiday Special
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### [Podcast - Making It! with Terry Wollman: Bruce Vilanch Is The Guest](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/07/29/podcast-making-it-with-terry-wollman-bruce-vilanch-is-the-guest/)
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**Bruce Vilanch**
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- Bruce Vilanch – Making it as Jokesmith of the Entertainment World
- Bruce Gerald Vilanch is an American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor. He is a six-time Emmy Award winner.
- Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint as a celebrity participant on Hollywood Squares while working behind the scenes as a head writer for the show. In 2000, he performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.
- Since 2000, Vilanch has been the head writer for the Oscars, after being an Oscar program co-writer for the previous ten years. He is also a featured writer for the Tonys, Grammys, and Emmys.
- Vilanch was the subject of the documentary Get Bruce! The film included interviews with Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg. Vilanch’s mother, whom he credits with developing his sense of humor, also appeared in the documentary.
- Please welcome my guest today… Bruce Vilanch.
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Making It, Ted Wollman
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Lily Tomlin, Betty Buckley Judith Light, And More Celebrate Virtual Pride Sunday, May 30, 2021](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/05/29/bruce-vilanch-lily-tomlin-betty-buckley-judith-light-and-more-celebrate-virtual-pride-sunday-may-30-2021/)
**Published:** May 29, 2021
**Author:** MisterD
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### **Broadway World
THE LAVENDER EFFECT(R) Presents Live Virtual Pride Parade, May 30
BWW Desk
May 29, 2021**
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Come celebrate this year’s PRIDE live with THE LAVENDER EFFECT Star-studded Live Virtual Pride Parade which will be broadcast on Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 12 noon PST/3p EST via [YouTube.com/c/TheLavenderEffect](http://youtube.com/c/TheLavenderEffect).
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This year’s Virtual PRIDE Parade’s Host will be Alec Mapa. Mapa’s TV and film credits include Ugly Betty, Switched at Birth, Doom Patrol, You Don’t Mess with The Zohan and Connie and Carla. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband Jamison and Son Zion.
The Virtual Pride Parade will launch Pride Month and benefit THE LAVENDER EFFECT’s mission to Advance the Future of LGBTQ+ Heritage & Culture. While many local Pride celebrations again are being canceled or modified this year due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, many members of the community will not be able to gather in person, so this live virtual event will safely bring the LGBTQ+ community together from across the nation to celebrate Pride.
This year marks the 51st Anniversary of the first PRIDE marches across the nation in June 1970, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, and protesting for LGBTQ+ equality.
THE LAVENDER EFFECT has another stellar roster of some of the most well-known LGBTQ+ celebrities and allies, non-profits, and activists from around the globe, to help to bring the community together including:
- **Lily Tomlin (Tony, Emmy and Grammy Winner; Grace & Frankie; 9 to 5)**
- **Betty Buckley (Tony Award winner for Cats, Eight is Enough)**
- **Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision; Bad Moms)**
- **Sally Kirkland (Golden Globe Winner for Anna)**
- **Alexandra Billings (Transparent)**
- **Bruce Vilanch (Emmy Winner; comedian writer/actor)**
- **Michael Musto (journalist)**
- **Jason Stuart (Smothered; comedian)**
- **Drew Droege (Heathers)**
- **Kay Sedia (AJ and the Queen; Chico’s Angels)**
- **Mel England (Best Day Ever)**
- **Charles Busch (Drama Desk Award-winning Playwright & Actor)**
- **City of West Hollywood**
- **Colors Youth Counseling**
- **Congregation Kol Ami**
- **Freedom to Marry**
- **Gay Elder Circle**
- **IMRU Radio**
- **LA LGBT Center**
- **PFLAG LA**
- **PFLAG National**
- **Project Angel Food**
- **Project 10 & Friends of Project 10**
Last year, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, THE LAVENDER EFFECT hosted the first “Virtual Pride Parade” to celebrate Pride and bring the LGBTQ+ community together. The live fundraising event featured celebrities, national LGBTQ+ organizations and politicians and over 10,000 viewed from around the country.
“As the LGBTQ+ community comes together for PRIDE again this year, we continue to find ourselves in a new normal. Once again, PRIDE will be celebrated safely throughout the country this year. We wanted to continue our outreach to everyone with our 2nd Virtual PRIDE Parade online this year.” said Andy Sacher, Founder & Executive Director of THE LAVENDER EFFECT. He continued “We celebrate our LGBTQ+ PRIDE with our diverse sisters & brothers in a way that everyone can join, no matter where they are or how they express their PRIDE!”
THE LAVENDER EFFECT is a nonprofit project of Community Partners that is advancing the future of LGBTQ Heritage & Culture. The organization helps to reduce shame, combat homophobia, and empower LGBTQ+ youth through programs like the Virtual Pride Parade, Oral History Projects, and educational programs. For more information, please visit [http://www.TheLavenderEffect.org](http://www.thelavendereffect.org/).
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### [Podcast: Vilanch Talks W Michael Stein On Being Adopted, Growing Up Gay, Living With Bette Midler, And More](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/04/27/podcast-vilanch-talks-w-michael-stein-on-being-adopted-growing-up-gay-living-with-bette-midler-and-more/)
**Published:** April 27, 2021
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### **Bruce Vilanch on being adopted, growing up gay, and unique living with Bette Midler, directing the Academy Awards, the Emmys, and joke writing** (April 26, 2021)
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**Tags:** Academy Awards, Bette Midler, Michael Stein
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### [Bruce Vilanch Spills The Tea On Oscar Dirt](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/04/15/bruce-vilanch-spills-the-tea-on-oscar-dirt/)
**Published:** April 15, 2021
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#### LA Magazine
Oscars Dirt: Veteran Writer Bruce Vilanch Tells All (and More)
By Andrew Goldman
April 13, 2021
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**Bruce Vilanch with Patrick Swayze and Producer Allan Carr**
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[The 1989 Oscars](https://www.lamag.com/longform/snow-job/), infamous for their 11-minute opening production number that saw Snow White dueting with Rob Lowe on “Proud Mary,” ended the career of the show’s producer, Allan Carr. That year’s ceremony, however, proved a more auspicious beginning for first-time telecast-writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-talks-oscars-with-forbes/)[,](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-talks-oscars-with-forbes/) who would go on to work on 24 more shows. “They gave me a T-shirt that said, ‘I wrote everything but Snow White,’” Vilanch, 72, says. The humorist started as a writer for the *Chicago Tribune* before Hollywood came calling. Over the years, he’s written not just for the Oscars but also the Tonys, Grammys, and Emmys, making him a kind of awards-show éminence grise, if someone as blond as Vilanch can technically be considered such a thing.
Here, he talks to Andrew Goldman about past Oscar ceremonies and offers a few COVID-era what-not-to-dos for the first-time producers of April 25’s Oscars.
*[Listen to the full conversation](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bruce-vilanch-billy-crystals-near-miss-gerbiling-incident/id1439490906?i=1000477435107) with Vilanch on* Los Angeles*‘ podcast* The Originals.
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**A big part of the job of an Oscar writer is writing the bits that the stars say while presenting. Would you get a lot of pushback from stars?**
You get notes, and everybody gets into the act. I mean, I literally got a call once from a guy who was Goldie Hawn’s yoga trainer, who said, “She left a script at the studio, and I took a look at it. You know, she’s not going to say this.” This actually happened.
**Who was particularly hard to write for?**
[**Keanu Reeves** ](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/581071/keanu-reeves-facts)was hard to write for because there’s no stage personality there. Johnny Depp was the same thing. I mean, when actors inhabit characters, it’s on the page and that’s their job. But they’re not like Shirley MacLaine or Billy Crystal or [**Bette Midler**](https://bootlegbetty.com/), who strut out on stage every night and have the stage persona. I had a bitter failure with Keanu, who’s a really terrific guy. We thought we’d give him a *Bill and Ted* kind of thing to do. It was ridiculous. He tried to sell it. It just didn’t work. Forty years later and I’m still apologizing to him.
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**Billy Crystal and [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/the-av-club-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)**
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**Oscar telecast history is filled with jokes that don’t land. In your role as a writer, were you ever able to prevent a disaster?**
Well, one obvious one comes to mind. We had a joke \[for host Billy Crystal\] about the rumor about Richard Gere and a gerbil.
**Oh my God. I can’t believe you considered doing a gerbiling joke at the Oscars.**
Well, there was a movie that year called *An American Tail* about Fievel the mouse. And the joke was “Richard Gere was going to present this award with Fievel, but Fievel backed out.’ Richard was on the show presenting something very serious like a documentary, so he’s sitting out there, and we’re backstage looking at the monitors. And when you’re sitting at the Oscars and you see a guy coming up the aisle with a camera, you know something’s going to happen involving you that you don’t know about. So Richard sees the camera and he’s terrified. And so Billy just looks at him and says, “We can’t. He’ll have a heart attack. Look at him, he’s pale already.” So we cut the joke. I wish I could say that I said to cut it, but Billy said it.
**The Oscars have been experimenting with having no host at all because it seems that despite how high-profile a gig it is, it’s hard to find someone willing to host.**
It’s impossible.
**Why?**
Because if you’re big enough to host the Academy Awards, you can only get in your own way. Things that you would do on some other show and not get noticed . . . everybody notices it when you do on the Academy Awards. David Letterman did not need to host the show, and he was living with it for years afterward.
**Is there somebody elusive that producers are always going after to host who’s never said yes?**
Tom Hanks. I think he once said they’ll never nominate me again if I host the thing. I don’t think that’s true, but I just don’t think he wants to do it. One year Billy was very sick—had like severe migraines—and we were worried about whether he would make it. Tom was the standby. He would have come and done it, but Billy rallied and was great.
**Do you remember people politicking to host?**
Jay Leno wanted it very badly, but I think ABC was not interested in promoting him. Which is weird because Johnny Carson did it \[five times between 1979 and 1984\].
**If someone hosts only once, is it fair to assume that person wasn’t deemed successful at it?**
Maybe. Or it might be that they didn’t like it. These people are so rich and famous already that they don’t need go through all the agita. They don’t need the money. And if you’re going to do it the way a performer does it, you’re going to spend a lot of time on it—time that you could spend making a Marvel comics movie.
**You worked on the infamous Anne Hathaway-James Franco show. What went wrong?**
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**James Franco and Bruce Vilanch**
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The idea was that they were young and that was all that mattered. But they had no real chemistry. When they got together to do the promos for the show, they were edited to look as if they had chemistry, but they had no chemistry.
**When you say no chemistry, do you mean that they didn’t particularly care for one another?**
I would hate to say that about either of them because I know them both and they’re nice people. But Anne’s a precision instrument. She’s very disciplined and knew what she was going to do each time. And James is freewheeling, so he was not really in his comfort zone. Plus, James had brought in a bunch of Judd Apatow writers who had never been involved with the show before, throwing him stuff.
**Even with the best hosts, there’s a point at which the broadcast feels like it will never end. Is there any way to fix that?**
Yeah, you have to eliminate categories. But the Academy’s not going to do that. Every year, I say, “When the ratings get low enough, they’ll start eliminating.” There are 24 categories, and only four of them have actors. Part of the reason that people get tired is because they’ve seen awards shows like the Golden Globes where everybody is recognizable. And the Oscar show is full of nerds. Some of them are saying some wonderful, significant things, but people aren’t listening because they don’t give a shit about them.
**So what can this year’s Oscar producers—Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher, and Jesse Collins—learn from other COVID-19 era awards shows?**
Well, the Emmys did it great. The Golden Globes tried to duplicate some of that, but they had some of their own ideas that didn’t work. Their comedy sketches swung wide, with Kristen Wiig and then Maya Rudolph and Keenan Thompson doing that thing. They were both funny premises, but they just didn’t land, especially when they had an audience of 50 first responders. It was a nice idea, but nobody wants to see an audience without celebrities in it. Plus, the show was laden with so much—they were carrying the guilt of the white race the whole show. Don’t do the show that you would normally do; do something completely different. Steven Soderbergh producing is a brilliant idea because he’s a filmmaker, and he’ll do something different with it. Because he knows that he can’t do the same old, same old. Because we’re in an extraordinary year.
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### [Video: Jan Wahl Talks Netflix, Menk, SF Bay Times, Books, Bruce Vilanch, Amanda Seyfried, David Perry, George Hurrell](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/03/05/video-jan-wahl-talks-netflix-menk-sf-bay-times-books-bruce-vilanch-amanda-seyfried-david-perry-george-hurrell/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Actors, Movies, The Easy Lays, And More...](https://wegotbruce.com/2021/03/04/bruce-vilanch-talks-actors-movies-the-easy-lays-and-more/)
**Published:** March 4, 2021
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#### **San Fran Bay Times
Bruce Is the Best!
By Jan Wahl
March 4, 2021**
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**Bruce Vilanch**
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He’s often called “a gay icon.” The internet lauds him as a six-time Emmy winner. His appearances on ***Hollywood Squares*** and writing for the Academy Award shows are the stuff of comedy legend. To get the details of the work of Bruce Vilanch, find ***Get Bruce***, a 1999 documentary with everyone from Lily Tomlin to Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg, and so many more explaining working with this man who supplies them with comedy, magic, and wit.
After another night with a fundraiser for one of my favorite organizations, the Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation, Bruce and I chatted about showbiz from his unique point of view. We began with a couple of famous actors, both in the closet and both miserable for it. He also told me the kind of movies he enjoys now: “I go for special effects, superhero movies because the guys sleep with me afterward. Go with a Marvel guy and you get laid. There is a whole new generation that worships Britney Spears and Taylor Swift. Who gives a rat’s ass? Britney is a big ol’ Ann Margaret knockoff. Madonna is, all the same, the Judith Anderson of rock and roll.” (See Anderson in ***Rebecca***.)
Of course, we had to get into some recent controversy surrounding one of my favorite movies recently, ***The Prom***. He said, “I saw *The Prom* on Broadway; it was much sharper. The movie was pitched to a different audience. The edges were shaved a bit.” When I asked about the idea that James Corden, who is straight, should not play a gay character, Bruce replied, “That is anti-art. Liz Taylor should only play someone married seven times? Zachary Quinto is a great Spock. Who knew Spock was gay? You play characters you are not.”
Over the years, Bruce has worked or known everyone (OK, maybe not William Haines or Gable, but close!) “I knew Rock Hudson,” Bruce said. “He was such an unhappy person; he made others unhappy. He was so conflicted, could never be authentic. Paul Lynde was absolutely hateful to people; his career didn’t happen the way it had to his colleagues. Also, he drank. Two drinks and he turned into the Nazi High Command.”
When I worked with Lynde, I had the exact experience. I also agree with Bruce that sometimes meeting stars today is not terrific. “The stars I meet now are submissive or exhausted,” he said. “But it always depends when you meet them. I met Katharine Hepburn and instead of ***Pat and Mike*** I got Coco Chanel. \[Hepburn played Chanel in the Broadway musical ***Coco***.\] Bette Davis was more bitterness than Margo Channing. But Elizabeth Taylor was amazingly funny and all the things I wanted her to be.”
Bruce wrote for Olivia de Havilland. I like to think Olivia and Errol Flynn got between the sheets, or “in the feathers,” as Ava Gardner called it. He didn’t get to that with her, but did ask Alexis Smith (costar in my favorite Flynn flick ***Gentleman Jim***) a similar question. “She didn’t let on, of course. She was a lesbian.”
That led to a few quips on the subject of marriages between gays in Hollywood. At a time when being out of the closet was nearly impossible, Bruce referred to these as “a lavender marriage, twilight tandem, a Boston marriage.” Janet Gaynor and Adrian, Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe, Hudson and Phyllis Gates. There are many examples.
“I had two pugs named Tallulah and Hattie,” Bruce said. “But I think McDaniel’s and Bankhead’s relationship was mythical. I don’t think they were part of the same lesbian underground. It seemed unlikely, but who knows?” Bruce and I both loved the Netflix series ***Hollywood*** (“fantasy and reality”) that has sequences with the two women together. For more information on this and other LBGTQ in Hollywood stories, one of my favorite books ever is *Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910–1969* by the gifted William Mann.
I am waiting for more to come from Bruce. He is working now, of course, but we always want more from this warm and wonderful man!
*Jan Wahl is a Hollywood historian, film critic on various broadcast outlets, and has her own YouTube channel series,[ “Jan Wahl Showbiz.” ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjmYUk504j9EFbJohKnAVTQ)She has two Emmys and many awards for her longtime work on behalf of film buffs and the LGBTQ community. Contact her at* [www.janwahl.com](https://www.janwahl.com/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Sighted At Andy Cohen's After Party At The Beatles REVOLUTION Lounge](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/08/bruce-vilanch-sighted-at-andy-cohens-after-party-at-the-beatles-revolution-lounge/)
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**Examiner
Summer Party Report and Celebrity Sightings
August 7, 2011**
Continue reading on Examiner.com Summer Party Report and Celebrity Sightings Part I (Photos) – [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") events | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/events-in-new-york/summer-party-report-and-celebrity-sightings#ixzz1UPpsXBYt
Also on Sunday night, funny man [Andy Cohen](http://www.bravotv.com/blog/andysblog "Andy Cohen (television personality)"), hosted the official Watch What Happens Live! after-party at The Beatles REVOLUTION Lounge at The Mirage Resort & Casino during their popular LGBT weekly event, Closet Sundays, coming straight from judging this year’s [Miss USA Pageant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_USA "Miss USA") and filming an episode of the Bravo show. Cohen, along with Brovo’s Million Dollar Listings stars [Madison Hildebrand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Hildebrand "Madison Hildebrand") and [Josh Flagg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Flagg "Josh Flagg") entertained partygoers all night long, giving shout-outs on the mic and dancing to the sounds of the DJ who kept energy levels high, mixing up sounds behind the turntable. Other guests on-hand for the fete, including [Real Housewives of New Jersey](http://www.myspace.com/everything/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey "The Real Housewives of New Jersey")‘s Caroline Manzo, and [Emmy Award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") writer, [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who was in town judging [Celine Dion](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/celine_dion "Celine Dion")‘s performance at her sold-out show in [Las Vegas](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.175,-115.136388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.175,-115.136388889 (Las%20Vegas%2C%20Nevada)&t=h "Las Vegas, Nevada") gig, spent the evening mingling with friends while sipping on speciality cocktails and playing with REVOLUTION’s interactive table tops.
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### [Stars Like Bruce Vilanch, Lily Tomlin, & Judith Light Kick-Off LGBTQ Pride Month Sunday, May 31, 2020, Virtually](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/05/31/stars-like-bruce-vilanch-lily-tomlin-judith-light-kick-off-lgbtq-pride-month-sunday-may-31-2020-virtually/)
**Published:** May 31, 2020
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### **Los Angeles Times
The Lavender Effect Live Virtual Pride Parade
By MATT COOPER
MAY 30, 2020**
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The Lavender Effect Live Virtual Pride Parade
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The stars come out to kick off LGBTQ Pride Month a day early with this virtual celebration hosted by “Transparent” actress and activist [Alexandra Billings](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-sunday-conversation-alexandra-billings-20170929-htmlstory.html). With appearances by [Lily Tomlin](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2019-11-22/lily-tomlin-jane-fonda-arrested-climate-change-paley-honors), [Judith Light](https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-judith-light-20171014-htmlstory.html), [Sean Hayes](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-sean-hayes-engaged-scott-icenogle-20141028-story.html), Audra McDonald, [Betty Buckley](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/theater/reviews/la-ca-cm-betty-buckley-20190123-story.html), [Sandra Bernhard](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-aug-09-la-et-sandra-bernhard-20110809-story.html), [Kathryn Hahn](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-kathryn-hahn-private-life-20181016-story.html) and [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-23-ca-11642-story.html), plus performances from the Fruitcake Follies and the Windy City Gay Men’s Chorus. Noon to 2 p.m. Sunday. Free. *[facebook.com/TheLavenderEffect/](https://www.facebook.com/TheLavenderEffect/)*
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**Tags:** Lavender Effect, Virtual Pride
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### [Bruce Vilanch And Other Writers Have Been Hired To Create New Work At Florida Studio Theater In Sarasota](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/05/19/bruce-vilanch-and-other-writers-have-been-hired-to-create-new-work-at-florida-studio-theater-in-sarasota/)
**Published:** May 19, 2020
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### Herald-Tribune
FST commissions writers to create new works
By Jay Handelman, Arts Editor
Posted May 17, 2020
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[**Florida Studio Theatre** ](http://www.floridastudiotheatre.org)may not be able to produce or present any new shows for a while, but it is preparing for the future by commissioning 32 national playwrights, directors, musical theater creators and sketch comedy writers to develop new work.
The theater is using some of the money it received from the Paycheck Protection Program authorized under the federal CARES Act to hire the writers and other artists as full-time staff members for a two-month period. Their work will be considered for future productions in the theater’s mainstage, cabaret, sketch comedy and children’s theater programs.
Many of the writers, including Mark St. Germain and Larry Parr, have long or recent histories with the theater.
Parr got his start as a playwright at FST with “Hi-Hat Hattie,” and went on to create “My Castle’s Rockin’,” “Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow” and such plays as “Invasion of Privacy” and “Sundew.” St. Germain is the most produced playwright in the theater’s history with such works as “Freud’s Last Session,” “Relativity,” “Dancing Lessons,” “Best of Enemies,” “The Fabulous Lipitones” and “Becoming Dr. Ruth.”
St. Germain was already commissioned to create a one-woman play about Eleanor Roosevelt for the theater’s Suffragist Project, which is due to conclude in August. For the Playwrights Project, he will work with Associate Artist Jason Cannon on a historical drama about the real-life meeting of Frederick Douglass and John Brown before Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry before the Civil War.
Carole J. Bufford, a cabaret performer who has spent the last few summers singing in FST’s summer cabaret series, is among the creative talents hired, along with Sandy Rustin, whose play “The Cottage” was presented last summer.
Rustin, an actress and playwright, said the theater is “serving as a light during this uncertain time.”
Kenneth Jones, whose play “Alabama Story” had a run at FST in 2016, said the writing job came at a time when three productions of his play had been canceled this spring because of the coronavirus, resulting in a loss of income.
“It felt like a miracle when FST offered me the chance to work on a new script,” he said.
Kate Alexander, Associate Director at Large, will work as a literary advisor/dramaturg with Jones on a play about a family business at a crossroads in the Deep South.
Alexander also is working with Thomas Gibbons, the author of “Permanent Collection” and “Bee-luther-hatchee,” on a play about dilemmas that come with the rise of digital manipulation.
Bufford said, “Knowing that FST has brought together so many artists to create new works is equal parts thrilling and comforting. Art will always prevail. We need it to challenge our minds, to escape our reality, to delight and take joy in, to celebrate the past and to forge a new path into the future.”
Sean Daniels, artistic director of the Arizona Theatre Company, will work with the FST artistic staff to develop “Tampa,” about two brothers who take different paths in life.
Richard Hopkins, FST’s producing artistic director, said the idea for the Playwrights Project came to him just three days after the theater shut down performances in mid-March.
He said he had a revelation about Shakespeare, who instead of addressing the plagues of his time “wrote, without judgment, about the wonder of humankind, which made me think that now is the time for FST to inspire the creation of plays” and to ask playwrights to write “like Shakepeare and reveal humanity’s complexities without judgment.”
Other past FST artists in the project include playwright Sarah Bierstock, whose “Honor Killing” had its world premiere at FST; Stephan deGhelder, an actor, director and writer who has contributed material to the theater’s recurring cabaret series “Laughing Matters”; Michael McKeever, a Miami playwright and co-founder of the Zoetic Stage whose “The Miamians” and “South Beach Babylon” have been produced at FST; Sam Mossler, an actor most recently seen starring in “Kunstler” and a playwright, whose association with the theater began as a child; Jason Odell Williams, whose play “Handle with Care” was presented earlier this year; Nick Santa Maria, who has worked as an actor and writer at FST in years past; The Swingaroos, a musical ensemble led by Kimberly Hawkey and pianist Assaf Gleizner that puts a modern spin on music of the 1930s and 40s; Ben Mackel, a singer, musician who is part of musical trio The Blue Eyed Bettys; and Gabriel Barre, a Broadway and regional theater director who staged FST’s production of “The World Goes ’Round” at FST.
Among the other artists are nationally known actor, comedian and comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-reminisces-about-tim-curry-crashing-a-rocky-horror-midnight-screening/); Brandon Wardell, an actor, singer and producer who is part of the musical group Under the Streetlamp; Rachel Lynett, a queer Afro-Latinx playwright; Mark Kendall, a comedy writer and star of the one-person show “The Magic Negro and Other Blackness”; Jeffrey Couchman, co-author of the play “Three Wise Guys” based on Christmas stories by Damon Runyon; and Deborah Brevoort, an author of plays, musicals and opera librettos best known for “The Women of Lockerbie.”
Lynett is working on a loose adaptation of “As You Like It,” while Williams is working on “America in One Room,” described as a wide-ranging discussion about the state of the nation involving audience participation.
In addition to their creative work, the participants will be leading online workshops and tutorials for the theater’s online educational offerings.
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### [Musical Homage To Broadway, 'Still Waiting in the Wings' will be released worldwide on May 15, 2020, on DVD and all digital platforms](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/05/06/musical-homage-to-broadway-still-waiting-in-the-wings-will-be-released-worldwide-on-may-15-2020-on-dvd-and-all-digital-platforms/)
**Published:** May 6, 2020
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### Times Square Chronicles
Still Waiting in the Wings
By Suzanna Bowling
May 3, 2020
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Bruce Vilanch in Still Waiting In The Wings
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The new film *[Still Waiting in the Wings](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4441348/)* is an all-star musical homage to Broadway. The film will be released worldwide on May 15, 2020, on DVD and all digital platforms. Directed by Q. Allan Brocka and written by Jeffrey A. Johns and Arie Gonzalez. The cast includes Jeffrey A. Johns, Joe Abraham, Rena Strober, Adam Huss, Blake Peyrot, Harrison White, and Rebekah Kochan, with special appearances by Nick Adams, Ed Asner, Carole Cook, Lee Meriwether, Patricia Richardson, Chita Rivera, Seth Rudetsky, Sally Struthers, [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-reminisces-about-tim-curry-crashing-a-rocky-horror-midnight-screening/), and Cindy Williams.
The stars sing and dance while living the reality of slinging hash under the florescent lights at Times Square’s famed “Café Broadway.” The movie features original songs by Danny Abosch, Andrew Byrne, Ken Clifton, Arie Gonzalez, Paul Louis, Matthew Lee Robinson, Nick Santa Maria, Ruth Wallis, and Michael Whitney, with choreography by Cassie Nordgren, Arianna Hyatt, and Lee Martino.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Reminisces About Tim Curry Crashing A 'Rocky Horror' Midnight Screening](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/05/06/bruce-vilanch-reminisces-about-tim-curry-crashing-a-rocky-horror-midnight-screening/)
**Published:** May 6, 2020
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### **ShowBiz Cheat Sheet
‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Frank-N-Furter Actor Tim Curry Once Crashed a Midnight Screening
By Fred Topel
April 21, 2020**
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*The Rocky Horror Picture Show* has been playing [midnight screenings](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/movies/10-insane-cult-movies-from-the-1970s.html/) for decades. It’s become such a phenomenon that people dress as the characters from [the film](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/rocky-horror-tv-special-will-fail-cult-film-fanatics.html/), sing along and even participate in the screenings. Tim Curry played the film’s mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter and he had to see for himself.
L R Patricia OQuinn Tim Curry Richard OBrien | Movie Poster Image ArtGetty ImagesThe new documentary *[Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-big-lebowski-dream-sequence-was-more-graphic-from-the-dudes-angle-jeff-bridges-recalls.html/)* begins with *The Rocky Horror Picture Show,* as it is the longest running cult film of all. Writer [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-andrea-martin-and-marc-shaiman-perform-a-scene-from-hairspray-on-billy-masters-live/) tells the story of attending a midnight screening with Curry himself. *Time Warp: Vol. 1 – Midnight Movies is now available On Demand and On Digital with more stories about Rocky Horror, The Big Lebowski, Reefer Madness, Assault on Precinct 13,* and more.
## Tim Curry blended in at a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ screening
Vilanch travels in a lot of Hollywood circles. He wrote the [Oscars show](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-long-is-the-oscars-awards-show.html/) for many years. Vilanch recalls Curry’s curiosity when *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* became a midnight phenomenon. The problem was, when he showed up, he was in a crowd of lookalikes.
L R Tim Curry Barry Bostwick Susan Sarandon | Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images“We went to see it at the height of all that,” Vilanch began in the documentary. “He said, ‘Let’s go down to the Waverly.’ There was a whole line. He said, ‘Let’s just go to the box office.’ Went to the box office and he said, ‘Good evening, I’m Tim Curry.’ She turned and she said, ‘Morris, there’s another Tim Curry.’ He said, ‘No, he’s not. Ignore him.’”
## Tim Curry had to prove who he was
With people clad in Frank-N-Furter leather all waiting in line, Curry produced a photo ID to prove he was who he said he was.
Tim Curry singing | Michael Ochs ArchivesGetty Images“So Tim gave her his passport,” Vilanch said. “She goes, ‘Morris, this one’s got a passport.’ So Morris finally came out from behind the cage, looked and said, “Oh sh\*t you’re Tim Curry.’ Meanwhile, there are like three Frank n Furters in line behind going, ‘It’s Tim Curry!’ It was pre-selfies so nobody could do anything but we went in. They let us in for free to watch the thing and he said, ‘Well, so much for my charisma.’”
## ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ co-star Nell Campbell recalls the transformation into Frank-N-Furter
Dr. Frank-N-Furter is a mad scientist who creates Rocky (Peter Hinwood), the ultimate man. Meanwhile he sings about being a sweet transvestite and being who you dream of being while his guests, Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet ([Susan Sarandon](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/you-probably-never-realized-these-celebrities-are-business-owners.html/)) discover their sexuality. Nell Campbell played Columbia, one of Frank-N-Furter’s groupies. She recalled the moment the character clicked for Curry.
Tim Curry | Stanley Bielecki Movie CollectionGetty Images“The most wonderful thing was to see him create that character,” Campbell said in the documentary. “Tim Curry didn’t get it ‘til the first rehearsal when he put on the high heels. The minute he put on the shoes, he \[lit up\]. It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Tim Curry in that role. Tim appealed sexually to men and women. That was a very key detail.”
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**Tags:** Rocky Horror Show, Tim Curry
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### [Video: Steamy new doc chronicles the West Coast answer to Studio 54 - With Bruce Vilanch, Charlo Crossley-Fortier, Etc....](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/04/26/video-steamy-new-doc-chronicles-the-west-coast-answer-to-studio-54/)
**Published:** April 26, 2020
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### **Queerty
Video: Steamy new doc chronicles the West Coast answer to Studio 54
By David Reddish
April 24, 2020**
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Studio One Forever
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[Studio 54](https://www.queerty.com/check-iconic-images-golden-days-studio-54-20200411) may have more notoriety as the world’s most infamous disco, but it was not alone. The trailer for *[**Studio One Forever**](https://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/fiscalsponsorship/projects/studioone)* wants you to know about another.
The new documentary from director Marc Saltarelli examines the wild history of Studio One and The Backlot, sister venues located in West Hollywood that attracted the gay and showbiz sects beginning in the 1970s. Much like Studio 54 in New York City, the club developed a notorious reputation for hedonism, celebrity run-ins, and wild parties.
“For a generation of gay men who came of age during the era of Scott Forbes’ Studio One, the significance of the club and the turbulence of the times hold a profound place in their hearts and minds,” director Saltarelli says. “From 1974-1994, the club saw the rise of the gay rights movement, the rise, and fall of disco and the darkest days of the AIDS crisis when the club became ground zero for AIDS activism…Connected to the dance club, The Backlot evolved into the hottest live music venue in town. On any given night, you could catch established stars like [Liza Minnelli](https://www.queerty.com/absolutely-not-ask-liza-minnelli-renee-zellweger-playing-mom-20200204), Chita Rivera or Eartha Kitt alongside up and comers like Roseanne Barr or Rosie O’Donnell on the verge of taking off.”
Studio One and The Backlot, later known as Ultra Suede and The Factory, thrived until the 2010s when the gentrification of West Hollywood led to the shuttering and demolition of the venue. Saltarelli aims to memorialize the location, and its historic value. *Studio One Forever* includes archival footage from the different incarnations of the club, along with anecdotes told by patrons including [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/paul-lyndes-absurdly-gay-1976-halloween-special-video-too/), former West Hollywood [Mayor John Duran](https://www.queerty.com/mayor-denies-sexually-harassing-man-hes-skinny-korean-kid-pimples-cheek-20190219), film historian David Del Valle, Melissa Rivers, and more.
*Studio One Forever* has an anticipated release date of October 2020. At the moment, Saltarelli is soliciting donations from potential viewers to help [fund post-production on the film. ](https://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/fiscalsponsorship/projects/studioone)
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Documentary
**Tags:** AIDS activism, Charlo Crossley-Fortier, Studio 54, Studio One, Studio One Forever, The Backlot
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### [VIDEO: Bruce Vilanch, Andrea Martin and Marc Shaiman Perform a Scene From HAIRSPRAY on Billy Masters LIVE](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/04/25/video-bruce-vilanch-andrea-martin-and-marc-shaiman-perform-a-scene-from-hairspray-on-billy-masters-live/)
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### **Broadway World
VIDEO: Bruce Vilanch, Andrea Martin and Marc Shaiman Perform a Scene From HAIRSPRAY on Billy Masters LIVE
by Stage Tube
Apr. 8, 2020**
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[Billy Masters](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Masters/) had three special guests on his April 7th episode of [Billy Masters](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Masters/) Live!
[Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/), [Andrea Martin](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Andrea-Martin/) and [Marc Shaiman](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marc-Shaiman/) appeared on the show and talked about Hairspray, and more.
They even performed a reading of a scene from the musical, featuring [**Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/) and Martin reprising their roles of Edna and Prudy, respectively. Shaiman joins in as Tracy!
Watch the full episode below. The Hairspray scene begins at around 43:00.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear In An Upcoming Episode Of Los Angeles Magazine's New Podcast](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/04/24/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-in-an-upcoming-episode-of-los-angeles-magazines-new-podcast/)
**Published:** April 24, 2020
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### Media Host
‘Los Angeles Magazine’ To Launch First Podcast, Focuses On ‘Icons Of The City’
By Sara Guaglione
April 24, 2020
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Los Angeles Magazine The Originals Podcast
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*Los Angeles* Magazine is launching its first podcast next Tuesday, April 28, in a content deal with journalist Andrew Goldman.
Goldman will produce and record six podcast episodes for the series, called “*Los Angeles Magazine* Presents: The Originals.”
The episodes will roll out each month in three places: as a full-length interview on the podcast, as a shorter article in the print publication of *Los Angeles* and its website.
Goldman published several episodes of his one-hour podcast “The Originals” independently in the fall of 2018.
The show focused on celebrities, and other notables, such as screenwriter [**Joe Eszterhas**](), Hollywood publicist Bobby Zarem, author Gay Talese and rock star manager Allen Kovac.
The first three episodes of the new series have already been recorded. They feature Fran Drescher, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/visible-out-on-television-features-ellen-degeneres-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-bruce-vilanch-billy-porter-and-numerous-others/), and Joan Collins, respectively.
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**Tags:** los angeles magazine, podcast, the originals
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### [World Of Wonder Sets ‘The Vivienne Takes Hollywood’ With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Winner](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/04/05/world-of-wonder-sets-the-vivienne-takes-hollywood-with-rupauls-drag-race-uk-winner/)
**Published:** April 5, 2020
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### **[BingePost](https://bingepost.com/)
World Of Wonder Sets ‘The Vivienne Takes Hollywood’ With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Winner**
**By [Team BingePost](https://bingepost.com/author/admin/)
March 24, 2020**
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The Viviene
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*RuPaul’s Drag Race UK* winner The Vivienne is touring throughout the pond to the U.S. to embark on a journey in her new collection ***The Vivienne Takes Hollywood*.**
The collection is ready to debut on April 9 on BBC3 within the UK and can air concurrently within the U.S. solely on WOW Presents Plus.
[The Vivienne ](https://wegotbruce.com/new-book-drag-combing-through-the-big-wigs-of-show-business-with-a-foreward-by-bruce-vilanch/)competed towards 9 different queens to turn out to be the very first winner of *RuPaul’s Drag Race UK* which made its debut on the BBC final 12 months. The collection, which is an iteration of the U.S. actuality drag queen competitors that airs on VH1, debuted stateside in October.
Along with producing the Emmy-winning *RuPaul’s Drag Race*, World of Surprise is the corporate behind tasks comparable to *Stonewall Outloud, Dancing Queen* on Netflix, *Huge Freedia: Queen of Bounce* on Fuse, *Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric* on Nationwide Geographic in addition to documentaries and options together with *Mapplethorpe: Take a look at the Footage*, *Menendez: Blood Brothers*, *Inside Deep Throat, Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Ingesting*, *Changing into Chaz* and the Emmy-winning *The Final Beekeeper.*
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### [Get Your Tickets For Bruce Vilanch Performing In Ft. Lauderdale, FL Saturday, Nov 28, 8:00 PM](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/03/12/get-your-tickets-for-bruce-vilanch-performing-in-ft-lauderdale-fl-saturday-nov-28-800-pm/)
**Published:** March 12, 2020
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### **Bruce Vilanch Live**
**Saturday, November 28, 2020, 8:00 PM
Savor Cinema, Fort Lauderdale, FL**
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### [Visible: Out on Television: Features Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Bruce Vilanch, Billy Porter, and numerous others](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/02/15/visible-out-on-television-features-ellen-degeneres-anderson-cooper-andy-cohen-bruce-vilanch-billy-porter-and-numerous-others/)
**Published:** February 15, 2020
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### **Apple Insider
Apple TV+ review: ‘Visible: Out on Television’ a well-edited tour of LGBTQ TV history
By Stephen Silver
Friday, February 14, 2020**
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With Visible: Out on Television, Apple TV+ jumps for the first time into the sphere of the multipart original TV docuseries. The five-part series looks at the past six decades of representation on television for LGBTQ people. While the series doesn’t break a ton of new ground in terms of the stories it tells, it makes up for that with an expansive amount of well-assembled archival footage, and by putting it all in one place.
The five episodes —all five of which we have seen —were directed by documentarian Ryan White, who serves as one of four executive producers, along with Jessica Hargrave, My So-Called Life actor Wilson Cruz and actress/comedian Wanda Sykes. The episodes feature a virtual who’s-who of LGBTQ celebrities as talking heads, including Cruz, Sykes, Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Sara Ramirez, Caitlyn Jenner, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-others-talk-of-carrie-fishers-infamous-wild-celeb-filled-house-parties/), Billy Porter, and numerous others. They tell their own stories while also, in many cases, sharing their reaction to watershed TV moments that took place prior to when they became famous.
Each episode has a different narrator: Host/activist Janet Mock, comedian Margaret Cho, actor Asia Kate Dillon, actor Neil Patrick Harris and writer/producer Lena Waithe. This choice is sort of curious, as the narrators aren’t introduced at the start of each episode, they are not specifically associated with the topics discussed in their particular installment and all five of them also appear in other episodes. The only way the viewer can tell that person is the narrator, aside from having clicked on their picture at the start of the episode, is if they happen to recognize that person’s voice.
Oprah Winfrey, despite her other Apple project falling apart recently, pops up repeatedly. She’s seen as a talking head, in the famous Ellen episode, and in various footage of famous people coming out to her in archival interviews.
If the goal of the series was to tell the in-depth story of how the depiction of [**LGBTQ**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT) people on television has grown and improved over time, while also providing a nearly complete archive of footage important to the topic, then Visible: Out on Television is very much a success.
While the five-hour running time may seem daunting, the amount of footage collected here justifies the length, and one never gets the sense that the filmmakers are padding things out in order to justify the length. It’s hard to imagine a topic this expansive only taking up, say, two hours. The series is structured sort of like those old VH1 We Love the ’80s shows, all of which took ten hours to tell the story of each decade. It’s also clear that it was important to the filmmakers to be very inclusive of people of color, and also of trans people, in telling these stories.
**About Visible: Out on Television**
The subject of Visible: Out on Television, which was announced late last year, casts a wide net, which brings in not only sitcoms and dramas, but also late night talk shows and even TV news.
Told in rough chronological order from the ’60s to the present day, the five episodes of Visible: Out of Television tell a coherent narrative of the massive changes in how LGBTQ people have been depicted on television over the decades. In 1994, for instance, the nighttime soap Melrose Place was successfully pressured into removing a brief gay kiss from an episode. Two decades later, LGBTQ people were not only at the center of TV series, but were creatively responsible for them behind the camera.
The first episode, “The Dark Ages,” looks back at the early days of LGBTQ representation, in which actors and sometimes even characters were kept in the closet. It’s effective, despite jumping around a bit. Most amusingly, we learn that the homosexuality of longtime Perry Mason actor Raymond Burr was such a well-kept secret that even some of the out celebrities interviewed for the series weren’t aware of it.
The second episode, “Television as a Tool,” moves towards the 1970s, and the highlight is a surprisingly in-depth discussion of the sitcom Three’s Company. The show was built on a foundation of womanizing protagonist Jack Tripper (John Ritter) falsely telling his landlord that he was gay so he’d be allowed to live with two women.
Probably the strongest installment of the series is the third, “The Epidemic,” which deals with the depths of the AIDS crisis in the ’80s and ’90s, both in how the news media covered it and how the entertainment industry responded. This segues into how ’80s TV series like The Golden Girls and Designing Women were entertainment touchstones for gay men during that time, due in part to the way those casts represented chosen family. This part of the series is especially powerful since this era was clearly such a formative one for so many of those interviewed.
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The fourth episode, “Breakthrough,” moves onto the 1990s. It spends about 15 minutes on the story of Ellen DeGeneres coming out both on her show and in real life in 1997, and then goes into how LGBTQ characters began to take center stage on such series as Will & Grace, The L Word, Queer as Folk, Noah’s Arc, and more. It draws a straight line, as then-Vice President Joseph Biden did in a famous Meet the Press interview, from the popularity of Will & Grace to the growing acceptance, and eventual nationwide legalization, of same-sex marriage. The Ellen story has been told many times before, but Visible got DeGeneres to give a new interview providing present-day hindsight on that episode.
The final episode looks at the last 15 years, as trans representation has increased, and LGBTQ characters and creators have become part of more and more shows as streaming content has proliferated, from Glee to Pose to RuPaul’s Drag Race. If anything, the sheer amount of content featured shows how much progress has been made since the days of Perry Mason.
With the exception of the Paul Lynde-style alien on American Dad, there’s no attention paid to LGBTQ animated characters. What happened to The Simpsons’ Waylon Smithers, or South Park’s Big Gay Al, or the Showtime cartoon short series Queer Duck? With its considerable length, Visible didn’t leave much out, but this omission is somewhat glaring.
And while there’s been much hand-wringing about Apple TV+ insisting that its original shows remain family-friendly, Visible includes a couple of clips of brief nudity, especially during a segment in the fourth episode about the sex scenes on the early-2000s Showtime series Queer as Folk, and how controversial they were at the time.
Timed for Valentine’s Day, rather than waiting for Pride month in June, Visible: Out on Television will debut all five episodes on February 14. It’s a must for anyone interested in these issues, as well as those merely intrigued by the last half-century of television history.
Aside from the documentary The Elephant Queen, which was a film festival acquisition, Visible: Out on Television represents Apple TV+’s initial foray into long-form nonfiction programming. It shows that Apple is committed enough to the form to license massive amounts of archival footage, while also securing the participation of big names in order to examine a topic with great depth. Visible indicates great potential for documentary content from Apple TV+.
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### [Queer history becomes ‘Visible’ on new Apple TV docuseries](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/02/15/queer-history-becomes-visible-on-new-apple-tv-docuseries/)
**Published:** February 15, 2020
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### **Washington Blade
Queer history becomes ‘Visible’ on new Apple TV docuseries
By John Paul King
February 12, 2020**
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At a time when television is setting new records in terms of onscreen recognition for LGBTQ identities and issues, it might be easy – especially for the younger among us – to forget that it wasn’t always that way.
There was a time, not long ago, when one might never even know LGBTQ people existed based on what they saw on TV. Such figures as Liberace and Paul Lynde, who are now seen as representing a sort of queer proto-visibility with their flamboyant onscreen personas, passed in their day as straight to the majority of their viewing public, incredible as it may seem to us now; and Stonewall, now widely known as one of the most significant moments in the struggle for LGBTQ equality, was never mentioned in a single network news broadcast when it happened, a mere 50 years ago.
Partly because of the television industry’s suppression of all things queer during most of its history, most of *LGBTQ* history has long been invisible, preserved only in the memories of those who took part, and in greater danger of being lost forever with the passing of each succeeding generation.
Fortunately, embedded within the story of television itself is an entire narrative revealing the queer history that was taking place right before the eyes of millions of viewers, even as it was happening – and thanks to “[**Visible: Out on Television**](),” a new 5-part mini-docuseries debuting this weekend on Apple TV+, it’s a history that is now being told, out, proud and queer.
Created by Emmy-nomiinated filmmakers Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave, the series investigates the importance of television as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience – and illuminates how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television. It combines archival footage, interviews with key players from the movement and the screen, and narrations by community icons Janet Mock, Margaret Cho, Asia Kate Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Waithe, to explore themes such as invisibility, homophobia, the evolution of the LGBTQ character, and coming out in the television industry.
Each hour long episode focuses on an era in the timeline of television history, paralleling the evolution of queer representation in the medium with the cultural history that was occurring around it.
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The first installment, titled “The Dark Ages,” gives us a chilling look at an era that surely exemplifies what the slogan “Make America Great Again” was meant to evoke in the minds of a nostalgic older generation – at least, those among them that had been privileged enough to ignore its inequality and injustices. We are reminded that the first mention of the word “homosexual” came in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, during discussions about the security risks posed by LGBTQ government employees whose “deviant” lifestyle presumptively made them vulnerable to manipulation by Communist agents; that during the 1960s, the news media, including respected CBS anchor Mike Wallace, hosted “experts” of the day who propounded the belief that homosexuality was a curable psychological disorder; and that Lance Loud, the first openly homosexual person to appear on television when he was part of “An American Family,” the docuseries that followed his household for thirteen weeks in 1973, was demonized and vilified by a press that called him “leechlike” and described him as “an evil flower.” In each case, it’s impossible to ignore the echoes of similar homophobic rhetoric that has resurged during the Trump era.
Yet in the same hour, we are also shown the signs of hope that blossomed in the midst of all this darkness, through the gradual foothold that was made by an LGBTQ presence on television, from the non-stereotypical gender presentation of coded characters like Sheila Kuehl’s Zelda on “The Many Adventures of Dobie Gillis” and Lynde’s Uncle Arthur on “Bewitched,” to the groundbreaking depictions of openly queer people on Norman Lear’s “All in the Family.” The episode ends with the glimmer of an even brighter future that appeared with the emergence of openly gay Harvey Milk as a substantial political figure.
That we know all too well how his story ends gives us all the more reason to want to binge watch straight through each of these five excellent episodes.
With insight and commentary from familiar contemporary figures (such as Wanda Sykes and Wilson Cruz, both of whom are also executive producers, along with director White), historic queer icons (like Ellen DeGeneres and [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/paul-lyndes-absurdly-gay-1976-halloween-special-video-too/)), and lesser-known voices from the early days of LGBTQ activism, “Visible” presents a thoughtful, emotionally resonant, clearly focused, and deeply informative look at queer history as it fought its way into mainstream consciousness through a powerful medium that still connects us all. It’s a must-see event for LGBTQ audiences who thirst for knowledge about the community’s past, yes – but also for anyone who wants to gain an understanding of how representation on TV works to shape the culture surrounding it, as well as why it matters.
The show drops on Apple TV+ on Friday, February 14. You can watch the trailer below.
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### [Bruce Vilanch in Aladdin and His Winter Wish](https://wegotbruce.com/2020/01/09/bruce-vilanch-in-aladdin-and-his-winter-wish/)
**Published:** January 9, 2020
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**Out & About Nashville
“Aladdin and His Winter Wish” at TPAC in Nashville, TN**
**By William Shutes
December 20, 2019**
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Bruce Vilanch in Aladdin and His Winter Wish
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If you’ve felt a near-seismic eye rolling ripple through Middle Tennessee, oft accompanied by a low, roaring groan, in the evenings since last weekend, rest assured that the twin phenomena are neither harmful nor long-lasting. Usually, the mention of rolling eyes and groans in a theatre review would mean that the show on the boards is a real stinker. Or, as this show would put it, “Sugly” – a portmanteau of Smelly and Ugly. While there are certainly prettier shows out there, if you’re in the market for bad dad jokes accompanied by a “Ba-dum-CHING!” on the trap set, hie thineself to TPAC’s Polk Theatre with all haste, for *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* will have you laughing at the utterly absurd, peculiarly English humor that is Panto.
Chances are you don’t have the faintest idea what Panto is. In short, it’s a fairy tale that has been moderately bastardized. In fact, it’s a virtual theatrical turducken of star actors, bad jokes, pop songs, a smidgeon of cross dressing, visual gags, and a thin veneer of Christmas spirit all lobbed into a fairy tale picture frame. What you’re left with this year is a rip-snorting good time with more inside jokes than you can count.
Now, a warning… (in my best Meryl Streep in *Death Becomes Her* impression, “NOW, a warning?”): Do not enter the Polk Theatre expecting Disney’s *Aladdin.* If you are, you’re going to be disappointed and, folks, it’d be cheaper to pop in the Blu Ray and sing a couple Christmas songs throughout the evening. Besides, Father Disney does not take kindly to folks stepping on its creative toes. There will be only a sideways mention that Disney exists and it’s one of the night’s best jokes.
Leading the show as Aladdin is television and stage star Damon J. Gillespie, a veteran of Disney’s Broadway mounting of their *Aladdin* musical. As his Princess is Nickelodeon starlet Kira Kosarin, known for her work on *The Thundermans.* They’re a sweet couple with evident chemistry. Not that it’s deeply necessary. This is a fairytale and the ending is rather a foregone conclusion.
As the Sultan, *Home Improvement* and *Family Feud* legend Richard Karn struts his stuff admirably, though he should have a big song and dance number. There’s more than enough to go around. As resident baddie, Josh Adamson’s Abanazar is hammier and cheesier than a good croque monsieur. If you go, please boo him loudly, as befits the panto villain. He’ll just chew on the scenery and tell a few more really terrible jokes and you’ll thank him for it.
The comic relief comes in the forms of Aladdin’s brother Wishee Washee (a smashing Jonathan Meza), [Bruce Vilanch as the Widow Twankey](https://outandaboutnashville.com/profile-comedian-bruce-vilanch/) (mother to both Aladdin and Wishee), and Mykal Kilgore’s superb Genie. Meza’s Wishee keeps the show moving as narrator and sometimes village idiot and his physical comedy game is tip-top. [**Vilanch’s Widow Twankey**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/) is the traditional Panto Dame, a male star whose female character is exaggerated in about every way possible. But it’s not the widow’s T&A game that wows as much as the Tease-it-to-Jesus bouffant wig that would make Marge Simpson and the B-52’s a little envious.
But then there’s the Genie and… Geezus Christmas… Mykal Kilgore is a staggering talent. The man has more pipes than a water plant, kids. A veteran of Broadway’s *The Book of Mormon* and *Hair* as well as NBC’s recent live mounting of *Jesus Christ Superstar*, Kilgore is the real real. Seriously, I’ve seen Disney’s *Aladdin* onstage. Dear Disney Theatrical and Thomas Schumacher: CALL HIM. This man should be your Genie, too. The voice… my god… I refuse to spoil any of the numbers he throws into the rafters, but they’re all incredible.
The set is simple (and in desperate need of a good steaming to get out the wrinkles), but it’s deeply effective. Magic Carpet? You betcha. The costumes don’t really break any new ground for the majority of the company, but [**Bruce**](https://wegotbruce.com/new-book-drag-combing-through-the-big-wigs-of-show-business-with-a-foreward-by-bruce-vilanch/) Vilanch’s Widow Twankey gets some wonderfully weird togs to strut around in.
If you’re expecting Shakespeare, please just don’t. If you yearn for the melodies of Rodgers and Hammerstein… check your batteries, Alma. But if you want a groaning good time that will leave you with a goofy smile on your face, *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* will probably be the perfect holiday kick-off for you.
*Aladdin and His Winter Wish* continues through Sunday, December 22 at TPAC’s Polk Theatre. Tickets are available at TPAC’s [website](https://www.tpac.org/event/2019-12-12-to-2019-12-22-aladdin-his-winter-wish-2/) and box office.
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### [Comedian Bruce Vilanch Currently Stars in "Aladdin And His Winter Wish" In Nashville's TPAC Center, December 12-22, 2019](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/12/15/comedian-bruce-vilanch-currently-stars-in-alladin-and-his-winter-wish-in-nashvilles-tpac-center-december-12-22-2019/)
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**Out & About Nashville**
**Profile: Actor and Comedian Bruce Vilanch
By William Shutes
December 13, 2019**
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Bruce Vilanch
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If Barbra Streisand will always own the title Funny Girl from her star-making turn in the musical of the same name, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/) is and has been Hollywood’s Funny Guy for decades. Known behind the scenes for a razor wit and in front of the camera as the ham sidekick to Whoopi Goldberg’s center square in the late-90s reboot of the game show, *Hollywood Squares*, Vilanch is making a star turn in the 2019 TPAC presentation of the [Lythgoe Family Panto](https://americanpanto.com/home), *[Aladdin and His Winter Wish](https://www.tpac.org/event/2019-12-12-to-2019-12-22-aladdin-his-winter-wish-2/)*. Vilanch spoke with me last month as he prepared to head to Nashville for this Christmas spectacular.
**Will: So first of all, you’ve pretty much been the go-to guy for decades when a celebrity needs Grade-A material to get the audience roaring with laughter. You’ve won Emmy Awards for your quick wit. I watched a video while I was doing my preparation when you talk about the Academy Awards with Billy Crystal, and basically rewriting the script as the show went on so that you could just keep it fresh and keep it topical. Did funny come to you naturally or is it something that evolved and that you grew into?**
**Vilanch:** *It’s an interesting proposition. I mean, I guess it came to me naturally. I was sort of surrounded, also, by people who were funny and had my mother’s family in particular who were really funny. But I think that when you’re fat, ungainly, unathletic, and a kid you have to work up some defenses. And I discovered I could use humor as a way to, as Whoopi (Goldberg) says, it gives you a chance to run. It disarmed them, and so I used that a lot when I was a kid. And I don’t know where that came from. You know I spent a lot of time making faces in the mirror and all that and my mother was very theatrical so I had that to look up to.*
*And so I suppose it’s just one of those things we don’t know that we have it’s like some people have math. I still don’t have math. I think it’s one of those indefinable chemical things that happened in the brain that we think we know but we really don’t.*
**Will: It’s interesting when you talk to, you know, so many different drag queens and comedians who really do identify that you know, it was being an other. That really sort of put them on to that pathway.**
**Vilanch:** *Sometimes that is translated to “Did you have an unhappy childhood?” So you had a life of the mind that wasn’t unhappy, but I did have a life of the mind because I wasn’t interested in conventional stuff, A lot of people who fold into conventional form don’t have to think about any of that. And, and we do.*
*I was on The View once Joy Behar said, “Well, I had a very happy childhood and I turned out alright.” I’m not gonna fight that. When you feel you’re not a conventional person, you have to find other ways. And I think they are found for you naturally if you pay attention to them, for sure.*
**Will: Christmas pantomime is really sort of a peculiarly English form of entertainment and Nashville’s developed a love for it. Last year, they did a presentation of a Peter Pan panto that was very well received. In *Aladdin and His Winter Wish,* you’re playing the Widow Twanky who, in the past, has been played by other huge names like Sir Ian McKellen and John Inman from *Are You Being Served?* Have you ever had any experience with panto before?**
**Vilanch:** We did *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* at the Pasadena Playhouse three or four years ago. We had a blast. It was a great success and we had a lot of fun. The Lythgoes on doing this all over the country now I mean, they’re in Salt Lake City and they’re down in Laguna. So this is in the new great tradition, but I mean the big names have done them on stage in London because it is it’s it’s one of those English Christmas things. It’s a chance for very serious actors to carry on and camp it up. So it’s like taking a vacation from seeing was “real” theater that is very heavy minded and serious and just letting everybody kind of take a romp. We take these fairy tales, stuff them with pop songs, and everybody just gets to ham it up like crazy. It’s really family entertainment,
**Will: You’re truly one of the biggest showbiz mavens that we have. You’ve written for everybody from Bette Midler to The Brady Bunch. You’ve been a Hollywood Square And you’ve even stepped into Edna Turnblad’s shoes in *Hairspray.* Across your very storied career, do you have one or two achievements of which you find yourself most proud?**
**Vilanch:** *Well, I did 25 Oscar shows and so I guess I’m proud of that. We won two Emmys in that crop, which is a fabulous roller coaster ride to be on. And Hairspray, of course, is high up there and being on Hollywood Squares for six years, to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. And after 20 years in Hollywood suddenly becoming a famous person has actually been the strangest thing of all.*
*I point to those like career highs, but I’m proud that I’ve used whatever talent and fame that I’ve got to promote things I’m interested in for the betterment of mankind. To get civil rights for gay people, promote Jewish causes, and the things that I’m interested in within the communities I’m a part of to try and make the world better for them.*
**Will: The Hollywood Reporter – I love this – has referred to you as La La land’s unofficial gay mascot. Has the nature of being out and proud of being out in Hollywood changed much in the last decade or is it still a lot of the same old story of stars having to hide just inside the closet to keep their careers?**
**Vilanch:** *Well, I don’t think that happens outside of the acting discipline. The rest of* the world is out. The executives… I think even below the line in the guilds, which have traditionally been bastions of longshoremen kind of On the Waterfront sort of thinking, I think those have opened up, too. And they’ve opened up to women, which is even bigger than just gay people *because there are more women than there are gay people.*
*But the last thing to fall is the acting thing and that’s basically because we’re selling illusion and the question that everybody asks when they cast somebody is, “Can he kiss the girl? Will the audience buy him if he kisses the girl?” And so there’s this raging debate about straight actors should only play straight parts and gay actors should only play gay parts and all of this middle of all these are transgender people saying, “Well, what about us?”*
*So it’s gotten very confused, but I think that will be the last thing to go. And I think that won’t happen until you have a number of big deal athletes in major league sports who are out and proud. And our stars… that’s going to be tough to do. That will always be tough to do because, you know, this is the last bastion of macho. And macho has to change. Macho has to change to admit that there are other kinds of personalities besides macho ones.*
**Will: That’s something that Nashville faces. You have stars that had great careers and then came out, and suddenly they became pariahs. Of course,** **you’ve got rumors that swirl about some stars and if they ever are able to come out.**
**Vilanch:** *I did a benefit with Ty Herndon a few weeks ago. We were talking about that. At this benefit, he came out and sang his big hit “[What Mattered Most](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QqdHi-dSMo).” And then he said, “Now I’m going to [sing it the way I wrote it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnGDePzppE): with the proper pronouns. He went and sang it over again. Of course, it was a knockout for that crowd. He was illustrating his struggle.*
*It’s all part of the whole macho culture, the old good old boy syndrome. But what’s interesting now is that the Me Too movement has come along and it has just shown such a bright light on that whole idea of what is acceptable, what is “good old boy behavior,” what is macho, when you cross the line, and white privilege and male privilege and all of that stuff. It’s all now under a microscope, a legal microscope, among others. So this is this is the beginning of change, I think.*
**Will: I ask this final question of a lot of people who’ve had really interesting, exemplary careers with plenty to reflect back on. What would you want to tell your younger self if you could?**
**Vilanch:** *I think I would, I would probably say, “Don’t be so hard on yourself. You got it, run with it.” Self-doubt is always there, whether you like it or not, but to make it the theme of your life is crippling. And I found that to be the case. Not that often, obviously, but occasionally.*
*If I had to tell myself, I’d probably also say less pizza. That would really be what that would be the first thing I would say is less pizza.*
The run of “Aladdin and His Winter Wish” continues at TPAC’s Johnson Theatre until December 22nd. Tickets are available at [TPAC.org](https://www.tpac.org/event/2019-11-29-to-2019-12-22-a-christmas-carol/) and at the box office.
[Click HERE for more by Will Shutes.](https://outandaboutnashville.com/author/wshutes/)
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Bruce Vilanch#### Aladdin And His Winter Wish
**DATE: December 12-22, 2019
LOCATION: James K. Polk Theater
STARTING AT: $40**
**KNOW BEFORE YOU GO**
***Valet parking is not available during weekday matinee performances.***
“Magic for the holidays, a fun family ride!”, raves the Los Angeles Times. The age-old fairytale of *Aladdin* is given a modern twist with pop music, from “Treasure” by Bruno Mars to Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me”, magic, and comedy.
Helped by the magical Genie, Aladdin meets and falls in love with the Princess and later has to save her from the clutches of the evil magician Abanazar. With his hopeless brother Wishee Washee alongside him, will Aladdin defeat the evil magician and make all of his dreams come true?
From the producers of last year’s hit *Peter Pan and Tinker Bell*, *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* is the perfect family show all ages will wish to see this holiday season!
**Featured Celebrity Cast:**
Kira Kosarin **as the Princess** (Nickelodeon’s *The Thundermans*)
Bruce Vilanch **as Widow Twanky** (*Hollywood Squares*)
Damon J. Gillespie **as Aladdin**
(Broadway’s *Newsies*, NBC’s *Rise*)
Richard Karn **as the Sultan**(*Home Improvement*)
Josh Adamson **as Abanaazar** (ABC Family’s *First Landing*)
Jonathan Meza **as Wishee Washee**(Nickelodeon’s *The Jumpitz*)
Mykal Kilgore **as Genie** (NBC’s *Jesus Christ Superstar Live*)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosts The Nevada Equality Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/11/22/bruce-vilanch-hosts-the-nevada-equality-awards/)
**Published:** November 22, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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### **Las Vegas Sun
Paula Abdul, David Parks lauded for their LGBTQ advocacy
By Kelcie Grega
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019**
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Bruce Vilanch with honoree Paula Abdul
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Entertainment icon Paula Abdul remembers the helpless feeling as some of her closest friends died from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. She also recalls how some of her backup dancers who contracted the virus were too afraid to talk about it.
So, she took action.
Abdul has spent the last few decades bringing attention to HIV/AIDS advocacy and LGBTQ issues, dedicating much of her tour proceeds to HIV/AIDS research.
Abdul was honored for those years of service on Thursday with the Ally Leadership Award at the inaugural Nevada Equality Awards at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club located inside the Linq Promenade. It was hosted by Silver State Equality, the recently launched LGBTQ civil rights organization.
“I’m glad to be an advocate and an ally and I always continue to be. I consider this community very close to me and very special,” Abdul said.
Abdul was honored alongside Sen. David Parks, who in 2008 became Nevada’s first openly gay lawmaker. It wasn’t until 2012 that Parks would be joined in the Legislature with four other openly gay colleagues in Sens. Pat Spearman and Kelvin Atkinson, and Assemblymen Andrew Martin and James Healey.
“It’s a great honor to be named the recipient of the inaugural award,” Parks said. “I think it follows my career in the Legislature.”
[**Silver State Equality**](https://silverstateequality.org/) Director Andre Wade lauded Abdul for using her platform to advocate for the LGBTQ community and HIV/AIDS awareness.
“For someone like Paula Abdul to use her platform to be able to speak up for equality has really been essential for organizations like ours,” Wade said. “With her residency, and being here in Vegas, we thought it was appropriate that we recognize her.”
Including Parks in the inaugural event was also an easy decision, Wade said, as he has been a trailblazing advocate for LGBTQ Nevadans. This past legislative session, Parks sponsored a bill creating a task force to examine Nevada’s statutes on HIV transmission.
During the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, nearly 70 laws were enacted nationwide to criminalize people living with HIV. Since then, health organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have pointed out that medications can now achieve an undetectable viral load, meaning no risk of passing the virus on to others.
“He’s done so much for us over the past several decades,” Wade said.
Wade said he hopes the event will grow in the future and honor even more Nevadans for their service in LGBTQ advocacy.
“Oftentimes, it’s advocates and activists who do a lot of the hard work of raising awareness and supporting causes that go unrecognized,” he said. “So as a movement, we like to recognize those who have taken the lead and taken the stand to support those less fortunate.”
One of the event’s hosts, comedian and actor [Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/), said Nevada — particularly Las Vegas — has come a long way in its LGBTQ presence. He said he was happy to see the state take the plunge in advocacy.
“These movements didn’t come from all of us wanting to go shopping for Vera Wang wedding gowns,” [**Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/rave-reviews-for-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone/) said. “People’s rights were being denied. It was born out of a need to get basic civil rights.”
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**Tags:** Ally Leadership Awards, david parks, HIV/AIDS, las vegas, Paula Abdul, silver state equality
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### [Bruce Vilanch Emcees Equality Palm Springs](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/11/22/bruce-vilanch-emcees-equality-palm-springs/)
**Published:** November 22, 2019
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### **Desert Sun
Bruce Vilanch Emcees Equality Palm Springs
By Barry Dayton, Special to The Desert Sun
Oct. 25, 2019**
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Bruce Vilanch Emcees Equality Palm String
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It was an evening of intergenerational celebration at The Riviera Palm Springs when the Palm Springs Equality Awards recognized not only decades of support for LGBTQ causes offered by a gay-friendly philanthropist but also a young leader whose work is inspirational to her generation and those yet to come.
Palm Springs is the final stop on the annual five-city tour of the Equality Awards — also including Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles — that support **Equality California**’s first-in-the-nation work to create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all LGBTQ people. Reminding the 600 attendees that we all need to find the humor in life while fighting for social justice was gay icon and funny man **Bruce Vilanch** as the evening’s special guest emcee. Wearing one of his trademark T-shirts — this one featuring Endora from the classic sitcom “Bewitched” — Vilanch joked about the current political challenges that make the work of Equality California **(**EQCA) so essential.
Throughout the evening, video messages from 2020 Democratic presidential primary hopefuls former **Vice President Joe Biden**, **Sen. Kamala Harris**, **Sen. Elizabeth Warren,** and **Mayor Pete Buttigieg** encouraged the continuing fight for human rights. Elected officials in attendance at the Palm Springs Equality Awards included **Rep. Raul Ruiz**, Assemblymember **Chad Mayes** and Palm Springs City Council members **Geoff Kors**, **Lisa Middleton**, **Christy Holstege,** and **JR Roberts**.
Palm Springs City Councilmember Christy Holstege, Community Leadership Award recipient Alexis Ortega and Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur arrive at Equality California’s 2019 Palm Springs Equality Awards. *(Photo: Andrea Schmitt | Chris Schmitt Photography for Equality California)*
**Grace Garner**, Palm Springs City Council candidate for District 1, introduced the winner of the Community Leadership Award, **Alexis Ortega**, whom she has known since childhood as both grew up in Palm Springs. Garner applauded Ortega’s commitment to social justice and for helping to bring attention to the issues of the eastern Coachella Valley by helping “lift up the work that’s already there.” Ortega recently began the Encore Public Voices fellowship, which seeks to accelerate the impact of thought leaders to increase intergenerational connection and social justice.
Garner’s District 1 opponent **Les Young** and District 2 candidate **Dennis Woods** were also in attendance.
EQCA Executive Director **Rick Zbur** reminded the crowd of the work of Barbara Keller who “took EQCA into her heart” along with so many other Coachella Valley causes with her activism and philanthropy until her death in April. **Jerry Keller** told the crowd his late wife thought “no one should walk alone,” while event co-chairs Kors and Middleton remembered Barbara Keller as “warm, generous and loving.”
Former **Sen. Barbara Boxer** also spoke warmly of her late friend when presenting the 2019 Lifetime Ally Award to **Harold Matzner**. Although working closely with Keller on a variety of causes over many years and while calling Boxer a “super patriot,” Matzner admitted he didn’t always share political views with either Keller or Boxer.
But Matzner spoke of his awakening in 1969 that not everyone enjoyed the same rights when he was with gay friends in a New Jersey bar during one of the raids that regularly occurred in those days. Reading from Keller’s acceptance speech when she received the 2014 EQCA Lifetime Ally Award, Matzner remembered how he and Keller joined forces to help elect Middleton to the Palm Springs City Council as the first transgender person elected to a non-judicial office in California. Matzner said it was an obvious decision because Middleton was, simply, the best person for the job.
Auctioneer **Gabriel Butu** encouraged the crowd to raise $100,000 in 10 minutes. The challenge was soon taken up by attendees such as **Sue Burnside**, who pledged $20,000 and **AT&T** Western Region President **Ken McNeely**, who announced a $50,000 donation from the company — raising an additional nearly $150,000 to continue EQCA’s work. The crowd responded enthusiastically to the performances of opera soprano **Breanna Sinclairé,** who was the first transgender woman to sing the U.S. national anthem at a professional sporting event in June 2015 before a crowd of 30,000 at the Oakland Athletics Stadium.
Greg Rodriguez was unable to join his fellow event co-chair **Jackie Thomas** onstage to thank statewide sponsors AT&T, **Edison International**, **Farmers Insurance**, **Gilead**, **Kaiser Permanente**, **La Crema Wines**, **Lyft**, **Sempra Energy**, **Southwest Airlines**, **Sutter Health**, **Tito’s Handmade Vodka**, **Uber Eats,** and **Weedmaps**. Thomas went on to thank Premier Presenting Sponsor **Eisenhower Health**, as well as sponsors including **Desert Care Network**, **Geoff Kors** and **James Williamson**, **Antoinette DeVargas** and **Susan McCabe**, **Grace Helen Spearman Charitable Foundation**, **Jeffrey Towns**, **Contour Dermatology**, **Barry Manilow** and **Garry Kief**, **Desert AIDS Project**, **HCR Wealth Advisors**, **Doug Moreland**, **Ann Sheffer** and **Bill Scheffler**, **Gay Desert Guide** and **KGAY 106.5** for their contributions.
Grammy- and Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Jennifer Holliday performs at Equality California’s 2019 Palm Springs Equality Awards. *(Photo: Andrea Schmitt | Chris Schmitt Photography for Equality California)*
**Jennifer Holliday**, a regular favorite in Palm Springs, performed a mini-concert of four songs at the event, which happened to be her 59th birthday. The two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award-winning Broadway star of “Dreamgirls” closed the evening with an a capella version of her iconic “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going,” which seemed to put an exclamation point on the fact that, in its 20th year, Equality California isn’t going anywhere either, as long as there are equal rights to be unquestionably secured for so many.
In the words of Zbur, “Simply put, EQCA won’t rest until we have achieved full and lasting equality with acceptance and social justice for the health and well-being of all people in our diverse LGBT communities, inside and outside of California.”
*As Director of Marketing for Desert Oasis Healthcare, Barry Dayton appreciates working for a company that understands “corporate citizenship” by providing significant financial support to the communities where its thousands of patients live and work. He believes that each of us should make contributions of “time, talent and treasure” wherever we can.*
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host A Multimedia Event For The Release Of Marc Huestis's memoir 'Impresario of Castro Street'](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/11/22/bruce-vilanch-to-host-a-multimedia-event-for-the-release-of-marc-huestiss-memoir-impresario-of-castro-street/)
**Published:** November 22, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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### **Broadway World
Celebration Event Will Be Held In Hollywood For The Audio Book Release Of IMPRESARIO OF CASTRO STREET By Marc Huestis
By Staff
Oct. 8, 2019**
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*Frameline43’s Special Presentation Of Marc Huestis: Impresario Of Castro Street at San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival*
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The [Blank Theatre](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Blank-Theatre/) and Marc Huestis Presents have announced a special multimedia event to celebrate the release of the audiobook of Marc Huestis’s memoir [**Impresario of Castro Street**](https://wegotbruce.com/frameland-2019-bruce-vilanch-in-person-readings-of-marc-huestis-impresario-of-castro-street-june-23-2019/), narrated by actor/activist and [Blank Theatre](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Blank-Theatre/) Artistic Director [Daniel Henning](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daniel-Henning/), on Saturday, October 26, at 2 pm. Hosted by [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) and featuring [Teri Hatcher](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Teri-Hatcher/) in a tribute to the late [Carol Lynley](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Carol-Lynley/), the event will take place at The Blank’s 2nd Stage Theatre, 6500 Santa Monica Boulevard, in Hollywood. The audiobook dropped on October 1 and is now available on [Audible.com](https://kenwerther.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=498735f138384e2c4200cccde&id=a9313880ae&e=98eb28250b) at [https://tinyurl.com/yxhkyggb](https://kenwerther.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=498735f138384e2c4200cccde&id=492301c1d0&e=98eb28250b).Impresario of Castro Street is the inside story of San Francisco’s burgeoning gay history and Hollywood’s trials and tribulations. Marc Huestis’s showbiz memoir is an entertaining and personal retelling of his coming out on the streets of San Francisco in the early ’70s, his relationship with Harvey Milk, his award-winning early AIDS documentary work, and 20 years of memorable experiences and behind-the-scenes secrets of screen icons including [Debbie Reynolds](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Debbie-Reynolds/), [John Waters](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/John-Waters/), [Patty Duke](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Patty-Duke/), [Jane Russell](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jane-Russell/), [Ann Miller](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Ann-Miller/), Sandra Dee, and [Tony Curtis](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Tony-Curtis/), all of whom were honored at his grand extravaganzas at the world-renowned Castro Theatre.
Said Huestis, “I’m very excited that [Daniel Henning](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daniel-Henning/), sometimes referred to as the ‘Impresario of Santa Monica Boulevard,’ is narrating the book, and that the two of us are collaborating on the LA launch event. We were in constant communication during the recording of the Audible Studios audiobook. He really ‘got’ the book, and I’m looking forward to The [Blank Theatre](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Blank-Theatre/) event. I’m also honored to pay tribute to [Carol Lynley](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Carol-Lynley/), who was my first Castro guest and became a dear friend.”Henning said, “It was an honor to give voice to Marc’s amazing story. Growing up in the Bay area, I witnessed many of the events he chronicles from across the bay and mostly on my television. But his stirring, funny, charming, and sometimes bitchy commentaries on life in San Francisco and the sparkle of Hollywood are a delight. I hope people enjoy hearing Marc’s story as much as I enjoyed reading it for them.”This 360-page self-published book, four years in the writing, features more than 100 photos and is also in paperback, Kindle format (black & white and deluxe color editions), and on Audiobook. Tickets for the Launch Event are available at [www.TheBlank.com](https://kenwerther.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=498735f138384e2c4200cccde&id=bbefb3d580&e=98eb28250b). Admission is free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. Seating is limited.
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**Tags:** AUDIBLE, Impresario of Castro Street, KINDLE, PAPERBACK
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### [Yee Haw! Bruce Vilanch Heading To Nashville To Star In The Family Production Of 'Aladdin and His Winter Wish'](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/10/28/yee-haw-bruce-vilanch-heading-to-nashville-to-star-in-the-family-production-of-aladdin-and-his-winter-wish/)
**Published:** October 28, 2019
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**TPAC & Lythgoe Family Give Kids Panto present Aladdin and His Winter Wish**
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/) in Aladdin And His Winter Wish
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“Magic for the holidays, a fun family ride!”, raves the *Los Angeles Times*. The age-old fairytale of *Aladdin* is given a modern twist with pop music, from “Treasure” by Bruno Mars to Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me”, magic, and comedy.
Helped by the magical Genie, Aladdin meets and falls in love with the Princess and later has to save her from the clutches of the evil magician Abanazar. With his hopeless brother Wishee Washee alongside him, will Aladdin defeat the evil magician and make all of his dreams come true?
From the producers of last year’s hit *Peter Pan and Tinker Bell*, *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* is the perfect family show all ages will wish to see this holiday season!
**Featured Celebrity Cast:**
Kira Kosarin **as the Princess** (Nickelodeon’s *The Thundermans*)
[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-others-talk-of-carrie-fishers-infamous-wild-celeb-filled-house-parties/) **as Widow Twanky** (*Hollywood Squares*)
Damon J. Gillespie **as Aladdin** (Broadway’s *Newsies*, NBC’s *Rise*)
Richard Karn **as the Sultan**(*Home Improvement*)
Josh Adamson **as Abanaazar** (ABC Family’s *First Landing*)
Jonathan Meza **as Wishee Washee**(Nickelodeon’s *The Jumpitz*)
Mykal Kilgore **as Genie** (NBC’s *Jesus Christ Superstar Live*)
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## DATES: December 12-22, 2019
LOCATION: James K. Polk Theate
**TICKETS** **STARTING AT: $40**
Located in the James K. Polk Cultural Center, TPAC occupies an entire city block between 5th and 6th Avenues and Deaderick and Union Streets. Performance venues include Andrew Jackson Hall (2,472 seats), James K. Polk Theater (1,075), Andrew Johnson Theater (256), and the War Memorial Auditorium (1,661), a historic concert hall located across 6th Avenue from the Center.
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### [Paul Lynde’s Absurdly Gay 1976 Halloween Special (Video, Too)](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/10/27/paul-lyndes-absurdly-gay-1976-halloween-special-video-too/)
**Published:** October 27, 2019
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#### **NewNowNext
Paul Lynde’s Absurdly Gay 1976 Halloween Special
by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
10/25/2019**
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**Paul Lynde**
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*Can We Talk About…? is a weekly series that wants to be somebody, wants to go somewhere—so it’s [waking up and paying attention](http://www.newnownext.com/whoopi-goldberg-sister-act-london-west-end/10/2019/).*
Full disclosure: I’m one of the few gays who doesn’t *love* Halloween. I’m not sure why: I love dressing up, pulling pranks, and laughing maniacally by the light of a full moon, but Halloween has never done it for me. But I’m glad so many people love it because it leads to things like *The Paul Lynde Halloween Special*, a mythically bad variety special that boasted a veritable “Who’s that?” of Hollywood.
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The Paul Lynde Special---
It only aired once, on October 29, 1976, but bootleg copies of it floated around on VHS for decades before it was officially released on DVD in 2007. YouTube followed suit, as did, most recently, Amazon Prime, where you can watch this screen gem in all its cheesy, extremely retro glory (?). Of course, most of you reading this probably have no idea who Paul Lynde was, so let’s start there.
*Ben de la Creme as Paul Lynde during a* RuPaul’s Drag Race *Snatch Game challenge.*
Lynde was the biggest queen in Hollywood this side of Liberace, having crafted a lovingly acerbic persona in ’60s fare like *Bye Bye Birdie*, *Bewitched* (playing the sneaky and snarky warlock, Uncle Arthur), and *The Munsters* before finding his true calling as the center square in *The Hollywood Squares*. Though *clearly* a homosexual, Lynde, like Liberace, existed in a glass closet where no one talked about the pink elephant mincing into the room.
Paul Lynde on the Munsters
Lynde was also a notorious alcoholic, fueled by his insecurities and the pressures of having to remain closeted despite fooling literally no one. In 1965, a young man fell to his death after spending a boozed-up night with Lynde in his hotel room. Instead of being a career-ending scandal, it was covered up and Lynde was still slinging tired zingers when this special aired a decade later.
Those zingers, much like Lynde’s famous one-liners from *Hollywood Squares*, were written, at least partly, by Bruce Vilanch. Judging from the quality of the writing on *The Paul Lynde Halloween Special*, Vilanch may have snorted an eight-ball, grabbed a dirty napkin, and feverishly scribbled down whatever fell out of his nostrils. How else can you explain the hodgepodge of ideas, limp half-jokes, and truly questionable stylistic choices?
Betty White
Within the first 15 minutes, Donny and Marie sneak in a wordless cameo, Betty White bitches out Lynde, and Margaret Hamilton (the OG Wicked Witch of the West from *The Wizard of Oz*) gets back into her Elphaba drag.
Witch of the West: Paul Lynde Special
And that’s not even the weirdest part—we haven’t even gotten to the first of *three* Kiss performances. Fucking *Kiss*. The [Knights in Satan’s Service](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kiss/) sold out *so hard* in the ’70s.
Kiss: The Paul Lynde Special
Next thing you know, Lynde, as an earring-wearing “chic sheik,” is phoning in a “passionate kiss” with Mrs. Brady herself, Florence Henderson, who later *really* commits to a discofied version of “That Old Black Magic.” After all, it was the ’70s, and if we weren’t pandering to the disco set, then really, what were we doing at all?
Disco Florence Henderson
By the time *Happy Days*’ Roz “Pinky Tuscadero” Kelly (as she’s billed in the opening credits) starts up a spirited rendition of “Disco Lady” featuring the entire cast—including Kiss hanging out in the balcony and wondering just why in Satan’s name they agreed to this—you’ll legitimately find yourself wondering how this hot mess ever made it on television in the first place.
Paul Lynde Special
However, I, personally, was riddled with glee that it *did* mince its way into the zeitgeist.
Paul Lynde was such a homo, and that was evident to me even as a kid watching him exaggerate the gay hell out of Elizabeth Montgomery’s character’s name on *Bewitched*: “*Sa-maaaaa-aaaa-haaan-thaaaaaa*.” And what prepubescent queer doesn’t dream of being visibly drunk on television, wearing an ascot, and shouting, “Circle gets the square!”?
Paul Lynde – The Simpsons
What, just me?
Gays have always existed in Hollywood—between Lynde, Agnes Moorehead (who played the fabulous Endora), and Dick Saregent (who played the second Darrin), *Bewitched* accounted for like 90% of the gays on television for nearly a decade. But gays like Lynde, who were out in everything but the word, and who were able to find their own fame, deserve some credit for making the unspeakable a bit easier to say aloud.
Now go watch this special and see for yourself just how ridiculous the whole thing is.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Equality California's 20th Anniversary](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/10/02/bruce-vilanch-attends-equality-californias-20th-anniversary/)
**Published:** October 2, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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Bruce Vilanch at Equality California
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Equality California raised $1 million at its 20th Anniversary Gala, September 28, 2019, celebrating 20 years of legislative activism. It was a star-studded event with Ana Navarro, Jai Rodriguez, Bruce Vilanch, Kim Petras, Kim Ahn, Scot Weiner, J. Alexander, and many more.
**With 800,000 members, Equality California is the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization.** And we’re California’s only LGBTQ civil rights organization working at the local, state and national levels.
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch Speaks At Project Angel Food 2019](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/09/19/photo-bruce-vilanch-speaks-at-project-angel-food-2019/)
**Published:** September 19, 2019
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#### **Blade
Project Angel Food raises more than $800,000, breaking Elizabeth Taylor record
by Karen Ocamb
September 17, 2019**
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/) speaks at Project Angel Food 2019
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Maybe it was because the niche non-profit celebrated its 30th anniversary by giving LGBTQ icon Jamie Lee Curtis a richly deserved humanitarian award. Or maybe people are just so dispirited by the pervasive politics of hate, they wanted to contribute to a heartfelt cause that actually helps people. Whatever the motivation, [**Project Angel Food**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/) raised more than $800,000 at its 30th Anniversary Angel Awards Gala in Hollywood on Saturday, Sept. 14, breaking the previous 1999 Angel Awards fundraising record of $700,000 when Elizabeth Taylor was honored.
Curtis received the Project Angel Food Humanitarian Angel Award with Jami Morse Heidegger and Klaus Heidegger, philanthropists and creators of skincare products Retrouve and Kiehl’s Since 1851, honored with the Project Angel Food Leadership Award.
“Jamie Lee Curtis and Jami and Klaus Heidegger have been involved with Project Angel Food for well over two decades and they are not afraid to throw on an apron, roll-up their sleeves and get involved,” said Executive Director Richard Ayoub.
Project Angel Food co-founder and Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson took a break from the campaign trail to be present for the historic event. Introduced by her longtime friend, grief expert David Kessler, with whom she co-founded the organization, the author and self-help guru put politics to the side and talked about the history of Project Angel Food during the AIDS crisis.
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### [Bruce Vilanch & Others Talk of Carrie Fisher's infamous, wild, celeb-filled house parties](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/09/19/bruce-vilanch-others-talk-of-carrie-fishers-infamous-wild-celeb-filled-house-parties/)
**Published:** September 19, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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#### **Entertainment Weekly
An exclusive look inside Carrie Fisher’s infamous, wild, celeb-filled house parties
By David Canfield
September 13, 2019**
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Carrie Fisher and Bruce Vilanch
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***Speaking to some of those who knew [Carrie Fisher](https://ew.com/tag/carrie-fisher/) best, author Sheila Weller crafted* Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge *([out Nov. 12](https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Fisher-Life-Sheila-Weller/dp/0374282234)), an anecdote-filled journey chronicling the actress and writer’s incredible life — including a fly-on-the-wall view of her wild celeb-filled house parties. Check out an exclusive excerpt below.***
With money now from [Star Wars](https://ew.com/tag/star-wars/), Carrie wanted an outpost in her hometown, so she bought a house next door to her friend Teri Garr’s log cabin in Laurel Canyon. It was a tiny house, and Carrie decorated it felicitously: she put a big statue of a foot on the front lawn and had cutouts of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the stairs. When she and Paul \[Simon\] were in L.A., she gave parties there, where a gourmet cook was on the premises, teaching everyone cuisine. The hired chef was “supposed to give us lessons,” Teri Garr recalled, “and we’d all watch him cook and try to learn how, but mostly we’d just drink a lot of wine.”
The guest list was such that celebrities got quietly excited over fellow celebrities. At one party, early on, a friend says, “When I saw Barbra Streisand walk in, I had to walk out and hyperventilate.” (In fact, it is said that Barbra wanted to hire Carrie’s housekeepers, Gloria and Mary, to serve the same southern fare at her parties, but Carrie wouldn’t let Barbra do so.)
 SARAH CRICHTON BOOK Although these evening parties were for pleasure rather than networking, networking inevitably occurred. Albert Brooks says, “Because I met Meryl Streep at a party at Carrie’s house and I had just written *Defending Your Life*, I said to her, ‘You wouldn’t be interested in playing the lead in my movie, would you?’” She was and did.
[Elizabeth Taylor](https://ew.com/tag/elizabeth-taylor/) and Carrie had long made peace (as had [Debbie \[Reynolds\]](https://ew.com/tag/debbie-reynolds/) and Elizabeth); Elizabeth was often an attendee.
Says [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/), “I remember at one party, where there was [Jeff Goldblum](https://ew.com/tag/jeff-goldblum/) and [Geena Davis](https://ew.com/tag/geena-davis/), and maybe Timothy Leary, and Carrie said, ‘Excuse me, I have to go and feed Elizabeth.’ Carrie would give her special treatment. She would trot over to fix Elizabeth a plate and clear a special area where she would dine. Carrie talked about it as if it were her duty.”
Another guest remembers this: During one party, “Elizabeth was talking with her hands, and she noticed everyone staring at her huge ring from Richard Burton, the one that went almost straight to her knuckle. So,” in a showy gesture to all the gawkers, “she popped her finger in her mouth and theatrically took the ring off with her teeth.” Another time, Carrie telephoned a friend in advance of the party and said, “You have to come! Elizabeth is coming in her wheelchair, and Eddie \[Fisher\] is coming in his wheelchair. And Debbie”— no wheelchair! sweet justice—” will be at the door greeting them!” When the guest arrived, the friend recalls, “that is exactly what happened. [**Debbie Reynolds**]()—the queen of the world—still standing!”
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***EXCERPTED FROM CARRIE FISHER: A LIFE ON THE EDGE BY SHEILA WELLER. PUBLISHED BY SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS, AN IMPRINT OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, NOVEMBER 12, 2019. COPYRIGHT © 2019 BY SHEILA WELLER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.***
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### [Save The Date: Bruce Vilanch & Friends In Portland, Oct 5, 2019, Buy Tickets Now](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/09/13/save-the-date-bruce-vilanch-friends-in-portland-oct-5-2019-buy-tickets-now/)
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-and-kira-kosarin-will-star-in-aladdin-and-his-winter-wish/) And Friends In Portland
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#### Bruce Vilanch And Friends
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Nonstop laughs with 6 time Emmy Award Winner, [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/rave-reviews-for-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone/)! Join one of the best living comics LIVE as well as an incredible lineup of headliners. One night only in the main room!
*THIS SHOW IS DEEMED A SPECIAL EVENT. GROUPONS, LIVING SOCIAL, AMAZON LOCAL, COMP PASSES, OR ANY OTHER DISCOUNT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS NIGHT*
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**SHOWTIMES**
Sat Oct 5, 2019 | 10:30PM
18 & older – 2 item min.- Box office opens 9:30 PM
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### [Bruce Vilanch and Kira Kosarin Will Star in Aladdin and His Winter Wish](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/08/20/bruce-vilanch-and-kira-kosarin-will-star-in-aladdin-and-his-winter-wish/)
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**Playbill
Bruce Vilanch and Kira Kosarin Will Star in Aladdin and His Winter Wish
BY ANDREW GANS
AUG 19, 2019**
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Bruce Vilanch and Kira Kosarin **in** *Aladdin and His Winter Wish*
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The Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Lythgoe Family Give Kids Panto will present the family-friendly *Aladdin and His Winter Wish* December 12–22 in TPAC’s Polk Theater.
Recording artist [**Kira Kosarin**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Kosarin), who starred as Phoebe in Nickelodeon’s *The* *Thundermans,* will take on the role of the Princess, while Emmy-winning writer and actor [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/) (*Hollywood Squares, Hairspray*) will play Widow Twanky. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The production, which blends fairy tales, comedy, the holidays, dancing, contemporary songs, and local and regional references, concerns Aladdin, who, helped by the magical Genie, meets and falls in love with the Princess and later saves her from the clutches of the evil magician Abanazar.
Ernie Nolan, the executive artistic director at the Nashville Children’s Theater, will direct.
“We are so excited to be returning to Nashville and partnering with TPAC in bringing families and young audiences to the theatre,” Kris Lythgoe, CEO of Lythgoe Family Panto, said in a statement. “*[**Aladdin and His Winter Wish**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_and_his_Winter_Wish)* is a magical, interactive show that audiences will enjoy as they sing-along and dance in the aisles.”
Tickets will go on sale in the fall. Visit [TPAC.org.](http://www.tpac.org/)
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch In 'The Drowsy Chaperone' Sizzle Reel](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/08/03/video-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-sizzle-reel/)
**Published:** August 3, 2019
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Bruce Vilanch in The Drowsy Chaperone
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The [**Drowsy Chaperone**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drowsy_Chaperone) show ran Tuesday, July 9 through Sunday, July 14 at the Wells Fargo Pavilion in Sacramento.
Hailed by [New York Magazine](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/New-York-Magazine/) as “The perfect Broadway musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone is a modern musical comedy at its best. A die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, a fictional 1928 smash hit, which bursts to life with the hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, this loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical features one show-stopping song after another.
The role of Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone was played by the 6 time Emmy award-winning comedy writer, composer, and actor [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/rave-reviews-for-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone/). Additionally, to serving as head writer for the Academy Awards, his extensive writing credits also include work on various awards shows like The Oscars, Tony Awards, the Emmy Awards, Comic Relief, “Donny and Marie,” and for artists including friend and muse Bette Midler and Angela Lansbury. alongside a six-year stint on “Hollywood Squares” and numerous film and television credits, [**Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/) performed as Edna Turnblad on Great White Way and in the national tour of Hairspray, and appeared off-Broadway in his self-penned one-person show, Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous!
**The musical, the cast, and Mr. Vilanch won rave reviews.**
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### [Rave Reviews For Bruce Vilanch In The Drowsy Chaperone](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/07/15/rave-reviews-for-bruce-vilanch-in-the-drowsy-chaperone/)
**Published:** July 15, 2019
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## Broadway World
[Review Roundup: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at Broadway At Music Circus](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/); What Did The Critics Have To Say?
[by BWW News Desk](https://www.broadwayworld.com/author/BWW-News-Desk)
[Jul. 11, 2019 ](https://www.broadwayworld.com/sacramento/article/Review-Roundup-THE-DROWSY-CHAPERONE-at-Broadway-At-Music-Circus-What-Did-The-Critics-Have-To-Say-20190711# "11:58 AM")
**[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/)** in The Drowsy Chaperone
The third show in the 2019 season is the Broadway At Music Circus premiere of the award-winning musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone is now on stage, starring writer/actor/comedian [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) and featuring a cast of Broadway veterans. The show runs Tuesday, July 9 through Sunday, July 14 at the Wells Fargo Pavilion in Sacramento.
The role of Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone is played by the Emmy award-winning comedy writer, songwriter and actor [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/). In addition to serving as head writer for the Academy Awards, his extensive writing credits include work on numerous Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Comic Relief, “Donny and Marie,” and for artists including [Bette Midler](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bette-Midler/) and [Angela Lansbury](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Angela-Lansbury/). Along with a six-year stint on “Hollywood Squares” and extensive film and TV credits, Vilanch performed as [Edna Turnblad](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Edna-Turnblad/) on Broadway and in the national tour of Hairspray and appeared off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/): Almost Famous.
Let’s see what the critics have to say!
Jeff Hudson, [Capital Public Radio](http://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/07/10/for-silly-summer-fun-look-no-further-than-music-circus-the-drowsy-chaperone/): The show’s large cast, dressed in a colorful cavalcade of costumes, spoofs the stock characters found in these 1920s musicals, like the seductive Latin lover and the ditzy dame. What makes this show appealing is the glittering, energetic dance numbers interspersed with witty dialogue and topped off with sarcastic comments from our host, The Man in the Chair. The Man in the Chair is played by [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/), who honed his verbal repartee doing four seasons on the Hollywood Squares. So if you’re looking for silly summer fun, check out “The Drowsy Chaperone.” And by the way, the show clocks in at just under two hours… exactly what our host asked for.
Michael P Coleman, [Sac Cultural Hub](http://www.sacculturalhub.com/item/13099-hub-review-the-drowsy-chaperone-at-sacramento-s-wells-fargo-pavilion): That is a testament to this show’s crisp script and the brilliant cast, who repeatedly displayed the ability to start and stop on a dime, ceding the stage to Man In Chair. It’s also a testament to the aforementioned Man In Chair, masterfully played by Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, songwriter, and actor [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/). But Vilanch has a lot of competition in this production. The show’s drunken title character is wondrously played by Broadway At Music Circus alumna [Lynne Wintersteller](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lynne-Wintersteller/), whose comic timing, rubbery facial expressions, a penchant for physical comedy, and stage presence reminded me of Saturday Night Live alumna [Kristen Wiig](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kristen-Wiig/). Similarly, [Kaleigh Cronin](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kaleigh-Cronin/) blew me away as [Janet Van De Graaff](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Janet-Van%2BDe%2BGraaff/), especially during her purposefully overblown first number, “Show Off.” And [Bradley Dean](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bradley-Dean/), making his Broadway At Music Circus debut as Aldolpho, almost made me consider changing my name…but then, I’d never be able to utter “Aldoooooolpho” as *he* does!
Rachel Mayfield, [Sacramento News, and Review](https://sacblog.newsreview.com/2019/07/10/catching-a-few-winks/?fbclid=IwAR2ZT6ghUpd3KUjleEySxwn8lFzzdwBm4ocU7kxKYhLO4xXScPZqyaJpLyg): You’d have to be seriously sleep-deprived to get drowsy during this week’s Music Circus production of *The Drowsy Chaperone*. This 2006 Tony-winner is both a spoof and a loving homage to the great old musical comedies that sought nothing more than to entertain. [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) is brilliantly cast as Man in Chair, an agoraphobic, middle-ageish theater-lover who escapes his blues by spinning a recording of his favorite musical ever, the (fictional) 1928 play, *The Drowsy Chaperone*.
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### [Video: Cody interviews comedian and actor Bruce Vilanch who is starring next week in The Drowsy Chaperone](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/07/05/video-cody-interviews-comedian-and-actor-bruce-vilanch-who-is-starring-next-week-in-the-drowsy-chaperone/)
**Published:** July 5, 2019
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**Video: Cody interviews comedian and actor Bruce Vilanch who is starring next week in The Drowsy Chaperone
July 5, 2019**
Evening performances are Tuesday through Saturday, July 9 – 13, at 7:30 p.m.; matinee performances are Thursday, July 11 and Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 p.m., and Sunday, July 14 at 3:00 p.m. For more information, visit [BroadwaySacramento.com](http://email.wordfly.com/click).
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### [Bruce Vilanch Stars In THE DROWSY CHAPERONE In Sacremento](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/07/05/bruce-vilanch-stars-in-the-drowsy-chaperone-in-sacremento/)
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### **Broadway World**
**Bruce Vilanch Stars In THE DROWSY CHAPERONE At Broadway Music Circus Beginning Next Week**
**by BWW News Desk**
**Jul. 2, 2019 **
The third show in the 2019 season is the Broadway At Music Circus premiere of the award-winning musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone, starring writer/actor/comedian **[Bruce Vilanch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch)** and featuring a cast of Broadway veterans. The show runs Tuesday, July 9 through Sunday, July 14 at the Wells Fargo Pavilion in Sacramento.
Hailed by New York Magazine as “The perfect Broadway musical,” **[The Drowsy Chaperone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drowsy_Chaperone)** is modern musical comedy at its best. A die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, a fictional 1928 smash hit, which bursts to life with the hilarious tale of a celebrity bride and her uproarious wedding day. Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, this loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical features one show-stopping song after another.
The role of Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone will be played by the Emmy award-winning comedy writer, songwriter and actor**[ Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/)**. In addition to serving as head writer for the Academy Awards, his extensive writing credits include work on numerous Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Comic Relief, “Donny and Marie,” and for artists including Bette Midler and Angela Lansbury. Along with a six-year stint on “Hollywood Squares” and extensive **[film](https://wegotbruce.com/movies/)** and TV credits, Vilanch performed as Edna Turnblad on Broadway and in the national tour of Hairspray, and appeared off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man show, Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.
The Drowsy Chaperone will be played by Broadway At Music Circus alum Lynne Wintersteller, who played Mother Superior in Sister Act and Dolly in 2017’s Hello, Dolly! In addition to her time on Broadway in A Grand Night For Singing, Wintersteller recently appeared on TV’s “Murphy Brown,” “Elementary” and Netflix’s “Jessica Jones.” Kaleigh Cronin, playing Janet Van De Graaff, returns to Broadway At Music Circus after her last appearance as Sally Bowles in 2016’s Cabaret; she recently appeared on Broadway in the original casts of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical and A Bronx Tale. Matt Loehr, as Robert Martin, just appeared in High Button Shoes with City Center Encores! In addition to Broadway appearances in The Book of Mormon and The Producers, his Broadway At Music Circus roles include Cosmo Brown in last summer’s production of Singin’ in the Rain and Jimmy Winter in 2016’s Nice Work If You Can Get It. A recent cast member of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen and making his Broadway At Music Circus debut as Aldolpho is Bradley Dean, whose additional Broadway appearances include A Little Night Music as Carl-Magnus, Spamalot as Sir Galahad, Man of La Mancha and Company.
Jennifer Smith, whose extensive Broadway credits include the original Broadway company of The Drowsy Chaperone, Anastasia, Tuck Everlasting, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Nice Work If You Can Get It and The Producers, will be playing Mrs. Tottendale. As Underling, Stuart Marland returns after appearing in four Broadway At Music Circus shows last summer; his Broadway credits include Newsies, Xanadu, Jekyll & Hyde and Beauty and the Beast. Jacob ben Widmar, last at Broadway At Music Circus in 2007’s Hello, Dolly! and Kiss Me, Kate, returns as George, following time on Broadway in White Christmas, Xanadu and The Book of Mormon. As well as appearing in this summer’s Oklahoma!, Ron Wisniski, whose extensive credits include touring with Beauty and the Beast as Lumiere and Annie as FDR, will portray Feldzieg. Kitty will be played by Danette Holden, who appeared on Broadway in the 2012 Annie revival, in the original Broadway cast of Shrek The Musical, and off-Broadway in Cagney and The It Girl.
Brad Bradley, Gangster #1, last at Broadway At Music Circus in Sugar, appeared on Broadway in Billy Elliot, A Christmas Carol, People in the Picture, Spamalot and the Annie Get Your Gun revival. Gangster #2, will be played by Michael Paternostro, who played Carmen Ghia in The Producers and Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Broadway At Music Circus, and whose Broadway credits include originating Greg in the revival of A Chorus Line, Soul Doctor, Sweet Smell of Success and Fosse. Sharon Wilkins, as Trix, was last at Broadway At Music Circus as Sour Kangaroo in Seussical, a role she created on Broadway; additionally she appeared on Broadway in The Life and All Shook Up and has over one hundred film, television, commercial and voice over credits.
The cast for The Drowsy Chaperone also includes Ashley Arcement, Randy Castillo, Mary Beth Donahoe and Drew Franklin.
The Director for The Drowsy Chaperone is Glenn Casale; Choreographer is John MacInnis; Music Director is Dennis Castellano.
Tickets for The Drowsy Chaperone start at $45, and are available by phone at (916) 557-1999, online at **[BroadwaySacramento.com](https://broadwaysacremento.com),** or in person at the Wells Fargo Pavilion Box Office, 1419 H Street in Sacramento. Evening performances are Tuesday through Saturday, July 9 – 13, at 7:30 p.m.; matinee performances are Thursday, July 11 and Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 p.m., and Sunday, July 14 at 3:00 p.m. For more information, visit BroadwaySacramento.com.
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Man in Chair, Tony Awards
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### [New Book: Drag - Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business With A Foreward By Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/06/21/new-book-drag-combing-through-the-big-wigs-of-show-business-with-a-foreward-by-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 21, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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#### **Metrosource
The History of Drag is Right Here Between the Covers
WRITTEN BY KEVIN PHINNEY
June 21, 2019**
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Not too long ago, drag entertainers were seen as edgiest outsiders of society, let alone show business. Today, in tandem with society’s increased acceptance of gay culture and[ ***RuPaul’s Drag Race’s***](http://www.vh1.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race) *rise as a gather-round-the-flatscreen weekly ritual, drag has moved squarely into the entertainment mainstream.*
So what better time to celebrate and trace the evolution of their art form? *Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business* (Rizzoli New York; $35) boasts text by funnyman Frank DeCaro and a forward by entertainment legend [**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-comes-to-the-cock-n-bull-restaurant-stage-at-peddlers-village/).
This handsome little tome traces drag’s unprecedented blend of fashion and fun, illusion and extravagance through a dizzying series of milestones. Just a few of these include *Bosom Buddies* and *Tootsie, To Wong Foo*… and *Hedwig, La Cage aux Folles,* and Kinky Boots. It’s quite a journey in not such a long time that took us from scary pariahs like Divine picking up snacks from the sidewalk and Jack McFarland mistaking Cher for an imposter.
**Find LGBTQ-Friendly Resources**
Among the luminaries included, you’ll also find several recent nominees for the title of Metrosource’s “Legendary NYC Drag Queen We Love,” including the effervescent Hedda Lettuce and Lypsinka. Meanwhile, some of the other boldface dames who’ll grace the pages here include Bianca del Rio, Miss Coco Peru, Varla Jean Merman, and Charles Busch. With commentary, interviews, and pictures chronicling more than 100 years of drag around the globe, this is one lewk book no fan of drag should be without. *[rizzoliusa.com](https://www.rizzoliusa.com/)*
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### [Frameland 2019: Bruce Vilanch In-Person Readings of “Marc Huestis: Impresario of Castro Street" June 23, 2019](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/06/21/frameland-2019-bruce-vilanch-in-person-readings-of-marc-huestis-impresario-of-castro-street-june-23-2019/)
**Published:** June 21, 2019
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#### **Mercury News
SF Bay Area filmmakers make a big mark at Frameline 2019
By RANDY MYERS, CORRESPONDENT
June 19, 2019**
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Marc Huestis Impresario of Castro Street
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The Bay Area is well-represented in the upcoming Frameline43 LGBTQ+ film festival, running June 20-30. Here are some of the feature-length films with Bay Area connections.
**“We Are the Radical Monarchs”:** Director Linda Goldstein Knowlton takes look inside of an innovative social justice program founded by Anavyette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquest for girls of color in Oakland. **Screens:** 7 p.m. June 24, Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley.
**“Thanks to Hank”:** The life and achievements of influential Bay Area LGBTQ activist Hank Wilson are the focus of San Francisco filmmaker Bob Ostertag’s documentary. **Screens:** 4:15 p.m. June 27, the Castro, San Francisco.ADVERTISING
**“Through the Windows”:** The Twin Peaks bar has been a staple of San Francisco’s Castro district and this documentary from San Francisco residents Bret Parker and Petey Barma reminds us how this historic landmark was and still is one of the more visible gathering places in San Francisco. Screens: 1:30 p.m. June 24, the Castro.
**“Transfinite”:** Animation and live-action come together for seven fantasy/sci-fi tales shot in Oakland and other Bay Area locales by East Bay filmmaker Neelu Bhuman. **Screens:** 6:45 p.m. June 25 at Victoria Theatre, San Francisco; 9:15 p.m. June 27 at the Piedmont Theatre, Oakland.
**“State of Pride”:** How has Pride changed over the years? The Academy-Award winning team of Bay Area filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman explore how Pride gatherings in the Bay Area and other areas have evolved over the years. **Screens:** 1 p.m. June 28, the Castro.
**“Camp Chaos”:** Santa Clara native and go-go dancer/social media sensation Matthew Camp graphically and explicitly re-enacts some of his sexual exploits in this episodic series. **Screens:** 9:15 p.m. June 28, Victoria Theatre.
**“Marc Huestis: Impresario of Castro Street”:** Frameline co-founder Marc Huestis launches his long-awaited memoir *Impresario of Castro Street* at this exciting multimedia event. His book covers 45 years of San Francisco gay history, beginning in 1974 working with the fabled theatre group Angels of Light, and onto his volatile relationship with Harvey Milk, the early Frameline days, and his creation of first-generation AIDS docs in the ’80s and ’90s (including his Teddy Award-winning *Sex Is…*). It also chronicles over two decades worth of legendary Castro extravaganzas feting such stars as Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller, Karen Black, Patty Duke, and John Waters.
This event includes clips of the heady days of the ‘70s, moving AIDS memorials/celebrations featuring local icons Chuck Solomon and Doris Fish, and snippets from Huestis’ unforgettable Castro Theatre evenings. This rare footage will be fused with in-person readings from Huestis’ juicy memoir by a star-studded cast which includes Carol Lynley, Bruce Vilanch, Danny Nicoletta, Helen Shumaker, and a host of others. Not to be missed!
**Screens:** 6:45 p.m. June 23; Victoria Theatre.
**“Gay Chorus: Deep South”:** Frameline’s closing-night film chronicles a tour through the South by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Screens: 7 p.m. June 30, the Castro.
**“Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America”:** The challenges and triumphs of four refugees coming to San Francisco are powerfully related in Bay Area filmmaker Tom Shepard’s illuminating documentary. Screens: 1 p.m. June 23, the Castro.
You can also catch San Francisco’s Joshua Grannell — aka Peaches Christ — appearing in two feature films — “You Don’t Nomi,” about the notorious big-budget bomb “Showgirls” — and “Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street,” detailing actor Mark Patton’s experiences making the first sequel in the Freddy Krueger saga and how it affected him afterward. “You Don’t Nomi” screens 9:15 p.m. June 27 at the Castro. “Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street” screens 4:15 p.m. June 29 at the Castro.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Headline The Portland Comedy Festival October 5, 2019](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/06/15/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-the-portland-comedy-festival-october-5-2019/)
**Published:** June 15, 2019
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### **The Portland Comedy Special
Bruce Vilanch will also be on an industry panel Saturday afternoon with a Q&A.
June 14, 2019**
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[**Bruce Vilanch**](https://wegotbruce.com/reeling-2018-the-chicago-lgbtq-international-film-festival-31-features-but-only-one-with-a-cameo-by-bruce-vilanch/) will host The Portland Comedy Festival which begins on October 1, 2019, and ends the night of Saturday, Saturday, October 5, 2019.
Attractions include: [**Stand Up Comedy,**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up) a Stand-Up Comedy Contest, Improv Comedy, Podcast Talks, Daytime Talks, Seminars, and Booking Agent Meet And Greets
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Bruce Vilanch will also be participating in the panel discussion.
The Portland Comedy Festival Schedule
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**Official Web Links:**
Official Site: [**The Portland Comedy Festival**](http://theportlandcomedyfestival.com)
Performers: [**List Of Performers**](https://www.theportlandcomedyfestival.com/performers)
Tickets: [**Buy Here**](https://www.theportlandcomedyfestival.com/buy-tickets)
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### [Bruce Vilanch: This Pride Season, Be Prouder, Outer and Gayer Than Ever](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/05/22/bruce-vilanch-this-pride-season-be-prouder-outer-and-gayer-than-ever/)
**Published:** May 22, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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#### **Hollywood Reporter
Vilanch Will Kick Things Off May 22, 2019 With A Reading Of The Play “Dear Harvey” About Harvey Milk
By Seth Abramovitch
May 21, 2019**
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Photo by Dia Dipasupil
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## The Emmy-winning comedy writer and La La Land’s unofficial gay mascot kicks off a summer of free love with a live reading of “Dear Harvey,” a documentary-style play about Harvey Milk staged at WeHo’s City Council Chambers.
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The City of West Hollywood is supersizing its LGBTQ Pride this year with 40 days of events and activities, culminating in the LA Pride Parade down Santa Monica Boulevard on June 9. To kick things off, a staged reading of Patricia Loughrey’s documentary-style play *Dear Harvey* — about [**Harvey Milk**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk), California’s first openly gay elected official — will be held at WeHo City Council Chambers on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. It’s free to attend. Among the cast members are *RuPaul’s Drag Race* star [**Gia Gunn**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia_Gunn) and Bruce Vilanch, the Emmy-winning comedy writer and La La Land’s unofficial gay mascot. *The Hollywood Reporter* caught up with Vilanch, who weighed in on those “hating” fundamentalists, the “adorable” Pete Buttigieg and the one celebrity he calls “the Statue of Liberty for gay people.”
**Hello, Bruce! Happy Gay Pride season.**
It’s starting earlier than ever.
**What do you have in store this year?**
I’m just doing the thing on Wednesday night at the West Hollywood City Council Chambers. We’re reading a play called *Dear Harvey*, which is the history of Harvey Milk, and it is mostly an oral history. His story is very compelling, obviously. I mean, Sean Penn won an Oscar for playing his story, so it’s a great history lesson.
It’s a nice way to kick off the whole Pride thing to remind people of the more recent history that eventually led to where we are now, with marriage equality and fighting the last bigots on the earth, the religious ones.
**Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in, or something.**
Yeah, well, that’s the nature of religion. It’s like the world’s oldest profession. It’s always there and will never go away. It has to be dealt with. But when you look around you realize that it is the only voice left that is bleating in the wilderness and hating gay people. It’s only countries that are ruled by fundamentalists and fundamentalist factions elsewhere of religions that cause all this trouble, and I think a lot of that is surfacing again with the abortion argument.
**They seem to have their sights set on overturning *Roe v. Wade*. Do you think the same-sex marriage ruling could be overturned as well?**
I think that they probably have the same feelings about that, but *Roe v. Wade*is more important to them. I mean, there are more women than there are gay people and they’ve been working on that one longer. It would be, I think, difficult to overturn marriage equality because, what is it? It’s become common and no one is getting hurt. With abortion, they frame it as surrogate murder as far as they’re concerned — and that’s powerful to people who don’t pay attention. So this is all lighthearted and fun.
**You probably have a t-shirt for this occasion somewhere.**
Yeah, or will be working on one. I mean, I’ll get those nuns with their darning needles. Get them started again. They make all my stuff.
**What do you think of Pete Buttigieg?**
I think he’s adorable. Actually aside from that, my own personal lusty feelings, I think he’s wonderful. He’s so smart and he has an answer for everything and it all makes sense and he also just doesn’t lose his cool. I mean, they come at him with all the usual stuff and he just kind of looks at them and says, “You’ve got to be kidding, let’s talk about what’s real,” and I love that.
**Do you have other plans for this Pride season?**
It’s tough for a gay icon because I have to go to lots of parades and wave and show up and remind people of the history of things. It’s just important to be out there. Visibility is the most important thing and that’s what Pride really is about. It’s about reminding people that the only way that we’ve secured our rights and the only way that we will maintain them is by being visible, and Pride is a physical manifestation of that.
**You have been out there waving the rainbow flag a lot longer than most people.**
Yeah, well, I’m a lot older than most people. But I have been from the beginning. I was never really in.
**Over the years, did you find yourself trying to convince other people in show business to come out?**
I don’t know if I tried to convince them. I mean, I wanted to be there for them if they wanted to. I had always felt that what we didn’t need was a bunch of people who were terrified being forced out of the closet. Who needed to see another bitter, unhappy homosexual? So I would say if you feel that way stay in, and when you feel differently then come out when you’re ready to do it.
**Have you seen *Rocketman*?**
No, I haven’t. I’m looking forward to it.
**Do you know Elton John?**
I do and he had a rough time because when he first announced that he was bisexual back in the early ‘70s, he was dropped from a lot of radio stations and it was around the time that I forget the album, maybe *Captain Fantastic*\[*and the Brown Dirt Cowboy*\] came out. It was No. 1 and then suddenly it was off the charts because back then radio was how you got your songs played and a lot of those radio stations in smaller markets were run by people who were besieged by right-wingers and homophobes. And pastors of their churches say, “How can you play this guy’s music when he’s a sinner and all that?” And rather than fight that they just dropped his records, so he felt the brunt of all of that and that’s when he was forced into that marriage, which convinced nobody.
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### ["Can't Stop The Music" Blu-Ray Release June 19, 2019 With Bruce Vilanch Commentary](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/05/21/cant-stop-the-music-blu-ray-release-june-19-2019-with-bruce-vilanch-commentary/)
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**Press Release For “Can’t Stop The Music” Blu-Ray**
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**CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC Blu-ray**
**Release date:** June 11, 2019
**Directed by** Nancy Walker
**The Movie Musical Event Of The ’80s … Is Back!**
Pour yourself a milkshake and experience the magic, music, and mirth of the all-time favorite camptastic classic: Can’t Stop The Music! This (highly fictionalized) story depicting the creation of disco icons the Village People provides the framework for an outrageous musical extravaganza as only producer Allan Carr (Grease, Grease 2) could deliver.
An infamous flop upon its 1980 release, but cherished by fans of the singing sextet and cult cinema, Can’t Stop The Music offers a truly unforgettable time capsule experience. Packed with macho men, glamorous gals, “they don’t make ‘em like this anymore” production numbers, and a once-in-a-lifetime cast, it’s the sort of dizzy fun that aficionados of camp the world over award gold medals to. Watch it and see for yourself that it takes a Village … to raise your spirits!
In this fictional account of the Village People, fashion model Samantha Simpson (Valerie Perrine) helps her roommate, Jack Morrell (Steve Guttenberg), try to get a record deal. Morrell’s demo isn’t perfect, so Simpson searches New York for a proper group to sing the songs and finds a group made up of a police officer, a cowboy, a construction worker, a soldier, an Indian and a biker. They are primed for success, but complications arise when advertisers grow wary of their image.
- **Special Features:**
- NEW Interview with [**Village People’s** ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_People)Randy Jones–over an hour of stories and memories from your favorite Cowboy!\\
- NEW Audio Commentary with The Fabulous Allan Carr Producer/Director Jeffrey Schwarz and Comedy Writer Bruce Vilanch
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Original TV Spot
- Image Galleries
*EMI Presents An [**ALLAN CARR**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Carr) Production*
***CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC***
**Starring:** *VILLAGE PEOPLE, VALERIE PERRINE, BRUCE JENNER, STEVE GUTTENBERG, PAUL SAND*
**Co-starring** *TAMMY GRIMES, JUNE HAVOC, BARBARA RUSH, ALTOVISE DAVIS, And MARILYN SOKOL*
**Special Guests** *THE RITCHIE FAMILY*
**Produced By** *ALLAN CARR JACQUES MORALI And HENRI BELOLO*
**Written By** *BRONTE WOODARD And ALLAN CARR*
**Associate Producer** *NEIL MACHLIS*
**Director Of Photography** *BILL BUTLER*
**Directed By** *NANCY WALKER*
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1080p High-Definition (2.35:1)/English DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo/English Subtitles/1980/Color/Approximate Feature Running Time +/- 124 Minutes
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**Synopsis:** In this fictional account of the Village People, fashion model Samantha Simpson (Valerie Perrine) helps her roommate, Jack Morrell (Steve Guttenberg), try to get a record deal. Morrell’s demo isn’t perfect, so Simpson searches New York for a proper group to sing the songs and finds a group made up of a police officer, a cowboy, a construction worker, a soldier, an Indian and a biker. They are primed for success, but complications arise when advertisers grow wary of their image.
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### [Reeling 2018: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival - 31 Features But Only One With A Cameo By Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/21/reeling-2018-the-chicago-lgbtq-international-film-festival-31-features-but-only-one-with-a-cameo-by-bruce-vilanch/)
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#### Third Coast Review
Reeling 2018: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival – 31 Features But Only One With A Cameo By Bruce Vilanch
BY STEVE PROKOPY ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
With 31 features and 19 short film programs being screened—all of them Chicago premieres—the 36th edition of Reeling (the second-oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world) runs September 20-30 at a handful of theaters around the city, including an opening night presentation at the Davis Theater, with an afterparty at the adjoining Carbon Arc Bar. The festival’s final weekend (Sept. 28-30) will take place at the newly restored firehouse headquarters of Chicago Filmmakers, the presenting organization of Reeling while the bulk of screenings (Sept. 21-27) happen at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema.
Reeling Film Festival runs September 20-30 at locations around the city.
British actor/writer/director Rupert Everett (*My Best Friend’s Wedding*) will walk the red carpet on Thursday, Sept. 27 in support of Reeling’s Special Presentation of his directorial debut, *The Happy Prince*, in which he stars as Oscar Wilde in the sunset of his life, focusing specifically on writer in exile in Paris, after his conviction for “gross indecency,” and his release from prison in 1897. Estranged from his wife (Emily Watson) and sons, Wilde is haunted by ghosts of the past and supported by his remaining loyal friends, including Reggie (played by Oscar-winner Colin Firth).
In addition, Hong Kong-based director Scud (*Voyage*, *Utopians*, *Amphetamine*), renowned for his provocative, sexually infused films, will be on hand on Tuesday, Sept. 25 for the North American premiere of his seventh feature, *Adonis*, the story of a handsome young actor who descends into a world of hedonism after partaking in an infamous gay adult film. Filled with the mind-blowing visuals for which Scud is known, this may be the director’s most provocative work.
The festival’s Opening Night offering is *Freelancers Anonymous*, a lesbian screwball comedy filmed in Chicago, starring Lisa Cordileone and Chicago-area native Alexandra Billings (*Transparent*, *Goliath*). Cordileone is expected to attend the opening night festivities along with other cast members. On Friday, Sept. 21, Reeling will also present the Chicago premieres of the hotly anticipated biopic *Mapplethorpe*, starring Matt Smith (*Dr. Who*, *The Crown*) as the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with Marianne Rendon (*Imposters*) portraying onetime-girlfriend Patti Smith.
“Hood by Air” fashion designer Leilah Weinraub’s incendiary documentary debut *Shakedown*also screens on Sept. 21, with the festival’s Narrative Centerpiece, *Wild Nights with Emily*, starring Molly Shannon as Emily Dickinson, showing on Sunday, Sept. 23. *Studio 54*, the history of the infamous 1970s-era nightclub from director Matt Tyrnauer (*Valentino*, *Scotty Bowers and the Secret History of Hollywood*) closes the fest on Sunday, Sept. 30, followed by an afterparty featuring disco music, dancing, and food catered by Goddess & Grocers.
The Miss Continental Pageant and the Baton Show Lounge—both Chicago institutions for decades—are profiled in Reeling’s Documentary Centerpiece selection, *The Queens*. Director Mark Saxenmeyer focuses on the 35-year-old pageant and explores the subculture of competitive female impersonation in all its glittery glory while delving into the rich history of The Baton Show Lounge, the Windy City’s historic female illusion showplace (now in its 49th year). Saxenmeyer and cast members will be present at the screening, which is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 24.
Other films reflecting on life in the 1970s and ’80s include *Canary* (*Kanarie*), set in apartheid-era South Africa, about a small-town boy who is drafted into the military and finds solace with other misfits in the military’s traveling choir; it will screen Friday, Sept. 21. In addition, there is *Riot* (Saturday, Sept. 22), a drama about Australia’s version of Stonewall, the Mardi Gras riot, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The impact of the AIDS crisis is revisited in the emotionally powerful new drama *1985* (Wednesday, Sept. 26 ), which stars Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen and Michael Chiklis; as well as in a film that was created in 1985, *Buddies* (Monday, Sept. 24), the first American feature about AIDS, directed by Arthur Bressan, Jr. who later died of an AIDS-related illness. The film is showing at Reeling in a newly restored, digital print, 33 years after it was the Opening Night film of the 5th edition of the festival.
Adding to the international scope of the festival are two films about summer encounters that cross ethnic borders. In the Dutch film *Just Friends* (Saturday, Sept. 22 ), sparks fly between a Middle Eastern medical student and a young man he meets in a small Dutch city he visits over the summer. In *A Moment in the Reeds* (Tuesday, Sept. 25), the first independent LGBT film made in Finland, the relationship between a Syrian asylum seeker and the son of his Finnish employer erotically unfolds during an idyllic Finnish summer. The fraught relationship between two young men is under threat of crumbling when they go on holiday in the Greek film *He Loves Me* (Sunday, September 23); while the relationship between two women (Oona Chaplin, *Game of Thrones*, *Black Mirror*) and Kat (Natlia Tena) is tested when one of them wants to have a child and the other doesn’t in the Spanish film *Anchor and Hope* (Saturday, Sept. 22), which features Oona’s real-life mother Geraldine Chaplin as her mother in the film. The Brazilian film *Christabel* (Wednesday, Sept. 26), making its North American Premiere, takes us to the tropical savanna for a Gothic tale of supernatural romance inspired by the legendary Coleridge poem.
Comedies in the festival include the boisterous Italian film *My Big, Gay Italian Wedding*(Monday, Sept. 24), based on the long-running Off Broadway show, in which a gay couple’s road to the altar is paved with hijinks and hilarity; ***Still Waiting in the Wings*** (Saturday, Sept. 22), a frothy musical about young men pursuing their Broadway dreams, featuring cameos by a host of familiar faces (Chita Rivera, Ed Asner, Patricia Richardson, Cindy Williams, Lee Meriwether, **[Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/bruce-vilanch-comes-to-the-cock-n-bull-restaurant-stage-at-peddlers-village/)**, Sally Struthers); and the German film *Country Noise* (Tuesday, Sept. 25), about a young pink-haired urbanite who returns home to her small German town and shakes things up when she reconnects with her trombone-playing childhood friend. Reeling also presents the World Premiere of *Analysis Paralysis* (Thursday, September 27), focusing on a man searching for love while struggling with his anxiety disorder.
American Indies are well-represented in Reeling, with *Funny Story* (Thursday, Sept. 27), about a father and daughter both involved with the daughter’s fiancée; *Kill the Monsters*(Wednesday, Sept. 26), a sexy road trip drama focused on a three-way relationship; the eye-popping, wildly offbeat tale of twisted love *Daddy Issues* (Saturday, Sept. 22), a lesbian dramedy that has been described as the lovechild of Wes Anderson and David Lynch; *Alaska Is a Drag* (Sunday, Sept. 23), which follows the dreams of a budding female impersonator working in a fish cannery by day (and featuring a hilarious cameo by Margaret Cho); *Devil’s Path* (Sunday, Sept. 23), a creepy thriller about a killer stalking men in a gay trysting spot in the forest; and the lesbian inter-generational drama *Snapshots* (Saturday, Sept. 22), starring Piper Laurie, Brooke Adams and Emily Baldoni.
Documentaries in the festival include: *Call Her Ganda* (Sunday, Sept. 23), the riveting and heartbreaking story of the murder of a trans woman in the Philippines; *Conversations with Gay Elders: Kerby Lauder* (Sunday, Sept. 23), a fascinating, in-depth examination of one man’s life conducted by queer history filmmaker David Weissman (*We Were Here*, *The Cockettes*); *In My Room* (Saturday, Sept. 22), an intimate look at six teenagers who post videos to YouTube; *The Rest I Make Up* (Monday, Sept. 24), a loving portrait of esteemed nine-time Obie Award winning playwright Maria Irene Fornes by her protégé, as the writer is struggling with dementia; and *Leitis In Waiting* (Saturday, Sept. 22), the story of an intrepid group of transgender women fighting intolerance in their South Pacific home of Tonga.
In addition to the feature lineup, Reeling will present 19 short film programs scattered throughout the programming, with the final weekend of the festival at Chicago Filmmakers focusing almost entirely on shorts, making this the most short films ever presented by the festival.
For the full schedule, in-depth descriptions of every film, and links to purchase advance tickets, go to [the Reeling website](http://reelingfilmfestival.org/2018/section/features/).
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold Perform Tomorrow Night, Sept 28, White Plains](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/27/reminder-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold-perform-tomorrow-night-sept-28-white-plains/)
**Published:** September 27, 2018
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Reminder: Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold Perform Tomorrow Night, Sept 28, White Plains – Video Included
> An Evening with BRUCE VILANCH and JUDY GOLD = Laughter & Fun – A Comedy Double Header
>
> Oscar audiences will know Bruce Vilanch’s hysterical, Emmy Award-winning writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and other hosts for more than 20 years. He’s written many other award shows, television series, and variety specials. His stand-up comedy routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider.
>
> Judy Gold is also an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.”
> Together,
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> Bruce and Judy will fill the BIG and TALL order of making you laugh and laugh!
>
> Press Release
SOURCE: [https://wppac.com](https://wppac.com/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Comes to The Cock 'N Bull Restaurant & Stage At Peddler's Village](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/10/16/bruce-vilanch-comes-to-the-cock-n-bull-restaurant-stage-at-peddlers-village/)
**Published:** October 16, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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## **Broadway World**
**Bruce Vilanch Comes to The Cock ‘N Bull Restaurant & Stage At Peddler’s Village**
**by BWW News Desk Oct. 13, 2018**
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This Fall 2018, there is a new comedy venue in Bucks County. The Cock ‘N Bull Restaurant & Stage will present (In Association with Empire Plush Room Presents), a series entitled COMEDY LEGENDS LIVE! Comedy Legends will appear in the intimate venue, allowing audiences to experience the artists up close and personal. The live entertainment series debuted on September 22 with the hilarious [Bobby Collins](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bobby-Collins/). Next up will be the one and only [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) on November 24.
Tickets: $37.50 Gen Adm / $47.50 Ltd VIP Up Close tables
There will be a $20.00 per person food & beverage minimum
For Tickets & Information: www.PeddlersVillage.com or 888-596-1027
[Bruce Vilanch](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) is a writer for award shows, television series and variety shows, actor, comedian, stripper (it pays), Muppet impersonator, and all-around suspicious individual. For six years, he was a Hollywood Square, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. For two years, he ironed his way across America and toiled on Broadway as [Edna Turnblad](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Edna-Turnblad/) in Hairspray, and played himself in his Off-Broadway[ **hit, Almost Famous. For twenty-three**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce) years, he wrote the Oscar telecast – writing for hosts [Billy Crystal](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Crystal/), [Alec Baldwin](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Alec-Baldwin/), [Steve Martin](https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Steve-Martin/) and others, winning two Emmys in the process, and four other Emmys for things that now show up on YouTube. There is a documentary about all this and more called [**Get Bruce**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce), made by the Weinstein Brothers some years ago. Very netflixable. He would be remiss if he didn’t mention his luminous flop Platinum, which he co-wrote when a toddler. Never believe a biography that doesn’t mention the flops. His latest project is the pre-Broadway show entitled “[**A Sign Of The Times**](https://wegotbruce.com/this-is-exciting-full-casting-set-for-bruce-vilanch-penned-a-sign-of-the-times-musical/)” (a new 60’s musical) , which he writes the book for. The show will play The Delaware Theatre Company this December prior to its arrival on Broadway. Mr. Vilanch’s stand-up routines draw on his years of being a Hollywood insider. Lots of secrets will be revealed (even more than TMZ)!
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### [This Is Exciting: Full Casting Set for Bruce Vilanch-Penned A Sign of the Times Musical](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/10/16/this-is-exciting-full-casting-set-for-bruce-vilanch-penned-a-sign-of-the-times-musical/)
**Published:** October 16, 2018
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## **Broadway Buzz
Full Casting Set for Bruce Vilanch-Penned *A Sign of the Times* Musical
by Broadway.com Staff • Oct 15, 2018**
**Full Casting Set for Bruce Vilanch-Penned *A Sign of the Times* Musical**
Casting is complete for the new ’60s musical [*A Sign of the Times*,](http://asignofthetimes.com/) appearing at Delaware Theater Company from November 28 through December 23. Newly announced cast members include Lauren Boyd, Brad Bradley, Melessie Clark, Steven Grant Douglas, Natalie Charle Ellis, Stacia Fernandez, Phoebe Gavula, Louis James Jackson, Sarah Jenkins, Aaron Kaburick, David LaMarr, Alexandra Matteo, Ralph Meitzler, Nick Picknally and Dave Schoonover. They join the previously announced Beautiful alum Chilina Kennedy, Drew Seeley, Crystal Lucas-Perry and Ryan Silverman. Featuring a book by Emmy-winning Broadway alum [Bruce Vilanch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch) (*Hairspray*), direction by Gabriel Barre (*Amazing Grace*) and choreography JoAnn M. Hunter ([*School of Rock*](https://www.broadway.com/shows/school-rock-musical/)), Sign of the Times tells the story of Cindy (Kennedy), a young woman pursuing her passion and finding her voice in New York City in 1965. The score features such classic songs as “Downtown,” “You Don’t Own Me,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” and “The Boy from New York City.” *A Sign of the Times* was first seen in a world premiere engagement at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch On Social Media And Comedy](https://wegotbruce.com/2019/05/21/video-bruce-vilanch-on-social-media-and-comedy/)
**Published:** May 21, 2019
**Author:** MisterD
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#### **Got Pap
Video: Bruce Vilanch On Social Media And Comedy
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**Categories:** Bruce Vilanch, Social Media, Video
**Tags:** ArcLight Cinemas, comedy, Hollywood Los Angeles California, instant fame
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play THE COCK 'N BULL RESTAURANT & STAGE Saturday, Nov 24, 2018 | 8:30 p.m., St Bucks, PA](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/21/bruce-vilanch-to-play-the-cock-n-bull-restaurant-stage-saturday-nov-24-2018-830-p-m-st-bucks-pa/)
**Published:** September 21, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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#### **Peddlar’s Village**
**Bruce Vilanch To Play THE COCK ‘N BULL RESTAURANT & STAGE Saturday, Nov 24,** 2018 **| 8:30 p.m., St Bucks, PA**
### **Bruce Vilanch**
**Saturday, November 24, 2018 | 8:30 p.m**
**Tickets: $37.50 General Admission | $47.50 Ltd VIP Up-Close Seating
*Please note: There will also be a $20.00 minimum food and drink charge per person during the show.***
Order you tickets online: [8:30 PM](https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=55db948ccbd9a73bd2ccfb04bf6a345c&vqitq=ba4e1219-53e9-4e58-bac5-0e9d2abac244&vqitp=c2592f09-909d-4193-b9b5-1d935494b461&vqitts=1537580797&vqitc=vendini&vqite=itl&vqitrt=Safetynet&vqith=956f225684ce3bae24b96f98ba4441f3). For more information call 888-596-1027
Bruce Vilanch is a writer, actor, comedian, stripper (it pays), Muppet impersonator, and all-around suspicious individual. For six years, he was a Hollywood Square, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. For two years, he ironed his way across America and toiled on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. For twenty three years, he wrote the Oscar telecast, winning two Emmys in the process, and four other Emmys for things that now show up on YouTube. There is a documentary about all this called Get Bruce, made by the Weinstein Brothers some years ago. Very netflixable. He would be remiss if he didn’t mention his luminous flop Platinum, which he co-wrote when a toddler. Never believe a biography that doesn’t mention the flops. His latest project is the pre-Broadway show entitled “A Sign Of The Times” (a new 60’s musical) , which he write the book for. The show will play The Delaware Theatre Company this winter prior to it’s arrival on Broadway. Mr. Vilanch’s stand-up routines draw on his years of being a Hollywood insider. Lots of secrets will be revealed!
[Click here](https://www.peddlersvillage.com/public_docs/media/cnb_comedy_5ba3b384964ac.pdf) to see the Comedy Legends Live! menu
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### [Bruce Vilanch will be awarded with The Thrive Tribe Humanitarian Advocate Award September 22, 2018](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/21/bruce-vilanch-will-be-awarded-with-the-thrive-tribe-humanitarian-advocate-award-september-22-2018/)
**Published:** September 21, 2018
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#### **NewNowNext**
**Bruce Vilanch will be awarded The Thrive Tribe Humanitarian Advocate Award**
**by Christopher Rudolph 9/19/2018**
This upcoming Saturday, September 22, The Thrive Tribe, a non-profit using a peer-to-peer model to fight against HIV, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a star-studded celebration in Pasadena, CA.
The “Big Night Masquerade” gala will feature performances, and special guests like out actor Alex Lee (*Entourage*), and Former Miss Continental 2012, Sasha Colby. At the event legendary writer-comedian Bruce Vilanch will be awarded with The Thrive Tribe Humanitarian Advocate Award.
Logo TV and *Finding Prince Charming* producer Brian Graden will be honored with this year’s Media Award for the *Finding Prince Charming*episode where contestant Eric Leonardos came out to the other suitors as HIV positive.
Leonardos will also be presented with an HIV Activist Award at the event.
“All of the \[*Finding Prince Charming*\] guys that were still living in the house were very supportive and caring. That’s very important to people living with HIV,” Leonardos [told NewNowNext](http://www.newnownext.com/finding-prince-charming-eric-hiv/10/2016/) back in 2016, when asked about coming out as positive on the show.
“Studies have shown that people with HIV are more likely to seek treatment and take better care of themselves when they feel the support of those around them,” he continued. “It also helps lessen the stigma around HIV, which reduces people’s overall fear of getting tested.”
**For more information on The Thrive Tribe and how to purchase tickets to the masquerade gala click [here](https://bignightoutla.org/).**
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Humanitarian Advocate Award, Thrive
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### [An Evening with BRUCE VILANCH and JUDY GOLD](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/08/an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold/)
**Published:** September 8, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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Oscar audiences will know Bruce Vilanch’s hysterical, Emmy Award-winning writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and other hosts for more than 20 years. He’s written many other award shows, television series, and variety specials. His stand-up comedy routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider.
Judy Gold is also an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.”
Together, Bruce and Judy will fill the **BIG and TALL** order of making you laugh and laugh!
**CITY:** White Plains, NY 10601 **WHEN:** Sep 28, 2018 at 12:00 am **WHERE:**
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### [Bruce Vilanch Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Miami Tickets](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/08/bruce-vilanch-aventura-arts-cultural-center-miami-tickets/)
**Published:** September 8, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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FRIDAY
Oct 05, 2018
8:00 PM
Bruce Vilanch
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Miami FL
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch on "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special"](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/01/video-bruce-vilanch-on-the-paul-lynde-halloween-special/)
**Published:** September 1, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special is a Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde broadcast October 29, 1976, on ABC. It featured guest stars Margaret Hamilton in the first reprisal of her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Also, guest starring is Billie Hayes as Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf, Tim Conway, Roz Kelly, Florence Henderson, rock band Kiss, Billy Barty as Gallows the Butler, Betty White and, in an unbilled surprise appearance, Donny and Marie Osmond. The special aired only once.
Bruce Vilanch was one of the writers.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Halloween Special, Paul Lynde
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### [Aaron Lazar will play the Birdland Theater September 11. Show is co-written with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/09/01/aaron-lazar-will-play-the-birdland-theater-september-11-show-is-co-written-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** September 1, 2018
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Aaron Lazar will play the Birdland Theater September 11. Show is co-written with Bruce Vilanch
By Andrew Gans
August 31, 2018
Broadway alum Aaron Lazar, who will be seen as Larry Murphy in the forthcoming national tour of the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, will bring his acclaimed solo concert to Birdland prior to the tour.
Lazar will offer Broadway to Hollywood September 11 at 7 PM at the Birdland Theater. Attendees can expect an evening of comedy and romance with dozens of Broadway’s greatest songs from stage and screen.
Co-written with Bruce Vilanch, the concert will feature musical direction by Jesse Kissel.
Lazar’s Broadway credits include The Last Ship, A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, and more.
All tickets are $30-$50 with a $10 food/drink minimum. For ticket information visit BirdlandJazz[.](https://www.birdlandjazz.com/)
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### [Delaware audiences are in for a theatrical treat. Bruce Vilanch's Musical “A Sign of the Times” Is Coming!](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/25/delaware-audiences-are-in-for-a-theatrical-treat-bruce-vilanchs-musical-a-sign-of-the-times-is-coming/)
**Published:** August 25, 2018
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Regional Theater News
By Casey Mink | Posted July 24, 2018, 4 p.m.**
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Chilina Kennedy, who recently departed the titular role in Broadway’s “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” has signed on to lead “A Sign of the Times” as part of Delaware Theater Company’s 40th anniversary season. The musical, which had its world premiere at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, features the songbook of recording artist Petula Clark, and a book by six-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch. Gabriel Barre directs the production, which will also star Drew Seeley, Crystal Lucas-Perry, and Ryan Silverman. Performances will begin Nov. 28 and are slated to run through Dec. 23.
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**Tags:** a sign of the times, Broadway, Bruce Vilanch, Chilina Kennedy, Petula Clark
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### [See Bruce Vilanch At The Cock & Bull Restaurant & Stage at Peddler's Village Lahaska, PA](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/25/see-bruce-vilanch-at-the-cock-bull-restaurant-stage-at-peddlers-village-lahaska-pa/)
**Published:** August 25, 2018
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### **Bruce Vilanch Saturday, November 24, 2018 | 8:30 p.m**
**Tickets: $37.50 General Admission | $47.50 Ltd VIP Up-Close Seating **
Order your tickets online: [8:30 PM](https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=55db948ccbd9a73bd2ccfb04bf6a345c&vqitq=6813dc81-380f-4238-8a9a-60fde92f8bfe&vqitp=78a99149-9898-4b5c-992b-d792cb94e4c9&vqitts=1534496864&vqitc=vendini&vqite=itl&vqitrt=Safetynet&vqith=9d59c66b72a120f8416ebf96f76076d9). For more information call 888-596-1027
Bruce Vilanch is a writer, actor, comedian, stripper (it pays), Muppet impersonator, and all-around suspicious individual. For six years, he was a Hollywood Square, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. For two years, he ironed his way across America and toiled on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. For twenty-three years, he wrote the Oscar telecast, winning two Emmys in the process, and four other Emmys for things that now show up on YouTube. There is a documentary about all this called Get Bruce, made by the Weinstein Brothers some years ago. Very netflixable. He would be remiss if he didn’t mention his luminous flop Platinum, which he co-wrote when a toddler. Never believe a biography that doesn’t mention the flops. His latest project is the pre-Broadway show entitled “A Sign Of The Times” (a new 60’s musical) , which he wrote the book for. The show will play The Delaware Theatre Company this winter prior to its arrival on Broadway. Mr. Vilanch’s stand-up routines draw on his years of being a Hollywood insider. Lots of secrets will be revealed!
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### [Long before Ellen, Boy George, “Will & Grace,” and RuPaul, there was Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/16/16967-2/)
**Published:** August 16, 2018
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Queery: Bruce Vilanch
by John Paul King
August 15, 2018**
Long before Ellen, Boy George, “Will & Grace,” and RuPaul, there was Bruce Vilanch. You may know him from writing the most memorable moments on the Academy Awards, or from touring as Edna in “Hairspray,” or from being front and center on “Hollywood Squares,” or from writing for Bette Midler.
No matter how you know him, and even if you don’t know him by name, one thing is certain — Bruce Vilanch always leaves you smiling.
To this gay boy growing up in a Boston suburb, that weirdly wonderful creature who regularly popped up on television brought endless joy – and promise. It proved that somehow, somewhere, there were more people like me; that I could fit in, thrive, work, and more than anything else, have a fabulous time.
It seemed like it was a party wherever Bruce showed up. “Donny & Marie,” “The Brady Bunch Variety Hour,” “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special” and “The Star Wars Holiday Special.”
Was it as much fun as it seemed? Vilanch sighs. “Even sex sometimes isn’t as fabulous on the inside as it seems from the outside!”
He regularly uses his gifts to benefit causes close to his heart. He’s been a tireless advocate for gay rights, raised countless dollars for the fight against AIDS and regularly participates in Pride events – you name it and Bruce has done it. When I ask what drives him, he says, “Renting my body was not an option.”
I remember being part of the invited audience for the dress rehearsal before he hit the road in “Hairspray,” slipping into Edna’s slippers. The first person in his dressing room afterwards was his beloved mother, Henne – who was immortalized in the 1999 documentary about Vilanch, “Get Bruce!” Bruce was still in full makeup (see photo). Henne gushed, “You were WONDERFUL.” She turned to me and said, “Isn’t my son wonderful?” He certainly is!
**How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell?**
I’ve never been in. Before Stonewall, the concept of being publicly out didn’t exist. And I’ve been around since before Stonewall. Shocking, I know. In addition, I was always fooling around with girls, until I realized that any woman I wanted to make a life with deserved more than a guy who would be trolling around looking for other guys. I chose to live an authentic life. When they say homosexuality is a choice, that’s the choice they’re talking about.
**Who’s your LGBT hero?**
If I have to pick just one out of the herd, I guess it would be Noël Coward. He lived the life he wanted to live and nobody seemed to make a bother about it. Plus he was funny as shit.
**What’s Los Angeles’ best nightspot, past or present?**
I am of the Studio One/Rose Tattoo era. I was too late for the Coconut Grove in its prime and now I don’t last as late, so I can’t enjoy Reflex in its prime, which is about 5 a.m.
**Describe your dream wedding.**
It’s a thrupple. I’m not sure who the other two guys are, but one of them dresses left and the other dresses right and I’m the centrist.
**What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about?**
I’m a tribal Jew, so I’m concerned about my tribe. Working on AIDS-related causes for so many decades has made me more interested in other minority health issues, and being on the board of the LA LGBT Center has certainly gotten me involved in that. Of course, I am dogged about the arts and censorship and preservation and restoration. And I worry — Tiffany Haddish — she really ready?
**What historical outcome would you change?**
I try not to indulge in magical thinking. Magical drinking is enough.
**What’s been the most memorable pop culture moment of your lifetime?**
Probably Woodstock, but that’s just because I am a boomer. I wasn’t really a hippie, I wasn’t really a rocker, I wasn’t really a stoner, but the idea of half a million people hiking into the woods to hear music and to tell the previous generation that there was a new world hatching is still pretty memorable.
**On what do you insist?**
Pleasure. And free WiFi.
**What was your last Facebook post or Tweet?**
Probably a postcard eulogy of a friend. They’re thick on the ground now…again. But this is not because of a plague. This is Mother Nature and Father Time, who are both non-binary.
**If your life were a book, what would the title be?**
There was a documentary about me called “Get Bruce!” Maybe the book will be “Had Bruce!” With a much larger cast.
**If science discovered a way to change sexual orientation, what would you do?**
By that time, I will be married to a Martian.
**What do you believe in beyond the physical world?**
An ethical dimension.
**What’s your advice for LGBT movement leaders?**
Xanax. Just when we thought we had climbed the mountain, they moved the mountain. I don’t blame them for being depressed and a bit shell-shocked. Still, our enemies eat a lot of sugar and have boundless energy, and we have to shut down divisive politics amongst ourselves and confront the common orange evil.
**What would you walk across hot coals for?**
A swimming pool, and in a big hurry.
**What LGBT stereotype annoys you most?**
Anyone who tells you if you disagree with them, you are worse than Hitler. And that’s an awful lot of gay people. We’re woefully intolerant of each other and rather than finding common ground, we carpet bomb. This isn’t new, but it is especially annoying in the era that began on November 9, 2016.
**What’s your favorite LGBT movie?**
“Get Bruce!” of course, OK, that wasn’t even nominated for a GLAAD Award, even though part of the movie was my acceptance speech when I personally won a GLAAD Award. Aside from that, I am very partial to an indie drama called “Parting Glances,” which was the first AIDS movie that I can recall. If you don’t think you can handle it, know that the young Steve Buscemi is one of the leads and that alone should get you to Netflix and chill.
**What’s the most overrated social custom?**
“How are you,” “Thoughts and prayers,” “Sorry for your loss,” referring to rich kids as “children of privilege.”
**What trophy or prize do you most covet?**
The World’s Largest Penis, which is not the same as the World’s Largest Dick, which I have already been called.
**What do you wish you’d known at 18?**
That pizza wouldn’t make me happy for more than a minute.
**Why Los Angeles?**
I’m deeply shallow.
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### [See Bruce Vilanch In His New Show "#WhyNotMe?" Aug 9, 2018 At Martinis Above Fourth](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/06/see-bruce-vilanch-in-his-new-show-whynotme-aug-9-2018-at-martinis-above-fourth/)
**Published:** August 6, 2018
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**See Bruce Vilanch In His New Show “#WhyNotMe?” Aug 9, 2018, At Martinis Above Fourth**
**August 4, 2018**
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Six-time Emmy Award-winner, head writer for the Oscars and featured writer for the Tonys, Grammys, Emmys, Bruce Vilanch returns to Martinis Above Fourth with his new show #WhyNotMe?. Join us for an evening of side-splitting stand-up comedy that will leave you will afterglow for days.
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## Upcoming Dates & Times
- Thursday, Aug 9, 2018 / 8:00pm — $17.50 — **[Buy Tickets](https://www.dealyte.com/deal/bruce-vilanch-in-whynotme--martinis-above-fourth-table-stage/3121334)**
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*Phone: 619-400-4500*
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### [Bruce Vilanch will provide special material at a benefit honoring Chita Rivera October 1, 2018](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/08/02/bruce-vilanch-will-provide-special-material-at-a-benefit-honoring-chita-rivera-october-1-2018/)
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**Playbill
Liz Callaway and Ali Stroker Will Honor Tony Winner Chita Rivera at Touch the Sky Benefit
BY ANDREW GANS
JUL 31, 2018**
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Touch the Sky, a benefit celebrating the Manhattan and Brooklyn arrival of the L.A.-based playgrounds organization Shane’s Inspiration, will honor multiple Tony winner Chita Rivera October 1 at 7:30 PM in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Those scheduled to pay tribute to Rivera, who received the 2018 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, include Billy Stritch, Jim Caruso, Melissa Errico, Ali Stroker, Joan Ryan, and Liz Callaway. Seth Rudetsky will host.
The evening was conceived by Ryan and is executive-produced by Ryan and Scott Mauro. Producers include Brad Thornton and NY1’s Roma Torre. Bruce Vilanch will provide special material, and Ron Abel is musical director.
Paul Hastings LLP will receive the Corporate Responsibility Award for its unwavering commitment to Shane’s Inspiration.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Carnegie Hall, Chita Rivera, Liz Callaway, Melissa Errico, Playbill, Seth Rudetsky, Touch the Sky (Carole King album)
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Mercedes Ruehl, Bruce Willis, and more, will bring to life the writings of Brian Doyle](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/29/bruce-vilanch-mercedes-ruehl-bruce-willis-and-more-will-bring-to-life-the-writings-of-brian-doyle/)
**Published:** July 29, 2018
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**East Hampton Star
Stars Will Shine at Guild Hall
“Hey, Doyle! — Tales and Jazz” will bring to life the writings of Brian Doyle
By Mark Segal | July 26, 2018 – 12:01pm**
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Bruce Willis, Brooke Adams, Michael Nouri, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin are among the stars who will be out this week at Guild Hall, where a jazz-infused benefit for the Pushcart Prize and WordTheatre in the Schools and two staged readings will be presented.
“Hey, Doyle! — Tales and Jazz” will bring to life the writings of Brian Doyle, a four-time awardee of the Pushcart Prize and the editor of Portland magazine, who died in 2017 at the age of 60.
Mr. Willis will perform “Memorial Day,” a short essay by Mr. Doyle published posthumously in the most recent volume of the annual Pushcart Prize anthology of the best of the small presses published and edited by Bill Henderson, who lives in Springs.
Other actors who will bring Mr. Doyle’s stories to life are Paul Guilfoyle, Sharon Lawrence, Lorraine Toussaint, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young, and Ms. Adams and Mr. Nouri. The program, which will take place on Saturday at 8:30 p.m., is produced and directed by Cedering Fox, the artistic director of WordTheatre, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the tradition of storytelling.
Tickets are $40 to $65, $38 to $63 for members. V.I.P. tickets, which include an after-party from 10 to midnight, are $250.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play The Adventura Arts & Cultural Center October 5th](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/29/bruce-vilanch-to-play-the-adventura-arts-cultural-center-october-5th/)
**Published:** July 29, 2018
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**Broadway World
Industry Insider
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Announces 2018-19 Season
by BWW News Desk Jul. 27, 2018**
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Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Announces 2018-19 Season. The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center is located at 3385 N.E. 188 Street in Aventura.
Ticketmaster is the only official ticketing service of the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. Buy tickets online at [aventuracenter.org](http://aventuracenter.org), by phone at 877.311.7469 or 954.462.0222, or in person at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center box office Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to each performance. For Group Sales, please call 954.660.6307.
Please note that not all shows scheduled for the 2018-19 season are currently on sale and additional performances will be added throughout the season. Print quality images of select performances from the upcoming season, representing all genres, may be downloaded at https://tinyurl.com/yacz7vw5.
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts manages the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, a 14,864-square-foot, 330-seat waterfront complex that hosts performing arts, cultural and educational programming for all ages.
*Performance Schedule at a Glance Page 2*
Aventura International Film Series Page 4
*Broadway Concert Series and Theater Page 7*
*Classical Music Page 10*
*Comedy and Variety Page 12*
*Concerts and Popular Music Page 17*
*Dance Page 22*
*Family Entertainment Theater Page 24*
*NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Speaker Series Page 27*
**Aventura Arts & Cultural Center 2018-19 Season**
**Oct. 5 Bruce Vilanch: [Click Here For Ticket Information & Tickets](https://www.aventuracenter.org/events/detail/comedian-bruce-vilanch)**
Oct. 6-7 Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: Firebird, Le Spectre de la Rose, Pentimento
Oct. 9 Aventura International Film Series: English Vinglish
Oct. 14 Yamandu Costa
Oct. 19 The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Oct. 19 The Long Run-Eagles Tribute
Oct. 20 Giggle, Giggle Quack
Oct. 20 Three Hysterical Broads Off Their Medication
Oct. 23-28 Menopause the Musical
Nov. 2 New World Dance Ensemble
Nov. 3 Luis Chataing-Nuevamente (Spanish language)
Nov. 4 Aventura Marketing Council Young Stars Showcase
Nov. 6 Aventura International Film Series: The Cakemaker
Nov. 10 Bobby Collins
Nov. 13 NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Speaker Series:
Charles Zelden, PhD – A Postmortem of the 2018 Midterm Elections
Nov. 17 Top of the World-A Carpenters Tribute Featuring Debbie Taylor
Nov. 18 Miami International Piano Festival: Francesco Libetta
Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Dec. 4 Aventura International Film Series: The Divine Order
Dec. 7-9 Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: The Nutcracker
Dec. 16 Jake Ehrenreich’s A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs
Dec. 22 Sarge’s Chanukah Chutzpah Tour…Kiss My Mezuzah
Dec. 29-30 Steve Solomon’s Home for the Holidays
Jan. 3-4 Forbidden Broadway
Jan. 5 Mary Gaines Bernard Celebrates the Life and Music of Donna Summer
Jan. 12 Mike Super: Magic & Illusion
Jan. 13 Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner
Jan. 15 Aventura International Film Series: The Guilty
Jan. 18 Judy Gold
Jan. 20 Miami International Piano Festival: Julien Libeer
Jan. 23-24 An Acoustic Evening with Matisyahu
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**Tags:** Box office, Bruce Vilanch, Comedian, comedy, Judy Gold, Performing arts, Ticketmaster
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### [A Case For Throwing Out The Oscar's Script](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/25/a-case-for-throwing-out-the-oscars-script/)
**Published:** July 25, 2018
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**New York Times
Academy Awards 25 Years Ago: Not So Different From Today
By Bruce Fretts
Feb. 24, 2017**
From the moment the host Billy Crystal was wheeled onstage wearing a straitjacket and a face mask à la Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs,” viewers knew the 1992 Oscars were not going to be normal.
“It was a bit like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride,” Jodie Foster, the “Silence” star who won best actress that year, recalled in a telephone interview. “You were being catapulted from one surreal experience to the next.”
The circumstances surrounding the Academy Awards 25 years ago were not so different from the ceremony set for Sunday: Presidential politics served as the backdrop (in that case, Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown, whom Mr. Crystal jokingly compared to that year’s self-destructive cinematic rebels Thelma and Louise, were trying to unseat President George Bush). Major social issues played out at the podium (then it was homophobia and sexism), and black filmmakers were making inroads. But in 1992, four of the five best-picture nominees were [among the year’s top 20](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1992)domestic box-office hits; this year, that’s true for only two of the nine contenders (“[Hidden Figures](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hiddenfigures.htm)” and “[La La Land](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/movies/la-la-land-review-ryan-gosling-emma-stone.html)”).
“In those days, people still believed the recipe to make a popular film was to make a good film,” Ms. Foster said. “The way the economy has shaped the industry over the last 25 years, it’s ghettoized films into either big, dumbed-down mainstream movies that are trying to attract as many audience members as possible, and movies that are substantial and meaningful, which are relegated to a different sphere.”
I asked winners, nominees and one of the show’s writers about that year’s most memorable moments.
## The Show Opener
A review in The New York Times described the 1992 ceremony as “[uncharacteristically lively](http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/01/movies/review-television-a-very-different-oscars-broadcast.html?pagewanted=all),” and that began with the first bit the writers devised for the host. “It’s a great entrance for Anthony Hopkins in the movie, so we knew it would work with Billy,” Bruce Vilanch, one of the telecast’s writers, said in a recent telephone interview. “It was kind of irresistible.”
Billy Crystal’s Hannibal Lecter Entrance: 1992 OscarsCreditVideo by Oscars## One-Armed Push-Ups
The bizarre mood was struck early when best supporting actor went to Jack Palance, Mr. Crystal’s co-star in the western comedy “City Slickers.” Mr. Palance gave, as The Times put it, a “cheerfully unprintable acceptance speech.”
“It was an odd thing to say at the Academy Awards,” Mr. Vilanch said, recalling a specific line in the speech. “But that was Jack. He was a genuinely strange and scary guy.”
Then, in a display of his virility, the 73-year-old character actor dropped to the floor and did one-armed push-ups. Backstage in the writers’ room, “we looked at each other and said, ‘We have to go with this — it’s too funny.’” Thus began a run of on-the-fly jokes from Mr. Crystal (“I was just given a bulletin: Jack Palance is now on the StairMaster”) that stretched through the night.
*Jack Palance Wins Supporting Actor: 1992 OscarsCreditVideo by Oscars*## A Family First
For supporting actress, Mercedes Ruehl won for [“The Fisher King,”](http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE1DB1E3BF933A1575AC0A967958260) but it was one of her competitors, Diane Ladd, who made Oscar history. She was the first mother to be nominated along with her daughter (Laura Dern) for the same film, the Southern drama [“Rambling Rose.”](http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE7DA103BF933A1575AC0A967958260) Ms. Dern and Ms. Ladd also presented the award for best visual effects to [“Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”](http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE6D6163DF930A35754C0A967958260)
“When I was standing on that stage, and I looked out at my peers and then over at Laura, it was a great honor,” Ms. Ladd said. “I had to fight to keep from crying.”
## A Surprise From Space
More emotional moments played out as George Lucas received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from his old friend Steven Spielberg and, in a bit of technical wizardry, the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, complete with a floating Oscar. Another satellite link allowed the acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray to accept his honorary Academy Award from his hospital bed in Calcutta; [he died](http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/24/movies/satyajit-ray-70-cinematic-poet-dies.html?pagewanted=all) 24 days later at 70. “Gil Cates, who produced that show, loved technology,” Mr. Vilanch said. “He always had remotes.”
**Gay-Rights Protesters**
Many Oscar ceremonies come with some controversy, and the 1992 show [had its share](http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/29/movies/film-gay-bashing-villainy-and-the-oscars.html?pagewanted=all). Gay-rights advocates picketed over villainous characters in “Silence” as well as in [“J.F.K.”](http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE5DC1230F933A15751C1A967958260)(Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for best supporting actor for his turn as a gay man put on trial and acquitted for an alleged conspiracy to kill the president) and in the just-released “Basic Instinct,” which starred Sharon Stone, who was also a presenter. “It was a good discussion, but it was also very stressful,” Ms. Foster said.
The protesters could take solace in the fact that Howard Ashman — who had died a year earlier at 40 — became the first person lost to AIDS to win an Oscar: best original song for “Beauty and the Beast.” His longtime companion, Bill Lauch, accepted the award on his behalf.
## A Toon Dispute
Disney’s wildly popular “Beauty and the Beast” stirred up discord when it became the first animated film nominated for best picture, which didn’t sit well with some Oscar purists. “They created the best animated feature category after that because they didn’t want more cartoons nominated for best picture,” said. Mr. Vilanch. (Only “Up” and “Toy Story 3” have managed the feat since.)
## Streisand Slight
The night’s loudest contretemps surrounded Barbra Streisand, who was [passed over](http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/29/movies/film-the-real-winners-are-the-losers.html?pagewanted=all) for a best director nomination even though her drama “The Prince of Tides” snagged a best picture nomination. The group Women in Film [cited sexism](http://articles.latimes.com/1992-02-21/entertainment/ca-2580_1_streisand-omission). “In some circles, they said I took her slot,” said John Singleton, who at 24 became the youngest and first African-American best director nominee, for his searing debut, “Boyz N The Hood.” “What people don’t know is that I’m a huge Barbra Streisand fan. She signed my application to get me into the Directors Guild.”
Mr. Crystal gracefully defused the situation with a satirical lyric during a musical number. Referring to “The Prince of Tides,” he crooned, “Seven nominations on the shelf, did this film direct itself?” The cameras quickly cut to Ms. Streisand, laughing appreciatively.
## Rookie Mistake
Mr. Singleton lost best director to Jonathan Demme for “Silence,” but he had higher hopes of winning best original screenplay. Yet the award went to another first-timer, Callie Khouri, for the feminist road-trip saga “Thelma & Louise.”
“I was trying not to jinx myself, so I wrote an acceptance speech in pencil,” Ms. Khouri said. “By the time I opened it up, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, so I just winged it. I forgot to thank the producer, so that was fairly horrifying.” (For the record, Mimi Polk Gitlin produced the film.)
## A ‘Silence’ Sweep
The biggest winner, of course, turned out to be “[The Silence of the Lambs](http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE0DB123EF937A25751C0A967958260),” which became only the third film in history, after “It Happened One Night” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” to sweep the top five awards: best picture, director, actor, actress and adapted screenplay (by Ted Tally, based on Thomas Harris’s novel).
“Three years earlier, I had won best actress for ‘The Accused,’ and I was the only person nominated from the film, so I was by myself,” Ms. Foster said. “But for ‘Silence,’ it was really extraordinary — we kept winning, one after the other, and we all met backstage. I remember everybody was really hot and sweaty, and we all had our arms around one another.”
## Postscript
That wasn’t the only happy ending. Five months later, Mr. Crystal, Mr. Vilanch and his fellow writers Hal Kanter, Buz Kohan, Robert Wuhl and David Steinberg took home Emmys. “We won for throwing out the script and rewriting it on the spot,” Mr. Vilanch said. “That’s Hollywood.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch's A SIGN OF THE TIMES to Premiere at Delaware Theater Co](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/19/bruce-vilanchs-a-sign-of-the-times-to-premiere-at-delaware-theater-co/)
**Published:** July 19, 2018
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**Broadway World
A SIGN OF THE TIMES to Premiere at Delaware Theater Co
by BWW News Desk
Jul. 16, 2018**
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A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring the songs of Petula Clark and multiple hit-makers of the 1960s, will join the Delaware Theater Company’s 40th Anniversary Season, from November 28 – December 23.
Featuring a book by legendary comedy writer and six-time Emmy Award-winner Bruce Vilanch, based on an original story by Richard Robin, the show is directed by Gabriel Barre (Amazing Grace) with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter (School of Rock). The production will star Broadway notables Chilina Kennedy (Beautiful), Drew Seeley (Jersey Boys), Crystal Lucas-Perry (Lincoln Center’s Bull In A China Shop), and Ryan Silverman (The Phantom of the Opera). Complete casting will be announced at a later date. Opening night is set for December 4.
Featuring the songs of a generation, A Sign of the Times tells the story of Cindy (Kennedy), a young woman pursuing her passion and finding her voice in New York City in 1965. Set against the backdrop of women’s liberation, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War – events as relevant today as they were then, A Sign of the Times will transport audiences to the big city in the 60s with heart and soul, featuring such classic songs as “Downtown,” “You Don’t Own Me,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss),” and “The Boy From New York City.”
Additional creative team members include Paul Tate DePoo lII (Scenic Design), Jennifer Caprio (Costume Design), Ken Billington (Lighting Design), Benjamin Pearcy (Projection Design), Shannon Slaton (Sound Design), J. Jared Janas (Hair Design), Rick Fox (Music Direction),Joseph Church (Music Supervision & Orchestrations), Alchemy Production Group (General Management) and Tara Rubin Casting (Casting). A Sign of the Times played a nearly sold out world premiere engagement at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016.
Tickets are now on-sale. For performance schedule and pricing, visit: [www.DelawareTheatre.org](http://www.DelawareTheatre.org).
**About Delaware Theater Company**
Currently in their 40th season, Delaware Theatre Company (DTC) is Delaware’s premier non-profit professional theatre. Recognized as a cornerstone in the Brandywine Valley’s rich cultural landscape, DTC has produced nearly 200 plays for over one million residents and visitors in its community. For more than two decades, DTC has been a pioneer in the revitalization of Wilmington’s Christina Riverfront and cultural district as the only LORT theatre in the state. Since Bud Martin’s arrival in 2012, DTC has seen a 54% increase in subscribers and a 234% increase in single ticket buyers, making Delaware Theatre Company an up and coming player in the regional theatre community.
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**Tags:** a sign of the times, Bruce Vilanch, Musical theatre, Petula Clark
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### [COMEDIAN BRUCE VILANCH PRESENTED BY BLACK BOX PRODUCTIONS, OCT 5, 2018, Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Aventura, FL, On Sale ON SALE 07.17.18 12:00 PM](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/12/comedian-bruce-vilanch-presented-by-black-box-productions-oct-5-2018-aventura-arts-cultural-center-aventura-fl-on-sale-on-sale-07-17-18-1200-pm/)
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**SHOWINGS**
- FRI, OCT 5, 2018 – 8:00 PM[Add to cal](https://www.browardcenter.org/events/ical/comedian-bruce-vilanch/3420 "Add to Calendar")
**EVENT DETAILS**
- VENUE: Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
- PRICE: $36.50 – $46.50
- AVAILABILITY: [ON SALE ](http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0D0054D0D594AF00?brand=aventuraacc&camefrom=cfc_aventura_web)[Aventura Arts & Cultural Center](http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/107578)Aventura, FL
One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Bruce Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “Get Bruce!” and his one-time stint as a regular on “Hollywood Squares,” for which he also served as head writer.
He made his feature debut as a dress manufacturer in “Mahogany’, starring Diana Ross and also contributed material to her live act. Mr. Vilanch put his Muppet-like persona to excellent use as Santa’s number one helper in the syndicated TV-movie “It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas.” On the heels of “Get Bruce!”, Vilanch performed his comedy stylings Off-Broadway in “Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.” After a first act reminiscing on his odd path to almost famousness, he opened up the floor to questions inAct II, displaying his amazing ability for off-the-cuff one-liners. As he told US WEEKLY, there is a downside to celebrity: “Now, I get knocked if someone tries something that doesn’t work. Before it was the fault of these anonymous people, ‘the writers.'”
He scripted most of the AcademyAwards telecasts over the last couple of decades, two of which won Emmys, including the one featuring Billy Crystal Hannibal Lecter entrance. Mr. Vilanch has also written for The Tony’s, The Grammy’s, The Emmy’s, and just about every other award show to brighten your television screen. He also participates and volunteers at almost every charity function, especially those dealing with GLBT issues. Now he’s coming to a theater near you…
This event may include adult language and content.
**Please note** For group discounts, call Group Sales at 954.660.6307 or visit [BrowardCenter.org/group-sales](http://BrowardCenter.org/group-sales).
DateFri 10/5 @ 8pmVenue[Aventura Arts & Cultural Center](http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/107578)Aventura, FL
### Event Info
One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Bruce Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “Get Bruce!” and his one-time stint as a regular on “Hollywood Squares,” for which he also served as head writer.
He made his feature debut as a dress manufacturer in “Mahogany’, starring Diana Ross and also contributed material to her live act. On the heels of “Get Bruce!”, Vilanch performed his comedy stylings Off-Broadway in “Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.” After a first act reminiscing on his odd path to almost famousness, he opened up the floor to questions in Act II, displaying his amazing ability for off-the-cuff one-liners.
Mr. Vilanch has also written for The Tony’s, The Grammy’s, The Emmy’s, and just about every other award show to brighten your television screen.
This event may include adult language and content.
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### Ticket Limits
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### Accessible Tickets
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Awards, Billy Crystal, Box office, Broadway, Bruce Vilanch, Comedian, Diana Ross, Emmy, Events, Get Bruce, Hollywood Squares, Movie, Television
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### [Watch Trailer: “A Long Road to Freedom” Doc Looks at 50 Year Road to LGBTQ Equality](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/12/watch-trailer-a-long-road-to-freedom-doc-looks-at-50-year-road-to-lgbtq-equality/)
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On July 19, Here TV and The Advocate will premiere a new, original documentary, A Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years.
Narrated by Laverne Cox with music by Melissa Etheridge, the feature-length documentary focuses on watershed moments in LGBTQ history through never-before-seen footage and engaging interviews with NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, Caitlyn Jenner, Don Lemon, Gloria Allred, Gavin Newsom, Dustin Lance Black, Margaret Cho, Armistead Maupin, Bruce Vilanch, Greg Louganis, DeRay Mckesson, Candis Cayne, Guillermo Diaz, and many more.
Starting with the Black Cat Riots, the film covers Stonewall, the disco sexual revolution, the AIDS crisis, marriage equality, and the trans movement to the present day.
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### [Comedian Bruce Vilanch Dishes On Trump, Roseanne, And More](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/10/comedian-bruce-vilanch-dishes-on-trump-roseanne-and-more/)
**Published:** July 10, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Roseanne
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Drops In On "Hey Qween" To Dishes About Bette Midler, Cher, Carol Channing, And Red Foxx - 4 Videos Included](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/07/01/video-bruce-vilanch-drops-in-on-hey-qween-to-dishes-about-bette-midler-cher-carol-channing-and-red-foxx-4-videos-included/)
**Published:** July 1, 2018
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Channing, Cher, Johnny McGovern, Video
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### [Video: Eartha Kitt -- Where Is My Man - Writers - Bruce Vilanch, Jacques Morali, Fred Zarr](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/24/video-eartha-kitt-where-is-my-man-writers-bruce-vilanch-jacques-morali-fred-zarr/)
**Published:** June 24, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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Eartha Kitt — Where Is My Man is a song from 1983 by the American singer and actress Eartha Kitt, which appeared on her 1984 album I Love Men. The song was co-written by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch along with musicians and producers Fred Zarr and Jacques Morali.
The song was first released in France as a single where it was wildly successful. The song features Kitt singing in a low, seductive-sounding voice. Included in the song are some sounds that have come to be associated with Kitt, including a purring sound similar to one she made while portraying Catwoman on the 1960s TV series Batman.
**Where Is My Man?**
*(Writers: Bruce Vilanch, Jacques Morali, Fred Zarr)*
I don’t wanna be alone – where is my baby
I don’t wanna be alone – where is my man
I spend hours by the phone – where is my baby
I chew my fingers to the bone – where is my man
I need a man who can take me then tount me and make me
Buy the things that I so richly deseerrve.
A man who knows what I require
the things that I desire
Is there anyone out there who has the neerrve
I spend hours by the phone – where is my baby
I chew my fingers to the bone – where is my man
Where is my baby? He can’t be far.
Look for an Ascot
a big cigar
tell him to find me
Send his car to this address
I have to stress I need him now.
I don’t wanna be alone – where is my baby
I don’t wanna be alone – where is my man
The kind of man that I adore’s the kind of man that gives me more
Of all the better things in life that aren’t free.
Such things as summer by the sea
the Hamptons
Malibu
Capri.
The kind of man
Who comes alive
When he comes near Rodeo Drive
Is the kind of man
Who winds my heart
With style and class.
You know I’ve tried
Some other men
The kind with zeros
Less than ten
But everytime I grab
The ring it’s always brass.
I don’t wanna be alone –
Where is my baby
I don’t wanna be alone
Where is my baby……..
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Eartha Kitt, Fred Zarr, I Love Men, Jacques Morali, Where Is My Man
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### [Here TV Announces World Premiere of A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: THE ADVOCATE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Thur, July 19, 2018 - Including Bruce Vilanch, Laverne Cox, Gavin Newsom, Dustin Black, And More](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/24/here-tv-announces-world-premiere-of-a-long-road-to-freedom-the-advocate-celebrates-50-years-thur-july-19-2018-including-bruce-vilanch-laverne-cox-gavin-newsom-dustin-black-and-more/)
**Published:** June 24, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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Here TV Announces World Premiere of A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: THE ADVOCATE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
Thursday, July 19, 2018, marks the world premiere of the Here TV original documentary, A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years
Jun. 14, 2018**
Narrated by Laverne Cox with music by Melissa Etheridge, this moving feature-length documentary focuses on watershed moments in LGBTQ history through never-before-seen footage and engaging interviews with NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, Caitlyn Jenner, Don Lemon, Gloria Allred, Gavin Newsom, Dustin Lance Black, Margaret Cho, Armistead Maupin, Bruce Vilanch, Greg Louganis, DeRay Mckesson, Candis Cayne, Guillermo Diaz, and many more. Starting with the Black Cat Riots, the film covers Stonewall, the disco sexual revolution, the AIDS crisis, marriage equality, and the trans movement to present day.
Directed by Billy Clift and produced by Emmy-nominated producer David Millbern, A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years will premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday, July 19, 2018 benefiting Outfest Los Angeles. After its festival run, the film will premiere on Here TV followed by a 20-city theatrical release.
“The process of creating this project was twofold: to watch its journey and the journey I took personally,” says director Billy Clift. “If it changed me, it will change audiences as well. The documentary helped me learn more about the many steps taken to accomplish the great strides we all benefit from today. I give thanks and feel so honored to work alongside the amazing team at Here TV.”
A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years was executive produced by Paul Colichman and Stephen P. Jarchow, who have produced and distributed over 200 films and series including Academy Award-winners “Gods and Monsters” and “Departures.” Malachy Wienges, Chairman Emeritus at The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, is also attached as an executive producer.
“This film celebrates the shoulders that we all stand upon in furthering LGBTQ rights and documents our long and successful journey. We’ve come a long way, but we’ve still got a long way to go.” – David Millbern.
Here TV (http://www.heretv.com) launched in 2004, making it the world’s first SVOD LGBTQ+ video service and is available on all major US cable operators including Xfinity, Spectrum, Cablevision, FiOS, U-Verse, Cox, as well as Amazon, Roku and the Here TV app (http://www.here.tv) where it can be viewed on all iOS and Android mobile devices. Here TV reaches millions of viewers each month and has produced Academy award-winning films in addition to receiving three Daytime Emmy Award nominations.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Honored Toni Basil April 2018 at the Professional Dancers Society annual luncheon in Beverly Hills](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/23/video-bruce-vilanch-honors-toni-basil-april-2018-at-the-professional-dancers-society-annual-luncheon-in-beverly-hills/)
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### [LIMELIGHT MOVIE TRAILER - The release date of the movie Limelight is set to June 26, 2018 (to rent and own on Digital HD)](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/21/limelight-movie-trailer-the-release-date-of-the-movie-limelight-is-set-to-june-26-2018-to-rent-and-own-on-digital-hd/)
**Published:** June 21, 2018
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Here’s the official trailer of limelight, the upcoming drama mvoie directed by James Cullen Bressack based on a script by Paul Vandervort and starring Paul Vandervort, Brit Shaw, Sean Kanan, Jonathan Lipnicki, Jenna Jameson, Timmy Deters, Keith Coogan, David Chokachi, Mike C. Manning, Lindsey Sporrer, Teri Andrez, **Bruce Vilanch**, Erin Sanders, Jason Brooks, Kirsten Nelson, Jacqui Holland, Asia Schneider, David Cade, Eddie Steeples, Dante Basco, Ciara Hanna, Scotch Hopkins, Ya Boy, Najarra Townsend, Rachel True, Joshua Lou Friedman, Ryan Ahern, Josh Brown, Don Blanton, Nicholas Adam Clark, Elissa Dowling, and Tyler Kohn:
Plot synopsis;
“In a society obsessed with fame, validation, and social media, one small-town narcissist pulls out all the stops in his pursuit of absolute stardom.”
Do you want to be in the limelight? Or would you rather be anonymous?
The release date of the movie Limelight is set to June 26, 2018 (to rent and own on Digital HD).
Stay tuned with us for more details.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Jacqui Holland, James Cullen Bressack, Jonathan Lipnicki, Movie, social media, Vandervort, Video
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### [Glen Hanson Illustration Of Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/21/glen-hanson-illustration-of-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 21, 2018
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Glen Hanson, an artist whose work has captured runway couture and Hollywood celebs, has graced the pages of popular magazines and the covers of beloved books. He’s also helped shape characters on eye-catching animated series and even perked up the packaging of popular fragrances. You may have encountered him without even realizing it via his iconic portrait of the Golden Girls or his sexy drawings of well-muscled men.
But when Metrosource sat down to speak with Hanson about his career, we had to start with his caricatures. Do his subjects ever ask him to give their images a little nip/tuck? He laughs. “Most of the time, people are very happy with what I do, and they don’t ask to be made to look any better — because I make them look better than they do,” says Hanson.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, caricatures, gay artist, Glen Hanson
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### [RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season Six 2018 - Guest Judges: Adam Lambert, Alaska Thunderfuck, Bob Mackie, Bruce Vilanch, Chaz Bono](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/21/rupauls-drag-race-season-six-2018-guest-judges-adam-lambert-alaska-thunderfuck-bob-mackie-bruce-vilanch-chaz-bono/)
**Published:** June 21, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Gotham City Times
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season Six
Review by CJ**
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**Judges:**
RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Santino Rice
**Contestants:**
Adore Delano, April Carrión, BenDeLaCreme, Bianca Del Rio, Courtney Act, Darienne Lake, Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, Joslyn Fox, Kelly Mantle, Magnolia Crawford, Milk, Trinity K. Bonet, Vivacious
**Guest judges/special guests:**
Adam Lambert, Alaska Thunderfuck, Bob Mackie, Bruce Vilanch, Chaz Bono, David Burtka, Eve, Georgia Holt, Gillian Jacobs, Heather McDonald, Ian Drew, Jamie Pressly, Jinkx Monsoon, Jujubee, Khloé Kardashian, Lainie Kazan, Latrice Royale, Leah Remini, Lena Headey, Linda Blair, Lucian Piane, Manila Luzon, Mike Ruiz, Neil Patrick Harris, Our Lady J, Paula Abdul, Raja, Raven, Shangela, Sharon Needles, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Trina
Fourteen more drag queens compete in a variety of challenges to become RuPaul’s next drag superstar and bring home a massive prize pool including $100,000.
I was really excited to dive into season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race because it is the season that features two queens I already adored — Courtney Act and Bianca Del Rio. Throughout watching the show, I thought that Bianca was marvellous, but (likely due to editing) Courtney spent most of her time in the background until the group had been thinned.
As the competition progressed, I found myself growing quite fond of the effervescent BenDeLaCreme and the quirky Milk. It was the season of the dairy queens! (I’m not even sorry.) But I found most of the rest of the queens to be obnoxious, grating or forgettable.
No spoilers, but I was thrilled when the winner was announced. I could not have agreed more. That’s all I’m saying, if you want to know then go watch the season. Or Google it. But mostly go watch RuPaul’s Drag Race seasons 2-4, All Stars season 1 then seasons 5-6. I’ll wait.
Once again, my personal favourite challenge throughout season six is Snatch Game. The celebrity impersonations ranged from brilliant to less than average, as they always do, but some of the stand out performances from this season should be required watching for any queens hoping to compete in future.
There was a good assortment of girls in season six and there is enough shade being thrown around to be entertaining, but only one queen’s shade really gets to be grating and stupid by the end of her run.
I love RuPaul’s Drag Race and season six has been one of my favourites so far. If you enjoy competition shows where the focus is artistic and don’t mind (or, like me, find entertaining) a smidge of clever cattiness, then I highly recommend bingeing all of RuPaul’s Drag Race in order before diving into its sixth season.
**RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 6
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Chaz Bono, DVD, Lainie Kazan, RuPaul's Drag Race, Sheryl Lee Ralph
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### [The Stars Come Out in Support of LGBTQ Community and to Honor Stephanie Beatriz and Julie Newmar](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/12/the-stars-come-out-in-support-of-lgbtq-community-and-to-honor-stephanie-beatriz-and-julie-newmar/)
**Published:** June 12, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
The Stars Come Out in Support of LGBTQ Community and to Honor Stephanie Beatriz and Julie Newmar
by BWW News Desk Jun. 9, 2018**
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President/Founder of The Hollywood Museum, Donelle Dadigan, along with Council Member Mitch O’Farrell and Board President Esteban Montemayor of Christopher Street West, kicked off Pride weekend with the annual “Real to Reel” exhibit that shines the spotlight on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) community in television and film through the decades. This year’s event also feature a special recognition with The Future of Hollywood Award presented to actress Stephanie Beatriz and the Legacy Award to TONY Award winning actress, Julie Newmar.
“I was thrilled to attend The Hollywood Museum for the opening of the REAL TO REEL exhibit the other evening, to kick off Gay Pride here in L.A,” said Geri Jewell of Deadwood fame. “It was wonderful coming together with friends and colleagues in support of another part of the spectrum of diversity.”
Reminiscent of Mae West, Ms Julie Newmar was carried on stage in the arms of two bodybuilders, stating “This what happens when you’re a legacy. You don’t have to walk anywhere. You are carried.”
“Thank you all for this lovely tribute,” she added. “It’s so wonderful to receive it in this building, the old Max Factor salon, where for so many years so many of the greats found their external beauty and also discovered their internal beauty. Donelle Dadigan (Founder/President of the Hollywood Museum, formerly The Max Factor Studios) has given the world a priceless time capsule for generations to enjoy for years to come. Im particularly thrilled to get this recognition right now in the midst of the Me Too and Times Up moment of our history,” remarked Ms Newmar.
“I always had my own way of dealing with those situations. First of all, I was taller than most of the men. So right away, I had an advantage. And one of my early roles, on Broadway and on film, was a gal called Stupefyin Jones in LI’l ABNER. Men saw her and they turned to stone. And this was before Viagra. I think some of them thought I actually had that power. And perhaps I did. Im also delighted to receive this acknowledgment in conjunction with all the LGBT pride activities here at the Museum and around the country this month. Of course, there has always been a strong LGBT presence in my life … even BEFORE Catwoman. But to be reminded of it at this critical time, and to know that it is indeed part of my legacy, and that my legacy is not only an artistic one, but one of feminine strength, power and, lets never forget, fun thats a very, very good thing and it fills me with overwhelming gratitude.”
Honoree, Ms Stephanie Beatriz, commented on similarities of her Brooklyn Nine-Nine character, Rosa Diaz’s sexual identity struggles and her own experiences since she came out to family and friends about her own life. “Just like Rosa, I found support from my friends and colleagues, but less so from my family and the Latin community.”
The Hollywood Museum’s REAL to REEL: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood exhibition opened to the public on Friday, June 8th, to coincide with the annual Christopher Street West Pride activities. Spanning 100 years, the 2018 exhibit is a salute to the LGBTQ community’s contributions to the entertainment industry. Now, in its fifth successful year, the REAL to REEL: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQ in Hollywood exhibit, is offered in partnership with Los Angeles City Council member Mitch O’Farrell (CD-13) and LA Pride, as an educational, entertaining and informative retrospective of LGBTQ images in film, TV, new digital platforms featuring costumes, props, photos, and iconic imagery all telling the story of the milestones and influence that LGBTQ characters and plot lines have had in Hollywood from early stereotypes in silent films to modern-day representations. Additionally, REAL to REEL celebrates LGBTQ Icons by paying homage to those individuals who support the LGBTQ community.
“We are both honored and humbled by the response to last nights program for the 5th annual REAL to REEL exhibit opening. The outpouring of love and positiveness was shared by both the entertainment and LGBTQ communities. The words of inspiration from actress Stephanie Beatriz, the Future of Hollywood Award recipient, blessed all that were in attendance and the overwhelming applause and response to comments from our Legacy Award honoree, TONY Award winning actress Julie Newmar, was worthy of her iconic stature. We are grateful to Council member Mitch O’Farrell and LAPD Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala, LA City Controller Ron Galperin and Board President Esteban Montemayor of Christopher Street West for their trust in us. Without their integrity and support, all this effort would mean nothing.”- Donelle Dadigan (President/Founder of The Hollywood Museum)
The Hollywood Museum’s presentation places the exhibit in the historical context of Hollywood, which is home to a large LGBTQ entertainment industry population. The exhibit revisits monumental LGBTQ moments in history with Rev. Troy Perry, including the Black Cat riots (1967), and the infamous sign that once hung at the entrance of West Hollywood’s Barney’s Beanery. Exhibit highlights include costumes from Transparent, How to Get Away with Murder, Brokeback Mountain, Superstore, The Walking Dead, Empire, Trans America, Sordid Lives, Cruising, Orange is the New Black, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ray Donovan, Mad Men, Arrested Development, Cabaret, K-11, After Forever, Orphan Black, Roseanne, Will & Grace, To Wong Fu Julie Newmar, etc. Additional exhibit items include famous costumes from Hollywood’s leading designers; Mr. Blackwell, Bob Mackie, Ret Turner, Nolan Miller, Zac Posen, Rudolf Nureyev and Edith Head to Project Runway with Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, as well as Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Scandal, Two in a Half Men, True Blood, The Good Wife, much more. This year’s exhibit also includes, LGBTQ Icons including Judy Garland, Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Rock Hudson, Liza Minnelli, James Dean, Bette Midler, Ramon Navarro, Rudolf Valentino, Charles Laughton, Sam Harris, Bruce Vilanch, Sherman Hemsley, Geri Jewell, Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner and many more.
Recording artist Roslyn Kind exclaimed, “What a GREAT Evening at The Hollywood Museum and the perfect way to kick off PRIDE month 2018, by celebrating all the wonderful contributions of the LGBTQ community to Hollywood’s rich history in the Arts and Culture with the “Real To Reel” Exhibit. Donelle Dadigan does a fantastic job.”
The museum houses more than 10,000 Authentic Show Business Treasures spotlighting more than 100 years of Hollywood history – from the Silents to Talkies, to Hollywood’s Golden Era, Film Noir, Television and its Pioneer Years, through the rebellious 60s, special effects 70s, evolving 80s, involved 90s, technological 2000s, and beyond to current day heartthrobs! The Hollywood Museum’s exhibits showcase the best in film, network and cable television, and new digital platforms featuring iconic and fan favorites! Named one of the top tourist attractions by LA Weekly, voted one of the Top 10 Museums in LA by the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, and annually receives the Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor. Located in the heart of Hollywood, at the corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave – The Hollywood Museum in the historic Max Factor Building is the “Official Museum of Hollywood” and offers visitors the most extensive collection of Hollywood memorabilia in the world featuring the glamour of Hollywood legends and stars – past, present and in the making…. See one-of-a-kind costumes, props, photographs, scripts, stars’ car collections, personal artifacts, posters, and memorabilia from favorite stars, films and TV shows. The Hollywood Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bob Mackie, Broadway, Bruce Vilanch, Catwoman, Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Entertainment, Gay pride, Hollywood, Julie Newmar, LGBT, Lily Tomlin, Liza Minnelli, Los Angeles, RuPaul's Drag Race, West Hollywood
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosted “Love Don’t Need a Reason: A Benefit for Marsha Malamet” on Tuesday, May 29th at Catalina’s Jazz Club](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/08/bruce-vilanch-hosted-love-dont-need-a-reason-a-benefit-for-marsha-malamet-on-tuesday-may-29th-at-catalinas-jazz-club/)
**Published:** June 8, 2018
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Clifford Bell, Hillary Rollins and Lampkin Music Group present:
**“Love Don’t Need a Reason: A Benefit for Marsha Malamet” on Tuesday, May 29th at Catalina’s Jazz Club**.
Hosted by Award winning writer/actor/personality, Bruce Vilanch
**VIP Tickets are $75.00. General Admission: $50.00. Ticket Link: [Click Here](https://www.ticketweb.com/event/love-dont-need-a-reason-catalina-bar-grill-tickets/8341565?pl=cbg)**
At press time, Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Melissa Manchester; Golden Globe/MAC Award winner, Amanda McBroom; Award Award singer/songwriter, Michele Brourman; Actress/ singer, Mary Jo Mundy; Singer, Ken Stacy, Singer, Kimaya Seward; Award winning singer/musical director/pianist, Todd Schroeder, Former Harlette and Hairspray Star, Charlo Crossley; Pop Producer Greg Wells; Actress/singer, Patricia Whiteman; Songwriter, Alan Roy Scott; Songwriter, Matthew Levine and Award winning producer/songwriter and Marsha’s producer, Stephan Oberhoff have all signed on to perform. More to be announced.
**Directed by Clifford Bell.**
This special show will showcase an array of performances, video and written testimonials and comments on the Life and Music of Marsha Malamet.
Explanation: This benefit is to help pay for all medical needs and some living expenses, due to the fact that what Marsha suffers from (we still don’t know exactly) is not covered by insurance. Whether it is an autoimmune disorder, or a metabolic disease, treatments are expensive. In 2015 she was diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s, then a year later, Lyme Disease. She has spent a lot of money to see different doctors, who’s treatments have not been successful.
Now she is under the care of a new doctor who treated Kris Kristofferson successfully who was challenged by something similar. Right now, she has a 24/7 caregiver, and is mostly disable, using a wheelchair and walker.
The unfortunate thing is that she lost the muscle strength and coordination, and can’t play the piano, sing, or write. The performers honoring Marsha with their appearance are all friends of her’s, having known her or written with her.
Malamet Biography: At the age of 21, Marsha made her solo recording debut, “Coney Island Winter,” on Decca Records. It was engineered by Brooks Arthur. She performed at top venues in New York supporting the CD, including Lincoln Center, and her songs have been featured on Broadway: first, in Peter Allen’s “Up in One,” and then “The Boy from Oz,” based on Peter’s life.
Marsha’s songs have been recorded by the best in the business, artists include Barbra Streisand, Faith Hill, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Meatloaf, the late Barbara Cook, Judy Collins and Sheena Easton. Marsha’s top ten international hit single, “I Am Blessed,” sung by the UK’s pop group, Eternal, moved the Pope to invite them to perform the song at the Vatican.
Her song “Love Don’t Need A Reason,” co-written with the late Peter Allen and Michael Callen, has become an iconic theme for the Aids/HIV epidemic, recorded by over 35 performers and gay choruses worldwide.
Marsha was Grammy nominated for her songwriting involvement on the original Broadway cast CD “The Boy from Oz,” starring Hugh Jackman.
Marsha’s music takes root in people’s hearts and minds.
**VIP Tickets are $75.00. General Admission is $50.00. Two Drink Minimum.**
**Tickets can be purchased by online @: [Click Here](https://www.ticketweb.com/event/love-dont-need-a-reason-catalina-bar-grill-tickets/8341565?pl=cbg)**
Catalina Jazz Club. 6725 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California. 90028.
**To hear Marsha’s music or to purchase, please visit:** [ Click Here](https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/marshamalamet2)
[www.MarshaMalamet.com](http://www.MarshaMalamet.com)
**For interviews and other information, please email Ralph** at: Lampkinmusic@gmail.com
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Amanda McBroom, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Vilanch, Diana Ross, Grammy Award, Marsha Malamet, Melissa Manchester, Patti LaBelle
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### [Pacific Pioneers Broadcasters Honored Loni Anderson June 1 - Edna Turnblad Showed Up As A Surprise!](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/08/pacific-pioneers-broadcasters-honored-loni-anderson-june-1-edna-turnblad-showed-up-as-a-surprise/)
**Published:** June 8, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Press Release
Pacific Pioneers Broadcasters Honored Loni Anderson June 1
June 1, 2018**
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Actress, best selling author, wife, mother and grandmother… Loni Anderson is best known for her groundbreaking role as the “sexy-yet-smartest-person-in-the-room receptionist”, Jennifer Marlowe on the hit series “WKRP in Cincinnati”, for which she received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Never off the air, WKRP can currently be seen all across America on ME TV.
Over the next three and a half decades, Ms. Anderson went on to star in five additional television series, seven feature films, eighteen television movies and two mini-series, along with scores of starring roles in television series and specials, plus a joyful and welcome return to her first love, musical theater. Her latest ventures include a comedy pilot, created and produced by Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City) and the second season of the hilarious series “My Sister Is So Gay.”
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Ms. Anderson has shown a passionate lifetime commitment to raising COPD awareness with the National Lung Health Education Program. She also gives her time and commitment to The Race to Erase MS, Us Against Alzheimer’s and the American Cancer Society. Currently, she is the national spokesperson for Advantage Emergency Medical Response Systems.
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**Categories:** Special Events
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Edna Turnblad, Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, Loni Anderson
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### [Saturday, June 9th, 2018 - LGBT Film Festival San Diego - Still Waiting in the Wings - 7:30pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/05/saturday-june-9th-2018-lgbt-film-festival-san-diego-still-waiting-in-the-wings-730pm/)
**Published:** June 5, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Date: June 7th–10th, 2018**
**Time: Event starts at** 7:00pm **on June 7th**
**Ticket Price: $10–$50 / show**
**[The Observatory – North Park](http://www.thenorthparktheatre.com/)**
**2891 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92104**
### 7:30pm **MEN’S CENTERPIECE**
**Saturday, June 9th, 2018**
## Still Waiting in the Wings
**Year:** 2018 | **Country:** USA | **Run Time:** 109 min | **Director:** Q. Allan Brocka
*Still Waiting In The Wings* follows the trials and triumphs of of actors waiting tables in Times Square. While dreaming of the Broadway stage, the reality of slinging hash under florescent lights mixes sweet aspirations with bitter drama. There’s no people like show people and there’s no telling what can happen when they’re pitted against each other. Nick Adams, Ed Asner, Carole Cook, Lee Meriwether, Patricia Richardson, Chita Rivera, Seth Rudetsky, Sally Struthers, Bruce Vilanch, and Cindy Williams round out this heartwarming homage to Broadway with some delightful cameos.
**TRAILER:** [Click Here](https://youtu.be/nzBypjE-FFk)
**Ticket Price: $10.00**
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Film festival, LGBT, Patricia Richardson, Sally Struthers, Seth Rudetsky, tickets
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### [Saturday, June 9th, 2018 - 2018 LGBT Film Festival San Diego - The Fabulous Allan Carr - 5:30 PM](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/05/saturday-june-9th-2018-2018-lgbt-film-festival-san-diego-the-fabulous-allan-carr-530-pm/)
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**2018 LGBT Film Festival San Diego**
**Date: June 7th–10th, 2018**
**Time: Event starts at** 7:00pm **on June 7th**
**Ticket Price: $10–$50 / show**
**The Observatory – North Park**
**2891 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92104**
### 5:30pm
**Saturday, June 9th, 2018**
## The Fabulous Allan Carr
**Year:** 2017 | **Country:** USA | **Run Time:** 90 min | **Director:** Jeffrey Schwarz
Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, this documentary shows how Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega hit musical film **GREASE** and the Broadway sensation **LA CAGE AUX FOLLES**, (and then Can’t Stop The Music, Grease 2 and Where The Boys Are ’84) until it all came crashing down after he produced the notorious debacle of the 1989 Academy Awards. **Interviewees include: Patricia Birch, Maxwell Caulfield, Steve Guttenberg, Nikki Haskell, Randy Jones, Randal Kleiser, Sherry Lansing, Lorna Luft, Michael Musto, Robert Osborne, Brett Ratner, Connie Stevens, Alana Stewart, Marlo Thomas & Bruce Vilanch.**
**TRAILER:** [Click Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jC7ltHHsek&feature=youtu.be)
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### [2018: Still Waiting In The Wings Musical DVD & Soundtrack with Lee Meriwether, Ed Asner, Sally Struthers, Cindy Williams, Leanna Cornett, Patricia Richardson, Carole Cook, Bruce Vilanch, and some surprises!](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/06/04/waiting-in-the-wings-musical-dvd-soundtrack-with-lee-meriwether-ed-asner-sally-struthers-cindy-williams-leanna-cornett-patricia-richardson-carole-cook-bruce-vilanch-and-some-surprises/)
**Published:** June 4, 2018
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**Plot Summary:**
Still Waiting In The Wings follows the trials and triumphs of of actors waiting tables in Times Square. While dreaming of the Broadway stage, the reality of slinging hash under florescent lights mixes sweet aspirations with bitter drama. There’s no people like show people and there’s no telling what can happen when they’re pitted against each other. Nick Adams, Ed Asner, Carole Cook, Lee Meriwether, Patricia Richardson, Chita Rivera, Seth Rudetsky, Sally Struthers, Bruce Vilanch, and Cindy Williams round out this heartwarming homage to Broadway with some delightful cameos.
**Awards**
**2 wins**
2018
**Garden State Film Festival**
Won, Jury Award
**Best Musical Feature**
Jeffrey A. Johns (producer), Q. Allan Brocka (director) JJ Spotlight Productions
2017
**Fort Worth Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival**
Won, Jury Award
**Best Feature Film**
Jeffrey A. Johns, Q. Allan Brocka JJ Spotlight Productions
**Waiting In The Wings: The Musical DVD (USA)**
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### [THE TORTURED HISTORY OF THE ‘STAR WARS’ HOLIDAY SPECIAL](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/29/the-tortured-history-of-the-star-wars-holiday-special/)
**Published:** May 29, 2018
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THE TORTURED HISTORY OF THE ‘STAR WARS’ HOLIDAY SPECIAL
John DiLillo
APRIL 10, 2018**
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In the 1970s, blockbuster sequels were hard to come by. Studios used franchising to paper up holes in their release schedule, rushing follow-ups into production to cash in on valuable IP as soon as possible. Miniscule budgets and quick production turnarounds made movies like the James Bond series consistently popular, but big-budget franchises were nowhere to be found.
The release of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws in 1975 changed things, but only slightly. Universal gave its 1978 successor a relatively sizeable budget, more than four times that of the original Jaws. And it seemed to work: For a brief period, Jaws 2 was the most financially successful sequel of all time, making almost $200 million worldwide on a $30 million dollar budget.
The relative success of Jaws 2 didn’t assuage any of George Lucas’ concerns. A year after Star Wars became an American phenomenon, he was already waist-deep into production on The Empire Strikes Back, and the pressure was building. Lucas wasn’t just hoping to launch the first true blockbuster franchise with Empire; he was financially dependent on the film outperforming just about every sequel that preceded it. Determined to keep his company independent of the studio system, Lucas funded Empire with his own money, and it cost him a pretty penny. During production, the film’s budget ballooned to more than 150% of the original Star Wars‘ budget, leaving Lucas struggling to negotiate with 20th Century Fox and his own bank, which was threatening to call in his loan.
On top of these financial concerns was Lucas’ fear that the characters he had created would not maintain a grip on the cultural consciousness long enough for Empire to make any money at all. The studio perception of American audiences was that they were flighty and easily distracted; a phenomenon one summer could become a costly bomb the next. With this in mind, CBS pitched Lucas a concept that could “sustain interest” in the budding franchise, as well as potentially goosing toy sales: an old-fashioned comedy variety hour, to be broadcast just before Thanksgiving.
Famous control freak George Lucas wasn’t a huge fan of handing his baby over to CBS executives, but his work on Empire took top priority. He gave the group of veteran TV writers working on the special a simple concept, handed them a mythology “bible” that would keep them from violating franchise canon, and went on his way. At the time, writer Lenny Ripps told Vanity Fair, it seemed like a slam dunk: “My God, this is an annuity—Star Wars! How could it lose?”
The creative team would quickly find out that the Star Wars brand wasn’t an automatic ticket to greatness. Part of the issue was the concept Lucas presented, which sounded good on paper but collapsed in practice. The creator wanted the Holiday Special to center on Chewbacca’s Wookiee family, specifically his wife Malla, his father Itchy, and his son Lumpy (Lucas himself named the latter two characters, according to another writer on the project, Bruce Vilanch). It would revolve around the Wookiee holiday of “Life Day,” and Chewbacca’s struggles to return to his home planet of Kashyyyk in time for the festivities. The idea kept the special from being a time commitment for returning cast members, replacing them largely with faceless Imperial officers, masked Wookiees, and a guest cast of television comedy staples.
Unfortunately, it also removed everything that made the original Star Wars appealing to audiences, leaving them trapped watching a group of warbling monkey people doing menial tasks in preparation for a bizarre space holiday. What quickly becomes apparent while watching the Holiday Special is that Star Wars occupies a very specific cultural space, and if you tread just a little bit outside of that space, the entire endeavor collapses. It’s a space that’s difficult to explain and a tone that’s even more difficult to nail, but the Holiday Special manages to exist entirely separate from any kind of Star Wars tone whatsoever. It’s clear within the first ten minutes that the writers were hopelessly out of their depth, and it’s hard to blame them because while we know it feels wrong to watch a Wookiee baby take out the garbage, we can’t quite explain why it feels wrong.
From Chewie’s family’s very retro, spacious 1970s tree-apartment to Chewie’s wife’s human-sized apron, it’s all just a tiny bit too familiar to our eye, missing that slight otherworldly atmosphere that distinguishes Star Wars from something closer to our world. There’s a scene in 2002’s Attack of the Clones where we discover that luggage in the Star Wars universe consists of pretty standard suitcases, complete with wheels and extendable handles. It shares the Special‘s peculiar tonal inconsistency with the rest of the universe, an unconsidered detail that just barely skews the entire charade.
It doesn’t help that the Holiday Special is almost entirely plotless. It’s far more Holiday Special than Star Wars, an extended hang-out montage that cuts between shoddy Wookiee costumes and bizarre cameos from our favorite characters, all of whom look like they’re performing with a DL-44 blaster pistol pointed at them from just off-camera. The best thing one can say about the meat of The Star Wars Holiday Special is that it does really capture the feeling of sitting around your house on a holiday waiting for family to show up; the only problem is that watching a family of Sasquatches do that is even more interminably boring than doing it yourself. Lumpy watches a bizarre circus-act hologram; Malla struggles to master “Bantha rump” with the help of a Julia Child-esque cooking show.
Occasionally, a hilariously coked-up Star Wars cast member will phone in, with the highlight being an appearance by a wild-eyed Mark Hamill, apparently auditioning for Cathy Rigby’s Peter Pan stage role. In the time between Star Wars and the Holiday Special, Luke has apparently found time to meet Chewie’s entire family, because they’re all very familiar with him and his malfunctioning R2-D2 impersonator. Interspersed with these original trilogy cameos are bit parts for sketch comedians of the era. Carol Burnett Show star Harvey Korman appears in no less than three roles, including the aforementioned TV chef and a patron at the classic Mos Eisley Cantina who drinks through a hole in his scalp. Here, the cantina’s bartender is Maude‘s Bea Arthur, and she stars in an in-universe Mos Eisley soap opera that climaxes in a strangely emotional musical number.
But the real star of the Holiday Special is Saun Dann (Honeymooners star Art Carney), the man who runs the “general store” on Kashyyyk. Initially, Dann was an Empire Strikes Back concept that eventually evolved into Lando Calrissian, but here he’s just a vehicle that guides the Special through its lackadaisical Imperial invasion “plot.” He’s also the trader who delivers Chewie’s father Itchy the coveted–and infamous–gift that defines the Holiday Special, a “Mind Evaporator” that delivers him a vision of Mermeia (Diahann Carroll), a “holographic fantasy woman who existed within virtual reality as an erotic entertainer.” And then Chewbacca’s ratty-looking father watches a holographic adult film, on a primetime network television holiday special.
In the end, not even a bizarrely out-of-place Jefferson Starship performance could save the Holiday Special. By the time Chewie and his family finally don their long red robes and wander into a psychedelic starscape, the special has stretched on for almost two hours, and exhaustion has set in. The final bumper of the Wookiee family saying…grace (?) is just as bizarre as everything that’s preceded it. Lucas himself was astonished at the Special‘s poor quality, supposedly saying of it, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Ratings cratered roughly halfway through the program, and it was never broadcast again. Lucas has refused to give up the home video rights.
But a peculiar thing has happened since then: The Star Wars Holiday Special, like many similarly shoddy elements of Star Wars history, has become oddly iconic. The most popular element of the Special, a ten-minute cartoon segment, introduced fan-favorite character, Boba Fett. On top of that, Star Wars authors keep sneaking characters into current canon. A story by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Matt Fraction in last year’s A Certain Point of View anthology canonized Bea Arthur’s bartender Ackmena, and Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath trilogy brought Malla and Lumpy (now called “Waroo”) into the Disney fold. And if books aren’t enough for you, April’s trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story seemed to imply the presence of Chewie’s wife.
So what is it driving this resurgence in Holiday Special nostalgia? For one thing, there’s something oddly charming about its low-rent, incredibly boring presentation of the universe we’ve come to love for its bombast and big budgets. It’s like a Star Wars home movie, and for die-hard fans of the series, it’s also a fascinating artifact that speaks to just how specific a hold these movies have over our culture. Yes, there’s something just so slightly off about all of it, and in trying to figure out what, we gain a new appreciation for the times this formula works so well. And besides, it’s fun to watch garbage sometimes. Carrie Fisher herself owned a bootleg copy of the Special, and she delighted in playing her scenes at parties when she wanted people to leave. How could you not love that?
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### [You Can Now Get The 1979 Original Off-Broadway Cast "Festival"By Stephen Downs/Randal Martin/Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/29/you-can-now-get-the-1979-original-off-broadway-cast-festivalby-stephen-downsrandal-martinbruce-vilanch/)
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**Footlight
Festival – Original Off-Broadway Cast – Stephen Downs/Randal Martin/Bruce Vilanch**
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**Music**
Stephen Downs (3)
**Lyrics**
Stephen Downs (3), Randal Martin, Bruce Vilanch (7)
**Book**
Stephen Downs (3), Randal Martin
**Recording Details**
**Date**
1979
**Type**
Audio / Stage Cast
**Language**
English
**Location**
US / NY / New York
**Conductor**
David Spear (2)
**Performer**
Bill Hutton (13), Tina Johnson (5), Michael Magnusen, Maureen McNamara (3), Lindy Nisbet, Roxann Parker (3), Michael Rupert (47), Leon Stewart (2), Robin Taylor (2), John Windsor
**Format**
CD
**Label**
Original Cast Records 9791
**Released**
1997-09-23
**Barcode**
0741117979123
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1\. Overture — Company/Our Song — Michael Rupert
2\. Ballad of Oh — Company/For the Love — Michael Rupert
3\. Beata Biax (Beautiful) — Bill Hutton
4\. Just Like You — Michael Magnusen, Bill Hutton
5\. Special Day — Maureen McNamara, Bill Hutton
6\. The Time Is Come — Michael Rupert, Maureen McNamara, Bill Hutton
7\. Roger the Ox — Leon Stewart
8\. When the Lady Passes — Company
9\. Gifts to You — Maureen McNamara, Bill Hutton
10\. The Escape — Company
11\. The Pirates’ Song — Michael Rupert
12\. I Can’t Remember — Company
13\. One Step Further — Company
14\. Through Love’s Eyes — Michael Magnuson, Bill Hutton
15\. Let Him Love You — Maureen McNamara, Roxann Parker
16\. The Ceremony — Company / I Speak of Love — Company
17\. Our Song (Reprise) — Company
**Format**
LP
**Label**
Original Cast Records 7916
**Shortcode**
\[rl4223\]
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**New York Times
ARCHIVES|Stage: Musical ‘Festival’ Tells Story of Carnival
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
MAY 18, 1979**
“FESTIVAL,” the new musical at City Center Downstairs, has played Los Angeles,”San Francisco and Washington, and been compared favorably, I understand, to “Godspell,” “The Fantasticks” and “Pippin.” Certainly, it has energy and good humor, and the kind of innocent vulgarity that would not be inimical to a child’s birthday party. In fact, “Festival” would be a smash at child’s birthday party. It is a ceremony for innocents.
The musical is played against the background of a carnival, a happy set, and opens with the pianist, wearing tails, walking across stage and unexpectedly doing a cartwheel. This is harbinger. “Festival” calls itself “zany” musical, and the zaniness —quite often funny, too often only goofy — is what “Festival” is mostly about.
It is also about two lovers, Aucassin and Nicolette, whose story — whose several stories — will be acted out by the members of the carnival. In number, they are nine; in roles they are multiple, and in energy they are inexhaustible. Robin Taylor is perhaps most inexhaustible of all. Miss Taylor has a rubbery face and contortionist’s body, and she is by Gilda Radnerout of Imogene Coca. She mugs, she dances, she sings. Everyone in “Festival” mugs, dances and sings, but Miss Taylor does it more often and more joyfully than anyone else. She is the would?be bride, Aucassin’s warrior, a shepherdess, a pirate, a gypsy and probably a few things I missed. None of these roles needs explanation; they are really inexplicable, anyway.
For “Festival” is a fantasy and a fairy tale, and it is insistent on its zaniness. In general, it is not a good thing when a musical insists on its zaniness; it usually means there will not be much on stage except exuberance. “Festival” has plenty of that, and although it bubbles, it does not often sing. In its good nature, “Festival” begs you to like it; it very nearly sits in your lap and grins. Somehow, however, it is like eating a Chinese meal.
**Zany Fairy Tale**
FESTIVAL, a musical with book and lyrics by Stephen Downs and Randal Martin; additional book and special material by Bruce Vilanch, based on “Aucassin & Nicolette.” Music by Mr. Downs, setting and lighting by George Gizienski; costumes by Madeline Ann Graneto; musical and vocal arrangements by Tony Berg; musical direction by David Spear; choreography by Stan Mazin; directed by Wayne Bryan; production stage manager. Mark Goldman. Presented by Roger Berlind, Franklin R. Levy and Mike Wise. in association with Kip Richard Krones and Leslie Mconves, in association with the LBN Company. At City Center Downstairs, 135 West 55th Street.
WITH: Michael Rupert, Bill Hutton, Maureen McNamara, Tina Johnson. Michael Magnusen. Lindy Nisbet, Roxann Parker. Leon Stewart. Robin Taylor and John Windsor. strolling player, wandering on and off and explaining what is going on. Mr. Rupert looks like Elliot Gould, although he has considerably more charm, and he can find as many ways to make funny faces as Miss Taylor.
For a while, Mr. Rupert is a small, hunchbacked figure in a cloak— again, there is no point in explaining why —limping and lurching through a comic turn. It is exactly the turn that Marty Feldman did in the movie “Young Frankenstein,” except that Mr. Rupert does not pop his eyes. It is very funny.
Meanwhile, there are the 18 songs by Stephen Downs and Randal Martin. Four or five are better than just good, and one or two are special. The problem is still the zaniness; everything disappears into that.
JOHN CORRY
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends The Hollywood Icon Awards Honoring Lyn and Norman Lear](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/20/bruce-vilanch-attends-the-hollywood-icon-awards-honoring-lyn-and-norman-lear/)
**Published:** May 20, 2018
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**Broadway World
Pierce Brosnan Presents Hollywood Icon Award To Lyn And Norman Lear
TV News Desk May. 4, 2018**
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Lyn and Norman Lear were awarded the Hollywood Icon Award at the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Gala at The Beverly Hilton last night. Actor and film producer Pierce Brosnan presented the award to the lifelong philanthropists and legendary television pioneer and four-time Emmy winner. The Lears join the ranks of past recipients including Billy Crystal, Wendy and Leonard Goldberg, Lauren Shuler and Richard Donner, Fay and Frank Mancuso, Judy and Bernard Briskin, Dr. Bruce Gewertz, Dr. Ed Phillips, and Vera and Paul Guerin.
“We are incredibly honored to have the Lears as our 2018 Hollywood Icon Award recipient,” said Women’s Guild President Gina Furth. “Norman is one of the most influential and groundbreaking sitcom creators in TV history, and he has provided thousands of opportunities to people in the industry for decades.”
Lyn and Norman Lear accepted the award before over 500 attendees at the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Gala. Before presenting the award, Pierce Brosnan stated, “When approached to present this honor, I wanted to know more about the meaning behind the award. I learned that the Hollywood Icon Award was established to honor outstanding professional accomplishments along with the great heart and humanity of the entertainment industry. Women’s Guild, you have nailed it. The very remarkable Norman is a true Hollywood legend. No matter what hat he is wearing – creator, producer, writer or director – his creative genius has been THE VOICE of our times, and his artistry has crossed generations.”
Samantha Harris, Tara Buck, Nicholas Pileggi, McG, Bruce Vilanch, Gabriela Dias, Courtney Henggeler, Victoria Konefal, MARLON Aquino, Camila Banus, Lynda Resnick and Celeste Thorson were among the many attendees at yesterday’s gala. Emceed by Jason Alexander, the event included an opening act by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, special musical performance by Sergio Mendes and a live auction and raffle by auctioneer Quig Bruning. All funds raised went to the Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills.
In 2013, Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai pledged $10 million in five years to the simulation center, where high-tech patient simulators and next-generation technology provide critical training for health professionals. Located at Cedars-Sinai, the innovative simulation center looks, feels, and sounds exactly like an actual hospital setting. It features high-tech operating and exam rooms, patient rooms and delivery rooms. Everything is real and completely functional – except for the patients. Lifelike robotic mannequins breathe, blink and cry out for help. Doctors and nurses must dive into unfamiliar scenarios in which they might deliver a (robotic) baby or conduct complex surgery. This vital training ground for medical professionals provides a unique environment to practice new medical techniques. It is a valued resource for the local community where EMT teams simulate Los Angeles emergency scenarios, as well as a model paving the way for hospitals around the nation.< Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai fulfilled its $20 million pledge to the Lung Institute at Cedars-Sinai two years ahead of schedule and is near completion for its pledge to Women's Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills. The Women's Guild has been inspiring innovation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for more than a half century. Its members share a powerful commitment to supporting world-class healthcare, research and innovation. The Women's Guild has committed $10 million for the Women's Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills. Since 1957, the Women's Guild has been making a difference in the lives of patients, raising close to $50 million in support of Cedars-Sinai's most critical work, including projects at the Cedars-Sinai Women's Guild Lung Institute and the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center (A project of Women's Guild at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.) Cedars-Sinai is a national leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered healthcare encompassing primary care as well as specialized medicine and conducting research that leads to lifesaving discoveries and innovations. Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards in quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare to the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare globally by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's physicians and other health professionals. At the same time, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Honors Toni Basil At PDS's Gypsy Award Ceremony](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/08/bruce-vilanch-honors-toni-basil-at-pdss-gypsy-award-ceremony/)
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**Broadway World
BWW Feature: PDS’s Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom
Valerie-Jean Miller May. 5, 2018**
[![Bruce Vilanch, Toni Basil](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2018/05/tn-500_IMG_3788.jpg "BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom Valerie-Jean Miller May. 5, 2018 Tweet Share BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom 4/15/18 ~ HONORING GEORGE CHAKIRIS, BARRIE CHASE & TONI BASIL There's a certain feeling that invades my consciousness when I attend a Dancer's Event... It is a deep, passionate, all-encompassing love amongst it's members. And that is what I was feeling, attending a most prestigious (in my opinion) Event; The Professional Dancer's Society 2018 Annual Luncheon & "Gypsy" Award Ceremony, held in the International Room at the Beverly Hilton. It starts with the Dancers, Choreographers, Dance Divas from all mediums showing up in a corner of the lobby; all of whom have pre-paid to attend, with all money raised being given to The Actor's Fund and Dancers in need; in a bevy of energy and mutual admiration of others gathering. The ambience cannot be described. Put some wild-and-crazy dancers together, covering decades of working together and weathering brutal rehearsals, live performances, injuries, touring, and surviving in a very competitive business and you end up having a love-in. We are a unique family of misfits and artistic, diverse and creative souls. Our President, Mitzi Gaynor, BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroomwas side-crackingly funny, and had a lot of choice comments that would be best not quoted here, but had the crowd in an uproar. Joni Berry, the glue that holds all of this together, introduced one of the best honoree lists in PDS history. Honored this year were George Chakiris, Barrie Chase and Toni Basil. What a marquee that would be! Past honorees, beginning in 1987, have been Hermes Pan, Donald O'Connor, Sammy Davis, Jr., Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Shirley MacLaine, Mitzi Gaynor, Juliet Prowse, Gwen Verdon, Ann-Margaret, Sandy Duncan, Tommy Tune, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Onna White, Sandy Duncan, Chita Rivera, Marge Champion, Gregory Hines, Rita Moreno, Florence Henderson, Jane Powell, Rob Marshall, Carol Lawrence, Ben Vereen, Bob Mackie, Leslie Caron, Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, among others. The show, produced by incredible, noted Dancers/Choreographers, Lee Hale, Charlene Painter, Ted Sprague, Joe Tremaine, Anita Mann Kohl and Tommy Peel, is a tribute to who, what and why Dancers have been influential as a part of the Entertainment Industry. BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomDick Van Dyke started off the festivities, which has become a yearly tradition. He was honored in 1999 by the PDS, and is always exhuberant and gracious. Joe Tremaine also lent his comments to the purpose of the event. HONOREES this year were Barrie Chase, who was Fred Astaire's "Personally Chosen Dance Partner" in numerous films, introduced by Julie McDonald. Her film clips, edited by the incomparable Lee Hale, were varied and unique. She marked a time-period of dance that contributed to advancing dance as a narrative to moving the plot of a film forward. Bruce Vilanch, who had us all in stitches, introduced Toni Basil, honored next, for bringing "street dancing" into the mainstream, with her mixture of hip-hop and ballet, was delightfully entertaining in recalling her early history and background as a member of a family that included a family vaudeville act and father who was a band leader in Las Vegas.< There is a tradition exclusively among dancers, all over the globe, to present a "Gypsy Robe" to one Dancer each year at such events. It exemplifies unique, llfe-long dedication to giving your soul and spirit to the Art of Dance. It is a revered accolade in the Dance World, as the highest honor to be the recipient of. Joanne Divito was the deserved recipient this year. Her life has been dedicated to dance, in many forms, as a teacher, choreographer, dancer on Broadway and head of Career Transition for Dancers, a revolutionary organization to help dancers find direction into a career after Dance. As a side note, Equity (A.E.A.) has proposed doing away with the name "Gypsy" as being un-PC; an unpopular idea amongst the Dancers who are the multitude of members of that Union. There has never been any intent to slur a minority culture; to Us, it is a term of endearment. Sandy Roveta, last year's Gypsy Robe recipient, was poignantly moving. When a dancer can pour her heart out to her peers, it is definitely from the heart. The poem she penned and read aloud, had everyone laughing and crying at the same time, as we all could relate! Here it is: BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomBWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomThe absolute highlight of the afternoon was the Presentation of the PDS AWARD to Academy Award Winner George Chakiris for his Extraordinary Contribution To The Dance. Russ Tamblyn, (West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...) presented George Chakiris with the Award. BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom Seated at George's Table were Dance Royalty: The partial Cast from the Original WEST SIDE STORY! In addition to George Chakiris (Bernardo) & Russ Tamblyn, (Riff), in attendance were Jaime Rogers, (Loco) Maria Jimenez Henley (Teresita), Bob Banas, (Joy-Boy) Gina Trikonis (Graziella) and David Winters (A-Rab);Tony Mordente (Action) was unable to attend, but duly mentioned. In between were performances by local Dance Companies, and introductions of the many Celebrity/Dancers in the audience. On each side of the room were giant screens, where so many amazing dance clips were woven together and produced by Lee Hale that are priceless montages of Dance through History, and were all met with exuberant applause and appreciation. If you love to dance, love watching dance, or just enjoy dancers and their lively events, come to this spring event next year and contribute to the betterment of artistic endeavors. It's a hell-of-a show! - We Got Bruce!")](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2018/05/tn-500_IMG_3788.jpg)
There’s a certain feeling that invades my consciousness when I attend a Dancer’s Event…
It is a deep, passionate, all-encompassing love amongst it’s members. And that is what I was feeling, attending a most prestigious (in my opinion) Event; The Professional Dancer’s Society 2018 Annual Luncheon & “Gypsy” Award Ceremony, held in the International Room at the Beverly Hilton.
It starts with the Dancers, Choreographers, Dance Divas from all mediums showing up in a corner of the lobby; all of whom have pre-paid to attend, with all money raised being given to The Actor’s Fund and Dancers in need; in a bevy of energy and mutual admiration of others gathering.
The ambience cannot be described. Put some wild-and-crazy dancers together, covering decades of working together and weathering brutal rehearsals, live performances, injuries, touring, and surviving in a very competitive business and you end up having a love-in. We are a unique family of misfits and artistic, diverse and creative souls.
Our President, Mitzi Gaynor, BWW Feature: PDS’s Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroomwas side-crackingly funny, and had a lot of choice comments that would be best not quoted here, but had the crowd in an uproar. Joni Berry, the glue that holds all of this together, introduced one of the best honoree lists in PDS history. Honored this year were George Chakiris, Barrie Chase and Toni Basil. What a marquee that would be!
Past honorees, beginning in 1987, have been Hermes Pan, Donald O’Connor, Sammy Davis, Jr., Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Shirley MacLaine, Mitzi Gaynor, Juliet Prowse, Gwen Verdon, Ann-Margaret, Sandy Duncan, Tommy Tune, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett, Onna White, Sandy Duncan, Chita Rivera, Marge Champion, Gregory Hines, Rita Moreno, Florence Henderson, Jane Powell, Rob Marshall, Carol Lawrence, Ben Vereen, Bob Mackie, Leslie Caron, Carl Reiner, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, among others.
The show, produced by incredible, noted Dancers/Choreographers, Lee Hale, Charlene Painter, Ted Sprague, Joe Tremaine, Anita Mann Kohl and Tommy Peel, is a tribute to who, what and why Dancers have been influential as a part of the Entertainment Industry.
BWW Feature: PDS’s Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomDick Van Dyke started off the festivities, which has become a yearly tradition. He was honored in 1999 by the PDS, and is always exhuberant and gracious. Joe Tremaine also lent his comments to the purpose of the event. HONOREES this year were Barrie Chase, who was Fred Astaire’s “Personally Chosen Dance Partner” in numerous films, introduced by Julie McDonald. Her film clips, edited by the incomparable Lee Hale, were varied and unique. She marked a time-period of dance that contributed to advancing dance as a narrative to moving the plot of a film forward.
Bruce Vilanch, who had us all in stitches, introduced Toni Basil, honored next, for bringing “street dancing” into the mainstream, with her mixture of hip-hop and ballet, was delightfully entertaining in recalling her early history and background as a member of a family that included a family vaudeville act and father who was a band leader in Las Vegas.< There is a tradition exclusively among dancers, all over the globe, to present a "Gypsy Robe" to one Dancer each year at such events. It exemplifies unique, llfe-long dedication to giving your soul and spirit to the Art of Dance. It is a revered accolade in the Dance World, as the highest honor to be the recipient of. Joanne Divito was the deserved recipient this year. Her life has been dedicated to dance, in many forms, as a teacher, choreographer, dancer on Broadway and head of Career Transition for Dancers, a revolutionary organization to help dancers find direction into a career after Dance. As a side note, Equity (A.E.A.) has proposed doing away with the name "Gypsy" as being un-PC; an unpopular idea amongst the Dancers who are the multitude of members of that Union. There has never been any intent to slur a minority culture; to Us, it is a term of endearment. Sandy Roveta, last year's Gypsy Robe recipient, was poignantly moving. When a dancer can pour her heart out to her peers, it is definitely from the heart. The poem she penned and read aloud, had everyone laughing and crying at the same time, as we all could relate! Here it is: BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomBWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International BallroomThe absolute highlight of the afternoon was the Presentation of the PDS AWARD to Academy Award Winner George Chakiris for his Extraordinary Contribution To The Dance. Russ Tamblyn, (West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...) presented George Chakiris with the Award. BWW Feature: PDS's Star-Studded Luncheon and Gypsy Award Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom Seated at George's Table were Dance Royalty: The partial Cast from the Original WEST SIDE STORY! In addition to George Chakiris (Bernardo) & Russ Tamblyn, (Riff), in attendance were Jaime Rogers, (Loco) Maria Jimenez Henley (Teresita), Bob Banas, (Joy-Boy) Gina Trikonis (Graziella) and David Winters (A-Rab);Tony Mordente (Action) was unable to attend, but duly mentioned. In between were performances by local Dance Companies, and introductions of the many Celebrity/Dancers in the audience. On each side of the room were giant screens, where so many amazing dance clips were woven together and produced by Lee Hale that are priceless montages of Dance through History, and were all met with exuberant applause and appreciation. If you love to dance, love watching dance, or just enjoy dancers and their lively events, come to this spring event next year and contribute to the betterment of artistic endeavors. It's a hell-of-a show!
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### [Video: The Fabulous Allan Carr (2018) Trailer](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/08/video-the-fabulous-allan-carr-2018-trailer/)
**Published:** May 8, 2018
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The Fabulous Allan Carr (2018) documentary trailer, feat. Allan Carr, Bruce Vilanch, Sherry Lansing, Lorna Luft, Jeanne Wolf, and more, about the decadent lifestyle of cultural LGBT and Hollywood icon and hit filmmaker Allan Carr.
Documentarian Jeffrey Schwarz (VITO, I AM DIVINE, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL, etc.) explores the decadence of 70’s and 80’s of Hollywood and the flamboyant producer, TV personality Allan Carr who brought sensations like GREASE and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES to the world and debacles like CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC and the ’89 Academy Awards with Snow White! With a loaded Rolodex and a secluded Benedict Canyon residence, with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood Parties that defined the 1970’s.
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Stars: Allan Carr, Bruce Vilanch, Jeanne Wolf, Tom Hanks, Michelle Pfeiffer, Goldie Hawn, more.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Goldie Hawn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Snow White, The Fabulous Allan Carr
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch on "The 1989 Oscars" with Rob Lowe and Snow White](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/05/08/video-bruce-vilanch-on-the-1989-oscars-with-rob-lowe-and-snow-white/)
**Published:** May 8, 2018
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play Provincetown August 17 & 18](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/04/23/bruce-vilanch-to-play-provincetown-august-17-18/)
**Published:** April 23, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**BRUCE VILANCH**
**Paramount Theater**
**Friday and Saturday, August 17 & 18 at 7:00 p.m.**
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Six-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch will make his Paramount Room debut this summer at the Crown & Anchor! A writer for the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tonys, Mr. Vilanch will bring his singular stand-up comedy act to Provincetown.
Tickets are now on sale both for general admission seating and special VIP packages. Pricing and additional information available online at [www.onlyatthecrown.com](http://www.onlyatthecrown.com/), by phone at 508-487-1430, or at the Crown & Anchor box office, 247 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Massachusetts, Provincetown, Stand-up comedy, Theater
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### [Bruce Vilanch In Another Musical "The MeshugaNutcracker!" (2017)](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/04/23/bruce-vilanch-in-another-musical-the-meshuganutcracker-2017/)
**Published:** April 23, 2018
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**Summary:**
This is a collection of Jewish cultural stories and moral lessons centered on the multi-level meaning of Hanukkah, celebrated through a combination of music from The Nutcracker with revised lyrics, and traditional Hanukkah melodies. Presented by an ensemble cast of capable singers and dancers (two of whom co-wrote the show), this amusing, educational G-rated production is best appreciated by Jewish families with young children.
The MeshugaNutcracker! is a full-length musical comedy that features the wonderfully silly sensibilities of the folklore of Chelm (the fictional town of fools) underscored by an invigorating, Klezmer-ized orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”, now with original lyrics that celebrate Chanukah. Judah Maccabee’s triumphant saga and accounts of perseverance during the Holocaust as well as the celebration of the first Chanukah in the new state of Israel emerge with a genuine sense of wonder as the Chelmniks tell eight stories that pay tribute to the holiday. Add in dancing dreidels, singing sufganiot, and surprise guest stars and you have the perfect recipe for a holiday gathering. Some might call it crazy…we call it The MeshugaNutcracker!
**Released December 19, 2017**
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**Official Website:**
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Guest On Rupaul's Drag Race In Season 5](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/04/23/bruce-vilanch-to-guest-on-rupauls-drag-race-in-season-5/)
**Published:** April 23, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season Five
Review by CJ**
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**Judges:**
RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Santino Rice
**Contestants:**
Alaska, Alyssa Edwards, Coco Montrese, Detox, Honey Mahogany, Ivy Winters, Jade Jolie, Jinkx Monsoon, Lineysha Sparx, Monica Beverly Hillz, Penny Tration, Roxxxy Andrews, Serena ChaCha, Vivienne Pinay
**Guest judges/special guests:**
Latrice Royale, Sharon Needles, Willam Belli, Camille Grammer, Mike Ruiz, Kristen Johnston, Juliette Lewis, Coco Austin, Paulina Porizkova, Chaz Bono, Travis Wall, Julie Brown, Downtown Julie Brown, La Toya Jackson, Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Leslie Jordan, Jeffrey Moran, Nadya Ginsburg, Deven Green, Bruce Vilanch, Aubrey O’Day, Joan Van Ark, Jamie-Lunn Sigler, Maria Conchita Alonso, Wilmer Valderrama, Clinton Kelly, George Kotsiopoulos, Marg Helgenberger, Bob Mackie, Gloria Allred, Candis Cayne, Paula Abdul, Tamar Braxton, The Lady Bunny
**Running time:**
43-64 minutes per episode
**Number of episodes:**
14
Fourteen more drag queens compete in a variety of challenges to become RuPaul’s next drag superstar and bring home a massive prize pool including $100,000.
Season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race is, as can be expected, filled with fun challenges, beautiful drag queens, and so much shade.
The fifth season is also, at this stage, one of the most tumultuous seasons in terms of casting, which was quite distracting from the art itself. There has always been conflict and likely always will be when you put strong personalities in competition with each other. However, this season cast two former friends and now enemies together. I know … Manufactured drama on reality television — who would have guessed?! But in this particular case the drama between our two queens was distracting and quickly became tiresome.
One of my favourite things about RuPaul’s Drag Race, aside from the gorgeous costumes, fierce make up and wicked one-liners, is the appearances from special guests including past contestants. This season has plenty of both and definitely makes it worthwhile to ensure you watch the seasons in order.
I highly recommend RuPaul’s Drag Race for anyone who loves competition shows based around art, fashion and performance. The cast in season five is incredibly polarising, but that only makes the viewer invest themselves further in the outcome.
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### [The Evening the Stars Come Out: Michael Childers' 'One Night Only' Charity Extravaganza Returns to the McCallum Theatre April 25](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/04/21/the-evening-the-stars-come-out-michael-childers-one-night-only-charity-extravaganza-returns-to-the-mccallum-theatre-april-25/)
**Published:** April 21, 2018
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The Evening the Stars Come Out: Michael Childers’ ‘One Night Only’ Charity Extravaganza Returns to the McCallum Theatre
Written by Bonnie Gilgallon**
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As I sat in Michael Childers’ gorgeous Rancho Mirage home—his award-winning photographs adorning the walls—he told me the story of how the hugely successful *One Night Only* show came to be.
The star-studded annual event, a benefit for Jewish Family Service of the Desert, will return to the McCallum Theatre Wednesday, April 25.
It all started nearly 13 years ago, Childers said, when he approached his dear friend Barbara Keller about putting on a variety show; it was an idea he’d had great success with in Santa Fe, N.M. The concept was simple: Assemble a cast of veteran cabaret performers and a great orchestra; choose crowd-pleasing musical numbers; and raise an impressive amount of money for a local charity. Keller spoke to her board of directors at Jewish Family Service—which provides psychological counseling, food, housing and other services to valley residents, regardless of religious affiliation.
A new Coachella Valley tradition was born: *One Night Only* premiered in the desert, with Childers’ buddy Lily Tomlin as the mistress of ceremonies. It was a smash, and now the event sells out every year.
It’s a large undertaking that takes a full nine months of planning. When deciding on the theme, Childers thinks about what he and audiences would like. Last year, it was the music of Jerry Herman; this year, it’s the classic music of Rodgers, Hammerstein and Hart. Jason Graae is back for his second year as director, with musical direction by Christopher Marlowe.
Childers and the director sit down with their rolodexes and choose the cast. Because of the show’s stellar reputation, many veteran cabaret performers clamor to be part of it—even though the performers are donating their time. However, being in the show has its perks: Childers says the stars are treated well, with glamorous parties and such—plus a few days in Palm Springs is very appealing if you’ve been dealing with months of chilly weather in New York.
This year’s cast is slated to include Liz Callaway, Ann Hampton Callaway, Davis Gaines, Julie Garnye, Bets Malone, Sal Mistretta, Faith Prince, Billy Stritch, Teri Ralston, Bruce Vilanch and many other stage veterans.
Weary of the traffic and backstabbing in Los Angeles, Childers moved here in 1999 with his partner, Oscar-winning film director John Schlesinger (who later died of a stroke). Calling the valley “a wonderful, very philanthropic community,” Childers quickly became involved in the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and joined the board of the Palm Springs Art Museum.
A world-famous photographer, Childers currently has an Andy Warhol-themed show on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum. His work is also being featured in San Diego and will be on display at Yale University in the summer of 2019. A frequent lecturer on the subject, Childers said a great photographer is consistent and produces a lifetime of work, including iconic photographs.
When asked what makes a great live stage show, Childers’ answer was simple: Fit the show to your target audience, and keep it moving—don’t let it go on too long. This year’s *One Night Only* is slated to be a compact 90 minutes, with no intermission.
So what’s left on Childers’ bucket list? He’s working on an autobiography, called *And I Have the Pictures to Prove It*. Music education is one of Childers’ passions—and he’s very proud of *One Night Only*, calling it an iconic production in the desert.
One Night Only*, a show benefiting Jewish Family Services, takes place at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 25, at the McCallum Theatre, 73000 Fred Waring Drive, in Palm Desert. Tickets are $75 to $175, with a limited number of VIP tickets, including an after-party, available for $495. For tickets or more information, call 760-340-2787, or visit [www.mccallumtheatre.com](http://www.mccallumtheatre.com/).*
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Coachella Valley, Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin, Liz Callaway, McCallum Theatre, Music, Palm Springs, Retta, tickets
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### [Bruce Vilanch In The Upcoming Movie "Limelight" The Downside Of Fame Via Social Media](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/04/11/bruce-vilanch-in-the-upcoming-movie-limelight-the-downside-of-fame-via-social-media/)
**Published:** April 11, 2018
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood, Instagram, James Cullen Bressack, Jonathan Lipnicki, social media, Twitter, Vandervort, Video, YouTube
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### [Gay male ‘Golden Girls’ reboot picked up for development](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/29/gay-male-golden-girls-reboot-picked-up-for-development/)
**Published:** March 29, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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Gay male ‘Golden Girls’ reboot picked up for development
March 28, 2018 at 2:51 pm EDT | by Mariah Cooper**
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“Silver Foxes,” a gay male reboot of the sitcom “The Golden Girls,” is one step closer to production.
The series, from writer duo Stan Zimmerman and James Berg who have collaborated on “Gilmore Girls” and “The Golden Girls,” has been picked up for production by production company Super Deluxe.
According to Variety, the 30-minute comedy will follow two, mature gay men and one man’s much younger lover as they rescue their other friend who has been forced back into the closet at his assisted living facility. They bring him back to their Palm Springs home where the four get into plenty of hijinks.
Berg and Zimmerman were inspired to make a sitcom based on older gay men’s lives after viewing “Gen Silent,” a documentary about older LGBT people living in nursing home and retirement communities.
Zimmerman revealed in June that there was already a table read with Leslie Jordan, George Takei, Bruce Vilanch, Todd Sherry and Cheri Oteri. Official casting has not yet been announced.
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**Categories:** Television
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Gay, Gay Men, George Takei, Leslie Jordan, The Golden Girls
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/23/photo-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** March 23, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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### [SURGE OF POWER: REVENGE OF THE SEQUEL Available Now On Blu-Ray, DVD And VOD With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/23/surge-of-power-revenge-of-the-sequel-available-now-on-blu-ray-dvd-and-vod-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** March 23, 2018
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SURGE OF POWER: REVENGE OF THE SEQUEL Available Now On Blu-Ray, DVD And VOD
Cinema’s First Out Gay Superhero Faces His Greatest Challenge
by BlacktoothMar 20, 2018, 10:14 am**
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Surge of Power Enterprises and Indie Rights are proud to announce the Blu-ray, DVD and VOD release of the long-anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking and lighthearted superhero movie Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes. Following a national theatrical rollout, Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel is also now available on Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, and YouTube Rentals. Additional platforms including iTunes and Vudu will soon follow.Creator Vincent J. Roth returns to the cape-clad title role of Surge, cinema’s first out gay superhero. Roth is joined by a star-studded cast representing the forces of good and evil including “Star Trek” alums Nichelle Nichols and Robert Picardo, comedian Bruce Vilanch, “SuperFriends!” Wonder Woman Shannon Farnon, Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts, The Exorcist’s Linda Blair, “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” star Gil Gerard and the original Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno. The award-winning film has screened at festivals and conventions across the globe, taking home prizes for Best Comedy, Best Villain, Best Special Effects and Most Inspirational Lead Character.
Surge’s nemesis, the Metal Master, is out of jail and trying to reconcile with his estranged parents (Blair, Gerard) and tempted to continue a life of crime by Augur (Roberts), archnemesis of the wise Omen (Nichols, Picardo). Augur sends Metal Master to Las Vegas for mysterious crystals. Needing more crime fighting help, Surge activates the artificial intelligence in the Surgemobile (Vilanch, Farnon). Augur emerges from the shadows back in Big City, causing Omen to step into the fray, which alerts The Council, a supervillain cabal bent on world domination. Facing more enemies than ever before, Surge must do whatever it takes to save mankind.
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**Tags:** Blu-ray, Bruce Vilanch, Comedian, comedy, Eric Roberts, gay superhero, Gil Gerard, Linda Blair, Lou Ferrigno, Robert Picardo, Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes
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### [See Bruce Vilanch In The New Musical "Still Waiting In The Wings" - Now Playing The Festival Circuit](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/21/see-bruce-vilanch-in-the-new-musical-still-waiting-in-the-wings-now-playing-the-festival-circuit/)
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**SUMMARY**
Still Waiting follows the trials and triumphs of a ragtag team of actors waiting tables in Times Square at The Cafe’ Broadway. While dreaming of the glow of the footlights next door, the reality of slinging hash under florescent lights mixes sweet aspirations with bitter drama. The performers of New York City are as varied as it’s inhabitants: the diva, the theatre queen, the soap star, and even a couple of strippers thrown in for good measure! There’s no people like show people (Thank God), and there’s no telling what can happen when they’re pitted against each other.
We are so excited to re-assemble the cast and songwriting team of Waiting In The Wings: The Musical and bring to you the sequel, Still Waiting In The Wings. We have many delightful cameos joining the cast and want to make sure we bring you the same quality production as our initial film. While $3,000 isn’t a high goal, this is the amount we absolutely need to pay for post production services. While we could cut corners, we need to make the highest quality film to show indy movie musicals can still be made and look like a million dollars!
**Starring:**
Jeffrey A. Johns
Joe Abraham
Lee Meriwether
Chita Rivera
Cindy Williams
Bruce Vilanch
Patricia Richardson
Sally Struthers
Ed Asner
and many more…
**Trailer:**
**Still Playing The Festival Circuit**
QCinema: Fort Worth – Best of the Festival
**Official Website**
[Click Here](http://www.witwthemusical.com/)
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Chita Rivera, Ed Asner, Lee Meriwether, Movie, Music, Patricia Richardson, Sally Struthers, Stripper
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### [Bruce Vilanch Narrates The Lush Opera, Harrison: Young Caesar (Live) -Just Released In Digital Form - Please Read About This Incredible Project](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/02/bruce-vilanch-narrates-the-lush-opera-harrison-young-caesar-live-just-released-in-digital-form-please-read-about-this-incredible-project/)
**Published:** March 2, 2018
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Industry drew acclaim last year for their co-production of Young Caesar, Lou Harrison’s depiction of Caesar’s love for another man. The production was directed by Yuval Sharon, The Industry’s founder/director, and the LA Phil’s Artist-Collaborator. The digital album was recorded live with the LA Phil New Music Group at Walt Disney Concert Hall and will be digitally released February 2, 2018, on The Industry Records.
Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times described the performance: “Sharon, in conjunction with his opera company, The Industry, mounted a fanciful, visually stunning, endearingly mercurial, marginally risqué, momentarily over-the-top and ultimately touching production. The LA Phil New Music Group, conducted by Marc Lowenstein in the final Green Umbrella program of the season, was sensational, revealing layer upon layer of sheer musical gorgeousness capable, from the first bars, of lifting the spirits.”
Harrison’s magnum opus explores the early life of Julius Caesar with a sublime and sinuous, percussion-rich depiction of his love for another man. The Industry’s new 90-minute performance edition fuses Harrison’s original gamelan-inspired orchestration with his later, lush orchestral writing.
Young Caesar has suffered a turbulent fate in large part due to its unabashed subject matter: the patrons of the 1971 Pasadena premiere withdrew their support in protest of the openly gay story, and an aborted production for the Lincoln Center Festival in Harrison’s lifetime has left the opera in crucial need of a high-profile presentation. Subsequent revisions up until Harrison’s death in 2003, including the addition of three rapturous arias from his late musical style, has made this opera a summation of Harrison’s musical ideas throughout his career. That the opera has struggled so long to receive a performance worthy of its place in Harrison’s output — and of his role in shaping 20th century American music — is one of the vital reasons for this recording.
Leading the LA Phil New Music Group in this new recording is conductor Marc Lowenstein. The cast includes Bruce Vilanch (narrator), Adam Fisher (Caesar), Hadleigh Adams (Nicomedes), Nancy Maultsby (Julia), Delaram Kamareh (Cornelia), and Timur Bekbosunov (Dionysus), and also features dancers, along with men of the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Young Caesar
The recording was produced and mastered by Jesse Lewis, a Grammy award winning producer who has worked with artists such as the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, Los Angeles Philharmonic, A Far Cry, Brooklyn Rider, ETHEL, Roomful of Teeth, and The Knights.
Included with the digital download is a robust 25-page booklet illustrated with images from the live performance. It includes a synopsis, and essays by: Yuval Sharon (director), Robert Gordon (librettist), Marc Lowenstein (conductor), and critic John Rockwell.
Please note this recording contains mature content.
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Experimental opera producer/director Yuval Sharon, the LA Phil’s new Artist-Collaborator, directs Lou Harrison’s sublime and sinuous, percussion-rich depiction of Caesar’s love for another man. After its scandalous 1971 premiere at Caltech, this new performance edition fuses Harrison’s original gamelan-inspired orchestration with his later, lush orchestral writing.
**ARTISTS**
LA Phil New Music Group
The Industry
Marc Lowenstein, conductor
Yuval Sharon, artistic and stage director
Robert Gordon, libretto
Danny Dolan, choreographer
Christopher Kuhl, lighting designer
Daniel Selon, costume and puppet designer
Kaitlyn Pietras, projection design and illustration
Jason H. Thompson, projection design and illustration
Delaram Kamareh, Cornelia
Shannon Knox, design associate and puppet fabricator
Eva Soltes, creative consultant
Christine Marie, shadow puppetry designer
Emily Franz, puppet fabricator
Heidi Tungsten, puppet fabricator
Adam Fisher, Caesar
Hadleigh Adams, Nicomedes
Bruce Vilanch, Narrator
Nancy Maultsby, Julia
Timur, Dionysus
Andrew Pearson, dancer
Austin Westbay, dancer
Raymond Ejiofor, dancer
Malachi Middleton, dancer
Drew Hinckley, dancer
Men of the Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, artistic director
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**Digital Release Only:**
**You can also hear it in full on You Tube:** [Click Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arIpaKoTEnU&list=PL5RdwwpcytENK7_x6hhOFXHLCGhXYMEGB)
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**Categories:** Operator
**Tags:** Andrew Pearson (cricketer), Bruce Vilanch, Gay, Grant Gershon, Julius Caesar, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lou Harrison, Nancy Maultsby, Walt Disney Concert Hall
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### [Bruce Vilanch Will Be A Finale Guest At The Fifth Annual Key West Cocktail Classic June 5 - 11 in Key West](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/01/bruce-vilanch-will-be-a-finale-guest-at-the-fifth-annual-key-west-cocktail-classic-june-5-11-in-key-west/)
**Published:** March 1, 2018
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# **Stoli® Vodka Announces Fifth Annual Key West Cocktail Classic – The World’s Largest LGBT Bartending Competition and Celebration**
*14-City Tour Kicked Off Last Night in Dallas as Top LGBT and LGBT-Ally Bartenders Compete to win $20,000 for their chosen Charity and to be Crowned 2018 Stoli Key West Cocktail Championship*
Stoli Vodka kicked off the fifth annual Key West Cocktail Classic last night, hosting the first of 14 stops in Dallas. The world’s largest LGBT bartending competition brings together the most inventive LGBT and LGBT-ally bartenders to compete to win $20,000 for their chosen charity and to be Crowned 2018 Stoli Key West Cocktail Champion.
February 27, 2018 04:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
NEW YORK–([BUSINESS WIRE](https://www.businesswire.com/))–Stoli® Group USA, LLC, in partnership with the Key West Business Guild, kicked off the return of the world’s largest annual LGBT bartender competition, the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, last night. Now in its fifth year, this is not a typical cocktail competition, as bartenders are judged on much more than the taste of their Stoli-based drinks with creativity, authenticity, knowledge and presentation factoring heavily into the equation, determined by a panel of judges and consumers, who can apply to cast votes on-site at [www.out.com/keywestcocktailclassic](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.out.com%2Fkeywestcocktailclassic&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=www.out.com%2Fkeywestcocktailclassic&index=1&md5=0d1891cca051ee0eafc58adfc0785e56). Fourteen cities across the USA and Canada will play host to regional competitions with the theme “Raising the Bar,” beginning tonight in Dallas and culminating in New York City on May 16th.
> @Stoli kicked off world’s largest LGBT bartending competition last night #stolipride #raisingthebar #stolikeywest
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Finalists will win a seven-day, all-inclusive trip to represent their city at the Finale, which will be held June 5-11th in Key West and is scheduled to include celebrity guests: actor and musician Jai Rodriguez, writer and Emmy Award-winner Bruce Vilanch, *American Idol*’s Latoya London, star of the annual CNN-televised New Year’s Eve “High Heel Drop” [Sushi](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.out.com%2Fraising-bar%2F2017%2F12%2F22%2Fstoli-heroes-diversity-sushi-watch&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=Sushi&index=2&md5=6bb35153d680f088b60ccf46533a5cda), dance diva Debby Holiday, and *Real Housewives of Dallas* star [LeeAnne Locken](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.out.com%2Fraising-bar%2F2017%2F9%2F12%2Fwatch-stoli-heroes-diversity-leeanne-locken&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=LeeAnne+Locken&index=3&md5=1cc4975f6c50bf511160115dbe0ae9de). The 2018 Stoli Key West Cocktail Champion will serve as the 2018 Key West Pride Parade Honorary Grand Marshall and receives $15,000 for charity, a celebration and check presentation at their home bar, and a trip for two to either Vancouver or San Diego Pride 2018. The first runner-up wins $5,000 for charity plus a weeklong Grand Canyon Water Rafting Adventure, courtesy of HE Travel, North America’s oldest LGBT travel agency. The charity donations are split between winners’ chosen non-profits and Key West non-profits each bartender is paired with in advance. Last year’s Champion, Kayla Hasbrook, won $7,500 for Planned Parenthood of New York and $5,000 for the Key West Firehouse Museum.
“This year, we are proud to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Key West Business Guild, as well as the 40th anniversary of Harvey Milk being sworn into office; 1978 was indeed an important year,” said Patrik Gallineaux, Stoli’s National LGBT Ambassador and Brand Manager. “The Key West Cocktail Classic recognizes the most innovative bartenders in the country, whose spirit – personally and inside the glass – are reflective of Key West, an island that has been a safe space for so long, and of Harvey Milk, a man whose life opened closet doors for so many.”
Alan Beaubien, President of the Board of the Key West Business Guild, added, “As the oldest LBGT marketing organization in the country, the Key West Business Guild is extremely proud to be able to partner with Stoli for the Cocktail Classic and our June 3rd-11th Pride Week Celebration. For five years, Stoli has shown its support to the LBGT community and to the KWBG through this spectacular event series that this year will give back $20,000 to charity while building awareness and support for the importance of the LGBT culture and community. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Stoli and all participants, friends, and fans of the 5th annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic to Key West, where we are truly and forever, as our motto reads, ‘One Human Family’.”
In addition to recognizing the talents of the industry’s top LGBT bartenders, the Cocktail Classic celebrates the role that gay bars have played as original community centers and the LGBT and ally bar stars who continue to raise the bar for equality today. For more information about the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic including how to apply, rules, guidelines, and all the recipes from our 2017 champions visit [www.out.com/keywestcocktailclassic](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.out.com%2Fkeywestcocktailclassic&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=www.out.com%2Fkeywestcocktailclassic&index=4&md5=2b6089847d77b65e8cfaf908973a75f3) and follow along on [Facebook](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FStoli%2F&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=Facebook&index=5&md5=458ab3cb6871d904b0699486f99db4d2) and [Instagram](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fstoli&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=Instagram&index=6&md5=da5d94aa7175f426674c3a2b4f8d87d3) @Stoli and using the hashtags: #stolipride #raisingthebar #stolikeywest.
**About Key West Business Guild**
The mission of the Key West Business Guild is to promote LGBT travel to Key West through marketing and the promotion of specialty events; to support gay-owned, gay-managed, and gay-friendly businesses; to strengthen the Gay community’s position within the local community by supporting relevant LGBT issues. The KWBG was founded in 1978 by 8 local gay business owners and has grown to approximately 400 members, which work together to continue efforts to brighten the rainbow over the island, an island now known as Gay Key West. Promotion of events, such as Key West Pride, Tropical Heat and Womenfest, has made Key West a year-round LGBT travel destination. For more information visit [www.kwbgonline.org](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kwbgonline.org&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=www.kwbgonline.org&index=7&md5=dd7ca43b7db75c334ea658460ccd711a).
**About Stoli****®** **Group USA, LLC**
[Stoli Group USA](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stoli.com%2F&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=Stoli+Group%C2%A0USA&index=8&md5=2086c05274bdd6b03d2eb1be1d4e1af1) is the proud importer and marketer of the Stolichnaya® brand of premium vodkas and Stoli® Ginger Beer, ultra-premium elit® Vodka, Louisiana-distilled Bayou® Rum, Kentucky Owl® Bourbon founded in 1879, “Tequila with a Soul” Cenote, super-premium Se Busca Mezcal, Achaval-Ferrer™ from Argentina, and Arinzano wines of Spain. Formed in 2013, Stoli Group USA is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of [SPI Group](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spi-group.com%2F&esheet=51765658&newsitemid=20180227006682&lan=en-US&anchor=SPI+Group&index=9&md5=73f21b978c291a5cebef5f0ca44f87db) in Luxembourg.
## Contacts
Stoli Group
Patrik Gallineaux, +1-415-312-9492
LGBT Ambassador and Brand Manager
or
Alison Walsh, +1-917-301-2962
Global Public Relations Lead
### STOLI GROUP USA, LLC
## Release Summary
Last night, Stoli Vodka kicked off the Key West Cocktail Classic in Dallas. The world’s largest LGBT bartending competition culminates at Key West Pride in June.
## \#Hashtags
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- [\#stolikeywest](https://twitter.com/hashtag/stolikeywest?src=hash)
- [\#raisingthebar](https://twitter.com/hashtag/raisingthebar?src=hash)
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## Release Versions
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## Contacts
Stoli Group
Patrik Gallineaux, +1-415-312-9492
LGBT Ambassador and Brand Manager
or
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Help IMDb to Celebrate the 90th Annual Academy Awards with Its Second Live-Streaming Companion Show and Industry Viewing Party](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/03/01/bruce-vilanch-to-help-imdb-to-celebrate-the-90th-annual-academy-awards-with-its-second-live-streaming-companion-show-and-industry-viewing-party/)
**Published:** March 1, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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LOS ANGELES–([BUSINESS WIRE](https://www.businesswire.com/))–IMDb ([www.imdb.com](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=www.imdb.com&index=1&md5=5f0f870ebfcc407227940600f9d21438)), the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, today announced the second annual “IMDb LIVE Viewing Party,” a live streaming companion show celebrating the Academy Awards that in its first year provided millions of fans and industry insiders with unique, entertaining and informative coverage of Hollywood’s biggest night. The live broadcast co-hosted by [Dave Karger](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm1915245%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Dave+Karger&index=2&md5=43872c6974b3ba3588b06b2d1f35cdb8) (IMDb Special Correspondent) and *The IMDb Show* co-hosts Tim Kash and Kerri Doherty will stream live on IMDb.com, IMDb’s mobile apps, Twitter and Twitch, and will be produced on site at an invitation-only industry viewing party at Neuehouse (formerly the historic CBS Radio Studio) in Hollywood, California.
> “Twitter is the place to see and join the real-time Oscars conversation”
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IMDb’s hosted coverage during the “IMDb LIVE Viewing Party” broadcast will take place before, after, and during breaks in the Oscars® telecast. IMDb does not broadcast the awards ceremony itself – while the program is in progress, the hosted conversation stops and IMDb delivers a “second screen” experience featuring videos, information, and trivia related to the Oscar nominees currently being celebrated.
The “IMDb LIVE Viewing Party” broadcast will begin at 4:30PM Pacific on Sunday, March 4, providing viewers with a uniquely fun and informative perspective on the Academy Awards, featuring conversations with celebrity guests, past nominees, experts and industry insiders, along with IMDb data and information. Guests include [Aisha Tyler](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0878768%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Aisha+Tyler&index=3&md5=143c560c22950c46b8dd7817b978c346) (*Criminal Minds*, *Archer*), [Anne Heche](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0000162%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Anne+Heche&index=4&md5=0de435dd57b3be137f0f06896d8446b8) (*The Brave*), [Lea Thompson](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0000670%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Lea+Thompson&index=5&md5=642c62807624d743c7e018444e08d117) (*Switched At Birth*), past winner [Tatum O’Neal](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0001575%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Tatum+O%27Neal&index=6&md5=fcdfe346a7cae147b390c170ee456a05) (*Paper Moon*), two-time nominee [Peter Fonda](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0001228%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Peter+Fonda&index=7&md5=cbb3388e849d5586b4cd8024796e5bf3) (*Easy Rider*), longtime Academy head writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0897358%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Bruce+Vilanch&index=8&md5=ee0e99530ca13158aa78cbf06f14fef3), IMDb’s Founder and CEO Col Needham, [Clifton Collins Jr.](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0004286%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Clifton+Collins+Jr.&index=9&md5=645c633ad07ee1f2bfcde5a3455c567f) (*Westworld*), [Tamara Taylor](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0853231%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Tamara+Taylor&index=10&md5=f1a93b03419f3f0311dff86d31747702) (*Altered Carbon*), [Boots Riley](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm1108556%2F&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=Boots+Riley&index=11&md5=fef453f8c9e740ae2e58934da8121e89) (*Sorry To Bother You*) and more. The live broadcast will also integrate IMDb information and proprietary, real-time IMDb trending data, comments and questions from users on Twitter and Twitch, and pre-produced segments including interviews with nominees Guillermo Del Toro (Director, *The Shape of Water*), Willem Dafoe (Supporting Actor, *The Florida Project*), and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Songwriters, “This is Me” from *The Greatest Showman*).
Entertainment fans can tune in from anywhere to watch the “IMDb LIVE Viewing Party” via IMDb’s mobile apps or directly at IMDb ([www.imdb.com](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=www.imdb.com&index=12&md5=d8355b8f27c1ab9e77f3abac9000da2d)). IMDb’s live show will also be simulcast and promoted by two of the industry’s live video leaders, Twitter and Twitch ([http://twitch.tv/imdb](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitch.tv%2Fimdb&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitch.tv%2Fimdb&index=13&md5=1dfbbb33b8ad8e0faef17826ad92c580)). Twitter’s live stream of IMDb’s Live Viewing Party will be available globally for free to logged-in and logged-out users on Twitter and connected devices. Tweets about the #Oscars will appear in a timeline along with the live video on Twitter, available at [www.live.twitter.com/IMDbLive](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.live.twitter.com%2FIMDbLive&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=www.live.twitter.com%2FIMDbLive&index=14&md5=d86be6cc22112c528928c661952c4f9b) or [@IMDb](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FIMDb&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=%40IMDb&index=15&md5=e94d2e480a119570b0bc118db43a78d5). The broadcast on Twitch gives users the opportunity to participate in a real-time chat with an IMDb moderator throughout the evening, with some questions and comments to be addressed by hosts and guests during the show.
“Our goal is to produce a multi-hour, live Academy Awards companion show that is worthy of Hollywood’s biggest night,” said Col Needham, IMDb’s Founder and CEO. “With industry legends including Peter Fonda and Tatum O’Neal scheduled to appear, and hosts Dave Karger, and Tim Kash and Kerri Doherty of *The IMDb Show* on board, our goal is to delight, entertain and inform customers all over the world with IMDb’s real-time trending data, insightful conversation and nominee trivia.”
“Twitter is the place to see and join the real-time Oscars conversation,” said Kay Madati, Global Head of Content Partnerships, Twitter. “We’re excited to collaborate with IMDb to bring fans this behind-the-scenes broadcast alongside the real-time commentary from experts and fans during one of Hollywood’s biggest nights.”
IMDb’s editorial coverage of the 90th Academy Awards will also include real-time winner announcements, trivia quizzes, photo galleries and more.
**About “IMDb LIVE Viewing Party”**
IMDb’s second-annual viewing party will welcome, by invitation only, more than 300 industry insiders to Neuehouse in Hollywood, California on Sunday, March 4. Party guests will be treated to food and drinks while watching the Academy Awards and the production of IMDb’s live companion show, featuring celebrity conversations and a stream of real-time facts, data and social commentary from IMDb and IMDbPro, the essential resource for entertainment professionals. IMDb’s live companion show to the Academy Awards telecast will begin with a pre-show at 4:30PM, and will wrap up with a post-show after the Academy Awards broadcast concludes. IMDb’s show includes live conversation between hosts Dave Karger and *The IMDb Show*’s Tim Kash and Kerri Doherty, and celebrity guests including Aisha Tyler, Peter Fonda and Tatum O’Neal, as well as IMDb data and trivia related to nominees and winners. The live broadcast is produced by IMDb and Broadcast Management Group. Entertainment fans can tune in and follow along from anywhere on their mobile devices at [www.imdb.com](http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com&esheet=51765591&newsitemid=20180228005237&lan=en-US&anchor=www.imdb.com&index=16&md5=504dc8ab241e182758b3ade430072ca2), IMDb’s iOS and Android mobile apps, and distribution partners Twitter and Twitch.
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### [ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION (BLU-RAY REVIEW) With Fun Bonuses From Fans Bruce Vilanch And Many More Surprises](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/02/16/attack-of-the-killer-tomatoes-special-collectors-edition-blu-ray-review-with-fun-bonuses-from-fans-bruce-vilanch-and-many-more-surprises/)
**Published:** February 16, 2018
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION (BLU-RAY REVIEW)
By Tim Salmons
Jan 31, 2018**
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An unlikely candidate for a franchise, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, as goofy as it is, spawned three sequels, a cartoon series, a video game, and a toy line during the 1980s and 1990s. Long-since dormant, it’s wild to think that at one time an amateur spoof movie with a budget of less than $100,000 had the potential for other things. Shepherded by director John DeBello and writers and producers Stephen Peace and Costa Dillon, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes isn’t necessarily a film that you’d try and defend as some kind of a masterpiece that’s been misunderstood. No, even its creators know exactly what it is, but they, like many other people, embrace it and continue to wave its flag nearly 40 years after its initial release.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes always eluded my tiny child mind way back in the 1980s. I remember seeing it on the shelf at a video store and being not quite sure what to make of it. Was it scary? Was it funny? Was it a cartoon? In actuality, it’s none of those things. It’s a really dumb movie, through and through; juvenile to its very core, but in a way that’s charming. It’s as if a group of high school students with decent filmmaking abilities put on a local production. Even the folks behind it had only ever made a handful of Super 8 short films, which is where the idea for the film originated in the first place.
Although it’s a fourth-wall breaking romp with little on its mind other than zaniness, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is oddly delightful. In all honesty, I don’t know if you could take this premise and make something serious out of it. Who would be able to take a movie about killer tomatoes invading the nation seriously? And whether they’ll admit it or not, the film did have an influence on future filmmakers. Look no further than the plot of 1996’s Mars Attacks, directed by Tim Burton, in which invading aliens can only be subdued by awful music. If that’s not a nod to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, I’ll eat my hat.
Now available as a part of the MVD Rewind Collection, this Special Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release of the film comes armed with a newly remastered 4K transfer of the film. By its very nature, it has never been a film that’s ever really looked that good, especially if you saw it in the VHS era when it looked rather dark and dingy. Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. In fact, it’s remarkable how good the film now looks. With even grain levels (aside from the stop-motion animation scenes), high amounts of fine detail, and a crispness to the presentation that was otherwise absent before, it’s never looked better. Color is also improved with more striking hues while black levels are deep with (likely) inherent crush. Contrast and brightness levels are excellent as well. There isn’t a whole lot of film damage leftover other than some staining and there doesn’t seem to be any digital anomalies on display. It still looks and feels like the period that it was shot in, but it’s miles better than any previous release. The lone audio option to go with it is an English 2.0 mono LPCM track with, unfortunately, no subtitle options. The film contains a variety of dialogue elements (including the obvious overdubbing of the Asian scientist, for instance), as well as pre-recorded musical numbers and location sound during crowd sequences. I didn’t notice any distortion, clicks, or pops – only one minor dropout during a scene transition. However, everything comes through clearly with decent fidelity and some minor LFE.
This release also contains quite an extensive and almost complete set of bonus materials, including nearly everything from the 25th Anniversary DVD release. This consists of an audio commentary from writer/director John DeBello, writer/co-star Steve Peace, and creator Costa Dillon; Legacy of a Legend, a brief featurette containing interviews with John DeBello, Costa Dillon, film critic Kevin Thomas, fans Kevin Sharp and Bruce Vilanch, and actors John Astin, Stephen Peace, Jack Riley, and D.J. Sullivan; Crash and Burn, a brief discussion about the film’s famous helicopter crash; a set of Super Duper 8 Prequels: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the original 8mm short film with optional audio commentary from DeBello, Peace, and Dillon, and Gone with the Babusuland, another 8mm short film with non-optional audio commentary, also from DeBello, Peace, and Dillon; Famous Fowl, which covers the San Diego Chicken as seen in the film; 3 deleted scenes in standard definition; Killer Tomatomania, which contains interviews with random people about the film; Where Are They Now?, which checks up on what the cast and crew are currently up to; We Told You So!, a tongue-in-cheek look at the real-life horrors of the killer tomatoes; a set of Sing-Alongs (Sidewalk Sing-Along, Main Theme, The Mindmaker Song, Tomato Stomp, Puberty Love, Love Theme); Slated for Success, a discussion about the film’s slate girl; the original theatrical trailer in SD; 2 radio spots; a trailer for D.O.A.: A Right of Passage; a DVD copy; and a fold-out mini-poster of the main artwork. Also included on the disc is an Easter egg. On the first page of the “Chapters” menu, highlight “Next”, press down, and a tomato will appear on the left side of the screen, which will lead you to their Super 8 version of an intermission. Not included from the 25th Anniversary DVD release is Tomato Mode, Tomato Trivia, the Killer Stuff photo gallery, the Production Design photo gallery (which is mentioned on the back cover of this release, but ultimately not included), and the two previous Easter eggs featuring Lloyd Kaufman and the aforementioned San Diego chicken.
Made with nothing more than passion by a group of amateur filmmakers, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes might be described by its fans as a guilty pleasure. I’d actually go so far as to label it the very definition of the term. It’s not so bad that it’s good, but it’s an enjoyable diversion with honest intentions. MVD Rewind’s treatment of it is to be commended and is the definitive release from here on in and fans will definitely want to eat it up.
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### [Oscar funnyman to show: play up envelope mess, not harassers](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/02/15/16761-2/)
**Published:** February 15, 2018
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Oscar funnyman to show: play up envelope mess, not harassers
February 15, 2018
By LYNN ELBER**
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LOS ANGELES — Put comedy writer Bruce Vilanch on the spot by asking if he has a political gag suitable for the Oscars, and he makes a game try.
“There’s probably a joke in Trump buying three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Vilanch said, “because that’s all he does is publicize himself. So it seems to me you have a nice, clean shot on the ninth hole.”
He doesn’t have to sweat polishing the riff on best-picture nominee “Three Billboards.” While he’s crafted one-liners for hosts and presenters for 23 Oscar shows, he’ll be watching comfortably at home and with Koosh balls at the ready.
“So you can throw them at the screen when people you don’t like win,” Vilanch said. The ceremony airs at 8 p.m. EST Sunday, March 4, on ABC.
He isn’t playing at being a critic: In his salad days, he wrote film reviews and celebrity profiles for the Chicago Tribune. He and rising star Bette Midler clicked during an interview, and he helped shape her comic stage persona on his way to becoming an in-demand writer for TV shows and big-ticket events including the Tony and Grammy awards and Comic Relief, and for stars ranging from Billy Crystal and Robin Williams to Donny and Marie Osmond.
Admirers sang his praises in the 1999 documentary “Get Bruce!” about his life and work.
“Part of the way that people view me is because of how Bruce has written for me,” Whoopi Goldberg says in the film. “And I’m very grateful for that, because it makes me actually look much smarter than I am.”
Viewers got acquainted with the distinctively mop-topped, bespectacled man himself in a late 1980s revival of “Hollywood Squares,” in which he and Goldberg traded quips from adjacent squares.
After writing for a quarter of all Oscar ceremonies — this year is the 90th — and winning two Emmys along the way, Vilanch is uniquely positioned to size up the grande dame of Hollywood awards shows, and how it and repeat host Jimmy Kimmel can serve TV viewers and the anxious stars who fill the theater.
One hint: The jaw-dropping best-picture envelope mix-up of last year is pretty much a gift to Kimmel.
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**TIMES CHANGE. THE OSCARS DON’T.**
Vilanch says the movie academy has kept the ceremony template intact from the very beginning, “which is to give every award on the air. So you have to figure out a way to entertain the audience while the sound effects editor is thanking his Hebrew school teacher.”
Social media is routinely incorporated now in awards show — think of Ellen DeGeneres’ star-filled selfie at the 2014 Oscars that went viral on Twitter — but Vilanch says the Academy Awards are in a league of their own.
“The thing about the Oscars is it’s the biggest one. … I would love to see them do more to own the past and the history of the movies,” he said, but acknowledges that the passing years stand in the way.
“As you get farther and farther from the Golden Age, fewer and fewer people of the audience, outside of the theater, are getting who you’re referring to. … There will be a component of the audience saying, ‘Audrey Hepburn? Was she the one in the boat with the guy? Oh, she was Tiffany,'” he said, adding, unhappily, “It’s real.”
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**NO EGOS WERE DAMAGED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SHOW**
A host who plays it “too inside or too snarky” is courting trouble, according to Vilanch. That includes even being mildly insulting to actors and filmmakers who are on hand to be celebrated, as 1995 host David Letterman found when he turned Uma Thurman and Oprah Winfrey’s given names into silly sing-song.
“Neither of those women were there that night to have their names made fun of. They’ve come a little farther than that,” Vilanch said. “They’re sitting there and it’s like, ‘Really, TV boy? This is what you’re going to do, you’re going to make fun of my name?'”
Audiences in general have become very sensitive to humor they deem cruel or unseemly, Vilanch said. A joke about a heavy-set actor, for instance, likely won’t fly even if it’s delivered by a similarly rotund comedian, he said.
How to avoid putting a foot wrong in writing for a ceremony seen by millions, even in an era of declining ratings?
“You have to trust your judgment, and sit down at your computer wearing a parachute kit. Just in case,” he said. A line might go too far, but if it’s “a beauty, it might be worth it.”
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**SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, THE THIRD RAIL?**
For an industry in the midst of confronting alleged misconduct by major figures, how can Kimmel pay heed to the crisis yet keep it from overshadowing Hollywood’s biggest night?
Golden Globes host Seth Meyers handled the issue deftly with quips about Harvey Weinstein and others facing accusations, Vilanch said. But a broad-brush approach may be smarter at the Oscars.
Calling out individuals who are under a cloud and are past Oscar winners is an intersection that could prove embarrassing to the movie academy, Vilanch said.
“The more general, the better. Now that I’ve said that, who knows what Jimmy Kimmel will do,” he said. He lauded the ABC late-night host for “brilliantly” handling last year’s best-picture disaster and suggests Kimmel “can spend time on that, which kind of deflects everything else. … It’s almost like a gift.”
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**PERSONAL BEST**
Asked to pick a favorite among the nearly two-dozen Oscar shows he’s worked on, Vilanch settles on one that included the stuff of highlight reels.
It was 1992, the year that Billy Crystal hosted and Jack Palance, announced as best supporting actor for “City Slickers,” did one-armed push-ups on stage to prove he still had it at age 73. Vilanch, his fellow writers and Crystal churned out a series of jokes about the moment to be delivered by Crystal at regular intervals.
“It was so insistent that Billy’s manager came backstage about an hour in and said, ‘How many more of these are you going to do? I’m running a pool in the audience,'” Vilanch recalled. “We won an Emmy for writing that show.”
It also became an Oscar template.
“From then on, every other host was watching the show in the wings, and as things were happening we were writing new jokes,” he said.
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**Tags:** Academy Awards, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Cher, Chicago Tribune, Comedian, Comic Relief, Hollywood Squares, Jack Palance, Jimmy Kimmel, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host Chelsea Handler At Pittsburgh's Benedum Center April 4th](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/02/09/bruce-vilanch-to-host-chelsea-handler-at-pittsburghs-benedum-center-april-4th/)
**Published:** February 9, 2018
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**The Pittsburgh Times
Chelsea Handler to entertain in Pittsburgh
By Staff Reports
Posted Feb 8, 2018 at 9:10 AM**
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PITTSBURGH — Chelsea Handler will perform April 4 at the Benedum Center.
Tickets start at $39 available at TrustArts.org and the Box Office at Theater Square for the 7:30 p.m. benefit for the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh, the region’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organization. Tickets also can be purchased by calling 412-456-6666.
“An Evening with Chelsea Handler” will be hosted by six-time Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch, who for quite a few years could be found on “Hollywood Squares” to the left of Whoopi Goldberg (“if that’s possible” according to his bio).
After a successful 10-year career in TV, Handler ended her most recent talk show, “Chelsea,” and last October announced she would pursue political activism.
She has authored five books that have made the New York Times Best Seller List, four of which reached number one. She also writes columns for Cosmopolitan and NOW, a UK celebrity magazine. She was the host of the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards and received the “Ally for Equality Award” from the Human Rights Campaign, and was named a Grand Marshal of LA Pride.
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**Tags:** Activism, Bruce Vilanch, Chelsea Handler, Emmy Winner Bruce Vilanch, GLAAD Media Awards, Hollywood Square, Human Rights Campaign, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Vilanch, Prince, Gaines, Burnham, Callaway. and More Join Celebration of Rodgers, Hammerstein, & Hart](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/27/vilanch-prince-gaines-burnham-callaway-and-more-join-celebration-of-rodgers-hammerstein-hart/)
**Published:** January 27, 2018
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**Broadway World
Vilanch, Prince, Gaines, Burnham, Callaway. and More Join Celebration of Rodgers, Hammerstein, & Hart
by David Green
Jan. 24, 2018**
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Tickets for the 11th annual Michael Childers’ production of One Night Only: Rodgers, Hammerstein & Hart, are now on sale. This star-studded musical production will be presented on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 6:30pm, at the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts and benefits Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS). Since 2008, One Night Only has sold out has sold out quickly every year.
General admission tickets are $175, $95 and $75 and are available through the McCallum Theatre Box Office at 760-340-ARTS or online at www.mccallumtheatre.com. Limited sponsorships and VIP tickets (including premier seating and the after performance dinner with the cast at Acqua Bistro @ The River) are available through JFS at 760-325-4088, extension 118.
In Rodgers, Hammerstein & Hart, Michael pays tribute to the incomparable composer Richard Rodgers and his partners, Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, featuring some of their most popular songs from shows such as South Pacific, Oklahoma, Carousel, The King and I and Babes In Arms. Directed by Jason Graae with Music Direction by Christopher Marlowe, the cast features the best of Broadway and Hollywood performers. This year’s cast includes Brent Barrett, Shoshana Bean, David Burnham, Liz Callaway, Ann Hampton Callaway, Patrick Cassidy, Scott Coulter, Kevin Earley, Davis Gaines, Julie Garnye, Jason Graae, Susan Graham, Alix Korey, Bets Malone, Sal Mistretta, Jeffrey Scott Parsons, Faith Prince, Ron Raines, Teri Ralston, James Snyder, Billy Stritch, Constance Towers, Bruce Vilanch, Nita Whitaker. All performers donate their time and their appearances are subject to availability.
“One Night Only managed to be breathless, dazzling, humorous and emotional all at the same time. It’s perhaps the “show of the year” at the McCallum…!” Chris Foster, The Desert Sun
For over 35 years, JFS of the Desert has provided services throughout the Coachella Valley to those in need, regardless of religion, age, income, ethnicity or life style. JFS services and programs are made possible through the financial support of Jewish Federation of the Desert, Desert Healthcare District, the Weingart Foundation, the Auen Foundation, Kaiser Permanente and other gr grants and the generous support of donors. Most of the nearly 3,000 men, women and children served are from low income households. They rely on JFS for low cost mental health counseling, crisis intervention and food support. JFS provides isolated, homebound seniors with care, transportation and enrichment activities. JFS also offers counseling in local elementary schools. JFS is located in Palm Springs. For information visit www.jfsdesert.org or call 760-325-4088.
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### [A Golden Opportunity to Support The Ridgefield Playhouse at The Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch show on January 27](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/26/a-golden-opportunity-to-support-the-ridgefield-playhouse-at-the-judy-gold-and-bruce-vilanch-show-on-january-27/)
**Published:** January 26, 2018
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A Golden Opportunity to Support The Ridgefield Playhouse at The Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch show on January 27
Published on Friday, 12 January 2018 15:03
Written by Jill Mango**
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From 6:30 – 8pm, patrons will have the opportunity to donate real gold or silver jewelry that they no longer want and 100% of the donation will benefit The Ridgefield Playhouse. Mr. Delzio is unable to accept donations of diamonds, precious gems, or gold or silver-plated jewelry at this time. Patrons can bring their real gold or silver jewelry to his table for an appraisal. He’ll remove any precious gems and return them, and then weigh the precious metal and tell them the value of the piece. All donors will receive a tax donation letter for their records.
Mr. Delzio will also showcase some of his own jewelry, which will be available for purchase. Mr. Delzio has been in the jewelry and precious metals business for more than 43 years and sells both fine jewelry and Native-American inspired jewelry at The Mexican Shack in Somers, New York.
A full cash bar will be open in the lobby of The Playhouse during the Gold and Silver Give Back Event and donors are welcome to enjoy a cocktail hour in the lobby and stay for the comedy show, which begins at 8pm. For tickets ($39.50), call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.
JUDY GOLD is an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. Judy recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” can be seen on the new Showtime series “I’m Dying Up Here” and Netflix’s “Friends From College.” She has recurring roles on Pop TV’s “NightCap!” and TBS’s “Search Party.” Judy is the host of the hit podcast “Kill Me Now” on CBS’ play.it and iTunes.
BRUCE VILANCH is a six-time Emmy Award-winning comic who’s best known for his four-year stint as a celebrity participant on “Hollywood Squares.” His stand-up routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider and earned him the role of head writer for the Oscars — writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and others. He’s also worked as a comedy writer for other award shows, television series and variety specials.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Celebrity, Comedian, Emmy Award, Film, Film festival, Hollywood, Hollywood Squares, Judy Gold, LGBT, Theater
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### [Judy Gold Discusses Partnering Up With Bruce Vilanch (For Comedy, Folks, Geesh!) And Other Topics](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/26/judy-gold-discusses-partnering-up-with-bruce-vilanch-for-comedy-folks-geesh-and-other-topics/)
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**Milford Mirror
Judy Gold discusses comedy partnership
By Arts & Leisure on January 25, 2018**
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When you’re talking comedy greats today, Judy Gold is truly worthy of her last name. Whether it was as writer and producer of the Rosie O’Donnell show, starring in two acclaimed Off Broadway one-woman shows (“The Judy Show — My Life as a Sitcom” and “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother”) or just the nearly 25 years she has been doing standup, the comedian delivers a gold-medal performance at every turn.
On Jan. 27, Gold will be teaming with fellow NSFW (not safe for work) comedian Bruce Vilanch for a show at the Ridgefield Playhouse titled “Big and Small.” Gold spoke with us about her upcoming show and getting her start in standup.
**Keith Loria: Preview a little of what we can expect from you on the night.**
Judy Gold: I’ll be ranting and going off on how much I hate everyone, which seems to be the theme of my act now. It’s going to be a really fun night.
**KL: How do you and Bruce complement each other on stage?**
JG: I love doing this show. Bruce is like a joke machine. He has worked with everyone and he knows stuff about all of them. It’s really fun to hear about Hollywood from someone who has made other people look funny for so long. We are so different. He tells these incredible stories about Hollywood, and I’m just me. I think we really complement each other and are funny in different ways. We’ve known each other for years.
**KL: With such different styles, why did you think the pairing would work?**
JG: We’re both gay, both Jews and both large! We’re both from New Jersey and were both very close with our mothers. There’s just a kinship. We just had an immediate connection.
**KL: How did you know that comedy was something you wanted to do with your life?**
JG: I knew I would never be happy if I didn’t follow my dream. Yet, I come from the most conservative family when it comes to risk taking. My father was a tax attorney, my mother a secretary, my sister is in insurance and my brother is a CPA. To them, my dream was crazy.
**KL: You came up through the comedy ranks alongside notable comics like Ray Romano and Wanda Sykes. What was it like back then?**
JG: It’s like we were all in the same platoon. We share this bond that can never be broken. When I was on the road in the ’80s and early ’90s, we wrote all day and then we hung out all night. We were each other’s family and standup became so important to me.
**KL: How has Donald Trump becoming president changed your act this past year?**
JG: It is like the orange elephant in the room all the time. It’s on everyone’s mind all the time. I remember the days when I would watch Jeopardy! but now I have to have MSNBC on every night. It’s turned into a dangerous reality show. My relationships with some people have changed and my audiences have changed. He just brings out the worst of people.
**KL: You host a successful blog — Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. What do you enjoy about that experience?**
JG: I find people really interesting and I want to know what makes people tick and what makes them different. To be in this horrible show business, you have to be ill in some way because it’s such a crap shoot. I really love finding out the stuff they don’t normally talk about.
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**Categories:** Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, comedy, Donald Trump, Gay, Jews, Judy Gold, Relationships, Wanda Sykes
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### [Hamilton's Mandy Gonzalez Will Light up Bright Stars of Broadway Showcase January 14; Bruce Vilanch Will Host](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/13/hamiltons-mandy-gonzalez-will-light-up-bright-stars-of-broadway-showcase-january-14-bruce-vilanch-will-host/)
**Published:** January 13, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
Hamilton’s Mandy Gonzalez Will Light up Bright Stars of Broadway Showcase January 14
BY ROBERT VIAGAS
JAN 12, 2018**
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Mandy Gonzalez, who currently plays Angelica Schuyler in Broadway’s Hamilton, will make two extracurricular New York City appearances in January to promote her album Fearless.
The actor, who also originated the role of Nina Rosario in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s earlier musical In the Heights, will perform 7 PM, January 14, at Feinstein’s/54 Below as part of the club’s Bright Stars of Broadway showcase, singing numbers from her album as well as signature songs from In the Heights and other shows in which she has appeared.
Joining her in the showcase will be Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies, Tuck Everlasting), Bobby Conte Thornton (A Bronx Tale), and Josh Young (Jesus Christ Superstar, Amazing Grace), as well as Scott Coulter’s acclaimed Music Of The Knights starring Kelli Rabke, Blaine Kraus, Lorinda Lisitza, and Scott Coulter. Bruce Vilanch will host.
Gonzalez will also sing and autograph copies of Fearless at 7 PM, January 22, at Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street in Manhattan.
The title song of Fearless was written for her by Miranda. She performed her solo cabaret show at the Café Carlyle in New York City in fall 2017.
Gonzalez has also been seen on Broadway in Wicked, Aida, Dance of the Vampires, and Lennon. On screen, she is known for her recent recurring role on ABC’s Quantico as well as on CBS’ Madam Secretary. Gonzalez won an Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway musical Eli’s Comin’ , based on the music and lyrics of Laura Nyro.
Feinstein’s/54 Below is located at 254 West 54th Street, beneath Studio 54, in Manhattan. Tickets, which cost $40 to $90 (plus a $25 food/drink minimum), can be ordered here. Tickets on the day of performance after 4 PM are available only by calling (646) 476-3551.
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Bobby Conte Thornton, Bright Stars, Bruce Vilanch, Hamilton, Mandy Gonzalez, Nina Rosario, Scott Coulter, tickets
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### [The Toscars 2018 Date Has Been Set! And What Are The Toscars?](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/09/the-toscars-2018-date-has-been-set-and-what-are-the-toscars/)
**Published:** January 9, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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The Toscars 2018 date has been set
January 9, 2018**
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The red carpet is ready, the paparazzi are prepping their lenses, the stunning dresses are being chosen, and the golden awards are ready to be handed out to the lucky winners. Yes, it’s time again for the Toscars ceremony. No, that’s not a misprint. The Oscars are being held in March, but a few days before that on February 28th, Brits in LA’s 11th annual Toscars will be held in Hollywood at the Renberg Theatre.
This affectionate, spoofy homage is based around this year’s Oscar nominations for best movie. After the Oscar nominations are announced, in three weeks, parodies are made, judged by the Whacademy and then shown at the awards ceremony.
It has been said of this annual event that it is “like the Oscars, only funnier.”
Past presenters and hosts have included Skeet Ulrich (Riverdale), Academy and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts, Alex Newell (Glee), Candis Cayne (Dirty Sexy Money), Craig Young (The Last Ship), Jai Rodriquez (Queer Eye), Brianna Brown (Dynasty), Asian Oscar winner Bai Ling, Sean Maguire (Once Upon a Time), DJ Paul Oakenfold, Academy Award Winners, Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Dynasty), Ruth Connell (Supernatural), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Rex Lee (Young and Hungry), Janina Gavankar (Sleepy Hollow), Emmy Winner Bruce Vilanch, Brit Award Winner Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama), Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK) and the BAFTA winning comedian Jim Tavaré.
Who will take home the coveted ‘Golden Fist’ for Best Whactress, Best Whactor, Best Scribbler, Best Tunes and more? All will be revealed on February 28th.
Date: February 28th, 2018
What: The Toscars
Where: Renberg Theatre, Hollywood
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, awards/accolades, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Candis Cayne, Emmy Winner Bruce Vilanch, Eric Roberts, Oscar, Parody, Queer Eye, Renberg Theatre, Skeet Ulrich
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Be Featured In The Documentary "Amsel: Illustrator of the Lost Art"](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/09/bruce-vilanch-to-be-featured-in-the-documentary-amsel-illustrator-of-the-lost-art/)
**Published:** January 9, 2018
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Bruce Vilanch, Charlotte Crossley, Bob Esty, David Byrd, and a host of others will lend their memories to the documentary, Amsel: Illustrator of the Lost Art.
This will be the first in-depth profile of illustrator Richard Amsel, detailing his remarkable body of work while chronicling an enigmatic life of personal heartbreak, celebrity friendships, creative genius, and a tragic end at the age of 37 from AIDS.
The release date is set for some time in 2018
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**Categories:** Documentary, movies
**Tags:** Bob Esty, Bruce Vilanch, Charlotte Crossley, creative genius, David Byrd, Illustrator, Richard Amsel
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### [Together, Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold: Big & Tall Jan 27, 2018 Ridgefield, CT Playhouse](https://wegotbruce.com/2018/01/08/together-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold-big-tall-jan-27-2018-ridgefield-ct-playhouse/)
**Published:** January 8, 2018
**Author:** MisterD
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BRUCE VILANCH is a six-time Emmy Award-winning comic who’s best known for his four-year stint as a celebrity participant on Hollywood Squares. His stand-up routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider and earned him the role of head writer for the Oscars — writing for hosts Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and others He’s also written hysterical material for other award shows, television series and variety specials.
JUDY GOLD is also an Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed, long-running Off-Broadway hit shows, including “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.” Judy recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, can be seen on the new Showtime series I’m Dying Up Here, Netflix’s Friends From College, and she has recurring roles on Pop TV’s NightCap!, and TBS’s, Search Party. Judy is the host of the hit podcast Kill Me Now on CBS’ play.it and iTunes.
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### [Bruce Vilanch On This Years Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/12/19/bruce-vilanch-on-this-years-oscars/)
**Published:** December 19, 2017
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**New York Post
Cindy Adams
Dec 18, 2017**
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**Oscar forecast**
Bruce Vilanch, whom I love, has been head joke writer for the Oscars, weighs more than an Escalade, dresses like a vagrant and has long blond hair like Cate Blanchett. He says of the coming Academy Awards: “Good movies, but it’ll be tough on laughs, skimpy on parties and stingy on booze.”
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### [The cast of "The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical," including guest star Bruce Vilance in 2016. A film version of the musical comedy will be screened on Dec. 19, 2017](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/12/19/hanukkah-gets-a-kitschy-nutcracker-treatment-for-the-holidays-last-night/)
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**The Times Of Israel
Hanukkah gets a kitschy ‘Nutcracker’ treatment for the holiday’s last night
By MATT LEBOVIC
18 December 2017, 10:25 pm**
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The cast of “The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical,” including guest star Bruce Vilance (center), in 2016. A film version of the musical comedy will be screened on Dec. 19, 2017 (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment)
BOSTON — Just in time to pierce the gloom of winter, a Hanukkah musical comedy based on “The Nutcracker” score will be screened Tuesday night at 350 movie theaters across America.
“The [MeshugaNutcracker!](https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-meshuganutcracker?gclid=Cj0KCQiA38jRBRCQARIsACEqIesNePRqcAGkSAX8_kxmDQJczi8hLpYoIOhfoflhBXECsEj4pOQBkboaAuRFEALw_wcB) The Chanukah Musical” is a kid-friendly, two-hour celebration of Judaism’s Festival of Lights. Billed as “the music of Tchaikovsky with klezmer-Broadway fusion styling,” the show features eight tales based on Jewish resilience throughout history, from Judah Maccabee until modern times. Along the way, 20 original songs and a lot of Yiddish slang make for a uniquely schmaltzy experience.
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Produced by Guggenheim Entertainment, the musical was first workshopped in Palo Alto, California, in 2003. Since then, most performances have taken place on the West Coast, some of them sponsored by Jewish communities. At the end of 2016, the show was filmed in front of a Los Angeles audience to create a polished version for the silver screen.
Essentially adding lyrics about Hanukkah to tunes from “The Nutcracker Suite,” the film includes a guest spot by colorful Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch. As the “shamash” helper candle, Vilanch caps off the show’s “Fools of Chelm” theme, wherein an ensemble from Jewish folklore’s most hapless town sing their way through Hanukkah tales.
The cast of ‘The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical’ performs in the 20-song production (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment)
The [Hanukkah musical](http://www.themeshuganutcracker.com/) was born out of its creators’ frustration with a lack of family events tied to the Festival of Lights, whiles “A Christmas Carol” and “The Nutcracker” relate to Christmas under the banner of the most wonderful time of the year.
According to co-producer and lyricist Shannon Guggenheim, “The MeshugaNutcracker!” is about optimism in the face of oppression.
“No matter what religion you are, no matter what you celebrate this time of year — it’s about finding the light in people, finding light in yourself, letting the holidays truly illuminate everything around you,” said Guggenheim. “That really is what we’re trying to do: give families something bright and fun but also poignant and meaningful to celebrate this time of year.”
In keeping with the context of the show’s birth, Act One opens with Christmas music in the air. While waiting for their auditions, the quirky performing “Fools of Chelm” recount past star-turns in “My Fair Zadie” and “The Wizard of Oy.” In the evening’s first “Nutcracker”-infused song, a “Dance of the Chanukiah” is performed to the tune of “Waltz of the Flowers,” one of the ballet’s top three songs.
The cast of ‘The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical’ performs in the 20-song production (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment
As with the “Nutcracker,” the focus in Chelm shifts to children in search of broken or missing toys. Instead of a nutcracker that comes to life in imperial Russia, in Chelm there’s a lost “special menorah” that takes center stage. As children search for the elusive ritual object, life lessons about sharing and being satisfied with what you have are cut with slapstick, including the requisite rubber chicken.
Among the productions’s songs, an audience favorite has been “Little Matchstick,” about a girl afraid of the dark. Her father tries to comfort her by speaking of light and sharing the glow with others. Unbeknownst to the girl huddled inside a dark, cramped train car, she and her family will soon arrive at a Nazi death camp. Another moment in Jewish history, just a few years later, is depicted in “Judah’s Gift,” about the first bittersweet Hanukkah in the new State of Israel.
The cast of ‘The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical’ performs in the 20-song production (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment
Like the second act of “The Nutcracker,” much of “The MeshugaNutcracker!” is *divertissement*, not intended for plot dissection but to captivate audiences. If dancing *dreidels* and jelly doughnuts are too childish for you, there’s the novelty of seeing Jewish history enacted by top-caliber vocalists wearing baskets, flower pots, and fruit on their *keppys*.
“It’s a show that’s really never been done before,” said Susan Gundunas, a soprano in the ensemble cast. “Not just because there’s finally a big, beautiful show about Hanukkah in the same way there are big, beautiful shows celebrating Christmas, but also because the cast is singing an amazing challenging score that was originally intended for musical instruments.
“We get to sing the piccolo line and clarinet line of melodies you’ve had in your head forever but that have been wordless for hundreds of years,” said the performer.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Appears In The New Gay SuperHero Movie, "Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel"](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/12/07/bruce-vilanch-appears-in-the-new-gay-superhero-movie-surge-of-power-revenge-of-the-sequel/)
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The sequel is the final movie appearance for both Noel Neill and Jack Larson (Jimmy Olson from Adventures of Superman) and one of the last movie appearances for Richard Hatch (Apollo from Battlestar Galactica). Visit us at [http://surgeofpower.org](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=rbQLjkwSCWuYc2lSqg5a59G1P8V8MTUxMjc1NjU2MEAxNTEyNjcwMTYw&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsurgeofpower.org&event=video_description&v=DyKg3SwXCho) to find out more and look for a screening near you!
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Eric Roberts, gay superhero, Gil Gerard, Hollywood Squares, Jack Larson, Linda Blair, Lou Ferrigno, Movie, Noel Neill, Robert Picardo, Shannon Farnon, Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes
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### [Bruce Vilanch's New Musical, A Sign Of The Times, To Have Industry Reading In New York](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/12/01/bruce-vilanchs-new-musical-a-sign-of-the-times-to-have-industry-reading-in-new-york/)
**Published:** December 1, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
Bruce Vilanch’s New Musical, A Sign Of The Times, To Have Industry Reading In New York
BY ANDREW GANS
NOV 28, 2017**
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Industry presentations of the new musical *A Sign of the Times*, featuring songs made famous by Petula Clark and other 1960s hit-makers, will be presented December 14–15 in Manhattan.
The cast will feature Chilina Kennedy (currently starring as [Carole King](http://www.playbill.com/person/carole-king-vault-0000005893) in Broadway’s *Beautiful*) as Cindy, [Ryan Silverman](http://www.playbill.com/person/ryan-silverman-vault-0000110619) ([*Side Show*](http://www.playbill.com/production/side-show-richard-rodgers-theatre-vault-0000003072)) as Brian, Van Hughes ([*Spring Awakening*](http://www.playbill.com/production/spring-awakening-eugene-oneill-theatre-vault-0000004687)) as Dennis, Drew Seeley ([*Jersey Boys*](http://www.playbill.com/production/jersey-boys-august-wilson-theatre-vault-0000005226)) as Matt, and Crystal Lucas-Perry (*Bull in a China Shop*) as Tanya.
Directed by Gabriel Barre (*Amazing Grace*) with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter (*School of Rock*), the musical made its world premiere last summer at Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut. Lucas-Perry reprises her performance from the previous engagement; the rest of the principal company is new to the title.
The ensemble will comprise Lauren Boyd, Brad Bradley, Lauren Nicole Chapman, Melessie Clark, Natalie Charle Ellis, Mylinda Hull, Jeremy Gaston, Jeremiah Ginn, Lindsay Moore, Kevin Santos, Nathan Scherich, and Amos Wolff.
The new musical, conceived and created by Richard Robin with a book by Emmy-winning writer and performer Bruce Vilanch, concerns Cindy, whose passion for making a difference in the world takes her from her small Midwestern town to New York City. Set against the backdrop of the events in 1965—The Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Liberation, and the war in Vietnam—songs include “Downtown,” “I Know a Place,” “The Boy from New York City,” “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss),” and “If I Can Dream.”
Music supervision is by Joseph Church ([*The Lion King*](http://www.playbill.com/production/the-lion-king-new-amsterdam-theatre-vault-0000008729), *Tommy*) with music direction by Rick Fox ([*Jesus Christ Superstar*](http://www.playbill.com/production/jesus-christ-superstar-ford-center-for-the-performing-arts-vault-0000004682)), and casting by Tara Rubin Casting.
“It was quite an experience for *A Sign of the Times* to have had such a positive response during its first production at Goodspeed,” said creator and producer Richard Robin in a statement. “Using feedback from the Goodspeed audience and ongoing discussions with the creative team, the December presentations will showcase a number of changes to the book and score. As options for the next production are being explored, we hope that *A Sign of the Times* will make its next appearance on stage in 2018.”
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**Tags:** a sign of the times, Bruce Vilanch, Chilina Kennedy, Goodspeed Musicals, Manhattan, musical, New York, Petula Clark, Theatre
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch, Constantine Maroulis, Fran Drescher Entertain At "One Night With The Stars" Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/12/01/reminder-bruce-vilanch-constantine-maroulis-fran-drescher-entertain-at-one-night-with-the-stars-benefit/)
**Published:** December 1, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
BY ROBERT VIAGAS
NOV 29, 2017**
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Tony Award winners [Betty Buckley](http://www.playbill.com/person/betty-buckley-vault-0000071054) and [Lillias White](http://www.playbill.com/person/lillias-white-vault-0000090875) and original[ *Rent*](http://www.playbill.com/production/rent-nederlander-theatre-vault-0000002708) star [Anthony Rapp](http://www.playbill.com/person/anthony-rapp-vault-0000102859) are among Broadway performers lined up to spend *One Night With the Stars*, a benefit for Wigs & Wishes, the charity that provides wigs and grants wishes to women and children who have lost their hair and are otherwise suffering from cancer.
Broadway, TV, film, and music stars recently added to the 7:30 PM December 4 concert at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City include Fran Drescher, [Constantine Maroulis](http://www.playbill.com/person/constantine-maroulis-vault-0000105482), Darci Lynne, Tom Bergeron, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jesse Medeles, Cheryl Burke, and the duo Tabitha & Napoleon D’umo (a.k.a. Nappytabs).
They will appear alongside the previously announced [Mandy Gonzalez](http://www.playbill.com/person/mandy-gonzalez-vault-0000064378), Lainie Kazan, [Telly Leung](http://www.playbill.com/person/telly-leung-vault-0000051701), Noah Galvin, Bruce Vilanch, Jon Jon Briones, Jennifer Gambatese, Jordin Sparks, Natasha Bedingfield, Sofia Carson, Sal Valentinetti, James Maslow, and Sharon Catherine Brown. Lineup subject to change. Billy Blanks Jr. is scheduled to direct.
[Tickets](https://www.ticketmaster.com/one-night-with-the-stars-the-theater-at-madison-square-new-york-ny/venueartist/483330/2428242) cost $66 to $1,006. Net proceeds for the 7:30 PM concert will go to the [Wigs & Wishes](https://martinobymartinocartier.com/wigs-wishes) foundation, which was launched by celebrity hairstylist Martino Cartier.
Wigs & Wishes held its annual gala October 22 in New Jersey.
Lillias White has been a special guest performer on Playbill’s *Broadway on the High Seas* cruises. Tickets are now on sale for Playbill’s [*Broadway on the High Seas* July 2018 cruise to Iceland](http://www.playbilltravel.com/Iceland), accompanied by [**Judy Kuhn**](http://www.playbill.com/person/judy-kuhn-vault-0000003194), [**Christine Ebersole**](http://www.playbill.com/person/christine-ebersole-vault-0000035864), [**Rob McClure**](http://www.playbill.com/person/rob-mcclure-vault-0000109271), [**Jarrod Spector**](http://www.playbill.com/person/jarrod-spector-vault-0000061608), [**Carmen Cusack**](http://www.playbill.com/person/carmen-cusack-vault-0000126979), and [**Sierra Boggess**](http://www.playbill.com/person/sierra-boggess-vault-0000097740).
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Betty Buckley, Billy Blanks Jr, Bruce Vilanch, Cher, Christine Ebersole, Constantine Maroulis, James Maslow, Jordin Sparks, Lainie Kazan, Mandy Gonzalez, Natasha Bedingfield, Wigs & Wishes
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### [Happy Birthday Bruce!!!](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/11/23/happy-birthday-bruce-2/)
**Published:** November 23, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends LA Premiere of WAIT FOR YOUR LAUGH](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/11/22/bruce-vilanch-attends-la-premiere-of-wait-for-your-laugh/)
**Published:** November 22, 2017
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**Broadway World
Attend LA Premiere of WAIT FOR YOUR LAUGH
Movies News Desk Nov. 21, 2017**
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Standing room only crowds gathered for a series of star studded Los Angeles premieres of “WAIT FOR YOUR LAUGH” about the legendary ROSE MARIE, who has had the longest active career in history. A trail blazer for both children and women with entertainment roots that has spanned Vaudeville, Radio, Film, Vegas, Broadway, as well as both Daytime and Primetime Television.
Among the list of appearances by personalities participating in LA screening Q&A’s were Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, Tom Bergeron, Dan Harmon, director Jason Wise and the iconic Rose Marie herself. The assemblage had an equally impressive list if patrons including Jane Lynch, Bruce Vilanch, George Chakiris, Teresa Ganzel, Margaret O’Brien, Jackie Joseph and Dick Van Dyke co-star, Larry Matthews. “Im a huge fan of Rose Marie and the documentary is amazing,” commented Jane Lynch. Adding, “I do a tribute to Rose Marie in my cabaret show and tell the story about how I wanted to be a comedy writer because of her role of Sally Rogers,”.
“Wait For Your Laugh,” which has qualified for Academy Award consideration under “Best Documentary,” made its West Coast debut this weekend at The Laemmle Town Center (Encino), The Laemmle Royal (Santa Monica) and the world famous Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood). Eager patrons willingly paid to sit in the isle of the theater at the latter in order see the film that Carl Reiner remarked, “This is no bullshit … This is the finest documentary about anybody I have ever … ever seen … Im immediately saying ‘Where do we vote?!’ Because this has to win every award it ever goes after!”
Social Media has found a new darling in Miss Rose Marie, who has embraced the medium as ambitiously as she has every other entertainment outlet in her 90+ year career. Both fans and critics are lavishly praising the efforts of director Jason Wise and his team. Among the many surprises contained in this cinematic gem are never-before-seen home movies taken behind the scenes by Rose Marie’s late husband, Bobby Guy, that include cast members of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Doris Day Show, as well as on the road with the cultural phenomenon called “4 Girls 4” and appearances with Johnny Carson, previously thought to be lost.
This is the untold story of fame, love and tragedy, dealing with every subject from the mob to sexual harassment in American entertainment through the eyes of one pioneering child to woman, who witnessed it all first hand. “Rose Marie was a child star before Shirley Temple was even born,” remarks friend and industry great, Peter Marshall, adding “…and she has done it all.” From starring in the first all talking short film (“Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder”) released in theaters nationwide to become the first woman to host a TV game show (“Scoop The Writers”) and the first female headliner in Las Vegas by opening the Flamingo Hotel, as well as skillfully handling the mob affiliations that went along with it, including referring to criminal mastermind, Al Capone as “Uncle Al.” “It’s interesting to think that the mob was more respectful of women then, than men in the entertainment industry are today,” commented Dan Harmon at the Egyptian screening.
As a child star, she earned millions in todays money that she never received. Every dime went to her father, a cruel man known to the mob as “Happy Hank,” who considered “Baby Rose Marie” his personal property, and who used her to support his primary family, making Rose Marie and her brother, Michael, illegitimate. Something that she found out from a cousin only after she got married. Adding insult to injury, her father had given his other children (a boy and a girl) the same names.
“Wait For Your Laugh” is above all else the ultimate true love story. Despite unimaginable obstacles, finding a soul mate and “…surviving the greatest loss someone can experience,” as Dick Van Dyke recalled, Rose Marie has succeeded where many have failed, by navigating the very difficult career challenges from child to adulthood.
Photo Credits:
Egyptian Screening – Stephen Russo
Towne Center Screening – Kathy Brow
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Dan Harmon, Dick Van Dyke, Jane Lynch, Jason Wise, Peter Marshall, ROSE MARIE, Tom Bergeron
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### [Bruce Vilanch: ‘And it just got worse, and worse, and worse’](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/11/09/bruce-vilanch-and-it-just-got-worse-and-worse-and-worse/)
**Published:** November 9, 2017
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**The Hill
Bruce Vilanch: ‘And it just got worse, and worse, and worse’
BY JUDY KURTZ – 11/08/17 06:00 AM EST**
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He’s a comedy writer but, for Bruce Vilanch, there was nothing funny about Election Day 2016.
As the results came in, Vilanch was working on a project in Los Angeles.
“I was writing, and every now and again, I would shift from my work to go online to see what was going on,” said the “Hollywood Squares” alum.
“At first I went to Facebook and there were all these people saying, ‘This is getting scary,’ ” Vilanch, who supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said. “And I thought ‘gee, you mean she’s not winning?’ ”
“And it just got worse, and worse, and worse,” said Vilanch — sporting a shirt with the message “Dance Like Russia Isn’t Watching” on it, along with his signature red-framed glasses.
“And then people began calling. It was like that scene out of ‘American Horror Story’ this season, where people can’t believe what’s going on and have to share,” he said.
“So it was a strange, surreal evening,” Vilanch, a writer for the Academy Awards, said. “You step into an episode of ‘Twilight Zone,’ or something.”
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**Tags:** 2016, Academy Awards, American Horror Story, Bruce Vilanch, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood Squares, Los Angeles, Russia, The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), United States presidential election
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Betty Buckley and More to Headline ONE NIGHT WITH THE STARS for Wigs & Wishes](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/11/04/bruce-vilanch-betty-buckley-and-more-to-headline-one-night-with-the-stars-for-wigs-wishes/)
**Published:** November 4, 2017
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**Broadway World
Jordin Sparks, Betty Buckley and More to Headline ONE NIGHT WITH THE STARS for Wigs & Wishes
by Christina Mancuso Oct. 31, 2017**
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Wigs & Wishes provides professional wigs & grants wishes for women & children battling cancer…
Wigs & Wishes will present “One Night with the Stars” on December 4, 2017 in New York City at Madison Square Garden. The Garden Theater holds 5700 seats.
Ticket prices range from $66 to $1006 for VIP seating that includes celebrity meet and greet, swag bag and seating in the first three rows. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
The all-star Broadway, TV, pop and film star line-up for “One Night with the Stars” includes performances by Jordin Sparks, Betty Buckley, Natasha Bedingfield, Sofia Carson, Noah Galvin, Mandy Gonzalez, Sal Valentinetti, James Maslow, Lillias White, Lainie Kazan, Anthony Rapp, Jon Jon Briones, Jenn Gambatese, Sharon Catherine Brown, Telly Leung, Tom Bergeron, Bruce Vilanch, and a Special All Star Performance created by Nappytabs.
“One Night with the Stars” is directed by Billy Blanks Jr. who has been the performance director at the newly renovated Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, CT for the past year.
Below, check out a short video about Wigs & Wishes!
Famed hairstylist, Martino Cartier is the founder of the non-profit Wigs & Wishes charity providing high end wigs and granting once in a lifetime wishes for children battling cancer. Inspired by his dear friend’s brave battle and triumph over cancer, Martino Cartier set out to create a network of fellow salon owners, stylists and beauty industry experts united in their mission to ease the stress and pain felt by women battling cancer and suffering from hair loss as well as granting wishes to children. Some of the recent wishes granted include a day playing basketball with legendary player Shaquille O’Neal and a personal facetime conversation with Taylor Swift. Visit www.martinocartier.com for more information.
Celebrity Stylist, Martino Cartier, is a successful salon owner with a staff of over 50. He has been featured on Bravo TV, Modern Salon Magazine, Vogue, Launchpad, Behind the Chair, Salon Today, and The Golden Globes. Before creating his own brand, Martino By Martino Cartier, he was the International Artistic Director for Keratin Complex and the Global Artistic Director for Hotheads. Martino and his team have been featured at all of the major hair shows in North America including Waldorf Astoria Intercoiffure and Fontainebleau Intercoiffure. Martino has been featured along with Tabatha Coffey, Kim Vo, Ken Paves, John Frieda and many more at the Stylist Choice Awards.
Jordin Sparks, Betty Buckley and More to Headline ONE NIGHT WITH THE STARS for Wigs & WishesSelf-taught and working professionally from his youth, Billy Blanks Jr. gained much exposure and experience in the world of dance and entertainment as a young teen who choreographed school musical productions and created after school dance groups. He has been featured in music videos with Paula Abdul, Madonna, Crystal Method, Quincy Jones, and Babyface. His TV credits include: American Dreams, The Practice, Sister Sister, Kids Incorporated, Homeboys From Outer Space, My Cousin Skeeter, and The Tonight Show. He starred in the touring company Fame and went on to direct and choreograph the We Sparkle Take II Celebrity Concert with Tom Hanks, Jason Alexander, Brian Cranston, Joey Lawrence, Britney Spears, Michael Chiklis, Hal Sparks, and the cast of Will & Grace. He launched the MoveTube network at www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1ooht\_32QrbfsfeikldjQ and is currently producer and director at the Wall Street Theater in CT. Billy Blanks Jr. is the creator of Dance It Out® (DIO®) one of the most successful dance fitness programs worldwide. He is the son of Tae Bo® creator Billy Blanks.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Anthony Rapp, Betty Buckley, Billy Blanks Jr, Bruce Vilanch, Hal Sparks, James Maslow, Jason Alexander, Jordin Sparks, Lainie Kazan, Mandy Gonzalez, Martino Cartier, Natasha Bedingfield, New York City, Sharon Catherine Brown, Wigs & Wishes, YouTube
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### [Boulder JFS Raises Over $90,000 at Reel Hope ’17](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/11/04/boulder-jfs-raises-over-90000-at-reel-hope-17/)
**Published:** November 4, 2017
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**Boulder Jewish Newa
Boulder JFS Raises Over $90,000 at Reel Hope ’17
David Fellows ??October 17, 2017**
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Boulder JFS held its fifth annual fundraiser, “Reel Hope Boulder,” on Saturday night at the Boulder JCC, and it was the most successful outing of the series. Hollywood writer Bruce Vilanch not only entertained the crowd while being interviewed by Ron Bostwick, but did so for free, raising the net amount available for operations from the night’s take. In addition to Vilanch, new JFS CEO Shepard Nevel addressed the audience, and JFS of Colorado Board Chair Charlie Gwirtsman was in attendance. Thanks to a match offered up by Jerry and Gail Sloat, the event raised over $90,000 for JFS of Colorado’s Boulder operation, led by Cathy Summer.
Jerry Sloat said this about why he supports JFS:
My slogan for JFS is “We are your family; you are never alone.” We all have family where we came from and many of us don’t have family here. We all need family around us and JFS represents that.
Andy Miro (event co-chair, Boulder JFS advisory committee member) supports JFS and wanted to co-chair the event because “JFS does so much for the community where the help is really needed. It’s very meaningful to be a part of it.” As event co-chair, Andy was very thankful about how well it went: “Bruce was everything I expected. He was very personal, approachable, and I felt like I’ve known him for years. He was fantastic. People stayed until the very end of the event, which is key. It was successful and I’m happy with how it went!”
Karli Sherwinter (event committee, Boulder JFS advisory committee member) said, “I like to be involved in a direct service organization where the money raised goes to directly support individuals in need.”
[Here is the full album of pictures.](https://photos.app.goo.gl/jpIKIAL97bKLbWGH3)
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**Tags:** bruce Vilanc, Bruce Vilanch, Colorado, Gail Sloat, Hollywood, JFS CEO Shepard Nevel, Ron Bostwick
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### [Bruce Vilanch Will Be Performing Oct 18 At The Cabaret Convention At The Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center.](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/10/13/bruce-vilanch-will-be-performing-oct-18-at-the-cabaret-convention-at-the-frederick-p-rose-hall-jazz-at-lincoln-center/)
**Published:** October 13, 2017
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**Playbill
Rush Ticket Policy Announced for Cabaret Convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center
BY ANDREW GANS
OCT 10, 2017**
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A rush ticket policy has been announced for the 2017 Cabaret Convention, which will feature more than 60 performers. Presented by The [Mabel Mercer Foundation](http://www.last.fm/music/Mabel%2BMercer "Mabel Mercer"), the celebration of New York nightlife will take place October 16-19 at the [Frederick P. Rose Hall](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556 (Jazz%20at%20Lincoln%20Center)&t=h "Jazz at Lincoln Center"), Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The same-day rush tickets, available to those holding a student ID or a membership card from MAC (the [Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_Awards "MAC Awards")), will be sold at the box office beginning at 10 AM on the date of each performance. Tickets, priced at $13.50, must be purchased in person, and there is a limit of two tickets per person. The offer is good for any remaining seats in the $100, $50, and $25 tiers.
In a statement, Artistic Director [KT Sullivan](http://www.ktsullivan.com/ "KT Sullivan") said, “The Mabel Mercer Foundation sees this offer as an extension of our charter, by which we might provide students—and other performers and musicians—an affordable opportunity to enjoy the great popular songbook, both traditional and present-day. Mabel Mercer herself reveled in singing both the old and the new across her entire 70-year career; she never stopped adding contemporary material to her presentations.”
The gala opening will be followed by evenings that pay tribute to [George Gershwin](http://www.playbill.com/person/george-gershwin-vault-0000005267); Hoagy Carmichael, and Richard Whiting as well as the “golden age” of Manhattan’s supper clubs, boites, bistros, and piano bars. Show time each night is 6 PM.
The current lineup follows:
**October 16:** *Gala Opening Night,* hosted by KT Sullivan. With Corinna Sowers [Adler, Danny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Adler "Danny Adler") Bacher, Carole J. Bufford, Joshua Lance Dixon, Tommy J. Dose, Greg Gropper, Luba Mason, [Marilyn Maye](http://www.playbill.com/person/marilyn-maye), Tanya Moberly, Karen Oberlin, Lyric Peterson, Vivian Reed, Adam Shapiro, Jacob Storms. Presentation of The Donald F. Smith Award, underwritten by Adela and Larry Elow. Presentation of The Mabel Mercer Award to Vivian Reed.
**October 17**: *S’Wonderful: The Music of George Gershwin,* hosted by Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci. With [Karen Akers](http://www.playbill.com/person/karen-akers-vault-0000046704), Anna Bergman, Celia Berk, Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Shauna Hicks, Nicolas King, Stearns Matthews, Marissa Mulder, [Mark Nadler](http://www.marknadler.com/ "Mark Nadler"), [T. Oliver Reid](http://www.playbill.com/person/t-oliver-reid-vault-0000052134), Steve Ross, Jennifer Sheehan, Deborah Silver, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jon Weber, Aaron Weinstein.
**October 18**: *Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of Cabaret,* hosted by James Gavin. With Barbara Brussell, [Charles Busch](http://www.playbill.com/person/charles-busch-vault-0000024874), Charles Cochran, Natalie Douglas, Laura Kenyon, Carol Lipnik, Maude Maggart, Nellie McKay, [Sidney Myer](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.8216833333,145.132875&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-37.8216833333,145.132875 (Sidney%20Myer)&t=h "Sidney Myer"), [Molly Pope](http://www.playbill.com/person/molly-pope), Ricky Ritzel, Spider Saloff, **Bruce Vilanch**, Ronny Whyte. (This evening is dedicated to Barbara Carroll, “The First Lady of the American Keyboard.”)
**October 19**: *Too Marvelous for Words/Stardust: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael & Richard Whiting,* hosted by Klea Blackhurst. With Matt Baker, Joie Bianco, Shana Farr, Liam Forde, Eric Yves Garcia, Gregory Generet, Valerie Lemon, Kristoffer Lowe, Tammy McCann, Todd Murray, Josephine Sanges, [Billy Stritch](http://www.playbill.com/person/billy-stritch-vault-0000001202), Stacy Sullivan, Carol Woods, [Amra-Faye Wright](http://www.playbill.com/person/amra-faye-wright-vault-0000034645). Presentation of The Margaret [Whiting Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting_Awards "Whiting Awards"), underwritten by My Ideal Music. Presentation of The Julie Wilson Award, underwritten by Linda and Peter Hanson.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall is located at Broadway and 60th Street. Prices are $100, $50, and $25, and Premium Patron Seating is also available at $500 ($350 of which is tax-deductible). Tickets are for sale through Jazz at Lincoln Center by visiting [JALC.org](http://www.jalc.org/) or their box office.
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Carnegie Hall, Chick Corea, Classical music, French Canadians, George Gershwin, Lang Lang (pianist), Metropolitan Opera, New York City, Rhapsody in Blue, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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### [THE MESHUGANUTCRACKER! Comes to Cinemas for One Night Only; Bruce Vilanch to Appear During Screening](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/10/13/the-meshuganutcracker-comes-to-cinemas-for-one-night-only-bruce-vilanch-to-appear-during-screening/)
**Published:** October 13, 2017
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**Broadway World
THE MESHUGANUTCRACKER! Comes to [Cinemas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater "Movie theater") for One Night Only; [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Appear During [Screening](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre "Theatre")
by BWW News Desk Oct. 9, 2017**
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Presented by [Fathom Events](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom_Events "Fathom Events"), in partnership with Guggenheim Entertainment, “The MeshugaNutcracker!” will be shown in U.S. cinemas for one night on Tuesday, December 19 at 7:00 p.m. local time. During this screening, Emmy Award-winning and Broadway star Bruce Vilanch will appear on screen as a special guest.
Tickets for “The MeshugaNutcracker!” can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 350 select movie theaters through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
“It’s a show that’s really never been done before,” says Susan Gundunas, one of the stars of the ensemble cast. “Not just because there’s finally a big, beautiful show about Chanukah in the same way there are big, beautiful shows celebrating Christmas, but also because the cast is singing an amazing challenging score that was originally intended for musical instruments! We get to sing the piccolo line and clarinet line of melodies you’ve had in your head forever but that have been wordless for hundreds of years. It’s a real treat to sing such melodious, grand music.”
“The MeshugaNutcracker!” showcases eight stories that pay tribute to the first celebration of Chanukah in the new state of Israel, as well as Judah Maccabee’s triumphant saga and accounts of perseverance. Written and directed by Scott Evan Guggenheim, Shannon Guggenheim and Stephen Guggenheim, the full-length musical comedy features the wonderfully silly sensibilities of the folklore of Chelm (a fictional town of fools), underscored by an invigorating Klezmer-ized orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite.” Alongside original lyrics in honor of Chanukah, “The MeshugaNutcracker!” includes dancing dreidels, singing sufganiot and special guest stars bringing audiences delight as they celebrate this holiday season.
“We are always thrilled to embrace the holiday spirit with audiences and celebrate such a special time of year, and this year there’s no better way than watching a fun twist on a beloved classic,” Fathom Events VP of Programming Kymberli Frueh said. “This performance is a fun way for audiences to learn more about the history and traditions of Chanukah in a kitchy spin, using the Nutcracker’s classic music in a way they’ve never experienced it before.”
“No matter what religion you are, no matter what you celebrate this time of year – it’s about finding the light in people, finding light in yourself, letting the holidays truly illuminate everything around you,” Shannon Guggenheim, lyricist and one of the co-producers, said. “And yes, it does sound schmaltzy but that’s why we balance it with a lot of schmaltz in our show! That really is what we’re trying to do: give families something bright and fun but also poignant and meaningful to celebrate this time of year.”
**About Fathom Events**
Fathom Events is recognized as the leading domestic distributor of event cinema with participating affiliate theaters in all 100 of the top Designated Market Areas, and ranks as one of the largest overall distributors of content to movie theaters. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: [CNK](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CNK "NYSE: CNK")) and Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: [RGC](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:RGC "NYSE: RGC")) (known collectively as AC JV, LLC), Fathom Events offers a variety of one-of-a-kind entertainment events such as live, high-definition performances of the Metropolitan Opera, dance and theatre productions like the Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre Live, sporting events like “Canelo Álvarez vs. [Julio César Chávez, Jr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez_Jr. "Julio César Chávez Jr."),” concerts with artists like Michael Bublé, Rush and Mötley Crüe, the yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics film series, inspirational events such as To Joey With Love and Facing Darkness, and anime titles such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Fathom Events takes audiences behind the scenes and offers unique extras including audience Q&As, backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew, creating the ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events’ live digital broadcast network (“DBN”) is the largest cinema broadcast network in North [America](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States"), bringing live and pre-recorded events to 897 locations and 1,387 screens in 181 DMAs. For more information, visit www.fathomevents.com.
**About Guggenheim Entertainment**
Guggenheim Entertainment, Inc. is a theatrical Production Company based in California’s [San Francisco Bay Area](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.75,-122.283333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.75,-122.283333333 (San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area)&t=h "San Francisco Bay Area") celebrating 30 years of producing musical theatre, events, and serving the needs of clients throughout the West Coast. The team at the helm of Guggenheim Entertainment is composed of directors, producers, writers, performers, and designers who produce and present full length and one-act musicals; design and teach classes for students of all ages; provide custom event design for a variety of clients; and originate educational arts programming. Since 1986, the Guggenheims have been at the forefront of Theatre In Education, having won an [Antoinette Perry Award](http://www.tonyawards.com "Tony Awards") (giver of the coveted Tony Award) for Excellence in Theatre in Education. They’ve made “The MeshugaNutcracker!” available to non-profit organization as a fundraiser helping raise over $250,000 for West Coast non-profit organizations. In 2009, Guggenheim Entertainment opened The Retro Dome and premiered their original musical, “Thanks For Playing…The Game Show Show!” The team will open a venue in Downtown San Jose on New Year’s Eve 2017: 3Below Theaters & Lounge will offer the Bay Area another opportunity to enjoy live theater, interactive movie experiences, theatre conservatory for aspiring young actors, intimate operas, and film festivals. Visit 3belowtheaters.com for more information.
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### [Find Out Why the Funniest Comics Get Bruce](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/09/29/4606/)
**Published:** September 29, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Boulder Jewish News
Find Out Why the Funniest Comics Get Bruce
By Kathryn Bernheimer ??September 25, 2017**
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Why the title “Get Bruce?”
The title has two meanings. The first is a command issued by any high-ranking comic in need of a good joke. As in, “I have just been invited to host the Oscars! [Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")”
The other is a question: Do you get Bruce? Do you get his humor?
The documentary, being screened at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm Wednesday at the Boulder JCC, makes sure we do get Bruce, a flamboyant, sweet, outrageous giant of humor. He appears in person at Reel Hope on October 14 at the Boulder JCC. The ACE screening is in anticipation of the Jewish Family Service fundraiser.
[REGISTER HERE](https://boulderjcc.wufoo.com/forms/zxaumap03jl29h/)
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Best known for writing the best lines and gags at the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar"), where he has been head writer since 2000,Vilanch supervises the entire telecast. He is also in high demand for roasts and other Hollywood extravaganzas where actors try to be funny, and comics try to top them. Vegas shows and touring acts also demand his talent.
His jokes are told by legions of stars, including [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Robin Williams](http://www.robinwilliams.com/ "Robin Williams"), [Elizabeth Taylor](http://elizabethtaylor.com "Elizabeth Taylor"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), and [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal").
Vilanch spent his first 20 years as the king of the one-liner, comfortably behind the scenes, his name and face known only to the comic elite who employed him.
That invisibility ended when he was promoted from a writer on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") to having his own box as a celebrity, right next to long-time customer [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg").
“Get Bruce” solidified his status as a celebrity writer, quick with a quip, a role he plays with relish.
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He has since appeared on [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") as Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray,” and is regularly recognized at airports.
He also continues to be a gay icon, long celebrated for his openly gay status in closeted Hollywood. ([Read a 2013 Westword interview here](https://www.westword.com/arts/comedian-bruce-vilanch-on-being-more-than-a-gay-caricature-5804366).)
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Attend The LGBTQ Palm Springs Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/09/23/bruce-vilanch-to-attend-the-lgbtq-palm-springs-film-festival/)
**Published:** September 23, 2017
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**Desert Sun
Xochitl Pena, The Desert Sun Published 5:29 p.m. PT Sept. 15, 2017**
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When Cinema Diverse premiered in 2008, the lineup was 15 films, including “Shelter,” a coming-of-age romance produced by J.D. Disalvatore.
Ten years later and with 91 films, the line-up has grown significantly, but it still includes a screening of “Shelter,” a coming-of-age romance produced by J.D. Disalvatore.
Resurrecting the inaugural event film is part of the special programming intended to help celebrate the LGBTQ film festival’s 10th anniversary, Thursday through Sept. 24 at Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs, said Michael C. Green, Cinema Diverse festival director and executive director of the Palm Springs Cultural Center.
“It’s interesting because J.D. Disalvatore just passed last week … and she was such an icon in Los Angeles in terms of lesbian filmmakers and was just really such a part of our history. And we’ll have a special moment before we screen that film to kind of honor her memory,” he said.
Another “big deal” festival event is a planned appearance by Armistead Maupin, the immensely popular author of “Tales of The City” series of novels which spawned a few television miniseries.
The opening night will feature a screening of “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin,” a film by Jennifer Kroot which tells the story of the renowned author from conservative to gay rights pioneer and includes interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. It will be followed by a Q&A with Maupin and a presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award. He then will sign copies of his new memoir, scheduled to be released in October.
“We’re getting advanced copies of his new memoir that’s coming out. We’re going to have it early so he’ll be signing copies of that. I’m really excited,” said Green “That’s going to be the big big deal.”
Right before the Maupin screening, audiences will see an 8-minute short called “Zeitgeist 1977,” a tribute to the first gay and lesbian film festival in San Francisco 40 years ago.
“So that’s kind of fun. It was the first in San Francisco, they were using Super 8 film and they were mostly getting it developed in Harvey Milk’s photo shop and (there’s) just a lot of history with it. It’s kind of cool and it’s ironically the same exact time Armistead started writing and got his first book published,” added Green.
While last year saw many films that addressed the divide between mainstream religion and the LGBTQ community, this year has a prominent selection of movies that touch on the international treatment of the LGBT community.
“I think a lot of it is immigration being a big topic. There are so many people from so many parts of the world that are trying to immigrate,” said Green. “They are escaping persecution because they are LGBT. It’s a very poignant topic.”
The film festival closes on Sunday, Sept. 24, with a full slate of films including the Palm Springs premiere and 10th anniversary of the docu-comedy “Laughing Matters …The Men,” from filmmaker Andrea Meyerson and featuring six comedians including Bruce Vilanch and Andre Kelly. Meyerson, Vilanch and Kelly are all expected to attend the festival, said Green.
“It was actually filmed in Palm Springs at Gay Pride in 2006 and it came out as a film in 2007 but it never has screened in Palm Springs ever … so that’s gonna be a lot of fun too,” he said.
Another closing day highlight is the screening of the third season of the Emmy-nominated “Eastsiders” produced by Kit Williamson and John Halbach, who married in Joshua Tree, live in Silver Lake and enjoy weekend trips to Palm Springs. The screening includes four episodes filmed on location in 16 different states from New York to Silver Lake and one episode shot in Palm Springs in July.
The filmmaking duo, who also appear in the show, are excited to bring most of season three to Cinema Diverse after a screening at OutFest in Los Angeles and a sneak peek at SeriesFest in Denver. They appreciate the interaction with other filmmakers and like-minded filmgoers.
“When you go to film festivals like these it’s a great way to meet other filmmakers who are passionate about the same kind of work. It’s also a great way to connect with audiences who are specifically seeking out LGBT content like ours. So they’ll come to this festival knowing that they want to see gay stories and if they weren’t familiar with our show before they could find our show there,” said Halbach.
“Yeah, we’re in a vacuum as filmmakers, as the storytellers … and I think it’s important to stay connected with the people that engage your work,” added Williamson who also writes and directs the series.
READ MORE: Popular LGBT series ‘Eastsiders’ films episode in Palm Springs
The show, which started as a web series on YouTube in 2012, follows gay couple Cal, played by Williamson, and Thom, played by Van Hansis as they deal with infidelity and life. Halbach plays a straight guy named Ian. Other show characters include Constance Wu from “Fresh of the Boat” who plays Kathy, Stephen Guarino of Showtime’s “I’m Dying Up Here” who plays Quincy, Willam Belli who plays Douglas and Traci Lords who plays Cal’s mother. Season 2 is currently available on Netflix.
The season 3 episode filmed in Palm Springs follows couple Quincy and drag queen Douglas, whose car breaks down in the desert while on their way to a drag gig. The idea for this episode came after a fan of the show, who owns a vacation rental in Palm Springs called The Burton House, reached out to them via Instagram and said he’d love to host them for a filming of the show. So Williamson came up with this Palm Springs-specific episode.
This will be Williamson’s second time to Cinema Diverse. He starred in a movie “Kiss Me, Kill Me” which screened there about two years ago.
“We love to go to festivals like these and I think it’s really important to support other people’s work. Having been making the show for five years now we understand what a miracle it is that anything ever makes it across the finish line and I think when anything gets done that should be celebrated,” said Halbach.
If you go
What: Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs LGBT Film Festival, presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center
When: The film festival runs Sept. 21-24 at Camelot Theatres, 2300 E. Baristo Road, Palm Springs. The Best of the Fest screenings is Sept. 29 and 30 at Mary Pickford Theatre, 36850 Pickfair St., Cathedral City.
Tickets: VIP Pass $279, Producer Pass $229, Director Pass $199, Cinema Six Pack $72, Opening night screening and after party $35, individual screening tickets $13.25
Information: (760) 880-4921 or (760) 324-7333 or cinemadiverse.org
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### [Aaron Lazar Will Offer From Broadway to Hollywood in Los Angeles: The solo show is penned by Bruce Vilanch and Scott Mauro](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/09/08/aaron-lazar-will-offer-from-broadway-to-hollywood-in-los-angeles-the-solo-show-is-penned-by-bruce-vilanch-and-scott-mauro/)
**Published:** September 8, 2017
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**Playbill
[Aaron Lazar](http://www.aaronlazar.com/ "Aaron Lazar") Will Offer From [Broadway to Hollywood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_to_Hollywood_%28film%29 "Broadway to Hollywood (film)") in [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles")
BY ANDREW GANS
SEP 07, 2017**
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Aaron Lazar
[Aaron Lazar](http://www.playbill.com/person/aaron-lazar-vault-0000031830), whose Broadway credits include *Mamma Mia!, [A Little Night Music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music "A Little Night Music"), The Last Ship,* and *Les Miserables*, will offer his solo show, *Aaron Lazar: From Broadway to Hollywood*, September 25 at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.
In addition to a mix of tunes, the actor will also share stories of working with [Angela Lansbury](http://www.playbill.com/person/angela-lansbury-vault-0000001423), [Michael Crawford](http://www.playbill.com/person/michael-crawford-vault-0000077789), [Catherine Zeta-Jones](http://www.last.fm/music/Catherine%2BZeta-Jones "Catherine Zeta-Jones"), [Patrick Wilson](http://www.playbill.com/person/patrick-wilson-vault-0000068712), Joan Allen, [Matthew Morrison](http://www.playbill.com/person/matthew-morrison-vault-0000010534), [Marsha Mason](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Mason "Marsha Mason"), [Andre De Shields](http://www.andredeshields.com "André De Shields"), and more. Show time is 8 PM.
The show is written by [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Scott Mauro, a producer of the Tony-winning [*Dear Evan Hansen*](http://www.playbill.com/production/dear-evan-hansen-belasco-theatre-2016-2017).
Rockwell Table & Stage is located at 1714 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles. There is a $39–$59 cover charge plus a two-item minimum. For reservations, call (323) 669-1550 or visit [Rockwell-LA.com](http://rockwell-la.com/).
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Adrianne Curry, Age disparity in sexual relationships, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Ashton Kutcher, Barafundle Bay, Bea Arthur, Bette Davis, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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### [Tickets on Sale Now for Reel Hope Boulder: Behind the Screen with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/31/tickets-on-sale-now-for-reel-hope-boulder-behind-the-screen-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** August 31, 2017
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**Tickets on Sale Now for Reel Hope Boulder: Behind the Screen with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Alaina Green ??August 28, 2017 – 6 Elul 5777**
Boulder Jewish Family Service (JFS) will host its fifth annual fundraiser, “Reel Hope Boulder” on Saturday, October 14 at the Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Avenue. Guests will enjoy an entertaining evening with award-winning writer, comedian, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch. Ron Bostwick, a freelance event producer and announcer, will interview Vilanch to showcase a “behind-the-screen” account of Bruce’s storied decades-long career. Bostwick has interviewed numerous celebrities at the [Boulder International Film Festival](http://www.biff1.com "Boulder International Film Festival"), as well as featured speakers at three Reel Hope Boulder events.
The evening’s schedule will be:
7:00 p.m.: Sponsor reception with Bruce Vilanch for all sponsors
7:30 p.m.: Wine-and-beer reception with substantial kosher-style hors d’oeuvres
8:30 p.m.: Program
Tickets are $90 and sponsorships start at $540. All proceeds support the life-transforming work of Boulder JFS. For tickets, sponsorships, and more information, visit [www.jewishfamilyservice.org/reelhopeboulder](http://www.jewishfamilyservice.org/reelhopeboulder) or contact Bonni Raderman at 720.749.3404.
With his unmistakable presence—characterized by a big-girl figure, oversized red glasses, a shaggy blonde mane, and usually a hilarious T-shirt—Bruce Vilanch has been one of Hollywood’s most colorful characters for decades. His campy presence and outrageous apparel only heighten his broad appeal.
He’s known to many as an onscreen character actor and comedian, but Vilanch achieved his biggest successes as a writer for stand-up comics such as [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), and [Rosanne Barr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr "Roseanne Barr"). For many years, he was the go-to comic for stand-up sets and a first-choice writer for events, including the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony telecasts.
A native of [Paterson, New Jersey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson%2C_New_Jersey "Paterson, New Jersey"), Vilanch attended Ohio State University as a theater and journalism major. After graduation, he moved into show business professionally, with comic roles in features such as the 1975 Mahogany (as a fashion designer), the 1984 Ice Pirates, the 1986 thriller The Morning After, and the 2008 Adam Sandler comedy [You Don’t Mess with the Zohan](http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Zohan-Unrated-Extended-Single-Disc/dp/B001DPHDB0%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001DPHDB0 "You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition)"). On the side, Vilanch did frequent uncredited rewrites of Hollywood features and enjoyed a lengthy and productive tenure as a writer of features for the Chicago Tribune. Vilanch’s professional mainstay, however, remains comedy writing. He was the subject of the all-star 1999 documentary [Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce") and played an unforgettable Edna Turnblad in the long-running [Broadway musical](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Hairspray.
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**Tags:** Audience, Barry Cryer, Beat the Clock, Berkeley College, Bette Midler, Kendrick Lamar, MTV Video Music Award, New Jersey, Paterson, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd
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### [Darren Criss, Bruce Vilanch, Among a Cast of 14 in WordTheatre's In the Cosmos](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/26/darren-criss-bruce-vilanch-among-a-cast-of-14-in-wordtheatres-in-the-cosmos/)
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**Theatermania
[Darren Criss](http://www.darrencriss.com "Darren Criss"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Among a Cast of 14 in WordTheatre’s In the Cosmos
Kenji Fujishima • Los Angeles • Aug 23, 2017**
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Darren Criss (*Glee*, *Hedwig and the Angry Inch*) will be among a cast of 14 participating in WordTheatre’s *[In the Cosmos](http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/shows/in-the-cosmos_321098/)*, to be performed on Saturday, August 26, at 8pm at [Ford Theatres](http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/theaters/ford-theatres_3627/).
The event is described as “a wild ride through the universe. From creation myths to the Big Bang to alien life forms, a constellation of actors will bring to life the story of the Cosmos in the words of the great poets, astronomers, comics, philosophers and more. Accompanied by rousing renditions of classical and contemporary music, we will contemplate our galaxy with such visionaries as David Bowie, Elton John, Monty Python, Copernicus, Galileo, Einstein, Carl Sagan, [Neil deGrasse Tyson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson "Neil deGrasse Tyson"), Stephen Hawking, and Diane Ackerman.”
In addition to Criss, the cast will include film and television stars [Sterling K. Brown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_K._Brown "Sterling K. Brown") (*This Is Us*), [Bellamy Young](http://twitter.com/bellamyyoung "Bellamy Young") (*Scandal*), Chris Bauer (*True Blood*), **Bruce Vilanch** (*Hairspray*), [Ryan Michelle Bathe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Michelle_Bathe "Ryan Michelle Bathe") (*Army Wives*), [Lesley Nicol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nicol_%28actress%29 "Lesley Nicol (actress)") (*Downton Abbey*), Jason George (*Grey’s Anatomy*), [Stephen Tobolowsky](http://twitter.com/tobolowsky "Stephen Tobolowsky") (*Silicon Valley*), [Gil Birmingham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Birmingham "Gil Birmingham") (*Hell or High Water*), Rhashan Stone (*[Mass Effect: Andromeda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect%3A_Andromeda "Mass Effect: Andromeda")*), Joey King (*Fargo*), Fred Melamed (*A Serious Man*), Sarah Clarke (*24*), and Gil Bellows (*Patriot*). The show is created, produced, and directed by WordTheatre artistic director Cedering Fox.
[For tickets and more information, click here.](http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/shows/in-the-cosmos_321098/)
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### [The annual celebration of New York City nightlife, featuring Amra-Faye Wright, Bruce Vilanch, and more, will be held October 16–19](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/26/the-annual-celebration-of-new-york-city-nightlife-featuring-amra-faye-wright-bruce-vilanch-and-more-will-be-held-october-16-19/)
**Published:** August 26, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
The annual celebration of New York City nightlife, featuring Amra-Faye Wright, Bruce Vilanch, and more, will be held October 16–19
BY ANDREW GANS
AUG 16, 2017**
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Details have been announced for the annual Cabaret Convention, which will feature more than 60 performers. Presented by The [Mabel Mercer Foundation](http://www.last.fm/music/Mabel%2BMercer "Mabel Mercer"), the celebration of New York nightlife will be seen October 16-19 at the [Frederick P. Rose Hall](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556 (Jazz%20at%20Lincoln%20Center)&t=h "Jazz at Lincoln Center"), Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The gala opening will be followed by evenings that pay tribute to [George Gershwin](http://www.playbill.com/person/george-gershwin-vault-0000005267); Hoagy Carmichael, and Richard Whiting as well as the “golden age” of Manhattan’s supper clubs, boites, bistros, and piano bars. Show time each night is 6 PM.
[KT Sullivan](http://www.ktsullivan.com/ "KT Sullivan"), artistic director of the Foundation, said in a statement, “Whatever we do, we take pride in assembling an amalgam of songs and styles. Our 2017 performers range from teenagers to senior citizens, and as ever, we have at least ten people on the roster who are brand new to the Cabaret Convention. It’s a feature of our charter that we introduce our audiences to entertainers they might well not have already seen or heard – and we love doing that.”
The current lineup follows:
**October 16:** Gala Opening Night, hosted by KT Sullivan and with Corinna Sowers [Adler, Danny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Adler "Danny Adler") Bacher, [Brent Barrett](http://www.playbill.com/person/brent-barrett-vault-0000110745), Carole J. Bufford, Joshua Lance Dixon, Tommy J. Dose, Greg Gropper, Luba Mason, [Marilyn Maye](http://www.playbill.com/person/marilyn-maye), [Amanda McBroom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_McBroom "Amanda McBroom"), Tanya Moberly, Karen Oberlin, Lyric Peterson, Vivian Reed, Adam Shapiro, and Jacob Storms. Presentation of The Donald F. Smith Award, underwritten by Adela & Larry Elow. Presentation of The Mabel Mercer Award to Vivian Reed.
**October 17:** *S’Wonderful: The Music of George Gershwin*, hosted by Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci. With [Karen Akers](http://www.playbill.com/person/karen-akers-vault-0000046704), Anna Bergman, Celia Berk, Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Dominic Ferris, Shauna Hicks, Clint Holmes, Nicolas King, Stearns Matthews, Martin Milnes, Marissa Mulder, Mark Nadler, [T. Oliver Reid](http://www.playbill.com/person/t-oliver-reid-vault-0000052134), Steve Ross, Jennifer Sheehan, Deborah Silver, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jon Weber, and Aaron Weinstein.
**October 18:** *Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of Cabaret*, hosted by James Gavin. With Joanne Beretta, Barbara Brussell, [Charles Busch](http://www.playbill.com/person/charles-busch-vault-0000024874), Charles Cochran, Natalie Douglas, Laura Kenyon, Carol Lipnik, [Maude Maggart](http://www.maudemaggart.com/ "Maude Maggart"), Nellie McKay, [Sidney Myer](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.8216833333,145.132875&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-37.8216833333,145.132875 (Sidney%20Myer)&t=h "Sidney Myer"), [Molly Pope](http://www.playbill.com/person/molly-pope), Ricky Ritzel, Spider Saloff, **Bruce Vilanch**, and Ronny Whyte. (This evening is dedicated to Barbara Carroll, “The First Lady of the American Keyboard.”)
**October 19:** *Too Marvelous for Words/Stardust: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael & Richard Whiting*, hosted by Klea Blackhurst. With Matt Baker, Joie Bianco, Shana Farr, Liam Forde, Eric Yves Garcia, Gregory Generet, Valerie Lemon, Kristoffer Lowe, Tammy McCann, Todd Murray, Josephine Sanges, Stacy Sullivan, Carol Woods, and [Amra-Faye Wright](http://www.playbill.com/person/amra-faye-wright-vault-0000034645). Presentation of The Margaret [Whiting Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting_Awards "Whiting Awards"), underwritten by My Ideal Music. Presentation of The Julie Wilson Award, underwritten by Linda and Peter Hanson.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall is located at Broadway and 60th Street. Presale advance tickets are now available only through The Mabel Mercer Foundation by calling (212) 980-3026, faxing (212) 980-3049, or emailing info@mabelmercer.org. Prices are $100, $50, and $25, and Premium Patron Seating is also available at $500 ($350 of which is tax-deductible).
Beginning September 5, remaining tickets will be available for sale only through Jazz at Lincoln Center by visiting [JALC.org](http://www.jalc.org/) or their box office.
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**Tags:** Gala Concert, George Gershwin, Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, Lang Lang (pianist), Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Rhapsody in Blue, Uniform Resource Locator, Year of the Dragon (film)
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### [More Than 60 Artists Announced for Cabaret Convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/16/more-than-60-artists-announced-for-cabaret-convention-at-jazz-at-lincoln-center/)
**Published:** August 16, 2017
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**Playbill
More Than 60 Artists Announced for Cabaret Convention at Jazz at Lincoln Center
BY ANDREW GANS
AUG 16, 2017**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2016/06/4-27-2013-4-01-43-AM.png)
Details have been announced for the annual Cabaret Convention, which will feature more than 60 performers. Presented by The [Mabel Mercer Foundation](http://www.last.fm/music/Mabel%2BMercer "Mabel Mercer"), the celebration of New York nightlife will be seen October 16-19 at the [Frederick P. Rose Hall](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7691666667,-73.9830555556 (Jazz%20at%20Lincoln%20Center)&t=h "Jazz at Lincoln Center"), Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The gala opening will be followed by evenings that pay tribute to [George Gershwin](http://www.playbill.com/person/george-gershwin-vault-0000005267); Hoagy Carmichael, and Richard Whiting as well as the “golden age” of Manhattan’s supper clubs, boites, bistros, and piano bars. Show time each night is 6 PM.
KT Sullivan, artistic director of the Foundation, said in a statement, “Whatever we do, we take pride in assembling an amalgam of songs and styles. Our 2017 performers range from teenagers to senior citizens, and as ever, we have at least ten people on the roster who are brand new to the Cabaret Convention. It’s a feature of our charter that we introduce our audiences to entertainers they might well not have already seen or heard – and we love doing that.”
*The current lineup follows:*
**October 16:** Gala Opening Night, hosted by KT Sullivan and with Corinna Sowers [Adler, Danny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Adler "Danny Adler") Bacher, [Brent Barrett](http://www.playbill.com/person/brent-barrett-vault-0000110745), Carole J. Bufford, Joshua Lance Dixon, Tommy J. Dose, Greg Gropper, Luba Mason, [Marilyn Maye](http://www.playbill.com/person/marilyn-maye), [Amanda McBroom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_McBroom "Amanda McBroom"), Tanya Moberly, Karen Oberlin, Lyric Peterson, Vivian Reed, Adam Shapiro, and Jacob Storms. Presentation of The Donald F. Smith Award, underwritten by Adela & Larry Elow. Presentation of The Mabel Mercer Award to Vivian Reed.
**October 17:** *S’Wonderful: The Music of George Gershwin*, hosted by Jeff Harnar and Andrea Marcovicci. With [Karen Akers](http://www.playbill.com/person/karen-akers-vault-0000046704), Anna Bergman, Celia Berk, Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Dominic Ferris, Shauna Hicks, Clint Holmes, Nicolas King, Stearns Matthews, Martin Milnes, Marissa Mulder, Mark Nadler, [T. Oliver Reid](http://www.playbill.com/person/t-oliver-reid-vault-0000052134), Steve Ross, Jennifer Sheehan, Deborah Silver, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jon Weber, and Aaron Weinstein.
**October 18:** *Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of Cabaret*, hosted by James Gavin. With Joanne Beretta, Barbara Brussell, [Charles Busch](http://www.playbill.com/person/charles-busch-vault-0000024874), Charles Cochran, Natalie Douglas, Laura Kenyon, Carol Lipnik, [Maude Maggart](http://www.maudemaggart.com/ "Maude Maggart"), Nellie McKay, [Sidney Myer](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.8216833333,145.132875&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-37.8216833333,145.132875 (Sidney%20Myer)&t=h "Sidney Myer"), [Molly Pope](http://www.playbill.com/person/molly-pope), Ricky Ritzel, Spider Saloff, **Bruce Vilanch**, and Ronny Whyte. (This evening is dedicated to Barbara Carroll, “The First Lady of the American Keyboard.”)
**October 19:** *Too Marvelous for Words/Stardust: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael & Richard Whiting*, hosted by Klea Blackhurst. With Matt Baker, Joie Bianco, Shana Farr, Liam Forde, Eric Yves Garcia, Gregory Generet, Valerie Lemon, Kristoffer Lowe, Tammy McCann, [Todd Murray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Murray "Todd Murray"), Josephine Sanges, Stacy Sullivan, Carol Woods, and [Amra-Faye Wright](http://www.playbill.com/person/amra-faye-wright-vault-0000034645). Presentation of The Margaret [Whiting Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting_Awards "Whiting Awards"), underwritten by My Ideal Music. Presentation of The Julie Wilson Award, underwritten by Linda and Peter Hanson.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall is located at Broadway and 60th Street. Presale advance tickets are now available only through The Mabel Mercer Foundation by calling (212) 980-3026, faxing (212) 980-3049, or emailing info@mabelmercer.org. Prices are $100, $50, and $25, and Premium Patron Seating is also available at $500 ($350 of which is tax-deductible).
Beginning September 5, remaining tickets will be available for sale only through Jazz at Lincoln Center by visiting [JALC.org](http://www.jalc.org/) or their box office.
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, Amanda McBroom, American Film Institute, Gala Concert, George Gershwin, Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, Hope Diamond, Karate Kiba, Lang Lang (pianist), List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
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### [Why The Show “Silver Foxes” Would Be Great For Television](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/16/why-the-show-silver-foxes-would-be-great-for-television/)
**Published:** August 16, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**TV On Demand
Why The Show “Silver Foxes” Would Be Great For Television
By Dana Hanson-Firestone
August 11, 2017**
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A new show has been created but it is struggling to get noticed by [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood"). “Silver Foxes is a sitcom that is patterned after the long running and beloved “[Golden Girls](https://www.tvovermind.com/product/B002N8WLYK/US/tvovermind00a-20/).” It is a reboot of the show and the rumor is that [George Takei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei "George Takei") is set to star in it. The creators of the show are disappointed because their work is not getting the attention that they had hoped for. So far, nobody has picked the series up. Here is a little more about the show and the reasons why it would be great for television.
**The creators**
[Stan Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Berg_and_Stan_Zimmerman "James Berg and Stan Zimmerman") and James Berg and the screenwriters responsible for bringing the concept to script form. The series takes place in [Palm Springs, California](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") and it is about four older men who are gay, living together. It definitely has taken its’ inspiration from “[The Golden Girls](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.066,-118.4474&spn=0.005,0.005&q=34.066,-118.4474 (The%20Golden%20Girls)&t=h "The Golden Girls"),” but it is not a spinoff. Zimmerman disclosed that he and Berg are experiencing a total shutout from Hollywood. Zimmerman is the writer for several episodes of “Roseanne,” “[The Gilmore Girls](http://www.thewb.com/non-us.html "Gilmore Girls"),” and the movie “[A Very Brady Sequel](http://www.amazon.com/Very-Brady-Sequel-Shelley-Long/dp/B00008Z459%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00008Z459 "A Very Brady Sequel").” He believes that there is a degree of homophobia and ageism involved in the block.
**Proposed cast members**
Should the series be granted the opportunity to air, it will Star the famous George Takei, Todd Sherry, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Leslie Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan "Leslie Jordan") as the four main characters. The cast was assembled in 2016 and here a year later, there is no move to make the show a reality.
**Why the show should air**
To begin, the cast is amazing. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a comedy that features aging stars in the same way that “The Golden Girls” did. The fact that the men are gay, makes a bold statement about the way that the world is changing. Inclusion and acceptance of people for who they are without prejudice would be a nice point of view. Barring the show certainly makes it seem that there is a degree of prejudice that is preventing major networks from picking it up.
**The show would be funny**
We could all use some great humor. Why can’t we as entertained by four guys as we were by four women? The answer is, that we could. It would be a lot like a double dose of “The Odd Couple.” While there are serious legal battles going on to protect the rights of [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") people, The show would be a timely addition to the lineup of favorites. Who knows…perhaps it would be a bit hit that would give a network’s ratings a good healthy lift.
**Takei’s thinking on the matter**
George has shared the fact that he is frustrated over the hold placed on “Silver Foxes.” He hit the nail on the head when he discussed the show as a “commentary on contemporary life.” It could represent a challenge for networks that have a large homophobic viewing audience. Producers are having a rough time making the decision to take the project under their wings.
**Will the show fade into obscurity?**
Zimmerman is optimistic about the chances that the show will eventually get air time. If all else fails, he may resort to a streaming service. There are plenty of fans who would appreciate the show and it sounds like something that would draw a huge audience. We’re all hoping that there will be a change in Hollywood and that they’ll at least give the series its’ shot.
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### [Bruce Vilanch by Sage Inn and The Landing Bistro and Bar, Provincetown, August 18-19th](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/10/bruce-vilanch-by-sage-inn-and-the-landing-bistro-and-bar-provincetown-august-18-19th/)
**Published:** August 10, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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Bruce has put something into a lot famous mouths —
Jokes! Stories! Filthy [Songs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song "Song")!
You’ve probably seen him in a square, on broadway, or on stage —
Tonight he tells you all about everybody and everything, from [Whoopi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi "Whoopi") the star to [Jabba the Hutt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabba_the_Hutt "Jabba the Hutt"). And he’ll dance. Really.
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### [From ‘Golden Girls’ to ‘Silver Foxes’?](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/10/from-golden-girls-to-silver-foxes/)
**Published:** August 10, 2017
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**Boston Globe
From ‘Golden Girls’ to ‘Silver Foxes’?
By Michael Andor Brodeur
AUGUST 08, 2017**
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Do not adjust your hearing aids: That persistent buzz is just the chatter surrounding “Silver Foxes” — the gently ballyhooed “gay reboot of ‘The Golden Girls’” that isn’t actually a gay reboot of “The Golden Girls” but sort of is.
The brainchild (or grandparent?) of screenwriter [Stan Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Berg_and_Stan_Zimmerman "James Berg and Stan Zimmerman") (who, back in the day, penned some fine “Golden Girls” episodes himself), “Silver Foxes” is certainly “inspired by” by the original “Girls, and will tell the tangling tales of four older gay men living (and likely grousing) together in [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") — that is, if it gets picked up before the idea is shipped off to [Shady Pines](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.066,-118.4474&spn=0.005,0.005&q=34.066,-118.4474 (The%20Golden%20Girls)&t=h "The Golden Girls").
Right now, “Silver Foxes” exists in just two incomplete forms: 1) a scarcely documented table reading held at Zimmerman’s home that went swiftly viral on Instagram;
2\) as a dream tumbling around in the heads of gay men everywhere. However, the latter could not have fathomed the fierceness of the foursome brought together for the former: the lead roles were read by [George Takei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei "George Takei"), [Leslie Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan "Leslie Jordan"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and Todd Sherry. (OMG which one is the tramp?!) Rumor has it they’ve even written a cameo opportunity for [Betty White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_White "Betty White").
This is one hip replacement.
I, for one, am screaming. Networks, meanwhile, are showing Zbornak levels of skepticism.
“Ageism and homophobia are not only keeping the show from getting picked up, but from even being read by a major network,” Zimmerman told HuffPo, all but raising his bugle to summon sleeping armies of slighted gays into clicking formation, let’s-get-Betty-White-on-“SNL” style.
This may or may not work, but here’s a slice of cheesecake and some truth: I’ve seen this move before. You flirt with the ones you don’t want (NBC, ABC, CBS — I mean, give me a break here) in order to draw the interest of the ones you do ([Netflix](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NFLX "NASDAQ: NFLX"), Hulu, Amazon). I’m pretty sure I learned that one from Blanche. Will it work? Depends.
Netflix seems not to have noticed it has absolutely no money for these sorts of things (might I and [Tom Selleck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Selleck "Tom Selleck") suggest a reverse mortgage?) but it seems like a no-brainer that a comedy about aging gay men in Palm Springs would draw viewers like . . . well, aging gay men to Palm Springs.
In the meantime, not sure if you know this already, but you can get in a solid (or slightly mushed-up) four servings of “Golden Girls” each and every night from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Why so late? Because “The Golden Girls” is the raciest thing the [Hallmark Channel](http://hallmarkchannel.com "Hallmark Channel") airs by leaps and bounds (or short, careful steps).
(And with that, I conclude my housesitting for the vacationing Matthew Gilbert. Notice how I didn’t break anything. Thanks for letting me crash on your couch.)
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**Categories:** Television
**Tags:** Access Hollywood, Bea Arthur, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Estelle Getty, Hallmark Channel, James Berg and Stan Zimmerman, LGBT, List of Friends characters, Monday Night Football
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### [Interview: Stan Zimmerman: “Silver Foxes”](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/06/interview-stan-zimmerman-silver-foxes/)
**Published:** August 6, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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Interview: Stan Zimmerman: “Silver Foxes”
Eileen Shapiro, Contributor
07/26/2017 08:19 am ET**
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Ingeniously hysterically funny and sensitive television and film writer, Stan Zimmerman is hoping to present a new television comedy series entitled: “Silver Foxes”. Somewhat along the lines of the iconic “Golden Girls” sitcom, which he wrote and produced in 1985, “Silver Foxes” is a heartfelt scenario involving four older gay men living together in their later years and their dealings with the next chapter of life. Slated for a reading and possible portrayal of the characters are: George Takei, Leslie Jordan, Bruce Vilanch, and Todd Sherry of “Parks and Recreation.” Zimmerman and partner James Berg were responsible for writings of “The Golden Girls”, “Roseanne”, “Gilmore Girls”, and the film “A Very Brady Sequel”, as well as many others. They are currently pitching the new pilot “Silver Foxes” to various networks and trying to overcome some of the challenges regarding the show and the new frontier in television that it offers.
**You’ve written for so many television series, what are some of the high lights?**
My first big job was “Golden Girls”. I was staff writer on the first season. Before that we had done a few episodic’s. One of the big ones was the episode of “Fame” that Janet Jackson was in. It was actually the first time she sang on it, and it was a song from her first album. Debbie Allen directed it. I remember I was so excited cause I saw it I think at “The Revolver”, in West Hollywood when they would play music videos. I said, “*that’s my show”.* So we were lucky enough to get on the “Golden Girls”, they liked a script of ours. We pitched our little heart out, I still have some of the pitches somewhere. They weren’t buying any of them. We were literally at the door leaving, and I threw out for some reason: “What if Rose’s mother came to visit? “, and they said “come back and sit down”. We got the gig to write the episode, and we got to experience what it was like as the show unfolded in the first season. It changed the whole trajectory of my career.
**I don’t know a person in the world that doesn’t know “The Golden Girls”, at least no one gay.**
It’s really not just gay, it’s all ages and all types, and that’s what’s so frustrating about “Silver Foxes”, when I say it can have the same affect that “Golden Girls” has. So then it goes from the ages to the homophobia. Maybe they’re scared that four gay guys is not going to be able to attract a heterosexual audience. I don’t know when that’s ever been proven because it’s never been done.
**What would happen if one of those guys hypothetically were straight?**
My manager has brought up, what if he could get Michael Douglas or somebody to be in the show? Obviously I would love to have it all gay actors, and lesbians, because there are two power lesbians that live next-door. I mean if we can’t do it with this show, when can we do it? I mean that’s like saying when you’re writing a black show, can’t one of them be white? This is our show, this is the point of view we want to have. I have four gay man that are getting older, and who is your family, we’re all starting to get older, and what is our next chapter? For those of us that have survived the AIDS crisis, and are still living, after seeing most of our friends die…..I went to four funerals in one week…… You know a lot of us didn’t think we would be here. So now what happens? We have found most of our family and support groups amongst each other. I think that’s the story we would love to tell. How we band together in times of need, especially as you get older, you’re there for one another. I think it could be quite poignant, but also really, really funny. Jim Berg and I want to write from a place of honesty. It could be super funny but if it comes from a real place, it’s not broad silly humor. That’s why “The Golden Girls” still feels relevant, because it comes from a place of honesty. There was never a moment of not having the laughs but there was truth in it.
**So Stan, why is it that you think you can’t get funding for this series?**
I can’t even get it read by a major network. It’s the age and the homophobia that is still there in Hollywood. It’s the fear, and it’s based on nothing, because there has never been an all LGBTQ show. It would be one thing if they said well we had one and it didn’t work, but they never had one. You can’t point to that, it is all based on fear.
**Where do you think a good fit would be for the show?**
I think the natural fit would be Hulu because they are streaming “Golden Girls”. That’s a huge success for them that’s even shocking them. I think Netflix is another good place because they are doing “Full House” and “One Day at a Time”. They are doing shows that are based on older sitcoms. I think Amazon would be another great place. Any place that does this, they are going to be rewarded, they will be the saviors of the show, and it’s going to get so much attention. There is nothing like this and there has never been. You can put a smaller cable company on the map, and get them a lot of attention. We are trying and it’s a lot harder than you think. A lot of people are not wanting to stick their necks out, producers or even agent wise, to push this through. We need someone to come in and push it through, or if enough people hear about it, and talk about it, or retweet it, you would think someone over there would be smart enough to say “let’s give it a shot”. I think that they would be more than pleasantly surprised with the reaction. It’s been crazy and so wonderful, the reaction, especially men of a certain age. They get very emotional about it because we feel that we’ve worked through this, and we got this, yet when something like this comes up, we still have to fight unfortunately. We still need to be out there marching, fighting and calling. I think that there are going to be pockets of people that are still very prejudiced but that’s why a show like this will show the world that we are dealing with the same issues. We want to be loved, we deal with health and getting older, and what we want to do with our lives, and how do we maintain relationships? Those are all universal themes. It just happens to be through the eyes of these four men.
**You were just on The Jimmy Star Show With Ron Russell. Jimmy Star is a big fan of yours and we think you should use his husband Ron Russell on the show. He’s a true silver fox. He’s 77 years old and still hot.**
We would love to show all ages and all types on the show which would be so great through the guest stars that we plan to have. Like on “Golden Girls”, we will have all their families come and go. The George Takei character was married. We have his ex-wife, his daughter, and his granddaughter. We thought it would be great to have a granddaughter run away to their house in Palm Springs for an episode. We thought she could be sexually fluid, and deal with all of that and what that means from the point of view of these older guys.
**Are there any other projects that you are currently working on?**
I created this play in the vein of “Vagina Monologues”. It’s dealing with suicide notes. A very good friend of mine took his life five years ago so I created a play using real notes from Kurt Cobain to war veterans to LBGT. We’re going to have a big benefit in the middle of October to raise awareness not only for suicide prevention but ultimately I want to create like “Vagina” Monologues” where people can license the play and it goes back into suicide prevention.
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### [Gay, male ‘Golden Girls’ reboot delayed by ‘ageism,’ ‘homophobia’ in Hollywood](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/01/gay-male-golden-girls-reboot-delayed-by-ageism-homophobia-in-hollywood/)
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July 31, 2017 at 8:28 am PDT | by Mariah Cooper**
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The gay, male reboot of “Golden Girls” has hit a roadblock.
“Golden Girls” writers [Stan Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Berg_and_Stan_Zimmerman "James Berg and Stan Zimmerman") and James Berg had [announced ](http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/06/14/gay-male-reboot-golden-girls-works/)they were pitching a pilot for a show titled “Silver Foxes,” a comedy series about four, older gay men living together.
[George Takei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei "George Takei"), [Leslie Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan "Leslie Jordan"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Todd Sherry had already done a table read as the core four. [Daniele Gaither](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele_Gaither "Daniele Gaither") and [Cheri Oteri](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheri_Oteri "Cheri Oteri") also read for the lesbian neighbors. Zimmerman told [Fox News](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/07/28/golden-girls-writer-addresses-reboot-rumors.html) a Betty White guest appearance was also planned.
However, Zimmerman says homophobia has kept the show from being developed.
“Unfortunately, we cannot get one network executive to read it,” Zimmerman told Fox News. “Or even a producer to pass it to them. We have found ageism and homophobia alive and well in Hollywood.
They plan to continue shopping the series around to networks and hope a streaming service will pick up the show.
“Hopefully a groundswell of support from the viewing public will get an outlet like Hulu or Amazon to make it,” Zimmerman says.
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### ['Golden Girls' writer addresses reboot rumors](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/08/01/golden-girls-writer-addresses-reboot-rumors/)
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‘Golden Girls’ writer addresses reboot rumors
By Stephanie Nolasco Published July 28, 2017 Fox News**
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“Golden Girls” writer [Stan Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Berg_and_Stan_Zimmerman "James Berg and Stan Zimmerman") confirmed to Fox News that a new series inspired by the classic sitcom is in the works featuring four older gay men living together.
“[The Golden Girls](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.066,-118.4474&spn=0.005,0.005&q=34.066,-118.4474 (The%20Golden%20Girls)&t=h "The Golden Girls"),” which stared [Rue McClanahan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_McClanahan "Rue McClanahan"), [Betty White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_White "Betty White"), Bea Arthur, and [Estelle Getty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Getty "Estelle Getty"), aired from 1985 until 1992. Throughout its run, it racked up 68 Emmy nominations and 11 wins.
“It is not a rumor,” Zimmerman told Fox News in an email. “\[‘Golden Girls’ writer\] James Berg and I did write a pilot script called ‘Silver Foxes.’ It is NOT a reboot of ‘The Golden Girls.’ But it is inspired by the show, a show that we were lucky enough to have written on during the first season of the show.”
Zimmerman added a private reading of the script took place in his living room with George Takei, [Leslie Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan "Leslie Jordan"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and Todd Sherry as the foursome.
It also featured Daniele Gaither and former “Saturday Night Live” castmate Cheri Oteri as “the power lesbian couple” who live next door, as well as [Melissa Peterman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Peterman "Melissa Peterman") as a woman who runs a retirement home where Leslie Jordan resides until “the guys find out he has to go back in the closet.”
Unlike the original, which took place in Miami, “Silver Foxes” would be based in [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California").
Zimmerman also revealed he’s hoping to get the last living “Golden Girl” to join as a special guest.
“We did create a one line role for Betty White to play,” he said. “Our fingers are crossed.”
However, Zimmerman said that despite the all-star cast, as well as having two original writers on board, he’s having trouble finding a network to pick up the series.
“Unfortunately, we cannot get one network executive to read it,” he explained. “Our even a producer to pass it to them. We have found ageism and homophobia alive and well in Hollywood. Hopefully a groundswell of support from the viewing public will get an outlet like Hulu or Amazon to make it.”
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### [First Big Screen Gay Superhero Comes to Florida Supercon in Sequel (Bruce Vilanch Cameos)](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/07/21/first-big-screen-gay-superhero-comes-to-florida-supercon-in-sequel/)
**Published:** July 21, 2017
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First Big Screen Gay Superhero Comes to Florida Supercon in Sequel
JW Arnold
07/19/2017**
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Big budget sequels are a given for superhero franchises like Spider Man, Iron Man and Superman, but the world’s first “out” gay superhero, Surge, is finally returning to the big screen after a 13-year hiatus.
Audiences at Florida Supercon will get a look at the final version of “Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel” on July 29 at 1:30 p.m.
Surge, a mild-mannered attorney who gains superpowers to fight homophobia and bullying, is the creation of Vincent J. Roth. Roth, also a corporate attorney by day and cosplay fan, wrote, produced and starred in both indie films.
“I grew up with the ‘Super Friends’ on Saturday morning cartoons and loved (superheroes),” recalled Roth. “For myself, as a boy, not even pre-gay, I hadn’t developed a gay identity. There’s an escapism (to superheroes): the ugly duckling to beautiful swan thing, an ordinary person transforming into the extraordinary, colorful costumes, champions standing up for the underdogs. That’s why people get enamored with them, there’s someone looking out for you.”
The first film, completed in 2004 and featured on the festival circuit, received a limited national distribution (including a run at the Classic Gateway Theatre in Fort Lauderdale in 2006). “Surge” quickly became a cult favorite for its celebrity cameos.
“It’s become part of our shtick,” explained Roth. “With the first film, it was a spoof with the campy flavor of the old Adam West ‘Batman’ TV show. He would have some miscellaneous celebrities pop in and we did that with ‘Surge’.”
Nichelle Nichols (“Star Trek”), Lou Ferrigno (“The Incredible Hulk”) and Noel Neill (Lois Lane, “The Adventures of Superman”) were among the 20 stars to appear and, when Roth approached them to return for the sequel, they were quick to recruit their friends.
“Revenge of the Sequel” boasts 50 celebrity cameos, including Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen, “The Adventures of Superman”), Linda Blair (“The Exorcist”), Gil Gerard (“Buck Rogers”), Robert Picardo (“Star Trek: Voyager”), comedian Bruce Vilanch and Las Vegas female impersonator and producer Frank Marino.
Work on the sequel began in 2008, but “life got in the way,” said Roth. He began filming scenes in bits and starts before production “rebooted” three years ago. After several focus groups and public screenings—and subsequent tweaks—the final version of the film is headed to Fort Lauderdale.
The movie industry friends who advised Roth “every superhero film should have a sequel” have already been encouraging him to make “Surge” a trilogy and he’s certainly kept that possibility open in the script. He’s also developing “Big City Chronicles,” an internet variety show offering fans short webisodes, behind-the-scenes documentaries and cast interviews.
“It’s a way to keep fans engaged during those in-between times,” he said, while he negotiates a commercial distribution deal for the sequel. “My hope is to expand the (Surge) world even further.”
“Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel” will be screened on Saturday, July 29 at 1:30 p.m. at Florida Supercon, July 27 – 30 at the Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. For a schedule and tickets, go to FloridaSupercon.com. For more information about the film, visit [SurgeOfPower.org](http://surgeofpower.org/).
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### [Boulder JFS Presents Reel Hope Boulder: Behind the Screen with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/07/18/boulder-jfs-presents-reel-hope-boulder-behind-the-screen-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** July 18, 2017
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**Boulder Jewish News**
# Boulder JFS Presents Reel Hope Boulder: Behind the Screen with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
[Alaina Green](http://boulderjewishnews.org/author/alaina_green/) ??July 16, 2017 – 22 Tamuz 5777 [Events](http://boulderjewishnews.org/category/events/) [Be the first to comment on this post!](http://boulderjewishnews.org/2017/boulder-jfs-presents-reel-hope-boulder-behind-the-screen-with-bruce-vilanch/#idc-container)
Boulder Jewish Family Service (JFS) will host its fifth annual fundraiser, “Reel Hope Boulder” on Saturday, October 14 at the Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Avenue. Guests will enjoy an entertaining evening with award-winning writer, comedian, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch. Ron Bostwick, a freelance event producer and announcer, will interview Vilanch to showcase a “behind-the-screen” account of Bruce’s storied decades-long career. Bostwick has interviewed numerous celebrities at the [Boulder International Film Festival](http://www.biff1.com "Boulder International Film Festival"), as well as featured speakers at three Reel Hope Boulder events.The evening’s schedule will be: 6:30 p.m.: Sponsor reception with Bruce Vilanch for all sponsors
7:00 p.m.: Wine and beer reception with substantial hors d’oeuvres
8:00 p.m.: Program
Sponsorships starting at $540 are available now. Tickets are $90 and go on sale August 28. All proceeds support the life-transforming work of Boulder JFS. For tickets, sponsorships, and more information, visit [www.jewishfamilyservice.org/reelhopeboulder](http://www.jewishfamilyservice.org/reelhopeboulder) or contact [Bonni Raderman](mailto:braderman@jewishfamilyservice.org?subject=Reel%20Hope%20Boulder) at 720.749.3404.
**About Bruce Vilanch**
With his unmistakable presence—characterized by a big-girl figure, oversized red glasses, a shaggy blonde mane, and usually a hilarious T-shirt—Bruce Vilanch has been one of Hollywood’s most colorful characters for decades. His campy presence and outrageous apparel only heighten his broad appeal.
He’s known to many as an onscreen character actor and comedian, but Vilanch achieved his biggest successes as a writer for stand-up comics such as [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), and [Rosanne Barr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr "Roseanne Barr"). For many years, he was the go-to comic for stand-up sets and a first-choice writer for events, including the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony telecasts.
A native of [Paterson, New Jersey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson%2C_New_Jersey "Paterson, New Jersey"), Vilanch attended Ohio State University as a theater and journalism major. After graduation, he moved into show business professionally, with comic roles in features such as the 1975 Mahogany (as a fashion designer), the 1984 Ice Pirates, the 1986 thriller The Morning After, and the 2008 Adam Sandler comedy [You Don’t Mess with the Zohan](http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Zohan-Unrated-Extended-Single-Disc/dp/B001DPHDB0%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001DPHDB0 "You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition)"). On the side, Vilanch did frequent uncredited rewrites of Hollywood features and enjoyed a lengthy and productive tenure as a writer of features for the Chicago Tribune. Vilanch’s professional mainstay, however, remains comedy writing. He was the subject of the all-star 1999 documentary [Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce") and played an unforgettable Edna Turnblad in the long-running [Broadway musical](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Hairspray.
**About Jewish Family Service of Colorado**
Founded in 1872, Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS) is a nonsectarian, nonprofit human services agency serving metro Denver and Boulder. JFS believes in strengthening our community by providing vital services to people in need. Every day, JFS helps people overcome difficult life’s challenges to live fuller, more meaningful lives.
Boulder JFS is a division of Jewish Family Service that provides older adults and adults with disabilities, their families, and individuals in crisis with services to enhance their quality of life. Boulder JFS provides a wide array of services to help older adults and adults with disabilities live independently and maintain a high quality of life. We work to ensure that older adults in the Boulder community are well cared for—and not alone. For more information, call **303.415.1025 or visit [www.jewishfamilyservice.org/boulder](http://www.jewishfamilyservice.org/boulder). Follow us on[ Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/boulderjfs) and [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/jfs_colo)!**
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**Tags:** 70th Golden Globe Awards, Bette Midler, Broadway theatre, Dear Evan Hansen, Dolly! (musical), Film, Hello, Johnny Carson, Kevin Spacey, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Tony Award
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### [‘Gay Golden Girls’ TV Show Struggles Against Ageism, Not Homophobia](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/07/16/gay-golden-girls-tv-show-struggles-against-ageism-not-homophobia/)
**Published:** July 16, 2017
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‘Gay Golden Girls’ [TV Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program") Struggles Against Ageism, Not Homophobia
Written by Drew Mackie on July 4, 2017**
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What if *[The Golden Girls](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.066,-118.4474&spn=0.005,0.005&q=34.066,-118.4474 (The%20Golden%20Girls)&t=h "The Golden Girls")* returned to television, but with gay men?
That’s a question that might seem redundant to the series’ gay fans, who have [long related to Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia](https://unicornbooty.com/golden-girls-gay-men-lanai/). But now two of the show’s writers, [Stan Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Berg_and_Stan_Zimmerman "James Berg and Stan Zimmerman") and James Berg, want to make that connection more literal with a revamp of sorts. Should it be realized on the small screen, *Silver Foxes*would generate laughs and late-in-life lessons from four older gay men living together.
The show would move the action from Miami to Palm Springs (because *obviously*), and it already has a great cast in place. [George Takei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei "George Takei") would play a former military man who left the ranks during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") would play a politically minded firebrand in the style of Dixie Carter from *Designing Women*. [Leslie Jordan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan "Leslie Jordan") would play a character that we hope is more or less Leslie Jordan, and *Parks & Recreation*alum Todd Sherry would round out the cast as a past-his-prime twink.
To many gay fans, that pitch would sound like a slam dunk, especially given that in addition to episodes of *Golden Girls*, the Zimmerman-Berg team also [wrote for *Roseanne*](https://unicornbooty.com/roseanne-reboot-lgbt-themes/) (including that famous lesbian kiss episode) and *[Gilmore Girls](http://www.thewb.com/non-us.html "Gilmore Girls")*, as well as the script for *[A Very Brady Sequel](http://www.amazon.com/Very-Brady-Sequel-Shelley-Long/dp/B00008Z459%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00008Z459 "A Very Brady Sequel")*. As he’s worked to move the project forward, however, Zimmerman says the series has encountered some resistance — not for being a gay-centric sitcom but for being one that focuses on older characters.
“I was shocked that still, in this day and age, I couldn’t get a major broadcast network to even read the script. That doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying,” Zimmerman tells us. “Even going to my producer friends, even some who have deals at studios, they literally said they’ll never make the show. It cut a little deeper for me. It’s become a cause for me to make it happen.”
aid it was strange to feel like progress had been made of the past few decades getting networks to put gay characters onscreen but for ageism to be something people felt free to express outright.
Currently, Zimmerman and Berg have made some progress with outlets such as [Netflix](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NFLX "NASDAQ: NFLX"), Hulu and Amazon. Zimmerman points out that a service like these might make a great home for *Silver Foxes*. Hulu has already found considerable success [streaming all seven seasons of *The Golden Girls*](https://unicornbooty.com/golden-girls-hulu/), and Netflix’s stable of shows includes multicam sitcoms like *Fuller House* and the *One Day at a Time* remake, as well as *[Grace and Frankie](http://www.netflix.com/graceandfrankie "Grace and Frankie")*, which also focuses on older characters.
When it comes to those major broadcast networks, Zimmerman, an industry veteran, explained that he’s not protesting rejection but the lack of a chance to even be considered. “It would be one thing if someone read the script and said, ‘I don’t think it’s funny,’ or if we made a pilot and it didn’t test well. To not even get it to the top to be read is just very frustrating.” Consequently, Zimmerman is encouraging anyone who wants to see this show to take to social media and tell networks and streaming services to give *Silver Foxes* a chance.
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Lest network executives forget, the commercial viability of *Golden Girls* was also questioned before the show proved to be a hit — not just with blue hairs but with viewers across the age spectrum.
“Everybody is chasing the young demographic,” said Vilanch. “No one wants to capture the older audience because they feel they won’t get as much money from them.”
However, Vilanch points out that there are many examples aside from *Golden Girls* that show this isn’t true. “*Murder, She Wrote* ran 12 years on a major network and was one of the top five shows — and it clearly skewed to an older demographic. And now, when you read the \[TV rating\] analysis, you see CBS referred to as ‘older-skewing,’ but they’ve got the raw numbers. They’ve got eyeballs. They’re just older eyeballs, which are not as commercially valuable, but they’re watching all those police procedurals.”
“They need to sell tampons,” Vilanch jokes, “but I suppose the market for tampons, at a certain point, dries up.”
The pilot, as Zimmerman explains it, also allows for the discussion of social issues that affect older people (and older gay people), though in the style of *The Golden Girls*, it does it in a funny way. The first episode hinges around Takei and Vilanch’s characters visiting Jordan’s character in a rest home, after he burns down his West Hollywood condo in an accident involving a George Foreman grill. When they get there, they find Jordan butching it up and watching the game, only to learn that he felt he had to go back into the closet in this community. (This element was inspired by the documentary [*Gen Silent*](http://gensilent.com/), about this very phenomenon as LGBT seniors age.) An ensuing ruckus gets Jordan kicked out, and he comes to live with his friends.
The show would also feature power lesbian next-door neighbors. Played by Cheri Oteri and Daniele Gaither, they’re keen on buying the gents’ home and flipping it.
“Our voices count,” Zimmerman said. “We do buy products, especially for our hair and our faces, and the older we get, the more products we use.”
Vilanch said he hoped the increased attention on social media would make a difference. “I’d really like to do it,” he said. “I want a house at the beach.”
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### [Film Review: ‘The Fabulous Allan Carr’](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/07/06/film-review-the-fabulous-allan-carr/)
**Published:** July 6, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Variety
Film Review: ‘The Fabulous [Allan Carr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Carr "Allan Carr")’
By Dennis Harvey
July 3, 2017**
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Taking the same workmanlike, conventional if sprightly approach to mixing talking-head and archival materials he did in “I Am Divine” and “[Tab Hunter Confidential](http://www.tabhunterconfidential.com "Tab Hunter Confidential"),” Schwarz chronicles his subject’s barreling up the entertainment-industry ladder through sheer determination and fandom. The Chicago suburbanite started out investing in legit theater enterprises (invariably involving fabled veteran headliners), moved to TV with the “Playboy’s Penthouse” series, then got involved in event planning (often extravagant showbiz launch parties) and talent management. In the latter vein, his biggest coup was revitalizing the career of Ann-Margret, who in the late ’60s had run her course as an overexposed “sex kitten.” Carr got her a much improved, long-lasting second wind on the Vegas stage, in TV specials and in better movies (including Oscar-nominated turns in “Carnal Knowledge” and “Tommy”).
Beyond producing a number of the broadcast variety specials still popular then, he dabbled in an odd assortment of enterprises wearing various hats: Putting together the Joe Namath-Ann-Margret biker flick “C.C. & Company” (1970); repackaging a cheesy Mexican disaster-cum-cannibal exploitation feature into the incongruously high-grossing “Survive!” (1976); playing key roles in the marketing of 1978’s best picture winner “The Deer Hunter” as well as producer Robert Stigwood’s music-driven hits “Tommy” and “Saturday Night Fever.” That gave him the clout to become the driving force behind a pet project, filming Broadway tuner “Grease” with “Fever”’s John Travolta and pop star [Olivia Newton-John](http://www.olivianewton-john.com/ "Olivia Newton-John"). It was a box-office smash, although Carr’s penchant for self-promotion wound up irking co-producer Stigwood, with whom relations became strained.
That was of little concern to Carr, who was now king of the mountain — even if studio executives and others often snickered behind his eccentrically caftan-clad back. If he couldn’t be one of the “beautiful people” (at one point he underwent gastric-bypass surgery to stem his ballooning weight), he could at least surround himself by them, including a stable of fame-aspiring pretty boys. Some of their surviving number, as well as several celebrity pals, attest to his indulgences and generosity here, though also to some drug-fueled mood swings.
The latter — as well as personal tastes more enthusiastic than refined — may have played a role in several spectacular, costly miscalculations. The most infamous was 1980’s tardy disco extravaganza “Can’t Stop the Music,” starring the Village People, [Steve Guttenberg](http://twitter.com/steveguttbuck "Steve Guttenberg"), Valerie Perrine and [Bruce Jenner](http://twitter.com/@caitlyn_jenner "Caitlyn Jenner") (now Caitlyn, and alongside Ann-Margret a notable interview holdout here). That $20 million boondoggle was directed by veteran actress Nancy Walker, who had almost no behind-the-camera experience and was dubbed by some participants “Can’t Stop the Cocaine.” Almost equally derided, if not quite as financially catastrophic (and an even bigger subsequent camp “classic”), was 1982’s ill-advised “Grease 2.”
Carr licked his wounds from these and other failures by turning to Broadway, where he assembled the major-league talents that would make the following year’s “La Cage aux Folles” not only a huge hit but the Great White Way’s first fully “out” gay-themed musical. Alas, this comeback triumph would soon be overshadowed by what had seemed his “dream come true” plum assignment: producing the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar") broadcast.
While much of that 61st ceremony in 1989 proved influential (among other things, it introduced staple [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") as head comedy writer), the press heaped scorn on a long, awkward, starry and spoofy opening number that had Snow White (Eileen Bowman) traipsing past various new and aged stars singing nonsensically chosen songs (most infamously Rob Lowe’s rendition of “Proud Mary”). The intended absurdist humor missed the mark, humiliating Carr further when a roster of Hollywood bigwigs including some he considered close friends wrote an open letter castigating the Academy for this “embarrassment.”
While it uses this low ebb as a narrative bookend, “The Fabulous Allan Carr” adds insult to old injury by suggesting it was all Carr’s brainstorm — curiously failing to note that the campy concept and style were lifted whole from long-running San Francisco revue “[Beach Blanket Babylon](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7742,-122.417068&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.7742,-122.417068 (Beach%20Blanket%20Babylon)&t=h "Beach Blanket Babylon"),” whose creator Steve Silver was very much involved in the telecast.
Practically exiled for this “crime,” Carr became a recluse before cancer claimed his life in 1999 at age 62. He did at least live to enjoy a successful 20th-anniversary rerelease of “Grease” the prior year.
A lot of colleagues both famous and non- provide amusing recollections of an over-the-top persona and the glittering excess he liked to surround himself with. One could wish for a less pedestrian package than the one Schwarz has provided (a few brief animations providing the most adventuresome touch), but then this story supplies quite enough kitschy, name-dropping flavor on its own, with or without additional stylistic filigreeing.
## Film Review: ‘The Fabulous Allan Carr’
Reviewed online, San Francisco, May 24, 2017. (In Seattle Film Festival, Frameline, Outfest.) Running time: 90 MIN.
### Production
(Docu) An [Automat Pictures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_Pictures "Automat Pictures") and Lottie & Lorraine Pictures presentation. (International sales: The Film Collaborative, L.A.) Producers: John Boccardo, [Jeffrey Schwarz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Schwarz "Jeffrey Schwarz"). Co-producers: Larry Spitler, Taki Oldham. Executive producer: David Permut.
### Crew
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz. Camera (color, HD): Jeff Byrd, Matt May, Keith Walker. Editors: Carl Pfirman, Schwarz. Music: Michael “The Millionaire” Cudahy.
### With
Patricia Birch, Maxwell Caulfield, Steve Guttenberg, Nikki Haskell, Robert Hofler, Randy Jones, Randal Kleiser, Sherry Lansing, Lorna Luft, Michael Musto, Robert Osborne, Brett Ratner, Connie Stevens, Alana Stewart, Marlo Thomas, Bruce Vilanch.
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### [Save the Date for Reel Hope Boulder Featuring Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/06/16/save-the-date-for-reel-hope-boulder-featuring-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 16, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**BOULDER JEWISH NEWS
[Save the Date](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Date "Save the Date") for Reel Hope Boulder Featuring [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Alaina Green ??
June 3, 2017**
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Join Boulder Jewish Family Service (JFS) for the fifth annual Reel Hope Boulder featuring award-winning writer, comedian, songwriter, and actor **Bruce Vilanch** on **Saturday, October 14 at 7:00 pm** at the Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Avenue. This fundraising event will include a wine and beer reception with substantial hors d’oeuvres and a first-hand account of Bruce’s storied decades-long career. Sponsors will enjoy an exclusive reception with Bruce at 6:30 pm.
All proceeds support the life-transforming work of Boulder JFS, which provides older adults, adults with disabilities, their families, and individuals in crisis with services to enhance their quality of life.
**About Bruce Vilanch**
With his unmistakable presence—characterized by a big-girl figure, oversized red glasses, a shaggy blonde mane, and usually a hilarious T-shirt—Bruce Vilanch has been one of [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood")’s most colorful characters for decades. His campy presence and outrageous apparel only heighten his broad appeal.
He’s known to many as an onscreen character actor and comedian, but Vilanch achieved his biggest successes as a writer for [stand-up comics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy") such as [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), and [Rosanne Barr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr "Roseanne Barr"). For many years, he was the go-to comic for stand-up sets and a first-choice writer for events, including the Oscar, [Grammy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award "Grammy Award"), [Emmy](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award"), and Tony telecasts.
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### [ARE YOU READY FOR A GAY 'GOLDEN GIRLS'?](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/06/16/are-you-ready-for-a-gay-golden-girls/)
**Published:** June 16, 2017
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ARE YOU READY FOR A GAY ‘GOLDEN GIRLS’?
Ian David Monroe
06/15/17 at 10:19AM**
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Few television shows are as cherished in the gay community as *The Golden Girls*, which is why everyone is stirring over the prospect of a gay male version—a gay *Golden Girls*, if you will, though, somehow, that sounds redundant.
Two of the writers from the 1985 original series, Stan Zimmerman and James Berg, have penned a pilot for *Silver Foxes*, a series built around four older gay men. Zimmerman and Berg also have writing credits on *Roseanne* and *Gilmore Girls*, meaning we just might have an instant classic on our hands.
Last year, according to [NewNowNext](http://www.newnownext.com/golden-girls-gay/06/2017/), George Takei, Bruce Vilanch, Leslie Jordan, Todd Sherry, and Cheri Oteri all participated in a table read of the pilot script. No cast has been officially confirmed, but it’s hard to imagine a better lineup than that—unless of course you threw in Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart.
On the reason behind developing the story, Zimmerman told Party Foul Radio, “Every one of us is getting older…Especially with gays and lesbians and transgender, we create our own families—and that’s what *The Golden Girls* did. Those women came together and supported each other.”
*Silver Foxes* is currently being shopped around Netflix and Hulu.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Emcees The Michael Musto Roast](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/05/25/bruce-vilanch-emcees-the-michael-musto-roast/)
**Published:** May 25, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**Unicorn Booty
14 Hilarious Reads from Michael Musto’s New York City Roast
Written by Alexander Kacala
on May 23, 2017**
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Last night, a “who’s who” of [New York City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City "New York City") gathered to honor [Michael Musto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Musto "Michael Musto") at a roast given in his honor. No, really, who was who?
Comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") was the fabulous emcee for the evening. [Rosie O’Donnell](http://www.last.fm/music/Rosie%2BO%2527Donnell "Rosie O'Donnell") opened the show with a few words, roasting Musto by reminding the audience of how their relationship began many years ago.
“I know it wasn’t really a shock to anyone in this room that I was a big fucking lesbian but middle America apparently was confused,” O’Donnell said. “And Michael Musto was a very pissed off fag.”
“Very faggy gay men seem to be very troubled by dykey gay women who refuse to acknowledge their lesbianism,” she went on.
But obviously the water is under the bridge, as O’Donnell showed up to support Musto’s event for a good cause. O’Donnell ended her set by matching funds raised for the Callen-Lorde Center, donating $20,000 to the LGBT wellness center in New York City.
[Jinkx Monsoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinkx_Monsoon "Jinkx Monsoon"), [Bianca Del Rio](http://thebiancadelrio.com/ "Bianca Del Rio"), Real Housewife LuAnn D’Agostino and [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") were just some of the notable names on the bill, reading each other and the man of the hour. Del Rio of course was a highlight of the night — and right at home up there, as roasting is what she does best.
The evening was produced by Daniel DeMello and Nathaniel Nowak. Directed by Rachel Klein, many of the night’s best jokes were written for the roasters by Erik Ransom and Matthew McLachlan. Even Musto himself wrote some of the best digs made at his own expense.
**Here are 14 of the funniest moments from Michael Musto’s roast:**
**Bruce Vilanch to United Airways:**
“I came in from LA for this. It was incredible this morning as they dragged me off my United flight. Which was really unusual because I thought United only does Chinese take-out.”
**Michael Musto to Bianca Del Rio:**
“Bianca Del Rio, Hurricane Katrina is only the second worst thing to ever happen to [New Orleans](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556 (New%20Orleans)&t=h "New Orleans").”
**Bianca Del Rio to [Randy Rainbow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Rainbow "Randy Rainbow"):**
“I don’t really know who Randy Rainbow is, but from the looks of his name, I guarantee he’s not allowed 800 feet anywhere near a grade school.”
**Judy Gold to Michael Musto:**
“Michael Musto is Al Franken run over by a pride parade.”
**Johnny Skandros to Countess LuAnn:**
“You’re the worst thing to happen to music since Whitney Houston started taking baths.”
**Bianca Del Rio to Rosie O’Donnell:**
“She has her differences with Trump. But she is a lot like Trump. She has five different kids from three different wives. It’s funny, because if Rosie goes ahead and buys another child, she will have to live in a shoe. And with her being a lesbian, can you imagine how fucking ugly that shoe is going to be?”
**Johnny Skandros to Michael Musto**
“I have to give you a lot of credit, Musto. You somehow survived the ’80s. It’s like your face was the original PrEP.”
**Jinkx Monsoon to Michael Musto:**
“With all the fashion sense of a hospital out-patient, Michael Musto looks like Ray Romano if he had a much harder life.”
**Orfeh to Bruce Vilanch:**
“These are scary times, folks. I don’t understand how people can continue to deny climate change in 2017. I mean, the proof is right in front of us! It’s almost summer and Bruce Vilanch’s neck pouch is still stuffed with the acorns he foraged last fall!”
**Crystal Demure to Bianca Del Rio:**
“Other recommended viewings on Netflix for [Hurricane Bianca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bianca "Hurricane Bianca") are ‘Gouging Their Eyes Out.’”
**Marcus Kelle to Bruce Vilanch:**
“The last time you got fucked was by genetics.”
**Judy Gold to Jinkx Monsoon:**
“You look like Kathy Griffin had sex with meth!”
**Lucy The Slut to the drag queens:**
“Look at these drag queens! They look great, but their makeup is kinda like Febreeze. Pleasant, but it’s main purpose is to cover up shit.”
**Michael Musto to Jinkx Monsoon:**
“Jinx, you do a brilliant Edie Beale impression, except she happened to be talented, not just mentally ill.”
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### [SIFF Interview: Jeffrey Schwarz talks about his great new documentary, THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/05/21/siff-interview-jeffrey-schwarz-talks-about-his-great-new-documentary-the-fabulous-allan-carr/)
**Published:** May 21, 2017
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**The Sunbreak
SIFF Interview: [Jeffrey Schwarz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Schwarz "Jeffrey Schwarz") talks about his great new documentary, THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR
By Jeffrey Schwarz
May 19, 2017**[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2017/05/thefabulousallancarr-poster.jpg)
One of the movies playing at SIFF I was most anxious to see when the lineup was announced was The Fabulous [Allan Carr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Carr "Allan Carr"), a new feature-length documentary about the legendary [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") producer from director Jeffrey Schwarz. Schwarz has been a prolific documentarian over the past several years, most notably for films about [John Waters’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters "John Waters") muse Divine, and closeted 1950’s teen heartthrob [Tab Hunter](http://www.tabhunter.com "Tab Hunter").
Allan Carr died in 1999 but he had left an undeniable legacy as the producer of Grease and groundbreaking Broadway hit La Cage Aux Folles, as well as the infamous [1989 Academy Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61st_Academy_Awards "61st Academy Awards") spectacle that opened with a musical number of Snow White and Rob Lowe in duet, and the [Village People](http://www.officialvillagepeople.com/ "Village People") vehicle [Can’t Stop the Music](http://www.amazon.com/Village-People-Cant-Stop-Music/dp/B00005RYL7%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00005RYL7 "Village People - Can't Stop the Music") (which trivia buffs will know as the first movie to ever “win” a [Golden Raspberry Award](http://www.razzies.com/ "Golden Raspberry Awards") for “Worst Picture”). The movie, though, details how Carr came to Hollywood without knowing anyone and became one of the most well-known and in-demand producers, until he wasn’t. Schwarz interspersed clips of Carr on talk shows with interviews with those who got to know him, and there are some deliciously fun Hollywood stories mixed in with a more complete picture of Carr than he let the public be privy to. I enjoyed, for example, Steve Guttenberg’s telling of how he was discovered for Can’t Stop the Music.
I spoke to Jeffrey Schwarz by phone, the day before he would fly to Seattle for the world premiere of The Fabulous Allan Carr.
**I really enjoyed the movie, so I’m really glad I got the chance to talk to you about it.**
Oh, I’m glad. I haven’t talked to very many people who are seeing it for the first time, so that’s great to hear.
**It’s fantastic. I’m a big John Waters fan, so I became a fan of your work with I Am Divine. Every time you make a movie, I try to see it.**
Thanks. So, this is another movie about somebody with a very big personality, like Divine, and so there’s this crossover with all the movies and this is another movie about a larger than life personality and somebody who invented themselves, so there’s definitely themes that are carrying through with all these movies.
**Well, I guess that’s what I wanted to ask you for my first question is I asked you is there something, you think, in common with Divine and Tab Hunter and Allan Carr and the other subjects of your documentaries?**
Yeah, I mean, I’m certainly interested in personalities who are larger than life, and people who have insecurities or ways or visions that they have and they sort of invent a persona to move forward in the world. A, sort of, larger than life persona to move forward in the world. And people who have big dreams and set about making those dreams come true and Allan Carr certainly fits into that category. I mean, he grew up loving movies, loving glamour, loving show business. He had no connections to Hollywood, but he envisioned the life that he wanted and he went about and did that. And part of going about doing that was to, sort of, invent a character, in a sense, that could empower him. And that’s- a lot of the other people that I’ve made films about have done as well.
**Was there something- was there anything, maybe, that changed your perception of Allan Carr while making the film and researching him?**
Well, I wasn’t too familiar with Allan’s inner life when I started the project, because, you know, the biography that inspired the documentary is terrific, and it did get into Allan’s inner life to some degree, but it wasn’t really until talking to his close friends that I started to get a sense of what was going on with him.
In particular, his reaction to what happened to him after the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar") in 1989. I got a sense that that really hurt him very deeply and that he definitely withdrew and for somebody who was so exuberant and out there to withdraw into himself into such pain and depression was very hard to hear from his friends. So, I really appreciate that people who were close to Allan were able to give me that perspective and help me understand him a little bit more.
**When watching the movie, I thought about it is that even though that was bad for him and bad for his career, it feels like he was kind of vindicated with the way the Oscars, and all the award shows, kind of have been since then, because, I mean, Billy Crystal always does a campy, musical number to open every time he hosts…**
Yeah. Well, I think it’s- there had been musical numbers prior to what Allan was doing, but I feel that he was gonna do something other than anything that had ever been done, because that’s just who he was, you know, so even though there had been musical numbers before, he was gonna take that balloon and blow it up even further. And, you know, I guess he felt that the Oscars needed a gilt of energy and needed a gilt of fabulousness, which is what he did and they hired him to do that. It wasn’t like they were hiring somebody who was going to do something very stayed and low key. I mean, he was doing something crazy and insane and that’s why they hired him.
In fact, for all the criticism that that show got, it did better in the ratings than many of the shows previously and we’re still talking about it today. I mean, how many opening numbers do you really remember? I mean, I kind of- I love watching The Oscars. I watch them every year, but I don’t really, necessarily, remember the openings, but this one, I’ll never forget it. I don’t think the world will forget it. I think the Academy might like to forget it, but I hope that this movie leads to a reevaluation of that opening number. Not that it’s great art or anything, but that it’s so audacious and insane that I think people should give it props for that, for sure. And it’s, like sixteen minutes long, I think. I haven’t timed it, but I think it’s something like sixteen minutes long. It’s just crazy. And no one’s ever topped it, that’s for sure.
**Like you said, it was really over the top, but I just thought it was brilliant and it was something that really did shake up the Academy and I could see why they might not like it, but, like you said, that’s what they hired him for, it wasn’t a surprise that it was campy and over the top.**
Yeah, they hired the guy who produced Can’t Stop The Music I to make the Oscars.
Certainly at that time, people knew what they were getting when they hire Allan Carr. And he was really coming at it from such love and respect for the Academy. He just didn’t want to see the Academy take itself too seriously. And he wanted to have fun with it. And it definitely went off the rails, because, I think he just wanted- he had this in his mind, he had a vision. The people around him were doing everything they could to execute his vision and when they would tell him, “This is getting too big, this is getting too expensive, this is getting too insane,” he wouldn’t listen. I’m kind of glad that he didn’t listen, because, like I said, we’re still (talking about it today). Eileen Bowman, Snow White, could talk about her experience doing it, because she was right in the eye of the hurricane. She had some hilarious stories about working on that.
I mean, Allan did make some contributions to the Academy Awards that are still being done today, like- the biggest one is probably the change from, “and the winner is..” to, “and the Oscar goes to…” Which is something that he- that had not happened before his Academy Awards. He was hoping that that would change that would stay, and that would stick, and they’re still doing that today, and all the other award shows that copied that.
**Yeah, absolutely. I feel like that’s definitely a such lasting impact and it’s a big improvement from just saying, “and the winner is…”**
Yeah, and there were other things that he did too. You know, like the red carpet, and the, sort of fashion show aspect to the Academy Awards that, you know, there was a red carpet, but it was pretty utilitarian. It wasn’t- I mean, Allan came along and really wanted to make that an event and make that special and big and bring in designers and bring in name brands to dress up the stars and, you know, these were things that he definitely highlighted and- I don’t know.
I think it really, if you look at the rest of the show, you know, the opening number is all anybody talks about, but the rest of the show is terrific and there’s some- I had forgotten that that show was **Bruce Vilanch’s** first Oscars as a writer and he definitely changed the tone of the Academy Awards over the years that he was involved. There were some moments on that show, like Carrie Fischer and Martin Short walking on stage wearing the same dress. I’d forgotten that that was in that Academy Awards. Roger Moore and Sean Connery reuniting and Lucille Ball and Bob Hope reuniting and some really great, terrific, memorable moments aside from that opening.
**Maybe we can talk a little bit about putting the film together. How long did it take, because weren’t you just here at SIFF for your Tab Hunter movie two years ago?**
I’ve been very lucky to have these films, sort of, come out every couple of years, but they all, kind of, overlap, so I’ve been working on this one really for about three years aggressively, but it’s been in development maybe for about five years or so. So, I always say that these films take anywhere from five to seven years to complete, so this one was pretty much right on track. From the first moment, that ah-ha moment after reading Robert Hofler’s book, it’s almost about five and a half years. We’ve been working on this, aggressively, for about the last two and a half, three years. Myself and my producer, John Boccardo, and the team that we put together to make the movie.
I think at the time that he was out doing his thing in the world, he was, I don’t know if he was a household name, but people knew who he was. I mean, he was definitely a brand. And then, you know, as time marches on, we have this problem with cultural amnesia. So, people maybe only remember, if they know anything about him, they’ll remember the Academy Awards, they might remember Grease. I don’t think many people really make all the connections between all the things that he did, but the same guy who did Grease did La Cage aux Folles and, oh, the same guy did Can’t Stop The Music and the Academy Awards.
I think there’s so much that can sort of, connect the dots for people, culturally, for people that are vaguely familiar with him, but definitely know his product. I mean, everyone knows Grease. That is one of the most iconic movies of all time. His vision for Grease is part of what makes that so memorable and so great. I mean, the candy colored aspect of it, the humor. They definitely transformed it from the original source material, which was much more gritty and tougher into something that has more of a candy colored camp feeling to it and that certainly was Allan’s vision and he brought along people to help him execute that vision, like, Randal Kleiser, the director, Pat Birch, the choreographer, and Bill Butler, the DP. You know, he was smart enough to bring on the best people to execute that vision for the movie.
**Well, do you have a favorite story that you learned about Allan Carr from filming it, doing the interviews with people that were close to him?**
Gosh, there’s so many. You never know what people are gonna bring to the table. You know, you think you know- when I do an interview, I have a pretty much of a sense of what I expect people to bring to the table especially after having read the biography, but then there’s some things that just totally surprised me, you know, when I was talking to a friend of his named Gary Putney who was a TV executive. He was talking about bringing Allan to Mexico for a vacation and while they were on that Mexican vacation, that’s were Gary bought Allan his first caftan. Allan’s so famous for his caftan. The genesis of all of that and where it all came from was this Mexican vacation.
Allan sort of crafted a persona around his look and the caftans were a big part of that. That was also the vacation where, apparently, Allan had his first experience with a man. Which I didn’t know that story. It says so much about Allan that he was in his early thirties by the time this happened, and so he seemed like he was so maybe uncomfortable in his own body that combination of sort of his experience with a man and getting his first caftan were things that actually really empowered him.
That’s not something I would’ve known going into it. It was really revealing. I mean, there’s so many hilarious stories that we couldn’t include in the movie, but I think that what we’ve got in there is a pretty well-rounded portrait of who he was.
**I think I’ve probably taken up a lot of your morning already, but could you tell me what’s going on with the movie after it plays this weekend?**
Well, this is a world premiere. So, I’m really excited about that. This is a thrill for me and our producers will be there too and then, right from SIFF were going to QDoc is Portland and then, we’re starting to book festivals all around the country and actually from other countries too. I’m looking for the roll out of this and getting to experience it with an audience for the first time. That’s the best feeling in the world for a filmmaker is to be sitting there after years of working on your project and sort of feel the energy in the room and hear the audience reaction. That’s my favorite part. It really makes it all worthwhile.
**I think that people are really gonna love it and I’m really glad that I got the chance to watch it already and it’s really a great film and I have a feeling that everyone that sees it tonight will love it.**
I hope that’s the case. I appreciate your enthusiasm for it. We’re living in a very strange time right now. It’s a time fraught with fear and anxiety. I’m certainly feeling that everyday, you know, and I hope that this movie will be a little bit of an escape valve. Allan Carr’s ethos was that movies can be a real source of joy and pleasure and can sort of help take us away from our daily problems for ninety minutes and I hope that this movie filled Allan’s requirements for what entertainment should be.
**Let me ask one other thing. Is there a way where people can watch your other documentaries? Are they on any streaming services or anything?**
Yeah! Tab Hunter Confidential is currently on Netflix and I Am Divine is available on iTunes. Vito is available on iTunes. Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story is available on Vimeo. Wrangler, I’m not sure where you can get that one now. I’m pretty sure you can get that one on Amazon. They all end up in strange places, but most of them are on iTunes at this point.
{The Fabulous Allan Carr makes its world premiere at SIFF tonight!, Friday, May 19 at 7:00pm at the Egyptian Theater, and then again on Saturday, May 20 at 11:00am at the Egyptian Theater.}
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### [The Hollywood Museum Announces Fourth Annual Real to Reel: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood Exhibit](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/05/21/the-hollywood-museum-announces-fourth-annual-real-to-reel-portrayals-and-perceptions-of-lgbtqs-in-hollywood-exhibit/)
**Published:** May 21, 2017
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The [Hollywood Museum](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1011111111,-118.338333333&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.1011111111,-118.338333333 (Hollywood%20Museum)&t=h "Hollywood Museum") Announces Fourth Annual Real to Reel: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood Exhibit
by BWW News Desk
May. 20, 2017**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2017/05/112012709.jpg)[Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") and Bruce VilanchThe Hollywood Museum is thrilled to announce its 2017 salute to the [LGBTQ community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community")‘s contributions to the entertainment industry. The fourth annual “REAL to REEL: Portrayals and Perceptions of LGBTQs in Hollywood” exhibit, in partnership with [Los Angeles City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") Council member Mitch O’Farrell, is an educational, entertaining and informative retrospective of [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") images in film, TV, new digital platforms featuring costumes, props, photos, and iconic imagery all telling the story of the milestones and influence that LGBTQ characters and plot lines have had in Hollywood from early stereotypes to modern-day representations. Additionally, REAL to REEL celebrates LGBTQ icons those individuals and couples who may be openly LGBTQ or not, and who support the LGBTQ community.
The Hollywood Museum’s REAL to REEL exhibition, which coincides with the annual Christopher Street West Pride activities, offers a historic perspective spanning 100 years from silent films to today’s films, TV shows, and digital platforms. “The museum welcomes the opportunity to create and showcase this important exhibition, sharing with the public the artistic expression and extraordinary significance of the LGBTQ culture and its effect and impact on the world through the medium of entertainment,” says Donelle Dadigan, Founder and President of The Hollywood Museum located in the Historic Max Factor Building.
The exhibit revisits monumental LGBTQ moments in history with [Rev. Troy Perry](http://www.revtroyperry.org/ "Troy Perry"), including the Black Cat riots (1967), and on display – the infamous sign that once hung at the entrance of West Hollywood’s Barney’s Beanery. Exhibit highlights include costumes from Transparent, How to Get Away with Murder, The Walking Dead, Empire, Trans America, Sordid Lives, Cruising, Orange is the New Black, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ray Donovan, Mad Men, Arrested Development, Cabaret,K-11, as well as Cyndi Lauper’s Grand Marshall Costume (Toronto’s [Gay Pride parade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade "Pride parade"), 2015. Additional exhibit items include famous costumes from Hollywood’s leading designers – Mr. Blackwell, Bob Mackie, Rett Turner, Nolan Miller, Edith Head – to today’s Project Runway with Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, as well as Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots, Scandal, Two in a Half Men, True Blood, The Good Wife, and more. This year’s exhibit also includes, Icons in the Community such as Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Ramon Navarro, Greg Louganis, Charles Laughton, Sam Harris, Bruce Vilanch, [Sherman Hemsley](http://www.last.fm/music/Sherman "Sherman"), Gere Jewell, Jerry Herman, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner and many more.
The Hollywood Museum gratefully acknowledges the following ABC, Amazon Studios, BBC America, CBS, Discovery Life, Focus Features HBO, Logo, NBC, Netflix, OWN, Showtime, TLC and 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, as well as organizations serving the LGBTQ community including ONE Archives, Christopher Street West, The Lavender Effect, and The Glaad Awards, [amfAR](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.704772,-74.006174&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.704772,-74.006174 (AmfAR%2C%20The%20Foundation%20for%20AIDS%20Research)&t=h "AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research") and more
**ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM IN THE HISTORIC MAX FACTOR BUILDING:**
See 10,000 Authentic Show Business Treasures spanning more than 100 years of Hollywood history! Located next to the world famous [Hollywood Walk of Fame](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.10163,-118.326684&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.10163,-118.326684 (Hollywood%20Walk%20of%20Fame)&t=h "Hollywood Walk of Fame"), the Hollywood Museum in the Historic Max Factor Building houses the largest collection of entertainment memorabilia on display in the world. It is home to thousands of costumes, props, photographs, posters, celebrity automobiles and other treasures from some of the most iconic films and TV shows ever made! See Hollywood legends – past, present, and in the making! The museum attracts thousands of fans from around the world and was recently named one of the top tourist attractions by LA Weekly and by Trip Advisor, and was voted one of the Top 10 Museums in LA by the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board. The Hollywood Museum is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.
**REGULAR HOURS:** Wednesday – Sunday: 10:00am – 5:00pm (Exhibit: Fri, June 10th – Sun, Sept 4th)
**TICKETS:** $15 Adults: $12 Seniors (62+): $12 for students with ID and $5 Children under 5.
**ADDRESS:** 1660 N. Highland Ave. (at Hollywood Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90028 MUSEUM INFO: www.TheHollywoodMuseum.com or Tel: (323) 464-7776
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**WEBSITE**: www.TheHollywoodMuseum.com
**FACEBOOK:** Facebook.com/TheHollywoodMuseum
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### [TV Writer Bruce Vilanch Tells Us How He Slipped Sly Gay Jokes Past the Censors](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/05/08/tv-writer-bruce-vilanch-tells-us-how-he-slipped-sly-gay-jokes-past-the-censors/)
**Published:** May 8, 2017
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TV Writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Tells Us How He Slipped Sly Gay Jokes Past the Censors
May 7, 2017
By Matt Baume
Regular Contributor**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2017/05/112012709.jpg)Bette Midler and Bruce VilanchBruce Vilanch was toiling away in a perfectly adequate newspaper job in Chicago when [Bette Midler](https://unicornbooty.com/bette-midler-fan-hello-dolly/) came to town. She wasn’t quite famous at that point — an appearance on [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") and some bathhouse concerts were her credits — but Bruce went to check out her show. Afterwards, he wrote a glowing review, and she called to thank him.
“You should talk more,” he told her.
“You got any good lines?” she asked. He did, and she hired him.
Forty years later, Bruce’s work has touched just about everyone in America. He’s written some of the most famous [variety shows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_show "Variety show") ever broadcast, crafted jokes for the Oscars and Emmys and Tonys for decades, and has appeared on everything from *[RuPaul](http://www.last.fm/music/RuPaul "RuPaul")’s Drag Race* to *[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")* to *The [Simpsons](http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons "The Simpsons - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free")*.
[I interviewed Bruce Vilanch on my podcast *The Sewers of Paris*,](http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2017/5/3/beauty-in-trash-ep-112-bruce-vilanch) where every week I talk to gay men about the entertainment that changed their lives. For Bruce, an important early influence were big movie and stage extravaganzas like *The Greatest Show on Earth* and a [Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.net/ "Carol Channing") flop called *The Vamp*.
“I taught myself to read with the movie ads,” he recalled. He was obsessed with showbiz from an early age, though his parents tried to steer him toward more reliable work as a doctor or lawyer. They’d take him to films set in courtrooms and point out that attorneys get to perform; but he knew he needed a different kind of limelight.
“I used to have a routine in a hula skirt that was embarrassing to everyone,” he said. “I would have taken a job on the hood of your car, jiggling as you drove.”
An adventurous aunt told him stories of the world and accompanied him on trips into Manhattan. He attempted a career on stage, but discovered that his look and his skills were a little too idiosyncratic. So he went into journalism, and that’s where he had his big break when he wrote about Bette Midler.
“She found the beauty in trash,” he said of her at the time. She’d come out on stage looking a little disheveled and unpredictable, though “the talent was there.” Audiences loved it, particularly when she was on tour and told jokes about local landmarks and figures. The secret of those jokes was that Bruce would leverage his journalism connections to write them, calling colleagues at local papers to find out what the big scandals were before Bette arrived in town.
Eventually, he made his way to [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"), where he’d get his start writing variety shows for Cher, the [Brady Bunch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch "The Brady Bunch"), and the [Manhattan Transfer](http://www.manhattantransfer.net "The Manhattan Transfer"). When he could, he’d slip sly queer references into the shows, though they always had to be coded.
“Did you feel exasperated that you couldn’t say gay?” I asked him during our chat.
“It was challenging,” he replied. “It wasn’t frustrating because it hadn’t been *done*. … That was a couple years off.”
Nevertheless, he still delighted in the sly gay references he was able to place in shows like *Hollywood Squares*. “It was ‘inside,’ we called it,” he said. “The ones who get it will laugh and the ones who don’t will say ‘what was that?’”
It’s a vastly different world now, of course. But the freedom that gay writers and comedians now have on television is only possible because of pioneers like Bruce.
[*Listen to the full interview with Bruce below or at SewersOfParis.com.*](http://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2017/5/3/beauty-in-trash-ep-112-bruce-vilanch)
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### [‘Kings & Queens in Their Castles’ is an intimate look at LGBT lives](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/04/23/kings-queens-in-their-castles-is-an-intimate-look-at-lgbt-lives/)
**Published:** April 23, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**The Washington Post
‘Kings & Queens in Their Castles’ is an intimate look at LGBT lives
By Michele Langevine Leiby April**[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2017/04/Untitled-11489608001.jpg)
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For over 15 years, Tom Atwood crossed the country photographing more than 350 [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") subjects. The result is a book titled “Kings & Queens in Their Castles,” which offers a window into their lives (and homes).
When Tom Atwood decided to launch himself into fine art photography, it was mostly because he wanted to see a different image of gay men. Until not long ago, most photographic images of gay men fell into one of two categories: a display of the ravages of AIDS or a paean to the idealized, sexualized beauty of the masculine form (usually nude or in advanced stages of undress).
Atwood’s new book, “[Kings & Queens in Their Castles](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8862085168?ie=UTF8&tag=thewaspos09-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=8862085168 "www.amazon.com"),” offers an alternative view. His style, the photographer says, is a studied melange of portraiture and architectural photography.
“I try to challenge my subjects by showing as much of their environment as possible in the frame of the camera,” he says. “I also use a wide-angle lens and a wide depth of field so that both the subject and the background are in focus.”
Atwood, 45, a self-proclaimed autodidact, has no formal background in photography or art history. His approach was honed through trial and error and a passion for his subject matter.
“I started out photographing gay people at home because I am gay and knew a lot of gay people,” he says. “And I think a lot of gay men especially have a flair for design and live in some really playful places.”
Atwood’s subjects in “Kings & Queens” include more than 160 members of the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community"). They’re urban and rural, famous and anonymous, beautiful and plain, extraordinary and decidedly ordinary. His work, displaying an intimacy sometimes bordering on voyeurism, captures LGBT men and women in the process of living their private lives.
Some of today’s tumultuous social movements rely on a fair amount of identity politics. This book isn’t about that. Says Atwood: “I thought it would be interesting to photograph this group of people just in everyday moments since, for most people, their sexuality is a part of who they are, but it’s not the predominant part of who they are.”
Here are six of the book’s compelling stories:
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[Don Lemon](http://twitter.com/donlemon "Don Lemon"), [CNN](http://twitter.com/cnn "CNN") Anchor, in New York, 2013. (Tom Atwood [Photography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography "Photography"))
**Don Lemon**
When Atwood arrived at Don Lemon’s Harlem home, the CNN anchor was getting ready to walk his dog. “He’s very friendly, very easygoing, very approachable,” Atwood says. “I realized he’s just a really a social person that’s part of a neighborhood.” He shot Lemon sitting on a skateboard on his balcony, his neighborhood as a backdrop. “I really wanted to shoot people in their everyday environment and show what their private lives are like rather than focus on their public images.”
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[Holly Taylor](http://twitter.com/hollytaylor97 "Holly Taylor") and [Alison Bechdel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Bechdel "Alison Bechdel") in [Jericho, Vermont](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.48139,-72.965&spn=0.1,0.1&q=44.48139,-72.965 (Jericho%2C%20Vermont)&t=h "Jericho, Vermont"), in 2010. (Tom Atwood Photography)
**Holly Taylor and Alison Bechdel**
Atwood photographed the women in the garden of their Jericho, Vt., home. Holly Taylor, a self-declared “compost maven,” and Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist and the author of the Broadway musical [“Fun Home,”](https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00DYEC8MC&tag=thewaspos09-20&linkcode=kpe&preview=newtab) live in the woods. “I love this photo,” says Atwood, himself a Vermonter. “I think it really shows a real Vermont sensibility in a number of ways. They’ve got a garden. They chop their own wood. They heat their house with wood.”
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Mother Flawless Sabrina, female impersonator in New York, 2009. (Tom Atwood Photography)
**Mother Flawless Sabrina**
Considered a pioneer in the transgender and gay communities, Mother Flawless Sabrina ran a national drag pageant enterprise between 1959 and 1969 that put on shows across the country, culminating with an extravaganza in New York. The 77-year-old lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side surrounded by a bevy of quirky possessions: a 1980s-era telephone with giant buttons, wigs strewn about, jewelry draped on an ornate desk. “She’s a female impersonator, which I guess is a little different from a drag queen, but don’t ask me the difference because I’m not sure I know,” Atwood says.
**James McGreevey**
The former governor of New Jersey will always be famous for the 2004 news conference in which he publicly came out of the closet, his pained wife by his side. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he declared. Today McGreevey is a Prius-driving resident of Plainfield, N.J., where Atwood photographed him, clad in shorts and a hoodie, pruning ivy in front of his house. “He did go through some difficult times,” Atwood says, “but he seems to be still happy and proud and willing to share his life through this book.”
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Bruce Vilanch, Emmy-winning celebrity from Hollywood Squares, in West Hollywood, Calif., 2011. (Tom Atwood Photography)
**Bruce Vilanch**
Loyal viewers of the television game show “Hollywood Squares” will surely recognize the unruly mop of comedian Bruce Vilanch, whom Atwood photographed ferrying groceries back to his West Hollywood apartment. “I think this is a fun shot because Los Angeles has a lot of outdoor/indoor living spaces,” Atwood says, and Vilanch’s apartment building has hallways that are outside rather than inside.
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Randal Kleiser in Los Angeles, 2011. (Tom Atwood Photography)
**Randal Kleiser**
“I don’t think it’s that common to keep barn animals in Los Angeles,” Atwood says of the menagerie of pets that share the home of film director Randal Kleiser. “It was an otherwise suburban ranch house.” Kleiser, known for such films as “Grease” and “Big Top Pee-wee,” enjoys a spectacular view of the L.A. skyline from his swimming pool. “I like that there’s this strong light from the side in this picture and you can see a lot in both the foreground and background,” the photographer says. (Can you find BOTH horses?)
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### [Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Randy Rainbow and More to Roast Michael Musto for Charity](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/04/11/rosie-odonnell-bruce-vilanch-randy-rainbow-and-more-to-roast-michael-musto-for-charity/)
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**Broadway World
Rosie O’Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Randy Rainbow and More to Roast Michael Musto for Charity
Apr. 10, 2017**
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Lug Nut Entertainment ([Daniel DeMello](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daniel-DeMello/) and Nathaniel Nowak) in association with the world popular dating app SCRUFF, has announced that it will present FORK ON THE LEFT, KNIFE IN THE BACK: BROADWAY ROASTS [Michael Musto](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Musto/), a one night only charitable event, directed by [Rachel Klein](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Rachel-Klein/) that will honor the pop culture journalist and New York Nightlife fixture [Michael Musto](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Musto/) along with Callen-Lorde, the vital community Health Center that provides sensitive, quality healthcare and related services targeted to New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities on Monday, May 22nd at 8PM at the Actors Temple, 339 West 47th Street. All ticket proceeds go to benefit Callen-Lorde. For more information, visit [www.BroadwayRoast.com](http://facebook.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9d938859a53969572ad8a8c9f&id=17bfec3d56&e=cf26bed3b6). For tickets (ranging from $60 to $175), go to [www.telecharge.com/Off-Broadway/Broadway-Roasts-Michael-Musto/Overview](http://facebook.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d938859a53969572ad8a8c9f&id=e0669a338c&e=cf26bed3b6).
Join film and television star ROSIE O’DONNELL (who will kick off the evening), Comedian and Emmy Award winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (who will host the event); Insult Comedian & Winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 6, [Bianca Del Rio](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bianca-Del-Rio/)! Actor, Director and Producer [Michael Urie](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Urie/) (ABC’s Ugly Betty); Singer, Songwriter and Tony Award Nominated Actress, ORFEH (Legally Blonde on Broadway); New York Post Journalist and Broadcaster, [Michael Riedel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Riedel/); Creator of one of the biggest dating apps in the world, SCRUFF, JOHNNY SKANDROS; Television Personality, Model, Author and Singer COUNTESS [Luann de Lessep](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Luann-de-Lessep/)s (Real Housewives of New York City); Actress and Comedian, [Mindy Coh](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Mindy-Coh/)n (The Facts of Life); Season 5 Winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, [Jinkx Monsoon](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jinkx-Monsoon/); Lola in Broadway’s Kinky Boots CRYSTAL DEMURE; Satirist and Viral Sensation [Randy Rainbow](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Randy-Rainbow/); Sultry Siren of Avenue Q, [Lucy The Slut](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lucy-The-Slut/) (and her talented puppet handler [Elizabeth Ann Berg](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Elizabeth-Ann%2BBerg/)).
The evening will also feature special video appearances by [Alan Cumming](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Alan-Cumming/), [Drew Elliot](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Drew-Elliot/)T, [Mickey Boardman](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Mickey-Boardman/), LYNN YAEGER, KENYON PHILLIPS, [Frankie Grande](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Frankie-Grande/), [Jesse Green](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jesse-Green/), [Patrick Pacheco](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Patrick-Pacheco/), [Susan Haskins](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Susan-Haskins/), [Cheyenne Jackson](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Cheyenne-Jackson/), [Perez Hilton](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Perez-Hilton/), [Jackie Hoffman](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jackie-Hoffman/), [Daphne Rubin-Vega](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daphne-Rubin-Vega/), [John Waters](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/John-Waters/) & [Doug Wright](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Doug-Wright/).
These stars of theater, television, film, journalism, tech and social activism will pay homage to Mr. Musto by mercilessly hurling a slew of absolutely cruel, vicious, & tasteless jokes at him (and at each other) – all of which he and they have agreed to endure in order to raise money for the vital services that Callen-Lorde offers to the LGBTQ community in NYC.
[Michael Musto](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Musto/) is the long-running writer known from the Village Voice (where he wrote the popular “La Dolce Musto” column for 29 years and is currently a correspondent), Out.com (where he writes the weekly “Musto! The Musical!” column), Paper, and the New York Times “Styles” section. He is awell known commentator on all things pop culture-related on CNN and CNN International, is a recurring panelist on Logo’s “Cocktails & Classics” movie show, and is a regular on Theater Talk. Musto–who’s won seven Glam awards for Best Nightlife Writer and was named to the Out 100 of influential LGBTs–has written four books–the non-fiction guide “Downtown,” the roman-a-clef “Manhattan on the Rocks,” and the collections “La Dolce Musto,” and “Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back.” He rides a bike even through blizzards, and is proud to say it’s a girl’s bike from K-Mart.
[Erik Ransom](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Erik-Ransom/) (Lead Comedy Writer) is a composer, playwright, librettist and performer with a diverse body of work. His musical, More Than All the World, which is a musical inspired by [Christopher Marlowe](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Christopher-Marlowe/)‘s Edward II will be presented in the reading series at the Drama Desk award-winning [York Theatre Company](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/York-Theatre-Company/) in March 2016. Erik’s smutty opus, GRINDR The Opera premiered in concert in Spring of 2014 and had a high profile staged reading hosted by [R](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Randy-Jones/)[Andy Jones](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Andy-Jones/) (The original cowboy from the Village People) in April 2015. The reading was covered by The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Salon.com and the National Public Radio of the Republic of Ireland, among others, and was written up in 7 languages. Erik’s musical Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions has been fully produced at The Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia and Theatre 80 [St. Mark](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/St.-Mark/)s in New York. He has a degree in classical music performance, and has studied with Metropolitan opera stars [Jerome Hines](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jerome-Hines/) and Enrico DiGiuseppe. His musical SAGA: The Ragnarok Opera was nominated for several Broadway World Philadelphia awards, and his musical Tragic Events has been performed at the Painted Bride Arts Center’s Ruckus Festival. Erik penned the lyrics for the recent Off-Broadway musical spectacular: The Anthem, which ran at The [Culture Project](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Culture-Project/)‘s [Lynn Redgrave](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lynn-Redgrave/) Theatre and he is slated to write for season two of the Emmy-nominated web-series, Tainted Dreams. He is also a two-time champion of Tune-in-Time, which is a monthly, timed, improvised musical theatre writing competition based in Manhattan.
Writer Matthew McLachlan is a comedy writer, Dramatist Guild Member, and resident playwright for Ruddy Productions. Most recently, his play Orionran Off-Broadway at Theatre Row on 42nd Street, having received an ever-rare positive review by [Rex Reed](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Rex-Reed/). His play The Knowledge of Sin ran at the Hudson Guild Theater with an encore presentation and was nominated for Best Overall Play at the Venus Adonis Festival. His work Haywire was a finalist in the Manhattan Repertory Theater’s Fall One-Act Festival and has been adapted into a short film. His work Men’s Monthly closed out Ruddy Production’s sold out New Works Festival in 2015. In addition, Matthew was nominated for outstanding writing in a comedy at the LA WebFest for writing the entire third season to the highly acclaimed comedic web series, ADULTish. He has recently published a collection of his work entitled “A Collection of One Acts: and Other Things You May or May Not Enjoy” now available on Amazon.com.
Comedy Writer Jarrod Allan is also donating material for the evening.
[Rachel Klein](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Rachel-Klein/) (Director) is a NYC based director, coined “Endlessly Clever,” (The New York Post), “Nothing short of brilliant,” (Broadway World) and of whose work The New York Times has praised: “What makes this show pop is the bracing vision of its director, [Rachel Klein](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Rachel-Klein/).” Off-Broadway: Around the World in 80 Days (The Davenport Theatre); The Anthem (Starring [R](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Randy-Jones/)[Andy Jones](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Andy-Jones/), the Original Cowboy from the Village People); Gay Bride of Frankenstein (iStar Theatre Lab). Selected NYC Theatre: Tink! (New York Musical Festival); More Than All the World (musical adaptation of Marlowe’s Edward II); Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions (Fringe NYC); Symphony of Shadows (a [Jerome Robbins](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jerome-Robbins/) Foundation commission); Secret Summer (an immersive Midsummer Night’s Dream). Selected Regional and Workshops: Snow (Playwright’s Horizons); 54 The Musical (Axelrod Entertainment); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Brunswick Shakespeare Festival, NJ); Dracula (the Jenny Wiley Theatre in KY); The Severed Hand of Neverland (Musical Theatre Factory). Ms. Klein holds a BA in Theatrical Direction from Columbia College, studied at the International Directors Symposium in Spoleto, Italy, is an associate member of the SDC, and is Artistic Director of Belle Reve Productions, an immersive theatrical [Production Company](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Production-Company/).
Joan Wyatt (Stage Manager) is a NewYork based stage manager, working primarily in theatre and dance. Broadway: Groundhog Day, Holiday Inn, Kiss Me Kate (benefit concert). Select New York credits: More Than All the World, Sleep No More, Baby Fat. Columbia ’17.
Callen-Lorde is the global leader in LGBTQ healthcare. Since the days of Stonewall, the organization has been transforming lives in LGBTQ communities through excellent comprehensive care, provided free of judgment and regardless of ability to pay. In addition, it continuously pioneers research, advocacy and education to drive positive change around the world. Callen-Lorde Community Health Center provides sensitive, quality health care and related services targeted to New York’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities – in all their diversity – regardless of ability to pay. To further this mission,
Callen-Lorde promotes health education and wellness, and advocates for LGBT health issues. Callen-Lorde’s grassroots heritage dates back over 40 years to the [St. Mark](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/St.-Mark/)‘s Community Clinic and the Gay Men’s Health Project, two volunteer-based clinics that provided screening and treatment for sexually-transmitted diseases. These clinics merged in 1983 to form Community Health Project, a mostly volunteer-staffed, episodic care program housing the nation’s first community-based HIV clinic.
[Daniel DeMello](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daniel-DeMello/) and Nathaniel Nowak have been producing together since 2014, when they launched NYC’s Extreme Egg Hunt and Easter Extravaganza, Full Bunny Contact. Nathaniel is a producing member of Psycho Clan, and has co-produced Nightmare: Horror Show, the critically acclaimed theatrical festival version of [Timothy Haskell](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Timothy-Haskell/)‘s popular haunted house, the distorted winter wonderland Santastical and Northern Pole Territory. Daniel is a publicist representing a diverse list of companies and individuals in New York and abroad. The pair are taking a year off from producing Full Bunny Contact in order to stage this inaugural Broadway-centric roast and give back to their LGBTQ community in New York City.
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### [Kritzerland Announces THE APRIL FOOLS Concert with special guest, Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/24/kritzerland-announces-the-april-fools-concert-with-special-guest-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** March 24, 2017
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**Broadway World
Kritzerland Announces THE APRIL FOOLS Concert
by BWW News Desk Mar. 17, 2017**
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Kritzerland has announced a new concert event coming on Sunday, April 2, 2017 entitled “The April Fools.” This entertaining evening will take place at Sterling’s Upstairs at the Federal in North Hollywood, California.
For the 76th Kritzerland show, we have our annual wild and wacky April Fools show, always a favorite for us at Kritzerland. You can always expect the unexpected – you’ll get some Spring songs, some April songs, and some Foolish and crazy songs – as always, you’ll know some and many you won’t know at all – for this iteration, we have songs from several flop musicals we all know and love, including Carmelina, Bring Back Birdie, We Take the Town, Minsky’s, and others, while we also have songs from Promises, Promises, Hallelujah, Baby, Annie, Newsies, as well as some classic pop standards. We’ve assembled a merry and fun cast for this one as well as our hilarious guest star, [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) and we can only say that what he’s doing in this show you will not want to miss. So, come join us in the merriment and mirth and tuneful evening we have in store. Kritzerland is produced and hosted by [Bruce Kimmel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Kimmel/) and co-produced by [Doug Haverty](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Doug-Haverty/).
Included in the line-up are:
[Will Collyer](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Will-Collyer/) \[Regional: Breaking Through (Smith) [Pasadena Playhouse](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Pasadena-Playhouse/); Parade [Mark Taper Forum](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Mark-Taper-Forum/); Carousel (Enoch Snow, Jr) Hwd. Bowl, Local: MTG, WCE, Boston Court, Odyssey\]
[Jennifer Foster](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jennifer-Foster/) \[Off B’way: If There Is … ; Regional: Merrily We Roll Along, Hair, Carrie: The Killer Musical; TV: Looking, Glee; Film: Looking; Disney: Frozen: Live at the Hyperion\]
[Hadley Belle Miller](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Hadley-Belle-Miller/) \[Voice, Lucy van Pelt, Peanuts Movie; National Tour: [Cathy Rigby](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Cathy-Rigby/) Is Peter Pan (Michael); (www.hadleybellemiller.com)\]
[Kerry O’Malley](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kerry-O%2527Malley/) \[B’way: Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), White Christmas (Betty), Billy Elliot (Mum), Annie Get Your Gun (Dolly), On a Clear Day (Sharone); TV: Shameless, Boardwalk Empire, etc.\][Jenna Lea Rosen](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jenna-Lea-Rosen/) \[Regional: Parade, Ovation Award 3DT; TV: Sofia the First (Shelly, Clio, Hildegard), Elena of Avalor (Ciela) Disney Jr. series.\]
Hayley Shukiar \[Meet Me In St. Louis (Tootie); Peter Pan (Wendy); Little Mermaid (Ursula); Willy Wonka (Veruca Salt) Cabrillo; Studio singer for Hal Leonard Publishing.\]
NICK TUBBS \[Regional: Assassins (Balladeer), Forever Plaid (Jinx), Les Miserables (Enjolras) The Full Monty (Malcolm); Other: Princess Cruises, Kit and The Kats\]
[Robert Yacko](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Robert-Yacko/) \[Do I Hear a Waltz? (Renato) MTG; Addams Family (Mal) 3-D; Parade (Dorsey) Mark Taper, Company (Paul) w/ [Carol Burnett](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Carol-Burnett/), Sunday in the Park with George (George) LA Premiere\]
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Special Guest) \[B’way: Hairspray (Edna); Off B’Way: [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/): Almost Famous; Film: Mahogany; TV: Hollywood Squares, The Simpsons, The Oscars (2 Emmys/Writing)\]
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The only way to reserve is via Brown Paper Tickets! It’s easy! Go to [sterlingsupstairs040217.brownpapertickets.com](http://sterlingsupstairs040217.brownpapertickets.com/).
Dinner reservations: DOORS OPEN 5:30pm. SHOW STARTS 7:00pm
Sterling’s Upstairs at the Federal is located at 5303 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
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**Tags:** 89th Academy Awards, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Awards, Associated Press, Damien Chazelle, Hollywood, Hollywood and Highland Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, North Hollywood
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### [SAGE honors Vilanch, Jewel Thais-Williams in L.A.](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/24/sage-honors-vilanch-jewel-thais-williams-in-l-a-2/)
**Published:** March 24, 2017
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**Washington Blade
SAGE honors Vilanch, Jewel Thais-Williams in L.A.
March 10, 2017 at 11:38 am EDT | by Karen Ocamb**
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[LOS ANGELES](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") — The fundraiser for SAGE [USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States") March 4 in the Hollywood Hills felt like a reunion, a coming together of a generation of [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") with shared memories and a desire to confront aging, an issue, SAGE Board Development chair Bill Weinberger said, he heretofore had avoided thinking about. Honorees Jewel Thais-Williams and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), however, exemplify how LGBT people can age as respected elders with grace, continued activism, and humor.
Weinberger introduced [Phill Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill_Wilson "Phill Wilson"), founder of the [Black AIDS Institute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_AIDS_Institute "Black AIDS Institute"), whom he has known since the early 1980s. Shortly after, Wilson discovered he was HIV positive. He noted that while “many of us were dealing with whether we would survive or not, SAGE has always believed we would.” Wilson shared how Thais-Williams bravely opened Jewel’s Catch One Disco as a refuge for LGBT people desperate for a place where they could be themselves.
“Jewel has been a leader, a hero, and a visionary and an advocate for a long, long time,” Wilson said. “Jewel was one of those ‘bridge’ people,” linking the LGBT African-American community to organizations such as AIDS Project Los Angeles and her alma mater, UCLA. You always speak up, whether you’re afraid or not.”
Thais-Williams joked that she was honored to be honored, having spent the last 42 years at Catch One “partying,” adding that she will turn 78 in a couple of months. “To be of service to my community has been a great joy,” she said. “But there is still a lot of work to do. Remember to always reach out to those in need.”
“There has never been a more important time to come together,” SAGE CEO Michael Adams told the diverse crowd of SAGE board members, staffers and supporters at the elegant home of James Frost and William Yi. “We are living in very challenging times,” a notion received with a knowing chuckle for its understatement.
A civilization is historically measured by how it cares and supports its children and most vulnerable and how it supports its elders, Adams said, not just the “right kind of elders….We owe it to our elders, the pioneers who paved the way for the equality we celebrate today….We need the wisdom of our pioneers, our elders.”
SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) was founded in 1978 in [Greenwich Village](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7338888889,-74.0011111111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7338888889,-74.0011111111 (Greenwich%20Village)&t=h "Greenwich Village") by two activists and a handful of supporters to provide a visiting program and drop-in center for LGBT seniors. It is now a national organization with 30 SAGENet affiliates in 20 states and D.C., and is partnering with the [Williams Institute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Institute_on_Sexual_Orientation_and_Gender_Identity_Law_and_Public_Policy "Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy") at UCLA School of Law. Adams also had kind words for the LA LGBT Center and its programs caring for LGBT seniors.
Demographic estimates predict that there will be 6 million LGBT people age 65 years or over in America by 2030. That sets the stage for a potentially disastrous future since, as SAGE notes, LGBT seniors are “twice as likely to be single, twice as likely to live alone, and four times more likely to be without children than their heterosexual peers.” And, Adam said, facilities that take care of the aging population are “woefully unprepared” to take care of LGBT seniors who fear having to go back in the closet in order to get care and treatment without discrimination.
In introducing comedic writer/actor Bruce Vilanch, SAGE Board co-chair Elizabeth Schwartz—whose co-chair is former LA-based board activist Kevin Williams—said Vilanch’s appearances on “Hollywood Squares” were “instrumental in shaping gay images.” Watching him, “we didn’t have to speculate obsessively” about whether he was gay “as I did over Kristy McNichol.” She was also grateful that he was also out about being chubby. Vilanch, she said, has a “tireless dedication to the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community").”
In accepting the handsomely shaped glass award, the legendary Oscar writer said that when he was told he was being honored by SAGE, his first thought was: “You have the wrong envelope,” referring to the Best Picture mishap at the Academy Awards.
However, a recent interview with a young journalist underscored that he is now arcing “into my dotage.” The young gay man had no idea who Ted Mack was, though “[Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_Amateur_Hour "The Original Amateur Hour"),” the variety-show precursor to shows like “American Idol,” launched the careers of such future celebrities as Pat Boone and Ann-Margret. The young man sat stone faced at the mention of her name.
“When queens don’t know who Ann-Margret is, we’re in trouble,” Vilanch said to an uproar of laughter.
“Senior gays are not venerated,” he said. “But we *are* valued because we can pick up the check or write it.”
As to his decision to be openly gay at a time when being out was a brave decision, Vilanch noted that he worked in the more accepting entertainment industry. But early on, he worked as a journalist writing features for the Chicago Tribune and tried to get gay stories into the paper. Vilanch cited a quote that stuck with him: “A faggot is a homosexual gentleman who just left the room.” He determined to be “the faggot who stayed in the room.”
LGBT progress is result of taking action. “We did the bravest thing—we came out and that changed everything,” Vilanch said. But the LGBT community cannot rely on help from outside. “We have to do it for ourselves….\[and\] we’re not done yet.”
SAGE CEO Michael Adams also announced the launch of a new initiative in conjunction with AARP—SAGETable— to build “intergenerational connections in the LGBT community” by “breaking bread with your LGBT family on May 18. Visit [sagetable.org](http://sagetable.org/).
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**Tags:** Barack Obama, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump, Greenwich Village, LGBT, LGBT community, LGBT social movements, Los Angeles, New York City, Presidency of Barack Obama
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### [Stoli® Vodka Honors the Legacy of LGBTQ Bartenders in the Movement for Equality, Kicks Off Fourth Annual Key West Cocktail Classic Competition](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/12/stoli-vodka-honors-the-legacy-of-lgbtq-bartenders-in-the-movement-for-equality-kicks-off-fourth-annual-key-west-cocktail-classic-competition/)
**Published:** March 12, 2017
**Author:** MisterD
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**PR Newswire
Stoli® Vodka Honors the Legacy of LGBTQ Bartenders in the Movement for Equality, Kicks Off Fourth Annual Key West Cocktail Classic Competition
Mar 01, 2017, 08:57 ET**
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NEW YORK, March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Stoli® Group USA, LLC in partnership with the Key West Business Guild, is returning to New York to kick off the world’s largest annual LGBTQ bartending competition, the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic. Now in its fourth year, the competition will feature more contestants, participating cities and charitable donations than ever before.
In addition to recognizing the talents of the industry’s top LGBTQ bartenders, the Cocktail Classic celebrates the role that gay bars have played in the movement towards equality as original community centers. The competition will culminate in Key West, FL, a diverse and accepting city with a thriving LGBTQ community.
The world’s largest annual LGBTQ cocktail competition, The Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, returns for its fourth year, showcasing the creativity and talent of mixologists and bartenders in the LGBTQ community. Seventeen regional finalists will compete for the 2017 Cocktail Classic Champion title at the Grand Finale during Key West Pride 2017.
The world’s largest annual LGBTQ cocktail competition, The Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, returns for its fourth year, showcasing the creativity and talent of mixologists and bartenders in the LGBTQ community. Seventeen regional finalists will compete for the 2017 Cocktail Classic Champion title at the Grand Finale during Key West Pride 2017.
The Fourth Annual Key West Cocktail Classic finale is generously being hosted and judged by actor and musician, Jai Rodriguez, and past as well as returning celebrity judges include president of the Harvey Milk Foundation, Stuart Milk; writer and Emmy Award-winner, Bruce Vilanch; American Idol’s Latoya London; fashion designer and nightlife personality Andrew Christian; and Key West’s drag queen star, Sushi.
“Every year we look forward to bringing together the people, charities and business that make up our extraordinary LGBTQ community,” said Patrik Gallineaux, Stoli’s National LGBTQ Ambassador and Brand Manager. “While our mission is to recognize the most talented and innovative bartenders, community will always be at the heart of Cocktail Classic. It has been a privilege to support and grow together over the years.”
A maximum of six LGBTQ trade staff and/or allies from 17 cities across North America will be selected to create an original cocktail using Stoli Vodka as their primary ingredient. A panel of judges and 100 eligible audience members will evaluate each cocktail based on taste, balance and presentation, as well as each bartender’s authenticity, knowledge, and creativity in presentation and performance.
The finalist from each regional competition will win a six-day, all-inclusive trip to participate in a week of events and celebratory entertainment culminating in the grand finale during Key West Pride 2017. In addition to being named the 2017 Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic Champion, the winner of the final event will ride in the Key West Pride Parade as Honorary Grand Marshall and receive:
$12,500 grand prize for a pre-selected charity of his/her choice;
a victory celebration and charity check presentation at champion’s home bar hosted by Stoli Vodka;
and an all-expense paid exclusive Stoli Vodka destination event
The first runner up to the 2017 Champion will also receive $2,500 for their chosen charity.
“Stoli’s work through the Key West Cocktail Classic is an example of how companies can use their resources to make a difference both large and small,” stated Matt Hon, Executive Director of the Key West Business Guild. “From the charitable monetary donations to general awareness, the Cocktail Classic has significantly impacted our local community by becoming a destination event for the city of Key West. In 2016, we saw tourism and revenue increase by 20-percent on the island during Pride!”
**The 2017 Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic Tour Schedule:**
Kick Off: New York, NY: Boxers – March 1
Dallas, TX: Round-Up Saloon – March 6
San Diego, CA: Rich’s – March 22
Los Angeles, CA: The Abbey – March 25
Denver, CO: Hamburger Mary’s – March 27
Atlanta, GA: Swinging Richards – March 30
Miami, FL: Score – April 5
New Orleans, LA: Oz – April 12
Philadelphia, PA: Franky Bradley’s – April 18
Washington, D.C.: Nellie’s Sports Bar – April 24
Chicago, IL: Sidetrack – April 26
Dayton, OH: MJ’s on Jefferson – May 1
Boston, MA: Club Cafe – May 4
Toronto, ON: Gladstone Hotel – May 11
Portland, OR: CC Slaughters – May 16
Vancouver, BC: Numbers Cabaret – May 18
Northern California (San Francisco): Club 21 – May 22
Finale: Key West, FL: Bourbon St. Pub– June 10
Last year’s Champion, Rocky Collins from the Round-Up in Dallas proudly competed for DIFFA/Dallas and which raises funds for organizations that support education programs, treatment and direct care services for people living with or impacted by HIV and AIDS. Rocky also won a matching $5,000 donation to the Wesley House Family Services in Key West, an organization he represented on behalf of the Key West Business Guild. Rocky’s winning cocktail and presentation best embodied the spirit of the Key West community and the heart of the competition. Named ‘The Key West Kitty Kat,’ Rocky’s original Stoli cocktail is made with 2 oz. Stoli Vanil, 2 oz. coconut simple syrup, 1.5 oz. pineapple juice, 0.5 oz. key lime juice, coconut cream, grenadine, cinnamon and garnished with a pineapple slice and served over ice.
For more information about the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic including how to apply, rules, guidelines and the full schedule of events, visit http://www.out.com/keywestcocktailclassic.
**About Key West Business Guild**
The mission of the Key West Business Guild is to promote LGBTQ travel to Key West through marketing and the promotion of specialty events; to support gay-owned, gay-managed, and gay-friendly businesses; to strengthen the Gay community’s position within the local community by supporting relevant LGBTQ issues. The KWBG was founded in 1978 by 8 local gay business owners and has grown to approximately 400 members, which work together to continue efforts to brighten the rainbow over the island, an island now known as Gay Key West. Promotion of events, such as Key West Pride, Tropical Heat and Womenfest, has made Key West a year-round LGBTQ travel destination. For more information visit www.kwbgonline.org.
**About Stoli Group, USA**
Stoli Group USA, LLC is a U.S. importer and marketer of alcoholic beverages, headquartered in New York City. Stoli Group USA is a subsidiary of SPI Group based out of Luxemburg, one of the world’s most dynamic wine and spirits organizations. Formed in 2013, Stoli Group USA’s current portfolio of brands includes the Stolichnaya® brand of premium vodkas and Stoli Ginger Beer, ultra-premium elit®Vodka, Louisiana-distilled Bayou® Rum, artfully designed KAH® Tequila, Achaval-Ferrer™ from Argentina, and Arinzano wines of Spain.
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Chris Hendricks, Roslyn Kind and More Slated for MY NEXT BREATH Fundraiser](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/12/bruce-vilanch-chris-hendricks-roslyn-kind-and-more-slated-for-my-next-breath-fundraiser/)
**Published:** March 12, 2017
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**Broadway World
Bruce Vilanch, Chris Hendricks, Roslyn Kind and More Slated for MY NEXT BREATH Fundraiser
Mar. 6, 2017**
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An evening of music and comedy will serve as a fundraising event for the filming and editing of the documentary project “My Next Breath” ([mynextbreathfilm.com/about](http://mynextbreathfilm.com/about/)), hosted by Bruce Vilanch, with musical performances by Chris Hendricks, [Roslyn Kind](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Roslyn-Kind/) and [Mary Wilson](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Mary-Wilson/), on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at Catalina Jazz Club 6725 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028.
The evening features the comedy of [Kathy Buckley](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kathy-Buckley/) and [Geri Jewel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Geri-Jewel/)l. Under the musical director of [Michael Orland](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Orland/) with director/producer and David S. Zimmerman, the event will include special surprise guests.
Program: 8:00 pm show (6:00 pm doors / VIP Seating – 6:30 pm doors / General Seating). Tickets [here](http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=7203385&pl=cbg&dispatch=loadSelectionData).
My Next Breath is a documentary that takes a journey inside the world of an intensive acting class, and finds out how the artists are able to be thoroughly open enough to create from a true and sacred place inside. The documentary also shows the profound impact the workshop has had upon its participants years later and how it facilitated a powerful imprint among each of the members the group.
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### [SAGE honors Vilanch, Jewel Thais-Williams in L.A.](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/12/sage-honors-vilanch-jewel-thais-williams-in-l-a/)
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**Washington Blade
SAGE honors Vilanch, Jewel Thais-Williams in L.A.
March 10, 2017 at 11:38 am EDT | by Karen Ocamb**
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[LOS ANGELES](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") — The fundraiser for SAGE [USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States") March 4 in the [Hollywood Hills](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.12,-118.34&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.12,-118.34 (Hollywood%20Hills)&t=h "Hollywood Hills") felt like a reunion, a coming together of a generation of [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") with shared memories and a desire to confront aging, an issue, SAGE Board Development chair Bill Weinberger said, he heretofore had avoided thinking about. Honorees Jewel Thais-Williams and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), however, exemplify how LGBT people can age as respected elders with grace, continued activism, and humor.
Weinberger introduced [Phill Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill_Wilson "Phill Wilson"), founder of the [Black AIDS Institute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_AIDS_Institute "Black AIDS Institute"), whom he has known since the early 1980s. Shortly after, Wilson discovered he was HIV positive. He noted that while “many of us were dealing with whether we would survive or not, SAGE has always believed we would.” Wilson shared how Thais-Williams bravely opened Jewel’s Catch One Disco as a refuge for LGBT people desperate for a place where they could be themselves.
“Jewel has been a leader, a hero, and a visionary and an advocate for a long, long time,” Wilson said. “Jewel was one of those ‘bridge’ people,” linking the LGBT African-American community to organizations such as [AIDS Project Los Angeles](http://apla.org/pdfs/APLA_Fact_Sheet.pdf "AIDS Project Los Angeles") and her alma mater, UCLA. You always speak up, whether you’re afraid or not.”
Thais-Williams joked that she was honored to be honored, having spent the last 42 years at Catch One “partying,” adding that she will turn 78 in a couple of months. “To be of service to my community has been a great joy,” she said. “But there is still a lot of work to do. Remember to always reach out to those in need.”
“There has never been a more important time to come together,” SAGE CEO Michael Adams told the diverse crowd of SAGE board members, staffers and supporters at the elegant home of James Frost and William Yi. “We are living in very challenging times,” a notion received with a knowing chuckle for its understatement.
A civilization is historically measured by how it cares and supports its children and most vulnerable and how it supports its elders, Adams said, not just the “right kind of elders….We owe it to our elders, the pioneers who paved the way for the equality we celebrate today….We need the wisdom of our pioneers, our elders.”
SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) was founded in 1978 in Greenwich Village by two activists and a handful of supporters to provide a visiting program and drop-in center for LGBT seniors. It is now a national organization with 30 SAGENet affiliates in 20 states and D.C., and is partnering with the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Adams also had kind words for the LA LGBT Center and its programs caring for LGBT seniors.
Demographic estimates predict that there will be 6 million LGBT people age 65 years or over in America by 2030. That sets the stage for a potentially disastrous future since, as SAGE notes, LGBT seniors are “twice as likely to be single, twice as likely to live alone, and four times more likely to be without children than their heterosexual peers.” And, Adam said, facilities that take care of the aging population are “woefully unprepared” to take care of LGBT seniors who fear having to go back in the closet in order to get care and treatment without discrimination.
In introducing comedic writer/actor Bruce Vilanch, SAGE Board co-chair Elizabeth Schwartz—whose co-chair is former LA-based board activist Kevin Williams—said Vilanch’s appearances on “Hollywood Squares” were “instrumental in shaping gay images.” Watching him, “we didn’t have to speculate obsessively” about whether he was gay “as I did over Kristy McNichol.” She was also grateful that he was also out about being chubby. Vilanch, she said, has a “tireless dedication to the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community").”
In accepting the handsomely shaped glass award, the legendary Oscar writer said that when he was told he was being honored by SAGE, his first thought was: “You have the wrong envelope,” referring to the Best Picture mishap at the Academy Awards.
However, a recent interview with a young journalist underscored that he is now arcing “into my dotage.” The young gay man had no idea who Ted Mack was, though “[Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_Amateur_Hour "The Original Amateur Hour"),” the variety-show precursor to shows like “American Idol,” launched the careers of such future celebrities as Pat Boone and Ann-Margret. The young man sat stone faced at the mention of her name.
“When queens don’t know who Ann-Margret is, we’re in trouble,” Vilanch said to an uproar of laughter.
“Senior gays are not venerated,” he said. “But we *are* valued because we can pick up the check or write it.”
As to his decision to be openly gay at a time when being out was a brave decision, Vilanch noted that he worked in the more accepting entertainment industry. But early on, he worked as a journalist writing features for the Chicago Tribune and tried to get gay stories into the paper. Vilanch cited a quote that stuck with him: “A faggot is a homosexual gentleman who just left the room.” He determined to be “the faggot who stayed in the room.”
LGBT progress is result of taking action. “We did the bravest thing—we came out and that changed everything,” Vilanch said. But the LGBT community cannot rely on help from outside. “We have to do it for ourselves….\[and\] we’re not done yet.”
SAGE CEO Michael Adams also announced the launch of a new initiative in conjunction with AARP—SAGETable— to build “intergenerational connections in the LGBT community” by “breaking bread with your LGBT family on May 18. Visit [sagetable.org](http://sagetable.org/).
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### [Academy Awards 25 Years Ago: Not So Different From Today](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/03/academy-awards-25-years-ago-not-so-different-from-today/)
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**[New York Times](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NYT "NYSE: NYT")
[Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar") 25 Years Ago: Not So Different From Today
By BRUCE FRETTS
FEB. 24, 2017**
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From the moment the host [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal") was wheeled onstage wearing a straitjacket and a face mask à la Hannibal Lecter in “The [Silence of the Lambs](http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Lambs-Full-Screen/dp/B00026L7OK%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00026L7OK "The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Edition)"),” viewers knew the 1992 Oscars were not going to be normal.
“It was a bit like [Mr. Toad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Toad "Mr. Toad")’s Wild Ride,” Jodie Foster, the “Silence” star who won best actress that year, recalled in a telephone interview. “You were being catapulted from one surreal experience to the next.”
The circumstances surrounding the Academy Awards 25 years ago were not so different from the ceremony set for Sunday: Presidential politics served as the backdrop (in that case, Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown, whom Mr. Crystal jokingly compared to that year’s self-destructive cinematic rebels [Thelma and Louise](http://www.amazon.com/Thelma-Louise-Susan-Sarandon/dp/B00007BKVC%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00007BKVC "Thelma & Louise"), were trying to unseat President George Bush). Major social issues played out at the podium (then it was homophobia and sexism), and black filmmakers were making inroads. But in 1992, four of the five best-picture nominees were among the year’s top 20 domestic box-office hits; this year, that’s true for only two of the nine contenders (“Hidden Figures” and “La La Land”).
“In those days, people still believed the recipe to make a popular film was to make a good film,” Ms. Foster said. “The way the economy has shaped the industry over the last 25 years, it’s ghettoized films into either big, dumbed-down mainstream movies that are trying to attract as many audience members as possible, and movies that are substantial and meaningful, which are relegated to a different sphere.”
I asked winners, nominees and one of the show’s writers about that year’s most memorable moments.
**The Show Opener**
A review in The New York Times described the 1992 ceremony as “uncharacteristically lively,” and that began with the first bit the writers devised for the host. “It’s a great entrance for Anthony Hopkins in the movie, so we knew it would work with Billy,” [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), one of the telecast’s writers, said in a recent telephone interview. “It was kind of irresistible.”
**One-Armed Push-Ups**
Jack Palance doing one-armed push-ups at the Academy Awards in 1992. Credit Craig Fujii/Associated Press
The bizarre mood was struck early when best supporting actor went to Jack Palance, Mr. Crystal’s co-star in the western comedy “City Slickers.” Mr. Palance gave, as The Times put it, a “cheerfully unprintable acceptance speech.”
“It was an odd thing to say at the Academy Awards,” Mr. Vilanch said, recalling a specific line in the speech. “But that was Jack. He was a genuinely strange and scary guy.”
Then, in a display of his virility, the 73-year-old character actor dropped to the floor and did one-armed push-ups. Backstage in the writers’ room, “we looked at each other and said, ‘We have to go with this — it’s too funny.’” Thus began a run of on-the-fly jokes from Mr. Crystal (“I was just given a bulletin: Jack Palance is now on the StairMaster”) that stretched through the night.
**A Family First**
For supporting actress, Mercedes Ruehl won for “The Fisher King,” but it was one of her competitors, Diane Ladd, who made Oscar history. She was the first mother to be nominated along with her daughter (Laura Dern) for the same film, the Southern drama “Rambling Rose.” Ms. Dern and Ms. Ladd also presented the award for best visual effects to “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.”
“When I was standing on that stage, and I looked out at my peers and then over at Laura, it was a great honor,” Ms. Ladd said. “I had to fight to keep from crying.”
**A Surprise From Space**
More emotional moments played out as George Lucas received the [Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_G._Thalberg_Memorial_Award "Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award") from his old friend Steven Spielberg and, in a bit of technical wizardry, the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, complete with a floating Oscar. Another satellite link allowed the acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray to accept his honorary Academy Award from his hospital bed in Calcutta; he died 24 days later at 70. “Gil Cates, who produced that show, loved technology,” Mr. Vilanch said. “He always had remotes.”
**Gay-Rights Protesters**
Many Oscar ceremonies come with some controversy, and the 1992 show had its share. Gay-rights advocates picketed over villainous characters in “Silence” as well as in “J.F.K.” (Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for best supporting actor for his turn as a gay man put on trial and acquitted for an alleged conspiracy to kill the president) and in the just-released “Basic Instinct,” which starred Sharon Stone, who was also a presenter. “It was a good discussion, but it was also very stressful,” Ms. Foster said.
The protesters could take solace in the fact that Howard Ashman — who had died a year earlier at 40 — became the first person lost to AIDS to win an Oscar: best original song for “Beauty and the Beast.” His longtime companion, Bill Lauch, accepted the award on his behalf.
**A Toon Dispute**
Disney’s wildly popular “Beauty and the Beast” stirred up discord when it became the first animated film nominated for best picture, which didn’t sit well with some Oscar purists. “They created the best animated feature category after that because they didn’t want more cartoons nominated for best picture,” said. Mr. Vilanch. (Only “Up” and “Toy Story 3” have managed the feat since.)
**Streisand Slight**
The night’s loudest contretemps surrounded [Barbra Streisand](http://www.barbrastreisand.com/ "Barbra Streisand"), who was passed over for a best director nomination even though her drama “[The Prince of Tides](http://www.amazon.com/Barbra-Streisand-Collection-Mirror-Prince/dp/B0006SGYM4%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0006SGYM4 "The Barbra Streisand Collection (The Mirror Has Two Faces / The Prince of Tides / The Way We Were)")” snagged a best picture nomination. The group Women in Film cited sexism. “In some circles, they said I took her slot,” said John Singleton, who at 24 became the youngest and first African-American best director nominee, for his searing debut, “Boyz N The Hood.” “What people don’t know is that I’m a huge Barbra Streisand fan. She signed my application to get me into the Directors Guild.”
Mr. Crystal gracefully defused the situation with a satirical lyric during a musical number. Referring to “The Prince of Tides,” he crooned, “Seven nominations on the shelf, did this film direct itself?” The cameras quickly cut to Ms. Streisand, laughing appreciatively.
**Rookie Mistake**
Mr. Singleton lost best director to Jonathan Demme for “Silence,” but he had higher hopes of winning best original screenplay. Yet the award went to another first-timer, Callie Khouri, for the feminist road-trip saga “Thelma & Louise.”
“I was trying not to jinx myself, so I wrote an acceptance speech in pencil,” Ms. Khouri said. “By the time I opened it up, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, so I just winged it. I forgot to thank the producer, so that was fairly horrifying.” (For the record, Mimi Polk Gitlin produced the film.)
**A ‘Silence’ Sweep**
The biggest winner, of course, turned out to be “The Silence of the Lambs,” which became only the third film in history, after “It Happened One Night” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” to sweep the top five awards: best picture, director, actor, actress and adapted screenplay (by Ted Tally, based on Thomas Harris’s novel).
“Three years earlier, I had won best actress for ‘The Accused,’ and I was the only person nominated from the film, so I was by myself,” Ms. Foster said. “But for ‘Silence,’ it was really extraordinary — we kept winning, one after the other, and we all met backstage. I remember everybody was really hot and sweaty, and we all had our arms around one another.”
**Postscript**
That wasn’t the only happy ending. Five months later, Mr. Crystal, Mr. Vilanch and his fellow writers Hal Kanter, Buz Kohan, Robert Wuhl and David Steinberg took home Emmys. “We won for throwing out the script and rewriting it on the spot,” Mr. Vilanch said. “That’s Hollywood.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Josh Groban, Cynthia Erivo & More Join Broadway Backwards March 13, 2017](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/03/03/bruce-vilanch-josh-groban-cynthia-erivo-more-join-broadway-backwards-march-13-2017/)
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Josh Groban, [Cynthia Erivo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Erivo "Cynthia Erivo") & More Join Broadway Backwards March 13, 2017
By Lindsey Sullivan February 28, 2017**
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This year’s *Broadway Backwards* just got even more star-studded! *[The Great Comet](http://www.broadway.com/shows/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-1812/)* star Josh Groban, Tony winner Cynthia Erivo, Tony winner [Cady Huffman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cady_Huffman "Cady Huffman"), Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Santino Fontana and more have joined the [previously announced](http://www.broadway.com/buzz/187529/sierra-boggess-andrew-keenan-bolger-javier-munoz-more-set-for-broadway-backwards/) lineup. The annual benefit showcases Broadway favorites offering gender-bending takes on their favorite tunes. Tony winner Julie White returns to host the event, which is directed by Robert Bartley and set for March 13 at the [Al Hirschfeld Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7592887,-73.989178&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7592887,-73.989178 (Al%20Hirschfeld%20Theatre)&t=h "Al Hirschfeld Theatre").
Six-time Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch, Tony nominee Carolee Carmello, *[Cagney](http://www.broadway.com/shows/cagney/)‘*s Robert Creighton, *[School of Rock](http://www.broadway.com/shows/school-rock-musical/)‘*s Eric Petersen, Megan Sikora, Elizabeth Stanley, Dominic Nolfi, Michael Longoria and Daniel Reichard will also take the stage.
As reported, the roster already includes Sierra Boggess, [Andrew Keenan-Bolger](http://andrewkeenanbolger.com "Andrew Keenan-Bolger"), Javier Muñoz, Alex Brightman, Rachel Bay Jones, [Andrew Rannells](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Rannells "Andrew Rannells"), Tituss Burgess, Kathleen Turner, Bobby Conte Thornton, Ariana DeBose, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Lora Lee Gayer, Len Cariou, John Glover, Levi Kreis, [Bobby Steggert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Steggert "Bobby Steggert") and Rachel York. Performers are subject to change.
Produced by [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS](http://www.broadwaycares.org/ "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS"), the event will benefit BC/EFA and the [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian%2C_Gay%2C_Bisexual_%26_Transgender_Community_Center "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center").
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**Tags:** Academy Awards, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, American Civil Liberties Union, An Evening with Diana Ross, Barneys New York, Bette Midler, Billy Porter (entertainer), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, New York City
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host "My Next Breath" Project](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/02/17/bruce-vilanch-to-host-my-next-breath-project/)
**Published:** February 17, 2017
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J**oin us for an evening of music and comedy to benefit**
**the Documentary project**
**“MY NEXT BREATH”**
**“What do you want the most, at this moment, of your life?”**
**That is one of the questions asked in the Documentary project, MY NEXT BREATH.**
**Eight years ago a group of artists got together in a classroom to answer that question.**
**Eight years later we come back to see if they got what they wanted.**
**Sunday March 19, 2017**
**6:00 pm – VIP Seating $75.00 \***
**6:30 pm – General Admission – $50.00**
**8:00 pm – Show**
**Plus 2 drink minimum or dinner**
**\* VIP Seating guarantees front two row seating, appetizers, and a gift bag.**
[An Evening of Music and Comedy to benefit the documentary project “My Next Breath”](http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=7203385#)
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[Music with Chris Hendricks, Roslyn Kind, and Mary Wilson Comedy with Kathy Buckley and Geri Jewell Hosted by Bruce Vilanch Musical Direction by Michael Orland Directed by David S. Zimmerman Plus Special Surprise Guests.](http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=7203385#)
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### [Fans, Family and Friends Will Say Good-Bye At Florence Henderson’s Memorial](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/02/17/fans-family-and-friends-will-say-good-bye-at-florence-hendersons-memorial/)
**Published:** February 17, 2017
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Fans Family and Friends Will Say Good-Bye At [Florence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence "Florence") Henderson’s Memorial
By SUZANNA BOWLING
FEBRUARY 16, 2017**
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Friends and family will remember Florence Henderson on Tuesday, February 21st at 1:30 PM at the [Music Box Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7587055556,-73.9871166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7587055556,-73.9871166667 (Music%20Box%20Theatre)&t=h "Music Box Theatre"), 239 West 45th Street to celebrate the treasured star.
Alan Cumming, Michael Feinstein, Judy Gold, [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), [Isabel Leonard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Leonard "Isabel Leonard"), [Chita Rivera](http://www.last.fm/music/Chita%2BRivera "Chita Rivera"), James Snyder, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Barry Williams will share their memories honor Florence.
The memorial event is open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis with doors opening at 1:20 PM.
Florence arrived in New York at the age of 17 to attend the prestigious [American Academy of Dramatic Arts](http://www.aada.org/ "American Academy of Dramatic Arts"). Within a year of attending the Academy, Broadway beckoned with roles in Oklahoma, Fanny, The Sound of Music, South Pacific and The King and I, among others.
TV called and Florence accepted the job as the “Today Show” Girl. She perform live on shows like “Ed Sullivan,” the “Bell Television Hour” and others. She won our hearts as Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch.”
Florence starred in major theatrical productions, headline in Las Vegas and perform live at major venues around the country, including her autobiographical one-woman show All the Lives of Me.
In 2011, Florence released her memoir Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to Lovely Lady and Beyond (Center Street/Hachette Book Group). The autobiography spent time on the [New York Times Bestseller List](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list "The New York Times Best Seller list"). In 2003, she was awarded a star on the [Hollywood Walk of Fame](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.10163,-118.326684&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.10163,-118.326684 (Hollywood%20Walk%20of%20Fame)&t=h "Hollywood Walk of Fame").
Florence is survived by her four children, five grandchildren, one brother and two sisters.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Spoke At The Black Cat LGBT Protests Feb 11, 2017](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/02/17/bruce-vilanch-spoke-at-the-black-cat-lgbt-protests-feb-11-2017/)
**Published:** February 17, 2017
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Bruce Vilanch Spoke At The Black Cat [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") Protests Feb 11, 2017
BY ADVOCATE.COM EDITORS
FEBRUARY 11 2017 6:35 PM EST**
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When a rally tonight in Los Angeles honors the Black Cat protest — which preceded Stonewall by two years — it will be a reminder to President Trump and his administration that protest works.
“You put a microphone in front of me, I’m going to talk about Trump,” said [Mitch O’Farrell](http://cd13.lacity.org/index.htm "Mitch O'Farrell"), the [Los Angeles city](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") councilman who is helping organize the rally, which begins at 8 p.m. outside the [Black Cat Tavern](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.092175,-118.279780556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.092175,-118.279780556 (Black%20Cat%20Tavern)&t=h "Black Cat Tavern").
O’Farrell says the Trump administration’s anti-equality agenda is backfiring. “Their authoritarian and anti-constitutional executive orders are galvanizing other historically oppressed communities into greater solidarity,” he said. Trump is giving Americans “an opportunity for us to be more enlightened and stand in stronger solidarity.”
The Black Cat protest in 1967 was itself a turning point triggered by authority. Undercover officers had gone on New Year’s Eve to the tavern in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles and waited until the clock struck midnight, when partygoers would kiss. It was illegal to kiss a person of the same sex. As partners embraced, the officers took out their badges and started violently making arrests.
The queer community was fed up with regular police brutality and took what was a highly unusual step: they organized a protest on February 11, 1967.
The founders of that protest would also create a group — [Personal Rights in Defense and Education](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rights_in_Defense_and_Education "Personal Rights in Defense and Education"), or PRIDE — and that group created a newsletter called [The Advocate](http://www.advocate.com/ "The Advocate"). That newsletter became the magazine you’re reading now.
A lot has changed in 50 years. At tonight’s rally, for example, police are taking part in commemorating history. But LGBT Americans also have to contend with President Trump, whose policies are met repeatedly with protests. The Women’s March the day after Trump’s inauguration included millions of people across multiple cities all over the world. Protests broke out the next weekend at airports when Trump signed an executive order that implemented his Muslim ban at the border. Last weekend, a queer solidarity rally was held outside the [Stonewall Inn](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7337972222,-74.0021&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7337972222,-74.0021 (Stonewall%20Inn)&t=h "Stonewall Inn") in New York City after Trump threatened to sign a “religious freedom” order, which would make it optional for federal workers to recognize same-sex marriages so long as they cite a religion that says it’s immoral.
This weekend, as Los Angeles marks history, it will also be speaking directly to Trump and the likes of attorney general Jeff Sessions. Late Friday night, Sessions’ [Justice Department](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8933333333,-77.025&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8933333333,-77.025 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice)&t=h "United States Department of Justice") filed a legal brief that effectively ends the Obama administration’s protections for transgender students. They had been guaranteed, for example, the right to use bathrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity.
O’Farrell says the Black Cat proves that protest works.
“It just underscores the power of the [U.S. Constitution](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution "United States Constitution") and how we always lean towards advancements,” he said. “One misguided president being in office can not and will not reverse all of that progress. Understandably, there is a lot of anxiety fear and chaos created by what he’s doing, but we will prevail over all of that and we have the Constitution, and we have our level of sophisticated activism. The [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") knows how to effect change and that is one of our great strengths.”
Other speakers scheduled to be at the Black Cat rally tonight include Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the cast of Queer as Folk, actors Wilson Cruz, Guillermo Díaz and Darryl Stevens, plus comedians Alec Mapa and Bruce Vilanch, executive director of Equality California Rick Zbur, and editor in chief of The Advocate, Lucas Grindley.
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**Tags:** Aarti, Alex Padilla, California, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, LGBT community, Neil Gorsuch, Republican Party United States, United States, United States Constitution
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### [New Petula Clark Musical From Bruce Vilanch Could Be Headed to Broadway](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/02/09/new-petula-clark-musical-from-bruce-vilanch-could-be-headed-to-broadway/)
**Published:** February 9, 2017
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**New [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") Musical From Bruce Vilanch Could Be Headed to Broadway
02/02/2017 03:56 am ET | Updated 6 days ago
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From penning witty zingers for the [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com "Tony Awards") to hosting [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS](http://www.broadwaycares.org/ "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS") fundraisers, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is no stranger to the New York theatre community. In 2005, Vilanch even starred as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Hairspray-Polyester-Desperate-Flamingos/dp/B00006JMRS%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00006JMRS "John Waters Collection (Hairspray / Pecker / Polyester / Desperate Living / Pink Flamingos / Female Trouble)") in *Hairspray.* When the [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") funnyman returns to Broadway, though, he hopes it’s as writer of the next great jukebox musical.
“Think *[Mamma Mia!](http://www.amazon.com/Mamma-Movie-Widescreen-Meryl-Streep/dp/B001GKJ2DY%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001GKJ2DY "Mamma Mia! The Movie (Widescreen)")”* said Vilanch when describing his new musical *Sign of the Times*. “In fact, *please* think *Mamma Mia! —* because *Mamma Mia!* ran only 12 years, so *please* think of that!”
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Bruce Vilanch has penned a new musical! The hysterical out comic says *Sign of the Times,* featuring the music of Grammy-winner Petula Clark, could be Broadway-bound soon.Like other “jukebox musicals” — productions such as *Jersey Boys* and *Beautiful – The Carole King Musical — Sign of the Times* utilizes hit pop songs rather than an original score. In this case, the music of [Grammy Award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award "Grammy Award"), ‘60s British pop icon Petula Clark “and other hit-makers of the day” takes center stage.
“When I was in college, and I was hearing Petula’s music, every time I would hear one of her songs, I’d say, ‘What show is that from?’” the comedian shared during an interview on [Party Foul Radio with Pollo & Pearl](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/pollodelmar/episodes/2017-02-01T00_39_08-08_00). “They all sounded so theatrical, because they had big orchestras behind them.”
Vilanch recalled a similar feeling when listening to ABBA years later, he told [Podomatic’s No. 1-ranked LGBT podcast](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/pollodelmar). Therefore it was not surprising, he said, when the quartet’s catalogue later became the foundation for the wildly successful Broadway hit *Mamma Mia!*
“They had these big, Broadway pop arrangements behind everything,” said Vilanch of ABBA, noting that, like the Swedish super-group, Clark’s music also “lends itself very well to a Broadway show.” He said: “It always had that feel from the beginning.”
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Having penned three of her stage shows, Bruce Vilanch has worked with legendary Bette Midler for 47 years. “Which is difficult, because she’s only 32,” the comedian quips, “i’m contractually obligated to say that.”A six-time Emmy Award-winner, Vilanch has supplied jokes to a veritable Hollywood who’s who, was the quirky center square for four seasons of *Hollywood Squares,* a long-time reporter and columnist for *The Advocate* and even cowrote Eartha Kitt’s campy 1980s hit “I Need a Man.” A featured writer on almost every major televised awards broadcast, he’s served as head writer for the annual *Academy Awards* since 2010.
The hilarious blond – equally known for his inimitable appearance – is far more than champion of the one-liner though. He’s written successful stage productions stretching back more than four decades.
Vilanch cowrote Bette Midler’s 1974 Broadway show *Clams on a Half Shell* and later inked her 1980 epic *Divine Madness*. The Divine Miss M again teamed with The Divine Miss V for *The Showgirl Must Go On,* Midler’s 2008 residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
Vilanch forged a similarly long-standing relationship with Diana Ross. After befriending the MoTown legend on the set of *Mahogany*, in which he had a bit part, he wrote *[An Evening with Diana Ross](http://www.amazon.com/Evening-Diana-Ross/dp/B000001AFH%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000001AFH "Evening With").* The show played Vegas, Broadway and was later turned into a television special.
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In 2005, Bruce Vilanch starred as “Edna Turnblad” in the [Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") of *Hairspray.*When approached by Richard Robins — “a big real estate guy in Chicago,” who purchased Clark’s musical catalogue — to work on *Sign of the Times,* Vilanch was “immediately interested.” What emerged is the tale of Cindy, a young woman who moves to [New York City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City "New York City") in 1965 and (according to production notes) discovers “unexpected friends, lovers, careers, and conflicts are all a subway ride away.”
Based on an original story by Robins, and written by Vilanch, *Sign of the Times* features Clark’s biggest hits including No. 1 single “Downtown,” “I Know a Place” and, of course, the song from which the production draws its name. Also included are smashes from contemporaries Leslie Gore (“You Don’t Own Me”), Nancy Sinatra (“These Boots Are Made for Walking”), Dusty Springfield (“I Only Want to Be With You”) and more.
After debuting last summer with a successful five-week run at Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, Vilanch says it could be only a matter of time before New York calls. To gain perspective on the process, he turned to modern musical theatre genius and Tony-winning Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda (who Vilanch calls “Mr. *Hamilton”).*
“He said *Hamilton* took seven years; *everything* takes seven years,” shared Vilanch, noting *Sign of the Times* is now in its third year.
“Legitimate theatre, on the Broadway end, is like movies these days,” Vilanch concluded, “Things happen *years* down the pipeline. Hopefully the next year or so, it’ll end up on Broadway. We’re working our way there!”
**LISTEN: Bruce Vilanch talks** *Sign of the Times*, Personal Stories About Diana Ross, Bette Midler & More
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Write Special Material For, Trevor: The Musical, Based on Oscar-Winning Short, Aiming For Broadway](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/02/02/bruce-vilanch-to-write-special-material-for-trevor-the-musical-based-on-oscar-winning-short-aiming-for-broadway/)
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[Trevor](http://www.amazon.com/Trevor-Brett-Barsky/dp/B00007K027%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00007K027 "Trevor"): The Musical, Based on Oscar-Winning Short, Is Aiming for [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre")
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JAN 27, 2017**
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Marc Bruni, who directed the Tony-winning [Beautiful: The Carole King Musical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful%3A_The_Carole_King_Musical "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical"), will helm the world premiere of Trevor: The Musical, based on the [Oscar-winning](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar") 1994 short film Trevor, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The Broadway-aimed musical will make its debut this fall at the non-profit Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Chicago. U Rock Theatricals will produce. Casting will be announced at a later time.
Trevor: The Musical, about a gay 13-year-old boy who is a fan of Diana Ross, has book and lyrics by Dan Collins and music by Julianne Wick Davis.
The 1994 film won the Academy Award for [Best Short Film, Live Action](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Live_Action_Short_Film "Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film"). It also won awards at the [Berlin International Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_International_Film_Festival "Berlin International Film Festival"), [San Francisco International Film Festival](http://festival.sffs.org "San Francisco International Film Festival"), [San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameline_Film_Festival "Frameline Film Festival"), and the [Sundance Film Festival](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.642498,-111.495143&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.642498,-111.495143 (Sundance%20Film%20Festival)&t=h "Sundance Film Festival"). Directed by Peggy Rajski, the musical is adapted from the screenplay by James Lecesne with special material by Bruce Vilanch. The film cast included Brett Barsky, Judy Kain, and John Lizzi. [Internet Movie Database](http://www.imdb.com/ "IMDb") describes the film as such: “Upon hitting puberty, a high-school boy realizes he is homosexual and faces prejudice from his parents and friends.”
The film was the inspiration for The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning young people ages 13-24.
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### [Bruce Vilanch On Carrie Fisher](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/01/07/bruce-vilanch-on-carrie-fisher/)
**Published:** January 7, 2017
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") On [Carrie Fisher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Fisher "Carrie Fisher")
BY KARA WARNER
JANUARY 6, 2017**
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While Carrie Fisher is best known for her work in front of the camera, she was also a celebrated writer of books and films. The late Star Wars actress and icon, who died at age 60 on Dec. 27 after a heart attack, was even responsible for writing a few key funny one-liners for [Oscar hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies "List of Academy Awards ceremonies") and accidentally covering them in glitter.
According to veteran comedian and comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who hired Fisher to be a part of his Oscar writing teams, she had several great ideas that were too good to air, like [Princess Leia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Leia "Princess Leia") singing a [Joni Mitchell](http://jonimitchell.com "Joni Mitchell") song in the infamous [Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "Star Wars Holiday Special") and [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") getting a massage onstage at the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar"). Vilanch recently shared with PEOPLE three of his favorite memories from working with Fisher, here they are in his own words:
“In 1978, I was one of the writers of the Star Wars Holiday Special, a show that would give FDR a challenge on his ‘day of infamy’ remark. Carrie, Harrison \[Ford\], Mark \[Hamill\] and several of the more presentable robots were ordered to sing a song about Life Day, the holiday we were ostensibly celebrating in the galaxy far, far away. Nobody wanted to do this and Carrie thought she would save them all the trouble by doing, as a solo, Joni Mitchell’s Christmas ditty, ‘River,’ \[with the lyric\] ‘I wish I had a river I could skate away on.’ It was 1978 and there were a whole lot of chemical additives being consumed by many of us, so we thought it was a great idea. Princess Leia on skates, kind of like what Disney on Ice is probably doing right about now, since they own her ass. Everybody loved it except Joni Mitchell. Carrie quickly lost interest and we moved on to the next shiny object.
“Along those lines, about 20 years later, I brought Carrie onto the Oscar show writing team. Whoopi \[Goldberg\] was hosting and we were trying to figure out funny things for her to do. Enya had written a song that was nominated, and it was a typical Enya song, the kind that someone noted you only hear when you’re getting a massage. So we thought it would be funny if, after about 16 bars, a little curtain was raised on one side of the stage and there would be Whoopi, getting a massage. There were some very funny people on the staff that year, Carol Leifer (Seinfeld), Jonathan Tolins (Grease Live!), Jon Macks ([The Tonight Show with Jay Leno](http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/classic/jay-leno "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno")), Dave Boone (The [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com "Tony Awards")) — but it was Carrie who ran with the idea, turning it into a kind of Rockettes massage-table number, huge and elaborate. Everybody loved it except Enya. You never saw it.
“A few years later, Carrie was back on the team. On the night of the show, she arrived in a black tux pantsuit, her hair and shoulders festooned with gold glitter. I had assigned her to the green room, where people wait before they go on the air, because everybody knew her and she was a reassuring presence to a lot of actors who didn’t have a character to play that night. Of course, she hugged them all. After we’d been on the air about 20 minutes, the director called me, shrieking, ‘Tell her to stop hugging people! This looks like the god—- Tinker Bell special! Everybody’s covered in glitter!’ “
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**Tags:** Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Star Wars, Star Wars (film), Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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### [Miss Golden Globe: Past Honorees Tell All - Nepotism Has Never Been Hotter](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/01/06/miss-golden-globe-past-honorees-tell-all-nepotism-has-never-been-hotter/)
**Published:** January 6, 2017
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**Hollywood Reporter
Miss Golden Globe: Past Honorees Tell All – Nepotism Has Never Been Hotter
by Seth Abramovitch
January 05, 2017, 6:15am PST**
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Sly’s kids join A-list offspring from Laura Dern to [Dakota Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Johnson "Dakota Johnson") as alums dish on the gig their parents love: “He was so honored,” says [Gia Mantegna](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia_Mantegna "Gia Mantegna") of father Joe’s reaction to her selection in 2011. “It was the fact that your parents had a career in Hollywood that was respected.”
Scarlet, Sistine and Sophia Stallone were lounging in the living room of their family’s [Beverly Hills](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") estate when their father — that would be Sylvester — announced that he’d just been on the phone with Lorenzo Soria, president of the [Hollywood Foreign Press Association](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Foreign_Press_Association "Hollywood Foreign Press Association"). The trio, ages 14, 18 and 20 (more about them here), had been chosen to share the honor of being 2017’s Miss Golden Globe.
“We all started screaming and jumping up and down, music blasting, dogs barking,” recalls eldest sib Sophia. “We didn’t think we would get it.” Perhaps they did not, but just about anyone else could have scanned the checklist — stunning, personable, fruit of the loins of a genuine Hollywood legend (and 2016 Golden Globe winner for Creed) — and seen the Stallone girls as shoo-ins.
In truth, the competition for Miss Golden Globe — the young women (and sometimes young men) who help hand out trophies and escort the winners on and off the stage at the HFPA’s annual awards ceremony — can get hairy. It may not be a speaking part, but it’s still a gig performing onstage at one of the biggest awards shows of the year, a chance to make a first impression not just on the Hollywood elite but on millions of viewers (18.5 million in the U.S. alone in 2016). For many actresses — Anne Archer (1971), Laura Dern (1982), and Melanie Griffith (1975) and her daughter Dakota Johnson (2006) — it’s among the very first screen credits on their résumé, while for others, like Candace Savalas (1987), Lisabeth Shatner (1985) and Lily Costner (2004), it’s also the last.
To qualify for the title, candidates must be poised, polished and harbor the DNA of a bona fide A-lister, although lineage has not always been among the criteria. When the HFPA first created the title in 1963, the honor was bestowed upon a pair of more or less randomly selected up-and-coming actresses, one from the world of film and one from TV: Donna Douglas (Elly May on The Beverly Hillbillies) and Eva Six (a Hungarian actress whose career didn’t quite pan out). “It was the very first award ceremony I ever attended,” says Linda Evans, Miss Golden Globe 1964, of her memorable night schlepping shiny hardware. “It was something MGM arranged for me to do,” recalls the 74-year-old Dynasty star. “They dressed me up, sent me there, I gave out the awards — and the rest is history.”
In 1971, though, the HFPA made a change: From that time forward, the title would be granted only to the offspring of the stars, preferably those with two famous parents. The shrewd move began what’s since become a Hollywood birthright and sparked a vigorous free-market competition among the town’s co-mingling gene pools. The next big change came 24 years later, when, in 1995, the club went co-ed, naming John Clark [Gable, Clark](http://www.last.fm/music/Clark%2BGable "Clark Gable") Gable’s only son, the first [Mr. Golden Globe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Golden_Globe "Miss Golden Globe") (then 34, he also was the oldest ever chosen). “Truly an honor,” says Gable of the experience. “For the first time, they asked a male heir.”
The custom is not without its fans. “I love the Miss Golden Globe tradition. So retro. So old Hollywood. So ‘A Star Is Born,'” says New York awards season event planner Peggy Siegal. As for any aroma of entitlement, longtime Oscars head writer Bruce Vilanch is quick to wave it off: “Please — nepotism has never been hotter. Just look at the Trump kids! The [Golden Globes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award "Golden Globe Award") are always ahead of the curve.”
The process of selecting a Mr. or Miss Golden Globe is not chiseled in stone. Some years it’s a more grueling gantlet than others. “There were about five of them in there,” remembers 24-year-old [Greer Grammer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greer_Grammer "Greer Grammer") (Kelsey’s daughter) of her interview with the HFPA at its Robertson Boulevard headquarters for the 2011 awards. “They asked, ‘What are you doing? What are your career hopes?’ I remember one person telling me that Frasier was more popular in England than in the [United States](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States"), which I thought was hilarious.” Grammer had just been cast in the MTV series Awkward, and was feeling pretty upbeat about her prospects. “But I didn’t get it,” she says. “I was so sad because I had done pageants before, so I thought I’d be perfect.” Gia Mantegna, daughter of Joe Mantegna, remembers her audition that same year: “\[They asked me\] about my life and my career and what it meant to be the daughter of someone in the industry,” recalls the actress, now 26. “To be honest, I wasn’t familiar with what Miss Golden Globe was. \[My father’s publicist\] just told me to show up to this building and go on this interview. It seemed silly. Like, what is this? This is not anything I’m earning on my own. This isn’t a job. I’m just doing this because my dad’s an actor.” She ended up getting the gig.
Other years, the selection process has been considerably more laid-back. 2016’s Miss Golden Globe, Corinne Foxx, the 22-year-old daughter of Jamie Foxx, received a phone call “out of the blue” informing her she’d been chosen. “I was completely shocked,” she says. The same thing happened to Grammer, who in 2014, three years after being rejected, also received a call from the HFPA finally offering her the job. “I didn’t even have to go in for an interview!” she says.
There is no Miss Golden Globe training. Instead, the anointed are thrust into a whirlwind of nomination announcements, red-carpet appearances, pre-parties and rehearsals. Foxx says she “went into complete research mode” when she got picked. “Greer Grammer was the year before me, so I watched [YouTube videos](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.628101,-122.426424&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.628101,-122.426424 (YouTube)&t=h "YouTube") of how she gave out all the trophies.” The heavily publicized Miss Golden Globe party — the Stallone daughters’ was held at Catch on Nov. 11, though their selection had been leaked a few days earlier — serves as a dry run. “You are given a welcome by the HFPA president and you deliver a speech,” says Grammer. But those who’ve held the title say nothing prepares you for the physical (and even emotional) intensity of the job itself. “I didn’t realize how involved you are onstage,” says 2010’s Miss Golden Globe, Mavis Spencer (daughter of Alfre Woodard). “You have to give the winner the award and then move them to this mark. Then you have to move everyone off the stage and behind a wall. You’re running the show a little bit — it’s not just standing there being a pretty face. It isn’t as easy as you think, especially after the actors have gotten a few drinks into them.” Mantegna says she worked closely with the stage manager, “basically corralling everyone on and off. One of the scariest moments for me was seeing how comfortable everyone was just lingering.”
Spencer discovered this the hard way after The Hangover won best comedy or musical motion picture and “like 12 or 15 of them” rushed the stage, a task she likens to “herding sheep.” One of the Hangover crew — she’s not sure who — accidentally stepped on her foot, fracturing two bones. And that was not the evening’s only indignity: “I had a 6-inch pair of Valentino stilettos on,” says Spencer, who stands 5-foot-11 in flats. “Colin Farrell was one of the presenters and just looked at me and said, ‘I’m not standing next to her. I’m not doing it.’ I was a bit taken aback. And he was like, ‘Darling, I really don’t mean that in a bad way — but you’re huge.'”
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### [Celebrities share New Year's resolutions with Gay Star News](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/01/02/celebrities-share-new-years-resolutions-with-gay-star-news/)
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**Celebrities share New Year’s resolutions with Gay Star News**
**30 December 2016**
**by [Greg Hernandez](http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/author/gregh/ "Posts by Greg Hernandez")**
A new year is upon us and Gay Star News caught up with several celebrities at the Trevor Live! event in [Beverly Hills](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills%2C_California "Beverly Hills, California") earlier this month to ask them about [New Year’s resolutions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_resolution "New Year's resolution"). Here is what they had to say:
[Jack Falahee](http://twitter.com/restingplatypus "Jack Falahee") ([How to Get Away With Murder](http://abc.go.com/shows/how-to-get-away-with-murder "How to Get Away with Murder") star): ‘Eat less cake.’
Noah Galvin (The Real O’Neals star): ‘Never stop learning.’
Brian Justin Crum (America’s [Got Talent](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_Talent "Got Talent") Finalist): ‘To be a little more selfless. I need to focus on my friendships a little more and taking care of those a little more. This past year has been so wild with the show and I feel like I’ve dropped the ball on taking care of my friends and they’ve been so good at taking care of me.’
[Lance Bass](http://www.lancebass.com/ "Lance Bass") (singer and television host): ‘I don’t do New year’s resolutions because I never keep them. So I don’t want to be disappointed. So why another disappointment.’
\]Darren Young (WWE superstar): ‘My New Year’s resolution is to get real lean. I’m going to start boxing and lean up a little bit. It’s to reshape my body but you never know – I could always transition to MMA. How cool would it be to be the first LGBT MMA fighter that’s in UFC.’
Hayden Byerly (The Fosters star): Do better, be better, work on myself as a person. I want to really strengthen who I am and gain a lot of self-confidence and assurance and make sure that I am happy with who I am.’
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (comedy actor and writer): ‘They really are really kind of cliche and I never pay attention to them because you always end up breaking them. Every year I’m going to lose weight. Look at me!’
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### [‘Hamilton’ Diversity Does Not Extend to Age or Size, Bruce Vilanch Says](https://wegotbruce.com/2017/01/02/hamilton-diversity-does-not-extend-to-age-or-size-bruce-vilanch-says/)
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**The Wrap
‘Hamilton’ Diversity Does Not Extend to Age or Size, Show Business Veteran Says
By Matt Donnelly | December 30, 2016 @ 5:33 PM**
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Musical sensation “Hamilton” is revered for its inclusiveness — but that diversity doesn’t extend to age or body type, longtime show business player [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") said.
The stage and screen writer recently visited “Hamilton” creator [Lin-Manuel Miranda](http://www.thewrap.com/tag/lin-manuel-miranda/) when the [newly-minted Hollywood darling](http://www.thewrap.com/lin-manuel-mirandas-kingkiller-chronicle-finds-showrunner/) was performing the show’s title role. Vilanch wasn’t shy in pitching himself for the part of the villainous King George — a role previously held by actor [Jonathan Groff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Groff "Jonathan Groff").
“I went back and saw Lin-Manuel and I said, ‘I want to play the King. One costume, three songs that are all the same and no stairs to climb? I’m in,’” Vilanch said during an appearance[ on RuPaul’s podcast “What’s The Tee?”](http://www.rupaulpodcast.com/), uploaded on Thursday.
“He said, ‘We have a casting concept.’ And of course the casting concept is ‘everybody is hot,’” Vilanch continued. “Everybody is young and hot! There’s no old Ben Franklin wobbling across the street.”
Indeed the historical figures of “Hamilton” like the eponymous Alexander, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Eliza Schuyler are all played by attractive young people, a move that has seen [nothing but praise for casting people of color](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-hollywood-diversity_us_56a0f1bfe4b076aadcc55c0a) to portray the white founding fathers and their cohorts.
Vilanch isn’t unthinkable casting for the king — a character beloved by deities [as high as Beyonce](http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/beyonce-to-steal-hamiltons-king-georges-walk.html). He played Edna Turnblad in the original [Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") and subsequent national tour of “Hairspray” in 2002. He’s also worked on several original musicals and re-mounts in independent theater.
Not that he liked much else aside from the convenience of the role. Vilanch told RuPaul and his co-host [Michelle Visage](http://www.michellevisage.com/ "Michelle Visage") he didn’t care for “Hamilton” — which swept the [Tony awards](http://www.tonyawards.com "Tony Awards") and remains an un-gettable ticket.
“If your idea of the founding fathers is the [Wu Tang Clan](http://www.wutangcorp.com/ "Wu-Tang Clan") … and if you like lyrics like, ‘John Adams shat the bed,’ then that’s the show for you. But I’m still looking for a melody,” Vilanch concluded. “I was underwhelmed by it.”
It’s unclear if Vilanch will return to the Academy Awards telecast this year as either a writer for the production or the host (Vilanch has had turns doing both). The telecast — this year produced by Mike De Luca and [Jennifer Todd](http://www.thewrap.com/tag/jennifer-todd/) and hosted by [Jimmy Kimmel](http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy%2BKimmel "Jimmy Kimmel") — has yet to announce its staff.
Representatives for Miranda were not immediately reachable for comment.
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**Tags:** Aaron Burr, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Auli’i Cravalho, David Bowie, Dwayne Johnson, Film, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana (2016 film), Music video, Popular culture
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### [Bruce Vilanch Visits Lake View For Legacy Walk](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/10/23/bruce-vilanch-visits-lake-view-for-legacy-walk/)
**Published:** October 23, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Chicago](http://www.cityofchicago.org/ "Chicago") Pride
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Visits Lake View
By Jerry Nunn
Oct 21, 2016**
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Bruce Vilanch went from a bathhouse bestie to a six time Emmy Award winner. Beginning as a Chicago Tribune writer he met a struggling singer named [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") and began writing for her. This led to more writing gigs including the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscar.com/ "Oscar") and many concerts.
He performed in an Off-[Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") one man show and on Broadway in the musical Hairspray. On TV he’s judged [RuPaul](http://www.last.fm/music/RuPaul "RuPaul")’s Drag Race and starred in the third season of Celebrity Fit Club. In the movies he was the subject of a documentary [Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce") and the gay body image documentary [The Adonis Factor](http://www.theadonisfactor.com/ "The Adonis Factor").
Recently, he visited Chicago for a dedication ceremony in Lake View’s Legacy Walk for activist [Vito Russo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Russo "Vito Russo").
**JN: (Jerry Nunn) Hi, Bruce. Do you have a favorite new t-shirt?**
BV: (Bruce Vilanch) I always like the ones that are current.
**JN: Like a Trump one?**
BV: Yes, it would say, “Like his hand is big enough to grab a pussy!”
**JN: Are you glad to be back in Chicago?**
BV: I love it here. When I lived here in the ‘70s there was no River North. The old Chicago that I loved is here.
This Legacy Walk is unique and something for people to do while they are here. It is important for all people to include it in their itinerary whether gay or straight. People come here for Market Days and IML from all over the world. It would be nice if they could sprinkle a little community awareness into the mix. It is in the middle of the party zone so they can’t avoid it. It will never be the [Hollywood Walk of Fame](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.10163,-118.326684&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.10163,-118.326684 (Hollywood%20Walk%20of%20Fame)&t=h "Hollywood Walk of Fame") but no one has anything like this.
**JN: Talk about Vito Russo. I know he was good friends with Lily Tomlin.**
BV: He stayed with Lily when he visited California. I met him through Bette Midler. He was an early fan and saw her at the baths. He got her to do early gay liberation things with him. This was all in the documentary that was about him.
He was a weird combination of activist and film critic. He wanted to recognize the role of gay people in the film business and how they were depicted. He was a pioneer. He was also a big party boy. He was a renaissance man!
**JN: I remember when the trailer for Making Love came out and it was the first big gay movie.**
BV: It was the first mainstream movie. There were lots of foreign and indie movies before that. At the time it was treated the only way it could have been treated, as a social issue. Hopefully we have come out of that.
When you watch Modern Family where it is one couple of a multiple couple family you realize that it is getting there.
**JN: What is your opinion about gay movies these days?**
BV: Now everyone can watch a movie on their telephone. We put them out there in the mainstream with film festivals but they are mostly lousy movies. I remember when La Cage aux Folles came out. It was shortly after Making Love. There was a big debate on how we want to be depicted, sensitive muscle men or old queens in drag? That is the community. We run the spectrum. No one is being dishonest. You have to learn to accept that is who we are. Not every Black woman is Diahann Carroll or every Black man is Sidney Poitier. There is a full range of humanity out there. We have to embrace it and own it. If we own it then they can’t mess with it.
**JN: What do you think of the show Grace and Frankie?**
BV: I love them. It is fun to watch. They are all friends of mine.
**JN: Are you planning on watching Hairspray Live?**
BV: Of course. I want to see what they do with it. Harvey has rewritten it and shortened it. It looks well cast. I think they are doing it more along the Grease model than The Sound of Music model, which is a good thing.
The stage show of Grease started here at Kingston Mines in Lincoln Park. I was the first one to write about it in 1970. I am very proud of that. I knew it would be bigger than Hair. The creators looked at me like I was out of my mind. It is the biggest thing ever and I said it would be.
The Grease that you see now has had a lot of the sting taken out of it, including the homophobia.
Here it was done in a high school space and we all sat on the floor of the gym on mats. During intermission they threw Twinkies into the crowd, candy not young boys! It was early interactive theater.
**JN: Like Rocky Horror?**
BV: Yes, kind of like what it became after the movie. It has evolved.
**JN: What are you working on now?**
BV: I wrote a musical, which we did in the summer in Connecticut. It with all of Petula Clark’s music from the ‘60s. It has an original book, so think Mamma Mia! We want that to happen again.
**JN: I was just listening to Petula and thinking why hasn’t someone done a musical about her?**
BV: It is not about her. I told her at a benefit about it and she said, “I hope it’s not about me because I am very boring.”
She is not Carole King or Frankie Valli. Her story is not that story. It is not dramatic. So we are using the music to tell another story like Mamma Mia!
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**Tags:** Chattanooga, Grammy Award, Hands of Stone, Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Kathy Bates, LaFace Records, Sugar Ray Leonard, Tennessee, Usher (singer)
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### [BWW Review: A Hysterical UMPO HOCUS POCUS Carries You to the Divine](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/10/22/bww-review-a-hysterical-umpo-hocus-pocus-carries-you-to-the-divine/)
**Published:** October 22, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
BWW Review: A Hysterical UMPO [HOCUS POCUS](http://www.amazon.com/Hocus-Pocus-Bette-Midler/dp/6305428042%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D6305428042 "Hocus Pocus") Carries You to the Divine
October 21, 2016
By Gil Kaan**
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THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF HOCUS POCUS/written by John Flynn & Kate Pazakis/directed by Tye Blue/musical direction by Gregory Nabours/Rockwell Table & Stage/thru November 19, 2016
Executive Producer Kate Pazakis has done it again with her latest UMPO production THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF HOCUS POCUS. Director Tye Blue effectively corrals his vocally gifted cast in gloriously performing re-purposed pop tunes in between delivering Pazakis and John Flynn’s cleverly written homage to the 1993 film Hocus Pocus (starring [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Sarah Jessica Parker](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b5435bf8-40c9-4461-a921-345ba74ad5dd.html "Sarah Jessica Parker") and Kathy Najimy). No worries if you haven’t seen the movie. You will be howling anyway at this Halloween tale of three witches returning from the dead 300 years later to wreck havoc in (where else?) [Salem, Massachusetts](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.5169444444,-70.8986111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.5169444444,-70.8986111111 (Salem%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Salem, Massachusetts"). A great part of the fun’s recognizing ‘vintage’ pop songs that have been re-fitted into the HOCUS POCUS narrative.
Totally inhabiting the Bette Midler part of Winifred Sanderson (the oldest sister of the three), [Marissa Jaret Winokur](http://officialmarissajaretwinokur.com "Marissa Jaret Winokur") readily displays the reasons she won the 2003 [Tony Award for Best Musical](http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html "Tony Award for Best Musical") Actress (HAIRSPRAY). Winokur spouts Winifred’s lines out with the best comic timing and warbles Bette’s songs (“The Rose,” “From a Distance”) most beautifully. Another treat has Winokur embellish the film’s “I Put a Spell On You.”
Cindy Sciacca, commands in the Kathy Najimy role of Mary Sanderson, the middle sis. Only in live theatre, the unexpected interruptions or miscues can bring interesting results. Sciacca had an unexpected incident and handled it so well, she literally stopped the show until the uproarious laughter finally subsided minutes later. That’s a great pro move!
[Ava Gaudet](http://www.avagaudet.com "Ava Gaudet") quite assuredly filled Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolos as Sarah Sanderson (played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the film). Bars of the recognizable “Sex and the City” theme would frequently play under Gaudet’s on-target Carrie-esque lines.
Tom DeTrinis appeared to be having the best of fun as Binx, the little boy turned into a cat. DeTrinis’ well-timed paw licking or tail gesturing would consistently grab your attention and your laugh reflexes.
Benjamin Schrader scored as the virginal Max Dennison as he pursued the more sexually- knowledgeable Allison (winningly played by Kelley Jakle). Their seduction scene managed to be so funny, yet so hot!
[Lana McKissack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Icon_%28season_1%29 "Internet Icon (season 1)") shined as Dani Dennison, Max’s adventurous, fearless older sis.
Nathan Moore easily disappeared into his five different roles providing the complementary reasons for abundant bouts of laughter.
Opening night had Bruce Vilanch as Guest Narrator introducing the evening with his dependably funny (and topical) takes on the Sanderson Sisters. [Peter Allen Vogt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vogt "Paul Vogt") quite ably resumed the Narrator role for the rest of the evening offering witty barbs in between (and sometimes, during) sips of various liquors. Too funny!
Katherine Tokarz deserves high props for her choreography, especially her very cool re-enactment of [Michael Jackson’s](http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/International/Arch/ES/MichaelJackson/ "Michael Jackson") “Thriller,” danced by the whole cast.
Kudos to costumer Chadd McMillan for his spot-on Sanderson Sisters outfits, the Blinx cat jumpsuit; as well as, the attire of the regular humans of the townsfolk. Shout-out to BobbiePinz/Bobbie Zlotnik for the re-created Sanderson Sisters wigs.
Hard to find the perfect seat in the Rockwell main room as the action uses not only the stage, but every inch of the room (and a few willing laps).
The spot-on UMPO band (led by musical director Gregory Nabours on piano; with Blake Estrada on bass, Emily Rosenfield on guitar and Gregory Sadler on drums) rocked as always, provided the driving musicality to the UMPO HOCUS POCUS soundtrack which includes: AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” En Vogue’s “Free Your Mind,” Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero,” Backstreet Boys’ “Backstreet’s Back.”
With the UMPO’s practice of double casting (and more than occasional surprise guest casting), who knows which singing and dancing talents you’ll get to see in THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF HOCUS POCUS. But they’ll probably, most assuredly, be all great!
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Andrea Iervolino, Animal sacrifice, Bette Midler, Broadway theatre, Bruno Mars, Charlotte, Child sexual abuse, Matthew Broderick, Michael Jackson, North Carolina, Sarah Jessica Parker
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear On ‘Day of Disruption’ on National Coming Out Day (Tuesday, October 11)](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/10/11/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-on-day-of-disruption-on-national-coming-out-day-tuesday-october-11/)
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Logo to symbolically censor LGBT content with ‘Day of Disruption’ on [National Coming Out Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coming_Out_Day "National Coming Out Day")
by Steve Lee, Editor
October 10th, 2016**
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NEW YORK, NY — Logo today announced it will symbolically censor LGBT content on-air and online in a show of solidarity with international [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") who live in countries where positive LGBT media images are invisible or banned. The unprecedented ‘Day of Disruption,’ part of Logo’s international LGBT project, Global Ally, takes place on Tuesday, October 11 on National Coming Out Day, a day dedicated to celebrating coming out and living openly as LGBT. This year, Logo is flipping the script and providing a glimpse at what life could be like in countries where LGBT people can’t turn on the television, open the newspaper, or go to social media to see positive and relatable images. During a marathon of “[RuPaul](http://www.last.fm/music/RuPaul "RuPaul")’s Drag Race” Season 8, Logo will symbolically censor LGBT content, display facts about international LGBT issues, and provide ways to stand in solidarity with LGBT people who cannot or do not feel safe to come out and live openly.
And a video of an activist originally from Iran on how lack of LGBT media images impacted his coming out:
[Candis Cayne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candis_Cayne "Candis Cayne"), Gus Kentworthy, Trace Lysette, Jason Collins, [Geena Rocero](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geena_Rocero "Geena Rocero"), Billy Porter, Omar Sharif Jr., [JD Samson](http://www.last.fm/music/J.D.%2BSamson "J.D. Samson"), [Alec Mapa](http://www.alecmapa.com "Alec Mapa") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") will appear on Logo throughout the ‘Day of Disruption’ to speak out about the 72 countries where being LGBT is criminalized and the 10 countries where gay and lesbian relationships can be punishable by death. Logo will also release videos of activists from [Russia](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.75,37.6166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=55.75,37.6166666667 (Russia)&t=h "Russia"), Iran, Singapore and more discussing how media censorship impacts their lives.
The ‘censored’ marathon of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 8 starts at 6am ET/PT on Tuesday, October 11. During the marathon, openly LGBT contestants and guests will have their eyes blocked by a black bar, drag outfits will be pixelated, and audio bleeps will disrupt LGBT content. A static graphic will feature facts about LGBT criminalization laws, ways to take action at Logo’s GlobalAlly.org, as well as statistics from the ILGA-RIWI 2016 Global Attitudes Survey on LGBTI People. Content on [LogoTV.com](http://www.logoonline.com "Logo"), NewNowNext.com, and Logo’s social media channels will also be disrupted and direct followers to take action in solidarity with the global LGBT community at .
The all new and highly anticipated finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” will air Thursday, Oct. 13 at 9pm ET/PT.
Logo’s ‘Day of Disruption’ is the latest initiative in Global Ally, an international LGBT storytelling project (http://globalally.org) featuring video profiles, first-of-its-kind research and the most robust and interactive site dedicated to global LGBT issues.
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**Tags:** Alexis Arquette, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Caitlyn Jenner, Candis Cayne, David Arquette, David Bowie, E!, Jennifer Finney Boylan, LGBT community
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host 'Right This Way Your Table's Waiting October 16 At The Los Angeles Cabaret](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/10/09/bruce-vilanch-to-host-right-this-way-your-tables-waiting-october-16-at-the-los-angeles-cabaret/)
**Published:** October 9, 2016
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It’s the third annual CABARET IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN LOS ANGELES, a 3-night, 2-show, 2-venue celebration of [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") Cabaret as a benefit for The Actors Fund. Conceived and Directed by David Galligan and presented by Fraser Entertainment Group, the Friday-Sunday event takes place October 14th-16th. Buy advance online tickets to both shows and save. $60 for both shows. $50 single ticket for “Together at Last…”; $25 for “[Right This Way](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_This_Way "Right This Way")…”
**Please join us for:**
“Together at Last for the Third Time”, two evenings of song, starring accomplished women of Cabaret at Tom Rolla’s Gardenia, 7066 [Santa Monica Blvd.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_2 "California State Route 2") in West Hollywood on Friday, October 14th and Saturday, October 15th at 9PM. Doors open at 7 for dinner. ADVANCE DINNER RESERVATION REQUIRED FOR PREMIUM SEATING. PLEASE CALL THE CLUB 323-467-7444 – TO MAKE YOUR DINNER RESERVATION. TICKET PURCHASE ALONE DOES NOT GURANTEE SEATING IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM. Otherwise, the two-drink minimum applies.
Scheduled to appear: Michele Brourman (Fri. only), [Mary Jo Catlett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Catlett "Mary Jo Catlett"), Carole Cook, Ilene Graff & [Ben Lanzarone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lanzarone "Ben Lanzarone"), Jane A. Johnston, Marsha Kramer, Pat Marshall, Kevin Odekirk, Lilli Passero, Lisa Passero, Marcia Rodd, [Lisa Vroman](http://lisavroman.com "Lisa Vroman"), Pat Whiteman & Jo Anne Worley. Music Director Gerald Sternbach.
[Click here](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2592582) for Night #1 and Night #2: “Together at Last for the Third Time”, Friday, 10/14 and Saturday, 10/15 at Tom Rolla’s Gardenia
“Right This Way, Your Table’s Waiting”, a superb line-up of singers from the worlds of stage, film, television and Cabaret at the [Catalina Jazz Club](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0983333333,-118.337222222&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0983333333,-118.337222222 (Catalina%20Bar%20%26%20Grill)&t=h "Catalina Bar & Grill"), 6725 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on Sunday, October 16th at 7:30PM (doors open at 6). Two-item food/beverage minimum applies.
Scheduled to appear: Eileen Barnett, Karen Benjamin, Loretta Devine, Barrett Foa, Dianne Fraser, [Julie Garnyé](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Garny%C3%A9 "Julie Garnyé"), Gary Imhoff, Mark Arthur Miller, Walter Winston Oneil, Kate Pazakis, Joan Ryan, Sally Struthers & Joanne Tatham. Hosted by [Peter Marc Jacobson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marc_Jacobson "Peter Marc Jacobson") & [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). Special Appearance by Fran Drescher.
Music Director Michael Sobie.
[Click here](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2592641) for Night #3 Right This Way, Sunday 10/16 at the Catalina Jazz Club
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### [Future Productions Planned for New Musical A SIGN OF THE TIMES Following Goodspeed Run](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/10/01/future-productions-planned-for-new-musical-a-sign-of-the-times-following-goodspeed-run/)
**Published:** October 1, 2016
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**Broadway World
Future Productions Planned for New Musical [A SIGN OF THE TIMES](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_Times_%28Petula_Clark_song%29 "Sign of the Times (Petula Clark song)") Following Goodspeed Run
By Broadway World Staff
September 22, 2016**
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A Sign of the Times, the new pop-fueled musical featuring songs made famous by [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") and other hit-makers of the 1960s, recently wrapped up a successful five-week run at Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn. where the show played from July 29 – September 4 to packed houses. News of an upcoming production will be announced.
“Welcoming A Sign of the Times for its first full developmental production, and watching it grow over the course of its run, was a thrill for all of us at [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals"),” said [Executive Director](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_director "Executive director") Michael Gennaro. “We’re so pleased that the show proved to be one of the most highly rated shows by Goodspeed audiences.”
Creator and producer Richard Robin added, “A Sign of the Times truly found its feet under the guidance and support of the top-notch team at Goodspeed. After a summer of audiences humming the sounds of the 60s and connecting with our show’s heroine as she struggles to find her place in an era of change, we’re now looking forward to what’s next as A Sign of the Times explores options for future productions.”
Below is a sampling of what audiences had to say after attending A Sign of the Times:
– “A Sign of the Times was absolutely wonderful, lifting my heart and spirits. It brought back that youthful uplifting feeling of great hope.”
– “Just loved this play! It brought me back to my middle to late teenage years. The music and singing and dancing was super! I especially liked that it had humor but also took a look at the racial issues and women’s rights that were so front and center during those years. All in all it was just delightful!”
– “I have never had a show leave such an impression on me! I grew up with Petula Clark…”Downtown” was my first 45 record. I can’t get the music out of my head.”
– “My wife and I have been to nearly every show that you have produced at both theaters over the last eight years. This is your best so far!”
– “A Sign of the Times captured the legacy and impact of the cultural changes wrought by the 60s that were expressed through its music. An inspiring array of songs, outstanding script, crisp choreography, great sets and outstanding performances by all. Bravo for a fabulous show!”
This is the story of Cindy, a 20-something whose dreams are bigger than her Midwestern hometown will allow. Set against the backdrop of [New York City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City "New York City") in the 1960s -women’s liberation, the civil rights movement, and protests of the Vietnam war-Cindy searches for her place in the world. A Sign of the Times, featuring chart-topping hits from the 1960s, celebrates friendship, love, and discovering one’s sense of self. A Sign of the Times was sponsored by Essex Savings Bank.
1965\. The pulse of a changing era lures Cindy from [Middle America](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=17.4,-91.0&spn=1.0,1.0&q=17.4,-91.0 (Middle%20America%20%28Americas%29)&t=h "Middle America (Americas)") to the swirl of Manhattan. Unexpected friends, lovers, careers, and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical featuring songs made famous by Petula Clark and other hit-makers of the day. “I Know a Place,” “The Shoop Shoop Song,” and “If I Can Dream” are among the fabulous favorites on an eye-opening ride from innocence to experience. Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares – go “Downtown” and find out who you are!
A Sign of the Times includes popular hits by Petula Clark, as well as classics by Elvis Presley, Lesley Gore, Nancy Sinatra, and Fontella Bass. The musical’s original book is by Emmy Award-winning writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). Vilanch’s career as writer and performer spans the worlds of television, film, and stage. For television he has written for shows as diverse as “[The Brady Bunch Variety Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Hour "The Brady Bunch Hour"),” “Donnie and Marie,” “Comic Relief,” and “Hollywood Squares,” as well as serving several years as head writer for the Academy Awards. For Broadway, Bruce not only appeared as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, but wrote the book for the musical Platinum and penned special material for a number of revues and concerts for the likes of Bette Midler, Michael Feinstein, and Diana Ross, among others.
The cast of A Sign of the Times featured Ephie Aardema ([Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") of The Bridges of Madison County and Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre production of Snapshots) as Cindy; Robert Lenzi (Broadway’s Tuck Everlasting, and South Pacific) as Brian; Bryan Fenkart (Broadway’s Memphis) as Dennis; Nick Bailey (Broadway production of Casa Valentina) as Matt; and Crystal Lucas-Perry (Little Children Dream of God at the Roundabout Theatre) as Tanya.
The ensemble includes Lauren Boyd (Broadway’s West Side Story), Lauren Nicole Chapman (Broadway’s Kinky Boots), Melessie Clark, Drew Franklin (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at The Goodspeed and Broadway’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella), Jeremy Gaston (1st National Tour of Sister Act), Alexandra Matteo (Broadway’s Annie), Keven Quillon (Broadway’s Grease, Shrek the Musical, and Annie), Kevin Santos (Broadway’s In the Heights and the National Tours of A Chorus Line, and West Side Story), Dave Schoonover (National Tour of Young Frankenstein), and Alet Taylor (National Tour and Las Vegas productions of The Producers) who will play Cleo.
A Sign of the Times was directed by Gabriel Barre and choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter. The creative team included Paul Tate DePoo lII (scenic design), Jennifer Caprio (costume design), Ken Billington (lighting design), Benjamin Pearcy (projection design), and Jay Hilton (sound design). Music Direction was by Rick Fox, Music Supervision by Joseph Church, Dance Arrangements by David Dabbon, and Casting was by Tara Rubin Casting.
The story of A Sign of the Times was created by Richard Robin. This production made possible by special arrangement with Richard Robin, president of Wells Street Productions.
For 30 years, The Terris Theatre has been Goodspeed’s home for developing fresh, innovative, and original new musicals. These new works have been developed in Chester, Conn., before they’ve moved on to Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, and other Regional Theatres. Because this is a developmental theatre, the show can change on a day-to-day basis. New scenes are added, songs are moved, costumes are changed, dialogue is tweaked?all based on audience response and feedback.
Under the leadership of Executive Director Michael Gennaro, Goodspeed Musicals is dedicated to the preservation, development and advancement of musical theatre. The first regional theatre to receive two Tony Awards (for outstanding achievement), Goodspeed produces three musicals each season at The Goodspeed in East Haddam, Conn. and additional productions at The Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn., which was opened in 1984 for the development of new musicals. Goodspeed also maintains The Scherer Library of [Musical Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") and The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre. Goodspeed gratefully acknowledges the support of United Airlines, the official airline of Goodspeed Musicals, and official auto sponsor Hoffman Audi. Goodspeed is supported in part by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
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**Categories:** Music, Theatre
**Tags:** Bill de Blasio, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Cleaver, List of numbered streets in Manhattan, Macy's, Manhattan, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York City Police Department, Police officer, sign of the times
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### [Chicago's Legacy Walk LGBT History Museum to honor Sylvia Rivera, Vito Russo, October 15, 2016](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/21/chicagos-legacy-walk-lgbt-history-museum-to-honor-sylvia-rivera-vito-russo-october-15-2016/)
**Published:** September 21, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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Chicago’s [Legacy Walk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Walk "Legacy Walk") LGBT History Museum to honor [Sylvia Rivera](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera "Sylvia Rivera"), Vito Russo
Press Release
Sept. 19, 2016**
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Dedicated in 2012, Chicago’s Legacy Walk is the world’s only outdoor LGBT History Museum. This half-mile installation features bronze biographical memorials celebrating the lives of people like Leonard Bernstein, Audre Lorde, Sally Ride, James Baldwin, Jane Addams, Rudolf Nureyev, Frida Kahlo and Alan Turing.
The Legacy Walk’s markers serve as an “outdoor classroom” for bullied [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") youth who come for guided tours in order to learn about historically significant positive LGBT role models whose contributions have made an incalculable difference in the world we share.
On October 15, 2016 they welcome two LGBT activist superstars to the Legacy Walk: transgender icon Sylvia Rivera from the Stonewall Era, and gay film activist/historian Vito Russo, who co-founded both ACT UP ([AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power](http://actupny.org/ "ACT UP")) and GLAAD ([Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation](http://www.glaad.org/ "GLAAD")). Their considerable legacies will soon be added to the 35 incredible stories of achievement which already line the only streetscape of its kind in existence.
This all-day tribute will feature legendary gay activist Cleve Jones, Chicago transgender spokesperson Myles Brady-Davis, Emmy Award-Winning writer-producer-actor **[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**, and trans pioneer Judy Bowenwiener, a close personal friend of Sylvia and [Marsha P. Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson "Marsha P. Johnson") from the post-Stonewall Era. Judy will be talking about their involvement as three trans women in New York’s Gay Activist Alliance (GAA). She will be joined by Phillip Raia, who worked with both Vito and Sylvia in GAA in the 1970s. Never have all these people been brought together for a celebration quite like this.
**The event will be in three parts:**
**1-3 p.m.: Opening Reception and Program, Center on Halsted**
Transgender activist Myles Brady-Davis, Howard Brown Health, gay activist Cleve Jones, [NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt "NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt"), “Reflecting on the Evolution of Activism across the Decades.”
**3-4 p.m.: Legacy Walk Induction Ceremonies, Northalsted Streetscape, featuring the LGBTQ Youth from [Lyons Township High School](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.812155,-87.88028&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.812155,-87.88028 (Lyons%20Township%20High%20School)&t=h "Lyons Township High School").**
Sylvia Rivera Bronze Memorial Dedication, 3656 N. Halsted: Personal reflections of Judy Bowenwiener and Phillip Raia, Sylvia Rivera’s friends.
Vito Russo Bronze Memorial Dedication, 3411 N. Halsted, personal reflections of Bruce Vilanch, [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") writer-producer-actor.
**4-6 p.m.: Celebration Party, Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted, “Building a New Legacy for the Future of Our Past.”**
Tickets for this multi-part event are available for $30, $50, and $100 and include light appetizers and variable bar service. There will also be raffle prizes and door prizes. LGBT people from throughout the metropolitan area are expected to turn out to celebrate this unique Chicago cultural institution—built by our community, for our community—in this salute to the contributions of LGBT people.
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### ["Child Of The 70's" Permanently Featured In The Hollywood Museum Exhibit Reel To Real: Portrayal And Perceptions Of Gays In Hollywood](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/16/child-of-the-70s-permanently-featured-in-the-hollywood-museum-exhibit-reel-to-real-portrayal-and-perceptions-of-gays-in-hollywood/)
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“Child Of The 70’s” Permanently Featured In The [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") Museum Exhibit Reel To Real: Portrayal And Perceptions Of Gays In Hollywood
By ShootOnline Staff
Thursday, Sep. 15, 2016**
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Popular international [TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television "Television") and web series “Child of the 70’s” was featured in the Hollywood Museum exhibit “Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood.” The landmark, third annual exhibition was developed in alliance with [Los Angeles City Councilmember](http://www.lacity.org/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/index.htm "Los Angeles City Council") Mitch O’ Farrell to highlight LGBT characters and icons in film and television from Hollywood’s past and present. The “Reel to Real: Portrayal and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood” exhibit ran at the museum’s historic Max Factor Building in the heart of Hollywood. This was the first time the show was featured in the exhibit and was simultaneously inducted as a permanent part of it.
“It was such a great honor to be recognized in this exhibit,” says the show’s creator/writer/producer, [Michael Vaccaro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Vaccaro "Tony Vaccaro"). “The rest of the cast and I are moved by the museum’s dedication to the gay and lesbian entertainment community.” Now in its fourth season and seen on OUT TV, “Child of the 70’s” is a parody of and a loving homage to the sitcoms Vaccaro loved growing up in the 1970s. Vaccaro (“A Play on Words”) portrays the central protagonist of the series, Carlo Perdente, a wannabe actor who is trying to break into the entertainment business by being an assistant to the narcissistic and egomaniacal 1970s TV star KiKi Lawrence played by Ann Walker (“Sordid Lives”).
It also stars a prolific number of actors from film and television during that decade including [Susan Olson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Olsen "Susan Olsen") who played Cindy Brady in “The Brady Bunch,” Ted Lange who played bartender [Isaac Washington](http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_love_boat/video/ "The Love Boat") on “The Love Boat” and Donna Pescow in the title role on “Angie” and Annette in “Saturday Night Fever.” Additional cast members from the era include Gina Hecht (“Mork and Mindy”), Amy Linker (“Square Pegs”), [Carole Ita White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Ita_White "Carole Ita White") (“[Laverne and Shirley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_%26_Shirley "Laverne & Shirley")“) and the original Cowboy from The Village People, Randy Jones.
Additional cast members include [Lynne Marie Stewart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Marie_Stewart "Lynne Marie Stewart") (“Pee Wee’s Playhouse”), Terry Ray (“From Here On Out”), Duane [Boutte](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9011111111,-90.3863888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.9011111111,-90.3863888889 (Boutte%2C%20Louisiana)&t=h "Boutte, Louisiana") (“Carousel”), Geri Jewell (“The Facts of Life”), Sheena Metal (LA Talk Radio icon), comedian Judy Tenuta, Bruce Vilanch (“Hairspray”), Chuck Broadway’s “Evita”), Kat Kramer (“Little Fockers”), Mel England (“Ron and Laura Take Back America”), and Sally Kirkland (“Anna”).
“Child of the 70’s is directed by Tom Pardoe (“It’s Your Move) and co-written by Terrence Moss. Shooting for season five begins this fall.
For more information on “Child of the 70’s” please visit [www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com](http://www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com/)
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### [Patty cake - Valley Of The Dolls Criterion Collection Blu-Ray (Bruce Vilanch Interview Included)](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/15/patty-cake-valley-of-the-dolls-criterion-collection-blu-ray-bruce-vilanch-interview-included/)
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**The Bay Area Reporter**
**Incredible Celebrations**
**By Roberto Friedman**
**Published 09/15/2016**
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OT hasn’t heard from our old pal Marc Huestis for some time. The intrepid ex-impresario is now living much of his life semi-retired in a cabin perched high atop the Sierra Nevadas. But we were happy to receive his communique that excerpts of his 2009 extravaganza Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle! will be featured on Criterion’s Blu-ray release of the camp classic Valley of the Dolls. It features 16 minutes of the late great Patty Duke being queried by bon vivant Bruce Vilanch at the Castro Theatre. Huestis confides, “I always wanted to be an extra! Criterion’s Blu-rays are the gold standard. I’m pleased as punch that a little of my legacy of 20 years at the Castro lives on!” Well, sparkle, Marc-ie, sparkle! So heat up the lasagna and get out the booze and dope: this spectacularly remastered Blu-ray hits the streets on Sept. 27.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosts “One Night Only Benefit Cabaret” September 12, San Francisco](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/11/bruce-vilanch-hosts-one-night-only-benefit-cabaret-september-12-san-francisco/)
**Published:** September 11, 2016
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**Outtake Online
Bruce Vilanch Hosts “One Night Only Benefit Cabaret” September 12, San Francisco
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016**
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In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") about hosting One Night Only Benefit Cabaret for the Richmond/Ermet AID Foundation on Monday Sept 12th at Marines’ Memorial Theater in [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7706,-122.4269&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.7706,-122.4269 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco"). Philanthropy and stellar entertainment take center stage as REAF presents a special one-night-only benefit cabaret with the Broadway Touring Cast of “Beautiful”(The [Carole King](http://www.caroleking.com/ "Carole King") Musical) in “Motown & More, An Evening of Music, Dance & Comedy” hosted by Bruce with Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy. Songs from “Beautiful” will not be performed. As we have been reporting, for over twenty years the Richmond / Ermet Aid Foundation has raised millions of dollars by producing Broadway quality entertainment events and galas to advance HIV treatments and support AIDS services until there is a cure. Recently REAF has expanded its fundraising focus to the [Bay Area](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.75,-122.283333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.75,-122.283333333 (San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area)&t=h "San Francisco Bay Area")’s growing demand for two new areas by providing food for the needy and programs that support homeless, disadvantaged and disenfranchised youth. We talked to Bruce about this fabulous organization and his spin on our [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") issues.
With the upcoming presidential election just months away, when asked what he would like to see happen for [LGBT equality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory "LGBT rights by country or territory") in the next few years Vilanch stated, “Well a lot depends on what happens in this election clearly. I mean if the Nazis actually win and I call them Nazis because they would like us to be eliminated. Read the Republican Party Platform, the reptilian party, as I call it, platform, you’ll see that they would like us to just shrivel up and die. They would like to enable us in that effort and I think if they win then we’re going to see a period of regression and of people feeling their oats so they can attempt to beat us into the ground. If the democrats win and Hillary is in charge I think we’re going to see a continued path towards complete civil rights. That means no rollback on marriage equality, which is what the republicans would like. We’ll see it extended and obviously the most important thing about this election is the next president will choose a bunch of Supreme Court Justices who will issue to the ultimate ruling on all things that affect our lives. So I think at the moment we have the coin in our hands and as a nation we’re going to toss it in November and we’ll see what happens. So I’m hoping it comes down on the girl side.”
Bruce Vilanch is one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry. He began contributing to Academy Awards telecasts in 1989 collaborating with the likes of [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), Whoopi Goldberg and [David Letterman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman "David Letterman") and graduated to head writer in 2000. Since then Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right thanks to the feature-length documentary “[Get Bruce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")” and his one-time stint as a regular on “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")” for which he also served as head writer. One Night Only Benefit Cabaret is produced by the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation, founded by the late Barbara Richmond and Peggy Ermet in memory of their sons John Richmond and Doug Ermet who both lost their lives to AIDS. To date REAF has raised well over $3 million dollars for AIDS services and beginning in 2015 expanded to support hunger programs and programs for homeless and underserved youth.
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**Tags:** American Comedy Awards, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Burt Reynolds, Emmy Award, HIV/AIDS, Lily Tomlin, RSS, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Is It Okay To Make Fun Of Caitlyn Jenner?](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/07/is-it-okay-to-make-fun-of-caitlyn-jenner/)
**Published:** September 7, 2016
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**Instinct Magazine
Is It Okay To Make Fun Of Caitlyn Jenner?
Instinct Staff | September 6, 2016**
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[*Boy Culture* interviewed](http://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2016/09/bruce-vilanch-gay-lgbt-humor-aids-oscars-humor-body-shaming-transgender-caitlyn-jenner.html) legendary [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who had his own opinions on the [joke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke "Joke") and the response to it:
> BC: [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") recently took it on the chin when .
>
> BV: Personally, I thought that was insane. She wasn’t making a joke about [transgenders](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender "Transgender"), she was making a joke about the monetizing of transgenderism, which is being done by Caitlyn Jenner.
>
> BC: I guess the waters are muddied because people want to mock Caitlyn, and she’s so famous for being trans.
>
> BV: Exactly. Anybody who would make that leap is out of their mind. It’s not a joke about transgenders, it’s a joke about this person who will do anything to remain in the public eye—and who is *not* our friend, by the way. She’s more to be pitied than censured. There’s no accounting for the taste of some. You find generally in communities like in the [gay community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") that activists have no [sense of humor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour "Humour"). They are*so* sensitive about *everything*. And to jump on Bette Midler is kind of like, “Excuse me? Where’ve you been for the last 50 years?” Well, you know, probably in [Trinidad, Colorado](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.1708333333,-104.506388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.1708333333,-104.506388889 (Trinidad%2C%20Colorado)&t=h "Trinidad, Colorado"), deciding what you wanted to look like, I don’t know.
>
> That alone would get me in jail. That remark. You know, you’re not allowed to say anything!
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Jenner, Bruce Vilanch, Human Rights Campaign, Kanye West, Kris Jenner, LGBT community, Republican Party United States, Transphobia, Twitter
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### [See New Bruce Vilanch Film September 8th, 9:00 PM At The 8th Annual Burbank International Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/07/see-new-bruce-vilanch-film-september-8th-900-pm-at-the-8th-annual-burbank-international-film-festival/)
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**Broadway World
8th Annual [Burbank International Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank_International_Film_Festival "Burbank International Film Festival") Announces Record-Breaking Film Schedule
By Movies News Desk
August 31, 2016**
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The Burbank International Film Festival is pleased to present a record-breaking 140 films including 22 from outside [the US](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States"), and 12 world premieres at the [Burbank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank%2C_California "Burbank, California") AMC 16 in Downtown Burbank from Wednesday, September 7th, through Sunday, September 11th, 2016. For tickets, festival passes, special hotel rates please visit www.burbankfilmfest.org.
Now in its 8th year, the Burbank International Film Festival is five-day celebration of independent film bringing together emerging international talent, film enthusiasts, and industry leaders to experience the best in contemporary film in Burbank, the Media Capital of the World.
“With 14 countries represented, and 53 market premieres, the festival has grown significantly in the U.S. and internationally,” stated Jeffrey Rector, festival director. “From China, to India, to Europe and [Nepal](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=27.7,85.3166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=27.7,85.3166666667 (Nepal)&t=h "Nepal"), 20% of this year’s films are from abroad. Now more than ever, the Burbank International Film Festival celebrates and supports filmmaking talent where ever it is found.”
Representative categories include independent full-length films, shorts, special event movies, comedy, drama, student filmmakers, sci-fi, faith-based, animation, foreign language, and documentary films.
In addition to awards being given in each filmmaking genre, the festival will also honor Michelle Nichols with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Danny Woodbury with the Diversity Award, and Jane Seymour with the Awareness Award. In recognition of the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the festival will honor a veteran from [World War II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II "World War II"), and one from Iraq/Afghanistan. Hal Albert (WWII) and Doug Woodhams (Iraq and Afghanistan) will both receive the Act of Valor Award. New this year, in recognition of director Garry Marshall, the inaugural Garry Marshall Spirit Award will be a continuing tribute to his life and legacy, and will be presented to a different recipient every year.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
OPENING NIGHT, Wednesday, September 7th, 6:00 PM
AMC Burbank 16
RED CARPET AND DEDICATION, 6:00 PM: Hosted by Fritz Coleman with opening remarks from Burbank Mayor Jess Talamantes and former Walt Disney Studios Chairman and Legendary Pictures Board Member Dick Cook, the Opening Night Gala is dedicated to honoring the life and achievements of director Garry Marshall, with the Spirit Award being presented to the Marshall family.
OPENING NIGHT [FEATURE FILM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film "Film"), 7:00 PM: The Wave (Norway, 2016) directed by Roar Uthaug, starring Kristoffer Joner, [Ane Dahl Torp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ane_Dahl_Torp "Ane Dahl Torp"), Jonas Hoff Oftebro.
A geologist’s warning of an imminent disaster goes unheeded. Although predicted, no one is prepared when sudden seismic activity causes a mountain to collapse, creating a violent Tsunami that threatens to destroy everything in its path. This disaster film is based upon true events and is presented courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
OPENING NIGHT SECOND FEATURE FILM, 7:30 PM: Last Call at Murray’s (USA 2016) directed by Linda Palmer, starring [Paula Jai Parker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jai_Parker "Paula Jai Parker"), Michael Gross, John Savage.
Dwindling clientele and new smoking ordinances have forced veteran bar-owner Murray to make a tough decision: it’s time to close the bar. However, Murray’s hopes for a quiet closing are dashed when a freak blizzard strands a host of zany people all night. Between drinks and karaoke, alliances are formed, broken, and blown sky-high.
COMEDY FEATURE FILM #1, Thursday, September 8th, 9:00 PM
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel (USA 2016) Directed by Antonio Lexerot and Vincent J. Roth, starring Eric Roberts, Linda Blair, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
Featuring more than 50 celebrities, the long awaited sequel with cinema’s first openly gay superhero tracks Metal Master to Las Vegas, finding himself out of his element in a strange town. Surge is soon aided by local college students deploying their own talents to help Surge uncover Metal Master’s activities, putting Surge in awkward situations.
COMEDY FEATURE FILM #2, Friday, September 9th, 8:30 PM
The Wedding Invitation (USA 2016) Directed by Rainy Kerwin, starring Camille Guaty, Eoin Macken, Christina Ulloa.
Three best friends endure heartbreak, humiliation & hangovers to find a date to the wedding of a lifetime.
DRAMATIC FEATURE FILM, Friday, September 9th, 9:00 PM
The Girl (USA 2014) Directed by Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, starring Michael Biehn, [Tia Carrere](http://www.tiacarrere.com/ "Tia Carrere"), Dana Daurey. Director and stars will be in attendance to introduce the film.
A kidnapped girl is rescued by a young boy, and in return is compelled to save him from the horrors in his home.
FAMILY FRIENDLY COMEDY, Saturday, September 10th, 2:30 PM
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**Tags:** 1st Marine Division (United States), 21st century BC, A Special Day, Aircraft carrier, Allison Holker, Antonio Taguba, Arctic convoys of World War II, Bruce Vilanch, Bryce Vilanch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Soviet Union, World War II
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### [Motown & More, An Evening of Music, Dance & Comedy with Special Guests Bruce Vilanch and Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy September 12, 2016](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/09/07/motown-more-an-evening-of-music-dance-comedy-with-special-guests-bruce-vilanch-and-countess-katya-smirnoff-skyy-september-12-2016/)
**Published:** September 7, 2016
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**[San Francisco Weekly](http://www.sfweekly.com "SF Weekly")
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on Whether It’s OK to Make AIDS Jokes (Yet)
Quentin QuickTue Sep 6th, 2016 5:47pm**
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No one speaks of \[[HIV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV "HIV")/AIDS\] anymore and that truly saddens me, to paraphrase comedian [Sandra Bernhard](http://www.sandrabernhard.com/ "Sandra Bernhard"). But in 1981, it replaced hepatitis and mono as the topic on everyone’s lips.
That’s how Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tonys [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") and actor Bruce Vilanch (Hollywood Squares, Hairspray) remembers it.
“This thing came, but the devastation was so total,” Vilanch told SF Weekly. One week someone had a cough and the next week they were dead. No one knew what was happening, but there seemed to be so many gay people that it was happening to. And it resembled pneumonia, so we called it the gay pneumonia. It wasn’t even identified as AIDS till years later, so it was this horrible, baffling thing.“
While HIV cocktails have turned the deadly virus into a more manageable one, those who live with it still struggle to pay for cost-prohibitive medications and in some places to acquire safe housing. That’s why events like The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation’s one-night-only cabaret benefit Motown & More, An Evening of Music, Dance & Comedy with Special Guests Bruce Vilanch and Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy remain vital.
Vilanch spoke to SF Weekly about the continued importance of AIDS benefits, holding out for a cure and whether it’s too early for AIDS jokes.
What can you tell us about Motown & More?
I’ll be cohosting and doing comedy mostly. I don’t have any plans to do any musical stuff, but you never know. Between now and then, we might cook something up. I just hate to pin myself down.
This is also a great opportunity for the kids singing [Carol King](http://www.caroleking.com/ "Carole King") eight times a week to sing anything but Carol King. Since Carol King wrote a lot of stuff for rhythm and blues acts during her Brill Building period, there’s a lot of Motown-y stuff in that show, and they’re going to get to sing that stuff that they can’t sing in her show. So that’s what makes it so much fun.
How did you first get involved with Richmond/Ermet’s One Night Only shows?
Well, I’ve been doing stuff for Richmond/Ermet for a long time. They do two big shows a year: Help is on the Way in the summer and Help is on the Way for the Holidays around Christmas. I’ve done a bunch of those at the Palace of Fine Farts. When I was in Hairspray, we toured the country for a year and we made it our business to take our Monday nights, which were dark and turn them into AIDS benefits for local charities, and Richmond/Ermet does the same thing.
When one of these musicals comes into town, they get the cast on a Monday night to sing everything else. The cast loves it because they get to sing something else and Richmond/Ermet is such a wonderful, close-to-the-ground charity, where all the money goes directly to the people who need it. They have a very low overhead. They’re not in the charity business. They’re really doing a great public service, so you get a great feeling of contribution.
People are still struggling with HIV/AIDS, yet there isn’t a single awareness-raising red ribbon to be seen at major awards shows anymore. People don’t talk about AIDS to the extent that they used to.
That’s because of the cocktail. With the drugs that are available, people are living longer. They’re not dying at the rate they were years ago. But at the same time, those cocktails are incredibly expensive and people need the support. Of course, the thing hasn’t been cured yet and it would be nice if one of these drugs was actually like a polio vaccine and could wipe it out. So, of course, the research and the work continue and that needs financing, too.
But Richmond/Ermet is not about research. They’re about helping people who have it and live with the financial burden and providing services for them. I think when people find out what this organization is about they see how worthwhile it is and begin talking again. When you stop the dying, then people’s attention shift to something else. That’s what we’re like.
How did the gay community handle the epidemic 45 years ago?
There was panic in the community because it seemed to be happening to so many of us and, of course, panic outside of the community because anyone dealing with us suddenly viewed us as a pariah.
As the contours of it became clearer, the gay community realized that the only way we were going to do anything about it was if we banded together. What had been the beginnings of a political liberation movement that had been gathering steam since [Stonewall](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7338,-74.0021&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7338,-74.0021 (Stonewall%20riots)&t=h "Stonewall riots") transformed into an AIDS movement. The government wasn’t going to do anything because they were as scared as anybody else, so it was up to us to force them to do things.
Talk to us about your own personal involvement.
I got involved on the show business level, because show business is the great fountain of money when it needs to be, and you do that by putting on shows and raising a lot of money. That’s what we did with the people who were willing to identify themselves with it and that was generally people whose lives had been affected by it like [Joan Rivers](http://www.joanrivers.com "Joan Rivers"), [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") and Nell Carter. Once Rock Hudson identified as an AIDS patient, then the floodgates opened and Elizabeth Taylor got involved and real charities began to be formed.
Are you still haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost to AIDS?
All the time. I live now in a loft in West Hollywood and through one of my windows can look up at the Hollywood Hills. I point out houses of people who are dead. I knew them all. It’s a visceral reminder of all the people who used to be here who aren’t anymore. I think, as you get older, visions of people who you’ve lost begin to appear to you at the oddest times. But in the case of people like me, we lost so many people when we were young that we were not supposed to lose that it’s double what it would be for most people. To have a mass of people go at the same time was devastating and unprecedented.
What are the challenges, aside from overpriced medications, still faced by [HIV-positive people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-positive_people "HIV-positive people") today?
There’s still discrimination. People ask me why I continue to do benefits, and I say because no one with breast cancer was ever forced to leave an apartment because they have breast cancer. This is one of the few conditions in the world where you’re still made to feel like a leper in some places.
Will we see a cure in the near future?
Yeah, of course. I may be a cockeyed optimist, but we do have cures for things that used to be the scourge of the planet and I think we can find a cure for this. I suspect that we’re close because they have already found a way to contain and manage it, so they’re just a couple of hills away.
We often look for humor in the things that most distress us. That said, since you’re a comedy writer, I have to ask … Is it still too early for AIDS jokes?
I think people who have it can do that. But I think it’s difficult for anybody else to try and do it unless they’re going to make a comment about the fact that they’re doing it and that it’s too soon.
There are AIDS jokes that we always tell each other that we’d never do publicly. But then there are a lot of jokes that we tell each other that we’d never do publicly, so it falls into that category. I can’t think of one that I would do generally, because it ain’t fittin’.
Motown & More – An Evening of Music, Dance & Comedy, Monday, Sep. 12, at Marines’ Memorial Theater, $36-$75, 609 Sutter St, 415-273-1620 or ONO-Beautiful.eventbrite.com.
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**Tags:** 21st century BC, Abraham Lincoln, AOL, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Transgender, Transphobia
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### [Check Out: Bruce Vilanch & The Skivvies, SATURDAY, August 13, 8PM, Fire Island](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/08/10/check-out-bruce-vilanch-the-skivvies-saturday-august-13-8pm-fire-island/)
**Published:** August 10, 2016
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") & The Skivvies
SATURDAY, August 13, 8PM
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Bruce Vilanch & The Skivvies
In Association with rj productions
[Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award")-winner, celebrated comedy genius and [Fire Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Island "Fire Island") favorite, Bruce Vilanch, comes to Whyte Hall in August with [musical comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") sensations The Skivvies. From writing [The Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") for over 25 years to [The Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"), Bruce has many stories to tell.
The Skivvies, the “musically thrilling” [undie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergarment "Undergarment")-rock, comedy-pop duo don’t just strip down their [musical arrangements](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement "Arrangement"), they literally strip down to their underwear to perform their distinctive mashups and eccentric originals for cello and ukulele starring Award-winning singer-actors [Lauren Molina](http://www.laurenmolina.com "Lauren Molina") (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd & Rock of Ages) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up, Buyer and Cellar) [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/ "The Wall Street Journal") called them “smart, sophisticated…ingenious.”
Tickets $100 & $75
TICKETS AVAILABLE IN THE HARBOR AND ONLINE NOW
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**Tags:** Ancient Rome, Animation, Aphrodite, Bathroom, Bruce Vilanch, Business, Capri, Charles Krauthammer, CNNMoney.com, Dining room, skivvies, The Wall Street Journal
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### [Goodspeed’s ‘Sign of the Times’ a fun ’60s romp with a message](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/08/02/goodspeeds-sign-of-the-times-a-fun-60s-romp-with-a-message/)
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**Connecticut Post
Goodspeed’s ‘Sign of the Times’ a fun ’60s romp with a message
By Phyllis A.S. Boros Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, August 2, 2016**
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For the young Broadway actress [Ephie Aardema](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Ephie+Aardema%22), the new musical, “Sign of the Times,” at Goodspeed’s [Terris Theatre](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Terris+Theatre%22), goes far beyond nostalgia.
Set in the mid-1960s, the story follows 20-something Cindy, played by Aardema, from her Ohio hometown to Manhattan to explore her dream of becoming a professional photographer. In the process, she comes to understand the importance of “friendship, love and discovering one’s sense of self.”
Through all her experiences, Cindy’s soundtrack for life will be the pop music that indeed captured this period of time — songs made famous by the likes of Petula “Downtown” Clark, Nancy “[These Boots are Made for Walking](http://www.last.fm/music/Nancy%2BSinatra/These%2BBoots%2BAre%2BMade%2BFor%2BWalkin%2527 "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'")” Sinatra and Dusty “I Only Want to Be with You” Springfield. Songs made popular by [Elvis Presley](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Elvis+Presley%22), [Glenn Yarbrough](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Glenn+Yarbrough%22) and [Janis Ian](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Janis+Ian%22) are among the many others featured.
Baby boomers, those born soon after [World War II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II "World War II"), will be able to tap their toes to the music that was a favorite of the time. And nostalgia is good, says Aardema, who celebrated her 25th birthday, while in rehearsals.
> ## Terris Theatre, 33 N. Main St., Chester. Tickets start at $49. Through Sept. 4. Wednesdays at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 and 6:30 p.m. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org
But younger audiences, too, will relate to this musical since many of the issues of 50 years ago are relevant today, said the [Orlando, Fla.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.4158333333,-81.2988888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=28.4158333333,-81.2988888889 (Orlando%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Orlando, Florida"), native.
“History repeats itself,” she noted. “There are so many parallels to today … so many issues that we are still struggling with: civil rights, feminism” and war. In the 1960s it was Vietnam, today it’s the Mideast and world-wide terrorism, she added. “Plus, the musical has sharp dialog and a great sense of humor” that will appeal to a broad range of theater-goers.
“I don’t want to give away the ending … but hers is a journey of independence, as she asks: ‘Who am I?’ She’s a pretty strong individual who always speaks her mind. Even when she arrives in [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City"), she’s naive, but she still speaks her mind. I love that about her,” Aardema said.
Goodspeed, which is based in [East Haddam](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4833333333,-72.4&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.4833333333,-72.4 (East%20Haddam%2C%20Connecticut)&t=h "East Haddam, Connecticut"), operates the Terris Theatre in Chester as a “test kitchen” of sorts for the development of new musicals. It is hoped that this particular show will go on to have a long life on Broadway, off-Broadway, on a national tour or in regional theater. For this reason, dialog and music can be tweaked or changed at every performance.
That said, the production features songs predominantly by Clark (an English singer, whose career spans about seven decades): “My Love,” “A Sign of the Times,” “Colour My World,” “I Know a Place,” “The In Crowd” and “Don’t Sleep in the Subway” among them.
Aardema, who appeared in the [Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") of “The Bridges of Madison County” and Goodspeed’s “Snapshots,” will co-star with [Robert Lenzi](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Robert+Lenzi%22), [Nick Bailey](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Nick+Bailey%22), [Bryan Fenkart](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Bryan+Fenkart%22), [Alet Taylor](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Alet+Taylor%22) and Crystal Lucas-Perry.
Director is [Gabriel Barre](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Gabriel+Barre%22), who says the production will take audiences on a “fun-filled ride through the nightclubs, subways, cramped apartments and penthouses of 1960s New York.” Book is by [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Bruce+Vilanch%22), with the story created by [Richard Robin](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Richard+Robin%22). Choreographer is [JoAnn M. Hunter](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22JoAnn+M.+Hunter%22).
Aardema, who studied at Circle in the [Square Theatre School](http://www.ctpost.com/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Square+Theatre+School%22) in New York, said she gets the most pleasure from dancing in the show.
“JoAnn is an amazing choreographer and there are a couple of magical numbers in this. I started out as a dancer (in elementary school), so dance is a huge source of joy for me … even watching (others dance) is really cool.”
Aardema said the first community musical for which she auditioned was “Annie” at age 9. She also simultaneously signed up as a backstage volunteer — because she was certain that she wouldn’t even get a bit part in the show.
Apparently, she had no idea she was a natural on stage; others, however, did. She won the lead “and I’ve never looked back.”
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### [Musical based around Petula Clark songs opens up in Connecticut. What to expect?](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/07/30/musical-based-around-petula-clark-songs-opens-up-in-connecticut-what-to-expect/)
**Published:** July 30, 2016
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Musical based around [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") songs opens up in [Connecticut](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6,-72.7&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.6,-72.7 (Connecticut)&t=h "Connecticut")
Published on:29 July 2016**
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A stage-show based around the songs of the 1960’s British songstress, Petula Clark, has opened up in Connecticut, titled A Sign of the Times.
What to expect?
According to the press release, the story is not that of Petula Clark herself, despite featuring quite a good number of her songs. Instead, the play tells of an original story of a girl named Cindy who runs away from Middle America to [Manhattan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667 (Manhattan)&t=h "Manhattan") in the year of 1965, and the various misadventures that ensue. A press release give the show the tagline of “Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares —go “Downtown” and find out who you are!,” taken from Clark’s song, “Downtown,” which is one of the many songs featured in the show.
In the current show, Cindy is played by Ephie Aardema, a Broadway veteran. Other actors include Robert Lenzi, Bryan Fenkart, Nick Bailey, and Crystal Lucas-Perry. Esnsemble includes Lauren Boyd, Lauren Nicole Chapman, Jeremy Gaston, Alexandra Matteo, [Kevin Santos](http://www.igma.tv/profile/kevin-santos "Kevin Santos"), Keven Quillon, Dave Schoonover and Alet Taylor, many of whom have appeared in [Broadway shows](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") as well as other shows for the Connecticut theatre.
The book or libretto was written by [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and the story was created by Richard Robin. Gabriel Barre serves as director. JoAnn M. Hunter serves as a choreographer. Performances will begin July 29 and will last until early September at the [Norma Terris Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4054,-72.4533&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.4054,-72.4533 (Norma%20Terris%20Theatre)&t=h "Norma Terris Theatre"), which is owned by the [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals") theater company, in Chester, Connecticut. Tickets can be purchased through the theatre’s box office or online at Goodspeed’s website.
The show includes such popular Clark songs as “Color My World,” “Kiss Me Goodbye,” “Who Am I,” “Call Me,” “[Don’t Sleep in the Subway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Sleep_in_the_Subway "Don't Sleep in the Subway")” and “[The Boy From New York City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_from_New_York_City "The Boy from New York City"),” in addition to the namesake song, which can be seen below.
That said, Petula Clark is not the only icon of the Sixties to be a part of the show. In addition, the show is said to feature songs from other artists of the decade, such as Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” and the Fontella Bass number, “Rescue Me.” Even one Elvis number, “If I Can Dream,” will appear in the show. #Music
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### [New Vilanch musical plans a tuneful, funny flashback that’s relatable](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/07/23/new-vilanch-musical-plans-a-tuneful-funny-flashback-thats-relatable/)
**Published:** July 23, 2016
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New Goodspeed musical plans a tuneful, funny flashback that’s relatable
By Joe Amarante
07/22/16, 12:25 PM EDT**
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CHESTER >> In the news: Rancorous politics, nuts with guns, hateful cults of death and a drug-overdose “epidemic.”
In the theaters and galleries, meanwhile? Maybe a chance to catch your breath.
“I think theater as an escape is completely wonderful,” said director Gabriel Barre the other day, before rehearsals for the new musical “[A Sign of the Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sign_of_the_Times "A Sign of the Times").” “There’s nothing wrong with that and a lot of entertainment can and should provide an ability to transport an audience; let’s call it that instead of escape.”
But what Barre is really drawn to, he said in a phone interview, is a show that can do that as well as “make you look at your life in a different way.”
“For me, I want people to be transported and laugh and have a good time and be dazzled and be surprised, of course,” Barre said. “But I also want them to think a little bit and to be emotionally moved, as well.”
Barre is directing “A Sign of the Times” at The Terris Theatre in Chester — about a woman from the sticks who moves to [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=43.0,-75.0 (New%20York)&t=h "New York") City in the 1960s amid the era’s backdrop of women’s liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war protests. The musical runs from July 29 to Sept. 4 at [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals")’ development theater on North Main Street.
The title is based on the [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") song, and Barre said it’s relatable.
“It’s quite interesting to juxtapose this song, and the protests of the ’60s that are depicted in this show, with the protests that are happening today,” Barre said. “And what’s remarkable to realize is… the signs of the times in the ’60s are not that different — sadly perhaps, tragically perhaps — than the signs of these times.
Still, Barre & Co. are creating a musical from scratch here, which is always daunting.
“That’s sort of the fun of it for me,” said Barre, who’s done several new shows at Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre as well as established musicals elsewhere and at the main Goodspeed theater in [East Haddam](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4833333333,-72.4&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.4833333333,-72.4 (East%20Haddam%2C%20Connecticut)&t=h "East Haddam, Connecticut").
Barre likes the older musicals, but he enjoys the challenge of the development process, too — “making sure the shows are clear, not too long, not too short. I’m really looking at it as a dramaturge, as an advocate for the audience.”
This one involves taking older songs — many by British singer Clark — and weaving them into “a completely new and original story.”
That was one of the first challenges that writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") had to face on the project. You know Vilanch — the hefty, blonde-haired writer who was head writer for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") for years, not to mention “Hollywood Squares,” where he also occupied a square near Whoopi Goldberg. He also played Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray” on Broadway and has written for Bette Midler and [Diana Ross](http://www.dianaross.de/ "Diana Ross") shows.
Richard Robin came up with the basic story idea and Vilanch took it from there, in later collaboration with Barre and the music staff led by Rick Fox and Joseph Church.
“I’m proud of the way we’ve woven these songs into the life of this young woman, Cindy, who’s from the Midwest and comes to New York to find her purpose in New York,” said Barre.
These types of shows — from tuneful “Bikinis” to the Queen tune-fest “We Will Rock You” — can be very thin in plot and real meaning. But this one is not just a jukebox musical, said Barre, although it does crank out the 1960s hits of Clark, Lesley Gore, Nancy Sinatra and others.
“We have six main characters who all have their own subplots and relationships. So we have a plot that’s very plausible… It’s more than a thin membrane that links the songs.”
Barre said the team is concentrating on the tone of the show. “We’re really investing in these characters and hope everyone else will, as well — taking the material seriously in the right places, but also having lots of fun here and there.”
Being a Terris show, the audience will help determine how that works and help the show find the right balance, Barre said.
Why Petula Clark music (“Downtown,” “I Know a Place”) as a focus? In the show’s notes, Vilanch says he always thought Clark’s songs sounded like they were from a musical.
“Like country songs, in a way, these songs have great character,” said Barre.
Barre said most of us know the tunes “but we sometimes dismiss the lyrics and just sing along. But in the context of a show, they actually (fit) quite well and come quite easily out of the mouths of characters that Bruce and Richard have drawn here.”
So much so that it sounds like a contemporary musical, Barre said.
And like watching the Abba musical “Mamma Mia!” the audience will have fun seeing “that engineering going on” and how the songs are justified.
There’s comedy with the music, of course.
Barre called Vilanch a “great, great person with a big heart… I’ve actually worked with him before on some benefits… I love watching him put together jokes and, of course, he’s been a laugh riot in rehearsals, which I expected. But what’s really surprising to me is his encyclopedic knowledge of … musical theater… He just knows every show that’s ever been done, who starred in it, when they left… But he knows a lot about the world (too).”
And there’s plenty of dance, said Barre, crafted by choreographer JoAnn Hunter and mainly performed by an ensemble of 10 dancers.
“The whole show was conceived by me and JoAnn and the team… as a constant flowing spectacle that never stops, in a way,” said Barre. “Even the transitions are all choreographed.”
If it works, the show indeed will transport viewers to not just another troubled time but a magical place.
“I think that (parallel) is one of the things that makes this show not just fluff or trivial or a jukebox musical that you can just go and escape… but that it’s a show that will actually remind people that Americans are still trying to find what it (America) is and who we are and what does it mean to be [American](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States").
“What does it mean to be patriotic? Does it mean you commit to the country as it is or can you be just as patriotic and be committed to changing it?”
Cindy (played by Ephie Aardema) goes from being an amateur photographer to a professional in the show, which gives the show license to use projections of images from the era, too. And evocative images are certainly a sign of both times, too, for bad or good.
Curtain times are Wednesday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., July 29 at 8, July 30 at 3 and 8, and July 31 at 2 and 6:30. Tickets ($49 or less) are available a 860-873-8668 or online at goodspeed.org.
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**Tags:** Better Than Ezra, Billy Talent, BMG Rights Management, Bruce Vilanch, California, Donald Trump, New York City, Pasadena, Petula Clark, S-Curve Records, The End Records, United States
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### ['A Sign Of The Times' world premiere production Friday, July 29, through Sept. 4 at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/07/22/a-sign-of-the-times-world-premiere-production-friday-july-29-through-sept-4-at-goodspeed-musicals-norma-terris-theatre/)
**Published:** July 22, 2016
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**Hartford Courant**
**‘A Sign Of The Times’**
**By [Christopher Arnott](http://www.courant.com/hc-christopher-arnott-bio-staff.html#nt=byline)**
**July 21, 2016**
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“[A Sign of the Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sign_of_the_Times "A Sign of the Times")” has some real star power associated with its world premiere production Friday, July 29, through Sept. 4 at [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals")‘ [Norma Terris Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4054,-72.4533&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.4054,-72.4533 (Norma%20Terris%20Theatre)&t=h "Norma Terris Theatre"), 33 N. Main St., Chester.
The show, subtitled “A New ’60s Musical,” is written by [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), the comedy writer known for punching up Academy Awards monologues, appearing on “Hollywood Squares,” and starring in the first national tour of “Hairspray.”
“A Sign of the Times” is directed by Gabriel Barre, who helmed the Goodspeed and [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") productions of “Amazing Grace.” It’s choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter, currently represented on Broadway with “School of Rock” and “Disaster.” The cast features Ephie Aardema, [Nick Bailey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Bailey "Nicholas Bailey"), Bryan Fenkart, Robert Lenzi and Crystal Lucas-Perry, all of whom have cool [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=43.0,-75.0 (New%20York)&t=h "New York") and regional theater credits. Most of the members of the supporting ensemble have been in national tours of Broadway hits; Lauren Nicole Chapman, to name one, played Lauren in “Kinky Boots” at The Bushnell last year.
But the real motivating force for “A Sign of the Times” appears to be the creative team’s access to a cache of pop hits by [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark"), including “Call Me,” “I Know a Place,” “Downtown,” “The In Crowd,” “Color My World” (not the Chicago one), “[Don’t Sleep in the Subway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Sleep_in_the_Subway "Don't Sleep in the Subway"),” and, naturally, “A Sign of the Times.” The show also features hits associated with Dusty Springfield, [Elvis Presley](http://elvis.com "Elvis Presley"), Janis Ian, Lesley Gore and others.
Performances are Wednesday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $59, with special $25 deals for patrons aged “40 and Under” and $15 student rush seats. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.
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**Tags:** Bill Black, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Lockwood (guitarist), Nashville, Sam Phillips, Scotty Moore, Tennessee
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Petula Clark Inspired Musical, Sign Of The Times, Announces Cast And Songs](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/07/01/bruce-vilanchs-petula-clark-inspired-musical-sign-of-the-times-announces-cast-and-songs/)
**Published:** July 1, 2016
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**Playbill
Goodspeed’s Petula Clark Musical, Sign of the Times, Announces Cast
BY ROBERT VIAGAS
JUN 28, 2016**
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Bruce Vilanch is writing the libretto.
*A Sign of the Times*, a new musical that uses songs made famous by 1960s pop sensation Petula Clark “and other hit-makers of the day,” has announced the cast for its summer production at Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.
Running July 29–September 4, the show has an original story by Richard Robin and an original book by comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24838). The score includes such period hits as “Downtown,” “Call Me,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway” and “The Boy From New York City.”
Gabriel Barre will direct the musical, which tells the story of a young woman named Cindy who comes to New York in 1965. According to production notes, “Unexpected friends, lovers, careers, and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical. Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares—go ‘Downtown’ and find out who you are!”
Cindy will be played by Ephie Aardema, who appeared in the Broadway production of [*The Bridges of Madison County*](http://www.playbill.com/production/the-bridges-of-madison-county-gerald-schoenfeld-theatre-vault-0000014035) and Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre production of *Snapshots*. Robert Lenzi from Broadway’s *Tuck Everlasting* and [*South Pacific*](http://www.playbill.com/production/south-pacific-cort-theatre-vault-0000003588) will play Brian. Also in the cast: Bryan Fenkart (Broadway’s[*Memphis*](http://www.playbill.com/production/memphis-shubert-theatre-vault-0000010460)), Nick Bailey (Broadway’s *Casa Valentina*) and Crystal Lucas-Perry ( *Little Children Dream of God* at the Roundabout Theatre).
The ensemble includes Lauren Boyd (Broadway’s [*West Side Story*](http://www.playbill.com/production/west-side-story-winter-garden-theatre-vault-0000011562)), Lauren Chapman (Broadway’s [*Kinky Boots*](http://www.playbill.com/production/kinky-boots-al-hirschfeld-theatre-vault-0000013982)), Melessie Clark, Drew Franklin ( *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* at Goodspeed and Broadway’s *Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella*), Jeremy Gaston (Broadway’s [*Sister Act*](http://www.playbill.com/production/sister-act-broadway-theatre-vault-0000013729)), Alexandra Matteo (Broadway’s *Annie*), Keven Quillon (Broadway’s *Grease, Shrek the Musical* and [*Annie*](http://www.playbill.com/production/annie-alvin-theatre-vault-0000000878)), Kevin Santos (Broadway’s *A Chorus Line, West Side Story*), Dave Schoonover (Broadway’s [*Young Frankenstein*](http://www.playbill.com/production/young-frankenstein-hilton-theatre-vault-0000004676)) and Alet Taylor (Broadway’s [*The Producers*](http://www.playbill.com/production/the-producers-st-james-theatre-vault-0000004170)).
Other creative team credits: choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter, scenic design by Paul Tate dePoo lII, costumes by Jennifer Caprio, lighting design by [Ken Billington](http://www.playbill.com/person/ken-billington-vault-0000003255), projection design by Benjamin Pearcy, sound design by Jay Hilton and music direction by Rick Fox.
Tickets are available through the Box Office (860) 873-8668, or on-line at [Goodspeed.org](http://www.goodspeed.org/).
Here are the songs used in the show, along with the artist who recorded them and who wrote them:
“Color My World,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Yvonne J. Harvey and Tony Hatch
“I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Yvonne J. Harvey and Tony Hatch
“I Only Want To Be With You,” Sung by Dusty Springfield, Written by Michael Edwin Hawker and Ivor Raymonde
“The Other Man’s Grass Is Always Greener,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Yvonne J. Harvey and Tony Hatch
“I Know A Place,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
“Turn Back The Hands Of Time,” Sung by Tyrone Davis, Written by Jack Daniels and Bonnie Thompson
“Round Every Corner,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
“Baby The Rain Must Fall,” Sung by Glenn Yarbrough, Written by Elmer Bernstein and Ernie Sheldon
“Five O’Clock World,” Sung by The Vogues, Written by Allen Reynolds
“Call Me,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
“These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” Sung by Nancy Sinatra, Written by Lee Hazlewood
“Rescue Me,” Sung by Fontella Bass, Written by Raynard Miner and Carl William Smith
“The Boy From New York City,” Sung by The Ad Libs, Written by John Taylor and George Davis
“If I Can Dream,” Sung by Elvis Presley, Written by Earl Brown
“Who Am I,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Yvonne J. Harvey and Tony Hatch
“The In Crowd,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Billy Page
“A Sign Of The Times,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
“It’s In His Kiss,” Sung by Betty Everett, Written by Rudy Clark
“Society’s Child,” Sung by Janis Ian, Written by Janis Ian
“Don’t Sleep In The Subway,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Yvonne J. Harvey and Tony Hatch
“You’d Better Come Home,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
“You Don’t Own Me,” Sung by Lesley Gore, Written by John Madara and David White
“Kiss Me Goodbye,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by John Barry Mason and Leslie David Reed
“Downtown,” Sung by Petula Clark, Written by Tony Hatch
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**Tags:** Better Than Ezra, Billy Talent, BMG Rights Management, Bruce Vilanch, California, New York, New York City, Pasadena, Petula Clark, S-Curve Records, The End Records, Vagrant Records
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### [Broadway Veterans Will Lead Bruce Vilanch's New 1960s Musical A SIGN OF THE TIMES in CT](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/06/28/broadway-veterans-will-lead-bruce-vilanchs-new-1960s-musical-a-sign-of-the-times-in-ct/)
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**Broadway World
Broadway Veterans Will Lead Goodspeed’s New 1960s Musical [A SIGN OF THE TIMES](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sign_of_the_Times "A Sign of the Times")
By Broadway World Staff
June 28, 2016**
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This is the story of Cindy, a 20-something whose dreams are bigger than her Midwestern hometown will allow. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the 1960s -women’s liberation, the civil rights movement, and protests of the Vietnam war-Cindy searches for her place in the world. A Sign of the Times, featuring chart-topping hits from the 1960s, celebrates friendship, love, and discovering one’s sense of self. This pop-fueled musical will run July 29 – September 4 at The Terris Theatre in Chester, [Conn.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6,-72.7&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.6,-72.7 (Connecticut)&t=h "Connecticut") A Sign of the Times will be sponsored by Essex Savings Bank.
1965\. The pulse of a changing era lures Cindy from Middle America to the swirl of Manhattan. Unexpected friends, lovers, careers, and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical featuring songs made famous by [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") and other hit-makers of the day. “I Know a Place,” “The Shoop Shoop Song,” and “If I Can Dream” are among the fabulous favorites on an eye-opening ride from innocence to experience. Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares – go “Downtown” and find out who you are!
A Sign of the Times includes popular hits by Petula Clark, as well as classics by Elvis Presley, Lesley Gore, Nancy Sinatra, and Fontella Bass. The musical’s original book is by Emmy Award-winning writer Bruce Vilanch. Vilanch’s career as writer and performer spans the worlds of television, film, and stage. For television he has written for shows as diverse as “[The Brady Bunch Variety Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Hour "The Brady Bunch Hour"),” “Donnie and Marie,” “Comic Relief,” and “Hollywood Squares,” as well as serving several years as head writer for the Academy Awards. For Broadway, Bruce not only appeared as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, but wrote the book for the musical Platinum and penned special material for a number of revues and concerts for the likes of Bette Midler, Michael Feinstein, and Diana Ross, among others. The story of A Sign of the Times was created by Richard Robin. This production made possible by special arrangement with Richard Robin, president of Wells Street Productions.
Cindy will be played by Ephie Aardema who appeared in the Broadway production of The Bridges of Madison County and Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre production of Snapshots. Robert Lenzi from Broadway’s Tuck Everlasting, and South Pacific will play Brian. The role of Dennis will be played by Bryan Fenkart who performed in the cast of Broadway’s Memphis. Matt will be played by Nick Bailey whose credits include the Broadway production Casa Valentina. Tanya will be played by Crystal Lucas-Perry who most recently played Madison in Little Children Dream of God at the Roundabout Theatre.
The ensemble includes Lauren Boyd (Broadway’s West Side Story), Lauren Chapman (Broadway’s Kinky Boots), Melessie Clark, Drew Franklin (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at The Goodspeed and Broadway’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella), Jeremy Gaston (Broadway’s Sister Act), Alexandra Matteo (Broadway’s Annie), Keven Quillon (Broadway’s Grease, Shrek the Musical, and Annie), Kevin Santos (Broadway’s A Chorus Line, West Side Story), Dave Schoonover (Broadway’s Young Frankenstein), and Alet Taylor (Broadway’s The Producers) who will play Cleo.
A Sign of the Times will be directed by Gabriel Barre. Mr. Barre has directed numerous productions for [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals") including Camille Claudel, King of Hearts, Sweeney Todd, Houdini, and Fanny Hill. In 2012 Mr. Barre directed Amazing Grace at The Terris Theatre and again in 2015 on Broadway. Off-Broadway he directed Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Son of a Gun; Cyrano; Summer of ’42; Stars in Your Eyes; Honky-Tonk Highway; john & jen; and Almost, Maine. As a performer he appeared on Broadway in Rags, Starmites, Anna Karenina, and Ain’t Broadway Grand.
JoAnn M. Hunter will serve as Choreographer. Ms. Hunter’s Broadway credits for choreography include Associate Chorographer for All Shook Up, The Wedding Singer, Spring Awakening, and Curtains and Choreographer for the recent hits School of Rock-The Musical, and Disaster!. As a dancer, she performed on Broadway in Miss Saigon, Guys and Dolls, Damn Yankees, and [How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Without_Really_Trying "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), among others. She returns to The Terris Theatre where she served as an Assistant Choreographer for the 2004 Goodspeed production of Princesses.
Scenic Design will be by Paul Tate DePoo lII who most recently served as the Scenic Designer for Goodspeed’s Guys and Dolls and the Associate Designer for Broadway’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Costumes are designed by Jennifer Caprio whose credits include the Broadway’s [The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_25th_Annual_Putnam_County_Spelling_Bee "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"), as well as Goodspeed’s LMNOP at The Terris Theatre. Lighting Design will be by Ken Billington who has been nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning in 1997 for Best Lighting Design for Chicago. With nearly 100 Broadway productions to his name, some of his most recent designs include Dames at Sea, Amazing Grace, Chaplin, The Scottsboro Boys, Sunday in the Park with George, It Shoulda Been You, and The Drowsy Chaperone. He has also served as [Lighting Designer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting_designer "Lighting designer") for numerous Goodspeed productions including Amazing Grace, Lucky Guy, The Story of My Life, The 60’s Project, They All Laughed, and The Road to Hollywood. Projection Design will be provided by Benjamin Pearcy. Mr. Pearcy’s Broadway credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Big Fish. Jay Hilton who is in his 31st season at Goodspeed will provide Sound Design.
The Music Director for A Sign of the Times will be Rick Fox whose Broadway credits include Doctor Zhivago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent, and Blood Brothers. Joseph Church will serve as Music Supervisor. Mr. Church is best-known for his music direction and supervision of the [Broadway musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") The Lion King and The Who’s Tommy. Other credits include Amazing Grace, In the Heights, Little Shop of Horrors, Randy Newman’s Faust, and [Radio City Christmas Spectacular](http://www.radiocitychristmas.com/newyork.html "Radio City Christmas Spectacular"). He returns to Goodspeed where he previously served as associate conductor for The Little Rascals, and as supervisor/orchestrator for The 60’s Project. Dance Arrangements will be by David Dabbon whose Broadway credits include providing the Dance Arrangements for Disaster! and additional Orchestrations for Sondheim on Sondheim. Casting for A Sign of the Times is by Tara Rubin Casting.
A Sign of the Times will run July 29 through September 4, 2016. Curtain times are Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m..
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Associated Press, Becky Mode, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Goodspeed Musicals, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mark Setlock, McDonald's, Modern Family, New York City, sign of the times, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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### [Bruce Vilanch Awarded WeHo's Rainbow Key Award Wednesday, June 22, 2016](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/06/23/bruce-vilanch-awarded-wehos-rainbow-key-award-wednesday-june-22-2016/)
**Published:** June 23, 2016
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**[WeHoVille](http://www.wehoville.com/)
[WeHo](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California") Rainbow Key Awards Ceremony
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 By Staff**
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WeHo’s annual Rainbow Key Awards ceremony will take place Wednesday at the City Council Chambers at 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., south of [Santa Monica](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0219444444,-118.481388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0219444444,-118.481388889 (Santa%20Monica%2C%20California)&t=h "Santa Monica, California"). There will be an informal reception at 6 p.m. to be followed by an awards program at 7 p.m. During the event, the names of the 49 victims who were killed in the recent Orlando mass shooting will be called out.
The first two recipients of the Rainbow Key Award, in 1993 — [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") activist, comedian, writer and actor [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and AIDS activist and actress [Carole Cook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cook "Carole Cook") — will attend.
Nominations for Rainbow Key Awards are received by the city’s [Lesbian and Gay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") Advisory Board, which makes recommendations to the West Hollywood City Council. The council selects award recipients. This year’s Rainbow Key Awards honorees are:
— Jay M. Kohorn, civil rights attorney.
— Mark Lehman, lawyer and board chair of the National AIDS Monument Foundation.
— Carol Taylor-DiPietro, one of the creators of the first Gay Nights at Disneyland.
— [Ruth Williams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Williams "Ruth Williams"), former director of advocacy for the [National Council of Jewish Women](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Jewish_Women "National Council of Jewish Women") Los Angeles, longtime community volunteer.
— The West Hollywood Community [Housing Corporation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Corporation "Housing Corporation"), which provides housing for people with limited income, including those with HIV/AIDS who have special needs.
Past honorees have included activists, artists, civic leaders, educators and community organizations. Contributions, whether by an individual or a group, may be in many forms, including the arts, community action, humanitarian action, sports, medicine, armed services, leadership potential, benefit to the global [gay and lesbian community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") or in other ways. More than 125 Rainbow Key Awards have been presented during the past 23 years.
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**Tags:** Abra (province), Africa, African Press Organization, AmfAR, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, awards/accolades, Bruce Vilanch, Durban, Hiv And Aids, HIV/AIDS, KwaZulu-Natal, rainbow key award, The Foundation for AIDS Research, Umhlanga, United States
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### [Bruce Vilanch Judge At 2016 Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/06/19/bruce-vilanch-judge-at-2016-stoli-key-west-cocktail-classic/)
**Published:** June 19, 2016
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In [Key West](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.559166,-81.784031&spn=0.1,0.1&q=24.559166,-81.784031 (Key%20West)&t=h "Key West") With the Best [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") Bartenders in America
BY GLENN GARNER
FRI, 2016-06-17 17:00**
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Last weekend, Stoli hosted 15 LGBT bartenders from across North America for the 2016 Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic. More than just a bartending competition, the winning selection was one-part amazing bartender and one-part amazing cocktail, while showcasing Stoli’s dedication to the community.
For Key West, the competition has become an annual favorite, drawing in visitors from all over for Key West Pride weekend. A local pillar of the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") and visitors for nearly 40 years, the queer-friendly Key West Business Guild welcomed Stoli with open arms.
“Having the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic attached to our Pride gives us the opportunity to have some very fabulous people come and visit,” said Matt Hon, executive director of the Business Guild. “Having these bartenders who are traveling in from 15 different cities that have never been to Key West before, they’re having their first experience here and finding out how fabulous and gay Key West really is.”
The weekend kicked off with a sunset cruise under a light drizzle of rain. It wasn’t enough to ruin the party though as contestants, friends, and Key West locals filled the deck, dancing with cocktails in hand. It was an intimate mixer that quickly built long distance friendships bound to last for years.
The next day, the competition began at 801 Bourbon Bar where I sat alongside fellow judges, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Jai Rodriguez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Rodriguez "Jai Rodriguez"). The first six contestants took turns winning over the crowd with their high octane personalities and strong but tasty drinks. Next, we made our way a block down to Aqua where six more competitors whipped up their best Stoli concoctions. Nine drinks into my shift as guest judge, I was sure I was about to pass out in Jai’s lap (there are worst places to end up blackout drunk).
With 12 master mixologists narrowed down to six, they progressed to the finals alongside the three fan favorite contestants who won immunity from the preliminaries. In front of a massive audience of Key West Pride goers, they took to an outdoor stage right in the middle of [Duval Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.5538,-81.80132&spn=1.0,1.0&q=24.5538,-81.80132 (Duval%20Street)&t=h "Duval Street") and in front of Bourbon Street Pub.
As they pulled out all the stops to impress judges, Bruce Vilanch, Latoya London, [Stuart Milk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Milk "Stuart Milk"), and local drag superstar, Sushi, the bartenders were critiqued on personality, concept, cocktail appearance, taste, and their overall knowledge of Stoli and Key West.
The competition was followed by performances from Jai and Latoya, which included covers of Nick Jonas and Barbra Streisand as well as some original music. As the tension built, we patiently waited to hear the winners of the third annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic.
Crowned in first place for his concoction, the Key West Kitty Kat, Rocky Collins AKA “the last top of Dallas” received the partygoers’ approval (below). Tying for second were Carly Morrison of [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") and Thuy Nguyen of Atlanta. Coming in third place, Flawless Shade from Portland, Oregon, was the competition’s first drag competitor.
Earlier in the weekend, Stoli’s National LGBT ambassador, Patrik Gallineaux, gave Out some insight into the significance of the competition:
“It’s all about giving back while having fun and celebrating the unique heritage of bartenders throughout history. I had to drive two hours as a kid to go to my nearest gay bar. That was the first time I ever felt happy and accepted, and for me, the gay bar was a community center. And the bartenders were so stellar. They made me feel safe and accepted.”
Gallineaux’s experience is similar to many. Just that night, the point was made very clear when tragedy struck Orlando. Four hours south at the exact same time, we were drinking and enjoying each other’s company much like those at Pulse were doing.
The next morning, there was an unmistakable heaviness in the air. It felt wrong to wake up and celebrate Pride on a day like that day, but days like that day made Pride so important. We continued with the day’s events as planned but when we hugged our old friends and new acquaintances, we lingered just a bit longer. Instead of just drinking in decadence and debauchery, we were very aware of what we were celebrating.
A Pride Parade of local establishments and the Stoli family marched down Duval Street behind a banner that read “Key West Stands with Orlando.” Afterward, we made our way to La Te Da, a locale where Gallineaux presented two checks to Collins for charities of his choice. (Collins chose the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, in Dallas, and [Wesley House](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.2088888889,0.121666666667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=52.2088888889,0.121666666667 (Wesley%20House)&t=h "Wesley House") in Key West.)
Then, we marched to the Atlantic Ocean in silence to honor those who had lost their lives earlier that morning. As we reached the pier, Stuart Milk of the [Harvey Milk Foundation](http://www.milkfoundation.org/ "Harvey Milk Foundation") stepped to the front to say a few words. I tried to get through the crowd to hear him but the pier was covered in people. I took off my shoes and walked through the water, watching over the side through people’s legs to see this great activist address my community.
With wet sand between my toes, I looked around at my brothers and sisters. All were sharing the same grief. Strangers hugged each other and cried together. It was the first time I’d seen my generation truly come together to support each other.
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### [Hollywood's (Very, Very Wild) "Gay Cheers" Turns 25: An Oral History of The Abbey](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/06/10/hollywoods-very-very-wild-gay-cheers-turns-25-an-oral-history-of-the-abbey/)
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**Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood’s (Very, Very Wild) “Gay Cheers” Turns 25: An Oral History of The Abbey
By Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, and Chris Gardner
6:45am PT | June 09, 2016**
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When it first opened, the place down the street said “Fagots — Stay Out!” AIDS raged and same-sex marriage was a pipe dream. Now, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Kevin Huvane and Nene Leakes recall the colorful history of the coffeehouse/bar with the shirtless bartenders, go-go dancers and [Elizabeth Taylor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor "Elizabeth Taylor") in the front row in her wheelchair, “just to get out and show people people she was alive and kicking.”
The iconic gay hotspot located near the corner of Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards in West [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") has hosted Oscar winners (Elizabeth Taylor watched from her wheelchair as trans star Candis Cayne high-kicked during her weekly one-woman show), pop superstars ([Lady Gaga](http://www.ladygaga.com "Lady Gaga") showed up in a bra and panties to give fans an exclusive listen to her third album, Artpop, before its official release) and gay glitterati (Elton John! Bryan Singer! CAA power agent Kevin Huvane!).
But the Abbey story is bigger than its big-name clientele. Owner David Cooley has seamlessly mixed nightlife innovations — the appletini was invented there; male and female go-go dancers perform side by side — with social activism during its 25-year run, a milestone toasted in May.
Opened in 1991 as a cozy coffee shop offering espresso and cakes, The Abbey, which was financed by Cooley on credit cards in order to serve an almost exclusively gay clientele (many of whom he handpicked from nearby [Alcoholics Anonymous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous "Alcoholics Anonymous") groups), quickly became a meeting place for local branches of [AIDS advocacy](http://www.iasociety.org/ "International AIDS Society") groups like ACT UP. This marked the beginning of the Abbey’s branding as an unofficial headquarters for gay rights advocates that would continue through Prop 8 marches and subsequent celebrations in 2008, when same-sex marriage was legalized in California.
“It really is the U.N. of bars,” says Huvane (who also is Cooley’s agent).
“Elizabeth Taylor would go there now and again to just get out and show people she was alive and kicking.”
The Abbey: Inside Hollywood’s Iconic Gay Hotspot
Christina Aguilera Elton John, [David Furnish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Furnish "David Furnish") and David Cooley Anna Nicole SmithBobby TrendyKim KardashianKris Jenner The Abbey PlaqueThe Abbey NapkinsIan McKellen and Martin JoyceKathy Griffin and Michelle TrachtenbergLance BassThe AbbeyThe Abbey’s Original Location
But it’s also still a white-hot destination, with an army of attractive staff and ever-stiff cocktails — a see-and-be-seen spot that never discriminates. “Part of the secret is from day one, I’ve always had the policy that everyone is welcome,” says Cooley, describing the Abbey’s embrace of gay, straight and in-between customers.
A new audience soon will get to see this living legend on the small screen when an Abbey-set reality show from E!, tentatively titled The Abbey Diaries, premieres (at a yet-unscheduled date). But for a more intimate perspective, THR asked Cooley, 56, and his cadre of Abbey worshippers to recount their favorite memories, discuss the bar’s cultural significance and look ahead to what the next chapter holds for the quintessential West Hollywood haunt.
DAVID COOLEY I grew up in Ohio and went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and got a degree in hotel administration. Upon graduating, I moved to Southern California and saw how accepted the lifestyle was in West Hollywood. I was just experiencing that I was becoming gay. I became a banker at Wells Fargo in 1984, and I watched as one of my clients opened the first coffeehouse in [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") called The Living Room. So I found 1,100 square feet from part of a laundry and dry cleaner and transformed it into the first coffeehouse in West Hollywood.
ALAN POUL, executive producer of HBO’s The Newsroom It was the beginning of the era of the coffeehouse. It was the first real “hang out and do work” coffee shop that was in [WeHo](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California") and was gay. It was a great place to run into people. It was quiet and friendly and became my favorite place to hang out. I did most of my hanging out there in the early years before they expanded. Now there are a million coffee places, but when the Abbey opened, there weren’t so many. It became a kind of unique haven where you could hang out during the day that wasn’t a bar and wasn’t expressly made for cruising.
GARY JANETTI, creator of Vicious, EP of Family Guy I had never seen a cool coffee shop with cute guys in tank tops sitting outside all day. It felt like there was a casting for the people having coffee at the Abbey. The best-looking person in every small town in America is told to go to Hollywood, so they all come to Hollywood. This was the gay version of that. Everybody played a part — my part was “gay guy who goes to the gym but also reads Balzac.” I always felt like gay Lana Turner, that I’d be discovered there, with my book and my latte. But my ambition was to be a TV writer. How I thought someone would have gleaned that from me just sitting there reading a book with a cup of coffee is beyond me!
COOLEY I would market it by going down to the Log Cabin \[Alcoholics Anonymous\] down the street and, you know, “Come up for coffee!” I would also just get a lot of good-looking guys to hang out there and buy them coffee and cake for the night. And people started noticing that it was a really attractive crowd in there. It had a good three-year run. Then I had the opportunity to move to where we are now, across the street, to this terra-cotta statuary business.
BRUCE VILANCH, head writer for the Oscars You’d watch the stone masons go to work across the street. They did a brisk business selling headstones and tombstones. We used to joke, “Well, if you find out you’re sick \[from AIDS\], you can go over there and spend hours picking out your headstone!”
HAL SPARKS, Queer as Folk star, Talk Soup host It was pivotally on the opposite side of West Hollywood from Barney’s Beanery, with its infamous sign \[“Fagots (sic) — Stay Out”\]. It was a safe zone across that Strip. It was a counterpoint to the hostility that was Barney’s.
COOLEY There were a few bars and clubs in the area: Studio One, The Mother Lode. They were all, you know, not seen by the street — behind curtains and black glass.
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VILANCH When it moved across the street, it was a much bigger deal. It was very atmospheric. The mood of the place changed as the day went on. It was a coffeehouse, and all of a sudden, they’d be lighting candles — a wall of candles would be behind you. It was brilliantly designed. The mood would change. People were reading, then the music would start and the lights would all change, and it became a dance place.
POUL It became much more actively social, and then suddenly it was a scene. It was a sea change.
CARSON KRESSLEY, TV host, judge of [RuPaul’s Drag Race](http://www.rupaulsdragrace.com "RuPaul's Drag Race") Coming from New York, it definitely feels very L.A. It has this Spanish kind of feeling, with all of these religious symbols. There are these open-air courtyards. There are topiaries, beautiful lighting. It’s very theatrical. There’s this woman who goes around selling “ro-sas.”
MARIA ESTELLE RIMALACHIN LA ROSA, West Hollywood merchant I’ve been selling roses for 21 years. Back in the day, I was selling about 80 roses a day, sometimes even 90 roses a day. Now, I only sell about a dozen because people are less romantic. It’s all about the apps and things today. The lesbians and gays were so romantic then; they would buy roses and start kissing. Now they buy roses and hit each other.
SPARKS Frankly, it’s got a lot of nooks and crannies. It can be a place where you covertly or overtly start a relationship.
COOLEY I had a business partner for my first three years. We were deciding how we should name the place. He had some old church stained-glass windows in his garage. We said, “Let’s go with that theme.” We got some church pews. The monk statuaries are some of the items I bought when the \[terra-cotta shop\] was finally closing. So we’re trying to think of the name. This is how tight we were on money: “The Abbey” had the fewest letters.
The famous patio in the Abbey’s current location is adorned with statues from the stonemasonry business that previously occupied the space. The bar presently has a total of 16,000 square feet indoors and out, with a renovation underway to add another 5,000 square feet.
ROSS MATHEWS, TV host When I first started on TV, back in 2000, I’d save up all week for a $12 appletini. It was so important to come here.
INGENUE, drag queen I had heard about these wonderful apple martinis, and I wasn’t much of a drinker. I was 23. I had just moved down here from Bakersfield. I didn’t realize how much alcohol was in one until I stood up. I went, “Oh, good lord!” That room went spinning. The green apple martinis are lethal but worth every penny.
JAI RODRIGUEZ, host and former star, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy In general, the Abbey pour is something you have to warn people about, especially if they’re from out of town or they’re straight. Sometimes people say they are going to go somewhere else to get a cheap drink, and I tell them to pay a little extra — you will be thankful after about three sips.
COOLEY I thought of the apple martini (pictured right). It was a 10-ounce martini with a big slice of green apple on it. That became the brand, the drink of the Abbey. We went through cases of sliced apples every night.
ARMANDO CONWAY, bartender for 10 years and resident mixologist for three I was here from 2003. It was 35 pounds ago. I personally sold like $4 million to $5 million in alcohol in 13 years. It’s the No. 1-selling bar on the West Coast.
KRESSLEY My memories of the Abbey are a little foggy because I used to be a little overserved there.
COOLEY Mojitos is a fun story. I went from about six bottles a week when we started with them to now being the largest account for Bacardi in the country.
ISAIAH MUSTAFA, actor and Old Spice spokesman I actually had two classmates from acting class who worked there, and they made their rent and class tuition in one weekend and they were gloating about it one day. And I’m like, “Where the f— do you guys work?” And they said the Abbey, so I asked if I could get a job there. I had no clue then that the tips were amazing at the Abbey, until I worked there. A friend of mine told Jethro, the manager there at the time, that I would be a good bartender, and he hired me with two shifts. I was there for three years. The nicer you are to your customers, the more gracious they will be with their tips. I could never put a number to how many drinks I made.
JANETTI It always felt like a neighborhood bar but a really good one. You’d see a person who you always saw at the gym that you never spoke to. But after a few drinks, “I saw you at the gym!” The Abbey was the best place to say that. It was always like, “Oh shit, there’s that guy from the gym!” That’s the sentence that’s most uttered.
COOLEY I remember early on that I had a group of guys come in called ACT UP. That was the first outspoken, in-your-face group that said the government is not doing enough about the word “AIDS.” It was not even spoken. Reagan never said anything about it. We’d meet at the Abbey. They would do marches. That was the first organization to use the Abbey as a political cause.
SPARKS We used it as the staging point for AIDS Walk countless times. It will always be entrenched in memory as the place where the advocates gathered as the movement gained ground. You could see who was there year after year. You could see the demographic shift.
KEVIN HUVANE, CAA partner David has become very political, and when Prop 8 was passed, he hired buses to go downtown to march. He got four or five gigantic buses and had people meet at the Abbey, and that’s all done out of his pocket. That’s what I admire about him so much. He’s not just a guy who comes in and opens a bar. He really is a member of the community. And a leader of the community.
COOLEY I banned bachelorette parties after Prop 8 passed but before it was overturned. It got a lot of attention. My reasoning was, I was seeing a lot of bachelorette parties coming in with their boas and tiaras and penis guns and penis lollipops, really having a great time and enjoying my dancers. But as gays, we couldn’t have that same fun. We weren’t equal. So I decided that until we could get married and have bachelor parties, let’s not do that. We’ve since reversed the policy. But I still don’t allow the boas and the penis hats in.
POUL One of the reasons I don’t go as often is there has been a giant infusion of people from the straight community who like to go there and hang out. That is always both mysterious and less interesting to me — when the straights start invading.
VILANCH I guess \[Cooley\] became partners with Sam Nazarian’s SBE \[in 2006\]. I never understood the deal. It was at the forefront of turning the nightlife in West Hollywood into bigger business, and that entailed bringing straight people in. But that also was a social change that was happening at the time, where younger generations were easier mingling with each other.
RICH GROSSI, West Hollywood nightclub entrepreneur The SBE deal worked for Dave financially but probably did not give him exactly what he wanted. SBE was basically going to finance an expansion of the brand. The Abbey was supposed to become a brand like SBE brands such as Hyde, where it would be in different cities. That didn’t happen. But SBE is very professional in how they do business. They had a good back-office staff to handle everything from HR to ordering to operations. The Abbey was run much better and had a better profit margin than before. \[Cooley bought out SBE in 2015.\]
Cayne, who performed a one-woman show at the bar every Monday night for two years, posed with owner Cooley on New Year’s Eve in 2009.
RODRIGUEZ Sometimes people bitch and moan about there being too many straight people. David did a good job of making this a safe space for our community. Now our community has expanded to allies.
CANDIS CAYNE, transgender actress To me, a good club is a mixed club. A successful club has always involved anyone.
NENE LEAKES, actress and reality TV star Anybody could come in there — I felt comfortable bringing my husband. But it’s really turnt up.
HUVANE The bar was being criticized because it wasn’t gay enough. And David’s answer was exactly what it should be: “We fought for years to be included, why would we be exclusive now?”
KRESSLEY It’s been our town hall even though it’s probably decorated like Cher’s bathroom. What’s great is that everybody congregates there. It mirrors our society — we’re a lot more open. Even though go-go boys still hang from the ceiling, which I think is a very nice touch.
SPARKS The Abbey is a monument to changing attitudes and the bridges that are being built.
BOBBY TRENDY, interior designer, former reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith loved coming here. She celebrated many Gay Prides here in the cabanas in the back. Joan Rivers loved coming here. And Elizabeth Taylor came here frequently.
COOLEY It goes back to the early days. Elizabeth Montgomery was one of our first customers. Sam Smith comes in to celebrate every time he wins an award. We’ve had Sandra Bullock here. She was enjoying herself because this was when she was going through that horrible divorce. It was like her first time to come out and have fun.
MUSTAFA One night I saw Dennis Rodman. He was a gracious tipper.
CAYNE Zachary Quinto would come and watch my show. Queen Latifah came one night. I was like, “Work!”
COOLEY I’m running around, and my staff says, “Queen Latifah’s here. She wants to sit at your table.” I’m like, “Listen, everyone’s a queen, OK?” They’re like, “No, it’s Queen Latifah!” “Oh, bring her down!”
INGENUE I was once asked to get a bunch of girls together for one of the anniversary parties or Dave Cooley’s birthday. We all dressed up like famous Hollywood women. We had a Marilyn, a Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, and all of a sudden, I hear that “Xtina” is coming. I’m like, “A drag queen named Xtina? Why would she be here?” And then, all of a sudden, Christina Aguilera walks in. It was her with a bunch of us drag queens.
KRESSLEY You see everybody at the Abbey. “I just met a hot guy from the Middle East” or “Mindy Cohn from The Facts of Life.”
MATHEWS You can meet someone from Tennessee who is visiting. You can meet people who have driven in from Riverside. You can meet an Oscar winner.
MICHELLE VISAGE, TV personality and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge I think what separates the Abbey from everyone else is it’s like the gay Cheers — everyone knows your name. It has a homey feeling where you can just sit outside and eat or go in and gyrate.
HEATHER MCDONALD, actress and comedian I used to do stand-up at this place called Luna Park down the street, and we’d come here after. I love that it’s still here. When I got to be a little known — the gays love to come up to you. Whether you’re a stand-up like me or one of the Real Housewives, when you need a pat on the back, go to the Abbey, girl! If you’re on Bravo or E!, just go to the Abbey.
LEAKES They go crazy. The DJ announced “NeNe’s in the house!” and I said, “Why did you do that?” I went in once with Kyle Richards. To me, it’s like a club and strip club all mixed in one. It’s a super-fun place. You can really go in and let your hair down and stand up and scream.
CAYNE My most memorable night was getting a call saying that Elizabeth Taylor is coming. And I laughed, like, “I will believe it when I see it.” I was just starting my show, and they wheeled her in to the front row. She was with her little dog, and she watched the whole show. Halfway through, I took a break and called my parents to tell them that Elizabeth Taylor was at my show. It was such a dream come true.
VILANCH Elizabeth Taylor would go there now and again to just get out and show people that she was alive and kicking; she wasn’t doing much, just sitting around the house and selling her jewelry. They have this portrait of her at the Abbey, which I always felt looked a little like Eydie Gorme. She’d show up with a posse and sit under her portrait and receive. It was fun to watch her hold court, sitting there like a pasha in an elaborate caftan with a dog on her lap. She had service animals before there were service animals.
JANETTI Not long ago, I took Ian McKellen there. It was a Saturday night and going with Ian McKellen is like bringing the queen. The seas parted. It was so fabulous. We were cordoned off with a rope around us, the go-go boys dancing over us.
JACK MORRISSEY, producer (and Bill Condon’s partner) Ian was here doing work on Mr. Holmes. He has dinner at Craig’s with Elton John. He wants to meet at the Abbey. We set him up with the booth and bottle and all that shit. The go-go boys and shirtless bartenders are fully deployed — all of whom look like Ryan Phillippe in 54. I get there early to make sure everything’s cool. At one point I look over, and he’s looking up at one of these dancers, with his hands on his face, Home Alone-style.
LEAKES We never plan to go to the Abbey. It just kind of happens. Like we’re out doing something, and we’re like, “Wanna go to the Abbey?” Next thing you know, it’s 2 o’clock in the morning, and they’re putting your ass out on the street.
LAUREN MEISTER, mayor of West Hollywood It’s known worldwide now. People come to West Hollywood and they ask, “Where is the Abbey?” It’s not just for gay, it’s not just for straight — it’s for everyone.
MATHEWS It’s about to get a lot more “Hollywood” because of the reality show being filmed here. But I’m confident the bar won’t change. I can’t wait for the rest of the world — all the people who have not had the chance to come here with a friend — to get to know the Abbey.
HUVANE It’s going to be about the life of the bar, its inner workings, the people who work there. Some of it will be about David. In the reality space, it will be an interesting show because it will show that the Abbey, with both its clientele and employees, is incredibly mixed.
POUL David created that space when there was nothing like it. He saw an opportunity and capitalized on it. The place managed to become an institution and a name, and he took that name and kept adapting it so that it could not only expand and enlarge but also stay at pace with the times.
GILLES MARINI, actor, Sex and the City This is an iconic place that made a lot of things happen for the community in Los Angeles but also around the world. I went to Cannes last year, and someone asked me, “Hey, you’re from L.A. Have you been to the Abbey?”
COOLEY The love is overwhelming. If I had hair on my arms, it would be standing up.
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**Tags:** California, California Science Center, Expo Line (Los Angeles Metro), Fuel tank, Los Angeles, Marina del Rey, NASA, Santa Monica, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle external tank
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### [Join Bruce Vilanch For A 'One Night Stand' Tonight, May 29, 2016 At The Olympus Theatre In Highland Park, MI](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/29/join-bruce-vilanch-for-a-one-night-stand-tonight-may-29-2016-at-the-olympus-theatre-in-highland-park-mi/)
**Published:** May 29, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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Join us for “A One [Night Stand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightstand "Nightstand")” with [gay icon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_icon "Gay icon"), and 6 time [Emmy](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") at the newly rennovated Olympus Theatre!
Show date is May 29, 2016
It may be a one night stand but we have TWO shows for you to choose from!
Shows at 4pm and 8pm.
Tickets : $40
(includes show and two drinks)
Optional $50
(includes show, two drinks, and VIP [meet and greet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations "Public relations") after the show with Photo op)
Seating is assigned so grab your tickets at Showtix4u.com! Search for Bruce Vilanch or click the link in this event! Tickets are also available bar side at Menjos!
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Gay icon, Highland Park, Michigan, Nightstand, Theatre, United States, VIP
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### [Bruce Vilanch & The Skivvies To Play At Fire Island Arts Project SATURDAY, August 13, 2016 8PM](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/29/bruce-vilanch-the-skivvies-to-play-at-fire-island-arts-project-saturday-august-13-2016-8pm/)
**Published:** May 29, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") & The Skivvies
SATURDAY, August 13, 2016 8PM
[fire island pines arts project](http://fipap.org/)**
**Bruce Vilanch & The Skivvies**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2016/05/Bruce-Vilanch-Skivvies-300x168.jpg)
In Association with rj productions
[Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award")-winner, celebrated comedy genius and [Fire Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Island "Fire Island") favorite, Bruce Vilanch, comes to Whyte Hall in August with [musical comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") sensations The Skivvies. From writing [The Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") for over 25 years to [The Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"), Bruce has many stories to tell.
The Skivvies, the “musically thrilling” undie-rock, comedy-pop duo don’t just strip down their [musical arrangements](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement "Arrangement"), they literally strip down to their underwear to perform their distinctive mashups and eccentric originals for cello and ukulele starring Award-winning singer-actors [Lauren Molina](http://www.laurenmolina.com "Lauren Molina") (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd & Rock of Ages) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up, Buyer and Cellar) [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/ "The Wall Street Journal") called them “smart, sophisticated…ingenious.”
Tickets $100 & $75
TICKETS AVAILABLE IN THE HARBOR AND AT THE BOX OFFICE
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**Tags:** 17744 Jodiefoster, Academy Award, Adrien Brody, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Amanda Foreman (biographer), Bruce Vilanch, Donald Trump, Emmy Award, fire island arts project, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, the skivvies, The Wall Street Journal
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### [Bruce Vilanch Takes in The 25th Anniversary Of The Abbey](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/28/bruce-vilanch-takes-in-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-abbey/)
**Published:** May 28, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**[WeHoVille](http://www.wehoville.com/)
[The Abbey](http://www.abbeyfoodandbar.com/ "The Abbey (club)"), Which MTV Called “The Gayest Bar on the Planet,” Turns 25
Wed, May 25, 2016 By Staff**
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It started out as a quiet coffee bar and 25 years later has developed a reputation that led MTV to call it the “gayest bar on the planet.”
That is The Abbey, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last night with a crowd of hundreds of people and dozens of celebrities such as Michael Sam, [Ross Mathews](http://www.helloross.com "Ross Mathews") (“Hollywood Today Live”), [Candis Cayne](http://www.candiscayne.com "Candis Cayne") (“I Am Cait”) and [Heather McDonald](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_McDonald "Heather McDonald") (“Chelsea Lately”). And then, of course, there was [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Gilles Marini (“Teen Wolf”), [Jai Rodriguez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Rodriguez "Jai Rodriguez") (“Queer Eye”) and Noah Galvin (“The Real O’Neals”).
The Abbey Food and Bar, its formal name, has evolved quite a bit since [David Cooley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Cooley "David P. Cooley"), a native of [Solon, Ohio](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.39,-81.4422222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.39,-81.4422222222 (Solon%2C%20Ohio)&t=h "Solon, Ohio"), opened a coffee shop on Robertson Boulevard in 1991. That was before the era of Starbucks, when people wondered how anyone could make money selling coffee. Cooley did. The Abbey was an alternative to the bar scene in [WeHo](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California")’s Boystown and attracted people in recovery attending AA meetings down the street.
In three years, Cooley moved across the street and transformed The Abbey into a bar. As it is today, The Abbey then was an open space – open doors, open windows, a patio and a fountain — a striking contrast to the typical dark and secretive gay bar.
One measure of its popularity is the fact that at one point it was the single largest purchaser of vodka in the world, and helped popularize the flavored martini trend. It was a hangout for Elizabeth Taylor, whose last public appearance was at The Abbey with her dog Daisy. It has evolved in other ways, with a larger heterosexual clientele, something Cooley has welcomed in this era when gay people have gained more and more acceptance. Soon it will even have its own [reality TV show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television "Reality television").
The Abbey grew physically, taking over a second building, with a patio in the middle, totaling 14,000 square feet. It now has more than 200 employees. Recently Cooley acquired Here Lounge on the Abbey’s north side. It is going to be integrated into The Abbey as the Chapel.
For last night’s celebration The Abbey was decked out in elaborate white from wall-to-wall, and had a full ensemble orchestra playing throughout the private event. Midway through the evening, Cooley, was presented with a Key to the City by Mayor Lauren Meister.
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**Categories:** anniversary
**Tags:** 19 Kids and Counting, Affectional orientation, Andy Dehnart, anniversary, Anthony Bourdain, Ashley Madison, Barack Obama, Bennington College, Bruce Vilanch, Project Runway, Reality television, the abbey anniversary
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear At The GRABBY's Saturday, May 28, 2016 (Chicago)](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/25/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-at-the-grabbys-saturday-may-28-2016-chicago/)
**Published:** May 25, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**GRABBYS**
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[Memorial Day Weekend](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day "Memorial Day") also means your favorite adult stars are flocking to [Chicago](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago") for the annual Grabby Awards, hosted by [Grab Magazine](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/56490100). Come see some of the hottest names in the industry as they announce this year’s best top, twink and more. The [2016 Grabbys](http://chicago.gopride.com/calendar/event.cfm/id/212870) return to [The Metro](http://www.metro.co.uk "Metro (British newspaper)"), 3730 N Clark, for a show hosted by ChiChi LaRue and [Honey West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_West_%28TV_series%29 "Honey West (TV series)") and the sexy studs Mickey Taylor, Levi Karter, Diego Sans, JJ Knight and Dallas Stelle.
This year’s show also includes an appearance by celebrity and funnyman [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and special performances by Dida Ritz, Bebe Sweetbriar and Mickey Taylor.
“I think everyone comes back to celebrate the industry every year because it’s such a loose, fun event centered around something we all love: sex,” Stacy Bridges, editor for [Grab Magazine](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/56490100), told ChicagoPride.com. “It’s also a change to meet and mingle with some of your favorite fantasy men.”
A host of events surrounds the Grabbys, most of them teetering with special appearances and performances from the weekend’s nominees. On Friday night [Falcon Studios](http://www.falconstudios.com "Falcon Entertainment") is taking over the [Lucky Horseshoe](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/6028969), 3169 N Halsted, while the [CockyBoys](http://www.cockyboys.com/ "CockyBoys") are appearing live at Sidetrack, 3349 N Halsted, for an underwear auction and more. After Saturday’s event, join your favorite stars at [Debauchery](http://chicago.gopride.com/calendar/event.cfm/id/212990), the the official [Grabby’s](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/52884756) 2016 [Afterparty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party "Party") at Charlie’s, 3726 N Broadway. Round out your weekend at the Kink E Post Grabby Brunch at North End, 3733 N Halsted, on Saturday for interviews with the winners and nominees and to meet the stars you danced drunk with the previous night.
More information and Grabbys tickets are [available online](http://gopride.com/Zafr).
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Al Capone, AM New York, American Broadcasting Company, Arise, Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, Devon, Emmy Award, Event (philosophy), For Your Light Has Come Tour Dates And Concert Schedule, Grabbys, Shine
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### [Bruce Vilanch Live At Olympus Theater in Highland Park, MI, May 29th](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/22/bruce-vilanch-live-at-olympus-theater-in-highland-park-mi-may-29th/)
**Published:** May 22, 2016
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# A One [Night Stand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightstand "Nightstand")!
Start Time: Sunday, 29 May 2016
Location: **[Menjos Complex – Olympus Theater](http://2016events.org/place/menjos-complex---olympus-theater/0fe2a6089b09037587a4d99777044563)**
Address: 940 McNichols Rd W, [Highland Park, MI](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.4036111111,-83.1016666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.4036111111,-83.1016666667 (Highland%20Park%2C%20Michigan)&t=h "Highland Park, Michigan"), [United States](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States")
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Join us for “A One Night Stand” with [gay icon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_icon "Gay icon"), and 6 time [Emmy](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") at the newly rennovated Olympus [Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre "Theatre")! Show date is May 29, 2016 It may be a one night stand but we have TWO shows for you to choose from! Shows at 4pm and 8pm. Tickets : $40 (includes show and two drinks) Optional $50 (includes show, two drinks, and VIP meet and greet after the show with Photo op) Seating is assigned so grab your tickets at Showtix4u.com! Search for Bruce Vilanch or click the link in this event! Tickets are also available bar side at Menjos!
## Events at Menjos Complex – Olympus Theater
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**Tags:** Air National Guard, Alexander Hamilton, Allen Leech, Ames Research Center, Bernie Sanders, Billboard 200, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Business ethics, Emmy Award
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Paul Gordon, Robert M. Sherman Among Contributors to LA Now and Then](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/05/10/bruce-vilanch-paul-gordon-robert-m-sherman-among-contributors-to-la-now-and-then/)
**Published:** May 10, 2016
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**Playbill
[Paul Gordon](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/paul-gordon "Paul Gordon"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Robert M. Sherman Among Contributors to [LA Now](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/ "LA Now") and Then
BY ANDREW GANS
MAY 09, 2016**
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The [Los Angeles City College](http://www.lacitycollege.edu/ "Los Angeles City College") [Theatre Academy](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=60.1811,24.9587&spn=0.01,0.01&q=60.1811,24.9587 (Theatre%20Academy%20Helsinki)&t=h "Theatre Academy Helsinki") and Kritzerland Entertainment will present *LA Now and Then* May 13-22 at the Caminito Theatre on the campus of Los Angeles City College (LACC).
Conceived and directed by Grammy nominee [Bruce Kimmel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kimmel "Bruce Kimmel"), *LA Now and Then* is described as a “new musical revue about the city that was and the city that is.”
April Audia and Robert Yacko will lead a company composed of LACC Academy students. The artists will be backed by a six-piece band under the leadership of musical director Richard Allen. Cheryl Baxter-Ratliff choreographs; orchestrations are by [Lanny Meyers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Meyers "Lanny Meyers").
The revue features collaborations with music, lyrics, sketches and monologues between Kimmel and [Michele Brourman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Brourman "Michele Brourman"), Grant Geissman, Paul Gordon, Karen Gottlieb, Shelly Markham, Adryan Russ, Wayne Moore, two-time [Oscar winner](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") [Richard M. Sherman](http://www.shermanmusic.com "Richard M. Sherman") ([*Mary Poppins*](http://www.playbill.com/production/mary-poppins-new-amsterdam-theatre-vault-0000008728)), Doug Haverty, Bruce Vilanch and David Wechter.
Scenic design is by Tesshi Nakagawa with lighting design by Jim Moody, sound design by Alex Mackyol, projection design by sound supervisor Vern Yonemura and costume design by Natalie Shahinyan. Graphics are by Art & Soul Design.
For tickets call (323) 953-4000, ext. 2990 or visit [Theatreacademy.lacitycollege.edu](http://www.theatreacademy.lacitycollege.edu/).
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Academy Award, Actor, Alicia Vikander, Amanda Peet, American Civil War, Blu-ray Disc, Bruce Vilanch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, National Security Agency, Oliver Stone, Shailene Woodley
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### [Hollywood History With Bruce Vilanch By Nick Hardcastle](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/04/27/hollywood-history-with-bruce-vilanch-by-nick-harcastle/)
**Published:** April 27, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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Loud and proud: [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") history
By Nick Hardcastle
April 18, 2016**
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Upon meeting a legendary Hollywood personality it’s only fitting that we meet in a legendary Hollywood establishment. Musso and Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard. Since 1919, stars from Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin to Marilyn Monroe and [Lauren Bacall](http://www.last.fm/music/Lauren%2BBacall "Lauren Bacall") have been sipping martinis in its old worn leather booths or throwing back scotch in its infamous back room – a watering hole for some of the finest writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Raymond Chandler. I arrive and Bruce Vilanch greets me as ‘Nick Hardcore’.
A regular here, Vilanch is instantly recognisable wearing his signature bright coloured glasses and a t-shirt with a cartoon image of Liam Neeson and the slogan ‘Carpe Liam’.
He has had a long and colorful history in show business and Hollywood. A six time Emmy winner, Bruce has also won a number of awards for his support of [LGBTQI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") and HIV/AIDS charities.
He has written for the Oscars for 23 years as well as the Tonys, Emmys and Grammys. He has contributed to many Broadway shows including Peter Allen’s first, Up in One, and [Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla%2C_Queen_of_the_Desert_%28musical%29 "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical)"). He is currently penning a new show based on the music of Petula Clark. He has been a long time gag writer for Bette Midler, Billy Crystal and [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), as well as having worked with the late and great Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams and Joan Rivers. Whether he set out to be or not, Bruce Vilanch has been a pioneering gay voice in the entertainment business.
A New Jersey native, Vilanch spent five years in Chicago where he wrote for the Chicago Tribune and occasionally did stand-up comedy. There he met Bette Midler in the mid ’70s. He thought that she was “funny and should talk more on stage” so he wrote some new material for the rising star and they’ve been working together ever since.
When he relocated to Los Angeles, his first gig was on a late night show called Midnight Special in 1978. There were many people who had appeared on TV before Bruce Vilanch who were gay of course, as well as gay characters in shows like All in the Family and even Australia’s Number 96, but you would be hard pressed to find an openly gay man who discussed his experiences on air before Vilanch did.
“I was completely open from the word go. It was very novel because it was one o’clock in the morning. But being openly gay on TV hadn’t become my schtick yet. I just never denied anything.”
“I was completely open from the word go. It was very novel but because it was one o’clock in the morning. But being openly gay on TV hadn’t become my schtick yet. I just never denied anything.”
Considering the cultural climate at the time, it was a bold move. In 1976 [Elton John](http://eltonjohn.com "Elton John") announced that he was bisexual in Rolling Stone and he was immediately removed from the playlists of many the major radio stations. “Those regional stations were where you broke records. So if some minister comes in to the local radio station in Kansas city and says you can’t play that cock sucker Elton John’s records anymore – you’d better believe he’s getting dropped off the playlist! Elton’s career was pretty much over there for a while – you can understand why it might have just been easier to say nothing.”
“So there was a lot at stake. Although no one ever told me that I couldn’t be out on TV. What they all did say was that I need to be sure. ‘Is this what you want to be known as? Because there are consequences – there will be no working with children and no big money endorsement deals and there certainly won’t be leading man parts because you can’t kiss the girl.’ But I got to be myself.”
At this point our conversation takes a slight deviation into ‘little people porn’ and ‘feeders’ but I assure him that the details are entirely off the record. I order another martini.
Vilanch’s mainstream profile rocketed when he became a regular panelist on the long-running game show ‘Hollywood Squares’ from 1998 – 2002, with his old friend and client Whoopi Goldberg. He says that this was the only time that he ever came under pressure about his sexuality on television.
“And that was only because I was graphic. I had to really fight to get some of my lines across,” he explained.
Producers would insist that there were other ways to get the laughs, and that Bruce should ‘go easy on the gay’.
“But this was coming from the same people who would say to Whoopi, ‘Go easy on the black. You don’t have to be so street’. The notes were always back-to-back. They never said to Gilbert \[Gottfried\] not to be so Jewish.”
At this time, Vilanch was becoming somewhat of a gay icon and it put him in a position to be able to counsel other LGBTQI people in the media. “I tell other famous people who come out that you really have no idea the affect you are having on young people who are unsure or conflicted – it gives them hope.”
He recalls a young man telling him that he used to watch Hollywood Squares with his grandmother and would be inspired, thinking, “Look at him – he’s so unafraid.”
Vilanch cites Ellen [DeGeneres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres "Ellen DeGeneres") as another great example of that fearlessness in spite of the potential consequences. “When Ellen came out on her sitcom she was very courageous, but she was very smart. She said once she came out that they should cancel because now they would have to go in to storylines that the audience probably won’t like.
“The network thought the numbers were great, but sure enough the southern states cancelled the show and because she wasn’t being seen on the same amount of stations the numbers dropped and the show got cancelled. It took a while for Ellen to really come back from that.”
“I tell other famous people who come out that you really have no idea the affect you are having on young people who are unsure or conflicted – it gives them hope.”
But the landscape was starting to change, albeit, slowly. Will and Grace in particular became a huge hit. According to GLAAD, (formerly the [Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation](http://www.glaad.org/ "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation")), a US non-governmental media monitoring organisation, by the time the show had aired its final season in 2006 almost 2 per cent of regular characters on prime time [broadcast TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_television_systems "Broadcast television systems") were gay. While it was certainly not a fair representation of the population, it was a sign of positive change.
Now in 2016 more than 4 per cent of regular characters on prime time are identified as LGBTQI. Guest characters and LGBTQI personalities in non-scripted television are also starting to be represented in more significant numbers. In the last year alone the number of regular LGBTQI characters counted on cable increased from 64 to 84, while recurring characters increased from 41 to 58. In 2015 for the first time, GLAAD counted LGBTQI characters on original series that premiered on Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix and found 43 series regulars and 16 recurring queer characters across 23 series.
In 2016, Vilanch says that it’s much more difficult to say if someone’s sexuality really affects their media career as much as it did in previous decades, as each case is individual. “There’s still no leading man action hero who has come out and said he’s gay. We’ve had a few pro sports people but no huge major figures. When that happens maybe things will really change because we’ll finally have an example where the audience will have to believe whether say, James Bond is still James Bond when the actor playing him is openly gay. Can they buy him shagging Pussy Galore when they know he wants Balls a Plenty? That hasn’t been demonstrated yet.
“We have people like Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass and Melissa Etheridge and Portia de Rossi, who are big stars doing great things – but it’s unlikely you’ll see them as action heroes.”
At this point Vilanch accidentally spills come creamy salad dressing right on Liam Neeson’s cartoon face on his t-shirt. Make of that what you will.
As talent, humour and fame can be powerful aphrodisiacs for some people, I finally ask Vilanch if he thinks that being on TV has increased his sex appeal.
“I was only ever a lust object for creepy people– chubby chasers,” he replies.
When I insist that humor is the sexiest quality in any person, he cuts to the chase, “I would love to say it’s the case… but I find that they’ll laugh with you, but they’ll go home and fuck someone else. But humour sustains in a way that physical beauty doesn’t… at least I still have my card to play. ‘Snap!’”
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**Categories:** Interview
**Tags:** B movie, Bruce Vilanch, Canada, Donald Trump, Elton John, Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Lena Dunham, Republican Party United States, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Chilina Kennedy and More Set for Bruce Vilanch's 'A Sign of the Times' Reading Prior to Goodspeed Production](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/04/21/chilina-kennedy-and-more-set-for-bruce-vilanchs-a-sign-of-the-times-reading-prior-to-goodspeed-production/)
**Published:** April 21, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**Theatermania
Chilina Kennedy and More Set for [A Sign of the Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sign_of_the_Times "A Sign of the Times") Reading Prior to [Goodspeed](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals") Production
Bethany Rickwald • Connecticut • Apr 20, 2016**
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Casting has been announced for a private industry reading of [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s *A Sign of the Times* musical, which will have a production at Goodspeed’s [Norma Terris Theatre](http://www.theatermania.com/chester/theaters/goodspeed-at-chesterthe-norma-terris-theatre_1568/)from July 29-September 4. The reading will take place April 28-29.
Set in 1965, the plot of *A Sign of the Times* is described as follows: “The pulse of a changing era lures Cindy from Middle America to the swirl of [Manhattan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667 (Manhattan)&t=h "Manhattan"). Unexpected friends, lovers, careers, and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical featuring songs made famous by [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") and other hit makers of the day.” The show’s songs include “I Know a Place,” “[The Shoop Shoop Song](http://www.last.fm/music/Cher/The%2BShoop%2BShoop%2BSong%2B%2528It%2527s%2BIn%2BHis%2BKiss%2529 "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"),” “If I Can Dream,” and more.
The cast of the staged presentation will feature Chilina Kennedy (*[Beautiful — The Carole King Musical](http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/beautiful-the-carole-king-musical_300024/)*) as Cindy, Ryan Silverman (*Side Show*) as Brian, Bryan Fenkart (*Memphis*) as Dennis, Marrick Smith (*[Fun Home](http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/fun-home_305453/)*) as Matt, and Crystal Lucas-Perry as Tanya.
The performing company also includes Alet Taylor, Lori Ann Ferreri, Lauren Nicole Chapman, Melessie Clark, Lindsay Moore, [David Jennings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jennings_%28tutor%29 "David Jennings (tutor)"), Dave Schoonover, Keven Quillon, Drew Franklin, and Jeff Kuhr.
The cast of the Goodspeed production will be announced shortly.
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Bye Bye Birdie (musical), Chilina Kennedy, Cole Porter, Daniel Defoe, Goodspeed Musicals, KING-TV, List of Harry Potter related topics, Meriwether Lewis, Petula Clark, Robinson Crusoe, Rome, sign of the times
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Perform At The 32nd Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (STAGE)](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/04/09/bruce-vilanch-to-perform-at-the-32nd-annual-southland-theatre-artists-goodwill-event-stage/)
**Published:** April 9, 2016
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**Playbill
20 Artists Currently Set for Sondheim No. 5 Concert in Beverly Hills
BY ANDREW GANS
APR 08, 2016**
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The 32nd annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (STAGE), which is entitled *Sondheim No. 5,* will be presented June 18 at 2 PM and 8 PM at the Wallis [Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.9529,-75.1965&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.9529,-75.1965 (Annenberg%20Center%20for%20the%20Performing%20Arts)&t=h "Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts") in [Beverly Hills](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0730555556,-118.399444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0730555556,-118.399444444 (Beverly%20Hills%2C%20California)&t=h "Beverly Hills, California").
Currently scheduled to perform are Susan Anton, [Barrett Foa](http://www.playbill.com/person/barrett-foa-vault-0000055018), Loretta Devine, Allison Janney, Andrea Marcovicci, Cortes Alexander, [Alexandra Billings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Billings "Alexandra Billings"), [Mary Jo Catlett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Catlett "Mary Jo Catlett"), James Clark, Carole Cook, Davis Gaines, [Jason Graae](http://www.jasongraae.com "Jason Graae"), Alvin Ing, Branden James, Jean Louisa [Kelly](http://www.playbill.com/production/kelly-broadhurst-theatre-vault-0000002059), Vicki Lewis, MaryJo Mundy, Madison Claire Parks, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Lisa Vroman](http://lisavroman.com "Lisa Vroman").
David Galligan directs with Michael Orland as music director.
Begun in 1984, STAGE is the longest-running annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser in the world. To date, STAGE has raised more than $5 million for HIV/AIDS organizations in the Southland. Funds raised through S.T.A.G.E. support a variety of [AIDS Project Los Angeles](http://apla.org/pdfs/APLA_Fact_Sheet.pdf "AIDS Project Los Angeles") (APLA) programs, including its Vance North Necessities of Life Program food pantries; freestanding and mobile dental clinics; in-home health care ; housing assistance; HIV prevention and testing efforts; and a range of other services on which thousands of Angelenos affected by HIV/AIDS depend.
For ticket information visit [Stagela.com](http://www.stagela.com/).
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Academy Award, Advertising, AIDS Project Los Angeles, AIDS Walk, Ben Fordham, Bette Midler, Big Blue Bus, Billy Crystal, Black Blood Brothers, Bruce Vilanch
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### [Pee-wee Finally Gets His Man in Pee-wee’s Big Holiday](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/04/01/pee-wee-finally-gets-his-man-in-pee-wees-big-holiday/)
**Published:** April 1, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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Pee-wee Finally Gets His Man in Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
By Paul H. Johnson
March 17, 2016**
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This post contains spoilers for Pee-wee’s Big Holiday.
In the charming [Netflix](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NFLX "NASDAQ: NFLX") revival Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, [Joe Manganiello](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manganiello "Joe Manganiello") roars into Pee-wee’s hometown of Fairville on a motorcycle and sweeps Pee-wee off his feet. The pair quickly hit it off over their shared love of Root Beer Barrel candy and tree houses. When Manganiello, playing himself, finds out Pee-wee has never left his small town, he beseeches him to come to Manhattan to attend his birthday party. Pee-wee agrees, but on the way he has some of his trademark wacky adventures. He is kidnapped by a band of butch bank robbers; he tours a snake farm where he is kidnapped by a crazy farmer and nearly forced into marriage (to a woman!); and he gets a makeover by a gaggle of fabulous hairdressers led by Darryl Stephens, the onetime star of the gay-focused Logo network’s sadly departed series Noah’s Arc. And that’s all before he arrives in Manhattan, where he falls into a well when he’s supposed to be at the big birthday party. Luckily, the strapping Manganiello, despondent over Pee-wee’s absence, eventually arrives to rescue our hero.
This is all to say: Pee-wee’s Big Holiday is clearly fan service—if you weren’t already enamored with the goofy, bowtied, breakfast-loving manchild, this won’t help; but if you were, the Netflix update is catnip. Indeed, given the sweetly flirtatious dynamic between Manganiello and Pee-wee, it’s tempting to argue in particular that the movie is a kind of wish fulfillment for fans who grew up with the character and his barely coded queer persona. All of that queerness is basically explicit this time around. But for many decades-long fans, this one included, Pee-wee never had a “gay subtext.” For everyone but the willfully ignorant, it was always just text.
[Pee-wee Herman](http://www.peewee.com/ "Pee-wee Herman"), the character, always trafficked in the language of a certain kind of queer comedy. His jokes often had the same style of innuendo made popular by the likes of [Paul Lynde](http://www.paullynde.info/ "Paul Lynde") and **Bruce Vilanch**. As the center square on the game show Hollywood Squares in the 1970s, Lynde was once asked “You’re the world’s most popular fruit. What are you?” to which he answered: “Humble.” In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Manganiello is dumbfounded that Pee-wee has never heard of him and asks if he has seen Manganiello’s hit movie Magic Mike, to which Pee-wee responds: “You would think so, but no.” Then, as now, anyone paying attention needs no explanation.
But Pee-wee’s comedy is more than just sly gay suggestion. His persona actively celebrates camp, particularly the kind of camp that elevates the language and style of the 1950s, when gay love was addressed evasively, if at all. While Pee-wee might seem childlike and sexless, his affection for Manganiello can only be called a crush. Pee-wee dreams of jousting with Manganiello using rainbow colored lances, and they exchange friendship bands at the end of the movie while squeezed together in Manganiello’s treehouse. This is what love looks like in Pee-wee’s delicate, but deliberate, mode. And that’s what love looked like to many gay kids like me. We didn’t have any idea what sex was, but we clearly knew we wanted to share a treehouse with that hunky special someone.
[Paul Reubens](http://peewee.com/ "Paul Reubens") developed Pee-wee while a regular at the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles in 1970s. The character debuted on The Dating Game in 1979 (he was chosen over two other bachelors), and Reubens soon started a popular midnight weekly show at the Groundlings called the “Pee-wee Herman show,” where he worked with Phil Hartman, Lynne Stewart, [John Paragon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon "John Paragon"), Edi McClurg, and John Moody. That show was decidedly adult, even if Pee-wee’s character appeared to be guileless. Pee-wee regularly appeared on the early seasons of [Late Night with David Letterman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_with_David_Letterman "Late Night with David Letterman"), where he’d bring a box of props containing toys he’d picked up at some flea market, and he’d vamp in front of public service videos from the 1950s.
Of course, Reuben’s biggest moment came in 1985 with [Pee-wee’s Big Adventure](http://www.amazon.com/Pee-wees-Adventure-Widescreen-Paul-Reubens/dp/0790749408%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0790749408 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Widescreen)"), directed by a then largely unknown Tim Burton. In Big Adventure, Pee-wee goes on a quest to find his stolen bicycle, a vintage 1950s-era DX Schwinn Straightbar. Fans still lovingly recreate the iconic scene where Pee-wee dances to the song “Tequila” at a biker bar.
Pee-wee’s Playhouse arrived in 1986 as a children’s show, but it was so packed with queer signifiers that it became appointment viewing for many gay men. There was Tito the lifeguard, who rarely if ever saw the need to wear a shirt. Lawrence Fishburne played Cowboy Curtis, Pee-wee’s best friend, who confessed to sleeping in the nude and having “big feet.” And there was the time Pee-wee married a fruit salad, about which very little needs to be said.
Then there was the spectacle that was Pee-wee’s 1988 Christmas special. Not only do gay icons k.d. lang, Little Richard, [Zsa Zsa Gabor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsa_Zsa_Gabor "Zsa Zsa Gabor"), Cher, and Dinah Shore make cameos, but Grace Jones, sporting a metallic brassiere, pops out of a box to sing a funky rendition of “Little Drummer Boy.” Oh, and crew of hunky workers construct an addition to the playhouse made out of fruitcake.
In other words, the only way a viewer could not see Pee-wee’s Playhouse as “gay” was to actively ignore the pink signifiers littering its set. Compared to Pee-wee’s full legacy, Manganiello’s tree house and the rainbow stick fighting are the least of it. And what’s more, the thin veil of coyness that did exist is essential to Reubens’ creation: It’s not that Pee-wee is in the closet, it’s that he’s riffing on time where stealth queer wit and suggestive glances were the ultimate subversion. The character is a living artifact, a very funny and slightly sad celebration of another era.
Pee-wee Herman, of course, suffered a swift and brutal fall in 1991, when Reubens was arrested outside an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Fla., accused of indecent exposure. It was a crime for which he was almost certainly innocent. The Los Angeles Times reported at the time that while Reubens pled no contest to the charges, his lawyers disclosed a security video to the prosecution showing “that Reubens was in the lobby when detective William Walters allegedly saw the actor masturbating in the theater.” But the damage was done. CBS canceled reruns of [Pee-wee’s Playhouse](http://www.peewee.com/ "Pee-wee's Playhouse"), Disney and MGM yanked a film where Pee-wee explained how voiceovers are made, and Toys ‘R’ Us removed Pee-wee products from its stores. As a children’s icon, Pee-wee was dead.
Luckily for Pee-wee (and now Netflix), his original fans have grown up, and the affection for him remained. And if anything, his sideways glance has become more indelible. Particularly for gay men who were children in the ‘80s, having Reuben’s subversive queer character vamp on Saturday morning TV was a gift, even if we couldn’t have articulated exactly what we were watching at the time. I had no idea who Grace Jones was, but I loved every second she chewed the scenery. I thought every time that Pee-wee mentioned fruit or fruitcake was hilarious, not knowing that it was all an inside joke. We lost Pee-wee to the madness of the ‘90s cultural wars sex panic (let’s pause for a moment over the absurdity of arresting someone for masturbating inside an adult theater), and the resulting “creepy” taint for audiences less familiar with his original image has been persistent, if unfair. So Pee-wee’s streaming recuperation is well-deserved. Seeing him camp around in 2016 gave me a kind of closure, for Pee-wee finally, in his own way, grows up and meets the root beer barrel candy-loving man of his dreams.
*Paul H. Johnson is an attorney and former newspaper reporter for the Record (Bergen County, N.J.)*
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### [An Evening With Emmy Award Winning Comedy Genius Bruce Vilanch March 26, 7:30 PM, The Rrazz Room, New Hope, PA](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/03/26/an-evening-with-emmy-award-winning-comedy-genius-bruce-vilanch-march-26-730-pm-the-rrazz-room-new-hope-pa/)
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**An Evening With [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") Winning Comedy Genius [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") March 26, 2016, 7:30 PM, The Rrazz Room, [New Hope, PA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.3602777778,-74.9572222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.3602777778,-74.9572222222 (New%20Hope%2C%20Pennsylvania)&t=h "New Hope, Pennsylvania")**
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From Mr. Vilanch: “Currently celebrating his seventeenth year as [Lindsay Lohan](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan "Lindsay Lohan")’s sobriety coach, Bruce Vilanch is descending to The RRazz Room At The Raven to dispatch more updates on his bizarre career behind, before and squatting over the footlights. A [Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)") star, a [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") Square and the latest success story on Christian Mingle, (who just hooked him up with a guy who used to be [Pope](http://www.va "Pope")), Bruce has more than a few songs to sing and stories to tell.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch shares what it's really like to write jokes for the most prestigious awards show](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/29/bruce-vilanch-shares-what-its-really-like-to-write-jokes-for-the-most-prestigious-awards-show/)
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") shares what it’s really like to write [jokes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke "Joke") for the most prestigious awards show
February 29, 2016**
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When you hear the word “[Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"),” big stars, stunning gowns, emotional acceptance speeches, and the red carpet probably come to mind.
But much of what happens behind the curtain — the elements we don’t see, like the writing — makes the award show the prestigious and memorable event it is each year.
Comedy writer and six-time [Emmy award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award")-winner Bruce Vilanch, 67, has written jokes for the Oscars since 1989 and served as [head writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_writer "Head writer") for the show from 2000 to 2014.
In the book, “[Poking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features "Facebook features") a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers,” he talks about this huge responsibility.
“Out of the hundreds \[of jokes\] that we write — really, hundreds — if one or two are used, it’s a big deal,” he told the books author [Mike Sacks](http://mikesacks.com "Mike Sacks").
Vilanch told Sacks that some of the writing team’s best jokes are ones made up on the spot in the wings during the live show. But, he explains, the writers actually start coming up with jokes for the Oscars about two months in advance and keep them in a 300-page “playbook.”
This huge outline is kept just off stage so the host can flip through it during commercial breaks to refresh their memory.
The idea to make this mega-outline each year came from [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), who has hosted the show nine times and wanted to help out future hosts with the burden that comes from having to recall so many lines and so much information.
The playbook contains a complete rundown of the show, which typically lasts between three and four hours, as well as numerous jokes. Out of the hundreds of jokes the writers come up with ahead of time, Vilanch says it’s a big deal if one or two are actually used in the show.
Vilanch says the writers are aware that certain celebrities are off limits to joke about, either because the situation is too embarrassing for them, the joke would be too cruel, they will be in the audience.
“You have to be careful to not cross the weird line,” he told Sacks.
Vilanch remembers a joke from the 2003 Oscars in which host [Steve Martin](http://www.stevemartin.com/ "Steve Martin") would have said, “I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that my fly was open throughout the monologue. The good news is that the camera puts on ten pounds.”
Vilanch, his team, and even the network censor thought the joke was hilarious, but Martin didn’t feel comfortable delivering it at such a classy event.
Vilanch understood Martin’s dilemma though, because a joke at the Oscars will stick with you throughout your career.
“The choice you have to make is, do I, as a comedian, want to be remembered for this joke or not?” he told Sacks.
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, 65th Tony Awards, Act of God, American Broadcasting Company, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, ESPY Award, Jimmy Kimmel, New York City, Primetime Emmy Award
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### [Child of the 70's Season 4 Set to Premiere Monday, February 29th 2016 at Pump in West Hollywood](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/27/child-of-the-70s-season-4-set-to-premiere-monday-february-29th-2016-at-pump-in-west-hollywood/)
**Published:** February 27, 2016
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**Digital Journal
Child of the 70’s Season 4 Set to Premiere Monday, February 29th 2016 at Pump in West Hollywood
February 26, 2016**
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Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2850701#ixzz41MWSRGpJ
The brainchild of lead actor [Michael Vaccaro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Vaccaro "Tony Vaccaro"), Child of the 70s is the story of Carlos Perdente played by Vaccaro (creator, co-writer, producer, star) who moves to [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") where he meets television star Kiki Lawrence and the egomaniacal owners of a talent agency played by [Susan Olsen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Olsen "Susan Olsen") ([The Brady Bunch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch "The Brady Bunch")) and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (Writer, Comedian).
Child of the 70s, an homage to sitcoms of the 70s and child stars of the 70s premieres Monday, February 29th 2016 at www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com.
The brainchild of lead actor Michael Vaccaro, Child of the 70s is the story of Carlos Perdente played by Vaccaro (creator, co-writer, producer, star) who moves to Los Angeles where he meets television star Kiki Lawrence and the egomaniacal owners of a talent agency played by Susan Olsen (The Brady Bunch) and Bruce Vilanch (Writer, Comedian).
The webisode series also stars: Ted Lange (The Love Boat), Randy Jones ([The Village People](http://www.officialvillagepeople.com/ "Village People") ‘original cowboy), Judy Tenuta (comedienne), Kat Kramer (Little Fockers), Sheena Metal (LA Talk Radio host), [Amy Linker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Linker "Amy Linker") (Square Pegs), [Gina Hecht](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Hecht "Gina Hecht") (Mork and Mindy, Seinfeld), Ann Walker (Sordid Lives), Terry Ray (From Here on Out), Carol Ita White (Laverne and Shirley), Chuck Saculla (Please Don’t Eat the Pansies), Kat Kramer, Jeremiah Caleb, Charlene Geisler, Lorinda Lisitza, Leo Forte and Dr. Ralph Mayer (Executive Producer).
In addition, Child of the 70s has partnered with Friend Movement to champion the anti-bullying cause within the gay/lesbian community.
To learn more about Child of the 70s, please visit [www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com](http://www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com).
**About Actor and Executive Producer Dr. Ralph Mayer**
Child of the 70s is Executive Produced by ‘Hollywood’s Favorite Doctor’ Dr. Ralph Mayer (www.ralphmayermd.com) (Keeping Up with Ralph, Dating in LA): A native Angeleno, Dr. Ralph Mayer finished medical school at UCLA and completed his training at [Cedars Sinai Medical Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.075198,-118.380676&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.075198,-118.380676 (Cedars-Sinai%20Medical%20Center)&t=h "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center") in Los Angeles. His fellowship in Urogynecology at Harbour UCLA Medical Center honed his surgical skills for the complex repairs required to reconstruct and rejuvenate the vagina as the result of trauma at the time of childbirth. In his twenty years of practice, his excellent skills in vagina rejuvenation, labial contouring and minimally invasive procedures are well known in the medical community, having performed thousands of procedures with outstanding clinical results. While maintaining privileges at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Mayer has been a prominent figure in Medical Staff Services at the [California Hospital Medical Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.037228,-118.265401&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.037228,-118.265401 (California%20Hospital%20Medical%20Center)&t=h "California Hospital Medical Center"). He has served as the Department Chair of the OB/GYN department for eight years prior to being appointed Chief of Staff elect. He has also served on numerous committees including credentialing and surgical services. He has surgical duties teaching USC family medicine residents and Cedars Sinai OB/GYN residents. Dr. Ralph Mayer is also an openly gay father of two children.
To learn more about Child of the 70s, please visit [www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com](http://www.theofficialchildofthe70s.com).
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**Tags:** Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Heart Association, Artificial heart, Bruce Vilanch, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Robert Kardashian, University of California
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks What Really Goes On Behind The Scenes At The Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/26/bruce-vilanch-talks-what-really-goes-on-behind-the-scenes-at-the-oscars/)
**Published:** February 26, 2016
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**[New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post")**
**What really goes on behind the scenes on [Oscar](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") night
By Michael Riedel February 25, 2016 | 7:16pm**
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), one of the funniest writers in Oscar history, has no doubt [Chris Rock](http://www.chrisrock.com/ "Chris Rock") will go for the, um, white elephant in the living room Sunday night.
“There’s no way he can ignore it,” Vilanch says of the Oscars So White controversy. “He’ll have something brilliant to say. He deals with big issues. But this year is insane anyway. The presidential race is a carnival. We have a reality [TV show host](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenter "Presenter") .?.?. That’s a first. Even [Ronald Reagan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.259886,-118.819805833&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.259886,-118.819805833%20(Ronald%20Reagan)&t=h "Ronald Reagan") couldn’t claim that label!”
Vilanch, whose Broadway-bound musical “Sign of the Times” debuts this summer at[Connecticut](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6,-72.7&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.6,-72.7%20(Connecticut)&t=h "Connecticut")’s [Goodspeed Opera House](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667%20(Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals"), wrote 23 Oscar shows. He’s not on this year’s telecast, but I thought it’d be fun to get his behind-the-scenes take on the biggest award of them all (sorry, Tonys!).
The telecast, he says, is mapped out months in advance, but most of the writing is done on the fly while the show is live.
“You’re in a little room offstage, where the host ‘lives’ when he or she isn’t onstage,” he says. “A bunch of writers are huddled around a monitor, trying to prepare a joke about whoever just won.”
The best off-the-cuff joke Vilanch and his team came up with was aimed at Michael Moore. Accepting an Oscar for “[Bowling for Columbine](http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Columbine-Region-Michael-Moore/dp/B0000916TJ%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000916TJ "Bowling for Columbine [Region 2]")” in 2003, Moore denounced George W. Bush for sending America to war for “fictitious reasons.” The audience booed.
During the commercial, the writers began screaming out jokes. Steve Martin, the host that year, grabbed one. After the break, he walked out, smiled and said: “It’s so wonderful backstage. The stagehands are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his car.”
But when things go wrong, there’s little a writer can do but stand clear.
Vilanch worked on the 1989 telecast, whose infamous opening number featured Snow White and Rob Lowe, who attempted, sadly, to sing a parody of “Proud Mary.”
The opening was Oscar producer [Allan Carr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Carr "Allan Carr")’s idea — and it killed his career. Snow White goes to Hollywood and meets great stars of the past: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Vincent Price, Alice Faye and Cyd Charisse.
“In Allan’s mind, those old stars looked like they did when he was a kid,” says Vilanch, 67. But by 1989 they looked “kind of embalmed.”
Vilanch was also backstage in 1995 when David Letterman did his much-derided Oprah-Uma-Uma-Oprah routine.
“I had suggested it might not be the best thing for TV boy to come out and make fun of their names, but it appealed to Dave’s love of the perverse,” Vilanch says. “He was having a horrible time anyway. He kept saying he felt like he was in a hostage crisis.”
On the other hand, when Jack Palance won for “City Slickers” in 1992 and did one-arm pushups onstage, the writers spun gold: “Billy Crystal was the host and he said, ‘This is too good — we have to respond to him.’?” Crystal turned it into a running gag.
Vilanch advises this year’s presenters and nominees to avoid banter.
“Unless you’re really good — like Will Ferrell or Ben Stiller — just come out and say something about the category,” he says. “Don’t make people who aren’t funny try to be funny.”
By the way, the Oscar telecast isn’t much of a pay day for a writer. “It’s viewed as an ‘honor,’?” Vilanch says, “though sometimes the gift basket is nice.”
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, President of the United States, Republican Party United States, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court of the United States, United States
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### [Tickets Available Now For 'A Sign Of The Times' Musical By Bruce Vilanch For Goodspeed Musical Season July 29 – Sept. 4](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/18/tickets-available-now-for-a-sign-of-the-times-musical-by-bruce-vilanch-for-goodspeed-musical-season-july-29-sept-4/)
**Published:** February 18, 2016
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**Middletown Press
East Haddam/Chester: Tickets avaialble now for 2016 season at [Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals")
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[EAST HADDAM](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4833333333,-72.4&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.4833333333,-72.4 (East%20Haddam%2C%20Connecticut)&t=h "East Haddam, Connecticut") >> Don’t miss your chance to get the best seats for each of the five musicals during Goodspeed Musicals’ upcoming 2016 season. There’s something for everyone at Goodspeed this season. All aboard for the [Cole Porter](http://www.last.fm/music/Cole%2BPorter "Cole Porter") classic [Anything Goes](http://www.amazon.com/Anything-Goes-Bing-Crosby/dp/B000A6T1I6%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000A6T1I6 "Anything Goes"); from the composer of Annie, it’s [Bye Bye Birdie](http://www.amazon.com/Bye-Birdie-Janet-Leigh/dp/0767827651%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0767827651 "Bye Bye Birdie"), the musical comedy inspired by Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army; be charmed by the new musical [Chasing Rainbows](http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Rainbows-Bessie-Love/dp/B003MK38GI%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB003MK38GI "Chasing Rainbows") –the story of [Judy Garland](http://www.last.fm/music/Judy%2BGarland "Judy Garland")’s Road to Oz; experience an arresting new version of the Broadway hit [The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roar_of_the_Greasepaint_%E2%80%93_The_Smell_of_the_Crowd "The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"); and relive the spirit of the 60s in A Sign of the Times, featuring with the songs of Petula Clark.
“Anything Goes”: Set sail on a “de-lovely” cruise through some of Cole Porter’s most famous songs. A brassy nightclub singer, a starry-eyed stowaway and Public Enemy No. 13 are booked on a transatlantic luxury liner bound for romance and laughter. Hum along with an easy-to-love score packed with hits including “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top,” “It’s De-Lovely,” “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” and more! This tap-happy classic docks at Goodspeed for the first time. Anything Goes features Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Original Book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and New Book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman. Anything Goes is sponsored by Chester Village West, Liberty Bank, The Shops at Mohegan Sun and Sennheiser.
“Bye Bye Birdie”: Put on a happy face! Army-bound rock star Conrad Birdie’s farewell appearance in Sweet Apple, Ohio is the talk of the town. But it’s a teenage crisis for new “steadies” Hugo and Kim: she just won the chance to give Birdie one last kiss before boot camp. Kids, parents and show folk collide in the Goodspeed debut of the hip-swiveling musical comedy set at the dawn of the sensational 60s. Bring the entire family to discover we’ve got a lot of livin’ to do! Bye Bye Birdie features a Book by Michael Stewart, Music by Charles Strouse and Lyrics by Lee Adams. Bye Bye Birdie is sponsored by Amica and Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, PC.
“Chasing Rainbows”: An awkward girl with a golden voice blossoms into Judy Garland in the inspirational new musical about the bumpy road to Oz. The future superstar’s complicated childhood comes alive with heartbreak, hope and the music that made her famous. “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” “You Made Me Love You” and “Over the Rainbow” sweeten the story of Judy striving to hold onto her family. A love letter to gifted underdogs who reach high—and how the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Chasing Rainbows features a Book by Marc Acito, Conceived by Tina Marie Casamento with Music adapted by David Libby. Chasing Rainbows is sponsored by ConnectiCare and Comacast.
Visit he [Norma Terris Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4054,-72.4533&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.4054,-72.4533 (Norma%20Terris%20Theatre)&t=h "Norma Terris Theatre") in Chester and take in two unique musicals: In a world turned upside down, a rag-tag group relies on humor, song and dance to try to build a new life. But can show tunes and music hall merriment revive the human spirit? On the highway of life, hope is just around the bend in this arresting reinvention of the vivacious Broadway hit. Their world may have ended, but songs like “Who Can I Turn To?,” “The Joker,” “Feeling Good” and “A Wonderful Day Like Today” echo on, welcoming new love and another dawn. The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd features Book, Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.
1965\. The pulse of a changing era lures Cindy from Middle America to the swirl of Manhattan. Unexpected friends, lovers, careers and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical featuring songs made famous by Petula Clark and other hit-makers of the day. “I Know a Place,” “The Shoop Shoop Song” and “If I Can Dream” are among the fabulous favorites on an eye-opening ride from innocence to experience. Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares—go “Downtown” and find out who you are! **A Sign of the Times** features a Book by **Bruce Vilanch**, Story Created by Richard Robin.
Single tickets may be purchased by visiting the Box Office, open seven days a week at 6 Main Street, East Haddam, [Conn.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6,-72.7&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.6,-72.7 (Connecticut)&t=h "Connecticut"); by calling 860.873.8668; or on-line at goodspeed.org. Special ticket packages are still available: see three shows at The Goodspeed for only $108 or see all five shows for just $196. Contact the Box Office for details. Ticket cost may vary by performance; please call for current pricing. All prices are subject to change.
At the Goodspeed, Anything Goes runs from April 8 – June 16; Bye Bye Birdie will run from June 24 – Sept. 4; Chasing Rainbows runs from Sept. 16 – Nov. 27.
At the Norma Terris Theatre: The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd runs from May 20 – June 26; **A Sign of the Times runs from July 29 – Sept. 4.**
Curtain times are Wednesday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., with select performances at 2 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., with select performances at 6:30 p.m.
Under the leadership of Executive Director Michael Gennaro, Goodspeed Musicals is dedicated to the preservation, development and advancement of musical theatre and is the first theatre in the nation to receive two Tony Awards (for outstanding achievement). Goodspeed produces three musicals each season at The Goodspeed in East Haddam, Conn., and additional productions at The Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn., which was opened in 1984 for the development of new musicals. Goodspeed also maintains The Scherer Library of Musical Theatre and The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre. Goodspeed acknowledges the support of United Airlines, the official airline of Goodspeed Musicals, and official auto sponsor Hoffman Audi. Goodspeed is supported in part the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
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**Tags:** a sign of the times, Abby Mann, Amy Winehouse, Andy Hardy, Associated Press, Bruce Vilanch, Burt Lancaster, Camel (cigarette), Carrie Underwood, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, United States
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### [Orlando: Naked Boys Singing is a boozy, bawdy evening of ogling buff boys with their balls swinging in the breeze](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/13/orlando-naked-boys-singing-is-a-boozy-bawdy-evening-of-ogling-buff-boys-with-their-balls-swinging-in-the-breeze/)
**Published:** February 13, 2016
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[Naked Boys Singing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Boys_Singing "Naked Boys Singing") is a boozy, bawdy evening of ogling buff boys with their balls swinging in the breeze
By Seth Kubersky
Feb 12, 2016**
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We live in a world of lies, bombarded daily by half-truths, obfuscations and outright falsehoods from promoters and politicians. So let’s get erect and give a standing ovation to Naked Boys Singing for earning the “truth in advertising” award. This spirited musical revue may not have any dialogue, characters or plot, but it’s got more exposed penises than a half-dozen productions of Equus. Which just goes to show how far our city has evolved: Back in 2000, a lone Naked Guy at the Orlando Fringe faced threats of arrest, but in 2016 seven nude dudes can strut on the Footlight stage for five weekends and no one blinks an eye.
A long-running hit in New York, NBS comes to Orlando courtesy of producer-director Tim Evanicki, who recently took the reins of the Parliament House’s Footlight Theatre. Under former artistic directors Michael Wanzie and [David Lee](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-lee-2 "David Lee"), Footlight hosted not only PH’s popular drag shows, but legit dramas and comedies that drew audiences of every orientation. That leaves Evanicki some big shoes to fill in his new role, as he graciously acknowledged at the packed press preview.
“I am loving this job,” Evanicki told me in an interview after opening night. “Parliament House is an [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") resort that caters to everyone. I’d like the programming in the theater to reflect that. We will be bringing in more [book musicals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") and big names that appeal to all walks of life.”
Evanicki first saw Naked Boys Singing at [NYC’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") Actors Playhouse in 2004 and made it his top priority upon becoming PH’s new artistic director. “I wanted to make sure we kicked it off with something that would put the Footlight Theatre on the map,” he said. “I also wanted to pick a show that would cater to and attract more than just the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community").” Of course, assembling a show where the cast is unclothed nearly the entire time required some adjustments. “Singing auditions were fully clothed, but the dance callback was done nude,” Evanicki recalled. “It was funny, because we have union performers, and the union required us to have a monitor from [Actors’ Equity](http://www.actorsequity.org/ "Actors' Equity Association") audit the audition process. Poor Doug Truelsen.” The early rehearsals were done dressed, but drawers were dropped once Pete Simpson’s choreography – which puts a floppy twist on the classic chorus kickline – was complete. “I left it up to the boys as to when they felt comfortable rehearsing nude,” said Evanicki. “We had 12 total rehearsals, and they were nude on day seven.”
It’s one thing to hoot and holler at a stage of stripped strangers, but I found the show a tad awkward to watch (at least at first) because I know some of the cast. For example, I’ve been friends with Joshua Roth since we worked on Tod Kimbro’s 2011 Fringe musical Suckers, but I’ve never seen him as exposed as during his “Perky Little Porn Star” number. “There is nothing that truly prepares you for 90 minutes of nudity; you kind of just have to jump into the deep end headfirst and with a smile on your face,” Roth told me. A theme-park performer by day, Roth’s NBS role has let him “step way out of my comfort zone, as well as become more comfortable with myself, my peers and also complete strangers.” Of course, you can’t do a nude musical without some unintended side effects: “I have been working a lot with aerial silks lately, and I have a pretty bad bruise on my upper left thigh … pretty much my groin area. I pulled Pete (our choreographer) into the dressing room, and without even thinking about it pulled down my pants and showed him the bruise. It wasn’t even until about five minutes after he left the dressing room that he realized that I had just whipped it all out for him and he didn’t even notice or care … and neither did I.”
So after all that, how is the show? As I said above, if you are interested in story or deep meaning, better move along: There’s a nod to nakedness as a metaphor for emotional vulnerability and a maudlin song about a dead lover, but otherwise the mood is kept light and campy. The performers are all solid (ahem), especially Kevin Kelly, who wears Liza well in the Fosse-flavored “Entertainer,” but the majority of the music is simply unmemorable. With a baker’s dozen of credited writers (including **[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**), it’s a clear case of too many cooks muddling the man-chowder, and musical director John T. Gardner’s keyboard often drowned out the unamplified singers. As a hetero male, I didn’t identify with some of the topics (like gym addiction), though it appears sung schlong synonyms make everyone’s inner 12-year-old snicker, gay or straight. But if a boozy, bawdy evening of ogling buff boys with their balls swinging in the breeze sounds like ideal entertainment, better buy your seats now; Naked Boys Singing looks to be the hardest ticket of this theater season.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Showbiz, Politics in Coral Springs](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/02/03/bruce-vilanch-talks-showbiz-politics-in-coral-springs/)
**Published:** February 3, 2016
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Talks Showbiz, Politics in [Coral Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.2705555556,-80.2591666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=26.2705555556,-80.2591666667 (Coral%20Springs%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Coral Springs, Florida")
BY JW Arnold 01/28/2016 12:31 pm**
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For Bruce Vilanch, controversy is a laughing matter.
Media Bids – Humane Society
The writer and comedian is bringing his one man show to The Rrazz Room in Coral Springs on Saturday and he has no plans to shy away from any of those traditionally taboo topics of polite conversation.
[SFGN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction_comics "Science fiction comics") caught up with him on the phone while he hurried to finish up the script for the [Producers Guild Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producers_Guild_of_America_Award "Producers Guild of America Award") last weekend. While the Producers Guild is incredibly diverse, he said, it’s also neither televised nor immune from the after effects of the controversy surrounding the [Oscar nominations](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") a couple of weeks ago.
“It’s Hollywood,” he said. “It’s the town industry and the city is full of people who don’t want to be branded as racist. It’s a lighting rod for publicity. Nobody understands the nominating process.”
Vilanch, who has also written 25 Oscars ceremony scripts, attributes much of the anger to “sour grapes from people who were eligible but not nominated. That makes it sound petty.”
“There’s certainly a problem in the industry and the Academy is trying to address it,” he explained. “We’re talking about art, not industry.”
He pointed out that while the 20 nominees in the acting categories were white, they were nominated by 1150 actors who are members of the Academy and still more diverse than the other branches, such as the writers and directors who also select the nominees in their professions.
“I’ve written the show 25 times and every year there’s something,” Vilanch said. “This issue just won’t go away.”
He also plans to talk politics. Not surprisingly, Vilanch is a proud Democrat:
“I’ll wind up voting for Hillary like everyone else with a brain. The Republicans are not an option,” he explained.
South Florida audiences should expect to hear Vilanch’s opinions about the current crowd of hopeful Republican candidates.
“They’re all such clowns. You don’t have to say anything, they write their own material,” he said with a hearty chuckle. “And there is Sarah Palin standing up and blaming Obama for her son being a lunatic. Imagine if Obama’s kids were as cracked out as hers.”
Of course, Vilanch will be armed with plenty of dishy Hollywood stories, too, although he warns he is not a conventional stand up comic.
“I’m a storyteller and I’ve been party to a lot of stories,” he again chuckled. “I was a [child actor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_actor "Child actor"), you know. I never became a child star or we’d be talking from rehab. I love telling these stories about the behind the scenes in Hollywood and the ridiculous jobs I’ve had. It’s so hard to choose now.”
The Coral Springs appearance will be a homecoming of sorts. Vilanch’s grandparents lived in Miami Beach and he vacationed here as a child. Years later, his first job out of college was at the [Miami Herald](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.7888111111,-80.1859888889&spn=0.015,0.015&q=25.7888111111,-80.1859888889 (The%20Miami%20Herald)&t=h "The Miami Herald"). His 95-year-old mother, who just passed away this year, was a snowbird in [Boca Raton](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.3686111111,-80.1&spn=0.1,0.1&q=26.3686111111,-80.1 (Boca%20Raton%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Boca Raton, Florida").
He sighed, “I’ve often thought maybe I could just pick up a little place there, but life gets in the way.”
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**Tags:** Academic term, Alcee Hastings, Angelina Jolie, Associated Press, Barack Obama, bruce Vilanc, Campus, Council of Presidents, Florida, Miami, The Miami Herald
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play Coral Springs Museum Saturday, January 30th 2016](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/01/26/bruce-vilanch-to-play-coral-springs-museum-saturday-january-30th-2016/)
**Published:** January 26, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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**Saturday, January 30, 2016 @ 7pm**
[Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") Winning Comedy Genius
BRUCE VILANCH
&
JESSICA KIRSON
([Comedy Central](http://www.comedycentral.com/ "Comedy Central"), [NBC TV](http://www.nbcuni.com "NBC Universal")’s [Last Comic Standing](http://www.nbc.com/Last_Comic_Standing "Last Comic Standing"))
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From Mr. Vilanch: “Currently celebrating his seventeenth year as Lindsay Lohan’s sobriety coach, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is descending to The RRazz Room to dispatch more updates on his bizarre career behind, before and squatting over the footlights. A Hairspray star, a Hollywood Square and the latest success story on Christian Mingle, (who just hooked him up with a guy who used to be Pope), Bruce has more than a few songs to sing and stories to tell.”
Jessica Kirson’s unique style and captivating stage presence captures the attention of audiences and club bookers everywhere she performs. Her wide variety of characters brings a diverse energy to her routine. Once you’ve seen her amazing talent, it’s easy to understand why she was selected to perform at the Hamptons, Toyota, Marshall’s Women in Comedy, Comedy Central’s South Beach, Montreal, and HBO’s [Las Vegas](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.175,-115.136388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.175,-115.136388889 (Las%20Vegas)&t=h "Las Vegas") comedy festivals. She was awarded “Best Female Comic” by the MAC association in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") and recently accepted the Nightlife Award for “Best Stand-up Comedian” in New York City. Her [YouTube channel](http://www.youtube.com/ "YouTube") “The Jessy K Show” has more than 100 videos with a combined total of over 2.5 million views. She recently launched her own podcast called “The Jessica Kirson Podcast.”
[Coral Springs Center for the Arts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Springs_Center_for_the_Arts "Coral Springs Center for the Arts")
2855 Coral Springs Drive, [Coral Springs, FL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.2705555556,-80.2591666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=26.2705555556,-80.2591666667 (Coral%20Springs%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Coral Springs, Florida") 33065 United States
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Hello Dolly
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### [7 Reasons Why “Donny & Marie” Ruled the ’70s](https://wegotbruce.com/2016/01/23/7-reasons-why-donny-marie-ruled-the-70s/)
**Published:** January 23, 2016
**Author:** MisterD
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7 Reasons Why “Donny & Marie” Ruled the ’70s
The “Donny & Marie” show debuted on January 23, 1976. To celebrate its 40th anniversary this week, here’s a look back at the iconic 70s TV show and its show-stopping success.
KATIE MASSA KENNEDY JAN 20, 2016**
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*Family act Marie and Donny Osmond took primetime television by storm when “Donny & Marie” premiered on January 23, 1976. (Photo: ©ABC/Photofest)*
Happy Anniversary, Donny & Marie! Can you believe it’s been 40 years since the variety program turned Friday nights into must-see-TV? Its debut in 1976 took primetime by storm, singing and dancing its way into television history with a jaw-dropping 14 million viewers a week.?? It may be hard to count all the ways Donny & Marie was such a show-stopping success – but here are our 7 Reasons ‘Donny and Marie’ Ruled the ’70s:
**She Was a Little Bit Country, He Was a Little Bit Rock ‘n’ Roll?**
Fourteen-year-old Marie Osmond reached the top of the charts with her country hit “Paper Roses” while Donny was busy rocking out with their brothers – and when the two co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show, their creative chemistry was so undeniable that execs at ABC gave them their own show. America tuned in each week to watch the charming siblings butt heads, trade lighthearted barbs and insults and needle each other as only brothers and sisters can do. Yeah, “A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Rock ‘n’ Roll” wasn’t just the show’s opening song – it was a way of life for the duo.
**Those Big Musical Numbers Were Electrifying**
Huge musical productions were a hallmark of the hit variety show, with big brother and little sis helming some of the biggest and glitziest dance numbers on television. Joining the choreography team was 1960 Olympic Pairs Figure Skating Gold Medalist Robert Paul, who struck gold again with the show’s elaborate skating routines. Hey, it didn’t matter if you were too cool for school – there was just no denying that those ice-skating numbers were ice-HOT!
**The Comedy Was Fun Schlock?**
With comedy luminaries like Bruce Vilanch on the writing staff, is it any surprise that laughs ran rampant on the show? Sure, the sketches were jam-packed with groan-worthy puns and wholesome parodies (and was even described by critics as syrupy saccharine) – but it was all in good, family fun. Donny himself has admitted that the bits were corny, but added that when he watches it, “I catch myself smiling” and points out “That’s tacky, but I’m still smiling, you know?” Well, we all were, Donny!
**The Costumes Were Out of Control**
They say image is everything – and a big part of Donny & Marie was its flashy, flamboyant getups. In fact, the production recruited one of the biggest names in fashion, nine-time Emmy winner and three-time Oscar nominee Bob Mackie, who’s dressed entertainment legends such as Joan Rivers, Cher, RuPaul, and Diana Ross. With the way Mackie kept Marie sparkling in some of the most extravagant fashions of the day, it’s no wonder he earned the nickname “Sultan of Sequins”!
**Everyone Who Was Anyone Was On the Show**
With the huge ratings Donny & Marie was pulling in each week, every celeb of the day clamored to get on the hit show for maximum exposure – that’s why when audiences tuned in, they’d catch some of the decade’s biggest movers and bellbottom shakers! Just a handful of their superstar guests included comedians Bob Hope, George Burns, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Nipsey Russell; and musical guests Paul Anka, Tina Turner, Chubby Checker, Sonny and Cher, and Chuck Berry. If you were hot in the ’70s, you played onstage with Donny and Marie!
**?Donny Was a Total Dreamboat**
With a sizzling solo career under his belt and a hit network show with sister Marie, Donny Osmond catapulted to certifiable pop idol status. That’s right, long before #TeamEdward and #TeamJacob, the teen was competing with David Cassidy for the title of biggest heartthrob. So Donny-crazy was his female fan base, in fact, that some speculate that when Donny began dating his future wife Debbie, it spelled the beginning of the end for the show. Sorry, ladies, he’s still taken!
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**Categories:** Bruce On The Tube, Bruce Related, Television
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### [14 gay-appareled Christmas movies to make your holidays merry and bright](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/12/18/14-gay-appareled-christmas-movies-to-make-your-holidays-merry-and-bright/)
**Published:** December 18, 2015
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14 gay-appareled [Christmas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas "Christmas") movies to make your holidays merry and bright
Posted on 15 Dec 2015 at 8:39am**
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Whether or not the weather outside is frightful, your DVD player is delightful with this fortnight of holiday flicks that appeal to gay and lesbian sensibilities — just in time for our Hollywood issue of movies, coming this Friday.
**[Home for the Holidays](http://www.amazon.com/Home-Holidays-Holly-Hunter/dp/B00005LOKR%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00005LOKR "Home for the Holidays").** Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) navigates dysfunctional family dramedy during her solo trip home for Thanksgiving when her teenage daughter opts out of the year’s celebration. Tensions predictably boil over at the family table, but the weekend is wrapped nicely in a bow when the special guest of Tommy, Claudia’s gay brother, offers a second helping of stuffing. The Jodie Foster-directed Home for the Holidays celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
**[Make the Yuletide Gay](http://www.guesthousefilms.com/yuletide_content.html "Make the Yuletide Gay").** Astonishingly, there are few holiday films that feature LGBT characters (this list is fairly comprehensive as a result), let alone films that have gay main characters. But out Texas-native director Rob Williams changed that in 2009 by adding the spritely sweet Make the Yuletide Gay — about an in-the-closet college student (Keith Jordan) whose boyfriend (Adamo Ruggiero) suddenly shows up on his doorstep — to the Christmas-movie canon. MTYG has earned several awards, including Best Narrative Feature at FilmOut San Diego, Festival Favorite at [Philadelphia QFest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_QFest "Philadelphia QFest"), and the Jury Award for Best Men’s Feature at the Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
**[Holiday Heart](http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-Heart-Ving-Rhames/dp/B00005ALM8%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00005ALM8 "Holiday Heart (2000)").** Ving Rhames stars as a Christian drag queen (how’d that fly under your radar until now!?) who takes in a drug addict (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter after his police-officer boyfriend dies. Based on the [Cheryl L. West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_West "Cheryl West") stage play of the same name, this made-for-Showtime movie has an astonishing 92 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
**Scrooge & Marley.** A modern-day variation of [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")’ A Christmas Carol, this reimagined version depicts Scrooge as a bitter old queen whose bah-humbug attitude gets a makeover from the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future… and Bruce Vilanch.
**Love, Actually.** Widely regarding as one of the best holiday movies of the new millennium (by straight girls, at least), this romantic comedy told via 10 separate-but-intertwining stories throws the gays a bone with Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) and Joe (Gregor Fisher) — a rock star and his manager, respectively — who decide that getting drunk and watching porn together for Christmas is better than being alone. Because duh. (The writer-director recently revealed he had intended to include a lesbian relationship in the film.)
**24 Nights.** An unlucky-in-love gay man (Kevin Isola) thinks his new co-worker (Stephen Mailer) may be a gift from Santa Claus himself after making a Christmas wish for a boyfriend. Mental illness works in mysterious ways, y’all. David Burtka — before he was ever a twinkle in NPH’s eye — also stars in this 1999 romantic comedy.
**Red Lodge.** An impromptu marriage proposal is given at a train station en route to a holiday celebration with family in Montana. In lieu of an engagement ring, there’s a cock ring – because these dudes are classy AF.
**[Holiday in Handcuffs](http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-Handcuffs-Melissa-Joan-Hart/dp/B001BAWKQU%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001BAWKQU "Holiday in Handcuffs").** There’s not a chance you missed this ABC Family staple that premiered in 2007 – what with all the endless promotion the initial season (Clarissa and A.C. Slater are together on your TV for the first time — watch!) and the subsequent showings during the channels “25 Days of Christmas” schedule. It’s about as well acted as any Melissa Joan Hart/Mario Lopez vehicle should be, but they’re cute, so there’s that.
**The Family Stone.** As if Carrie Bradshaw’s alter ego, Sarah Jessica Parker, isn’t enough to get you on board with this Home for the Holidays-esque romantic comedy-drama, the brood’s deaf, gay son Thad (Tyrone Giordano) and his interracial partner Patrick ([Brian J. White](http://brianwhiteonline.com "Brian J. White")) should be. Plus Dermott Mulroney, Paul Schneider and Luke Wilson!
**Too Cool for Christmas**. Perhaps the Christmas film with the most interesting backstory, Too Cool for Christmas (a tale about a teenage girl who shuns the reason for the season — and her gay parents — in favor of a ski getaway with friends) actually has a straight-parent companion version that appeared on Lifetime in December 2004. Not much has changed since then — there are still no holiday movies with prominent gay characters on Lifetime — which is why you should support this festive anomaly all the more.
**Miracle on 34th Street.** Shirley Temple! Do you need another reason?
**Holiday Inn.** If it’s an Irving Berlin musical, it must be Christmas! There’s a void of LGBT characters in this 1942 black-and-white musical starting Mr. Holiday Bing Crosby and the light-on-his-feet Fred Astaire — well, none that are specifically labeled as such, at least. But we’d be fooling ourselves if we thought there’s nary a nancy-boy singing and dancing around that hotel all day.
**Rent**. A year in the life of Bohemian [New Yorkers](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") set between Christmas Eve 1989 and 1990. You’ll come for the story, but you’ll stay for the soundtrack.
**Love the Coopers.** Technically you won’t be able to pick up this newly released film on DVD until next year, so instead you’ll have to head to your local cinema to watch yet another dysfunctional family handle the holidays the best way they know how: with binge eating and alcohol. But between bickering and laughing and crying — and more bickering — there’s Anthony Mackie (one of only a handful of black gay characters in a holiday film) as a closeted cop who doles out life advice… even if he should be practicing what he’s preaching.
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### [Happy 67th Birthday, Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/11/23/happy-67th-birthday-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** November 23, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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### [This Day in Television History – November 17th, 1978 – Star Wars Holiday Special Airs](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/11/17/this-day-in-television-history-november-17th-1978-star-wars-holiday-special-airs/)
**Published:** November 17, 2015
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This Day in Television History – November 17th, 1978 – [Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special") Airs
Nov 17, 2015
By: Sean Sporman**
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[Star Wars](http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-Versions-Widescreen/dp/B000FQJAJG%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000FQJAJG "Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)") is a titan of the film industry. The first film was a massive success, and since then, the series has seen massive hits with movies, TV shows, books, video games and more. A new film is hitting theaters next month, one that is greatly anticipated by many.
However, one part of Star Wars that featured the original cast has never been officially released and is considered one of the most notorious television specials of all time—the Star Wars Holiday Special. It aired only once to this day, on CBS on November 17th, 1978.
The special featured Harrison Ford, [Carrie Fisher](http://www.carriefisher.com "Carrie Fisher") and Mark Hamill alongside 70s comedy staples like [Bea Arthur](http://www.last.fm/music/Bea%2BArthur "Bea Arthur") and [Harvey Korman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Korman "Harvey Korman"). It was written by [Pat Proft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft "Pat Proft"), Leonard Ripps, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Rod Warren, and Mitzie Welch. [Steve Binder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Binder "Steve Binder") was the director.
It featured a variety of loosely-connected segments and skits along with stock footage. Some examples of content in the special include the Bea Arthur character running the Cantina on Tattooine, an entire musical segment featuring Jefferson Starship, and Harvey Korman as a four-armed alien that sounds like Julia Child.
Notably, the popular character of the bounty hunter, [Boba Fett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boba_Fett "Boba Fett"), made his Star Wars debut in the special, before his appearances in later Star Wars films.
The special has never been officially released, but has gained a cult following as copies can be found online and in trading circuits.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Among 2nd Annual Voice Arts® Awards 2015 Presenters](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/11/11/bruce-vilanch-among-2nd-annual-voice-arts-awards-2015-presenters/)
**Published:** November 11, 2015
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**2nd Annual Voice Arts® Awards Announces 2015 Presenters**
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Voiceover Industry Award Ceremony Presenters Include Leading [Voice Actors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting "Voice acting") and Acclaimed Personalities Presenters include: Oscars ceremony writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") ceremony announcer Joe Cipriano, Legendary Voice of Babe the Pig EG Daily, Iconic Television Actors John Amos and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Featured Voice in Pixar’s Inside Out and Sponge Bob Square Pants Lori Alan, Legendary voice actor from [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") and Boxtrolls Pat Fraley, Police Academy films actor and sound master Michael Winslow and CBS Entertainment Reporter Suzanne Marques
The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences™ (SOVAS™) is delighted to announce today the talented personalities who will serve as presenters for the 2015 Voice Arts®Awards in [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") on Sunday November 15th at the [Pacific Design Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.08232,-118.38238&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.08232,-118.38238 (Pacific%20Design%20Center)&t=h "Pacific Design Center"). The Voice Arts® Awards is an international competition showcasing the best work in professional voiceover acting, creative direction and communications for advertising, audiobook narration, movie trailers, video gaming, animation, television, radio and casting realms.
The Voice Arts®Awards Presenters are artists from around the world, who represent the best-in-class professional voiceover talents in the industry, and also media personalities who work behind the microphones and cameras. The 2015 Voice Arts®Awards presenters include:
**PRESENTER NOTES**:
JOE CIPRIANO: Voice of the Emmy Awards, CBS television promos and FOX television promos
JOAN BAKER: Author of Secrets of Voiceover Success, Co-founder of the Voice Arts® Awards.
SCOTT BRICK: Most respected name in Audiobook narration. Grammy finalist and [Audie Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Awards "Audie Awards")-winning narrator of In Cold Blood, Mystic River, Helter Skelter, 700 other audiobooks
CHUCK AND STACEY: She’s the host of Disney World TV and he’s the VO producer/director to the Hollywood VO stars. Together they host the nominated VO Buzz Weekly video podcast
EG DAILY: Voice of Babe the Pig in the award winning movie
ED LOH: Editor in Chief of Motor Trend Magazine
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER: Beloved actor from television’s Cosby show who is also an award winning voice actor and is a 2015 VAA nominee
JOHN AMOS: Acclaimed character actor in numerous films and television programs and one of the most iconic father figure characters in America on the 70’s dramedy ‘Good Times’
SUZANNE MARQUES: Entertainment reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles
BRUCE VILANCH: Award winning comedy writer who is a multiple Emmy award winning writer for multiple awards shows, and also, the former head writer for the Oscars ceremony
PAT FRALEY: Legendary voice actor and voiceover teacher known for voicing recognized characters from various films and series including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Boxtrolls
LORI ALAN: Voice of Pearl the Whale on [SpongeBob Square Pants](http://spongebob.nick.com/ "SpongeBob SquarePants") & featured in Pixar’s Inside Out: Lori Alan
MICHAEL WINSLOW: Master vocal sound maker and vocal sound effects teacher, known for voicing his special effects in the Police Academy film series
“We are tremendously excited to have the honor of welcoming many of the best voice actors from around the world to the Voice Arts®Awards stage to participate in our ceremony,” says SOVAS™ CEO Rudy Gaskins. “We are humbled.”
The 2015 Voice Arts®Awards full list of nominees, including Tim Gunn, Beyonce, Ron Perlman and Brian Blessed, are featured at sovas.org. The winners in each category will be unveiled on November 15th, along with a special award presentation of the Voice Arts® Icon Award–the jury’s highest honor—to William Shatner, for lifetime achievement. Also being presented, in partnership with Backstage® Magazine and the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences™, is the Backstage® Vanguard Award for Outstanding Casting, which will be presented to [Pixar Animation](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.832639,-122.283789&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.832639,-122.283789 (Pixar)&t=h "Pixar") casting honchos Kevin Reher and Natalie Lyon. They will receive their awards the night before at the SOVAS™ created THAT’S VOICEOVER!™ CONFERENCE and will be acknowledged at the Voice Arts®Awards ceremony. Entries were submitted from various entities including: Wendy’s, Telemundo, Discovery Channel, CNN, NBC Sports, ABC Entertainment, Comedy Central, Oxygen Network, NBA on TNT, FOX, Ovation Network and many others. For more information on the Voice Arts Awards, visit: VoiceArts.org.
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**About The Voice Arts® Awards**
The Voice Arts® Awards is an international awards competition created by the Society Of Voice Arts And Sciences™ (SOVAS™). The open competition features a number of categories of voice arts, and is voted upon by award-winning experts from the various disciplines that constitute the entry categories. SOVAS™ honors industry visionaries and pioneers of the voice arts with a number of special awards including the Voice Arts Icon Awards for lifetime achievement. Awards are presented during a live Voice Arts® Awards Gala which is open to the public. For more information about Society Of Voice Arts And Sciences™ (SOVAS™), or for tickets to Voice Arts® Awards Gala, visit VoiceArts.org.
**Purpose**
The purpose of the Voice Arts® Awards is to provide international acknowledgement of the extraordinary skill and artistry of voiceover acting and associated industry professions. The Awards also encourage a best-in-class standard of achievement to which the voiceover industry can continually aspire. The Voice Arts® Awards will honor and acknowledge the voice actors, creative directors, copywriters, casting directors, talent agents, directors, producers, audio engineers, account executives, equipment manufacturers, podcasters, bloggers and others who create and sustain excellence within the voiceover industry. The Voice Arts® Award represents one of a host of programs administered by the Society Of Voice Arts And Sciences™ (SOVAS™), a non-profit 501 (c)3 corporation, whose overall mission is to the highest levels of artistic achievement, while providing support for education, training, career advancement and gainful employment throughout all facets of the voiceover industry.
**Contact**
Judi Durand, DAJDPR, 703-725-6017 (m)
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Andy Samberg, Downtown Los Angeles, Emmy Award, Game of Thrones (TV series), HBO, Hollywood, Jeffrey Tambor, Los Angeles, Microsoft, Primetime Emmy Award
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### [Super-Sized Comedy: Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/11/06/super-sized-comedy-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** November 6, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Metro Weekly](http://www.metroweekly.com/ "Metro Weekly")
Super-Sized Comedy: [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Bruce Vilanch and [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") team up for an evening of comedy and [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") secrets
By Connor J. Hogan on November 5, 2015**
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“You get your start in comedy by looking in the mirror and thinking what you see is unusual,” says Bruce Vilanch. “So you start making funny faces and perform for yourself.”
Sixty-six years — and six Emmys — after first catching a glimpse of himself in the mirror, Vilanch is still screwing up his face and cracking wise. His signature heft, charmingly raspy voice, and unstoppable wit marked him for a career in comedy from the get go. It helped that he had a “deep-seated need to express \[myself\],” Vilanch says. “Also, to be funny.”
More than just a comedian, Vilanch has become a force of nature in Hollywood and is particularly known for co-penning the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") each year. Now, he’s teamed up with lesbian comedian Judy Gold (a two-time [Emmy award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner herself) for Big and Tall: Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold, playing this weekend at the Alden Theatre. “I’m number one, and she’s number two,” Vilanch quips. The comedians met while Gold was working on [Margaret Cho](http://margaretcho.com/ "Margaret Cho")’s sitcom, [All-American Girl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Girl_%281994_TV_series%29 "All American Girl (1994 TV series)"). “I don’t remember exactly when lightning struck,” Vilanch says, “but we were two big gay [Jews](http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/ "Jews"), and we’re both very showbizzy, so it was a natural fit.”
But beyond being gay and Jewish, Gold has one more more handicap — at least in Hollywood’s terms — than Vilanch: being a woman. “It was interesting for Judy, because at the beginning she wasn’t out. It was pre-Ellen,” Vilanch says. “And because all women are perceived as romantic figures, the vast unwashed audiences had to think she had a shot at getting a man.”
In our post-Ellen world, however, Vilanch believes comedians can thrive on being gay. “There are people who are Professional [Homosexuals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality "Homosexuality"), and those who are Homosexual Professionals,” he says. “People who were gay who did what they did, and people who what they did was being gay. When I get up there, I play myself. I’ve been authentic my entire life.” — Connor J. Hogan
Big and Tall: Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold is Saturday, November 7th at 9 p.m. at the Alden Theatre in the McLean Community Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, Va. Tickets range from $20 to $72. For more information, visit mcleancenter.org/alden-theatre.
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Academy Award, Andy Samberg, Emmy Award, Game of Thrones (TV series), Golden Globe Award, HBO, List of awards for supporting actor, Los Angeles, NBC, Television
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### [Vilanch, Gold team up to perform at Alden inside the McLean November 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/28/vilanch-gold-team-up/)
**Published:** October 28, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Washington Blade](http://washingtonblade.com/ "Washington Blade")
October 28, 2015 at 1:57 pm [EDT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone "Eastern Time Zone") | by Mariah Cooper
Vilanch, Gold team up**
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[Stand-up comedians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy") [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") perform at the Alden inside the McLean [Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_centre "Community centre") (1234 Ingleside Ave., [McLean, Va.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.9341666667,-77.1775&spn=0.1,0.1&q=38.9341666667,-77.1775 (McLean%2C%20Virginia)&t=h "McLean, Virginia")) onSaturday, Nov. 7 at 9 p.m.
Vilanch, who is gay, has been a series regular on the television show “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")” and has written for numerous awards shows including the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). Gold, a lesbian, has co-hosted “[The View](http://www.hulu.com/the-view "The View - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free")” and worked on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.” Vilanch and Gold will give separate stand-up performances. General admission tickets are $35. Tickets for McLean Community Center tax district residents are $20.
For more details, visit [aldentheatre.org](http://aldentheatre.org/).
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**Categories:** Comedy Show
**Tags:** Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, All of Me (song), Anthony Quinn, Auto racing, Fresh Guacamole, Golden Globe Award, Honda
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### [Save The Date: Bruce Vilanch's Musical "Sign Of The Times" Part Of Goodspeed Musicals' 2016 Season](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/15/save-the-date-bruce-vilanchs-musical-sign-of-the-times-part-of-goodspeed-musicals-2016-season/)
**Published:** October 15, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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[Goodspeed Musicals](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.4517583333,-72.4625166667 (Goodspeed%20Musicals)&t=h "Goodspeed Musicals")‘ 2016 Season has something that will appeal to everyone—young and old—and continue the extraordinary legacy that has made Goodspeed Musicals the “Home of the [American](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States") Musical.” We are excited to announce that the season will include classic musicals that have never appeared before on our stages along with new musicals at both of our theatres—The Goodspeed in [East Haddam](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.4833333333,-72.4&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.4833333333,-72.4 (East%20Haddam%2C%20Connecticut)&t=h "East Haddam, Connecticut") and The Terris Theatre in Chester.
ADVANCE SEASON TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW TO MEMBERS.
Season Tickets and single tickets are available to the general public beginning Feb 14.
**[A SIGN OF THE TIMES](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sign_of_the_Times "A Sign of the Times")**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2015/10/Listing_A-Sign-of-the-Times.jpg)
**Dates: July 28 – Sept 4 2016**
**Original Story by Richard Robin**
**Original Book by [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**
1965\. The pulse of a changing era lures Cindy from Middle America to the swirl of [Manhattan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667 (Manhattan)&t=h "Manhattan"). Unexpected friends, lovers, careers and conflicts are all a subway ride away in a pop-fueled new musical featuring songs made famous by [Petula Clark](http://www.petulaclark.net/ "Petula Clark") and other hit-makers of the day. “[I Know a Place](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_a_Place "I Know a Place"),” “[The Shoop Shoop Song](http://www.last.fm/music/Cher/The%2BShoop%2BShoop%2BSong%2B%2528It%2527s%2BIn%2BHis%2BKiss%2529 "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)")” and “[If I Can Dream](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Can_Dream "If I Can Dream")” are among the fabulous favorites on an eye-opening ride from innocence to experience. Forget all your troubles, forget all your cares — go “Downtown” and find out who you are!
**Box Office Info: [Click Here](http://www.goodspeed.org/shows-tickets/box-office-info)**
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** (I've Had) The Time of My Life, America's Polo Cup, American Cancer Society, American Comedy Awards, Arlo Guthrie, Atlantic Ocean, Autism Society of America, Downtown (Petula Clark song), Macklemore, Petula Clark
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends The Opening Of 'Carrie The Killer Musical Experience'](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/12/bruce-vilanch-attends-the-opening-of-carrie-the-killer-musical-experience/)
**Published:** October 12, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**Tags:** Ahmanson Theatre, Andy Griffiths, Antaeus, Australia, Los Angeles, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Melbourne Theatre Company, Theatre, Victorian Opera (Melbourne)
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### [Comedians Judy Gold & Bruce Vilanch Coming to The Alden in McLean, 11/7](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/09/comedians-judy-gold-bruce-vilanch-coming-to-the-alden-in-mclean-117/)
**Published:** October 9, 2015
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**Broadway World
Comedians [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") & [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Coming to The Alden in McLean, 11/7
October 8, 2015**
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The Alden in McLean bring the [NSFW](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work "Not safe for work") (not safe for work) humor of Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch for a late show at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7. Tickets are $35, $20 for McLean Community Center ([MCC](http://www.lords.org/mcc "Marylebone Cricket Club")) tax district residents. The Alden is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue, inside MCC.
In the show, entitled “An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold,” the comedians pair up for separate stand-up sets united by their gay, Jewish identities and raunchy, sidesplitting observations. One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks in part to his stint as a regular on the television show “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"),” for which he also served as head writer. He has written for virtually every awards show and [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") comedian, including most of the Oscar casts over the past 20 years-his [Jack Palance](http://www.last.fm/music/Jack%2BPalance "Jack Palance")-inspired jokes have famously passed through the lips of Billy Crystal.
Gold gets around, everywhere from her Comedy Central and HBO specials to cohosting “The View,” to starring Off-Broadway in her two acclaimed long-running hit shows, including “[25 Questions for a Jewish Mother](http://www.amazon.com/Questions-Jewish-Mother-Judy-Gold/dp/1401303110%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1401303110 "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother").” She has won two [Emmy Awards](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") for her work on “[The Rosie O’Donnell Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rosie_O%27Donnell_Show "The Rosie O'Donnell Show").” Gold is an observant Jew, 6 feet 3 inches tall and a lesbian mother of two.
Together, Vilanch and Gold will fill the order of making the audience laugh and laugh.
Please note: This show is for mature audiences only.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit: [www.aldentheatre.org](http://www.aldentheatre.org) or call 703-790-0123, TTY: 711.
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**Tags:** American Comedy Awards, American Horror Story, Andy Samberg, Ashley Madison, Audra McDonald, Creative Arts Emmy Award, Emmy Award, Fox Broadcasting Company, NBC, Primetime Emmy Award
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends The "Kingdom" Premiere](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/07/bruce-vilanch-attends-the-kingdom-premiere/)
**Published:** October 7, 2015
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**[The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com "The Hollywood Reporter")
‘Kingdom’ Creator Celebrates His “Visceral Family Drama” at Second Season Screening
by [Bill Higgins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Higgins "Bill Higgins")
10/7/2015**
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Joking that the event was “a sucker punch into the belly of [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood"),” [AT&T](http://www.att.com "AT&T")’s SVP of original content [Chris Long](http://twitter.com/cl7two "Chris Long") hosted a screening and after-party Oct. 6 at the [Pacific Design Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.08232,-118.38238&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.08232,-118.38238 (Pacific%20Design%20Center)&t=h "Pacific Design Center") celebrating the launch of Kingdom’s second season on [DirecTV](http://www.directv.com "DirecTV") (since July the satellite broadcaster has been an AT&T subsidiary.)
The sucker punch image went along with Kingdom being based in the world of mixed martial arts. “The show is a snapshot into American life for blue collar have nots,” said Long. “You talk to any fighter who isn’t Floyd Mayweather and they say they fight to eat.”
After the screening, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") joked that “not since [Real Housewives of New Jersey](http://www.hulu.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey "The Real Housewives of New Jersey") have I seen such violence” but despite the show’s pugilistic setting the screening was civilized enough. (Though the PDC’s screening room could use more space between aisles. Being on a [Spirit Airlines](http://www.spirit.com/ "Spirit Airlines") flight comes to mind.)
At the after-party, Kingdom creator Byron Balasco described his show as a “visceral family drama that extends into the fight world.” He added that world inside the ring is simple “it’s binary. You win or you lose. It’s outside the cage that things are complex.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Join Post Discussion On Sophie Tucker At Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival November 8, 2015](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/10/03/bruce-vilanch-to-join-post-discussion-on-sophie-tucker-at-silicon-valley-jewish-film-festival-november-8-2015/)
**Published:** October 3, 2015
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**JWweekly
[David Broza](http://www.davidbroza.net "David Broza") headlines [Silicon Valley](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.37,-122.04&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.37,-122.04 (Silicon%20Valley)&t=h "Silicon Valley") film festival
by dan pine, j. staff
October 2, 2015**
At this year’s Silicon Valley Jewish [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival"), attendees will see the powerful 2014 documentary “[East Jerusalem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem "East Jerusalem") [West Jerusalem](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7819444444,35.2194444444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=31.7819444444,35.2194444444 (West%20Jerusalem)&t=h "West Jerusalem"),” in which Israeli singer David Broza brings together Israeli, Palestinian and American musical artists to create bridges of understanding. Broza will answer questions and perform after the screening.
“The Outrageous [Sophie Tucker](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker")” traces the star’s rags-to-riches story.
And that’s just the opener. With 25 documentaries, dramas, comedies and children’s films on tap, the festival includes offerings from [Israel](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&t=h "Israel"), France, England, Germany, the United States and more. The films touch on many aspects of the Jewish universe, from the Holocaust to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Hollywood legend Sophie Tucker.
The 24th annual festival runs Oct. 10 to Nov. 8 at the AMC Saratoga 14 in San Jose and the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto.
For his part, Broza will answer questions about the making of “East Jerusalem West Jerusalem.” Though ostensibly about the recording of an album, the film underscores the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, and how fraught it can be simply to make music together, especially in Arab East Jerusalem where the musicians gathered.
“This film is not about painting a rosy picture of [Israeli-Palestinian relations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict "Israeli–Palestinian conflict"),” he told an audience at a screening last year.
Broza (with guitar) made “East Jerusalem West Jerusalem” with diverse musicians.
Broza is not the only notable person who will appear at the festival. Director Roberta Grossman will be on hand for the Oct. 25 centerpiece screening of her documentary “Above and Beyond,” which tells the story of a group of World War II-era pilots who went on to fight in Israel’s [1948 War of Independence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War "1948 Arab–Israeli War").
On Nov. 1, screenwriter [Sayed Kashua](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayed_Kashua "Sayed Kashua"), best known for his Israeli sitcom “Arab Labor,” will attend the screening of his new film, “A Borrowed Identity/Dancing Arabs,” a coming-of-age story about an Israeli Arab youth attending a Jewish boarding school. Kashua will stay for a Q&A after the screening.
Other noteworthy titles in the festival lineup include the Canadian drama about Hassidic life “Félix et Meira,” with an appearance by star Luzer Twersky; “Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem,” a tribute to the late actor and late folk singer; the taut French thriller “The Art Dealer,” about a woman’s search for family paintings stolen by the Nazis; and the closing-night documentary “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker,” about the famed Jewish star whose career spanned vaudeville and Hollywood. Comedy writer Bruce Vilanch will join others in a post-film discussion.
For ticket information and a complete list of films, dates and venues for the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival, go to [http://www.svjff.org](http://www.svjff.org/). *— dan pine*
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### [Bruceback August 23, 1991| Vilanch bathes his humor in nostalgia](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/09/05/bruceback-august-23-1991-vilanch-bathes-his-humor-in-nostalgia/)
**Published:** September 5, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**Vilanch bathes his humor in nostalgia
[Chicago Sun-Times](http://www.suntimes.com "Chicago Sun-Times")
August 23, 1991 | Ernest Tucker**
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Perhaps the best commentary on the Hollywood whirl that is part of humorist [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s life is this: The day after he appears at a suburban comedy club, he’ll fly back to Tinselville to learn whether he won an Emmy. What for?
Writing for another awards show, the Oscars.
“Some day, they’ll have an awards show just for awards shows,” said the 43-year-old former [Chicagoan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago").
And while that may seem odd to outsiders, it is more for Vilanch’s comedy dicer. The sit-down comic, who will appear with a pianist, does a monologue that he describes as “like [Spalding Gray](http://www.last.fm/music/Spalding%2BGray "Spalding Gray"), only funny.”
His act will have a mix of tributes to Hollywood legends such as [Sophie Tucker](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker"), stories about his newspapering days on the defunct Chicago Today, and some parody songs.
“It’s bathed in nostalgia,” Vilanch said.
The self-described “nice Jewish boy from New Jersey” had ties with the stylish stars of yesterday. Such a bond caused him to link up with the then-little-known torch singer Bette Midler. Eventually, after touring with her troupe and writing for television variety shows, he was given a chance to write for a Manhattan Transfer TV series.
“It was a little daunting to move here,” he said from his [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") home.
But things fell his way. Eventually, he wrote for everyone from Billy Crystal to [Shirley MacLaine](http://www.shirleymaclaine.com "Shirley MacLaine"), and took turns as an actor and songwriter. His writing already has earned him six [Emmy Awards](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award").
Not all of his assignments make him glow. There is the burden of scripting the so-called [American Comedy Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Comedy_Awards "American Comedy Awards").
“They’re the one awards show which has the mandate to be funny,” while, at the same time, having no real legitimacy. Therefore, many fringe comics are featured because bigger names have no interest.
When not writing or doing his vaudevillesque turns in Los Angeles and New York, Vilanch performs benefits – so many, in fact, that he calls himself “Benefits R Us.”
Vilanch will appear at 8:30 and 10:30 tonight and 7, 9 and 11:15 p.m. tomorrow at Zanies Mount Prospect, 2200 S. Elmhurst Rd. (708-228-6166). Cover is $12 plus a $5 food or beverage minimum.
TUCK’S YUCKS: Gilbert Gottfried, the squinting, screaming funnyman, will make a rare visit (after several cancellations) to headline at K.J. Riddle’s Comedy Stop, 15750 S. Harlem, [Orland Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.6116666667,-87.8541666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.6116666667,-87.8541666667 (Orland%20Park%2C%20Illinois)&t=h "Orland Park, Illinois"). Shows are 8 and 10:30 tonight and tomorrow night. Cover is $15 plus two drinks (708-614-6336).
And returning once again to his hometown is Anthony Griffin. He will perform at 7, 9 and 11:15 tonight and tomorrow night and 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Zanies downtown, 1548 N. Wells (312-337-4027). Cover is $12 plus two drinks.
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**Tags:** All rights reserved, Annaleigh Ashford, Barrett Foa, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago Sun-Times, Daisy Eagan, Los Angeles
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### [Bruceback August 16, 1991: Bruce Goes It Alone](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/09/05/bruceback-august-16-1991-bruce-goes-it-alone/)
**Published:** September 5, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**Daily Herald Suburban Chicago
August 16, 1991**
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), the so-called “Comedian for the Stars” who cut his dramatic teeth at [Ohio State University](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-83.0145&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.0,-83.0145 (Ohio%20State%20University)&t=h "Ohio State University") and later in Chicago before making the trek to the coast, will bring his stand-up act to Zanies in [Mount Prospect](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0655555556,-87.9361111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0655555556,-87.9361111111 (Mount%20Prospect%2C%20Illinois)&t=h "Mount Prospect, Illinois") Thursday through Aug. 24.
Primarily a comedy writer and a lyricist. Vilanch has six [Emmys](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") under his substantial belt and has written for such heavyweights as [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"). [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Burt Reynolds](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8bc1e091-b42a-4a7a-9ffb-d638fe52e2b0.html "Burt Reynolds") and [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg").
Plus, he’s penned gags for lots of awards shows, such as the Oscars, the Emmys, the People’s Choice awards and [the American Comedy awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Comedy_Awards "American Comedy Awards").
But can he cut it out there all by himself with just the microphone and his wits?
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**Tags:** American Comedy Awards, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Burt Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, Emmy Award, Hollywood Squares, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Cruise With Bruce August 28, 2016 - September 1, 2016 - Book Now](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/08/21/cruise-with-bruce-august-28-2016-september-1-2016-book-now/)
**Published:** August 21, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch brings Carnival fun to Provincetown Theater](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/08/18/bruce-vilanch-brings-carnival-fun-to-provincetown-theater/)
**Published:** August 18, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") brings Carnival fun to Provincetown Theater
August 18, 2015**
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> All kinds of fabulous people come to Provincetown during Carnival week. Bruce Vilanch is one of the funniest and he’s got a new 90-minute show at the Provincetown Theater, Aug. 20-22. Plus, he’s bringing some special friends, the [Skivvies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergarment "Undergarment"), with him.
> The Skivvies, Vilanch explains, “are a man and a woman and they play instruments and they work in their underwear. They were in the John Doyle production of ‘Sweeney Todd’ and fell in love with their instruments.”
> The Skivvies have a following of Broadway friends who hang with them and also play in their undies. For this show, Nick Adams, of “Wicked” and “[Priscilla, Queen of the Desert](http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Priscilla-Queen-Desert-Frills/dp/B000OPOAKC%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000OPOAKC "The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Extra Frills Edition)")” fame, and [Randy Harrison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Harrison "Randy Harrison") appear with them.
> Everywhere Vilanch goes it’s a party — a celebration of gay life and culture. Here is a man who doesn’t need the Supreme Court to make him feel like a real person. He’s been making queer folks laugh and feel good about themselves for years. A wickedly outrageous comic with a heart of gold, he’s the Jewish mother you always wanted.
> Vilanch started out as a child actor in New York doing commercials and summer stock, never the star but always in the show. “I was never a child star or we’d be having this conversation in rehab,” he says. “My parents encouraged it. They were happy that I was happy doing it. However, they wanted me to have something to fall back on. They thought journalism would be the thing.”
> After college he worked for the [Chicago Tribune](http://www.chicagotribune.com "Chicago Tribune"). While there, he interviewed Bette Midler. Before long, he was writing her act and when she hit it big both of them were off and running. He also wrote for [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and Robin Williams.
> He was the head writer for the Academy Awards from 2000-2014 and served in the same capacity for the third iteration of [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares").
> “I’d been writing for Whoopi for years and when \[‘Hollywood Squares’\] made a deal with her, she said, ‘Vilanch should be the host,’” he says. “They thought she was crazy but they didn’t want to piss her off so early so they tested me.”
> “They said your test is really funny but we need someone a little more mainstream to be the ringmaster in this circus,” says Vilanch. “They put me in a square next to Whoopi. They figured I could tame her, which is not a good idea because she’s really a Jewish boy and I’m a black woman. We had a lot of fun out there. All of a sudden I was on TV every night. Just like Donald Trump.”
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### [VILLAIN: DEBLANKS - Up to Some Starry, Bi-Coastal Shenanigans](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/08/06/villain-deblanks-up-to-some-starry-bi-coastal-shenanigans/)
**Published:** August 6, 2015
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VILLAIN: DEBLANKS – Up to Some Starry, Bi-Coastal Shenanigans
August 5, 2015**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2015/08/tn-500_10.jpg)Back Barrett Foa Billy Mitchell Front Bruce Vilanch Lori Alan Annaleigh Ashford Robin Atkin Downes Daisy Eagan after the performance at Rockwell Table Stage LA benefitting ASPCA Photo by Jackie TeepleVillain: DeBlanks has (VERB)\_\_\_\_\_-ed both coasts in a week! Starring Emmy winners, Tony winners, and an array of the funniest people in show biz, these benefit shows have had audiences (and casts) literally breathless from laughing. Scroll down for photos from last night’s performance at 54 Below and last week’s show at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles!
The concert at 54 Below benefitted Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS and starred Tony-nominee Brenda Braxton (Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago), Kingsley Leggs (Sister Act, The Color Purple), Angela Robinson (OWN Network’s The Haves and the Have Nots, The Color Purple), Trent Armand Kendall (Bat-Boy, Five Guys Named Moe – West End), Carly Hughes (Pippin, Chicago), and Bernard Dotson (Finian’s Rainbow, Chicago).
Proceeds from the performance at Rockwell Table & Stage went to the ASPCA. The evening featured six-time Emmy-winner Bruce Vilanch (Get Bruce!, Hollywood Squares), hilariously versatile Lori Alan (Pixars’s Inside Out, Family Guy), NCIS: Los Angeles’ Barrett Foa (Buyer & Cellar, Avenue Q), Tony-winning funny lady Annaleigh Ashford (Masters of Sex, Kinky Boots), omnipresent voice artist/actor Robin Atkin Downes (How to Train Your Dragon, The Strain), and keenly clever Tony-winner Daisy Eagan (The Secret Garden, Sunday Brunch of Shame).
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### [The Provincetown Theater Debuts 'Broadway Concert Series'](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/08/02/the-provincetown-theater-debuts-broadway-concert-series/)
**Published:** August 2, 2015
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The [Provincetown](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts") Theater Debuts ‘Broadway Concert Series’
July 31, 2015**
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The Provincetown Theater and producer Rich Aronstein debut the first “Broadway Concert Series” which started in July and continues through August with three more cabaret-style concerts featuring well-known Broadway and TV performers.
“To my knowledge, this is the first time this theater has brought in a Broadway concert series,” says Aronstein.
A quick 10-minute walk from Commercial Street, the Provincetown Theater offers a creative mix of professional, semi-professional and talented non-professional productions. The company emphasizes a mixture of staged readings, original plays and works by established playwrights, but this is something new for them. This summer’s three remaining shows offer sassy celebrities, showstoppers and even a little skin.
**“The Buds of Broadway,” starring [Anthony Rapp](http://anthonyrapp.com "Anthony Rapp") & [Telly Leung](http://www.tellyonline.net "Telly Leung"), makes its world premiere for two nights only on August 14 and 15.**
Perhaps best recognized for his recurring role as “Wes” in the hit Fox series “Glee,” Telly Leung recently starred in the Broadway revival of “Godspell” and originated the role of Boq in the Chicago company of “Wicked.” Anthony Rapp starred opposite [Idina Menzel](http://www.idinamenzel.com "Idina Menzel") in the [Broadway Musical](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") “If/Then” and is best known for originating the role of ‘Mark Cohen’ in Jonathan Larson’s [Tony Award-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") rock opera “Rent” for which he shares an OBIE Award with the rest of the cast.
These two buds first met on the “Rent” tour and their friendship continues with frequent collaborations. “Buds” will feature an eclectic mix of music including pop, R&B, Broadway, and rock with standout solos and duets from the show that began it all, “Rent.”
**Emmy Award winning comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") hits The Provincetown Theater during “Carnival Week,” August 20-21-22, with special guests The Skivvies and Broadway’s Nick Adams.**
Having written for [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Paul Lynde and many others, Vilanch plans to share some of his best stories about life with Hollywood celebrities. Also a consummate performer Vilanch starred as “Edna Turnblatt” in the hit musical “Hairspray” on Broadway and appeared as himself in the documentary film “[Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")”
Joining Bruce on the stage the “musically thrilling” undie-rock, comedy-pop duo The Skivvies will actually undress as they perform their distinctive mash-ups and eccentric originals for cello and ukulele. This YouTube sensation has been called “smart, sophisticated…ingenious,” by The Wall Street Journal and Out Magazine says, “The Skivvies have managed to carve out a niche that we never knew needed to exist: part Weird Al- parody and part sexy burlesque…and unusual explosion of satire and sultry.”
The excitement doesn’t end there; “Broadway Bares'” Nick Adams and “Queer as Folk’s” Randy Harrison will join the team to fill the stage with more music and man-parts.
**When Tony-nominated sisters Ann Hampton Callaway & [Liz Callaway](http://www.lizcallaway.com/ "Liz Callaway") combine musical forces, their equally splendid voices harmonize in great songs and witty banter, as “Sibling Revelry” closes out the concert series on August 28 and 29. First presented in [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") and now having its Provincetown premiere, this show continues to sell out halls across the U.S. and abroad**.
Though they have each made name for themselves separately, Ann as an acclaimed pop/jazz singer and songwriter and Liz as a Broadway veteran and recording artist, together this duo has been called “two exuberant, limitless talents.” The show features Broadway hits from “Chicago,” “Wicked” and “Cats” to rousing renditions of jazz and pop standards.
The Broadway Concert Series is certain to become a Ptown tradition, so spend your hot August nights with glamour, comedy and music. We’re so certain that you’ll want to attend all of these events that, for a limited time, Edge Media Network is offering a pair free tickets. To get them just head over to our giveaway center and enter to win. (http://www.edgeptown.com/giveaways/theatre)
The Broadway Concert Series at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street
Provincetown.
“The Buds of Broadway” runs August 14 and 15
“Bruce Vilanch and Special Guests: The Skivvies” runs August 20 – 22
“Sibling Revelry” runs August 28 and 29
For tickets and more information, call 508-487-7487 or visit [www.provincetowntheater.org](http://www.provincetowntheater.org).
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**Tags:** Associated Press, Bill Cosby, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Broadway theatre, Concert, Idina Menzel, New York City, Richmond, Virginia, Whoopi Goldberg
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### ['Sophie Mania' Returns](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/07/30/sophie-mania-returns/)
**Published:** July 30, 2015
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‘Sophie Mania’ Returns
By Katherine Kramer
June 30, 2015**
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I had the rare pleasure of seeing The Outrageous [Sophie Tucker](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker"), a new documentary feature currently playing in select theaters. It opened the recent 2015 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, and is a genuine “rags to riches” show business story that will inspire today’s performers and certainly empower women of all ages, shapes and sizes. The film is directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker [William Gazecki](http://www.williamgazecki.com/ "William Gazecki"), and written and produced by Susan and Lloyd [Ecker](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.0,10.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=51.0,10.0 (Ecker)&t=h "Ecker"). “The Last Of The Red-Hot Mamas” Sophie Tucker was known as the “female [Al Jolson](http://www.jolson.org/ "Al Jolson")” and she paved the way for such icons as [Mae West](http://allaboutmae.com/ "Mae West"), [Marilyn Monroe](http://www.last.fm/music/Marilyn%2BMonroe "Marilyn Monroe"), Bette Midler, Cher, Madonna, [Lady Gaga](http://www.ladygaga.com "Lady Gaga"), Beyonce, even [Amy Schumer](http://www.amyschumer.com "Amy Schumer").
The Eckers have been working on this in-depth documentary for eight years including immersing themselves in Tucker’s personal scrapbooks, interviewing numerous family, friends and show business personalities. Some of the on-camera interviews include Tony Bennett, Barbara Walters, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Michael Feinstein, Carol Channing, narrated by David Hyde Pierce. Sophie Tucker was a pioneer, a woman ahead of her time as an entertainer, and a leader in Social Media. From 1906 through the beginning of television, her brash, bawdy style prevailed as a “star” attraction.
I spoke to the Eckers about their passion for getting Sophie’s story on screen, and they plan both a Broadway musical and feature film about The Outrageous Sophie Tucker. Is Sophie still relevant today? “Sophie represented that strong personable female voice that you see reincarnated today in performers such as Lady Gaga and Amy Schumer,” Lloyd Ecker explained. “Bette Midler started doing Sophie routines in her one-woman-shows which she still performs to this day, and Bette named her daughter Sophie. And Mae West was an early mentee of Mae West. Without Sophie there would not have been Mae West saying “Come up and see me sometime.” She was also a mentor to the young Judy Garland. According to Susan Ecker, “Sophie was the Forrest Gump of the first half of the 1900’s. She was close with U.S. Presidents, King George VI,young Queen Elizabeth, Charlie Chaplin, [J.Edgar Hoover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover "J. Edgar Hoover"), Al Jolson, Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, and every other notable of her era.”
Was she a feminist? “Sophie definitely believed a woman should receive equal pay to a man,” Lloyd Ecker stated. “When the suffragette movement came about, first she was against it, when it was in vogue, she was for it. Sophie Tucker fought for herself, created an environment and image, and rode the trends. But all she ever wanted was equal pay to a man.”
She sang “Some of These Days” and “After You’ve Gone” and she interpreted sex and innuendo in a way no woman had before her. Even though she was overweight, she stated boldly, “This is me. I’m comfortable in my own skin.” And if she were alive today, you can bet she’d be the Queen of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vines, Periscope and all forms of social media.
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker is an intriguing documentary feature that celebrated an original and lets us in on the creation of a Show Business Pioneer’s life and struggles.
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**Tags:** Al Jolson, Annapolis, Baltimore, Bette Midler, Blackface, Fraternal Order of Police, Judy Garland, Maryland, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Police officer, Sophie Tucker
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosted Very Successful Project Inform AIDS Walk Raising 2.7 Million Dollars July 19th](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/07/25/bruce-vilanch-hosted-very-successful-project-inform-aids-walk-raising-2-7-million-dollars-july-19th/)
**Published:** July 25, 2015
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**[Bay Area Reporter](http://www.ebar.com/ "Bay Area Reporter")
[AIDS Walk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Walk "AIDS Walk") ‘re-energizes’ HIV fundraising
by Sampson McCormick
July 23, 2015**
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Last weekend’s AIDS Walk San Francisco saw a resurgence in fundraising that left organizers pleased, especially in light of donor fatigue when it comes to HIV/AIDS causes.
The July 19 event at [Golden Gate Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7697222222,-122.476944444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.7697222222,-122.476944444 (Golden%20Gate%20Park)&t=h "Golden Gate Park") saw about 20,000 participants raise $2.27 million for [Project Inform](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Inform "Project Inform"), the lead nonprofit, and 42 other Bay Area agencies. The total is slightly larger than last year’s $2.24 million. (Last year, Project Inform said that $2.3 million was raised, but Executive Director Dana Van Gorder said a mistake was made in the 2014 projection.)
Under sunny skies last Sunday, walkers and others were upbeat during the opening ceremonies.
“We’ve taken major steps as a community, and in this country. We’ve achieved marriage equality, the Confederate flag has come down in South Carolina, the trans community will be able to serve in our military, and the Supreme Court has ruled that health care is a fundamental right,” declared an energetic Van Gorder from the podium in Golden Gate Park’s Sharon Meadow, referring to recent [U.S. Supreme Court](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444 (Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States)&t=h "Supreme Court of the United States") victories on marriage and health care, and recent news that top Defense Department brass are working on a plan to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military.
“The idea of that should give us the courage to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS,” Van Gorder added.
The tone of the day was similar to that of an upbeat church revival, blended with the swagger of a neighborhood block party, a celebration of justice, community, and progress, all while serving as an urgent reminder of the need for diligence in a fight that a community is determined to conquer.
The event began with a crowd that filled most of the seats and lawn area of the meadow by 10 a.m., and there was never a dull moment as Culture Shock, a popular Oakland-based dance troupe, opened the ceremony, followed by a rousing gospel number from another Oakland-based group, The Messengers of Hope. The gospel choir was created and led by Ernest Larkins, 44, who’s lived with HIV for over 25 years. Larkins created the group, not only to sing songs of hope, but to challenge the views and stigma of HIV in the black church.
“There is a lot of work to be done, and music is how we push the message of hope in the community,” he said.
There were wide variations of messages delivered about the need for action and continued commitment in how the community battles the disease. Speakers and guests included AIDS Walk founder and senior organizer Craig R. Miller, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Joe Wilkins, elected officials, AIDS activists, and corporate sponsors.
[Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") writer and comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") served as emcee for the ceremony, helping to keep an already energetic crowd in good humor, praising the work of Project Inform and the steps being taken to further encourage safe-sex practices.
“It’s great that we have options like [PrEP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis "Pre-exposure prophylaxis") now, we take those around my house like Flintstones vitamins,” Vilanch quipped, referring to pre-exposure prophylaxis that studies show can prevent HIV if taken as prescribed.
While embracing the lighthearted references toward the new drug, Jen Dowd, a retail services manager at UCSF who has been participating in the AIDS walk for 14 of the 15 years that she’s been there, feels that public enlightenment around sexual health options is mandatory, and needs to continue in order to make a difference. Her motivation to attend AIDS walks, fundraise, and advocate for treatment options was fueled by an [AIDS-related](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") death of a close friend who was an event coordinator in 2006.
“If I can eliminate the amount of suffering of someone living with AIDS, I do what I need to do,” Dowd said.
UCSF boasted the top spot for AIDS Walk fundraising, raising over $107,000.
The attendees, varying in age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and walk experience remained in good spirits throughout the six-mile trek. Afterwards they were treated to music from local bands and even an underwear show by Stag Condoms models, which work to make condom use look and feel sexy.
As the walk portion of the afternoon came to an end, participants were greeted at the finish line with more celebrating as AIDS Walk organizers announced the grand total raised. In a post-walk email, Van Gorder said that the fee paid to MZA, which produces the event, was $162,500, a decrease from a couple years ago.
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**Categories:** Benefits, GLBT
**Tags:** Alabama, Alabama Supreme Court, Birth control, Colorado, Debate, George Will, God, LGBT social movements, Same-sex marriage, Supreme Court of the United States
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### [VILLAIN: DEBLANKS to Benefit ASPCA Monday, July 27 at The Rockwell Table & Stage](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/07/15/villain-deblanks-to-benefit-aspca-monday-july-27-at-the-rockwell-table-stage/)
**Published:** July 15, 2015
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**Broadway World
VILLAIN: DEBLANKS to Benefit [ASPCA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.780033,-73.945704&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.780033,-73.945704 (American%20Society%20for%20the%20Prevention%20of%20Cruelty%20to%20Animals)&t=h "American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals") at Rockwell This Month
July 13, 2015**
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(VERB)\_\_\_\_ until your sides hurt on Monday, July 27 at The Rockwell Table & Stage, where Villain: DeBlanks will be performed to benefit the ASPCA.
Starring six-time Emmy-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Get Bruce!, “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")“), stunningly prolific [Missi Pyle](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Missi-Pyle/) (Gone Girl, The Artist), three-time Tony-nominee [Kevin Chamberlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Chamberlin/) ([Disney](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS "NYSE: DIS")‘s “Jessie”), Tony-winner [Annaleigh Ashford](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Annaleigh-Ashford/)(“Masters of Sex,” Kinky Boots), omni-present voice artist/actor [Robin Atkin Downes](http://www.robinatkindownes.com "Robin Atkin Downes") (How to Train Your Dragon, “The Strain”), and Tony-winner [Daisy Eagan](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daisy-Eagan/) (The Secret Garden, Sunday Brunch of Shame), proceeds will benefit the ASPCA.
A Time Out NY Critics’ Pick written by [Billy Mitchell](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Mitchell/), Villain: DeBlanks is an uproarious improvisational comedy where the cast says words you put in their mouths! The audience provides nouns, adjectives, and verbs (the wilder, the better), and the actors provide the laughs — uncensored and unrehearsed — as they enact the story of Philip DeBlanks’ untimely demise. It’s “Clue” meets adult “Mad Libs,” performed by some of the funniest people in show biz. Like a ride to summer camp in the back of a station wagon, this hilarious performance will be ridiculously one-of-a-kind.
Villain: DeBlanks benefit for ASPCA will play The Rockwell Table & Stage (1714 N. Vermont Ave., [Los Angeles, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles")) on Monday, July 27. Show: 8pm. Cover charge is $10.00-$25.00 and there is a 2-item minimum per person. For tickets & information, call 323.669.2550 ext. 20, or visit [villaindeblanks.com](http://villaindeblanks.com/).
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**Categories:** Benefits, Theatre
**Tags:** 1984 Summer Olympics, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Annaleigh Ashford, British Rail, Bruce Vilanch, CBS, Ceremony, Children, Citizenship, Los Angeles
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### [Bruce Vilanch In Provincetown August 20 - 22 With The Skivvies](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/07/09/bruce-vilanch-in-provincetown-august-20-22-with-the-skivvies/)
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Nick Cearley, [Lauren Molina](http://www.laurenmolina.com "Lauren Molina") (aka The [Skivvies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergarment "Undergarment")) and special guests will be in their underwear Aug 20-21-22 in [Provincetown](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts"). They may even be walking in their undies during the [Carnival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival "Carnival") Parade on Aug 20
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### [Annaleigh Ashford, Bruce Vilanch & More Set for VILLAIN: DEBLANKS at Rockwell Table & Stage, 7/27](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/06/15/annaleigh-ashford-bruce-vilanch-more-set-for-villain-deblanks-at-rockwell-table-stage-727/)
**Published:** June 15, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
[Annaleigh Ashford](http://www.annaleighashford.com "Annaleigh Ashford"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") & More Set for VILLAIN: DEBLANKS at Rockwell Table & Stage, 7/27
June 15, 2015**
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(VERB)\_\_\_\_ until your sides hurt on Monday, July 27 at The Rockwell Table & Stage, where Villain: DeBlanks will be performed to benefit the [ASPCA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.780033,-73.945704&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.780033,-73.945704 (American%20Society%20for%20the%20Prevention%20of%20Cruelty%20to%20Animals)&t=h "American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals").
Starring six-time Emmy-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Get Bruce!, “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")“), stunningly prolific [Missi Pyle](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Missi-Pyle/) (Gone Girl, The Artist), three-time Tony-nominee [Kevin Chamberlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kevin-Chamberlin/)([Disney](http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS "NYSE: DIS")‘s “Jessie”), Tony-winner [Annaleigh Ashford](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Annaleigh-Ashford/) (“Masters of Sex,” Kinky Boots), omni-present voice artist/actor [Robin Atkin Downes](http://www.robinatkindownes.com "Robin Atkin Downes") (How to Train Your Dragon, “The Strain”), and Tony-winner [Daisy Eagan](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Daisy-Eagan/) (The Secret Garden, Sunday Brunch of Shame), proceeds will benefit the ASPCA.
A Time Out NY Critics’ Pick written by [Billy Mitchell](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Mitchell/), Villain: DeBlanks is an uproarious improvisational comedy where the cast says words you put in their mouths! The audience provides nouns, adjectives, and verbs (the wilder, the better), and the actors provide the laughs — uncensored and unrehearsed — as they enact the story of Philip DeBlanks’ untimely demise. It’s “Clue” meets adult “Mad Libs,” performed by some of the funniest people in show biz. Like a ride to summer camp in the back of a station wagon, this hilarious performance will be ridiculously one-of-a-kind.
Villain: DeBlanks benefit for ASPCA will play The Rockwell Table & Stage (1714 N. Vermont Ave., [Los Angeles, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles")) on Monday, July 27. Show: 8pm. Cover charge is $10.00-$25.00 and there is a 2-item minimum per person.
For tickets & information, call 323.669.2550 ext. 20, or visit: [villaindeblanks.com](http://www.villaindeblanks.com/)
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**Tags:** Adrian Gonzalez, Ally McBeal, American Craftsman, Arizona, Arizona Diamondbacks, Astrobiology, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Los Angeles
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### [Bruce Vilanch Donates T-Shirts To 'Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood'](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/06/14/bruce-vilanch-donates-paraphernalia-to-reel-to-real-portrayals-and-perceptions-of-gays-in-hollywood/)
**Published:** June 14, 2015
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**Broadway World
[Doris Roberts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Roberts "Doris Roberts"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Barry Livingston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Livingston "Barry Livingston"), and Many More Stars Support Opening of ‘Reel to Real’ Exhibit
June 13, 2015**
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The [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") Museum is proud to offer an exclusive new exhibition – Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood – an entertaining and informative retrospective of [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") images in film and television throughout the decades. Check out photos from the event below!
The showcase runs through July 20, coinciding with LGBT Heritage Month and Outfest LA (July 10- 20). Featured in the collection are photos, costumes, props and iconic imagery from the past and present. The exhibit provides a unique perspective on how the homosexual community has been portrayed in Hollywood from early stereotypes to modern representations. The Reel to Real exhibition is sponsored by Wells FARGO Bank and The Hollywood Reporter (Media Sponsor).
Among eclectic list of patrons who attended the the VIP reception preview of the “Reel to Real” LGBT History Month exhibit at The Hollywood Museum (Located in the Historic Max Facter Building), that opened to the public on June 12th, were Doris Roberts, Barry Livingston, Ann Walker, Morgan Brittany, Lee Purcell, Jack Betts, Kate Linder, Steve Wishnoff, Barbara Van Orden, Erin Murphy, Jerome Ro Brooks, Shelly Goldstein, Margaret O’Brien, Channing Chase, Carolyn Hennesy, [Geri Jewell](http://www.gerijewell.com/ "Geri Jewell"), Nick Verreos, Scott T. Scofield, [Cynthia J. Popp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_J._Popp "Cynthia J. Popp"), Judy Tenuta, as well as City Controller Ron Galperin, Deputy Chief Beatrice Girmala, Councilman Mitch O’Farrell and the Reverend Grace.
The Petite Flower, Love Goddess, and Princess of Pantyshields, Judy Tenuta, remarked “I love, love doing shows for my Gays. They are FLAWLESS. The most enthusiastic, and adoring fans ever to appreciate that I even have my own religion: Judyism, and they are the first to worship at my altar! IT COULD HAPPEN!”
Among those who spoke to the gathering were Emmy winner, Doris Roberts, who commented, “I was once asked if I was gay, and I said ‘No … but, I am a Russian Jew.'” CELEBRATED Producer/Director, Cynthia J. Popp, spoke of the importance and honor it is to be part of something as meaningful as the transgender storyline, currently playing out on “[The Bold and the Beautiful](http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_bold_and_the_beautiful/ "The Bold and the Beautiful"),” while comedienne, Geri Jewell stated “Over a decade ago I decided to come out … as someone with Cerebral Palsy.” After a pause during laughter, she added “Seriously, just as I was born with Cerebral Palsy, I was also born a Lesbian. This has made me a more understanding, caring, and compassionate human being.”
Among the impressive and eclectic array of paraphernalia and memorabilia on display are items from “Modern Family,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Life Interrupted,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Hot In Cleveland,” “Days Of Our Lives,” the controversial “K-11,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and Have Nots.” Also included are items representing the considerable contributions made to entertainment by out and proud members of the industry including the sheet music for “I am What I am” by Jerry Herman and costumes from his hit productions, such as “LA Cage Aux Folles” and “Hello Dolly!,” costumes worn by noted actors such as Ramon Navarro (“Ben Hur”), Rock Hudson (“Captain Lightfoot”), Agnes Moorehead (“Bewitched”), and Nathan Lane (“Bird Cage”), Lily Tomlin’s extra large rocking chair from LaughIn and the walk of fame plaque commemorating the star she shares with her partner, Jane Wagner, and famous T-Shirts worn by comedy stars Bruce Vilanch and Geri Jewell. Of particular interest to patrons were dresses by designers, Nolan Miller, Bob Mackie and the late creator of the Best and Worst Dressed List, Mr. Blackwell and his life partner of 59 years, R. L. Spencer.
“The museum welcomes the opportunity to create and showcase this important exhibition, sharing with the public the artistic expression of the LGBT culture and its transformative impact on the world through the entertainment industry,” says Donelle Dadigan, Founder and President of The Hollywood Museum
In addition to some of his personal effects, The Roddy McDowall Powder Room contains photos and quotes supporting the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") by Antonio Banderas, Kristin Chenoweth, Bette Davis, Rupert Everett, Tina Fey, Portia de Rossi, Ian McKellen, Marilyn Monroe, Daniel Radcliffe, Barbara Stanwyk, Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli, and Betty White, among others. A touching display features a cocktail dress belonging to Elizabeth Taylor, with quotes regarding friends and AIDS.
This and so much more are waiting to be experienced by patrons who visit the museum during the presentations limited run.
The Hollywood Museum in the historic Max Factor Building, located in the heart of Hollywood, just steps from the [Hollywood Walk of Fame](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1016309,-118.326684&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.1016309,-118.326684 (Hollywood%20Walk%20of%20Fame)&t=h "Hollywood Walk of Fame"), houses the largest collection of entertainment memorabilia in the world. It attracts fans from around the world and has been named the #1 top tourist attraction in Hollywood by LA Weekly, and one of the “Top 10” Museums in LA by the LA Tourism and Convention Board.
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**Tags:** Actor, BBC, Ben Falcone, Bobby Flay, British Summer Time, Celebrity chef, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, New York Post, Stephanie March
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### [Will Holt 'Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ 'The Me Nobody Knows,' 'Platinum' Dies At 86](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/06/05/will-holt-who-wrote-lemon-tree-the-me-nobody-knows-platinum-dies-at-86/)
**Published:** June 5, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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[Will Holt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Holt "Will Holt") ‘Who Wrote ‘Lemon Tree,’ ‘[The Me Nobody Knows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Me_Nobody_Knows "The Me Nobody Knows"),’ ‘Platinum’ Dies At 86
June 5, 2015**
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Will Holt, a songwriter whose lyrics for the 1970 musical “The Me Nobody Knows” were nominated for a Tony Award, and whose Latin-tinged folk song “Lemon Tree” became a musical signpost of the 1960s, covered by myriad artists and finding its way into advertising and the literature of the [Vietnam War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War "Vietnam War"), died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 86.
The death was confirmed by his son, Courtney, who said his father had Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Holt spent much of his musical career creating theater projects. They included “The World of [Kurt Weill](http://www.last.fm/music/Kurt%2BWeill "Kurt Weill") in Song,” an Off Broadway revue that he conceived and performed with the Viennese soprano [Martha Schlamme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Schlamme "Martha Schlamme") in a handful of different incarnations in 1963 and 1964. He also wrote a pair of one-acts, twinned under the title “That 5 A.M. Jazz,” and produced Off Broadway in 1964, starring James Coco. The first was a playlet in the form of a creation parable, the second a rhythm-and-blues musical set in a Las Vegas hotel suite. Another project Mr. Holt conceived and staged was a tribute to the theater music of Leonard Bernstein in 1965. “A Walk on the Wild Side,” a musical he wrote based on Nelson Algren’s novel of New Orleans, had its premiere in Los Angeles in 1988.
Mr. Holt’s first foray on Broadway — a 1969 musical called “Come Summer,” for which he wrote the book and lyrics — vanished quickly after unfavorable reviews. He had much better success in the 1970s, lending a significant hand to three well-received shows.
The first, “The Me Nobody Knows,” a surprise hit that began Off Broadway, was about city youngsters living in poverty and was based on essays written by New York schoolchildren. Mr. Holt’s lyrics, to a pop-rock score by Gary William Friedman that evoked both pain and hope, were all adapted from the ideas of the original child writers.
“I keep on knocking/No one is there,” Mr. Holt wrote for a plaintive chorus in “Let Me Come In,” a lyric that continues:
Windows are black, and the walls are all bare
I stand in darkness, followed by fear
Tell me I’m dreaming, tell me you’re here
Look through the window, give me some light
Tell me I’m home now, say it’s all right.
Though Mr. Holt failed to win the Tony (Stephen Sondheim did, for “Company”), the show ran on Broadway for nearly a year, first at the [Helen Hayes Theater](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7577777778,-73.9875&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7577777778,-73.9875 (Helen%20Hayes%20Theatre)&t=h "Helen Hayes Theatre") and then at the Longacre. He subsequently wrote the book for “Over Here!,” a 1974 musical about life on the home front during World War II, starring two of the Andrews Sisters, Patty and Maxene, and Ann Reinking. And in 1975, with the actress and singer Linda Hopkins, he conceived and wrote the show “Me and Bessie,” which starred Ms. Hopkins as the blues singer Bessie Smith and ran for more than 450 performances.
Mr. Holt was part of the folk-music revival of the 1950s and ’60s. His melancholy song about the passage of time, “Raspberries, Strawberries,” was a hit for the [Kingston Trio](http://www.kingstontrio.com/ "The Kingston Trio"). His most enduring song, “Lemon Tree,” was written in Chicago in the late 1950s for a nightclub act he was performing with Dolly Jonah, his wife at the time. The melody was adapted from a Brazilian song, “[Meu Limão, Meu Limoeiro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Tree_%28Will_Holt_song%29 "Lemon Tree (Will Holt song)"),” and it retained its samba-like lilt. Mr. Holt’s lyric tells of a father’s warning about the vicissitudes of love, invoking the title as a metaphor:
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
Catnip for folk singers of the era (and others, subsequently), the song was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio, Chad and Jeremy, the Seekers and Trini Lopez. It was appropriated for a television commercial for Pledge, a lemon-scented wood furniture cleaner. And much later, in 1990, in Tim O’Brien’s celebrated novel about the Vietnam War, “The Things They Carried,” one passage testified to the song as an emblem of that era. The narrator recalls a soldier named Lemon, who had stepped on a booby trap and was blown to bits, his remains sprayed onto nearby branches.
“The parts were just hanging there,” Mr. O’Brien wrote, “so Dave Jensen and I were ordered to shinny up and peel him off.”
“The gore was horrible and stays with me,” he continued. “But what wakes me up 20 years later is Dave Jensen singing ‘Lemon Tree’ as we threw down the parts.”
Will Holt — that was his full name — was born in Portland, Me., on April 30, 1929. His father, William, was a doctor. His mother, the former Marjorie Scribner, who played the piano, was the musician in the family.
He attended [Phillips-Exeter Academy](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.98,-70.9511111111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.98,-70.9511111111 (Phillips%20Exeter%20Academy)&t=h "Phillips Exeter Academy") and Williams College and studied with the folk singer and voice teacher Richard Dyer-Bennet. After traveling for a time in Europe — he found work in a Helsinki nightclub singing cowboy songs — he served in the Air Force. For much of the 1950s he performed in clubs in St. Louis, Las Vegas, New York and elsewhere.
Mr. Holt’s later stage projects included three shows with short Broadway lives: “Music Is,” a 1976 musical adaptation of “Twelfth Night,” for which he wrote the lyrics in a collaboration with the director and book writer George Abbott and the composer Richard Adler; a 1978 musical, “Platinum,” starring Alexis Smith as a film star of the ’40s and ’50s attempting a comeback as a rock singer, for which he wrote the lyrics and, with Bruce Vilanch, the book; and “[A Kurt Weill Cabaret](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kurt_Weill_Cabaret "A Kurt Weill Cabaret")” (1979), in which he performed and also translated some of the lyrics.
Ms. Jonah, an actress, died in 1983. In addition to his son, Mr. Holt is survived by his second wife, Dion Alden, and two grandchildren.
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### [Bruce Vilanch makes a cameo in the season finale of "Child Of The 70"](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/06/03/bruce-vilanch-makes-a-cameo-in-the-season-finale-of-child-of-the-70/)
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### [American classic theater, bawdy faves & B'way stars light up the ‘off-Commercial Street' season in Provincetown](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/05/20/american-classic-theater-bawdy-faves-bway-stars-light-up-the-off-commercial-street-season-in-provincetown/)
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American classic theater, bawdy faves & B’way stars light up the ‘off-Commercial Street’ season in [Provincetown](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts")
May 20, 2015**
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> From [Eugene O’Neill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill "Eugene O'Neill") to [Ryan Landry](http://www.golddustorphans.com "The Gold Dust Orphans") to [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") stars, The Provincetown Theater’s 2015 season promises to have something for everyone. Both contemporary and early cutting-edge plays, a Broadway concert series, a centennial celebration of the Provincetown Players, a workshop of a new musical and Ryan Landry’s “Thoroughly Muslim Millie” on Sunday nights, there should be more than enough to entice theater-goers to leave the bustle and excitement of downtown Provincetown and flock to the theater’s off-Commercial Street location at 238 Bradford St.
> There is even a new downtown box office at Kiss & Makeup, 244 Commercial St., to make it easier to buy tickets.
> The season begins with Provincetown favorites Joe MacDougall and John Long in “The Lonely Planet” by Stephen Dietz from May 27-June 7. The play, influenced by Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” explores the evolution of two gay men in an unknown city during the AIDS epidemic. The play won the 1994 [PEN Center](http://www.pen-international.org "PEN International") Award for Drama.
> CTEK Arts is presenting the world premiere of “Rosetta,” Candyce Rusk’s musical about [Sister Rosetta Tharpe](http://www.last.fm/music/Sister%2BRosetta%2BTharpe "Sister Rosetta Tharpe"), considered by many music aficionados to be the godmother of rock ’n’ roll. Directed by Margaret Van Sant, working with musical director Clyde Shelby Mellert, this staged musical workshop runs June 11-14.
> Beginning June 21 and playing Sundays through Sept. 13, Ryan Landry and his Gold Dusk Orphans, open their new comedy “Thoroughly Muslim Millie” after a sold-out, rave-reviewed run in Boston. Landry recently received the Boston Critic’s Association’s 2015 Eliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater.
> July brings “Then & Now: A Centennial Celebration of the Provincetown Players.” A group of actors, writers, intellectuals and [Greenwich Village](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7338888889,-74.0011111111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7338888889,-74.0011111111 (Greenwich%20Village)&t=h "Greenwich Village") bohemians formed a theater company in Provincetown in the 1920s and changed the face of the American Theater. Among the company members were Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, [George Cram Cook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cram_Cook "George Cram Cook") and Neith Boyce, all of whom acted, wrote and produced new plays. Because of them, Provincetown became known as the birthplace of modern American drama. The theater presents an evening of short plays by these illustrious writers July 2-18.
> A new Broadway Concert Series from R.J. Productions takes the theater in a new direction. The all-star line up includes Lena Hall, Christine Ebersole, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Telly Leung, Trevor McQueen, Bruce Vilanch and Ann Hampton, and Liz Callaway. “The Provincetown Theater is very excited to be collaborating with Rich Aronson of RJ Productions in New York to bring the community an intimate Broadway Concert Series this summer,” says the theater’s board president Brian Carlson.
> August brings the Broadway comedy “[Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man](http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Tips-Straight-Women-Gay/dp/0694518980%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0694518980 "Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man"),” scripted by Matt Murphy and Jim Brochu and produced by Shawn Nightingale, to the theater. The play is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman.
> > [David Mamet’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet "David Mamet") “Oleanna” plays two weekends in September. Directed by John Williams, the theater is producing the play in conjunction with Cotuit Center for the Arts.
>
> > In November, the theater hosts one play, to be announced, as part of the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. And later that month “The Verge: An Experiment in Feminism,” takes the stage. This was Glaspell’s first full-length play originally produced by The Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theater. Frank Vasello directs.
>
> > For the full season line-up go to provincetowntheater.org, call (508) 487-7487 or visit the box office at 238 Bradford St.
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**Tags:** Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Associated Press, Austin Butler, Bathroom, Big Apple, Black people, Greenwich Village, New York, New York City, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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### ['One Starry Night' Raises 200k For ALS](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/05/08/one-starry-night-raises-200k-for-als/)
**Published:** May 8, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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[Renee Zellweger](http://www.last.fm/music/Ren%25C3%25A9e%2BZellweger "Renée Zellweger") and More Attend ‘ONE STARRY NIGHT’ Benefit for [ALS Association](http://www.alsa.org/ "ALS Association")
May 5, 2015**
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“One Starry Night: From Broadway to Hollywood,” a one-night-only musical and entertainment extravaganza in benefit of the ALS Association Golden West Chapter, was presented Monday, April 20 at the historic Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Thanks to performances and appearances by an exciting gathering of Broadway and Hollywood talent, and the greater [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") community at large, the evening raised nearly $200,000. BWW TV’s Los Angeles Correspondent and Co-Producer Michael Sterling, along with Co-Producer/Videographer Paul Preston of Digital Mind Productions, spoke to the stars as they walked the red carpet prior to the evening’s festivities!
The star-studded event featured a cast which (in alphabetical order) included Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Ed Asner, Broadway’s Brent Barrett (“Silence The Musical”, “Chicago The Musical”), Grammy Award winner and international recording icon Petula Clark, Micky Dolenz (“The Monkees”), Juliana Hansen (Disney musical and concert star; NBC’s “Grease, You’re The One That I Want!”), singer/songwriter [Devin Kelly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Kelley "Devin Kelley"), television and film star Jean Louisa Kelly (“Yes, Dear”; “Mr. Holland’s Opus”), noted television comedienne Wendy Liebman, TV, Film and Theatre star Bethany Joy Lenz, Broadway’s Norm Lewis (Phantom of the Opera), TV and Film star Kate Linder (“The Young and the Restless”), Musical Theatre star Lisa Livesay (“Wicked”), Ben Mankiewicz ((Film critic and Turner Classic Movie Network host), Film and TV star Heather McComb , [Grammy Award-winning](http://grammy.com "Grammy Award") singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, George Newbern ([ABC TV’s](http://www.abc.net.au/ "Australian Broadcasting Corporation") “Scandal”), Broadway’s Kerry O’Malley (“White Christmas”, “Annie Get Your Gun”; “Showstoppers”/Wynn Hotel/Las Vegas), Timothy Omundson (ABC TV’s “Galavant”), Reagan Pasternak (Disney Channel’s “In A Heartbeat,”), Illusionist Jonathan Pendragon, Broadway and TV’s Eric Petersen (Shrek and TV’s “Kirstie” starrin Kirstie Alley), Jenna Lea Rosen ([Disney TV](http://www.disneychannel.com "Disney Channel")‘s “Sofia the First”), Jason Ritter (NBC’s “Parenthood”), Richard Sherman ([Academy Award-winning](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") Composer Disney’s “Mary Poppins”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “The Jungle Book”), Bruce Vilanch (Broadway’s ” Hairspray”), and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Renee Zellweger.
In addition to the performances, the Chapter’s Essey Awards were presented to notable supporters of the ALS community for their outstanding efforts in public awareness, care services, and research. The Essey Award is the Chapter’s highest honor and given annually in honor of one of the Chapter’s founding members, Richard Essey.
The Golden West Chapter recognized the following honorees for outstanding achievements in the fight against ALS:
• THE 2015 SPOTLIGHT AWARD- The Filmmakers of “The Theory of Everything”
The Spotlight Award was presented to individuals and companies who help to raise ALS awareness by educating the public about the experience of living with ALS and the impact the disease has on loved ones and caregivers. The Golden West Chapter proudly presented this year’s Spotlight Award to the filmmakers of the Academy Award-winning film, “The Theory of Everything.” The movie, its cast and crew, the companies behind its production, and its real-life subjects – the Hawking family – have inspired the ALS community.
• THE 2015 SPIRIT AWARD- Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, Writers/Directors of “Still Alice”
The Spirit Award was presented to individuals who have displayed extraordinary determination while living with ALS. Richard Glatzer, who recently lost his battle with ALS, along with his husband Wash Westmoreland, adapted and directed, “Still Alice,” earning Julianne Moore a 2015 Academy Award. Shortly before receiving the green light to begin production on the film, Richard was diagnosed with ALS, yet both he and Wash persevered to complete their work on this acclaimed project. As a part of the Spirit Award’s presentation and tribute to Richard and Wash, the event was pleased to have Emmy and [Golden Globe Award](http://cdn.goldenglobes.org/ "Golden Globe Award")-winner Ed Asner and George Newbern (ABC’s “Scandal”) performing an excerpt from “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
In addition, the Golden West Chapter celebrated [Cedars-Sinai Medical Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.075198,-118.380676&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.075198,-118.380676 (Cedars-Sinai%20Medical%20Center)&t=h "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center") for having earned the distinguished designation as an ALS Association Certified Treatment Center of Excellence. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is the only Certified Treatment Center of Excellence in southern California, and a flagship program in the country. Renee Zellweger presented the Cedars’ team with a plaque recognizing this outstanding achievement and Cedar’s commitment to ALS care and the search for an effective treatment and cure.
Produced by Juliana Hansen, Melissa Verdugo and Jonathan White, the evening was directed by Grammy Award-nominee and distinguished theatre director Bruce Kimmel directed, with musical direction and orchestrations provided by Richard Allen.
Proceeds from the event will provide funding for The ALS Association Golden West Chapter’s mission critical priorities in care services, public policy and cutting-edge global research toward treatments and cure for ALS. For further information, visit webgw.alsa.org or call (800) 750-2572.
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**Categories:** Benefits, Cabaret, Charities
**Tags:** Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Chief information officer, Crane (machine), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Patient, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play ProvinceTown Theater This Summer](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/05/07/bruce-vilanch-to-play-provincetown-theater-this-summer/)
**Published:** May 7, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"); Special Guests: The Barbrashop Quartet (Aug. 20-22). Vilanch, joins The [Provincetown](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts") Theater for [Carnival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival "Carnival") week to share funny stories alongside The Barbrashop Quartet, a new concert written by Vilanch, featuring four of [Broadway’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") hottest men honoring the one and only [Streisand](http://barbrastreisand.com "Barbra Streisand").
VIP $80 (First 2 rows)
RESERVED $65 (Middle rows A-D)
BACK $50 (Back 2 rows)
$3.50 is added to each ticket to support The Provincetown Theater Foundation. Select row AA or BB for handicap accessibility.
To purchase tickets: [**Click Here**](https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27665)
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Barbra Streisand, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood, Judy Tenuta, Los Angeles, Red carpet, Ricardo Montalbán, Susan Olsen, Ted Lange
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### [Bruce Vilanch Fans! Child Of The 70's Free Event!](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/04/26/bruce-vilanch-fans-child-of-the-70s-free-event/)
**Published:** April 26, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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Red Carpet from 7 – 8PM, screening at 8PM, then after-party immediately following in the theatre lobby. No tickets necessary. Just show up. ~ Michael Vaccaro
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Be Judge At Second Annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/04/25/bruce-vilanch-to-be-judge-at-second-annual-stoli-key-west-cocktail-classic/)
**Published:** April 25, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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Using Stoli Vodka as their primary ingredient, participants in 14 cities across North America will create an original cocktail for a panel of local celebrity judges, who will evaluate the drinks on uniqueness, taste and appearance. Aside from being crowned the 2015 Cocktail Classic Champion, the winner will ride in the Key West Pride Parade as the Honorary Grand Marshall and receive $5,000 for a LGBT or LGBT-friendly charity of their choice.
“It is an honor to host the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, North America’s largest annual LGBT cocktail competition,” said Patrik Gallineaux, the national LGBT Ambassador for Stoli. “Our community’s hard-working nightlife professionals often do not receive the recognition they deserve. It is amazing to see what our nation’s bartenders can do with their imagination, their cocktail shaker and Stoli THE Vodka!”
In partnership with the Key West Business Guild, an organization of LGBT-owned and LGBT-friendly businesses in Key West, the competition will be hosted by Gallineaux and [TV personality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity "Celebrity") Jai Rodriguez. It will also feature a panel of celebrity judges including clothing designer Andrew Christian; legendary funnyman [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"); actress and singer [LaToya London](http://www.designsite.com/external/london/index.html "LaToya London"); and Key West personality and star of the annual New Year’s Eve High Heel Drop, Sushi.
“The [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community") has some of the most inventive bartenders in the country,” said Matt Hon, executive director of the Key West Business Guild. “Through the Key West Cocktail Classic, they’re getting the opportunity to showcase their creativity and put a spotlight on the community. Key West, especially during Pride week, is the perfect stage to recognize them and the contributions they make to nightlife.”
The cocktail classic will take place at 14 events in the following participating cities:
- Dallas – March 2
- Los Angeles – March 15
- Denver – March 30
- [Miami](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.7877777778,-80.2241666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=25.7877777778,-80.2241666667 (Miami)&t=h "Miami")/Fort Lauderdale – April 6
- New York – April 9
- Chicago – April 15
- Washington D.C. – April 20
- San Diego – April 23
- Philadelphia – May 5
- Toronto – May 7
- Boston – May 12
- Vancouver – May 14
- Seattle – May 17
- [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") – May 27
- Key West (Finale) – June 13
A maximum of seven bartenders will be selected to participate in each local event. For more information about the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic including how to apply, rules, guidelines and the full schedule of events, visit [www.gaycities.com/cocktailclassic](http://www.gaycities.com/cocktailclassic).
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### [Cabaret group honors the year’s best at B.B. King’s](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/04/05/cabaret-group-honors-the-years-best-at-b-b-kings/)
**Published:** April 5, 2015
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Cabaret group honors the year’s best at B.B. King’s
MARCH 28, 2015 LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY BILL ERVOLINO
STAFF WRITER | THE [RECORD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer "Record producer")**
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[Manhattan’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7283333333,-73.9941666667 (Manhattan)&t=h "Manhattan") robust cabaret community turned out to honor its own Thursday evening as the annual [MAC Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Awards "Mac Awards") were presented at [B.B. King Blues Club](http://www.bbking.com/ "B.B. King") & Grill on 42nd Street.
For 19 years, MAC — the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs — has honored nightclub performers who make the city a little funnier and a whole lot more musical. Presenters, all of whom continue to work in cabaret, included Julie Budd, [Barb Jungr](http://www.barbjungr.co.uk/ "Barb Jungr"), Billy Stritch, Broadway star Lina Koutrakos, Village People founding member Randy Jones and comic actor [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who is perhaps best known these days for co-writing the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and [Grammy awards](http://grammy.com "Grammy Award") shows.
The 54 Sings Series, created by Phil Geoffrey Bond and produced at 54 Below, took top honors for show of the year.
Top vocalist awards went to Gabrielle Stravelli for her performance at the Metropolitan Room and Stearns Matthews for his shows “Sneak Peak” and “Spark” at The Duplex.
Stacy Sullivan, creator of “On the Air: Songs of [Marian McPartland](http://www.last.fm/music/Marian%2BMcPartland "Marian McPartland")” took the award for best major artist. “Revolution,” which ran at The Duplex, took the best revue trophy. And the award for impersonation went to drag artist Rev Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes.
Singer/pianist Steve Ross, who reopened the Oak Room at the Hotel Algonquin in 1981 and has performed around the world since then, received one of the evening’s two lifetime achievement awards.
Belter Baby Jane Dexter received the other, and performed two songs after being introduced by Vilanch, who often opened for Dexter when she appeared at the nightclub Reno Sweeney in the 1970s.
The MAC Board of Directors award went to David Kenney, producer and host of the radio show “Everything Old Is New Again” on [WBAI-FM](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.748,-73.986&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.748,-73.986 (WBAI)&t=h "WBAI").
Email: ervolino@northjersey.com
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**Tags:** AAA battery, Academy Award, Academy of Country Music Awards, ALS Association, Amy Wilson, August: Osage County, B.o.B, Bruce Vilanch, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Song of the Year
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Renee Zellweger, Richard Sherman & More Set for ONE STARRY NIGHT ALS Benefit at The Pasadena Playhouse](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/03/31/4138/)
**Published:** March 31, 2015
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March 30, 2015
by BWW News Desk
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The [ALS Association](http://www.alsa.org/ "ALS Association") Golden West Chapter recently announce the honorees for its 2015 Gala – “One Starry Night: From Broadway to Hollywood,”a musical and entertainment extravaganza to be held on **Monday, April 20 at the Pasadena Playhouse.**
Today, it was announced that the star-studded event will feature (in alphabetical order) Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Ed Asner, Micky Dolenz (“The Monkees”), Juliana Hansen ([NBC’s](http://www.nbcuni.com "NBC Universal") “Grease, You’re The One That I Want!”), [Jean Louisa Kelly](http://www.jeanlouisakelly.com/ "Jean Louisa Kelly") (“Mr. Holland’s Opus”), Wendy Liebman (“The Aristocrats”), Kate Linder (CBS’ “The Young and the Restless”), Kerry O’Malley ([Broadway’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Into The Woods), Timothy Omundson (ABC’s “Galavant”), Reagan Pasternak (Disney Channel’s “In A Heartbeat,”), Jonathan Pendragon (NBC’s “World’s Greatest Magician”), [Jason Ritter](http://jason-ritter.net/ "Jason Ritter") (NBC’s “Parenthood”), Richard Sherman ([Academy Award-winning](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") Composer Disney’s “Mary Poppins”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “The Jungle Book”), Bruce Vilanch (Broadway’s ” Hairspray”), Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger, and more to be announced! Proceeds will provide funding for The ALS Association Golden West Chapter’s mission critical priorities in care services, public policy, and cutting-edge global research toward treatments and cure for ALS.
This one-night-only benefit features performances and appearances by an exciting gathering of Broadway and Hollywood talent. In addition to the show, the chapter’s The Essey Awards will be presented to notable supporters of the ALS community for their outstanding efforts in public awareness, care services, and research. The Golden West Chapter’s Essey Award is the highest honor and is given annually to esteemed members of the ALS community. It is, named in honor of one of the Chapter’s founding members, Richard Essey.
The Golden West Chapter is proud to recognize the following honorees for outstanding achievements in the fight against ALS:
– THE 2015 SPOTLIGHT AWARD- The Filmmakers of “The Theory of Everything”
The Spotlight Award is presented to individuals and companies who help to raise ALS awareness by educating the public about the experience of living with ALS and the impact the disease has on loved ones and caregivers. The Golden West Chapter proudly presents this year’s Spotlight Award to the filmmakers of the Academy Award-winning film, “The Theory of Everything.” The movie, its cast and crew, the companies behind its production, and its real-life subjects – the Hawking family – have inspired the ALS community.
– THE 2015 SPIRIT AWARD- Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, Writers/Directors of “Still Alice”
The Spirit Award is presented to individuals who have displayed extraordinary determination while living with ALS. Richard Glatzer, who recently lost his battle with ALS, along with his husband Wash Westmoreland, adapted and directed, “Still Alice,” earning Julianne Moore a 2015 Academy Award. Shortly before receiving the green light to begin production on the film, Richard was diagnosed with ALS, yet both he and Wash persevered to complete their work on this acclaimed project. As a part of the Spirit Award’s presentation and tribute to Richard and Wash, we are pleased to have Emmy and [Golden Globe Award](http://cdn.goldenglobes.org/ "Golden Globe Award")-winner Ed Asner and George Newbern (ABC’s “Scandal”) performing an excerpt from “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
In addition, the Golden West Chapter will celebrate [Cedars-Sinai Medical Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.075198,-118.380676&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.075198,-118.380676 (Cedars-Sinai%20Medical%20Center)&t=h "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center") for having earned the distinguished designation as an ALS Association Certified Treatment Center of Excellence. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is the only Certified Treatment Center of Excellence in southern California, and a flagship program in the country. Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger will participate in presenting the Cedars’ team with a plaque recognizing this outstanding achievement and Cedar’s commitment to ALS care and the search for an effective treatment and cure.
Grammy Award-nominee Bruce Kimmel will direct the production, with musical direction and orchestrations provided by Richard Allen. This star-studded event has a growing cast list which includes (in alphabetical order) Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Ed Asner, Micky Dolenz (“The Monkees”), Juliana Hansen (NBC’s “Grease, You’re The One That I Want!”), Jean Louisa Kelly (“Mr. Holland’s Opus”), Wendy Liebman (“The Aristocrats”), Timothy Omundson (ABC’s “Galavant”), Reagan Pasternak (Disney Channel’s “In A Heartbeat,”), Jason Ritter (NBC’s “Parenthood”), Richard Sherman (Academy Award-winning Composer Disney’s “Mary Poppins”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “The Jungle Book”), Bruce Vilanch (Broadway’s ” Hairspray”), Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger, and more to be announced. The evening will also include a pre-show silent auction and reception, and post show dessert with a special “meet-and-greet” with the cast. Proceeds will provide funding for The ALS Association Golden West Chapter’s mission critical priorities in care services, public policy, and cutting-edge global research toward treatments and cure for ALS. For tickets and more information, please visit our website.
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### [Bruce Vilanch to Lead SIMPSONS Writer Mike Reiss' RUBBLE Reading Next Week](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/03/20/bruce-vilanch-to-lead-simpsons-writer-mike-reiss-rubble-reading-next-week/)
**Published:** March 20, 2015
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**Broadway World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Lead SIMPSONS Writer [Mike Reiss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Reiss "Mike Reiss")‘ RUBBLE Reading Next Week
March 19, 2015
????by BWW News Desk**
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On March 26th and 27th, James Valletti, Stephenie Skyllas, and Hunter Chancellor will present invitation-only readings of RUBBLE, a comedy written by four-time [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") “The Simpsons” writer, Mike Reiss.
Directed by Valletti, RUBBLE will be headed by six-time Emmy Award-winning comic legend, Bruce Vilanch (“Hollywood Squares”).
Joining Vilanch is [Jerry Adler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Adler "Jerry Adler") (Fish in the Dark, “The Sopranos”), [Constantine Maroulis](http://www.constantinemaroulis.com "Constantine Maroulis") (Jekyll and Hyde, Rock of Ages), Jason Jacoby (Avenue Q), [Amy Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Wilson "Amy Wilson") ([The Last Night of Ballyhoo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Night_of_Ballyhoo "The Last Night of Ballyhoo")), and Jeff Still (Fish In The Dark, [August: Osage County](http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/August-Osage-County "August: Osage County")).
The story of RUBBLE is as follows: Alvin (Vilanch), an aging, down-on-his-luck comedy writer who — much to his chagrin — has narrowly escaped fortune, fame, and Emmy awards, is on a last-chance meeting with a network executive. During a spirited pitch of his new series idea, “My Brother, The Pope,” a massive earthquake hits LA, leaving him buried up to his neck in a pile of rubble. What ensues are a series of hilarious visits – from his older-and-more-useless-than-dirt agent Lee (Adler) and his ex-wife Brie (Wilson), to a pompous Dad (Still) and a singing and dancing Jesus (Maroulis). Will Alvin be saved from a miserable fate, or will it be “death by showbiz,” forgotten under a mound of trash on a studio lot while his agent makes reservations at The [Olive Garden](http://www.olivegarden.com "Olive Garden")…? RUBBLE is a hilarious look at TV, theater, Heaven and Hell…from one who’s been there.
Incidental music is by Christopher Howatt, casting is by Daryl Eisenberg Casting. Management services for the reading are by Stephenie Skyllas/Hunter Chancellor and Brierpatch Productions, and the Stage Manager is Alex Hajjar.
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### [JQ International honored several successful LGBTQ role models: Bruce Vilanch Was One](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/03/12/jq-international-honored-several-successful-lgbtq-role-models-bruce-vilanch-was-one/)
**Published:** March 12, 2015
**Author:** MisterD
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JQ International honored several successful [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") role models from the arts community as well as a gay religious leader during its annual awards brunch March 8 at the historic Wilson Harding [Golf Course](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course "Golf course") Clubhouse at [Griffith Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1333333333,-118.3&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.1333333333,-118.3 (Griffith%20Park)&t=h "Griffith Park").
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*From left: Rabbi Barbara Zacky, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), JQ International [Executive Director](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_director "Executive director") Asher Gellis, Faith Soloway and Andrea Meyerson. Photo courtesy of JQ International*
Those being feted were [folk musician](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music "Folk music") and writer **Faith Soloway** (JQ Inspiration Award), who also is a writer for “Transparent,” the show created by her sister **[Jill Soloway](http://www.jillsoloway.com "Jill Soloway")**; [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") and performer **Bruce Vilanch** (JQ Trailblazer Award); filmmaker **Andrea Meyerson** (JQ Visibility Award) and **Rabbi Barbara Zacky** (JQ Community Leadership Award).
“After I came out, I identified strongly as a Jewish lesbian, but there weren’t many places that honored all of me,” Zacky said in a statement. “JQ has created an open and inclusive community of LGBT [Jews](http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/ "Jews") and I’m so glad to be a part of that.”
Approximately 165 people turned out for the event.
JQ International describes itself as an inclusive community for LGBTQ Jews that raises awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ community members in the Jewish world.
“We create programs and services that foster a healthy fusion of LGBTQ and Jewish identity, which offer LGBTQ Jews, their friends, families, and loved ones the opportunity to connect with each other while fostering a strong sense of self,” the organization’s website indicates.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Is Hysterical In THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webber](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/03/09/bruce-vilanch-is-hysterical-in-the-birthday-boys-the-songs-of-stephen-sondheim-andrew-lloyd-webber/)
**Published:** March 9, 2015
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**Broadway World
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Revels its Captivated Crowd with THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: The Songs of [Stephen Sondheim](http://www.sondheim.com/ "Stephen Sondheim") & [Andrew Lloyd Webber](http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/ "Andrew Lloyd Webber")
March 9, 2015
by Gil Kaan**
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Kritzerland Presents The Birthday Boys: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webber/produced & hosted by [Bruce Kimmel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kimmel "Bruce Kimmel")/musical direction by Lloyd Cooper/Kritzerland at [Sterling’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.353783,-75.7084&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.353783,-75.7084 (Rocky%20Glen%20Park)&t=h "Rocky Glen Park") Upstairs at The Federal
On March 8, the 55th version of Kritzerland At Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal followed its successful formula of monthly themed cabarets with The Birthday Boys: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webber. Bruce Kimmel, a most amiable host, intros each song with a tiny encyclopedia of fun trivia, some of which are yet new to the Sondheim and Webber aficionados. Kimmel even sang some warring salvos that he envisioned Sondheim and Webber might have sent each other, re-BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Revels its Captivated Crowd with THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd Webberwriting the lyrics to “Agony” and “[Music of the Night](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_of_the_Night "The Music of the Night").” Too funny!
The sixteen songs selected from the Sondheim and Webber canons receive delicious execution from the collective melodic vocal talents of Stan Chandler, [Kevin Earley](http://www.kevinearley.com "Kevin Earley"), Kimberly Hessler, Valerie Perri, [Sue Raney](http://www.last.fm/music/Sue%2BRaney "Sue Raney"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (yes, the comedian does sing, and well!), and Adrienne Visnic.
The rich-voiced Visnic amusingly opens the evening with “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” from Sondheim’s Frogs. Later Visnic just kills it with her “[Getting Married Today](http://www.hulu.com/desperate-housewives "Desperate Housewives")” from Sondheim’s Company. Her machine gun vocals use the same sped-up tempo Madeline Kahn used in 1970’s Company. Bulls-eye, Ms. Visnic!!!
Hessler’s gorgeous operatic tones in “Half a Moment” from Webber’s By Jeeves totally reminiscent of the ideal Christine in The Phantom of the Opera.
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Revels its Captivated Crowd with THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd WebberChandler and Earley duet with well-matched booming voices and competing egos on Sondheim’s genius comic tune “Agony” from Into the Woods. Chandler’s lilting high tenor notes sustain beautifully in his ending of “Love Changes Everything” from Webber’s Aspects of Love. Earley wonderfully displays his comic timing in “Make the Most of Your Music” from Sondheim’s Follies and his wi-i-ide vocal range in “Music of the Night” from Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Perri readily combines her acting prowess with her strong vocals in “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar and “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from his Sunset Boulevard.
The always hysterical Vilanch loses his mind in “Losing My Mind” from Sondheim’s Follies, but manages to find it to tell a very funny, very timely joke involving Harrison Ford with Brian Williams, Bill O’Reilly and Hillary Clinton. Comedic gold, Vilanch is!
BWW Reviews: Kritzerland Revels its Captivated Crowd with THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim & Andrew Lloyd WebberRaney showed all she still has what it takes to sell a song in her slowed down version of “Send in the Clowns” from Sondheims’ [A Little Night Music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music "A Little Night Music"). Shelly Markham superbly accompanied Ms. Raney.
The masterful musical director Lloyd Cooper, backing up all the other performers, worked his magic; converting his single piano sound into what seemed a full section of harmonizing instruments. Very nice!
The 56th edition of Kritzerland Presents will be on Sunday April 5.
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Actor, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Anne Arundel Community College, Artistic director, Augustine of Canterbury, Augustus Pugin, Jesus Christ Superstar, London, Phantom of the Opera (Easy Piano), West End theatre
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### [Bruce Vilanch Performs at SF AIDS 'Newsies' Benefit March 2](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/02/27/bruce-vilanch-performs-at-sf-aids-newsies-benefit-march-2/)
**Published:** February 27, 2015
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Performs at [SF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction "Science fiction") [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") ‘Newsies’ Benefit
by Winnie McCroy
EDGE Editor
Thursday Feb 26, 2015**
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On Monday, March 2 at Marines’ Memorial Theater in [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco"), Bruce Vilanch will host a one-night-only benefit cabaret performance of “Newsies.” The event will raise funds for The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF).
“This is not a [concert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert "Concert") version of the ‘Newsies’ show, but an entirely original ‘one night only’ benefit show featuring cast members from the show, plus the three special guests,” explained Executive Director/Event Producer [Ken Henderson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Henderson "Ken Henderson") of REAF.
Vilanch will be accompanied by company members from the national touring cast of the [Tony Award-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") show “Newsies.” Also joining Vilanch is “[America’s Got Talent](http://www.hulu.com/americas-got-talent "America's Got Talent")” cabaret and comedy star [Shawn Ryan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Ryan "Shawn Ryan").
The evening begins with a mini silent auction from 6:30-7:30 p.m., followed by the show until 9:45 p.m., capped off with a dessert party with the cast in the lobby of the theater, for VIP ticket holders.
The show is part of a series of “One Night Only” benefit cabaret shows that help raise funds for REAF’s mission. To date, REAF has worked with more than 50 touring [Broadway shows](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") to present this cabaret series, and every show is entirely different and unique.
“While they don’t perform music from their touring shows, what they do come up is amazing, creative and highly entertaining. It’s a chance for many of the cast members who may not have starring roles in their touring show to showcase the amazing talent that they do have,” said Henderson. “You don’t get cast in a big Broadway show if you don’t have big talent and these shows are a perfect example of that. From the stars to the swings, everyone gets their moment in the spotlight. These are truly ‘one-night only’ experiences you won’t see anywhere else.”
The “Newsies” benefit will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 2 at Marines’ Memorial Theater, 609 Sutter St. at Mason St., 2nd floor, San Francisco 94102. Tickets $35-80.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** 57th Street (Manhattan), ABC 6, Beer, Ben Henry, Board of directors, Brand New, Broadway (Los Angeles), Broadway theatre, New York City, Tony Award
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Be Celebrity Judge For The Second Annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/02/25/bruce-vilanch-to-be-celebrity-judge-for-the-second-annual-stoli-key-west-cocktail-classic/)
**Published:** February 25, 2015
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**Stoli® Gives Bartenders a Shot at Cocktail Glory with its Second Annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic**
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2015 /[PRNewswire](http://www.prnewswire.com/ "PR Newswire")/ — Stoli® Vodka, in partnership with the Key West Business Guild, today announced its second annual Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic – [North America’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.1666666667,-100.166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=48.1666666667,-100.166666667 (North%20America)&t=h "North America") largest annual [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") cocktail competition. The mix-off sees bartenders showcase their skill and ingenuity as they battle to be crowned the 2015 Cocktail Classic Champion at the Grand Finale during Key West Pride 2015.
Using Stoli Vodka as their primary ingredient, participants in 14 cities across North America will create an original cocktail for a panel of local celebrity judges, who will evaluate the drinks on uniqueness, taste and appearance. Aside from being crowned the 2015 Cocktail Classic Champion, the winner will ride in the Key West Pride Parade as the Honorary Grand Marshall and receive $5,000 for a LGBT or [LGBT-friendly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay-friendly "Gay-friendly") charity of their choice.
“It is an honor to host the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, North America’s largest annual LGBT cocktail competition,” said Patrik Gallineaux, the national LGBT Ambassador for Stoli. “Our community’s hard-working nightlife professionals often do not receive the recognition they deserve. It is amazing to see what our nation’s bartenders can do with their imagination, their cocktail shaker and Stoli THE Vodka!”
In partnership with the Key West Business Guild, an organization of LGBT-owned and LGBT-friendly businesses in Key West, the competition will be hosted by Gallineaux and [TV personality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity "Celebrity") Jai Rodriguez. It will also feature a panel of celebrity judges including clothing designer Andrew Christian; legendary funnyman Bruce Vilanch; actress and singer LaToya London; and Key West personality and star of the annual New Year’s Eve High Heel Drop, Sushi.
“The LGBT community has some of the most inventive bartenders in the country,” said Matt Hon, executive director of the Key West Business Guild. “Through the Key West Cocktail Classic, they’re getting the opportunity to showcase their creativity and put a spotlight on the community. Key West, especially during Pride week, is the perfect stage to recognize them and the contributions they make to nightlife.”
**The cocktail classic will take place at 14 events in the following participating cities:**
Dallas – March 2
Los Angeles – March 15
Denver – March 30
Miami/Fort Lauderdale – April 6
New York – April 9
Chicago – April 15
Washington D.C. – April 20
San Diego – April 23
Philadelphia – May 5
Toronto – May 7
Boston – May 12
Vancouver – May 14
Seattle – May 17
[San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") – May 27
Key West (Finale) – June 13
A maximum of seven bartenders will be selected to participate in each local event. For more information about the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic including how to apply, rules, guidelines and the full schedule of events, visit www.gaycities.com/cocktailclassic.
**About Stoli Group USA, LLC**
Stoli Group USA, LLC is the North American subsidiary of SPI Group, recognized globally for pioneering heritage and the outstanding Stolichnaya® brand of premium vodkas. [New York-based](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") Stoli Group USA reflects significant growth investment in the U.S. market by parent company SPI Group and will drive the brand forward through new marketing, sales and brand innovation. Internationally distributed Stolichnaya vodkas are bottled in Latvia and are known for award-winning flavor and impeccable clarity. Considered a trailblazer in the vodka industry, [Stolichnaya vodka](http://www.kristall.ru/catalog/item.php?id_item=116 "Stolichnaya") defines the benchmark for quality with meticulously crafted liquid that meets the highest Alpha Spirit standard. The Stolichnaya brand portfolio includes Stolichnaya® Premium Vodka, ultra-premium elit™ by Stolichnaya®, Stolichnaya® 100 Proof Premium vodka, the super-premium Stolichnaya® Gold and Stolichnaya® Flavored Premium vodkas including Ohranj®, Razberi®, Vanil®, Citros™, Peachik® and Hot™. For more information visit www.stoli.com or follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/stoli and on Twitter @Stoli.
**About Key West Business Guild**
The mission of the Key West Business Guild is to promote [LGBT travel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_tourism "LGBT tourism") to Key West through marketing and the promotion of specialty events; to support gay-owned, gay-managed, and gay-friendly businesses; to strengthen the Gay community’s position within the local community by supporting relevant LGBT issues. The [KWBG](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0233333333,-93.8793888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0233333333,-93.8793888889 (KWBG)&t=h "KWBG") was founded in 1978 by 8 local gay business owners and has grown to approximately 400 members, which work together to continue efforts to brighten the rainbow over the island, an island now known as Gay Key West. Promotion of events, such as Key West Pride, Tropical Heat and Womenfest, has made Key West a year-round LGBT travel destination.
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**Tags:** Albany, Atlantic City, Bartender, Big Apple, California, Central business district, London, New Jersey, New York, New York City, San Francisco
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### [Kritzerland to Bring 'THE BIRTHDAY BOYS' to Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal, 3/8](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/02/23/kritzerland-to-bring-the-birthday-boys-to-sterlings-upstairs-at-the-federal-38/)
**Published:** February 23, 2015
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**Broadway World
Kritzerland to Bring ‘THE BIRTHDAY BOYS’ to [Sterling’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.353783,-75.7084&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.353783,-75.7084 (Rocky%20Glen%20Park)&t=h "Rocky Glen Park") Upstairs at The Federal, 3/8
February 20, 2015**
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Kritzerland at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal presents “THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: THE SONGS OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM & [ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER](http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/ "Andrew Lloyd Webber")” on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM.
[Sue Raney](http://www.last.fm/music/Sue%2BRaney "Sue Raney") was signed to [Capitol Records](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.103085,-118.326189&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.103085,-118.326189 (Capitol%20Records)&t=h "Capitol Records") at age 17 and, with Nelson Riddle, recorded her first album,”When Your Lover Is Gone.” Since then, she’s recorded more than 20 other albums singing Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini, and dozens of other [Great American Songbook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook "Great American Songbook") songs. She’s been raved about by such NY critics as Rex Reed, who says he’d travel to LA just to hear her sing, by [Nat “King” Cole](http://www.last.fm/music/Nat%2BKing%2BCole "Nat King Cole"), and by Julie Andrews, who calls her “a marvel.”[http://sueraneysro.com](http://sueraneysro.com/)
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Primarily known as writer for a variety of celebrities, including [Bette Midler](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bette-Midler/), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/), [Billy Crystal](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Crystal/), and many more, he went to write for the Academy Awards, and scored acting roles in the film Mahogany, Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, his own one-man show, and starred on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray after playing the role for two years in the show’s first national stage tour.)
[Music Director](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Music-Director/): [Lloyd Cooper](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lloyd-Cooper/)
For our 55th Kritzerland show we’ve taken two wildly different musical theatre songwriters and paired them up, since no one in their right mind except Kritzerland would do such a thing. [Stephen Sondheim](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Stephen-Sondheim/) and [Andrew Lloyd Webber](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Andrew-Lloyd%2BWebber/) just happen to share a birthday in March – March 22nd to be exact – and we’re here to celebrate that occasion with a wild, wacky and wonderful show. As always, you’ll hear the known and the unknown, the common and the uncommon, from shows such as Follies, Phantom of the Opera, Company, Cats, Anyone Can Whistle, Sunset Blvd. and many more. We’ve assembled an amazing cast and back with us is one of our favorite guest stars, the inimitable [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/). We’ll have some surprises, too, so don’t wait too long to make your reservation. Speaking of reservations, be sure to read the new reservation information below. We’ve switched to a ticketing service for the cover charge – we fought against doing this as long as we could, but all the shows at Sterling’s now use it, and frankly we were simply having way too many people reserve and then not show up, without even cancelling, which means we turned people away. Anyway, it’s easy/breezy. For March only we’re the second Sunday, due to a wedding reception at The Federal on the first Sunday. Kritzerland is produced and hosted by [Bruce Kimmel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Kimmel/), and co-produced by [Adryan Russ](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Adryan-Russ/).
The only way to reserve now is via Brown Paper Tickets! It’s easy! Go to:[http://sterlingsupstairskritz.brownpapertickets.com](http://sterlingsupstairskritz.brownpapertickets.com/). This takes you directly to the BPT page for Kritzerland. If you prefer to reserve by phone, call (800) 832 3006. Live operators are available to assist you 24/7! $15 entertainment cover + $5 venue/security fee = $20/ticket. Email confirmations will be sent to you by BPT following your transaction. For anyone wanting to reserve tickets from your SmartPhone, go directly to[www.brownpapertickets.com](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/).
\*Please note: Once you’ve reserved your seats, the BPT cancellation policy kicks in. You have a 12-hour window to make any adjustment in your reservation, or to cancel your reservation for a refund. After that window has passed, all sales are final. No exchanges or refunds.
Early reservations are highly recommended. Dinner reservations: DOORS OPEN 5:30pm. SHOW STARTS 7:00pm! Reservations have already started coming in, and are highly recommended.
Sterling’s at The Federal is located at 5303 Lankershim Blvd., [North Hollywood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.17222,-118.37806&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.17222,-118.37806 (North%20Hollywood%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "North Hollywood, Los Angeles") 91601. The Federal Bar is adjacent to the El Portal Theatre. The North Hollywood Stations for the Metrolink Red Line and Orange Line are directly across the street, north of Chandler on Lankershim. Parking is available – entrance for Federal lot is on Weddington Street (directly behind the building) at $3.50. There is also available street parking.
For information (only) about Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal, visit [www.msapr.net/Sterling-s-at-The-Federal.html](http://www.msapr.net/Sterling-s-at-The-Federal.html) or call 818 754 8700.
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Clubs
**Tags:** Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Ari Sandel, Armando Montelongo, Ballad, Barbara Walters, Bruce Vilanch, Capitol Records, Grammy Award
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### [Oscars 2015: Bruce Vilanch's Guide to Watching the Telecast](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/02/22/oscars-2015-bruce-vilanchs-guide-to-watching-the-telecast/)
**Published:** February 22, 2015
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**Hollywood Reporter
Oscars 2015: Bruce Vilanch’s Guide to Watching the Telecast
By Bruce Vilanch
Feb 22, 2015**
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**THE NIGHT BEFORE**
Gather all viewing essentials. These should include:
• [Chinese food](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine "Chinese cuisine")
• A cheap bathrobe onto which you can drop pork lo mein in duck sauce
• Boxes of filthy wine
• Popcorn, to make you feel like you are at the movies and not just watching clips of movies you’d never think of seeing
• A [Koosh ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koosh_ball "Koosh ball") in all the colors of the gay-pride rainbow (more on this later)
**AROUND NOON**
*Red carpet begins*
It won’t be the same without **Joan Rivers** asking:
• Who are you wearing?
• Who are you married to this year?
• Why are you here?
• What is that smell?
• Do you know any single, straight guys in Bel Air (East Gate) who might be interested in my daughter or me, or both of us?
**[DRINKING GAME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_game "Drinking game") #1**
Drink every time someone looks over the shoulder of the person they’re talking to because there’s someone more famous out of camera range.
**5:00 P.M.**
*Half-hour to showtime*
• Rid yourself of distractions, including your well-meaning but dim friend who will ask, “But what’s the difference between sound editing and sound mixing?”
• Put on cheap bathrobe
• Open carton of spring rolls
**5:30 P.M.**
**[Neil Patrick Harris](http://twitter.com/actuallynph "Neil Patrick Harris")** bursts forth to host. The biggest shock of the night will be if he offends anyone, even aged Nazi war criminals watching from huts deep in the jungles of Paraguay. But on the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), you never know. People who never watch TV or go to the movies or have ever heard the phrase “self-cleaning oven” invariably tune in to the Oscar show and are outraged by everything they see, hear or think they saw/heard.
**DRINKING GAME #2**
Drink every time there’s a shot of an actress with ridiculous cleavage.
Bonus drink if she’s texting or checking her teeth for lipstick. Unless it’s **Patricia Arquette**, because she just doesn’t care. If it’s a bad year for cleavage, you can substitute a drink for each time the camera lingers on someone that no one on the planet recognizes, which means it’s the director’s spouse or the seat-filler where **[Marion Cotillard](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/76c84ded-d648-4b6c-b09a-f1db5fd3c3f2.html "Marion Cotillard")** is supposed to be — or it’s **[Meryl Streep](http://www.merylstreeponline.net "Meryl Streep")**, who has stopped dressing for these things.
**6:00 P.M.-ISH**
*First acting awards: supporting actor/actress*
You will know it because it will be presented by last year’s winner, of whom you will have to be reminded. If you love the winner, have a spare rib. If you loathe the winner, here’s where that Koosh ball comes in. Fling it violently at the screen. You’ll do no harm. Repeat this all evening. Very therapeutic. People in the theater will wish they had a Koosh ball. Or any balls.
**GOOD TIMES TO TAKE A WHIZ**
• Recap of Sci-Tech Awards
• Governors Ball festivities
• Documentary Feature
• [Documentary Short Subject](http://www.oscars.org "Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)")
Because you probably aren’t interested, unless **Kim Kardashian**‘s rear end is presenting the award.
**HOURS LATER**
There may be an awkward political moment when the documentary award is presented. That’s usually when it happens. But by then you won’t care. In fact, as the afternoon turns into evening, a good deal of the audience no longer cares. For each person who wins, there are four people who don’t, so the audience fills up with losers. And with seat-fillers, for losers who are so bitter they’re already at the bar or in the car, or the bar in the car. But you have no such worries. You are in a duck sauce-stained universe, watching **[Adam Levine](http://twitter.com/adamlevine "Adam Levine")** manfully tackle a song you’ve never heard from a movie you didn’t see. And in a few hours, there’ll be **Julianne Moore** looking terrific as she hoists her Oscar high. Next year, you’ll get dressed up and go to a big party. And watch the whole thing on DVR when you get home. Of course you will. Now then, what’s on TCM?
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**Categories:** Articles, Awards Shows
**Tags:** Academy Award, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo, Jennifer Aniston, Marion Cotillard, Matthew McConaughey, Meryl Streep, Neil Patrick Harris, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon
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### [The Ten Weirdest Projects That George Lucas Has Been Involved With](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/02/01/the-ten-weirdest-projects-that-george-lucas-has-been-involved-with/)
**Published:** February 1, 2015
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This past weekend, [George Lucas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas "George Lucas") released his fairytale musical fever dream, Strange Magic. A movie in which fairies sing ELO and [Lady Gaga](http://www.break.com/topics/lady-gaga "Lady Gaga") for 99 minutes. But that wasn’t the only bizarre venture that Lucas has tried to develop. Here are the 10 weirdest projects Lucas worked on throughout his career.
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**1) Howard the Duck**
Prominent in the pantheon of Lucas-related misfires is his 1986 pet project Howard the Duck. Scripted by his frequent collaborators Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, it destroyed the considerable underground cred of Steve Gerber’s wisecracking creation and turned him into a running joke that endured at least until Jar Jar Binks could come along to take some of the heat. Huyck, Katz and executive producer Lucas somehow thought it wise to take a gonzo sendup of ‘funny animals’ cartoons and repackage the concept as two hours of strained quirk, inane duck jokes and bland adventuring that sees Howard teleported to Cleveland to hit on a hapless Lea Thompson and fight a possessed Jeffrey Jones.
**2) [Captain EO](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.3725,-81.5515&spn=0.01,0.01&q=28.3725,-81.5515 (Captain%20EO)&t=h "Captain EO")**
When Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were appointed to run Disney in 1984, one of their mandates was to revitalize the company’s theme parks. That year also saw Michael Jackson at the height of his popularity, prompting Eisner and Wells to engineer a collaboration between George Lucas and his moonwalking superfan to see what delirious excess could come of such an endeavor. The result was a 17 minute 3D film, co-written and produced by Lucas (and directed by Francis Ford Coppola), that starred Jackson as the titular commander of a ragtag starship crew tasked with delivering a gift to the evil Supreme Leader of a decrepit planet. Met with hostility, the Captain nevertheless decides to reform the locals and their Leader with the Power of Song. Exhibited in Disney’s theme parks, the film stunned audiences with then-cutting edge special effects and 3D technology. Less of a technological marvel today, Captain EO is more striking for its camp value, catchy musical hooks and the impressive design of Angelica Huston’s vaguely H.R. Giger-ish space queen.
**3) [Wolfman Jack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack "Wolfman Jack")‘s Cameo In American Graffiti**
When Lucas was a young film student, one of his great heroes was disk jockey Wolfman Jack. So when Lucas made his big film, set in the early 1960s, he made sure to give Wolfman Jack a huge cameo — in which Wolfman Jack is sort of a disk jockey version of [Obi-Wan Kenobi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi "Obi-Wan Kenobi"). He tries to pretend that he’s not actually Wolfman Jack, although he doesn’t actually say “Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.” And he’s sort of mysterious about his relationship with the reclusive Wolfman, while also dispensing strange wisdom. Wolfman Jack told New York Magazine he only took a flat fee to be in the film, and actually spent $10,000 of his own money to promote it. “We wanted this picture to take off,” Wolfman said, “It’s what I’m all about. Nonsensical, but loving.” (Related: See Wolfman Jack meet the Cylons in Galactica 1980.)
**4) “[Nuking the Fridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark "Jumping the shark")“**
Actually, both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have tried to take the blame for the infamous sequence in [Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull](http://www.indianajones.com "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") where Indy shelters from a nuclear explosion inside a refrigerator. Lucas says Spielberg is lying about the fridge thing being his idea, because “he’s trying to protect me.” In fact, Lucas put together a whole “nuking the fridge” dossier to prove that it was plausible and quiet the concerns of Spielberg and star Harrison Ford. (And to bolster Lucas’ story, here’s an interview with the librarians at Skywalker Ranch, where they explain that they were assigned to call a nuclear physicist and get more information on how a fridge really could protect you from an atomic test.) Lucas also takes a certain amount of blame for Crystal Skull in general, since he nixed a previous script by Frank Darabont that might have been slightly better.
**5) [The Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special")**
We couldn’t possibly leave this one out, although Lucas has tried to have it suppressed. We only wanted to have one [Star Wars](http://www.starwars.com/ "Star Wars") item on this list, and there’s one clear candidate that stands out above everything else — the prequels, the Ewok cartoon, everything. To be fair, Lucas didn’t oversee the filming of the Holiday Special, but he does bear a significant amount of blame for its legendary awfulness.
This 2008 Vanity Fair article goes into insane detail — basically, Lucas had been convinced by various people that a holiday special would keep interest in Star Wars alive and sell some toys. And Lucas was originally quite involved — he ” knew the tales he wanted to tell and planned to work with the show’s team of seasoned TV writers to develop his ideas into a viable script.” And that’s where things went wrong:
When \[writer Bruce\] Vilanch heard Lucas’s storyline at a development meeting at Smith and Hemion’s L.A. offices, he quickly realized that a “big challenge” lay ahead. Lucas was intent on building The Star Wars Holiday Special, as it would be called, around [Wookiees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookiee "Wookiee")—specifically, the family of Chewbacca, Han Solo’s shaggy sidekick, as they outwitted Imperial forces to come together on Life Day, the Wookiee equivalent of Christmas. Suddenly, Vilanch says, the special was in danger of looking like “one long episode of Lassie.”
“I said: ‘You’ve chosen to build a story around these characters who don’t speak. The only sound they make is like fat people having an orgasm,'” the 250-plus-pound Vilanch recalls. “In fact, I told Lucas he could just leave a tape recorder in my bedroom and I’d be happy to do all the looping and Foley work for him.”
Lucas met these comments with a “glacial” look. “This was his vision, and he could not be moved,” Vilanch says.
Lucas insisted on the Wookiee life day story, and then got swamped working on other stuff, letting the Holiday Special happen more or less unsupervised. And it “metastasized,” as the Vanity Fair article delicately puts it:
Onto the body of Lucas’s sentimental and irony-free Wookiee plotline, the producers and writers grafted a campy 70s variety show that makes suspension of disbelief impossible. In between minutes-long stretches of guttural, untranslated Wookiee dialogue that could almost pass for avant-garde cinema, Maude’s Bea Arthur sings and dances with the aliens from the movie’s cantina scene; The Honeymooners’ Art Carney consoles Chewbacca’s family with such comedy chestnuts as “Why all the long, hairy faces?”; Harvey Korman mugs shamelessly as a multi-limbed intergalactic Julia Child cooking “Bantha Surprise”; the Jefferson Starship pops up to play a number about U.F.O.’s; and original Star Wars cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill walk around looking cosmically miserable.
The whole Vanity Fair article is well worth reading.
**6) Willow**
Lucas dreamed up the idea for Willow as early as 1972 and, during production on Return of the Jedi, approached Warwick Davis (who also played Wicket the Ewok) about playing the lead role. But it wasn’t till the mid-80s – by which point FX technology was sufficiently advanced – that the film was finally shepherded into production with Ron Howard as director and Lucas as EP. Davis plays the hobbit-like lead, tasked by a wizard to safeguard a magical child from a witch queen. Somewhat of an ersatz Lord of the Rings, the film’s archetypal characters and narrative broad strokes also bear more than a passing resemblance to Star Wars. That said, a few lively performances and action set-pieces redeem the tired story beats to some extent. Extra points for (perhaps not so) affectionate swipes at movie critics Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel and Pauline Kael.
**7) Chronicles of the Shadow War**
Lucas, apparently, wasn’t quite done with the Willow universe. He hired famed X-Men comics writer Chris Claremont to collaborate with him on a trio of novels – starting with 1995’s Shadow Moon – that continued the story begun in the 1988 movie. Lucas clearly wanted the novels to stand on their own merits, repainting what was once a straightforward, almost childlike fictional universe in much darker tones. He and Claremont go Alien 3 on the story from the very beginning, killing off half the old cast in brutal fashion, then going on to detail — via some ornate and sometimes explicitly violent prose — a deeply troubled world in which the film’s characters appear almost incongruous.
**8) Twice Upon A Time**
Lucas has made more than a few contributions to the animation industry over the years but the first animated film he ever produced was 1983’s all but forgotten Twice Upon A Time. A marvel of surreal stop-motion animation, it follows shapeshifter Ralph the All Purpose Animal and his mime sidekick Mumford as they try to save their world from nightmare-creator Synonamess Botch. The film sank unfairly from trace after a brief theatrical release that was mishandled by the floundering Ladd Company. That commercial failure, however, does nothing to negate the value of its distinctive aesthetic, unique ‘Lumage’ animating technique and imaginative worldbuilding.
**9) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles**
One of Lucas’ more successful (creatively speaking anyway) forays into television, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles brought the epic historical sweep of the films to the small screen. Following a teenage Indy as he traveled the world and encountered numerous historical figures, the show was intended in part as educational programming but still managed to pack enough action to draw accusations of being too violent. Despite the inclusion of many clunky dialogue exchanges that are basically thinly disguised classroom lectures, the show was buoyed by its production values and a colorful supporting cast featuring franchise veterans like Harrison Ford, Roshan Seth and John Rhys-Davies as well as stars-to-be like Daniel Craig and Catherine Zeta Jones. Among other things, Young Indiana Jones goes to India and meets Krishnamurti, who was being groomed as the young World Teacher by the Theosophical Society, and also befriends a young slave named Omar in Tangiers, getting captured himself by slavers. Alongside producing, Lucas also came up with the blueprints for many of the stories and, once ABC cancelled the show, was invested enough in the end-product to finagle a deal with the Family Channel for four additional TV movies.
**10) The George Lucas Museum**
This massive development, which will dominate Chicago’s lakefront, is “going to look like a tent monster that’s slowly devouring the city,” as the AV Club put it. This collection of Lucas’ art and movie memorabilia is being described as a “vanity museum,” and has been challenged by environmentalists among others. The Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic called it the Temple of George, adding:
Our First Look at the Radical Design of George Lucas’ Art Museum
A few months ago, noted traditionalist George Lucas surprised everyone by announcing he had chosen…
Read more gizmodo.?com
The plan represents a fumbled essay in “blob architecture,” a school of design that uses computer modeling to achieve amorphous, amoebalike buildings that defy conventional, right-angled geometry. In its present state, it lacks the visual excitement of a blob masterpiece like the billowy Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England. Overly abstract and under-detailed, it looks, from some angles, like a giant lump…
The real problem is that Lucas has saddled Ma with an overly ambitious program that calls for the museum to house everything but a re-creation of the fictional “Star Wars” bar habituated by freight pilots and other dangerous characters.
In addition to galleries for Lucas’ eclectic collection of paintings by artists like Norman Rockwell, “Star Wars” memorabilia and digital art, the museum would contain archives, an education center, four movie theaters and, atop all that, a circular restaurant and a halo-shaped observation deck. At 400,000 square feet, it would be more than four times the size of the one that Lucas unsuccessfully tried to build in San Francisco.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Heads Celebrity Autobiography Jan. 28-Feb. 1](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/01/31/bruce-vilanch-heads-celebrity-autobiography-jan-28-feb-1/)
**Published:** January 31, 2015
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**South Florida
Thanks for the memoirs
Humor breaks out when celebs do book readings in “[Celebrity Autobiography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Autobiography%3A_In_Their_Own_Words "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words"),” coming to Kravis Center.
By Rod Stafford Hagwood, Staff writer
4:42 p.m. EST, January 26, 2015**
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**“Celebrity Autobiography”** just might be one of the most successful shows you’ve never heard of.
The comedy – actors read from celebrity memoirs live onstage – has run for five sold-out years in New York City, landed a 2009 [Drama Desk Award](http://www.dramadesk.com/ "Drama Desk Award") and toured all over the [United States](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States"). It arrives at [West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center for the Performing Arts](http://www.kravis.org/), Jan. 28-Feb.1.
The ever-revolving talent roster has included **Ryan Reynolds, Debbie Harry, Matthew Broderick,** **Will** **Forte****, Kristin Wiig, Brooke Shields, Nathan Lane, Dick Cavett, Rosie Perez** and **Tony Danza**.
In West Palm Beach, the cast will include Lainie Kazan (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” “My Favorite Year,” “Beaches”) and **Gary Beach** (“The Producers,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “La Cage aux Folles”). Bruce Vilanch (“Hairspray,” writer for the Emmys, Tonys and Oscars) will appear in the Saturday matinee show.
“Celebrity Autobiography” started when wife-and-husband co-creators **Dayle Reyfel** and **[Eugene Pack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Pack "Eugene Pack")**, both television writers and producers, had some friends go onstage in L.A. and try the concept out in front of an audience. It was an instant hit.
“We just got about 12 friends together and we read excerpts,” explains Reyfel. “\[The theater owner\] was so blown away by the audience’s reaction he wanted us there every week.”
Pack recalls, “Years ago, 10 years ago or even more, I came across a hard-cover edition of **‘[Vanna Speaks](http://www.amazon.com/Vanna-Speaks-White/dp/0446346683%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0446346683 "Vanna Speaks")‘** by Vanna White, her memoir. I went through the book and there’s this one chapter where she talks in detail about how challenging it is to flip the panels on **‘The Wheel of Fortune.’** And my background in comedy kicked in. I thought, what if you were to read this out loud…what would be the reaction?”
The reaction was lines around the block, particularly when the show went overseas in London and [Sydney, Australia](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.8599722222,151.211111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=-33.8599722222,151.211111111 (Sydney)&t=h "Sydney").
“I think that mainly because people understood what this was,” says Reyfel. “The show had a reputation already and people knew what they were coming to see.”
What they are seeing are famous people, script in hand, reading from autobiographies. For the South Florida run, famous snowbirds such as **Tiger Woods**, Jennifer Lopez, **[Burt Reynolds](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8bc1e091-b42a-4a7a-9ffb-d638fe52e2b0.html "Burt Reynolds"), Ricky Marti**n and **Joe Namath** will have their words in the spotlight alongside word-for-word snippets from the likes of **Bieber** and **Beyonce**.
“The concept of the show is that we have a lot of celebrity performers getting onstage and acting out other actors’ memoirs,” says Pack. “But when you read it out loud, it’s just astounding what people have written. It’s not only funny, but fascinating and dramatic.”
But the show adds drama by having multiple memoirs read together, forming a scene, as is the case with the **Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor/DebbieReynolds/Eddie Fisher** scandal (“It’s he said, she said, she said, he said,” says Pack.)
Reyfel explains further, “The Liz Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher thing, that’s like a Rashomon three-act play where everyone has a different point of view and we merge them back together.”
That theatrical staging is also given to the **Burt Reynolds/Loni Anderso**n saga.
“One of our big pieces is we combine autobiographies from Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds’ secretary, who wrote a book about him,” says Pack. “Again, it’s he said, she said, she said.”
Reyfel adds, “And a lot of it takes place in Jupiter, Florida.”
The show also puts autobiographies into groupings such as sport stars and foodies. “**Neil Sedaka**, that was a gem from the beginning because he just talks about what he eats for every single meal,” says Reyfel.
And the material in the show is in a constant state of flux.
“We’re always adding new pieces to the show,” explains Pack. “We like to keep it current. But we also like to dig deep into things like **Zsa Zs**a slapping the cop. People love hearing those classic stories. You’d be astounded how many memoirs come out for us to comb through, like very week. Miley Cyrus has a book out already.”
But no matter what celebrity they focus on or where they perform, there is one constant with the audience according to Pack: “They always ask, ‘You made that up on the spot. It was improvisation, right?’ I always answer, ‘Seriously, we could not make up this stuff if we tried.’ ”
*“Celebrity Autobiography” runs Jan. 28-Feb. 1 at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $38. To order, call 561-832-7469 or go to Kravis.org.*
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### [One Night Only: Benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS & The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/01/31/one-night-only-benefiting-broadway-caresequity-fights-aids-the-richmondermet-aids-foundation/)
**Published:** January 31, 2015
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### ['The Outrageous Sophie Tucker': New York Jewish Film Festival Review](https://wegotbruce.com/2015/01/25/the-outrageous-sophie-tucker-new-york-jewish-film-festival-review/)
**Published:** January 25, 2015
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# ‘The Outrageous Sophie Tucker’: New York Jewish Film
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## [William Gazecki](http://www.williamgazecki.com/ "William Gazecki")‘s documentary recounts the life and career of the famed performer known as the “[Last of the Red Hot Mamas](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker")“
She was one of the most celebrated and successful performers of the 20th century, but few people are aware of **Sophie Tucker** today. Despite the loving tributes performed by **Bette Midler** in her concert appearances over the years, the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” has lapsed into showbiz obscurity, something that **William Gazecki**‘s loving documentary clearly hopes to correct. Recently showcased at the New York Jewish [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival"), *The Outrageous Sophie Tucker* should have a long life in ancillary markets after its theatrical release later this year.
The film’s true auteurs are producers **Susan** and **Lloyd Ecker**, who became fascinated with the singer after seeing Midler delivering Sophie Tuckers jokes in her act in 1973. The film, part of the couple’s burgeoning cottage industry about the performer—they’re written a book and plan to create stage, film and television shows about her—features them prominently as talking heads alongside such figures as **Barbara Walters**, **Tony Bennett**, **[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**, **Carol Channing**, **Michael Feinstein** and many others.
**Read More** [Bette Midler Announces First Tour in More Than a Decade](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/bette-midler-announces-first-tour-746099)
There was no shortage of raw material from which to work, as the detail-obsessed Tucker compiled over 400 scrapbooks from 1906 to 1966 chronicling her life and career.
Tucker began her show business career singing at her Russian immigrant parents’ kosher restaurant in Hartford, Connecticut. She appeared on the vaudeville circuit, often performing in blackface, before eventually moving to New York and getting her big break with the [Ziegfeld Follies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies "Ziegfeld Follies"). Ironically, she was soon let go when the other female performers refused to go on with her for fear of being eclipsed.
By 1929 she was arguably the biggest female star in the world, and she continued to be a major concert draw until not long before her death in 1966. She was never quite able to cross over to Hollywood stardom, although the documentary includes clips of her memorable appearance in MGM’s *BroadwayMelody of 1938* opposite [Judy Garland](http://www.last.fm/music/Judy%2BGarland "Judy Garland"), to whom she became a mentor.
Her larger than life personality, bawdiness, uninhibited sexuality and willingness to celebrate her ample girth made her a unique performer, but it was her genius for self-promotion that truly served her well. Barbara Walters, whose father’s Latin Quarter nightclubs in Miami and New York regularly featured Tucker, amusingly describes how the performer would sign copies of her memoir after her shows, refusing to autograph anything else or even to make change (all the money was going to Israel, she would assure her customers). She also had a huge number of product endorsements, including her own line of soap.
**Read More** [‘The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer: New York Jewish Film Festival Review](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/muses-isaac-bashevis-singer-new-765252)
Her friends were legion, including everyone from Al Capone, with whom she played cards, and [J. Edgar Hoover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover "J. Edgar Hoover") who, the film purports, once asked to borrow one of her dresses. It wouldn’t fit, she assured him.
The film has its share of missteps, such as the awkward animating of old still photographs and the excessive commentary from the producers, with Lloyd Ecker even tearing up while describing Tucker’s death at age 79 nearly a half century ago. And some of the anecdotes related, including a second-hand account of U.S. soldiers blasting her recording of “[My Yiddishe Mama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Yiddishe_Momme "My Yiddishe Momme")” on the streets of Berlin after Germany surrendered as a tribute to a fallen comrade, seem more than a little apocryphal.
But for a younger generation who think that **Madonna** and **[Lady Gaga](http://twitter.com/ladygaga "Lady Gaga")** represent the heights of outrageousness, *The Outrageous Sophie Tucker* stands as a much needed reminder that they have a very large debt to pay.
*Production: Innovative Films
Director/director of photography/editor: Wiliam Gazecki
Producers: Lloyd Ecker, Susan Ecker
Executive producers: Phil Ramone, Gene Schwam*
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**Tags:** A Star Is Born (1954 film), Activism, American Idol, Barack Obama, Dinesh D'Souza, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Jr., Judy Garland, Martin Luther King, United States
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host Upright Cabaret's 9th Annual A Broadway Christmas](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/12/08/bruce-vilanch-to-host-upright-cabarets-9th-annual-a-broadway-christmas/)
**Published:** December 8, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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Upright Cabaret Presents 9th Annual A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS, 12/17-18
December 7, 2014**
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Chris Isaacson Presents in association with Ryan O’Connor has announced Upright Cabaret’s 9th Annual A Broadway Christmas. Hosted by six-time [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award")-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") with musical direction by Gregory Nabours, there will be two performances only on Wednesday, December 17 and Thursday, December 18 at 8:30pm at the Catalina Bar & Grill in [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood").
Stars scheduled to perform are (in alphabetical order) Jill Burke, Candice Clasby, Will Collyer, Laura Dickinson, Sheila Karls, Jacob Lusk, Matthew Ryan Pest, Jonah Platt, Amber Snead, and [Brandon Wardell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Wardell "Brandon Wardell"), with more to be announced.
Under boughs of holly and multi-media of silver and gold, stars and snowflakes will glitter as Upright Cabaret combines the Best of Broadway with the Carols of Christmas. Along with the extraordinary vocal talent of the performers, brassy horns and sentimental strings will create a wonderland of cheerful songs and melodies guaranteed to bring on the holiday spirit.
Host Bruce Vilanch is best known for his work as a writer on 23 Oscar telecasts. He spent six years on [The Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") and played Edna Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway an on tour across the U.S. [Musical director](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_director "Music director") Gregory Nabours is a composer/lyricist and music director who recently had an evening of his original work performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He is a founding member of the Coeurage Theatre Company and is the winner of two Ovation Awards, and LA Drama Critics Circle Award, an LA Weekly Award, and the [NAACP Theatre Award](http://www.bhwdnaacptheatreawards.com/ "NAACP Theatre Awards").
Upright Cabaret’s 9th Annual A Broadway Christmas will take place at the Catalina Bar & Grill, 6725 Sunset Boulevard, in Hollywood. Tickets are $25 and $30 with a $5 discount on purchases made by December 10. VIP packages are available, and tickets purchased online receive priority seating. Single entrée or drink minimums apply. Go to www.TicketWeb.com or www.ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com or call (866) 468-3399.
Chris Isaacson Presents is currently nominated for four BroadwayWorld.com Awards for its presentation of concerts this past year starring [Laura Benanti](http://www.last.fm/music/Laura%2BBenanti "Laura Benanti"), Danny Gurwin, Jeremy Jordan, and Jennifer Holliday. For more information about this and other CIP events including evenings with [Mandy Gonzalez](http://www.mandygonzalez.com "Mandy Gonzalez") and Molly Ringwald coming up in 2015, visit www.ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Alexandre Desplat, American Film Institute, Benedict Cumberbatch, Boba Fett, Bruce Vilanch, Carrie Fisher, Channing Tatum, Charles Dickens, Television
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### ['The Star Wars Holiday Special': Read THR's 1978 Review](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/12/02/the-star-wars-holiday-special-read-thrs-1978-review/)
**Published:** December 2, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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‘[The Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special")‘: Read THR’s 1978 Review
11:13 AM PST 11/17/2014 by THR Staff**
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At the time, THR deemed the two hour special as an “inventive diversion that stood on its own merits”
On Nov. 17, 1978, the [cast of Star Wars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_films_cast_members "List of Star Wars films cast members") hit television screens with a holiday special that has been derided ever since it aired. Days after it premiered, however, The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the two-hour CBS show, saying that it “was a welcome surprise.” Read the original review below:
If the prospect of a two-hour [Star Wars](http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-Versions-Widescreen/dp/B000FQJAJG%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000FQJAJG "Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)") Holiday Special conjured up visions of “May the force be with you” repeated ad nauseam in your head, this show on CBS was a welcome surprise.
For the most part the special was \[an\] inventive diversion that stood on its own merits. The film’s stars, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, and, of course C-3P0 and R2D2, were on hand. However, the special effects were the real stars of the show.
Writers Rod Warren, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Pat Proft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Proft "Pat Proft"), Leonard Ripps and Mitzi Welch devised a story involving Chewbacca’s family waiting for him to come home for Life Day, a kind of space-aged merging of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since he’s late they fear he’s been imperiled by Empire forces, an accurate assumption, confirmed when Empire police search their home for evidence of rebel activity. All this gives Chewbacca’s wife a good excuse to contact the various Star Wars characters, and makes for a touching reunion when the big Wookiee returns home safely. The plot smacks of sentiments typical of The Waltons, but the time waiting for Chewbacca is filled with cleverly integrated musical numbers and amusing special effects.
Diahann Carroll’s sensuous number, “This Minute,” with original music and lyrics by Mitzi and Ken Welch, was by far the highlight of the show, incorporating some spectacular visuals. A fanciful dance number featuring miniaturized hologram creatures, choreographed by David Winters, was also very effective. [The Jefferson Starship](http://www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com/ "Jefferson Starship") appeared in a rock number greatly enhanced by computer-generated lighting effects. Jeff Chang and Fred McKinnon handled the impressive lighting for the show.
Harvey Korman added humor as a handy cooking instruction and [Art Carney](http://www.last.fm/music/Art%2BCarney "Art Carney") provided warmth as a Santa-like shopkeeper. Beatrice Arthur sang her way through an overly long number in a bar full of bizarre creatures.
Everyone involved in the technical accomplishments of The Star Wars Holiday Special deserves acknowledgement, with Brian Bartholomew’s art direction, Garrett Lewis’ sets, Bob Mackie’s costumes, and Ed Green’s audio effects all adding considerably to the production. Video animation was by Jean DeJoux and Elizabeth Savel. Steve Binder directed, and Joe Layton and Mitzi and Ken Welch produced this Smith-Hemion presentation in association with [20th Century Fox TV](http://www.fox.com "Twentieth Century Fox Television"). — [Gail Williams](http://www.well.com/~gail/ "Gail Williams")
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**Tags:** Billboard (magazine), Blooper, Boba Fett, British pop music, Christmas, LP record, One Direction, Star Wars, Television special, The Star Wars Holiday Special
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Other Celebs Share Their Thanksgiving Memories](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/30/bruce-vilanch-other-celebs-share-their-thanksgiving-memories/)
**Published:** November 30, 2014
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**[Gay Star News](http://www.gaystarnews.com "Gay Star News")
[George Takei](http://www.GeorgeTakei.com "George Takei") and other celebs share with GSN their favorite Thanksgiving memories
27 November 2014 | By Greg Hernandez**
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George Takei will be having [Thanksgiving dinner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_dinner "Thanksgiving dinner") tonight with husband Brad Takei and another couple at [Tavern on the Green](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7723,-73.9778&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.7723,-73.9778 (Tavern%20on%20the%20Green)&t=h "Tavern on the Green") in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City").
The Star Trek icon was among the celebrities who spoke with Gay Star News recently about their Thanksgiving plans and their favorite memories of the holiday.
For Takei, his most memorable Thanksgiving came after the end of [World War II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II "World War II") and his family was released from the internment camp they had been kept in because they were Americans of Japanese descent.
‘When I was a kid, we had a dinner with my brother, my sister, my parents and my uncle – my father’s older brother in a small apartment right behind a dry cleaner shop in [East Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0333333333,-118.166666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0333333333,-118.166666667 (East%20Los%20Angeles%2C%20California)&t=h "East Los Angeles, California"). This was shortly after the war and we were out from the internment camp,’ remembers Takei, now 77.
‘That was the first time we had that kind of celebratory dinner with my uncle. I remember that fondly.’
For actor and LGBTI activist [Wilson Cruz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cruz "Wilson Cruz"), currently starring in the Fox series Red Band Society, one of his favorite Thanksgiving memories happened on the set of another [TV series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program").
‘I was on Party of Five and was in the Thanksgiving episode of that season and they wrote a song for me that I sang as the prayer at dinner and it was really moving to me,’ Cruz said.
‘My family is like spread out so I like Thanksgivings where you take people in and you make a family – your chosen family and be grateful for that. It’s my favorite holiday – the very conscious act of being grateful I think is really important.’
For writer and performer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Thanksgiving always comes near his 23 November birthday and his favorite memories as a kid have nothing to do with turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie.
‘I grew up in New Jersey and I was such a theater queen – early – and Thanksgiving always meant going to New York to a matinee. First we’d go and watch the Macy’s Parade on TV or live if we could score seats then we would go to a matinee of a big musical and go have dinner at some steakhouse – it would usually be a steakhouse because nobody in my family liked turkey.
‘So that’s what I remember Thanksgiving being and of course I looked forward to it. It was like a triple threat: A parade! A Musical! A steak! What’s not to love?’
As a gay adult man now living in Los Angeles, new Thanksgiving traditions have emerged for Vilanch.
‘Usually I go to what’s known as the “Lost Boys Thanksgiving” which is people who can’t get to their families or in many cases for years their families didn’t want to see them.
‘Now it’s kind of different because the “Lost Boys Thanksgiving” is filled with couples who have children. It used to be kind of a stag party Thanksgiving and now it’s kind of a Modern Family Thanksgiving.’
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### ['Scrooge & Marley' returns Dec. 6 and 7 To Chicago's Music Box Theatre](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/26/scrooge-marley-returns-dec-6-and-7-to-chicagos-music-box-theatre/)
**Published:** November 26, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Chicago Pride
‘[Scrooge](http://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Albert-Finney/dp/B0000AQS5D%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AQS5D "Scrooge") & Marley’ returns Dec. 6 and 7
Wed. November 19, 2014 9:37 AM | by GoPride.com News Staff**
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[Chicago, IL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago") — The holiday season moves into high gear on Saturday, Dec. 6, and Sunday, Dec. 7, when the Chicago holiday film Scrooge & Marley returns to the [Music Box Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7587055556,-73.9871166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7587055556,-73.9871166667 (Music%20Box%20Theatre)&t=h "Music Box Theatre"), 3733 N. Southport Ave., a little more than two years from the date of its red-carpet premiere at the historic venue in 2012. Both screenings are at noon, for $10 each.
The movie, which was entirely shot in Chicago, is a modern-day, gay variation on [Charles Dickens’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens") classic A Christmas Carol. These matinee screenings include a festive pre-show. The swingin’ female a cappella caroling trio The Merry Janes will lead a holiday sing-a-long preceding the Dec. 6 matinee.
Audiences of all persuasions have embraced Scrooge & Marley, which stars David Pevsner as Scrooge, Tim Kazurinsky as [Marley’s Ghost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley "Jacob Marley"), [Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer"), Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, and [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti"), features multiple Emmy Award-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") as Fezziwig, and is narrated by two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Light. Members of the cast and crew will be on hand for both screenings. Advance tickets are available at www.musicboxtheatre.com.
The festive spirit continues on Sunday, Dec. 14, when the Oak Park chapter of PFLAG and OPALGA ( Oak Park Lesbian and Gay Association ) co-sponsor a screening of the film at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St. The free 2 p.m. screening will be followed by an after-party that will include a festive carol sing-a-long and refreshments. Members of the film’s creative team will attend the screening and party. http://gopride.com/Zb20/
The Chicago Public Library will round out the season when it hosts two screenings of the film, at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 15, at the Humboldt Park branch, 1605 N. Troy St.; and Monday, Dec. 22, at the Bezazian branch, 1226 W. Ainslie St. Members of the film’s creative team will attend the screening.
**[DVDs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD"), Blu-rays, soundtrack [CDs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc "Compact Disc") and other film related merchandise will be available for purchase at all the screenings.** Scrooge & Marley, which noted film critic and Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas author Alonso Duralde has called “sweet and distinctive,” is also available for download via the movie’s website, which also includes detailed information about the film and links to other related merchandise available for purchase. Amazon has the DVD, Blu-ray and soundtrack available for quick purchase and gifting. See [www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com).
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**Tags:** A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol (Children's Classics), BBC television drama, Being There (Wilco album), Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics), Boba Fett, Box set, Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, Chicago
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### [Help Fund Child Of The 70's Starring Michael Vaccaro, Bruce Vilanch, And More...](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/16/help-fund-child-of-the-70s-starring-michael-vaccaro-bruce-vilanch-and-more/)
**Published:** November 16, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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Hi Everyone! We’re sill busy busy busy raising money to complete season 3 of [Child of the 70s](https://www.facebook.com/ChildOfThe70s)! A [web series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_series "Web series") is just like any [independent film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film "Independent film"), raising the money ourselves in order to complete the project is a necessary evil…. eeeeevil!!! Season 3 is shaping up to be the best yet… great scripts, great actors and a great crew… a lot of people working very hard… but in order to make it happen so all of you friends, family & fans can enjoy it, we need money. Please visit our [Indiegogo](http://www.indiegogo.com "Indiegogo") campaign page and make a donation… some of the perks are [Michael Vaccaro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Vaccaro "Tony Vaccaro") [CDs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc "Compact Disc") (which are fantastic and you’ll love them), “Thank You” credits, signed photos, [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/ "Internet Movie Database") credits, various levels of Producer credits, your photo prominently displayed and your name written into the dialog in an episode, dinner with cast members (who doesn’t want to have dinner with Ann Walker, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Susan Olsen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Olsen "Susan Olsen"), etc), seasons 1 & 2 [DVD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD")… many perks to choose from! No matter how much you donate you will have our love forever! Also be sure to share the link with all of your friends and help us spread the word! Let’s do this!! Donate here:
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Alexandre Desplat, American Film Institute, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bruce Vilanch, Chateau Marmont Hotel, Getty Images, Keira Knightley, Monday Night Football, Seth MacFarlane
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Others Help Raise $100,000 From Celebrity Juicy Dish Fest For AAP](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/09/bruce-vilanch-others-help-raise-100000-from-celebrity-juicy-dish-fest-for-aap/)
**Published:** November 9, 2014
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**[The Desert Sun](http://mydesert.com/ "The Desert Sun")
AAP raises $100,000 from celebrity juicy dish fest
Betty Francis, Special to The Desert Sun 10:35 p.m. PST November 8, 2014**
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Question: How much is celebrity gossip worth?
Answer: $100,000 an hour!
Some 65 of our local beautiful people paid $500 (or more) each last week, to hear off-the-record, never-in-print juicy morsels about the private lives of [Angelina Jolie](http://www.break.com/topics/angelina-jolie "Angelina Jolie"), John Travolta, Richard Gere,Dolly Parton,Sophia Loren, [Leonardo DiCaprio](http://www.leonardodicaprio.com/ "Leonardo DiCaprio") and a dozen other famous celebrities.
Other racy stories were told about stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Marlene Dietrich, and Sammy Davis, Jr. who are no longer with us but still make for great gossip.
The concept for this event was born more than a year ago when nationally-known photographer, producer and charity fundraiser Michael Childers got together with AAP Executive Director Mark Anton over “more than a few martinis.” As a result, Childers called some of his most informed (i.e. “best gossip”) Hollywood pals, inviting them over for an event called Dine and Dish, to raise money for [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") Assistance Program.
That event was so successful, Childers and Anton repeated it last week, with five of Childers’ show biz pals known not only for their talent, but their access to all-the-dish-not-fit-to-print.
The celebrity gossip hounds this year were:
• Emcee Michael Corbet, [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") correspondent (also known as “Dave” on The Young and Restless.
• Multiple Emmy-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), with a list of comic and acting awards longer than this report.
• Comic Judy “Love Goddess“ Tenuta.
• Entertainment journalist and former “The Awful Truth” gossip columnist [Ted Casablanca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Casablanca "Ted Casablanca").
• Theater and film legend [Ruta Lee](http://www.rutalee.com/ "Ruta Lee"), one of the desert’s most active and beloved stars.
The dinner was held in the magnificent, contemporary home of Lindsay Lewis and Dale Barton in Andreas Hills. After a deluxe prelude of mingling, libations, and a gourmet dinner, guests settled back into their chairs, eager for the juicy post-dessert they came for.
The guest celebrities gathered at the front of the room, perched on adjoining bar stools, ready for intimate conversation with 65 sophisticated guests who, on this night, looked more like eager school children sitting at the feet of not one, but six masters.
Emcee Corbet opened the conversation with a tongue-in-cheek advisory: “No recording or note taking will be permitted tonight. In fact, as soon as all your checks clear, we’re going to deny that this ever happened.”
Ruta Lee told a funny story that contained the words “Baptists” and “Hooters” in the same sentence.
When his pals kidded Vilanch about liking “the Warm Sands district of Palm Springs, “ he shot back, “Yeah, it used to be Hot Sands, but I’ve cooled it off a bit.”
And Love Goddess Judy had a sassy retort to just about everything said by any of the other guests.
Special guest Grace Robbins, widow of the “world’s best-selling author” Harold Robbins, spoke up from her table, playfully teasing guests about the scandalous revelations in her recently released book, “Cinderella and the Carpetbagger” — then she gave a signed copy of the book to each guest.
Among those lapping up the candid conversation like cream were philanthropists HaroldMatzner, Donna MacMillan with Bill Nicholson, Dr. Timothy Jochen with Lee Erwin, Wilhelmina Schnitzer, Bob Pollock (writer of “Dynasty”), Barbara and [Jerry Keller](http://www.last.fm/music/Jerry%2BKeller "Jerry Keller"), Terri and Bart Ketover and Gary Hall with Jerry Green. Also in attendance was U.S. [Sen.Barbara Boxer](http://boxer.senate.gov/ "Barbara Boxer"), a Rancho Mirage Democrat, and husband Stewart Boxer.
The biggest bonus was that each of the guests and celebrities went home with a clear conscience, knowing that the $100,000 grossed last year and this year provides enough food vouchers to buy groceries for hundreds of local men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
**AIDS**
Assistance
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**MISSION:** AIDS Assistance Program has one of the desert’s most aggressive – and entertaining – series of fundraisers in many price categories.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Premiere Of 'The Comeback'](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/07/bruce-vilanch-attends-premiere-of-the-comeback/)
**Published:** November 7, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Frontiers
‘The Comeback’ Comes Back from 9-Year Hiatus to the Delight of L.A.’s Power Gays
Posted on 11/6/2014 11:31:00 AM by Mike Ciriaco**
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[If you love something, set it free](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trailer_Park_Boys_episodes "List of Trailer Park Boys episodes"), and if it returns, it was meant to be.
Or have the execs at HBO cancel it, and if it returns, it was meant to be watched. [Lisa Kudrow](http://twitter.com/lisakudrow "Lisa Kudrow")‘s meta-comedy The Comeback, which was axed nine years ago, is going to be back on the air and is just as funny as ever.
Last night, Hollywood’s [El Capitan Theater](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.101111,-118.339722&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.101111,-118.339722 (El%20Capitan%20Theatre)&t=h "El Capitan Theatre") unfurled the red carpet in celebration of Kudrow’s reprisal of her role as the awkward, repressed, self-deluded [Valerie Cherish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_%28TV_series%29 "The Comeback (TV series)"). The artist formerly known as Phoebe Buffay was joined at the gala screening of the new season’s first two episodes by the show’s co-creator [Michael Patrick King](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Patrick_King "Michael Patrick King"), as well as a cavalcade of returning co-stars including Laura Silverman, Lance Barber and Damian Young. The cast was bolstered by a roster of the town’s top power gays, including [Andrew Rannells](http://facebook.com/andrewrannells "Andrew Rannells"), Jane Lynch, Sara Gilbert, Dan Bucatinsky and queen of queer comedy Bruce Vilanch.
“I hope Mickey the makeup guy is in it,” said Vilanch, chatting about the new season before the screening. “I missed the end of the season, so I hope he didn’t die.”
Fans of Mickey, Valerie’s personal makeup artist/sassy gay sidekick, portrayed by [Robert Michael Morris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Michael_Morris "Robert Michael Morris"), can breathe a sigh of relief. The character survived his melanoma scare from the end of the previous season. And thank god, because Mickey is this series’ version of The Simpsons’ Ralph Wiggum. Every line out of his mouth is comic gold.
For those who were too cheap to spring for premium cable nearly a decade ago, here’s the [CliffsNotes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CliffsNotes "CliffsNotes") version of The Comeback. The mockumentary-style series is like one of those Russian nesting dolls. A [reality TV show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television "Reality television") chronicles faded television star Valerie Cherish as she shoots a cheesy sitcom called Room and Bored in a desperate attempt at recapturing the spotlight. Its a show about a show about a show.
The new season is even more meta. Picking up nine years after the cancellation of the short-lived sitcom, Cherish’s career is flailing. Among her many missteps is self-sabotaging her chance at being one of Bravo’s Housewives of Beverly Hills several years prior, shown via pseudo-raw footage in a hilarious scene with Frontiers friend Lisa Vanderpump. Valerie discovers that Paulie G, the drug addict douchebag who wrote Room and Bored, has created a new show called Seeing Red, a derogatory dramedy (“its like a comedy without the laughs”) about his experience working with Cherish. When Val storms into a casting session to confront him, she ends up reading for—and accepting—the lead role, thus playing her own insulting caricature. For those at home keeping score, the series is now a show about a show capturing a show that’s rehashing what happened behind the scenes of a show that was framed by a reality TV show. Despite the thickly layered premise, the execution is clean and laugh-filled.
After the screening, the audience moseyed over to The Roosevelt for the after-party. Waitresses in red-headed Valerie Cherish wigs doled out wine and mini ahi steaks to HBO’s extended family. But the most popular gay lunch table was [Bruce Villanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s. As the adage goes, if you have nothing nice to say, go sit next to Bruce. In between the sass and the snark, the conversation touched upon the topic of Frontiers’ upcoming “L.A.’s Most Eligible Bachelors” issue.
“I’m one of you,” quipped Vilanch to the magazine’s collective readers. “I’m not young, I’m not nubile, but I’m a bachelor.”
Robert Michael Morris had a more specific notion of his perfect man. “Someone who cooks and cleans and never criticizes and thinks I’m the best thing since sliced bread,” he said.
Girls heartthrob Andrew Rannells happily played along, although he doesn’t currently qualify as a bachelor. “I have a boyfriend, so I already have the ideal mate,” the angel-faced actor beamed.
Well, Andrew, if you love him, let him go. If he returns to you, it was meant to be. If he doesn’t, the rest of us boys potentially have a shot at you once again.
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**Tags:** Amy B. Harris, Dan Bucatinsky, HBO, Laura Silverman, Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King, Reality television, Robert Michael Morris, Television program, The Comeback (TV series)
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### [Check Out Bruce Vilanch In The Upcoming Documentary 'The Outrageous Sophie Tucker'](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/11/01/check-out-bruce-vilanch-in-the-upcoming-documentary-the-outrageous-sophie-tucker/)
**Published:** November 1, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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Check Out [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") In The Upcoming Documentary ‘The Outrageous [Sophie Tucker](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker")‘ which is premiering in 8 theaters in southern [Florida](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.1,-81.6&spn=3.0,3.0&q=28.1,-81.6 (Florida)&t=h "Florida") starting on next Friday, November 7.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Bob Hope](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/24/bruce-vilanch-talks-bob-hope/)
**Published:** October 24, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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(Bob) Hope springs eternal — new bio tells of his days on Broadway
By Michael RiedelOctober 23, 2014 | 9:00pm**
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If you grew up watching [the Bob Hope specials](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope_television_appearances "Bob Hope television appearances") on NBC as I did, your image of the comedian is Mr. Southern California — a rich old Republican clad in a yellow V-neck sweater and swinging a golf club.
I met Hope once. It was 1984, and I was a page at the Republican National Convention in Dallas. The New York delegation was staying at the Stouffer Hotel and so, too, was [Bob Hope](http://bobhope.com "Bob Hope"), who was there to cheer on his old friend [Ronald Reagan](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.259886,-118.819805833&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.259886,-118.819805833 (Ronald%20Reagan)&t=h "Ronald Reagan").
Hope was walking his dog through the lobby one morning. His outfit caught my attention. He was wearing a pink and powder-blue striped pantsuit. His little dog was wearing the exact same thing.
I asked him for his autograph, and he said, “Aren’t you a little young to be a Republican?”
Well, I thought it was hilarious.
I mention this little memory — thanks for the memory! — because I’m reading Richard Zoglin’s fine new biography of the comedian, “Hope” (Simon & Schuster).
I’ve just finished the early chapters, and what strikes me is how different the young Bob Hope was from the [country-club Republican](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_club_Republican "Country club Republican") he became later in life.
The difference, in a nutshell, is the difference between New York and Palm Springs.
The young Hope was a Broadway star who cut a dashing, somewhat caddish figure about town. He appeared in eight [Broadway shows](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre"), including “Red, Hot and Blue” with [Ethel Merman](http://www.last.fm/music/Ethel%2BMerman "Ethel Merman").
Here’s some gossip: Hope and Merman were apparently so hot for each other they’d hook up in dark doorways along Eighth Avenue on their way home from the theater.
Hope zipped around New York in a chauffeur-driven Pierce-Arrow. He lived in a swinging bachelor pad on Central Park West. He bought a Scottish terrier, which he used to pick up girls.
“He was .?.?. great bait,” Hope said. “When the girls went by they stopped and petted him. As a result, I did a nice business with those beauties.”
He never threw away a joke. In 1973, writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") worked with Hope on a TV show. The [Arab oil embargo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis "1973 oil crisis") was in the news. Hope retrieved a tin box full of gas-rationing jokes from World War II.
“He dealt them out like a deck of cards,” Vilanch recalls. “ ‘Oh, that’s good,’ he’d say. ‘Nah, not that one.’ We repurposed — before there was such a word — the good ones for the oil crisis.”
At one point Hope had to leave. He told Vilanch: “Leave the jokes with the guard.”
As for the country-club Republican he later became — a figure of ridicule to baby boomers — Vilanch has this to say:
“Bob did one of the first AIDS public service announcements. I asked him personally, and he said yes right away. He did it with absolutely no qualms.”
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**Tags:** Bob Hope, Bruce Vilanch, Dallas, Ethel Merman, New York, New York City, Ronald Reagan, World War II
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### [Child of the 70s! Needs Some Backing! Can You Help?](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/23/child-of-the-70s-needs-some-backing-can-you-help/)
**Published:** October 23, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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The successful web series, Child Of The 70’s could use your help! Any contribution would help! Thanks so much! We’re really hoping we can finally finish season 3 of my web series, [Child of the 70s](https://www.facebook.com/ChildOfThe70s)! starring [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.facebook.com/bruce.vilanch.1)!
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### [Photo Flash: Bruce Vilanch and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY's Benefit for A&O](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/20/photo-flash-bruce-vilanch-and-more-in-celebrity-autobiographys-benefit-for-ao/)
**Published:** October 20, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
Photo Flash: [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY’s Benefit for A&O
October 15, 2014**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2014/10/tn-500_bworld06.jpg)
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2014/10/tn-500_bworld03.jpg)Bruce Vilanch [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin") [Mindy Cohn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindy_Cohn "Mindy Cohn") [Joey Fatone](http://www.last.fm/music/Joey%2BFatone "Joey Fatone")The “[Celebrity Autobiography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Autobiography%3A_In_Their_Own_Words "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words")” performance to benefit Actors and Others for Animals was held on Monday, Oct 13th at the El Portal Theatre. The evening featured [Joey Fatone](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Joey-Fatone/), [Florence Henderson](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Florence-Henderson/), [Lainie Kazan](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lainie-Kazan/), [Laraine Newman](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Laraine-Newman/),[Eugene Pack](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Eugene-Pack/), [Dayle Reyfel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Dayle-Reyfel/), [Mindy Coh](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Mindy-Coh/)n, [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) and [Fred Willard](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Fred-Willard/), with special guests, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/), [Dawn Wells](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Dawn-Wells/), [Susan Olsen](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Susan-Olsen/) and A&O President [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") and more. Scroll down for photos!
Actors and Others for Animals (A&O), welcomes you to “Celebrity Autobiography.” Created by Emmy-nominated writer-performer [Eugene Pack](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Eugene-Pack/) and developed by Pack and [Dayle Reyfel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Dayle-Reyfel/), “Celebrity Autobiography” is the smash comedy hit where celeb performers act out other celebrity memoirs excerpts live on stage. This evening of non-stop laughter will be performed live on-stage. Selections range from the “poetry” of [Suzanne Somers](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Suzanne-Somers/) to the confessions of[Justin Bieber](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Justin-Bieber/) to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history – [Elizabeth Taylor](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Elizabeth-Taylor/), [Debbie Reynolds](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Debbie-Reynolds/) and [Eddie Fisher](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Eddie-Fisher/)–and it’s all in their own words.
The long running hit won the [Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award_for_Unique_Theatrical_Experience "Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience") and continues to play to sold-out audiences in New York and across the country. It is one of the most critically acclaimed “buzzed about shows” of recent years according to Entertainment Weekly, and one not to be missed. You will leave the theater wondering if they really did write those things. As A&O’s board member [Lily Tomlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/)‘s famous character [Edith Ann](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Edith-Ann/) likes to say “and that’s the truth!”
Actors and Others for Animals is a California 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation. It is dedicated to eliminating pet overpopulation, ensuring the care and protection of pet companions and improving the quality of life economically challenged, disadvantaged and undeserved pet guardians by providing referral and financial assistance for spay/neuter and veterinary medical procedures together with other animal/human bond enriching programs.
For more information about the event, go to [www.actorsandothers.com](http://www.actorsandothers.com/) or find out more about the show at[www.celebrityautobiography.com](http://www.celebrityautobiography.com/).
Photos: **Tibrina Hobson**
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Dawn Wells, Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, Eugene Pack, Joey Fatone, Justin Bieber, Lily Tomlin, Mindy Cohn
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins “Hollywood Dine & Dash II” For Nov 1 Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/14/bruce-vilanch-joins-hollywood-dine-dash-ii-for-nov-1-benefit/)
**Published:** October 14, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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Frances Allen’s Desert Roundup—[Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") [Insiders](http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/ "Insiders (TV program)") ‘Dine, Dash & Dish’ for [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") Assistance Program
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:43:21 am**
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They know what tinsel-town skeletons are hanging in which closets, and are prepared to tell (almost) all in exchange for an elegant evening featuring tantalizing hors d’oeuvres, premium spirits and a gourmet dinner in the luxurious confines of an exclusive [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") estate.
Sound interesting? It did to globally known celebrity photographer Michael Childres who once again thumbed through his well-worn [Rolodex](http://rolodex.com "Rolodex") and is producing an evening called “Hollywood Dine & Dash II” in support of AIDS Assistance Program.
The event will be held on Saturday, Nov. 1, and feature a cast of characters who, we are promised, will border on the alliterative, i.e saucy, scandalous, sensational and salacious.
This event will feature a knowledgeable group of talkative Hollywood insiders. Present will be “love goddess” turned comedienne [Judy Tenuta](http://www.judytenuta.com/ "Judy Tenuta"); entertainment/gossip columnist [Ted Casablanca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Casablanca "Ted Casablanca"); [Ruta Lee](http://www.rutalee.com/ "Ruta Lee"), one of the most accomplished performers in Hollywood … and also one of the brightest; and, cuddly Emmy-winning comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who has single-handily made tee-shirts the go-to attire for any occasion. And, attempting to bring some order to the proceedings as the emcee: Emmy-winner Michael Corbett.
The purpose of the evening is fun; but the mission of AIDS Assistance Program is deadly serious. Since its founding in spring 1991, the nearly all-volunteer, organization continues to provide meals to members of the community with low incomes living with HIV/AIDS. Their client base has grown from approximately 20 to 500 persons.
A five-member volunteer board manages AIDS Assistance Program. Its primary purpose is to raise the funds to support the organization and its food voucher program, currently budgeted at $600,000, annually. Support for other operational expenses are generated through its private donor base.
To purchase tickets for Dine & Dish II, call AIDS Assistance Program’s executive director Mark Anton at 760-325-8481.
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**Tags:** AIDS Assistance Program, Bruce Vilanch, HIV/AIDS, Hollywood, Judy Tenuta, Rolodex, Ruta Lee, Ted Casablanca
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### [Bruce Vilanch and Joey Fatone Join CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY to Benefit Actors & Others for Animals, 10/13](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/11/bruce-vilanch-and-joey-fatone-join-celebrity-autobiography-to-benefit-actors-others-for-animals-1013/)
**Published:** October 11, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Joey Fatone](http://www.last.fm/music/Joey%2BFatone "Joey Fatone") Join CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY to Benefit Actors & Others for Animals, 10/13
October 10 2014**
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Bruce Vilanch and Joey Fatone have joined the cast of the “[Celebrity Autobiography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Autobiography%3A_In_Their_Own_Words "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words")” to benefit Actors and Others for Animals on Monday, Oct 13th at the El Portal Theatre.
They will appear alongside previously announced performers Florence Henderson, Lainie Kazan, Laraine Newman, [Eugene Pack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Pack "Eugene Pack"), Dayle Reyfel, [Mindy Cohn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindy_Cohn "Mindy Cohn"), Fred Willard, and special guests, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), Dawn Wells, Susan Olsen and A&O President, [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") and more.
Actors and Others for Animals (A&O), welcomes you to “Celebrity Autobiography.” Created by Emmy-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfel, “Celebrity Autobiography” is the smash comedy hit where celeb performers act out other celebrity memoirs excerpts live on stage. This evening of non-stop laughter will be performed live on-stage. Selections range from the “poetry” of Suzanne Somers to the confessions of [Justin Bieber](http://twitter.com/justinbieber "Justin Bieber") to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history – Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher–and it’s all in their own words.
It all takes place on Monday, October 13th, 2014. Schedule: 7:00pm – VIP Reception and Silent Auction; 8:00pm – Curtain. At the El Portal Theatre, located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd, [North Hollywood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.17222,-118.37806&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.17222,-118.37806 (North%20Hollywood%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "North Hollywood, Los Angeles") 91601. Tickets: $50, $75 $100 and VIP for $150 (includes VIP Reception). Available by calling 818-508-4200 or visiting www.elportaltheatre.com. For more information about the event, visit: www.actorsandothers.com or the show at www.celebrityautobiography.com.
The long running hit won the [Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award_for_Unique_Theatrical_Experience "Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience") and continues to play to sold-out audiences in New York and across the country. It is one of the most critically acclaimed “buzzed about shows” of recent years according to Entertainment Weekly, and one not to be missed. You will leave the theater wondering if they really did write those things. As A&O’s board member Lily Tomlin’s famous character Edith Ann likes to say “and that’s the truth!”
Actors and Others for Animals is a California 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation. It is dedicated to eliminating pet overpopulation, ensuring the care and protection of pet companions and improving the quality of life economically challenged, disadvantaged and undeserved pet guardians by providing referral and financial assistance for spay/neuter and veterinary medical procedures together with other animal/human bond enriching programs.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, Eugene Pack, Joey Fatone, Justin Bieber, Lily Tomlin, Mindy Cohn
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### [An Interview About T-Shirts!](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/10/02/an-interview-about-t-shirts/)
**Published:** October 2, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Edge
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"): No-Iron Irony
by Bobby McGuire
Contributor
Thursday Oct 2, 2014**
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A former child model for plus-size clothier Lane Bryant’s “charming chub” division, gay comedy writer Bruce Vilanch is perhaps the preeminent expert on one of the quickest-growing fashion trends. A fixture in the entertainment industry since the 1970s, America got its first real look at Vilanch with the 1998 reboot of the popular game show “[The Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"),” where the six-time [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") writer nightly donned his signature look: the graphic T-shirt.
An evolution of the “union suit,” the T-shirt can trace its humble beginnings back to the late 19th century, when, as though a reverse metaphor for the recently ended Civil War, the top of the one-piece undergarment seceded from the bottom, leaving a comfortable and versatile buttonless shirt. Since then, the tee has found itself move front and center, from an underlayer to athletic wear to high fashion. A machine-washable black cotton T-shirt with gothic print from eminent French haute couture design house Givenchy retails at [Saks Fifth Avenue](http://www.saksfifthavenue.com "Saks Fifth Avenue") for a mere $635.
[EDGE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Edge "ThinkPad Edge") caught up with this unlikely style maven to get his expert insight and advice on this big-dollar fashion trend.
EDGE: When did T-shirts become your go-to item for everything from daytime to evening wear?
Bruce Vilanch: Since I moved to California in 1975 and I discovered you can go just about anywhere wearing a T-shirt — even a funeral. I have about 3,000. About a thousand are in the house, and about 2,000 are in a lovely storage facility in [Van Nuys](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1833333333,-118.433333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1833333333,-118.433333333 (Van%20Nuys%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Van Nuys, Los Angeles"). I call it the “Home for Aged [T-Shirts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt "T-shirt").” Some I just can’t get rid of — they have moth-eaten marks, they’ve shrunk like all T-shirts, but I just can’t part with them. Then there are others.
EDGE: Have you been approached by designers to wear their T-shirts?
Bruce Vilanch: Some T-shirt designers wanted me to wear their shirts because I became famous. But I never did that because you’d have to plug them. When I was on ‘Hollywood Squares,’ I had a lot of people sending me T-shirts that they wanted me to wear, and they were completely inappropriate. Someone sent me a shirt that said “Fuck you, you fucking fuck.'” I think they must have thought we were on HBO 12 or something. Then I had a lot of plumbers who must have bought something from the same T-shirt company, sending me shirts that had the name of their company on them with the slogan “We’re #1 with #2.” I got dozens of those from all across the country with notes saying: “This would look good on your show!” The station was antsy about plugging something from people who hadn’t paid. One representative T-shirt from that bunch went straight to Van Nuys.
EDGE: What do you consider the “classic” T-shirt?
Bruce Vilanch: My favorite classic T-shirt is white with black letters that say “Laundry Day,” or an existential meta T-shirt that’s white with black letters that say “The Latest Must-Have T-Shirt.”
EDGE: When styling yourself, do you choose a shirt by color or slogan?
Bruce Vilanch: Both. If by color, black always looks better than fire-engine red. Sometimes you have to wear a jacket or a blazer. Then I have to select a T-shirt with a print that can be seen in the middle of the shirt, because you don’t want to kill the joke. It’s strategic layering.
EDGE: Can you name a time where the T-shirt matched the occasion perfectly?
Bruce Vilanch: The Academy Awards one year, when I wore a T-shirt that said “I Fired My Stylist.” Because everyone there had one, you know, and the place was lousy with stylists checking out their clients. It was a warning to those who hadn’t done well.
EDGE: Can you name a time when the T-shirt choice was a fashion faux pas?
Bruce Vilanch: We had a lot of trouble on ‘Hollywood Squares’ with logos and advertising brands that didn’t pay for it. And I had this fabulous T-shirt with the Fed Ex logo that read “FedSex” with their slogan at the time: “When you absolutely have to have it overnight.” And I wore it and the lawyers went crazy because they said [FedEx](http://www.fedex.com/ "FedEx") would go ballistic, and that they were very litigious. Even though it was parody, which is covered, it would be a prolonged legal dispute. Apparently, they don’t like anybody messing with their logo. We ended up pixilating the slogan, which at the time very expensive and ended up costing the show a lot of money.
EDGE: Of your collection, which T-shirt would you wear to the following events:
A [White House State Dinner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_dinner "State dinner").
Bruce Vilanch: “Hail to the Chef”
EDGE: Opening Night at the Metropolitan Opera.
Bruce Vilanch: “I Am the Fat Lady”
EDGE: When visiting an old pal at the [Betty Ford Clinic](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.7622222222,-116.400277778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.7622222222,-116.400277778 (Betty%20Ford%20Center)&t=h "Betty Ford Center").
Bruce Vilanch: “Rehab is for Quitters”
EDGE: To a parole hearing.
Bruce Vilanch: An homage to the musical Chicago: “Not Guilty”
EDGE: Group therapy.
Bruce Vilanch: “I’m with Stupid,” with the finger pointing next to me.
EDGE: A bris.
Bruce Vilanch: “Don’t Take Too Much Off the Top”
EDGE: Do you have any advice to fashionistas who are late to the party with the graphic T-shirt trend?
Bruce Vilanch: The first time out, wear something that says “My Other T-Shirt is at Your Mom’s House.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch Will Host The Joe Layton Tribute at St.Luke'sTheater, 10/20](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/09/29/bruce-vilanch-will-host-the-joe-layton-tribute-at-st-lukestheater-1020/)
**Published:** September 29, 2014
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**Broadway World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Will Host The [Joe Layton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Layton "Joe Layton") Tribute at [St.Luke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist "Luke the Evangelist")‘sTheater, 10/20
September 29, 2014**
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Dancers Over 40 honors prolific director/choreographer Joe Layton, who crossed all mediums to create memorable musicals, [TV specials](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_special "Television special"), concerts and much more, including Two by Two, Sail Away, Once Upon a Mattress, Sound of Music, No Strings, [Dear World](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_World "Dear World"), George M!, and Barnum, just to name a few. DO40 members who have worked with Joe on multiple shows and will be panelists include Nicole Barth, James Dybas, Dorothy Frank Danner, Carolyn Kirsch, Sondra Lee, [Lawrence Leritz](http://www.LawrenceLeritz.com "Lawrence Leritz"), Patti Mariano, Lawrence Merritt and Mary Zahn.
[Grover Dale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Dale "Grover Dale"), Bob Fitch, Terrence Mann, Marianne Tatum and Susan Guthrie Lowrance, former dancer in The Lost Colony and Joe’s personal friend who is preserving his history, will provide special insight into the man and his craft. Rare video footage, video tributes and performances round out the show, featuring [Loni Ackerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loni_Ackerman "Loni Ackerman"), Jill O’Hara and Walter Willison.
Host Bruce Vilanch worked as a writer on Joe’s productions of Bette Midler’s Clams on a Half [Shell](http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON:RDSD "LSE: RDSD") and Platinum, with Alexis Smith and [Lisa Mordente](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Mordente "Lisa Mordente") and will speak with Joe’s creative team at the beginning of the program (including Lynn Summerall, Fred Voelpel and some surprise guests). The Tribute will take place on Monday, October 20th, 2014, at 7 pm, St. Luke’s Theater, 308 West 46th St., NYC.
Dancers Over 40 is an all-volunteer, membership-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to preserving the History, Legacy and Lives of our mature creative community, while sharing the knowledge with the younger generation just beginning their careers. The event will be videotaped and donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Collection at Lincoln Center’s Library for the Performing Arts.
Tickets: $45 for non-members ($65 for premium seats); $25 for members of Dancers Over 40 with discount code. Reservations: Telecharge, 212-239-6200 or www.telecharge.com; DO40 members call 212-947-8844 or www.broadwayoffers.com with discount code. St. Luke’s Box Office open 2 – 6pm daily, at 308 West 46th Street. For more information on DO40 and this event, call our Hotline at 212-330-7016.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Articles, Benefits
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Dear World, Grover Dale, Joe Layton, Lawrence Leritz, Lisa Mordente, Loni Ackerman, Theater
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### [Bruce Vilanch in “Rubble” by Mike Reiss at the Provincetown Theater Aug 22 at 7 PM](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/08/21/bruce-vilanch-in-rubble-by-mike-reiss-at-the-provincetown-theater-aug-22-at-7-pm/)
**Published:** August 21, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Color Magazine
Bruce Vilanch in Provincetown Theater Benefit
By John Black**
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In [Mike Reiss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Reiss "Mike Reiss")’s comedy, Rubble, Alvin, an aging [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") with one last shot at a network meeting, is trapped under rubble by an LA earthquake.
It’s a strange enough idea for a play, something [Samuel Beckett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett "Samuel Beckett") might have dreamed up between his tramps [waiting for Godot](http://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Godot-Samuel-Beckett/dp/0394172043%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0394172043 "Waiting for Godot") and Krapp recording his last tape. It becomes surreal, at least it will when it is performed in a benefit for the [Provincetown](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts") Theater this weekend, when Alvin is played by none other than comedy writing legend [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
“It’s a crazy idea for a play: It’s Becket meets Book of Mormon meets The [Simpsons](http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons "The Simpsons - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free"),” said the show’s director, James Valletti. “It’s a really dark and funny look at the entertainment industry from two people who know it all – the good and the bad – really well. Mike has been a writer on The Simpsons from the very first episode and is still there today and Bruce has written comedy for everything from The Oscars to his own cabaret act. They’ve lived it, so they’re perfect for making the show come alive – even from under a pile of rubble.”
Those coming to the show to see Vilanch share Hollywood stories and gossip like he does in his cabaret act (which he will be performing at the [Post Office Café](http://www.postofficecabaret.com/) on Commercial St. from August 22 – August 24) will find a very different character trapped under the trash at the theater benefit. “I approach Alvin like I would any acting part,” Vilanch said in an interview with Color Magazine. “When I write comedy for somebody else, I have to write it in their voice. Material I write for Whoopi won’t work for [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), mainly because he’s not a black woman. The same applies to playing an acting role. I can’t be Bruce Vilanch in the show; I worked with the writer and the director to create the character of Alvin.”
Still, both Vilanch and Valletti admit there were times during the rehearsal process when the actor and the character were not as distinct as they imagined. “There’s a great line in the play…Alvin is trapped under all this rubble and has no idea how, or if, he will get out, and he’s musing about the size of cupcakes and how they’ve gotten smaller yet more expensive. It’s delightfully absurd to hear, especially when Bruce says it.”
“I do love that line,” Vilanch admitted. “There are many of the lines in the show that I love. The mix of a man in such an absurd situation thinking of such mundane things is just very, very funny.”
Bruce Vilanch in “Rubble” by Mike Reiss at the Provincetown Theater Aug 22 at 7 PM. Tickets are $75-$100.
7 PM Lecture with Mike Reiss about “The Simpsons” and “[Queer Duck](http://www.sho.com/site/queerduck/home.do "Queer Duck")”
8 PM Cocktails with Mike Reiss and [Jerry Adler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Adler "Jerry Adler")
9 PM Staged Reading of “Rubble”
10:30 PM Talkback with Bruce Vilanch
For more information, visit [http://provincetowntheater.org](http://provincetowntheater.org/). Tickets benefit The Provincetown Theatre Foundation.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Theatre
**Tags:** Alvin, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Jerry Adler, Mike Reiss, Queer Duck, Samuel Beckett, Simpsons
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### [Great New Interview With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/08/16/great-new-interview-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** August 16, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Edge
We’ve Got Bruce
Saturday Aug 16, 2014**
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When it comes to Hollywood insiders, few come close to [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). Over his thirty-year-plus career, he has worked with virtually every major talent in the entertainment industry: Bette Midler, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), Elizabeth Taylor and (famously) the late Robin Williams. He has also been writing special material for the Oscars since 1989 – a collaboration that has had its ups-and-downs, but also given Vilanch an insider’s view on the film’s industry’s biggest party. He is also no stranger to other award shows, having written for the Emmys, Tonys and Grammys. Or Broadway, where he starred in “Hairspray” after taking it on the road.
Vilanch may be best-known for his stint on “The Hollywood Squares” on which he appeared for four seasons as well as being the show’s head writer. He has been in numerous films (including having made his film debut in “Mahogany” with Diana Ross in 1974). He has even been the subject of a documentary film – “Get Bruce” – which has one of the most star-studded casts in history. For Vilanch, they were his friends.
He’s been a tireless supporter of LGBT causes over the years, including being one of the first to take part in benefits for AIDS in the 1980s. It was from those experiences that he found himself working for the Oscars. And speaking of awards, Vilanch has won some six [Emmy Awards](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") for his writing.
That he one of the funniest celebrities in Hollywood is no secret. Part of what has made his solo dates, such as the one that comes to Club Café on Saturday, August 16 at 8pm, so endearing is his ease at making good-natured fun at not only Hollywood royalty, but himself. “I am frequently mistaken for Shelley (Winters) by people that don’t know she’s dead,” he said recently in a freewheeling conversation this week from Saugatuck, Michigan, where he was performing.
**[EDGE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution "Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution"): So what are you wearing?**
Bruce Vilanch What am I wearing? Hmmm. A t-shirt with an actual photo of Batman and Robin kind-of embracing. It’s a still from the old show. And they have this expression on their faces that make it seem they’re fascinated with each other. So the caption reads, ‘Batman and Robin: Let’s Hook Up.’ You look at their faces and you think, that’s what they’re really thinking. They’re in love with each other. Look at those expressions! And is there anything better to wear in the Provincetown of the Midwest?
**EDGE: Speaking of Provincetown, did you hear that a ferry was nearly capsized by a wave this week?**
Bruce Vilanch Really? No. But are you sure it wasn’t a convention of [Shelley Winters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Winters "Shelley Winters") impersonators just hoping to get capsized? If it was, I would be one of them because I am frequently mistaken for Shelley by people that don’t know she’s dead. They think she still slinks amongst us.
**EDGE: Did you know her?**
Bruce Vilanch Yes. She was a great actress and a hysterical person. Literally a hysterical person – when I would see her she shout, ‘my God… you’re all sweaty? What are you doing?’ Every meeting was an [Academy Award winning](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") performance. Most people didn’t realize she was a bombshell when she was a kid. Or realize how great she really was. She was one of the prime movers of [the Actors’ Studio](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.760068,-73.992654&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.760068,-73.992654 (Actors%20Studio)&t=h "Actors Studio") with Brando and James Dean. And a lot of her really good work was on stage… And on screen? There’s always ‘South Seas Sinner.’
Maybe I could do a one-woman show about Shelley Winters. When she wrote her book it was all about her many affairs and everyone she had an affair with was dead, because she didn’t want to write about anybody that was still alive because they would deny it. I think she could have called the book ‘Fuck Shelley and Die.’ My show will be like that. ‘Shelley Winters, Killer Pussy.’
**EDGE: What are you doing in Boston?**
Bruce Vilanch: What can I plug? How can I get them in? Tell some rude stories about Justin Bieber? I don’t have any of that. I do have stories about my life and times – my illustrious career in show business and all the bizarre people I met and all the backstage stories. It’s funny and dishy. Funny and dishy. (Slipping into a professional phone voice) ‘Funny and Dishy… could I direct your call?’
I don’t know what I am going to say and I’m not so sure what I say now would look good in print, so it’s a good idea not to say anything. But I’ve done 23 Academy Awards shows and everyone has trooped through that extravaganza, so there are stories about plenty of them.
**EDGE: You dished James Franco when he did the Oscars – will you mention him?**
Bruce Vilanch: Yes. Sure. Why not? I’ll get in trouble again. They’ll never ask him back, so why do I care?
**EDGE: Have you started to work on next year’s Oscars?**
Bruce Vilanch: Oh, no. Not yet. It starts around October when the producer comes in and gets active and figures out how he or she wants the show to unfold. And then the host comes onboard and it gets deeper as it goes along. Most of the show is written after the nominations come out in January because you don’t really know what you are going to talk about. It doesn’t make sense to prepare stuff about movies that get shut out; and you don’t know who is going to actually appear on the show until after the nominations come out and people sort out their feelings. Whether they want to be on the show or exercise the ritual taking of umbrage because they or their friends were not acknowledged. There use to be the honorary awards, but they made the show so long, so they moved them to separate event – the Governor’s Award – in November that I wrote this year and show excerpts on the awards.
**EDGE: Do any of the celebrities as the Oscars take umbrage with the jokes you write?**
Bruce Vilanch At first, yeah. A lot of times. But first you have the gauntlet of their people – their manager, their agent, their publicist, their holistic pet psychiatrist, their gardener, their Pilates instructor. Everybody has an opinion. Then they get back to you with what they want changed. By the time it gets to the show, they’ve signed off on anything, so it’s rare if somebody goes off-book on the night of the show. The spontaneous moments come from the winners, who can be depended upon to do something ridiculous because they’re over-excited. And the host commenting on what’s going on during the show. That’s where the spontaneous moments come from.
**EDGE: How did Ellen’s selfie-seen-round-the-world happen at last year’s show?**
Bruce Vilanch I don’t know. I wasn’t on the show last year because it was all Ellen and her staff. She has ten dedicated people that write her show every day and they did the Oscars. I did Ellen’s first time in 2007 and we did a version of the selfie that year, so I suspect whoever had the idea to do it again watched the show that year.
She did it with Spielberg. She had Spielberg take a picture of her and Clint Eastwood. It was the exact same bit. All that was missing was the dozen stars chomping to be in the shot, which they knew would be seen around the world. So you don’t get to see poor Liza, who was too short to get in on the thing. But on the other hand we got a nice full face of [Lupita Nyong’o](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupita_Nyong%27o "Lupita Nyong'o")‘s brother, who oddly didn’t capitalize on that. I would think his people would have had him all over the place; but somewhere good taste prevailed. Either that or she said, ‘this is my night. Stand back.’ Maybe she let him wear all her dresses.
**EDGE: Every year there seems to be different producers of the Oscars, but you remain a constant with the ceremony. What’s the key to your longevity?**
Bruce Vilanch It’s like inventing the wheel every year, yet every year it looks pretty much like the year before; because it’s the nature of the beast. It’s a format to which you must adhere, that makes the show pretty much like every other show. New producers come in and say they’re going to change all that, but they can’t. As they go along they realize it’s a big, unwieldy piece, and it helps to have people around that have done it before; which is why you end up doing it for 23 years. That and various relationships you have with performers – hosts and what not – they want you to be around with them.
**EDGE: You’ve also been involved with the Grabby Awards…**
Bruce Vilanch Yeah. I’ve done them many time. Of course, they’re porno, and I love the porno business… and the people in it. Fascinating to me. But how I got initially – a lot of those award shows were the first AIDS fundraisers because a lot of the people involved in them was affected by the disease at the beginning. They weren’t raising money and wanted to find a way to raise money, and it was an easy way to do it. And it was an industry willing to chip in. So I ended up getting involved in it because it was a fund-raising device, and then, of course, once I got to the picnic I didn’t want to leave until I had every corn on the cob.
**EDGE: What do they look for with a good host for the Oscars?**
Bruce Vilanch They’re always looking for someone peaking at the box office at the moment, but what really helps with the ratings is a good year at the movies. It hasn’t been a good summer, but they’re not the kind of pictures the Academy pays attention to except for technical awards. And the year is back-loaded with the stuff they want to win awards, so people haven’t seen anything that will be talked about on the show next year. They’re have been a couple that will get included; but most of the stuff reveals itself in October. I just saw a trailer for “Into the Woods” that comes out on Christmas Day with that tornado movie.
**EDGE: You mean, ‘Into the Storm?’ Wasn’t it hilarious when the storm hit that international airport in the middle of nowhere and started picking up 747s…?**
Bruce Vilanch I loved that. Suddenly it was ‘Sharknado.’ I want to do a politically-aware disaster movie and call it ‘Ralphnado.’ A group of left-wing lawyers get picked up by a tornado and become Ralphnado, crashing into corporate America.
**EDGE: Wasn’t it a terrible movie?**
Bruce Vilanch Yes, but I love terrible movies. I use to go with a group to the movies every week back when going to the movies was a ritual and we’d go see a piece of shit movie. That was back when going to the movies was more of a rituals, and we’d pick terrible movies, like ‘Killer Fish’ starring Karen Black or ‘The Lonely Lady’ with Pia Zadora. So we decided to go to a movie and see ‘Into the Storm’ at the Mann’s Chinese Theatre. It wasn’t on the big screen, but on a smaller one; and it was heaven. We were half the audience – there were six of us and the audience was 12; so we could talk out loud, that was if you could be heard over the tornado. There was girl that was like Sandra Bullock and I said, she was going to have to take over the van but won’t be able to go over 50 because there is a bomb on it. They should have borrowed anything from every other action movie ever made.
**EDGE: Didn’t the high school principal in the film look like President Obama?**
Bruce Vilanch He looked exactly like Obama. It was hysterical – is the subtext of this that Obama winds up a high school principal? Is this what we are suppose to take from this? Is this a right wing moment here?
And the girl in the Helen Hunt part – the weather expert – she was a little bit too old for it and had a little too much work done to be that woman and pretend to be the mother of that baby. It was just enough to put it into The Asylum territory.
**EDGE: And the vice principal, who was the movies hero, didn’t he look like Mitt Romney?**
Bruce Vilanch Now that you mention it, yes. About him. He was this single guy raising two boys single-handedly and working as a vice principal at the school, but found time to get to the gym. He was really built under the white shirt and tie, which came in handy when he had to move Volkswagon buses off of people and stuff like that. This man knows how to multi-task! At least they spared us how he ended up with the weather expert. Here they were – he’s a single dad with two kids, she’s a single mom with a baby; I thought they were going to end up together, but they didn’t, which violates a cardinal rule. But then there will always be a sequel because they’re always be a tornado somewhere.
**EDGE: My question is, why do people live there?**
Bruce Vilanch I get the same criticism from people about living in LA. Why do you live where you know there’s going to be a fire followed by a mud slide; which is true. We all know that, but it’s nice while it lasts. Like people say, why do you build where there are coyotes and bears? They build these subdivisions in the hills, then wonder why there are coyotes roaming the streets. They’re surprised – ‘oh, gee. Isn’t this LA?’ It was, until they built out there.
I am waiting for the movie about the wild packs of coyotes invading the suburb. It’s perfect for The Asylum, but they’re too busy doing ‘Mega-Octopussy.’ Oh, what is the one that’s they’re doing? ‘Pteracuda’ – it’s a pterodactyl barracuda combo that can fly and swim. And the only thing that can get it is ‘Sharktopus,’ which is a shark and octopus combination, which cannot fly, but can do a great slither.
**EDGE: What is The Asylum?**
Bruce Vilanch The studio that makes all those movies for the Sci-fi Channel. Leading up to ‘Sharknado 2,’ they ran a week of all those movies. The giant piranha one, ‘Mega Piranha.’ They’re cautionary tales about creating creatures in a lab. ‘Mega Shark’ was created to get rid of submarines – it can bite through the hull. And, of course, ‘Mega Shark’ goes wild and attacks Acapulco and chomps his way through the hotels.
**EDGE: Have you been going to the movies this summer?**
Bruce Vilanch Of course. In fact, my new drag name is Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I couldn’t resist her – she was too perfect. They’re carrying on out here that it’s been a terrible summer because not enough people went to the movies. I went to watch Helen Mirren in ‘A Hundred Foot Journey.’ It was a wonderful movie and I had a huge meal afterward. It sent you out looking for a French place or an Indian place or a really cute Indian boyfriend that can make a hollandaise sauce.
*Bruce Vilanch appears Saturday, August 16, 2014, 8pm, at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA. For ticket info, visit the Club Cafe website.*
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**Categories:** Interview
**Tags:** Academy Award, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Lily Tomlin, Oscar, Shelley Winters, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Kritzerland to Celebrate 4th Anniversary with Special Guests Kerry O'Malley and Bruce Vilanch, 9/7](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/08/14/kritzerland-to-celebrate-4th-anniversary-with-special-guests-kerry-omalley-and-bruce-vilanch-97/)
**Published:** August 14, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
Kritzerland to Celebrate 4th Anniversary with Special Guests Kerry O’Malley and Bruce Vilanch, 9/7
August 14 2014**
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Kritzerland at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal presents its fourth anniversary show — THE SONGS THAT GOT AWAY III — on Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 7 p.m.
Evan Buckley Harris (Li’L [Abner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner "Abner"), (Abner) LACC; Memphis (Huey); Grease 40th Anniversary (Kenickie); South Pacific (Lt. Cable).
[Kimberly Hessler](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Kimberly-Hessler/) (La Mirada/McCoy-Rigby, Les Miserables (Cosette); El Portal Spelling Bee (Olive); Most Happy Fella (Rosabella).
[Travis Leland](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Travis-Leland/) (Norman Rockwell’s America, Freedom Machine, Justin Love, The Giver, Fly By Night, Adding Machine: A Musical.)
[Bruce Merkle](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Merkle/) (McCoy-Rigby, Les Miserables; The Tonight Show with [Jay Leno](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jay-Leno/); Rules of Engagement, How I Met Your Mother.)
Hadley Miller (National: [Cathy Rigby](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Cathy-Rigby/) Is Peter Pan; Tiny Tim; A Christmas Carol, South Coast Rep,[www.hadleybellemiller.com](http://www.hadleybellemiller.com/))
[Madison Claire Parks](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Madison-Claire-Parks/) (Oklahoma! (Laurey), Musical [Theatre West](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Theatre-West/); Phantom of the Opera (Christine); Lil Abner (Daisy Mae).
[Jenna Lea Rosen](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jenna-Lea-Rosen/) (Disney’s [Sofia the First](http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/sofia-the-first "Sofia the First") (Shelly, Singing Voice of Clio & Hildegard), Parade 3DT (Monteen, [Ovation Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation_Awards "Ovation Awards").)
[Sami Staitman](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Sami-Staitman/) (Annie, Annie, Pioneer, Utah;Young Cosette,Les Mise?rables;Singing in the Rain, Cabrillo; [L’il Abner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner "Li'l Abner"). TV: House of Lies)
[Adrienne Visnic](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Adrienne-Visnic/) (BFA Acting USC, [The Most Happy Fella](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Happy_Fella "The Most Happy Fella") (Cleo), USC Outstanding Actress, [LA’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") Next Great Stage Star Finalist)
[Robert Yacko](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Robert-Yacko/) (Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; Company with [Carol Burnett](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Carol-Burnett/); Sunday in the Park; Ovation Award, Parade)
Kerry O’Malley (Broadway/Off-Broadway: White Christmas; On A Clear Day; Billy Elliot; Into The Woods; Annie Get Your Gun; Promises, Promises (Encores!); Finian’s Rainbow; How I Learned to Drive; Dublin Carol. TV and film: Upcoming: Terminator: Genesis; Case 39; Earth to Echo; Those Who Kill; Masters of Sex; Shameless; Brotherhood; Boardwalk Empire.)
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Primarily known as writer for a variety of celebrities, including [Bette Midler](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bette-Midler/), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/), [Billy Crystal](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Crystal/), and many more, he went to write for the Academy Awards, and scored acting roles in the film Mahogany, Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, his own one-man show, and starred on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray after playing the role for two years in the show’s first national stage tour.)
[Music Director](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Music-Director/): [John Boswell](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/John-Boswell/)
For our 49th Kritzerland show, we celebrate our four-year anniversary of doing monthly shows. We began in September 2010 at the Gardenia. We moved to [Michael Sterling](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Michael-Sterling/)‘s room at Vitello’s for only three months, before finding our new home here at Kritzerland at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal. As with our past three anniversary shows, this one is a potpourri – no theme other than the songs have been recorded by producer [Bruce Kimmel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Kimmel/) on various albums that we haven’t gotten to yet or songs we weren’t able to include because of time. But it’s also the ten-year anniversary of [Bruce Kimmel](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Kimmel/)‘s hit musical revue, What If, so we’re celebrating that, too, by doing a few of its parody numbers. We’ve assembled an amazing cast, and have two great guest stars – Kerry O’Malley and the wonderful [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/). It will be an evening of wonderful songs, lots of humor and fantastic performances. As with our past anniversary shows, as our gift to our loyal and incredible audiences, this show will have no cover charge. These anniversary shows sell out in about ten minutes so don’t delay because when they’re sold out they’re sold out, although we will be taking a waiting list and usually we have no-shows and the waiting list usually does get in.
This show is likely to be jam-packed. We recommend early reservations. Don’t wait until the last minute!
**The only way to reserve: 818-754-8700.** Your phone reservation will be confirmed (usually a few days before the show). Dinner reservations: DOORS OPEN 5:30pm. SHOW STARTS 7:00pm! Reservations have already started coming in, and are highly recommended. FOR THIS SHOW ONLY: NO [COVER CHARGE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_charge "Cover charge")! $10 food minimum + $4 facility charge. Yes! You can eat dinner and see the show for only about $15!
Sterling’s at The Federal is located at 5303 Lankershim Blvd., [North Hollywood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.17222,-118.37806&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.17222,-118.37806 (North%20Hollywood%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "North Hollywood, Los Angeles") 91601. The Federal Bar is adjacent to the El Portal Theatre. The North Hollywood Stations for the Metrolink Red Line and Orange Line are directly across the street, north of Chandler on Lankershim. Parking is available — entrance for Federal lot
is on Weddington Street (directly behind the building) at $3.50. There is also available street parking.
For information about Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal, visit: .
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Kimmel, Bruce Vilanch, Cathy Rigby, Federal, Hairspray, Michael Sterling, Sterling
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### [Bruce Vilanch appears at Club Cafe this Saturday, August 16th.](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/08/12/bruce-vilanch-appears-at-club-cafe-this-saturday-august-16th/)
**Published:** August 12, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Bosguy
Bruce Vilanch at Club Cafe on Saturday
Posted on August 11, 2014**
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Bruce Vilanch appears at Club Cafe this Saturday, August 16th.
If you are looking for a good night of laughs, I would assume this is as close to a sure thing as one can get.
Vilanch is wickedly funny, and I assume when in a room of mostly gay men his stories will make for an evening you won’t soon forget.
If you haven’t made plans already you may want to consider checking out this show. Get your tickets ahead of time since the show is likely to sell out. Get your tickets online from Club Cafe’s website [here](http://www.clubcafe.com/tickets/ "Club Cafe Tickets").
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**Categories:** Announcement, Articles
**Tags:** Anne Hathaway, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Gay, Hairspray, Hollywood Square, Ricky Gervais, Saturday
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### [Money Can't Buy You Love](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/08/10/money-cant-buy-you-love/)
**Published:** August 10, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Huffington Post](http://twitter.com/huffpost "The Huffington Post")
San Francisco-based arts critic
Money Can’t Buy You Love
Posted: 08/04/2014 12:39 am [EDT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone "Eastern Time Zone") Updated: 08/04/2014 12:59 pm EDT**
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[San Francisco’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") [42nd Street Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_Moon "42nd Street Moon") recently revived [Du Barry Was A Lady](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBarry_Was_a_Lady "DuBarry Was a Lady") with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") starring as Louie Blor (the role created by [Bert Lahr](http://www.last.fm/music/Bert%2BLahr "Bert Lahr") on Broadway). The plot revolves around a simple device: Blor is the ladies washroom attendant at a nightclub who has won the lottery. Although he’s in love with singer May Daly, she’s in love with her friend Alice Barton’s brother, Alex.
When Louie’s replacement, Charley (Jordan Sidfield), suggests that Louie can succeed at wooing May by giving Alex a Mickey Finn, Blor gets distracted and forgets which drink is intended for Alex. After passing out, he dreams that he is really France’s [King Louis XV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France "Louis XV of France") and that May is the beautiful Madame Du Barry. Complications quickly ensue.
As it turns out, Louis XV’s chances of hooking up with [Madame du Barry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry "Madame du Barry") are equally dismal. But the show allows for some delightful costume work, visual sight gags, and a great deal of mugging on Vilanch’s part.
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What becomes most apparent from watching Du Barry Was A Lady onstage is that they no longer write new musicals for actors with the kind of personality and stage appeal that a great comic like Bert Lahr developed while working in vaudeville and burlesque. Nor are there any unique voices around today (like Merman’s) which might inspire a Broadway composer to write a show with one particular singer in mind for the leading role.
It’s difficult to resist the bawdy charms of a script whose minor roles include Fondue, Paingrillé, La Marquise de Gruyere and La Comtesse de Roquefort. While Vilanch delighted the audience whenever he was onstage, 42nd Street Moon’s production of Du Barry Was A Lady benefitted handsomely from Ashley Rae Little’s brassy performance as May Daly as well as Zack Thomas Wilde’s direction and choreography.
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As Alex, Jack Mosbacher scored strongly with Porter’s romantic ballad, “Do I Love You?” In supporting roles, Nicole Renée Chapman doubled as Alice Barton and Alisande de Vernay while Jordan Sidfield (whose toothy smile evokes memories of Robert Morse and Tommy Steele) drew comic relief as the streetwise Charley and the goofy Dauphin who has a fetish for taking apart watches. Others in the cast included company regulars [Ryan Drummond](http://www.RyanDrummond.com/ "Ryan Drummond"), Rudy Guerrero, and Nathaniel Rothrock.
While this may not be Porter’s strongest score, it’s great to have a chance to see a Broadway hit that has fallen into oblivion (the 1943 film starring Red Skelton and Lucille Ball with a young Zero Mostel as “Rami the Swami” is a real clunker).
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**Tags:** 42nd Street Moon, Barry, Bert Lahr, Bruce Vilanch, DuBarry Was a Lady, Madame Du Barry, Ryan Drummond, San Francisco
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### [Bruce Vilanch and Natalie Venetia Belcon Will Have a Ball in Upcoming Reading of Vintage Musical Comedy](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/07/08/bruce-vilanch-and-natalie-venetia-belcon-will-have-a-ball-in-upcoming-reading-of-vintage-musical-comedy/)
**Published:** July 8, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Natalie Venetia Belcon](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8d6a47ea-9abb-4f53-9e0b-54b5749f4108.html "Natalie Venetia Belcon") Will Have a Ball in Upcoming Reading of Vintage Musical Comedy
By Andrew Gans
08 Jul 2014**
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UnsungMusicalsCo. (UMC) will continue its 2014 developmental reading series July 24 at The [New York Public Library for the Performing Arts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts "New York Public Library for the Performing Arts") at Lincoln Center with a presentation of [I Had a Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Had_a_Ball "I Had a Ball") in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
The 2:30 PM reading will star [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray, “Hollywood Squares”) — in the role originated by comedian [Buddy Hackett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Hackett "Buddy Hackett") — and Natalie Venetia Belcon (Matilda, Avenue Q). Ben West directs. Additional casting will be announced at a later time.
I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy, has a book by [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") winner [Jerome Chodorov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Chodorov "Jerome Chodorov") and a score by [Stan Freeman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freeman "Stan Freeman") and Jack Lawrence. The score has been newly arranged by musical director Fran Minarik.
I Had a Ball is described as “a vibrant, colorful confection following the delightfully eccentric denizens of Coney Island and the feisty fortune-teller who singlehandedly sets off a series of raucous romantic entanglements. Sparks fly, love blossoms, and hilarious hijinks ensue in this bright and brassy entertainment!”
The Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is located at 111 [Amsterdam Avenue](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.770386,-73.987645&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.770386,-73.987645 (Tenth%20Avenue%20%28Manhattan%29)&t=h "Tenth Avenue (Manhattan)"), between 64th and 65th Streets. Admission is free, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information visit www.UnsungMusicals.org.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Buddy Hackett, Emmy Award, Jerome Chodorov, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Performing arts, Stan Freeman, Tony Award
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### [Bruce Vilanch to Star in Reading of I Had a Ball](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/07/07/bruce-vilanch-to-star-in-reading-of-i-had-a-ball/)
**Published:** July 7, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Theatermania
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Star in Reading of [I Had a Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Had_a_Ball "I Had a Ball")
UnsungMusicalsCo. will revive the comedic musical from the Golden Age of Broadway.
By Hayley Levitt • Jul 7, 2014**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2014/07/94619.jpg)Photo by David GordonUnsungMusicalsCo. will offer a special presentation of the 1964 Coney Island musical *I Had a Ball* as part of its 2014 developmental reading series at the [New York Public Library for the Performing Arts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts "New York Public Library for the Performing Arts") at Lincoln Center. The show features a book by [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") winner [Jerome Chodorov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Chodorov "Jerome Chodorov") (*Wonderful Town*) and a score by [Stan Freeman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freeman "Stan Freeman") and Jack Lawrence. Directed by [Ben West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_West "Ben West"), the performance will be held at 2:30pm on Thursday, July 24, in the [Bruno Walter Auditorium](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/theaters/bruno-walter-auditorium-at-the-new-york-library-for-the-performing-arts_11416/). Admission is free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Set on the Coney Island boardwalk, *I Had a Ball* centers on a matchmaking fortune teller who sets off a series of raucous romantic entanglements. The reading will star Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch (*Hairspray*) in the role originated by [Buddy Hackett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Hackett "Buddy Hackett"). The cast will also include [Natalie Venetia Belcon](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/8d6a47ea-9abb-4f53-9e0b-54b5749f4108.html "Natalie Venetia Belcon") (*[Matilda The Musical](http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/matilda-the-musical_193803/)*), with additional casting to be announced shortly. Musical director Fran Minarik will lend new arrangements to the score.
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**Tags:** Ben West, Bruce Vilanch, Buddy Hackett, Jerome Chodorov, Natalie Venetia Belcon, New York City, Stan Freeman, Tony Award
---
### [How to Write Jokes for the Academy Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/07/03/how-to-write-jokes-for-the-academy-awards/)
**Published:** July 3, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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6/23/2014 at 10:30 AM 3 Comments
How to Write [Jokes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke "Joke") for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award")
By Mike Sacks**
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Have you ever wondered how the Academy Awards gets written every year? [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is the man to ask. Starting as a writer on the broadcast 25 years ago, Vilanch has been the annual show’s head writer since 2000. What he specifically writes varies from host to host, but ultimately, everything you see on the telecast goes through him. Below, in an interview with Vanity Fair writer Mike Sacks, Vilanch dishes on trying to make celebrities seem funny, the “cock joke” that [Steve Martin](http://www.stevemartin.com/ "Steve Martin") refused to tell, and why exactly James Franco, Ellen [DeGeneres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres "Ellen DeGeneres"), and David Letterman each bombed as hosts of the Oscars. The conversation is an excerpt from Poking a Dead Frog, Sacks’s new book of interviews with notable comedy writers such as Amy Poehler, [Mel Brooks](http://www.last.fm/music/Mel%2BBrooks "Mel Brooks"), and Adam McKay,which he put together as a follow-up to his similar 2009 collection, And Here’s the Kicker. You can buy the book in bookstores starting June 24, or preorder it here.
**What’s the joke-writing preparation for a televised awards show such as the Oscars? How much time and effort are we talking about?**
A tremendous amount. People have no idea. [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal") came up with the idea of creating a huge playbook, almost like a football team would for a big game. The script itself is three hundred pages. It’s a big hefty tome, and it’s kept offstage, generally offstage left. The host will leaf through it during commercial breaks. It’s most based on what might happen during the broadcast. “Suppose this happens. What if that happens?” You know, just in case. So, you end up creating a lot of material: “Oh, if that happens, we’re covered.” You study who’s nominated to win all the awards, the movies these people are associated with, everything that’s necessary to come up with jokes. A ton of research.”
**How many of these jokes, on average, end up being used during the performance?**
Out of the hundreds that we write — really, hundreds — if one or two are used, it’s a big deal. We’ll start the actual writing process about two months before the ceremony—usually in December for a February or March broadcast.
It must be frustrating to come up with some many jokes each year, only to have about 2 percent used.
**Have there been any jokes you wished had been used but weren’t?**
There’ve been a few. We had one joke \[in 2003\] that involved Steve Martin coming out after the monologue, and he was going to say, “I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that my fly was open throughout the monologue. The good news is the camera puts on ten pounds.” But Steve wouldn’t say the joke; he said it was a “cock joke.” He just didn’t feel comfortable doing a cock joke on the Academy Awards. I said, “But it’s not a cock joke! It’s a camera joke.” Everybody loved the joke. Even the network censor thought it was hilarious. We could have gotten away with it because it didn’t cross any kind of line, but the fact that the network censor thought it was hysterical meant we had done something right.
**It might very well have become a classic if he did say it.**
I know, but Steve felt it was just a little too anatomically correct. You can see the visual a bit too easily. I can understand why he would come to that conclusion. The host has to decide, “Do I want to take the audience to that place?”
**The Academy Awards is a strange show to work on as a comedy writer. You’re writing jokes for over one billion people, of all ages, countries, backgrounds. How do you determine what is and what is not appropriate, without sapping out all the humor?**
You have to be careful not to cross that weird line. There are celebrities you just can’t make jokes about, whether because it’s cruel or because they’ll be in the audience, or just because it’s too embarrassing a situation. Keep in mind that whatever a host says is going to live with them for the rest of their career. The choice you have to make is, Do I, as a comedian, want to be remembered for this joke or not? You can’t un-ring that bell.
**Can you tell me about the backstage writing process during an Oscars broadcast? How do the writers work? Together or separately? Writing down jokes? Pitching them out loud?**
It’s frantic. It’s chaos. It makes the fall of Saigon look tame. It’s all happening so, so quickly. My favorite example is from 2003, when Steve was hosting. Now, this goes back to something happening just before the commercial break that you can work off of. Michael Moore had won for [Best Documentary Feature](http://www.oscars.org "Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature") for [Bowling for Columbine](http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Columbine-Region-Michael-Moore/dp/B0000916TJ%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000916TJ "Bowling for Columbine [Region 2]") and he made a speech against the second Iraq War. Some in the audience booed, but we also noticed that some of the stagehands started booing him, too. When we returned from commercial break, Steve came out and said, “It’s so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.” That was a joke that we came up with in the wings.
**Who are you writing for? The live audience in the auditorium? Or the audience at home?**
You’re playing to the auditorium because they’re the ones who are giving the immediate reaction that the home audience will hear. You’re always playing to both of them, really, but I think what you want most is a reaction from the live audience, clearly.
The problem is that the vibe in the room changes as the night progresses. As the night gets longer, there are more and more audience members who have not won an award. Their high hopes have disappeared. For every winner, there are at least four or five who won’t win. It gets chilly. The audience is not really paying attention. At this point, you’re getting down to the big awards; its been a long day. The audience would like to get out of there and start drinking—those who aren’t already potted, that is. So, by the end, the audience is not really paying close attention. Also, there are a hefty amount of seat fillers, because have children, have to relieve the babysitters, they get bored, they just leave. Say, for an example, there are ten supporting actor nominees and those categories are given early. Those ten faces will be gone, generally, by the middle to the end of the show. And they’ll be replaced by secretaries from Paramount who might not be too keen to laugh.
**Were you responsible for some of the jokes that bombed the night Letterman hosted, such as the Uma/Oprah joke?**
No. The Uma/Oprah joke was written by Rob Burnett \[executive producer, [Late Show With David Letterman](http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/ "Late Show With David Letterman")\], who lethally takes credit for it. Just lethal. I told Rob not to do it. I thought it was a bad idea to have David Letterman from New York TV making fun of these huge stars from Hollywood. Hosts are vital to the show’s tone. It’s a very specific role that the host plays. You have to bring your personality, but you have to do it in a clever way so it doesn’t feel like a retread of what you do at your other job. I think that’s what happened with Letterman. The comedy didn’t translate well. It takes a very specific type of performer to do well at the Oscars. Ellen DeGeneres \[in 2007\] had a different approach, and I don’t think it worked. She was very daytime. There wasn’t a sense of occasion. She was scared, I think, and wasn’t willing to go the extra mile. James Franco \[in 2010\] didn’t work out well at all. He was really out of his comfort zone. He’s not a live stage performer. It’s better if the hosts are comedians. They have to have a bit of an attitude. It’s easier for us writers to find words that suit a comedian’s attitude. Actors tend to act. It’s tough for them to play themselves, to have a persona. You’ll never see Johnny Depp performing An Evening With Johnny Depp.
**What’s it like to write for celebrities presenting awards, many of whom are not used to performing comedy before a live audience?**
It’s tough. It’s constantly a negotiation of some sort. Each of these celebrities has a flotilla of assistants who are advising them or what to say and not to say. A lot show up with their own writers, depending on who they are. And it’s hard for me to bitch about that. That kind of goes with the territory. So that doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is when you get people who don’t do this kind of performing for a living and they go into a major panic and every single word has to be edited by everybody. By their hairdressers, their yoga instructor, their publicist, their pet psychiatrist. Everybody’s got an opinion. And all of those people who are supposedly helping are really enemies of comedy, because they don’t want anybody to get into trouble. You can’t be funny by saying, “I’m not going to get anybody into trouble.” You know, that’s the risk you run. Read Freud on jokes and tell me that you’re not ever going to get anybody into trouble.
*From Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers, by Mike Sacks. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) LLC. Copyright © 2014 by Michael Sacks.*
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### [New Musical By Bruce Vilanch, Jeff Bowen, Drew Gasparini, Joshua Salzman, Phoebe Kreutz Plays NYC](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/06/26/new-musical-by-bruce-vilanch-jeff-bowen-drew-gasparini-joshua-salzman-phoebe-kreutz-plays-nyc/)
**Published:** June 26, 2014
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**New Musical By [Jeff Bowen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bowen "Jeff Bowen"), Drew Gasparini, Joshua Salzman, [Phoebe Kreutz](http://www.phoebekreutz.com/ "Phoebe Kreutz"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Plays NYC**
**By *[Andrew Gans](mailto:agans@playbill.com)*26 Jun 2014**
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UnsungMusicalsCo. presents a workshop production of the new musical revue *[The Passing Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passing_Show "The Passing Show")* June 26–29 at MTC Creative Center.
Conceived and directed by Ben West,*The Passing Show* features choreography, tango and music hall dances by [J. Austin Eyer](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/35777/J-Austin-Eyer), [Shannon Lewis](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/97571/Shannon-Lewis), Mark Stuart and Ryan VanDenBoom. Fran Minarik serves as musical director and dance arranger.
The revue was penned by [Obie Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award "Obie Award") winner [Jeff Bowen](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6510/Jeff-Bowen), Sam Carner and Derek Gregor, Drew Gasparini, Rick Hip-Flores, Phoebe Kreutz, Sam Salmond, Drama Desk nominees Joshua Salzman and [Ryan Cunningham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Cunningham "Ryan Cunningham") and Emmy Award winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24838/Bruce-Vilanch). The work also features a newly adapted comedy sketch by [Arnold B. Horwitt](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5604/Arnold-B-Horwitt), an unpublished melody by Tony winner[Albert Hague](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2412/Albert-Hague) and three trunk songs by the Academy Award-winning team of [Jimmy Van Heusen](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20255/Jimmy-Van-Heusen) and [Sammy Cahn](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7315/Sammy-Cahn).
The cast comprises [Holly Ann Butler](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/100642/Holly-Ann-Butler), Nick Gaswirth, [Jessica Lee Goldyn](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/87080/Jessica-Lee-Goldyn), Andrew Hodge, [Stephanie Martignetti](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/122267/Stephanie-Martignetti), Ruth Pferdehirt and [Clifton Samuels](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/118447/Clifton-Samuels).
“Hard-boiled Broadway agents, tap-happy temps, and deliriously lustful in-laws raise a racket in this outrageous fun-fest filled with an exciting nod to the British music hall, a pair of celebrity-crazed theatre producers, and all-new material! Borrowing its name from what is considered the first American revue, *The Passing Show* puts a contemporary spin on the classic form,” according to press notes.
Tickets, priced $15, are available at www.SmartTix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. MTC Creative Center is located at 311 West 43rd Street in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City").
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### [Bruce Vilanch: How To Write For The Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/06/24/bruce-vilanch-how-to-write-for-the-oscars/)
**Published:** June 24, 2014
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**Vulture
How to Write Jokes for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award")
By [Mike Sacks](http://mikesacks.com "Mike Sacks")**
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Have you ever wondered how the Academy Awards gets written every year? [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is the man to ask. Starting as a writer on the broadcast 25 years ago, Vilanch has been the annual show’s head writer since 2000. What he specifically writes varies from host to host, but ultimately, everything you see on the telecast goes through him. Below, in an interview with*Vanity Fair* writer Mike Sacks, Vilanch dishes on trying to make celebrities seem funny, the “cock joke” that [Steve Martin](http://www.stevemartin.com/ "Steve Martin") refused to tell, and why exactly [James Franco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco "James Franco"), Ellen [DeGeneres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres "Ellen DeGeneres"), and [David Letterman](http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/ "David Letterman") each bombed as hosts of the Oscars. The conversation is an excerpt from *Poking a Dead Frog*, Sacks’s new book of interviews with notable comedy writers such as Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, and Adam McKay,which he put together as a follow-up to his similar 2009 collection, *And Here’s the Kicker*. You can buy the book in bookstores starting June 24, or [preorder it here](http://www.penguin.com/book/poking-a-dead-frog-by-mike-sacks/9780143123781).
**What’s the joke-writing preparation for a televised awards show such as the Oscars? How much time and effort are we talking about?**
A tremendous amount. People have no idea. Billy Crystal came up with the idea of creating a huge playbook, almost like a football team would for a big game. The script itself is three hundred pages. It’s a big hefty tome, and it’s kept offstage, generally offstage left. The host will leaf through it during commercial breaks. It’s most based on what *might* happen during the broadcast. “Suppose*this* happens. What if *that* happens?” You know, just in case. So, you end up creating a lot of material: “Oh, if that happens, we’re covered.” You study who’s nominated to win all the awards, the movies these people are associated with, everything that’s necessary to come up with jokes. A ton of research.”
**How many of these jokes, on average, end up being used during the performance?**
Out of the hundreds that we write — really, hundreds — if one or two are used, it’s a big deal. We’ll start the actual writing process about two months before the ceremony—usually in December for a February or March broadcast.
**It must be frustrating to come up with some many jokes each year, only to have about 2 percent used. Have there been any jokes you wished had been used but weren’t?**
There’ve been a few. We had one joke \[in 2003\] that involved Steve Martin coming out after the monologue, and he was going to say, “I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that my fly was open throughout the monologue. The good news is the camera puts on ten pounds.” But Steve wouldn’t say the joke; he said it was a “cock joke.” He just didn’t feel comfortable doing a cock joke on the Academy Awards. I said, “But it’s not a cock joke! It’s a *camera* joke.” Everybody loved the joke. Even the network censor thought it was hilarious. We could have gotten away with it because it didn’t cross any kind of line, but the fact that the network censor thought it was hysterical meant we had done something right.
**It might very well have become a classic if he did say it.**
I know, but Steve felt it was just a little too anatomically correct. You can see the visual a bit too easily. I can understand why he would come to that conclusion. The host has to decide, “Do I want to take the audience to that place?”
**The Academy Awards is a strange show to work on as a comedy writer. You’re writing jokes for over one billion people, of all ages, countries, backgrounds. How do you determine what is and what is not appropriate, without sapping out all the humor?**
You have to be careful not to cross that weird line. There are celebrities you just can’t make jokes about, whether because it’s cruel or because they’ll be in the audience, or just because it’s too embarrassing a situation. Keep in mind that whatever a host says is going to live with them for the rest of their career. The choice you have to make is, *Do I, as a comedian, want to be remembered for this joke or not?* You can’t un-ring that bell.
**Can you tell me about the backstage writing process during an Oscars broadcast? How do the writers work? Together or separately? Writing down jokes? Pitching them out loud?** It’s frantic. It’s chaos. It makes the fall of Saigon look tame. It’s all happening so, so quickly. My favorite example is from 2003, when Steve was hosting. Now, this goes back to something happening just before the commercial break that you can work off of. Michael Moore had won for [Best Documentary Feature](http://www.oscars.org "Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature") for *[Bowling for Columbine](http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Columbine-Region-Michael-Moore/dp/B0000916TJ%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000916TJ "Bowling for Columbine [Region 2]")* and he made a speech against the second Iraq War. Some in the audience booed, but we also noticed that some of the stagehands started booing him, too. When we returned from commercial break, Steve came out and said, “It’s so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.” That was a joke that we came up with in the wings.
**Who are you writing for? The live audience in the auditorium? Or the audience at home?**
You’re playing to the auditorium because they’re the ones who are giving the immediate reaction that the home audience will hear. You’re always playing to both of them, really, but I think what you want most is a reaction from the live audience, clearly.
The problem is that the vibe in the room changes as the night progresses. As the night gets longer, there are more and more audience members who have not won an award. Their high hopes have disappeared. For every winner, there are at least four or five who won’t win. It gets chilly. The audience is not really paying attention. At this point, you’re getting down to the big awards; its been a long day. The audience would like to get out of there and start drinking—those who aren’t already potted, that is. So, by the end, the audience is not really paying close attention. Also, there are a hefty amount of seat fillers, because have children, have to relieve the babysitters, they get bored, they just leave. Say, for an example, there are ten supporting actor nominees and those categories are given early. Those ten faces will be gone, generally, by the middle to the end of the show. And they’ll be replaced by secretaries from Paramount who might not be too keen to laugh.
**Were you responsible for some of the jokes that bombed the night Letterman hosted, such as the Uma/Oprah joke?** No. The Uma/Oprah joke was written by Rob Burnett \[executive producer,*Late Show With David Letterman*\], who lethally takes credit for it. Just lethal. I told Rob not to do it. I thought it was a bad idea to have David Letterman from New York TV making fun of these huge stars from Hollywood. Hosts are vital to the show’s tone. It’s a very specific role that the host plays. You have to bring your personality, but you have to do it in a clever way so it doesn’t feel like a retread of what you do at your other job. I think that’s what happened with Letterman. The comedy didn’t translate well. It takes a very specific type of performer to do well at the Oscars. Ellen DeGeneres \[in 2007\] had a different approach, and I don’t think it worked. She was very daytime. There wasn’t a sense of occasion. She was scared, I think, and wasn’t willing to go the extra mile. James Franco \[in 2010\] didn’t work out well at all. He was really out of his comfort zone. He’s not a live stage performer. It’s better if the hosts are comedians. They have to have a bit of an attitude. It’s easier for us writers to find words that suit a comedian’s attitude. Actors tend to act. It’s tough for them to play themselves, to have a persona. You’ll never see Johnny Depp performing *An Evening With Johnny Depp.*
**What’s it like to write for celebrities presenting awards, many of whom are not used to performing comedy before a live audience?**
It’s tough. It’s constantly a negotiation of some sort. Each of these celebrities has a flotilla of assistants who are advising them or what to say and not to say. A lot show up with their own writers, depending on who they are. And it’s hard for me to bitch about that. That kind of goes with the territory. So that doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is when you get people who don’t do this kind of performing for a living and they go into a major panic and every single word has to be edited by everybody. By their hairdressers, their yoga instructor, their publicist, their pet psychiatrist. Everybody’s got an opinion. And all of those people who are supposedly helping are really enemies of comedy, because they don’t want anybody to get into trouble. You can’t be funny by saying, “I’m not going to get anybody into trouble.” You know, that’s the risk you run. Read Freud on jokes and tell me that you’re not ever going to get anybody into trouble.
*From* [Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers](http://www.penguin.com/book/poking-a-dead-frog-by-mike-sacks/9780143123781),*by Mike Sacks. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) LLC. Copyright © 2014 by Michael Sacks.*
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, James Franco, Mike Sacks, Steve Martin
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Jeff Bowen, Drew Gasparini, Joshua Salzman, Phoebe Kreutz, and More at Work on New Musical](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/06/17/bruce-vilanch-jeff-bowen-drew-gasparini-joshua-salzman-phoebe-kreutz-and-more-at-work-on-new-musical/)
**Published:** June 17, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
Jeff Bowen, Drew Gasparini, Joshua Salzman, [Phoebe Kreutz](http://www.phoebekreutz.com/ "Phoebe Kreutz"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and More at Work on New Musical
By Andrew Gans
17 Jun 2014**
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UnsungMusicalsCo. will present a workshop production of the new musical revue [The Passing Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passing_Show "The Passing Show") June 26–29 at MTC Creative Center.
Conceived and directed by Ben West, The Passing Show features choreography, tango and music hall dances by J. Austin Eyer, Shannon Lewis, Mark Stuart and Ryan VanDenBoom. Fran Minarik serves as musical director and dance arranger.
The revue is being written by a team that includes [Obie Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award "Obie Award") winner Jeff Bowen, Sam Carner and Derek Gregor, Drew Gasparini, Rick Hip-Flores, Phoebe Kreutz, Sam Salmond, Drama Desk nominees Joshua Salzman and [Ryan Cunningham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Cunningham "Ryan Cunningham") and Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch. The work also features a newly adapted comedy sketch by Arnold B. Horwitt, an unpublished melody by Tony winner [Albert Hague](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/43828e29-c6be-446d-a567-fdbd1952463e.html "Albert Hague") and three trunk songs by the [Academy Award-winning](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") team of [Jimmy Van Heusen](http://www.jimmyvanheusen.com "Jimmy Van Heusen") and Sammy Cahn.
The cast will comprise Holly Ann Butler, Nick Gaswirth, [Jessica Lee Goldyn](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e826117e-4bd8-41ea-ba5c-3f5df2d2eb5a.html "Jessica Lee Goldyn"), Andrew Hodge, Stephanie Martignetti, Ruth Pferdehirt and Clifton Samuels.
“Hard-boiled Broadway agents, tap-happy temps, and deliriously lustful in-laws raise a racket in this outrageous fun-fest filled with an exciting nod to the British music hall, a pair of celebrity-crazed theatre producers, and all-new material! Borrowing its name from what is considered the first American revue, The Passing Show puts a contemporary spin on the classic form,” according to press notes.
Tickets, priced $15, are available at www.SmartTix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. MTC Creative Center is located at 311 West 43rd Street in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City").
For more information visit [**www.UnsungMusicals.org**](http://www.UnsungMusicals.org).
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Jimmy Van Heusen, New York City, Obie Award, Passing Show, Phoebe Kreutz, Ryan Cunningham
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### [Bruce Vilanch Master Of Ceremonies At Portland Pride This Weekend](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/06/14/bruce-vilanch-master-of-ceremonies-at-portland-pride-this-weekend/)
**Published:** June 14, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**KGW.com
[Portland Pride](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Pride "Portland Pride") Festival downtown this weekend
by Sara Roth, KGW.com Staff
Posted on June 13, 2014 at 3:10 PM
Updated today at 11:41 AM**
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PORTLAND – Members and allies of [Portland](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.52,-122.681944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=45.52,-122.681944444 (Portland%2C%20Oregon)&t=h "Portland, Oregon") and Southwest Washington’s [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") communities will gather Saturday and Sunday at [Tom McCall Waterfront Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.516,-122.6726&spn=0.01,0.01&q=45.516,-122.6726 (Tom%20McCall%20Waterfront%20Park)&t=h "Tom McCall Waterfront Park") for the Portland Pride Festival.
It was a little less than a month ago that a judge struck down [Oregon’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.0,-120.5&spn=5.0,5.0&q=44.0,-120.5 (Oregon)&t=h "Oregon") [gay marriage ban](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage "Same-sex marriage") and same-sex couples regained the right to marry, making this celebration even more joyous for festival-goers.
Comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is this year’s [Master of Ceremonies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_ceremonies "Master of ceremonies") for the festival, which will feature music acts, the [Trans March](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_March "Trans March"), a block party, and the annual [Pride Parade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade "Pride parade").
The waterfront park festivities were scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The parade kicks off Sunday at 11 a.m., when thousands of people will participate in the march through downtown.
To participate, you must register to walk. There are no same-day signups.
Streets along the parade route will close to traffic during the march.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, LGBT, Master of Ceremonies, Oregon, Oregon Portland, Pride parade, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Trans March
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Headline PrideFest Milwaukee Friday June 6](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/06/06/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-pridefest-milwaukee-friday-june-6/)
**Published:** June 6, 2014
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**PrideFest Milwaukee returns through Sunday**
**Fri. June 6, 2014 12:02 PM | by GoPride.com News Staff**
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[Milwaukee, WI](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0522222222,-87.9558333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.0522222222,-87.9558333333 (Milwaukee)&t=h "Milwaukee") — PrideFest Milwaukee opens Friday, June 7 at 3 p.m. for what has been dubbed the nation’s largest showcase of LGBT talent.
The three-day weekend headliners include [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Chad Michaels on Friday, June 6; [Chicago-area](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.9,-87.65&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.9,-87.65 (Chicago%20metropolitan%20area)&t=h "Chicago metropolitan area") native Steve Grand, Mary Lambert, Big Freedia, and [Macy Gray](http://www.macygray.com/ "Macy Gray") on Saturday, June 7; and Lisa Lampanelli and Sandra Bernhard on Sunday, June 8.
They will be joined by nearly 100 national, regional and local performers on eight stages throughout the [Summerfest grounds](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0280555556,-87.8988888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=43.0280555556,-87.8988888889 (Henry%20Maier%20Festival%20Park)&t=h "Henry Maier Festival Park"). [Chicago](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago")‘s Scarlet Bar takes over the popular dance pavilion on Friday, June 7 at 6 p.m.
“We truly believe PrideFest Milwaukee offers something for every visitor,” said Kate Sherry, festival co-producer. “This year, we’re thrilled to host a dynamic mix of musical, comedy, and drag performances that reflects the diversity of LGBT culture and community. We’re honored to have access to such stunning talent — and our showcase continues to grow every day.”
Single-day admission prices will be $13 in advance, $16 at the gate. Single-day VIP passes, which includes access to the exclusive VIP Deck, will be $100 in advance, or $225 for the three-day weekend. Organizers noted ticket prices remained the same as last year.
Festival goers will have the option of adding $1 to their ticket purchases to support the [American Civil Liberties Union](http://www.aclu.org/ "American Civil Liberties Union") in their critical battle for marriage equality in Wisconsin.
PrideFest Milwaukee is June 6, 7 and 8 on the Henry Maier Festival (Summerfest) Grounds. For more information, tickets or to volunteer, visit pridefest.com.
Related interviews: Macy Gray | Mary Lambert | Sandra Bernhard
**Entertainment Schedule:**
*Day 1: Friday, June 6 (3 p.m. – midnight)*
3 p.m. Fusion Radio – Dance Pavilion
3 p.m. DJ Mr. Fingers – Rainbow Stage
3:30 p.m. Ritchie “Rich” St. James of Rayvn Entertainment Presents 2014 Turn About Show – [Miller Lite](http://www.millerlite.com "Miller Lite") Mainstage
4 p.m. DJ Leo – Dance Pavilion
4 p.m. Spitfire/DJ Boogie Rainbow Stage
4 p.m. Elena Garcia – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
4 p.m. Sweet Music – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
5 p.m. Thank Goodness It’s Pride (TGIF at PrideFest) – [Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_centre "Community centre") Loft
5 p.m. Trannika’s Most Wanted – Dance Pavilion
5 p.m. Pridefest 2014 Opening Ceremonies – Miller Lite Mainstage
5 p.m. DJ Eleazar – Rainbow Stage
5:30 p.m. Miltown Kings – Miller Lite Mainstage
6 p.m. Trannika Rex (host) – Dance Pavilion
6 p.m. DJ Katy ([DJs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey "Disc jockey") of Scarlet) – Dance Pavilion
6 p.m. Astor Stree Dance Studio with Salsabrosa – Milwaukee Gay Arts Center Stage
6 p.m. Cordj Sjerman with Butterfly and The Line Dance Junkies – Rainbow Stage
6 p.m. Alyce Hart – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
6 p.m. The Remedies – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
6 p.m. Youth Area Dance Party – Youth Area Stage
6:30 p.m. Interfaith Religious Ceremony – Health and Wellness Stage
7 p.m. Laugh @ the Loft, featuring Alex Corona and Tanya Atkinson – Community Center Loft
7 p.m. Bruce Vilanch (Emcee) – Miller Lite Mainstage
7 p.m. Rodney Poe/DJ Ultimate – Rainbow Stage
7 p.m. Eliza Hanson – MGAC Stage
7:15 p.m. Chad Michaels – Miller Lite Mainstage
7:30 p.m. DJ Luna (DJs of Scarlet) – Dance Pavilion
7:30 p.m. Jordin Baas – MGAC Stage
8 p.m. Lezy Dezy – Community Center Loft
8 p.m. DJ Blade – Rainbow Stage
8 p.m. Rocket Paloma – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
8 p.m. Amanda Suckow – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
8 p.m. Jordin Bass – MGAC Stage
8:30 p.m. Cream City Cabaret – Miller Lite Mainstage
9 p.m. The Upside – MGAC Stage
9 p.m. Roxie Beane – Community Center Loft
9 p.m. DJ Scotty T (DJs of Scarlet) – Dance Pavilion
9 p.m. Shanna Marie/DJ XXL – Rainbow Stage
9 p.m. Eryn Woods – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
9:45 p.m. BJ Daniels Revue – Miller Lite Mainstage
10 p.m. Elena & Saborinque – Community Center Loft
10 p.m. ReVamped Dance Company – MGAC Stage
10 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
10 p.m. Lashes & Stashes – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
10:30 p.m. Cazwell with Traver Rains – Dance Pavilion
*Day 2: Saturday, June 7 (noon – midnight)*
12 p.m. Fusion Radio – Dance Pavilion
12 p.m. The Acoustic Orchard featuring Malori Reichenberger – Miller Lite Mainstage
12 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
12 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
12 p.m. DJ Kimberly – Rainbow Stage
12:30 p.m. A Show of Circus Skills, Magic Tricks and Laughs! – Children’s Stage
1 p.m. Corky Morgan – Miller Lite Mainstage
1 p.m. Post DOMA Planning: How Changes in Federal Law Affect Your Family – Stonewall
1:15 p.m. AIDS Network: Act Ride – Health and Wellness Stage
2 p.m. How to Grow Your Family Seminar – Children & Family Stage
2 p.m. Lady Gia’s Milwaukee Revue – Dance Pavilion
2 p.m. City of Festivals Mens Chorus – Miller Lite Mainstage
2 p.m. Building Stronger Ally Relationships – Stonewall
2 p.m. Karen Muehlbauer – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
2 p.m. Nadia Geiger – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
2 p.m. DJ Tonya – Rainbow Stage
2:15 p.m. Tamarind Tribal Belly Dance – Health and Wellness Stage
3 p.m. Shane Ashton – Miller Lite Mainstage
3 p.m. Drag Makeover with the Miltown Kings – Stonewall
3:15 p.m. Diverse & Resilient “It’s About Us” – Health and Wellness Stage
4 p.m. DJ duo AJ Dubbz and Carla Starla – Dance Pavilion
4 p.m. The Nearly Deads – Miller Lite Mainstage
4 p.m. Feminine Gender Presentation by Ashley Altadonna and Laura Ann Stuart – Stonewall
4 p.m. Lu Shanti – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
4 p.m. Mandy Capplemen – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
4 p.m. Costume Contest – Youth Area Stage
4 p.m. DJ Tyrone – Rainbow Stage
4 p.m. Moonlight Karaoke – Community Center Loft
4:15 p.m. LGBT Dance Milwaukee – Health and Wellness Stage
5 p.m. DJ Nikno – Dance Pavilion
5 p.m. Astor Stree Dance Studio with Salsabrosa – MGAC Stage
5 p.m. Beverly McClellan – Miller Lite Mainstage
5 p.m. Funkin Wassels – Stonewall
5 p.m. So You Think You Can Dance – Youth Area Stage
5:30 p.m. Shea Coulee (host) – Dance Pavilion
5:30 p.m. Yes Sir Leather/Fetish Gear Show – Dance Pavilion
6 p.m. Max Hardswells’ Drag King Show – Community Center Loft Area
6 p.m. Steve Grand – Miller Lite Mainstage
6 p.m. Lions Mouth – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
6 p.m. Roxie Beane – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
6 p.m. DJ Tonya – Rainbow Stage
6:30 p.m. Julie Brandenburg – MGAC Stage
6:30 p.m. DJ Tim Walters – Dance Pavilion
6:45 p.m. Dear Ruthie (Emcee) – Miller Lite Mainstage
7 p.m. Mary Lambert – Miller Lite Mainstage
7 p.m. Queen of the Castle, Sister Sweet Sister film screenings – Stonewall
7:30 p.m. Corky Morgan – Community Center Loft Area
7:30 p.m. DJ Chomper – Dance Pavilion
7:30 p.m. Elliza Hanson – MGAC Stage
8 p.m. The Upside – MGAC Stage
8 p.m. Jayme Dawicki – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
8 p.m. Katiebeth – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
8 p.m. DJ Tyrone – Rainbow Stage
8:30 p.m. Lex Allen – Community Center Loft area
8:30 p.m. DJ NMF (New Music Freak) – Dance Pavilion
8:30 p.m. The Acoustic Orchard – MGAC Stage
8:30 p.m. Big Freedia – Miller Lite Mainstage
9 p.m. Carey Nokey – Rainbow Stage
9:30 p.m. Fireworks
9:45 p.m. DJ Reid Stefan – Dance Pavilion
10 p.m. Shane Ashton – Community Center Loft area
10 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
10 p.m. Moustache Ride – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
10 p.m. ReVamped Dance Company – MGAC Stage
10 p.m. DJ Kimberly – Rainbow Stage
10 p.m. Macy Gray – Miller Lite Mainstage
*Day 3: Sunday, June 8 (noon-10 p.m. at grounds, noon-midnight at dance pavilion)*
12 p.m. Julie Brandenburg – Miller Lite Mainstage
12 p.m. DJ Style/DJ Davi-D Southside Underground – Rainbow Stage
12 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
12 p.m. Conversations – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
12:15 p.m. American Cancer Society presentation – Health and Wellness Stage
12:30 p.m. Tim Glander Magic and Balloon Show – Children’s Stage
12:45 p.m. The Upside Band – Miller Lite Mainstage
1 p.m. DJ Purple – Rainbow Stage
1 p.m. Groundwork Milwaukee – Stonewall
1:15 p.m. Zumba – Health and Wellness Stage
1:40 p.m. Women’s Voices – Miller Lite Mainstage
2 p.m. DJ Pep Lara – Rainbow Stage
2 p.m. Jenna Lynee – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
2 p.m. Delray – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
2:15 p.m. DJ Covlove – Dance Pavilion
2:15 p.m. American Cancer Society presentation – Health and Wellness Stage
2:30 p.m. Ian & The Dream – Miller Lite Mainstage
2:30 p.m. Alliance School’s Eight Annual Pride Graduation – Stonewall
3 p.m. Dial Tone – Rainbow Stage
3:15 p.m. DJ Michele McKnight – Dance Pavilion
3:15 p.m. Diverse & Resilient: “It’s About Us” – Health and Wellness Stage
3:30 p.m. Ronnie Nyles & Tallulah Who – Miller Lite Mainstage
3:30 p.m. Love Will Win: ACLU of Wisconsin & Marriage Equality – Stonewall
4 p.m. Figureheads – Children’s Stage
4 p.m. House of Brooklyn Entertainment presents “Orgulla Latino” – Rainbow Stage
4 p.m. Elena Garcia – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
4 p.m. Dots – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
4 p.m. Project Q Graduation – Youth Area Stage
4:15 p.m. Ballroom Dance – Health and Wellness Stage
4:30 p.m. Dangerous Muse – Miller Lite Mainstage
4:30 p.m. Stonewall Crafts – Stonewall
5 p.m. Trannika Rex (host) – Dance Pavilion
5 p.m. Astor Stree Dance Studio with Salsabrosa – MGAC Stage
5 p.m. DJ Pullout – Rainbow Stage
5:15 p.m. Bjorn (emcee) – Miller Lite Mainstage
5:30 p.m. Underwear Show with DJ HME – Dance Pavilion
5:30 p.m. Debby Holiday – Miller Lite Mainstage
5:30 p.m. DJ Short Style – Rainbow Stage
5:30 p.m. Keeping the Spark Alive – Stonewall
6 p.m. Dixie Kuppe’s Kamp and Kurlers Revue – Community Center Loft
6 p.m. Julie Brandenburg – MGAC Stage
6 p.m. DJ Bad Omen – Rainbow Stage
6 p.m. ESH – Wom!nz Spot Cafe
6 p.m. Lezy Dezy – Wom!nz Spot Lounge
6:30 p.m. DJ Teri Bristol and Psycho-Bitch – Dance Pavilion
6:30 p.m. Jordin Baas – MGAC Stage
7 p.m. Kaitlyn O’Keefe – Community Center Loft
7 p.m. Sandra Bernhard – Miller Lite Mainstage
7 p.m. Sandra Valls – Rainbow Stage
7:30 p.m. The Upside – MGAC Stage
8 p.m. Movie: Tying the Knot – Community Center Loft
8 p.m. DJ Grind – Dance Pavilion
8 p.m. The Acoustic Orchard – MGAC Stage
8 p.m. DJ Absolut – Rainbow Stage
8:30 p.m. Lisa Lampanelli – Miller Lite Mainstage
9 p.m. Dora Diamond’s Gay Cabaret – MGAC Stage
9 p.m. DJ Eleazar/DJ Green Eyez – Rainbow Stage
10 p.m. DJ Hector Fonseca – Dance Pavilion
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**Categories:** Pride
**Tags:** American Civil Liberties Union, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, Disc jockey, Friday, June, Macy Gray, Saturday
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear At Stoli Original Key West Cocktail Classic](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/05/28/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-at-stoli-original-key-west-cocktail-classic/)
**Published:** May 28, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**Gay South Florida
Stoli Original Key West Cocktail Classic finale May 29-31; stars include [Andrew Christian](http://www.andrewchristian.com "Andrew Christian"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
May 27, 2014**
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News release from Stephen Murray-Smith of Florida Keys & Key West and Key West Business Guild:
The Stoli Original Key West Cocktail Classic is a national [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") bartending competition in partnership with the Key West Business Guild inviting trade staff from our community’s most exciting LGBT entertainment venues to showcase their skill and authenticity in creating Stoli Original cocktails in key markets across the country.
The winner of each local event will receive a Stoli Bartender Kit or gift basket, their picture and winning recipe at KeyWestCocktailClassic.com, media exposure, and an all-expense paid trip to Key West (accommodation and airfare compliments of the Key West Business Guild) for the Finale including a welcome party at [Island House](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.4806,-1.8907&spn=0.002,0.002&q=52.4806,-1.8907 (Island%20House%20%28Birmingham%29)&t=h "Island House (Birmingham)") on May 29th and day of “fun in the sun” on May 30th. The finale event on Saturday, May 31st will be held on world-famous [Duval Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.5538,-81.80132&spn=1.0,1.0&q=24.5538,-81.80132 (Duval%20Street)&t=h "Duval Street") on a specially constructed stage in front of the [Bourbon Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.95885,-90.06545&spn=0.01,0.01&q=29.95885,-90.06545 (Bourbon%20Street)&t=h "Bourbon Street") Pub and hosted by National LGBT Ambassador for Stolichnaya Patrik Gallineaux and streamed live across the world. The final ceremony will run from 5 to 8 PM.
The celebrity judging panel will include star of [network TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network "Television network") including “[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Eye "Queer Eye")”, Broadway, and so much more, [Jai Rodriguez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Rodriguez "Jai Rodriguez"), clothing designer Andrew Christian, legendary funnyman Bruce Vilanch, Senior Vice-President for Stoli USA Lori Tieszen, and locally well known Key West personality and star of internationally televised annual New Year’s Eve high heel drop Sushi.
The Regional mixologist winners arriving this week to compete with their signature Stoli Key West Cocktails hail from LGBT bars in San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago, [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City"), Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale, Provincetown, Denver, and Washington DC.
The national winner will receive the title of Stoli Original Key West Cocktail Champion 2014, a bartender “Dream Library” of 50 hand-selected essential trade books, an additional national exposure via the opportunity to design the signature Stoli Original cocktail menu for national LGBT program Stoli Guy 2014, and $5000 for the winner’s pre-selected LGBT or LGBT friendly charity of choice.
Come out Saturday May 31 at 5 PM and support Key West as the island hosts this national fun event.
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**Tags:** Andrew Christian, Bruce Vilanch, Duval Street, Jai Rodriguez, LGBT, New York City
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### [REVIEW: Bruce Vilanch In Du Barry Was a Lady](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/05/12/review-bruce-vilanch-in-du-barry-was-a-lady/)
**Published:** May 12, 2014
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**The Examiner
[42nd Street Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_Moon "42nd Street Moon")’s good-time ‘Du Barry’
By Robert Sokol @Robertsokol
Monday, May 12, 2014**
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COURTESY PATRICK O’CONNOR – [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Ashley Rae Little sing and dance in 42nd Street Moon’s “[Du Barry Was a Lady](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBarry_Was_a_Lady "DuBarry Was a Lady").”
Crafted for comedy king [Bert Lahr](http://www.last.fm/music/Bert%2BLahr "Bert Lahr") and brassy belter [Ethel Merman](http://www.last.fm/music/Ethel%2BMerman "Ethel Merman"), Broadway’s 1939 hit “Du Barry Was a Lady” gets a bright new reading in a revival by 42nd Street Moon.
It’s a silly but saucy trifle about a schlub in love with a showgirl who, of course, loves someone else. The schlub wins the lottery and gets drugged into a parallel dream world that places him and his anachronistic cronies in courtly Versailles.
Award winning-writer, stand-up comic and frequent actor Bruce Vilanch steps in for Lahr (and Red Skelton in the 1943 film) in the dual role of Louie/King Louis.
Vilanch clearly relishes an audience, which makes his performing joyful and engaging without ever mugging. He’s also one of those graceful big men whose stage agility looks easy and comfortable.
He definitely knows his way around an improv, so only careful study of the script will reveal whether or not he’s resisting the urge to polish the 75-year-old work of book writers [Herbert Fields](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fields "Herbert Fields") and Buddy [DeSylva](http://www.last.fm/music/Buddy%2BDeSylva "Buddy DeSylva").
There’s no polishing needed for the [Cole Porter](http://www.last.fm/music/Cole%2BPorter "Cole Porter") score, which includes “Well, Did You Evah!” and “Friendship” (interpolated into “Anything Goes” in 1962 and evah after).
As May/Du Barry, Ashley Rae Little commands the stage in the latter. There and in production numbers like “Give Him the Oo-la-la” and “Katie Went to Haiti,” her full-throated, sassy performance nods to the power of what Merman must have been, while radiating a wonderfully fresh feel. Little is a musical comedy natural and she’s clearly got a firm bead on the wised-up dame who still longs for true love.
Nicole Renée Chapman and Nathaniel Rothrock fight nice as the “juvenile” leads and kick up a cloud of stardust in the substantial dance sequences. Other standouts include Jack Mosbacher’s suave and silver-voiced boy toy for Little, and [Ryan Drummond](http://www.RyanDrummond.com/ "Ryan Drummond"), who can steal a scene just by shrugging his shoulders in rhythm.
Roy Eikleberry, Rudy [Guerrero](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=17.6130555556,-99.95&spn=1.0,1.0&q=17.6130555556,-99.95 (Guerrero)&t=h "Guerrero"), Kathryn Han, Adrienne Herro, Katherine Leyva, Anthony Rollins-Mullens, Abby Sammons and Jordan Sidfield all have fun little cameos and keep the song-and dance sequences nicely energized.
Pulling duty as director and choreographer, Zack Thomas Wilde shows a deft hand for this kind of material and specifically raises the bar for dance deployment in Moon productions, from his elaborate full-company numbers to cleverly tapped scene changes.
Music director Ben Prince provides lively piano support and nicely blends the group vocal efforts. Costumes by Felicia Lilienthal are playful in the court sequences and Jennifer Veres strips out the proscenium to create a grand central playing area. Racy for it’s time but tame today, this “Du Barry” may want to be a lady, but deep down she’s really just a good time gal!
REVIEW
Du Barry Was a Lady
Presented by 42nd Street Moon
**Where:** Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson St., S.F.
**When:** 7 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 6 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays; closes May 18
**Tickets:** $21 to $75
**Contact:** (415) 255-8207, www.42ndstmoon.org
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- [](http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/42nd-street-moons-good-time-du-barry/Content?oid=2793695)[42nd Street Moon’s good-time ‘Du Barry’](http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/42nd-street-moons-good-time-du-barry/Content?oid=2793695)
- [](http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Du-Barry-Was-a-Lady-at-Eureka-Theatre-5444188.php)[‘Du Barry Was a Lady’ at Eureka Theatre](http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Du-Barry-Was-a-Lady-at-Eureka-Theatre-5444188.php)
- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3929)[Bruce Vilanch’s Big Gay Comedy Show Lands in San Francisco](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3929)
- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3943)[Bruce Vilanch: Cause For Jubilation](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3943)
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch In 'Du Barry Was a Lady' ](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/05/07/photo-bruce-vilanch-in-du-barry-was-a-lady/)
**Published:** May 7, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch: Cause For Jubilation](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/05/02/bruce-vilanch-cause-for-jubilation/)
**Published:** May 2, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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RING OUT THE BELLS, THERE’S CAUSE FOR JUBILATION, STARTING HERE!
by Buzzin’ Lee Hartgrave‚ May. 02‚ 2014**
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s sparks will bring laughs to the [Eureka Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.8008333333,-124.164722222&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.8008333333,-124.164722222 (Eureka%20Theater)&t=h "Eureka Theater") with delightful, tuneful and captivating music. And of course, the Talented Show Stopper Vilanch will probably give out gang buster ditties. And we are talking high quality here. Believe in me – it will be unbridled Joy.
You can expect [double entendres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre "Double entendre") and many hearty chuckles and guffaws along with raucous, funny romps. And as he always has been – he will will be bouncy and spirited. Take my word for it.
I hear the show is sleek with fast-paced yeas and bravos. A dazzling show like this is Dream Land. [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") Plays the Eureka Palace (42nd St. [Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon "Moon").) He will make the audience snicker, as you break into belly laughs – and then whammo! Yep – Vilanch struts his stuff.
This is a Must-See! Romantic [Sparks](http://www.allsparks.com/ "Sparks (band)") light up the stage. The show continues laughs along with romance and charm. It all builds to the final Curtain.
We’re told that the Direction is awesome. It’s emotionally Exhilarating with gorgeous girls and guys. Thats what we need – a big, old-fashioned musical.
This is a preview – but I will be at one of the nights. And that will lead to more to talk about.
**GET YOUR TIX. THEY ARE GOING FAST.**
I can’t wait.
**NOTE:** THIS IS AN ADVANCE. The actual [Play](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_%28theatre%29 "Play (theatre)") at the Eureka Theatre will start on 5/2-14.
Get your tickets now.
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**Tags:** Arts, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Moon, Performing arts, San Francisco, Theatre, Twitter
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### [Bruce Vilanch And Others Pay Tribute To Jewish Composers In "One Night Only"](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/04/26/bruce-vilanch-and-others-pay-tribute-to-jewish-composers-in-one-night-only/)
**Published:** April 26, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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[Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") and Hollywood entertainers will pay tribute to Jewish composers and performers at a benefit in [Palm Desert](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.7255555556,-116.369444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.7255555556,-116.369444444 (Palm%20Desert%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Desert, California") tonight.
“One Night Only” is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the [McCallum Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.7297222222,-116.389444444&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.7297222222,-116.389444444 (McCallum%20Theatre)&t=h "McCallum Theatre") and will support Jewish Family Service of the Desert. The show, produced by celebrity photographer Michael Childers, will explore the “influence of Jewish composers and performers from the beginnings of Broadway through the present,” according to the McCallum.
The 20-plus cast includes [Roger Bart](http://www.last.fm/music/Roger%2BBart "Roger Bart"), [Liz Callaway](http://www.lizcallaway.com/ "Liz Callaway"), David Engel, Shana Blake Hill, [Mimi Hines](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Hines "Mimi Hines"), Peter Marshall, [Millicent Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicent_Martin "Millicent Martin"), Sal Mistretta, [Debra Monk](http://www.last.fm/music/Debra%2BMonk "Debra Monk"), Gary Shaw, Billie Stritch, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and [Terri White](http://www.officialTerriWhite.com/ "Terri White").
Jewish Family Service provides a variety of services to senior citizens, children and families in need.
Tickets are $195, $95 and $75. To purchase tickets, call (760) 340-2787 or go to [www.mccallumtheatre.com](http://www.mccallumtheatre.com/).
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Debra Monk, Liz Callaway, McCallum Theatre, Millicent Martin, Mimi Hines, Roger Bart, Terri White
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### [BRUCE VILANCH Stars in Cole Porter's DU BARRY WAS A LADY!](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/04/25/bruce-vilanch-stars-in-cole-porters-du-barry-was-a-lady/)
**Published:** April 25, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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### [BRUCE VILANCH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Stars in [Cole Porter](http://www.last.fm/music/Cole%2BPorter "Cole Porter")‘s DU BARRY WAS A LADY!
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Six-time [Emmy](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner Vilanch will star in the double role of Louis Blore and [Louis XV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France "Louis XV of France"), the part made famous by [Bert Lahr](http://www.last.fm/music/Bert%2BLahr "Bert Lahr") in the original. Tickets are available by clicking [here.](https://tickets.42ndstmoon.org/TheatreManager/1/login&event=134)
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### [Boycott Called for Brunei-Owned Hotel Group—Cleve Jones, Bruce Vilanch On Board](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/04/21/boycott-called-for-brunei-owned-hotel-group-cleve-jones-bruce-vilanch-on-board/)
**Published:** April 21, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**fRONTIERS LA
Boycott Called for [Brunei](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=4.89028333333,114.942216667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=4.89028333333,114.942216667 (Brunei)&t=h "Brunei")-Owned Hotel Group—Cleve Jones, Bruce Vilanch On Board
April 17, 2014**
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**Editor’s Note:** A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the [Beverly Hilton Hotel](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0663888889,-118.413055556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0663888889,-118.413055556 (Beverly%20Hilton%20Hotel)&t=h "Beverly Hilton Hotel") was part of the [Dorchester Collection](http://www.dorchestercollection.com/ "Dorchester Collection"). It is not. A correction has been made in the text below.
UPDATE, April 17, 5:40 p.m.
According to this story, “the [LGBT rights group](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_organization "LGBT rights organization") behind the secret conference for high-dollar LGBT donors \[the OutGiving Conference\] announced Thursday it has cancelled plans to hold the event at the [Beverly Hills Hotel](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.081437,-118.413692&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.081437,-118.413692 (Beverly%20Hills%20Hotel)&t=h "Beverly Hills Hotel") following news that its owner, the Sultan of Brunei, would institute policy in his country to punish gay people with death by stoning.”
Brunei, located on the north coast of Borneo in Southeast Asia, is set to enact a new penal code permitting death by stoning for multiple offenses including adultery, rape, publicly declaring oneself non-Muslim and being involved in same-sex relationships. A predominantly Muslim nation that is adopting Sharia Law under [Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassanal_Bolkiah "Hassanal Bolkiah"), this new code will replace the previous sentence of 10 years in prison for gays.
Brunei has now come under fire from the United Nations. Rupert Colville of the [Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights](http://www.ohchr.org "Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights") has said that utilizing the death penalty for so many offenses “contravenes international law.”
He also said that “under international law, stoning people to death constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is thus clearly prohibited.”
Here in Los Angeles, many are calling for a boycott of two hotels that are connected to Brunei.
The Dorchester Collection is a series of luxury hotels owned by the Brunei Investment Agency, an arm of the Ministry of Finance of Brunei. In Los Angeles, these hotels include the Beverly Hills Hotel and [Hotel Bel-Air](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0864138889,-118.446286111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0864138889,-118.446286111 (Hotel%20Bel-Air)&t=h "Hotel Bel-Air"). The same sultan who wants gays to be stoned to death owns these hotels, and it’s reasonable to assume that profits from the prestigious properties filter back into his country of origin.
Since February of 2013, a group called Dump the Beverly Hills Hotel has been advocating for a boycott based on the country’s 10-year prison sentence for gays, asking the following question: If you won’t eat at Chic-Fil-A, why would you dine, drink or sleep at the Beverly Hills Hotel?
Activist Cleve Jones posted to his Facebook a message alerting his friends and followers to the connection between the Dorchester Collection hotels and the Sultan of Brunei. Among those who chimed in, former Stephen F. Kolzak award-winner Bruce Vilanch posted:
The Dorchester, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Plaza Athénée, [Hotel Meurice](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.8651555556,2.32798333333&spn=0.01,0.01&q=48.8651555556,2.32798333333 (H%C3%B4tel%20Meurice)&t=h "Hôtel Meurice"), [Principe di Savoia](http://www.hotelprincipedisavoia.com/ "Principe di Savoia"), Hotel Bel-Air, Coworth Park, 45 Park Lane, Le Richemond and Hotel Eden. — all owned and opeated by the Dorchester collection, an arm of the government of brunei. lots of nice places to boycott starting now!”
Queer as Folk’s Michelle Clunie wrote, “Protest. Boycott. I am in and ready for anything. And I live about a mile away from the hotel.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch's Big Gay Comedy Show Lands in San Francisco](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/04/10/bruce-vilanchs-big-gay-comedy-show-lands-in-san-francisco/)
**Published:** April 10, 2014
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**Bruce Vilanch’s Big Gay Comedy Show Lands in [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco")
By Corey Andrew | Wednesday, Apr 9, 2014 | Updated 4:03 PM PDT**
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We got Bruce!
Vilanch, that is. One of the most celebrated joke writers in the business has descended on San Francisco to mine local news nuggets, gobs of gossip and salacious stories to share on the Marines Memorial Theater stage at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, for the Big Gay Comedy Show, a benefit for [Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation.](http://www.richmondermet.org/reaf10.1/index.htm)
“It will be a lot of comedy with a couple of cabaret performers thrown in, but they’re funny: Shawn Ryan and [Jason Brock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X_Factor_finalists_%28U.S._season_2%29 "List of The X Factor finalists (U.S. season 2)"). San Francisco is such a uniquely comic town. You get really political comics like [Marga Gomez](http://www.margagomez.com/ "Marga Gomez"), and then you get really artistic people,” Vilanch said.
Big Gay Comedy Show will also feature B.O.O.B.s, Leanne Borghesi, Shann Carr, Cassandra Cass, Ali Mafi, Katya Smirnoff-Skyy and Kitty Tapata.
The red bespectacled, wacky T-shirt adorned Vilanch is currently “casing the joint” to gather up-to-the-minute material for his portion of the show.
“I have a week to get to know all of that, which is more than usual. I will probably tell stories. That’s what I do,” he said.
After more than four decades in the business—writing for every conceivable awards show including a bunch of Oscars—Vilanch has more celeb, behind-the-scenes tales than Kathy Griffin. His “almost famous” life is chronicled in the documentary “Get Bruce,” which is now streaming on Netflix.
But while he’s made a sweet living writing funny lines for other performers to say on stage,
ilanch’s passion is performing. He’s probably best known for his years on “Hollywood Squares” and for performing in drag as Edna Turnblad in the Broadway and touring productions of “Hairspray.”
“I’ve been looking for the kind of stuff to do that Nathan Lane always gets to do because he’s the master of it right now,” Vilanch said. “The singing and dancing fat guys is what I would love to do. More acting. Playing a woman is one thing, but to get them to accept me as a straight man will be even more interesting.”
Vilanch is getting his chance with [42nd Street Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_Moon "42nd Street Moon")’s revival of the Cole Porter musical, “[Du Barry Was a Lady](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBarry_Was_a_Lady "DuBarry Was a Lady"),” in which he plays a swanky nightclub men’s room attendant who wins the lottery, gets slipped a Mickey Finn and thinks he’s [King Louis XV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France "Louis XV of France"). [Burt Lahr](http://www.last.fm/music/Bert%2BLahr "Bert Lahr") originated the role in 1939.
“Since I’ve been compared to the Cowardly Lion in looks alone, I thought it was time I brought one of Burt Lahr’s other roles out of the closet and see what I could do with it,” Vilanch said. “He was so brilliantly funny. I was a huge fan of his.”
The musical runs at the Eureka Theater April 30 to May 18.
“It’s lyrically wonderful. The stuff that I get to sing is all comic patter. The most famous is ‘Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship!” That was written for him and Ethel Merman. People think it was written for [Lucy and Ethel](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.763087,-73.952788&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.763087,-73.952788 (I%20Love%20Lucy)&t=h "I Love Lucy"), because ‘I Love Lucy’ did it a couple of times,” Vilanch said.
With Disney now in control of the future of “Star Wars,” one of Vilanch’s old projects might see the light of day. He was a writer on the much-maligned “[Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special")” that aired one time only in November 1978.
“Oh, my God, I have the script. I save the script to everything. Occasionally, I will go back and look at that thing and say, ‘Oh, my God, we actually did this. We really did this.’ I think there was a prop I took. I think I got a mug from the cantina on the planet Tatooine, where the aliens and Bea Arthur had a big number,” Vilanch said.
Tickets for Big Gay Comedy Show are available by calling (415) 273-1620 or online at[biggaycomedyshow.eventbrite.com](http://biggaycomedyshow.eventbrite.com/). For more information on “Du Barry Was a Lady,” visit[42ndstmoon.org](http://42ndstmoon.org/).
*Corey Andrew has been interviewing comedians and writing about comedy for the last decade and a half. He recently published the book, “Laugh Lines: Conversations with Comedians.” Corey was a writer and performer with Midwest sketch troupe, The NonProphets, before moving to the [Bay Area](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.75,-122.283333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.75,-122.283333333 (San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area)&t=h "San Francisco Bay Area") with his family several years ago. If you have ideas for future columns about comedy, you can send them to coreywrites@yahoo.com or follow him at [twitter.com/coreyshame.](http://twitter.com/coreywrites)*
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear On RuPaul's Drag Race April 7th 2014](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/04/02/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-on-rupauls-drag-race-april-7th-2014/)
**Published:** April 2, 2014
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Pro tip, hunties: It’s not very elegant for a lady to spit… unless she’s spitting beats, that is.
On the next episode of [RuPaul’s Drag Race](http://www.rupaulsdragrace.com "RuPaul's Drag Race"), airing [Monday night](http://www.nfl.com "NFL") at 9 p.m. ET on [Logo](http://www.logotv.com/ "LogoTV"), the queens are tasked with reading while rapping, and they have some serious guest judges to impress. In an exclusive clip below, hip-hop divas Eve and [Trina](http://www.thebaddestchick.com "Trina") see one team of queens — including Adore Delano, whose experience under the [American Idol](http://www.americanidol.com/ "American Idol") spotlight fails her when it really counts — werk their way through the beat-dropping challenge.
But that’s not all! EW can exclusive reveal that Drag Race will be “Rupersized” on April 7, airing back-to-back episodes. [Leah Remini](http://www.leahremini.com/ "Leah Remini") and [My Big Fat Greek Wedding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Big_Fat_Greek_Wedding "My Big Fat Greek Wedding")‘s [Lainie Kazan](http://www.lainiekazan.com "Lainie Kazan") will guest-judge during the first episode of the night (starting at 9 p.m. ET), and the second hour will see panel appearances by [Jaime Pressly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Pressly "Jaime Pressly") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). As they say, double the pleasure, double the tuck!
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**Tags:** American Idol, Bruce Vilanch, Jaime Pressly, Lainie Kazan, Leah Remini, RuPaul, RuPaul's Drag Race, Trina
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Receive Icon Award April 26](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/03/28/bruce-vilanch-to-receive-icon-award-april-26/)
**Published:** March 28, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**[White Party](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Party "White Party") announces firstIcon Award winners
Dave Nyczepir, The Desert Sun 1:54 p.m. PDT March 27, 2014**
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PALM SPRINGS – White Party [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") will recognize people whose achievements “embody the spirit” of the gay dance music festival with the first Icon Awards at this year’s 25th anniversary celebration.
The festival is April 25-28, with the awards bestowed April 26.
Among the 28 recipients are singer Cher in the artist category, songwriter [Sir Elton John](http://eltonjohn.com "Elton John") and husband [David Furnish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Furnish "David Furnish") in the philanthropist category, actor [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") in the activist category, and [BRAVO TV](http://www.bravotv.com "Bravo (U.S. TV channel)") personality Andy Cohen in the pioneer category.
“We are thrilled to present our special Icon Awards to individuals who have exemplified White Party’s defining principles of unity and celebration, commitment to excellence and leading edge creativity,” Jeffrey Sanker, founder and producer, said in a statement. “I look forward to presenting those attending recipients their awards on the White Carpet.”
About a third of the honorees have tentatively committed to attending, according to organizers. Sanker promised elaborate video displays, Bent Collective’s live DJ performance debut, and that [SiriusXM](http://www.siriusxm.com/ "Sirius XM Radio") would broadcast live from the [Palm Springs Convention Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8263888889,-116.537777778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.8263888889,-116.537777778 (Palm%20Springs%20Convention%20Center)&t=h "Palm Springs Convention Center").
Conceptual photographer Duke Shoman will create photographic tableaus throughout the weekend as part of a fundraising auction effort to benefit Desert AIDS project.
Uber, a ride-hailing service through your phone, will serve as the official transportation, with stations set up throughout the festival.
Information: [www.jeffreysanker.com](http://www.jeffreysanker.com)
Icon Award recipients
**• ARTIST**
Carmen Electra — artist, activist
Cher — pioneer for [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community"), activist
Jai Rodriguez — actor, activist
Kathy Griffin — comedian, philanthropist, activist
[Lady Gaga](http://twitter.com/ladygaga "Lady Gaga") —pioneer for LGBT community, philanthropist, activist
Lance Bass — actor, activist
**• PHILANTHROPIST**
Aaron Walton — philanthropist, activist
Bryan Singer — director, activist
David Cooley — founder of Abbey, philanthropist
Fred Arens and Jason Duguay — philanthropists, activists
Roland Emmerich — director, philanthropist
Sir Elton John and David Furnish — philanthropists, activists
**• ACTIVIST**
Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley — NoH8 Campaign, activists
Bruce Vilanch — actor, writer, activist
Lisa Vanderpump — reality star, activist
Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo — Prop 8 activists
Ron Oden — Former Palm Springs mayor, activist
Ronnie Kroell — activist
Todd Saporito — philanthropist, activist
**PIONEER**
Andy Cohen — BRAVO TV personality, activist
Candis Cayne — pioneer of LGBT community, activist
David Stern — former publisher of Frontiers, activist
DJ Abel Aguilera — deejay, activist
Reza Farahan — BRAVO TV personality, pioneer of LGBT community
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Elton John, Hollywood Squares, Lady Gaga, LGBT, Palm Springs Convention Center, White Party
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### [Oy Vey My Son is Gay (Official Trailer)](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/03/27/oy-vey-my-son-is-gay-official-trailer/)
**Published:** March 27, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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Oy Vey My Son is Gay has a great cast, including Warehouse 13?s Saul Rubinek, Lainie Kazan, Vincent Pastore, John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Bruce Vilanch, and Carmen Electra!
Now we can take a look at the trailer for the upcoming gay-themed rom-com.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘A Long Island couple struggles to come to terms with the fact that their son is gay after he comes out of the closet at his cousin’s wedding. When every attempt to understand their son’s lifestyle ends in failure, Nelson’s (Lloyd-Young) parents decide to have dinner with the boyfriend’s parents, and discover the power of compassion. Trying their best to keep Nelson’s sexuality a well-guarded secret, Shirley (Kazan) and Martin (Rubinek) realize that all bets are off when their son and his partner attempt to adopt a child, blowing the lid off the closet door!’
It’ll be out in the US from Breaking Glass Pictures later this year
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### [Bruce Vilanch and More Set for THE BIG GAY COMEDY SHOW to Benefit REAF, 4/13](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/03/12/bruce-vilanch-and-more-set-for-the-big-gay-comedy-show-to-benefit-reaf-413/)
**Published:** March 12, 2014
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**Broadway World
Bruce Vilanch and More Set for THE BIG GAY COMEDY SHOW to Benefit REAF, 4/13
March 11, 2014**
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Philanthropy and stellar entertainment take center stage as the Richmond/Ermet [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS "HIV/AIDS") Foundation presents a special one-night-only benefit cabaret to raise funds to support local AIDS services. Don’t miss this evening of outrageous stand-up and [musical comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre").
The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) presents a special One Night Only benefit show THE BIG GAY COMEDY SHOW- featuring [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) (Comedian & B’way. star),[Marga Gomez](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Marga-Gomez/), Shann Carr, Ali Mafi, Kitty Tapata, [Shawn Ryan](http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Shawn-Ryan/), Katya [Smirnoff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smirnoff "Smirnoff")-Sky, B.O.OB.S! Sunday, April 13, 2014 – 7:30 pm.
At the Marines’ Memorial Theater – 609 Sutter St. (at Mason St.) [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") 94102. Tickets for this “One Night Only Cabaret” are: $75/VIP Orchestra – Performance & dessert party with cast. $50 Side Orchestra & Dress Circle $35/balcony. (VIP orchestra tix include wine & dessert party with the cast in theater lobby after show.) Tickets are available by phone by calling 415-273-1620 or online at[www.biggaycomedyshow.eventbrite.com](http://www.biggaycomedyshow.eventbrite.com/).
The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation has worked with over 35 touring casts to date to produce “One Night Only Cabaret” events. To date, REAF has distributed well over $3 million to AIDS service agencies.
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- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3910)[Q&A with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3910)
- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3912)[Bruce Vilanch, Lisa Lampanelli, Sandra Bernhard Among Headliners of PrideFest Milwaukee,](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3912)
- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3874)[“An Evening with Bruce Vilanch” Saturday, Aug. 31, Los Gatos](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3874)
- [](http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/01/idina-menzel-of-glee-comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-to-perform-on-gay-atlantis-cruise-from-fort-lauderdale.html)[Idina Menzel of ‘Glee,’ comedy writer Bruce Vilanch to perform on gay Atlantis cruise from Fort Lauderdale](http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/01/idina-menzel-of-glee-comedy-writer-bruce-vilanch-to-perform-on-gay-atlantis-cruise-from-fort-lauderdale.html)
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**Tags:** AIDS, AIDS Foundation, Bruce Vilanch, Marga Gomez, Mason St, Musical theatre, San Francisco, Shawn Ryan
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Lisa Lampanelli, Sandra Bernhard Among Headliners of PrideFest Milwaukee,](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/03/10/bruce-vilanch-lisa-lampanelli-sandra-bernhard-among-headliners-of-pridefest-milwaukee/)
**Published:** March 10, 2014
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#### **Nation’s largest showcase of [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") talent runs June 6, 7, 8** Mon. March 10, 2014 8:28 AM | by [GoPride.com News Staff](http://chicago.gopride.com/news/author.cfm?ID=92)
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[Milwaukee, WI](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0522222222,-87.9558333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.0522222222,-87.9558333333 (Milwaukee)&t=h "Milwaukee") — [PrideFest Milwaukee](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/55577601) announced its 2014 headliners for what it has dubbed the nation’s largest showcase of LGBT talent. Entertainment for the three-day weekend includes [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Chad Michaels on Friday, June 6; Chicago-area native [Steve Grand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Grand "Steve Grand"), Mary Lambert, [Big Freedia](http://bigfreedia.com/ "Big Freedia"), and [Macy Gray](http://twitter.com/macygrayslife "Macy Gray") on Saturday, June 7; and the headliners for Sunday, June 8 are [Lisa Lampanelli](http://www.insultcomic.com "Lisa Lampanelli") and Sandra Bernhard.
Nearly 100 national, regional and local performers will join these headliners on eight stages throughout the [Summerfest grounds](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0280555556,-87.8988888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=43.0280555556,-87.8988888889 (Henry%20Maier%20Festival%20Park)&t=h "Henry Maier Festival Park").
“We truly believe [PrideFest Milwaukee](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/55577601) offers something for every visitor,” said Kate Sherry, festival co-producer. “This year, we’re thrilled to host a dynamic mix of musical, comedy, and drag performances that reflects the diversity of [LGBT culture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_culture "LGBT culture") and community. We’re honored to have access to such stunning talent — and our showcase continues to grow every day.”
Tickets for [PrideFest Milwaukee](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/55577601) go on sale Friday, March 14. The festival will again offer the popular three-day, $30 weekend pass through June 6, 2014. Single-day admission prices will be $13 in advance, $16 at the gate. Single-day VIP passes, which includes access to the exclusive VIP Deck, will be $100 in advance, or $225 for the three-day weekend. Organizers noted ticket prices remained the same as last year.
Festival goers will have the option of adding $1 to their ticket purchases to support the [American Civil Liberties Union](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/6245361) in their critical battle for marriage equality in Wisconsin.
[PrideFest Milwaukee](http://chicago.gopride.com/directory/business.cfm/id/55577601) is June 6, 7 and 8 on the Henry Maier Festival (Summerfest) Grounds. For more information, tickets or to volunteer, visit [pridefest.com](http://gopride.com/Z9xg).
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### [Q&A with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2014/03/06/qa-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** March 6, 2014
**Author:** MisterD
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**News Observer
Q&A with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
BY GLENN MCDONALD
CorrespondentFebruary 6, 2014**
Comedy writer Bruce Vilanch has carved out a very specific niche in Hollywood. A six-time Emmy winner, he’s the go-to joke writer for awards shows like the [Tony awards](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award"), the [Grammy awards](http://grammy.com "Grammy Award") and most famously, the Oscars.
Vilanch isn’t participating in this year’s [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") – host [Ellen DeGeneres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres "Ellen DeGeneres") is bringing her own team of writers, Vilanch says. But their loss is our gain. As part of the [North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival](http://www.nccomedyarts.com/ "North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival"), Vilanch will present an evening of dishy stories on Wednesday at the ArtsCenter in [Carrboro](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.9205555556,-79.0838888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=35.9205555556,-79.0838888889 (Carrboro%2C%20North%20Carolina)&t=h "Carrboro, North Carolina"). He recently spoke to the N&O about guilty pleasures, [George Lucas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas "George Lucas") and the art of extemporaneous joke writing.
Q: Your headline show at the festival is essentially a storytelling show, right?
A: That’s kind of what I do, and since my life and times has mostly been in show business, they tend to be backstage stories and the guilty-pleasure television shows that I’ve written. I’m always amazed that people tend to remember those shows, with loathing or delight.
Q: You were a writer on the infamous 1978 “[Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special"),” right?
A: I certainly was. I’m proud and guilty to admit that. George Lucas had a storyline that he sold to CBS as this television special. That was what I had to write. Unfortunately, the lead characters were the Wookiees, who speak no known language. That was our ground zero dilemma, and it just built from there.
I don’t know, it was the 1970s – we were all chemically altered. It was just another of these insane [TV specials](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_special "Television special").
Q: The Oscars are coming up, and you’ve been writing jokes for that show for 20 years. When do you actually start writing for each year’s event?
A: There isn’t much actual writing until the nominations are announced – who’s going to be at the show and who will exercise the ritual taking-of-umbrage because they got snubbed. So the writing starts on the day of the nominations, up to and through the show.
Q: And you’re writing jokes during the broadcast, right? Is there like an emergency joke station backstage?
A: There is! If you look closely, you’ll see that the host almost always comes to the podium from stage left. There’s a small room built on that corner of the stage, with a team of writers and a television monitor and food. We basically work with the host from a playbook of prepared material: Here’s when you’re on, here’s what precedes that, here are the joke opportunities.
One of the years that Steve Martin hosted, Michael Moore made a political joke and the stage hands were booing so loud that the audience could hear it. After the commercial, Steve came out and said: “It’s so nice, the stage hands are backstage helping Mr. Moore into the trunk of his car.” That was a joke we came up with during commercial. We were just shouting out ideas.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play Widow Twankey' in Pasadena Playhouse's ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/11/02/bruce-vilanch-to-play-widow-twankey-in-pasadena-playhouses-aladdin-and-his-winter-wish/)
**Published:** November 2, 2013
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[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2013/11/4-27-2013-3-29-19-AM.png)Bruce Vilanch has been announced to play Widow Twankey in The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions (LFP), ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH, starring previously announced Ben Vereen (Broadway’s Pippin and Jesus Christ Superstar) as “The Genie,” JorDan Fisher as “Aladdin” (Disney’s Teen Beach Movie), Ashley Argota as “The Princess” (Nickelodeon’s True Jackson VP) and Richard Karn (“Home Improvement”) as “The Sultan.”
Returning from last year’s hugely successful inaugural “Panto at The Playhouse” production of A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, will be director Bonnie Lythgoe (“So You Think You Can Dance”), choreographer Spencer Liff (Emmy nominee “So You Think You Can Dance”) and musical director Michael Orland (“American Idol”). Performances will begin December 11 through December 29, with a gala press opening night on Wednesday, December 11, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. at The Pasadena Playhouse. Single tickets are also now on sale.
Commenting on the announcement, lead producers at Lythgoe Family Productions, Kris and Becky Lythgoe said, “We are so thrilled to have Bruce Vilanch join the cast of ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH. Widow Twankey (Aladdin’s Mother in British Panto) is a role that demands expert comedic timing and improv skill, a role played by the top comedians and actors in the UK — including Sir Ian McKellen. Bruce Vilanch with his musical theatre prowess and comedic finesse was born to play the role of Widow Twankey. With Mr. Vilanch our audiences are assured a night of holiday entertainment and laughter they will not soon forget!”
Bruce Vilanch is no stranger to dressing up like a woman, on stage at least. For two years he starred as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, playing the Pantages in Hollywood and then a year on Broadway. As a man, and a man with a beard, yet, he could be found to the left of Whoopi Goldberg, if that’s possible, on “Hollywood Squares” for half a dozen years. He’s won a bunch of Emmys, and lost a bunch more, for his television writing, which includes 23 Oscar broadcasts. He is also a songwriter, a comedian with a one-man show that tours all over the place and a print model for magazines that have extra-large pages. Make that double XL. You can find him on Netflix as the star of a documentary the Weinsteins made about him, entitled Get Bruce. And he went on “Celebrity Fit Club” and lost 21 lbs, but he found them. happy new year! www.wegotbruce.com.
Lythgoe Family Productions produces fun, musical theatre the whole family can enjoy. Known for their creativity and involvement in television hits “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” the Lythgoes are dedicated to bringing affordable theatre to families across America. Based on the Grimm fairytales, each story has been modernized with topical scripts for parents and well known pop songs for kids. The Lythgoes pride themselves on creating a memorable experience a family can share together.
An updated version of the classic Arabian Nights tale, in the style of a traditional British family Panto, ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH is a singing, swinging and soaring adventure that features family-friendly magic, with a comedic twist, dancing (with “So You Think You Can Dance” alumni), a live pony and contemporary music from “Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire) to “Treasure” (Bruno Mars) and many more. A Panto is known for its interactive style and humor that appeals to everyone from ages 2 – 102! Before every performance, guests and their families are invited to enjoy a Citi Presents: Winter Wonderland event in The Playhouse’s Engemann Family Courtyard, complete with holiday carolers, crafts, activities, games, and photo opportunities, as well as special on-site benefits for Citi cardmembers.”
In addition to director Bonnie Lythgoe, the creative team for ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH includes choreography by Spencer Liff (Emmy nominee for “So You Think You Can Dance”), musical direction by Michael Orland (“American Idol”), book by Kris Lythgoe, scenic and costume design by Lythgoe Family Productions and LFP producers include Kris Lythgoe, Bonnie Lythgoe, Becky Lythgoe and Jason Haigh Ellery.
ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH will be performed December 11 – 29, 2013 with a gala press opening on Wednesday, December 11, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. Single tickets are now on sale. Citi cardmembers can purchase Citi Cardmember tickets with special Preferred Pricing, as well as VIP benefits and access for select shows at www.citiprivatepass.com.
The Pasadena Playhouse is located at 39 South El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101. The performance schedule is Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. (Dec. 24 only); Thursday at 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.; Friday at 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.; and Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Tickets for ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH range from $34.00 – $75.00, plus Premium. Child single tickets are available for Rear Orchestra and Rear Mezzanine ranging from $25.00 – $48.00. Golden Tickets are available for an additional $100.00 each and are limited to 10 Golden Tickets per performance. A Golden Ticket allows the ticketholder (children only) a special on-stage experience during the production. Ticket price includes pre-show Winter Wonderland courtyard festivities with carolers, crafts, games, visits with Santa and other surprises. Service and theatre restoration fees apply to all purchases.
Tickets are available by calling The Pasadena Playhouse at 626-356-7529 or by visiting The Pasadena Playhouse Box Office, Tuesday – Sunday from 12:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. during non-performance dates. On performance dates the Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday from 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are available 24 hours online at www.PasadenaPlayhouse.org. Group Sales (8 or more) are available by calling 626-921-1161. For additional information visit www.PasadenaPlayhouse.org.
Two student matinee performances, allowing local school children to see ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH, have been scheduled for December 12 and 13. Ovation, America’s only arts network and the home of arts-centric series including “James Franco Presents” (James Franco), “The Fashion Fund” (Anna Wintour), and “A Young Doctor’s Notebook” (Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe) will once again sponsor transportation for the student matinees, allowing over 1,500 children the opportunity to experience the arts for the very first time.
Photo Credit: Rick Stockwell
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### [Video: 13th Annual Les Girls Cabaret to benefit the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/10/09/video-13th-annual-les-girls-cabaret-to-benefit-the-national-breast-cancer-coalition-fund/)
**Published:** October 9, 2013
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### [Bruce Vilanch Headlines "Hollywood Dine and Dish: The Tinseltown Stories You Haven't Heard," on Nov. 15.](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/10/07/bruce-vilanch-headlines-hollywood-dine-and-dish-the-tinseltown-stories-you-havent-heard-on-nov-15/)
**Published:** October 7, 2013
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[Jackie Collins](http://www.jackiecollins.com "Jackie Collins"), Michael Childers, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Headline AIDS Benefit
Trio bring star power, will dish [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") secrets at Nov. 15 event
Oct 7, 2013**
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[New York Times bestselling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list "The New York Times Best Seller list") author Jackie Collins, award winning photographer of the stars Michael Childers, and comedy writer Bruce Vilanch (pictured left) are joining forces to co-host “Hollywood Dine and Dish: The Tinseltown Stories You Haven’t Heard,” on Nov. 15.
This evening benefits the AIDS Assistance Program ([AAP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Associated_Press "Australian Associated Press")) in Palm Springs, and will include hors d’oeuvres, drinks and dinner courtesy of Brad and Lynne Toles of Savoury’s Catering. The event will take place in Rancho Mirage at the Waterford estate of Bob Deville and Bob Bennion, co-owners of Windermere Real Estate Southern California.
Proceeds from each ticket purchased will go directly to AAP, according to Executive Director Mark Anton.
Tickets are available for $1,000 per person or $1,500 per couple. The cost is tax deductible. Remaining seats may also be purchased during the live auction at the “Evening Under the Stars” gala featuring Cyndi Lauper on May 11. To attend the event, call Anton at (760) 325-8481.
Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the late director Louis Malle and dubbed “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by [Vanity Fair magazine](http://www.vanityfair.com "Vanity Fair (magazine)"). With more than 500 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, Collins is one of the world’s top-selling novelists.
Childers is one of the entertainment industry’s most renowned and highly respected portrait, fashion and art photographers who began his career in the 1960s and continues to influence the world of art photography today. He has been instrumental in capturing the beauty and magnetism of such explosive young stars as Mel Gibson, Demi Moore, Richard Gere, John Travolta, Sissy Spacek and [Michelle Pfeiffer](http://www.last.fm/music/Michelle%2BPfeiffer "Michelle Pfeiffer"), Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood, and Elton John.
Vilanch is a two-faced fella: Bearded, he is one of the most sought-after comedy writers in Hollywood, winner of a bunch of Emmys, and noted as the “Hollywood Square” just to the left of [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"). Shaved, he spent two years as Edna Turnblad, Baltimore housewife and superstar, on tour and on Broadway, in the smash musical adaptation of the John Waters film, Hairspray.
In addition to Hairspray, he has appeared in Ice Pirates, Mahogany, and The Morning After. A frequent guest on talk shows, Vilanch won his Emmys for co-writing back-to-back Oscar shows with Billy Crystal. He was also nominated for an Emmy as a lyricist on [Eartha Kitt](http://www.earthakitt.com/ "Eartha Kitt")’s gold-selling album, “Where Is My Man”.
For more information about AAP, visit [www.aidsassistance.org](http://www.aidsassistance.org).
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Eartha Kitt, Emmy, Hollywood, Jackie Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer, Vanity Fair, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Ray Romano Hosts IMF 7th Annual Comedy Celebration on 11/9 in Los Angeles](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/09/28/ray-romano-hosts-imf-7th-annual-comedy-celebration-on-119-in-los-angeles/)
**Published:** September 28, 2013
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**Broadway World
Ray Romano Hosts IMF 7th Annual Comedy Celebration Featuring David Crosby on 11/9 in Los Angeles
September 27**
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For the seventh year, actor Ray Romano will host a memorable night of comedy. This year’s performers are [Deon Cole](http://www.deoncole.com/ "Deon Cole"), Jeff Garlin, Jackie Hoffman, [Dom Irrera](http://www.domirrera.com "Dom Irrera"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), with aspecial musical performance by the legendary David Crosby. This year’s Honorary Chairs are Julie Chen and [Leslie Moonves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Moonves "Leslie Moonves"), along with Chair Loraine Boyle and Vice Chair Amy Weiss. Additional guests to be announced.
The [International Myeloma Foundation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Myeloma_Foundation "International Myeloma Foundation") (IMF) will hold its 7th Annual Comedy Celebration at The [Wilshire Ebell Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0616666667,-118.324166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0616666667,-118.324166667 (Ebell%20of%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Ebell of Los Angeles") & Club benefiting the [Peter Boyle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Boyle "Peter Boyle") Research Fund and supporting the Black Swan Research Initiative ([BSRI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_role "Gender role")). Renowned actor Peter Boyle died in late 2006 after a four year battle with myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow and one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world. Through laughter, the event honors Boyle and raises money for research to find a cure. More than $3 million has been raised thus far for the Peter Boyle Research Fund because of this annual event.
The Peter Boyle Research Fund has supported the International Myeloma Foundation’s research since the Fund’s inception in 2007. This year, the Fund is turning its focus to the groundbreaking Black Swan Research Initiative. Understanding that the search for a cure for multiple myeloma demands constant innovation, the IMF has launched the Black Swan Research Initiative, a unique project to develop the first definitive cure for myeloma. Led by a multinational consortium of leading myeloma experts, BSRI seeks to bridge the gap from long-term remission to a cure.
The International Myeloma Foundation 7th Annual Comedy Celebration will be presented by Celgene, Millennium: the Takeda Oncology Company and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
WHEN: Saturday, November 9, 2013
6:00pm Cocktail Reception & Silent Auction
8:00pm Comedy Show
10:00pm VIP Cast Party & Dessert Reception
WHERE: The Wilshire Ebell Theatre & Club
743 South Lucerne Blvd. [Los Angeles, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") 90005
TICKETS: VIP Admission: $700 per person
Includes: VIP seating at the show as well as entrance to the pre-show cocktail party, silent auction, and post-show VIP reception.
[General Admission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seating_assignment "Seating assignment"): $400 per person
Includes: Preferred seating at the show as well as entrance to the pre-show cocktail party and silent auction.
Show Only: $100 per person
Includes: Admission to the show only. Seating is assigned based on date of ticket purchase.
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**Tags:** Black Swan Research Initiative, Bruce Vilanch, Deon Cole, Dom Irrera, International Myeloma Foundation, Leslie Moonves, Los Angeles, Peter Boyle
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### [Larry King, Diana Ross, Bruce Vilanch Among Star-Studded George Schlatter Tribute](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/09/27/larry-king-diana-ross-bruce-vilanch-among-star-studded-george-schlatter-tribute/)
**Published:** September 27, 2013
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[Larry King](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King "Larry King"), Kirk Douglas Among Star-Studded [George Schlatter](http://www.georgeschlatter.com "George Schlatter") Tribute
January 26, 2013**
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Hollywood and academia had a mutually beneficial pairing on Sept. 25 when [Pepperdine University](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0386833333,-118.707580556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0386833333,-118.707580556 (Pepperdine%20University)&t=h "Pepperdine University") honored alumni George Schlatter at the [Saban Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0647222222,-118.375&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0647222222,-118.375 (Saban%20Theatre)&t=h "Saban Theatre"). While an evening centered around the Malibu school that’s affiliated with the Churches of Christ might have had more gravity, Schlatter had a half-century’s worth of remarkably good [TV comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_comedy "Television comedy") clips to entertain the audience.
Larry King acted as emcee, and the evening began with remarks by Pepperdine’s [Craig Detweiler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Detweiler "Craig Detweiler") and Schlatter’s daughter Maria, who said her father once quoted Fred Astaire on the right way to put on a show: “Get it perfect; then cut two minutes.” Of course, this didn’t happen. The show that Schlatter produced himself ran at least an hour longer than planned, but it held the audience that included Diana Ross, George Hamilton, Barbara Davis, [Barbara Sinatra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Sinatra "Barbara Sinatra"), Stefanie Powers and Joan Collins with sister Jackie until the end.
What the evening relied heavily upon were clips from the 1960s “Laugh In.” And it was a wise decision. There’s still a freshness to the comedy, plus it offered cameos from the likes of Richard Nixon, [Rev. Billy Graham](http://www.billygraham.org/ "Billy Graham"), Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Barry Goldwater.
Speakers paying tribute included Kirk Douglas, Arte Johnson (who made an unfortunate decision to talk about his own career rather than the honoree’s), Sarah Purcell and Fred Willard of the Schlatter-produced Real People, Jerry Weintraub and Bruce Vilanch, who said he and Schlatter had “both auditioned for the same role on Duck Dynasty.”
When Shirley MacLaine spoke after clips ran from early Schlatter-produced shows, the first thing she said was: “I wish it could be like that now.” Lily Tomlin, who started her career on Laugh In, said it was “the only audition that ever got me a job — and it was George who did it.”
After a strong song from [Jo Anne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley"), King made a comment about Schlatter that might go down in a book on classic Larry King-isms: “There’s a little Hitler in him, but he’s a wonderful person.”
Musical director [Glen Roven](http://www.glenroven.com/ "Glen Roven"), who has worked with Schlatter for 25 years and stood in for David Foster, who was under the weather, said that after a music rehearsal went on too long, a frustrated Schlatter rushed on stage to remind him that, “The music is the shit between the jokes.” Late in the show, Tim Conway got arguably the biggest laugh of the night when he began his remarks by saying: “I’ve never had to go to the bathroom as bad as I have right now. I wish I’d worn darker pants.”
Suzanne de Passe and Berry Gordy spoke about Shlatter’s offer to come to Los Angeles and make the 1968 NBC special TCB with Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations, which sparked the exit of Motown from Detroit. (After the show was over, Ross was asked how she felt seeing the old clips. “I was really skinny,” she said. “I loved that.”)
After Sidney Poitier received a standing ovation for being in the audience and Goldie Hawn spoke via video about getting her start on Laugh In, Schlatter came to the stage. He was brief in his remarks, calling the evening a “mosh pit of clips and memories” and how he hoped an evening like this would become an annual fundraiser for Pepperdine’s George Schlatter Comedy Collection housed in the university’s library.
He did not answer one question that hung over the evening: Why did a quintessentially Jewish guy like Schlatter go to a college affiliated with the Churches of Christ?
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Barbara Sinatra, Billy Graham, George Schlatter, Glen Roven, Jo Anne Worley, Larry King, Pepperdine University, Saban Theatre
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### [Larry King Hosts All-Star Comedy Tribute to George Schlatter](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/09/17/larry-king-hosts-all-star-comedy-tribute-to-george-schlatter/)
**Published:** September 17, 2013
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Former cast members Lily Tomlin, [Arte Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_Johnson "Arte Johnson") and [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") are set to be on hand, along with [Shirley MacLaine](http://www.shirleymaclaine.com "Shirley MacLaine"), Fred Willard, Kirk Douglas, Tim Conway and others to sock it to Emmy-winning [TV producer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer "Television producer") [George Schlatter](http://www.georgeschlatter.com "George Schlatter"), creator of the ground-breaking sketch show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Larry King hosts this evening of live comedy and classic clips, with a video tribute from Goldie Hawn, who first gained fame as a ditzy go-go dancer on the show. The [Flying Fickle Finger of Fate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") points directly at Schlatter for this Pepperdine University event, which is also scheduled to feature [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Jerry Weintraub and David Foster.
**To Buy Tickets:** [**Click Here**](http://www.goldstar.com/events/beverly-hills-ca/still-laugh-in-a-toast-to-george-schlatter)
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### [Jackie Collins, Michael Childers, Bruce Vilanch Headline AIDS Benefit, November 15](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/09/12/jackie-collins-michael-childers-bruce-vilanch-headline-aids-benefit-november-15/)
**Published:** September 12, 2013
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[Jackie Collins](http://www.jackiecollins.com "Jackie Collins"), Michael Childers, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Headline AIDS Benefit, November 15
WBEZ.ORG AND HARRAHSRINCON.COM
Sept 12, 2013**
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[New York Times bestselling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list "The New York Times Best Seller list") author Jackie Collins, award winning photographer of the stars Michael Childers, and comedy writer Bruce Vilanch are joining forces to co-host “[Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") Dine and Dish: The Tinseltown Stories You Haven’t Heard,” on Nov. 15.
This evening benefits the AIDS Assistance Program ([AAP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Associated_Press "Australian Associated Press")) in Palm Springs, and will include hors d’oeuvres, drinks and dinner courtesy of Brad and Lynne Toles of Savoury’s Catering. The event will take place in Rancho Mirage at the Waterford estate of Bob Deville and Bob Bennion, co-owners of Windermere Real Estate Southern California.
Proceeds from each ticket purchased will go directly to AAP, according to Executive Director Mark Anton.
Tickets are available for $1,000 per person or $1,500 per couple. The cost is tax deductible. Remaining seats may also be purchased during the live auction at the “Evening Under the Stars” gala featuring Cyndi Lauper on May 11. To attend the event, call Anton at (760) 325-8481.
Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the late director Louis Malle and dubbed “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by [Vanity Fair magazine](http://www.vanityfair.com "Vanity Fair (magazine)"). With more than 500 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, Collins is one of the world’s top-selling novelists.
Childers is one of the entertainment industry’s most renowned and highly respected portrait, fashion and art photographers who began his career in the 1960s and continues to influence the world of art photography today. He has been instrumental in capturing the beauty and magnetism of such explosive young stars as Mel Gibson, Demi Moore, Richard Gere, John Travolta, Sissy Spacek and Michelle Pfeiffer, Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood, and Elton John.
Vilanch is a two-faced fella: Bearded, he is one of the most sought-after comedy writers in Hollywood, winner of a bunch of Emmys, and noted as the “Hollywood Square” just to the left of [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"). Shaved, he spent two years as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Hairspray-Polyester-Desperate-Flamingos/dp/B00006JMRS%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00006JMRS "John Waters Collection (Hairspray / Pecker / Polyester / Desperate Living / Pink Flamingos / Female Trouble)"), Baltimore housewife and superstar, on tour and on Broadway, in the smash musical adaptation of the John Waters film, Hairspray.
In addition to Hairspray, he has appeared in Ice Pirates, Mahogany, and The Morning After. A frequent guest on talk shows, Vilanch won his Emmys for co-writing back-to-back Oscar shows with Billy Crystal. He was also nominated for an Emmy as a lyricist on [Eartha Kitt](http://www.earthakitt.com/ "Eartha Kitt")’s gold-selling album, “Where Is My Man”.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Eartha Kitt, Emmy, Hairspray, Hollywood, Jackie Collins, Vanity Fair, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [“An Evening with Bruce Vilanch” Saturday, Aug. 31, Los Gatos](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/08/29/an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-saturday-aug-31-san-gatos/)
**Published:** August 29, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**[JWeekly](http://www.jweekly.com "J.")
Thursday, August 29, 2013
A wacky night at the JCC with Oscars joke-meister [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
by dan pine, j. staff**
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[Comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") Bruce Vilanch is normally not a praying man. But backstage at the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), for which he has long served as head writer, he often gets religion.
“You pray that somebody will make a fool of themselves in the early minutes of the evening,” Vilanch says of the unpredictable live telecast, “then you take it and run with it.”
The classic example came during the 1992 Oscars, when [Jack Palance](http://www.last.fm/music/Jack%2BPalance "Jack Palance") celebrated his Best Supporting Actor win by doing a few one-armed push-ups. That sparked a night of priceless quips from host [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), many written on the fly by Vilanch (“Jack Palance just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood Sign”).
With his Elton John eyewear, kooky T-shirts and trademark blond tresses on display, Vilanch might recount that story in delicious detail when he appears Saturday, Aug. 31 at the Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos. The event is billed as “An Evening with Bruce Vilanch.”
Avilanch\_bruce\_vilanch\_normal\_sizeAs this JCC performance shows, Vilanch is not just a behind-the-scenes funny man. He starred in a Broadway revival of “Hairspray” and currently stars in an off-Broadway hit, “Rubble.” He’s acted in films and for many years he was a familiar X and O on “Hollywood Squares.”
But his role as a writer for awards shows such as the Oscars and Emmys has given him his widest notoriety. Somehow, in a town famous for eating its young, Vilanch has lasted 23 years at the Oscars, serving up jokes for hosts great (Billy Crystal) and not so great (James Franco).
The New Jersey native credits the great Jewish comedians of old for his sharp wit. “I was exposed to so many of them as a kid,” Vilanch recalls. “I was a rabid fan of Henny Youngman and Alan King.”
He also salutes his mother, who was a master quipster like her son.
Vilanch tells the story of how his mom used to keep the living room furniture covered in plastic most of the time. Eventually she decided to reupholster the well-preserved pieces, and when Vilanch asked her why, she replied, “I’m telling people it’s because Sonny Bono died.”
The Vilanch family belonged to a local Conservative synagogue. Little Bruce attended Hebrew School three times a week, was a member of [United Synagogue Youth](http://usy.org/ "United Synagogue Youth"), and was bar mitzvahed.
After college he gave journalism a try, but when Bette Midler met him in 1970 and offered him a job writing jokes for her, the comedy die was cast, and a lifelong personal and professional relationship began.
A move to Los Angeles led to staff writer positions on variety shows, and hired-gun joke-writing jobs with stars such as Lily Tomlin and [Joan Rivers](http://www.joan.co/ "Joan Rivers").
He made his premiere as an Oscar writer in 1989, eventually becoming head writer in 2000. Once asked if he wanted to keep working on the show after so long, he replied, “It’s the greatest show on Earth. It’s like asking somebody ‘Hey, would you like to play in the Super Bowl?’ ”
Long before it was cool or commonplace, Vilanch, who is gay, was a major activist for LGBT rights. He says the social progress made on that front in the last two years has been “absolutely staggering.”
But now he has turned his attention to Russia, which recently instituted harsh anti-gay laws and has seen an uptick in anti-gay violence.
Says Vilanch, “All of a sudden comes \[Russian president\] [Vladimir Putin](http://eng.kremlin.ru "Vladimir Putin"), fresh from a midnight reading of ‘Mein Kampf,’ and he decides to make gay people the new scapegoat in Russia.”
It’s a rare solemn moment for Vilanch, who prefers to make light of most situations.
And though he’s far from the first person to note the long, powerful link between [Jews](http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/ "Jews") and comedy, Vilanch has his own theory as to why it’s been such a fruitful association.
“Any people who are oppressed find humor as a way to deal with it,” he says. “African Americans have, gay people have. It’s a common thread, and the Jews are really good at it.”
“An Evening with Bruce Vilanch” takes place 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Addison-Penzak JCC, 14855 Oka Road, Los Gatos. $15-$20. http://www.svjcc.org or (408) 358-3636.
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**Categories:** Comedy Show
**Tags:** Academy Award, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, comedy, Jack Palance, Jews, Oscar, vilanch
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### [Inside The "Rubble"](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/08/08/inside-the-rubble/)
**Published:** August 8, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**[New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post")
Animating the stage
‘The [Simpsons](http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons "The Simpsons - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free")’ producer [Mike Reiss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Reiss "Mike Reiss") heads to the [Fringe](http://www.hulu.com/fringe "Fringe - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free") Festival**
**By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI**
**Last Updated: 11:44 PM, August 7, 2013**
**Posted: 10:25 PM, August 7, 2013**
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It’s hard to believe there isn’t a metaphor lying around under “Rubble” — a comedy about a [TV writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriting "Screenwriting") stuck in a pile of debris after an LA earthquake. After all, it’s by TV writer Mike Reiss and stars TV writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
But Reiss — a longtime mainstay on “The Simpsons” and the creator of “The Critic” and “Queer Duck” — denies any hint of an agenda.
“I just wanted to write about someone trapped in rubble,” he says. “I don’t want people to think it’s autobiography. Even for [New York theater](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre"), that would be self-indulgent. It’s not my life — it’s my worst nightmare.”
As for Vilanch, the show’s star, he seems less startled by the subject than by being in the [New York International Fringe Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_International_Fringe_Festival "New York International Fringe Festival"), where the show premieres Saturday.
“I didn’t realize how exotic the Fringe is,” says Vilanch, who’s as famous for his red glasses as he is for writing gags for the Oscars. “First of all, you learn 7,000 pages of dialogue for five performances spread over three weeks. This is like doing ‘Rigoletto’! It’s insane! And you have half the rehearsal time because everybody is working in between their other stuff.”
Reiss was moonlighting, too. First there’s “The Simpsons”: He’s been there on and off — more on than off — since Day 1, when he was a staff writer. He became showrunner for Seasons 3 and 4, which is when the series truly gelled around such classic episodes as “[A Streetcar Named Marge](http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons "The Simpsons")” and “Krusty Gets Canceled.”
Lately, though, the 53-year-old’s been scaling back.
“I go to [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") on Wednesday to work on ‘The Simpsons,’ and I fly the red-eye back on Thursday,” says Reiss, who lives in Midtown. “A great week is a week where I spend less than 24 hours in LA.”
And then there’s his career as a prolific kid-lit author — a line of work that somehow led to his stage career.
A few years ago, Reiss, married and childless, was lecturing about his books at the University of Connecticut when someone suggested he write a play about Connecticut, “because it hadn’t been done before.”
So he did.
“It was so easy because it was untouched territory,” says Reiss, who grew up there. “I talked about the state and its personality. And its lack of personality.”
“I’m Connecticut” received positive reviews. Emboldened, Reiss wrote “Rubble” and sent it out to a whole bunch of people.
Then, he waited.
“Nobody said ‘I hate it,’ ” he reveals. “They just didn’t respond at all. Except this one guy named James Valletti, who’s a friend of a friend of my brother-in-law’s dentist. I sent it to him, that’s how desperate I was. But he loved the play and made it his life mission to stage it.”
Not only did Valletti get the show into the Fringe, he also roped in Vilanch, a choice Reiss happilyendorsed.
“I thought we’d get a free rewrite out of him but he hasn’t changed the lines!” Reiss says. “Yet he finds all this comedy where there was no comedy. He reminds me of Jackie Gleason — he’s so physically funny, with that giant expressive face.”
Vilanch, 64, is no stranger to acting. He performed in the off-Broadway solo “Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous” and played Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray” on the road and on Broadway. Even that didn’t quite prepare him for the specific challenge of “Rubble.”
“Bette Midler sat there for 90 minutes in her Broadway show, but I told her that she at least had a couch and pillows to fluff,” he notes. “I sit, too, but surrounded by heaps of boxes. I kind of resemble a barge floating to Staten Island.”
“Rubble” opens Saturday at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St., with performances through Aug. 25. Information and tickets at 866-468-7619.
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Broadway, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Fringe, Los Angeles, Mike Reiss, New York International Fringe Festival, Reiss
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### [Why are Bruce Vilanch, LeAnn Rimes, Adam Lambert, Tim Gunn, Cloris Leachman and a host of other celebrities flipping the bird?](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/08/07/why-are-bruce-vilanch-leann-rimes-adam-lambert-tim-gunn-cloris-leachman-and-a-host-of-other-celebrities-flipping-the-bird/)
**Published:** August 7, 2013
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**[Windy City Times](http://windycitytimes.com/ "Windy City Times")
Friend Movement combats bullying, builds bridges
by Terri-Lynne Waldron
2013-08-06**
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Why are [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [LeAnn Rimes](http://www.leannrimesworld.com "LeAnn Rimes"), Adam Lambert, Tim Gunn, Cloris Leachman and a host of other celebrities flipping the bird?
As the branding image behind the anti-bullying campaign Friend Movement, the photos show celebrities holding their blurred out middle finger up to the camera in an effort to raise awareness about bullying. Out director/activist Elliot [London](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5072222222,-0.1275&spn=0.1,0.1&q=51.5072222222,-0.1275 (London)&t=h "London") and openly gay actor/model/activist [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell") are the creators behind the controversial campaign that was designed to turn the F-word into the new F-word (“friend’).
“We knew going into this that the middle finger has a lot of negative connotations,” explained Kroell, a Chicago native. “But much of what Friend Movement is trying to do is take a negative and turn it into a positive. It was important for us to make a statement and say that this is not a literal campaign, it is very figurative and it’s about empowerment and it’s about your inner monologue.”
Friend Movement was conceived after Kroell and London were introduced to one another by a mutual friend. Both men thought to combine their independent projects and create one anti-bullying campaign.
“I was working on a film project and Ronnie was working on a campaign project and both our projects really needed a lot of love,” said London who is originally from Australia and got his start as an intern on [The Jerry Springer Show](http://www.jerryspringertv.com/ "The Jerry Springer Show"). “We decided to figure out how to combine forces and that’s how Friend Movement came along.”
Both Kroell and London were bullied as kids. Kroell was called a ‘faggot’ and had his pants pulled down at school and London was also called a ‘faggot’ and was spit on while riding the bus to [Harlem High School](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.3558333333,-89.0255555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.3558333333,-89.0255555556 (Harlem%20High%20School%20%28Illinois%29)&t=h "Harlem High School (Illinois)") in [Machesney Park, Illinois](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.355,-89.0408333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.355,-89.0408333333 (Machesney%20Park%2C%20Illinois)&t=h "Machesney Park, Illinois"). London recently went back to his high school to film a narrative short as part of the campaign. The premise of the film is to capture the stories of kids who have been bullied.
“Each student from the school created the anti-bullying film project and we went in and brought a Hollywood crew and gave it the Hollywood feel,” said London of the project they hope to have finished by late July. “It gives the students self-empowerment, it gets the people involved and it is conversation. This is something that we want to add to what Friend Movement is all about, which is going to high schools across the country and even across the world and bringing them the mentors and the help and bringing a voice to these projects.”
On July 1, Friend Movement held a benefit concert celebrating music and friendship with proceeds going towards their campaign. The concert featured the likes of LeAnn Rimes, The Voice contestants Frenchie Davis and Dia Frampton, Abraham Lin (The [Glee Project](http://thegleeproject.oxygen.com "The Glee Project")) and singer Austin Brown, who is Michael Jackson’s nephew. Actress Hana Mae Lee, from the film Pitch Perfect, hosted the show.
Friend Movement has reached out to the fundraising website indiegogo.com to raise money for an upcoming cross-country tour that will get the word out about the campaign in an innovative way. The plan is to shoot 10,000 photos in 90 days across 40 cities.
”Raising our $99,000 goal on indiegogo.com will allow us to go to these 40 cities and take these photos for free for anyone that shows up,” said Kroell. “Not only take their photo but talk to us about their experiences being bullied and why it’s important for them to be a part of the campaign and be a friend.”
London and Kroell work 24/7 to give the campaign worldwide attention. But the success of the project is of no surprise for two guys who had big imaginations and big ambitions growing up.
“Being an only child is really helpful in a way because we never really had the barriers, so for the both of us we just do what we can do,” said London. “We’re not afraid to reach for the stars and push our limits.”
Kroell is quick to point out that Friend Movement reaches out to people from all communities, no matter their sexual orientation.
“I think one of the things that is important about this campaign is that it’s not just an LGBT campaign,” he clarified. “While we’re finding support and strength from our family and friends in the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_community "LGBT community"), it’s really important to know that bullying doesn’t discriminate. As Friend Movement continues to move forward the reason why it’s going to be so powerful is that it is all about building bridges and uniting us together to really find answers.”
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Friend Movement, Glee Project, Harlem High School, Jerry Springer Show, LeAnn Rimes, London, Ronnie Kroell
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### [Mara Wilson, Bruce Vilanch Preview 2013 New York International Fringe Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/08/06/mara-wilson-bruce-vilanch-preview-2013-new-york-international-fringe-festival/)
**Published:** August 6, 2013
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**Theatermania
Your first look at nine new shows that will premiere August 9-25.
By [David Gordon](http://www.pickupperformance.org/ "David Gordon (choreographer)") • Aug 6, 2013 • [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City")**
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Cast and creative team members from nine productions in this year’s [New York International Fringe Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_International_Fringe_Festival "New York International Fringe Festival") (also known as FringeNYC) met the press and offered previews of their work on Tuesday, August 6 at [La MaMa](http://www.lamama.org "La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club")‘s [Ellen Stewart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Stewart "Ellen Stewart") Theater.
On hand to present segments of their work were cast members from Save the Date, Old Familiar Faces, Kinematik, [Sheeple](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple "Sheeple"), Someone to Belong To, Rubble, The Rufus Equation, [Gertrude Stein](http://www.last.fm/music/Gertrude%2BStein "Gertrude Stein") Saints!, and Breaking Kayfabe.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Star In "Rubble" At The Player's Theater](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/21/bruce-vilanch-to-star-in-rubble-at-the-players-theater/)
**Published:** July 21, 2013
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**Broadway World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") & [Jerry Adler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Adler "Jerry Adler") to Lead RUBBLE at [FringeNYC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_International_Fringe_Festival "New York International Fringe Festival"), 8/10-25
Sunday, July 21, 2013; 05:07 PM**
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EMMY Award-Winner Bruce Vilanch will star in RUBBLE, a new comedy by [EMMY Award-Winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") “The Simpsons” writer, Mike Reiss. Broadway veteran and “[The Sopranos](http://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos "The Sopranos")” star Jerry Adler also joins the cast. RUBBLE will be directed by James Valletti, and run for five performances at The Players Theater on August 10th, 14th, 22nd, 24th, and 25th.
RUBBLE tells the story of Alvin, an aging comedy writer who, while on a last-chance meeting with a network executive, gets trapped under a pile of rubble due to an LA earthquake. It’s a hilarious look at TV, theater, heaven, and hell-from one who’s been there…
The cast of RUBBLE includes Bruce Vilanch, Jerry Adler, Jason Jacoby, Bryan McElroy, Amy Wilson and Jeffrey Arnold Wolf.
Bruce Vilanch is one of the most sought-after comedy writers in Hollywood, winner of multiple Emmys and noted as the “Hollywood Square” just to the left of Whoopi. Bruce spent two years as Edna Turnblad, on tour and on Broadway in the smash musical adaptation of the John Waters film HAIRSPRAY. Bruce was seen on VH1’s popular fitness and nutrition reality-series, “Celebrity Fit Club” and he has appeared in “Ice Pirates,” “Mahogany” and “The Morning After.” A frequent guest on talk shows, Bruce won his Emmys for co-writing back-to-back Oscar shows with Billy Crystal. He was also nominated for an Emmy as a lyricist on Eartha Kitt’s gold-selling album “Where Is My Man”. Bruce has spent over 21 years writing for the Oscars, as well as a number of Tonys, Grammys and Emmys. His career was documented in the film “Get Bruce!,” released by Miramax and available on [Buena Vista Home Video](http://www.disneydvd.com/ "Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment"). Bruce’s one-man show, ALMOST FAMOUS, tickled Off-Broadway audiences for three months and has made a number of appearances around the country.
Jerry Adler is a veteran of over 50 Broadway productions as Producer, Director and Production Stage Manager, including the original MY FAIR LADY (The revival of which he directed), COCO, THE HOMECOMING, ANNIE and many more, as well as the [Tony Award- winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") GOOD EVENING which he directed with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook – before he began his new career as an actor. He then appeared in Woody Allen’s “[Manhattan Murder Mystery](http://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Murder-Mystery-Woody-Allen/dp/0767819764%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0767819764 "Manhattan Murder Mystery")” and “The Public Eye” with Joe Pesci. He has since been seen on many [teleVision Productions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program"), including “The West Wing”, “Law and Order”, “Northern Exposure”, “CSI:Miami” and was a regular on “Mad About You”. He is an original cast member of “The Sopranos” and was “HESH”, Tony’s mentor/advisor throughout that award-winning HBO Production’s run. His recent films include “In Her Shoes”, “Prime”, “Find Me Guilty”, “Synecdoche” and the soon-to-be- released “Last Angry Man In Brooklyn” with Robin Williams. On TV he was the Fire Chief in “Rescue Me” with Denis Leary, and recently is Howard Lyman on “The Good Wife”. He is the 2013 recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts awarded by the University of Connecticut.
Jason Jacoby is currently starring Off-Broadway in AVENUE Q as Nicky/Trekkie. Other credits include: CABARET, THE PRODUCERS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Park Playhouse); LE HOT BLUE (New York Theatre Workshop); THE PIPER ([Capital Repertory Theatre](http://www.capitalrep.org "Capital Repertory Theatre")); G.B.S. (Clockwork Theatre, U.S. Premiere); RECKLESS (The Gallery Players).
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Hollywood Square, Jerry Adler, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Sopranos, Tony Award
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### [Interview: A candid conversation with Lindsay Lohan's sobriety coach, appearing at Feinstein's at the Nikko this week](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/17/interview-a-candid-conversation-with-lindsay-lohans-sobriety-coach-appearing-at-feinsteins-at-the-nikko-this-week/)
**Published:** July 17, 2013
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**Modern Luxury
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Has “More Chins Than a San Francisco Phonebook”
Caleb Pershan | July 17, 2013**
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Bruce Vilanch would be the first to admit he’s had a strange career. With that in mind, we decided to look over his [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch) with Vilanch himself to see if we could make any sense of it. “A lot of the stuff on here is wrong,” Vilanch said from his home in L.A., where he’s caring for a sick pug (“It’s a pug kind of town—there’s no air to breath anyway”). “I’m not 64, in fact I’m 65, and I’m collecting Obamacare like crazy.” The *Hairspray* star, Hollywood Square, and [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") head writer also bills himself as [Lindsay Lohan](http://www.people.com/people/lindsay_lohan/ "Lindsay Lohan")‘s sobriety coach and the latest success on Christian Mingle (“just got set up with a guy who used to be Pope!”). Vilanch regaled us with the following thoughts and anecdotes “from behind, before, and squatting over the footlights.”
**This Wikipedia entry says you have [Hitchcock’s](http://www.last.fm/music/Alfred%2BHitchcock "Alfred Hitchcock") hair—what?**
No no, not hair: My wobbles, I have Hitchcock’s wobbles, his chins. He was pretty much hairless in the ’50s when he was on television every week. It’s more that I have his profile. I’ve got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.
**What can we expect at the Nikko on Thursday night?**
I’ll be doing stories about my dark career in show business, writing 23 Academy Award shows, Hollywood Squares, et cetera. There won’t be any Sondheim, that I promise.
**What was it like, in your first acting role, to work with [Diana Ross](http://www.dianaross.de/ "Diana Ross")?**
Bizarre, because I thought I was rehearsing with her stand in, this skinny kid, and then she would come out of the trailer with the eyelashes and the wig, and glamour, glamour, glamour. I was like oh my, that’s Diana Ross. I told her this, and she told me yes, it’s all done with mirrors.
**When you appeared on [RuPaul](http://www.rupaul.com "RuPaul")‘s *[Drag Race 3](http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/season_3/series.jhtml "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 3)")* dressed as Santa, what were some of the items contestants asked for when they sat on your lap?**
Big ticket items. And hey, I also worked with RuPaul back in his “Sashay! Shantay!” days, before *Drag Race*, when he had his talk show on VH1. And, there may be more RuPaul in my future.
**How did you identify with your character Missy, the gay porn director from *[Going Down in LA-LA Land](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Down_in_LA-LA_Land "Going Down in LA-LA Land")*?**
I didn’t want to play it like *Boogie Nights*: the role I played was an homage to [Chi Chi LaRue](http://www.chichilarue.com "Chi Chi LaRue"), my neighbor across the street, a great friend of mine and a hysterical character. If I were directing porno everything would be IMAX. Not 3D, though, it makes everything look closer to you, but it’s all smaller! It should be *bigger*.
**Fine, tell us about the Oscars already!**
Well, I’ve been writing since 1989, and it’s the greatest show on earth, isn’t it? It’s like the Superbowl— and some years you fumble. But it’s the kind of show that tries to reinvent itself every year, because it has to say something every year. They take it dead seriously, the Academy. At the core of it is the idea of serious people in a serious profession, and in it, everybody is equal to everybody else, the guy who does sound as well as the best actor: everyone has to be treated with equal reverence. So of course, I write jokes. One of my favorite moments was when Whoopi \[Goldberg\] was hosting the show, and two people had been nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth, and Whoopi came out in white face and said “I’m the African Queen!” Only a Hollywood crowd really gets that one.
**You’re responsible for the *[Star Wars Holiday Special](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNGjKnTzaQ)*, right?**
Right, and George Lucas won’t even speak of it, he’s disowned it. I don’t think there’ll be another one of those.
**You’ve done lots of charity work—what makes you most proud?**
All the AIDS work I’ve done, especially at the very beginning, because it was something we had to do. When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn’t doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one’s going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That’s a great maxim to the gay community and we took it to heart, we took care of our own. I would trade off other disease fundraisers, raising for other causes that would raise for ours, and that’s how I learned all the major diseases and got into “big charity.” As I’m fond of saying, though, if the Holocaust led to the creation of Israel, then maybe AIDS has led us to where we are now.
*Vilanch performs tomorrow (Thursday, 7/18) at 8pm at [Feinstein’s at the Nikko.](http://www.michaelfeinstein.com/wp/?page_id=2185)*
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Chi Chi LaRue, Diana Ross, Hollywood Square, Lindsay Lohan, RuPaul, Star Wars Holiday Special
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Play Feinstein's at the Nikko July 18, 2013](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/10/bruce-vilanch-to-play-feinsteins-at-the-nikko-july-18-2013/)
**Published:** July 10, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Benj Pasek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasek_and_Paul "Pasek and Paul") and [Justin Paul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Paul "Justin Paul"), [Donna McKechnie](http://www.donnamckechnie.com "Donna McKechnie") Among Feinstein’s at the Nikko Cabaret Series
By Michael Gioia
10 Jul 2013**
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Actor and comedian Bruce Vilanch and [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award")-nominated composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have been added to the lineup of the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko cabaret series at the [Hotel Nikko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikko_Hotels "Nikko Hotels") in San Francisco.
Vilanch, who has been seen on Broadway in Hairspray, will perform July 18 at 8 PM, and Pasek and Paul, Tony-nominated for Broadway’s A Christmas Story, will perform July 19 at 8 PM and July 20 at 7 PM.
Other performers at Feinstein’s at the Nikko include Nicole Henry (July 12 at 8 PM, July 13 at 7 PM), Emily Bergl (July 25 at 8 PM, July 26 at 8 PM and July 27 at 7 PM), Christine Andreas (Aug. 1 at 8 PM, Aug. 2 at 8 PM and Aug. 3 at 7 PM), [Ariana Savalas](http://arianasavalas.com "Ariana Savalas") (Aug. 8 at 8 PM), Missi Pyle (Aug. 9 at 8 PM, Aug. 10 at 7 PM), Donna McKechnie (Aug. 16 at 8 PM, Aug. 17 at 7 PM), [Andrea McArdle](http://www.last.fm/music/Andrea%2BMcArdle "Andrea McArdle") (Aug. 23 at 8 PM, Aug. 24 at 7 PM), [Christine Ebersole](http://www.christineebersole.com/ "Christine Ebersole") (Sept. 5 at 8 PM, Sept. 6 at 8 PM, Sept. 7 at 7 PM), Jack Jones (Sept. 19 at 8 PM, Sept. 20 at 8 PM, [Sept 21](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21 "September 21") at 7 PM) and Tommy Tune (Sept. 26 at 8 PM, Sept. 27 at 8 PM and Sept. 28 at 7 PM).
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**Tags:** Andrea McArdle, Ariana Savalas, Bruce Vilanch, Christine Ebersole, Donna McKechnie, Hotel Nikko, Justin Paul, Tony Award
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### [Have you all seen Bruce Vilanch's debut in "Child of the '70s?" ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/08/have-you-all-seen-bruce-vilanchs-debut-in-child-of-the-70s/)
**Published:** July 8, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Child of the ’70s 2.2 “Lonely People” #ProudToLove**
Carlo and Joe further their relationship, KiKi has a nervous breakdown, and we meet the infamous Larry Lawrence.
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### [An Interview With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/04/an-interview-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** July 4, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Park Me
An Interview with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
By Kevin
July 1, 2013**
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In [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"), traffic and parking are part of the daily grind and everyone’s got a fun story to tell.
We’ve noticed that parking often merges with LA culture, whether it’s a viral video of [Larry David](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_David "Larry David") getting stuck, or a clever tune about the happenings in the Whole Foods parking lot. When we can, we like to seek fun and notable locals to get their own perspectives on the rituals of parking around town. Nobody’s more fun than [West Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California")’s own Bruce Vilanch.
Vilanch, a six-time [Emmy award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner and head writer of [The Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") since the year 2000, was kind enough to chat with us about his experiences. He’s a prolific comedy writer, so we knew we were in for some witty responses about parking, particularly within “The Biz.” We hope you enjoy Bruce’s unique responses as much as we did!
**What’s your favorite thing to do on a LA Sunday?**
I’m a Jew! We like to eat Chinese food and go to the movies. We would do that whether we were in LA or Baghdad.
**What’s the best restaurant for a first date?**
(Laughs) Any place that has flattering lighting. [Angela Lansbury](http://www.last.fm/music/Angela%2BLansbury "Angela Lansbury")’s dressing room would probably be a good spot.
**Do you have a particularly interesting/humorous parking story you’d like to share?**
Parking on the Fox Studios lot used to be heinous until they built a new garage. I used to park in Natalie Wood’s space. She’d been dead for years, but they’d never gotten around to re-assigning it. Odds are she wouldn’t be coming in on any given day, so who would notice? She had also been a friend, so I felt like she was urging me on from above. “Don’t be a schmuck,” I could hear her shouting in her daisy clover voice. “Park!”
One day I pulled into Fox and the name Saul Turtletaub was painted on the curb. He was an esteemed comedy producer, not one of the teenage ninja turtletaubs. I turned right around and went to [Warner Brothers](http://www.warnerbros.com/ "Warner Bros.").
**Larry David coined the term “pig parker” for someone who takes us two spaces while parking. Have you ever been guilty of this?**
Never. I would not want to incur the satirical wrath of Larry David, unless there was real money in it.
**Have you ever had a confrontation/meltdown with someone over a spot?**
Life is too short to get worked up over a [parking space](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_space "Parking space"). I always remember [Clint Eastwood](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/dc5dc215-bb90-4579-a13a-3a564b265546.html "Clint Eastwood")’s spot at Warner Bros. He’s got a sign in front of it that has his name in large letters and, beneath that, the legend: don’t even think about parking here. I’ll bet that scared Meryl out of her Italian accent.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Angela Lansbury, Bruce Vilanch, Clint Eastwood, Emmy Award, Larry David, Los Angeles, Warner Bros
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### [Child of the '70s episode 2: Lonely People. The first appearance of Bruce Vilanch as "Larry Lawrence."](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/03/child-of-the-70s-episode-2-lonely-people-the-first-appearance-of-bruce-vilanch-as-larry-lawrence/)
**Published:** July 3, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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##### Child of the ’70s episode 2: Lonely People. The first appearance of [Bruce Vilanch](https://www.facebook.com/bruce.vilanch.1?directed_target_id=0) as “Larry Lawrence.”
Carlo and Joe further their relationship, KiKi has a nervous breakdown, and we meet the infamous Larry Lawrence.
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### [Bruce Vilanch and Pasek & Paul Set for Feinstein's at the Nikko, 7/18-20](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/03/bruce-vilanch-and-pasek-paul-set-for-feinsteins-at-the-nikko-718-20/)
**Published:** July 3, 2013
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**Broadway World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Pasek & Paul Set for Feinstein’s at the Nikko, 7/18-20
July 3, 2013**
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Hotel Nikko San Francisco and [Michael Feinstein](http://www.michaelfeinstein.com "Michael Feinstein") have announced two upcoming performers at the all-new Feinstein’s at the Nikko — actor and comedian Bruce Vilanch and [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") nominated composers Pasek and Paul. Located within Hotel Nikko (222 Mason Street, San Francisco), Feinstein’s at the Nikko will present a wide range of entertainers all within an intimate 140-seat cabaret setting. Bruce Vilanch will perform for one-night-only on Thursday, July 18th at 8 p.m. Pasek and Paul will perform two performances only – Friday, July 19 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, July 20 at 7 p.m.
Tickets for Bruce Vilanch ($30-$40) and Pasek and Paul ($30-$50) are on-sale now and available by calling 866.663.1063 or visiting [www.ticketweb.com](http://www.ticketweb.com).
Currently celebrating his fifteenth year as Lindsay Lohan’s sobriety coach, Bruce Vilanch is checking in at Feinstein’s at The Nikko for one night only, to dispatch more updates on his bizarre career behind, before, and squatting over the footlights. A Hairspray star, a Hollywood Square, and the latest success story on Christian Mingle, (who just hooked him up with a guy who used to be Pope), Bruce has more than a few stories to tell.
[Benj Pasek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasek_and_Paul "Pasek and Paul") and [Justin Paul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Paul "Justin Paul") are the Tony-nominated songwriters of the Broadway musical A Christmas Story, which opened in November 2012 and enjoyed a critically-acclaimed, record-breaking run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. In addition to the Best Score nomination, A Christmas Story also received Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Book. The holiday musical was named one of the Top 10 Shows of 2012 by Time Magazine, shared recognition as the #1 Musical of 2012 in USA Today and received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Outstanding New Broadway Musical. Benj and Justin’s score for the show also received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music.
Benj & Justin are also the composers behind the Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, a Best New Musical nominee for the Drama League, Lucille Lortel and [Outer Critics Circle awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award "Outer Critics Circle Award"). Benj and Justin also received an Outer Critics Circle Best Score nomination for their work on the show. Dogfight premiered in July 2012 at [Second Stage Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7581916667,-73.9895611111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7581916667,-73.9895611111 (Second%20Stage%20Theatre)&t=h "Second Stage Theatre"), and a cast album, produced by Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, was released in May 2013. The album debuted in the top 50 albums on iTunes.
As television songwriters, their original songs were featured on Season 2 of NBC’s “Smash,” and have risen to the Top 25 on the iTunes Pop Charts.
The duo made their debut as songwriters with their widely-acclaimed song cycle Edges, which is licensed by Music Theatre International and has had hundreds of productions worldwide, including South Korea, Australia, China, South Africa, Singapore, France, the Philippines, Denmark and more. Other theatrical works include James & the Giant Peach, Duck for President and If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Their other musical work for TV can be seen on “Sesame Street” and “Johnny & the Sprites” (Disney [TV series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program")). Performances of their songs have been featured on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “The View,” “Good Morning America,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “VH1 Morning Buzz,” “The Rosie Show,” “Fox & Friends,” and more.
Benj & Justin are the recipients of the 2011 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2011 Sundance Institute Fellowship, the 2011 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the 2011 ASCAP Songwriters Fellowship Award, and a 2007-2008 Dramatists Guild Fellowship. They are the youngest recipients of the Jonathan Larson Award (2007) in the foundation’s history. They have participated in ASCAP’s Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and were named one of Dramatist Magazine’s “50 to Watch” in Contemporary Theatre.
As performers, Benj & Justin have traveled throughout North America, Europe & Australia performing concerts of their work. They also teach master classes in songwriting and theatre performance at universities around the world. They are proud graduates of the University of Michigan BFA Musical Theatre program and members of the [Dramatists Guild of America](http://www.dramatistsguild.com "Dramatists Guild of America"). They are currently at work on a new original musical with playwright Steven Levenson and director Michael Greif.
There is a $20 food and beverage minimum per person inside the showroom which guests can use towards cocktails as well as a variety of small plates crafted exclusively for Feinstein’s at the Nikko by Executive Chef Philippe Striffeler, through Restaurant Anzu. Cheese and dessert platters will also be available in the showroom. All seating at Feinstein’s at the Nikko is cabaret style and available on a first-come, first-served basis within the section purchased. Guests who purchase the prix-fixe dinner at Restaurant Anzu will receive a complimentary section upgrade (subject to availability) and get to choose their exact seat locations within the upgraded section.
Guests of Feinstein’s at the Nikko can enjoy a variety of food and beverage options before performances. Kanpai Lounge, located in Hotel Nikko’s lobby, offers light cuisine, a full bar and specialty cocktails. Restaurant Anzu, Hotel Nikko’s intimate restaurant located on the second floor, serves sustainable California cuisine enhanced with Asian flavors. Restaurant Anzu will also offer Feinstein’s at the Nikko guests a special three-course prix-fixe dinner ($45 per person) prior to all performances. Reservations can be made by calling (415) 394-1100.
Other upcoming performers at Feinstein’s at the Nikko include:
NICOLE HENRY · “NICOLE HENRY LIVE”
Friday, July 12 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m.
EMILY BERGL · “UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG”
Thursday, July 25 at 8 p.m., Friday, July 26 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, July 27 at 7 p.m.
CHRISTINE ANDREAS · “BEMUSED”
Thursday, August 1 at 8 p.m., Friday, August 2 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, August 3 at 7 p.m.
[ARIANA SAVALAS](http://arianasavalas.com "Ariana Savalas") · “AN EVENING WITH ARIANA SAVALAS”
Thursday, August 8 at 8 p.m.
MISSI PYLE · “SEXY AS HELL”
Friday, August 9 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, August 10 at 7 p.m.
DONNA MCKECHNIE · “SAME PLACE, ANOTHER TIME”
Friday, August 16 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, August 17 at 7 p.m.
ANDREA MCARDLE · “70’S AND SUNNY”
Friday, August 23 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, August 24 at 7 p.m.
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE · “LIVE IN CONCERT”
Thursday, September 5 at 8 p.m., Friday, September 6 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, September 7 at 7 p.m.
JACK JONES · “IN CONCERT WITH JACK JONES”
Thursday, September 19 at 8 p.m., Friday, September 20 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, September 21 at 7 p.m.
TOMMY TUNE · “TAPS, TUNES AND TALL TALES”
Thursday, September 26 at 8 p.m., Friday, September 27 at 8 p.m. & Saturday, September 28 at 7 p.m.
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**Categories:** Cabaret
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Friday, Hollywood Square, Justin Paul, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Feinstein, Second Stage Theatre, Tony Award
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hold Comedy Night For Reno Gay Pride August 16, 2013](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/07/03/bruce-vilanch-hold-comedy-night-for-reno-gay-pride-august-16-2013/)
**Published:** July 3, 2013
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**My News 4
Gay pride festival to be held Aug. 16-17
July 3, 2013**
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[RENO, Nev.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.5272222222,-119.821944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.5272222222,-119.821944444 (Reno%2C%20Nevada)&t=h "Reno, Nevada") ([KRNV](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.3158333333,-119.883888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.3158333333,-119.883888889 (KRNV-DT)&t=h "KRNV-DT") & MyNews4.com) — Reno [Gay Pride](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_pride "Gay pride") is kicking off its 17th Annual Festival this year on Aug. 16.
On Aug. 16, Reno Gay Pride will hold Comedy Night with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), a six-time [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") Winner. The show starts in Sammy’s Showroom at 7pm ([Doors](http://thedoors.com/ "The Doors") open at 6:30pm) Tickets available here.
Reno Gay Pride will hold its official Kick-off Party at [Harrah’s](http://www.caesars.com/ "Caesars Entertainment Corporation") Sapphire Lounge, which includes a live [DJ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey "Disc jockey"), GoGo dancers and a [meet and greet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations "Public relations") with Bruce Vilanch from 8pm-2am.
The Reno Gay Pride Festival will be at [Wingfield Park](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.0956,-1.44&spn=0.1,0.1&q=53.0956,-1.44 (South%20Wingfield)&t=h "South Wingfield") on Saturday, August 17 at 11am.
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**Categories:** Pride
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Disc jockey, Emmy Award, Gay pride, Hairspray, Hollywood Square, Lindsay Lohan, New York City
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### [Project Angel Food's GET ART 2013 Celebrating Andy Warhol's Silver Factor](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/28/project-angel-foods-get-art-2013-celebrating-andy-warhols-silver-factor/)
**Published:** June 28, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Special Guest On Season Two Web Series Hit, "Child Of The 70's"](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/20/bruce-vilanch-to-special-guest-on-season-two-web-series-hit-child-of-the-70s/)
**Published:** June 20, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Bruce Vilanch To Special Guest On Season Two Web Series Hit, “Child Of The 70’s” ~ Tuesday, June 25, 2013**
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### [Michael Musto Reviews Bruce Vilanch At 54 Below](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/17/michael-musto-reviews-bruce-vilanch-at-54-below/)
**Published:** June 17, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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Musto on [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s [Cher](http://www.cher.com "Cher") Dish, [Lady Bunny](http://www.ladybunny.net/ "Lady Bunny")‘s Sex Life, and a Gay Club In Crisis
6.17.2013
BY MICHAEL MUSTO**
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“I worked with Sonny and Cher, Sonny without Cher, Cher without Sonny, [Chastity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_%28film%29 "Chastity (film)") with a dick, Chastity without a dick….” said funny man Bruce Vilanch at the top of his 54 Below show. “For years, Cher thought I was Chastity.
“The last time I saw Cher,” he went on, “she said, ‘Vilanch, you fat fuck. You still in the business?’ I looked at her and said, ‘I like this face. Keep this one!’”
Vilanch—who’s written 23 Oscar shows and is also remembered for filling [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") with rimshots—was wearing hot pink glasses over his own amazing features while also sporting a T-shirt that said “I Dumped Adele.” The fat fuck admitted that he was writer number seven (out of nine hard-working scribes) on the immortal film epic Burlesque, the one that gave poles a bad name. “Can you imagine it took nine of us to put that piece of shit together?” he intoned. And nine more people to see it, I guess!
But the roly-poly riot was more interested in making light of other people’s degradations. He related a story he’d heard about how Joan Crawford once peed on David Niven from above, while waving just to make sure he knew who she was. (I had no idea so many Oscar winners went to the Mine Shaft, lol!)
And Bruce also shared some horrors he’d witnessed personally, like:
\*[Bea Arthur](http://www.last.fm/music/Bea%2BArthur "Bea Arthur") accidentally slapping a wookie in the genital-looking face during the filming of the [Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special") and ad libbing, “I’ve never hit a man in the cunt before!”
\*George Burns watching [Pia Zadora](http://piazadora.com/ "Pia Zadora") in concert and moaning, “This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.” “And he was 100,” reminded Vilanch.
\*[Mario Lopez](http://www.mariolopez.net "Mario Lopez") being ditzy at a teen pageant Vilanch wrote. (“I’d dimple fuck him, but he’s not terribly bright up there.”)
\*And when one of the beauty contestants messed up that night, cracked Vilanch, “Whitney Houston—who was alive at the time—called me and said, ‘I no longer believe the children are our future.’” With that, I almost got whiplash spinning my head around to look at [Clive Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis "Clive Davis")’s reaction in the next booth, but his face didn’t move! Maybe it couldn’t. Still, I like it. He should keep this one.
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**Published:** June 16, 2013
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Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr.
June 13, 2013**
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Popping up on the 54 Below stage wearing a T shirt with the message about “Adele,” [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") launched into “Hey, Don’t Look At Me” from Follies with special lyrics about his appearance at his old stomping ground, the basement room of 54 Below. Without a break, Vilanch jumped into “Gee But It’s Good To Be Here” perfectly impersonating [Ethel Merman](http://www.last.fm/music/Ethel%2BMerman "Ethel Merman")’s high note! His accompanist was the talented Brian Nash who plays for the late open mic show at 54 Below every Monday night at 11:30 PM.
Most of Vilanch’s show was funny stories from his writing experiences on shows including the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), his appearances on Hollywood Squares, and his writing for several beauty pageants. He described how one could get to the major beauty pageants by starting small, taking a local contest first, then moving up to regional, then to state, and ultimately one of the big international contests, especially if you were spotted by professional trainers “Guy and Rex.” Their training method was hysterical, especially when they got to a Miss Universe contest in high altitude Peru. Because there was a sumo wrestler shaped contestant, when she descended the staircase she would knock over all the other contestants! His job was to write the questions and answers for the contestants and they always wanted some special disease to talk about. The response of the girl contestant who blew her line was hysterically funny.
He also did a riff on [Pia Zadora](http://piazadora.com/ "Pia Zadora") who lives in Las Vegas and has just been charged with assaulting her fifth husband, a cop, with his pistol! One of Vilanch’s first jobs was to write an act for her that her rich husband could put in his [Las Vegas hotels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Las_Vegas_Strip_hotels "List of Las Vegas Strip hotels"). He told everyone to watch her movie “Santa Claus and the Martians” for a special Christmas treat. Marvin Hamlisch was also hired and she was to open for George Burns who was 100 years old at the time. Vilanch grew up worshiping Burns and was able to suggest old jokes for his shows which Burns remembered instantly! When Burns saw Zadora in rehearsal, he said it was the worst act he had ever seen! And he had been seeing bad acts for 100 years! Zadora’s husband paid other headliners to come and see her act.
Vilanch’s best stories, which I will not fully disclose here, were about Steve Martin when he was hosting the Oscars and not wanting to do a specific joke which dealt with his fly on camera. The censor lady had approved it and insisted it be done. At the last minute, Martin refused to do it and the [Stage Manager](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_management "Stage management") announced the cutting of the joke which was broadcast to all the audience! There was also a very funny story about [Dolly Parton](http://www.dollypartonmusic.net/ "Dolly Parton") singing the song she wrote for “Beethoven’s Fifth” with the two dogs at her feet. Suddenly one of the dogs took a big dump so they cut to the upper part of Parton’s torso while a stage manager swept off the droppings. However, Parton was wearing a transparent top and the waist up shot showed her naked big breasts and nipples driving the censor wild. So they cut to her face and as Parton smelled what had happened her mascara started dripping! Vilanch was back stage with Deborah Kerr who was to get the special career award. Vilanch explained that everyone who gets this award usually dies a few months later, which is why Doris Day has always turned it down. He had the job of taking Ms. Kerr, in a blackout, to a platform where she was to appear after Parton’s number. Kerr’s reaction to the smell was priceless!
He also regaled us with the stories of the Lucas repressed Stars Wars Holiday Special, done to promote the next sequel. It was to star the [Chewbaca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca "Chewbacca") family, who spoke in that language, and featured all kinds of name guest stars including Art Carney, Diahann Carroll, and [Bea Arthur](http://www.last.fm/music/Bea%2BArthur "Bea Arthur"). Bea Arthur was to be featured in the nightclub scene and chose to sing “The Alabama Song.” The costumes on the extras were left over unfinished costumes that kept melting. Most of them looked like Vaginas. And on her last note, Arthur knocked over the vagina on her shoulder! Sometimes you will find that clip on you tube!
All in all, there was not a dull or unfunny moment in Vilanch’s act.
He repeats Friday, June 14 at 11 PM. Reservations are a must! Given his popularity with Broadway community he’ll probably sell out.
*Maitre D’ & Reservations: (646) 476-3551
To purchase tickets visit TicketWeb.com or call (866) 468-7619*
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Movies, Oscars, And Cutie Pies](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/11/bruce-vilanch-talks-movies-oscars-and-cutie-pies/)
**Published:** June 11, 2013
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**The Backlot
Interview: [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on His [Movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film "Film") “[Oy Vey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey "Oy vey")! My Son Is Gay!!,” [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), and Cute Boy Neighbors
June 11, 2013**
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Bruce Vilanch has enjoyed what I’d call the ideal pop cultural existence: He’s written jokes for about two dozen Oscar ceremonies; he’s costarred in glamorous movies and insane Broadway spectacles (Mahogany, [Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)")); he took up Paul Lynde‘s mantle on Hollywood Squares; he’s become an icon himself thanks to his bright blond hair, red glasses, and goofy t-shirts; most fabulously, he’s relished casual and working relationships with everyone from Bette Midler to [Lainie Kazan](http://www.lainiekazan.com "Lainie Kazan"), the latter of whom costarred with him in the cute indie comedy Oy Vey, My Son Is Gay!! Though that movie was released in 2010, director Evgeny Afineevsky recently tried garnering the film greater distribution with the aid of a Kickstarter campaign. It’s a Bruce Vilanch/Lainie Kazan vehicle, guys. The world deserved to receive and cradle this.
To celebrate that effort, we phoned the awesome Vilanch to talk about working on that movie, the stars who’ve impressed him over the years, and the celebrity men who lived in his “cute boy cul de sac.”
**TheBacklot: You shot Oy Vey, My Son is Gay!! back in 2010. What was the set like?**
Bruce Vilanch: We shot in Spokane where I’d actually been before, but only for like a night. We were at a studio where they shoot a lot of [Lifetime movies](http://www.mylifetime.com "Lifetime (TV network)"). They were very happy to see us because we were the only film to shoot there where no one in the plot had cancer. There were no women in jeopardy either; no one was being chased by her deranged Iraqi vet husband. No Post Traumatic Stress. It was a comedy, and they were relieved they could laugh. It was tremendous amount of fun, though it was the dead of winter, there were blizzards, and we pretended it was spring in New York. That cast: Lainie Kazan’s a riot, and Vinny Pastore, who you remember as Big Pussy from The Sopranos, Jai Rodriguez, Carmen Electra, such an eclectic group. We had a really good time. And it’s a throwback, a ’50s style of comedy.
**[TB](http://www.hbo.com/true-blood "True Blood"): You’ve known Lainie Kazan for years, right?**
BV: She’s an old, old friend of mine. We ended up working on a couple of movies, but we just knew each other for years. This was a chance to really hang out together intensely.
**TB: I assume at this point in your life you’ve gotten to work with tons of people whose work you’d admired for years and years**.
BV: Sometimes! It depends. In your mind’s eye you think they’ll going to be like their characters onstage or onscreen, but sometimes they’ll be all business. About 23 years ago I did a movie with Charles Durning, and at the time he was a very serious actor who had done all of those gangster pictures. He was a real tough guy. He was playing Santa Claus in this movie, and I was his elf. I was the elf who took steroids. I didn’t know what to expect from him, but he was hilarious and easygoing — and a great actor at the same time. He was nothing like the people he portrayed. One of the leads of the picture was seven years old and from Utah, because we were shooting around there. The second day of shooting, Charles said to me, “I was expecting a seven-year-old kid! Look what I got. Faye Dunaway.” He was going through the same thing I was; he was expecting one thing from his costar and got another.
**TB: Do you have a favorite onstage moment?**
BV: Oh, Hairspray. Two years of Hairspray onstage. I did Broadway for a year, then toured for a year. It was amazing. First of all, eight times a week with a different audience, it pushes an OCD button you didn’t know you had. Each show is different, and you find yourself making slight variations. I didn’t know that was what it was going to be like. You hear about people doing a robot version of a performance after six months on the same show, but for me, the minute I went out onstage I felt the excitement.
**TB: I’m always interested to find out how knowledgeable pop culture historians like yourself stay interested in new media. Are you still excited by new, good movies, etc.?**
BV: There are classics that I do watch over and over, but when you discover something that’s new that’s really good, you go completely crazy. You can’t get enough of it. If you close yourself off to the new stuff, then it’s over. You may as well find a Greek island that appeals to you and never emerge. I was watching the Tonys and saw Kinky Boots in Chicago when they were trying it out, and it’s fantastic. It’s a great show and has the same effect that Hairspray has. The audience goes through the roof, because it’s so artfully put together. They fall in love with the characters and want them to succeed. The writers have given them material to soar with. How can you not respond to that? If you become so jaded that you can’t respond to something that’s new, get your rope and do your Prometheus impression. Tie yourself to a rock and wait for high tide.
**TB: Speaking of Kinky Boots, did you know [Cyndi Lauper](http://www.cyndilauper.com "Cyndi Lauper") is an Oscar away from an EGOT?**
BV: I hadn’t thought of that! I guess it’s true. I didn’t know that. They give out so many Emmys and so many Grammys, it’s almost hard to keep track. Now Cyndi’ll write a song for a movie and they’ll give her an Oscar, like Adele.
**TB: Does that bother you, the way celebrities can phone in for an Oscar in the [Best Song](http://www.oscars.org "Academy Award for Best Original Song") Category?**
BV: No, because they’ve set up the category to work that way. The category was established back when there were lots of musicals and people were writing original songs for them. That period is long over. It used to be that people wrote a song for the closing credits, and at least they change that. Now it has to be somewhere in the body of the piece. It can’t be a song that gets tacked on at the end for an Oscar. Now it has to have more of a relationship to the actual movie. They bring top writers in, they write a song for the movie, and it’s not a song that they would write, you know, out of their soul. It’s a song they’re writing on assignment for a lot of money and the chance to have an Academy Award on their mantle. Those are the songs you’re getting a lot of the time. But the system has set itself up that way, so I don’t begrudge \[the songwriters\]. I mean, you can pretty much carry a movie and be nominated in the supporting category for political reasons and find yourself up against someone who had one four-minute scene and walks away with the picture. That’s the nature of it. That’s what they’ve set up. It’s possible for Judi Dench to win for one scene.
**TB: Tatum O’Neal beat Madeline Kahn in Best Supporting Actress, which made no sense since Tatum is the star of Paper Moon.**
BV: Exactly. It’s possible for someone nine-years-old to beat someone who had been in the business for 50 years. Tatum O’Neal also beat Sylvia Sidney that year.
**TB: I’m glad to see you’re pretty encyclopedic about Oscar trivia still.**
BV: \[Laughs.\] I’ve written 23 of the shows, so some of it does rub off.
**TB: Do you have Oscars ceremony? One where you got to nail the perfect joke, etc.?**
BV: I wish I could say that, but it’s never one line that makes the show. The Billy Crystal/Jack Palance year lives in memory because we threw away so much of the script and added new stuff as we went along. We rewrote it as we went along. That was pretty successful. There was the year that Quincy Jones produced, Whoopi hosted, and everything seemed to work. A lot of the time, the things you remember about the show are the spontaneous moments, the emotional moments, the stuff that can’t be scripted. That’s what people take away from the show. I thought the Hugh Jackman show was terrific. What I loved was Bill Condon’s idea of bringing out five previous winners in the four acting categories and each one singled out one of the nominees. It was a great idea, but it went by the wayside as it would have to because you run out of Oscar-winners. You run out of people who are willing to actually do that! Even though there are like 84 winning actresses — or less, really, because there are so many multiples — but a lot are dead or disinterested. Which will be the name of my memoirs, Dead or Disinterested.
**TB: Right, there aren’t many Eva Marie Saint-types left.**
BV: Exactly right. Best Supporting Actor was impossible to cast. There just aren’t that many who are left who would make sense, who the audience would look upon with reverence.
**TB: You mentioned Charles Durning earlier, but have you met many legends who were much funnier than you expected?**
BV: That’s a great question. Bette Davis? She was funny, but I kind of expected that. I suppose Peter O’Toole because he’s so famous for doing classic roles and big serious things, but later in his career he started doing some really brilliant comic stuff like My Favorite Year where he made fun of himself and that tradition of hammy classical actors. But that was a role, and I didn’t know that offstage he still had that card to play. Offstage, he is an extremely droll storyteller. I expected that he would just be beautiful and stoic. Actually, Laurence Olivier was like that too. I met him late in his life, but though he got kind of quiet, he’d tell stories that were brutally funny and do subtle impressions of other people. That was really unexpected.
**TB: Is it possible for you to be starstruck anymore?**
BV: Oh, sure. All the big ones of the golden age are gone, pretty much, there are very few left. But I’m starstruck when I meet certain legends. I get can get dazzled when I meet somebody like Lady Gaga, who has created this thing for herself. She’s so smart and so talented. I think it’s more being in the presence of someone like her, you see the wheels turn. That’s pretty fabulous. Anybody who pulls themselves together in what my mother calls “get-ups” — when she walks into a room, it’s hard not to pay attention. I guess anytime you meet somebody you know is genuinely talented and not just artifice, there’s a quality of being starstruck.
**TB: My dream is for Lady Gaga to play Laura Nyro in a biopic. She’s be perfect.**
BV: Wow. That would be great because Laura Nyro was it for me. I play her music almost every day, and I only met her once for a minute. I was with Bette Midler, we were on tour, and Laura Nyro happened to be playing in town. We couldn’t see her because for some reason are shows were on the same night. So they arranged for a dinner the next night, and that was that. She was everything that I’d heard she was. She was crazy and mercurial, and there were mood swings, and then she was gentle and tender, and then she was manic and nuts. It was all in the course of one dinner. I realized that I was probably better off just listening to the music.
**TB: Is there anybody whose jokes make you think, ”Damn, I wish I’d written that”?**
BV: Sometimes you hear someone else and think, “They sound so coherent!” I hear myself and think, “You sound like you were grasping for air.” But Cary Grant never sat and looked at his movies — while everyone else said, ‘Cary Grant!’ — he would look at himself and think, my tie’s crooked, a spot of makeup is off or something. I’m always comparing myself to people who for some reason seem more collected when they talk. I used to be the press, so I understand the dynamic.
**TB: Selfish question: You were in Mahogany with Diana Ross and Anthony Perkins. Any stories to tell us about the mysterious Tony P.?**
BV: Well, I don’t have many Anthony Perkins stories to share because they’re so dark and sexual. \[Laughs.\] That was a strange movie because it was Diana Ross’ second movie and Berry Gordy fired the director, who was only Tony Richardson. You can imagine the set. We shot everything, then we had to reshoot everything because the picture had to get to Rome, which was prettier than Chicago. Things got rewritten and re-done. This one scene I had, we wrote ourselves. We kept looking down at a piece of paper in front of us, and that’s why we keep looking down — to make sure we knew the lines. The plot had changed. He was a part of that whole thing. He didn’t have too much to shoot in Chicago. I knew him later on when I moved to California because we were neighbors.
**TB: Tell me you’ve had some amazing neighbors in L.A.**
BV: Over the years, yeah. A bizarre collection. I had tons of people — Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland. That’s a couple no one ever talks about anymore. They almost got married. It was almost Runaway Bride! I was in a cute boy cul de sac once with Scott Wolf, Ian Ziering, Christian Slater, and uh, Paul Reiser. They were all my cute boy neighbors. I would think, “Would one of you mow the lawn with your shirt off? It would liven things up.” But no. No, they all had help. They all had third-worlders who did that. Now Ian Ziering’s a guest stripper or guest host at Chippendale’s in Vegas for a limited engagement, running the show. He’s close to 50, so he’s bulked up. He’s musclebound up there with those guys. He’s in unbelievably fabulous shape. Though he has a small daughter he carries around, so that’s maybe how he stays in shape. He’s a cool guy and a sweetheart.
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### [Bruce Vilanch & More Set for 54 Below this Week ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/10/bruce-vilanch-more-set-for-54-below-this-week/)
**Published:** June 10, 2013
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**Broadway World**[**Bruce Vilanch & More Set for 54 Below this Week**
**June 10, 2013**](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2013/06/4-27-2013-3-49-54-AM.png)
Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 [West 54th Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.758279,-73.96786&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.758279,-73.96786 (54th%20Street%20%28Manhattan%29)&t=h "54th Street (Manhattan)"), presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. 54 Below also launched its series of late night events. Joining Tuesday nights’ popular “Backstage” with [Susie Mosher](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Susie-Mosher/)is the “54 Piano Bar,” a new vocal competition – “[The Callback](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Callback "The Callback"),” and more:
**[Judy Kuhn](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Judy-Kuhn/), June 10 & 12 at 7PM:**
Celebrating the release of her brand new album, three-time Tony nominee and star of [Classic Stage Company](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Classic-Stage-Company/)‘s recent re-mounting of *Passion* [Judy Kuhn](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Judy-Kuhn/) makes her 54 Below debut in an evening she describes as “a meditation on love and happiness.” Expect tunes ranging from the popular compositions of [Joni Mitchell](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Joni-Mitchell/) and [Tom Waits](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Tom-Waits/), as well as composers such as [Stephen Sondheim](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Stephen-Sondheim/) and [Adam Guettel](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Adam-Guettel/). Broadway audiences embraced Judy for her work in shows such as *She Loves Me*, *Les Miserables*, *Chess* and *Rags*. She received an Obie Award for her acclaimed [Laura Nyro](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Laura-Nyro/) tribute, *[Eli’s Comin’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%27s_Comin%27 "Eli's Comin'")*. *Cover charge $45-55. $25 food & beverage minimum.*
**THE [SKIVVIES](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergarment "Undergarment"), June 10 at 9:30PM:**
This wit-rock, comedy-pop duo don’t just strip down their musical arrangements, they literally strip down to their underwear to perform their distinctive mashups and eccentric originals for cello and ukulele, with touches of glockenspiel, melodica, and a surprising array of under-used instruments. Award-winning singer-actors [Lauren Molina](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lauren-Molina/) (Marry Me a Little, [Sweeney Todd](http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd-Barber-Street-Blu-ray/dp/B001BN1ZHW%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001BN1ZHW "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Blu-ray]"), Rock of Ages) and [Nick Cearley](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Nick-Cearley/) (All Shook Up) became [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/ "YouTube") sensations as The Skivvies, with living room videos that displayed their powerful harmonies as well as their powerful abs. Those clips led to live shows that The Wall Street Journal called “smart, sophisticated…ingenious,” and a music video directed by [Augusten Burroughs](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Augusten-Burroughs/), bestselling author of Running With Scissors. Joined by special guest stars who will strip down and rock out, expect a hilarious evening of genre-hopping pop perfection. Special Guests: ?Tony Award Winner and star of [NBC’s](http://www.nbcuni.com "NBC Universal") GO ON [Laura Benanti](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Laura-Benanti/), Two time Tony Nominee [Alison Fraser](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Alison-Fraser/),Tony Nominee Rory O’Malley, [Andrew Keenan](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Andrew-Keenan/)-Bolger (Newsies, Submissions Only), [Adam Kantor](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Adam-Kantor/) (Last Five Years, Rent, Next to Normal),[Morgan James](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Morgan-James/) (Motown, Godspell), [Leslie McDonel](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Leslie-McDonel/) (American Idiot, Hairspray, Legally Blonde), and [Wesley Taylo](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Wesley-Taylo/)r (Rock of Ages, The Addams Family, NBC’s SMASH), [Shannon Ford](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Shannon-Ford/) on drums, [Katrina Yaukey](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Katrina-Yaukey/) ([War Horse](http://broadwayworld.com/people/War-Horse/), Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, [Billy Elliot](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Billy-Elliot/)) on accordion and sax. Cover charge $20-30. $25 food & beverage minimum.
**LATE NIGHT: THE CALLBACK- SEMI FINALS, June 10 at 11PM:**
At The Callback on Monday nights, contestants perform for a chance to win their own cabaret show at 54 Below. Contestants are chosen by video audition, their performances recorded and uploaded to 54 Below’s Facebook and Youtube page, and each week, a winner is determined by audience vote to progress to the next round. “The Callback” contestants may also have the chance to sing in front of industry executives and Broadway celebrity guest judges as they move forward in the competition. For more information on “The Callback” rules or how to submit an audition video, please visit [www.54Below.com](http://www.54below.com/). *No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.*
**WBGO JAZZ SERIES: [Bucky Pizzarelli](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bucky-Pizzarelli/), June 11 at 7PM & 9PM:**
[Bucky Pizzarelli](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bucky-Pizzarelli/) is the greatest living rhythm guitarist on planet Earth or anywhere else in the universe, and his Great Guitars are always an exciting musical feast highlighted by swinging standards and tender ballads that make our spirits soard and our hearts melt. *Cover charge $25-35. $15 food & beverage minimum.*
**LATE NIGHT: BACKSTAGE, June 11 at 10:30PM:**
Each week, Broadway cast members and audiences alike gather to mix and mingle at 54 Below, Broadway’s most intimate haunt, located in the heart of the theatre district. Musical Director [Brad Simmons](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Brad-Simmons/) keeps the house jumping from the piano, while host [Susie Mosher](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Susie-Mosher/) (the love child of [Joanne Worley](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Joanne-Worley/) & [Paul Lynde](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Paul-Lynde/)) guides the crowd through an evening of music, mayhem and full throttle belting, with special guests from Broadway and beyond dropping in to perform. NPR had this to say: “The best thing happening right now might just be the weekly Backstage. Hosted by the ridiculously funny [Susie Mosher](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Susie-Mosher/) and pianist [Brad Simmons](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Brad-Simmons/) who clearly is the man, it’s two feel-good hours among New York’s theater people, who seem like they’re having a really fine time. Can’t recommend it highly enough!” At this week’s Backstage is [Morgan James](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Morgan-James/) (Motown, Godspell, Addams Family), [Carly Sakolove](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Carly-Sakolove/) (NEWSical), [Ned Massey](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ned-Massey/) (Four Messages), [Katie Thompson](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Katie-Thompson/) (Big Fish, Giant), Elena Bennet (Jazz vocalist), Lindsay Roginski (Chicago), and [Adam Feldman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Adam-Feldman/) (Time Out NY’s Soulful Troubadour). No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.
**MX. JUSTIN VIV[Ian Bond](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ian-Bond/), June 12 & 13 at 9:30PM**
For six nights in June, Justin Viv[Ian Bond](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ian-Bond/), under the Musical Direction of Emmy Award-winning composer [Lance Horne](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lance-Horne/), will be casting a LOVE spell at 54 below. Earn your merit badge on the ways of LOVE by entering a midsummer night’s dreamscape of musical enchantment featuring a collection of songs with “LOVE” in the title made famous by a wide variety entertainers such as [Lena Horne](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lena-Horne/), Kate Bush, Cat Power, The Gossip, Bronski Beat and MORE! Get ready for the summer of love at 54 Below!… Viva L’Amour! *Cover charge $25-35. $25 food & beverage minimum.*
**LATE NIGHT: THE STUDIO; MAMMA RICE PRESENTS ‘LOVE AND OTHER BULLSHIT’, June 12 at 11PM:**
A Mamma Rice Presentation. Join Mamma Rice as he takes you on a musical tour of the universal absurdities that underpin human relationships, love, and sex, featuring songs by Gershwin, [John ](http://broadwayworld.com/people/John-Cameron-Mitchell/)[Cameron Mitchell](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Cameron-Mitchell/), [Katy Perry](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Katy-Perry/), [Amy Winehouse](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Amy-Winehouse/), and new music from award-winning composers [Mike Pettry](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Mike-Pettry/) and [Drew Gasparini](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Drew-Gasparini/). No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.
**[Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/), June 13 at 7PM & June 14 at 11PM:**
From Mr. Vilanch: “Currently celebrating his fifteenth year as [Lindsay Lohan](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lindsay-Lohan/)‘s sobriety coach, [Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/) is descending to 54 Below, which he is old enough to remember when, to dispatch more updates on his bizarre career behind, before and squatting over the footlights. A *Hairspray* star, a *Hollywood Square* and the latest success story on *Christian Mingle*, (who just hooked him up with a guy who used to be Pope), Bruce has more than a few songs to sing and stories to tell.” *Cover charge $40-50 for 6/13 and $25-35 for 6/14. $25 food & beverage minimum.*
**LATE NIGHT: 54 PIANO BAR, June 13 at 11PM:**
On Thursdays at 11 pm, pick a song and join extraordinary pianist and host [Brian Nash](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Brian-Nash/) as you take your turn on the stage at 54 Piano Bar. See new Broadway talent perform on a whim, and perhaps take part in the ever-popular (and inevitable) audience sing along. *No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.*
**EARLY ELTON, June 14 at 8PM:**
The Gospel/Funk of *Take Me To The Pilot*, the soulful storytelling of *Levon and Amoreena*, the epic-sounding *Burn Down The Mission*, the countrified *Country Comfort*,and the grand scale of *Madman Across The Water* are just a few of the fantastic chapters that make up the Early Elton songbook. Join us for a one night only tribute to the [Elton John](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Elton-John/), Dee Murray, and [Nigel Olsson](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Nigel-Olsson/) trio tours of 1970 – 1972. As the story goes, Elton’s label didn’t have the funds to send him out to tour the US with a full band, yet Elton needed to promote his imminent releases. Having decided on Dee and Nigel, Elton then rearranged the songs and vocals to fit within the limitations of his new lineup. Suddenly, a new sound emerged that was both raw and poignant. [Jeff Kazee](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Jeff-Kazee/) (piano, vocals), Rich Pagano (drums and vocals), and [John Conte](http://broadwayworld.com/people/John-Conte/) (bass and vocals) blur the lines between replication and innovation, while capturing and utilizing the spirit, mood and energy from those early tours. *Cover charge $25-35. $25 food & beverage minimum.*
**[Bryan Batt](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bryan-Batt/), June 15 at 8:30PM & June 16 at 7PM:**
Television audiences know him from his two-time SAG Award-winning performance as Salvatore Romano on the critically acclaimed television series *Mad Men*. But New York audiences have been delighting in Bryan’s performances for decades, including his work in *Jeffrey, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Starlight Express, Joseph…, Sunset Boulevard, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Seussical*, as well as his hilarious long run in [Forbidden Broadway](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Forbidden-Broadway/). Now Bryan makes his triumphant return to 54 Below for two special performances only. Be there! *Cover charge $30-40 for 6/15 and $25-35 for 6/16. $25 food & beverage minimum.*
**MADE FOR EACH OTHER: BROADWAY MEETS ANDREW MCMAHON, June 15 at 11PM:**
Stars from Broadway band together and raise their voices in tribute to the work of singer/songwriter Andrew McMahon. Savvy music mavens know Andrew from his work with his bands Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin. As a solo artist, his tunes were heard most recently on NBC’s Smash. McMahon’s passionate, personal lyrics and melodic, piano-driven music are a perfect fit for some of the most exciting performers from the world of musical theater. Proceeds benefit McMahon’s charity, The Dear Jack Foundation, which provides a powerful voice in the fight against young adult cancer. Guest vocalists will include [Nick Blaemire](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Nick-Blaemire/) (Godspell, Dogfight), [Alex Brightman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Alex-Brightman/) (Big Fish, Wicked), [Ariana DeBose](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ariana-DeBose/) (Motown, Bring It On), [Jake Epstein](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Jake-Epstein/) (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, “Degrassi”), [F. Michael Haynie](http://broadwayworld.com/people/F.-Michael-Haynie/) (Wicked, Dogfight), [Greg Hildreth](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Greg-Hildreth/) (Cinderella, Bloody Bloody [Andrew Jackson](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Andrew-Jackson/)), [Emma Hunton](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Emma-Hunton/)(Rent, Spring Awakening), [Julia Mattison](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Julia-Mattison/) (Godspell), and [Krysta Rodriguez](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Krysta-Rodriguez/) (“Smash,” First Date). Cover charge $35-45. $25 food & beverage minimum.
**AMBER MARTIN, June 16 at 9:30PM:**
This high-octane vocalist belts out a collection of the best songs ever written by acclaimed singer/songwriter [Laura Nyro](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Laura-Nyro/), joined by a bevy of superior musicians. Lovers of [Laura Nyro](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Laura-Nyro/) can expect the evening of their lives as Amber interprets some of Laura’s finest hits along with some very obscure cuts, performed live like they’ve never been heard before. From singing backing vocals for The Scissor Sisters to her sold-out performances in some of New York’s hippest venues, Amber’s shows have been likened to “watching [Ruth Draper](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ruth-Draper/) after she’s come back from an acid trip during which she thought she was [Janis Joplin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Janis-Joplin/).” An acclaimed vocalist and comedic performance artist in the tradition of [Lily Tomlin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/), [Carol Burnett](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Carol-Burnett/) and [Dolly Parton](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Dolly-Parton/), Amber was recently named one of New York’s Top 10 performers by*The New Yorker*. [www.AmberMartin.org](http://ambermartin.org/) *Cover charge $25-35. $20 food & beverage minimum.*
To purchase tickets or for more information, visit [www.54Below.com](http://www.54below.com/) or call (866) 468-7619.
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
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### [Bruce Vilanch Six Time Emmy Award Winner to Appear at 54 Below](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/07/bruce-vilanch-six-time-emmy-award-winner-to-appear-at-54-below/)
**Published:** June 7, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Examiner
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Six Time [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") Winner to Appear at 54 Below
PERFORMING ARTSJUNE 6, 2013BY: SANDI DURELL**
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Bruce Vilanch is ready to rumble at [Broadway’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889%20(Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Nightclub 54 Below on June 13 and 14 as (in his own words) he “is currently celebrating his fifteenth year as [Lindsay Lohan](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan "Lindsay Lohan")‘s sobriety coach.”
Vilanch is surely old enough to remember when . . . and is set to make with the funnies and sing a little this and a little that.
A veteran of Broadway’s “[Hairspray](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7831252441363,-122.410017189091&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.7831252441363,-122.410017189091%20(Hairspray)&t=h "Hairspray")” and [TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television "Television")‘s “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"),” Bruce has a lot to say about a lot of things!
Come laugh along on June 13 and 14 at 54 Below, 254 West 54 Street (Cellar), [NYC](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111%20(New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City")
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**Categories:** Announcement, Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Hairspray, Hollywood Square, Lindsay Lohan, New York City, Television
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### [Video: BRUCE VILANCH on OY VEY CAMPAIGN](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/04/video-bruce-vilanch-on-oy-vey-campaign/)
**Published:** June 4, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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Dear [Friends](http://warnervideo.com/friends15/ "Friends"), Family, Fans & Supporters!
Thanks a lot for the great start on our journey to bring this amazing movie out! Let’s Keep the same way!
At a time when many nations throughout the world are experiencing challenging and troubling times, we feel that people need to laugh, to feel inspired, and to realize that only through acceptance and tolerance can we move forward in creating a better world in which to live.
Please see couple of words on a movie from our amazing star, [Emmy Award winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") comedian & writer, legendary [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")!
So take a break from your stressful life, and help us to spread the word and bring more fun and joy into people’s hearts! Fill them with unconditional love for each other, and at the same time enjoy this hilarious [family movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_film "Family film")! Together we can change our society without any fighting, pushing and yelling; simply through the great message hidden behind the laugher of our amazing cast!
Your support is extremely appreciated. Every dollar can make a difference! One of a kind rewards are waiting for you! Thank you in advance for your contribution! ([www.oyveymovie.com](http://www.oyveymovie.com/) )
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### [Bruce Vilanch At 54 Below June 13, 14 ~ New York](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/06/03/bruce-vilanch-at-54-below-june-13-14-new-york/)
**Published:** June 3, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Thursday, Jun 13 7:00p & Fri, Jun 14 11:00p
54 Below
[New York, NY](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.6641666667,-73.9386111111 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City")**
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From Mr. Vilanch: “Currently celebrating his fifteenth year as [Lindsay Lohan](http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan "Lindsay Lohan")’s sobriety coach, Bruce Vilanch is descending to 54 Below, which he is old enough to remember when, to dispatch more updates on his bizarre career behind, before and squatting over the footlights. A [Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)") star, a [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") Square and the latest success story on Christian Mingle, (who just hooked him up with a guy who used to be [Pope](http://www.va "Pope")), Bruce has more than a few songs to sing and stories to tell.”
[**Event website** ](http://54below.com/wordpress/?page_id=1995)
PHONE (646) 476-3551
PRICE $25 – $50
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Events, Hairspray, Hollywood, Hollywood Square, Lindsay Lohan, Pope
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### [Video: Sneak Peek Of Bruce Vilanch In "Child of the '70s." Season 2 ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/30/video-sneak-peek-of-bruce-vilanch-in-child-of-the-70s-season-2/)
**Published:** May 30, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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A little bit of Bruce Vilanch and Michael Vaccaro from season 2 of “Child of the ’70s.” Season 2 premieres late Spring 2013.
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**Categories:** Comedy Show, Video, Web Series
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### [VIDEO: Bruce To Headline At 54 Below June 13 and 14 2013](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/29/video-bruce-to-headline-at-54-below-june-13-and-14-2013/)
**Published:** May 29, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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Six time Emmy Award-Winning star of TV’s “Hollywood Squares” & Broadway’s Hairspray will be at 54 Below on June 13 and 14 2013
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
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### [Check Out "Child of the '70s" Web Series With Michael Vaccaro & Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/23/check-out-child-of-the-70s-web-series-with-michael-vaccaro-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** May 23, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Child of the ’70s**
Season 3 of Child of the ’70s, a web series/homage to ’70s sitcoms starring Michael Vaccaro,Geri Jewell,Alison Arngrim,Susan Olsen,Bruce Vilanch & Ann Walker.
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch will take the stage at 54 Below on June 13 and 14](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/22/photo-bruce-vilanch-will-take-the-stage-at-54-below-on-june-13-and-14/)
**Published:** May 22, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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Bruce Vilanch will take the stage at 54 Below on June 13 and 14.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Cabaret, Comedy Show
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Gay Comedy And More...](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/16/bruce-vilanch-talks-gay-comedy-and-more/)
**Published:** May 16, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**WestWord
Comedian Bruce Vilanch on being more than a gay caricature
By Josiah M. Hesse Thu., May 16 2013 at 8:34 AM**
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Comedy writing pioneer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is bursting with gayness. One of the first openly gay comedians, he’s known for his continuing role on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") and as a head writer for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") show, as well as writing jokes for [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), Elizabeth Taylor, The Brady Bunch, Donnie and Marie, and Lily Tomlin. (He’s also one of the criminals responsible for the atrocious [Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special"), but we’ll get into that later.)
Vilanch will be featured this Friday at Tracks Gay Comedy Night with Chuck Roy and Hippie Man. In advance of that appearance, we touched base with this iconic joke machine to chat about gay history, [Comedy Central roasts](http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/roast_larry/about/index.jhtml "Comedy Central Roast") and, inevitably, that awful [Star Wars movie](http://www.starwars.com/ "Star Wars") that everyone has tried so hard to forget about.
**Westword:** Even though it often gets overlooked for places like [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7833333333,-122.416666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7833333333,-122.416666667 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") or New York, it seems that Denver does have a significant place in gay history. Did you ever come through here when you were on the road in the ’70s and ’80s?
**Bruce Vilanch:** I was there when I toured with Bette Midler, and every show we did was a gay pride show in one way or another. We played Red Rocks in ’73, and Fiddler’s Green — all the outdoor venues, because it was such an outdoor act. So yeah, I’ve seen it evolve over the years. But you’re right: Everything lives in the shadow of San Francisco.
**With so much of gay history being routed in the entertainment world of bars and cabarets, was there any standup comedy in there, particularly during the years you were coming up?**
Not really. There was some, but not very much in the ’70s and ’80s. There were a lot of cabaret performers, who had a very gay style. I wrote for a lot of them; many were drag queens. Like [Waylon Flowers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_Flowers "Wayland Flowers"), who had a drag queen puppet. But when the big comedy explosion happened in the ’80s, it was such a straight thing. So many people were still in the closet, and those clubs were a bastion of heterosexuality. The jokes were about dating girls and all that, so it was hard for a gay comic to be popular. But there were a few who broke through. Jason Stuart was one of the first ones.
**Looking back, there was a significant amount of homophobia in the jokes that were popular at that time, like Sam Kinison’s AIDS jokes, or even Bill Hick’s bit about lesbians. Do you think that kept a lot of gay comedians in the closet?**
Yeah, they were scared it would be a hostile environment. They didn’t want to be a part of it.
**You still see some of that today in places like the Comedy Central roasts.**
Yes, but many young people today aren’t bigots, because they don’t see people through the same lens. They don’t see the humor in it. So it’s slowly dying away. Now that an NBA player has come out, it’s more difficult to make those kinds of jokes. There will always be jokes about “types,” jokes about ethnicities, women, men — you can’t bleach the humor out of everything in the world, and someone will always be offended by something. But one of the things that is going away is the time-honored joke about being mistaken for being gay. Because what does it matter now?
**But you were an out comedian a time when that did mean something. I was just listening to an interview with David Sedaris, and he was saying that in 1960s North Carolina it was literally the worst label you could have, saying he saw someone on TV he thought might be gay, but then assumed that person wasn’t because they wouldn’t allow a gay man on television.**
Well, I grew up in New York, so it wasn’t the worst thing. New York was more sophisticated and more diverse. In North Carolina it might’ve been the worst thing, because that was the Bible Belt. The last bastion of homophobia is religious bigotry. The last argument left against same-sex marriage is religion. So if you come from a place like the South, in the era where David grew up, then of course it was the worst possible thing. But I came from New York, where being a Nazi was worse. Hands down.
**When you started writing for movies and doing Hollywood Squares, was there complete comfort with being an out comedian?**
I inherited what I call what I call Paul Lynde’s chair. There was always a gay presence on Hollywood Squares — but it was known as “the wacky neighbor,” “the eccentric uncle,” it was always unspoken. We all knew that these guys were gay — like Richard Simmons, Rip Taylor, Charles Nelson Reilly — they all did a certain kind of gay character. But they never referred to their sexuality. I was one of the first to actually talk about it, talk about guys I was dating.
I got in a lot of trouble with that, a lot of the affiliates in places like Texas didn’t want to hear any of that. I would get feedback from the producers saying that the guy who runs a station in Waco, Texas, called saying, “He’s very funny, but why must he be so gay?” But those were usually the same people who called about Whoopi and asked, why must she be so black?
That’s part of the reason Ellen [DeGeneres](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres "Ellen DeGeneres")‘s sitcom got cancelled. She’d told the network that as soon as I come out, who am I going to date on the show? I’m going to have to start dating other women. Why don’t you just take the show off the air after the coming-out episode, because you’re not going to be happy. And they said no, that the ratings were too great. Well, exactly what she prophesied came to pass — six months later they dumped the show. And it was for all the reasons she said they would.
**Beyond your character, you’re known primarily for writing jokes for other comics. And while I don’t want to say there’s a specifically gay personality type, there often can be a kind of gay comedy style. Did you inject any of that flavor into the jokes you were writing for straight comics?**
Probably. But it wasn’t deliberate. It was probably just the mindset I was in. Some of the things I wrote for Whoopi had a certain gay slant. We had one joke on the Oscars after she’d dressed as Queen Elizabeth, and she said, “Sorry, I had to get out of that costume. You can’t rush a queen — if you’ve ever had you’re hair done, you know you can’t rush a queen.” So it was a joke about how all gay people are hairdressers. It was a joke in quotes. I’ve done that here and there.
I certainly did that when Bette was starting. The voice that the Divine Miss M had was the voice of a gay man. Which was what made her so entertaining, among other things. You didn’t hear a woman speak like that — you heard a lot of men speak like that, if you were paying attention. One of the reasons she was attracted to that, was it was about being on the outside looking in. As a woman she was on the outside looking at all the beautiful people saying, “I’m beautiful too, you just don’t know it yet.” And that’s a very traditional gay thing, and a traditional Jewish thing: I can’t be a part of your world, so I’m going to create my own world.”
**You’ve also written a lot for Robin Williams, and it seems like that gay flavor of comedy works very well for him, too. Even though he’s a straight male.**
That’s true, he does have that attitude. I was going to say he’s pansexual, but that’s not quite right — he’s Peter Pan-sexual. He adopts all kinds of attitudes. And when he suddenly spews them out they’re fully formed characters. You know exactly who that guy or that woman is that he’s doing, but he’ll only give you two lines. It’s an entire character in two lines, and then he’ll move onto the next one — that’s his genius.
**There’s one thing I want to touch on that has nothing to do with gay culture, it’s more for my own personal curiosity: You were involved in writing The Star Wars Holiday Special.**
God yes, and proud of it!
**Seriously?**
Sure. I’m writing a book write now, and I’m thinking of titling it: How I Wrote the Three Worst Television Shows in History. There’s The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which is a work of rare art. And there are so many vying for third place. They tend to be the ones I hear the most about from people. They look me up on IMDB and say, “Oh, my god, you did that? That was so awful!”
**As a big Star Wars geek, one of the many failures that stands out to me about The Holiday Special is the idea — whoever was responsible for it — that a family of wookies could be entertaining in a domestic setting. I mean, the first twenty minutes of the film has no English dialogue, it’s all wookies grunting at each other. Who thought a wookies could carry a movie with lead roles?**
That was George Lucas’s idea. I’ll probably tell the story on Friday night. George had about ten stories ready to go, and six of them he sold off as films, and The Holiday Special was the last one left in the pile. I don’t think even he thought it was going to be done anywhere.
He buried it forever, but then people put it on the Internet. So a whole generation of kids who had grown up watching the first three movies on their VCRs discovered there was this thing they never knew existed, that was done before many of them were probably born. And they looked at it and said, “Holy shit! What a desecration — how could he!” And they went after him for it. Chatrooms were lit aflame.
*Bruce Vilanch will perform with Chuck Roy and Hippie Man at 8 p.m., Friday, May 17, at Tracks, 3500 Walnut Street. Tickets are $20: for more information visit [www.tracksdenver.com](http://www.tracksdenver.com)*
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### [Comedy Night With Bruce Vilanch At Tracks, Denver, May 17, Friday](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/05/05/comedy-night-with-bruce-vilanch-at-tracks-denver-may-17-friday/)
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**Tracks
Six-time [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") Winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") performs at the EXDO Event Center, with special guests Chuck Roy and Hippieman
May 5, 2013**
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**BRUCE VILANCH** – one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry – is performing LIVE at the EXDO Event Center as Tracks presents “Gay Comedy Night with Bruce Vilanch” on Friday, May 17th at 8pm (doors open 7pm). Also performing are Denver-based comedians Chuck Roy and Hippieman.
Tickets for this comedy spectacle are only $15 presale ($20 at the door) and all presale ticket holders get to meet Bruce. All ticket purchases include free entry into the Tracks Nightclub.
**ABOUT BRUCE VILANCH**
Known for his eclectic eyewear and collection of unique T-shirts, Bruce Vilanch began as a child model for Lane Bryant, but soon he became an entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune. Impressed by his review of her cabaret performance in 1970, [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") hired him to punch up her act where he gave birth to Midler’s famed Sophie Tucker jokes. He later moved to Los Angeles where he wrote for variety shows like the original “Donny and Marie” and “[The Brady Bunch Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Hour "The Brady Bunch Hour")” (both ABC) and provided material for Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin and Joan Rivers. He maintained his connection with Midler through the years, working on such projects as the feature “Divine Madness” (1980) and the TV special “Bette Midler–[Diva Las Vegas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_Las_Vegas "Diva Las Vegas")” (HBO, 1997), as well as writing for her short-lived but lively sitcom, “Bette!” (CBS, 2000).
Bruce Vilanch began contributing to [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecasts in 1989, collaborating with the likes of [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and David Letterman, graduating to head writer in 2000. He has roasted celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and President Clinton. He has also scripted most of the Academy Awards telecasts over the last decade, two of which won Emmys, including the one featuring Billy Crystal’s Hannibal Lecter entrance. Mr. Vilanch has also written for The Tony’s, The Grammy’s, and The Emmy’s, to name few. He also participates and volunteers at almost every charity function, especially those dealing with GLBT issues.
**ABOUT CHUCK ROY**
Chuck Roy is “The Bear”, a comedian and host of some of the biggest shows at [Comedy Works](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_Works "Comedy Works"). Chuck’s TV credits include “Will & Grace,” “[3rd Rock from the Sun](http://www.3rdrock.com/ "3rd Rock from the Sun")” and “Last Comic Standing.” This year Chuck co-stars in EUGE!, a new internet radio show starring Eugene Kenny Monday nights at 6pm on tRadioV.com. Chuck joins this podcast of veteran comedians to quiz an amateur comic about upcoming gigs, joke ideas and PR strategy.
**ABOUT HIPPIEMAN**
John Novosad, a.k.a. “Hippieman” is a stand-up comedian based out of the Comedy Works in Denver, Colorado. John has performed in clubs, theatres and weird little coffee houses across the country for almost three decades. Yes, there were some day jobs along the way.
John grew up in Boulder, Colorado – which is a damn good place to be from if you’re Hippieman. He made his comedic debut sometime around 1980 at the Blue Note in Boulder. John has toured extensively over the years and continues to do so. He’s also a featured performer at The Comedy Works, sharing the stage with some of the biggest national acts working today.
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### [Catch Bruce Vilanch At 54 Below June 13th & 14th ~ A Must See!](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/29/catch-bruce-vilanch-at-54-below-june-13th-14th-a-must-see/)
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### [Jimmy Buffett and Bruce Vilanch Visit Big Fish in Chicago](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/25/jimmy-buffett-and-bruce-vilanch-visit-big-fish-in-chicago/)
**Published:** April 25, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
PHOTO CALL: [Jimmy Buffett](http://margaritaville.com "Jimmy Buffett") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Visit Big Fish in [Chicago](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago")
April 25, 2013**
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Jimmy Buffett and his Parrothead Productions partner [Frank Marshall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_%28chess_player%29 "Frank Marshall (chess player)"), along with [Emmy](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winning comedian Bruce Vilanch, checked out a performance of Big Fish in Chicago on April 23. The trio made a stop backstage to pose for photos with the stars of the show along with director, [Susan Stroman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Stroman "Susan Stroman").
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, Emmy, Emmy Award, Frank Marshall, Jimmy Buffett, Susan Stroman
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### [Bruce Vilanch is coming back to his home state to do a bit of "sit-down" comedy.](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/25/bruce-vilanch-is-coming-back-to-his-home-state-to-do-a-bit-of-sit-down-comedy/)
**Published:** April 25, 2013
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") returns to home state for comedy show
THURSDAY APRIL 25, 2013, 11:01 AM
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD**
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Bruce Vilanch is coming back to his home state to do a bit of “sit-down” comedy.
“I sit on a stool. It’s not like traditional stand-up. I tell a lot of stories about my life and times and the work that I’ve done,” says Vilanch, a native Patersonian who will be performing at Ramapo College in [Mahwah](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.0886111111,-74.1438888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.0886111111,-74.1438888889 (Mahwah%2C%20New%20Jersey)&t=h "Mahwah, New Jersey"). “I rarely do comedy clubs, because it’s a different energy. I come from a different tradition, I guess, although that sounds so dry.”
What does not sound a bit dry, though, is a topic Vilanch promises to do a lot of gabbing about — The Oscars.
Though he’s quick to note that he had nothing to do with this year’s telecast — which [Seth MacFarlane](http://twitter.com/sethmacfarlane "Seth MacFarlane") helmed — Vilanch has been head writer for many other [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") shows. “Twenty-three years’ worth of being backstage. It’s like 23 Super Bowls,” the Emmy winner says. “I talk about a lot of things we came up with on the spot. I talk about things that we almost did, but fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.”
the details
WHO: Bruce Vilanch.
WHAT: Comedy.
WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday.
WHERE: Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, [Ramapo College of New Jersey](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.0827777778,-74.1780555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.0827777778,-74.1780555556 (Ramapo%20College)&t=h "Ramapo College"), 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah; 201-684-7844 or ramapo.edu/berrie center/index.html.
HOW MUCH: $25to $35; under age 17 $20.
He adds, “This year, there were no cooler heads. … the first half-hour of the show was all about how the host was bombing. It was an unusual choice.”
Of course, Vilanch notes, “I worked with James Franco, which was almost as terrifying.”
Franco and [Anne Hathaway](http://www.last.fm/music/Anne%2BHathaway "Anne Hathaway") were widely panned when they co-hosted the 2011 Oscars.
“He was out of his comfort zone and he was next to Anne Hathaway, who is a precision instrument,” Vilanch says. “So, he made her look particularly robotic and phony, because he was so invisible, so not present. He was conspicuous by his presence.”
And then there’s [Johnny Depp](http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny%2BDepp "Johnny Depp"), another actor for whom he has written Academy Awards material. “He’s not difficult so much as … he doesn’t know who he is when he’s onstage and he doesn’t have a character to play,” Vilanch says.
Vilanch also plans to talk about his stint as head writer and celebrity square on “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")” (“It was six glorious years and we have many stories about that”) and — because he’ll be in Mahwah — about his Jersey childhood.
“I was a child model and a child actor,” says Vilanch, who was born in Manhattan but brought to Paterson at 4 days old. “I was just never a child star, or we’d be having this conversation in rehab.”
His mother, Henne Vilanch, now 93, lives in Hackensack. “She’s incredible. She’s absolutely staggering. She plays cards every day. She’s all there. And a Record reader,” Vilanch says.
On a visit home a few months ago, he went back to Paterson. “Somebody told me that they had reopened the Fabian Theater, which is where I kind of grew up watching movies. So, I went back to see it, and of course, that building is gone. They put up \[a multiplex\] on the site, and they called it the Fabian, which is amazing that anybody remembers. They probably all think it was \[named for\] the old rock-and-roll star from my childhood and not Jacob Fabian, leader of the Jewish community, who was in the movie business like one or two other Jews,” said Vilanch, who is also Jewish.
At Oscar time this year, Vilanch was performing on a gay cruise. During the actual telecast, he says, “I was on a ship between Australia and New Zealand, and the satellite signal went down, so I didn’t really get to see it until I got home a week later, by which time everything had blown over and the only one who made a clean getaway was [Shirley Bassey](http://www.dameshirleybassey.com "Shirley Bassey").”
Asked to evaluate MacFarlane’s performance as host, he says, “I think he’s a great writer, but not a terrific performer, and to me, it had no sense of occasion. … I thought it was the wrong note. But they were doing cartwheels because the ratings were up.”
Vilanch believes that the big boost in viewership came from the fact that six of the nominated films were box-office hits. “People tune in because they’ve seen the movies,” Vilanch says.
It’s too early for Vilanch to know if he’ll be working on next year’s Oscar telecast, but if he does, he knows that he’ll face the usual challenge.
“It’s like reinventing the wheel every year, and like the wheel, it always comes out looking the same. But they carry on like they’re going to do it differently,” Vilanch says, noting that both the Academy and the network have “so many hard and fast rules in play … it’s difficult to make it much different from the year before, because you’ve got the same task. As long as the Academy won’t jettison any of the awards, it’s always going to be long and always going to involve a lot of people you’ve never seen or heard of. There are only four acting awards, as opposed to the [Golden Globes](http://cdn.goldenglobes.org/ "Golden Globe Award") that give like 24 acting awards. So, it’s never going to be that kind of a party. But it is the Oscars and it’s got 86 years of tradition and meaning … so it has that going for it.”
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**Categories:** Comedy Show
**Tags:** Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood Square, Oscar, Ramapo College, Seth MacFarlane, vilanch
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### [Jackie Collins, Michael Childers, Bruce Vilanch Headline AIDS Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/25/jackie-collins-michael-childers-bruce-vilanch-headline-aids-benefit/)
**Published:** April 25, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") Life
[Jackie Collins](http://www.jackiecollins.com "Jackie Collins"), Michael Childers, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Headline AIDS Benefit
April 25, 2013**
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[New York Times bestselling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list "The New York Times Best Seller list") author Jackie Collins, award winning photographer of the stars Michael Childers, and comedy writer Bruce Vilanch (pictured left) are joining forces to co-host “Hollywood Dine and Dish: The Tinseltown Stories You Haven’t Heard,” on Nov. 15.
This evening benefits the AIDS Assistance Program (AAP) in Palm Springs, and will include hors d’oeuvres, drinks and dinner courtesy of Brad and Lynne Toles of Savoury’s Catering. The event will take place in Rancho Mirage at the Waterford estate of Bob Deville and Bob Bennion, co-owners of Windermere Real Estate Southern California.
Proceeds from each ticket purchased will go directly to AAP, according to Executive Director Mark Anton.
Tickets are available for $1,000 per person or $1,500 per couple. The cost is tax deductible. Remaining seats may also be purchased during the live auction at the “Evening Under the Stars” gala featuring Cyndi Lauper on May 11. To attend the event, call Anton at (760) 325-8481.
Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the late director Louis Malle and dubbed “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by [Vanity Fair magazine](http://www.vanityfair.com "Vanity Fair (magazine)"). With more than 500 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, Collins is one of the world’s top-selling novelists.
Childers is one of the entertainment industry’s most renowned and highly respected portrait, fashion and art photographers who began his career in the 1960s and continues to influence the world of art photography today. He has been instrumental in capturing the beauty and magnetism of such explosive young stars as Mel Gibson, Demi Moore, Richard Gere, John Travolta, [Sissy Spacek](http://www.last.fm/music/Sissy%2BSpacek "Sissy Spacek") and [Michelle Pfeiffer](http://www.last.fm/music/Michelle%2BPfeiffer "Michelle Pfeiffer"), Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood, and Elton John.
Vilanch is a two-faced fella: Bearded, he is one of the most sought-after comedy writers in Hollywood, winner of a bunch of Emmys, and noted as the “Hollywood Square” just to the left of [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"). Shaved, he spent two years as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Hairspray-Polyester-Desperate-Flamingos/dp/B00006JMRS%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00006JMRS "John Waters Collection (Hairspray / Pecker / Polyester / Desperate Living / Pink Flamingos / Female Trouble)"), Baltimore housewife and superstar, on tour and on Broadway, in the smash musical adaptation of the John Waters film, Hairspray.
In addition to Hairspray, he has appeared in Ice Pirates, Mahogany, and The Morning After. A frequent guest on talk shows, Vilanch won his Emmys for co-writing back-to-back Oscar shows with Billy Crystal. He was also nominated for an Emmy as a lyricist on [Eartha Kitt](http://www.earthakitt.com/ "Eartha Kitt")’s gold-selling album, “Where Is My Man”.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Eartha Kitt, Hairspray, Jackie Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sissy Spacek, Vanity Fair, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Bruce Vilanch Brings Comedy To Mahwah, New Jersey April 27, 2013](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/10/bruce-vilanch-brings-comedy-to-mahwah-new-jersey-april-27-2013/)
**Published:** April 10, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mahwah Patch
Academy Awards Head Writer Coming to Mahwah
April 10, 2013**
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is coming to Mahwah for a one-night stand-up comedy gig, [Ramapo College](http://mahwah.patch.com/listings/ramapo-college-of-new-jersey) announced this week. The College’s Berrie Center released the following information about the event:
> Multi [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award")-Winner Bruce Vilanch brings his hysterical stand-up act to the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts at [Ramapo College of New Jersey](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.0827777778,-74.1780555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.0827777778,-74.1780555556 (Ramapo%20College)&t=h "Ramapo College") on Saturday, April 27, at 8 p.m.
>
> Vilanch has been the head writer for the past 23 Academy Award ceremonies. Bruce Vilanch has also written for hosts such as [David Letterman](http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/ "David Letterman"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), and [James Franco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco "James Franco"). Additionally, he has written for Bette Midler, Cher, Robin Williams, [Diana Ross](http://www.dianaross.de/ "Diana Ross") and Star Wars Jedis. Roger Ebert praised Bruce Vilanch as being “a foil, a collaborator, a dueling partner, \[and\] a lateral thinker,” who helps stars and hosts move in the direction they want to go.
>
> Audiences may recognize Bruce Vilanch for his years on television’s [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") with Whoopi Goldberg and for his Broadway run as “Edna Turnblad” in the smash hit “Hairspray.” Vilanch has also been featured in the [TV-movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_film "Television film") “It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas” and the documentary “[Get Bruce!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")”
>
> Tickets for Comedy with Bruce Vilanch are $35, $32 and $25. To purchase tickets, phone the box office at (201) 684-7844 or [go online](http://www.ramapo.edu/berriecenter/events/aprilmay.html).
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**Categories:** Announcement, Comedy Show
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Tyne Daly, Sutton Foster And A Host Of Celebrities Head AIDS Fundraiser "Broadway My Way" Tonight](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/06/bruce-vilanch-tyne-daly-sutton-foster-and-a-host-of-celebrities-head-aids-fundraiser-broadway-my-way-tonight/)
**Published:** April 6, 2013
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**Frontiers LA
S.T.A.G.E. Fundraiser Comes to [SoCal](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0,-117.0&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0,-117.0 (Southern%20California)&t=h "Southern California")
Posted 4/6/2013 2:05:00 PM**
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Who knew one theatre could contain so many celebrities?
Tonight is the 29th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event at the [Saban Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0647222222,-118.375&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0647222222,-118.375 (Saban%20Theatre)&t=h "Saban Theatre") in Beverly Hills. This year’s AIDS fundraiser is called “Broadway My Way” and promises an amazing cavalcade of celebrities.
The list includes Longtime Companion’s Patrick Cassidy, former Cagney & Lacey star Tyne Daly, Phantom of the Opera’s Davis Gaines, The Brady Bunch’s [Florence Henderson](http://www.flohome.com/ "Florence Henderson"), [The Partridge Family](http://www.last.fm/music/The%2BPartridge%2BFamily "The Partridge Family")‘s [Shirley Jones](http://www.shirleyjones.com/ "Shirley Jones"), the ‘often mistaken for Kathy Griffin’s stunt double’ News Radio’s Vicki Lewis, Laugh-In legend [Joanne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley"), Oscar writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Tony winner and Bunheads’ star [Sutton Foster](http://suttonfoster.com "Sutton Foster") and The New Normal’s [Andrew Rannells](http://facebook.com/andrewrannells "Andrew Rannells").
Rannells will be performing the song “What Kind of Fool Am I” from the musical [Stop the World, I Want To Get Off](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_World_%E2%80%93_I_Want_to_Get_Off "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"), made famous by Sammy Davis Jr.—a star for which Rannells is often mistaken. Bruce will be doing a number from A Chorus Line but wouldn’t confirm or deny if it is “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three” aka “Tits and Ass.” Don’t worry about Vilanch’s ability to keep up with other performers, as he performed in Hairspray for over two years.
The S.T.A.G.E. performance is the longest-running AIDS benefit event in the world. Bruce told me that when he left rehearsal on Thursday, Florence Henderson was practicing her number, which involved a whip. Now if that doesn’t convince you to go, I bet it’s enough for Barry Williams.
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**Categories:** Benefits, Charities
**Tags:** Andrew Rannells, Bruce Vilanch, Florence Henderson, Jo Anne Worley, Partridge Family, Saban Theatre, Shirley Jones, Sutton Foster
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### [West Coast Broadway, My Way Benefit, With Tyne Daly, Andrew Rannells, Bruce Vilanch, Lillias White, Held April 6](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/04/06/west-coast-broadway-my-way-benefit-with-tyne-daly-andrew-rannells-bruce-vilanch-lillias-white-held-april-6/)
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**Playbill
West Coast Broadway, My Way Benefit, With [Tyne Daly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Daly "Tyne Daly"), [Andrew Rannells](http://facebook.com/andrewrannells "Andrew Rannells"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Lillias White, Held April 6
By Michael Gioia
06 Apr 2013**
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Tony Award winner Tyne Daly (Gypsy) and The Book of Mormon Tony nominee Andrew Rannells are among the lineup of performers taking part in the 29th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), Broadway, My Way, April 6 at the [Saban Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0647222222,-118.375&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0647222222,-118.375 (Saban%20Theatre)&t=h "Saban Theatre") in Beverly Hills.
The one-night-only performance benefits [AIDS Project Los Angeles](http://apla.org/pdfs/APLA_Fact_Sheet.pdf "AIDS Project Los Angeles"), one of the largest non-profit [AIDS service organizations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_service_organization "AIDS service organization") in the U.S. that provides bilingual direct services, prevention education and leadership on HIV/AIDS-related policy and legislation.
Scheduled to appear are Rannells (The Book of Mormon, Hairspray), Patrick Cassidy (42nd Street), Carole Cook (42nd Street), Karen Culliver (The Phantom of the Opera), Daly (Master Class), Davis Gaines (The Phantom of the Opera), Florence Henderson (The Girl Who Came to Supper), Shirley Jones (42nd Street), Jane Lanier (Guys and Dolls), Vicki Lewis (Chicago), Kimberly Locke (“American Idol”), Tom Lowe, Pat Marshall ([The Pajama Game](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pajama_Game "The Pajama Game")), Patricia Morison (The King and I), Janis Paige (Mame), Madison Claire Parks, Valarie Pettiford (Fosse), Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray), Jim Bailey, Mary Jo Catlett (The Pajama Game), Joely Fisher (Cabaret), Kathy Garrick, Gordon Goodman (Hear! Hear!), Marsha Kramer (Peter Pan), [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") (The Drowsy Chaperone), The MuMos, Alex Newell (“Glee”), Michael Orland, Lisa Vroman (Aspects of Love), Lillias White (The Life) and Terri White (Follies).
George Gray is the celebrity auctioneer. The event is directed by David Galligan with music direction by John McDaniel.
Special guests at Broadway, My Way include Mackenzie Bourg (“The Voice”), Charo, Carolyn Hennesy (“True Blood”), [Bret Lockett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Lockett "Bret Lockett") (NY Jets) and Jack McGee (“Rescue Me”).
The Saban Theatre is located at 8440 Wilshire Boulevard in [Beverly Hills, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0730555556,-118.399444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0730555556,-118.399444444 (Beverly%20Hills%2C%20California)&t=h "Beverly Hills, California"). For more information and tickets, visit StageLA.com or APLA.org/Stage.
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**Tags:** AIDS, Andrew Rannells, Bret Lockett, Bruce Vilanch, Jo Anne Worley, Pajama Game, Saban Theatre, Tyne Daly
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### [Catch Me If You Can Premiere: Celebrity guests included Jo Anne Worley, Bruce Vilanch, Linda Hart, Charlene Tilton and Ed Ames among others. ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/03/20/based-on-the-hit-dreamworks-film-and-the-true-story-that-inspired-it-the-high-flying-broadway-musical-catch-me-if-you-can-officially-opened-its-run-march-12-24-2013-at-hollywoods-pantages-theatr/)
**Published:** March 20, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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Based on the hit [DreamWorks](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.157326,-118.285096&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.157326,-118.285096 (DreamWorks)&t=h "DreamWorks") film and the true story that inspired it, the high-flying Broadway musical [CATCH ME IF YOU CAN](http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Me-If-You-Can/dp/0767905385%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0767905385 "Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake") officially opened its run March 12 – 24, 2013 at Hollywood’s [Pantages Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.10194,-118.32556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.10194,-118.32556 (Pantages%20Theatre%20%28Hollywood%29)&t=h "Pantages Theatre (Hollywood)"). Broadway World’s own Michael Sterling and Jerry Evans of the JLE Media Group were on hand to chat with the stars at the glamorous red carpet event. Celebrity guests included Max Ehrich, Ruta Lee, [Jo Anne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley"), Bruce Vilanch, [Anna Trebunskaya](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Trebunskaya "Anna Trebunskaya"), Davis Gaines, Linda Hart, Raphael Sabarge, Charlene Tilton and Ed Ames among others. Check out the video below!
Nominated for four Tony Awards and six [Drama Desk Awards](http://www.dramadesk.com/ "Drama Desk Award"), CATCH ME IF YOU CAN features a [Tony Award-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") creative team, with a book by [Terrence McNally](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_McNally "Terrence McNally") (The Full Monty, Ragtime), an irresistible score by Marc Shaiman & [Scott Wittman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wittman "Scott Wittman") (Hairspray), choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Legally Blonde) and direction by Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
Tickets for CATCH ME IF YOU CAN may be purchased online at www.HollywoodPantages.com or www.Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 1- 800-982-2787. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Pantages Box Office and all Ticketmaster outlets. The Pantages Theatre is located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard, just east of Vine Street, and the box office opens daily at 10am except for holidays.
For more information on CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (the tour), please visit www.catchmeontour.com.
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**Tags:** Anna Trebunskaya, Drama Desk Award, DreamWorks, Full Monty, Jo Anne Worley, Los Angeles, Pantages Theatre, Tony Award
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### [An Intimate Evening With Bruce Vilanch Thursday, Mar 28 7:00p ~ Dallas, TX](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/02/28/an-intimate-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-thursday-mar-28-700p-dallas-tx/)
**Published:** February 28, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**An Intimate Evening With [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Thursday, Mar 28 7:00p
[More dates & times (1)](http://listings.dallasnews.com/dallas_tx/events/show/311391383-an-intimate-evening-with-bruce-vilanch#dates_and_times)
Station 4 and the Rose Room
[Dallas, TX](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.7827777778,-96.8038888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.7827777778,-96.8038888889 (Dallas)&t=h "Dallas")**
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He’s the [head writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_writer "Head writer") for the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). He has written for Barbra and [Bette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_%28TV_series%29 "Bette (TV series)"). He’s got 6 [Emmy Awards](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award"), and he’s coming to the Rose Room for “An Intimate Evening with Bruce Vilanch”. Thursday, March 28 at 8p and 11p. The funniest man in [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") tells stories you won’t want to miss.
**[VIP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_Person "Very Important Person") tickets include a Meet & Greet with Bruce after the show!**
**To Buy Tickets:** [**Click Here**](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/346635)
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Barbra, Bette, Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Hollywood, Oscar
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### [See Bruce Vilanch At The "Child of the '70s!" Season 1 Premiere Party! ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/02/24/see-bruce-vilanch-at-the-child-of-the-70s-season-1-premiere-party/)
**Published:** February 24, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Check out the series as well:** [**Click Here**](http://www.youtube.com/user/ChildOfTheSeventies1?feature=watch)
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### [Video: Bruce Talks Oscars, Seth MacFarlane, And Barbra Streisand](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/02/09/video-bruce-talks-oscars-seth-macfarlane-and-barbra-streisand/)
**Published:** February 9, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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On the latest episode of Gwissues, host [Howard Bragman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bragman "Howard Bragman") sits down with comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") for a ‘one-on-one’ interview.
Vilanch talks to Bragman about having written for the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") for the last 23 years, including a joke former host [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal") wouldn’t say, asks Vilanch’s opinion on this year’s host, [Seth MacFarlane](http://www.last.fm/music/Seth%2BMacFarlane "Seth MacFarlane"), and about [Barbra Streisand](http://barbrastreisand.com "Barbra Streisand")’s much anticipated performance.
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Video
**Tags:** Academy Award, Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Gwissues, Howard Bragman, Neil Meron, Seth MacFarlane
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, and More Set for West Coast Broadway, My Way Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/02/04/bruce-vilanch-sutton-foster-and-more-set-for-west-coast-broadway-my-way-benefit/)
**Published:** February 4, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill**
**Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, and More Set for West Coast Broadway, My Way Benefit**
**Feb. 4, 2013**
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Two-time [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") winner [Sutton Foster](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/98903/Sutton-Foster) and *The Boo*k of Mormon Tony nominee [Andrew Rannells](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/102858/Andrew-Rannells) are among the performers who will take part in the 29th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), *Broadway, My Way*, April 6 at the [Saban Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saban_Theatre "Saban Theatre") in Beverly Hills.
The one-night-only performance will benefit [AIDS Project Los Angeles](http://apla.org/pdfs/APLA_Fact_Sheet.pdf "AIDS Project Los Angeles"), one of the largest non-profit [AIDS service organizations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_service_organization "AIDS service organization") in the U.S. that provides bilingual direct services, prevention education and leadership on HIV/AIDS-related policy and legislation.
Other Broadway stars scheduled to appear include [Patrick Cassidy](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/67728/Patrick-Cassidy) (*[42nd Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7552777778,-73.9852777778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7552777778,-73.9852777778 (42nd%20Street%20%28Manhattan%29)&t=h "42nd Street (Manhattan)")*), Carole Cook (*42nd Street*), Karen Culliver (*The Phantom of the Opera*), [Tyne Daly](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51046/Tyne-Daly) (*Master Class*), [Davis Gaines](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/56783/Davis-Gaines) (*The Phantom of the Opera*), [Florence Henderson](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/81771/Florence-Henderson) (*The Girl Who Came to Supper*), [Shirley Jones](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/46515/Shirley-Jones) (*42nd Street*), [Jane Lanier](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4630/Jane-Lanier) (*Guys and Dolls*), Vicki Lewis (*Chicago*), Kimberly Locke (“American Idol”), Tom Lowe, Pat Marshall (*The Pajama Game*), [Patricia Morison](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/68367/Patricia-Morison) (*The King and I*), [Janis Paige](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61200/Janis-Paige) (*Mame*), Madison Claire Parks, [Valarie Pettiford](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/53587/Valarie-Pettiford) (*Fosse*), [Andrew Samonsky](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/102948/Andrew-Samonsky) (*Scandalous*),[James Snyder](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61594/James-Snyder) (*Cry-Baby*), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24838/Bruce-Vilanch) (*Hairspray*) and [JoAnne Worley](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/114526/JoAnne-Worley)(*[The Drowsy Chaperone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drowsy_Chaperone "The Drowsy Chaperone")*).
Additional performers will be announced at a later date.
Foster received Tony Awards for her performances in *Anything Goes* and *Thoroughly Modern Millie*. She also originated roles in *Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone* and *Young Frankenstein* and currently stars in the ABC Family series “Bunheads.”
Rannells has also appeared on Broadway in*Hairspray* and *Jersey Boys* and currently stars in the Golden Globe-winning HBO comedy series “Girls” as well as NBC’s “The New Normal.”
The Saban Theatre is located at 8440 Wilshire Boulevard in [Beverly Hills, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0730555556,-118.399444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0730555556,-118.399444444 (Beverly%20Hills%2C%20California)&t=h "Beverly Hills, California"). For more information and tickets, visit [StageLA.com](http://www.stagela.com/) or [APLA.org/Stage](http://www.apla.org/stage).
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**Tags:** Andrew Rannells, Broadway, Drowsy Chaperone, HBO, NBC, Saban Theatre, Sutton Foster, Tony Award
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### ["Walk A Mile In My Pradas" Out On DVD](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/01/27/walk-a-mile-in-my-pradas-out-on-dvd/)
**Published:** January 27, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Big Gay Picture
Walk A Mile In My Pradas ([DVD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD"))
JANUARY 26, 2013 BY TIM ISAAC**
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One of the themes that seems to be emerging in populist gay cinema at the moment is doing [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") versions of stories that mainstream movies have played with numerous times before. For example a couple of months ago we had a gay Christmas Carol with Scrooge & Marley, and now the [Freaky Friday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaky_Friday_%282003_film%29 "Freaky Friday (2003 film)") body swap film that gets a homo spin – although this time it’s a sexuality swap.
[Tony](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") ([Nathaniel Marston](http://www.nathanielmarston.net "Nathaniel Marston")) is a macho construction worker who’s preparing to marry his girlfriend. His latest job puts him under the supervision of the openly gay Steve, which brings Tony’s homophobic tendencies bubbling to the surface, culminating in a row at a [Christmas party](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas "Christmas"). They accidentally cast a festive wish on one another in front a magical Christmas angel which results in Tony becoming gay and Steve turning straight.
As you can probably guess, this causes more than a few issues, with Steve’s boyfriend very confused by his partner’s sudden interest in breasts, while Tom has no idea why he’s spent his entire life thinking about women but is now fantasising about guys. It also puts a fly in the ointment of his wedding plans.
Hijinks ensure, lessons are learned and much confusion arises (although more unexpectedly the bride-to-be seems amazingly tolerant of her beau’s new tendencies). It’s all pretty genial, with some funny lines and a tone that tries hard to keep you entertained.
Admittedly it treats sexuality in an overly simplistic fashion, so that a lot of interesting questions about a [gay man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay "Gay") becoming straight and vice-versa are either ignored or glossed over, but it’s not the sort of film that wants you to take things too seriously. It just wants to have a bit of fun and leave us with a simple message about tolerance (and you can guess what that message is from the title).
Unusually for a low budget gay movie, a few familiar faces turn up such as [Tom Arnold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Arnold_%28actor%29 "Tom Arnold (actor)") and [Dee Wallace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Wallace "Dee Wallace"). There’s also a brief cameo from comedian and writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who’s increasingly becoming a compulsory part of every American LGBT comedy – seriously, this is the third gay movie I’ve reviewed in the past six months that he’s popped up in.
It’s not an amazing movie, but it’s entertaining enough and should keep you entertained.
**Overall Verdict:** A body-swap flick for sexuality is a great idea, and while we may have to wait for the definitive take on this set-up, Walk A Mile In My Pradas is pretty entertaining.
Reviewer: Tim Isaac
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**Categories:** DVD
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Christmas, Dee Wallace, DVD, Freaky Friday, LGBT, Nathaniel Marston, Tom Arnold
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### [Resurrecting 'The Deep Throat Sex Scandal' ](https://wegotbruce.com/2013/01/11/resurrecting-the-deep-throat-sex-scandal/)
**Published:** January 11, 2013
**Author:** MisterD
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**Hollywood Patch
Resurrecting ‘The [Deep Throat](http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Deep-Throat-Theatrical-NC-17/dp/B000A1INIU%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000A1INIU "Inside Deep Throat - Theatrical NC-17 Edition") Sex Scandal’ for the West Coast
January 12, 2012**
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[Adult entertainment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_industry "Sex industry") stars and mainstream celebrities—from Peter Brady’s Christopher Knight to comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")—are doing cameos in this play written by a [Studio City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.14357,-118.39526&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.14357,-118.39526 (Studio%20City%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Studio City, Los Angeles") resident.
The guy who played squeaky-clean Peter Brady in The Brady Bunch was off in the corner talking to legendary adult film star [Veronica Hart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Hart "Veronica Hart"). At the other end, [Oscar-nominated](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") actress [Sally Kirkland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kirkland "Sally Kirkland") was sharing a laugh with funnyman Bruce Vilanch, who won Emmys for writing the Oscars.
It was an odd lot gathered this week at the Zephyr Theatre on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
“We’re here to make a little history, and without you all here, we couldn’t tell this important story,” said the ringleader David Bertolino. “Thank you for being brave enough to be a part of it.”
He is the man who spent years researching and interviewing people involved with the controversial film Deep Throat, and then wrote and produced a play about it off-Broadway in New York two years ago called The Deep Throat Sex Scandal. Now, Bertolino is bringing the play home to California.
“Maybe I did it a bit backwards, because the adult industry is based out here in California, but we just wanted to get it on the stage and see what people think,” Bertolino said.
[Ron Jeremy](http://ronjeremy.com "Ron Jeremy"), one of the biggest names in porn, who served as a consultant and will perform a cameo in the West Coast show, said, “This is a way to bring a whole new audience to discover the importance of Deep Throat.” He, Vilanch, Knight and porn legend Bill Margold will alternately play the conservative Southern judge that heard the case trying to prosecute Deep Throat and trying to define obscenity.
“Who wants other people to tell us what we’re allowed to watch or not?” Vilanch said. “I’m thrilled to be a part of this. It’s an important story.”
Bertolino, a native of the Boston area, now lives in Studio City and is entranced with what he calls “The Gone With the Wind of porn.” He explained, “Before Deep Throat was released in 1972, adult entertainment was all short 15-minute loops. This movie had locations, and a script. It was an adult movie that couples went to, not just men in raincoats.”
The 58-year-old Bertolino recalled the controversy about the film when the Nixon administration was trying to prosecute the case, but he didn’t see the movie until much later when it was playing in a double-feature with The Devil and Miss Jones and he went to see it with an older woman. Now, the starlet of that movie, [Georgina Spelvin](http://georgiespelvin.com "Georgina Spelvin") is another one of the famous cameos who will performing in his play.
“Georgina is wonderful and still sexy and beautiful, and she said this would be her last public appearance,” Bertolino said.
Bertolino is mostly fascinated with the showmanship of Deep Throat promotions—a one-hour movie that cost $22,500 to make and brought in more than $600 million. Bertolino created Spooky World in New Hampshire after he bought a five-bedroom farmhouse and barn on five acres for $170,000. He got the PBS reality show This Old House to come to do free renovations and he collected horror movie memorabilia to show. It was an instant success, opening with more than 2,000 attendees on the first day.
Spooky World brought Bertolino out to the Hollywood Collector shows held regularly at the Beverly Garland Hotel in Studio City. That’s where he met Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster in The Munsters TV show and horror movie stars that he showcased at Spooky World, which he has since sold.
Now, he is looking for a permanent home in the Sherman Oaks, Valley Village or Studio City area because he likes the area so much. He enjoys the Ventura Boulevard restaurants, the Cardio Barre workout gym and other places in the area.
It was at a Las Vegas convention for lingerie where he met Ray Pistol who owns the rights to Deep Throat. Bertolino designed a nurse’s outfit and was asked to put Deep Throat star [Linda Lovelace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace "Linda Lovelace")’s name on it.
“I found out about the movie,” Bertolino said. “I found out that no one went to see the movie when it first came out and then they paid people to stir up trouble and create publicity for them.”
And so, he has a giant blow-up giraffe outside the Deep Throat sign outside the theater. He also has plans to hire protestors to picket the play much like people picketed the movie. (See the videos above of Bertolino and the giraffe.)
Bertolino’s wife Linda wasn’t thrilled about his obsession with the project at first. “You have to realize that we were associated for so long with Spooky World that was a family place where Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts used to go to, so it took her a little while to get used to it,” said Bertolino, who also has a teenaged son. “But they get it now.”
After creating a thick script from news articles, court transcripts, interviews and Freedom of Information requests, Bertolino latched up with New York director Jerry Douglas. The most award-winning director and screenwriter in the gay adult industry, Douglas jumped at being involved with the project.
“I massaged the script a little and cut it down,” said Douglas, a gentle man with a baseball cap on all the time, and a cigarette when he can. “There was a lot of great research material that David came up with.”
Douglas said, “It is such an important story that is as timely now as ever. It is historic, it is poignant and it is very funny.”
There is nudity, both male and female, although no explicit sex acts, Bertolino said. “It is amazing how professional the actors are who came out to audition for the roles, and they have all really stepped up to be a part of this,” he added.
Adult film stars Veronica Hart and Herschel Savage are part of the on-going, eight-actor company.
Savage, who plays the director of the movie, said, “I knew all the people in real life, and this story follows it all pretty accurately.”
The doors open to the public on Jan. 24 with tickets at $34. There is a special Guilty Pleasure ticket for $90 that offers a goody-bag of items from the Hustler store, a movie poster and a VIP reception with the stars after the show.
A special for Patch and Huffington Post readers allows a 50 percent discount on the Guilty Pleasure tickets by using the special code: LOVELACE when ordering.
The different guest cast members every week include: Amber Lynn and Bill Margold (January 24-27) Sally Kirkland and Bruce Vilanch (January 31-February 3) Nina Hartley and Christopher Knight (February 7-10) Georgina Spelvin and Ron Jeremy (February 14-17).
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Vilanch, Georgina Spelvin, Hollywood, Linda Lovelace, Ron Jeremy, Sally Kirkland, Veronica Hart
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### [Review: Scrooge & Marley](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/29/review-scrooge-marley/)
**Published:** December 29, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Chicago Now
[Scrooge](http://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Albert-Finney/dp/B0000AQS5D%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AQS5D "Scrooge") & Marley: A Review
By Countess Gregula, Monday at 5:47 pm**
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There have been many takes on the **[Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")‘** classic ***[A Christmas Carol](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Childrens-Classics/dp/0140862242%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140862242 "A Christmas Carol (Children's Classics)")***. Besides the many traditional remakes there have been cartoon versions, Americanized modern day tales, a comedy and even a version where the Scrooge character was female. So just when you were thinking that there is no way that this story could be made fresh and exciting, along comes the film ***Scrooge & Marley*** to put a new spin on things.
*Scrooge & Marley* is a holiday movie with something for everyone, comedy, drama…showtunes??? The story is faithful to the Dickens classic, but with a gay-friendly twist. Ebenezer “Ben” Scrooge (**David Pevsner**) is a mean, miserly nightclub owner who just happens to hate [Christmas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas "Christmas"). He treats everyone like crap, has no friends and barely any family with the exception of a niece Freda (**[Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer")**) who cannot stand him but reluctantly extends him an invitation to her Christmas gala at the request of her partner who wants to reunite them as a family. Naturally Mr. Scrooge turns it down in favor of the traditional anti-holiday repast of Chinese takeout and a night alone.
Well, Chinese food not only makes you hungry an hour later but in Scrooge’s case it also brings on a few spirited visitors, including a visit from his old partner [Jacob Marley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley "Jacob Marley") (former SNL regular **[Tim Kazurinsky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kazurinsky "Tim Kazurinsky")**) who has come to warn him of the unpleasant fate that awaits him if he doesn’t change his ways. A visit from [the ghost of Christmas Past](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Christmas_Past "Ghost of Christmas Past") (**[Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell")**) brings back sad memories, including Scrooge being kicked out of his home by a homophobic father and the loss of a great friend and mentor Fezziwig (**Bruce Vilanch**) , and his one true love due to increasing greed. Visits from the ghosts of Present (**Megan Kavanagh**) and Future (**[JoJo](http://jojoonline.com "JoJo (singer)") Baby**) are fairly predictable but done with sparkle and sass. Lessons are learned and the usual happy ending commences, and as **Tiny Tim** says “God Bless us one and all”.
Narrated by **Judith Light** (yes, **Angela** from ***Who’s The Boss***) and set in our very own town of Chicago, Scrooge & Marley is a must-see for the holiday season and Count and I give it **\*\*TWO FANGS UP\*\***
For more information and to purchase the film on DVD and Blu-Ray visit **[ScroogeandMarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/)**.
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**Tags:** Charles Dicken, Christmas, Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley, Ronnie Kroell, Rusty Schwimmer, Scrooge, Tim Kazurinsky
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Tells All Interview Part 1](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/22/video-bruce-vilanch-tells-all-interview-part-1/)
**Published:** December 22, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [A Must See! Go See THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL, Los Angeles, Jan 24th thru Feb 17th (Special Package For Bruce Vilanch Performances)](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/21/a-must-see-go-see-the-deep-throat-sex-scandal-los-angeles-jan-24th-thru-feb-17th-special-package-for-bruce-vilanch-performances/)
**Published:** December 21, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL
Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") Opening Announcement!
Live on Stage at the Zephyr Theater
Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Opening January 24th, 2013
**Weekly Guest performers:**
**Previews Jan 24-27:** [Amber Lynn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Lynn "Amber Lynn") & Bill Margold
**Jan 31 – Feb 3:** [Sally Kirkland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kirkland "Sally Kirkland") & [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
**Feb 7-10:** [Nina Hartley](http://www.nina.com/ "Nina Hartley") & Christopher Knight
**Feb 14-17:** [Georgina Spelvin](http://georgiespelvin.com "Georgina Spelvin") & Ron Jeremy
**[Click here](http://www.deepthroattheplay.com/clientuploads/Testimonials.html)** for reviews of the show.
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**Finally the true story is revealed!**
In 1972, a hairdresser from Queens made a little movie that grossed over $600 million and ignited the sexual revolution.
**THE [DEEP THROAT](http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Deep-Throat-Theatrical-NC-17/dp/B000A1INIU%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000A1INIU "Inside Deep Throat - Theatrical NC-17 Edition") SEX SCANDAL** takes you into the secret world of adult film making and introduces you to the legendary [Linda Lovelace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace "Linda Lovelace") and [Harry Reems](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reems "Harry Reems"). Follow the bizarre journey from the creation of the movie, to the political fallout of the ensuing courtroom drama.
Richard Dreyfuss, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson came to the aid of Harry Reems at his court trial in [Memphis, Tennessee](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.1175,-89.9711111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=35.1175,-89.9711111111 (Memphis%2C%20Tennessee)&t=h "Memphis, Tennessee") after he was arrested for being naked in the film.
**Directed by Jerry Douglas
Written by David Bertolino**---
##### Hello friends of Bruce,
##### If you plan to visit Bruce during his performances of “The Deep Throat Sex Scandal”, here is a discount code for the Guilty Pleasure Package which will include an after party with Bruce and Sally Kirkland as our guests of honor.
Go to the show website, click under tickets, use the code:
##### **LOVELACE**
##### Your order will be discounted by 50% off. Limited amount available (dates: January 31 through Feb 3rd)
The package includes a “goody bag”, after party, cast meet & greet in the vip lounge, open wine bar.
##### GO TO THE SHOW WEBSITE: [www.deepthroattheplay.com](http://www.deepthroattheplay.com/)
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**Categories:** Special Events, Theatre
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reems, Inside Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace, Los Angeles, Nina Hartley, Sally Kirkland
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### [‘Scrooge & Marley’ DVD, Blu-ray, Soundtrack Available Now! Buy Yours Today!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/10/scrooge-marley-dvd-blu-ray-soundtrack-available-now-buy-yours-today/)
**Published:** December 10, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**‘Scrooge & Marley’ [DVD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD"), [Blu-ray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc "Blu-ray Disc"), Soundtrack Available Buy Yours Today!**
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CHICAGO — “Scrooge & Marley,” a modern-day variation on [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")’ classic holiday story, “[A Christmas Carol](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Childrens-Classics/dp/0140862242%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140862242 "A Christmas Carol (Children's Classics)"),” is now available on DVD and soundtrack and Blu-ray.
The film is also playing in theaters nationally and in Canada this holiday season. In Chicago, it plays Friday, Dec. 21, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 22 at 7:45 p.m.; and Thursday, Dec. 27, 7:45 p.m. at [Gene Siskel Film Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.884981,-87.628266&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.884981,-87.628266 (Gene%20Siskel%20Film%20Center)&t=h "Gene Siskel Film Center"), 164 N., State Street, Chicago, [**http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/scroogeandmarley**](http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/scroogeandmarley).
Acclaimed out actor David Pevsner portrays Ben Scrooge while former Saturday Night Live star Tim Kazurinsky appears as the Ghost of [Jacob Marley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley "Jacob Marley"). The film also stars [Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Megan Cavanagh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Cavanagh "Megan Cavanagh"), [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell"), [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti"), Richard Ganoung, and [JoJo](http://jojoonline.com "JoJo (singer)") Baby. It is narrated by [Tony award-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") actress Judith Light. The stars at the gala opening include Pevsner, Schwimmer, Vilanch, Cavanagh, Kroell, Moretti and Ganoung.
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**Categories:** DVD, movies, Music
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, Chicago, David Moretti, Jacob Marley, Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, Rusty Schwimmer
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### [Bruce Vilanch on WBAZ (with Walker Vreeland)](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/09/bruce-vilanch-on-wbaz-with-walker-vreeland/)
**Published:** December 9, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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Walker talks with six-time [Emmy Award winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") and performer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). June, 2012.
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**Categories:** Interview, Radio, Video
**Tags:** Academy Award, Arts, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, comedy, Emmy Award, Performing arts, Shark Tank
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### [Landmark Laughs Series Presents BIG AND TALL: An Evening of Comedy with Bruce Vilanch & Judy Gold on Saturday, January 19](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/06/landmark-laughs-series-presents-big-and-tall-an-evening-of-comedy-with-bruce-vilanch-judy-gold-on-saturday-january-19/)
**Published:** December 6, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
Landmark Laughs Continues with BIG AND TALL An Evening of Comedy with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") & [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold"), 1/19
Dec 5, 2012**
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Landmark on Main Street’s new Landmark Laughs Series Presents BIG AND TALL: An Evening of Comedy with Bruce Vilanch & Judy Gold on Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8 PM. Landmark thanks our Program Sponsors The Sani Family and Beth & Andy Lipset. Landmark also gratefully acknowledges our [Season](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program") Sponsor [Pall Corporation](http://www.pall.com/ "Pall Corporation") and our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, [Town of North Hempstead](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7588888889,-73.5880555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7588888889,-73.5880555556 (North%20Hempstead%2C%20New%20York)&t=h "North Hempstead, New York"), Bank of America, The Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation and [Winthrop University Hospital](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.740114,-73.6427347&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.740114,-73.6427347 (Winthrop-University%20Hospital)&t=h "Winthrop-University Hospital") for their support of our full season of programming.
Audiences will know Bruce Vilanch’s hysterical, [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") writing for [Oscar hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies "List of Academy Awards ceremonies") [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and others for more than twenty years. He’s written many other award shows, television series and variety specials. His stand-up comedy routine draws on his years of being a Hollywood insider. Judy Gold is also an Emmy Award winning actress and comedienne, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed long-running Off-Broadway hit shows: [25 Questions for a Jewish Mother](http://www.amazon.com/Questions-Jewish-Mother-Judy-Gold/dp/1401303110%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1401303110 "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother") and The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom. Together, Bruce and Judy will fill the BIG & TALL order of making you laugh and laugh!
Tickets Premium $45; Standard $40 with discounts for Friends of Landmark. Purchase through Landmark’s box office516-767-6444 or [www.landmarkonmainstreet.org](www.landmarkonmainstreet.org).
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**Tags:** Billy Crystal, Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, comedy, Emmy Award, Hollywood, Pall Corporation, Winthrop University Hospital
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### ["Scrooge & Marley" Gets West Michigan Premiere!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/05/scrooge-marley-gets-west-michigan-premiere/)
**Published:** December 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Michigan Live
‘[Scrooge](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1018413-scrooge "Scrooge") & Marley’ film to get [West Michigan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Michigan "West Michigan") premiere as part of QUEERIES film series
By John Serba | jserba@mlive.com
on December 05, 2012**
[GRAND RAPIDS, MI](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.96125,-85.6557194444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.96125,-85.6557194444 (Grand%20Rapids%2C%20Michigan)&t=h "Grand Rapids, Michigan") – “Scrooge & Marley,” the LGBT take on a classic [Charles Dickens Christmas](http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dickens-Christmas/dp/0195198999%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0195198999 "A Charles Dickens Christmas") story, will premiere in West Michigan at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 at [Wealthy Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.955303,-85.6407849&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.955303,-85.6407849 (Wealthy%20Theatre)&t=h "Wealthy Theatre"), as part of the QUEERIES film series.
The film stars David Pevsner as Scrooge and [Tim Kazurinsky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kazurinsky "Tim Kazurinsky") as Marley, with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") as [Fezziwig](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fezziwig "Fezziwig"). The Chicago-set and -made movie is set in a gay nightclub called Screws, run by Scrooge, who relishes making his employees suffer. The movie is directed by Richard Knight Jr., film critic of [the Windy City Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City_Times "Windy City Times"), and Peter Neville.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of show and $7 for Community Media Center members, available at the Wealthy Theatre box office or website.
The event will include a question-and-answer session after the screening with “Scrooge & Marley” producers Tracy Baim and David Strzepek.
[Roger Ebert](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ "Roger Ebert") recently reviewed the film, saying, “The actors mostly have a lot of professional experience, and while ‘Scrooge & Marley’ doesn’t represent a high-water mark for any of them, it has a good heart, high spirits and of course redemption for Ebenezer Scrooge.”
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### [Video: Chris DeRose talks one-on-one with comedian Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/04/video-chris-derose-talks-one-on-one-with-comedian-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** December 4, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Chris DeRose](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DeRose "Chris DeRose") talks one-on-one with comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") about his new movie ‘Scrooge & Marley’, as well as the comedy business and his [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter") feud with [James Franco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco "James Franco").
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**Categories:** Interview, Video
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Chris DeRose, James Franco, Lily Tomlin, Scrooge & Marley, Twitter
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### [Hollywood Chicago Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/02/hollywood-chicago-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** December 2, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**HollywoodChicago
Interviews: Red Carpet Premiere of New Christmas Film, ‘Scrooge & Marley’
Dec 3, 2012**
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[CHICAGO](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago") – Bring up the immortal classic “A Christmas Carol,” by author [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens"), then bring up how many film and TV versions have been done using its basic story. After a half hour of listing every conceivable production, a gay version won’t be found. “Scrooge & Marley” is the new film that takes care of that category. The premiere was last week in Chicago at the [Music Box Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre "Music Box Theatre").
**[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Portrays [Fezziwig](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fezziwig "Fezziwig") in “Scrooge & Marley**
Bruce Vilanch is a Hollywood legend, a comedy writer known for working up material backstage at the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), and developing jokes for [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), Roseanne Barr and Robin Williams. He also spent four years on “Hollywood Squares” and wrote/performed a one-man show, “Bruce Vilanch: Almost Famous.”
HollywoodChicago.com: You seem like you were born to play a party coordinator like Fezziwig. What impresses you about his character in the source novel that you wanted to make sure was in this version of the story?
Bruce Vilanch: I viewed him as being crazy, over-the-top and flamboyant, at least as far as Dickens could go with that character back then, and it seemed to coincide with what the writers did in this movie. My Fezziwig spends a lot of time in the 1970s, when it seemed like everyone was having a party, and he was the party provider. \[laughs\] It was a nice match.
HollywoodChicago.com: Which line or piece of written material first got you noticed as the joke writer that eventually got you backstage at the Academy Awards?
Vilanch: I started writing with Bette Midler, having met her in Chicago at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub, and my reputation grew as she started doing more. I don’t know if it was one single line, but I remember I sold Johnny Carson a one-liner a long time ago. There was a football player named [Lance Rentzel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Rentzel "Lance Rentzel") in the 1970s, and he was arrested for exposing himself. So the joke was ‘it was cold today…how cold was it?…it was so cold that Lance Rentzel stopped me on the street and just described himself to me.’ It got me a lot of notice, and I started writing more jokes for him and other people. So I’ll use that line as a first.
HollywoodChicago.com: What was the most controversial line you’ve ever written, who said it and what was the circumstance and setting?
Vilanch: I can’t think about the specific line, but I was involved when Ted Danzig did blackface at Whoopi Goldberg’s Friars Club roast. It was Whoopi’s idea, and Ted went along with it because their relationship at the time was ending, and they both thought it would be a good way to put a period on it. It was wildly controversial.
HollywoodChicago.com: Finally, if you had to write a saying on one of your famous tee-shirts that best describes this film, what would that line be?
Vilanch: We put the ‘dick’ back in Dickens. \[laughs\]
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Academy Award, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, Chicago, Fezziwig, Lily Tomlin, Music Box Theatre
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### [Video: The Chicago Premiere Of "Scrooge & Marley"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/12/01/video-the-chicago-premiere-of-scrooge-marley/)
**Published:** December 1, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**GoPride.com
Music Box hosts Chicago premiere of [Scrooge](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1018413-scrooge "Scrooge") and Marley
by GoPride.com News Staff
Dec 1, 2012**
[Chicago, IL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago") — Chicago’s [Music Box Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre "Music Box Theatre") played host to a red carpet debut for “Scrooge and Marley”, a modern-day variation on [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")‘ classic holiday story “A Christmas Carol.”
[GAY REPORT (Special Edition) – “Scrooge & Marley”](http://vimeo.com/54646471) from [GAY CHICAGO TV](http://vimeo.com/gaychicagotv) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com).
The Chicago premiere and opening night celebration on Thursday featured most of the stars of the film including David Pevsner, [Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer"), Bruce Vilanch, [Megan Cavanagh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Cavanagh "Megan Cavanagh"), [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell"), [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti") and Richard Ganoung.
“I love coming to Chicago. Especially in the winter when you know it’s Chicago,” Vilanch joked in an interview on the red carpet.
Kroell talked about the classic tale which has been set to all new music providing a gay sensibility to the spirit of the season.
“I think it’s so important to have movies, queer cinema, that has these positive messages that can be shared not only with the community, embraced by the community, but with our family and friends so they can see what the community really is all about,” said Kroell.
“Scrooge & Marley” was shot all around Chicago last May and features the talents of local performers and filmmakers with narration by Tony award-winning actress Judith Light.
The film runs through Dec. 6 at the historic Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave. It will also screen over Christmas at the [Gene Siskel Film Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.884981,-87.628266&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.884981,-87.628266 (Gene%20Siskel%20Film%20Center)&t=h "Gene Siskel Film Center") 164 N., [State Street, Chicago](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.88206,-87.6278&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.88206,-87.6278 (State%20Street%20%28Chicago%29)&t=h "State Street (Chicago)"): Friday, Dec. 21, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 22 at 7:45 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 27, 7:45 p.m.
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Charles Dickens, Chicago, David Moretti, Music Box Theatre, Ronnie Kroell, Rusty Schwimmer, Scrooge, State Street
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### [Video: Actor Comedian Bruce Vilanch Interview at Nancys Tree Garden Party](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/30/video-actor-comedian-bruce-vilanch-interview-at-nancys-tree-garden-party/)
**Published:** November 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Ed Magik TV host Andrea Anderson interviews actor / comedian Bruce Vilanch on the red carpet for Nancy’s Tree Garden Party in support of Nancy Westbrook who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch on John Travolta, Bette Midler, and Lady Gaga ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/29/video-bruce-vilanch-on-john-travolta-bette-midler-and-lady-gaga/)
**Published:** November 29, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Rich Adler interviews [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on [John Travolta](http://www.travolta.com "John Travolta"), [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Lady Gaga](http://www.break.com/topics/lady-gaga "Lady Gaga"), and more at the dot429 StraightTalk Conference in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City").
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### [Happy Birthday Bruce Vilanch!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/23/happy-birthday-bruce-vilanch-3/)
**Published:** November 23, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mister D:** Who doesn’t love Bruce? One of the most kindest, gentlest, and funniest men I’ve ever known….hell, he is the “most”of all those things. I just want to wish him the happiest of all birthdays and many more…. All my love, Don
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### [Second City's "A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!" Will Feature Guest Appearaces By Bruce Vilanch, Henry Rollins, Lance Bass, And Others](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/21/second-citys-a-christmas-carol-twist-your-dickens-will-feature-guest-appearaces-by-bruce-vilanch-henry-rollins-lance-bass-and-others/)
**Published:** November 21, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** "Twist Your Dickens!" is set to open on Nov. 29, with previews beginning on Nov. 24. The comedy's regular cast will include "The Simpsons" star Dan Castellaneta, "MADtv" veteran Frank Caeti, Larry Joe Campbell, Amanda Blake Davis, Brian Stepanek, Jean Villepique and Ron West.
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**Los Angeles Times
Ben McKenzie, Fred Willard among guest stars for ‘Carol’ comedy
By David Ng
November 21, 2012, 10:46 a.m**
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The upcoming Second City production of “A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre will feature a changing roster of guest stars. Among the names confirmed to make guest appearances in the comedy production are “Southland” star Ben McKenzie, actor Fred Willard, rocker Henry Rollins, singer Lance Bass and comedian Bruce Vilanch.
“Twist Your Dickens!” is set to open on Nov. 29, with previews beginning on Nov. 24. The comedy’s regular cast will include “The Simpsons” star Dan Castellaneta, “MADtv” veteran Frank Caeti, Larry Joe Campbell, Amanda Blake Davis, Brian Stepanek, Jean Villepique and Ron West.
A Center Theatre Group spokesman said that each actor will play multiple roles in the production, except West, who will play Scrooge. Castellaneta will play Jacob Marley and other characters. West replaced Joe Flaherty, who left the production for “personal reasons,” according to CTG.
The show, a comical take on the Dickens classic, is written by Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort, both of whom are alums of Second City and have written for “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central.
Other confirmed guest stars include former “Seinfeld” star Jason Alexander, Father Greg Boyle, Ed Begley Jr. and Keegan-Michael Key.
CTG said that guest stars will “will drop in, one by one, for a special cameo performance,” in the production.
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### [Star Of New "Scrooge And Marley," Bruce Vilanch, Gives Great Interview](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/21/star-of-new-scrooge-and-marley-bruce-vilanch-gives-great-interview/)
**Published:** November 21, 2012
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**Windy City Times
Wigging out with Bruce Vilanch
MOVIES
by Jorjet Harper
2012-11-21**
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The world contains quite a few people who seem to always be playing to an invisible camera. But [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is one of those truly rare people who is always cracking jokes off the top of his head that are actually funny.
Vilanch is known for his work both behind and in front of the camera. The two-time Emmy winner has written material for many of America’s top comedians, but is probably best known to the public for his time as a regular on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"). Vilanch has been head writer for the Academy Awards since 2000. In 1999, he was the subject of a feature-length documentary, [Get Bruce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")!, about his life as Hollywood’s most sought-after humor writer.
It’s easy to see why Vilanch is such a valuable commodity in Hollywood. In person, he’s endearingly clever in a down-to-earth way, loves playfully entertaining everyone around him, and seems unable to stop saying things that are genuinely hilarious.
Vilanch was in Chicago for the shooting of the new film Scrooge & Marley, a contemporary retelling of the classic Dicken’s tale, A [Christmas Carol](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Dickens/dp/0671473697%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0671473697 "A Christmas Carol"), “with a gay twist,” that will premiere during this year’s holiday season. In a casting stroke of genius, Vilanch plays the comic/tragic character [Fezziwig](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fezziwig "Fezziwig") in the film.
Though he already had on his Fezziwig wig for our interview, the makeup department had not yet glued on his Fezzi-beard. He stroked the strawberry blonde locks of his wig lovingly, and told me, “My old hair—it’s come back to visit. It’s been living in a condo in Boca Raton, and now it’s decided to come out of retirement.” In fact, his real hair today, with its strawberry blonde color and shoulder-length Prince Valiant styling, looked rather similar to his Fezzi-wig—just a bit less bushy.
Not done hamming it up, Vilanch began to croon to his wig: “‘Hello my old friend … ‘ I feel like Sweeney Todd,” he quipped. “‘This is my burden … .’ Soon there will be a beard to complete the picture. I will look like a nightmare version of myself from the Seventies. I can’t wait!”
In Dickens’ original Christmas Carol, Fezziwig is young Scrooge and Marley’s boss. He’s a generous, ethical businessman who treats his employees like family, cares about their welfare, and throws lively holiday parties for all. Sadly, he is forced to sell his business to avaricious corporate interests who care nothing about worker morale. Scrooge and Marley, grown more callous over time, side with the heartless new owners.
“I play Fezziwig, who you’ll remember from Dickens,” Vilanch said. “But this is a different kind of Fezziwig. He’s a guy who owns a disco in the Seventies and he’s Auntie Mame—Rosalind Russell and Auntie Mame.” Vilanch threw back his head, causing his wig to flounce. “He’s all, ‘Oh how droll, how vivid!’ He’s a pretty fabulous character, and he brings young Scrooge and Marley in \[to his business\] and of course they do him dirt—you know the story. And then we see his downfall. But then there’s a resurrection. It’s very biblical.”
Though Scrooge & Marley is a modern, gay-themed retelling of A Christmas Carol, Vilanch’s character follows the traditional [Dickensian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens") arc. “He’s a jolly old soul who gets caught up in his vices and gets caught up in their chicanery. And eventually he’s something they \[the spirits\] show Scrooge, to show what a bad guy Scrooge has been through the years. So Fezziwig’s kind of a poster child for excess. But at the same time, he’s brought down by the hand of somebody who is genuinely sinister. And he’s not. And I like him.”
Dickens’ Fezziwig symbolized the end of an era he knew well, the Industrial Revolution. Dickens’ saw it as a time when small businessmen and local industries like Fezziwig’s were disappearing, swept away by more ruthlessly profiteering business practices and cutthroat corporations. The Fezziwig in Scrooge & Marley also symbolizes the end of an era: the pre-AIDS gay culture.
“Fezziwig is the end of that party that was going on in the gay community in the Seventies, that was ended by the AIDS epidemic,” said Vilanch. “Suddenly everything got very serious and everything that we were told would happen because of what we were doing suddenly happened—and not because of what we were doing. It was totally coincidental. It was the end of some kind of a party that had been going on since I think Stonewall. There was a great deal of joy about liberation and getting a movement going and all that, and that came crashing down when people began dying. And ironically enough, that movement, because of the epidemic, became a real genuine political movement, which is as forceful today as it can be.”
Vilanch was living in Chicago in 1970, working at the Chicago Tribune, when he met [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"). Midler hired him to write jokes for her, marking the start of a successful collaboration that has lasted through the years. After moving to L.A., Vilanch began writing material for other famous comics as well, including Joan Rivers, [Richard Pryor](http://www.biography.com/people/richard-pryor-9448082 "Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor"), and [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), and for television shows like ABC’s original Donny and Marie Show and [The Brady Bunch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch "The Brady Bunch"). Vilanch heard about the Scrooge & Marley project from his friend, the film’s co-director and co-writer, Richard Knight.
“I had done his radio show when I was in Chicago doing Hairspray, and we’ve been friendly ever since. And he talked about making this strange gay take on A Christmas Carol. When you consider Christmas Carol’s been done every other way—I mean, I’m waiting for the al-Qaeda version, that’s all that has been missed—so I thought, how could I not be a part of it? It’s so original, so unusual.”
Vilanch also considered a gay version of A Christmas Carol in it’s wider cultural context. “I think that the reason to do a gay version of anything is to show that we’re all basically the same under the skin. That the humanity is the same. We just have wildly different cultural perspectives and ways of expressing ourselves. But it’s the humanity of it all that’s important,” he observed.
“And gay community, and gay culture, for want of a better word, is just so much fun. It’s so festive and everything-is-in-quotes and over-the-top exaggerated, because it’s a culture that had to live under the thumb of a straight culture for years, so its take on things comes from being oppressed. And that’s always funny,” said Vilanch. “I mean, I’m Jewish, too, and we have that in common: we were oppressed for five thousand years and that’s why so many funny people are Jews. When you’re at the bottom, you kind of have to look up and laugh, because you don’t see the sun a lot.” Vilanch paused, then added warmly, “And eventually, you do.”
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch At The Visionary Awards Benefiting The Entertainment AIDS Alliance](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/15/photo-bruce-vilanch-at-the-visionary-awards-benefiting-the-entertainment-aids-alliance/)
**Published:** November 15, 2012
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is seen at the Visionary Awards benefiting the Entertainment [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS") Alliance, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 in [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"). (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for the Entertainment AIDS …
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### [Photo: PAWS/LA Presents An Evening Of Comedy And Kitsch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/14/photo-pawsla-presents-an-evening-of-comedy-and-kitsch/)
**Published:** November 14, 2012
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Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, writer Bruce Vilanch, songwriter Alle Willis, and John Paragon attend PAWS/LA presents An Evening of Comedy and Kitsch at Avalon on November 13, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Brian To/WireImage)
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch, Richard Dreyfuss, Dustin Lance Black, Lance Bass to appear in San Diego reading of "8"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/13/reminder-bruce-vilanch-richard-dreyfuss-dustin-lance-black-lance-bass-to-appear-in-san-diego-reading-of-8/)
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November 13th, 2012**
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SAN DIEGO — A one-night only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s play “8” will be staged in San Diego on Monday, Nov. 19, at the Birch North Park Theatre, and include a number of high-profile cast members, including Black, Lance Bass, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Councilmember Todd Gloria.
Production & Celebrity Entertainment, with license from the [American Foundation for Equal Rights](http://www.afer.org/ "American Foundation for Equal Rights") (AFER) and Broadway Impact, will present the reading of “8,” which is a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to [California’s Proposition 8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8 "California Proposition 8").
“8” shares an unprecedented account of the Federal District [Court trial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial "Trial") in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now [Perry v. Brown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_v._Schwarzenegger "Perry v. Schwarzenegger")), the case filed by AFER to overturn Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom to marry.
Black, who penned the [Academy Award-winning](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") feature film “Milk” and the film “J. Edgar,” based “8” on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.
The San Diego reading of “8” will begin at 7:30 pm on Monday, Nov. 19, and net proceeds will benefit AFER.
Cast members scheduled to appear include: Lance Bass (NSYNC), Richard Dreyfuss (Academy Award winner), Annette O’Toole (Academy Award nominee, TV’s “Smallville”), Bruce Vilanch (Emmy Award-winning comic, “Hollywood Squares”), as well as San Diego’s best local talent.
Well-known San Diegans such as City Councilmember Todd Gloria will read the part of [Judge Vaughn Walker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Walker "Vaughn Walker") and Lisa Sanders will read the part of Court Clerk.
The play will be directed by San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award winner Brian Wells.
Immediately following the reading, there will be a short talk back session featuring marriage equality advocates including Black, Sanders and other special guests.
Tickets start at $19.50 and are available through the Birch North Park Theatre box office at 619-239-8836 or online.
A limited amount of VIP tickets will be available for $75 each, and include preferred seating and access to a 6 pm “Meet and Greet” with the cast and special guests.
More information about “8” is [**HERE**](http://www.8theplay.com/readings/production-celebrity-entertainment/).
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**Categories:** Special Events, Theatre
**Tags:** Academy Award, American Foundation for Equal Rights, Bruce Vilanch, California, Dustin Lance Black, Lance Bass, San Diego, Vaughn Walker
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch Headlines Charity Benefit for PAWS/LA Nov. 13, 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/13/reminder-bruce-vilanch-headlines-charity-benefit-for-pawsla-nov-13-2012/)
**Published:** November 13, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**WHO:** [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Allee Willis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allee_Willis "Allee Willis"), [Wendy Liebman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Liebman "Wendy Liebman"),
[Lisa Loeb](http://www.lisaloeb.com/ "Lisa Loeb"), Kat Kramer with Le Petit Cirque and [John Paragon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paragon "John Paragon") as
Ramon Azteca.
**WHAT:** An Evening of Comedy & Kitsch
Benefiting PAWS/LA
(Pets Are Wonderful Support/[Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"))
**WHEN:** TUESDAY November 13, 2012
ARRIVALS: 6:30 pm
**WHERE:** Avalon Hollywood
1735 Vine St.
[Hollywood, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") 90028
**Confirmed Celebrities:** Bruce Vilanch, Allee Willis, Wendy Liebman, Lisa Loeb, Kat Kramer, members of Le Petit Cirque, John Paragon, [George Chakiris](http://www.last.fm/music/George%2BChakiris "George Chakiris"), [Lonny Ross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonny_Ross "Lonny Ross").
[Paula Abdul](http://paulaabdul.com "Paula Abdul") to receive Founder’s Award and will accept via video
**MORE:**
Entertainers Bruce Vilanch and Allee Willis, two of the quirkiest, most prolific creative talents on the planet take the stage for an evening of love, laughter and libation to benefit the programs and initiatives of PAWS/LA (Pets Are Wonderful Support/Los Angeles). Grammy-nominated singer Lisa Loeb hosts. Special guests include stand-up comedian Wendy Liebman, actress/singer Kat Kramer performing with members of Le Petit Cirque and actor John Paragon as Ramon Azteca. 6:30 PM arrivals. Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028.
**About PAWS/LA:**
PAWS/LA (www.pawsla.org) is a Los Angeles-based non-profit dedicated to preserving the special bond between people and their pets, by ensuring that those most in need never have to be without their companion animals because of physical or financial limitations. The organization provides essential animal care services, including subsidized veterinary care, spay/neuter procedures, pet food and supply distribution, grooming, temporary foster care, dog walking, animal transport and more to low income seniors and low-income individuals living with a life-threatening or chronic illness.
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**Categories:** Benefits, Charities
**Tags:** Allee Willis, Bruce Vilanch, George Chakiris, Hollywood, John Paragon, Lisa Loeb, Los Angeles, Wendy Liebman
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### [Check Out Bruce Vilanch On Michael Vaccaro's New Web Series. "Child Of The Seventies"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/12/check-out-bruce-vilanch-on-michael-vaccaros-new-web-series-child-of-the-seventies/)
**Published:** November 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") has begun shooting season 2 of Michael Vaccaro’s [web series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_series "Web series"), “Child of the [’70s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s "1970s")!” Season 1 is up online already – they just premiered episode 3! So join in the fun now!
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**About Child Of The Seventies**
A brand new web series starring Michael Vaccaro, Bruce Vilanch, Ann Walker, Leo Forte, [Terry Ray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Ray "Terry Ray"), [David Zimmerman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zimmerman "David Zimmerman"), Duane Boutte, [Charlene Tilton](http://www.charlenetilton.biz "Charlene Tilton") and [Geri Jewell](http://www.gerijewell.com/ "Geri Jewell"). Total loser, Carlo Perdente, has a chance encounter with his favorite 1970s [TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television "Television") icon, which totally changes his life… but not necessarily in a good way!
**Check Out The New Web Series “Child Of The Seventies” On [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/ "YouTube"):** [**Click Here**](http://www.youtube.com/ChildoftheSeventies1)
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**Categories:** Web Series
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Charlene Tilton, David Zimmerman, Geri Jewell, Shark Tank, Television, Terry Ray, YouTube
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### [Were "The Sharks" Too Brutal Last Night?](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/11/were-the-sharks-too-brutal-last-night/)
**Published:** November 11, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Shark Tank](http://abc.go.com/primetime/sharktank "Shark Tank (TV series)") recap: Drive suits, candy grannies & [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
SHARK TANK
NOVEMBER 11, 2012
BY: HOLLY TONG**
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If you thought that ‘Shark Tank’ couldn’t possibly get any more brutal than it already has been, the Friday, November 9 episode was certainly a force to be reckoned with. The [sharks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark "Shark") were vicious, the criticisms were plentiful, and the condescending laughs were intimidating the aspiring business professionals. Two out of four candidates were unquestionably chewed up, and spit back out.
First up, we had Drew with his “Drive suits.” You’re likely wondering what a drive suit is? Well, it is a wearable recreation device. It is functioned to instantly transform a costumed human from a walking state to a riding one. The project literally drives off the shelves. As difficult as this is to explain, I am speaking the truth. It is exactly what it sounds like. Drew wanted $150,000 for 20% stake. Though they seemed intrigued, all the sharks were on his case about all the mysteries involved with his product. They were recommending he take this transforming costume to a toy company. Drew had two offers, but being the gambler he is, he chose Kevin for $150,000 and 30% stake of the company.
Next up was [David](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David "David") with his online [PC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer "Personal computer") classes. His main goal was to teach 50+ year old students how to use a computer, which to me, sounds like a universal need. Bruce Vilanch came along as a demonstrator because he said that David taught his Mom how to [Skype](http://skype.com "Skype"). David tried to state his case, and to present his product, while Vilanch added humor, but it was obvious that the sharks just weren’t sharing their enthusiasm. Kevin called him a bozo, and he was told he was 30 years too late. They added insult to injury by saying that he gave them a good laugh. Ouch! Did anyone else think the sharks were a little too hard on him?
Following, the rejected David was Bill with Revestor, the real estate search engine of the future…or at least Bill hoped. He came in asking for $250,000 for 10% in his company. Bill was trying to explain how this can simplify a real estate search and help potential buyers find the house they need. However, the sharks just don’t understand his angle or his formulas, and they showed zero interest. If you thought they were hard on David, they were almost equally harsh on Bill. [Dang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_district "Dang district")!
The final potential business professionals of the future were two loveable grannies: Beverly & Charlotte. They were asking for $250,000 for 15% stake in their Ice Chips company. Ice Chips candy contains [Xylitol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol "Xylitol") – a natural sweetener. They wanted to have an [alternative sweetener](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute "Sugar substitute") going rather than the usual sugar, or unhealthy options that are so common today. The sharks seemed to enjoy this sugar free candy, and the enthusiasm of these grannies was simply contagious. Ice Chips are already a big hit, being sold in [health food stores](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_food_store "Health food store"), and dentist offices. The sharks could tell that these ladies knew their market, and they were not afraid to make offers. This was the most interesting product of the night as the negotiations got downright crazy. It seemed that everyone wanted the Ice Chips stake, and that they were stopping at nothing to get it. In the end, the grannies chose Mark and Barbara.
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**Categories:** Television
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, David, Friday, Personal computer, Shark, Shark Tank, Skype, vilanch
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### [Emmy™ Award-Winning Writer Bruce Vilanch to Host with Marlee Matlin and Pam Grier as Special Guests For The 15th Annual Visionary Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/10/emmy-award-winning-writer-bruce-vilanch-to-host-with-marlee-matlin-and-pam-grier-as-special-guests-for-the-15th-annual-visionary-awards/)
**Published:** November 10, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Entertainment Aids Alliance (EAA) Set to Honor David Bishop of [Sony Pictures Home Entertainment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Home_Entertainment "Sony Pictures Home Entertainment"), Chris Long of DIRECTV and Amazon.com at the 15th Annual Visionary Awards Next Week
Published: November 9, 2012**
[](http://www.daylife.com/image/08lq7TCdYMgAk?utm_source=zemanta&utm_medium=p&utm_content=08lq7TCdYMgAk&utm_campaign=z1)BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 09: Writer Bruce Vilanch arrives at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science’s ‘The Last 70mm Film Festival’ Screening Of ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on July 9, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)*Emmy™ Award-Winning Writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Host with Marlee Matlin and Pam Grier as Special Guests*
[LOS ANGELES](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles") — On Wednesday evening, November 14, Entertainment AIDS Alliance (EAA) will present its annual Visionary Awards to Chris Long, Senior Vice President, Entertainment & Production at DIRECTV and Dana Luthy, Category Leader for TV and Movies, who will be accepting the award on behalf of Amazon.com. The organization will also present its first-ever Lifetime Advocate Award to David Bishop, President Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The event will be held at The Beverly Hilton and Emmy™ Award-winning writer Bruce Vilanch will host the evening. Award-winning actresses Marlee Matlin and Pam Grier will also be on hand to present the awards.
Now in its 15th year as one of EAA’s principal fundraisers, the Visionary Awards annually draws entertainment leaders and innovators whose support has made EAA the industry’s longest standing non-profit organization dedicated to AIDS research, prevention and services. Past Visionary honorees have included Academy™ Award-winning producer Steve Tisch (Forrest Gump, Pursuit of Happyness, American History X), Bill Mechanic (Pandemonium Films, former Chairman 20th Century Fox Films), Ted Sarandos (Chief Content Officer, Netflix), Bob Chapek (President, Disney Consumer Products), Dr. Peter Anton (UCLA AIDS Institute, Director of the Center for Prevention Research at UCLA, co-principal investigator of the Microbicide Trials Network), philanthropist Richard Foos (Co-founder of Rhino Records and Shout! Factory) and Henry McGee (President, HBO Home Entertainment and President of the [Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey_American_Dance_Theater "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater")) among others.
Sponsors of EAA’s 15th Annual Visionary Awards include: AGI-Shorewood; [Anchor Bay Entertainment](http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com "Anchor Bay Entertainment"); CBS Corporation; Chartis Private Client Group; Deloitte; Dolby Laboratories; [DreamWorks SKG](http://www.dreamworksstudios.com "DreamWorks"); [Entertainment One](http://www.e1ent.com "Entertainment One"); Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment; HBO Home Entertainment; McKinsey & Company; Market Force; Multi Packaging Solutions; NBC Universal; Netflix; [Paramount Home Entertainment](http://www.paramount.com/ "Paramount Pictures"); Redbox; RLJ Entertainment; Showtime Networks; Sony DADC; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; Topaz Entertainment; [Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment](http://www.foxconnect.com/ "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment"); Universal McCann; Versant Supply Chain; [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment](http://www.disneydvd.com/ "Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment"); and Warner Home Video.
Tickets for the EAA Visionary Awards may be purchased online at http://www.entertainmentAIDSalliance.org. Inquiries regarding corporate sponsorship and major gifts should contact Kevin Mark Lodie at kml(at)diversifiedluxury(dot)com.
Entertainment AIDS Alliance (EAA) was founded as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1989 to rally the collective influence and funding of the entertainment industry to respond to the urgent need for HIV/AIDS research, prevention and services. Its ranks include the major studios, entertainment content producers, distributors and affiliated creative and business service industries. EAA maintains no corporate offices and nearly 80% of all funds it raises are distributed to over 150 carefully vetted and qualified beneficiaries, including standing beneficiaries such as UCLA AIDS Institute C.A.R.E. Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Actor’s Fund AIDS Initiative, [AIDS Research Alliance](http://www.aidsresearch.org/ "AIDS Research Alliance"), AIDS Service Center, Common Ground and Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services. For more information, visit http://www.entertainmentAIDSalliance.org
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Academy Award, AIDS, AIDS Research Alliance, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Los Angeles, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear On "Shark Tank" Friday, November 9, 2012, ABC](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/07/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-on-shark-tank-friday-november-9-2012-abc/)
**Published:** November 7, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Windy City Media
Vilanch, entrepreneur on ‘[Shark Tank](http://abc.go.com/primetime/sharktank "Shark Tank (TV series)")‘
2012-11-07**
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On the Nov. 9 installment of the [ABC](http://abc.go.com "American Broadcasting Company") show Shark Tank, out comedian/actor/writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and openly gay entrepreneur [David Cox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cox_%28artist%29 "David Cox (artist)"), founder of “The MAC Guru” and “PC Classes Online,” will appear, according to a press release.
Cox was chosen from more than 30,000 potential contestants for the show, often called the “[American Idol](http://www.americanidol.com/ "American Idol") of Business.” He splits his time running both businesses between [Provincetown, MA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.0583333333,-70.1791666667 (Provincetown%2C%20Massachusetts)&t=h "Provincetown, Massachusetts") and [Key West, FL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=24.5591666667,-81.7840305556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=24.5591666667,-81.7840305556 (Key%20West%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Key West, Florida") with his husband, Allen Gallant.
One of Vilanch’s most recent endeavors is guest-starring in Scrooge & Marley, a locally filmed gay take on A Christmas Carol. The film, which [Judith Light](http://www.judithlight.com/ "Judith Light") will narrate, will premiere at [Chicago’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&t=h "Chicago") [Music Box Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre "Music Box Theatre") Nov. 29.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Television
**Tags:** American Idol, Bruce Vilanch, Chicago, David Cox, Judith Light, Key West Florida, Music Box Theatre, Shark Tank
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Richard Dreyfuss, And Others To Read Dustin Lance Black's Stage Drama "8" ~ San Diego. November 19](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/11/05/bruce-vilanch-richard-dreyfuss-and-others-to-read-dustin-lance-blacks-stage-drama-8-san-diego-november-19/)
**Published:** November 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Richard Dreyfuss, Lance Bass, Bruce Vilanch and Annette O'Toole will be part of a Nov. 19 San Diego reading of Academy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's stage drama 8, chronicling California's anti-gay marriage legislation Prop 8.an Diego City councilman Todd Gloria, Steve Gunderson, Ryan Rottman and Lisa Sanders.
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**Playbill
[San Diego](http://www.sandiego.gov/ "San Diego") Reading of 8 to Feature [Richard Dreyfuss](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dreyfuss "Richard Dreyfuss"), [Lance Bass](http://www.lancebass.com/ "Lance Bass"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and More
By Adam Hetrick
05 Nov 2012**
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[Richard Dreyfuss](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/97027/Richard-Dreyfuss), [Lance Bass](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61885/Lance-Bass), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24838/Bruce-Vilanch) and Annette O’Toole will be part of a Nov. 19 San Diego reading of Academy Award-winning “Milk” screenwriter [Dustin Lance Black](http://www.dustinlanceblack.com "Dustin Lance Black")‘s stage drama *8*, chronicling California’s anti-gay marriage legislation Prop 8.an Diego City councilman [Todd Gloria](http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd3/ "Todd Gloria"), [Steve Gunderson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gunderson "Steve Gunderson"), [Ryan Rottman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Rottman "Ryan Rottman") and [Lisa Sanders](http://www.lisasandersmd.com/ "Lisa Sanders").
A talkback with Black and San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders will follow the performance.
*8*, which premiered on Broadway in 2011 with an all-star cast, utilizes the original transcripts from the 2010 Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, which sought to overturn the 2008 voter-approved Prop. 8 legislation that denied same-sex couples the right to marry. The trial ultimately led to a California federal judge’s ruling that Prop. 8 was unconstitutional and unfairly discriminated against homosexuals.
*8* continues to roll out in productions across the country, at colleges, universities and theatre organizations. The [American Foundation for Equal Rights](http://www.afer.org/ "American Foundation for Equal Rights") (AFER) and Broadway Impact administer the rights to *8*, which is licensed royalty free.
For tickets, ranging $19.50-$75 (VIP), phone (619) 239-8836 or visit: [BirchNorthParkTheatre.net](http://birchnorthparktheatre.net/).
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### [EVENING OF COMEDY & KITSCH To Benefit PAWS/LA Nov 13, 2012 ~ Bruce Vilanch, Wendy Liebman, And Allee Willis](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/30/evening-of-comedy-kitsch-to-benefit-pawsla-nov-13-2012-bruce-vilanch-wendy-liebman-and-allee-willis/)
**Published:** October 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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**EVENING OF [COMEDY](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") & KITSCH To Benefit PAWS/LA ~ November 13, 2012
PLEASE JOIN US!
Sponsored by Wells Fargo & Petco Foundation**
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Entertainers [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Allee Willis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allee_Willis "Allee Willis"), two of the quirkiest, most prolific creative talents on the planet will take the stage at the [Avalon Hollywood](http://www.avalonhollywood.com "Avalon Hollywood") Tuesday November 13, 2012 for an evening of love, laughter and libation to benefit the programs and initiatives of PAWS/LA. Special guest and fellow quipster [Wendy Liebman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Liebman "Wendy Liebman") will open the show.
The evening will feature a lively question and answer-style conversation with Bruce Vilanch, an award-winning comedy writer, songwriter and actor and one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the industry. He is an iconic Hollywood figure known for his wicked wit and dedicated support of various charitable causes.
Allee Willis, an award-winning songwriter, artist, director, performer, multi-mediaist, director, party thrower and the undisputed “Queen of Kitsch,” will conduct the Q&A. Willis’ songs including Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You (Theme From Friends)” have sold more than 50 million records. She also co-authored the stage version of The Color Purple, which is currently nominated for 13 [Ovation Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation_Awards "Ovation Awards").
Stand-up comic Wendy Liebman, who has appeared on [The Larry Sanders Show](http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/thelarrysanderscollection "The Larry Sanders Show") on HBO, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the [Late Show with David Letterman](http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/ "Late Show with David Letterman") and [The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson](http://www.cbs.com/late_late_show/ "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson") will kick off the evening with her signature comedy stylings!
***Ticket prices for this special evening are:***
**VIP Sponsor Package (table of 10): $2,000**
• Acknowledgement in event program
• Premium table with open bar service
• Pre-event private reception with hors d’oeuvres & open bar
• Post-event private artist reception
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**Individual VIP tickets: $175**
• Includes table seating in reserved section with open bar service
• Pre-event private reception with hors d’oeuvres & open bar
• Post-event private artist reception
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**[General admission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seating_assignment "Seating assignment"): $100**
• Unreserved seating
• 2 drink tickets & pre-event hors d’oeuvres
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Doors open @ 6:30 pm
##### [Avalon Hollywood](http://www.avalonhollywood.com)
##### 1735 Vine St.
##### Los Angeles 90028
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**Categories:** Announcement, Benefits
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### [Save The Date: Bruce Vilanch To Appear On "Shark Tank" November 9, ABC](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/22/save-the-date-bruce-vilanch-to-appear-on-shark-tank-november-9-abc/)
**Published:** October 22, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Bruce Vilanch demonstrates how a virtual classroom designed by a Key West, FL entrepreneur can teach technology to Baby Boomers.
**Content:**
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**Broadway World
Scoop: [SHARK TANK](http://abc.go.com/primetime/sharktank "Shark Tank (TV series)") on ABC – Friday, November 9, 2012
Monday, Oct, 22, 2012**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2012/10/153644197.jpg)
A young entrepreneur from [Burbank, CA](http://www.ci.burbank.ca.us/ "Burbank, California") shows how his motorized vehicle suit can take you from walking to driving in an instant. [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") demonstrates how a virtual classroom designed by a [Key West, FL](http://www.keywestcity.com "Key West, Florida") entrepreneur can teach technology to Baby Boomers. Also, two grandmothers from Yelm, CA hope to make a sweet deal with their sugar free candy chips. And a man from [San Francisco, CA](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco") tells the real estate-savvy Sharks how his search engine can find homes for sale that will provide high returns. In a follow up segment, Jeffrey Cohen gives an update on his Voyage-Air foldable guitar, a business the Sharks turned down in Season 1 — but he later returned to the Tank and made a deal with [Kevin O’Leary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O%27Leary_%28entrepreneur%29 "Kevin O'Leary (entrepreneur)") — on “Shark Tank,” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the [ABC Television Network](http://abc.go.com "American Broadcasting Company").
The Sharks in this episode of “Shark Tank” are Mark Cuban, [Barbara Corcoran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Corcoran "Barbara Corcoran"), [Robert Herjavec](http://www.robertherjavec.com/ "Robert Herjavec"), Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary.
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**Tags:** Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Kevin O'Leary, Robert Herjavec, San Francisco, Shark Tank, Sharks
---
### [Video: Bruce Vilanch & John Waters Interviews OutFest 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/21/video-bruce-vilanch-john-waters-interviews-outfest-2012/)
**Published:** October 21, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Sassy interviews Bruce Vilanch and Director and Vito Russo Award recipient John Waters at the Outfest opening night gala at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles, California 2012.
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**Categories:** Special Events, Video
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### [Bruce Vilanch Heads To Jacksonville, FL To Benefit PFLAG scholarship programs (Tonight!)](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/19/bruce-vilanch-heads-to-jacksonville-fl-to-benefit-pflag-scholarship-programs-tonight/)
**Published:** October 19, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [‘Scrooge & Marley’ Chicago premiere run at Music Box Theatre ~ *Bruce Vilanch and other stars to walk red carpet Thursday, Nov. 29*](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/18/scrooge-marley-chicago-premiere-run-at-music-box-theatre-bruce-vilanch-and-other-stars-to-walk-red-carpet-thursday-nov-29/)
**Published:** October 18, 2012
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**‘Scrooge & Marley’ Chicago premiere run at [Music Box Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre "Music Box Theatre")**
**\*[Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and other stars to walk red carpet Thursday, Nov. 29\***
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CHICAGO —Sam I Am Films, producers of “Scrooge & Marley,” a modern-day variation on [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")’ classic holiday story, “[A Christmas Carol](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Childrens-Classics/dp/0140862242%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140862242 "A Christmas Carol (Children's Classics)"),” will have a one-week run at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave.) Nov. 29-Dec. 6.
The film will also screen in at least a dozen cities nationwide this holiday season, with a DVD and soundtrack slated for December release.
The Chicago premiere run will kick off with a gala opening night celebration featuring most of the stars of the film. There is a pre-VIP event at Freda’s Restaurant at 5 p.m., red carpet at the Music Box at 6:30 p.m., with the film screening at 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A with cast and crew. A post screening VIP after-party will be held at D’Agostino’s on Addison. Philanthropist Michael Leppen is underwriting the opening night events. Tickets are now on sale at: .
Acclaimed out actor David Pevsner portrays Ben Scrooge while former Saturday Night Live star Tim Kazurinsky appears as the Ghost of [Jacob Marley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley "Jacob Marley"). The film also stars Rusty Schwimmer, Bruce Vilanch, Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti"), Richard Ganoung, and JoJo Baby. It is narrated by Tony award-winning actress Judith Light. The stars at the gala opening include Pevsner, Schwimmer, Vilanch, Cavanagh, Kroell, Moretti and Ganoung.
“Scrooge & Marley” was shot in Chicago in May and also highlights a host of recognized theatrical actors who round out the cast: Drew Anderson, Christopher Allen, Nicholas Bailey, Allison Torem, Fawzia Mirza, Peter Mohawk, Becca Kaufman, Scott Duff, PJ Powers, Amy Matheny and many more. The movie features a wide range of musical selections sung by actors in the film plus acclaimed musicians including Matt Alber, BETTY, Linda Good, Amber deLaurentis, The Joans, Jen Zias, and Jeannie Tanner.
**The dates and times for the Music Box shows in Chicago:**
Thursday, November 29, 6:30pm – red carpet, 7 p.m. screening followed by Q&A
Friday, Nov. 30, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 1, Noon
Sunday, Dec. 2, Noon (ASL interpreted)
Monday, Dec. 3, 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2:30 p.m.
Some of the Music Box shows will feature additional cast appearances, Q&As and even musical performances. More details will be available soon. See [http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/) for additional screening information.
**About [SCROOGE](http://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Albert-Finney/dp/B0000AQS5D%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AQS5D "Scrooge") & MARLEY**
*“*Scrooge & Marley” is a modern-day variation on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Recounted from a gay sensibility, with heart, comedy and music, the magic of Dickens’ timeless tale of a man’s redemption at the holidays—thanks to the help of three ghostly spirits—comes alive from a fresh perspective that will appeal to audiences of every persuasion. The film is based on an original script by Ellen Stoneking, Knight and Timothy Imse. It was directed by Knight and Peter Neville. Producers of the film are Tracy Baim (“[Hannah Free](http://www.hannahfree.com/index.html "Hannah Free")”) and David Strzepek (“Foodgasm”), joined by several co-producers (Knight, Neville, Stoneking, Kroell, and Moretti) and noteworthy crew.
Full cast and production team bios at [http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/) .
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/#!/ScroogeMarleyCH](x-msg://682/#!/ScroogeMarleyCH) .
On Facebook see [https://www.facebook.com/ScroogeAndMarley](file:///\\ScroogeAndMarley) .
Following are the upcoming screenings of the movie (more to be added):
Nov. 21-27: Laemmle Playhouse 7, 673 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 310-478-3836, [www.laemmle.com](http://www.laemmle.com/)
Nov. 29-Dec. 6, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, [www.musicboxtheatre.com](http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/).
Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m., Acorn Theatre, 107 Generations Drive, Three Oaks, Michigan, [www.acorntheater.com](http://www.acorntheater.com/).
Saturday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, Mich., 616-459-4788, [www.grcmc.org/theatre](http://www.grcmc.org/theatre).
Sunday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m., Cinema Center, 437 East Berry St., Fort Wayne, Ind., 260-426-3456, [www.cinemacenter.org](http://www.cinemacenter.org/).
Thursday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Philadelphia Ritz East, 125 South Second Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 215-925-7900, [tickets.landmarktheatres.com](http://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/). Direct ticket link: [https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Ticketing.aspx?TheatreID=273&MovieID=14229&ShowDate=12/13/2012&ScheduleID=19810](file:///\\Ticketing.aspx)
Sunday, Dec. 16, 3:15 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, [San Francisco, Calif.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") In a double-header with “Hannah Free” starring Sharon Gless, 1 p.m., $8, start time, “Scrooge & Marley at 3:15 p.m., $10. Tickets available at the door prior to showtime, [www.castrotheatre.com](http://www.castrotheatre.com/).
Thursday, Dec. 20, 5 p.m., Landmark Theatres Sunshine Cinema, 143 W. Houston St., [New York, NY](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City").
Friday, Dec. 21, 7 and 9 p.m., Reel Affirmations XTRA: Monthly Film Series, at Carnegie Institute for Science at 1530 P Street NW, [www.reelaffirmationsDecXtra.eventbrite.com](http://www.reelaffirmationsDecXtra.eventbrite.com/).
More screenings to be added in additional cities this December.
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Monica Potter, Peter Krause, Others Raise 500k For National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/17/bruce-vilanch-monica-potter-peter-krause-others-raise-500k-for-national-breast-cancer-coalition-fund/)
**Published:** October 17, 2012
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Les Girls Benefit Raises $500,000 for the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund
by Laura Schreffler October 17, 2012**
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For the 12th year in a row, celebrities performed cabaret acts for a cause: to benefit the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund.
Creative producer Jason Alexander, consulting writer Bruce Vilanch and hosts Monica Potter and Peter Krause helped to raise $500,000 for the organization.
Universal Studios’ Universal Partnerships and Licensing (UP&L) president Stephanie Sperber was honored at the Les Girls event, which kicked off with a cocktail reception and silent auction followed by an evening of cabaret.
Eric McCormack, Steven Weber, Peri Gilpin, Sharon Lawrence, Robert Morse and Ana Ortiz were among the guests who attended the fete at Avalon Hollywood on Monday evening.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Revisits His Alma Mater, Ohio State University](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/16/bruce-vilanch-revisits-his-alma-mater-ohio-state-university/)
**Published:** October 16, 2012
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**The Lantern
Bruce Vilanch takes Ohio State students backstage with Hollywood-inspired stand-up
By Lindsey Poole
Oct 15, 2012**
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") returned to his alma mater Sunday and told behind-the-scenes stories of being a writer in Hollywood, divulging tales from his stints of writing for pageants and for award shows such as the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). He didn’t veer from leaving out the dirty details either, mentioning award shows where dresses were ripped backstage, and a time when a Saint Bernard was brought on stage and relieved itself at the feet of [Dolly Parton](http://www.biography.com/people/dolly-parton-9434112 "Dolly Parton").
Vilanch visited Ohio State Sunday night in the Ohio Union’s U.S. Bank Conference Theater as part of an Ohio Union Activities Board-sponsored event.
“I’m really glad you all showed up,” Vilanch said. “Because as you know, I have no act. I write everybody else’s act.”
Vilanch is a comedy writer, actor and [OSU](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-83.0145&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.0,-83.0145 (Ohio%20State%20University)&t=h "Ohio State University") alumnus. He also is a six-time [Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner. His comedy for the evening focused on the stars he’s worked with through his career.
Vilanch seems to take pride in the shows that have flopped throughout his career being that he didn’t veer from gushing about their misfortunes. “[The Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special")” aired in 1978 and was one of the first official “[Star Wars](http://www.starwars.com/movies/episode-v "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back")” spin-offs ever. Vilanch took part in writing the special, which starred actors and actresses such as Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Bea Arthur.
“I sat down with [George Lucas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas "George Lucas") and he told me about this extra story that he had written about the Wookies,” he said. A Wookie is a furry creature from “Star Wars.” [Han Solo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo "Han Solo")’s sidekick in the show, Chewbacca, is a Wookie. The storyline of “The Star Wars Holiday Special” follows Chewbacca’s family while he was out defending the universe.
“The show was only broadcast once in its entirety but has become infamous for its negative reception,” Vilanch said.
Vilanch also told the audience that to get his foot in the door in Hollywood, he first had to grow his reputation by writing for shows in a smaller circuit. He opted to write for pageants and beauty queens.
“They all wanted to end world hunger and they all wanted to cure cancer, so I had to think of other things for them to want to cure,” Vilanch said.
Vilanch also gave insight on how beauty queens master the technique of a pageant wave.
“It goes … light bulb, light bulb, pearls, and they would repeat that over and over for hours,” he said.
Vilanch did the pageant wave for the audience. The “light bulb” motion is taking one hand and twisting it as if turning a light bulb from a socket. The motion is repeated with the other hand and then the person would touch her chest lightly as if touching a string of pearls around her neck.
Another part of his career involved writing for award shows such as the Oscars and Emmys.
“I write a lot of those award shows that you all watch but won’t admit to because it’s a guilty pleasure,” he said. “I’ve written for so many of them that I’ve finally worked down the entire list of award shows and (am) moving on to really obscure ones.”
Massey Pierce, a third-year in speech and hearing sciences, has seen Vilanch on TV and went to the event to hear his stand-up.
“I like comedians, I’ve seen him on TV all the time and I wanted to see what his stand-up was like,” Pierce said. “I thought he was really funny.”
Lina Al-Khatib, a third-year in English, came to the show to learn more about Vilanch and the Oscars.
“I didn’t know who he was exactly, but my friend told me he wrote for the Oscars and I am a huge Oscars fan, so I wanted to hear some stories of behind-the-scenes,” she said. “The Dolly Parton story was hilarious.”
Vilanch also touched on a few things that have changed at OSU since his tenure at the university, but to his surprise, one thing stayed the same. Vilanch said he was happy “[Hang on Sloopy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_On_Sloopy "Hang On Sloopy")” stood the test of time and is still one of the most-played songs on campus.
“When I was in school, ‘Hang on Sloopy’ was the No. 1 song on the radio and it was the first rock ‘n’ roll song that the (OSU) Marching Band adopted,” Vilanch said. “I’m glad to see it is still around and is still a favorite for everyone.”
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Liz Larsen, KT Sullivan Among Those Starring In "At Home Abroad" Concert Oct. 15th](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/14/bruce-vilanch-liz-larsen-kt-sullivan-among-those-starring-in-at-home-abroad-concert-oct-15th/)
**Published:** October 14, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** "Captained by a terrifically tactless American tourist, At Home Abroad is a wonderfully satirical musical cruise assaulting every port from the French Riviera to the islands of Japan. This stylish entertainment sets sail for hilarity ..."
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[At Home Abroad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_Abroad "At Home Abroad") Concert, With [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Liz Larsen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Larsen "Liz Larsen"), [Christine Pedi](http://www.christinepedi.com/ "Christine Pedi"), Offered Oct. 15
By Michael Gioia
15 Oct 2012**
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Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen (The Most Happy Fella), [Drama Desk Award](http://www.dramadesk.com/ "Drama Desk Award") nominee Garrett Long (South Pacific, The Spitfire Grill), Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray, “Hollywood Squares”) and KT Sullivan (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) are among the artists featured in UnsungMusicalsCo.’s one-night-only benefit concert of the 1935 musical revue At Home Abroad Oct. 15.
At Home Abroad, which kicks off the company’s season at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, is directed by UMC artistic director Ben West. Written by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees [Howard Dietz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dietz "Howard Dietz") and [Arthur Schwartz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schwartz "Arthur Schwartz"), the work has been newly restored and adapted from the original manuscripts. Show time is 7:30 PM.
Also in the cast are Chris Hoch ([La Cage aux Folles](http://lacage.com/ "La Cage aux Folles (musical)"), Shrek The Musical), Michael Mastro (Twelve Angry Men), Pilin Anice (Junie B. Jones), Cicily Daniels (The Little Mermaid), Tim Falter (Some Like It Hot), Nadine Isenegger (42nd Street), Matthew LaBanca (Young Frankenstein), Kristin Maloney (The Talk of the Town), Brent McBeth (White Christmas), Jim Middleton (Goodspeed’s 1776), Kevin Vortmann (A Little Night Music), Tiffany Westlie (The Truth About Jane), Julie Halston (Anything Goes, The Divine Sister), Christine Pedi (Forbidden Broadway), Noah Racey (Curtains, Never Gonna Dance), Margaret Colin (The Columnist, Defiance, Arcadia), Fred Berman (The Lion King), [Rachel de Benedet](http://www.racheldebenedet.com/RacheldeBenedet.com/Welcome.html "Rachel deBenedet") (Catch Me If You Can), Amy Hohn (November), Catherine LeFrere (The Judy Holliday Story), Greg Roderick (South Pacific), Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan (Thoroughly Modern Millie), [Natalie Venetia Belcon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Venetia_Belcon "Natalie Venetia Belcon") (Avenue Q, Once on This Island, Rent) and Laura Woyasz (Wicked).
Here’s how the concert is billed: “Captained by a terrifically tactless American tourist, At Home Abroad is a wonderfully satirical musical cruise assaulting every port from the French Riviera to the islands of Japan. This stylish entertainment sets sail for hilarity with such standards as ‘What a Wonderful World,’ ‘Love is a Dancing Thing’ and ‘Got a Bran’ New Suit.’ UMC’s concert event is conceived and staged as a live broadcast of a 1930s radio special, complete with a live jazz trio and a series of tap dance specialties. The UMC production is the first time the revue will be seen in over 70 years.”
Other members of the creative team include choreographer Rommy Sandhu and lighting designer Joe Hodge. Musical direction and arrangements are by Fran Minarik.
UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc., under the artistic direction of West, is a not-for-profit production company dedicated to the “preservation of musical theatre through the restoration and presentation of obscure but artistically sound works.”
The Peter Norton Symphony Space is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street.
**For tickets to** At Home Abroad, call (212) 864-5400 or visit [SymphonySpace.org](http://www.SymphonySpace.org). For more information, visit [UnsungMusicals.org](http://www.UnsungMusicals.org).
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- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3467)[An Evening with Bruce Vilanch: Sunday, Oct 14, 7:00pm at Ohio State University, Enarson Hall, Columbus, OH](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3467)
- [](http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Liz-Larsen-KT-Sullivan-Chris-Hoch-More-in-Rehearsal-for-UnsungMusicalsCos-AT-HOME-ABROAD-20121012)[Photo Flash: Liz Larsen, KT Sullivan, Chris Hoch & More in Rehearsal for UnsungMusicalsCo.’s AT HOME ABROAD](http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Liz-Larsen-KT-Sullivan-Chris-Hoch-More-in-Rehearsal-for-UnsungMusicalsCos-AT-HOME-ABROAD-20121012)
- [](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3490)[Feast Of Fun Audio: A Double Date with Bruce Vilanch and Ronnie Kroell](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3490)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Out Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Party In Los Angeles](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/10/bruce-vilanch-attends-out-magazines-20th-anniversary-party-in-los-angeles/)
**Published:** October 10, 2012
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**Queerty**
**Out Magazine’s 20th Anniversary Party In Los Angeles**
**Oct 10, 2012**
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On October 9, our friends at *Out* celebrated the magazine’s 20th anniversary with a soiree at the W Hollywood in [Los Angeles](http://losangeles.gaycities.com/). Editor in chief **[Aaron Hicklin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Hicklin "Aaron Hicklin")** welcomed [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**, **Erika Jayne**, [Pia Toscano](http://www.piatoscanoofficial.com "Pia Toscano")**, [Jai Rodriguez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Rodriguez "Jai Rodriguez"), **Jason Stuart**, **Jennifer Rade**, **[Jonathan Del Arco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Del_Arco "Jonathan Del Arco"),** *Advocate* editor in chief **[Matthew Breen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Breen "Matthew Breen"),** *Out* founder **[Michael Goff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goff "Michael Goff"), [Nicole Anderson](http://twitter.com/heyitsnicolea "Nicole Anderson"),**Here Media CEO **Paul Colichman,** , **Sarah Mitchell**, **[Shane Bitney Crone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Bitney_Crone "Shane Bitney Crone")**, **Silvio Horta**, **,[Wilson Cruz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cruz "Wilson Cruz")**, **Yeardley Smith,** and many more.
While the attendees took a break from wining and dining, Councilwoman **Abbe Land** presented *Out* with an official proclamation from the City of West Hollywood.
*Photos: John Shearer/Invision for OUT/AP Images*
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### [Hey Chicago! Scrooge & Marley Advance Ticket Sales Available Now!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/05/hey-chicago-scrooge-marley-advance-ticket-sales-available-now/)
**Published:** October 5, 2012
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*Before our tickets go on sale to the public, we wanted you to have the first chance to purchase them for our special launch of the Scrooge & Marley movie in Chicago! There are only 50 GOLD level tickets available and only 200 SILVER level. We will sell out of these levels quickly. See below for how to order tickets.*
Please also share with friends and family, so they can purchase tickets before they sell out.
Thank you
**Tracy Baim**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2012/10/10-5-2012-2-36-23-PM.png)
**Invite you to the Chicago premiere of a Christmas classic for all of our families**
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012
[Music Box Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Box_Theatre "Music Box Theatre")
3733 N. Southport
**Featuring the cast, directors, writers, and others behind this new independent movie shot in Chicago.**
**Meet actors** David Pevsner, [Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Megan Cavanagh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Cavanagh "Megan Cavanagh"), [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti"), [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell"), Becca Kaufman, Richard Ganoung, JoJo Baby and many more.
**5-6:30 p.m.** VIP pre-reception
Freda’s Restaurant, 3755 N. Southport
**6:30 p.m.:** Red Carpet at the Music Box
**7 p.m.:** Scrooge & Marley Premiere
**8:30 p.m.:** Q&A at the Music Box
**9-10:30 p.m.:** After-Party
D’Agostino’s Restaurant
1351 W. Addison (at Southport)
**Ticket prices:**
**GOLD:** $250 for all of the events
**SILVER:** $125 for Movie plus After-Party
**BRONZE:** $12 for Movie Only
**First:** RSVP your ticket order to: Tracy Baim, editor@windycitymediagroup.com
**Next: Send checks payable to Sam I Am Films, LLC and mail to:**
Tracy Baim, 1900 S. [Prairie Avenue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Avenue "Prairie Avenue"), [Chicago, IL](http://www.cityofchicago.org/ "Chicago") 60616
**Questions?** Call 773-387-2394
**Directed by:** Richard Knight, Jr. and Peter Neville
**Written by:** Ellen Stoneking, Richard Knight, Jr. and the late Timothy Imse
**Produced by:** Tracy Baim and David Strzepek
**Narrated by:** Judith Light
Tim Kazurinsky also stars but is unable to make this screening
**For more details see:**
[**http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com**](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com)
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---
### [Feast Of Fun Audio: A Double Date with Bruce Vilanch and Ronnie Kroell](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/10/02/feast-of-fun-audio-a-double-date-with-bruce-vilanch-and-ronnie-kroell/)
**Published:** October 2, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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# Feast Of Fun
**A Double Date with Bruce Vilanch and Ronnie Kroell**
**[Marc Felion](http://feastoffun.com/author/marcfelion/ "Posts by Marc Felion")**
**Oct 2, 2012**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2012/10/BruceVilanch-RonnieKroell-610-MAY2012.jpg)
Today we are thrilled to have two of our favorite guests in the home studio- [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell"). Bruce is best known for his 4 year stint on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"), and as the head writer for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award").
The biggest biggest names in comedy, like [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopie Goldberg](http://www.biography.com/people/whoopi-goldberg-9314384 "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler") turn to Bruce when they need some seriously funny stuff.
And we also have the incredibly handsome Ronnie Kroell, who rocked the best bod in a long time on the cover of Playgirl and stole people’s hearts on Bravo’s “Make Me a Supermodel.”
Bah humbug– is just an old fashioned way to say– oh Mary!
They’re in Chicago filming “[Scrooge & Marley,](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/Scrooge_%26_Marley/HOME.html)” an update to the [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens") Classic with a 70s gay disco twist.
Listen as we go on a double date with [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.wegotbruce.com/) and [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.ronniekroell.com/)! Bruce talks about what happened between him and [James Franco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco "James Franco") at the Oscars. Last we heard, the Hollywood hunk blamed sweet Bruce for his lackluster hosting abilities, and then later deleted his Twitter account.
 What was it like to working with Diana Ross in the film Mahogany,
 And how drunk did [Joan Crawford](http://www.last.fm/music/Joan%2BCrawford "Joan Crawford") get when he interviewed her.
**To Listen: [Click Here](http://feastoffun.com/podcast/2012/10/02/fofa-1584-a-double-date-with-bruce-vilanch-and-ronnie-kroell-10-02-12/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fofa-1584-a-double-date-with-bruce-vilanch-and-ronnie-kroell-10-02-12#sharetab)**
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, Hollywood Squares, James Franco, Ronnie Kroell
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### [TICKET RELEASE: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch ~ Sunday, October 14th at 7:00 pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/09/17/ticket-release-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-sunday-october-14th-at-700-pm/)
**Published:** September 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**TICKET RELEASE:** An Evening with Bruce Vilanch ~ Mon Sep 17, 2012 – 5:00 PM
**Location:** Ohio Union – Information Center – 1739 N. High St.
**Rain Location:** None
**Dates & Data:** Actual event is Sunday, October 14th at 7:00 pm.
2 tickets per BuckId.
All Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB) events are for OSU Columbus students with a valid BuckID only. This event is presented by the Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB) and is brought to you by your Student Activity Fee.
Ohio Union Room 2098
1739 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43210
614.292.3117
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Education, Home Abroad, Ohio, Ohio State University, Ohio Union, United States, Whoopi Goldberg
---
### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch With Ricki Lake](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/09/13/photo-bruce-vilanch-with-ricki-lake/)
**Published:** September 13, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Be Featured In "At Home Abroad" Brought To The Stage By Unsung Musicals Co. ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/09/06/bruce-vilanch-to-be-featured-in-at-home-abroad-brought-to-the-stage-by-unsung-musicals-co/)
**Published:** September 6, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Broadway World](http://broadwayworld.com/)**
**Bruce Vilanch, Julie Halston and More Set for UnsungMusicalsCo.’s AT HOME ABROAD, 10/15**
**September 6, 2012**
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UnsungMusicalsCo. (UMC), whose mission focuses on the preservation of musical theater through the restoration and presentation of obscure but artistically sound works, has announced programming for its 2013 season. A one-night-only benefit concert presentation of the legendary 1935 musical revue [At Home Abroad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_Abroad "At Home Abroad") kicks off the season on October 15, 2012 at the Peter Norton[Symphony Space](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Symphony-Space/).[Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/),[Julie Halston](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Julie-Halston/),[Christine Pedi](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Christine-Pedi/),[Noah Racey](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Noah-Racey/)and[Margaret Colin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Margaret-Colin/)are among the cast.
Captained by a terrifically tactless American tourist, At Home Abroad is a wonderfully satirical musical cruise assaulting every port from the French Riviera to the islands of Japan. This stylish entertainment sets sail for hilarity with such standards as “What a Wonderful World”, “Love is a Dancing Thing” and “Got a Bran’ New Suit”. UMC’s concert event is conceived and staged as a live broadcast of a 1930s radio special, complete with a live jazz trio and a series of tap dance specialties. The UMC production is the first time the revue will be seen in over 70 years.
Written by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees[Howard Dietz](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Howard-Dietz/)and[Arthur Schwartz](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Arthur-Schwartz/)(The Band Wagon, “That’s Entertainment!”), the cast of At Home Abroad features[Fred Berman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Fred-Berman/)(The Lion King), [Obie Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award "Obie Award") winner[Donna Bullock](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Donna-Bullock/)(Ragtime, A Class Act), [Drama Desk Award](http://www.dramadesk.com/ "Drama Desk Award") nominee[Margaret Colin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Margaret-Colin/)(The Columnist, Defiance, Arcadia), Astaire Award nominee[Rachel de Benedet](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Rachel-de-Benedet/)(Catch Me If You Can),[Drew Gehling](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Drew-Gehling/)(On a Clear Day, Jersey Boys), Drama Desk Award nominee[Julie Halston](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Julie-Halston/)(Anything Goes, The Divine Sister),[Amy Hohn](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Amy-Hohn/)(November), Catherine LeFrere (The[Judy Holliday](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Judy-Holliday/)Story), Drama Desk Award nominee[Christine Pedi](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Christine-Pedi/)([Forbidden Broadway](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Forbidden-Broadway/)),[Noah Racey](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Noah-Racey/)(Curtains, Never Gonna Dance),[Greg Roderick](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Greg-Roderick/)(South Pacific), Tony Award nominee[Dick Scanlan](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Dick-Scanlan/)(Thoroughly Modern Millie), Emmy Award winner[Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/)(Hairspray, “Hollywood Squares”),[Natalie Venetia Belcon](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Natalie-Venetia-Belcon/)(Avenue Q, Once on This Island, Rent) and[Laura Woyasz](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Laura-Woyasz/)(Wicked).
Newly restored and adapted from the original manuscripts, the concert is directed by UMC artistic director[Ben West](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Ben-West/)(Make Mine Manhattan, Gatsby: The Songs in Concert) with tap choreography by[Rommy Sandhu](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Rommy-Sandhu/)(Make Mine Manhattan, Encores! Bells Are Ringing associate), musical direction and arrangements by[Fran Minarik](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Fran-Minarik/)(Make Mine Manhattan, Gatsby: The Songs in Concert) and lighting design by[Joe Hodge](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Joe-Hodge/)(Perfect Crime, Make Mine Manhattan).
Tickets, priced $20 – $40, are available by visiting www.SymphonySpace.org or calling (212) 864-5400. Special patron seating is available by emailing Mark[Jason Williams](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Jason-Williams/)at MWilliams@unsungmusicals.org.
The Peter Norton[Symphony Space](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Symphony-Space/)is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. For more information visit [www.UnsungMusicals.org](http://www.unsungmusicals.org/).
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**Categories:** Benefits
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### [An Evening with Bruce Vilanch: Sunday, Oct 14, 7:00pm at Ohio State University, Enarson Hall, Columbus, OH](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/08/29/an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-sunday-oct-14-700pm-at-ohio-state-university-enarson-hall-columbus-oh/)
**Published:** August 29, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**An Evening with Bruce Vilanch
Sun Oct 14, 2012 – 7:00 PM
Doors at 6:00 PM**
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**Location:** Ohio Union – Performance Hall
**Rain Location:** None
**Dates & Data**
Ohio State alum Bruce Vilanch is an American comedian and actor. He has been the head writer for the Oscar’s since 2000, and also writes for the Tony’s and the Emmy’s. Come out to enjoy an evening of stand-up with Bruce Vilanch!
2 tickets per valid Buck ID
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### [Video: Bette Midler And Bruce Vilanch In 1971 Documentry "Vito"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/08/23/video-bette-midler-and-bruce-vilanch-in-1971-documentry-vito/)
**Published:** August 23, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Talks About His Favorite Porn Stars](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/08/23/video-bruce-vilanch-talks-about-his-favorite-porn-stars/)
**Published:** August 23, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Xtra
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s playhouse
PORN / Comedian talks porn, groping and ancient [Pompeii](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii "Pompeii")
Thursday, August 23, 2012**
When comedian Bruce Vilanch visited Pompeii, he especially loved the [large penis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size "Human penis size") drawings on most of the front doors.
A large penis was considered good luck, Vilanch tells hardtv stars [Ryan Russell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Russell "Ryan Russell") and [Eddie Stone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Stone "Eddie Stone"). He also chats about his favourite [pornstars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic_actor "Pornographic actor").
“I jerk off to dead pornstars,” says Vilanch, who names [Ken Ryker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ryker "Ken Ryker") and [Jeff Stryker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Stryker "Jeff Stryker") as two of his favourite living pornstars.
**In the video below, he also talks about his love of groping:**
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Comedian, Eddie Stone, Jeff Stryker, Ken Ryker, Pompeii, Ryan Russell, vilanch
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### [Bruce Vilanch & Whoopi Goldberg Bring Down The House In P-Town](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/08/07/bruce-vilanch-whoopi-goldberg-bring-down-the-house-in-p-town/)
**Published:** August 7, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Wicked Local](http://www.wickedlocal.com/provincetown)
Whoopi brings laughs to [Provincetown](http://www.provincetown-ma.gov/ "Provincetown, Massachusetts") [women’s health](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_health "Women's health") benefit
GateHouse News Service
Posted Aug 07, 2012**
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PROVINCETOWN — It was a long, fun-filled night for [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.biography.com/people/whoopi-goldberg-9314384 "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who received more [standing ovations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_ovation "Standing ovation") than anyone could count as they repeatedly brought down the house. After two back-to-back, 90-minute comedy concerts that sold out Town Hall Sunday, Vilanch and Goldberg practically propped each other up as Goldberg received the 2012 Provincetown Care Award in honor of her commitment to raising awareness for and improving women’s health.
Shawn Nightingale Productions and Provincetown Cares worked together to put on the event, which raised money for the organization that promotes research, education, screening and treatment for breast cancer and other health issues for women.
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### [Trailer: Bruce Vilanch, Dawn Wells, Rip Taylor, And Lee Meriweather Check Into "Hotel Arthritis"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/31/trailer-bruce-vilanch-dawn-wells-rip-taylor-and-lee-meriweather-check-into-hotel-arthritis/)
**Published:** July 31, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[THEATERMANIA.COM ](http://www.theatermania.com/)**## **[John Tartaglia](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/503eb805-4720-4782-8b4b-e08d21919ccd.html "John Tartaglia"), [Rip Taylor](http://www.riptaylor.com/ "Rip Taylor"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Dawn Wells](http://www.dawn-wells.com/ "Dawn Wells") Set for *Hotel Arthritis* film**
**By [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/99) • Jul 31, 2012 • [Los Angeles ](http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/news/)**
Tony Award nominee [John Tartaglia](http://www.theatermania.com/cast/john-tartaglia.html) will star in the upcoming comedy/horror film, *Hotel Arthritis*, to be directed by Jason Lockhart.
The film is about a group of retirement home residents living in fear of a masked killer who stalks the halls of their home. Tartaglia will play the role of Dale, described as a “the quirky, offbeat, a-sexual manager” of the home.
Also featured in the film are Broadway veterans [Camille Saviola](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saviola "Camille Saviola") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Bruce+Vilanch), as well as [Dawn Wells](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Dawn+Wells), [Lee Meriwether](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Lee+Meriwether), [Martin Kove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kove "Martin Kove"), [David Proval](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/david_proval "David Proval"), [Kiersten Warren](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kiersten_warren "Kiersten Warren"), [Jacqui Holland](http://www.JacquiHolland.com "Jacqui Holland"), [Shawn Harrison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Harrison "Shawn Harrison"), Jerry Douglas, and [Rip Taylor](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Rip+Taylor).
For more information, visit [www.hotelarthritis.com](http://www.hotelarthritis.com/).
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Camille Saviola, Dawn Wells, Jacqui Holland, John Tartaglia, Kiersten Warren, Rip Taylor, Shawn Harrison
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### [Bruce Vilanch & Whoopi Goldberg Coming To ProvinceTown Sunday, Aug. 5](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/27/bruce-vilanch-whoopi-goldberg-coming-to-provincetown-sunday-aug-5/)
**Published:** July 27, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Not since their appearance on “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")†have comedians [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.biography.com/people/whoopi-goldberg-9314384 "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") been given so much freedom to match wits again together on stage. Unleashing their full comedic powers upon each other and the audience, Goldberg and Vilanch will perform their solo shows, then come together to quiz each other before taking questions from the audience for two shows only, at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at [Provincetown](http://www.provincetown-ma.gov/ "Provincetown, Massachusetts") Town Hall, 260 Commercial St., Provincetown.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins Cast Of "At Home Abroad" Monday, October 15 at Peter Norton Symphony Space](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/24/bruce-vilanch-joins-cast-of-at-home-abroad-monday-october-15-at-peter-norton-symphony-space/)
**Published:** July 24, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a one-night-only concert production of the 1935 Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz musical At Home Abroad on Monday, October 15 at Peter Norton Symphony Space. The concert will be directed by Ben West.
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Donna Bullock, [Christine Pedi](http://www.christinepedi.com/ "Christine Pedi"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Set for UnsungMusicalsCo. Concert of [At Home Abroad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Home_Abroad "At Home Abroad")
By David Gordon • Jul 24, 2012 • [New York City](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City")**
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UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a one-night-only concert production of the 1935 [Howard Dietz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dietz "Howard Dietz") and [Arthur Schwartz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schwartz "Arthur Schwartz") musical At Home Abroad on Monday, October 15 at Peter Norton [Symphony Space](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Space "Symphony Space"). The concert will be directed by [Ben West](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_West "Ben West").
The revue, which follows a couple who flee America and go on a world tour, is restored from the original manuscripts and will be staged as a live broadcast of a 1930s radio special.
The concert will feature performances by Fred Berman, Donna Bullock, [Rachel de Benedet](http://www.racheldebenedet.com/RacheldeBenedet.com/Welcome.html "Rachel deBenedet"), Nicholas Dromard, Drew Gehling, Christine Pedi, [Dick Scanlan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Scanlan "Dick Scanlan"), and Bruce Vilanch.
At Home Abroad will feature tap choreography by Rommy Sandhu, musical direction and arrangements by Fran Minarik, and lighting design by Joe Hodge.
**[Click here for more information and tickets](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/07-2012/donna-bullock-christine-pedi-bruce-vilanch-set-for_59836.html).**
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### ["Carol Channing: Larger Than Lfe" Documentary Playing On Showtime For Months Of July/August](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/21/carol-channing-larger-than-lfe-documentary-playing-on-showtime-for-months-of-julyaugust/)
**Published:** July 21, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** All month long and into August on Showtime, the fabulous and acclaimed documentary, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life" is playing on Showtime! Check your local listings for times and channel! Also features a myriad of stars, including, Bruce Vilanch, telling anecdotes about the legendary star that is Carol Channing! A must see! Also out on DVD!
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### [Scrooge & Marley Teaser Vid: Upcoming Movie Asks What If Scrooge Was Gay? ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/18/scrooge-marley-teaser-vid-upcoming-movie-asks-what-if-scrooge-was-gay/)
**Published:** July 18, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Starring: Bruce Vilanch, David Moretti, Ronnie Kroell, David Pevsner, Megan Cavanagh, Rusty Schwimmer, and Tim Kazurinsky. Also directed by my favorite new director, Richard Knight, Jr. Congrats to everyone on this project...looks to be totally entertaining! You can also donate to the independent film's completion...check out how!
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WATCH: The Gay Ghosts of Christmas Visit Scrooge
July 18, 2012**
***Starring:** Bruce Vilanch, David Moretti, Ronnie Kroell, David Pevsner, Megan Cavanagh, Rusty Schwimmer, and Tim Kazurinsky. Also directed by my favorite new director, Richard Knight, Jr. Congrats to everyone on this project…looks to be totally entertaining! You can also donate to the independent film’s completion…check out how!*
What if Ebenezer Scrooge was gay? That’s the premise of an update of the Charles Dickens’s classic tale of redemption, A Christmas Carol. 


The Lair’s David Moretti costars with comic Bruce Vilanch and Playgirl model-turned-actor Ronnie Kroell in Scrooge & Marley, an upcoming holiday comedy that puts a gay spin on the venerable holiday favorite. In the retelling veteran actor David Pevsner will offer a unique take on the miserly Scrooge and will appear alongside A League of Their Own’s Megan Cavanagh, Drop Dead Diva’s Rusty Schwimmer, and Saturday Night Live alum Tim Kazurinsky. Scrooge & Marley is being co-directed by Richard Knight, Jr. and Peter Neville. To donate to the independent film’s completion, [**go here**](http://www.indiegogo.com/ScroogeMarley).
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### [Photo: “The Last 70mm Film Festivalâ€](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/16/3402/)
**Published:** July 16, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Stars Come Out for “[It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/its_a_mad_mad_mad_mad_world "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World")â€**
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Being Interviewed At The 2008 Hustla Ball](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/13/video-bruce-vilanch-being-interviewed-at-the-2008-hustla-ball/)
**Published:** July 13, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch Takes In A Screening Of IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD At “The Last 70mm Film Festival†Series](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/12/bruce-vilanch-takes-in-a-screening-of-it’s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-at-“the-last-70mm-film-festival”-series/)
**Published:** July 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch: Going To "The Mansion" In The...Oh Well, Saratoga Springs July 18-19, 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/12/bruce-vilanch-going-to-the-mansion-in-the-oh-well-saratoga-springs-july-18-19-2012/)
**Published:** July 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch will perform July 18 (Wednesday) and July 19 at 8 PM as part of the Stars Are Out Tonight series at the Mansion of Saratoga Springs (801 Route 29, Rock City Falls). For more info, call 885-1607 or visit themansionsaratoga.com.
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If there’s a writer for the stars more famous than [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), we haven’t heard of him. [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), [Robin Williams](http://www.robinwilliams.com/ "Robin Williams"), [Cher](http://cher.com "Cher"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.biography.com/people/whoopi-goldberg-9314384 "Whoopi Goldberg"), [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal") . . . and most hosts on more [Oscar](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecasts than we have time to list. He also wrote the legendary*[Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special")*.
This week, Vilanch is bringing his stand-up act (which he insists is “not an actâ€) to the Mansion of [Saratoga Springs](http://www.saratoga-springs.org "Saratoga Springs, New York"), as the first performer in the Stars Are Out Tonight series.
As one Denver-based critic descibed his act, “nothing stings or feels mean. His humor is all about being an insider and sharing anecdotes about the foibles of working in show business.â€
Bruce Vilanch will perform July 18 (Wednesday) and July 19 at 8 PM as part of the Stars Are Out Tonight series at the Mansion of Saratoga Springs (801 Route 29, [Rock City Falls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_City_Falls%2C_New_York "Rock City Falls, New York")). For more info, call 885-1607 or visit themansionsaratoga.com.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, Cher, Denver, Robin Williams, Star Wars Holiday Special, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Win 2 Free Tix: The Mansion of Saratoga Presents: Bruce Vilanch, July 18, 19 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/06/win-2-free-tix-the-mansion-of-saratoga-presents-bruce-vilanch-july-18-19-2012/)
**Published:** July 6, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**The Mansion of Saratoga Presents: [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**
Bruce Vilanch, the hairiest [Hollywood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood "Hollywood") Square, will be performing live at The Mansion of Saratoga taking you behind the scenes on a [roller coaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_coaster "Roller coaster") ride through every major show-business event, non-event, and anything in between. As a writer for the past 23 [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") shows, Bruce has the wit and insider perspective to give you the best stories about all your favorite stars.
Tickets are on sale now for this laugh-riot, but for a limited time, you have the chance to win a pair for free! Simply provide your information below and you are entered to win TWO FREE tickets, a $50 value! **Â [Click Here](http://www.saratoga.com/contests/mansion-inn-cabaret/)**
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### ["Going Down in LA-LA Land" Was Released July 3, 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/06/going-down-in-la-la-land-was-released-july-3-2012/)
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**Categories:** DVD
**Tags:** Adam, Alec Mapa, Bruce Vilanch, Casper Andreas, DVD, Hollywood, LA-LA, Los Angeles
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch And Judy Gold ~ Big And Tall](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/05/photo-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold-big-and-tall/)
**Published:** July 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") kept a packed house at Bay Street Theatre in [Sag Harbor](http://www.sagharborny.gov/ "Sag Harbor, New York") laughing for almost 2 hours and hosted an after show party in the theater lobby with fireworks exploding in the background.
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### [Video: Trailer And July Fundraiser Campaign For “Scrooge And Marley ! ~ Donate What You Can!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/07/02/video-trailer-and-july-fundraiser-campaign-for-“scrooge-and-marley-donate-what-you-can/)
**Published:** July 2, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Be A Part Of The Movie-Making Process ‘Scrooge & Marley’ Debuts Trailer, Launches ‘Christmas in July’ Fundraising Drive**
CHICAGO —SAM I Am Films, producers of “Scrooge & Marley,†a modern-day variation on [Charles Dickens](http://www.biography.com/people/charles-dickens-9274087 "Charles Dickens")’ classic holiday story, “A Christmas Carol,†has posted the first trailer of the film, which will be released in December. Acclaimed out actor David Pevsner portrays Ben Scrooge while former SNL star [Tim Kazurinsky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kazurinsky "Tim Kazurinsky") appears as the Ghost of [Jacob Marley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley "Jacob Marley").
The trailer kicks off a series of “Christmas in July†fundraising events that will include house parties, a cabaret benefit and an Indiegogo.com online pledge campaign – all designed to raise awareness and excitement about the film’s holiday release and to aid producers of the independent feature in securing additional post production funds.
To support the Indiegogo campaign, visit the Indiegogo.com website and search for Scrooge & Marley. The direct link is: [**http://igg.me/p/124360?a=396864**](http://igg.me/p/124360?a=396864)
The trailer will be released on Indiegogo, the film’s website ([www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com)) and Facebook page, and more photos will be posted on the Facebook page and website in July. The trailer includes the first peek at other notables in the movie—Rusty Schwimmer, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Megan Cavanagh, [Ronnie Kroell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Kroell "Ronnie Kroell"), [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti"), Richard Ganoung, and [JoJo](http://jojoonline.com "JoJo (singer)") Baby.
“Scrooge & Marley†was shot in Chicago in May and also highlights a host of recognized theatrical actors who round out the cast: Drew Anderson, Christopher Allen, Nicholas Bailey, Allison Torem, Fawzia Mirza, Peter Mohawk, Scott Duff, [PJ Powers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Powers "PJ Powers"), Amy Matheny and many more.
The house parties are being held at private homes with the main public event taking place on Thursday, July 26, 6-9 p.m. at 3160 Cabaret (3160 N. Clark), where several scenes in the movie were shot. Guests will have a chance to win exclusive “Scrooge & Marley†merchandise and will be treated to music from the film performed live by cabaret entertainers Becca Kaufman and Dick O’Day (alter ego of Richard Knight, Jr., co-director and co-writer of the film), who appear in the movie. The trailer and never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photos will also be shown. The event is free, but donations will be requested.
**About [SCROOGE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281970_film%29 "Scrooge (1970 film)") & MARLEY**
“Scrooge & Marley†is a modern-day variation on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.†Recounted from a gay sensibility, with heart, comedy and music, the magic of Dickens’ timeless tale of a man’s redemption at the holidays—thanks to the help of three ghostly spirits—comes alive from a fresh perspective that will appeal to audiences of every persuasion. The film is based on an original script by Ellen Stoneking, Knight and the late Timothy Imse. It was directed by Knight and Peter Neville. Executive producers of the film are Tracy Baim (“[Hannah Free](http://www.hannahfree.com/index.html "Hannah Free")â€) and David Strzepek (“Foodgasmâ€), joined by several co-producers (Knight, Neville, Stoneking, Kroell, and Moretti) and noteworthy crew.
Full cast and production team bios at [**http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com**](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com) .
**Twitter:** [**https://twitter.com/#!/ScroogeMarleyCH**](https://twitter.com/#!/ScroogeMarleyCH) .
**On Facebook see** [**https://www.facebook.com/ScroogeAndMarley**](https://www.facebook.com/ScroogeAndMarley)
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**Categories:** Announcement, Donations, GLBT, movies
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### [Tonight: Big and Tall: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/30/tonight-big-and-tall-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold/)
**Published:** June 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bay Street Theatre, Main St & Bay St, Sag Harbor, NY
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**What:** Big and Tall: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold
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**Tonight:** June 30, 2012, 8:00 pm
**Where:** Bay Street Theatre, Main St & Bay St, Sag Harbor, NY
**Tickets:** $65, $75, or $100
Multi-Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch and comedian Judy Gold bring their comedic acts to Bay Street Theatre for one night only at 8 p.m.
Show tickets for $100 include an after-party where you can top off the night with Vilanch and Gold while enjoying wine, refreshments, and hors d’oeurves.`
**Website:** [**http://Âwww.Âbaystreet.Âorg**](http://Âwww.Âbaystreet.Âorg)
**Phone:** 631-725-9500
**Price:** $65, $75, or $100
**Bay Street Theatre**
Main St & Bay St, Sag Harbor, NY Box office: 631-725-9500; Administration: 631-725-0818
Bay Street Theatre is a 299-seat not-for-profit theater founded by Sybil Christopher, Stephen Hamilton and Emma Walton. Bay Street’s Mainstage series features three plays and/or musicals a year with professional actors. Celebrities who have acted in or directed Mainstage plays include Alan Alda, Mercedes Ruehl, Darrell Hammond and Richard Kind. The “Literature Live!” series is geared toward middle and high school students and the plays are coupled with lesson plans. The Bay Street Picture Show screens classic films for just $5. The theater also offers workshops, children’s theater camps and internships.
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### [This Weekend: "Big and Tall: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/28/this-weekend-big-and-tall-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold/)
**Published:** June 28, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Tickets are $65, $75, and $100. They can be purchased by calling 631-725-9500.
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**Sag Harbor
July 28, 2012**
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**COMEDY:Â** Bay Street Theatre presents [Big and Tall: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold](http://southampton.patch.com/events/big-and-tall-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold), on Saturday at 8 p.m. Vilanch, a multi-Emmy Award winner, and Gold come to Bay Street for one-night only. Show tickets for $100 include an after-party where you can top off the night with Vilanch and Gold while enjoying wine, refreshments, and hors d’oeurves. Tickets are $65, $75, and $100. They can be purchased by calling 631-725-9500.
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### [The Edge's BeBe Sweetbriar Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/28/the-edges-bebe-sweetbriar-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 28, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**The Edge
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") :: Exercising his muscles (and fund-raising)
by BeBe Sweetbriar
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012**
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You can’t help but notice him when he walks into a room wearing his trademark t-shirt with an emblazoned slogan. You can’t help but laugh at his jokes and stories. Those are givens when it comes to award-winning comic writer Bruce Vilanch (the Oscars, Donny and Marie Show, Hollywood Squares).
But how many times does do the titles ’musical theater performer’ or ’songwriter’ come to your mind when you think of him?
As it turns out, they should since Vilanch both starred in musicals and written songs. Bruce Vilanch was in the first national company of the [Tony-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") musical “[Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)"),” and has written songs for [Eartha Kitt](http://www.earthakitt.com/ "Eartha Kitt") and [the Village People](http://www.officialvillagepeople.com "Village People").
Always poised to take command of an awards show or benefit with his wit on the microphone, Vilanch, however, will call upon his song and dance skills at the upcoming benefit event One Night Cabaret Benefit in San Francisco for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation which is far more commonplace for the funny man than we might imagine.
**Making it happen**
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** I think it is wonderful that the One Night Only Cabaret benefiting Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation at which you are set to appear on July 2 in San Francisco with the cast of [Green Day’s](http://www.greenday.com/ "Green Day") ’[American Idiot](http://musicbrainz.org/album/dd7cbde9-bffc-467f-8a39-bda4ea2d0633.html "American Idiot")’ will give many in audience their first chance to see you in a musical-type forum. Many of us have not had the privilege of seeing you in the touring company of ’Hairspray’ as Edna Turnblad, and think will be surprised to see your performance at this event.
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**Bruce Vilanch:** Nobody’s going to be more surprised than I am (laughs). I’m going to be on the road until I get to San Francisco the day before the show, so me and the cast of ’American Idiot’ will be working on something when I arrive. If not, you’re going to get me to host the thing and I will see what little musically I can come up with (alone).
I’ve done this a bunch of time. When there is a big musical in town, Richmond/Ermet gets with the cast of the show on their night off and turn it into a benefit. I’ve done it with ’Young Frankenstein ,’ ’Hair’ and now ’American Idiot .’ The thing about ’American Idiot’ is that it is all Green Day music, so these guys (and gals) are doing Green Day eight times a week (Tuesday-Sunday with 4 shows on weekends). They are probably going to use this opportunity to sing Puccini and Britney Spear’s ’Toxic .’… all the musical literature they would like to expose to a San Francisco audience. In that vein I will try and come up with something to match what they are up to. I’ve seen this company of ’American Idiot’ when they played Los Angeles, and they are incredible — extraordinarily talented.
**’Benefits ’R Us’**
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** It’s fair to say that you will be in good company…
**Bruce Vilanch:** Very good company, because a lot of them were actually in ’Hair.’ They went from ’Hair’ to ’American Idiot’ because they are both rock musicals, and they require similar skill sets. When I was in ’Hairspray’ we did the same thing (benefits). We did a lot of Monday nights all over the country.
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** You know, many times when I speak to actors doing some real serious Shakespearean-type theater, they use working in comedy as kind of a release to get out of that serious vein. Is this musical-type performing like that for you — a release or break from the comedic writing that you do all the time?
**Bruce Vilanch:** Yeah! I’m just ’Benefits ’R Us’! That should be my corporate logo. I’ve done so many of these over the years. I’m beginning to wonder what am I breaking away from… other benefits?
The fundraising needs to be done, but I guess it is an opportunity for me to get to exercise the performance muscle as opposed to the writing muscle. It is out of the ordinary because it is not what I generally do.
**Extraordinary… but common**
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** Because you present yourself to us, the public, the audience, as sort of ’one-of-us,’ I think we sometimes forget about the Hollywood insider that you are. I mean your skills that you utilize to do the writing for all four of the major entertainment award shows ([Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), Tonys, Emmys, Grammys), so many variety shows, and concert shows (Diana Ross, [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), Michael Feinstein) has established you in high regard in the Hollywood circle. We forget about this because you are so approachable and down to earth.
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**Bruce Vilanch:** Well, Oh! I’m common, what can I tell ya? Extraordinary… but common.
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** To even think that we can put ’songwriter’ in front of your name when introducing you…
**Bruce Vilanch**: (interjecting) Funny, I did have a hit disco song. I had a disco career 30 years ago. I wrote a song for Eartha Kitt called ’Where Is My Man?’
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** Yes indeed! I remember that song by Eartha very well.
**Bruce Vilanch:** And then the guy I collaborated with which was Jacques Morali, who created the Village People (’Y.M.C.A. ,’ ’Macho Man ,’ ’In The Navy ,’ ’Go West’). So, I did an album for the Village People, which is called ’Sex Over The Phone.’ It was banned by the BBC (laughs).
I got to work with the Village People and Eartha Kitt in the second and third acts of their careers, respectively. This was after their HUGE hits. I didn’t have those. Only God knows what I would have done with all that money! That has been the extent of my songwriting career, up to now, except for a lot of parodies.
**Solo show on way?**
**BeBe Sweetbriar**: Like [San Francisco’s](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco") own Tom Orr. He writes a lot of parodies for himself and other local celebrities to perform.
**Bruce Vilanch:** He’s hysterical! I love Tom Orr. I just saw him in ’Hot Greeks.’
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** Another thing we forget is the numerous awards you have received for your charitable work for the  fight against AIDS and the gay rights movement.
**Bruce Vilanch:** I have a Lucite shelf! I have many items of varying shapes and sizes in crystal and Lucite, and it’s all waiting for an earthquake.
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** I’m really kind of scared to ask to describe the shapes of every one of those items you have on the shelf (laughs).
**Bruce Vilanch:** Oh, my God! Well, there’s a shaft I’m looking at. Quite a few shafts, as a matter of fact. It’s very nice, very encouraging. When you are sitting in the middle of the night by yourself and thinking this is crap that I’m writing, it’s never going to play, and then I look up at the shelf and go ’well, something worked.’
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** Well, there was the one-man show you wrote and performed, ’Almost Famous,’ sometime ago… 12 or 13 years ago. Is there any chance we may see that in a reprise with a rebirth?
**Bruce Vilanch:** Well, I’ve been doing a one-man show steadily since, it’s just, the stories keep changing as new things happen. It’s essentially the same idea. I have no act, I’m just talking about the things I’ve done for other people, and things I’ve been involved in. So, it’s not exactly the same show, and I don’t do those songs any more. I’m actually working on a ’wholesale’ new one. I’m going around the country doing pieces of it here and pieces of it there, and sooner or later it will coalesce into something. Then I’ll bring it back and try and sell some tickets.
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** It’s funny also, because I see you at so many awards shows that you host or present, and you have so many great one-liners and wonderful anecdotal stories that you tell that are hilarious, and yet, when we see descriptions of who you are and what you do, we never see something like stand up comic in there.
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**Bruce Vilanch:** Because I don’t really push it. I’m not a club comic. They expect that type of performer in those clubs. I perform in those types of clubs for benefits, but I don’t like to. I like to perform in places where people come to see me. I don’t like to perform in a room where they (audience) are in the room anyway. And if they don’t like you, they will just talk, and heckle, and drink until the next guy comes on.
The ritual is different. That’s why I’d much rather play in a theater than in a club. (It’s) just not my scene. I also don’t say I’m a stand-up because it means a certain type of performance which I don’t think I do. I have elements of it, but I call myself a ’sit-down’ comic (both laugh), because I tell stories a lot and you have to pay attention. There can actually be silences while people are absorbing and being interested, as opposed to a sort of laugh-a-second that club comics get.
**BeBe Sweetbriar:** Some times that one-second laugh is the only laugh many stand up comics ever get in a short-lived career. I’d take longevity of laughter in the career of Bruce Vilanch, sit-down or otherwise, any day!
*Bruce Vilanch will appear and perform with the cast of Green Day’s ’American Idiot’ in the ’One Night Cabaret Benefit’ for Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco on July 2. For info and tickets Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation.*
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### [Bruce Vilanch Will Be Grand Marshal At South Florida Stonewall Summer Pride](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/20/bruce-vilanch-will-be-grand-marshal-at-south-florida-stonewall-summer-pride/)
**Published:** June 20, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** On Sunday, June 24, the Stonewall Summer Pride kicks off at noon and continues officially until 10 p.m. (unofficially into the night). The festival will run until 7 p.m., the Children’s Park runs until 6 p.m. or so. At 7 p.m., the parade kickstarts. And at 8:30 p.m., the show begins. It all happens in Wilton Manors, along Wilton Drive.
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# [South Florida Stonewall Summer Pride Will Bring Erasure’s Andy Bell, Comedian Bruce Vilanch, and 30,000 People
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:24
Written by Gideon Grudo](http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/event-calendar/6426-south-florida-stonewall-summer-pride-will-bring-erasures-andy-bell-comedian-bruce-vilanch-and-30000-people.html)
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Reece Darham’s day is going to start around 4 a.m. on June 24 and end around 3 a.m. the following morning. He’s co-chair of the Stonewall Summer Pride board, meaning he’s involved in every aspect of the event this year.
“I’ll know we did well when I can finally put my head on the pillow, knowing that the Rainbow Business Coalition (RBC), Stonewall Summer Pride board, and the city of [Wilton Manors](http://www.wiltonmanors.com "Wilton Manors, Florida") have produced a community event that we can all be very proud of,†Darham said about his metric for success this year. “And knowing that we’ll grow this into a major national event.â€
From the sheriff’s office donating fire trucks for kids to paint to national headliners for the day’s concert, this year might indeed satisfy Darham’s hopes.
On Sunday, June 24, the Stonewall Summer Pride kicks off at noon and continues officially until 10 p.m. (unofficially into the night). The festival will run until 7 p.m., the Children’s Park runs until 6 p.m. or so. At 7 p.m., the parade kickstarts. And at 8:30 p.m., the show begins. It all happens in Wilton Manors, along Wilton Drive.
The Children’s Park, a spot for kids to come run wild, will be one of this year’s highlights, and geared toward a family audience.
“Even though it’s a pride event, it’s not necessarily a gay event,†Darham said. “We’re extending that to the community, the whole community. It allows for a separation of the adult playing area and the children’s playing area.â€
Indeed, kids will have plenty to do, and maybe not enough time to do it all. [Drew Miller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Miller "Drew Miller") is on the RBC board and was put in charge of the park. Since many of his friends are gay couples who’ve adopted or have had kids, he wanted to make sure this part of the celebration was perfect for them. The two big sponsors of the Children’s Park are the [Broward Sheriff’s Office](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County_Sheriff%27s_Office "Broward County Sheriff's Office") and the [Florida Panthers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Panthers "Florida Panthers"). BSO is bringing a bounce house and a few fire trucks, one of which, the kids will be allowed to paint. The Panthers are bringing an inflatable hockey rink where kids can play the not-very-tropical-game. They’ll also be bringing a video game entertainment truck.
And it doesn’t end there. There’ll be a spot where kids can drop paint on sheets of paper that are clipped to hinges that spin, appropriately called Spin Art. The finished pieces of art are the kids’ to take home. There will also be a slide in the shape of the titanic (honoring the 100th anniversary of the sinking), the back end of which will be seemingly sticking out of the ground. There will be a DJ spinning kid-appropriate music (can’t have any part of Pride not complete with music). And there will be a trackless train riding kids around Wilton Drive between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. It can take 16 kids at a time, and will join the front of the parade at 7 p.m.
“We made the decision to have the children at the front of the parade so they can get through and get done early,†Miller said. “The front of the parade would also be the most comfortable if there were any moderately clad individuals toward the back of the parade. We made an effort to be conscious of children’s time to get home and get to bed, and for visual purposes.â€
Having the Children’s Park is an important part of the pride event, Miller said.
“It just normalizes our event to a place where there’s nothing different between our festival and, let’s say, something like St. Patrick’s Parade,†he said. “We’re just as normal as any other festival. It shows our and the community’s support.â€
Now that the kids are taken care of, there’s a lot more going on this year. [Jennifer Holiday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Holliday "Jennifer Holliday"), for example, is set to sing on the North Stage at 6 p.m. And the entertainment at 8:30 p.m. is headlined by no other than Andy Bell of Erasure fame. Other performers include Johnny McGovern, Mary Griffin, Tiffany Arieagus, Champagne Bordeaux, and Electra.
This year will the pride event’s 13th anniversary. But Reece Darham said that the close-knit relationship that RBC has had with Wilton Manors, on everything from public safety to accommodations like parking and appropriately closed roads, will result in a huge event. He expects around 30,000 people to show up.
Of those, almost one thousand will be members of A Celebration of Friends, an international group of mature, [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") men. The organization’s founder, president and CEO said he expects “friends†from as far as Australia, South Africa and Japan to show up at the festivities this year.
“Our people — we have a lot people who normally come in from small towns. They’ve saved their money all year to come this. It’ll be like a family reunion. It gives them a chance to kick up their heels,†said Tom “Tomcat†Pence. “We have a lot of people who would normally not celebrate themselves.â€
Darham added that he hopes this reinforces and improves the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community")’s strong relationship with the city of Wilton Manors.
“We’ve worked tirelessly and exceptionally close to the city,†Darham said about RBC’s push this year to partner with the city. “On every level, we’ve taken lessons from the past and implemented them for a great day.â€
The parade itself, thought to include about 600 people, will have [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), the multiple [Emmy-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") comic, as its [Grand Marshal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Marshal "Grand Marshal"). Called a Twilight Parade due its timing, it will start at 7 p.m. on Wilton Drive and progress from 20th Street and run north to 5 Points.
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### [Save The Date: Bruce Vilanch & Judy Gold ~ Big And Tall ~ Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8 pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/19/save-the-date-bruce-vilanch-judy-gold-big-and-tall-saturday-january-19-2013-at-8-pm/)
**Published:** June 19, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Oscar audiences will know [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")‘s hysterical, [Emmy Award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") writing for hosts [Billy Crystal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Alec Baldwin](http://www.alecbaldwin.com/ "Alec Baldwin"), [Steve Martin](http://www.stevemartin.com/ "Steve Martin") and other hosts during the past eight years. He’s written many other award shows, television series and variety specials. His [stand-up comedy](http://www.break.com/c/pop-culture-videos/stand-up-comedy/ "Stand-up-comedy") routine draws on his years of being a [Hollywood insider](http://www.ew.com/ew/ "Entertainment Weekly"). [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") is also an Emmy Award winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of her two critically acclaimed long-running [Off-Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Broadway "Off-Broadway") hit shows. Together, Bruce and Judy will fill the BIG & TALL order of making you laugh and laugh!
**Recommended for mature audiences.**
Tickets on sale for [Friends of Landmark](http://www.landmarkonmainstreet.org/support_become.cfm) August 1.
[General Public](http://www.landmarkonmainstreet.org/about_box_office.cfm "General Public") Sales begin September 5.
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### [Discounts Available For "Standing On Ceremony" ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/18/discounts-available-for-standing-on-ceremony/)
**Published:** June 18, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### Gay South Florida
$5 discount offered on [tickets](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_%28admission%29 "Ticket (admission)") to ‘Standing on Ceremony’ starring [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Bryan Batt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Batt "Bryan Batt")
From [Equality Florida](http://www.eqfl.org/):
> ### *[Broward Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts "Broward Center for the Performing Arts") and [City Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Theatre_%28Pittsburgh%29 "City Theatre (Pittsburgh)") present*
>
> ### **Standing On Ceremony**
>
> ### ***June 21-24Â** at the**Â Broward Center***
[](https://www.browardcenter.org/StandingOnCeremony)
> Please join your fellow Equality Florida members for an entertaining night of theater. **A portion of all proceeds will go directly to Equality Florida.**
>
> Experience an exciting, provocative evening of new short plays read by a dynamic, celebrity cast, written by some of [America](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States "United States")‘s most illustrious playwrights as they offer their unique takes on the moments before, during, and after “I do.”
>
> **[Click here for showtimes and to purchase tickets.](https://www.browardcenter.org/StandingOnCeremony)**
>
> Following the performance on June 21, there will be a 15-minute**Q &A with the cast members**, director John Manzelli, [Miami Herald](http://www.miamiherald.com/ "The Miami Herald") reporter Steve Rothaus and Tobias Packer of **Equality Florida**. Guests are then invited to enjoy the “[wedding reception](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_reception "Wedding reception"),†complete with wedding cake!
>
> Friday & Sunday’s post-show cabaret will feature the Jazz vocal stylings of Nicole Henry.
>
> To receive $5 off each ticket, enter [Promo Code **Pride**](https://www.browardcenter.org/StandingOnCeremony)
[](http://citytheatre.com/pages/)
> **Enter to winÂ**
> two free tickets from Equality Florida [by clicking here!](http://eqfl.org/node/1812)
>
> [Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/06/5-discount-offered-on-tickets-to-standing-on-ceremony-starring-bruce-vilanch-bryan-batt.html#storylink=cpy](http://eqfl.org/node/1812)
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- [Bruce Vilanch to Star in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3123) (wegotbruce.com)
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### [E-Card: Happy Father's Day](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/17/e-card-happy-fathers-day/)
**Published:** June 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [BIG AND TALL: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/16/big-and-tall-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-and-judy-gold/)
**Published:** June 16, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre") World
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com "Judy Gold") Bring BIG AND TALL to Bay Street Theatre, 6/30
by BWW News Desk
June 16, 2012**
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Bay Street Theatre has announced a special evening entitled BIG AND TALL: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold on Saturday, June 30 at 8 pm. Making people laugh is a big, tall order and these two fit the bill for an evening of laughs. Tickets are $65-$75 or $100 with an after party, which includes nibbles and bites along with wine and refreshments. Mingle with Bruce and Judy to cap the night off in this intimate and fun atmosphere after the show.
Multi-[Emmy Award](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch has written The Oscars for 23 years now. Not only the Center Square on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"), Bruce played Edna Turnblatt in HAIRSPRAY on Broadway and himself in his Off-Broadway hit ALMOST FAMOUS. He’s written with and for [Bette Midler](http://bettemidler.com/ "Bette Midler"), Diana Ross and countless others.
Judy Gold returns to Bay Street where she always sells out her Comedy Club performances. This year she brings her humor and hysterical sensibilities on the same evening as Bruce Vilanch. It’s a comedy double header for sure! Gold is the Queen of Off-Broadway with two hit one-woman shows – [25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER](http://www.amazon.com/Questions-Jewish-Mother-Judy-Gold/dp/1401303110%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1401303110 "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother") and THE JUDY SHOW – MY LIFE AS A SITCOM. With 4 comedy specials and regular appearances on The View, [Tru TV](http://www.trutv.com "TruTV"), HBO, [Comedy Central](http://www.comedycentral.com/ "Comedy Central"), and on [SiriusXM](http://www.siriusxm.com/ "Sirius XM Radio")‘s OUTQ, Judy still finds time to be an upper-west side mother – well, she has no choice really.
Buy tickets online at www.baystreet.org or by call the Box Office at 631-725-9500. The Box Office is open Monday-Saturday, 11 am –show time and Sunday, 3 pm – show time.
Bay Street Theatre is a not-for-profit regional theater presenting new, classic and contemporary works, with a commitment to challenging and entertaining our diverse community. This commitment extends to innovative educational programs that highlight the power of live theater. It is our mission to be an artistic haven for an extended family of artists and audience, while continuing to provide a gathering place to share in the unique collective theatrical experience.
[Click here for more information and *Big and Tall: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch and Judy Gold*tickets.](http://www.baystreet.org/)
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Bette Midler, Broadway theatre, Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Comedy Central, Emmy Award, Hollywood Square, Judy Gold
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch: The Gay Marriage Plays play June 21-24 at the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Center](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/13/reminder-bruce-vilanch-the-gay-marriage-plays-play-june-21-24-at-the-amaturo-theatre-at-the-broward-center/)
**Published:** June 13, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays play June 21-24 at the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Center for the Performing, 201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $35 to $45. Call (954) 462-0222 or visit www.BrowardCenter.org.
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**[Florida Theater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Theatre "Florida Theatre") On Stage
Standing On Ceremony To Take A Wry Look at [Gay Marriage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage "Same-sex marriage")
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Bill Hirschman
By Bill Hirschman**
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Standing On Ceremony, a collection of short plays bowing next week at the [Broward Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts "Broward Center for the Performing Arts"), is about the traditional values of love and marriage. Specifically, gay marriage.
“Any kind of marriage is a celebration of the very best that human beings have to offer,†said [Paul Rudnick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudnick "Paul Rudnick"), one of the playwrights contributing some of the nine playlets being presented in staged readings June 21-24.
Produced by Miami’s City Theatre, the slate of works, droll and poignant, aims to win over or solidify public sentiment for marriage equality. Often the way to win hearts and minds is not to lecture, Rudnick said, but make people laugh or cry – and few efforts are as effective as the communal experience of theater.
“One of the things that theater does best is create a town hall feeling – that there really is something shared going on,†said Rudnick whose comedies have been produced across South Florida including Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet, The [Most Fabulous Story Ever Told](http://www.amazon.com/Most-Fabulous-Story-Ever-Told/dp/1585670529%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1585670529 "Most Fabulous Story Ever Told: And Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach") and The New Century.
“Even when there’s a real temptation to scream at people — and there is because of the frustration level — I find an evening like this, real entertainment, is more effective,†Rudnick said. “These plays are deeply joyous and if you can get people laughing and crying, then all of a sudden, barriers collapse.â€
City Theatre Producing Artistic Director John Manzelli will direct actors from its Summer Shorts programs, Steve Trovillion, Elizabeth Dimon and Elena Maria Garcia.
The trio will join headliners Bruce Vilanch , the six-time Emmy winner and head writer for the Oscars, and [Bryan Batt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Batt "Bryan Batt"), memorable as Salvatore Romano on TV’s Mad Men and whose theatrical credits include Rudnick’s Jeffrey. The performances will be followed by a wedding reception complete with wedding cake and music by New York chanteuse and UM grad Nicole Henry.
The anthology that has played around the country for two years usually benefits an organization supporting marriage equality. A portion of all proceeds from this edition will be donated to Equality Florida, which bills itself as the largest civil rights organization in Florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The plays are penned by a roster of playwrights whose mantles hold Tonys, Obies and Pulitzers. In addition to Rudnick, the other writers include [Jeffrey Hatcher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hatcher "Jeffrey Hatcher") (Tuesdays With Morrie), Mo Gaffney (The [Kathy and Mo](http://www.mogaffney.com "Mo Gaffney") Show) , Jordan Harrison (Maple and Vine), [Wendy MacLeod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_MacLeod "Wendy MacLeod"), (House of Yes), Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), [Neil LaBute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_LaBute "Neil LaBute") (Reasons to be Pretty), Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project) and José Rivera (Cloud Tectonics).
Standing On Ceremony originated about two years ago as a one-night-only benefit in support of gay marriage. Other productions followed, including a one-month run Off-Broadway with a rotating cast. Since then, producer Joan Stein has mounted several productions around the country including this one in concert with City Theatre.
The program comes at a key moment in a national controversy over policies that allow same-sex domestic partners to formalize their relationship with a civil union. On one hand, North Carolinians recently amended their state constitution, refusing to recognize anything but a heterosexual couple as marriage. On the other hand, Rudnick quipped, “It also helps when the President is on your side.â€
Batt remembers a few weeks ago when a friend told him that President Obama had just endorsed gay marriage. It was the weather that stuck in his mind like a hopeful harbinger. “I looked up in the sky and it was a beautiful sunny day. And I thought, there’s a positive beautiful moment.â€
Rudnick also sees signs of hope in a recent CNN poll that found support of gay marriage around 65 percent, a steep increase from a few years ago. Another poll taken in the 1990s found very few people claimed to know someone who was gay. A new poll puts that figure in 70 to 80 percent range, he said.
Rudnick sees Standing On Ceremony as contributing to “a climate of change.†But he notes that gay marriage still is not often portrayed on television or in film. “It’s kind of up to theater to lead the way.â€
Participating in the benefits resonates for Batt. His resume documents a lengthy history of social activism including work on the N. O. AIDS Task Force in his native New Orleans where he ran a theater company and still operates an interior design store in the French Quarter with his partner of 23 years.
Batt is in no hurry to get married although the couple toyed with the idea of doing it in Los Angeles before the recent amendment to the state constitution threw the possibility into limbo.
But one of the things he and Rudnick like about Standing On Ceremony is how it depicts a variety of views on the institution regardless of sexuality. “Marriage is not for everyone,†but then he added, “I would love to get married in New Orleans.â€
**Standing On Ceremony:** The Gay Marriage Plays play June 21-24 at the Amaturo Theatre at the Broward Center for the Performing, 201 SW Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $35 to $45. Call (954) 462-0222 or visit [**www.BrowardCenter.org**](http://www.BrowardCenter.org).
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Bryan Batt, Jeffrey Hatcher, Mo Gaffney, Neil LaBute, Paul Rudnick, Same-sex marriage, Wendy MacLeod
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Serve As Grand Marshall Of Stonewall Summer Pride Twilight Parade](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/12/bruce-vilanch-to-serve-as-grand-marshall-of-stonewall-summer-pride-twilight-parade/)
**Published:** June 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** This year, six-time Emmy award-winning comedian Bruce Vilanch will serve as the Grand Marshal of the Stonewall Summer Pride Twilight Parade, an extraordinary display of fabulous floats and costumes, which will begin promptly at 7pm on Sunday, June 24.
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News release from [Stonewall Summer Pride](http://www.stonewallsummerpride.com/):
> [WILTON MANORS, FL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.1586111111,-80.1394444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=26.1586111111,-80.1394444444 (Wilton%20Manors%2C%20Florida)&t=h "Wilton Manors, Florida") – This weekend, Stonewall Summer Pride announced their complete entertainment schedule for what will prove to be one of the greatest pride festivals South Florida has ever seen.
>
> This year, six-time [Emmy award-winning](http://www.emmys.tv/awards "Emmy Award") comedian **[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")** will serve as the [Grand Marshal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Marshal "Grand Marshal") of the Stonewall Summer Pride Twilight Parade, an extraordinary display of fabulous floats and costumes, which will begin promptly at 7pm on Sunday, June 24. The parade route will run along Wilton Drive, beginning on 20th Street and running north ending at 5 Points.
>
> Vilanch’s appearance at Stonewall Summer Pride coincides with his performance in “Standing on Ceremonyâ€, a collection of eight short plays on the subject of marriage quality. The performances run June 21-24 at the [Broward Center for the Performing Arts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts "Broward Center for the Performing Arts"). A portion of the proceeds from the performances will benefit [Equality Florida](http://eqfl.org/ "Equality Florida").
>
> Throughout the day, attendees will be entertained by dozens of guest performers including [DJ’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey "Disc jockey") D-Stu and Maximus 3000. Female impersonators will include Champagne Bordeaux doing a tribute to **[Donna Summer](http://www.donnasummer.com "Donna Summer")** and Tiffany doing a tribute to**[Whitney Houston](http://www.biography.com/people/whitney-houston-9344818 "Whitney Houston")**. Also performing are Alyson Thomas, Asheeria Iconic Pryce, Ashiria, Estehania St. Lords, Krystal K, Mica Parish, Nicole Philips and Vashai Avionce as well as the wonderful **[Jennifer Holiday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Holliday "Jennifer Holliday")**.
>
> Immediately following the parade, festival attendees are encouraged to gather round the main stage for exciting performances by **Johnny McGovern** – The Gay Pimp and **Mary Griffin** – Patti Labelle’s Secret Weapon. A very special performance by **Andy Bell**, lead singer of Erasure will close out the festival. Misty Eyes will serve as the MC for the concert.
>
> For the complete list of performers and show times, please visit:[www.stonewallsummerpride.com](http://www.stonewallsummerpride.com/)
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> Stonewall Summer Pride comes to Fort Lauderdale on June 24 and is presented by the Rainbow Business Coalition and the City of Wilton Manors. The party begins at 12 noon when Wilton Drive comes alive with the Stonewall Summer Pride Street Festival which will feature live entertainment, over 125 exhibition booths and the Children’s Pride Park. The festival stage will feature entertainment all day long with a variety of acts sure to please the vibrant crowd.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Attend 16th Annual Tony Party in L.A. June 10](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/09/bruce-vilanch-to-attend-16th-annual-tony-party-in-l-a-june-10/)
**Published:** June 9, 2012
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#### **Playbill[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Lorna Luft](http://www.lornaluft.com/ "Lorna Luft"), [Annie Potts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Potts "Annie Potts") and More Attend 16th Annual Tony Party in L.A. June 10; [Jason Alexander](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Alexander "Jason Alexander") Honored**
**By Michael Gioia**
**10 Jun 2012**
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#### Tony Award winner Jason Alexander receives the [Julie Harris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Harris "Julie Harris") Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 16th annual [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") Party, which is presented by The Actors Fund June 10 at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles.
The gala begins at 3 PM PT with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by a dinner and live broadcast of the Tonys at 5 PM. The Julie Harris Award will be presented by Annie Potts (*God of Carnage*) at 8 PM.
Scheduled to attend are Loni Anderson, Anne Jeffreys, George Chakiris, Sheldon Epps, Ruta Lee, Brad Ellis, Ilene Graff, Patricia Barry, Alan Mandell, Charlotte Rae, Michael Learned, Bruce Vilanch, Lorna Luft, Frances Fisher, Theodore Bikel, Richard Herd, Orson Bean, Bryan Batt, Patricia Morison, Holland Taylor, Bryan Cranston, Peter Hunt, Jeffrey Jones, Roxanne Hart, Cristine Rose, James Karen, Roslyn Kind and Barbara Van Orden.
The gala features the only approved live feed of the Tony Awards as they happen in New York. Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 66th Annual Tony Awards, which are broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
Previous recipients of the Julie Harris Award include Julie Harris, Gwen Verdon, Charles Durning, Rita Moreno, James Earl Jones, Tyne Daly, Lauren Bacall, Stockard Channing, Carol Channing, [Liza Minnelli](http://www.officiallizaminnelli.com/ "Liza Minnelli"), Jerry Herman, Tommy Tune, [Chita Rivera](http://www.chitarivera.com/ "Chita Rivera"), Brian Stokes Mitchell and [Hal Holbrook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Holbrook "Hal Holbrook").
Alexander won the Tony Award in 1989 for his performance in *Jerome Robbins’ Broadway*. The actor, known for his portrayal of George Costanza in the hit TV series “Seinfeld,” has also been seen on Broadway in *Accomplice, Broadway Bound, The Rink* and *Merrily We Roll Along*.
[Read more about Jason Alexander’s theatrical history at the Playbill Vault](http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26044/Jason-Alexander).
Skirball Center is located at 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. in [Los Angeles, CA](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles"). For more information and tickets, call (323) 933-9266, ext. 458 or visit****
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- [Bruce Vilanch, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison Raise $1-Million For The Geffen Playhouse](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3264)Â (wegotbruce.com)
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**Tags:** Annie Potts, Bruce Vilanch, Jason Alexander, Julie Harris, Lorna Luft, Los Angeles, Tony, Tony Award
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch On Writing For The Academy Awards (Old Clip)](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/08/video-bruce-vilanch-on-writing-for-the-academy-awards-old-clip/)
**Published:** June 8, 2012
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison Raise $1-Million For The Geffen Playhouse](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/08/bruce-vilanch-jane-lynch-matthew-morrison-raise-1-million-for-the-geffen-playhouse/)
**Published:** June 8, 2012
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**[Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles") Times
[Jane Lynch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lynch "Jane Lynch") gleefully helps the [Geffen Playhouse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geffen_Playhouse "Geffen Playhouse") raise $1-million
By Ellen Olivier
June 6, 2012, 11:58 a.m.**
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From on stage at “Backstage at the [Geffen](http://www.geffen.com/ "Geffen Records"),” the annual gala for the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, host [Jane Lynch](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/jane-lynch-PECLB0017764387.topic "Jane Lynch") of [“Glee”](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/television/glee-%28tv-program%29-ENTTV000000297.topic "Glee (tv program)") said she had participated in the theater’s previous fundraisers, alongside such stars as [Annette Bening](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/annette-bening-PECLB000447.topic "Annette Bening"), [Alfre Woodard](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/alfre-woodard-PECLB004008.topic "Alfre Woodard"), [Julie Andrews](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/julie-andrews-PECLB000170.topic "Julie Andrews") and others. “But now I’m the clearly most famous person in the room,” Lynch said, sliding into the personality of her “Glee” alter-ego, [Sue Sylvester](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Sylvester "Sue Sylvester").
In truth, the Geffen had quite a lineup of A-list stars for Monday’s event, which broke the theater’s fundraising record by raking in $1 million from silent auction sales, sponsorships and tickets, which sold for $350 and up.
On hand to make presentations, provide musical entertainment and regale the audience with behind-the-scene tales of theatrical life were actors Bening, [Helen Mirren](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/helen-mirren-PECLB000005049.topic "Helen Mirren"), [Andy Garcia](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/andy-garcia-PECLB001860.topic "Andy Garcia"), [Warren Beatty](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/warren-beatty-PECLB000403.topic "Warren Beatty"), [Dick Van Dyke](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/television/dick-van-dyke-PECLB004076.topic "Dick van Dyke"), [Matthew Morrison](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/television/matthew-morrison-PECLB000005064.topic "Matthew Morrison"), [Dana Delany](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/dana-delany-PECLB001359.topic "Dana Delany"),[Joe Mantegna](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/joe-mantegna-PECLB0000006823.topic "Joe Mantegna") and Beth Behrs, jazz great Arturo Sandoval, singer Monica Mancini, and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/bruce-vilanch-PECLB0000005775.topic "Bruce Vilanch"), the 17-time writer for the [Academy Awards](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/movies/academy-awards-EVHST000005.topic "Academy Awards") telecasts.
“This next guy, I can’t believe I have to introduce him,” said Lynch of Morrison, her “Glee” costar. Calling him, “the man I love to torment,” Lynch said she’d been “carrying” him on the show “for what seems like 100 years.”
Morrison, who came to “Glee” with strong Broadway credentials, sang two numbers from his upcoming album: “Come Rain or Come Shine” and “The Lady is a Tramp.” He was joined onstage by his girlfriend, Renee Puente, for a dance routine, and by [Brad Ellis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Ellis "Brad Ellis"), the piano man on “Glee.”
In their talks, Mirren spoke of onstage nervous breakdowns; Mantegna of his introduction to theater in [Cicero](http://www.latimes.com/topic/us/illinois/cook-county/cicero-PLGEO100100501270000.topic "Cicero"), Ill., where [Al Capone](http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/crimes/criminals/al-capone-PEHST002243.topic "Al Capone") is its most famous citizen; and Vilanch of issues with divas at the Oscars. Both before and during the show, people talked of [Gil Cates](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/gil-cates-PECLB00000010635.topic "Gil Cates"), the theater’s founder and former director, who died in October.
“Whenever he was in a room, the lights were just brighter,” said [Jim Gianopulos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gianopulos "Jim Gianopulos"), at a pre-event dinner for patrons at the Backyard Restaurant at the W Los Angeles in Westwood. Gianopulos is co-chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
At the close of the evening, Gianopulos received the theater’s Distinction in Service Award, while stage, screen and television star [Carol Burnett](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/television/carol-burnett-PECLB000750.topic "Carol Burnett") was honored with the Distinction in Theater Award.
**ALSO:**
[Matthew Morrison — from Broadway to “Glee”](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/matthew-morrison-from-broadway-to-glee.html)
[Alan Alda pays tribute to Gil Cates at Geffen Playhouse](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/alan-alda-remembers-gil-cates-at-geffen-playhouse.html)
[“The Exorcist” play to star Richard Chamberlain, ](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/alan-alda-remembers-gil-cates-at-geffen-playhouse.html)[Brooke Shields](http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/brooke-shields-PECLB003688.topic "Brooke Shields")
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**Categories:** Benefits, Theatre
**Tags:** Academy Award, Brad Ellis, Geffen Playhouse, Glee, Jane Lynch, Jim Gianopulos, Los Angeles, Matthew Morrison
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### [Bruce Vilanch Set for Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/05/bruce-vilanch-set-for-richmond-ermet-aids-foundation-benefit/)
**Published:** June 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[American Idiot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot "American Idiot") Cast and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Set for Richmond/ Ermet [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS") Foundation Benefit
By Bethany Rickwald • Jun 5, 2012**
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The Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation is to present an evening with the touring cast of *American Idiot* on Monday, July 2 at 7:30 pm at the [Marines Memorial Theatre](http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/theaters/marines-memorial-theatre_913/).
The evening of music and comedy will also feature special guest [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Bruce+Vilanch).
Proceeds will benefit The Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation and [Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre") Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.
[For more information and tickets, click here.](http://www.richmondermet.org/reaf10.1/ONO-AmericanIdiot.html)
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**Categories:** Benefits, GLBT
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### [Photo: "Backstage At The Geffen" Fundraiser](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/05/photo-backstage-at-the-geffen-fundraiser/)
**Published:** June 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Charities, Theatre
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### [Update: New We Got Bruce, Bootleg Betty Twitter Pages: Please Sign Up](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/05/update-new-we-got-bruce-bootleg-betty-twitter-pages-please-sign-up/)
**Published:** June 5, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Announcement, Twitter
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### [ Bruce Vilanch Brings “Free Lapband Dances" To The Mansion Inn](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/02/bruce-vilanch-brings-“free-lapband-dances-to-the-mansion-inn/)
**Published:** June 2, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[The Saratogian](http://www.saratogian.com "The Saratogian")
Stars come out at summer dinner theater
Saturday, June 2, 2012**
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[ROCK CITY FALLS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_City_Falls%2C_New_York "Rock City Falls, New York") — The Mansion Inn, located 7 miles west of Saratoga Springs at 801 Route 29, will host a full dinner /cabaret series this summer.
The Stars are out Tonight takes place at |8 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday beginning July 18 and continuing through Aug. 23.
The series brings six exceptional performers to the area each for two performances.
Opening the series is the incomparable [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), the hairiest Hollywood Square. In his show “Free Lapband Dances,†this multiple Emmy-winning star of [Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre")’s “Hairspray†and writer of 23 Academy Award shows on TV, has all the stories about all the people you love to hate and hate to love … and a few others.
Musician and comedian Camille West takes the stage July 25 and 26 as she performs “Empty Nest, Full Bladder,†a side-splitting peek inside the world of a modern American suburban mother from hell. She will stir your heart and your funny bone.
Back by popular demand after earning raves from sold-out crowds in 2011, [Michael Walters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Walters "Michael Walters") returns as [Dame Edna](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Edna_Everage "Dame Edna Everage") Aug. 1 and 8. Walters is the longest running Dame Edna impersonator with the blessing of her creator, [Barry Humphries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Humphries "Barry Humphries"). Sequins blaze and punch lines fly as our favorite Saucy Aussie re-creates a Dame Edna Broadway extravaganza. Not to be missed.
Singer and actor Michael Walters performs Aug. 2 and 9 for an evening of show-stopping songs and hilarious stories. Having starred in more than 75 musicals across the nation, his powerful baritone will thrill you as he re-enacts some of his favorite roles. Mix that with his personal account of working with some of Broadway’s legendary stars, and you’ve got one tunefully daring and side-splittingly funny tour-de-force.
Cabaret entertainer and Tony nominee Sharon McNight will be on stage Aug. 15 and 16 as she debuts “The First 30 Years; an Introspective Retrospect from Moose Hall to [Carnegie Hall](http://www.carnegiehall.org "Carnegie Hall").†Known for her sardonic comedic style and eclectic mix of song selection, McKnight shares her experience from standing on a stage made from beer cases to starring on Broadway.
The ultimate NYC jazz/cabaret performer, Billy Stritch, concludes the summer series Aug. 23. This award-winning composer, arranger, vocalist and jazz pianist of extraordinary range and sophistication breathes new life into the [Great American Songbook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook "Great American Songbook"). He will bring his tribute to one of the legendary singers of all time to the [Mansion stage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansion_stage "Mansion stage") — Mel Torme.
Admission is $25 with a $10 food/drink minimum per person. Doors open at 6 p.m., with a full bar and bistro dinner menu; performances follow at 8.
For tickets, call 518-|885-1607 or go to [www.TheMansionSaratoga.com](http://www.TheMansionSaratoga.com).
Shows are intimate with only 150 seats, advanced reservations are urged.
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Theatre
**Tags:** Australia, Barry Humphries, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Carnegie Hall, Dame Edna, Dame Edna Everage, Michael Walters
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch To Star In "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" June 21-24 at the Broward Center](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/06/01/reminder-bruce-vilanch-to-star-in-standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays-june-21-24-at-the-broward-center/)
**Published:** June 1, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Miami Herald
Summer Shorts: Not just a few plays
BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
cdolen@MiamiHerald.com**
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Even in a year-round arts community like South Florida’s, annual theater festivals that materialize, entertain, then vanish ‘til the following year help make the summer season special. City Theatre’s Summer Shorts festival, which begins this weekend in the [Arsht Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Arsht_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts "Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts")’s Carnival Studio Theater, is the first of those special summer events.
Now in its 17th year, Summer Shorts has evolved from a two-program mini-marathon to a multi-faceted event. This year’s festival includes the program of short plays (nine are on the bill, which runs through June 17), an annual playwrights’ conference (set for June 15-17, featuring [Christopher Durang](http://www.christopherdurang.com "Christopher Durang") and [Leslie Ayvazian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Ayvazian "Leslie Ayvazian")), a special theater event ( Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays June 21-24 at the Broward Center, starring [Bryan Batt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Batt "Bryan Batt") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")) and programming for kids (a production of the musical The Brand New Kid, which will play the Carnival June 9-17, the Kravis Center in [West Palm Beach](http://www.cityofwpb.com/ "West Palm Beach, Florida") June 19-22 and Fort Lauderdale [Children’s Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre "Theatre") June 29-30).
John Manzelli, City Theatre’s producing artistic director, says the ongoing evolution of Summer Shorts has to do with location and economics.
“We’re always asking how to take what was a fun theater event…and turn it into a show that belongs in \[the Arsht\],†he says. “Ideally, we’d like a second program, but economically this was the only choice.â€
Still, this year’s lineup doesn’t skimp on the quality of its plays or the acting and directing talent involved. Manzelli, Mark Swaner and Margaret M. Ledford are sharing directing chores. In the five-person acting company are [Carbonell Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonell_Awards "Carbonell Awards") winners Irene Adjan, Elizabeth Dimon and Todd Allen Durkin, plus newcomer Katherine Wright and the man who has been in nearly every Summer Shorts festival, Stephen Trovillion.
“A smart producer gets the best people,†Manzelli says. “And Steve \[Trovillion\] is a staple of the company. He’s the best person I’ve ever seen in this format. He gets this like no one else.â€
Adjan, Dimon and Durkin have all participated in [Naked Stage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Stage "The Naked Stage")’s annual 24-Hour Theatre Project, in which short plays get written overnight, rehearsed the next day and performed that evening. Summer Shorts, says Adjan, is different.
“At Summer Shorts, you get time to delve into the plays and the characters, and actually make them full short plays,†she says. “At 24-Hour, you go with your instincts.â€
Trovillion, who spends most of his year teaching at the [University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point](http://www.uwsp.edu/stuorg/stv/ "University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point"), has become a Summer Shorts fan favorite. The short-play format is the only acting he has done over the past decade, but he has his process down pat.
“You have to work hard and fast, get to the essence of who the character is,†he says. “You find differences physically and vocally. You make simple but big choices, and then you fill it in with what’s real. Finally, you get out of your head so you’re actually talking to the other person.â€
Durkin, who plays assistant district attorney Doug Feehan on the new STARZ series Magic City, is having his first Summer Shorts experience and finds playing five characters in different genres an interesting challenge. Dimon, a Summer Shorts veteran who is acting in four plays, loves that challenge.
“It’s fun to put yourself out there in different plays. It’s like being in college and going from class to class. The audience sees you, then you’re immediately different,†she says.
That variety, says director Swaner, is the spice of Summer Shorts.
“You let each play and playwright have their own rhythm and style, and the audience sees all of that variety,†he says. “Yet it’s all performed by the same cast.â€
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**Categories:** Theatre
**Tags:** Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Bruce Vilanch, Bryan Batt, Carbonell Award, Christopher Durang, Leslie Ayvazian, Miami, Theatre
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### [Please Help Fund New Web Series, "Child of the '70s" Starring Bruce Vilanch And Michael Vaccaro](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/30/please-help-fund-new-web-series-child-of-the-70s-starring-bruce-vilanch-and-michael-vaccaro/)
**Published:** May 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mister D:** *Please don’t be scared off by the word funding…it’s very flexible…and it makes you feel like you’re part of SHOW BIZ! Â Okay that’s my dream, but it would be cool ! Â To help out just **[CLICK HERE](http://www.indiegogo.com/Childofthe70s)***
**Child of the ’70s**
A brand new web series about what happens when a “Child of the ’70s” uproots his NYC life & gets a job in LA as a personal assistant to his favorite ’70s star?!
Here’s a brand new web series, [CHILD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_actor "Child actor") OF THE ’70S! Created by [Michael Vaccaro](http://www.michaelvaccaro.com/). Written by Michael Vaccaro & Terrence Moss.
Carlo Perdente is a real loser! He’s a struggling actor in [New York](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City"). He loses his survival job, he gets thrown out of his apartment, his boyfriend dumps him, his overbearing Italian mother treats him like garbage, and he’s about to give up… until a chance encounter with his favorite ’70s star completely changes his life.
Will he move to LA? Will his life be any better there? Will he find love? Career success? And what will his mother say?
Find out on Season One of the brand new web series “Child of the ’70s!”
**The cast includes:**
Michael Vaccaro(“Deleted Scenes,” “The Endless Possibility of Sky”),
Ann Walker(“Sordid Lives”),
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")(“Oy Vey,My Son Is Gay,” “Hairspray,” “[The Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")“),
[Geri Jewell](http://www.gerijewell.com/ "Geri Jewell")(“The Facts Of Life”)
[Carole Ita White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Ita_White "Carole Ita White")(“Laverne & Shirley,” “[The Love Boat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Boat "The Love Boat"),” “Starsky & Hutch”)
Natalie Toro(“Les Miserables,” “Evita,” Cats”),
Duane Boutte(“Brother To Brother,” “Stonewall”),
Leo Forte(The Prince Of Pain)
[Jonathan Slavin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Slavin "Jonathan Slavin")(“Better Off Ted,” “[The Boomerang Effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_effect "Boomerang effect")“)
Valerio Pino(Italian Supermodel, “GoGo Star”)
Jonah Blechman(“Another Gay Movie,” “[Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_gay_sequel "Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!")“)
David Zimmerman(“Meet The Fockers”)
[Steven Wishnoff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wishnoff "Steven Wishnoff")(“Oz,” “Stonewall”), Andrew Makay(“Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”), Mary-Suzanne Peters, Debra Leigh Moore Lejeune, Keith Stanisiewski, Terrence Moss
Music by [Tracy Stark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FlashForward_characters "List of FlashForward characters"), Steven Ray Watkins and Jon Gilbert Leavitt
Our Indiegogo goal of $10,000 will pay for the entire first season, which will be 5 episodes. This has been a very exciting and scary process for me, bringing my idea to life, and I can’t even begin to express how much your support means to me! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! – Michael Vaccaro
Once again, To help out just **[CLICK HERE](http://www.indiegogo.com/Childofthe70s)**
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- [Bruce Vilanch To Appear In Michael Vaccaro’s Web Series, “Child of the ’70s”](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3152) (wegotbruce.com)
- [August 5 – Evening with WHOOPI Goldberg and BRUCE Vilanch 7pm](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3224) (wegotbruce.com)
- [Bruce Vilanch Grabs Amusing Cameo In “Going Down in La-La Land”](https://wegotbruce.com/?p=3138) (wegotbruce.com)
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**Categories:** Comedy Show, Web Series
**Tags:** Boomerang Effect, Bruce Vilanch, Carole Ita White, Geri Jewell, Hollywood Squares, Jonathan Slavin, Love Boat, New York City, Steven Wishnoff
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### [August 5 - Evening with WHOOPI Goldberg and BRUCE Vilanch 7pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/29/august-5-evening-with-whoopi-goldberg-and-bruce-vilanch-7pm/)
**Published:** May 29, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### August 5 – Evening with WHOOPI Goldberg and BRUCE Vilanch 7pm
# An Evening with WHOOPI Goldberg and BRUCE Vilanch
## PROVINCETOWN TOWN HALL
[PROVINCETOWN, MA](http://www.provincetown-ma.gov/ "Provincetown, Massachusetts")
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Shawn Nightingale Productions and Provincetown Cares, proudly present An Evening of [Stand Up Comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy") with [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.biography.com/people/whoopi-goldberg-9314384 "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").  Spend the evening listen to the stand up comedy of each performer; as well as, a joint session where Whoopi and Bruce ask each other the tough questions of life!  All of this is followed by an audience Q & A.
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**Categories:** Announcement
**Tags:** Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Los Angeles, Provincetown Cares, Provincetown Massachusetts, Stand-up comedy, Whoopi, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Bruce Vilanch Makes Special Appearance At International Mr. Leather 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/27/bruce-vilanch-makes-special-appearance-at-international-mr-leather-2012/)
**Published:** May 27, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Chicago Pride
Woody Woodruff named [International Mr. Leather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mr._Leather "International Mr. Leather") 2012
by GoPride.com News Staff
Sun. May 27, 2012**
[Chicago, IL](http://www.cityofchicago.org/ "Chicago") — Woody Woodruff, Mr. Michigan Leather 2012, was named International Mr. Leather at the 34th annual IML Competition Sunday night in Chicago.
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2012/05/20147-60446.jpg)
*Woody Woodruff (center) wins IML 2012
credit :: twitter feed @imlchicago*
Over 2,000 leather enthusiasts packed the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Chicago for Sunday’s competition. The opening featured a performance of “The Masochism Tango” by Sharon McNight.
Founder and Executive Producer Chuck Renslow welcomed the crowd, followed by a moving video tribute to Roger “RJ” Chaffin, a past coordinator of IML who passed away suddenly last June at the age of 59.
The evening also included a speech from Rick Storer of Chicago’s [Leather Archives and Museum](http://www.leatherarchives.org/ "Leather Archives and Museum"), a special guest appearance by Bruce Vilanch and a number of performances by McNight, who received a standing ovation.
Renslow commanded the envelope as he announced Kevin Jordan, Mr. DC Eagle 2012, as [Second runner-up](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner-up "Runner-up"), A.C. Demidont, Mr. Eagle New York 2012, as the First runner-up and then Renslow named Woody Woodruff as International Mr. Leather 2012.
Woodruff bested a field of 20 finalists, from across the U.S. and around the world. Participants were judged on stage presence and personality (Pecs and Personality), leather image, presentation skills, and physical appearance.
Nick Elliot from Portland, OR was named International Mr. Bootblack 2012. Boy Dave of [Charlotte, NC](http://charmeck.org/ "Charlotte, North Carolina") was named Second runner-up and Bootblack Mike from [Minneapolis, MN](http://www.minneapolismn.gov/ "Minneapolis") was First runner up in the Bootblack competition.
The judges for the competition were International Mr. Leather 2011 Eric Guttierez (Paris, France), Stephen Blackwell ([Palm Springs, CA](http://www.palmsprings-ca.gov/ "Palm Springs, California")), Brian Conway (Denver, CO), Jaak Evert (Estonia), Dave Hughes ([New York, NY](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City")), Steve Ranger (Washington, D.C.), Ira C. Smith ([Fort Lauderdale, FL](http://www.fortlauderdale.gov/ "Fort Lauderdale, Florida")), Dave Watt (Michigan), and Andrea Zanin ([Toronto, Canada](http://www.toronto.ca/ "Toronto")).
IML began in 1979 when about 400 gay leathermen gathered in Chicago. Today thousands gather in the Windy City over Memorial Day Weekend for what has become an annual tradition for the leather community.
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**Categories:** Articles, Bruce Related, GLBT
**Tags:** Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Florida, International mr leather, Leather Archives & Museum, Minneapolis, New York City, Toronto
---
### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Gets Revenge On Facebook](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/22/video-bruce-vilanch-gets-revenge-on-facebook/)
**Published:** May 22, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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SLTV catches up with Bruce at the premiere of “Chicago” where he tells us about the book he’s writing about his scandalous career in Hollywood. He also tells us how he uses Facebook against people that refuse to sleep with him! His Secret Language name is “Empowered Irreverence.” Traits for people born on November 23rd include: individualistic, free-spirited and humorous, which is a perfect description of Bruce, a six-time Emmy winner for his comedic work. For more information on Bruce’s Personology and all your favorite stars, visit [**http://www.thesecretlanguage.com/r/?r=h28185**](http://www.thesecretlanguage.com/r/?r=h28185)
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**Categories:** Video
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### [Bruce Vilanch Stars In "Hotel Arthritis"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/21/bruce-vilanch-stars-in-hotel-arthritis/)
**Published:** May 21, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Where I'll be heading soon, too!
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# [Dread Central](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CraveOnline "CraveOnline")
[Horror](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror "Comedy horror") Meets A [Retirement Home](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_home "Retirement home") in Hotel Arthritis
By Doctor Gash
May 21st, 2012
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2012/05/hotela11.jpg)
Not since *[Bubba Ho-Tep](http://www.bubbahotep.com/ "Bubba Ho-tep")* has horror graced the halls of a retirement community…unless you count that one episode in the first season of “The Walking Dead.” But filmmaker Jason Lockhart is about to bring us another old folks home nightmare with *Hotel Arthritis*.
Directed by Lockhart, who also wrote the film with [Jacqui Holland](http://www.JacquiHolland.com "Jacqui Holland"), *Hotel Arthrits* is a [horror-comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_horror "Comedy horror") that stars [Dawn Wells](http://www.dawn-wells.com/ "Dawn Wells") (MaryAnn on “[Gilligan’s Island](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=10.0,-140.0&spn=1.0,1.0&q=10.0,-140.0 (Gilligan%27s%20Island)&t=h "Gilligan's Island")“) and [John Tartaglia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tartaglia "John Tartaglia") (*Avenue Q*). Also featured are [Lee Meriwether](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Meriwether "Lee Meriwether") of Catwoman fame, [Camille Saviola](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saviola "Camille Saviola"), Jacqui Holland, [Kiersten Warren](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiersten_Warren "Kiersten Warren"), [Rip Taylor](http://www.riptaylor.com/ "Rip Taylor") and Bruce Vilanch.4
For more visit the [official *Hotel Arthritis* website](http://www.hotelarthritis.com/), “like” [*Hotel Arthritis* on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hotel-Arthritis/144637315611007) and follow[*Hotel Arthritis* on Twitter (@HotelArthritis)](https://twitter.com/#!/HotelArthritis).
**Synopsis**
*Senior citizens are being offed by a masked killer who stalks the halls of the small retirement community in which they live. The story opens with a terrifying murder, creating space on the waiting list for Rose to move in. Upon Rose’s arrival, she is taken on a tour of the grounds by the quirky, offbeat manager of the joint: Dale. The odd and brightly colored characters continue to pop up as Fanny, her Jewish gossiping neighbor, introduces Rose to “The Gang.” The routine of daily life is all stirred up at the moment. People are disappearing, there’s talk of a ghost, and to top things off, there’s an STD outbreak. As terror rises throughout the building, the fear of who’s next and who the killer may be, continues to grow. We find ourselves in a game of “Who-done-it?” Is it Desperella, the ground’s custodial manager? Is it Kitty, the sexy activities director? Or Zeke, her punk rock boyfriend? Maybe it’s one of the elder folks suffering from dementia or seeking some sort of revenge. Full of laughs and full of scares, you’ll be on the edge of your seats from the moment you enter the world of the Lake View Retirement Home: The place where people come to live… until they die!*
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Bubba Ho-Tep, Camille Saviola, Dawn Wells, Jacqui Holland, John Tartaglia, Kiersten Warren, Lee Meriwether
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### [An Evening with Whoopi Goldberg and BRUCE Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/20/an-evening-with-whoopi-goldberg-and-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** May 20, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Shawn Nightingale Productions and Provincetown Cares, proudly present An Evening of Stand Up Comedy with Whoopi Goldberg and Bruce Vilanch. Spend the evening listen to the stand up comedy of each performer; as well as, a joint session where Whoopi and Bruce ask each other the tough questions of life! All of this is followed by an audience Q \& A.
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# An Evening with [Whoopi Goldberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and BRUCE Vilanch
Sunday, Aug 5 7:00p
at [Provincetown Town Hall](http://calendar.boston.com/provincetown_ma/venues/show/20548-provincetown-town-hall), [Provincetown, MA](http://www.provincetown-ma.gov/ "Provincetown, Massachusetts")
Price:Â $75 – $125
Phone:Â (305) 812-4703
**Age Suitability:**Â None Specified
Shawn Nightingale Productions and Provincetown Cares, proudly present An Evening of [Stand Up Comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy") with Whoopi Goldberg and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). Spend the evening listen to the stand up comedy of each performer; as well as, a joint session where Whoopi and Bruce ask each other the tough questions of life! All of this is followed by an audience Q \\& A.
**Performers at this Event**
[](http://calendar.boston.com/performers/show/32250-whoopi-goldberg)
[Whoopi Goldberg](http://calendar.boston.com/performers/show/32250-whoopi-goldberg)
She doesn’t mince words. She crosses race, gender, and demographic boundaries as if they didn’t even exist; seems to do and say whatever is on her mind; and looks like she’s having fun while doing it….
[](http://calendar.boston.com/performers/show/501500-bruce-vilanch)
[Bruce Vilanch](http://calendar.boston.com/performers/show/501500-bruce-vilanch)
One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Bruce Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “[Get Bruce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Bruce "Get Bruce")!…**[Buy Tickets ](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/249830)**
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**Categories:** Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce, Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, David Moretti, Get Bruce, Lily Tomlin, Los Angeles, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Photo: "Chicago" - Los Angeles Opening Night](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/17/photo-chicago-los-angeles-opening-night/)
**Published:** May 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Writer Bruce Vilanch and Actress Charlene Tilton arrive at the opening night of 'Chicago' at the Pantages Theatre on May 16, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
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*Writer Bruce Vilanch and Actress Charlene Tilton arrive at the opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Pantages Theatre on May 16, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Araya Diaz/WireImage)*
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**Categories:** Announcement, Photo, Theatre
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### [Vito And Waters To Be Honored At Outfest](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/17/vito-and-waters-to-be-honored-at-outfest/)
**Published:** May 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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VITO to Open OUTFEST: 30th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival"), 7/12-22
by BWW News DeskÂ
[Outfest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outfest "Outfest") – the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media – announced today that Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary “Vito†has been selected as the Opening Night gala of the 30th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. “Vito†chronicles the story of [Vito Russo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Russo "Vito Russo"), founding father of the gay liberation movement, author of “The Celluloid Closet,” and vociferous AIDS activist in the 1980s. The film features [Lily Tomlin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lily-Tomlin/), [Armistead Maupin](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Armistead-Maupin/), [Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce-Vilanch/), Richard Berkowitz and [Larry Kramer](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Larry-Kramer/).
Outfest will also present its 16th annual Achievement Award to filmmaker, author and artist [John Waters](http://broadwayworld.com/people/John-Waters/). The Achievement Award is Outfest’s highest honor and is presented in recognition of a body of work that has made a significant contribution to LGBT film and media. [John Waters](http://broadwayworld.com/people/John-Waters/) is a filmmaker, visual artist, author, comedian, and essayist. With films ranging from the taboo-pushing PINK FLAMINGOS to the teen-dance spectacular HAIRSPRAY, Waters and his work have been unapologetically queer, championing outside values and personal expression in a world that rarely appreciates difference. The Achievement Award will be presented to Waters prior to the Opening Night Gala screening of “Vito†on Thursday, July 12 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
“Honoring two legendary figures Vito Russo and [John Waters](http://broadwayworld.com/people/John-Waters/) is the perfect way to launch Outfest’s 30th anniversary,†said Executive Director Kirsten Schaffer. “Over that past three decades, Outfest has had a global impact on LGBT lives by promoting understanding, launching world-class talent and preserving our filmed history for generations to come.â€
The nation’s leading LGBT film festival, and the oldest film festival in the [city of Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles"), will be held July 12 – 22, 2012.
Waters will also be performing his show “This Filthy World: Gayer and Filthier†on July 11th in the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. Focusing in on Waters’ early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to “filth followers†everywhere. Tickets for this screening are available at [HollywoodForever.ticketfly.com](http://www.hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com/).
As part of its 30th anniversary year, Outfest will celebrate this milestone across all of its programs by producing the best film festival to date, premiering its most significant feature film restoration and debuting an impressive youth filmmaking project, among many innovative and expanded initiatives.
· 30 YEARS OF OUTFEST: THE FILMS THAT SPARKED A CULTURAL REVOLUTION
A series of seminal LGBT films from the 1960’s to the 2000’s including a recreation of the first festival in 1982: QUEEN OF SHEBA MEETS THE ATOM MAN (1963-4), MAKING LOVE (Hill, 1982) and [TAXI ZUM KLO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_zum_Klo "Taxi zum Klo") (Ripploh, 1981). This series is supported by the [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences").
· DOWNTOWN 30
A monthly screening series taking place at the Downtown Independent Theatre, presenting new and classic films of interest to LGBT audiences.
· “DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS†RESTORATION
The Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, a partnership with the [UCLA Film & Television Archive](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Film_and_Television_Archive "UCLA Film and Television Archive"), will unveil its most significant restoration to date, arguably the earliest surviving cinematic work made explicitly about [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") .Thispeople. This restoration is partially funded by a grant from the Andrew J. Kuehn, Jr. Foundation.
· 30 YEARS OF IMPACT: CHANGING HISTORY ONE STORY AT A TIME
Stories of Outfest filmmakers, volunteers and members from the last thirty years whose lives and careers have been deeply impacted by Outfest will be posted weekly on our website. Filmmakers and audiences will also have the opportunity to post their own story of how Outfest changed their lives by uploading a video to the site.
Outfest celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2012 with a year-longyearlong celebration honoring the organization’s rich film history, innovative filmmakers and cultural legacy. The anniversary celebration includes the signature film festival, a major film restoration, a new logo, a new monthly screening series and a comprehensive social media campaign. Founded by volunteers on the campus of UCLA in 1982, Outfest has grown into an internationally recognized organization that works to promote LGBT equality through the arts. For three decades Outfest has brought together film lovers, artists, celebrities and entertainment industry professionals to create a world-class forum for stories that reflect and often transform LGBT lives. Outfest has showcased over 5,600 films to audiences, reaching close to one million people, educated and mentored hundreds of emerging filmmakers and protected over 18,000 stories and images through the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, the only program of its kind in the world.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Blows Into Windy City Live!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/10/video-bruce-vilanch-blows-into-windy-city-live/)
**Published:** May 10, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch Headlines Shawn Pelofsky's Bathhouse Show!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/10/bruce-vilanch-headlines-shawn-pelofskys-bathhouse-show/)
**Published:** May 10, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Saturday, May 19th! It's time to throw it back to the good ol' days! Atlantis Cruises sweetheart and The Queen of Queens, Shawn Pelofsky presents "THE BATHHOUSE SHOW", a monthly show full of some of the best gay and gay-friendly comedic talent in Los Angeles. Located in the heart of West Hollywood at the world famous Comedy Store is a show that is sure to put the "fabulous" in one of the most heterosexual clubs in the world.
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Headlines Shawn Pelofsky’s Bathhouse Show!
Sat May 19 2012 at 08:00 pm
Venue : The World Famous Comedy Store, [Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles")
Created By : Shawn Pelofsky**
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Saturday, May 19th! It’s time to throw it back to the good ol’ days! Atlantis Cruises sweetheart and The Queen of Queens, Shawn Pelofsky presents “THE BATHHOUSE SHOW”, a monthly show full of some of the best gay and gay-friendly comedic talent in Los Angeles. Located in the heart of West Hollywood at the world famous Comedy Store is a show that is sure to put the “fabulous” in one of the most heterosexual clubs in the world.
Enjoy a “full facial” of stand-up comedy and cabaret with the fabulous, Shawn Pelofsky ([Chelsea Lately](http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/chelsea/index.jsp "Chelsea Lately"), [NBC’s](http://www.nbcuni.com "NBC Universal") “Community”, [Showtime](http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/premiums/showtime "Showtime on DirecTV")) and laugh it up with the comedic stylings of Daniel Leary ([The Ellen Degeneres Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellen_DeGeneres_Show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"), LOGO), [Retta](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retta "Retta") (Parks & Recreation), and special guest headliner, Bruce Vilanch. Also featuring the hilarious singing duo, The BooFont Sisters ([America’s Got Talent](http://www.hulu.com/americas-got-talent "America's Got Talent")), Jeff Scott and The Bathhouse Babe Dancers.
The Comedy Store/ Original Room, 8443 W. Sunset Blvd, [West Hollywood, CA](http://www.weho.org/ "West Hollywood, California"). Doors open at 7:15 pm. Showtime is at 8 pm.
Online Tickets available here on [LaughStub.com](http://www.laughstub.com/) or [www.TheBathHouseShow.com](http://www.laughstub.com/buyTicket.cfm?showTimingID=154314) . If seats are still available, $15 cash cover at the door.
This show WILL SELL OUT Limited seating, so get your tickets now!
$5 [Svedka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svedka "Svedka") Cosmopolitan Special. 2 drink min.
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**Tags:** America's Got Talent, Bruce Vilanch, Chelsea Lately, Ellen Degeneres Show, Los Angeles, NBC, Retta, Showtime
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### [Going Down in LA-LA Land Coming To DVD Soon](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/07/going-down-in-la-la-land-coming-to-dvd-soon/)
**Published:** May 7, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Â May 07 2012Â**
Casper Andreas film** Going Down in [LA-LA Land](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles")** is set to be released on [DVD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD") in the UK by [Peccadillo Pictures](http://www.peccadillopictures.com "Peccadillo Pictures") in July.
[](http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Going-Down-in-LA-LA-Land.png)Peccadillo Pictures
> *“An excellent, slick, and sexy comedy. The perfect film to watch with your friends, your date, your dog, but certainly not your parents†–Â* **SoSoGay.org**
**Going Down in LA-LA Land** is based on the novel by [Andy Zeffer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Zeffer "Andy Zeffer") as see’s cult gay director Casper Andreas present the reverting and uncensored look at the stars and studios of Hollywood and its seedy neighbour; the porn industry.
*‘Wide-eyed, hunky upstart Adam arrives in Los Angeles from New York, brimming with hope for a career in the movie business. He shacks up with best friend Candy, who is also desperate to get a foot in the Hollywood door. Together they hit the red carpets and cocktail parties to network and score roles. Adam’s drop dead gorgeous body and chiselled looks prove a rich picking to the needy and seedy agents, directors and studio executives of [Hollywood Boulevard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Boulevard "Hollywood Boulevard"), and he begins almost instantly to climb the ladder of fame – or so it seems.’*
Starring Matthew Ludwinski, Allison Lane, Michael Medico & Casper Andreas with cameo appearances by [Perez Hilton](http://perezhilton.com "Perez Hilton"), [Alec Mapa](http://www.alecmapa.com "Alec Mapa"), [Judy Tenuta](http://www.judytenuta.com/ "Judy Tenuta")Â and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
Going Down in LA-LA Land: Released on July 23rd in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures.
***\[Written by Ian Westhead\]***
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**Categories:** DVD
**Tags:** Alec Mapa, Andy Zeffer, Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood Boulevard, Judy Tenuta, Los Angeles, Peccadillo Pictures, Perez Hilton
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### [](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/07/3171/)
**Published:** May 7, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear In Michael Vaccaro's Web Series, "Child of the '70s"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/05/03/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-in-michael-vaccaros-web-series-child-of-the-70s/)
**Published:** May 3, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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# HuffPost
Gay Writers Give Birth to a ‘Child of the ’70s’
05/ 3/2012
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For any of us who came of age during the 1970s, the era was a pop smorgasbord of fashion, art, culture, and music. From the iconic [John Travolta](http://www.travolta.com "John Travolta") in*[Saturday Night Fever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever "Saturday Night Fever")*, to the music of ABBA, to classic [TV series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program") such as *All in the Family*, *[The Mary Tyler Moore Show](http://www.hulu.com/the-mary-tyler-moore-show "The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free")*, and *[The Carol Burnett Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carol_Burnett_Show "The Carol Burnett Show")*, such references have not only helped define my generation but inspired in others an ongoing love for all things ’70s.
Actor/singer [Michael Vaccaro](http://www.michaelvaccaro.com/ "Michael Vaccaro") is attempting to capture that spirit in a new [Web series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_series "Web series"), *Child of the ’70s*, which is [currently fundraising at Indiegogo](http://www.indiegogo.com/Childofthe70s). An indie actor in such movies as Todd Verow’s *Deleted Scenes* and *The Endless Possibility of Sky*, Michael also won a MAC award for Outstanding Musical Comedy Performer and has recorded two [CDs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc "Compact Disc"), *Archangel* and *Wait for Him*.
To create *Child of the ’70s*, he has joined with friend and collaborator Terrence Moss as co-writers. Terrence is an independent writer based in [Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles") who operates a website for long-form content, [terrencemoss.com](http://www.terrencemoss.com/), consisting of articles, commentaries, reaction pieces, essays, actor/actress profiles, and an ongoing short fiction series.
The two recently met with me to discuss this shared love of the ’70s and how it helped inspire their new series.
**Kergan Edwards-Stout:**Â Michael, what is it about the 1970s that entices you? Is it the music? The [TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television "Television") shows? Something more?
**Michael Vaccaro:**Â All of those — and more. It was a magical era. Look at TV alone. It was the best TV ever! I mean, [Mary Tyler Moore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tyler_Moore "Mary Tyler Moore"), Bob Newhart, Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper, Carol Burnett, Bea Arthur, and [Esther Rolle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rolle "Esther Rolle") — and so many more. Back then TV was interesting, smart, and funny — and unafraid, just like the people who were coming of age then.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â That was your time, huh?
**Vaccaro:**Â Yeah, I was young and really cute, and I could get into clubs and drink and have sex with hot bartenders! You could dance and go home with strangers, and everybody was doing it, and no one cared or judged. It was before we all started dying, and I remember such a sense of freedom and abandon.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â So you associate it with freedom…
**Vaccaro:** Exactly. There was a sense of achieving whatever dream you had. Take cinema — also the greatest decade. Actors and directors and writers were unafraid, fearless, raw. It’s all pretty much sucked since. And music? No one can tell me there’s a greater album, an album that better captured the feelings of an entire generation of people, than *Saturday Night Fever*.
**Edwards-Stout:** With your new Web series, *Child of the ’70s*, you’re hoping to capture some of that?
**Vaccaro:**Â I wanted to do something really fun that brought back many of the actors that I loved from that time. I’m casting a few of my absolute favorites, though I can’t talk about who just yet. So many deserving of attention. Look at the amazing resurgence of Betty White! I want to do that for a few of the people who helped make my childhood happy!
**Edwards-Stout:**Â Terrence, how did you become involved in writing the project with Michael?
**Terrence Moss:** Michael knew of the short story series I write for my website, as well as the pieces I had written about the *Bitter Bartender* Web series, and asked if I’d help him write *Child of the ’70s.* We met once a week for five consecutive weeks and wrote one episode each week.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â What about the Web series intrigued you?
**Moss:**Â Even though I only caught the very tail end of it, I feel a special affinity for the 1970s — the music, the TV shows, some of the movies, the social change. I liked the concept. And on a personal note, I liked that Michael was taking this part of his career into his own hands. I wanted to help with that.
**Edwards-Stout:** Is the tone reminiscent of those classic TV shows, such as *Laverne & Shirley* or*Welcome Back, Kotter*?
**Vaccaro:** I’m interested in capturing the feeling of *[Love, American Style](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%2C_American_Style "Love, American Style")*. There’s a “look” from the ’70s that I adore: dark, grainy, saturated with earth tones. I’m trying to recapture that look. HD is so very clear and clean and bright, so I’m actually using older cameras.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â That sounds cool.
**Vaccaro:**Â I also love sarcasm, and it seems to me that everybody on television in the ’70s was sarcastic. Rhoda, Maude, Phyllis… I love that, and we’ve made our lead character, Carlo, pretty sarcastic, but also smart, lovable, and, again, unafraid. He’s also gay, and I wanted to mix that ’70s sensibility with a gay sensibility, which is what Heaven will be like for me.
**Edwards-Stout:** The series follows Carlo, who uproots his New York life to move to Los Angeles, as the personal assistant to his favorite ’70s TV star, played by Ann Walker, who was so memorable in *Sordid Lives*.
**Vaccaro:**Â Yes, Carlo has quite a few eerie similarities to the character of Rhoda Morgenstern. He was born and raised in the Bronx, he has a sister named Brenda, and two overbearing parents, except his are Italian. He moved out of the house when he was 24. He meets and falls in love with a man named Joe.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â Now, a lot of that sounds like you!
**Vaccaro:**Â Yes, I can tell you that I, Michael Vaccaro, also grew up in the Bronx, moved out of the house when I was 24, and fell in love with a Joe. And a few years later, I took a job as a personal assistant to a movie star, which I did for a couple of years, so I have lots of stories!
**Edwards-Stout:**Â Now, I know that aside from your creative work, you also once worked for Broadway and film legend Lainie Kazan. Any stories you can tell us?
**Vaccaro:**Â Hmm… plenty of stories. None that I can actually tell. She is fantastic. Lainie’s funny, interesting, gregarious, and very generous. She truly does light up a room. I’m hoping she’ll be in the series. I have something really juicy in mind for her.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â You’ve assembled a great cast, including funny man Bruce Vilanch. What character does he play, and how did he become involved in the project?
**Vaccaro:**Â I’ve known Bruce for years. He’s a great friend, and he’s brilliantly funny and smart. I don’t know anyone who gives more of his time to different causes. He appears at absolutely every charity event! So I just called him and asked if he’d do it, and he said yes. His character will become a major part of Carlo’s life in Los Angeles.
**Edwards-Stout:** I went to college with another of your stars, the multi-talented Duane Boutte. Prior to this he starred in such films as *Stonewall* and *Brother to Brother*. What led him to *Child of the ’70s*?
**Vaccaro:** Duane is an incredibly talented man, and I’ve wanted to work with him as an actor since the day we met. He plays a character modeled after “Lionel Jefferson” on *The Jeffersons*, who was played by Michael Evans, who I had such a big crush on when I was a kid.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â Another familiar name in your cast is Natalie Toro, who starred on Broadway in*Les Miserables*, among other shows.
**Vaccaro:**Â Natalie and I have been best friends since the fourth grade! She is my family, my sister, and in the show she’s playing the role of Brenda, Carlo’s sister, who is a real Snooki type!
**Edwards-Stout:** You’re currently raising funds for *Child of the ’70s* through [Indiegogo](http://www.indiegogo.com/Childofthe70s), and I love that for the highest-level donation, someone can not only be an Associate Producer on the series–
**Moss:**Â It’s an easy way to get some Hollywood credits!
**Edwards-Stout:**Â –But they also get a role on the show. Would they simply be Waiter #2, or would you write them a funny bit?
**Vaccaro:**Â No, I would definitely want to write something very cool for someone who helps us out in that way. I’d want it to be something really fun!
**Edwards-Stout:** Now, you are both out and proud gay men, so I’ve got to ask: Aside from the general ’70s theme and your very gay and gay-friendly cast, any other hot homo moments in *Child of the ’70s*?
**Moss:**Â I cameo in the first episode as a co-worker of Carlo’s at a phone sex company. I don’t know if any of what I said will be heard onscreen, but if anyone can read lips, it’s very… well… it should get me a lot of dates.
**Vaccaro:**Â And, we do have someone incredibly hot playing Joe, the love interest, and if I have anything to say about it — which I do, as I’m the star, co-writer and producer — there will be lots of skin!
**Moss:** I imagine the real hot and heavy homo moments will occur in season two and beyond. We’ll do the reverse of *Queer as Folk* by toning *up* the hot homo stuff as the series progresses.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â What plans do you have as for the character as the series goes forward?
**Vaccaro:**Â When Carlo changes his life and moves to Los Angeles, he’s a real fish out of water, and we get to explore L.A.’s very specific quirks. We have a terrific scene about his first car accident, and the very special ’70s guest star who he crashes into! We already have a group of amazing actors lined up, including Jonathan Slavin–
**Moss:** From *Better Off Ted*.
**Vaccaro:** –and Jonah Blechman, who was in *Another Gay Movie*.
**Moss:** They’ll play his new L.A. best friends. It’ll turn into a little West Coast gay *Sex and the City*.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â OK, one last question for you lovers of the ’70s! Terrence, we’ll start with you. If you could be any character or real person from the 1970s, who would it be, and why?
**Moss:**Â Well, I’m assuming Michael is going to say Rhoda Morgenstern–
**Vaccaro:**Â Oooh, don’t steal mine!
**Moss:** –So I’ll say Clifton Curtis from *That’s My Mama*, because afros were out of style by the ’90s, and even if they came back in style, I can no longer grow enough hair to produce one.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â So, Michael, are you going with Rhoda?
**Vaccaro:** So many possibilities… I might choose Stockard Channing’s stewardess in *The Big Bus*, so I could ride a nuclear-powered bus from New York City to Denver.
**Edwards-Stout:**Â I loved that movie!
**Vaccaro:** But my ultimate choice would have to be Esther Hoffman Howard, so I could fall in love and have sex with John Norman Howard. I mean, was there ever a sexier guy than Kris Kristofferson in *A Star Is Born*?
\* \* \* \* \**For more information aboutÂ* Child of the ’70s*, please visit [the Indiegogo page](http://www.indiegogo.com/Childofthe70s).**This piece originally appeared on [KerganEdwards-Stout.com](http://kerganedwards-stout.com/) and [The Bilerico Project](http://bilerico.com/).*
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### [Bruce Vilanch Grabs Amusing Cameo In “Going Down in La-La Landâ€](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/19/bruce-vilanch-grabs-amusing-cameo-in-“going-down-in-la-la-land”/)
**Published:** April 19, 2012
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**[New York Times](http://www.newyorktimes.com "New York Times")
April 19, 2012
[MOVIE REVIEW](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_criticism "Film criticism")
New in Los Angeles, and Willing to Do [Anything for Money](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_For_Money "Anything For Money")
By DANIEL M. GOLD**
[](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Vilanch%2C_Drag_queen_Momma_at_7th_Annual_WeHo_Awards_1.jpg)January 21, 2008 – 7th Annual WeHo Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)“Going Down in [La-La Land](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles")†is a familiar enough story of a young and beautiful person hoping to make it big in Hollywood only to attain disillusionment. Here the new arrival is [Adam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam "Adam") (Matthew Ludwinski), a gay would-be actor who rooms with Candy (Allison Lane), a friend-girl from [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=43.0,-75.0 (New%20York)&t=h "New York") who’s also looking for her big break — or sugar daddy — while explaining the dos and don’ts of networking in Los Angeles. After Adam scrambles for work of any sort, low-level connections lead to gay pornography and its apparent sideline, escort servicing.
Based on a novel by [Andy Zeffer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Zeffer "Andy Zeffer") and directed by Casper Andreas, “Going Down†falls well short of compelling, either as a coming-of-age film, a satire or a romance. When called on to do more than take off his shirt or bat his eyes, the hunky Mr. Ludwinski is impressively limited in his emotional range. Ms. Lane is just barely adequate as the designated comedy relief. Mr. Andreas (who also plays Nick, Adam’s guide into the adult industry) has more success framing and lighting this unrated film’s R-rated bedroom scenes.
The best moments — there aren’t many — recall bits from “[Boogie Nights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Nights "Boogie Nights"),†which chronicled similar adventures in California’s heterosexual skin trade in the 1970s and ‘80s. (There’s even a shout-out to [William H. Macy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Macy "William H. Macy"), one of its stars.) [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") has an amusing cameo as the director of Adam’s first porn flick, and Michael Medico is appealingly believable as the closeted leading man of a popular sitcom who becomes Adam’s romantic interest after a couple of “dates.†Despite its lurid subject “Going Down†is quite old-school, at its core a conventional uninspired fantasy of love conquering all.
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch Walks The Red Carpet At "Billy Elliott"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/19/photo-bruce-vilanch-walks-the-red-carpet-at-billy-elliott/)
**Published:** April 19, 2012
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### [Review: Going Down in La-La Land](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/19/review-going-down-in-la-la-land/)
**Published:** April 19, 2012
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**Variety
Going Down in La-La Land: Film Review
2:19 PM PDT 4/19/2012 by Frank Scheck
Director Casper Andreas’ gay drama centers on a young acting hopeful who finds that Hollywood is a rough town.**
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With a title like Going Down in La-La Land, it doesn’t seem likely that Casper Andreas’ film is going to be marked by restraint. But restrained it is, at least compared to such previous gay-themed efforts by the filmmaker as Slutty Summer and The Big Gay Musical. While this tale of a young man who finds himself shocked — shocked! — to discover that sleaze is prevalent in Hollywood doesn’t exactly break any new dramatic ground, it, um, goes down easily enough.
The protagonist of this latest variation on an all-too-familiar theme is Adam (Matthew Ludwinski), a young actor has just arrived in L.A. to pursue his dreams. Rooming with his best friend Candy (Allison Lane) — also an aspiring actor, though one more interested in landing a rich man than a good part — he discovers that, despite his hunky good looks and all-American appeal, the town isn’t immediately ready to fall at his feet.
After dutifully networking at the gym, he lands an office job at “Jet Set Men†which turns out to be, you guessed it, a gay porn outfit. It isn’t long before the financially strapped Adam agrees to his boss’ arguments that his talents would be better showcased in front of the camera, which leads to his moonlighting as a male escort and a relationship with a client (Michael Medico) who is the closeted star of a hit sitcom.
Veering uneasily at times into melodrama — especially with a subplot involving a drug-addicted co-worker (played by director Andreas) who attacks Adam with a knife — La-La Land is more grim than its title would suggest. But it does depict its West Hollywood milieu with a comic, insider’s knowingness, and the cameo appearances by such figures as Bruce Vilanch, comedian Judy Tenuta and actor Alec Mapa (playing himself, dishing out bitchy insults about fellow patrons at a bar) only add to the atmosphere.
Ludwinski, who frequently bares his gym-toned body, is certainly up to the physical demands of his role. And he’s appealing enough to make you cheer for his character in the film’s fairy tale-style ending.
*Opens: Friday, April 20 (Embrem Entertainment)
Production: La-La Land Films
Cast: Matthew Ludwinski, Allison Lane, Michael Medico, Casper Andreas, John Schile
Director-producer: Casper Andreas
Screenwriters: Casper Andreas, Andy Zeffer
Executive producers: Bryan Guarnieri, Simon Jorna, Linda Larson, Mich Lyon, George M. Taninatz
Director of photography: Timothy Naylor
Editor: Alexander Hammer
Production designer: Shannon Lee Fitzgerald
Costume designer: Sarah Jeanne Mgeni
Music: Michael W. Barry
No rating, 104 minutes*
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### [Bruce Vilanch to Star in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/17/3123/)
**Published:** April 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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## **TheaterMania**
[Bryan Batt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Batt "Bryan Batt"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Star in *Standing on Ceremony:
The Gay Marriage Plays
By [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/99) • Apr 17, 2012Â*
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Bryan Batt and Bruce Vilanch will headline the South Florida premiere of [*Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays*](http://www.theatermania.com/florida-theater/shows/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays_191205/), to be presented at in the Amaturo Theater at the [Broward Center for the Performing Arts](http://www.theatermania.com/fort-lauderdale/theaters/broward-center-for-the-performing-arts_2701/), June 21-24. John Manzelli will direct.
Conceived by Brian Shnipper, the work features short plays on the subject of marriage equality written by Emmy Award winner [Mo Gaffney](http://www.mogaffney.com "Mo Gaffney"), Heideman Award winner Jordan Harrison, Edgar Award winner Jeffrey Hatcher, [Pulitzer Prize](http://www.pulitzer.org/ "Pulitzer Prize") winner and [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") nominee [Neil LaBute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_LaBute "Neil LaBute"), Sundance Jury Prize winner [Wendy MacLeod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_MacLeod "Wendy MacLeod"), [Obie Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award "Obie Award") winner José Rivera, Obie and [Outer Critics Circle Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award "Outer Critics Circle Award") winner Paul Rudnick, Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Doug Wright.
City Theatre and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts are presenting this run. The cast will also feature Steve Trovillion, Elizabeth Dimon and Elena Garcia. The performance includes a post-show wedding reception complete with music and wedding cake.
A portion of all proceeds will be donated to Equality Florida, the largest civil rights organization in Florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
[Click here for more information and *Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays* tickets.](http://www.theatermania.com/florida-theater/shows/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays_191205/)
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch talks about "Stories Left To Tell"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/16/video-bruce-vilanch-talks-about-stories-left-to-tell/)
**Published:** April 16, 2012
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### [An Evening with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/11/an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-2/)
**Published:** April 11, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**An Evening with Bruce Vilanch, Star of Hairspray
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco — Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. San Francisco, CA 94118)**
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Funnyman Bruce Vilanch is Hollywood’s go-to guy when they need a joke — and now he’s going to light up the stage at Kanbar Hall with his electric personality. Best known as a writer for TV awards shows, Bruce has written for over 20 Oscar broadcasts, as well as the Tonys, Grammys and Emmys. He’s also been seen on TV’s Hollywood Squares, and played a starring role on Broadway and in San Francisco as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Bruce has made many appearances on shows like Comic Relief, starred in the documentary Get Bruce!, and worked on stage shows with Bette Midler, Michael Feinstein and Florence Henderson.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Helps Fundraise For 50th Assembly District Campaigner Tori Osborn](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/10/bruce-vilanch-helps-fundraise-for-50th-assembly-district-campaigner-tori-osborn/)
**Published:** April 10, 2012
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### **[Venice For Change](http://veniceforchange.blogspot.com/2012/04/lilly-tomlin-hal-sparks-and-bruce.html)**
### Lily Tomlin, [Hal Sparks](http://www.halsparks.com/ "Hal Sparks") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") “Come Out” For Torie Osborn
**Posted by Marta Evry at [Monday, April 09, 2012](http://veniceforchange.blogspot.com/2012/04/lilly-tomlin-hal-sparks-and-bruce.html "permanent link")**
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Last Thursday, political supporters, comedy fans and lucky activists packed the 600-seat Director’s Guild Auditorium in [West Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California") for a hilarious night of standup fundraising for Torie Osborn’s campaign for the 50th Assembly District.
Headlined by six-time [Emmy](http://www.menuism.com/restaurants/emmys-san-francisco-293668 "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch, Hal Sparks (“[Queer as Folk](http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Queer_as_Folk_Series_1_Disc_1/70203650 "Queer as Folk")“) and [Lilly Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin"), the night got off to a bang with a [standing ovation for Torie Osborn.](http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2012/04/lily-tomlinernestine-character-delights.html)
> [](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KjILU0_dmLg/T4KB3xjwd_I/AAAAAAAABb4/G_UL7xaCz7U/s1600/LGBT+comedy+for+Torie+040512_120406_224.jpg)Torie Osborn*When Ms. Osborn took the podium, supporters sprang to their feet in unison, and gave her a thunderous standing ovation.*
>
> *Ms. Osborn was gracious and down-to-earth in the overwhelming aftermath.*
>
> In fact, earlier in the evening, I spied the effervescent politician dashing up the aisles to greet guests – in a patterned shirt-jacket fashioned in eye-catching hues of turquoise and blue (teamed with a chic black “t” and tasteful dress slacks that matched up) – and lead ’em by the hand to their comfy seats in the orchestra pit.< *By the way, Osborn is quite unlike the overly-coiffed plastic-looking females who tend to populate the political terrain. Osborne comes across as somebody’s caring “Mom”.*
>
> *In her brief chat with the supporters present, she underscored it was time to bring back the “[California Dream](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Dream "California Dream")“, and that the spanking newly-created 50th seat in the State Assembly was a great place to start in the years ahead.*
> *Sheila Keuhl – who was also on hand – went a step farther.*
>
> After noting that the 50th seat was comprised of a handful of tony neighborhoods (such as [Pacific Palisades](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.04806,-118.52556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.04806,-118.52556 (Pacific%20Palisades%2C%20Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles"), Brentwood, [Beverly Hills](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0730555556,-118.399444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0730555556,-118.399444444 (Beverly%20Hills%2C%20California)&t=h "Beverly Hills, California"), Malibu, and West Hollywood, to name a few) she made an astute observation.
>
> “It’s an open seat for a fabulous candidate,” she enthused.
>
> “And, that candidate is Torie Osborn!”
[](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6eaBuCEKgg/T4J8bTMiY5I/AAAAAAAABbQ/-AqIpyyuqRc/s1600/LGBT+comedy+for+Torie+040512_120406_207.jpg)Packed 600-seat theatre gives a standing “O” to Torie Osborn
All three comics brought their A game, but the highlight of the night went to Lily Tomlin for reworking her famous “Ernestine” routine – Ernestine as an operator for the claims department of a health insurance company.
*“Oh, that’s elective surgery. We elect not to pay for it,”*
*“We don’t care if you’re fed up. We only care that you are paid up.”*
*“[HMO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_maintenance_organization "Health maintenance organization") doesn’t mean Help Me Out, ‘ya know”*
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You can read a full review of the night on [Julian Ayrs blog.](http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2012/04/lily-tomlinernestine-character-delights.html)
To see all my photos of the night, [go to this link.](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150721861114004.425236.551114003&type=1&l=f23f02fef7)
[](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jiuN9vB5aCY/T4KCOPZ9apI/AAAAAAAABcA/X1ISDJIOMkg/s1600/LGBT+comedy+for+Torie+040512_120406_886.jpg)Hal Sparks[](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nbds-qbmWXA/T4KALcQzhqI/AAAAAAAABbw/YLfCUADvHes/s1600/LGBT+comedy+for+Torie+040512_120406_288.jpg)Bruce Vilanch
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### [Radio: Bruce Vilanch reads at Vicki Abelson's Women Who Write 4/26/11 ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/10/radio-bruce-vilanch-reads-at-vicki-abelsons-women-who-write-42611/)
**Published:** April 10, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch Set for Scrooge & Marley Film](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/04/09/bruce-vilanch-set-for-scrooge-marley-film/)
**Published:** April 9, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**TheaterMania
Tim Kazurinsky, David Pevsner, Bruce Vilanch Set for Scrooge & Marley Film
By Dan Bacalzo • Apr 9, 2012**
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Two-time Emmy winner and theater veteran [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.theatermania.com/search/?term=Bruce+Vilanch) will play Fezziwig in the independent film,*[Scrooge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281970_film%29 "Scrooge (1970 film)") & Marley*, which will be shot in Chicago in May and feature numerous local actors.
David Pevsner and [Tim Kazurinsky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kazurinsky "Tim Kazurinsky") will play the title roles in this modern-day variation on[Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")‘ classic holiday story, *A Christmas Carol*, which press notes say is “recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music.” The film is based on an original script by Ellen Stoneking, [Richard Knight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Knight "Richard Knight"), Jr. and the late Timothy Imse. It will be directed by Knight and Peter Neville. Original songs and the film’s music score are being written by Lisa McQueen.
The cast will also include Christopher Allen as Bill; Drew Anderson as Young Scrooge; Nicholas Bailey as Young Marley; Scott Duff as Drew; Richard Ganoung as Colin; Becca Kaufman and Richard Knight, Jr. as a comedic cabaret duo; Amy Matheny as Mary; Fawzia Mirza as Marshall; Peter Mohawk as Kyle; [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti") as [Bob Cratchit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cratchit "Bob Cratchit"); PJ Powers as Marley’s ghostly acquaintance; Rusty Schwimmer as Scrooge’s niece Freda; and Colin Sphar as Brent; and Allison Torem as Scrooge’s sister Franny.
The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future will be played by Ronnie Kroell, Megan Cavanagh and Jo Jo Baby, respectively. Child actors will include [Liam Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Jones "Liam Jones") as Tiny Tim, with siblings played by real-life twin sisters Dixon and Delaney Kaufman and real-life brothers Elijah and Keante Pendleton.
Additional supporting cast includes Michael Termine, Rafael Torres, Tommy Beardmore, Tom Chiola, Sean Walton, Diana Simonzadeh, [Alex Weisman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Weisman "Alex Weisman"), Steven McQuown, Ryan Lanning, Ellen Stoneking, and WBEZ reporter [Alison Cuddy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Cuddy "Alison Cuddy") in a voice cameo as a radio announcer. [David Cerda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cerda "David Cerda") and Ed Jones will be among actors in a series of special Christmas vignettes.
[Click here for more information.](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch and Ashley Sousa attend The Advocate 45th](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/30/bruce-vilanch-and-ashley-sousa-attend-the-advocate-45th/)
**Published:** March 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Why Hip Hop Squares Needs A Gay Panelist](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/30/why-hip-hop-squares-needs-a-gay-panelist/)
**Published:** March 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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# Hollywood.com
‘Hollywood Squares’ Goes Hip Hop: Why It Needs a Gay Panelist
By Matt Patches , Hollywood.com Staff | Friday, March 30, 2012
In the grand tradition of modernizing classic brands, MTV2 announced that they will revive the game show property *Hollywood Squares* with a 21st century spin. *[Hip Hop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop "Hip hop") Squares* will feature familiar names like [DJ Khaled](http://www.djkhaled.org/ "DJ Khaled"), [Fat Joe](http://www.fat-joe.com/ "Fat Joe"), Mac Miller, Machine Gun Kelly, [Ghostface Killah](http://www.defjam.com/site/artist_home.php?artist_id=485 "Ghostface Killah"), [Nick Cannon](http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1126399/Nick_Cannon) while throwing in the occasional associated panelist, including Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker [LaMarr Woodley](http://www.lamarrwoodley56.com "LaMarr Woodley") and *Jackass*/*Wildboyz*star [Bam Margera](http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1409198/Bam_Margera). Speaking to EW, MTV2’s programming chief Paul Ricci the goal was to “refresh an iconic format and create a fun, dynamic series that’s unpredictable, heavy on personality and much more ‘party’ than ‘game show’.”
That line-up carries serious weight, but there’s a missing piece of the puzzle that helped the show’s previous incarnations become milestones. Based on the released hip hop-centric panelists, there’s a complete lack of diversity — specifically on the sexual-orientation front. That may not seem like a big deal, but for all of the game show brand’s kitsch and silliness, *Hollywood Squares* pushed the envelope; in 1968, the original version anchored the show with [Paul Lynde](http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/194746/Paul_Lynde), who, while never revealing his personal sexual preferences, but retroactively became a gay figurehead. In the 1998 revival, comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/186290/Bruce_Vilanch) was a permanent fixture, routinely cracking innuendo jokes that spoofed his sexuality. There’s no written rule that *Hollywood Squares* needs a gay cast member to function or be properly executed, but it’s boldly hosted them with little audience resistance and always for entertainment-driven reasons.
The hip hop industry is notoriously narrow and there history with the gay community has rough patches. Currently, there aren’t openly gay rappers working with mainstream labels. But *Hip Hope Squares* panelist Fat Joe believes there are plenty working in the industry. In a 2011 interview, [the rapper told VladTV](http://youtu.be/BdaPDftAdMc) that he believed there was a large gay community in the hip-hop world — but that they weren’t coming out. “I think I’ve done songs with gay rappers. I’m pretty sure of that … I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip-hop. Not rappers — editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows … They’re in power … So why wouldn’t a guy come out and say, ‘Yo, I’m gay’ and get that type of love? ” Author Terrance Dean [corroborates the idea](http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1807080,00.html) in his 2008 book *[Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry — from Music to Hollywood](http://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Hip-Hop-Entertainment-Industry-/dp/1416553398%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1416553398 "Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood")*. Gay hip hop artists exist — and may even be stars — but the industry pressure doesn’t allow them to be open.
Even if gay artists aren’t prominent in the big labels, they are working, and thriving, in the US. MC Big Freedia is [breaking out in New Orleans](http://parlourmagazine.com/2012/01/big-freedia-jimmy-kimmel-live-na-who-mad-azz-everywhere/), helping expand the Sissy Bounce genre out of its regional confines (he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this year), while Cazwell has gained notoriety through the True Color Tour and LOGO promotion — but you won’t find his music videos running in regular rotation on Viacom’s sister site MTV.
In a strange way, MTV2 has an opportunity with *Hip Hop Squares*. Bring in the audience that comes for Ghostface Killah, Nick Cannon and a handful of NFL stars then expose them to some wonderful gay talent. Based on the announced line-up, the show already sounds homogeneous. The rap world is dying for a breakout, an equality game changer that even the media seems unable to crack (The New York Times is[profiling MC Big Freedia](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25bounce-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all) and yet few have heard of him). The new *Hollywood Squares* needs its Paul Lynde, its Bruce Vilanch, its diversity. And there are plenty of choices.
*Thanks to [@JenniMiller](https://twitter.com/#%21/jennimiller76) and [@gmorse](https://twitter.com/#%21/gmorse) for additional research*.
*Find Matt Patches directly on Twitter [@misterpatches](http://twitter.com/misterpatches) and remember to follow [@Hollywood\_com](http://twitter.com/hollywood_com)!*
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**Tags:** Arts and Entertainment, Bruce Vilanch, Ghostface Killah, HipHop, Hollywood Squares, LaMarr Woodley, Nick Cannon, Paul Lynde
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### [Bruce Vilanch arrives at "The Advocate 45th" ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/30/bruce-vilanch-arrives-at-the-advocate-45th/)
**Published:** March 30, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [The 17th Annual Nothing Like a Dame Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/28/the-17th-annual-nothing-like-a-dame-benefit/)
**Published:** March 28, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Mario Cantone](http://www.mariocantone.com "Mario Cantone"), [Lauren Flanigan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Flanigan "Lauren Flanigan"), [Marilyn Maye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Maye "Marilyn Maye") at Nothing Like a Dame Benefit
By David Gordon • Mar 27, 2012 • New York**
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The Actors Fund presented the 17th annual Nothing Like a Dame benefit Monday, March 26 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
Subtitled “Their Favorite Things: From Reality to Opera to Broadway,” the gala featured performances by [Polly Bergen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Bergen "Polly Bergen"), [Andrea Burns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Burns "Andrea Burns"), Mario Cantone, Countess [Luann de Lesseps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuAnn_de_Lesseps "LuAnn de Lesseps"), Lauren Flanigan, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, David M. Lutken, Marilyn Maye, Alexandra Silber, Elaine Stritch, Talise Trevigne, and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
Guests included Jacques Azoulay, [Richard Kind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kind "Richard Kind") and Nikka Graff Lanzarone.
The evening, which served as a benefit for the Phyllis Newman [Women’s Health Initiative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Health_Initiative "Women's Health Initiative"), was directed by Richard Roland, with musical direction by [Glen Roven](http://www.glenroven.com/ "Glen Roven").
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**Tags:** Andrea Burns, Bruce Vilanch, Glen Roven, Lauren Flanigan, Marilyn Maye, Mario Cantone, Polly Bergen, Richard Kind
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Star In Richard Knight, Jrs. "Scrooge And Marley"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/28/3090/)
**Published:** March 28, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Windy City Media Group**
**Bruce Vilanch, David Moretti added to gay [Christmas film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_films "List of Christmas films") cast
*From a news release*
*2012-03-27***
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CHICAGO — Hollywood legend [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and acclaimed actor [David Moretti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moretti "David Moretti") have joined the cast of a feature film being shot in Chicago this May.
[Scrooge](http://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Albert-Finney/dp/B0000AQS5D%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AQS5D "Scrooge") & Marley is a modern-day variation on [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens")‘ classic story of the holidays, A Christmas Carol. Recounted from a gay sensibility, with heart, comedy and music, the magic of Dickens’ timeless tale of a man’s redemption at the holidays—thanks to the help of three ghostly spirits—comes alive from a fresh perspective that will appeal to audiences of every persuasion.
Two-time Emmy winner Vilanch is a writer, songwriter and actor, well known for his four-year role on Hollywood Squares and as a head writer for the Oscars.
Moretti is best known as Thom Etherton, the intrepid reporter on here! TV’s acclaimed vampire series, The Lair. Moretti led the series for three seasons between 2007 and 2010. His character also crossed over into the network’s sister show, Dante’s Cove.
“I am beyond excited to be a part of Scrooge & Marley,” Moretti said. “Christmas movies hold a very special place in my heart as I have a handful of favorites I’ve watched every single Christmas since I was a little boy. My hope is that Scrooge & Marley becomes that for the gay community. It’s a sweet, classic story of redemption … with a little glitter.”
Moretti and Vilanch join several other actors already cast in the film, including: [Megan Cavanagh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Cavanagh "Megan Cavanagh") ( A League of Their Own, [Robin Hood: Men in Tights](http://www.amazon.com/Robin-Hood-Tights-Carey-Elwes/dp/B000G6BLW4%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000G6BLW4 "Robin Hood - Men in Tights"), Exes and Ohs ) ; [Rusty Schwimmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Schwimmer "Rusty Schwimmer") ( North Country, Perfect Storm, A Little Princess, Drop Dead Diva, Bones, Louie ) ; [Ronnie Kroell](http://www.RonnieKroell.com "Ronnie Kroell") ( Bravo’s Make Me a Super Model, Eating Out-Drama Camp and Into the Lion’s Den ) ; and Becca Kaufman, a renowned Chicago-area vocalist.
Final casting of the film’s major roles will be complete by April 1.
Scrooge & Marley is based on an original script by Ellen Stoneking, Richard Knight, Jr. and the late Tim Imse. It will be directed by Knight and Peter Neville.
Executive producers of the film are Tracy Baim ( [Hannah Free](http://www.hannahfree.com/index.html "Hannah Free") ) and David Strzepek ( Foodgasm ) , who are joined by several co-producers ( Knight, Neville, Stoneking, Kroell and Etta Worthington ) and experienced crew. Line producer is Thavary Krouch.
The film is being financed by investors and an [IndieGoGo](http://www.indiegogo.com "IndieGoGo") campaign under the name Scrooge & Marley film has also been launched. They hope to raise $15,000 by April 4, to add to the investor funding. See [www.indiegogo.com/Scrooge-Marley-film](http://www.indiegogo.com/Scrooge-Marley-film?a=396864) .
Legal counsel for the production is Joseph L. Voss from Clark Hill PLC.
[www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com](http://www.scroogeandmarleymovie.com/)Â .
On Facebook see [www.facebook.com/ScroogeAndMarley](https://www.facebook.com/ScroogeAndMarley) .
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Charles Dickens, Chicago, Christmas Carol, David Moretti, Hannah Free, Marley, Megan Cavanagh, Ronnie Kroell, Rusty Schwimmer, Scrooge
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Perform At An April 5 "Laughing Is Good..." Fundraiser](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/28/bruce-vilanch-to-perform-at-an-april-5-laughing-is-good-fundraiser/)
**Published:** March 28, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Hal Sparks](http://www.halsparks.com/ "Hal Sparks") ([Queer As Folk](http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Queer_as_Folk_Series_1_Disc_1/70203650 "Queer as Folk")) and [openly gay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_out "Coming out") comedians [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin") will perform at an April 5 “Laughing Is Good…” fundraiser to support [California State Assembly](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.5763888889,-121.493333333&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.5763888889,-121.493333333 (California%20State%20Assembly)&t=h "California State Assembly") candidate Torie Osborn, according to a press release. The event, which will also feature other Queer As Folk cast members, will take place at the [Directors Guild of America](http://www.dga.org "Directors Guild of America") in [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"). Osborn has been part of the [Liberty Hill Foundation](http://www.libertyhill.org "Liberty Hill Foundation") and the Los Angeles Gay & [Lesbian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian "Lesbian") Center.
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**Categories:** Benefits
**Tags:** Actors Fund, Bruce Vilanch, California State Assembly, Directors Guild of America, Hal Sparks, Liberty Hill Foundation, Lily Tomlin, Los Angeles
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### [Celebrities appear and perform at a benefit for Autism Speaks. San Francisco, California - 24.03.12](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/27/celebrities-appear-and-perform-at-a-benefit-for-autism-speaks-san-francisco-california-24-03-12/)
**Published:** March 27, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Charities
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### [Advocate magazine turns 45: Party To Include Bruce Vilanch, Ellen Degeneres, Rosie, And More](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/23/advocate-magazine-turns-45-party-to-include-bruce-vilanch-ellen-degeneres-rosie-and-more/)
**Published:** March 23, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[The Advocate](http://www.advocate.com/ "The Advocate")
Advocate magazine turns 45
March 23, 2012**
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Admit it, at 45 years old, the Advocate looks good. Over those years, the [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") magazine has seen the same challenges as any other print publication but has forged ahead with its watchdog duties in human rights as well as being a pop culture compass.
The glossy will celebrate the big 4-5 at the [Beverly Hilton](http://www.beverlyhilton.com/ "Beverly Hilton Hotel") on Thursday, welcoming a host of celebs and activists, as well as fashion and social types. Not to mention inductees to the Heroes Hall of Fame, a list of notables that includes [Ellen DeGeneres](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ellen_degeneres "Ellen DeGeneres"), Rosie O’Donnell, Cynthia Nixon and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Macy Gray will perform for the crowd, with “Tonight Show” correspondent [Ross Mathews](http://www.helloross.com "Ross Mathews") as emcee, in a night that boasts “Modern Family” star [Jesse Tyler Ferguson](http://twitter.com/jessetyler "Jesse Tyler Ferguson"), Drew Droege, [Sean Maher](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/sean_maher "Sean Maher") and Oscar show writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") as well as [Dustin Lance Black](http://www.dustinlanceblack.com "Dustin Lance Black"), [Donna Deitch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Deitch "Donna Deitch") and Pat Rocca.
Founded in 1967 as a vehicle for education at a time when gay and lesbian bars were being raided and unlawful arrests made, the mag’s legacy will be toasted in the Hilton’s International Ballroom, with a DJ set from Beau Dasher.
The Advocate partners with Lexus for the event, also serving as benefit for the Point Foundation, which works to provide academic scholarships to LGBT youth.
—Matt Donnelly
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**Categories:** Birthday, GLBT, Magazines
**Tags:** Advocate, Bruce Vilanch, Donna Deitch, Dustin Lance Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, LGBT, Ross Mathews
---
### [L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lifeworks' Program Presents LOL, Sunday, April 1st](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/22/l-a-gay-lesbian-centers-lifeworks-program-presents-lol-sunday-april-1st/)
**Published:** March 22, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lifeworks’ Program Presents LOL, Sunday, April 1st, a night for LGBT comedy featuring host Bruce Vilanch, Event Chair Jason Stuart, Shawn Pelofsky, Cathy Lewis, Daniel Leary, David Koechner, Page Hurwitz, and Jackie Beat!
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Benefiting the Gay and Lesbian Center, Lifeworks – Empowering The Future Of Our Youth!
**To buy tickets:** [**Click Here**](https://secure2.convio.net/laglc/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=120141&JServSessionIdr004=10neh6jdj7.app209b)
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**Categories:** Benefits
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### [Happy St. Patrick's Day](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day/)
**Published:** March 17, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Faces By Greta 'Left On Rose Soiree & Silent Auction' Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/16/bruce-vilanch-attends-faces-by-greta-left-on-rose-soiree-silent-auction-benefit/)
**Published:** March 16, 2012
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – MARCH 15: (L) Comedian/writer Bruce Vilanch and actor/model Ronnie Kroell attend Faces By Greta ‘Left On Rose Soiree & Silent Auction’ benefit at Eleven NightClub on March 15, 2012 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Beck Starr/FilmMagic)
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Participate In 'Nothing Like a Dame' Gala Benefit](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/16/bruce-vilanch-to-participate-in-nothing-like-a-dame-gala-benefit/)
**Published:** March 16, 2012
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**Chicago Tribune
Arts and Entertainment
Liz SMith
March 16, 2012**
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ON MONDAY, March 26 [Phyllis Newman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Newman "Phyllis Newman")‘s “Nothing Like a Dame” gala happens at Manhattan’s [John Jay College](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7703,-73.9883&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.7703,-73.9883 (John%20Jay%20College%20of%20Criminal%20Justice)&t=h "John Jay College of Criminal Justice") (The Gerald Lynch Theatre.) This annual event benefits The Phyllis Newman [Women’s Health Initiative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Health_Initiative "Women's Health Initiative"), and is presented by The [Actors Fund](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors_Fund "Actors Fund").
Among those on board for the one-night-only happening are [Polly Bergen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Bergen "Polly Bergen"), [Lauren Flanigan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Flanigan "Lauren Flanigan"), [Bobby Cannavale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cannavale "Bobby Cannavale"), [Mario Cantone](http://www.mariocantone.com "Mario Cantone"), Alexandra Silber, Countess Luann De Lesseps (from TV’s “[The Real Housewives of New York City](http://www.hulu.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city "The Real Housewives of New York City - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free")“), David Lutkin, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and the one, the only, the inimitable and indomitable Elaine Stritch. For ticket info log onto www.actorsfund.org, or call 212-221-7300, ext 133.
I’ve been to this event in years past and it is always a fabulous night in the theater, great entertainment with everybody giving 150 percent. So if that’s all you want — one heck of a good time, please go. Just keep in mind you’ll also be doing a really good deed in a naughty world. Phyllis Newman is providing a splendid and vital service to striving theater folk.
Especially right now, with antediluvians on the rise, threatening women’s health issues.
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**Tags:** Actors Fund, Bobby Cannavale, Bruce Vilanch, Lauren Flanigan, Mario Cantone, Phyllis Newman, Polly Bergen
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### [Bobby Cannavale, Mario Cantone, Lauren Flanigan, Bruce Vilanch Set for Nothing Like a Dame](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/09/bobby-cannavale-mario-cantone-lauren-flanigan-bruce-vilanch-set-for-nothing-like-a-dame/)
**Published:** March 9, 2012
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## BroadwayWorld
Bobby Cannavale, Mario Cantone, Lauren Flanigan, Bruce Vilanch Set for *Nothing Like a Dame
March 9, 2012Â*
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The [Actors Fund](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors_Fund "Actors Fund") just announced the first round of talent participating in the 17th edition of Nothing Like a Dame, a benefit for the [Phyllis Newman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Phyllis_Newman/) Women’s Health Initiative (PNWHI). This highly anticipated event will take place Monday, March 26th at 7:30 at The [Gerald Lynch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Gerald_Lynch/)Theatre, 524 [West 59th Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.769212,-73.984772&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.769212,-73.984772 (59th%20Street%20%28Manhattan%29)&t=h "59th Street (Manhattan)") between 10th and 11th Avenues, [New York, NY](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City") 10019.
Nothing Like a Dame: Their Favorite Things Through engaging stories and songs, favorite performers from stage and screen will take the audience on a tour of their favorite shows, songs and performances. [Phyllis Newman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Phyllis_Newman/) states, “Everything from Reality TV to Opera to Broadway – this evening is a true variety showâ€.
In addition to the already announced cast that includes [Polly Bergen](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Polly_Bergen/)(Follies 2001), [Bobby Cannavale](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bobby_Cannavale/) ([The Motherfucker with the Hat](http://www.themfwiththehat.com "The Motherfucker With the Hat")), [Mario Cantone](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Mario_Cantone/) (Laugh Whore), [Jackie Hoffman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Jackie_Hoffman/) ([The Addams Family](http://broadwayworld.com/people/The_Addams_Family/), Xanadu), [Hunter Ryan Herdlicka](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Hunter_Ryan_Herdlicka/) ([A Little Night Music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music "A Little Night Music")) and [Alexandra Silber](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Alexandra_Silber/)(Master Class), Dame is proud to announce the newest members of the company including [Andréa Burns](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Burns "Andrea Burns") (In the Heights), Countess [Luann de Lessep](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Luann_de_Lessep/)s (Real Housewives of NY), Opera sensations [Lauren Flanigan](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Lauren_Flanigan/) and Talise Trevigne, Folk musician David Lutkin and comic [Bruce Vilanch](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Bruce_Vilanch/).
Tickets for the Nothing Like a Dame: Their Favorite Things are $100, $150 and $250. There will be an exclusive post-show VIP reception with the cast at John’s Pizza included with the purchase of a $250 ticket. Special sponsorship packages are also available. Tickets can be purchased at: [www.actorsfund.org](http://www.actorsfund.org/) or by phone at (212) 221-7300 x133 or Email: tickets@actorsfund.org
The [Phyllis Newman](http://broadwayworld.com/people/Phyllis_Newman/) Women’s Health Initiative (PNWHI) was created to address the myriad of concerns women face when dealing with a serious medical condition. When women come to The Fund after a serious medical diagnosis they are often overwhelmed with concerns about their ability to work, family issues, managing basic bills as well as medical bills, and coping both physically and mentally with a challenging medical situation. The PNWHI Social Workers help women negotiate the steps that follow a serious medical diagnosis. Through intensive case management, access to individual counseling, support groups, educational seminars, linkage to community supports and short-term financial assistance, the social workers help women receive the nurturing support that they need.
The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps everyone – performers and those behind the scenes – who works in performing arts and entertainment, helping more than 12,000 people directly each year, and hundreds of thousands online. Serving professionals in film, theatre, television, music, opera, radio and dance, The Fund’s programs include social services and emergency assistance, health care and insurance, housing, and employment and training services. With offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Actors Fund has – for nearly 130 years – been a safety net for those in need, crisis or transition. Visit [www.actorsfund.org](http://www.actorsfund.org/).
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### [Bruce Vilanch At Work On A Gay Twist On 'A Christmas Carol' ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/07/bruce-vilanch-at-work-on-a-gay-twist-on-a-christmas-carol/)
**Published:** March 7, 2012
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**HuffPost Chicago
Chicago Filmmakers At Work On A Gay Twist On ‘[A Christmas Carol](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Carol-Charles-Dickens/dp/1589970357%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1589970357 "A Christmas Carol")‘
Joseph Erbentraut**
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For self-professed “movie addict” and long-time [Chicago-based](http://www.cityofchicago.org/ "Chicago") film critic [Richard Knight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Knight "Richard Knight"), Jr., it was probably only a matter of time until he put down the pen — or laptop, as it were — and took up the craft himself.
And in his latest project, Knight has done just that. In collaboration with executive producers Tracy Baim ([Windy City Times](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_City_Times "Windy City Times"), “[Hannah Free](http://www.hannahfree.com/index.html "Hannah Free")“) and David Strzepek (“Hannah Free,” “Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together”) and others, Knight isn’t looking to make just any old movie, however: “[Scrooge](http://www.amazon.com/Scrooge-Albert-Finney/dp/B0000AQS5D%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AQS5D "Scrooge") & Marley,” his first-ever feature film, is a modern-day take on [Charles Dickens’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens "Charles Dickens") “A Christmas Carol” — told with a gay sensibility.
The aim, Knight explained, is to create a gay-centric, old-fashioned holiday film, an idea he said first began to ruminate after seeing out director and screenwriter Thomas Bezucha’s 2006 film “The Family Stone.” Knight said he was so captivated by the gay couple depicted in that film that he “wanted so badly for the story to be told through their eyes.”
So for Knight, a film like “Scrooge” is “a dream come true.” In order to fund the project, which is set to begin filming in Chicago this May, Knight and his team have created an [IndieGoGo](http://www.indiegogo.com "IndieGoGo") fundraising campaign.
With the campaign recently launched, The Huffington Post checked in with Knight to learn more about his film.
**What inspired you to put a gay twist on a classic holiday story such as “A Christmas Carol”?**
I’ve been a film critic for a very long time and I write from a queer perspective. I was in a writing group with Tim Imse, who has since passed away, and \[primary screenwriter of “Scrooge & Marley” and The Annoyance co-founder\] Ellen Stoneking, a friend who has written many screenplays and was looking for an idea for something new to work on. At that point, we were approaching the holiday and so I said, “Why don’t you write a really good gay holiday movie?” I have never seen one. Ellen liked that idea and two seconds later, I said, “How about ‘A Christmas Carol’?” It’s in the public domain, first of all, and I also thought it would work really well coming from a gay place. We put together an outline very quickly and it went from there.
*(Scroll down to watch the film’s IndieGoGo campaign video.)*
**It sounds like you’re sort of embracing this idea of a gay villain, which I know some filmmakers have been very hesitant to do, given the history of such sort of problematic depictions.**
I do understand that concern, because for so long we \[the LGBT community\] did not have fair representation in films and television, so absolutely there was an initial hesitancy to have a gay villain. But then we went the reverse direction. Hello, we’re people! I think at this point culturally, there should be any problem with that. Scrooge actually redeems himself in this film. He’s a good guy in our story, or at least you understand the psychology of why he is the way that he is in much more detail. There are reasons why he is so blackhearted.
**So tell me more about how “Scrooge & Marley” is set to play out — or are you keeping these things under wrap for the time being?**
We’re keeping it close to the vest, but I can say that it is set in modern day and goes back to the ’70s, to Scrooge being a teenager. Of course, one plus one equals two: Being a gay teenager in the ’70s was not the best time to be out. We’ll flash forward to the ’80s and the AIDS pandemic and that will take us through to the present. The story has been changed — Nephew Fred is now a lesbian and, this is a scoop, we have signed Bruce Vilanch to play our [Mr. Fezziwig](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fezziwig "Fezziwig"), who presides over the biggest disco in town when we go back to the ’70s. It will be campy and fun until a much more serious kind of thing happens. We’ll see Bruce do something in this role that he has not done on film before.
**You mentioned in the IndieGoGo video that this movie isn’t going to be about camp so much, like so many gay films are. You’re really aiming for something more in line with traditional holiday classics, correct?**
Definitely. Our approach is to create a traditional Christmas movie that can be watched by and enjoyed by everybody. There will be camp elements to it and a little bit of salaciousness, but it will be based in the characters — it won’t just be there to have it. That’s certainly not the approach. I don’t know if fans of Ronnie Kroell will be really happy about that — you won’t seem him unclothed in this role — but he’ll look great, don’t worry.
We’re just not worried about the coming out story or the go-go boys or other typical gay scenes you see in films. We wanted to do this because every year, you pull out movies like “It’s A Wonderful Life” and “[A Christmas Story](http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Story-Full-Screen/dp/B00000JKNR%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00000JKNR "A Christmas Story (Full Screen Edition)")” and “Miracle On 34th Street” and we don’t have a gay one that’s told from our perspective. Hopefully now we’ll have one.
**Tell me more about how the cast and crew for this film has come together.**
I knew when I was writing the script that I wanted to direct and wanted Peter Neville to be my co-director. I’ve worked with him for 20 years on various projects and he is a fantastic editor, wildly creative and we have a great chemistry together. We’ve never shot a feature, so it’s a pretty big undertaking for us, but we feel greatly supported by Tracy Baim, our producer. I’ve worked with Tracy for almost eight years as her film writer \[at the Windy City Times\] but known her for much longer than that. And integrity is like her middle name — when she says she’ll do something, she does it and doesn’t mess around. When I went to Tracy with our initial draft, she said she really liked it and saw a lot of potential in it from both a creative and business standpoint. She brought in David Strzepek who is a marketing wonder kid and the creative daisy chain has gotten bigger and bigger as we went along.
As for the cast, we have Megan Cavanagh who is openly gay, whom Peter has known very well for many years. She loved the script. Rusty Schwimmer is an old friend of mine who has worked in Hollywood for 23 years and worked with every major director you can name. We’re thrilled to have this level of talent for our film.
**Has having this talent attached to the project helped with funding?**
Just because we have some high-profile names involved does not mean that the funding comes. It does help but we’re going to try and shoot this movie that spans 30 years in 12 days. It’s not a slam dunk, particularly as a gay movie. It took Lisa Cholodenko almost eight years to get the funding for “The Kids Are All Right” with Julianne Moore on board. It’s never a given.
**You mentioned that this is your first feature film you’ve worked on — is that a daunting prospect to step from the writing world into this side of things?**
I think what has been saving me is learning from those around me. Everybody has their first movie and film has been my passion, I’ve written about it backwards and forwards and worked on probably every other kind of film-related project. It makes sense to me that you have to have a great script, then find really talented people to enact that script and then have great people who technically can do it. Everybody coming on board sees it as an ultra low budget labor of love.
\*Baim is a blogger for The Huffington Post.
As of March 7, the “Scrooge & Marley” film’s campaign has raised just $1,775 of their $15,000 fundraising goal. [**Click here to learn more about what inspired the project**](http://www.indiegogo.com/Scrooge-Marley-film) and how you can help get their gay-centric holiday movie off the ground.
Get in touch with us at chicago@huffingtonpost.com if you have a Chicago area-based Kickstarter or IndieGoGo project that you’d like to see featured in “Can They Kick It?”
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**Tags:** Charles Dickens, Chicago, Christmas Carol, Fezziwig, Hannah Free, Richard Knight, Scrooge, Windy City Times
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### [Bruce Vilanch Tears Up Talking About Elizabeth Taylor At Broadway Backwards](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/06/bruce-vilanch-tears-up-talking-about-elizabeth-taylor-at-broadway-backwards/)
**Published:** March 6, 2012
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# Comedian Bruce Vilanch Gets Teary Reminiscing About Elizabeth Taylor’s House Parties at Broadway Backwards 7
# March 6, 2012
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who was supposed to duet with [Michael Urie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Urie "Michael Urie") but ended up coming onstage stag when Urie had to bow out for a pilot. “It’s for the [Will & Grace](http://www.nbc.com/Will_&_Grace_Finale/ "Will & Grace") producers—he has the Grace part!” he joked. Instead Vilanch presented a generous endowment of $50K to [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS](http://www.broadwaycares.org/ "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS") from sponsor [Lifetime](http://www.mylifetime.com "Lifetime (TV network)") (officially no longer just “Television for Women”, but for us gays too!), who supported the evening for the second year in a row. Vilanch got shaky-voiced and teary-eyed over the loss of that biggest and brightest [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS") fundraiser, [Elizabeth Taylor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor "Elizabeth Taylor").
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**Tags:** Academy Award, AIDS, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Bruce Vilanch, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Urie, Will & Grace
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### [Bruce Vilanch at Broadway Backwards 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/06/bruce-vilanch-at-broadway-backwards-7/)
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### [Bruce Vilanch At The After Party For Broadway Backwards 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/03/06/bruce-vilanch-at-the-after-party-for-broadway-backwards-7/)
**Published:** March 6, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Limited Tickets Left for BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7, 3/5](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/29/limited-tickets-left-for-broadway-backwards-7-35/)
**Published:** February 29, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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Broadway World
Limited Tickets Left for [BROADWAY](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") BACKWARDS 7, 3/5
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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With less than a week until the only Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian community, our friends and families, a limited number of tickets remain for BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7, which benefits [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS](http://www.broadwaycares.org/ "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS") and The [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian%2C_Gay%2C_Bisexual_%26_Transgender_Community_Center "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center").
The star-studded line-up for this year’s benefit features Broadway legend Betty Buckley (Cats, Sunset Boulevard), current Broadway sensations Adam Pascal (Rent, Memphis) and Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon), Emmy Award-winning comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and TV icon George Takei (“Star Trek”). The complete cast of BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7 has been honored with three individual Tony Awards and 13 Tony nominations.
BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7 will be held Monday, March 5 at 8 PM at Broadway’s [Al Hirschfeld Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hirschfeld_Theatre "Al Hirschfeld Theatre") (302 West 45th Street). It is produced by Broadway Cares and benefits BC/EFA and the Center.
The previously announced cast of performers also includes Bryan Batt (TV’s “Mad Menâ€), Sierra Boggess (Master Class, Love Never Dies), Jim Brochu (Zero Hour), Charles Busch (The Divine Sister), Dan Butler (“Frasier”), Len Cariou (“Blue Bloods,” Sweeney Todd), Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore), Jenn Colella (High Fidelity), Cicily Daniels (The Little Mermaid), Robin De Jesús (La Cage Aux Folles), Nancy Dussault (Into the Woods), Harvey Evans, Anthony Federov (“American Idol”), Barrett Foa (“NCIS: LA, Avenue Q), Shawna Hamic (Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Tour), Jackie Hoffman (The Addams Family), [LaChanze](http://www.lachanze.com "LaChanze") (The Color Purple), Telly Leung (Godspell), Jessie Mueller (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever), Brian Charles Rooney (Threepenny Opera), Jason Michael Snow (The Book of Mormon) and Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet).
Tickets are available exclusively at [broadwaycares.org](http://broadwayworld.com/admin/broadwaycares.org) or by calling 212.840.0770, ext. 268. Prices range from $75 to $1,000, with additional benefactor packages available. This year also marks the introduction of the “Backstage & Beyond†ticket package: a unique opportunity to watch the dress rehearsal, exclusive backstage access, a meet-and-greet with some of the stars of Broadway Backwards, premium seats for the show and more.
BROADWAY BACKWARDS is not just another night on Broadway. It features some of Broadway’s biggest names singing songs originally written for the opposite gender: women singing songs written for men and men singing songs written for women. By keeping the lyrics intact, including the original pronouns, each song takes on a new dimension. BROADWAY BACKWARDS gives the audience a chance to see and hear some of the most treasured songs of the Great White Way in a whole new key.
Creator Robert Bartley will again direct and choreograph with musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The creative team also includes co-choreographers Stephanie Klemons (Bring It On) and Patrick O’Neill (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever), lighting designer Ryan O’Gara and costume designer Philip Heckman.
BROADWAY BACKWARDS began as a grassroots concert performed at the Center in 2006. In subsequent years, the event grew quickly, performing Off-Broadway at 37 Arts, followed by Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre, [Lincoln Center Theater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts "Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts") at the Vivian Beaumont and last year at the Longacre Theatre.
The presenting sponsor of BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7 is Lifetime Networks, with the generous support of The New York Times and United Airlines.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS") fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised more than $195 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the [United States](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States "United States").
BC/EFA awards annual grants to more than 400 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of seven programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic.
For more information, visit [broadwaycares.org](http://broadwayworld.com/admin/broadwaycares.org), follow us at [twitter.com/BCEFA](http://broadwayworld.com/admin/twitter.com/BCEFA) or like us at [facebook.com/BCEFA](http://broadwayworld.com/admin/facebook.com/BCEFA).
A beacon of hope for 29 years, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center builds and supports our community through arts and culture, wellness and recovery, HIV/AIDS services, family services and life-saving youth programs designed to foster healthy development in a safe, affirming environment. The Center envisions a world where [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") will no longer face discrimination or isolation because of who we are or who we love. We offer a welcoming home to thousands of visitors each year and are committed to serving all LGBT people through a variety of programs, services and activities that are designed to meet existing and emerging needs. The Center is many things to many people. We invite you to experience our home at 208 West 13th Street in person and online at [gaycenter.org](http://broadwayworld.com/admin/gaycenter.org).
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### [Bruce Vilanch Helps Lily Tomlin Celebrate Broadcast Honor](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/29/bruce-vilanch-helps-lily-tomlin-celebrate-broadcast-honor/)
**Published:** February 29, 2012
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**Studio City Patch
[Lily Tomlin](http://www.lilytomlin.com/ "Lily Tomlin") Receives Broadcast Honor at [Sportsmen’s Lodge](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1456505,-118.4124256&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.1456505,-118.4124256 (Sportsmen%27s%20Lodge)&t=h "Sportsmen's Lodge")
February 28, 2012**
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Sportsmen’s Lodge hosted Lily Tomlin’s honor with locals Allee Willis, Bruce Vilanch, Jo Anne Worley, Gary Owens and others.
Pacific Pioneer Broadcaster President Sam Lovullo presented Lily Tomlin with the coveted Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award at a well-attended celebrity luncheon last week.
Lily was born in Detroit, Michigan, and over the years she made people laugh with her humorous characters from the child [Edith Ann](http://www.amazon.com/Edith-Ann-My-Life-Far/dp/0786861207%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0786861207 "Edith Ann: My Life, So Far") to the snarky telephone operator Ernestine. Some of these wacky characters were showcased on the hit comedy series Laugh-In, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Her work on the series catapulted her to stardom. She went on to appear in dramatic and comedic films, such as “Nashville” (1975), directed by [Robert Altman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman "Robert Altman"); the working women’s revenge comedy “Nine to Five” (1980), with Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda; and “All of Me” (1984), with Steve Martin.
Since that time, Lily has continued to mix the serious and the humorous, appearing on such shows asFrasier, Homicide: Life on the Street, Will & Grace, and The West Wing. She has also lent her voice to several projects, including a guest vocal appearance on The Simpsons and as the character Mommo in 2006’s animated feature film “The Ant Bully.” She reunited with director Robert Altman for his last film, “A Prairie Home Companion” (2006), and is slated to appear in several upcoming films, including “The Walker” with Woody Harrelson.
Lily Tomlin has received numerous awards, including: four primetime Emmys; a special 1977 Tony when she was appearing in her one woman Broadway show, “Appearing Nitely;” a second Tony as Best Actress, two Drama Desk Awards and an [Outer Critics Circle Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award "Outer Critics Circle Award") for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner’s “[The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lily_tomlin_the_search_for_signs_of_intelligent_life_in_the_universe "Lily Tomlin - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe");” a [CableACE Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableACE_Award "CableACE Award") for Executive Producing the film adaptation of “The Search;” a Grammy Award for her comedy album, “This is a Recording” (a collection of Ernestine the Telephone Operator routines) as well as nominations for her subsequent albums “Modern Scream, And That’s the Truth,” and “On Stage;” and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special, “Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël” and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, “The Celluloid Closet.”
In 1992, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award. Lily was inducted into the [Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame "Michigan Women's Hall of Fame") in 1998. In 2003 she was awarded the [Mark Twain Prize for American Humor](http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/ "Mark Twain Prize for American Humor"). Also in 2003, she was recognized again by Women in Film with the [Lucy Award](http://wif.org/events/crystal-lucy-awards "Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards") in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. In March 2009, Lily received Fenway Health’s Dr. Susan M. Love Award for her contributions to women’s health.
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Bruce Related
**Tags:** ABC, Bruce Vilanch, Jo Anne Worley, Lily, Lily Tomlin, Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, Outer Critics Circle Award, Robert Altman
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch on writing for the Academy Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/24/video-bruce-vilanch-on-writing-for-the-academy-awards/)
**Published:** February 24, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Video
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### [Bruce Vilanch At The 5th Annual Toscar Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/24/bruce-vilanch-at-the-5th-annual-toscar-awards/)
**Published:** February 24, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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*5th Annual TOSCARS Awards – Arrivals, February 21, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA, USA*
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
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### [More Actors To Join Broadway Backwards 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/14/more-actors-to-join-broadway-backwards-7/)
**Published:** February 14, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre").com
[Betty Buckley](http://www.bettybuckley.com/ "Betty Buckley"), [LaChanze](http://www.lachanze.com "LaChanze"), [Michael Urie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Urie "Michael Urie") & More Join Roster For Broadway Backwards 7
By Broadway.com Staff
February 14, 2012**
Tony winner Betty Buckley (Cats), Tony winner LaChanze (The Color Purple), Michael Urie ([How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Without_Really_Trying "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")) and Jessie Mueller (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) have joined the roster of performers for the previously announced Broadway Backwards 7 concert. Directed and choreographed by creator Robert Bartley, Broadway Backwards 7 will take place March 5 at the [Al Hirschfeld Theatre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hirschfeld_Theatre "Al Hirschfeld Theatre"). The event will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and the [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian%2C_Gay%2C_Bisexual_%26_Transgender_Community_Center "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center") of New York City.
Broadway Backwards gives audience members a chance to experience some of the [Great White Way](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%28New_York_City%29 "Broadway (New York City)")’s most treasured songs in a new context as performers take on songs originally written for their opposite gender. Last year’s show raised $281,243 for the aforementioned charities.
Other performers scheduled to appear include Barrett Foa (Avenue Q), Jackie Hoffman (The Addams Family), George Takei (Star Trek), Charles Busch (The Divine Sister), Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd), Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet), [Brian Charles Rooney](http://www.briancharlesrooney.com "Brian Charles Rooney") (Threepenny Opera), Jason Michael Snow (The Book of Mormon), Jim Brochu (Zero Hour), Dan Butler (Frasier), Jenn Colella (High Fidelity), Nancy Dussault (Into the Woods), Anthony Federov (The Fantasticks) and Harvey Evans, in addition to previously announced participants Adam Pascal, Andrew Rannells, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Bryan Batt, [Sierra Boggess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Boggess "Sierra Boggess"), Mario Cantone, Telly Leung, Robin De Jesus and Shawna Hamic.
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Attends Zsa Zsa Gabor's Birthday Party](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/13/video-bruce-vilanch-attends-zsa-zsa-gabors-birthday-party/)
**Published:** February 13, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** StarCam was at Zsa Zsa Gabor's 95th Birthday Party where we talked to Bruce Vilanch about how long it's been since he's seen Zsa Zsa, when he first met her and what a fascinating life she's lived. He also talks about what a survivor she is and what he's working on next, including a Broadway musical.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Judge The 5th Annual Toscars!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/02/12/bruce-vilanch-to-judge-the-5th-annual-toscars/)
**Published:** February 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** A panel of celebrity experts will judge the short parodies of the 9 Oscar nominated films including multiple EMMY winner and Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch, one of Hollywood’s favorite TV and Film stars Skeet Ulrich, 80's icon Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama and Perez Hilton’s favorite Drew Droege.
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**[BAFTA](http://www.bafta.org/ "British Academy of Film and Television Arts") and Emmy Winners to Judge Brits in LA’s Highly Anticipated 5th Annual Toscars**
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On the 21st February the much-awaited award ceremony ‘The Toscars’ will be held at [Hollywood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood "Hollywood")’s premier venue The Supperclub. Non other than the Queen’s favorite [British comedian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_comedians "List of British comedians") and BAFTA winner [Jim Tavare](http://jimtavare.org "Jim Tavaré") will host this fun filled event, which has been rumored to be the most fun attendees will have during the awards season! A panel of celebrity experts will judge the short parodies of the 9 [Oscar nominated](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") films including multiple EMMY winner and Oscar writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), one of Hollywood’s favorite TV and Film stars [Skeet Ulrich](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeet_Ulrich "Skeet Ulrich"), 80’s icon [Siobhan Fahey](http://www.shakespearssister.co.uk "Siobhan Fahey") from Bananarama and [Perez Hilton](http://perezhilton.com "Perez Hilton")’s favorite Drew Droege.
(PRWEB) February 12, 2012
On the 21st February the much-awaited award ceremony ‘The Toscars’ will be held at Hollywood’s premier venue The Supperclub. Non other than the Queen’s favorite British comedian and BAFTA winner Jim Tavare will host this fun filled event, which has been rumored to be the most fun attendees will have during the awards season! A panel of celebrity experts will judge the short parodies of the 9 Oscar nominated films including multiple EMMY winner and Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch, one of Hollywood’s favorite TV and Film stars Skeet Ulrich, 80’s icon Siobhan Fahey from Bananarama and Perez Hilton’s favorite Drew Droege.
The glamorous red carpet awards ceremony ‘The Toscars’ is now in it’s 5th year and will benefit The [Actors Fund](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors_Fund "Actors Fund"). As soon as the 2012 Oscar nominees for best picture were announced, plots were written, actors were cast and it was time for ‘lights, camera, action’ to film these humorous parodies. Last year ‘The King Speak’ took the Toscar. Other coveted awards are given to the best ‘Whactress’ or ‘Whactor’ of the night. Actors starring in the films are from hits like True Blood, NCIS:LA, Fringe, Desperate Housewives and a special aerial Performance by cirque artist Michael Lipari is set to wow the audience.
Previous years have seen British celebrities Michael Sheen, Luke Evans and Chris O’Dowd enjoy in the festivities. This year will be bigger and better then ever. Who will win the 2012 Toscar and be gifted the golden fist? We will find out on February 21st.
For more information and last years winners [**http://www.thetoscars.com**](http://www.thetoscars.com)
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Others To Perform In Broadway Backwards 7 ](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/25/bruce-vilanch-others-to-perform-in-broadway-backwards-7/)
**Published:** January 25, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The show features performers singing material usually performed by members of the opposite gender. It is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and benefits Broadway Cares and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
The cast will include Bryan Batt, Sierra Boggess, Mario Cantone, Robin De Jesús, Shawna Hamic, Telly Leung, Adam Pascal, Andrew Rannells, Chita Rivera, and Bruce Vilanch, with more to be announced.
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## Theatermania
[Bryan Batt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Batt "Bryan Batt"), [Adam Pascal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/adam_pascal "Adam Pascal"), [Chita Rivera](http://www.chitarivera.com/ "Chita Rivera") to Perform at *[Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Backwards 7*
**By [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/99) • Jan 25, 2012**
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Preliminary casting has been announced for [*Broadway Backwards 7*](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/shows/broadway-backwards-7_188353/), which as [previously reported](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/news/12-2011/broadway-backwards-7-set-for-march-5_46280.html), will be held at Broadway’s [Al Hirschfeld Theatre](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/theaters/al-hirschfeld-theatre_639/) on Monday, March 5 at 8pm.
The show features performers singing material usually performed by members of the opposite gender. It is produced by [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS](http://www.broadwaycares.org/ "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS") and benefits Broadway Cares and the [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian%2C_Gay%2C_Bisexual_%26_Transgender_Community_Center "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center").
The cast will include Bryan Batt, Sierra Boggess, [Mario Cantone](http://www.mariocantone.com "Mario Cantone"), Robin De Jesús, Shawna Hamic, Telly Leung, Adam Pascal, [Andrew Rannells](http://facebook.com/andrewrannells "Andrew Rannells"), Chita Rivera, and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), with more to be announced.
[Robert Bartley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bartley "Robert L. Bartley") will again direct and choreograph the event, which will feature musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The creative team will also include lighting designer Ryan O’Gara, costume designer Philip Heckman and co-choreographers Stephanie Klemmons and Patrick O’Neill.
[Click here for more information and *Broadway Backwards 7* tickets.](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/shows/broadway-backwards-7_188353/)
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**Tags:** Adam Pascal, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, Andrew Rannells, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Bryan Batt, Chita Rivera
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins Panel for Carol Channing: Larger Than Life](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/24/bruce-vilanch-joins-panel-for-carol-channing-larger-than-life/)
**Published:** January 24, 2012
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## **TheaterMania**
Lily Tomlin, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") at Paley Center Panel for *[Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.org "Carol Channing"): Larger Than Life*
**By [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/99) • Jan 24, 2012**
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Lily Tomlin hosted a panel discussion in conjunction with the Los Angeles premiere screening of*Carol Channing: Larger Than Life*, held at the Paley Center on Wednesday, January 18.
Panelists included the film’s director and producer, Dori Berinstein, as well as guests [Carole Cook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cook "Carole Cook"), Bruce Vilanch, and JoAnne Worley.
Among the attendees at the event were [George Chakiris](http://www.last.fm/music/George%2BChakiris "George Chakiris"), Charles Fox, Davis Gaines, [Ilene Graff](http://ilenegraff.com "Ilene Graff"), Tippi Hedren, [Michael Learned](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Learned "Michael Learned"), [Kate Linder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Linder "Kate Linder"), Julie Newmar, Connie Stevens, [Ruta Lee](http://www.rutalee.com/ "Ruta Lee"), Rose Marie, [Richard Skipper](http://www.richardskipper.com "Richard Skipper"), Barbara Van Orden, and Dee Wallace.
The documentary is currently playing in select movie theaters. A DVD of the film will be released in April, and will include additional material.
[Click here for more information and to view the *Carol Channing: Larger Than Life* trailer.](http://www.carolchanningmovie.com/)
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**Categories:** Announcement, movies
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### [Channing Is "Larger Than Life"](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/19/channing-is-larger-than-life/)
**Published:** January 19, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.org "Carol Channing"): Larger than Life
January 19, 2012**
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Carol Channing is such an endearing, sharp, funny personality that director Dori Berinstein could easily have just thrown her camera on a tripod, have the 90-year-old [musical theater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") legend spin anecdotes for an hour and a half, and had a great documentary. Thankfully, what she made is even better. Sure, Channing still tells those stories about her life and stage career in her paradoxically inimitable-yet-oft-imitated style. But there are also heartfelt testimonies from fellow actors and personalities, most legends in their own right, about how talented and genuine she is.
From [Hello, Dolly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)") composer [Jerry Herman](http://jerryherman.com/ "Jerry Herman") to [Debbie Reynolds](http://www.debbiereynolds.com "Debbie Reynolds") to [Chita Rivera](http://www.chitarivera.com/ "Chita Rivera") to a professional Carol Channing impersonator, the film paints an affectionate portrait of a performer who so loves and embodies musical comedy, that if it hadn’t existed before she did, surely her elemental talent would have summoned and created it for her out of pixie dust, brass, feathers, plywood, and of course, diamonds.
As [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") banter writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") says to a crowd of fans at a live moderated interview, most who love the lady will likely already know almost all there is to know about her. But for Channing buffs and the uninitiated alike, there’s still plenty to hoot about, such as stories of her first screen kiss with a certain huge Hollywood leading man, awkwardly choreographed down to the exact arm positioning, or footage of the supposedly dumb blonde hilariously lapsing into a Haitian corn-shucking ditty on an old talk show.
While many things about Channing are certainly large, some of the most affective and telling parts of the doc are actually in small moments. Recalling a story from her youth, she mentions someone named Bobby Shmaltz, and in the next breath gives an aside of, “Oh, you don’t know him,†seemingly speaking to the off-camera interviewer and forgetting she’s in front of a virtual audience. Or does she forget? In that one instant, we can see how effortlessly, through behavior, she keeps herself off the pedestal of celebrity and draws anyone into her sphere with the congeniality of an old friend. It’s easy to see how everyone from chorus boys to presidents are enamored by her.
And then there’s husband Harry Kullijian, Carol’s childhood sweetheart, reunited in marriage after 70-odd years apart. In the film, the two travel to various functions and revisit some of the important sites of their early courtship in [San Francisco](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco"). Simply put, the two are ridiculously adorable and clearly overjoyed to be together again after all this time. Tragically, Kullijian passed just a few weeks ago in December, which likely happened too late to be noted in the film, and far too soon at any rate. All the more luck, then, that we have this small but moving document of the couple so we can share some of their spark for just a little bit.
Carol Channing: Larger than Life is like a warm cinematic hug from [Shubert Alley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shubert_Alley "Shubert Alley"), not to be missed by anyone with even the remotest passing interest in Channing or Broadway history.
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### [Movie Review: Carol Channing Larger than Life](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/18/movie-review-carol-channing-larger-than-life/)
**Published:** January 18, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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[Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.org "Carol Channing") Larger than Life: a valentine to a true star \[MOVIE REVIEW\]
By Neely Swanson|January 18, 2012**
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“Carol Channing Larger than Life†is the title of a documentary by Dori Berinstein and the perfect description of its subject because Carol Channing was born larger than life. Growing up in San Francisco, as a child she helped her mother distribute “[The Christian Science Monitor](http://www.csmonitor.com/ "The Christian Science Monitor")†backstage at the Curran Theater. Overwhelmed by the “church-like†atmosphere in the theater, Carol knew instantly that she wanted to hold court on center stage. The girl with the wispy blonde hair, big eyes and too large mouth knew that she was destined to be a star and a star she became. Carol was Lorelei Lee and Lorelei was Carol Channing, just as much as Dolly was Carol Channing and Carol was Dolly Levi. As Bob Mackie points out in the film, “It doesn’t matter who the character is, it’s always Carol.â€
At the age of 90+, Channing is still performing, which should come as no shock. There has always been sweetness to her persona and it is underscored by her personal love story. Married, unhappily for far too many years to her manager Charles Lowe, she finally divorced. A few years later, she was reunited with her first boyfriend whom she met at Aptos Middle School at the age of 12. She spoke of him fondly in her memoirs and he sought her out despite the fact that they had not seen one another for 70 years. She and Harry Kullijian were married in 2003 and the two octogenarians toured together as Carol played the auditorium circuit. Sadly, Kullijian died in December 2011.
If you are a fan of musical theater, you cannot help but be entranced by her story. Single minded of purpose, she lived a self-focused life that was true to the title of her memoir – Just Lucky I Guess. She acknowledges her inadequacies as a parent to her one son because a life in the theater is all consuming. Tireless, she did not miss a single performance in her signature show “[Hello Dolly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)"),†once telling her understudy [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") to relax because she’d never be going on, and she never did.
In an on-camera interview, [Jerry Herman](http://jerryherman.com/ "Jerry Herman"), creator of “Hello Dolly,†recalled how David Merrick, the producer, had wanted the show created for [Ethel Merman](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ethel_merman "Ethel Merman"). Working tirelessly, Herman wrote all of the songs for Merman’s range and style only to be told after completion that Merman no longer wanted to work on stage. (Ironically, she would be one of the Dollys who followed Channing, a group that even included [Phyllis Diller](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1004233-phyllis_diller "Phyllis Diller").) Distraught and frantic, Herman didn’t know what to do until Channing was brought to him. After talking to her endlessly, something both liked to do, he shut himself in his room and rewrote the entire score overnight. As he squired Channing around town prior to rehearsals, he ecstatically introduced her everywhere to anyone who would listen as his Dolly. For Channing it was the role of a lifetime and she never relinquished it. As Herman pointed out, “When you create a role, it follows you for life.†And indeed it has.
Carol Channing’s life in the theater has produced many friends and it is delightful to hear the stories, especially those of Marge Champion, theatrical partner and wife of [Gower Champion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gower_Champion "Gower Champion"), director of “Hello Dolly.†It was Marge who had spotted Carol in a revue out of town and brought her to Gower’s attention when he was casting his first [Tony Award-winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") show, “Lend an Ear,†introducing Carol to New York audiences. So many other entertainment luminaries comment on her influence, from [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who wanted to be her, to Betty Garrett, her roommate when they were both performing in the Borscht Belt in the Catskills in the 30’s. It was there that Carol was fired for the first time, but her resilience got her through the experience, telling a distraught Garrett that “Someday he’ll be remembered as the man who fired Carol Channing.†How generous, because whoever he is, he’s no longer remembered at all.
Truly a valentine to Ms. Channing, this is not an in depth study of the woman, so don’t expect any dark secrets to be revealed. Berinstein glosses over all but the cheery and laudatory, filling out her rapidly paced 87 minute film with commentary by a number of questionable commentators. Figuring most prominently among the head scratchers is Loni Anderson, a bottle blonde (Channing was a natural) with a large mouth and marginal, at best, talent and an even more marginal relationship with Channing who doesn’t seem to have met anyone she didn’t like (ex-husbands excepted).
If you love theater, especially musical theater (and I know you’re out there), then there aren’t too many more pleasant ways to spend an hour and a half. It’s pure fluff, but she’s a legend. It’s no surprise that she never really succeeded on television or film because Carol Channing truly is larger than life.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends Jackie Hoffman's Jackie Five-OH!](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/16/bruce-vilanch-attends-jackie-hoffmans-jackie-five-oh/)
**Published:** January 16, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Actors Kevin Chamberlin, Clinton Leupp, Alec Mapa, Bruce Vilanch, and Tuc Watkins were among the attendees for the opening of Jackie Five-OH! at The Renberg Theatre in Los Angeles. Proceedings from the performances, which continue through January 22, will benefit the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.
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## Theatermania
Bruce Vilanch Attends Jackie Hoffman’s *Jackie Five-OH!
By [Brian Scott Lipton](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/120) • Jan 16, 2012Â*
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Actors [Kevin Chamberlin](http://www.kevinchamberlin.com/ "Kevin Chamberlin"), [Clinton Leupp](http://misscocoperu.com/ "Miss Coco Peru"), [Alec Mapa](http://www.alecmapa.com "Alec Mapa"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and [Tuc Watkins](http://www.tucwatkins.com "Tuc Watkins") were among the attendees for the opening of Jackie Five-OH! at The Renberg Theatre in [Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles"). Proceedings from the performances, which continue through January 22, will benefit the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.
In the piece, written by performer [Jackie Hoffman](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jackie_hoffman "Jackie Hoffman") and her director, Michael Schiralli, Hoffman muses about her own decay as she reaches the landmark of her 50th year, skewers sacred cows such as the [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") and Holocaust movies, flings acid-dipped barbs at the Broadway hierarchy, and does painfully accurate imitations of a gallery of showbiz icons, including Bernadette Peters and [Mary Tyler Moore](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/mary_tyler_moore "Mary Tyler Moore"). The show has musical direction by Bobby Peaco.
Hoffman’s Broadway credits include The Addams Family, Xanadu and Hairspray. In addition, she won an Obie Award for The Book of Liz. Among her film and television credits are Extra Man, Garden State, [Kissing Jessica Stein](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kissing_jessica_stein "Kissing Jessica Stein"), 30 Rock, One Life to Live, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Her solo shows have garnered her MAC and Bistro Awards.
For tickets and more information, [**click here**](http://www.lagaycenter.org/site/PageNavigator/TE_Box_Office).
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### [Bruce Vilanch Helps rj productions new york Celebrate Its 12th Anniversary](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/12/bruce-vilanch-helps-rj-productions-new-york-celebrate-its-12th-anniversary/)
**Published:** January 12, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** rj productions new york celebrated its 12th anniversary on January 8 with a concert and party at REMI Restaurant. Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch hosted the performance.
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Among the performers and guests at the event were Ian Axel, [Kerry Butler](http://www.kerrybutler.net "Kerry Butler"), [Elaine Caswell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Caswell "Elaine Caswell"), [Tony DeSare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_DeSare "Tony DeSare"), [Christine Ebersole](http://www.christineebersole.com/ "Christine Ebersole"), [Edward Hibbert](http://www.edwardhibbert.com/ "Edward Hibbert"), Phil Lipof, [Andrea Marcovicci](http://www.marcovicci.com/ "Andrea Marcovicci"), Will & Anthony Nunziata, Adam Pascal, Jarrod Spector, Billy Stritch, [Bette Sussman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Sussman "Bette Sussman"), Chad Vaccarino, and [Aaron Weinstein](http://www.aaronweinstein.net "Aaron Weinstein").
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**Tags:** Aaron Weinstein, Bette Sussman, Bruce Vilanch, Edward Hibbert, Elaine Caswell, Judy Gold, Kerry Butler, Tony DeSare
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### [Naked Boys Singing! to End New York Run January 28](https://wegotbruce.com/2012/01/03/naked-boys-singing-to-end-new-york-run-january-28/)
**Published:** January 3, 2012
**Author:** MisterD
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***[Naked Boys Singing!](http://www.nakedboyssingingmovie.com "Naked Boys Singing (film)")*Â to End New York Run January 28**
**By [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/author/index/99) • Jan 3, 2012 • [New York](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/news/)Â**
The long-running [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") production of [Naked Boys Singing](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/naked_boys_singing "Naked Boys Singing")!, currently at [New World Stages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Stages "New World Stages"), will end its run on January 28. As of that date, it will have played 3,069 performances.
This 15-song celebration of the male form is directed and was conceived by Robert Schrock, and choreographed by Jeffry Denman. It was written by Schrock and a team of 12 writers: Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Perry Hart, Shelly Markham, [Jim Morgan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morgan "Jim Morgan"), David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, [Mark Savage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Savage "Mark Savage"), Ben Schaechter, Trance [Thompson, Mark](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson "Mark Thompson") Winkler and winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
The production opened July 22, 1999 at the Actors Playhouse, and a film version, now available on [DVD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD "DVD"), was released in 2008 by [TLA Releasing](http://www.tlareleasing.com/ "TLA Releasing") and [Funny Boy](http://www.amazon.com/Funny-Boy-Novel-Six-Stories/dp/0771079516%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0771079516 "Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories") Films.
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### [Bruce Vilanch And Idina Menzel Set Sail For Allure Of The Seas Cruise January 29th!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/28/bruce-vilanch-and-idina-menzel-set-sail-for-allure-of-the-seas-cruise-january-29th/)
**Published:** December 28, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Atlantis Events' Allure of the Seas cruise will set sail for the Caribbean from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on January 29th; when it does, comedian and Broadway veteran Bruce Vilanch will host the onboard Comedy Club, and AfterElton.com reports that joining Vilanch on the cruise will be Tony Award winner Idina Menzel.
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Idina Menzel, Bruce Vilanch Join Allure of the Seas Cruise
by BWW News Desk**
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Atlantis Events’ Allure of the Seas cruise will set sail for the Caribbean from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on January 29th; when it does, comedian and Broadway veteran Bruce Vilanch will host the onboard Comedy Club, and AfterElton.com reports that joining Vilanch on the cruise will be Tony Award winner Idina Menzel.
Menzel has a diverse career on stage and in film, television, and music. She recently appeared in the television hit Glee, and is currently on a sold-out tour, performing with leading orchestras around the country. In 2009 Ms. Menzel co-starred with Josh Groban in the concert version of Chess: The Musical, recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall and broadcast on PBS. In December 2005 she completed her role as the misunderstood Elphaba in Broadway’s Wicked, for which she received a Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award nomination.
She reprised the role in London’s West End in September 2006, receiving the Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She also starred in Michael John LaChiusa’s musical See What I Wanna See, directed by Ted Sperling at The Public Theater, garnering Drama Desk and Drama League Award nominations. Other honors included a Tony nomination for her debut performance as Maureen in the original production of Rent, and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance as Kate in Manhattan Theater Club’s Off-Broadway original musical, The Wild Party.
The cruise is described as “the largest and most extravagant gay cruise in history onboard the biggest cruise ship ever built – the awe-inspiring Allure of the Seas. We’ve reinvented the gay cruise with superstar entertainment, outrageously fantastic parties, and more fun than you ever imagined in a week. It’s like having the best of Miami, Vegas, and New York in the middle of the Caribbean. Sail with Atlantis this winter for a cruise of truly epic proportions!”
For more information, visit the Atlantis Events [**website**](http://atlantisevents.com/Allure-Caribbean-Cruise/11#pricing).
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### [Save The Date: An Evening with Bruce Vilanch, Saturday, Apr 21 (2012) 8:00pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/20/save-the-date-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-saturday-apr-21-2012-800pm/)
**Published:** December 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**An Evening with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**
**Saturday, Apr 21 (2012) 8:00p**
**at [Jewish Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Community_Center "Jewish Community Center") of San Francisco, [San Francisco, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco")**
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One of the funniest men alive, Bruce Vilanch is best known for his standard spot on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") and his starring role as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009096-hairspray "Hairspray") in the Broadway and San Francisco productions of [Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)"), the Musical. [TV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television "Television") audiences have been laughing for years at Bruce’s writing for award shows like the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") ®, comedy specials including [Comic Relief](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief "Comic Relief") and numerous [Bette Midler](http://www.bettemidler.com "Bette Midler") performances.
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### [WHAT'S IN YOUR UNDERWEAR DRAWER?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/19/whats-in-your-underwear-drawer/)
**Published:** December 19, 2011
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Film by Renee Sotile & Mary Jo Godges
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### [Happy Hanukkah!!! Starring Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, And Mister D](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/14/happy-hanukkah-starring-bette-midler-bruce-vilanch-and-mister-d/)
**Published:** December 14, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Sharon McNight As Sophie Tucker](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/08/sharon-mcnight-as-sophie-tucker/)
**Published:** December 8, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**My Desert
Sharon, Sophie share bawdy bill
6:37 PM, Dec. 7, 2011**
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Sharon McNight’s favorite [Sophie Tucker](http://www.last.fm/music/Sophie%2BTucker "Sophie Tucker") line reveals why she’s doing a benefit Sunday for foster and adoptive children.
“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor,†she says in a clipped Tucker dialect. “Rich is better.â€
McNight, who earned a 1989 Tony nomination for her role in “[Starmites](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmites "Starmites"),†also is presenting “Red Hot Mama†at Hotel Zoso in [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California") to reveal the lasting influence of a comic singer who really was [the last of the red hot lovers](http://www.amazon.com/Last-Red-Lovers-Alan-Arkin/dp/B0000AUHPS%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000AUHPS "Last of the Red Hot Lovers") by the end of her career in the mid-1960s.
“For a single woman to last 60 years in the business†said McNight. “She was just a tough broad and I think her independence and longevity in the business speaks to her ability to communicate with people on a level that was entertaining and could be moving as well.â€
Most people know Tucker, who died in 1966 at age 82, from [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler")‘s Sophie Tucker routines. You can find her joking about her boyfriend Ernie or her girlfriend Clementine on youtube, but McNight said she only gets Tucker’s tough cadence right.
“She’s not doing Sophie Tucker material,†she said. “There was no boyfriend Ernie. And (her act) was not written by Bette Midler. It was written by my friend, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").â€
Tucker started singing in her [Orthodox Jewish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism "Orthodox Judaism") parents’ restaurant in Hartford, Conn., in the late 1890s. She eloped at 16 and soon had a son, but the marriage failed and Tucker left her boy with her parents to scandalously pursue a show biz career.
She changed her name from Sophie Abuza in 1906, but the manager of a New York music hall thought she was so “big and ugly†he made her perform in blackface.
Her songs included “Nobody Loves A Fat Girl, But Oh How A Fat Girl Can Love,†“You’ve Got To See Your Mama Every Night†and “I Ain’t [Takin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takin "Takin")‘ Orders From No One.â€
“Sophie got arrested two or three times (for obscenity),†McNight said. “She had a song called ‘The Angle Worm Wiggle’ that she was arrested for in [Portland, Ore.](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.52,-122.681944444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=45.52,-122.681944444 (Portland%2C%20Oregon)&t=h "Portland, Oregon") She was arrested in Chicago, too (probably for “There’s Company in the Parlor, Girls, Come On Downâ€). There was a Society for the Protection of Young Ladies and if your act had something they found objectionable, they would put a blue slip of paper in with your paycheck. Hence the term ‘blue law.’â€
For McNight, a bawdy, “big-figured girl†with somewhat of a cult following in the desert, the character is a perfect fit.
When asked what took her so long to assemble the show, she quotes [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") critic Gerald Nachman.
“(He) had a good joke,†McNight said. “He said I had to be the right weight to do it.â€
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**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Hartford, San Francisco, Sophie, Sophie Tucker, Tucker, United States
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### ["Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," Will Arrive In Theatres Jan. 20, 2012](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/12/05/carol-channing-larger-than-life-will-arrive-in-theatres-jan-20-2012/)
**Published:** December 5, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
New Film “[Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.org "Carol Channing"): Larger Than Life” Due in January 2012
By Andrew Gans
December 5, 2011**
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“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a new documentary about the life of Tony-winning [Hello, Dolly!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)") star Carol Channing, will arrive in theatres Jan. 20, 2012.
Directed by Dori Bernstein, the film features interviews with Channing, Harry Kullijian, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lily_tomlin "Lily Tomlin"), [Chita Rivera](http://www.chitarivera.com/ "Chita Rivera"), [Barbara Walters](http://www.tmz.com/person/barbara-walters/ "Barbara Walters"), [Tyne Daly](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tyne_daly "Tyne Daly"), Debbie Reynolds, [Phyllis Diller](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1004233-phyllis_diller "Phyllis Diller"), [Loni Anderson](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lonie_anderson "Lonie Anderson"), [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). Running time is 87 minutes.
“The story of legendary performer Carol Channing’s life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile,” according to production notes. In the film director Bernstein, with co-writer Adam Zucker, capture the “magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon – both onstage and off…past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway’s most glamorous era. It is, above all, a look at an inspiring, incomparable and always entertaining American legend.”
Entertainment One US is distributing the film.
In addition to her 1964 Tony for playing Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, Channing received a Special Tony in 1968 and a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1995.
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### [Judy Tenuta and Bruce Vilanch at Kat Kramers 'Films That Change The World"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/30/judy-tenuta-and-bruce-vilanch-at-kat-kramers-films-that-change-the-world/)
**Published:** November 30, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/29/2934/)
**Published:** November 29, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[The Desert Sun](http://mydesert.com/ "The Desert Sun")
Gay senior center renames itself, continues to grow
Come out for good
Alex Hunter**
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There are gala events — and then there are gay-la events.
More than 600 finely decked out ladies and gentlemen “Came Out for Good†at the [Palm Springs Convention Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8258453,-116.5380442&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.8258453,-116.5380442 (Palm%20Springs%20Convention%20Center)&t=h "Palm Springs Convention Center") to support The Center, formerly known as the Golden Rainbow Senior Center in Cathedral City.
The organization has expanded and moved to 611 S. Palm Canyon Drive in [Palm Springs](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8238888889,-116.530277778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8238888889,-116.530277778 (Palm%20Springs%2C%20California)&t=h "Palm Springs, California").
Allan Murdock and Jim Eastin were honored with the Founders Award for starting a one-room senior center in 2005, catering to the burgeoning needs of aging LGBT valley residents. But with their pluck and drive, they turned that fledgling bird, then known as Prime Timers of the Desert, into a soaring eagle with 1,000 members, 15 board members and a growing troupe of tireless volunteers.
The Center has also become a major provider of food for more than 300 clients each week, making a huge difference in the lives of seniors and handicapped individuals.
The Center is now part of a network of providers supported by FIND (Food In Need of Distribution), directed by the event’s 2011 Leadership Award winner Lisa [Houston](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.7627777778,-95.3830555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.7627777778,-95.3830555556 (Houston)&t=h "Houston"), who was present with her husband, James Houston II.
For the past two years, after becoming executive director of FIND, Lisa Houston has helped nurture and grow The Center into a powerhouse that touches the lives of 80,000 people in the [Coachella Valley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella_Valley "Coachella Valley").
FIND Food Bank currently distributes food to more than 300 nonprofit organizations.
The younger generation of Houstons — Lisa, Jim II and his sister, Jaimi — are carrying on the work of FIND and other philanthropies long supported by [Jim Houston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Houston "Jim Houston") and his wife, the late Jackie Lee Houston.
When asked who else would fill the gap left by her late mother-in-law, Lisa Houston wisely stated: “We all have a certain level of giving. Why can’t it be all of us? Think of what we can do as a community as opposed to what one person can do as the Lone Ranger.â€
Attendees were delighted by the high energy and serious sparkle of recording star Thelma Houston, singing her disco hits and Motown favorites. Many of the dancing queens and divas, including the ever-glamorous Bella da Ball, made their way to a makeshift dance floor in front of the stage, rocking out to Houston’s hit “Don’t Leave Me This Way.â€
The evening’s emcee/wit machine was the brilliant writer Bruce Vilanch, who has penned for the Oscars, Tonys and Grammy Awards. His humor and self-deprecating quips kept the audience laughing out loud from start to finish.
Among the gala-ites who paid $100 each were Palm Springs council members [Ginny Foat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Foat "Ginny Foat"), Rick Hutcheson and [Paul Lewin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_for_the_Province_of_Toronto "Proposal for the Province of Toronto"); The Center’s executive director John O’Connor and board chairman Randy Lowe, along with supporters such as David Hood, Peggy Cravens, Jenifer Daniels of KPSP Local 2 and [John Redford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Redford "John Redford").
Major sponsors included Entertainment Partners, Inter Valley Health Plan, Tom Jakway and Stephen Tripp, Street Bar, The Bottom Line, [Wells Fargo](https://www.wellsfargo.com/ "Wells Fargo"), Lighthouse Memory Care, LIVE Magazine, Randy Lowe and The California Endowment.
**Additional Facts**
The Center
Next event: The Red Dress Party on March 24 at the Loretta Young house
**Information:**
The Center: (760) 416-7790 or [thecenterps.org](thecenterps.org)
FIND: (760) 755-3663 or [www.findfoodbank.org](http://www.findfoodbank.org)
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### [Mark Cirillo (L) and Bruce Vilanch (R) attend 'The Seminarian' Los Angeles premiere](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/26/mark-cirillo-l-and-bruce-vilanch-r-attend-the-seminarian-los-angeles-premiere/)
**Published:** November 26, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Matt J. Horn Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/25/matt-j-horn-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** November 25, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[**Matt J. Horn**](http://mattjhorn.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/bruce-vilanch-going-down-in-la-la-land-2011/)
Bruce Vilanch – (Going Down In LA-LA Land – 2011).
by Matt J. Horn in Bruce Vilanch – (Going Down In LA-LA Land – 2011).**
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*I recently got the chance to have a quick interview with Bruce Vilanch about his role in ‘Going Down In LA-LA Land’. Here, Bruce talks about the film and what his favourite holiday destination is…*
**Hey Bruce. Thanks for taking the time out to talk to me about your new film ‘Going Down In LA-LA Land‘.**
What’s the general plotline surrounding the film? I understand it’s based on a novel?
It is! It’s about a tastefully endowed young gay man who comes to Hollywood to be a star and all the things that can happen to such a one.
**Had you read the novel before you signed onto the project?**
I had actually read the book years ago when it came out, as it were. There used to be gay bookstores and I would troll them for books and tricks. Now there’s Amazon and Grindr – (you might not have Grindr in the UK. it’s a phone app that tells you were the other trolls are).
**Tell us a bit about the character you play in the movie…**
He’s a heavy blond pornographer loosely based on the legendary Chi-Chi La Rue, who is now a very thin friend of mine. Like all pornographers, he is into loose-fitting Hawaiian shirts.
**How did you get involved in the project in the first place?**
Casper Andreas tracked me down. He told me we would be shooting a porno. It was your classic bait-and-switch.
**How would you say this film is different and unique to other comedies? Would you say there’s an inherent truth with what the film tries to say?**
Anyone who has spent any time in Hollywood will nod knowingly as the story unfolds.
**The film stars Matthew Ludwinski, Allison Lane, Michael Medico and John Schile – with Casper Andreas onboard as director – what was it like working with the cast and crew on-set?**
They were a jolly group, I worked one day, (which happened to be the first day of shooting). There was a lot of nudity on the set, so nobody fell asleep.
**Let’s talk a bit about you Bruce. What made you want to get into acting in the first place?**
Like most actors, I had an aching need to be someone else.
**You’ve been in a number of different film and TV projects – who has been your favourite actor/actress to work with so far and which project has been your favourite to be a part of?**
No offence, but only interviewers think in those terms. The most significant acting work of my life has been playing Edna Turnblad in ‘Hairspray’ for a year on the road and a year on broadway. In movies, I’m usually a sight gag.
**We should mention that you’re also an accomplished screen-writer as well – what tips would you give to anyone writing scenes or a full screenplay?**
If you’re going to write a comedy – be funny.
**If you could invite three guests to dinner – (living or dead), who would you choose and why?**
Living or dead eliminates vampires, but then so does “dinner.â€
**What is your favourite holiday destination and why?**
Hawaii, specifically Kauai, which is still more Hawaiian than American. It’s the nap capital of the world. you begin getting drowsy at the baggage claim.
**What’s coming up for you in 2011/12?**
I will be making my debut at Covent Garden in a revolutionary new production of ‘Lucia’ in which we lower all the keys. the following evening the Royal Ballet will observe me as I crack some nuts.
**Thanks for the interview!**
*The dramedy explores what an aspiring actor can and will do to make it in Hollywood.*
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### [Happy Thanksgiving!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-2/)
**Published:** November 24, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Video: Walk A Mile In My Pradas](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/23/video-walk-a-mile-in-my-pradas/)
**Published:** November 23, 2011
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### [Happy Birthday Bruce Vilanch!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/23/happy-birthday-bruce-vilanch-4/)
**Published:** November 23, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mister D:** *Who doesn’t love Bruce? One of the most kindest, gentlest, and funniest men I’ve ever known….hell, he is the “most”of all those things. I just want to wish him the happiest of all birthdays and many more….and hope that he forgives me for all of my bad grammar! I mean well! All my love, Don*
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**Greg In Hollywood
Happy 63rd Birthday to Bruce Vilanch!
By Greg Hernandez on Nov 23, 2011**
Now that Billy Crystal has replaced Eddie Murphy as host of the 2012 Academy Awards, it’s a safe bet that funnyman Bruce Vilanch will be asked back as a writer for the Oscars.
I just love this man’s T-shirts and his terrific sense of humor.
Bruce, who turns 63 today, has been coming up with funny lines for Oscar hosts and presenters for decades now.
“I think people have a better time if it’s funny,†he told me in an interview last year about the Oscars. “It’s such a pompous occasion, so much self-importance. These are career-changing moments for people who have a great deal invested professionally so the humor helps to level that a little bit. It’s a show, it’s showbiz.â€
Happy birthday to this great talent!
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### [Bruce Vilanch At The Visionary Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/15/bruce-vilanch-at-the-visionary-awards/)
**Published:** November 15, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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In this photo taken by AP Images for Entertainment AIDS Alliance, from left, Vallery Kountze, member of the Entertainment AIDS Alliance Board of Directors, Bruce Vilanch, Jennifer Beals, honorees Steve Tisch, Pam Grier, and President, Sony ATV, David Bishop, are seen at the Visionary Awards benefiting the Entertainment AIDS Alliance on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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In this photo taken by AP Images for Entertainment AIDS Alliance, Bruce Vilanch, left, and Steve Tisch are seen at the Visionary Awards benefiting the Entertainment AIDS Alliance on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. In this photo taken by AP Images for Entertainment AIDS Alliance, Bruce Vilanch, left, and Steve Tisch are seen at the Visionary Awards benefiting the Entertainment AIDS Alliance on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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### [Jeff Simon: Crystal, Vilanch And Others Make A-List To Host Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/13/jeff-simon-crystal-vilanch-and-others-make-a-list-to-host-oscars/)
**Published:** November 13, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Buffalo News
Murphy bows out, Crystal steps up, but what if Oscar needs another host?
By Jeff Simon
November 11, 2011**
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[Eddie Murphy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eddie_murphy "Eddie Murphy"), as the world now knows, took a powder.
He is not going to host the Oscars after all. His “[Tower Heist](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untitled_heist_project "Untitled Heist Project")†director, [Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner"), was the fellow who¶d asked him to do it in the first place when the Oscar powers-that- be originally asked Ratner, for their own reasons, to produce the show.
But then Ratner —said to be in life an overprivileged brat from an inept Judd Apatow movie—started lipping off. At a news conference for “Tower Heist,†he was innocently asked by someone in the vast army of Hollywood fawners and junketeers about how he rehearses his actors.
“Rehearsal,†averred Ratner charmingly, “is for fags.â€
Dismissive public bigotry about homosexuals is no longer permissible for a producer of the highest-profile entertainment event in the Western world. Frankly, I don¶t think it ever was permissible. Even in the “let¶s-breakevery-rule†late- 1960s and early ¶70s, a producer saying something that dumb about one of the two tentpole
minority groups of Hollywood (the other, of course, would be Jews. See Neal Gabler¶s classic history “An Empire of Their Ownâ€) would have notable difficulty finding people willing to work for him.
Nor was that Ratner¶s only mistake. He went on Howard Stern¶s glands-on-parade satellite radio frat party and discussed his sex life and the physical endowment he brings to its pursuit.
I¶ll say this for Ratner: Any man who supports Stern¶s ongoing First Amendment assault on our current revival of the All- Too-Appropriate ¶50s deserves some sympathy from the thinking classes, even if they don¶t begin to include Ratner himself.
Nevertheless, Ratner¶s “I¶m Way Out of My Depth†openmic tour of all the wrong places got him yanked from the Oscar gig. His appointed emcee, Murphy, merely did what a loyal friend should do and backed up his friend by bowing out.
Leaving, of course, a big hole where an Oscar host ought to be.
[Ricky Gervais](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ricky_gervais "Ricky Gervais"), bless him, rushed in and offered himself, at reduced cost, as host for a Twofer— the Oscars aQd the Golden Globes, to which he¶s already a committed fixture.
He wasn¶t fast enough. Earlier, Billy Crystal— who has reached the stage of life where his hair has attained that orangish- brown color, never found in nature, which only seems to exist among aging comedians in proximity to West Coast functionaries of the dyer¶s trade—had mentioned that he might want to give the Oscars another go.
The Academy and Crystal, 63, confirmed Thursday it would take him up on that offer.
Crystal tweeted that he is “doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I
pick up my prescriptions.â€11/11/11 Murphy bows out, Crystal steps up, but what if Oscar needs another host? – Jeff Simon – The Buffalo«
But, considering that the Oscars, really, belong to us all, I think the time has come for all good people to have their own input for those coastal bigwigs who¶ve been fumbling the matter of [Oscar hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies "List of Academy Awards ceremonies") for years. Even though this year¶s Oscar host sweepstakes are settled again, for now at least, we all need to offer our own categories of
acceptability for Oscar show hosts, so that the boredom and cheesiness are minimized, and rare wit, hilarity and entertainment are made a little less rare.
Here¶s my list of possible Oscar hosts. By all means, send yours to the Motion Picture Academy, too.
**The A-List** (Oh, go ahead, o er them the gig. They couldn¶t be worse than some have been very recently.) Eddie Murphy, still. Ricky Gervais. Oprah Winfrey. [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"). David Letterman. (No kidding. He was never as bad as he thinks he was, and in his current snarling and dyspeptic incarnation, he¶d be hilariously off-key.) Craig Ferguson.
Robert Downey Jr. Ellen DeGeneres. Robin Williams (no fair, though, setting too many rules for what he¶s allowed to say).
Tom Hanks (with lots of good writers). Julia Roberts (ditto). Bruce Vilanch (my Far Left Field suggestion. The woolly bearded Vilanch has been the chief Oscar gagster for [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and Billy Crystal but is, himself, one of the most “inappropriateâ€- looking men in all of public life, which is why producers, in a bit of “Oh, what the hellâ€Â bravado, couldn¶t do better than having Vilanch and Gervais as truly subversive co-hosts for an evening never to be forgotten— whether ecstatic hilarity or infamous calamity).
**The B-List** (smaller potatoes but on the same plate as some hosting chops). Hugh Jackman. Neil Patrick Harris (with plenty of bigger name co-hosts). Whoopi Goldberg (she¶s done it before—always acceptably but never great). Adam Sandler. Tracey Ullman. Steve Carell and Tina Fey together. Jimmy Fallon (with lots of bigger name cohosts). Bill Murray. Kevin Spacey. Emma Thompson. Anne Hathaway (again; she wasn¶t bad). Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson together. (They¶d set the world¶s record for smirking coastal contempt. They¶d have to make sure, though, that Jack was entirely weed-free for the full week beforehand.) Hugh Grant. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton together (are we talking surreal fun or what? Elaine May would be an acceptable, if entirely impossible,
Keaton substitute).
**The C-List** (Well, everybody¶s gotta be someplace. Or, you never know until you try.) John Cusack. Dick Cavett (preceded by a massive publicity campaign to remind people who he is). Tom Cruise (with lots and lots of good writers). Steven Spielberg (to take the show in an entirely different direction— toward actual film. Add seasoning from Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard and Francis Ford Coppola to taste). Leonardo DiCaprio. John Goodman. Cate Blanchett. Roseanne Barr. Jamie Foxx. [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler"). Kristen Wiig. Susan Sarandon (or Tim Robbins. Not both). Jimmy Kimmel. Ben Stiller. John Travolta. [Charlie Sheen](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/charlie_sheen "Charlie Sheen") (yes, Charlie Sheen). Bruce Willis. Madonna.
The D-List (Never. Never again or let¶s not even try it.)  Steve Martin. Alec Baldwin. Johnny Depp. Chris Rock. Al Pacino. Robert De Niro. Robert Redford. Zack Galifianakis. Mel Gibson (though he¶d have been awfully good in his pretoxic era). Regis Philbin. Chelsea Handler. Wolf Blitzer. Jay Leno. Dr. Phil. Jennifer Lopez. Justin Bieber. Snooki. Dina Lohan. Michael Lohan. All the Kardashians great and small. The Ghost of Bert Parks.
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### [Somebody's Birthday Is Coming Up!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/14/somebodys-birthday-is-coming-up/)
**Published:** November 14, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Nov. 23: Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (“Basic Instinct,†“Showgirlsâ€), 67. Comedy writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (“Hollywood Squaresâ€), 64. “Good Morning America†co-host Robin Roberts, 51. Actors Elmarie Wendel (“3rd Rock From the Sun,†“George Lopezâ€), 79, Maxwell Caulfield (“The Colbysâ€), 52, John Henton (“The Hughleys,†“Living Singleâ€), 51, Salli Richardson-Whitfield (“Family Lawâ€), 44, Oded Fehr (“The Mummyâ€), 41, Page Kennedy (“Desperate Housewivesâ€), 35, Kelly Brook (“Smallvilleâ€), 32, Lucas Grabeel (“High School Musicalâ€), 27, Austin Majors (“NYPD Blueâ€), 16. Singer-Actor Miley Cyrus (“Hannah Montanaâ€), 19. Singer Bruce Hornsby, 57. Singer-guitarist Ken Block of Sister Hazel, 45. Rapper Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound, 39. Drummer Charlie Grover of Sponge, 45.
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**Categories:** Birthday, Uncategorized
**Tags:** 3rd Rock From the Sun, Bruce Vilanch, Elmarie Wendel, Joe Eszterhas, John Henton, Maxwell Caulfield, Miley Cyrus, Page Kennedy
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### [Reminder: “Center Stage Out For Good,†5 p.m. today](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/11/reminder-“center-stage-out-for-good”-5-p-m-today/)
**Published:** November 11, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**My Desert**
# Hot Picks: Things to do around the valley
**6:54 PM, Nov. 10, 2011**
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**Today**
CENTER STAGE: [Grammy-winning](http://www.grammy.com/ "Grammy Award") singer [Thelma Houston](http://www.thelmahouston.com "Thelma Houston") (“[Don’t Leave Me This Way](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Leave_Me_This_Way "Don't Leave Me This Way")“) and [Emmy-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") [comedy writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (“[The Tonight Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tonight_Show "The Tonight Show")â€) take center stage for the Golden Rainbow Center’s annual gala. Expect disco classics and biting humor. Proceeds help support the center’s [food bank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_bank "Food bank"), counseling and outreach.
“[Center Stage](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/center_stage "Center Stage") Out For Good,†5 p.m. today, [Palm Springs Convention Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8258453,-116.5380442&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.8258453,-116.5380442 (Palm%20Springs%20Convention%20Center)&t=h "Palm Springs Convention Center"), 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs. $100. (760) 416-7790 or [www.grcps.org](www.grcps.org).
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Coachella Valley, Food bank, Palm Springs California, Palm Springs Convention Center, PalmSprings, Thelma Houston, United States
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### [Billy Crystal To Host The Oscars - Is It Too Much To Assume Bruce Is B](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/10/billy-crystal-to-host-the-oscars-is-it-too-much-to-assume-bruce-is-b/)
**Published:** November 10, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**It’s Official: Billy Crystal Returning as Oscar Host
TVLine.com
November 10, 2011**
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Billy Crystal to the rescue! The nine-time Oscar host has agreed to replace Eddie Murphy as emcee of the 2012 Academy Awards. “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions,†the comedian tweeted Thursday afternoon. “Looking forward to the show.â€
News of Crystal’s Oscar comeback comes a day after Murphy dropped out in the wake ofF-bomb dropper Brett Ratner’s resignation as the telecast’s producer. Brian Grazer will now oversee the ceremony.
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### [Oscars: Brett Ratner Out, Now Host Eddy Murphy Out! Who Will Replace?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/09/oscars-brett-ratner-out-now-host-eddy-murphy-out-who-will-replace/)
**Published:** November 9, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mister D:** *Bring back Oscar regular [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and how about sharing the hosting duties to Bette Midler and [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal") – take a little pressure off them*
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[Eddie Murphy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eddie_murphy "Eddie Murphy") Out As Oscar Host After [Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner") Resignation
November 9, 2011**
Eddie Murphy is no longer hosting the 84th annual Academy Awards.
Following the exit of his good friend and “[Tower Heist](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untitled_heist_project "Untitled Heist Project")” director Brett Ratner as producer of the show last night over a series of controversial comments, the Academy announced that Murphy has withdrawn from his hosting duties, which he first took on in September.
“First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party’s decision with regard to a change of producers for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony,” Murphy said in a statement sent out by the academy. “I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I’m sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.”
The withdrawal caps a tumultuous week for Ratner and the Oscars telecast. Last week, Ratner used a gay slur when asked a question about filmmaking. The director said that “rehearsing is for fags” in a Q&A session following a screening of his new film, “Tower Heist,” at L.A.’s Arclight Cinemas. He apologized for the statement after NY Magazine published his remarks. He also made a series of crude statements about actresses Olivia Munn and [Lindsay Lohan](http://www.break.com/topics/lindsay-lohan "Lindsay Lohan").
**Statement in Full:**
[Beverly Hills, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0730555556,-118.399444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0730555556,-118.399444444 (Beverly%20Hills%2C%20California)&t=h "Beverly Hills, California") (November 9, 2011) – [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences") President Tom Sherak announced that Eddie Murphy has withdrawn as host of the [84th Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). “I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well,” said Sherak.
Commented Murphy, “First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party’s decision with regard to a change of producers for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I’m sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.”
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the [ABC Television Network](http://abc.go.com "American Broadcasting Company"). The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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- [Eddie Murphy Pulls Out Of Hosting The Oscars Following Brett Ratner Exit](http://www.mediaite.com/online/eddie-murphy-pulls-out-of-hosting-the-oscars-following-brett-ratner-exit/) (mediaite.com)
- [Eddie Murphy OUT As Oscar Host](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/eddie-murphy-out-as-oscar-host_n_1084419.html) (huffingtonpost.com)
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### [Gays Around The World Applaud As Brett Ratnor Steps Down As Producer Of Next Year's Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/08/gays-around-the-world-applaud-as-brett-ratnor-steps-down-as-producer-of-next-years-oscars/)
**Published:** November 8, 2011
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[Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner") Quits as Oscar Show Producer
Today 4:17 PM PST by MARC MALKIN**
Brett Ratner is calling it quits.
In a stunning turn of events, the controversial director has resigned from producing the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecast…
[READ: Movie Academy Scolds Brett Ratner for Gay Slur: “It Will Not Happen Again”](http://www.eonline.com/news/marc_malkin/movie_academy_scolds_oscar_producer/273896)
[The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com "The Hollywood Reporter") was the first to report Ratner’s resignation.
“He did the right thing for the Academy and for himself,” Academy president [Tom Sherak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sherak "Tom Sherak") said in a statement. “Words have meaning, and they have consequences. Brett is a good person, but his comments were unacceptable. We all hope this will be an opportunity to raise awareness about the harm that is caused by reckless and insensitive remarks, regardless of the intent.”
Ratner came under fire from [GLAAD](http://www.glaad.org/ "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation") this week for using a gay slur during a [Tower Heist](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untitled_heist_project "Untitled Heist Project") Q&A over the weekend. He’s also been blasted for a sexually crass chat he had during an appearance yesterday on [Howard Stern](http://www.forbes.com/profile/howard-stern/ "Howard Stern")‘s radio show.
It’s still unclear if [Eddie Murphy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eddie_murphy "Eddie Murphy") will stay on as host. His rep didn’t not immediately comment for this story.
[MORE: What Does Eddie Murphy Have to Do With Greg Grunberg and Brett Ratner’s Twitter Tiff?](http://www.eonline.com/news/What_Does_Eddie_Murphy_Have_to_Do_With_Greg_Grunberg_and_Brett_Ratner_s_Twitter_Tiff_/262094)
In an open letter to Hollywood, Ratner once again apologized for his actions.
“So many artists and craftspeople in our business are members of the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community"), and it pains me deeply that I may have hurt them. I should have known this all along, but at least I know it now: words do matter,” he wrote, in part. “Having love in your heart doesn’t count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. With this in mind, and to all those who understandably feel that apologies are not enough, please know that I will be taking real action over the coming weeks and months in an effort to do everything I can both professionally and personally to help stamp out the kind of thoughtless bigotry I’ve so foolishly perpetuated.”
He also said that he resigned this morning. He wrote, “\[A\]s painful as this may be for me, it would be worse if my association with the show were to be a distraction from the Academy and the high ideals it represents.”
GLAAD applauded Ratner’s decision. “When we sat down with Brett today, he seemed very sincere in his desire to use this experience as a way to begin speaking out against anti-gay language in popular culture,” said Herndon Graddick, the media watchdog group’s Director of Programs and Communications. “We believe this resignation is just the first step and will be announcing a series of concrete actions in coming days and weeks with Brett.”
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Brett Ratner, Eddie Murphy, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Greg Grunberg, Hollywood Reporter, Tom Sherak, Tower Heist
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### [The Oscars: Where's Bruce?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/07/the-oscars-wheres-bruce/)
**Published:** November 7, 2011
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**New team of writers on tap for this year’s Oscars
By Steve Pond
Mon Nov 7, 2011 1:56pm EST**
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LOS ANGELES ([TheWrap](http://www.thewrap.com/ "TheWrap").com) – Is [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") joining the ranks of the unemployed when the [84th Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") roll around?
The upcoming Oscars show will make use of a new crop of writers with ties to producer [Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner") but little awards-show experience, among them the screenwriters of Ratner’s new film, “[Tower Heist](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untitled_heist_project "Untitled Heist Project").”
Ratner, who is producing the show with Don Mischer, told the [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/ "Los Angeles Times") on Sunday that his writing team for the show would include the “Tower Heist” team of [Jeff Nathanson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Nathanson "Jeff Nathanson") and Ted Griffin, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” writers [Alec Berg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Berg "Alec Berg") and [David Mandel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mandel "David Mandel"), “Saturday Night Live” vets Barry Blaustein and [David Sheffield](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheffield "David Sheffield") and one longtime Oscar-show writer, Jon Macks.
Notably missing from the list is Vilanch, the chief comic voice of the Oscars for the last two decades.
When asked by TheWrap if he was going to work on the show this year, Vilanch replied by email, “Guess not.”
But Ratner told TheWrap early Monday that with the exception of Macks, all the writers he announced were on board just to write for the show’s host, Eddie Murphy. Ratner had yet to determine how much of a writing staff he’d need for the rest of the show, he said, and had not even discussed the matter with Mischer.
That staff could include Vilanch.
But at the moment, Ratner said, he is focused on Murphy’s writers.
Typically, the Academy Awards use one group of writers for introductions and presenter chat, while the host uses a separate team, with some overlap. Many of the writers named by Ratner have worked with Murphy in the past.
Ratner also said that he would bring in additional writers for specific sections of the show. He singled out director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Cameron Crowe, whose film “We Bought a Zoo” opens in December, as a participant.
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- [Brett Ratner talks Oscars gig](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/04/how-brett-ratner-will-change-the-oscars-it-entails-comedy/) (insidemovies.ew.com)
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### [Bruce Hekprd Pave The Way For Wanda Sykes!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/11/07/bruce-hekprd-pave-the-way-for-wanda-sykes/)
**Published:** November 7, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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# Pink News
Interview: [Wanda Sykes](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wanda_sykes "Wanda Sykes") on stand-up, her four [Emmys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") and coming out
by [Laurence Watts](http://www.pinknews.co.uk/author/laurence-watts/ "Posts by Laurence Watts")
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She’s an award-winning stand-up comedian who’s successfully made the transition from comedy circuit to television and film. She’s a talented writer and performer whose trophy cupboard boasts four Emmys and an [American Comedy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Comedy_Awards "American Comedy Awards"). She unintentionally came out at an LGBT rally in [Las Vegas](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.175,-115.136388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=36.175,-115.136388889 (Las%20Vegas%2C%20Nevada)&t=h "Las Vegas, Nevada") in 2008. Laurence Watts interviews the charismatic Wanda Sykes.
Wanda wasn’t always a professional comedian. Her first job after university was as a procurement officer for America’s [National Security Agency (NSA)](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.109,-76.77&spn=0.01,0.01&q=39.109,-76.77 (National%20Security%20Agency)&t=h "National Security Agency"), a job that required her to have top-secret security clearance. It was while she was there that she started doing stand-up.
“As I remember, there were several of us who had side jobs,†she says. “Some of the women sold cosmetics and some of the guys were doing stocks and trading. I think quite a few of us were dreamers who wanted to do other things. It wasn’t until I said I was leaving to do stand-up full time that everybody told me I was nuts: “What’s wrong with you? You have a good job, security, health insurance and everything!†That kind of stuff.â€
The calculated decision to leave the NSA came five years into her career there. Wanda knew she could make a living out of being funny.
“I was travelling around at weekends playing clubs,†she explains. “4-5 hours away was pretty much how far I could go at weekends and make it back in time for work on Monday. Once I’d made it to feature spots I added up how much I could make, what my budget was to live and I said to myself: you can do this. If I worked clubs full time, I’d be OK. So I headed out and knew that if I was good and worked hard I’d eventually headline.â€
Less than five years after leaving the NSA, Wanda got her big break. In 1997 she joined the writing team for The Chris Rock Show. Two years later the team won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special. She also made her first television appearances, featuring in seven of the show’s episodes.
Though she’d begun to make inroads into television she continued to excel on the comedy circuit, so much so that in 2001 she won the American Comedy Award for Outstanding Female [Stand-Up Comic](http://www.break.com/c/pop-culture-videos/stand-up-comedy/ "Stand-up-comedy"). Shortly afterwards she was approached to write for The 74th Annual [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award").
“I got a call from Bruce Vilanch who told me Whoopi Goldberg would be hosting the show. She wanted me to come on board and be part of the writing staff. I was like: “The Oscars? Are you kidding me? Hell yeah!†In the end though, I think I was a bit too edgy. Truthfully, I don’t know how many of my jokes made it into the show, but I cracked up Whoopi, Bruce and the rest of the room.â€
Would she ever want to follow in the steps of Goldberg and other comedians like Bob Hope, Billy Crystal and Steve Martin and host The Oscars herself? Her answer surprises me.
“You know what? Right now, I would say no. I think it’s a thankless job. If I was going to do it I’d want to throw rocks at the audience. That’s what I do. That’s why I loved what Ricky Gervais did at the Golden Globes. It’s not that I’m disrespectful of the Academy, I think it’s great, but right now that’s not a job I would do.â€
Increasing popularity and visibility resulted in her own sitcom on Fox, Wanda at Large, which ran for two seasons and attracted audiences as high at 14m. In 2004 Sykes was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 funniest people in America.
“It was an honour to make the list, but for me it’s all about the audience,†she explains. “I try not to look at what other comics are doing or who’s selling out what shows. I just focus on what I’m doing. I’m really grateful I can go on stage, tell jokes and have a good life.â€
By 2005 Sykes had bagged three more Emmy’s, taking her tally to four. Can one ever have too many Emmy’s?
“I’m looking at them now and you know, really, I think I could clear a few things off of that space to make room for more!†She starts laughing, “I don’t need that picture of my kids up there! Hell, if I won another that could definitely go!â€
After 2005 Wanda began appearing in movies with increasing regularity: Monster-in-Law (with Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez); My Super Ex-Girlfriend (with Uma Thurman, Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris) and; Evan Almighty (with Steve Carell) to name a few. Wanda’s distinctive voice can also be heard in the animated films Over The Hedge and Rio. In 2012 she will play Sid Sloth’s Grandmother in [Ice Age: Continental Drift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age%3A_Continental_Drift "Ice Age: Continental Drift"). Did she ever think she’d be a film star?
“Not at all. I just wanted to be a really funny comic. That’s still my goal. I think focusing on that means these other things come along. It always surprises me when I get offered a role or I’m asked to audition. I’m like: “Really? Oh, OK!â€â€
On November 15th, 2008, at the age of 44, Wanda came out as a lesbian. She announced her sexuality to the world at a Las Vegas rally to protest the passing of California’s Proposition 8. Since she was in town for a gig at Planet Hollywood she’d planned on simply turning up and showing her support. One of the organisers saw her in the crowd and called her up on stage. She was pissed off that Prop 8 had passed and began “running her mouth.†She hadn’t intended to make a speech, let alone come out, but she did both. Wanda had privately married her girlfriend 21 days earlier. Does she regret having waited so long to come out?
“You know what, I look at kids now, teenagers, and they already identify with who they are they’re very comfortable. I not only admire that, but I’m a little envious as well,†she tells me. “I lived so much of my life trying to be something I wasn’t. On the other hand I believe everything happens for a reason and at the right time. I did it when I was ready, but when I look back of course I wish I’d been open and out.†She laughs before adding, “I mean, think of all that hot ass I could have got before I got married!â€
In May 2009 Sykes became the first ever LGBT entertainer at the annual [White House Correspondents’ Dinner](http://www.whca.net/index.htm "White House Correspondents' Association"). In attendance were President Obama, the First Lady, the entire [White House press corps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_press_corps "White House press corps") and many distinguished guests. Wanda brought the house down with jokes about the President, Sarah Palin, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Did she have to submit a
script beforehand?
“I thought I’d have to, but no. I could have said anything. The only note I got was a couple of hours before I was due to go on. My publicist said the president of the Correspondents’ Association had called her to make sure I wouldn’t be using the f-word or the n-word. That made me laugh.â€
Already a poster child for the LGBT and African American communities Sykes was reluctant to publicly disclose she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2011. The ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) was only discovered when she’d gone into hospital to have a breast reduction. Having lost a couple of friends to cancer and with a history of breast cancer on her mother’s side of the family she took the decision to have a bilateral mastectomy rather than wait and see if the cancer developed. She had the surgery on 4th August. She was back on stage doing stand-up on 9th September.
With all the recognition a career in TV and film brings, I ask her if it’s easier to make people laugh now that she’s established?
“I think Johnny Carson may have said this, but as a comedian the audience kind of gives you the first 10 minutes,†she answers. “They’re like: “OK, we know she’s funny, we’ll go along with her.†After those first 10 minutes though they now seem to have higher expectations than they used to. So although I now find comedy easier, because I’ve done it so long, I know I have to raise the bar a little every time I go out there.â€
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### [Bruce Vilanch Helps Judge GO-GO DANCER APPRECIATION DAY](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/30/bruce-vilanch-helps-judge-go-go-dancer-appreciation-day/)
**Published:** October 30, 2011
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# Hundreds Turn Out to Appreciate [Go-Go Dancers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Go_dancing "Go-Go dancing")
**City’s first ever official [Go-Go](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-go "Go-go") Dancer Appreciation Day draws hundreds to [Boystown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boystown%2C_Chicago "Boystown, Chicago"). A special street party with go-go dancer competitions wows the crowd.**
- **By [James F. Mills](http://westhollywood.patch.com/users/james-f-mills)**
- October 30, 2011**
GO-GO DANCER APPRECIATION DAY
Actor/TV host Marcellas Reynolds (left), actor/comedian Bruce Vilanch and Mayor John Duran served as judges.  Credit: [James F. Mills](http://westhollywood.patch.com/users/james-f-mills)
Go-go dancers were out in force Saturday night, and hundreds of residents brought out their dollar bills to show appreciation.
Boystown was buzzing about [go-go boys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Go_dancing "Go-Go dancing") as [West Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California") observed its first ever official [Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day](http://westhollywood.patch.com/articles/got-go-go-city-celebrates-go-go-dancing), a pre-Halloween party designed to give locals an extra reason to party.
Several [Santa Monica Boulevard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_2 "California State Route 2") businesses set up special platforms for go-go dancers, while Larrabee Street was blocked off for a [Go-Go Fest Street Party](http://westhollywood.patch.com/articles/saturday-s-scoop-celebrate-go-go-dancer-appreciation-day-in-weho), featuring several go-go dancer competitions.
Crowds of people dropped by the Go-Go Fest to observe the goings on and to tip the dancers. Some were there throughout the evening, others only stayed a few minutes before moving on to restaurants and clubs.
“Everyday is go-go dancer appreciation day at my house,†said actor/comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). “That other people are moved to celebrate it just warms my heart.â€
[City councilman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_council "City council") John D’Amico, who came up with the idea for Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day, was pleased by the turnout.
“Everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be. There’s hundreds of people here having a great time and that’s what I hoped for,†said D’Amico.
[Larry Block](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Block "Larry Block"), owner of the [Block Party](http://westhollywood.patch.com/listings/blockparty-weho) clothing store, agreed. “This is West Hollywood at its best,†said Block, who set up a platform in front of his store and offered free underwear to anyone willing to dance for 15 minutes.
**Competition**
Some people took Block up on the offer, others were too embarrassed, saying they didn’t have the physique to dance in public. Still others opted to dance on the platforms set up inside the Go-Go Fest area. One man said he had never danced before, but made $100 in 10 minutes.
One the main stage of the Go-Go Fest, some of those dilettantes got up the nerve to compete in the official Amateur competition. Meanwhile professional go-go dancers competed in five categories – Hottest Jock, Best Bootie, Twink, Best Package and Muscle Stud.
Vilanch, Mayor John Duran and actor/TV host [Marcellas Reynolds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellas_Reynolds "Marcellas Reynolds") served as the official judges for the competition. But after the first few rounds of competitions, host Scotty B just let the crowds decide the winners.
Those winners then competed for a $1,000 prize and the title of Mr. West Hollywood Go-Go. By the end of the evening, [Micky’s](http://westhollywood.patch.com/listings/mickys) and [Eleven](http://westhollywood.patch.com/listings/eleven) nightclub dancer Andrew, dressed as a construction worker, took home the title.
The audience was wowed by a choreographed show, “Evolution of Go-Go,†featuring a dozen dancers doing different moves to snippets of dance hits from the 60s to today.
Between each competition, [DJ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey "Disc jockey") Paulo Ramirez kept the music going to the delight of the crowd.
“This is what a street party should be,†said [Alex Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Johnson "Alex Johnson"). “Great music, hot men and no cover to get in.â€
While Go-Go Day was intended to bring more people to town, there was no noticeable increase in standard Saturday night foot traffic in Boystown.
As for increased business in the area, that may not have happened either. While Block said more people were stopping into his store, he “didn’t know if it was translating into extra sales.â€
Nonetheless, D’Amico was optimistic about Go-Go Day becoming an annual event.
“This is just the first year. I’m sure as time goes by, next year’s will be even bigger,†said D’Amico. “I’ve already had a couple of people approach me about being sponsors next year.â€
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*About this column: From Boys Town to [Plummer Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plummer_Park "Plummer Park"), the Sunset Strip or [Melrose Avenue](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0835,-118.334&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.0835,-118.334 (Melrose%20Avenue)&t=h "Melrose Avenue")–this column brings you some of the interesting and unique snapshops that make us proud to call Weho our home.*
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- [WeHo Will Host Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in October](http://laist.com/2011/09/10/weho_wants_wants_to_create_go-go_ap.php) (laist.com)
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**Tags:** Alex Johnson, Block, Bruce Vilanch, Go-go, Larry Block, Marcellas Reynolds, Plummer Park, West Hollywood, West Hollywood California
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### [3 honored at 'Center Stage'](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/28/3-honored-at-center-stage/)
**Published:** October 28, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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3 honored at  ‘[Center Stage](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/center_stage "Center Stage")‘
Lisa [Houston](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.7627777778,-95.3830555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.7627777778,-95.3830555556 (Houston)&t=h "Houston"), CEO of FIND [Food Bank](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_bank "Food bank"), and Allan Murdoch and James Eastin, two of the original founders of the Golden Rainbow
Center-SAGE, will be honored at “Center Stage: Out for Good†at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11, at the [Palm Springs Convention Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8258453,-116.5380442&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.8258453,-116.5380442 (Palm%20Springs%20Convention%20Center)&t=h "Palm Springs Convention Center"), 277
N. Avenida Caballeros. The benefit will feature entertainment from disco legend [Thelma Houston](http://www.thelmahouston.com "Thelma Houston") and comedian and [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award")-winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
A [silent auction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction "Auction") and reception will precede the awards. Tickets are $100.
Information: (760) 416-7790
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**Tags:** Auction, Bruce Vilanch, Center Stage, Emmy Award, Food bank, Palm Springs Convention Center, Thelma Houston, Widgetbox
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### [WEHO Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day ...](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/27/weho-go-go-dancer-appreciation-day/)
**Published:** October 27, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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PRESS RELEASE
Oct. 27, 2011, 7:44 p.m. EDT
City of [West Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0877777778,-118.372222222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0877777778,-118.372222222 (West%20Hollywood%2C%20California)&t=h "West Hollywood, California") to Celebrate Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day on Saturday, October 29, 2011**
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct 27, 2011 ([BUSINESS WIRE](http://www.businesswire.com "Business Wire")) — [The City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") of West Hollywood in conjunction with Eleven, Revolver and Micky’s nightclubs will host the first ever Go-Go Dancer Appreciate Day by holding a Go-Go Festival and Street Party on Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Larrabee Street near [Santa Monica Boulevard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_2 "California State Route 2") between Eleven and Micky’s. Several other West Hollywood area businesses will also participate in Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day by holding special in-store events.
The Go-Go Festival and Street Party will offer guests a visual array of Go-Go dancers, choreographed performances of the Evolution of Go-Go; DJ Paulo Ramirez; and contests with prizes for Go-Go participants. The contests will be open to the public for any wannabe Go-Go dancers along with professional Go-Go dancers and will include categories such as Hottest Jock, Best Bootie, Twink, Best Package, Muscle Stud, and Amateur Go-Go Boy. To enter the contest, visit www.wehogogofest.com . A Grand Prize of $1,000 will be offered and celebrity judges include [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Leslie Jordan and Mayor John J. Duran. In addition, Eleven will host a choreographed show called “Evolution of Go-Go.”
The City of West Hollywood has a long history of being on the cutting edge of new artistic and musical endeavors. The Whisky A Go-Go, the first live music venue and the only surviving one to be inducted into the [Rock and Roll Hall of Fame](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.508375,-81.6955&spn=0.01,0.01&q=41.508375,-81.6955 (Rock%20and%20Roll%20Hall%20of%20Fame)&t=h "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"), opened its doors in 1964 and soon after launched a trend that would ultimately become the norm in clubs all over the world by suspending cages with Go-Go dancers from the ceiling of the club.
In the mid-1960s and the 1970s, the [Sunset Strip](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0907,-118.386&spn=1.0,1.0&q=34.0907,-118.386 (Sunset%20Strip)&t=h "Sunset Strip") became a major center for the counterculture as Go-Go dancers did their thing at the Whisky and other clubs along the Strip. In 1968, the first Groovy Guy contest was started as a marketing tool for the then newly-formed Advocate magazine and as a way to unite the Los Angeles gay community. By 1970, the contest had become so famous that The Advocate featured a Groovy Guy float in the first gay pride parade down [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") Boulevard and that summer’s contest was held at Ciro’s Restaurant (now [The Comedy Store](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0951,-118.37384&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.0951,-118.37384 (The%20Comedy%20Store)&t=h "The Comedy Store")). The Groovy Guy contest ran in one form or another through 1991.
By the early 1970’s both the female and male [Go-Go dancing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Go_dancing "Go-Go dancing") phenomenon was part of West Hollywood culture and dancers have been appreciated on stages big and small at clubs across the City ever since.
Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day will consist of the City working in conjunction with local businesses to stage an amateur Go-Go dancer competition on Larrabee Street north of Santa Monica Boulevard. Clubs along the Sunset Strip will also participate and businesses Citywide will be hold special events and offerings on Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day.
For more information, please contact Michelle Rex, Deputy to Councilmember [John D’Amico](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D%27Amico "John D'Amico") at (323) 848-6460 or mrex@weho.org. For Twitter, please follow #wehogogo.
SOURCE: City of West Hollywood
For City of West Hollywood
Michelle Rex
Deputy to Councilmember John D’Amico
(323) 848-6460
mrex@weho.org
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### [Bruce Begins Filming "Hotel Arthritis" For J-Star Pictures](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/22/bruce-begins-filming-hotel-arthritis-for-j-star-pictures/)
**Published:** October 22, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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[**Hotel Arthritis (2012)**](http://www.jstarpictures.com/Feature_Films.php)
**SUMMARY:**
Somebody is killing old people. The weapon of choice: a secret. They are being offed by a masked killer who stalks the halls of the small retirement community in which they live. The story opens with a terrifying murder, creating space on the waiting list for Rose to move in. Upon Rose’s arrival, she is taken on a tour of the grounds by the quirky, offbeat manager: Dale. The odd and brightly colored characters continue to pop up as Fanny, her Jewish gossiping neighbor, introduces Rose to “the gang.†The routine of daily life is all stirred up at the moment. People are disappearing, chaos is erupting, there’s talk of a ghost, and to top things off, there’s an STD outbreak! As terror rises throughout the building, the fear of who’s next and who the killer may be, continues to grow. We find ourselves in the game of “Whodunit?†Is it Desperella: the ground’s custodial manager? Is it Kitty: the sexy activities director? Or Zeke: her punk rock boyfriend? Maybe it’s one of the elder folks suffering from dementia or seeking some sort of revenge… Full of laughs and full of scares – you’ll be on the edge of your seat from the moment you enter the world of Lake View Retirement Home: The place where people come to live… until they die!
**CAST:**
Rose: Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island)
Dale: John Tartaglia (the Tony nominated lead from Avenue Q on Broadway)
Vivian: Lee Meriwether (Catwoman from the 1960’s Batman)
Giovanni: David Proval (Richie Aprile from The Sopranos)
Fanny: Camille Saviola (Mama from Chicago on Broadway and Turtle’s Mom on Entourage)
Kitty: Jacqui Holland (My Best Friend’s Girl, Desperate Housewives)
Rachel: Kiersten Warren (Alex from Saved by the Bell: The College Years)
Hodge: Martin Kove (John Kreese from The Karate Kid I, II, III)
Captain: Jerry Douglas (John Abbott from The Young and the Restless)
Tyrone: Shawn Harrison (Waldo from Family Matters)
Wang: Takayo Fischer (Memoirs of a Geisha, Moneyball)
Mr. Atkins: Robert Towers (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Masters of the Universe)
Desperella: Muffy Bolding (Gingerdead Man series)
Lateesha: Dele Ogundiran (Ugly Betty)
Bruce: Bruce Vilanch (Hollywood Squares)
Norman: Rip Taylor (enough said!)
**AND MORE!**
*Directed by Jason Lockhart*
Produced by Michael J. Roth, Jacqui Holland, Joey Stafura, Katrina Herlong & John Mancini
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### [Bruce Vilanch Interviews The Purrrfect Ms. Julie Newmar](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/22/bruce-vilanch-interviews-the-purrrfect-ms-julie-newmar/)
**Published:** October 22, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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ON THE INDUSTRY
[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") And [Julie Newmar](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/julie_newmar "Julie Newmar") Rock!
By [Tommy Garrett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Garrett "Tommy Garrett")
Oct 23, 2011 – 8:27:30 PM**
HOLLYWOODâ€â€Bruce Vilanch interviewed Tony and Golden Globe winning actress, Julie Newmar, about her purrrrrrfect little “how to†book to place on the bedside table entitled “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth.â€Â
**Bruce Vilanch, Interviewer?**
Clearly, the don’t miss opportunity was the rage in Hollywood! The hysterically brilliant, Bruce Vilanch conducted a Q&A with the ever statuesque Julie Newmar on Saturday, Oct 15, at [Santa Monica](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.0219444444,-118.481388889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.0219444444,-118.481388889 (Santa%20Monica%2C%20California)&t=h "Santa Monica, California") Library (601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica CA) as part of their “Meet the Author†program. Julie signed countless copies of her new book, “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth†after what was, without a doubt be a great Q&A.
There seems to be a lot of buzz in the media about the upcoming reincarnation of the latest Catwoman, by Anne Hathaway in “Dark Knight Rises,†and “Batman†reemerges on TV (Hub Network) for a new generation, which has made this an ideal time for the original Catwoman, Ms. Julie Newmar, to release her new book “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth.†And it’s not only a great book, it is a must read for every American and everyone around the world who is looking for advice from one of the world’s geniuses, Ms. Julie Newmar.
A woman of great genetic stock, her father was a [Chicago Bears football](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bears "Chicago Bears") player and her mother a star of the 1920 Follies. Beauty, brains and a fantastic sense of humor, Julie Newmar is perhaps best known world wide for her role as the sultry Cat-woman on the hit series “Batman†or on stage for her original roles of Stupefyin Jones in [Lil Abner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner "Li'l Abner") and Vera in “Silk Stockings,†not to mention her [Tony Award winning](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") performance as Katrin Sveg in “The Marriage-Go-Round.†A contract with [20th Century Fox](http://www.foxmovies.com/ "20th Century Fox") led to roles in films such as the classic MGM musical “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.†Making the transition to TV, Julie appeared in Rod Serling’s science fiction series the “Twilight Zone†in 1963, playing Miss Devlin (devil). As physical perfection, Julie was ideal to play Rhoda the Robot in “My Living Doll,†as well as iconic characters such series as “Star Trek,†“Get Smart,†“Bewitched,†“The Bionic Woman,†“Hart to Hart,†“According to Jim,†and, of course, how many women’s names grace the title of a hit movie – “Too Wong Fu, Julie Newmar,†a film from Stephen Spielberg’s company.
**Ms. Julie Newmar Is Purrrfect!**
Currently, Ms. Newmar has several books in the works, but the first to hit the shelves will be “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth†(www.julienewmar.com) and features the wit and wisdom of Ms. Julie Newmar, to be followed by “+:First Fantasy†(www.julienewmarwrites.com). “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth†is a book in which you read a phrase and paused…read another phrase and take a breath… read more and then cry a little. A compilation of wonderful tid-bits of information, inspirational thoughts, and practical advice for daily living that Julie has collected and experienced over her lifetime, and she is sharing with the reader. Julie was trying to create that perfect little “how to†book to place on the bedside table – the one that would empower others to be the very best I can be.
As most all individuals do, we searched for role models who defined the vision of what we would like to one day be and we set our minds on emulating them. The tall, statuesque, graceful and powerful woman, Julie Newmar, inspired many. Not only in physical appearance, but as an entrepreneur in LA real-estate and inventor, developing “Nudemar†panty-hose. In 2009, the [Smithsonian Institute](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8888,-77.026&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8888,-77.026 (Smithsonian%20Institution)&t=h "Smithsonian Institution") inducted her famous and the original [Cat-Woman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwoman "Catwoman") suit into its permanent Entertainment Exhibit collection making her one of the nine Legendary Ladies of Stage and Screen to be included (list available upon request).
Pearls of wisdom from “The Conscious Catwoman Explains Life on Earth†includes Tall girls, don’t slump. Think of how many short guys out there would love to have your offspring. Stand up for them†and Forgive yourself first. You’ll have reserves when you want others to forgive you.
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**Categories:** Books, Interview
**Tags:** Anne Hathaway, Batman, Bruce Vilanch, Catwoman, Julie, Julie Newmar, Tommy Garrett, Tony Award
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### [Event : An Evening with Bruce Vilanch Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 8:00 pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/20/event-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch-date-sat-apr-21-2012-800-pm/)
**Published:** October 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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#### AN EVENING WITH [BRUCE VILANCH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
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One of the funniest men alive, Bruce Vilanch is best known for his standard spot on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") and his starring role as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009096-hairspray "Hairspray") in the Broadway and [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") productions of [Hairspray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%28musical%29 "Hairspray (musical)"), the Musical. [TV](http://www.break.com/c/pop-culture-videos/tv/ "TV") audiences have been laughing for years at Bruce’s writing for award shows like the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") ®, comedy specials including [Comic Relief](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief "Comic Relief") and numerous [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler") performances.
Standard: Members $40 | Public $45
Premium: Members $50 | Public $55
Saturday, Apr 21, 2012
Starts at: 8:00 pm
Our community partners are the [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav
**For tickets**: [Click Here](https://tickets.jccsf.org/public/hall.asp)
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**Categories:** Announcement, Comedy Show
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### [HOUSTON & VILANCH TO HEADLINE CENTER STAGE EVENT - Friday November 11, 2011](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/20/houston-vilanch-to-headline-center-stage-event-friday-november-11-2011/)
**Published:** October 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Palm Springs, CA - Tickets are now on sale for Center Stage - Out for Good starring Disco Legend Thelma Houston in concert and emceed by Emmy-Award Winning Comedian Bruce Vilanch on Friday November 11, 2011, at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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## HOUSTON & VILANCH TO HEADLINE CENTER STAGE EVENT
by [The LGBT Community Center of the Desert](https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-LGBT-Community-Center-of-the-Desert/128715403901587) on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 5:39pm
Palm Springs, CA – Tickets are now on sale for Center Stage – Out for Good starring Disco Legend Thelma Houston in concert and emceed by Emmy-Award Winning Comedian Bruce Vilanch on Friday November 11, 2011, at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
“We are so excited to be welcoming Ms. Houston and Mr. Vilanch to the stage for what promises to be a fun-filled evening of Houston’s greatest hits, along with Vilanch’s fast paced comedic banter,” says John O’Connor, Executive Director of The Center.
The evening will also honor Lisa Houston, CEO of the F.I.N.D. Food Bank, with the Leadership Award, and Jim Eastin and Allan Murdoch with the Founders Award.
A no-host cocktail hour and silent auction will precede the show at 5:30 pm, and feature more than 100 items. Among them a gorgeous yellow 2011 Camaro Convertible, courtesy of Jessup Chevrolet; a one-week stay in a 5-star condominium in Cabo St. Lucius; all inclusive 7-night trip to Paris & Prague (valued at $14,000), 5-night trip to Costa Rica (valued at $8,500) & a 3-night trip to New York City (valued at $8,000), as well as Lunch with Center Stage – Out for Good stars Thelma Houston & Bruce Vilanch, multiple restaurant certificates, original art work, photographs and other great items.
Tickets are $100 and up and available at www.grcps.org or by calling 760-416-7790.
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### [I'm Your "Stepping Stone"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/20/im-your-stepping-stone/)
**Published:** October 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**LGBT Weekly
Social Chaos: Allan’s A-List
BY ALLAN SPYERE
Thursday, October 20th, 2011**
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**Iceberg**
I attended the Stepping Stone boat cruise event, Oct. 5. It was a fantastic experience. I was lucky enough to sit on the same table as the six-time Emmy Award-winner and Oscars writer Bruce Vilanch. Needless to say, I was laughing most of the time. He is an incredible personality with a kind heart. My favorite part was when a loud beeping noise was coming out of the sound system and he immediately screams, “Iceberg! Run for your life!†followed by, “Maybe all these flaming queens in one spot set us on fire!†Congrats to Stepping Stone for a fun event and for their 35 years of great service to our community. I also attended the San Diego Remembers Matthew Shepard candlelight vigil at The Center. Very good attendance and I was surprised to see some of the people I saw there. Congrats to Benny Cartwright and committee for putting this together. I will be going to Palm Springs to attend the EQCA Palm Springs Equality Awards with my dear friend Stuart Milk. Sounds like a fun event.
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**Categories:** Charities, GLBT, Special Events
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### [Going Down in La La Land](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/10/12/going-down-in-la-la-land/)
**Published:** October 12, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Some hits and some misses at gay film festival
Film reviews
Thursday, October 13, 2011
By Robert Croan, [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette](http://post-gazette.com/ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette")**
The Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival") opens Friday at the SouthSide Works Cinema and runs through Oct. 23. Here’s a sampling of movies playing during the first week (reviews are 1 to 4 stars).
**‘ Going Down in [La La Land](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles")‘**
3 stars = Good
Ratings explained
The situations are cliched, the plot somewhat predictable, but Swedish director-actor Casper Andreas has adapted [Andy Zeffer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Zeffer "Andy Zeffer")‘s 2006 wistfully comic novel with such a light touch that the action moves swiftly, and the characters seem to jump off the screen.
Handsome New Yorker Adam (Matthew Ludwinski) drives to Los Angeles with hopes of becoming a movie star. He finds he can’t get work as an actor, can’t even hold a dead-end day job until a drug-addicted gym bunny — vividly played by Mr. Andreas — gets Adam work in the porn industry.
Adam starts as a secretary, quickly becomes a reluctant star, but he finds his niche when he goes as an “escort” to a handsome TV actor John (Michael Medico) who hires Adam as his assistant when the two begin to have real feelings for each other.
The catch is that rich-and-famous John plays an all-American father figure on his show, and his career might not survive hints of his being gay. Will he dump Adam when the going gets rough or tough it out and acknowledge his sexuality? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the conclusion. Don’t miss the marvelous cameo appearance by [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") as an over-the-top porn film maker.
**‘ August’**
1 1/2 stars = Bad
Ratings explained
Director Eldar Rapaport has created a dismally pretentious, tedious and trite tale about a drifter named Troy ([Murray Bartlett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bartlett "Murray Bartlett")), who returns from Barcelona to rekindle a relationship with his former partner, Jonathan (Daniel Dugan). The problem is that Jonathan is now happily partnered with a handsome Latino, Raul ([Adrian Gonzalez](http://www.agonzalez23.com "Adrian Gonzalez")), and the results are, to say the least, complicated. They are also predictable.
Not much happens, other than the predictable triangle issues, a threesome and the fickle and feckless Troy going back to Barcelona at the end. Mr. Rapaport unfolds the story very slowly, using techniques that recall among other directors of the past, Alain Resnais (“[Last Year in Marienbad](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/l-annee-derniere-a-marienbad-last-year-at-marienbad "L' Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)")“).
The film’s 105 minutes seem at least twice that long, but there is some interesting Middle Eastern-influenced music on the soundtrack to make the lacunae in dialogue go by a bit more easily.
**‘ The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley’**
3 stars = Good
Ratings explained
Writer-director Seamus Rea has created a moving tale of a lonely London spinster (Josie Walker) who works at a dead-end job and cares for her aged mother, finding her only refuge in singing along with [Jessye Norman](http://answers.com/topic/jessye-norman#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d "Jessye Norman") tapes in the solitude of her bedroom. One day her mother’s nurse, [Trish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_in_Devil_May_Cry "Characters in Devil May Cry"), a member of the local lesbian choir, hears her singing and realizes that Joan has a beautiful voice and real musicality.
When Trish brings Joan to a rehearsal, Joan resists joining, shouting, “I am not a lesbian.” When she does join, she finds she has further qualms, including a budding yet unspoken attachment to Trish.
Whether the lady is protesting too much or whether she’s found her niche is the province of the remainder of this brief and charming film, acted with conviction by an excellent cast and filmed with an unpretentious simplicity that rings true.
Robert Croan is a Post-Gazette senior editor.
First published on October 13, 2011 at 12:00 am
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Adrian Gonzalez, Andy Zeffer, Bruce Vilanch, Film festival, Friday, Jessye Norman, Los Angeles, Murray Bartlett
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### [Bruce Vilanch KSLA Channel 12 - 2011 North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/16/bruce-vilanch-ksla-channel-12-2011-north-louisiana-gay-and-lesbian-film-festival/)
**Published:** September 16, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Guest On "The Judy Show" Talkback Series](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/16/bruce-vilanch-to-guest-on-the-judy-show-talkback-series/)
**Published:** September 16, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
The Judy Show’s Talkback Series “Continues” With [Cynthia Nixon](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/cynthia_nixon "Cynthia Nixon"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and More
By Michael Gioia
September 16, 2011**
The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom, starring [Emmy Award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") actress and comic [Judy Gold](http://www.judygold.com/ "Judy Gold"), has announced additional celebrities to be featured in “To Be Continued…,” the weekly talkback series where Gold chats with guests about their childhood anecdotes and memories following the performances at the DR2 Theatre.
New guests scheduled to appear in the “To Be Continued…” series include Cynthia Nixon (“[Sex and the City](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eating_green_organic_foods_and_cooking "Eating Green Organic Foods and Cooking"),” Rabbit Hole) Sept. 21; Florence Henderson (“[The Brady Bunch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch "The Brady Bunch")“) Sept. 24; Bruce Vilanch (“Hollywood Squares,” Hairspray) Oct. 11; Sherri Shepherd (“The View”) Oct. 12; and playwright [Charles Busch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Busch "Charles Busch") (Tale of the Allergist’s Wife) Oct. 18.
Comedian Sarah Silverman and gossip columnist Perez Hilton will also be featured in the series. Dates will be announced shortly.
Previously announced appearances include Tovah Feldshuh (Irena’s Vow, Golda’s Balcony) Sept. 20; [Julie Halston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Halston "Julie Halston") (“Sex and the City,” Gypsy) Sept. 27; and [Frank DeCaro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DeCaro "Frank DeCaro") (Sirius Radio) Oct. 4.
During the Talkback series, Gold interviews her guests for a chat and a trip down memory lane, and audience members are given a chance to ask questions and continue the conversation.
“‘To Be Continued’… \[is\] a fun add-on to the show because thematically, The Judy Show is how my childhood and television sitcoms shaped me into who I am,” said Gold in a statement. “The talkbacks will open the whole thing up so it’s not just about my stories but about everyone’s stories.”
The solo show, written by Gold and Kate Moira Ryan, is directed by Amanda Charlton, who helmed the production’s earlier incarnation at the [Williamstown Theatre Festival](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.714197,-73.207075&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.714197,-73.207075 (Williamstown%20Theatre%20Festival)&t=h "Williamstown Theatre Festival"). The Judy Show also features songs by Gold and Ryan with additional material by Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith. The limited engagement runs through Oct. 22.
The Judy Show, according to press notes, offers a “hilarious look at \[Gold’s\] life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition with a little help from our favorite TV shows of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.”
The production features scenic and projection design by Andrew Boyce, lighting design by Joshua Scherr and sound design by Alex Neumann.
The DR2 Theatre is located at 103 E. 15th Street, just east of Union Square. Tickets, priced $65, are available by visiting www.Telecharge.com or calling (212) 239-6200. For more information go to www.JudyGold.com.
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**Tags:** Brady Bunch, Bruce Vilanch, Charles Busch, Cynthia Nixon, Frank DeCaro, Judy Gold, Julie Halston, Sex and the City
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### [Bruce Vilanch Makes Cameo In Film "Going Down"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/13/bruce-vilanch-makes-cameo-in-film-going-down/)
**Published:** September 13, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Academy Award, Alec Mapa, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Vilanch, DVD, James Franco, Judy Tenuta, Los Angeles
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### [Eddie Murphy To Host 84th Oscars - Yes, Bruce Will Be Head Writer](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/06/eddie-murphy-to-host-84th-oscars-yes-bruce-will-be-head-writer/)
**Published:** September 6, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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[Eddie Murphy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/eddie_murphy "Eddie Murphy") Agrees To Host Oscars; Producers Tell Film Academy It’s Official
By NIKKI FINKE Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 10:47am PDT
EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy In Talks To Host 84th Oscars**
**UPDATE:** The [Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences") just made it official.
**EXCLUSIVE:** I’ve just learned that Eddie Murphy has officially agreed to host the [84th Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). Today, Oscar producer [Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner") is formally telling the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that he’s chosen Murphy to emcee the Oscars and an announcement will be made. I broke the news over Labor day weekend that Ratner was in talks with Murphy and was going to offer AMPAS President Tom Sherak only the comedian’s name to host. I was told that a lot of big names had approached the other 84th Academy Awards producer Don Mischer saying they are interested in hosting, and Don was fielding those calls. Brett’s talks with Murphy had been along the lines of, “If the Academy asked you to host, would you accept?†I learned that Eddie has now formally said yes. This iscoming months earlier than normal because usually the Oscars host isn’t chosen or announced until January. But everyone is eager to get out the news now. I do know that Murphy’s Hollywood agency WME thinks it’d be a real coup for Murphy’s dormant career which is about to get a kick-start. That’s because the veteran comedian is starring in the Brett Ratner-directed and Imagine/Universal-produced Tower Heist action laugher with Ben Stiller that opens on November 4th and is receiving great buzz. So Murphy and Ratner already have a close relationship, and this would be a way for Brett to put his personal stamp on 2012′s broadcast. Plus Murphy is starring in the DreamWorks dramedy film A Thousand Words scheduled for release on January 12th.
Eddie, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2006′s Dreamgirls but lost, is said to worship the Oscars. “Nobody knows movies better or is a bigger cinephile than Eddie. Not Brett. Not even Quentin Tarantino. Eddie can quote scenes from every single movie word for word,†an insider tells me. “He can bring all that experience to hosting. Plus he has Saturday Night Live experience before a live crowd. And worldwide the biggest crossover comedians are Will Smith and Eddie Murphy.†That’s important because a huge part of the Academy Awards telecast audience is global. And with two movies opening before the Oscars, Murphy could benefit from the publicity bonanza especially overseas where international releases usually follow U.S. openings by several months. Besides, the Academy has been after more diversity which is why this October it’s honoring James Earl Jones and Oprah Winfrey (even though she’s much more of a TV personality than a movie star or filmmaker).
The comedy and urban entertainment website Humor Mill posted first an exclusive (sourced from several close friends of Eddie’s) that Murphy was a done deal. But I’ve confirmed it wasn’t until today. A decision like this to host the Academy Awards is made by committee with a star and his/her reps and pals weighing all the pro and con options. Which is why the Academy has such a tough time finding new hosts every year because it can be such a career-altering decision. Meanwhile, I hear that veteran [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"), who recently expressed interest in hosting again, will almost certainly be incorporated into the show in some marquee way.
This is now the 4th straight year that Deadline has first reported the host of the Academy Awards, including Hugh Jackman, [Alec Baldwin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alec_baldwin "Alec Baldwin") and Steve Martin, [James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco") and Anne Hathaway, and now Eddie Murphy. Although there was tremendous excitement and anticipation over Franco and Hathaway hosting last year, the pair laid an egg onstage. So the general concensus was that the Oscars needed to return to a comedian to emcee. In recent years of Oscar telecasts, even going back decades, the ceremony has been emceed by mostly TV or movie comedians — whether Will Rogers and George Jessel in the 1930s, Bob Hope off and on for the next three decades, Johnny Carson in the 1980s, even David Letterman in 1995. In the 1990s and 2000s, there’s been a mix of film funny people like Billy Crystal, [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), and Steve Martin as well as stand-up comedians and TV personalities like Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres and Jon Stewart. When the producers of the [81st Oscars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81st_Academy_Awards "81st Academy Awards") decided to omit the stand-up portion of the show (since these one-liners are usually understood only by the movie industry and leave TV viewers bewildered), it opened up the possibility of an actor hosting again. But that flopped for the 83rd telecast.
There was a period in the 1970s when groups of actors emceed: 1973 when Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson did it as an ensemble; 1974: John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, and David Niven; 1976, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly; 1977, Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, and Warren Beatty. Only a few thesps have hosted the show by themselves, including first AMPAS president and one of the founders Douglas Fairbanks, followed by Jimmy Stewart, Robert Montgomery, and Jack Lemmon, when the Oscars consisted of an awards banquet, then a radio show, and ultimately a globally broadcast TV spectacle.
Hosting the Academy Awards is like performing the most dangerous stunt imaginable for a Hollywood actor or actress. It’s playing the biggest room with a worldwide TV audience and working in front of a live audience at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. “There’s no job quite like it in the world,†Bruce Vilanch, the writer of more than two decades of Oscar shows, told Deadline last time around. “You have to entertain this industry crowd. You have to stay cool when the lights are blazing down. You’ve got to move things along. And you’ve got to be charming without offending anyone.†There was general consensus that Steve Martin (who hosted on his own twice) paired with Alec Baldwin were a breezy and classy twosome last time around. So the feeling now is to keep the hosts in the movie family. Whoopi Goldberg was the first woman to fly solo, and her four hosting stints were considered a mixed bag. But by her final two efforts, she’d figured out how to blend wit with charm. In her wake, [Ellen De Generes](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ellen_degeneres "Ellen DeGeneres") proved to be fun, self-deprecating, and clever as emcee, as well as unafraid to interact with superstars in the audience. Unfortunately for Oscar, both women are now TV talk stars. But it’s not just the host that matters but also the movies. The most-viewed Oscarcast continues to be the 1998 show Crystal hosted that honored James Cameron’s Titanic.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Headlines N. LA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/03/bruce-vilanch-headlines-n-la-gay-lesbian-film-festival/)
**Published:** September 3, 2011
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Comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to headline N. LA Gay & Lesbian [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival")
Submitted by Sean Staggs, [Digital Media](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media "Digital media") Manager
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011, 9:06am
Topics: Arts & Culture, Community Spirit, Events**
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Festival passes are now on sale for the 3rd annual [North Louisiana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Louisiana "North Louisiana") Gay & Lesbian Film Festival to be held September 16-22, 2011, at the Robinson Film Center in downtown [Shreveport, LA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111 (Shreveport%2C%20Louisiana)&t=h "Shreveport, Louisiana"), with celebrity guest Bruce Vilanch. The film festival is sponsored by PACE, “People Acting for Change and Equality.â€
**With a festival pass, tickets can be redeemed for the following:**
the lavish opening night reception at 6 p.m. on Friday, September 16 with celebrity guest Bruch Vilanch; Vilanch is a six-time Emmy winner and highly sought-after [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") comedy writer and [stand-up comedian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy").
the opening night screening of the film [Get Bruce](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_bruce "Get Bruce") with introduction before and Q & A after with Bruce Vilanch.
the stand-up comedy performance of Bruce Vilanch on Saturday, September 17 at 7:15 p.m.
the screenings of the films Undertow, Wish Me Away, Hollywood to [Dollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.796112,-83.534367&spn=1.0,1.0&q=35.796112,-83.534367 (Dollywood)&t=h "Dollywood"), Leave It on the Floor, Gen Silent, Thy Will Be Done, and a collection of original submission short films.
A festival pass sells for $95, a substantial discount over individual ticket prices to the above events.
Panel discussions will follow one screening of Gen Silent and Thy Will Be Done, and the executive producers and lead actors of Hollywood to Dollywood will be present to close out the festival on Thursday, September 22.
Festival passes on sale now, or individual tickets on sale August 29, can be purchased at the Robinson Film Center (617 Texas St., 318-459-4122; [**www.robinsonfilmcenter.org**](http://www.robinsonfilmcenter.org)). For additional information see the film festival web site: [**www.nlglff.org**](http://www.nlglff.org).
For more information about PACE, north Louisiana’s leading advocacy organization for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, go to [**www.pacelouisiana.org**](http://www.pacelouisiana.org).
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### [Retraction: Bruce Vilanch WILL NOT Be Participating in Gay Days at Disneyland!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/01/retraction-bruce-vilanch-will-not-be-participating-in-gay-days-at-disneyland/)
**Published:** September 1, 2011
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Carol Channing, Others To Participate In Gay Days At Disneyland ](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/01/bruce-vilanch-carol-channing-others-to-participate-in-gay-days-at-disneyland/)
**Published:** September 1, 2011
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**Mister D:** *I was just informed that Mr. Vilanch will not be participating in Gay Days at Disneyland this year.*
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[Carol Channing](http://www.carolchanning.org "Carol Channing"), et al. to Participate in GAY DAYS at [Disneyland](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8120972222,-117.918969444&spn=1.0,1.0&q=33.8120972222,-117.918969444 (Disneyland)&t=h "Disneyland"), 9/30-10/2
by BWW News Desk
September 1, 2011**
The 2011 Gay Days at Disneyland are set to take place Friday, September 30 to Sunday, October 2. For its 14th year, the event is expected to attract more than 30,000 LGBT park-hoppers from California and all over the country.
Newly added to the schedule is An Intimate Conversation With Carol Channing, in which the 90 year-old legend will talk about her life, career and new CD with Eddie Shapiro, co-author of [Queens in the Kingdom: The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks](http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Kingdom-Ultimate-Lesbian-Disney/dp/1598800612%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1598800612 "Queens in the Kingdom: The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks"). The chat will take place at [Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel](http://www.disneyland.com "Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa") on Sunday, October 2 at 6:30 p.m. and will benefit the Dr. Carol Channing and Harry Kullijian Foundation for the Arts, whose mission it is to put the arts back into the public schools. Tickets are $20.
Glee star and 2011 Emmy-nominee, [Dot Marie Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_Jones "Dot Jones"), will also be on hand, hosting the VIP cocktail party with Gay Days regular, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). The party, for VIP Gold ticket holders, is on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 5:30 p.m. VIP tickets are available by calling (714) 778-BLUE.
The weekend opens Friday, September 30 with WONDERLAND, a dance party with DJ Ray Rhodes (Tiger Heat, KBIG 104.), hosted by Los Angeles drag diva Momma. Oscar winning screenwrite, Dustin Lance Black (Milk and the forthcoming J.Edgar) will preside over the [VIP room](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_Person "Very Important Person"). he event, which benefits The Trevor Project, runs from 9:30pm-1am at [Ralph Brennan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Brennan "Ralph Brennan")‘s Jazz Kitchen located in Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort. Tickets are $20 at the door.
Saturday, October 1 will be Gay Day at Disneyland, which culminates with KINGDOM, the weekend’s signature dance party with music from renowned DJ Kimberly S. and a special performance by The Voice finalist, Frenchie Davis, KINGDOM will be held at the House of Blues [Anaheim](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8361111111,-117.889722222&spn=0.1,0.1&q=33.8361111111,-117.889722222 (Anaheim%2C%20California)&t=h "Anaheim, California") in Downtown Disney from 9pm-1:30am. Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 at the door.
New this year is a Saturday ladies night, featuring a performance by renowned comedienne, Suzanne Westenhoefer, performing her show, Semi-Sweet. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. That will be followed by another Gay Days Anaheim first, a lesbian lounge at The Anabella Hotel, across the street from Disneyland.
Sunday, October 2 will be Gay Day at [Disney’s California Adventure](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.8077777778,-117.919166667&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.8077777778,-117.919166667 (Disney%20California%20Adventure%20Park)&t=h "Disney California Adventure Park") and the return of the Gay Days Anaheim pool party, PLUNGE! from noon until 4:00 p.m. at The Anabella Hotel. DJ Zach Moos will be spinning while Momma and her bathing beauties splash around in the pool. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
VIP ticket packages for all three parties are available now.
Both days in the parks will feature gatherings only available over Gay Days weekend, including scavenger hunts, a group photo, a PFLAG luncheon, group meet ups at varying attractions, and many more events targeted to families, youth, bears, couples and Mouseketeers of every ilk. A complete schedule is available at the Gay Days website www.GayDaysAnaheim.com
Other highlights of the weekend include free gift bags at the Gay Days Welcome Center (located inside the Trillium Room of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel), and a Gay Days Pin Trading event on Sunday.
Gay Days Anaheim is a “mix-in” with the park’s other weekend guests, but gays and lesbians are encouraged to wear red shirts in order to identify each other and to show strong numbers. Official T-shirts are available at the official Gay Days at Disneyland website. Note: Gay Days Anaheim is NOT a Disney-sponsored event so Disney will not have any information regarding the “unofficial” happening.
Sponsors for the event include Undergear, Absolut Vodka, Howard Johnson Anaheim, Hotel Menage, The Anabella Hotel, Knott’s Berry Farm, Miller/ Coors, and the Anaheim/Orange Country Visitor and Convention Bureau. Media sponsors are Gay.com, Frontiers, PIX, Odyssey Hawaii, Rage, Grindr, Hollywood and Highland, EDGE and QVegas.
For complete details, including discounted hotel rooms and park tickets, visit www.GayDaysAnaheim.com
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Entertain On Stepping Stone's 35th Anniversary Cruise](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/09/01/2732/)
**Published:** September 1, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Live it Up with [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on Stepping Stone’s 35th Anniversary Cruise
BIXI B CRAIG
August 31st, 2011**
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One of San Diego’s most anticipated charity events is just weeks away: Stepping Stone’s third annual Mission Bay Cruise, co-hosted by none other than six-time [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch. This year’s gala cruise on Sunday, Oct. 2nd, promises to appeal to everybody’s taste buds.
Expect an extraordinary evening of mingling, dining, and entertainment onboard the exquisite “gem of the bay,†the William D. Evans sternwheeler. Proceeds go to Stepping Stone’s exemplary alcohol/drug recovery and HIV/AIDS services as well as to the agency’s campaign for a women’s sober living program.
“The Board of Directors of Stepping Stone are thrilled that Mr. Vilanch has agreed to join us on our third Mission Bay Cruise. After writing for the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and Tonys for years, he has proven to be one of the funniest people in Hollywood. Come enjoy a memorable evening and help us celebrate Stepping Stone’s 35th Anniversary,†said Tom Reise, Board Chairperson.
Stepping Stone is San Diego’s nationally recognized United Way member organization addressing the unique needs of LGBT individuals suffering from alcohol and drug addiction since 1976. The agency’s state-of-the-art treatment facility provides life-saving and life affirming programs, both residential and after care. Additionally, Stepping Stone delivers HIV/AIDS support services and individualized treatment curricula. The organization also operates a transitional living program with over 13,000 bed days delivered annually. The Mission Bay Cruise is the agency’s annual signature event, bringing together community leaders, alumni, and friends of the organization.
VIP guests will be invited to a Meet N’ Greet with Bruce Vilanch on the 3rd floor deck. One of the entertainment industry’s most sought after jokesmiths, Vilanch is most widely recognized as the Emmy-winning writer of 21 Oscar broadcasts, and multiple Emmy, Tony, and Grammy broadcasts. He has written material for [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), [Rosie O’Donnell](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rosie_odonnell "Rosie O'Donnell"), and Paul Reiser to name a few, and has also written scripts for multiple one-person shows, musicals, and concert specials.
Known for his eclectic eyewear and collection of unique T-shirts, he began as a child model for Lane Bryant, but when his initial efforts as an actor came to naught, he became an entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune instead. Impressed by his review of her cabaret performance in 1970, Bette Midler hired him to punch up her act where he gave birth to Midler’s famed Sophie Tucker jokes. He later moved to Los Angeles where he wrote for variety shows like the original “Donny and Marie” and “[The Brady Bunch Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Hour "The Brady Bunch Hour")” (both ABC) and provided material for [Richard Pryor](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/richard_pryor "Richard Pryor"), [Lily Tomlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lily_tomlin "Lily Tomlin") and [Joan Rivers](http://www.joanrivers.com/ "Joan Rivers").
A special after dinner show will keep you laughing into the week. What else to expect on the cruise? A delicious four-course dinner under the 2nd floor masterpiece of a 50,000-piece stained glass dome. A composite of many actual steamboats that plied America’s rivers in the 19th century, the 100-foot-long William D. Evans was launched in 1986 as a loving tribute to that era’s most elegant mode of transportation. From the three hand-crafted wooden masts at her bow, to the twelve ton paddlewheel at her stern, the boat recalls in smallest detail a colorful period of American history typified by graceful living. Skimming the blue-green waters of Mission Bay, the William D. Evans presents the perfect setting for Stepping Stone’s 2011 gala.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of this leading non-profit organization. Meet distinguished recovery ambassadors, community leaders, elected officials, trustees, and the larger “Stepping Stone community.†Guests will enjoy a multi media exhibit chronicling the history of Stepping Stone, from the days when LGBT addiction treatment was non-existent to modern day practices, activism, and success.
Boarding is at 4:00 pm, the reception with Bruce Vilanch at 4:15 pm (VIP Guests bypass the line); Dinner will be served at 5:45 pm, and Live it Up with Bruce Vilanch starts at 6:30 pm, to be proceeded by a live auction. The belly of the boat will also feature live DJ music, a dance floor, and a silent auction featuring high end items.
VIP Tickets are $125, regular tickets $75 per person. Table captions save $50 on their table for 10, not including VIP upgrade.
Boarding passes can be purchased at steppingstonesd.org/events.html and at Stepping Stone’s administrative office at 3767 Central Ave., [San Diego, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.715,-117.1625&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.715,-117.1625 (San%20Diego)&t=h "San Diego") 92105.
For more information, table captain service, and sponsorship opportunities contact Bixi Craig, Director of Development, at 619.278.0777 ext.115 or bixi@steppingstonesd.org
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### ["Buster, AKA Fox Michaels interviews Bruce Vilanch!"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/29/buster-aka-fox-michaels-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** August 29, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear In Doc On Divine, " I Am Devine"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/29/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-in-doc-on-divine-i-am-devine/)
**Published:** August 29, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Baltimore Magazine](http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/ "Baltimore (magazine)")
The Chatter
Filmmaker Seeks Divine Intervention
By Evan Serpick
August 29th, 2011**
If ever there was a subject ripe to be documented, it’s Divine, a.k.a. Baltimore native [Harris Glenn Milstead](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/divine "Divine"), the overweight drag queen whose campy, often hilarious, sometimes bizarre turns in [John Waters](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1016392-john_waters "John Waters") films like [Pink Flamingos](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pink_flamingos "Pink Flamingos"), [Hairspray](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009096-hairspray "Hairspray"), Polyester, and Female Troubles always threatened to steal the show.
We’re happy to report that acclaimed director [Jeffrey Schwarz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Schwarz "Jeffrey Schwarz") is at work on just such a documentary, I Am Devine, and has already shot interviews with Waters, co-stars [Ricki Lake](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ricki_lake "Ricki Lake") and [Mink Stole](http://www.minkstole.com "Mink Stole"), [Michael Musto](http://www.villagevoice.com/musto "Michael Musto"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and Divine’s mother, Frances Milstead, among many others.
The problem is, Schwarz claims he doesn’t have money to pay for “editing, music, archival footage, graphics, and plenty of LIQUID EYELINER” and so, he’s started a fundraising campaign, aiming to raise $100,000 to release the film next year. So far, he’s raised $3,368, with 56 days left to meet his goal.
Frankly, $100K sounds like a lot of cheese to me, especially when the bulk of the shooting is already done. Maybe this is what is what it would cost to do some fairly high-end post-production work, or maybe the studio(s) that own those films are asking a lot to license the archival footage. In any case, I for one, would lerve to the see a documentary about Divine, “the most beautiful woman in the world.” If you’re not familiar with her charms, watch the clip on the website, and think about contributing….
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Divine, Hairspray, Jeffrey Schwarz, John Waters, Mink Stole, Pink Flamingos, Ricki Lake
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### [Hurricane Irene Blows Off Bruce Vilanch From Attending Royal Party In Hamptons](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/29/hurricane-irene-blows-off-bruce-vilanch-from-attending-royal-party-in-hamptons/)
**Published:** August 29, 2011
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**[New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/ "Daily News (New York)")
Gatecrasher
Indian Prince [Manvendra Singh Gohil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manvendra_Singh_Gohil "Manvendra Singh Gohil")‘s weekend party continues on despite Hurricane Irene’s rage
Monday, August 29th 2011**
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Hurricane Irene proved to be an annoyance but not quite a royal pain for Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil.
While threat of the 700-mile-wide storm prompted most Hamptons event organizers to cancel their weekend parties, recording artist [Ivan Wilzig](http://www.sirivanmusic.com/ "Sir Ivan") refused to throw in the turban on his fete for [India’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333 (India)&t=h "India") first openly gay prince.
The party went on as scheduled at Wilzig’s castle-like home in Water Mill on Saturday night — although not quite as planned.
For starters, a luxury bus that Wilzig had reserved to ferry 45 guests from the city to the party was canceled by the operator over weather concerns.
The photographer and the deejay hired for the event also bailed, although Wilzig’s girlfriend Mina Otsuka gamely took over the second chore.
Out of 200 people who’d RSVP’d to welcome the royal to the Hamptons, only 70 ended up making it. Among the missing were comic and Oscars telecast writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and “South Park” and “Book of Mormon” creators [Trey Parker](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/trey_parker "Trey Parker") and [Matt Stone](http://www.last.fm/music/Matt%2BStone "Matt Stone"), who would have found a wealth of material at the party.
Wilzig, clad in an orange suit and matching cape emblazoned with a peace sign, presented the 45-year-old prince with a game-show sized check for $5,000 that was made out to the royal’s charity, the Laksyha Trust, which raises awareness about gay rights and HIV/AIDS prevention for homosexual men.
“If I could give out the [Nobel Peace Prize](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=59.9116666667,10.7336111111&spn=0.01,0.01&q=59.9116666667,10.7336111111 (Nobel%20Peace%20Prize)&t=h "Nobel Peace Prize"), he would have already won it, but instead I’ll just give him a lovely donation,” Wilzig told the crowd, adding that the check “is only the tip of the iceberg.”
After graciously accepting the sum, the prince compared Wilzig’s estate to his own in India.
[Gohil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohil "Gohil")‘s memories of home must be complicated. His family unsuccessfully attempted to disinherit him after he came out of the closet in 2006 and, in 2007, appeared on an episode of [Oprah Winfrey](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/oprah_winfrey "Oprah Winfrey")‘s talk show entitled “Gay Around the World.”
In 2008, the prince announced plans to adopt a child, which, if he pulls it off, will reportedly make him the first single, gay man to adopt a child in India.
Unlike his struggles in India, Gohil told us “Americans are always very loving to me.”
They can be pretty forward, too. At the party, an attractive young man approached the prince to ask him “What’s your type?”
The royal replied that he doesn’t have “a physical type.” Rather, he said, “it’s mental.”
He described his friendship with Wilzig in similar fashion.
“Sometimes you meet someone and their mental tuning is exactly like yours,” the prince said.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Daily News (New York), Gohil, Ivan Wilzig, Matt Stone, Nobel Peace Prize, Oprah Winfrey, Trey Parker
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch Makes Merry At P-Town’s Carnival!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/24/photo-bruce-vilanch-makes-merry-at-p-town’s-carnival/)
**Published:** August 24, 2011
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### [Bruce Cameos In "Going Down In La La Land"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/18/bruce-cameos-in-going-down-in-la-la-land/)
**Published:** August 18, 2011
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**Sraight [Vancouver](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=49.25,-123.1&spn=0.1,0.1&q=49.25,-123.1 (Vancouver)&t=h "Vancouver")
By Craig Takeuchi, August 18, 2011**
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Last year’s [Vancouver Queer Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Queer_Film_Festival "Vancouver Queer Film Festival") boasted sold out two screenings of Casper Andreas’s fag-hag comedy Violet Tendencies (which stars [Mindy Cohn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindy_Cohn "Mindy Cohn") of Facts of Life fame). This year, the director is back with his latest feature, Going Down in [LA-LA Land](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") .
It’s based on the novel by [Andy Zeffer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Zeffer "Andy Zeffer") and takes a look at the seedy side of gay [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") through the eyes of Adam (the gorgeous Adam Ludwinski), a fresh-faced New Yorker who moves to the City of Angels to pursue his dreams of becoming a star—like everyone else and their dildo. He moves in with his requisite best female friend, the entertainingly durable Candy (Allison Lane). Unfortunately, he has no savings. And her financial situation, not to mention career, is rapidly drying up as well.
So what’s a gorgeous gay boy (with an admirably cut body who can’t keep a day job but is desperate for fast cash) to do? No surprises here, as his preppie good-looks are quickly traded in for whatever offer comes (hardy har, get it out of your system) his way. Contrary to his wholesome appearance, his slide down the slippery slope into the sex biz runs at a pretty brisk clip, as do his relationships.
That pretty much sums up the film as a whole: the pace of events keep things hopping along and entertaining but that prevents the characters or narrative developing any convincing depth. The film’s most ineffectual moments are, unfortunately, some of its most dramatic ones.
Adam’s immediate attraction to the dubious-seeming Nick (played by Andreas himself) is hard to swallow (okay, kids, that’s enough). Any internal turmoil or consequences of his sexcapades are too quickly eschewed for shuffling him into yet another sexual situation faster than you can say Bel Ami. While the narrative purports to unveil the dark side of gay Hollywood, it somehow remains a little too content to skim along the surface of things to offer any authentic surprises or insights.
When a closeted family sitcom star requests Adam as an escort date and they hit it off, things look promising. Alas, the story ends up culminating in an overly idealistic conclusion.
Were Adam’s storyline more evenly infused with the unpredictability given to Candy, the film might have provided a more overall satisfying experience. Nonetheless, audience-pleasing laughs do abound. The film is peppered with cameos by the likes of [Perez Hilton](http://perezhilton.com "Perez Hilton"), [Alec Mapa](http://www.alecmapa.com "Alec Mapa"), and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and the spirited Candy delivers some of the film’s most hilarious moments. Of course, there are plenty of shots of the beautifully sculpted Ludwinski to enjoy.
Although the film played last night (August 17) with a Q&A period with Andreas, there’s a second screening on Friday (August 19) at 9:30 p.m. Granville 7 (855 [Granville Street](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street "Granville Street")). Visit the Vancouver Queer Film Festival website for more details. The festival runs until Sunday, August 21 and there are plenty of other selections to check out as well.
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**Tags:** Alec Mapa, Andy Zeffer, Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Mindy Cohn, Perez Hilton, Vancouver Queer Film Festival
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### [Bruce Vilanch Special Guest At Shreveport's 3rd Annual North Louisiana Gay & Lesbian Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/16/bruce-vilanch-special-guest-at-shreveports-3rd-annual-north-louisiana-gay-lesbian-film-festival/)
**Published:** August 16, 2011
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**Shreveport Times
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival passes now on sale
Aug. 16, 2011**
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Festival passes for the 3rd Annual [North Louisiana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Louisiana "North Louisiana") Gay & [Lesbian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian "Lesbian") [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival") are now on sale.
The festival, presented by People Acting for Change and Equality, is set for Sept. 16-22 at the Robinson Film Center in downtown [Shreveport](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111 (Shreveport%2C%20Louisiana)&t=h "Shreveport, Louisiana"), featuring celebrity guest [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
The festival pass is $95 and includes admission to the opening reception with Vilanch on Sept. 16; the opening screening of “[Get Bruce](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_bruce "Get Bruce")†featuring an introduction before and discussion after with Vilanch; a [stand-up comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_comedy "Stand-up comedy") performance with Vilanch on Sept. 17; and screenings of “Undertow,†“Wish Me Away,†“[Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") to [Dollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.796112,-83.534367&spn=1.0,1.0&q=35.796112,-83.534367 (Dollywood)&t=h "Dollywood"),†“Leave it on the Floor,†“The Will Be Done†and a collection of original short films.
Panel discussions will follow one screening of “Gen Silent†and “They Will Be Done†and executive producers and lead actors of “Hollywood to Dollywood†will attend the closing night of the festival on Sept. 22.
Festival passes can be purchased online at www.robinsonfilmcenter.org, by phone at 459-412 or at the box office at 617 [Texas](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.0,-100.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=31.0,-100.0 (Texas)&t=h "Texas") St., Shreveport. Individual tickets will go on sale Aug. 29.
Visit the festival website at [**www.nlgff.org**](http://www.nlgff.org) for more information.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Dollywood, Film festival, Hollywood, Lesbian, Movie, Shreveport Louisiana, Texas
---
### [Bruce Vilanch To Host Special On The OWN Network](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/10/bruce-vilanch-to-host-special-on-the-own-network/)
**Published:** August 10, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**GateCrasher
by Frank DiGiacomo
August 10th 2011**
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Hardly on his OWN… Prince gets a royal welcome
Sir Ivan is giving a royal welcome to [India](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333 (India)&t=h "India")‘s [Crown Prince](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_prince "Crown prince") Manvendra Singh [Gohil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohil "Gohil") at his [Hamptons](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.8849311111,-72.5010619444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.8849311111,-72.5010619444 (The%20Hamptons)&t=h "The Hamptons") castle on Aug. 27. The eccentric philanthropist and recording artist will host a private reception for the prince to welcome him to the [New York area](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.8086111111,-74.0203861111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.8086111111,-74.0203861111 (New%20York%20metropolitan%20area)&t=h "New York metropolitan area") that evening. The event will be taped by [Oprah Winfrey](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/oprah_winfrey "Oprah Winfrey")‘s OWN TV. Sir Ivan also will debut his latest electro-pop single, “[Hare Krishna](http://www.iskcon.com "International Society for Krishna Consciousness"),” at the fete.
Other events to be filmed for the OWN network include the prince’s Aug. 30 Guild Hall event in [East Hampton](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.9569444444,-72.1988888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.9569444444,-72.1988888889 (East%20Hampton%20%28town%29%2C%20New%20York)&t=h "East Hampton (town), New York"), hosted by [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), titled “A Royal Night Out.” It will benefit the Lakshya Trust for AIDS/HIV awareness. Tickets are available at the site [**guildhall.org**](http://www.guildhall.org).
[John Legend](http://www.myspace.com/johnlegend "John Legend") doesn’t travel light. The singer and his girlfriend, Chrissy Teigen, had a technical difficulty on their way to the Express Rocks! Suites at the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago on Sunday. Legend’s large entourage had piled into an elevator, but a source says the group proved to be more than it could handle. The lift stalled for over five minutes, and when it finally started moving again, the crooner’s bodyguards hopped out on the next floor to lighten the load.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, East Hampton (town) New York, Gohil, Hamptons, India, John Legend, New York metropolitan area, Oprah Winfrey
---
### [Bruce Vilanch To Be Celebrity Guest At The PACE Annual Film Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/06/bruce-vilanch-to-be-celebrity-guest-at-the-pace-annual-film-festival/)
**Published:** August 6, 2011
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# Shreveport Times
PACE announces third annual film festival
## People Acting for Change and Equality’s 3rd Annual North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is set for Sept. 16-22 at the Robinson Film Center
**7:23 PM, Aug. 5, 2011**
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2011/08/113546679.jpg)
People Acting for Change and Equality’s third annual [North Louisiana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Louisiana "North Louisiana") [Gay and Lesbian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality "Homosexuality") [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival") is set for Sept. 16-22 at the Robinson Film Center.
This year’s celebrity guest will be [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), a six-time [Emmy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner and one of [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood")‘s most sought-after comedy writers, best known as a celebrity panelist and head writer for “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares").”
Opening night will kick off Sept. 16 with a reception featuring Vilanch, where he will introduce his film “[Get Bruce](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_bruce "Get Bruce"),” followed by a question-and-answer discussion. Vilanch will perform a stand-up act on Sept. 17.
“Hollywood to [Dollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.796112,-83.534367&spn=1.0,1.0&q=35.796112,-83.534367 (Dollywood)&t=h "Dollywood")” executive producers, lead actors Mike Bowen and identical twins Gary and Larry Lane, will close out the film festival on Sept. 22 with a question-and-answer discussion, followed by a Dolly-themed after-party hosted by The Korner Lounge.
Other films during the week-long festival include “Undertow,” “Wish Me Away,” “Hollywood to Dollywood,” “Leave it on the Floor,” “Gen Silent,” “Thy Will Be Done” and a collection of original submission short films.
Panel discussions will follow some films.
A pre-festival event will be held Sept. 15 at minicine.
Festival passes and individual tickets will go on sale Aug. 15 at the Robinson Film Center, 617 Texas St., [Shreveport](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.4680555556,-93.9211111111 (Shreveport%2C%20Louisiana)&t=h "Shreveport, Louisiana"). Tickets will also be available by phone at 459-4122 and online at www.rob
insonfilmcenter.org.
### Contact Bryan Sullivan at hairchem@aol
.com before Monday to become a sponsor.
### Visit www.nlglff.org for more film festival
information.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Festival, movies
**Tags:** Arts, Bruce Vilanch, Film festival, Get Bruce, Hollywood, Hollywood Squares, movies, United States
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### [Who Might Brett Ratner Pick To Host The Academy Awards?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/08/05/who-might-brett-ratner-pick-to-host-the-academy-awards/)
**Published:** August 5, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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What Might [Brett Ratner](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner "Brett Ratner") Do for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award")?
8/5/11 at 12:15 PM**
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Now that we’ve had some time to digest the idea that Brett Ratner will be producing the Academy Awards — a job he once told us was thankless — it’s time to wonder what kind of Ratner effect we’ll see on the ceremonies themselves. Will he be able to lure his elusive [Rush Hour](http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Hour-Special-Jackie-Chan/dp/B000OT6V64%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000OT6V64 "Rush Hour (Special Edition)") star [Chris Tucker](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/chris_tucker "Chris Tucker") to the Oscarcast somehow? Can he reconcile his heterosexuality with a ceremony that’s often heavy on musical numbers and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")? Might his worship of Old [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood") figures like [Warren Beatty](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/warren_beatty "Warren Beatty") and [Robert Evans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_%28producer%29 "Robert Evans (producer)") come in handy? And does this open the door to a hyperkinetic 2013 Oscar ceremony helmed by [Michael Bay](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/michael_bay "Michael Bay")? Give us your brainstorms, your fears, and your guesses on who Ratner might pick to host the damn thing.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Brett Ratner, Bruce Vilanch, Chris Tucker, Hollywood, Michael Bay, Robert Evans, Warren Beatty
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### [Bruce Vilanch Set for The Friend Center's 2011-2012 Season](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/07/21/bruce-vilanch-set-for-the-friend-centers-2011-2012-season/)
**Published:** July 21, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Theatermania
[Jim Brochu](http://jimbrochu.com/ "Jim Brochu"), [Rita Rudner](http://www.ritafunny.com "Rita Rudner"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), et al. Set for The Friend Center’s 2011-2012 Season
By: Andy Propst · Jul 20, 2011 · San Francisco**
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The Friend Center for the Arts at the [Jewish Community Center of San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7880504284869,-122.446253618226&spn=1.0,1.0&q=37.7880504284869,-122.446253618226 (Jewish%20Community%20Center%20of%20San%20Francisco)&t=h "Jewish Community Center of San Francisco") (JCCSF) has announced its performing arts programming for the 2011-2012 season.
Among the theater offerings scheduled for the center is Zero Hour (October 21-23), a one-man biodrama about legendary performer Zero Mostel, written and performed by Jim Brochu. In addition, the Magic Theater will return to the space with the Virgin Play Series, a program of readings of works-in-progress, each of which is followed by a conversation between the playwright and theatergoers.
In addition, [L.A. Theatre Works](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Theatre_Works "L.A. Theatre Works") will offer a performance of Norman Corwin’s The Rivalry (January 29), a depiction of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Word for Word Off the Page Series will present selections from Peter Orner’s [Esther Stories](http://www.amazon.com/Esther-Stories-Peter-Orner/dp/0618128735%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0618128735 "Esther Stories") (February 27), a stylized staged reading of Orner’s family tales, and the venue will host a one-performance-only engagement of [Ben Katchor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Katchor "Ben Katchor") and Mark Mulcahy’s Up From the Stacks (February 23), a music-theater work that centers on a college student working at the [New York Public Library](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7527,-73.9818&spn=1.0,1.0&q=40.7527,-73.9818 (New%20York%20Public%20Library)&t=h "New York Public Library") in the early 1970s.
Other offerings at the JCCSF will include appearances by Rita Rudner (December 3), [The Capitol Steps](http://www.capsteps.com "Capitol Steps") (March 18), and Bruce Vilanch (April 23), as well as such family programs as Theatreworks USA’S Charltotte’s Web (November 12), [The Stinky Cheese Man](http://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Cheese-Other-Fairly-Stupid/dp/067084487X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D067084487X "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales") and Other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales (January 22), and Casey Carle’s Bubblemania (April 1).
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Capitol Steps, Esther Stories, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Jim Brochu, L.A. Theatre Works, New York Public Library, Rita Rudner
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### [Carol Channing: Larger Than Life ](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/07/15/2678/)
**Published:** July 15, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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WELL, HELLO CAROL!
July 7, 2011**
The best documentaries are the ones that tell stories so extraordinary that you wouldn’t believe them if they were fiction. And [Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing"): Larger than Life captures the outrageously fascinating life of one of [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre")’s greatest legends. Channing took to the stage in [grammar school](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school "Grammar school"), where she performed dead-on impersonations of all her teachers, and never really left again. From her stage triumphs in “[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_%28musical%29 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)")†and “[Hello, Dolly!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)")†to her late-in-life reunion with her high-school sweetheart, Channing’s life in the theater makes for one of the year’s most bubbly cinematic delights. Featuring rarely-seen clips plus testimonials from [Chita Rivera](http://www.myspace.com/everything/chita-rivera "Chita Rivera"), [Barbara Walters](http://www.myspace.com/everything/barbara-walters "Barbara Walters"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and her chorus of “Dolly boy†dancers, Larger than Life lives up to its titles.
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life screens at OutFest and [Newfest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Lesbian%2C_Gay%2C_Bisexual%2C_%26_Transgender_Film_Festival "New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival") this month.
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Arts, Barbara Walters, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Channing, Chita Rivera, Hello Dolly! (musical), James Franco
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### [Save The Date: Bruce Vilanch To Play The San Francisco Jewish Community Saturday, April 21, 2012 Center ](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/07/03/save-the-date-bruce-vilanch-to-play-the-san-francisco-jewish-community-saturday-april-21-2012-center/)
**Published:** July 3, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
This fabulously funny proud Gay Jew wants to make you laugh.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
JCCSF • 3200 [California Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.791761,-122.411739&spn=0.01,0.01&q=37.791761,-122.411739 (California%20Street%20%28San%20Francisco%29)&t=h "California Street (San Francisco)"), [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco")**
**[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2011/07/63117663Nashvilledon121201175423AM.jpg)**
One of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, Bruce Vilanch has become a recognizable face in his own right. Mr. Vilanch has written for The Tony’s, The [Grammy’s](http://www.grammy.com/ "Grammy Award"), The Emmy’s, and just about every other award show to brighten your television screen. Known for his eclectic eyewear and collection of unique T-shirts he became an entertainment writer in the 1970’s. Vilanch began contributing to the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecasts in 1989, collaborating with the likes of [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and [David Letterman](http://www.biography.com/articles/David-Letterman-9380239 "David Letterman"), and graduated to head writer in 2000. He has roasted celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and President Clinton. He also participates and volunteers at almost every charity function, especially those dealing with [GLBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") issues.
**Contact:** *San Francisco [Jewish Community Center](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Community_Center "Jewish Community Center") Box Office • 415.292.1233 • arts@jccsf.org*
**To Buy Tickets: *[Click Here](https://tickets.jccsf.org/public/)***
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Billy Crystal, Bruce Vilanch, California Street, David Letterman, San Francisco, United States, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosts Lexington Fairness](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/26/bruce-vilanch-hosts-lexington-fairness/)
**Published:** June 26, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Gray, Yates honored by Lexington Fairness
Kentucky.com
By [Herald-Leader](http://www.kentucky.com/ "Lexington Herald-Leader") Staff Report
Posted: 3:35pm on Jun 26, 2011; Modified: 3:36pm on Jun 26, 2011**
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Mayor [Jim Gray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28Kentucky_politician%29 "Jim Gray (Kentucky politician)") was one of the five community leaders honored Friday night by Lexington Fairness, the gay and lesbian advocacy group, for their efforts to promote equality.
Gray, who is [openly gay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_out "Coming out"), received the [Ernesto Scorsone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Scorsone "Ernesto Scorsone") Political Leadership Award, which is named for the openly gay Fayette circuit judge.
Former Lexington [Vice Mayor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_mayor "Deputy mayor") Isabel Yates received the Ally for Fairness Award, Tim Burcham and Phillip Marcum received the Jennifer Crossen Out for Fairness Award, and Wayne Clayton received the Fairness Leadership Award.
The event, at the [Hyatt Regency Hotel](http://www.hyatt.com "Hyatt"), was hosted by [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award")-winning comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and featured entertainment by [Grammy Award](http://www.grammy.com/ "Grammy Award") winner [Thelma Houston](http://www.myspace.com/thelmahouston "Thelma Houston").
Recipients were chosen from a field of nominations submitted by the public.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/06/26/1789989/gray-yates-honored-by-lexington.html#ixzz1QPlSp3O4
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### [Bruce Vilanch Visits Bluegrass Territory!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/23/bruce-vilanch-visits-bluegrass-territory/)
**Published:** June 23, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Kentucky](http://www.history.com/topics/kentucky "Kentucky").com
Posted on Thu, Jun. 23, 2011
Comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") makes his first visit to Bluegrass
Comic hopes Ky. men make passes at he who wears glasses
By Joy Priest
jpriest@herald-leader.com**
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Blond, bespectacled comedian Bruce Vilanch has never visited the Bluegrass, but he hears good things.
“I have never been to Lexington, Kentucky, but [Lady Gaga](http://www.biography.com/articles/Lady-Gaga-481598 "Lady Gaga") tells me it is a very nice place,” Vilanch said from Hollywood, which he referred to as “the intellectual capital of the universe.” (As far as we know, Lady Gaga has never been here either.)
Vilanch, a longtime writer of the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") and former writer and participant on [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares"), will be in town this weekend to host Lexington Fairness’s annual Fairness Awards.
Vilanch, who is gay and from New Jersey, expressed his excitement about a gay community in Kentucky.
“I’m thrilled that there is an [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community") that’s organized,” he said, using the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. “It’s fresh turf. It’s so hard to find virgin territory anymore — it’s hard to find virgin olive oil.”
At the awards ceremony, which comes a day before Saturday’s larger, free Lexington Pride Festival, Lexington Fairness — Central Kentucky’s non-profit gay and lesbian advocacy group — will give out four awards to community leaders in Kentucky who are working to spread fairness or equality, or working to make the gay community more accepted. It’s the fourth year for the ceremony, said the group’s leader, Craig Cammack.
“Bruce’s comedic style is perfect for this event, and he’s a great supporter,” Cammack said. “We want to bring in people who we know are interested in supporting the LGBT community.”
The Emmy-winning Vilanch, 62, spoke with the [Herald-Leader](http://www.kentucky.com/ "Lexington Herald-Leader") about hosting the Fairness Awards, his views on same-sex marriage and why you’ll never see him without his signature specs.
On same-sex marriage: “I’d love to find someone of the same sex to marry me; that may be why I’m going to Kentucky … it’s new turf. But I’ve always found it’s a civil rights issue and there’s nothing but tired religious dogma that stands between gay people having their civil rights. Step by step, we get closer to it.
On pride festivals and the 2011 Fairness Awards: “I think pride festivals are vital because the fight is about visibility. We have to keep reminding the community at large that we’re out there, that we’re part of the mainstream, … the fabric of life.”
The Fairness Awards are “honoring people who are examples of what we are looking to have in society. It’s important that they be recognized, that the whole idea of equal rights be recognized.”
On diversity in the gay community: “We also have to keep reminding ourselves, as gay people, we all come from different walks of life. We’re not all drag queens.
“I’m a white Jewish guy. I have black lesbian friends that wouldn’t normally be in my wheel house. … That’s diversity. It’s important to know we are united in this struggle with people who aren’t quite like us in other areas.”
On whether he has considered contacts: “No. My father was an optometrist, and when I was little, I wanted them and he said, ‘No, you’re too irresponsible. You’ll lose them.’ Now I’m so deeply into glasses.
“When I was on Hollywood Squares, I had all different kinds of glasses. When I got off TV, … I decided I may just go with a couple of pair, a single look. Lately, they have been red ones, but I’m going to try and branch out now because people are bringing up the [Sally Jesse Raphael](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Jessy_Raphael "Sally Jessy Raphael") comparison.”
On his favorite comedian: “I am! (Laughs.) But other than me, … you know, I kind of like vintage guys. My all-time favorite is [Patrick Dennis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dennis "Patrick Dennis"). He wrote a series of social satire in the ’50s that was hilarious. Today, there are so many people, I can’t pick out a favorite. I guess Tina Fey.
On picking a favorite late-night talk show host: “There’s Letterman and that’s about it; Letterman and [Jon Stewart](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jon_stewart "Jon Stewart"). The thing about Letterman is he’s an oddball. He’s so interesting to watch, … the only one on a regular basis because he’s just so quirky, and his attitudes come from so many different places. He’s never predictable.”
On what he’d like attendees of the Fairness Awards to know: “I’m still single, as I was at the beginning of the conversation.”
> Bruce Vilanch is making his first visit to the Bluegrass to host the Fairness Awards.
>
> **IF YOU GO**
> Fairness Awards
>
> Who: Hosted by Bruce Vilanch. Performances by Thelma Houston and the cast of this year’s SummerFest production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> When: June 24. Reception 6-7 p.m., dinner 7-9:30 p.m. and auction.
>
> Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, 401 W. High St.
>
> Tickets: $50-$150
>
> Learn more: (859) 951-8565. Lexfair.org.
>
> Lexington Pride Festival: Raising Pride
>
> What: Festival celebrating gay and lesbian culture. Emcees include Lexington Mayor Jim Gray (12:30-12:45 p.m.), WLEX sports anchor Mary Jo Perino (2:30-5 p.m.), Helena Handbasket (6:15-7 p.m.) and Chi Chi LaRue (7-9:45 p.m.). Entertainment by acts including various drag performers (2:45-4 and 6:45-8:15 p.m.), Mother Jane (4-5:45 p.m.), DJ D-Stu (7-9:45 p.m.), Amalgamation Fire Nation (8:15-9:30 p.m.) and Amber (9:30-11 p.m.).
>
> When: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. June 25
>
> Where: Robert F. Stephens Court House Plaza, Main St. and Limestone
>
> Admission: Free
>
> Learn more: Lexpridefest.org
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/06/23/1786070/comedian-bruce-vilanch-makes-his.html#storylink=rss#ixzz1Q7OYDEg6
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### [Bruce Vilanch Spotted At ‘Watch What Happens Live!’ After Party](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/20/bruce-vilanch-spotted-at-‘watch-what-happens-live’-after-party/)
**Published:** June 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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[Andy Cohen](http://www.bravotv.com/blog/andysblog "Andy Cohen (television personality)") Hosts ‘Watch What Happens Live!’ at Revolution
Posted By Susan Stapleton on June 20th, 2011**
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Also on Sunday night, funny man Andy Cohen, hosted the official “Watch What Happens Live!†after-party at The Beatles Revolution Lounge at [The Mirage](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.1211111111,-115.175277778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=36.1211111111,-115.175277778 (The%20Mirage)&t=h "The Mirage") during their popular LGBT weekly event, Closet Sundays, coming straight from judging this year’s [Miss USA Pageant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_USA "Miss USA") and filming an episode of the Bravo show.
Cohen, along with Brovo’s “Million Dollar Listings†stars [Madison Hildebrand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Hildebrand "Madison Hildebrand") and [Josh Flagg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Flagg "Josh Flagg") entertained party-goers all night long, giving shout-outs on the mic and dancing to the sounds of the deejay who kept energy levels high mixing up sounds behind the turntable.
Other guests on-hand for the fete, including Caroline Manzo from “[Real Housewives of New Jersey](http://www.myspace.com/everything/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey "The Real Housewives of New Jersey")†and [Emmy Award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who was in town judging [Celine Dion](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/celine_dion "Celine Dion")’s performance at her sold-out show in Las Vegas gig, spent the evening mingling with friends while sipping on specialty cocktails and playing with Revolution’s interactive table tops.
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**Categories:** Sightings
**Tags:** AndyCohen, Bruce Vilanch, Celine Dion, Josh Flagg, Las Vegas Nevada, Madison Hildebrand, Miss USA, Real Housewives of New Jersey
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### [Going On Sabbatical](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/04/going-on-sabbatical/)
**Published:** June 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Announcement
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### ["This Week In Texas" Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/04/this-week-in-texas-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** June 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**This Week In Texas
Catching Up With…[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
[Written](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing "Writing") by Scott Lewis
Jun 01, 2011 at 02:32 AM**
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If I was forced to name the funniest person alive I would probably insist on a tie, Dame Edna and Bruce Vilanch. Force me to pick only one…give me [Bruce!](http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Adventures-Trade-Other-Essays/dp/1585420468%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1585420468 "Bruce! : My Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Essays") Bruce Vilanch is the most famous person you may have never heard of. He is head writer for The Ocars, and writes The Emmy’s, The Tony’s and The Grammy’s. [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler") says he is “The first man to put something in my mouth that made us both money!†A line I would be willing to bet he wrote for her.
The first e-mail I get from Bruce contains the subject line “with pleasureâ€. I thought I had gotten another of those annoying emails promoting straight porn. Luckily I noticed it was from him, and was able to catch up with him at his L. A. home.
Bruce was born in [New York City](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") and was adopted at four days old. He was raised by a woman who was a great lover of all things show, “and still does, and nothing will dissuade her.†He tells me. “No matter how many horror stories I lay at her feet she still loves it.†This love of show business made it natural for him to join the fray. “Partially, why I got into the business was because she approved of it wholeheartedly.â€
In researching for this story I found multiple accounts of his start in show business as a chubby child model for Lane Bryants ‘Charming Chub Division’. I found this a little hard to believe. I accuse Bruce of posting that on Wikipedia as a joke. “It was a joke in my act, I haven’t touched my wikipedia page, because they have my birthday as a year later than it really is, if wikipedia is your only source you are in troubleâ€
Bruce’s Career in show business really started as an entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune. “In my parents unending quest for me to do something that would make a living, they steered me into journalism because that seemed like a great outlet for my writing and it looked like it would be more lucrative than my performing.†It was his revue of Bette Midler’s performance in Cabaret that would start him down the path that has made him the most sought after comedy writer in all of Hollywood.
“I didn’t know it at the time, but that was a turning point. I think it was taking me in the direction I was meant to go. Bette always says ‘oh, you had your bags packed the day I met you!’ The truth of the matter is that I was having a good time in Chicago, but I was never comfortable chronicling the achievements of others. I wanted to have some achievements of my own.â€
The relationship that formed between Bruce and Bette had its beginnings when Bruce invented the Sophie Tucker character that has become legendary, and includes him writing the song she sang to Johnny Carson as his final guest, and writing her sitcom “Betteâ€.
But Bette was just the beginning. “After five years in Chicago I came Hollywood to do a TV show with The Manhattan Transfer, and back in the day there was a lot of variety television.†If it was variety Bruce was writing it, Donny and Marie, [The Brady Bunch Hour](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_Hour "The Brady Bunch Hour"), and [The Paul Lynde Halloween Special](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paul_lynde_halloween_special-1976 "Paul Lynde Halloween Special"). What I wouldn’t give to have been on that set! “That lead to the Academy Awards because that after all is the biggest variety special of all.â€
In 1999 Bruce was chronicled in the documentary “[Get Bruce](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_bruce "Get Bruce")â€, which is what everyone says when they need to be funny, I recommend a DVD rental of this fascinating look at The Funniest Man Alive. His phone never stops ringing, and the most fascinating part, is who is on the other end. Bruce is the goto guy for the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Billy Chrystal, Rosanne and [Rosie O’Donnel](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rosie_odonnell "Rosie O'Donnell") among others.
Think he has some stories? You bet he does, and He brings them all to Q Cinema 13 this weekend. Q Cinema is [Fort Worth](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.7573583333,-97.3331805556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.7573583333,-97.3331805556 (Fort%20Worth%2C%20Texas)&t=h "Fort Worth, Texas")‘s amazing Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and Q Cinema Director Todd Camp takes this Nationally recognized event to a new level of fabulousness with An Evening with Bruce Vilanch. “Basically I get to tell stories about my ridiculous career. I make various observations about the world in general, and I tell stories about people you all know. And a lot of backstage stories.â€
Now for the big question, Is Bruce single? “I am, and I am holding open call auditions in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex, everything is bigger in Texas, Thank God! I am hoping to meet a longhorn or two!â€
Bruce comes to town this weekend for the Q Cinema Film Festival, An Evening with Bruce Vilanch promises to be a night of Comedy and Dirt that must not be missed. Bruce performs at The Rose Marine Theater, 1440 North Main Street, Fort Worth, 76106. Tickets are $30. Smart Queens will but tickets for A Bunch of Bruce. For $50. enjoy the show and then go “Bowling with Bruce†at the Lucky Strike Lanes, 2845 West 7th Street, Fort Worth, 76107. Tickets for this and all Q Cinema Events this weekend are available at [www.qcinema.org](http://www.qcinema.org). See you there!!!
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**Categories:** Interview
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### [Rainbows Edge exclusive interview with Bruce Vilanch May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/01/rainbows-edge-exclusive-interview-with-bruce-vilanch-may-7/)
**Published:** June 1, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Interviews, Video
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### [“An Evening With Bruce Vilanch†(8pm Sat June 4) Fort Worth](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/06/01/“an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch”-8pm-sat-june-4-fort-worth/)
**Published:** June 1, 2011
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## Q Cinema Turns 13
*by Jimmy Fowler*
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Q Cinema, the Fort’s gay and lesbian film organization, will present its [13th annual international film festival](http://www.qcinema.org/)Thursday June 2 through Sunday June 5. All screenings will take place at the Rose Marine Theatre. Visiting actors and directors are scheduled to participate in Q & A’s after many of the screenings.
Opening night flick is Caspar Andreas’ *Going Down in [La-La Land](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles")* (2010), about the comical and desperate choices of young actors trying to stay afloat in [Hollywood](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1,-118.333333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.1,-118.333333333 (Hollywood)&t=h "Hollywood"). Closing night offers the Southwest premiere of [J.T. Tepnapa](http://www.blueseraph.com/ "J. T. Tepnapa")’s *[Judas Kiss](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judas-kiss-2009 "Judas Kiss")* (2011), about a troubled filmmaker who returns to judge a film festival at his alma mater and encounters a life-changing mystery.
The festival highlight will likely be “An Evening With [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")†(8pm Sat June 4), a one-man show featuring the actor/writer/multi-[Emmy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner/*[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")* alum/veteran go-to quipteur for the [Oscar](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), [Tony](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award"), and Emmy broadcasts.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Emmy, Emmy Award, Film festival, Hollywood, J.T. Tepnapa, Judas Kiss, Los Angeles
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### [QLive! Presents An Evening With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/30/qlive-presents-an-evening-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** May 30, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**QLive! Presents An Evening With [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")**
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**Time:** Saturday, June 4 at 8:00pm – June 5 at 1:30am
**Location:**
Rose Marine Theater
1440 N. Main St.
[Fort Worth, TX](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.7573583333,-97.3331805556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=32.7573583333,-97.3331805556 (Fort%20Worth%2C%20Texas)&t=h "Fort Worth, Texas")
**Created By:** Q Cinema
**More Info**
Last year, we were honored to present the legendary Bruce Vilanch with our second annual [Leslie Jordan](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/leslie_jordan "Leslie Jordan") Community Achievement Award when he first came to Cowtown with the film “[Oy Vey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey "Oy vey")! My Son is Gay!” Now he’s back with an evening of comedy, conversation and, of course, celebrity dish. For Vilanch virgins, this Paterson, N.J. native has written for every television function and dysfunction imaginable, including the Quadruple Crown of Awards Shows: The Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the [Grammys](http://www.grammy.com/ "Grammy Award"). Among the people he’s written for are Bette Midler, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lily_tomlin "Lily Tomlin"), [Shirley MacLaine](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/shirley_maclaine "Shirley MacLaine"), [George Carlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/george_carlin "George Carlin"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"), Robin Williams, Cher, [Richard Pryor](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/richard_pryor "Richard Pryor"), Eddie Murphy, Joan Rivers, and others who have requested much-deserved anonymity.
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**Categories:** Announcement, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, George Carlin, James Franco, Leslie Jordan, Lily Tomlin, Richard Pryor, Shirley MacLaine, Whoopi Goldberg
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### [Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam DVD June 14, 2011](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/25/pride-the-gay-lesbian-comedy-slam-dvd-june-14-2011/)
**Published:** May 25, 2011
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### [Video: MITZI GAYNOR SALUTE HOSTED BY BRUCE VILANCH](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/25/video-mitzi-gaynor-salute-hosted-by-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** May 25, 2011
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### [Carol Channing: Larger Than Life - Hot Docs Film Festival ’11 | Day 6](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/11/carol-channing-larger-than-life-hot-docs-film-festival-’11-day-6/)
**Published:** May 11, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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[Hot Docs](http://www.hotdocs.ca "Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival") [Film Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival") ’11 | Day 6
Written by Sarah Boslaugh
Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:57**
Seldom has a documentary been more aptly subtitled than Dori Berinstein’s [Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing"): Larger Than Life. Channing is a member of that now almost extinct breed of stars who could fill up a [Broadway stage](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/the-cotswolds/broadway "Broadway") and project to the very last seat in the very last row of the balcony, no microphone required. She’s still larger than life at age 90, continuing to perform and speak on behalf of arts programs in schools and happily involved in a romance with her junior high school sweetheart Harry Kullijian. Carol Channing is a love letter to the star and is composed of the expected mix of interviews, archival material, and new footage. The one unusual element, an animated Carol by way of [Al Hirschfeld](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hirschfeld "Al Hirschfeld")’s famous caricature, is unnecessary and annoying but it won’t keep you from enjoying the rest of the film.
Much of the performance footage seems to be from the [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") and other special occasions rather than Broadway performances, but Berinstein and her crew deserve credit for making good use of what was available. More notable are the varied cast of interview subjects featured in the film, from the obvious choices like [Jerry Herman](http://jerryherman.com/ "Jerry Herman") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to the chorus boys who appeared onstage with Carol in the 1995 [Hello, Dolly!](http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Dolly-1964-Original-Broadway/dp/B000002W5P%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000002W5P "Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast)") revival who say that she treated them like family, twice taking the whole crew out to the movies and serving them herself from behind the concessions counter. Much of the information conveyed here will already be known to Channing aficionados—the lead in Hello, Dolly! was originally meant for [Ethel Merman](http://www.myspace.com/everything/ethel-merman "Ethel Merman"), Channing comes from a mixed ethnic heritage including Jewish (on her mother’s side) and African-American (on her father’s), and she never missed a performance even when being treated for ovarian cancer. But as she appeared in only a few movies (her performances were too big for the movies, as someone remarks during this film), this documentary may be the best way to convey to the younger generation who Carol Channing is and what she has meant to the American theatre.
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### [9th Annual Backstage at the Geffen Gala - Arrivals May 2, 2011 - Westwood, CA, USA](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/05/9th-annual-backstage-at-the-geffen-gala-arrivals-may-2-2011-westwood-ca-usa/)
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### [Interview: Bruce Vilanch performs May 7 in Queens](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/05/interview-bruce-vilanch-performs-may-7-in-queens/)
**Published:** May 5, 2011
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**Queensboro Chronicles
04/28/2011
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"): king of the funny business
by Mark Lord , qboro contributor**
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He’s long been the go-to man for anyone in show business in need of a funny line. He’s probably even made you laugh, though you may not know it. The often clever sometimes crass words of Bruce Vilanch have been uttered by everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to [James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco").
Yes, Franco, whose recent stint as co-host of the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") didn’t exactly leave anyone rolling in the aisles.
“It was difficult to try to make him a sparkling host when it’s not his natural inclination,†Vilanch, 62, admitted in a recent telephone interview from Los Angeles, which has been his home since 1975.
But Vilanch and the actor, better known for more serious undertakings, have apparently forgiven each other for everything — including a Twitter spat spawned after some bad press.
“I’ve gotten rave reviews and hideous reviews for the Oscar shows,†Vilanch said, and often for the same one — he’s written more than 20 in all.
In 1991, the year [Jack Palance](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jack_palance "Jack Palance") won as best supporting actor, Vilanch was in his element. When the then 73-year-old Palance dropped to the floor in celebration to knock off some one-armed push-ups, Vilanch and his fellow writers found themselves in the wings rewriting the show, tossing the old jokes and putting in some new Jack Palance jokes. Pure comedy gold and one of Vilanch’s several [Emmy Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") were the result of the endeavor.
Adopted when he was four days old, Vilanch was raised in New Jersey. “My family still lives there except in the winter when they’re in Boca,†he said.
“There are always reasons to be back in New York. Astoria has become the chorus boy capital of the world. The N train is now called the ‘Gypsy Rush,’†he joked.
He recalled that as a child he visited the World’s Fair in [Flushing Meadows Park](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/new-york-city/sights/outdoors/flushing-meadows-corona "Flushing Meadows Corona Park"), the site of his upcoming show. “I went for the [Belgian waffles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_waffle "Belgian waffle") … A breakfast snack all day long,†the amply proportioned Vilanch said. On May 7, the comedian will bring his life story to the Queens [Theatre in the Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_Park "Theatre in the Park") stage for one night only.
Though he loves New York, the West Coast denizen has no plans to leave sunny Southern California, “I love the weather,†he said. If anyone doesn’t like the lifestyle out there, he tells them, “Please leave — more parking space for Bruce.â€
In his show, which he dubs “a sit-down comedy,†he will regale audiences with inside stories “about the crazy people who are in show business.â€
His opening act, the Bev Leslies, are a soulful band who cover a wide range of music. He met them thanks to his ongoing association with [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler").
“I’ve worked with her for 40 years,†he said. “And she’s only 32.â€
Early in his career, Vilanch focused primarily on writing, a discipline he described as “very private. You have to set a schedule for yourself. When I’m writing what I like, I get into the zone. When I sit down and focus, it comes naturally. Is it because panic is the mother of invention?â€
Since appearing on the revised edition of television’s popular game show “Hollywood Squares†in the 1990s, he’s added more frequent gigs to his schedule.“You get instant gratification when you’re performing,†he said.
He described his [Broadway debut](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/the-cotswolds/broadway "Broadway") in 2005 as Edna Turnblad, one of the stars of the musical “Hairspray,†as a career highlight, along with “watching Bette Midler ascend†and writing the Oscars.
Vilanch recalled watching the Oscars as a child in a bathrobe, knowing he was destined for a career in show business. “From the time I was a little kid, I was totally struck,†he said. Luckily, he had a supportive mother who encouraged everything he did. “She has great timing. I imitate her a lot,†he said.
“I once got her a part as a dead body on ‘Law and Order,’ but she declined because it cost too much to join the union.â€
Vilanch is known for sporting tight fitting T-shirts bearing slogans replete with double entendres, a practice that began because “when you have a body like this, you have to show it off.†In truth, he did it originally as an act of rebelliousness against his fastidious mother, but soon found the style suited his career.
What question, if any, does he wish he would be asked? Ever topical, the openly gay Vilanch quipped, “‘Are rumors about you and Prince William true?’ But why would they ask that?â€
**Bruce Vilanch
When: May 7, 8 p.m.
Where: Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Park
Tickets: $37; $35 for seniors; $22 for students.
Visit [queenstheatre.org](http://www.queenstheatre.org)**
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Arts, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Jack Palance, James Franco, Twitter
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch @ OFL 2011 Monday May 9th @ 9pm](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/05/video-bruce-vilanch-ofl-2011-monday-may-9th-9pm/)
**Published:** May 5, 2011
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### [“Celebrity Autobiography†at Arsht Center, Miami, May 4 - 15](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/02/“celebrity-autobiography”-at-arsht-center-miami-may-4-15/)
**Published:** May 2, 2011
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Reading the autobiographies of celebrities can be a real chore. Unless you’re [Keith Richards](http://www.myspace.com/everything/keith-richards "Keith Richards"), you probably don’t have enough interesting stuff to say to fill an entire tome without resorting to florid self-aggrandizement. But this show singles out the best – and funniest – stories from celebrity autobiographies, filtered through the prism of top comedians and actors. [Rachel Dratch](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rachel_dratch "Rachel Dratch"), [Mario Cantone](http://www.mariocantone.com "Mario Cantone"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Sharon Gless](http://www.myspace.com/everything/sharon-gless "Sharon Gless"), [Paul Provenza](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Provenza "Paul Provenza") and more will reenact the juiciest tidbits from the likes of Tiger Woods, Justin Bieber, [Pamela Anderson](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/pamela_anderson "Pamela Anderson") and [Britney Spears](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/britney_spears "Britney Spears"). The show runs through May 15.
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch Plays Queens Theater May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/05/02/reminder-bruce-vilanch-plays-queens-theater-may-7/)
**Published:** May 2, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Gagwriter for the Oscars and many Hollwood stars, Vilanch is one of today’s most outrageous, uproarious personalities! His one-liners have tickled audiences when delivered by Bette
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### [Who Will Host Next Year's Oscars? Anybody's Guess](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/04/26/who-will-host-next-years-oscars-anybodys-guess/)
**Published:** April 26, 2011
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**[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on Who Will Host Next Year’s Oscars
If you thought the ceremonies weren’t funny, don’t blame him.
By [Michael Musto](http://www.villagevoice.com/musto "Michael Musto")
published: April 27, 2011**
Ever since last year, when an [LCD Soundsystem](http://www.myspace.com/lcdsoundsystem "LCD Soundsystem") song blared that I’m “no Bruce Vilanch,” I’ve been desperate to be the comic/writer—or at least to get him on the phone again.
Miraculously, that happened just the other day, when Bruce and I got a chance to discuss his writing duties for the Oscars, among other glittery controversies.
Me: Hi, Bruce. We have to talk [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), but first of all, you’re playing Queens Theatre in the Park on May 7.
Vilanch: People say, “Are you gonna do Queens jokes?” How can you do Queens jokes when you’re in Flushing? There are so many better things to say. I have an entire song called “Flushing”! \[Laughs.\] No, I’m gonna tell stories about my ridiculous career.
Me: Speaking of which, do you like the LCD Soundsystem song?
Vilanch: You’re the only one I was coupled with in a rock and roll lyric. It’s my cred! If I ever meet those boys, they can have me.
Me: No, you’re mine first! Tell me: What did you really think of the last Oscar telecast?
Vilanch: It all depends on how you react. There was a lot of stuff that was great. It came in really short. People are always bitching that it’s too long.
Me: But I sincerely doubt [James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco") and Anne Hathaway will be back. Who will host next year’s Oscars?
Vilanch: I think there might be a revival of Billy Crystal. It was such a success. They were so happy to see him that even as we speak, they’re sending a gold wagon to his house: “Please come back!” My guess is they’ll go back to a comedian—maybe just one person, so you don’t have to worry about servicing two. I’d like not even a comic but a Renaissance person like [Hugh Jackman](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/hugh_jackman "Hugh Jackman"). Or someone may surface. It’s [Charlie Sheen](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/charlie_sheen "Charlie Sheen")‘s time!
Me: God help us. Who was responsible for Franco in drag on the telecast?
Vilanch: That started as a [Cher](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/cher "Cher") impression because we were certain her Burlesque song would be nominated. To introduce Cher, there would be James Franco as Cher. Cher would tap him on the shoulder and throw him offstage. The biggest surprise was the song not being nominated! But at that point, he was jazzed about being in drag. We negotiated him down to [Marilyn Monroe](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/marilyn_monroe "Marilyn Monroe"). The “Diamonds” dress Madonna had already popularized for another generation had the most Hollywood-icon status to it. And Sheen exploded the week before, so it was ideal to put in the one and only joke about him.
Me: That was funny. But whose idea was Hathaway singing “Flushing,” I mean “On My Own”?
Vilanch: I think she should have done a number. If she was hosting a show alone, she would have, but the two of them had to be equal. “On My Own” was not my idea. I think it was maybe [Bruce Cohen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen "Bruce Cohen")‘s. We wanted Anne to sing. She wanted to turn the joke around and humiliate Hugh Jackman. When he was hosting, he had brought her up and done a bit, which of course was rehearsed. She was nominated that year for playing a sober alcoholic who goes home and slips. I can’t remember the name of the movie.
Me: Rachel Getting Sober—I mean Married.
Vilanch: Hugh’s doing all these things lately because Wolverine has been delayed.
Me: But this time, he just sat there.
Vilanch: There was not much time to rehearse, so we decided not to burden him.
Me: Well, Kirk Douglas didn’t just sit there. He hogged the stage!
Vilanch: That’s Kirk Douglas. That certainly wasn’t planned. That was him showing that he’s alive and kicking—literally kicking. I thought it was great.
Me: But it was mean to make five nominees wait and squirm.
Vilanch: Yeah, but nobody said, “Let’s put something out there that’ll make you cringe.” That’s what he wanted to do.
Me: Let’s make people cringe with some Broadway talk. What did you think of Priscilla?
Vilanch: It’s fabulous. It’s smart with heart. I’m a sucker for a dancing cupcake. I wanted to eat the cupcake and the thing that was wearing the cupcake.
Me: Should Spider-Man reopen after its hiatus?
Vilanch: No. I think they should go away and pretend it never happened. Write off the $70 million. What could they do to it besides turn it into a theme park show?
Me: In another costly matter, your thoughts on Kobe Bryant being fined?
Vilanch: If I called Kobe a nigger on national TV, I’d be out of a job and a house and I’d be targeted. We have to keep hammering that it’s unacceptable behavior. His non-apology was very insincere. He’s appealing the fine! I think he’s a spoiled brat who’s been enabled since he was a child. The irony is he was a guest star on Bette Midler’s sitcom and he was perfectly nice.
Me: How about Trump’s presidential run? Should we enable that?
Vilanch: As soon as Celebrity Apprentice is over, Trump running for president will be over. He hit upon a genius promotional scheme for himself. It will end when he has nothing to promote. I can’t believe that a guy who’s so injected in pop culture has political positions that went out with the Oscar Wilde trial!
Me: Meanwhile, I can’t believe you dated Judith Regan on Millionaire Matchmaker. Did she not get the memo?
Vilanch: It was lost in the avalanche of O.J. emails she got. It was not something Murdoch pointed out as he showed her the door. “By the way, Vilanch goes for guys.” But I think we’re the hippest couple since Cher and David Geffen.
Me: Or Cher and James Franco!
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bruce Cohen, Bruce Vilanch, Charlie Sheen, Cher, Hugh Jackman, James Franco, LCD Soundsystem
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### [Bruce Honors Carol Channing In Cinematic Tribute, "Larger Than Life"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/04/25/bruce-honors-carol-channing-in-cinematic-tribute-larger-than-life/)
**Published:** April 25, 2011
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[Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing"): Larger Than Life
Reviewed By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake · Apr 25, 2011 · New York**
Dori Berinstein’s loving cinematic tribute, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, now premiering at the [Tribeca Film Festival](http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/ "Tribeca Film Festival"), is a cornucopia of favorite moments from the nonagenarian’s 60-plus years in the spotlight, as well as a glimpse into her current personal life. In both cases, Berinstein shows just how smart, funny, and gracious the star is both on and offstage.
The film’s title has several meanings, from Channing’s height (at 5’9) to her gigantic smile, and outsized personality. She was literally too big for the screen, appearing in only a few films — including her Oscar-nominated role in [Thoroughly Modern Millie](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thoroughly_modern_millie "Thoroughly Modern Millie") — but she happily played to generations of theatergoers in such shows as [Lend an Ear](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend_an_Ear "Lend an Ear"), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and her own signature magnum opus, Hello Dolly.
Many of Channing’s co-stars and admirers show up in the film, most with illustrative footage. After [Jerry Herman](http://jerryherman.com/ "Jerry Herman"), Angela Lansbury, and [Chita Rivera](http://www.myspace.com/everything/chita-rivera "Chita Rivera") speak, there are scenes of the trio honoring Herman at the [Kennedy Center](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8957,-77.0559&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8957,-77.0559 (John%20F.%20Kennedy%20Center%20for%20the%20Performing%20Arts)&t=h "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts") in 2010. Lily Tomlin, [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Tommy Tune](http://www.tommytune.com/ "Tommy Tune"), Barbara Walters, and the late [Betty Garrett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Garrett "Betty Garrett") also share their memories, while Debbie Reynolds commiserates as one wronged wife to another. (Channing’s third husband robbed and left her.)
But most of all, the film is a love story that wouldn’t be believed if it weren’t true. Channing and her fourth husband (and junior high school sweetheart) Harry Kullijian, married since 2003, are like a real-life Romeo and Juliet gone right, holding hands and smiling like the teenagers they were back in the 1930s.
And make sure you stay until the very end: the sublime outtakes during the final credits are not-to-be-missed.
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**Tags:** Betty Garrett, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Channing, Chita Rivera, Elton John, Jerry Herman, Tommy Tune, Tribeca Film Festival
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Headline Theater Party Event For Way Out Media May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/04/22/bruce-vilanch-to-headline-theater-party-event-for-way-out-media-may-7/)
**Published:** April 22, 2011
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Way Out Media Theater Party – Bruce Vilanch at Queens Theater In The Park
Saturday, May 7 8:00p at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing, NY
Price: $32
Phone: (516) 606-2795
Age Suitability: None Specified
Tags: show, theatre, entertainment, bev leslies, gagwriter
Queens Theater In The Park is proud to annouce a Theater Party event with Way Out Media Inc. Saturday 8 PM – May 7, 2011 at Queens Theater In The Park, the outrageously funny Bruce Vilanch will perform his one man standup routine and will have musical guest The Bev Leslies on the same bill.
This is a Theater Party to support Way Out Media Inc. – a Long Island based nonprofit that produces local programming by, for and about Long Island’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual \\& Transgender community.
[**Event Website**](http://www.wayoutmedia.org/)
Read more: http://events.nydailynews.com/flushing-ny/events/show/178166205-way-out-media-theater-party-bruce-vilanch-at-queens-theater-in-the-park#ixzz1KFCJVwx4
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### [Bruce Vilanch Tops List Of Comedy Queen's Date For Royal Wedding](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/04/22/bruce-vilanch-tops-list-of-comedy-queens-date-for-royal-wedding/)
**Published:** April 22, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[Bridesmaids](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untitled_kristin_wiig_project "Bridesmaids")’ love [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")— but royal date is just a dream…
By [Megan Johnson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Ballet "New York City Ballet") | Thursday, April 21, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | [The Inside Track](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inside_Track "The Inside Track")**
A couple of comedy queens weighed in on the [Royal Wedding](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/royal_wedding "Royal Wedding") yesterday while passing through town.
“Bridesmaids†stars [Kristen Wiig](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kristen_wiig "Kristen Wiig") and [Wendi McLendon Covey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendi_McLendon-Covey "Wendi McLendon-Covey") haven’t been invited to next week’s wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, but that didn’t stop the girls from weighing in on whom they would choose for their plus-one if an invite miraculously appeared.
“Bruce Vilanch,†the “Saturday Night Live†funnygal told the Track.
As in the outlandish, hirsute comedy writer and “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")†square???
“I think he’d make out with me,†she joked.
“If you’re lucky! He’s so presentational,†Wendi chimed in. “I would bring my husband, because no one chicken dances like him,†the former “[Reno 911!](http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/reno_911/index.jhtml "Reno 911!")†star said. “He’s fun on the dance floor. He’s 6-foot-7 and knows how to move. That’s a whole lotta limbs.â€
But the box office “Bridemaids†weren’t exactly sold on the idea of waking up at 4 a.m. to see the British lovebirds tie the knot.
“I think I’m gonna be on a plane. I think we’re doing press junkets that day. But we sooooo would watch it,†said the sarcastic Wiig, who remembered her mother rousting her out of bed early to watch William’s parents, Prince Charles and [Lady Diana Spencer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales "Diana, Princess of Wales"), tie the knot back in 1981.
“Yeah, I’ll DVR it,†Wendi agreed jokingly.
Why aren’t we convinced???
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Diana Princess of Wales, James Franco, Kate Middleton, Kristen Wiig, Royal Wedding, Twitter, Wendi McLendon Covey
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### [Bruce To Appear In “Carol Channing: Larger Than Lifeâ€](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/04/06/bruce-to-appear-in-“carol-channing-larger-than-life”/)
**Published:** April 6, 2011
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[Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing") Honored On Film
Posted by [Tommy Garrett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Garrett "Tommy Garrett") on Apr 5, 2011 – 8:54:45 PM**
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HOLLYWOOD—The [Tribeca Film Festival](http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/ "Tribeca Film Festival") (NY) spotlighted the film by multiple Tony® Award winning director/producer Dori Berinstein entitled “Carol Channing: Larger Than Life†last month in Manhattan.
Among those who appear in the film are (partial list only) – Barbara Walters, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Tune, [Chita Rivera](http://www.myspace.com/everything/chita-rivera "Chita Rivera"), Sam Harris, [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Debbie Reynolds, [Jerry Herman](http://jerryherman.com/ "Jerry Herman"), [Bob Mackie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mackie "Bob Mackie"), [Angela Lansbury](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/angela_lansbury "Angela Lansbury"), Loni Anderson, Tyne Daly, Tippi Hedren, Phyllis Diller, [Rip Taylor](http://www.myspace.com/everything/rip-taylor "Rip Taylor"), etc. There is also a very special moment with Carol’s former roommate, the now late Betty Garrett.
On Monday, March 14, the Tribeca Film Festival announced their 2011 Spotlight Film, their invitation-only section that features screenings of an eagerly anticipated film before they hit theatres. “Carol Channing: Larger Than Life†is a TFF 2011 Spotlight Feature Film.
If Carol Channing didn’t exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol, at 90, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950s through the 1970s and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol has observed, “if you’re lucky enough to have two hit shows, the world passes through your dressing room.†Carol’s incomparable stage life is just the appetizer. This is the story of a survivor, a woman who overcame endless obstacles, struggles and sacrifices to pursue her dreams of stage stardom.
The career of Carol Channing is varied and continuing. At 90, she performs with the gusto of a young aspiring actress. She has recently committed her life to bring the Arts back in the public educational system. From teaching, lecturing and performing in school rooms of CA to meeting members of Congress in D.C., she and her husband, Harry Kullijian, hope to engage the public support through the Channing/Kullijian Foundation for the Arts.
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**Tags:** Angela Lansbury, Bob Mackie, Bruce Vilanch, Chita Rivera, Film festival, Jerry Herman, Tommy Garrett, Tribeca Film Festival
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### [Krewe de Kinque Raises $4000 For The Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/31/krewe-de-kinque-raises-4000-for-the-richmond-ermet-aids-foundation/)
**Published:** March 31, 2011
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**San Francisco Times
[Masquerade Party](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_Party "Masquerade Party") Thrown By Krewe De Kinque
Published: March 31, 2011**
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Krewe de Kinque is a fun fundraising social group that believes [Mardi Gras](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras "Mardi Gras") is not just one week in the year; but rather the spirit of celebration continues all year long in the form of parties and fundraisers. Over the seven-plus years, Krewe de Kinque has raised thousands upon thousands of dollars for needy causes, such as the Katrina flood catastrophe and the Haiti earthquake disaster, to name a few.
The Krewe just completed their biggest fundraiser that they put on each year, “[Bal Masque](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball "Masquerade ball"),†which translates to “Masked Ball,†which was held at Trigger this year on March 5 in the Castro, featuring comic Bruce Vilanch as Grand Marshal. The theme was “Studio 69: a [Night of Decadence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Decadence "Night of Decadence") and Dance,†which was the KdK takeoff on the notorious Studio 54 back in the decadent days of disco in the Big Apple.
[Café Flore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Flore "Café Flore") was properly decorated in the official Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold for “Masquerade.†KdK strongly supports the official slogan of Mardi Gras, “Laissez les bons temps roulez,†which translates to “Let the good times roll.â€
That is exactly what happened on March 26 at Café Flore as KdK held “Masquerade,†a Mardi Gras party where they presented a $4,000 check to The Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation. REAF raises funds for dozens of [AIDS service organizations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_service_organization "AIDS service organization") in the Bay Area by producing star-studded cabaret and musical performances all year long. Newly crowned King VIII Frank Vera and Queen VIII Garza handed over the Bal Masque VIII proceeds to REAF Executive Director [Ken Henderson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Henderson "Ken Henderson") and REAF Board Members Joseph Seiler and Patrik Gallineaux. Stoli Ambassador Gallineaux then generously hosted an open Stoli bar for all the guests. Both Henderson and Seiler expressed their gratitude to Krewe de Kinque.
KdK also raised $220 with their raffle and performance tips that night.
Krewe [King I](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_I "King I") Gary Virginia gave many thanks to the House of Garza for organizing the entertainment featuring DJ Ken Vulsion, Tweaka Turner, Marco X. Middlesex, Farrokh, Kippy Marks on electric violin, Mama Dora, Carlos & Joseph, and volunteer go-go dancers. Garza herself performed several flashy dance and lip-synch numbers.
Raffle donations were aplenty thanks to [Queen II](http://musicbrainz.org/album/b6518c83-09d7-4951-8c40-845241b0b238.html "Queen II") Deana Dawn, Stoli/Patrik, King I Gary, Hard Rock Cafe, Under One Roof, Pier 39, L’Occitane, and King & Queen VIII Garza & Frank.
Thanks went to the Café Flore staff for the use of the venue and appetizers and to King I Gary Virginia for the tasty midnight jambalaya and cornbread, which is official Mardi Gras cuisine.
Other Krewe members adding their color and support to the event were Queen I KC Dare, King VI James Holloway, King VII John Weber and his Queen VII Sister Dana Van Iquity, Empress Donna Sachet, and Grand Duke Carlos Medal. It was a special bonus to have Garza’s mother visiting from Peru in the audience all night as well. Everyone partied until way past midnight, having thoroughly celebrated another festive Mardi Gras occasion and ending with a rowdy conga line.
New members with the Mardi Gras spirit are always encouraged to apply. Check out sfkinque.com for information. Look for more KdK fundraisers in the future, including their infamous “Full Moon [Parties](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party "Party")†and bare ass contests where “some lucky asshole will win a hundred dollars.â€
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch at the Celebration Of Carol Channing's 90th Birthday at the Celebration Of Carol Channing's 90th Birthday](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/28/video-bruce-vilanch-at-the-celebration-of-carol-channings-90th-birthday-at-the-celebration-of-carol-channings-90th-birthday/)
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### [Video: 9th Annual Nightlife Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/28/video-9th-annual-nightlife-awards/)
**Published:** March 28, 2011
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Hosts The 2011 Nightlife Awards at New York's Town Hall](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/28/video-bruce-vilanch-hosts-the-2011-nightlife-awards-at-new-yorks-town-hall/)
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### [ACTORS and OTHERS for ANIMALS' Gala](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/27/actors-and-others-for-animals-gala/)
**Published:** March 27, 2011
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### [Franco And Vilanch Make Up - All Is Right With The World](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/23/franco-and-vilanch-make-up-all-is-right-with-the-world/)
**Published:** March 23, 2011
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**[James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco") Makes Up With [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (Updated)
[Published](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing "Publishing"): March 22, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
By Joshua L. Weinstein**
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James Franco and Bruce Vilanch officially are friends again.
In an email to TheWrap [Tuesday afternoon](http://www.last.fm/music/The%2BMoody%2BBlues/Tuesday%2BAfternoon "Tuesday Afternoon"), Vilanch said of the little feud: “It’s all over. We’re on a honeymoon.”
**Previously:**
James Franco has made up with Bruce Vilanch.
The two had been in a mini-feud since Monday, when Vulture reported that Vilanch, a long-time Oscar writer, apparently panned Franco’s performance as host.
Franco responded with a Tweet — which he has since deleted — reading, “Bruce, he let me down,” and a link to a photo mocking Vilanch. In that [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter") picture, Franco wrote, “James Franco f—– up the [Oscars](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). Trust me, I know comedy. I mean, come on, I write for [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler")!”
**Now, all is well.**
Vilanch, who told TheWrap’s [Steve Pond](http://www.doremi.co.uk "Steve Pond"), “I still want to have his baby,” apparently sent an email to Franco explaining his comments.
“I was trying to defend you,” Vilanch wrote.”Believe me, I would never diss you. that’s not my style. you should never take the [gutter press](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid "Tabloid") too seriously.”
Franco apparently liked what he saw, printed and posted Vilanch’s email, and linked to it on Twitter. This time, he wrote over it, “Thanks Bruce. Sorry for reading stupid blogs.”
No word on whether Vilanch will be with child.
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, PR
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks Franco And Oscar](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/21/bruce-vilanch-talks-franco-and-oscar/)
**Published:** March 21, 2011
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**[New York Magazine](http://www.nymag.com/ "New York (magazine)")
Culture Vulture
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") on [James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco")’s Oscar Stint: ‘He Didn’t Get There’
3/21/11 at 1:15 PM**
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Longtime Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch isn’t one to mince words about awards-show hosts, so when we caught up with him last night at the premiere of [Priscilla, Queen of the Desert](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/adventures_of_priscilla_queen_of_the_desert "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"), we had to ask him about James Franco and [Anne Hathaway](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anne_hathaway "Anne Hathaway"), who emceed this year’s poorly received [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") broadcast. “I have to call James Franco and tell him the show’s over,” Vilanch quipped. “He doesn’t know. He took a nap and he woke up in class.” Does Vilanch attribute Franco’s sleepy performance to an actual lack of sleep? “He has so many balls in the air, he didn’t get to town till Thursday before the show on Sunday. And so we e-mailed a lot. But we had a lot of meetings. He had a bunch of people who were writing for him, and if it had been him alone, it would have been different. But it was him and Anne Hathaway, and they both had to be serviced. So there was a lot of communication beforehand. But he didn’t get there.”
“I don’t think he realized how big a deal it is to do it until he was actually confronted with it,” Vilanch continued. “I think he thought he would kind of … I don’t know what he thought. I thought maybe it was a performance-art prank, and then I realized he sincerely wanted to do it. But it’s outside of those guys’ comfort zones. The only people who know how to host those shows are people who get up onstage every night and say, ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A funny thing happened … ‘ Or people like [Bette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_%28TV_series%29 "Bette (TV series)") \[Midler\] who get up and sing all night and tell stories.”
Still, Vilanch had been in favor of the pairing, which was suggested by producers [Bruce Cohen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen "Bruce Cohen") and [Don Mischer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mischer "Don Mischer"). “I told them what I thought. I liked the two of them \[James and Anne\], and what I like about them is they both hosted [Saturday Night Live](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/if_it_aint_cheap_it_aint_punk_14_years_of_plan_it_x_records "If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk: 14 Years of Plan-It X Records") successfully, and what that meant is they knew all about working live, with little rehearsal, with many script changes, and a lot of pressure. And that’s sort of half of the job right there of the Oscar show.”
One last question: Was Franco really stoned, as rumored?
“No, he wasn’t high,” Vilanch said. “I was with him, and he wasn’t high. And I asked him, ‘Are you high, and can I have some?’ And he said no to both.”
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch Attends The Opening Of "Priscilla"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/20/photo-bruce-vilanch-attends-the-opening-of-priscilla/)
**Published:** March 20, 2011
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### [Bruce Vilanch And The Bev Leslies to Perform at Queens Theatre in the Park May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/18/bruce-vilanch-and-the-bev-leslies-to-perform-at-queens-theatre-in-the-park-may-7/)
**Published:** March 18, 2011
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**Theatermania Announces [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
03/01/2011
THEATER NEWS Bruce Vilanch to Perform at Queens [Theatre in the Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_Park "Theatre in the Park") May 7
By: Dan Bacalzo · Feb 28, 2011 · New York**
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[Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch will perform with special guests, The Bev Leslies, at Queens Theatre in the Park on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm.
Gagwriter for the Oscars and many Hollwood stars, Vilanch is considered one of today’s most outrageous, uproarious personalities. His one-liners have tickled audiences when delivered by Bette Midler, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lily_tomlin "Lily Tomlin"), [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Rosie O’Donnell](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rosie_odonnell "Rosie O'Donnell"). Vilanch also starred in the [Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") of Hairspray and his one-man off- Broadway show, Almost Famous.
The Bev Leslies are a unique powerful soulful band serving up a musical cocktail of greasey soul and smokey torch, rockin the house with tunes from Etta James to [Tom Waits](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_waits "Tom Waits"). They are fronted by [Bette Sussman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Sussman "Bette Sussman") and Elain Caswell and also include John Putnam, Shawn Pelton, and Paul Socolow.
For tickets and more information, [click here](http://www.queenstheatre.org/web/).
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### [Ali Forney Center's Fifth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant This Monday](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/17/ali-forney-centers-fifth-annual-broadway-beauty-pageant-this-monday/)
**Published:** March 17, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The Ali Forney Center holds its fifth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant this Monday at Manhattan's Symphony Space, where Broadway's hottest and most talented chorus boys compete to win the prized tiara.
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> Judges include [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") (six-time [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner/comedy writer, who made his [Broadway debut](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") in*Hairspray*), [Rachel Dratch](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rachel_dratch "Rachel Dratch") (“Saturday Night Live”) and [Carson Kressley](http://www.carsonkressley.com "Carson Kressley") (“[Queer Eye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Eye "Queer Eye"),” “How To [Look Good Naked](http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-look-good-naked "How to Look Good Naked"),” “Carson-Nation”). This year’s contestants comprise Matt Anctil*, [La Cage aux Folles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28musical%29 "La Cage aux Folles (musical)")*; Mikey Cusamano, *Chicago*; Ray Lee, *Anything Goes;*Brandon Rubendall, *[Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark](http://spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/ "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark");* and James Tabeek, *Mary Poppins.* Conceived by Jeffery Self and directed by [Ryan J. Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_J._Davis "Ryan J. Davis"), *The Broadway Beauty Pageant* is musically directed by Christopher Denny. The evening is produced by Wil Fisher, Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self and Matthew Oberstein.
[Get tickets here](http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6590-the-5th-annual-broadway-beauty-pageant).
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**Tags:** Arts and Entertainment, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Carson Kressley, Emmy Award, Queer Eye, Ryan J. Davis, United States
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### [Bruce To Judge Broadway Beauty Pageant For Charity](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/15/bruce-to-judge-broadway-beauty-pageant-for-charity/)
**Published:** March 15, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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The [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Beauty Pageant Raises Money and Awareness For [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") [Youths](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth "Youth")
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2011 11:53 PM
SUZANNA BOWLING**
The Broadway Beauty Pageant just added [Lee Roy Reams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Roy_Reams "Lee Roy Reams") to open the show in a special number “Beautiful Boys†created by [Gerard Alessandrini](http://www.forbiddenbroadway.com "Gerard Alessandrini"). Tovah Feldshuh will be the host for this not-to-be-missed event on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The [Ali Forney Center](http://aliforneycenter.org "Ali Forney Center"), [NYC’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth. The annual show will again be at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street). This year’s contestants are: Matt Anctil, [La Cage Aux Folles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28musical%29 "La Cage aux Folles (musical)"); Michael Cusumano, Chicago; Raymond J. Lee, Anything Goes; Brandon Rubendall, [Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark](http://spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/ "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"); and James Tabeek, Mary Poppins. Conceived by Jeffery Self and directed by [Ryan J. Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_J._Davis "Ryan J. Davis"), The Broadway Beauty Pageant is musically directed by Christopher Denny, choreographer is Erin Porvaznika. Brian Tovar is the lighting designer The evening is produced by Wil Fisher, Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self and Matthew Oberstein.
The trio of outstanding and hilarious judges for the 5th Smash Year of The Broadway Beauty Pageant are: Bruce Vilanch, the six-time Emmy Award winner comedy writer and actor who is one of the most sought after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry; Rachel Dratch, best known for her years as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and who is an award winning comic actress from Second City; and Carson Kressley, who was the fashion expert on Queer Eye, the host of the TV show How To Look Good Naked, and now hosts Carson-Nation on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Previous winners include: Charlie Williams (Mr. Memphis 2010), Anthony Hollock (Mr. Hair 2009), Marty Thomas (Mr. Xanadu 2008), and Frankie James Grande (Mr. Mamma Mia 2007).
The Ali Forney Center (AFC) was started in June 2002 in response to the lack of safe shelter for LGBT youth in New York City. They have grown quickly to become the nation’s largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. They are committed to providing LGBT youth with safe, dignified, nurturing environments where their needs can be met and where they can begin to put their lives back together. The center provides short and long term housing, plus free medical care, HIV testing, mental health services, showers, food, computer access and job training and placement at its drop-in centers in Chelsea and Brooklyn. The Ali Forney Center is at 224 West 35th St., Suite (212) 222-3427 www.aliforneycenter.org
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**Categories:** Benefits, Charities
**Tags:** Ali Forney Center, Gerard Alessandrini, Lee Roy Reams, LGBT, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Ryan J. Davis, Youth
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### [Naked Boys Singing Will Return to London](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/10/naked-boys-singing-will-return-to-london/)
**Published:** March 10, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Naked Boys Singing Will Return to [London](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5072222222,-0.1275&spn=0.1,0.1&q=51.5072222222,-0.1275 (London)&t=h "London") to Re-branded [Charing Cross Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.507466,-0.122981&spn=0.01,0.01&q=51.507466,-0.122981 (Folly%20Theatre)&t=h "Folly Theatre")
By [Mark Shenton](http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/markshenton "Mark Shenton")
March 10, 2011**
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Phil Willmott’s production of the Off-Broadway revue Naked Boys Singing, originally seen at the [King’s Head Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.538056,-0.102778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=51.538056,-0.102778 (The%20King%27s%20Head%20Theatre)&t=h "The King's Head Theatre") and subsequently at the Arts, will return for a fourth London run, beginning performances March 18 at the re-branded Charing Cross Theatre (formerly the New Players).
It will play a run of late-night weekend performances on Friday/Saturday nights only. Choreographed by Andrew Wright, the cast comprises Matt Beadle, Davis Brook, Callum Francis, Rudi Last, Drew Mason, Daniel Slade, Will Stokes and Nathan Taylor.
This 70-minute musical comedy revue features an original score of 16 songs celebrating the splendors of male nudity. Originally launched at Off-Broadway’s Actors’ Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1999, it has played continuously in New York since and can currently be found at [New World Stages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Stages "New World Stages"). It has been previously produced in London at Madame JoJos, a Soho nightclub, in 2001.
The score includes such numbers as “Fight the Urge,” “The Bliss of a Bris,” “Muscle Addiction,” “Nothing But the Radio On,” “Members Only” and “Window to Window.” The show’s contributing writers are Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Shelly Markham, [Jim Morgan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morgan "Jim Morgan"), David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, [Mark Savage](http://www.myspace.com/everything/mark-savage "Mark Savage"), Ben Schaechter, Robert Schrock, Mark Winkler and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
To book tickets, contact the box office on 0207 478 0170, or visit [www.charingcrosstheatre.co.uk](http://www.charingcrosstheatre.co.uk).
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### [Vilanch, Others Set For Broadway Beauty Pageant March 21, 2011](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/07/vilanch-others-set-for-broadway-beauty-pageant-march-21-2011/)
**Published:** March 7, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Tovah Feldshuh, [Rachel Dratch](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rachel_dratch "Rachel Dratch"), [Carson Kressley](http://www.carsonkressley.com "Carson Kressley"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Set for Broadway Beauty Pageant!
By: Dan Bacalzo · Mar 6, 2011 · [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City")**
Tovah Feldshuh will be the host and Rachel Dratch, Carson Kressley, and Bruce Vilanch will be the judges for the 5th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant!, to be held on Monday, March 21 at 8pm at Symphony Space. Conceived by Jeffery Self and directed by [Ryan J. Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_J._Davis "Ryan J. Davis"), the show will be musically directed by Christopher Denny.
The pageant features male cast members representing their respective [Broadway shows](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre"), competing for the title crown through talent, interview, and swimsuit competitions.
As previously reported, the participants in this year’s competition will be Matt Anctil ([La Cage aux Folles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28musical%29 "La Cage aux Folles (musical)")), Mikey Cusamano (Chicago), Ray Lee (Anything Goes) Brandon Rubendall ([Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark](http://spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/ "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark")), and James Tabeek (Mary Poppins).
Proceeds will benefit the [Ali Forney Center](http://aliforneycenter.org "Ali Forney Center"), New York’s primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth.
For further information and tickets, [**click here**](http://aliforneycenter.org/beauty/).
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**Tags:** Ali Forney Center, Bruce Vilanch, Carson Kressley, New York, Rachel Dratch, Ryan J. Davis, Tovah Feldshuh, United States
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### [James Franco's "Tired" Photo](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/05/james-francos-tired-photo/)
**Published:** March 5, 2011
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### [Interview: Bruce Vilanch To Be Grand Marshal at KDK Mardi Gras Fundraiser](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/03/interview-bruce-vilanch-to-be-grand-marshal-at-kdk-mardi-gras-fundraiser/)
**Published:** March 3, 2011
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Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") To Be [Grand Marshal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Marshal "Grand Marshal") at KDK [Mardi Gras](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras "Mardi Gras") Fundraiser By Sister Dana Van Iquity
Published: March 3, 2011**
Beaming Klieg lights and a rainbow runway will lead guests to Trigger nightclub for [Krewe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krewe "Krewe") de Kinque’s 8th Annual Mardi Gras masked ball benefit, “Studio 69 – A Night of Decadence & Dance,†on Sat., March 5 to benefit The Richmond-Ermet [AIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS") Foundation. Reigning King VII John-John and Queen VII Sister Dana will step down to reveal new monarchs.
The action starts with a VIP reception with Grand Marshal Bruce Vilanch from 6-7 p.m. where guests will enjoy a hosted Stoli bar, delectable hors d’oeuvres, music by the Dixieland Dykes + 3 jazz band, loaded gift bags, and a [VIP lounge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_lounge "Airport lounge") ($50). At 7 p.m. the doors open to the public ($20 advance/$25 door) where DJ Steve Fabus will spin a time-traveling music mix from the Studio 54 era to current house and dance. Peppered seamlessly throughout the night will be performers on the mezzanine, aerialist ropes, the bar top cage, and full stage.
The hilarious Bruce Vilanch took time out from his busy schedule to give Sister Dana a delightful interview.
(Bay Times) Bruce, you are a six-time Emmy Award-winner for your amazing writing talent. Do you ever get tired of writing, or get writer’s block?
(Bruce Vilanch) Not as weary as I get when doing nude photo shoots. Some part of my body casts a shadow on another part, and we have to do all these tiresome retakes. Fortunately, every time I get writer’s block, my accountant points out how much money I owe certain persons who must remain nameless, and that said people have the addresses of several of my loved ones – that gets me back in the saddle.
What is your favorite assignment, and why?
Ensuring world domination by 2012. That’s the real gay agenda, you know. Oops. Over-sharing. My two favorite writing jobs have been the Oscar show and any [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler") show. Maybe next year she’ll host.
Your least favorite writing, and why?
Trying to make people who aren’t funny do funny things. It’s actively painful, like ice cream brain freeze; but when it goes away, there’s no relief.
You have written for so many stars, making them all sound so funny. Was Bette Midler your favorite, or someone else?
I’ve been working with Bette for 40 years, which is difficult, as she’s only 32. She is my original cast album. But I’m particularly fond of a lot of people, all of whom are in my will; none of whom need to be, they’re so goddam rich.
What was it like writing for TV’s “Hollywood Squares� And how was it being in one of the squares yourself?
It was the most fabulous gig in the history of show business. Crazy money, and we only shot 36 days a year – and all of it on weekends. The downside was trying to make serious actors funny and fighting the censors who are always a step behind the public in understanding what has become acceptable in most of society, if not in their own corporate suites. But I was well-paid for the endeavor. And serious actors are great sex partners. Oddly enough, that’s when they turn out to be funny.
You starred brilliantly as [Edna Turnblad](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1009096-hairspray "Hairspray") in Broadway’s Hairspray. Was this your first time in drag?
Oh, I knew my way around a corset. But there wasn’t too much call for a bearded lady, and I was hirsute for 32 years. I shaved it for Edna. I HAD done one sensational drag character, a gossip columnist called Louella Fella, for a series I wrote in 1988 for Cheech Marin. We had two airings; a writers strike happened; we shut the show down; and NBC kicked us off the lot. My costumes went back to The Forgotten Woman, a very trendy plus-size boutique in Beverly Hills. Other than that, my drag career was spotty.
And why didn’t you get the role for the movie version instead of that Travolta character? You got any dirt on that?
Hairspray was two years of pure joy, and I even got into the 8-a-week schedule in an OCD way that I never knew I had. As for the movie, it was New Line’s plan to discover a new girl for Tracy, as [John Waters](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1016392-john_waters "John Waters") had the first time, and to stunt cast Edna with a big star. Otherwise, I’m sure Harvey Fierstein would have recreated his Broadway role. As it was, for the first 45 minutes of the movie, I thought [John Travolta](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/john_travolta "John Travolta") was Kirstie Alley.
Our Krewe de Kinque fundraiser is for the Richmond-Ermet AIDS Foundation, a very worthy AIDS cause for which you have appeared in many a fabulous fundraising show. Why do you keep coming back for REAF?
They keep offering me cute production assistants named Zack and Chad. I love REAF because it is a clearing house for a lot of charities that can’t afford to pull together fundraisers. These organizations work close to the bone – more than 90 cents of your donor dollar goes to the people who need it, not the overhead of the administration.
The Krewe de Kinque Bal Masque is so thrilled to have you as our Grand Marshal. Have you ever been to Mardi Gras? Did you have to show your dick to get beads?
I usually have to show beads to get dick. I have been to Mardi Gras a couple of times, and I couldn’t tell which was more fun: going early when everybody’s still into it, or going late, when they’re all fed up and chronically bombed. If you’ve ever felt like you wanted to barf in the street but were afraid, Mardi Gras is the place where you can do it with no judgment.
You have the world’s most unique tee shirt collection. Have you picked out your special tee shirt for our event?
Still searching, searching, searching… If either Dolce or Gabbana would simply return my call…
Did your “show business career†really start as a chubby child model for Lane Bryant?
Hey, it’s not “Uncle Jocko’s Revue†in Seattle; but it’s close.
Any last comments you care to make, before we get to see you IN THE FLESH?
I’m auditioning for a life partner. Applicants should walk over on all three of their legs and say hi.
That’s the kind of wacky, naughty, fun stuff you can expect at Krewe de Kinque’s Mardi Gras Bal Masque on March 5, 2344 Market @ Castro. Tix & info at SFKINQUE.com, (415) 867-5004. Come let the good times roll!
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**Categories:** Comedy Show, GLBT, Special Events
**Tags:** Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Holiday, John Travolta, John Waters, Krewe, Mardi Gras, NewOrleans
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### [Photo: Bruce and Billy Crystal Backstage At The Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/03/01/photo-bruce-and-billy-crystal-backstage-at-the-oscars/)
**Published:** March 1, 2011
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Photo
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Perform At Theater In The Park In Queens May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/28/bruce-vilanch-to-perform-at-theater-in-the-park-in-queens-may-7/)
**Published:** February 28, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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# [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") to Perform at Queens [Theatre in the Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_in_the_Park "Theatre in the Park") May 7
**By: [Dan Bacalzo](http://www.theatermania.com/extras/about.cfm/section/editorialBios) · Feb 28, 2011  · New York**
**Theatermania**
# Gagwriter for the Oscars and many Hollwood stars, Vilanch is considered one of today’s most outrageous, uproarious personalities. His one-liners have tickled audiences when delivered by Bette Midler, [Lily Tomlin](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lily_tomlin "Lily Tomlin"), [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg") and [Rosie O’Donnell](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/rosie_odonnell "Rosie O'Donnell"). Vilanch also starred in the [Broadway production](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") of *Hairspray* and his one-man off- Broadway show, *Almost Famous*.[Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner Bruce Vilanch will perform with special guests, The Bev Leslies, at Queens Theatre in the Park on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm.
The Bev Leslies are a unique powerful soulful band serving up a musical cocktail of greasey soul and smokey torch, rockin the house with tunes from Etta James to [Tom Waits](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/tom_waits "Tom Waits"). They are fronted by [Bette Sussman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Sussman "Bette Sussman") and Elain Caswell and also include John Putnam, Shawn Pelton, and Paul Socolow.
For tickets and more information, [click here](http://www.queenstheatre.org/).
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### [Tonights Oscars - Vilanch's Challenge](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/27/tonights-oscars-vilanchs-challenge/)
**Published:** February 27, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Time.com
Who To Blame If Anne and James Aren’t [Funny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour "Humour") At Tonight’s Oscars
Feb 27, 2011**
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And we know who you’re thinking of. But it’s not [Ricky Gervais](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ricky_gervais "Ricky Gervais").
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") is the portly jokesmith who usually hangs behind the scenes – though NewsFeed does fondly remember his laugh-out-loud [Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares") run. Vilanch is the man who crafts the funnies that emerge from the celebs’ mouths. And this year marks the 22nd Oscars he’s helped write.
Though this year’s hosts were a curveball for Vilanch and his writing team. [Anne Hathaway](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anne_hathaway "Anne Hathaway") and [James Franco](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/james_franco "James Franco") are, first and foremost, actors. Each has done a comedic stint on SNL, and NewsFeed would consider both quite funny indeed. But for those behind the scenes, it’s a departure from past years, when Vilanch and Co. have curated jokes for David Letterman, [Chris Rock](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/chris_rock "Chris Rock"), and [Jon Stewart](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jon_stewart "Jon Stewart"), to name a few – all of whom are strong stand-up comedians.
So for Anne and James, the team had to modify their writing style. “I like that we don’t have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke,†Vilanch told the [AV Club](http://www.avclub.com/ "The A.V. Club"). “We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.â€
Tonight, Vilanch’s aim is to help them “create a persona, a character they’re going to play on the night.†But that’s not to say there won’t be jokes abounding. “It’s hard to ignore, you know, a girl who turns into a black chicken,†he says, referring of course to Black Swan.
For the record, Vilanch was not a fan of Ricky’s [Golden Globes](http://www.hfpa.org/ "Golden Globe Award") performance. “He never hit funny. Making jokes about The Tourist is just not funny.â€
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**Tags:** Anne Hathaway, AV Club, Bruce Vilanch, Chris Rock, Golden Globe Award, James Franco, Jon Stewart, Ricky Gervais
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Appear At "The Fix Up Show" March 2, 2011](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/26/bruce-vilanch-to-appear-at-the-fix-up-show-march-2-2011/)
**Published:** February 26, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** THE FIX-UP SHOW brings together a panel of three people—two who know an eligible single well, and one celebrity who has never met the person—and has them interrogate potential suitors to make a match. The matched pair wins a meal at Amalfi restaurant and goes on a real date! How did our panel do? Find out next week!
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**THE FIX-UP SHOW
Hosted by [J. Keith van Straaten](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Keith_van_Straaten "J. Keith van Straaten")**
*Celebrities. Singles. Seriously.*
**WHAT:** Drew Carey, Dick Cavett, Jeff Garlin, Margaret Cho, Alex Borstein, [Susan Olsen](http://www.myspace.com/everything/susan-olsen "Susan Olsen"), [Aasif Mandvi](http://www.aasifmandvi.com/ "Aasif Mandvi"), and Wil Wheaton are among the stars who recently joined this live-on-stage panel/matchmaking comedy show, where real celebrity guests help real singles looking for love. Two strangers get fixed up on a date before your eyes, as Host/Creator J. Keith van Straaten (“[Beat The Geeks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Geeks "Beat the Geeks"),†“What’s My Line? – Live On Stageâ€) keeps things running with spontaneity, civility, and fun. Celebrity guests are scheduled to appear and announced at [**www.thefixupshow.com**](http://www.thefixupshow.com).
**WHEN:** Wednesdays at 8pm. Through March 30.
February 9 (w/Doug Benson), 16 (w/Henry Winkler), 23 (w/Tippi Hedren). ***March 2 (w/Bruce Vilanch)***, 9 (w/Alan Thicke), 16 (w/Scott Thompson).
**WHERE:** [ACME Comedy Theatre](http://www.acmecomedy.com/ "ACME Comedy Theatre") – 135 N. La Brea Ave., [Los Angeles](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"). 90036
**TICKETS:** $15 at door. $12 in advance via [**www.thefixupshow.com**](http://www.thefixupshow.com)
**PHONE/WEB:** (646) 450-4FIX \[4349\] / [**www.thefixupshow.com**](http://www.thefixupshow.com) / **twitter:** [**@thefixupshow**](http://twitter.com/#!/thefixupshow)
**INFO:** THE FIX-UP SHOW brings together a panel of three people—two who know an eligible single well, and one celebrity who has never met the person—and has them interrogate potential suitors to make a match. The matched pair wins a meal at Amalfi restaurant and goes on a real date! How did our panel do? Find out next week!
It’s “I’ve Got A Secret†meets “Love Connection†–live on the Los Angeles stage. A dating show with heart –spontaneity, hilarity, and civility are guaranteed. Old or young, gay or straight, all are given a chance to find love on THE FIX-UP SHOW.
**WHO:** Host/Producer J. Keith van Straaten hosted “[What’s My Line?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F "What's My Line?") – Live on Stage,” and Comedy Central’s TV game show “Beat The Geeks†and is often seen commenting on [E! Entertainment Television](http://www.eonline.com "E!"). His essays on dating and Los Angeles have appeared in The Jewish Journal, Tango, and Backstage. More at [**www.jkeith.net**](http://www.jkeith.net).
Co-hostess Patti Goettlicher returns to “The Fix-Up Show†after appearing in the successful New York run. She also played hostess to J. Keith during the New York run of “What’s My Line? – Live On Stage.â€
Celebrity guests for this run will be announced shortly. Updated info available at [**www.thefixupshow.com**](http://www.thefixupshow.com).
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### [Review: Bruce Vilanch at Feinstein's](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/25/review-bruce-vilanch-at-feinsteins/)
**Published:** February 25, 2011
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Almost Fabulous: Bruce Vilanch at Feinstein’s
By Tony Phillips**
“Good evening,” comedian Bruce Vilanch begins, “I’m Chastity Bono.” And from there, the writer embarks on his one-man-show entitled Writer on the Verge, which played Feinstein’s on January 11. The mistaken-identity, name-dropping doesn’t stop with Chaz. From his black tee emblazoned with the phrase “I’m not Brad Pitt” to his claim he was mistaken for Barbara Cook by the hotel staff on his way into the Loew’s Regency, where this particular cabaret resides, Vilanch’s show isn’t so much Hollywood name check as a one-man Day of the Locust.
But perhaps trotting out the household names, whose acts he’s been penning since he wrote pal Bette Midler’s show Clams on the Half Shell in 1974, is more than fair as the six-time Emmy winner eases out from behind his laptop and into the spotlight on his own. HIs material is funny, there are several laugh out loud moments, but the overall effect is bracing in a way that might not have much to do with Vilanch himself. His art, that of the doctoring jokesmtih, is rapidly going the way of the Edsel. Name a comedian under the age of 30 who doesn’t write their own material? Vilanch’s art is a dying form, and to see him spinning his near-extinct magic onstage, while side-splittingly funny, is also akin to watching the prehistoric wooly mammoth mewl in the pit just before its head slips under the bubbling tar.
Perhaps a cabaret act is the way to go, but one can’t help but think taking on apprentices and passing down the craft that way might be a better, more philanthropic way to go. I’m sure Logo could even be cajoled into filming it. And Vilanch acknowledges learning his craft at the feet of the master–Paul Lynde–who took up Plato to Vilanch’s Socrates early in the writer’s own career. Hollywood’s Gayest “center square” met Vilanch when they were both working on “The Donny & Marie Show” in the mid-70s. After a long, Osmonds-waged war against ABC, that production relocated to Orem, Utah, to be closer to the pair’s funky Mormon Mecca and thus began Lynde and Vilanch’s weekly commute from Hollywood to LDS-land aboard the now-defunct Western Airlines.
Vilanch remembers one of the funniest men he’s ever known, but with just “two drinks” something a bit more distinctly evil emerged. Lynde’s sex toys on the luggage carousel story from Vilanch’s 2000 off-Broadway one-man-show Almost Famous is now legend, but here Vilanch updates his Lynde lore with a crowded Western Airlines flight, a few cocktails over Lynde’s two drink minimum and an encounter with a rowdy baby in which Lynde told the parents, “Either you shut that baby up or I’ll fuck it.”
How you feel about the above punchline will probably determine how you feel about Vilanch’s act. It’s insidery and twisted, but for
Bruce’s turn as Edna Turnblad in the Broadway musical Hairspray
some also uproariously funny so that even the well-worn jokes–like his infamous, but unuttered “Fievel backed out” line as a goof on Richard Gere’s co-presenter penned for Billy Crystal’s hosting duties at the Academy Awards the year that Speilberg’s American Tale was up for best original song–bear repeating.
And Vilanch also throws in something new, almost as a reward for listening to him rehash some of his patented zingers. In this case, it’s an anecdote from the year that Steve Martin hosted as Vilanch, Martin and the network censor went roundelay on the back-from-commercial, good news/bad news joke that Martin’s fly was open, but the camera adds ten pounds. “It’s a cock joke,” Martin maintained. “It’s a camera joke,” Vilanch countered.
That’s not to say Vilanch is all about Hollywood. He was born in New York and definitely knows where he is, even conceding a Broadway joke or two, albeit ones that have been around at least as long as last season.
There’s his oft-told Pia Zadora as Anne Frank joke wherein the audience tips off the Germans by screaming, “She’s in the attic!” But there’s also a gag about Valerie Harper’s Tallulah Bankhead from last season’s Looped which Vilanch informs the audience was “up last season for at least three weeks.”
So this isn’t Vilanch’s first time at the rodeo. He also appeared in one of the many second casts of the Broadway musical Hairspray, even shaving his trade-marked beard to take on the role of 60s mama Edna Turnblad, but he clearly didn’t make it to the American Idiot opening.
As a run-up to Oscar, his show was an invaluable primer. And naturally, Vilanch weighs in on this Sunday’s mega-watt hosts for the “Los Angeles national holiday,” James Franco and Ann Hathaway. “They’re movie stars,” Vilanch says, “they don’t have to come out and kill.” Not so Vilanch. And he does, for the most part, but when he doesn’t kill, it does cause one to question venue. Seeing Bruce Vilanch at Feinstein’s is a bit like watching a hockey game at the Metropolitan Opera.
First off, there’s his attire. I get that the “funny tees” are a trademark, but no lint brush? The comedian’s wardrobe is covered in stray hairs from his fly-away blond pageboy and along with the Sally Jesse Raphael red glasses, it adds up to a look that probably wouldn’t get him past the maitre’d were he not headlining. Or being mistaken for Barbara Cook.
Overall, his last foray into one-man territory in New York was much more accessible because he was able to own the room. Almost Famous played a smallish, downtown theatre, but didn’t come with all the trappings of the even smaller room at Feinstein’s, where one has patience for the patter, but first and foremost expects the headliner to eventually sing.
I know it’s wrong to evaluate comedy on a sliding scale, but the $85-$95 ticket price for Chelsea Handler’s last blow through town stuck in the craw just as much. Shouldn’t comedy be cheaper? But it’s not hard to figure out how it happened. Vilanch writes patter for the man whose name is above the door. The why of it is, like the $25 food minimum, a little harder to fathom.
And for the upscale ticket price., many of his best tales would be greatly aided by multimedia. An Oscar ceremony where Val Kilmer vamped with Roy Roger’s horse Trigger (and “Trigger wasn’t having it”) almost needs to be seen to be believed, but this room really doesn’t allow for that type of capability.
Vilanch was also a bit stiffer onstage than he was ten years ago, when he devoted the entirety of the second act to audience Q & A. Here, there’s very little riffing with the crowd, as if the stiffness of the venue has set in like arthritis. Toward the beginning of his act, Vilanch joked, “I’m following in the footsteps of Lorna Luft.”
Liza’s half-sister got her start in television at age 11 on her mom’s Judy Garland Show. Vilanch’s own career launched a bit earlier than that modeling for the “charming chub” division of Lane Bryant. As he observed the year that Bjork wore her infamous Marjan Pejoski swan dress and he overheard her screeching into her cellphone in Icelandic, “She really is a swan.” He might as well have been describing himself. And maybe after generations of a celebrity-driven rape of the swan, it’s about time momma got paid.
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### [A Preview Of Sunday's OSCAR Telecast with Producer Bruce Cohen and Writer Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/24/a-preview-of-sundays-oscar-telecast-with-producer-bruce-cohen-and-writer-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** February 24, 2011
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Wondering what to expect from this weekend’s **83rd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS**? We certainly were! Which is why, when given the opportunity to chat with producer [Bruce Cohen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen "Bruce Cohen") and writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") we jumped at the chance. What follows is how they plan on appealing to the show’s broad spectrum of audience members, the [thought process](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought "Thought") that went into choosing their hosts and why those hoping for a cameo from [Ricky Gervais](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ricky_gervais "Ricky Gervais") probably shouldn’t hold their breath.  For the full interview at DVR Playground: [Click Here](http://www.dvrplayground.com/blog/entry/22726/We-Preview-Sunday-s-OSCAR-Telecast-with-Producer-Bruce-Cohen-and-Writer-Bruce-Vilanch/)
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### [The AV Club Interviews Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/23/the-av-club-interviews-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** February 23, 2011
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**[AV Club](http://www.avclub.com/ "The A.V. Club")
Bruce Vilanch
By Joel Keller February 23, 2011**
Frequent appearances on the [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/whoopi_goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg")-led Hollywood Squares aside, Bruce Vilanch has spent most of his nearly four decades in show business in the writers’ room. The chubby, fuzzy, T-shirt-wearing Vilanch started out writing for ’70s variety shows ranging from The [Bette Midler](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bette_midler "Bette Midler") Show to Donny And Marie to the infamously bad Brady Bunch Variety Hour and [The Star Wars Holiday Special](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_holiday_special "Star Wars: Holiday Special"), but he made his name writing for award shows, the most famous being the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"). This year marks his 22nd Oscars (airing Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern on ABC), an impressive feat given the range of hosts who have worked on the show over those years. The A.V. Club recently spoke to Vilanch about the challenge of writing for hosts who aren’t comedians, what he thought of Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes performance, and why he thinks [David Letterman](http://www.myspace.com/everything/david-letterman "David Letterman") is still sore over the whole “Uma… Oprah†thing.
The A.V. Club: How does writing for [Oscar hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies "List of Academy Awards ceremonies") who aren’t comedians challenge you as a writer?
Bruce Vilanch: It’s a different energy. Because when they’re a stand-up, you’ve had time to actually hear their voice, and you know what their rhythm is, and you can write to it. When they’re actors, you’re kind of helping them create a persona, a character they’re going to play on the night. They’re going to play the host of the Academy Awards, and they’re going to bring their own performance chops to it. So it’s quite different, and it changes the energy of the show, too. I like that. I like that we don’t have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.
AVC: Does it make it easier because it feels like more of a blank slate for you?
BV: Yeah. Well, it does. We’re shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about \[2011 Oscar hosts\] James \[Franco\] and Anne \[Hathaway\] is, they’ve both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they’re skilled comedians. They’re not comics, but they’re comedians, and so they can do things with what they’re given that a comic can’t necessarily do.
AVC: How tough is it to make your jokes sound like [Jon Stewart](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jon_stewart "Jon Stewart"), or Whoopi Goldberg, or Steve Martin?
BV: It’s tough, by God, and I should get paid more money. You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you’re not going to give her the same dress you’d give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak. I mean, Ellen \[DeGeneres\]’ attitude is different from Jon Stewart’s attitude is different from Whoopi’s attitude, and you learn what those things are. Now what’s important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona is. And so when you’re dealing with actors, it just makes it more difficult, because you have to help them come up with one. You know, Johnny Depp has no Johnny Depp character when he’s onstage. You haven’t seen An Evening With Johnny Depp at Carnegie Hall.
AVC: Which host was most challenging for you to write for?
BV: They’re all kind of challenging, but I think it was the dynamic. It was Hugh Jackman, because he’s not a comic, and we had to find a new way to do the show. When Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were doing it, Steve is a stand-up, Alec isn’t, but he has certainly done that kind of stuff—a lot of Saturday Night Lives, for example. But we had to find ways to use the two of them where they could be who they are, and at the same time, create an energy between the two of them that was unusual. So they’ve all been challenges in one way or another. I mean, Chris Rock, I suppose was the most of a challenge, because he felt himself the most outside show business, the Academy system, that whole world. That’s one reason he was chosen, because the producers want a really fresh slant from a comic, the kind they hadn’t had before.
AVC: How is the dynamic of working with a different writing staff every year?
BV: It varies. I mean, if they’re doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that’s their team. But when it’s Whoopi, or [Billy Crystal](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/billy_crystal "Billy Crystal"), or Steve Martin, who don’t do shows every night—well, Whoopi’s now doing The View every day, but back then, she wasn’t—you get to take charge and start putting together a playbook, and then start writing material for them. You get to be more of the liaison with the host team. You get to be the host team, which is more fun.
AVC: You said in an interview a couple years ago that you were proud of inserting a fart joke in one of Whoopi’s shows. What are some others that went well for you?
BV: I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that. Of course, he won his Oscar for Billy Crystal’s movie, and Billy was hosting the show, so Billy could make jokes about him. That was fun. When it was over, we said, “Well, we certainly turned that one around.â€
AVC: What made Billy Crystal a host the Academy wanted to keep going back to over and over and over?
BV: Well, he’s full-service. With Billy, you would get a musical number that was written specially for the occasion. We’ve gotten a film package where we would insert him into things, he would do prop things. He was also a bona fide movie star who could comment from inside, but he had a familiar touch. I mean, part of the reason he was a movie star was because he was a familiar character. He was a guy who you could identify with, and so he was like your entrée into the party. Also he was a big movie star, and that made him a guest at the party that everybody else at the party knew too. It just sort of worked. It didn’t also happen overnight. I mean, he’d hosted about three Grammy awards before that, in which he had sort of cut his teeth on the job. He’d been on the Oscars as a presenter for about five years, so he knew the territory.
AVC: Do you ever wish that, in this era, there was another Bob Hope, or Johnny Carson, or Billy Crystal who could come host the Oscars year after year?
BV: Well, you know, Billy did it eight times. So there has been that. If somebody else were to turn up, that would be great. I mean, I don’t know who would be him, but there are so many more hosts now than there used to be. You know, even when we started the show—one of the challenges when you have a comic hosting the Oscars is to do a joke on the Oscars that has not already been done by David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Joy Behar, Bill Maher, Carson Daly. I mean, there are these guys every night that are coming on and doing stuff. That didn’t used to be that way. It was Hope and there was basically nobody else but Hope. There was Carson and there was nobody else but Carson. So it’s a different world now. It’s not only that, but all these stars are seen every day on ET and Access and Extra, and all of these things… the Inside Edition, Outside Edition, the Underneath Your Edition. So it’s so hard to bring stars on that people haven’t seen, or don’t get access to all the time. The challenge is to come up with stuff that’s interesting in spite of all that.
AVC: Do you look at the day-after reviews of the Oscars?
BV: Oh sure. I mean, I have them framed. I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it’s for the same show. These people watched the same show. That’s what happens. They love it, they hate it.
AVC: Which show was it?
BV: It was a Whoopi show. It was the Whoopi show that Quincy Jones produced \[in 1996\]. The L.A. Times said the ayatollah should come after Vilanch with a fatwa. It was like that. I said, “Well, that’s kind of severe. That’s a bit harsh.†But then they fired him. So the critic got fired, so I thought, “Okay, The karma wagon has backed up over your feet!â€
AVC: When you read reviews that say a host like Rock or Stewart didn’t go far enough, or that they were tentative, what do you usually think?
BV: I agree. I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart’s show every night don’t think he went far enough, because he couldn’t do what he does on his show every night, because it’s a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can’t come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards. So people who tune in to see that are going to be disappointed. Everybody else, who doesn’t necessarily know what \[the host\] does, can wind up falling in love with him, because he’s taking a different tack, and they’re seeing him fresh for the first time. It can go either way. So I understand what that’s about. I mean, there’s a job you have, and you can’t necessarily bring your other job to it. Johnny Carson famously told Letterman that he never did Carnac on the Oscar show. Because, you know, Letterman brought on a spinning dog, and I think he was giving away a car, there are a couple of Letterman-esque things, the Top 10 list and all that, which he might not have needed to bring on, because it was a different gig.
AVC: Letterman still jokes about his hosting gig 16 years later.
BV: I know. He won’t let go.
AVC: He still seems to harbor some sort of lingering disappointment over how that went down.
BV: I think he probably harbors lingering disappointment over a prom date. I mean, he’s not one of the most lighthearted people. Although since he’s had the heart attack and the kid, he certainly has gotten happier. Listen, they asked him to host the following year, and he said no. He didn’t ever want to go back, and he has made it an anchor of his shtick ever since. In fact, two years later, when Billy came back and we put a film package together, we had him in a parody of The English Patient saying “Billy, just say Uma… Oprah, Uma… Oprah,†and then machine-gunning him down on the beach. And Letterman said yes. We didn’t even have to finish the pitch. He said, “I’m doing it.†He loves to make fun of himself.
AVC: As the person who helped bring that to life, how do you feel about that?
BV: Rob Burnett, who is his producer now, is the proud author of “Uma… Oprah,†and it’ll probably be the title of his memoirs: Uma… Oprah by Rob Burnett. I actually told him not to do it. I said I thought it was a bad idea, I said, “These two people are sitting out there. Uma Thurman’s been nominated for an Oscar, and her world could change overnight. She doesn’t need TV Boy making jokes about her.†He nodded, and he went ahead and did it anyway. But he had a lot of stronger material that year that he didn’t use. I don’t know why. But you know, Dave is also somebody who likes to come in with sabers, you know. A joke doesn’t work, and then he’ll make fun of it. Like Carson, actually. Carson did the same thing.
AVC: And he likes to hammer jokes to death, even if they’re not the funniest thing, if they amuse him.
BV: And something he still does, which absolutely, I marvel that he can get away with this, you know, he does his own warm-up. I mean, he’ll come out and talk to the studio audience before the show, then he goes backstage, and they bring him out again on camera, live. And he will do a joke that’s a reference to something only the studio audience has heard. The audience at home has no idea what he’s talking about. The audience in the studio cracks up, goes ballistic. They’ll go to a reaction shot of the woman he’s talking about. We have no idea what he’s doing. You’d think somebody would say to him, “Dave, that’s playing to 400 people, and there are 4 million people who were sitting there at home with their thumbs up their noses, going whaaaaat?†It doesn’t seem to bother him.
AVC: When you watched Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes, and you saw that he actually didn’t play it safe, did you think, “He’s going to get in trouble for his performance?â€
BV: Of course he was. I mean, he never hit funny. Making jokes about The Tourist is just not funny; it’s just kind of mean-spirited and cruel. I think that partially is that he lost his cuddly—he was heavier and befuddled and kind of looked a bit lost \[last year\], and this year, he came out and he was like a shark. He took his jacket off, and his body’s all worked out, and it’s not a sympathetic character up there. He was just a mean kind of player. Plus, I thought his targets were lame. I mean, Charlie Sheen and how old Bruce Willis is? I mean, this is old stuff. Scientology and who’s gay and who’s not? This is not fresh target material to make jokes about. All you can be is outrageous—you’re not going to be funny. All you’re going to get is a lot of “oooooohhhhh.†And that’s what he got. He got a lot of “oooooohhhhs.â€
AVC: But do you think that hosts are in a no-win situation sometimes, given who they’re playing to in the theater, as opposed to who they’re playing to on TV?
BV: I think sometimes. I don’t think he was in that, but I do think sometimes it happens. As I’m always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don’t. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter. They are not interested in any joke you have to say; they just want to get to the bar, or they want to get to their phone so they can begin firing people. It’s unfortunate. You feel the air go out of the room as the evening wears on, because a lot of the people who were there came with very high hopes, and they no longer have them. This is not the case with the Golden Globes, because they’re sitting at tables drinking wine, so it’s a different kind of situation. Nothing much is riding on whether you win a Golden Globe.
AVC: Do you wish they’d serve more alcohol at the Oscars?
BV: Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, that’s my fervent desire, especially backstage. But probably, they want to maintain a certain level of decorum, unlike the Golden Globes, where the sloppier it gets, the better it is.
AVC: As the nominated movies have gotten smaller, how tough has it gotten to write jokes about them? How are you going to do jokes about Winter’s Bone, for instance?
BV: Well, first of all, we don’t have a comic who needs to make joke about that. So if we do, it’ll be in some other context. Had we had a comic, we probably would have made a joke about the fact that nobody’s seen it. The first time we did the Billy Crystal movie \[the clip reel at the beginning of the show\], we did it because The English Patient was the big picture. Jerry Maguire was the only movie people had seen, so we said, “And here are the nominees: Tom Cruise and a bunch of other guys.†Because nobody knew who Brenda Blethyn was, or Marianne Jean-Baptiste. I mean, these were the nominees. These were the big nominees. And it was kind of amazing. The biggest picture that year had been the first reissue of Star Wars. So we created a movie, which we bookended with Star Wars, with Billy as Yoda, and then we went into all the other movies that had been nominated that year. Had we known The English Patient was going to win nine Oscars—which still staggers people, because when people ask me what’s the trial of the century, I say The English Patient—we might have made more jokes about it. But we didn’t know at that time.
To me, the funniest line of the night was when Andrew Lloyd Webber won an Oscar for writing a song for Evita, and he said, “Thank God The English Patient had no songs. Because it won everything.†That was why we did that movie with Billy Crystal, because we felt that so many people hadn’t seen the movies. They were great movies, like Fargo and Secrets And Lies. But Jerry Maguire was the only big-box-office picture that year. And you know, part of the reason the Oscars has opened up the Best Picture category to 10 is because they want more of a spectrum. There were a lot of little movies people hadn’t heard of, and a couple of big box-office pictures like The Dark Knight didn’t get nominated because there wasn’t room for it, because the Academy liked the little pictures. So now, this is the second year of the 10 Best Pictures. The range is really pretty amazing to me. When you go from Toy Story 3 to Winter’s Bone, I mean, that’s quite an impressive range. I mean, last year, Avatar, the biggest picture of all time, lost to The Hurt Locker. But there were like eight other movies that were also equally well represented, that represented every different spectrum of the movie business.
AVC: So how do you take a fresh angle on a movie that has infiltrated pop culture to the point where the jokes, like the ones that say Inception is confusing, are getting old?
BV: Well, you know, you try and do something different. I mean, if I had my way, I was going to have the accountant come out to explain Inception. You know, the Price Waterhouse people, and in Price Waterhouse language. But here we are with a show that people are always bitching is too long, and I thought “Do we really want to spend three minutes on this joke?†And if Inception was the runaway favorite, maybe it would be worth it. But it isn’t. There are nine other pictures that are equally likely or unlikely to win. But you’d have to do something like that, because you’d have to find some way that was unique, that wasn’t just another Inception confusion joke, some other angle. That’s just one that came to me a while back, but I knew it’d never make it.
AVC: How do you approach a movie like Schindler’s List or The Hurt Locker, that has such tough subject matter that making jokes about it would be inappropriate?
BV: Sometimes you just skip over it. You just go for the ones you can make jokes about. We couldn’t make any jokes about Precious last year, because, you know, people don’t seem to find rape amusing. I wanted Steve and Alec last year to come out wearing sweatshirts, one said “Team Precious,†the other said “Team Mama.†But you’d have to know the Twilight thing, and you’d have to know the Precious thing. We had a joke: “Precious is about a girl who’s raped by her father twice. Who says men can’t commit?†Now you see, now that’s a funny joke, except you have to go with the notion that you can make any kind of a joke about rape.
AVC: I’m guessing that joke didn’t come close to making it.
BV: Right, and most people think you cannot, and I understand that. But I mean, you know, there we were, coming up with those kinds of jokes, and finally we just said, “You know what? Let’s just leave Precious alone.†The only joke, I don’t even know if we made anything, but we were down to making jokes about the weird title. Precious, From The Novel Push By Sapphire, you know, which was like three random people. Push, Sapphire, and Precious—are those the Pips? Who are they?
AVC: When you look at each nominated movie, are you looking for that one thing you can latch onto?
BV: That’s exactly what you do: You look and see what’s unique about each movie. When we first sat down, we just said “How many ballerina jokes \[for Black Swan\], how many arm-cutting jokes \[for 127 Hours\], how many things can we do? Or can we ignore them?†But it’s hard to ignore, you know, a girl who turns into a black chicken. I mean, it’s really difficult. I could say, “I want to have Ernest Borgnine come in a black swan outfit, just sitting in the audience and just have him run on the stage, Kanye-like, and interrupt somebody.†But I mean, that’s what you come down to. When you do a thing like Inception, it’s very hard, because all those Inception things are great big special effects. They’re time-consuming and they’re tough to do, yeah. I would love to freeze the show and keep going back to the same people falling off a cliff in a Volkswagen minibus 17 times. It just adds time to the whole thing.
AVC: What was the bigger nightmare to write for: The Star Wars Holiday Special or the Brady Bunch Variety Hour?
BV: Well, you know, The Brady Bunch was about seven people who could not sing or dance, and they had to do both. We called it One Tenille And Seven Captains, which was something of an old reference. But nothing will ever equal the Star Wars Holiday Special, I have to say. I mean, The Brady Bunch, there’ve been several iterations of that, but nobody involved with The Brady Bunch has ever tried to buy up every copy of it. Unlike George Lucas, who was like on a personal extermination program of getting every single copy of The Star Wars Holiday Special and literally presiding over the molecular breakdown of every single one.
AVC: Yeah, but Robert Reed as a song-and-dance man doesn’t sound like something he would be proud of.
BV: Something to behold, it was. And we put him in drag a lot. But I put him in drag a lot because Woody Allen had written the Garry Moore Show. Garry Moore was not a very funny guy, and he had a psychic named Durward Kirby who wasn’t very funny, and Woody Allen had to write for them. Every sketch he wrote, at the top of the page, he would say, “Durward and Garry enter wearing dresses.†Of course they wouldn’t do it, and when the sketch bombed, he said “Well, they wouldn’t wear the dresses. It’s right there on the top of the page.†So it was kind of like the same feeling. It’s like no matter what, “Put \[Reed\] in a dress! He will get a laugh, trust me.†So we went all around town finding everybody else’s Carmen Miranda drag. You know, any tall person who ever did Carmen Miranda, we rented the costume, because we wanted to do that, to dress him up. And it worked!
AVC: It did work for what, the nine weeks it was on?
BV: But, you know, once the Brady Bunch movies came out, much later, the parody movies, Paramount sold off all the Brady Bunch variety shows to Nickelodeon, and they were showing them on Nick At Nite—Nick At Nightmare, I called it. My stoned friends would call me at 2 o’clock in the morning and they would say, “Dude, you’re on Nickelodeon! Your name’s on this show, dude, and this guy Mr. Brady’s dancing and he’s in a ballgown, and it’s just, it’s so trippy.â€
AVC: It must’ve been trippy to work on it.
BV: Oh yes. Well, it was the ’70s. We were chemically altered.
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### [Feast Of Fun Podcast: Bruce Vilanch Takes Us Inside the Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/23/feast-of-fun-podcast-bruce-vilanch-takes-us-inside-the-oscars/)
**Published:** February 23, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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For over two decades comedian Bruce Vilanch has written some of the best received Academy Awards shows. Although the writing process starts months in advance he really shines when he’s in the hot seat, coming up with funny things for the hosts to say as the show unfolds live. This will be his twenty second year as head writer for the Oscars and Bruce has had to face some tough challenges this year.
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### [Video: Carol Channing's 90th Birthday Celebration](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/22/video-carol-channings-90th-birthday-celebration/)
**Published:** February 22, 2011
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### [Bruce Vilanch, Host Of Others, Celebrate Carol Channing's 90th Tonight](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/21/bruce-vilanch-host-of-others-celebrate-carol-channings-90th-tonight/)
**Published:** February 21, 2011
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), Davis Gaines, [Carole Cook](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cook "Carole Cook"), [JoAnne Worley](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f0964f8-ba61-4f60-9815-3c40e959a6b3.html "Jo Anne Worley") Celebrate [Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing")‘s 90th Feb. 21
By Andrew Gans
February 21, 2011**
A special edition of The Actors Fund’s *Musical Monday* series will be held Feb. 21 in the lobby of [Los Angeles’](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") [Pantages Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.1019444444,-118.325555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=34.1019444444,-118.325555556 (Pantages%20Theatre%20%28Hollywood%29)&t=h "Pantages Theatre (Hollywood)") to celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway legend Carol Channing.
Bruce Vilanch emcees the event, which also features the talents of Davis Gaines, Rose Marie, [Mary Jo Catlett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Catlett "Mary Jo Catlett"), [Patricia Morison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Morison "Patricia Morison"), Congreswoman [Jackie Speier](http://speier.house.gov/ "Jackie Speier") and former *[Hello, Dolly!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)")* stars Carole Cook and JoAnne Worley.
The artists, according to press notes, will “come together to honor Broadway’s original Dolly with memories, humorous storytelling and, of course, several of her signature tunes.”
Produced by John Bowab and Martin Wiviott, the evening begins at 7:30 PM with a cocktail reception followed by the 8:30 PM performance. Dessert and coffee will conclude the night.
Proceeds will go towards The Dr. Channing/Kullijian Foundation for the Arts and The Actors Fund’s comprehensive programs and services.
The Pantages Theater Lobby is located at 6233 Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles. For tickets, priced $125, call (323) 933-9266, ext. 34.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Judge Broadway Beauty Pageant](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/18/bruce-vilanch-to-judge-broadway-beauty-pageant/)
**Published:** February 18, 2011
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**Judges & Contestants Set for Broadway Beauty Pageant; La Cage, Chicago, Anything Goes, Spider-Man & Mary Poppins
Back to the Article
by BWW News Desk**
A trio of outstanding and hilarious judges has been announced for the 5th Smash Year of The Broadway Beauty Pageant: Bruce Vilanch is the six-time [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner comedy writer and actor who is one of the most sought after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry. Rachael Dratch is best known for her years as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and is an award winning comic actress from Second City. [Carson Kressley](http://www.carsonkressley.com "Carson Kressley") was the fashion expert on Queer Eye, the host of the TV show How To [Look Good Naked](http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-look-good-naked "How to Look Good Naked"), and now hosts Carson-Nation on the [Oprah Winfrey Network](http://www.oprah.com/own "OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network"). This not-to-be-missed event will be on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The [Ali Forney Center](http://aliforneycenter.org "Ali Forney Center"), NYC’s primary housing resource for homeless [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") youth. The annual show will again be at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street).
This year’s contestants are: Matt Anctil, [La Cage aux Folles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28musical%29 "La Cage aux Folles (musical)"); Michael Cusamano, Chicago; Raymond J. Lee, Anything Goes; Brandon Rubendall, [Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark](http://spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/ "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"); and James Tabeek, Mary Poppins. Conceived by Jeffery Self and directed by [Ryan J. Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_J._Davis "Ryan J. Davis"), The Broadway Beauty Pageant is musically directed by Christopher Denny. The evening is produced by Wil Fisher, Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self and Matthew Oberstein.
The previous winners have been: Charlie Williams (Mr. Memphis 2010), Anthony Hollock (Mr. Hair 2009), Marty Thomas (Mr. Xanadu 2008), and Frankie James Grande (Mr. Mamma Mia 2007).
Tickets are priced at $25, $50, and $150 VIP and are on sale online at http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6590-the-5th-annual-broadway-beauty-pageant, via phone at (212) 864-5400 or in person at the box office. $150 VIP tickets include a gift bag and private after party.
The Ali Forney Center (AFC) was started in June 2002 in response to the lack of safe shelter for LGBT youth in New York City. They have grown quickly to become the nation’s largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. They are committed to providing LGBT youth with safe, dignified, nurturing environments where their needs can be met and where they can begin to put their lives back together. The center provides short and long term housing, plus free medical care, HIV testing, mental health services, showers, food, computer access and job training and placement at its drop-in centers in Chelsea and Brooklyn. The Ali Forney Center is at 224 West 35th St., Suite 1102 [New York, NY](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") 10001 (212) 222-3427 and the fax is (212) 222-5861. www.aliforneycenter.org
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**Tags:** Ali Forney Center, Carson Kressley, Emmy Award, LGBT, Michael Bloomberg, New York, New York City, Ryan J. Davis
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### [HitFix Interviews Bruce Vilanch And Bruce Cohen About The Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/15/hitfix-interviews-bruce-vilanch-and-bruce-cohen-about-the-oscars/)
**Published:** February 15, 2011
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**HitFix Interview: [Bruce Cohen](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169260/ "Bruce Cohen") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") tease the Oscars
By Daniel Fienberg
Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011**
If you watch any [ABC](http://abc.go.com "American Broadcasting Company") programming at all, you probably know that [James Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/james-franco "James Franco") and [Anne Hathaway](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/ "Anne Hathaway (actress)") are in the midst of extensive training for their gig hosting the 2011 [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") on Sunday, February 27.
The youthful hosts may be doing Oscar curls and preparing for speedy bathroom breaks and potential wardrobe malfunctions, but they’re hardly the only ones preparing for the ceremony.
On Tuesday (Feb. 15), I grabbed a few minutes of phone time with the Oscar telecast’s extremely busy head writer Bruce Vilanch and with Bruce Cohen, who will be producing along with Don Mischer.
The conversation should mostly whet your appetite for the February 27 telecast on ABC, providing a hint of what to expect from the two hosts, as well as how the tone of the Oscars will differ from last month’s [Ricky Gervais](http://www.myspace.com/everything/ricky-gervais "Ricky Gervais")-hosted [Golden Globes](http://www.hfpa.org/ "Golden Globe Award").
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HitFix: So how are you approaching the show differently with your dual hosts and your dual young hosts? How are you looking at this year’s telecast?
Bruce Cohen: We’re looking at this year’s telecast as a celebration of everything that’s new and fresh about having James and Anne hosting and Anne being the youngest Oscar host in history, James and Anne being the first male and female host, combined with taking a good look back at some of the great moments in film history and some of the great performances and some of the great moments in Oscar history. So we’re really trying to blend yesterday and today together.
Bruce Vilanch: So romantic.
Bruce Cohen: The present and the past in one extravaganza on the 27th of February.
HitFix: For Bruce Vilanch, how are you approaching writing for these two?
BV: Well, it’s in an unconventional way, because they’re not stand-up comics, so they don’t have to come out and go, “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!” They have characters that they can play. They have big personalities and we write for them, but they don’t have that stand-up comic routine that other people do. So it’s going to feel different. It’s going to feel fresh and different.
[BC](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.9,-124.5&spn=1.0,1.0&q=54.9,-124.5 (British%20Columbia)&t=h "British Columbia"): But they’re incredibly talented.
BV: They’re really funny people.
BC: The characters that they’ll be playing will be the two of them as [Oscar hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Awards_ceremonies "List of Academy Awards ceremonies"). So it’s not that they’re not themselves, but it’s a heightened version of themselves, because they’re both so excited about doing the show. So it’s been fun watching them create, you know, who is the James Franco that James wants to present to the world in his role as co-host of the Oscars?
HitFix: And what is the answer to that question?
BC: Suave, debonair, classic movie star with an irreverent sense of humor. Not that I would presume to speak for Mr. Franco, but being with him preparing, that’s what I would say.
BV: And he’s gotten rid of the one-arm shtick. He’s working with two arms again. Everybody he hugs will be happy to hear that.
HitFix: And what is it that Anne will be trying for?
BC: Well, Anne is a budding comic genius. Her mind works like a sketch comedy writer. You give her a line and while she’s selling that line funnier than you ever thought possible, she’s already coming up with the six other things she wants to try. So I think with Anne, she’s sort of the consummate, polished performer, but she brings this incredible energy and enthusiasm with that. So I think you’re going to see a really funny, high energy performance, but also bringing the glamor back. She’s the first full-on glamorous female movie star to host the Oscars in many, many years and the costume changes and the different designers working with her and the makeup and the hair, you’re going to see all of that too. Part of why people watch the Oscars is the dresses on the red carpet, so the fact that we have that not just with our presenters and nominees arriving in advance, but with our hostess on the show, is a whole new cool element as well.
HitFix: Bruce V. could you talk a bit about what the in-show process is going to be like? Obviously if you have a trained comedian as a host, they can adapt, to some degree, to what’s happening within the show. But these two, without that background, is that going to make more work for you during telecast itself?
BV: Yeah, well, we won’t be jumping on the opportunities to have them come out and ad-lib, unless there’s a perfect moment that allows for it, whereas a comic is always looking for a reason to comment on stuff. They don’t make that pact with the audience, either. The audience isn’t expecting that from them. So if they do, it’s because something absolutely right happened and we want to capitalize on it and we’ve had enough time during the commercial to actually come up with the something.
HitFix: Still, that has to make for a different process?
BV: Yeah. Yeah, it’s different. Certainly somebody like Billy Crystal or Whoopi is ready to say something about whatever just went before, whether it’s appropriate or not. In fact, most of the time we have to kind of stifle ourselves, because we want to say something that we said backstage and that we laughed at, but that we know once you said it on-stage, you’d probably regret having said it.
HitFix: As a last question, I’d love for you guys to talk a bit about tone and what you want the tone in the room to be, perhaps in comparison with what happened at the Golden Globes last month, but perhaps not even that. How do you want the room to feel?
BC: It’s funny, because we sort of had our dream tone set before the Globes and there certainly wasn’t anything that happened on the Globes that made us want to change our tone. That’s for sure. The Oscars is the chance every year to celebrate the movie business and remind the world what they love about movies and what they love about the Oscars. Pretty much everyone in the world, at the his point, they have their connection points to a movie they love, a song from a film that really meant something to them, these emotional or funny moments that they love and remember. Our tone is that we want to try to connect the audience. Don Mischer and I, we’re producing the show, and we have to write a letter and program that everyone reads in the theater, because they make you sit in your seats early, and you’ve got time to read it, so it’s actually something that everybody looks at. So that’s one of the things that we say in the letter, that if we can remind everyone who’s watching that one or two moments during the show when you connect with your favorite movie moment or Oscar moment and you remember why you loved these things in the first place, then we’ll be very happy campers.
HitFix: And Bruce V? Tone?
BV: The audience is different. The Golden Globes, they’re a bunch of drunks who are there having a good time for an award that doesn’t mean a whole lot and that only takes 12 people to actually win one, if they vote for you. There are only like 83 of them anyway. So there’s a whole casual atmosphere, like “We’re here for the personal appearance of it all.” So they can bring somebody on like Ricky, who basically just insults all of them and finds himself hilarious and that’s a different tone right there. This is the Oscars. This is 83 years of real tradition that mean something, as opposed to the Golden Globes, which is just a pie-throw.
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will air on ABC on Sunday, February 27. We’ll remind you of that plenty during the next week-and-a-half, as HitFix’s pre-Oscars coverage continues to ramp up.
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**Tags:** Academy Award, American Broadcasting Company, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Cohen, Bruce Vilanch, Golden Globe Award, James Franco, Ricky Gervais
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### [ “Laughing OUT Loud†Starring Poppy Champlin and Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/13/“laughing-out-loud”-starring-poppy-champlin-and-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** February 13, 2011
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4th Annual Comedy Night – “Laughing OUT Loud†Starring Poppy Champlin and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
posted Feb 11, 2011 11:52 AM by Michael Chanak**
“Laughing OUT Loud,†is [Greater Cincinnati](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_%E2%80%93_Northern_Kentucky_metropolitan_area "Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area")’s 4th annual Comedy Night membership event & fundraiser. Below Zero Lounge’s second level will be transformed into a comedy club for the night’s festivities featuring comedians Poppy Champlin and Bruce Vilanch. Saturday, March 12, 2011; 8 PM
Poppy Champlin walks on stage looking urban cool and begins rolling out the jokes, starting slow and sure and moving on to staccato and soon she is hitting on all cylinders, spitting out jokes, quips, songs, impressions, interactions, bird calls and with deep resources to draw from. All of Poppys’ shows can be described as spin art – “No two alike.” Poppy is crackerjack at the craft of improv. Poppy has performed at the famed Chicago Second City Improv, one of the quickest witted comedians working either coast today. She has a wild and roaming spontaneity, which makes each show actually; feel like one of a kind. Poppy’s experience with classic standup and improv, gives her a double-barreled flexibility that works particularly well with her subjects of choice. www.poppycockprod.com
Bruce Vilanch is one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “[Get Bruce](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184510/ "Get Bruce")!” (1999) and his one-time stint as a regular on “[Hollywood Squares](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares "Hollywood Squares")” (1998 ), for which he also served as head writer. He has scripted most of the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecasts over the last decade, two of which won [Emmys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award"). He has written for The Tony’s, The Grammy’s, The Emmy’s, and just about every other award show on television screen. He has roasted celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and President Clinton, as well as writing the touching Emmy-winning valedictory [Bette Midler](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bette-midler "Bette Midler") crooned as a send-off to [Johnny Carson](http://www.myspace.com/everything/johnny-carson "Johnny Carson"). www.wegotbruce.com
Tickets are available for purchase online at [www.hrc.org/lol](http://www.hrc.org/lol) at several levels including a Celebrity Reception featuring Poppy & Bruce. Prices range from $45-$240.
*The [Human Rights Campaign](http://www.hrc.org "Human Rights Campaign") is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.*
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch, Emmy Award, Hollywood Squares, Human Rights Campaign, Johnny Carson, LGBT
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### [Review: Gerry Visco reports on the 9th Annual Nightlife Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/02/review-gerry-visco-reports-on-the-9th-annual-nightlife-awards/)
**Published:** February 2, 2011
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**New York Press
Give My Regards to Broadway
Gerry Visco reports on the 9th Annual Nightlife Awards
By Gerry Visco**
…….
As much as I adore long rambling acceptance speeches, The 9th Annual Nightlife Awards honored the best of [New York’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") cabaret, comedy and jazz artists by having the award winners perform rather than blather on and thank their agent, mom and pet canary. The show, held Monday night at Town Hall, a venue now celebrating its 90th birthday, was like an extended nightclub show featuring some of the best talent in town.
The show snagged a funny host, [Emmy-award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who’s written comedy for luminaries like Bette Midler, Elizabeth Taylor, [Billy Crystal](http://www.myspace.com/everything/billy-crystal "Billy Crystal"), [Whoopi Goldberg](http://answers.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d "Whoopi Goldberg") and David Letterman. Vilanch is also a walking sight gag: He’s a chubby and outrageously gay dude with a long fried mop of blond hair wearing crazy spectacles and a silly T-shirt. He had the cojones to play Edna Turnblad in Hairspray and he was a regular on Hollywood Squares, so this job had to seem like a breeze.
Vilanch took a couple of days off from his gig of writing the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") script, which he’s been doing for the past 21 years, to host and quipped, “I was hoping Cher would be nominated for her song in Burlesque so [James Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/james-franco "James Franco") could impersonate her.” He made his entrance wearing a bloodied bandage over his head, claiming he’d just run over from the accident-waiting-to-happen known as Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark.
The crowd that was there was made up of old-time New Yorkers who enjoyed Vilanch’s brand of humor; I certainly couldn’t complain about the presence of stars like Christine Ebersole, Colin Quinn, [Karen Akers](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015210/ "Karen Akers"), [Nellie McKay](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736982/ "Nellie McKay"), Charles Busch, Karen Oberlin and [Julie Halston](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357084/ "Julie Halston"). Hannibal Buress was voted the outstanding comedian, edging out finalist Reggie Watts, who I’d say has an edgier humor.
After the show, down in the bowels of the theater, I said hello to the performers and took some photos. “Bruce, what’s up with the Oscars right now?” I asked. “Well, it’s a whole new ball game with James Franco and Anne Hathaway. A new slate,” he said. I asked him if he were staying in New York. “I’ve been living in L.A. for many years, but I’m from here. I’m staying with my mother out in Jersey,” he said. “I have to leave early tomorrow morning.”
An interesting, exciting awards show that doesn’t drag on all night? Vilanch’s other gig should take notes.
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### [Bruce Vilanch on what James Franco won't do at the Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/01/bruce-vilanch-on-what-james-franco-wont-do-at-the-oscars/)
**Published:** February 1, 2011
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**[New York Magazine](http://www.nymag.com "New York (magazine)")
Culture Vulture
02-01-2011**
Vulture is pleased to bring you, for perhaps the [first time](http://www.amazon.com/First-Time-Jeff-Coplon/dp/067103488X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D067103488X "The First Time") in world history, news about something [James Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/james-franco "James Franco") isn’t doing: Backstage at last night’s 2011 Nightlife Awards at [Town Hall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_local_government "Seat of local government"), we ran into [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who this year will write jokes for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") for the 22nd time. We badgered him for hints on what we could expect during February 27’s Oscar ceremony, and though he couldn’t spoil any of the bits we will see, he did tell us about one that won’t make the cut: “We had a great bit where James Franco was going to come on as [Cher](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000333/ "Cher") and be interrupted by \[the real\] Cher,” he told us. “But the song \[“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” from Burlesque\] wasn’t nominated, and so she’s not coming.” So telecast producers will find other ways to fill the space. [127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/ "127 Hours") star Franco and co-host [Anne Hathaway](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/ "Anne Hathaway (actress)") will “sing and dance … together and separately. And maybe even with other people,” says Vilanch. “I’m trying to find something James Franco is bad at. And he does it all with one arm — he really is Method. He actually got rid of his arm.”
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** 127 Hours, Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Vilanch, Cher, James Franco, New York, United States
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch hosts the 9th annual Nightlife Awards at Town Hall](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/02/01/photo-bruce-vilanch-hosts-the-9th-annual-nightlife-awards-at-town-hall/)
**Published:** February 1, 2011
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
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### [Photo: Bruce Vilanch Guest Stars On Rupaul's Drag Race](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/25/photo-bruce-vilanch-guest-stars-on-rupauls-drag-race/)
**Published:** January 25, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### [Who Da Hell's Gonna Win?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/25/who-da-hells-gonna-win/)
**Published:** January 25, 2011
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**[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2011/01/oscas.jpg) The Film School Rejects
Envelope Please: The 2011 Academy Award Nominees
January 25th 2011**
At the end of the 90s, famous Oscar show writer and Celebrity Fit Club contestant Bruce Vilanch claimed that, “Generally with the Oscars…there isn’t much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you’re dealing with – what’s been overlooked, what the issues are.â€
He was talking about preparing to write the show, but it applies to everyone from the directors, producers and stars on down to the fans. It’s fun to guess around the water cooler (your office still has a water cooler?), but until now, it’s all been speculation.
Thankfully, almost all that speculation has been spot on, so we can all continue our conversations about whether Black Swan will beat The Social Network for Best Picture. Whether Natalie Portman has any true competition for Best Actress. Whether, most importantly of all, Colleen Atwood will beat Mary Zophres for Best Costume Design.
Here they are. The 2011 Academy Award nominees:
BEST PICTURE
127 HOURS ([Fox Searchlight Pictures](http://www.foxsearchlight.com/ "Fox Searchlight Pictures"))
BLACK SWAN (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
INCEPTION (Warner Bros Pictures)
THE FIGHTER (Relativity Media/[Paramount Pictures](http://www.imdb.com/company/co0023400/ "Paramount Pictures"))
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Focus Features)
THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Co)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Sony Pictures)
TOY STORY 3 (Pixar/Walt Disney Studios)
TRUE GRIT (Paramount Pictures)
WINTER’S BONE Roadside Attractions
BEST ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES – TRUE GRIT
JAVIER BARDEM – BIUTIFUL
JESSE EISENBERG – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
COLIN FIRTH – THE KING’S SPEECH
JAMES FRANCO – 127 HOURS
BEST ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING – THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
NICOLE KIDMAN – RABBIT HOLE
JENNIFER LAWRENCE – WINTER’S BONE
NATALIE PORTMAN – BLACK SWAN
MICHELLE WILLIAMS – BLUE VALENTINE
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
CHRISTIAN BALE – THE FIGHTER
JOHN HAWKES – WINTER’S BONE
JEREMY RENNER – THE TOWN
MARK RUFFALO – THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
GEOFFREY RUSH – THE KING’S SPEECH
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
AMY ADAMS – THE FIGHTER
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – THE KING’S SPEECH
MELISSA LEO – THE FIGHTER
HAILEE STEINFELD – TRUE GRIT
JACKIE WEAVER – ANIMAL KINGDOM
[BEST ANIMATED PICTURE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature "Academy Award for Best Animated Feature")
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
TOY STORY 3
THE ILLUSIONIST
BEST DIRECTOR
DARREN ARONOFSKY – BLACK SWAN
DAVID FINCHER – THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TOM HOOPER – THE KING’S SPEECH
JOEL AND ETHAN COEN – TRUE GRIT
DAVID O. RUSSELL – THE FIGHTER
Continue on for more nominations…
–~~~~~~~~~~~~–
Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
Achievement in Cinematography
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
Inception, Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins
Achievement in costume design
Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech, Jenny Beavan
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres
[Best Documentary Feature](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Documentary_Feature "Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature")
Exit through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz, A Paranoid Pictures Production
Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic, A Gasland Production
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, A Representational Pictures Production
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, An Outpost Films Production
Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley, An Almega Projects Production
[Best Documentary Short Subject](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Documentary_%28Short_Subject%29 "Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)")
Killing in the Name, A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
Poster Girl, A Portrayal Films Production
Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, A Sun Come Up Production
The Warriors of Qiugang ,Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon, A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Achievement in Film Editing
Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter, Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
127 Hours, Jon Harris
The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful, Mexico
Dogtooth, Greece
In a Better World, Denmark
Incendies, Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi), Algeria
Achievement in Makeup
Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
Even more nominees? But of course…
–~~~~~~~~~~~~–
Best Original Score
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Inception, Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Best Original Song
“Coming Home†from Country Strong, Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light†from Tangled, Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
“If I Rise†from 127 Hours, Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together†from Toy Story 3, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
[Best Animated Short Film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Short_Film "Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film")
Day & Night, A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, A Magic Light Pictures Production, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let’s Pollute, A Geefwee Boedoe Production, Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing, A [Passion Pictures](http://www.passion-pictures.com "Passion Pictures") Australia Production, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), A Sacrebleu Production, Bastien Dubois
Best Live Action Short Film
The Confession, A National Film and Television School Production, Tanel Toom
The Crush, A Purdy Pictures Production, Michael Creagh
God of Love, A Luke Matheny Production, Luke Matheny
Na Wewe, A CUT! Production, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite
Achievement in Sound Editing
Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
Achievement in Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Screenplay by [Michael Arndt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1578335/ "Michael Arndt"). Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit, Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Original Screenplay
Another Year, Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler
So that’s it.
Not a lot of surprises, frankly, but there never are. Christopher Nolan is probably feeling a little bit disappointed this morning, and rightfully so.
Based on all of the awards, the movies leading the Best Picture pack are The King’s Speech, The Social Network, and The Fighter. True Grit and Black Swan are not too far behind, but Inception will have to pull a Driving Miss Daisy in order to take home the ultimate prize. Not likely at this point.
Still, it’s important to remember that the Oscars are a Democratic process. It’s a vote – not some secret cabal of people deciding in a smoke-filled back room somewhere.
At the end of the day, it’s an honor to be nominated, so congratulations to all of the nominees.
What do you think?
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
**Tags:** Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Coen brothers, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Michael Arndt, Paramount Pictures, Toy Story
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### [Bruce Vilanch Arrives At Elton John's Private Benefit Concert](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/21/bruce-vilanch-arrives-at-elton-johns-private-benefit-concert/)
**Published:** January 21, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Actor [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") arrives at [Elton John](http://www.myspace.com/everything/elton-john "Elton John")‘s private [benefit concert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_concert "Benefit concert") for the [American](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h "United States") Foundation for Equal Rights on January 19, 2011 in [Los Angeles, California](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles"). Elton John’s Benefit Concert For The American Foundation For Equal Rights – Arrivals
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Kick Off Season 3 Of Rupaul's Drag Race Jan 24th](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/20/bruce-vilanch-to-kick-off-season-3-of-rupauls-drag-race-jan-24th/)
**Published:** January 20, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Vanessa Williams and Bruce Vilanch kick off the season 3 premiere (others will include Lily Tomlin and Johnny Weir), a 90-minute “extravaganza eleganza†that features more plus-sized queens, two more from Puerto Rico (following the saucy hit Jessica Wild) and even some Texas ties.
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**Revving up for an amazing ‘Race’
Posted on 20 Jan 2011 at 4:09pm
Dallas’ Shangela is 1st returning contestant
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor
jones@dallasvoice.com**
Despite appearing on Viacom’s closeted stepbrother of a network (Logo) and featuring flamboyant men in dresses as the main contestants, [RuPaul](http://answers.com/topic/rupaul#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d "RuPaul")’s Drag Race has somehow managed to become the truly unmissable reality show on TV. The guest judges on this season are more A-list than [American Idol](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319931/ "American Idol") (or, for that matter, The A-List). Dancing with the Stars once bragged it had three Oscar winners compete over all the years; well, there were two last season on the Race.
[Vanessa Williams](http://www.vanessawilliams.com "Vanessa L. Williams") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") kick off the season 3 premiere (others will include [Lily Tomlin](http://www.myspace.com/everything/lily-tomlin "Lily Tomlin") and [Johnny Weir](http://www.myspace.com/everything/johnny-weir "Johnny Weir")), a 90-minute “extravaganza eleganza†that features more plus-sized queens, two more from [Puerto Rico](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=18.45,-66.1&spn=10.0,10.0&q=18.45,-66.1 (Puerto%20Rico)&t=h "Puerto Rico") (following the saucy hit [Jessica Wild](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Wild "Jessica Wild")) and even some Texas ties.
The big surprise (not all that big, really) is that Shangela, the Dallas-bred newbie who was kicked off in the opener last season, gets a reprieve as the first-ever returning candidate; and one of the contestants, Manila Luzon, is the boyfriend of last season’s finalist, [Sahara Davenport](http://www.saharadavenport.com "Sahara Davenport").
But what really drives the show is its fearless gay attitude: It’s campy without being silly. “Is that mistletoe or camel toe?†one judge wonders about a get-up. “Look at the size of that muff! Both hands fit!†exclaims another. These girls may not be classy, but they can work it out.
Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premieres Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. on Logo.
This article appeared in the [Dallas Voice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Voice "Dallas Voice") print edition Jan. 21, 2011.
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**Categories:** Television
**Tags:** American Idol, Bruce Vilanch, Dallas Voice, Johnny Weir, Lily Tomlin, Puerto Rico, RuPaul, Sahara Davenport
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### [Vilanch To Emcee At Carol Channing's Birthday Celebration](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/18/vilanch-to-emcee-at-carol-channings-birthday-celebration/)
**Published:** January 18, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Broadway World
Vilanch, Gaines, et al. Set for [Carol Channing](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carol-channing "Carol Channing")‘s 90th Birthday Celebration, 2/21
Back to the Article
by BWW News Desk**
Join Emcee Bruce Vilanch, Davis Gaines and former [HELLO DOLLY](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 "Hello, Dolly! (musical)")!, DOLLY’s [Carole Cook](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176946/ "Carole Cook"), Joanne Worley and evening’s host [Phyllis Diller](http://www.myspace.com/everything/phyllis-diller "Phyllis Diller") and others as they come together to honor [Broadway’s](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") original DOLLY with memories, humorous storytelling and, of course, several of her signature tunes. An unplugged evening that follows a simple format, as the Los Angeles theatrical community features three time TONY Award-winner Carol Channing on center stage to celebrate her 90th birthday with one of their highly acclaimed concert series entitled MUSICAL MONDAYS – A series of Cabaret events in the lobby of the historic Pantages Theatre.
Produced by John Bowab and Martin Wiviott, the intimate concerts has featured some of theatre’s finest performers including [Brian Stokes Mitchell](http://www.myspace.com/everything/brian-stokes-mitchell "Brian Stokes Mitchell"), Melissa Manchester, Peter Gallagher, Valarie Pettiford, [Alice Ripley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727997/ "Alice Ripley"), Emily Skinner, Sam Harris and Stephen Schwartz. Proceeds from this evenings benefit will go towards The Dr. Channing/ Kullijian Foundation for the Arts and The Actors Fund’s comprehensive programs and services.
WHEN: Monday, Feb 21st – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception and 8:30pm curtain
Program to be followed by dessert and coffee reception with the performers
WHERE: The Pantages Theater Lobby, 6233 Hollywood Blvd., [Los Angeles, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&t=h "Los Angeles") 90028
TICKETS: $125 by calling 323.933.9266 ext. 34
If theatergoers were to be polled about what they felt was the most memorable scene in musical comedy, most would probably cite the moment when the curtains part atop the stairs of the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant and Dolly Levi appears in her red [Freddy Wittop](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1091730/ "Freddy Wittop") gown, beginning her descent to “rejoin the human race.” As both an impersonator and the impersonated, the name Carol Channing has worldwide recognition for her trademark ditzy persona, poofy wigs, gargantuan glasses and smear of bright red lipstick. An extroverted performer, Channing is a thoughtful and highly engaging storyteller. Her kooky, chatty and very engaging style has entertained the masses with ten Broadway hits including, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Lend An Ear,” “Wonderful Town,” “Show Girl,” “The Vamp,” and “Hello, Dolly!,” The career of Carol Channing is varied and continuing, but recently committed her life to bring a refocus of the Arts in the public educational system through The Channing-Kullijian Foundation, whose purpose is to create a nationwide awareness campaign heralding the benefits of Arts back into the curriculum of public schools. Visit [www.ChanningArts.org](http://www.ChanningArts.org).
THE [ACTORS FUND](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Fund "Actors' Fund") is a national human services organization that helps everyone – performers and those behind the scenes – who works in performing arts and entertainment, helping nearly 12,000 people directly each year, and hundreds of thousands online. Serving professionals in film, theatre, television, music, opera, radio and dance, The Fund’s programs include social services and emergency assistance, health care and insurance, housing, and employment and training services. With offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Actors Fund has – for over 125 years – been a safety net for those in need, crisis or transition. Visit [www.actorsfund.org](http://www.actorsfund.org)
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### [Franco To Cut Off Arm At Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/17/franco-to-cut-off-arm-at-oscars/)
**Published:** January 17, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2011/01/james_franco_97.jpg)The [127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/ "127 Hours") star, 32, is planning to re-create the most famous moment in the film when his character – mountaineer [Aron Ralston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston "Aron Ralston") – cuts off his trapped arm.
[Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/francisco-franco "Francisco Franco") has apparently enlisted co-host [Anne Hathaway](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/ "Anne Hathaway (actress)") for the grisly re-enactment.
[Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") show writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") said the scene was the ‘obvious bit’ in their forthcoming presenting duties.
‘We have to sit down with them to figure out what they will and will not do,’ warned Vilanch.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/film/852930-james-franco-to-cut-arm-off-at-oscars#ixzz1BKccm8Ay
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**Categories:** Awards Shows
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### [What Will Bruce Vilanch Spoof At Oscar Time?](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/17/what-will-bruce-vilanch-spoof-at-oscar-time/)
**Published:** January 17, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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10:05 am Monday Jan 17, 2011 by Caroline Stanley**
[James Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/james-franco "James Franco") and [Anne Hathaway](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/ "Anne Hathaway (actress)") will meet with [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") producers this week to begin fleshing out their material for the show. According to the show’s longtime [head writer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_writer "Head writer") [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), we can expect to see both a spoof of Black Swan and the arm chopping scene from [127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/ "127 Hours"). \[via [Digital Spy](http://www.digitalspy.co.uk "Digital Spy")\]
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, movies
**Tags:** 127 Hours, Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Vilanch, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Franco, Love and Other Drugs
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### [Video: Comedy Event Promo-Lily Tomlin, Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/14/video-comedy-event-promo-lily-tomlin-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** January 14, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** GLBT, Video
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### [About Cher's Face...](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/13/about-chers-face/)
**Published:** January 13, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**[New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/ "Daily News (New York)")
About Cher’s face…
January 13, 2011**
[Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") snuck into [NYC](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City") ahead of the snowstorm Tuesday night and had the crowd at Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency plotzing over his riffs on Cher. (He’s entitled: One of the [Emmy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner’s first jobs was as a writer on “The “[Sonny & Cher](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2204595/ "Sonny & Cher") Show.”)
Vilanch says he told the diva recently, “I like that face. Keep that one.” He also compared her ever-youthful countenance to [Alaska](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=64.0,-153.0&spn=10.0,10.0&q=64.0,-153.0 (Alaska)&t=h "Alaska")‘s [Hubbard Glacier](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=60.015,-139.491944444&spn=0.05,0.05&q=60.015,-139.491944444 (Hubbard%20Glacier)&t=h "Hubbard Glacier").
“She calves, and parts of her are streaming down the [Gulf of Alaska](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=57.0,-144.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=57.0,-144.0 (Gulf%20of%20Alaska)&t=h "Gulf of Alaska"),” he said – like the crowd’s tears of laughter.
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**Categories:** Reviews
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### [Reminder: Bruce Vilanch To Host Nightlife Awards Jan 31st](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/11/reminder-bruce-vilanch-to-host-nightlife-awards-jan-31st/)
**Published:** January 11, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Christine Ebersole, [John Pizzarelli](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686200/ "John Pizzarelli"), [Jessica Molaskey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Molaskey "Jessica Molaskey"), [Colin Quinn](http://www.myspace.com/everything/colin-quinn "Colin Quinn"), et al. Win Nightlife Awards
By: Dan Bacalzo · Jan 11, 2011 · New York**
The winners of the 2011 Nightlife Awards have been announced. The winners will be invited to participate in an all-performance award concert at Town Hall, on Monday, January 31 at 7pm. As previously reported, [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") will host.
Christine Ebersole has won for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist in a Major Engagement; Colin Quinn won for Outstanding Comedian in a Major Engagement; and John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey have won for Outstanding Cabaret Duo or Group in a Major Engagement.
Additional winners include [Harry Allen](http://www.last.fm/music/Harry%2BAllen "Harry Allen"), Liz Lark Brown, Hannibal Burress, [Harvard Sailing Team](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Sailing_Team "Harvard Sailing Team"), Mark McCombs, [Microscopic Septet](http://www.microscopicseptet.com/ "The Microscopic Septet"), Karen Oberlin, The Rescignos, and [Aaron Weinstein](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1951346/ "Aaron Weinstein").
The Nightlife Awards are created and produced by TheaterMania contributor Scott Siegel, directed by Scott Coulter, with musical direction by Tedd Firth.
For tickets and more information, [click here](http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-nightlife-awards_175054/).
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**Categories:** Awards Shows, Special Events, Theatre
**Tags:** Aaron Weinstein, Bruce Vilanch, Colin Quinn, Emmy Award, Harvard Sailing Team, Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, Microscopic Septet
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Participate In "Fathers and Sons"](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/11/bruce-vilanch-to-participate-in-fathers-and-sons/)
**Published:** January 11, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Bruce Vilanch, Gary Dourdan, Ian Hart and Samantha Mathis in WordTheatre’s Fathers and Sons
M Bar & Restaurant (Hollywood, CA)**
**FULL PRICE:**
$15.00
**OUR PRICE:**
$7.50\*
Hollywood’s M Bar hosts WordTheatre Lit by Lulu’s Fathers and Sons, a night of short story readings by prominent actors. Bruce Vilanch (Hollywood Squares, Broadway’s Hairspray), Gary Dourdan (CSI), Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) and Samantha Mathis (American Psycho) will read works by well-known authors Hanif Kureishi, Christine Lincoln, Simon Van Booy and Amy Bloom. WordTheatre celebrates the oral storytelling tradition with world-class authors and actors at literary salons in L.A., London and N.Y.
Event summary prepared by the Goldstar Editorial Team.
*\* Additional fees apply*
**To Buy Tickets:** [**Click Here**](https://www.goldstar.com/login)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Takes Over Feinstein's 1/11](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/10/bruce-vilanch-takes-over-feinsteins-111/)
**Published:** January 10, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its 2011 season with the debut of actor and writer, Bruce Vilanch. The longtime head writer of the Academy Awards, Mr. Vilanch will present an evening of his trademark hilarious standup comedy and stories about working with luminaries such as Bette Midler, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. Both shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street)
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**Broadway World
Bruce Vilanch Comes To Feinstein’s 1/11
by BWW News Desk**
FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.0,-75.0&spn=3.0,3.0&q=43.0,-75.0 (New%20York)&t=h "New York")” by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution” by [The New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post"), continues its 2011 season with the debut of actor and writer, Bruce Vilanch. The longtime head writer of the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award"), Mr. Vilanch will present an evening of his trademark hilarious standup comedy and stories about working with luminaries such as [Bette Midler](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bette-midler "Bette Midler"), [Billy Crystal](http://www.myspace.com/everything/billy-crystal "Billy Crystal") and [Whoopi Goldberg](http://www.myspace.com/everything/whoopi-goldberg "Whoopi Goldberg"). Both shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street),
Bruce Vilanch – one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry – has become a recognizable face in his own right, thanks to the feature-length documentary “Get Bruce!” (1999) and his one-time stint as a regular on “Hollywood Squares” (1998), for which he also served as head writer.
Known for his eclectic eyewear and collection of unique T-shirts, he began his career as an entertainment writer for the Chicago Tribune. Impressed by his review of her cabaret performance in 1970, Bette Midler hired him to punch up her act where he gave birth to Midler’s famed Sophie Tucker jokes. He later moved to Los Angeles where he wrote for variety shows like the original “Donny and Marie” and “[The Brady Bunch Hour](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075485/ "The Brady Bunch Hour")” (both ABC) and provided material for Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin and Joan Rivers. He has maintained his connection with Midler through the years, working on such projects as the feature “Divine Madness” (1980) and the TV special “Bette Midler – [Diva Las Vegas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_Las_Vegas "Diva Las Vegas")” (HBO, 1997), as well as writing for her short-lived but lively sitcom, “Bette!” (CBS, 2000 ).
Vilanch began contributing to Academy Awards telecasts in 1989, collaborating with the likes of Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and David Letterman, and graduated to head writer in 2000. He has roasted celebrities like ElizaBeth Taylor and President Clinton. The Whoopi connection led to his providing the notorious material Ted Danson performed in blackface at a certain 1993 Friars Club roast of his then-girlfriend Goldberg, but his resume also includes “You Made Me Watch You”, the touching Emmy-winning valedictory Midler crooned as a send-off to Johnny Carson.
He scripted most of the Academy Awards telecasts over the last decade, two of which won [Emmys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award"), including the one featuring Billy Crystal’s Hannibal Lecter entrance and last year’s Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin teaming. Mr. Vilanch has also written for The Tonys, The Grammys, The Emmys, and just about every other award show to brighten your television screen. He also participates and volunteers at almost every charity function, especially those dealing with GLBT issues.
FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY will present Bruce Vilanch on Tuesday, January 11 and Wednesday, January 12 at 8:30 PM. Performances have a $25.00 cover with $40.00 premium seats available, in addition to a $25.00 food and beverage minimum. Jackets are suggested but not required. The club is located at 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street in New York City. For ticket reservations and club information, please call (212) 339-4095 or visit us online at [Feinsteinsatloewsregency.com](http://www.Feinsteinsatloewsregency.com) and [TicketWeb.com](http://www.TicketWeb.com).
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**Categories:** Cabaret, Comedy Show
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### [Video Interview With Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/08/video-interview-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** January 8, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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### ["Gay Socialites" Interview Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/08/gay-socialites-interview-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** January 8, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch will be playing two nights, January 11 & 12, at Feinstein’s at the Regency in his new one-man show “Writer on the Vergeâ€.
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**Gay Socialites
Interview: [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
BY JONATHANWARMAN – JANUARY 8, 2011
POSTED IN: EDITORIAL, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SATIRE, THEATRE, TELEVISION**
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Bruce Vilanch will be playing two nights, January 11 & 12, at Feinstein’s at the Regency in his new one-man show “Writer on the Vergeâ€. We thought we’d call him up to see what the show’s all about. Even as he picked up the phone, he was already chuckling and cracking wise: “Is this the Gay Socialite? Any questions? Fire away!â€
So, is “Writer on the Verge†all-new?
It is! It’s been a a long time since I’ve done anything in [New York](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7166666667,-74.0&spn=0.1,0.1&q=40.7166666667,-74.0 (New%20York%20City)&t=h "New York City"). When I’m in the city I tend to do benefits galore and emcee things. So I’m pretty sure all my material will be new to the city. I haven’t done a real show in New York for 10 years unless I’m forgetting something. I was at Westbeth for three months but that was almost 11 years ago. There have been many more Oscar broadcasts since then and many more things to tell stories about.
You’re going to be play Feinstein’s; will there be any singing?
I don’t think so; if I get the piano player of my dreams, I will sing, I’ve got some material. But to be there and to sing, to stand there in the shadow of so many incredible singers, just because it’s a cabaret…I don’t think when [Jackie Mason](http://www.myspace.com/everything/jackie-mason "Jackie Mason") played there he broke into song.
No, nor [Joan Collins](http://www.myspace.com/everything/joan-collins "Joan Collins"), and her show was terrific.
\[Laughs.\] She didn’t? I thought that was the whole idea. So she just told stories, right? That’s interesting too, and of course my life is so much more glamorous than hers. \[Laughs.\]
Yeah, [Mitzi Gaynor](http://www.myspace.com/everything/mitzi-gaynor "Mitzi Gaynor") sang a couple songs, but her show was also mostly stories.
In the ballroom, right? That’s the big time. I’m in the cabaret, where I’ve been a regular, which I actually love. I worked with Mitzi recently, when she was coming out of her shell — if you can ever believe she was in one. We did an on-stage Q&A in San Francisco, and of course what I learned is you ask Mitzi one question and she goes into material from her act, of which there is no shortage. It’s hysterical and wonderful. I think getting back out there and doing that stuff encouraged her to do a regular evening.
What do you think of the state of gay’s in today’s comedy?
I think we rule! It’s ironic on TV certainly the big hit is [Modern Family](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442437/ "Modern Family") and because of Modern Family there are half a dozen shows in the hopper for next year about “blended†families of different kinds and they all have a gay element in them. So success breeds a lot — this is the logical extension of Will & Grace and [Ellen DeGeneres](http://www.myspace.com/everything/ellen-degeneres "Ellen Degeneres"). In television there’s quite a lot of it. In general I think we’re going through a transitional period. Now that we’re visible, we’re showing different textures, a character isn’t just a gay character. He’s not in the script because he’s gay, writers are now being given freedom to discover layers in gay characters.
And you are acting in a new gay themed film comedy Oy Vey My Son is Gay.
Which is opening Friday in Miami. Miami Beach at last! I’m in Tampa right now and I’m going to go down there for the “gala†opening, “gala†that’s hysterical. It’s been released “on a platform,†opening in different markets one after the other. It’s been opening around the country on different dates. That’s a fun thing because you get reviewed at least once a week by some new person in another newspaper. It’s like the death of a thousand cuts. \[Laughs.\] But it’s a very funny movie, an old school comedy, about the older generation getting hit by a trifecta: their sons are gay, getting married and adopting a baby. What makes it so funny is the older Jewish parents are played by [Lainie Kazan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443577/ "Lainie Kazan") and [Saul Rubinek](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007210/ "Saul Rubinek"), with [Carmen Electra](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carmen-electra "Carmen Electra") as “the beard next door,†and the cast just goes on like that.
For tickets, [click here](http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=19762).
For more reviews and interviews by Jonathan Warman, see his blog [Drama Queen](http://dramaqueennyc.com/).
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**Categories:** Interviews
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Carmen Electra, Ellen DeGeneres, Jackie Mason, Joan Collins, Lainie Kazan, Mitzi Gaynor, Saul Rubinek
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### [Bruce Promotes "Oy Vey" In South Beach](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/07/bruce-promotes-oy-vey-in-south-beach/)
**Published:** January 7, 2011
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### [Bruce Vilanch: Writer on the Verge](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/04/bruce-vilanch-writer-on-the-verge/)
**Published:** January 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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#### [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"): Writer on the Verge
##### DATES:
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011: Â 8:30PM
Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011: Â 8:30PM
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*FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY*
540 Park Avenue (at 61st Street)
New York, NY 10021
212-339-4095
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Eric Cartman, Hollywood, Justin Bieber, Organizations, South Park, The Coon, Trey Parker
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### [Bruce Vilanch Talks "Oy Vey..."](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/04/bruce-vilanch-talks-oy-vey/)
**Published:** January 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Miami Herald/Gay South Florida
Stars take a chance on Russian writer-director and his low-budget comedy, ‘[Oy Vey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey "Oy vey")! My Son is Gay!’
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com**
An expert’s advice for aspiring filmmakers: “If a comedy is doing its job, you leave feeling differently about the world,” according to [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), a six-time Emmy winner who’s written for Bette Midler and just about every big star on the Oscars since 1991.
Vilanch, a Hollywood Squares alumnus, also acts and most recently co-starred with [Lainie Kazan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443577/ "Lainie Kazan"), Saul Rubinek, [John Lloyd Young](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1638365/ "John Lloyd Young"), [Jai Rodriguez](http://www.myspace.com/everything/jai-rodriguez "Jai Rodriguez") and [Carmen Electra](http://www.myspace.com/everything/carmen-electra "Carmen Electra") in a low-budget comedy called Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! — about an older Jewish couple (Kazan and Rubinek) horrified to discover their adult son (Young) is never going to marry a nice Jewish girl.
“It’s not a movie for radical queers. This is a movie made from the point of view of the older generation, which tends to think in stereotypes and use stereotypes themselves,” says Vilanch, 62, who — stereotypically — is gay, Jewish and a bit flamboyant.
Rodriguez, 31, who plays the Jewish son’s Italian boyfriend, agrees: “The movie, to me, is reflective of other communities than New York. In smaller communities, these are issues still being faced.”
Oy Vey! is directed and co-written by Russian-born Evgeny Afineevsky, 37, also gay and Jewish.
Rodriguez describes Afineevsky as “a persuasive, persuasive man” who convinced him and the other stars to join the project.
Vilanch says Afineevsky spent about 10 years “chasing me around.”
“He had this script,” Vilanch says. “Then I was doing Hairspray \[on Broadway\] and he kept showing up at the theater. He wanted me to play Uncle Max. If someone wants to pay me to act, well, let me look at this now!”
He plays Kazan’s married (to a woman) gay brother. Vilanch wanted to tone down his outrageous image for the part, but Afineevsky told him to keep his trademark platinum blond bangs: “Because I’m so butch and they didn’t want me to change my look,” Vilanch says.
Afineevsky also managed to bring superstar songwriter [Desmond Child](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157457/ "Desmond Child") on board as executive producer of Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!
“I just loved the title,” says Child, Ricky Martin’s longtime collaborator. “The
title says it all. It sounds hysterical!”
Child co-wrote The Word is Love, performed on the Oy Vey! soundtrack by To Sir With Love singer Lulu.
“It’s one of my dreams to take the property and turn it into a [Broadway show](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre"),” says Child, 57, who lives in Miami Beach and Nashville with longtime partner Curtis Shaw and their 8-year-old twins. “Hopefully, it will be everyone else’s dream too. It’s a very gay dream.”
**IF YOU GO**
Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!’ opens Friday in South Florida at Regal South Beach, Sunrise Intracoastal Cinema in North Miami Beach, AMC Aventura at Aventura Mall, Regal Shadowood in Boca Raton and Regal Cinemas in Delray Beach.
Bruce Vilanch will appear at the 12:10 p.m. Friday screening at Regal South Beach 18, 1120 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach. Writer-director Evgeny Afineevsky will appear at all Regal South Beach screenings on Friday.
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**Tags:** Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Carmen Electra, Desmond Child, Jai Rodriguez, John Lloyd Young, Lainie Kazan, Oy vey
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### [Where's Bruce? Fri 1/14 7:30pm, Word Theatre](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/04/wheres-bruce-fri-114-730pm-word-theatre/)
**Published:** January 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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Fri 1/14 7:30pm, Word Theatre has actors Bruce Vilanch, Ian Hart and Samantha Mathis reading stories by Hanif Kureishi, Simon Van Booy, and Amy Bloom. (M Bar, 1253 Vine Place, corner of Fountain & Vine. Doors at 6pm, $10 food minimum.)
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### [Celebrities say the darnest things](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/04/celebrities-say-the-darnest-things/)
**Published:** January 4, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**Tampa Bay Online
‘Celebrity Biography’ takes page from stars
wbelcher@tampatrib.com
Published: January 4, 2011**
[Celebrities](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity "Celebrity") write the darnest things — especially in their autobiographies.
Take [Vanna White](http://www.vannastyle.com/ "Vanna White")‘s detailed description of her letter turning skills on “Wheel of Fortune.”
In her 1989 memoir, she painstakingly recounts what we’ve all seen: how she gets excited when she hears [Pat Sajak](http://www.patsajak.com/ "Pat Sajak") announce, “Oh, Vanna,” how she shows off her gowns; how she “must concentrate on every word a contestant says” so she can spring into action to turn the letters; and how she has to “rush like crazy” when the puzzle is a long phrase.
“Sure, it’s not the most intellectually challenging job in the world but it is hard work. … What’s my secret? As I told ’60 Minutes,’ it must be in the wrist,” she wrote.
That book, published at the height of her fame, was the inspiration for “[Celebrity Autobiography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Autobiography%3A_In_Their_Own_Words "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words"),” a night of laughs based on insipid passages from memoirs.
Producer, actor, and playwright [Eugene Pack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpage_Eugene_Pack "Subpage Eugene Pack") created the long-running off-Broadway show more than 10 years ago after reading “[Vanna Speaks](http://www.amazon.com/Vanna-Speaks-White/dp/0446346683%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0446346683 "Vanna Speaks")” and realizing the comic potential in dramatic readings of celebrity drivel.
“We started performing these at a little restaurant in Hollywood on Monday nights and it grew from there,” says writer/actor [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who is part of the ensemble performing “Celebrity Autobiography” tonight through Saturday at [Ruth Eckerd Hall](http://www.rutheckerdhall.com/About_The_Center/index.cfm "Ruth Eckerd Hall") in Clearwater (call 727-791-7400 or visit www.rutheckerdhall.com for information).
Vilanch will be joined by various performers during the run, including Vincent Pastore (of “The Sopranos”) and [Dawn Wells](http://www.dawn-wells.com/ "Dawn Wells") (on Saturday) of “Gilligan’s Island.” The show’s creator Eugene Pack also will perform.
The cast of six changes with just about every performance, Vilanch said in a telephone interview. “So does the material because new celebrity memoirs are published every year,” he adds, noting that the words of Tiger Woods, Miley Cyrus and Sarah Palin are in the act.
Vilanch, one of Hollywood’s most prolific gag writers, says that what makes it work are trivial passages from celebrities with an inflated sense of self-importance.
“These famous people have been given large sums of money to write so they think that what they have to say is important and they think people care about every little thing that they do,” he says.
Audiences will be treated to Suzanne Somers’ poetry; how [Joan Lunden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lunden "Joan Lunden") picks the clothes she wears; and romance advice from Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee.
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**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, Dawn Wells, Joan Lunden, Pat Sajak, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Vanna Speaks, Vanna White
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### [And Who’s Writing For The Oscars Again?!](https://wegotbruce.com/2011/01/03/and-who’s-writing-for-the-oscars-again/)
**Published:** January 3, 2011
**Author:** MisterD
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**From La Daily Musto
James Franco and [Anne Hathaway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_%28actress%29 "Anne Hathaway (actress)"): Great Oscar Hosts?
By [Michael Musto](http://www.villagevoice.com/musto "Michael Musto")
published: Mon., Jan. 3 2011 @ 10:00AM**
​I was just on [Judith Regan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Regan "Judith Regan")‘s show on [Sirius radio](http://sirius.com "Sirius Satellite Radio") when my husbear [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") phoned in and revealed that he’ll again be writing the jokes for the Oscar telecast.
Vilanch said he recently met with first-time hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway to see how to optimize their presence on the show, “because they’re not standup comics and they’re not [Hugh Jackman](http://www.myspace.com/everything/hugh-jackman "Hugh Jackman")–though they both have talent in that area.â€
“They’re both good looking,†interjected Regan, and everyone in the studio lit up with agreement and cheered.
Will they be amazing enough to host?
What would you like to see them do beyond just standing there and looking attractive?
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**Tags:** Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Bruce Vilanch, Hollywood, Hugh Jackman, James Franco, Judith Regan, Michael Musto
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host NightLife Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/30/bruce-vilanch-to-host-nightlife-awards/)
**Published:** December 30, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch, who made his Broadway debut in Hairspray, will host the 9th Annual Nightlife Awards — honoring the best in New York cabaret, comedy and jazz — Jan. 31, 2011, at Town Hall.
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**Playbill
Nightlife Awards Will Be Presented in January 2011; Bruce Vilanch Hosts
By Andrew Gans
December 30, 2010**
Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch, who made his Broadway debut in Hairspray, will host the 9th Annual Nightlife Awards — honoring the best in New York cabaret, comedy and jazz — Jan. 31, 2011, at Town Hall.
Presenters for the annual awards, created by Scott Siegel, will be announced at a later date. The evening will begin at 7 PM.
The Nightlife Awards are unique because rather than offering acceptance speeches, winners perform. Past participants have included Brian Stokes Mitchell, Elaine Stritch, Kristin Chenoweth, Donna Murphy, Christine Ebersole, Maureen McGovern, Andrea Marcovicci, Ute Lemper and Alice Ripley, among others.
Tickets to the 2011 Nightlife Awards, priced at $75, $50 and $25, will be available by visiting the Town Hall box office (123 West 43rd Street), by calling (212) 307-4100 or by logging on to [www.ticketmaster.com](http://www.ticketmaster.com).
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### [Bruce Vilanch In ‘Celebrity Autobiography’ Plays Ruth Eckerd Hall](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/29/bruce-vilanch-in-‘celebrity-autobiography’-plays-ruth-eckerd-hall/)
**Published:** December 29, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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12-29-2010**
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CLEARWATER – Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, starring Bruce Vilanch, Michael McGlone, Gilligan’s Island Dawn Wells and The Sopranos Vincent Pastore, comes to the Murray Studio at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 4-6. 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 7, 7 and 9:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Jan. 8, 3 and 9:30 p.m.
How does Vanna flip her panels? What does Stallone have in his freezer? Why did Burt and Loni topple from the upper tier of their wedding cake? What makes the Jonas Brothers get along?
Find all this out and more in the new hit comedy Celebrity Autobiography where superstar memoirs are acted out live on stage. Audiences walk away from the show asking, “Did they actually write that?â€
Celebrity Autobiography features a first rate comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of celebrities. The passages run the gamut from the “poetry†of Suzanne Somers to the shocking “romance tips†from Tommy Lee to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history – Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. And what’s remarkable and unforgettably hilarious – It’s all in their own words.
Running for three sold out years in New York; Celebrity Autobiography recently won the 2009 Drama Desk Award in the category of Unique Theatrical Experience and the 2010 Bistro Awards. The show has been one of the most critically acclaimed productions ever in the Off-Broadway scene and one of the most “buzzed about shows†of recent years.
Tickets are $39.75 and available at the Ruth Eckerd Hall ticket office, by phone at 727-791-7400 or online at www.rutheckerdhall.com.
Ruth Eckerd Hall is located at 1111 McMullen Booth Road in Clearwater.
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### [Bruce Vilanch At The Arclight Theatre](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/24/bruce-vilanch-at-the-arclight-theatre/)
**Published:** December 24, 2010
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### [Columbus gets Bruce](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/23/columbus-gets-bruce/)
**Published:** December 23, 2010
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**[Columbus Dispatch](http://dispatch.com/ "The Columbus Dispatch")
Columbus gets Bruce
by Nick Chordas
12/23/2010**
Writer and performer [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") has carved a number of unique career niches since graduating from [Ohio State University](http://www.osu.edu/ "Ohio State University") in 1970. As a comedy writer, he has won two Emmy Awards and is preparing for his 22nd year of penning jokes for the [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") broadcast. He was the subject of the documentary Get Bruce (1999). He appeared on Hollywood Squares and [Celebrity Fit Club](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Fit_Club "Celebrity Fit Club") and played [Edna Turnblad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_%281988_film%29 "Hairspray (1988 film)") in the national touring production of Hairspray. Vilanch will be at the Lennox 24 movie theater Friday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, Dec. 26 for showings of Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!, a comedy in which he has a small role opposite [Lainie Kazan](http://www.lainiekazan.com/ "Lainie Kazan") ([My Big Fat Greek Wedding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Big_Fat_Greek_Wedding "My Big Fat Greek Wedding")), Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Unforgiven) and Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos).
Vilanch talked via telephone last week about his days in Columbus, the upcoming Oscar telecast and co-writing [The Star Wars Holiday Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special "The Star Wars Holiday Special"), a notoriously terrible TV production.
Q: Do you have fond memories of your time in Columbus?
A: I have the fondest. I was there from ’65 to ’70 on campus … It was a very sexy time. It was the beginning of sort of the carefree, innocent Woodstock era before things got harsh. People were discovering film and music as serious avenues of expression. Before the mid ’60s, rock ’n’ roll was just junk music. It became serious with things like Sgt. Pepper’s and Beggars Banquet and Tommy and albums like that. This is what the generation was embracing. So it was a very exciting time.
Q: So you still bleed scarlet and gray?
A: I wear it constantly. I have several bruises in scarlet and gray that I can’t seem to shake. Woody Hayes was God at the time. This was before he started attacking players and cameramen. He was a great big grandfatherly figure.
This was Columbus back when, if the students demonstrated, it was a riot. But if we beat Northwestern and they tore down High Street, it was youthful high spirits. But things have changed. We shut the school down because they wouldn’t start a black studies course and the last time I was there to get the theater library I had to go through the black studies floor. Things really did change rapidly.
Q: How did you get involved with Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!?
A: The crazy Russian (director Evgeny Afineevsky) just kept chasing me and said, “I vant you to be in this! I vant you to be in this!†He had seen me in Hairspray where I had played Edna Turnblad and he decided I should play Lainie Kazan’s brother — and it always amused me that he didn’t think I should be Lainie Kazan.
I play the suspicious uncle. There’s one in every family. They don’t know quite what to say about him … He has married, but he hasn’t produced any children, which of course is a big question mark. He’s odd looking, but he’s still part of the family.
Q: When do you start preparing to write for the Oscars? Are you writing down ideas all year?
A: You kind of jot things down, but every year it’s like inventing the wheel again because new producers come in and they have ideas. If it’s somebody who has produced the show before, then you kind of know what to expect. But if it’s a new guy, he’s going to want to do different things.
The first thing that has to be done is to get a host — and each host dictates different requirements … but you don’t really know what to write about until the nominations come out. Then you know what the Academy has gone for and what they’ve snubbed. You also know who will come and who will practice the ritual taking of umbrage at having been egregiously overlooked. So a lot of it gets written in the month before.
Q: Is it a special challenge when the host isn’t known as a “comedian†— like Hugh Jackman or this year’s hosts, James Franco and [Anne Hathaway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_%28actress%29 "Anne Hathaway (actress)")?
A: It’s a double edged sword. The (non-comedian) host doesn’t have the responsibility of coming out and making people laugh and having to do that first 10 minutes of “scoring,†but at the same time they do have to loosen the atmosphere and make people feel welcome. So they have to use their other skills … having the two of them (Franco and Hathaway) together gives them a chance to do some funny stuff that we couldn’t do otherwise
We haven’t had a man and a woman co-hosting. We haven’t had the chance to do Fred and Ginger.
Q: How does it work backstage at the Oscars?
A: There’s a tiny cubicle in the wings where the host does costume changes. There’s also a monitor and that’s where a couple of us (writers) hang out and we have a playbook of things that we might use if certain things happen — if certain people win. You might have a great joke for somebody and then they come up and they give a fabulous speech that you just can’t top, so that joke goes away.
So we’re back there watching the show like everybody else and following along in our hymnals.
Q: This is for the geeks, including me: did you really co-write The Star Wars Holiday Special?
A: I did. And I’m proud of it. Had I known that this thing from 30 years ago would have lived that long, I would’ve paid closer attention and probably not have been so chemically altered. But it was 1977, you know. We were all chemically altered. Now it can be told.
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### [Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! will have its first U.S. theatrical run in Central Ohio](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/22/oy-vey-my-son-is-gay-will-have-its-first-u-s-theatrical-run-in-central-ohio/)
**Published:** December 22, 2010
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**Premiering here—but why?
A New York-set comedy is coming straight from the festival circuit to Columbus
BY RICHARD ADES
Published: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 3:32 PM EST**
After appearing at [film festivals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival "Film festival") around the world, a comedy called [Oy Vey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey "Oy vey")! My Son Is Gay! will have its first U.S. theatrical run in Central Ohio. It opens this weekend at AMC’s Lennox multiplex.
At first glance, it’s hard to figure out why.
The story about a gay man with an overbearing [Jewish mother](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_mother "Jewish mother") is set in Long Island, not Columbus. Its director, likewise, has no Ohio connection, being a native Russian who now lives in Los Angeles.
And although one cast member was educated at Ohio State, he has a relatively small role.
So what’s the Columbus link? As it turns out, it’s Faina Neveleva, a friend of director Evgeny Afineevsky. Though Neveleva also was born in Russia, Afineevsky said she spent several years in Columbus beginning in 1996 or ’97.
“Columbus was like her second motherland,†said the heavily accented Afineevsky, speaking over the phone from L.A. “And later on, Lennox became her third motherland because she was spending most of her time watching movies there.â€
Afineevsky said he met this fellow Russian émigré after she moved to Hollywood around 2002, and she convinced him Columbus was the place to open the comedy he was then struggling to film.
People here love to go to the movies, Neveleva reportedly told him, “because nothing else is happening.â€
INFO: Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! opens Friday at AMC Lennox Town Center 24, 777 Kinnear Road. The director, producer and cast member [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") are scheduled to attend this weekend’s screenings. For times, visit amctheatres.com/lennox/.
Presumably, Columbus’s gay-friendly reputation—and not just its alleged blahness—makes it a good place to launch Oy Vey!, the story of a gay man’s decision to come out of the closet despite his family’s objections. Indeed, a largely gay and lesbian crowd greeted Afineevsky when he hosted a Dec. 9 screening here co-sponsored by [Stonewall Columbus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Columbus "Stonewall Columbus") and the Columbus International Film + Video Festival.
However, Afineevsky said he shaped the film to appeal to a mainstream audience, not just gays. That’s been the thrust of his tweaks on the script he inherited from [Menahem Golan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Golan "Menahem Golan"), a former filmmaking cohort who works in Hollywood under the name Joseph Goldman.
“He started to write this script 27 years ago,†said Afineevsky, who, himself, is only 38. “In ’99, he gave me this script, and in 2002, we (went our separate ways).â€
At about that time, another writer was working on the script and taking it along what Afineevsky called a “gay route.â€
“I didn’t want that,†he said. “And in 2004, I, on my own, started to rewrite the script, trying to keep old-fashioned traditions…and using the old-fashioned stereotypes.â€
Rather than centering on the gay man and his partner, the film focuses more on the man’s Jewish parents and their struggles to deal with their son’s newly revealed identity. Briefly, it also visits the partner’s Italian/Catholic parents, who have an equally tough time with their son’s orientation.
In the process, it seeks laughs from ethnic stereotypes—particularly those represented by [Lainie Kazan](http://www.lainiekazan.com/ "Lainie Kazan") ([My Big Fat Greek Wedding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Big_Fat_Greek_Wedding "My Big Fat Greek Wedding")) as the domineering Jewish mother and Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) as the tough Italian father.
While he was honing the script, Afineevsky began collecting a cast. Early recruits included OSU grad Bruce Vilanch, an [Emmy Award-winning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") comedy writer and actor who was recruited to play the sex-obsessed Uncle Max.
“Bruce actually was supporting this movie since 2002, when I met him (through) Whoopi Goldberg,†he said.
Soon, Afineevsky was so entrenched in the project that he decided to direct the film himself, even though his previous directorial efforts were limited to the stage. To prepare, he took six months’ worth of directing classes at UCLA.
“My teachers were impressed that I can easily adjust (to the film medium) and easily pass my energy to the actors,†he said.
One of those actors, Vilanch, will attend local screenings along with Afineevsky and his producer, Svetlana Anufrieva, when the film makes its improbable theatrical debut this weekend at Lennox.
Since the comedy has won numerous audience awards at international film festivals, Afineevsky hopes its Columbus premiere will be the springboard to successful runs across the country. For starters, he said, it could spread to local AMC multiplexes in Dublin and the [Easton Town Center](http://www.eastontowncenter.com/ "Easton Town Center").
For this weekend’s showtimes, visit [amctheatres.com/lennox/](http://www.amctheatres.com/lennox/).
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**Categories:** movies
**Tags:** Arts and Entertainment, Bruce Vilanch, Easton Town Center, Gay Lesbian and Bisexual, Lainie Kazan, Menahem Golan, Oy vey, Stonewall Columbus
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### [Bruce Vilanch Seen Leaving The ArcLight Theatre in Hollywood](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/22/bruce-vilanch-seen-leaving-the-arclight-theatre-in-hollywood/)
**Published:** December 22, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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Bruce Vilanch seen leaving the ArcLight Theatre in Hollywood. But!!! What was he doing there?
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**Categories:** Photo
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### [New Years Eve XXX travaganza with Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/21/new-years-eve-xxx-travaganza-with-bruce-vilanch/)
**Published:** December 21, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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**Event information:**
Event date/Time: Friday, December 31, 2010 8:00 PM
Country /City: United States / Walnut Creek
Event place: [**Club 1220**](http://www.club1220.com/)
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**Categories:** Clubs
**Tags:** Clubs
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### [](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/15/2236/)
**Published:** December 15, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[**Source: Gawker**](http://tv.gawker.com/5713622/queen-of-all-media-judith-regan-looks-for-love-on-the-millionaire-matchmaker)
> On tonight’s Millionaire Matchmaker, Regan claimed to be “over” sex. She enthusiastically admitted that her celebrity crush is Bruce Vilanch (the eccentric and hilarious comedian, most famous for writing the Academy Awards). Vilanch may be gay, but he was still Regan’s ideal date, so Stanger helped her realize what she should be looking for while simulaneously making some dreams come true.
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**Categories:** Video
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### [OutTV: Bruce Vilanch Appears On The Shaun Prouxl Show Friday](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/07/outtv-bruce-vilanch-appears-on-the-shaun-prouxl-show-friday/)
**Published:** December 7, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Television, Video
---
### [Bruce Vilanch Helps GLAAD Celebrate 25 Years](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/06/bruce-vilanch-helps-glaad-celebrate-25-years/)
**Published:** December 6, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**ChicagoPride.com News
December 6, 2010
Short URL: http://gopride.com/Z3te
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/14858649
GLAAD celebrates 25 years of advancing equality
by Press Release**
[LOS ANGELES, CA](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles") — The [Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation](http://www.glaad.org/ "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation") (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, marked 25 years of advancing equality during a star-studded event in Los Angeles on Friday.
[Chaz Bono](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Bono "Chaz Bono"), [Wilson Cruz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cruz "Wilson Cruz"), Amber Heard, [Michael Kearns](http://michaelkearns.net/ "Michael Kearns"), Kathy Najimy, [Holly Robinson Peete](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Robinson_Peete "Holly Robinson Peete"), Doris Roberts, Jean Smart, Bruce Vilanch, Steven Weber joined GLAAD’s founding members Jehan Agrama, [David Bohnett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohnett "David Bohnett"), Dean Hansell and Michael Keegan in toasting the work of GLAAD during a cocktail party at the Harmony Gold Theatre in Los Angeles.
Jonathan Murray of [Bunim/Murray Productions](http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/simplelife/ "Bunim/Murray Productions") received the GLAAD Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking work to bring stories of [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") people to Americans as Executive Producer on shows including The Real World, Road Rules and Project Runway. Richard Jennings, former President & Executive Director of GLAAD, received the GLAAD Founders’ Award.
“Since 1985, GLAAD has amplified stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people that build acceptance and advance equality through news, entertainment and today, on Facebook and social media outlets,” said Barrios. “Continuing to share these stories is moving the public to support our full legal equality and will lead to a nation where we are all accepted, respected and valued.”
GLAAD began in 1985 in New York City as a response to the [New York Post’s](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post") coverage of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host "The Gay Marriage Plays"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/12/01/bruce-vilanch-to-host-the-gay-marriage-plays/)
**Published:** December 1, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**[THEATER](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre "Theatre") NEWS
Hamish Linklater, [Camryn Manheim](http://www.myspace.com/everything/camryn-manheim "Camryn Manheim"), [Kathy Najimy](http://www.myspace.com/everything/kathy-najimy "Kathy Najimy"), [Jason Ritter](http://www.myspace.com/everything/jason-ritter "Jason Ritter"), [Jean Smart](http://www.myspace.com/everything/jean-smart "Jean Smart") et al. to Perform Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
By: Dan Bacalzo · Dec 1, 2010 · Los Angeles**
Jillian Armenante, [Richard Gilliland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gilliland "Richard Gilliland"), Hamish Linklater, Camryn Manheim, Kathy Najimy, Jason Ritter and Jean Smart will perform in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the Coronet on Monday, December 6 at 8pm.
As previously reported, Bruce Vilanch will host the theatrical launch event to benefit the [American Foundation for Equal Rights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Foundation_for_Equal_Rights "American Foundation for Equal Rights") (AFER) and Equality California.
Standing on Ceremony is comprised of short plays that look at the institution of marriage and relationships, written by Jordan Harrison, Jeffrey Hatcher, Moisés Kaufman, [Neil LaBute](http://www.myspace.com/everything/neil-labute "Neil Labute"), Wendy McLeod, Kathy Najimy, José Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright. Conceived and directed by Brian Shnipper, these new provocative plays were created in response to the on-going battle for marriage equality throughout the United States.
At the opening event for the production, Bruce Cohen will provide comments about the first day of the AFER’s case before the [9th Circuit Court of Appeals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit "United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"), and the performance will be followed by a reception that will take place in the courtyard at Largo with a special surprise by Vilanch.
Standing on Ceremony will continue the special limited engagement for five consecutive Mondays beginning January 10, 2011. Plays and casting for the remaining run will be announced at a later date.
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### [L.A.: KRITZERLAND PRESENTS "A BROADWAY HOLIDAY CHRISTMAS"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/30/l-a-kritzerland-presents-a-broadway-holiday-christmas/)
**Published:** November 30, 2010
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L.A.: KRITZERLAND PRESENTS “A BROADWAY HOLIDAY CHRISTMAS” WEDNESDAY AT THE GARDENIA
Kritzerland at the Gardenia presents “A [Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre") Holiday [Christmas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas "Christmas")” at THE GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, [West Hollywood, CA](http://www.weho.org/ "West Hollywood, California") – 323-467-7444 ) on Wednesday, December 1st at 9:00 pm.
Based on the albums produced by [Bruce Kimmel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kimmel "Bruce Kimmel"), a Broadway/Holiday Christmas, the show features great Christmas songs written for Broadway and Hollywood musicals and films by Irving Berlin, [Jule Styne](http://www.julestyne.com/ "Julie Styne"), Comden & Green, Martin and Blane, Meredith Wilson, Schmidt and Jones, [Jerry Herman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Herman "Jerry Herman"), Joe Raposo and [Sheldon Harnick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick "Sheldon Harnick"), [Leslie Bricusse](http://www.lesliebricusse.com/index.php "Leslie Bricusse"), Bock and Harnick, Frank Loesser, [Cy Coleman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Coleman "Cy Coleman"), Carol Hall and others.
There are Christmas classics such as “White Christmas” and “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” as well as great but lesser-known songs. The performers include Dan Callaway (Broadway National Company’s The Phantom of the Opera); Michelle Duffy (Pistache in Can-Can and Rusty in Mask, Pasadena Playhouse); Jason Graae (Falsettos, Stardust on Broadway, Forever Plaid off-Broadway); Juliana Hansen (Millie, Thoroughly Modern Millie, first national tour); Alet Taylor (Miss Adelaide in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Guys & Dolls) and a Special Christmas Treat: [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch").
Music Director is Lanny Meyers. Cover charge is $15 with a two-drink minimum. There is no drink minimum with dinner.
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### [Anne Hathaway and James Franco to Host the Oscars](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/29/2200/)
**Published:** November 29, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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Franco, Hathaway to Host Oscar® Show***
> *[Beverly Hills, CA](http://www.beverlyhills.org "Beverly Hills, California") – [James Franco](http://www.myspace.com/everything/james-franco "James Franco") and [Anne Hathaway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_%28actress%29 "Anne Hathaway (actress)") will serve as co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers [Bruce Cohen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen "Bruce Cohen") and Don Mischer announced today. Both have previously appeared on the telecast but not in hosting capacities.*
> *“James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27,” said Cohen and Mischer. “We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that.”*
> *Franco, who currently can be seen in “127 Hours,” will be making his second appearance on an Oscar telecast. His other film credits include “Eat, Love, Pray,” “Date Night,” “Milk” and “Pineapple Express.” Franco is also known for his portrayals of Harry Osborn in the “Spider-Man” trilogy.*
> *Hathaway will be making her fifth appearance on an [Academy Awards](http://www.oscars.org/ "Academy Award") telecast. She was recently seen in “Alice in Wonderland” and currently can be seen in “[Love and Other Drugs](http://www.loveandotherdrugsthemovie.com/ "Love and Other Drugs").” Hathaway’s other film credits include “Bride Wars,” “Becoming Jane,” “[The Devil Wears Prada](http://www.devilwearsprada.com "The Devil Wears Prada (film)")” and “The Princess Diaries.” She was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her lead performance in “[Rachel Getting Married](http://www.sonyclassics.com/rachelgettingmarried/ "Rachel Getting Married").”*
> *Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live on the [ABC Television Network](http://abc.go.com "American Broadcasting Company"). The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.*
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### [Video: Bruce Vilanch Talks To Patty Duke](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/25/video-bruce-vilanch-talks-to-patty-duke/)
**Published:** November 25, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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Academy Award Winner [Patty Duke](http://www.officialpattyduke.com/ "Patty Duke") discusses working with legend [Judy Garland](http://www.myspace.com/everything/judy-garland "Judy Garland") on the set of the 1967 [camp classic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_%28style%29 "Camp (style)") [VALLEY OF THE DOLLS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Dolls_%28film%29 "Valley of the Dolls (film)") w/ host [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.myspace.com/everything/bruce-vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). This is a snippet from the sold-out event [Marc Huestis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Huestis "Marc Huestis") Presents SPARKLE, PATTY, SPARKLE which also included performances by Connie Champagne as [Neely O’Hara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neely_O%27Hara "Neely O'Hara") & Matthew Martin as Helen Lawsen. This gala occurred 7/20/09 at the historic 1400 seat [Castro Theatre](http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/ "Castro Theatre") in [San Francisco](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco").
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**Categories:** Video
**Tags:** Bruce Vilanch, California, Castro Theatre, Judy Garland, Marc Huestis, Patty Duke, San Francisco, Valley of the Dolls
---
### [Happy Birthday Bruce Vilanch!](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/23/happy-birthday-bruce-vilanch-2/)
**Published:** November 23, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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*Happy Birthday to the sweetest and funniest man I know. Â As always, thank you for being a friend and letting me run this website for you. Â Hope you have a wonderful birthday and many more!!!! Â Love, Don*
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**Categories:** Bruce Related
**Tags:** Arts, Birthday, Bruce Hornsby, Bruce Vilanch, Demi Moore, Holidays, Johnny Carson, Relationships
---
### [Trevor LIVE at the Hollywood Palladium](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/22/trevor-live-at-the-hollywood-palladium/)
**Published:** November 22, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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Hollywood’s most talented and irreverent stars will gather at the Hollywood Palladium to celebrate “Trevor LIVE,†the annual show benefitting [The Trevor Project](http://www.thetrevorproject.org/ "The Trevor Project") on Sunday, December 5, 2010. Recognizing the suicide prevention efforts of community leaders, the Trevor Life Award honoree is [Kathy Griffin](http://www.kathygriffin.net/ "Kathy Griffin"), and Trevor Hope Award honoree is [Levi Strauss & Co.](http://www.levistrauss.com/ "Levi Strauss & Co."), with guest performances by Sarah Silverman, Wayne Brady, [Taye Diggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taye_Diggs "Taye Diggs") and [Idina Menzel](http://www.idinamenzel.com "Idina Menzel"), Neil Patrick Harris and [James Marsden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marsden "James Marsden"), [Queen Latifah](http://www.queenlatifah.com/ "Queen Latifah"), Telly Leung, [The Dan Band](http://www.thedanband.com/ "The Dan Band"), and Tracie Thoms. This one-of-a-kind show is under the guidance of Special Guest Producing Director Adam Shankman, with Special Guest Musical Director Ricky Minor, Special Guest Choreographer Mia Michaels, and Special Guest Script Writers Carol Liefer & Bruce Vilanch.
“Trevor LIVE closes a historic year for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community as the tragic losses of young people have caused a resounding national outcry calling for an end to the bullying aimed at [LGBTQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") young people,†said Charles Robbins, Executive Director of The Trevor Project. “This event honors vanguards Kathy Griffin and Levi Strauss & Co. who are helping to usher in positive cultural change in this country. Their contributions to the LGBTQ community have always been significant, but especially recently, when young people looking for role models needed them, Kathy Griffin and Levi Strauss & Co. made their voices heard.â€
**WHAT:**
“Trevor LIVE,†an evening of irreverent comedy, music and awards benefitting The Trevor Project, providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
**WHEN:**
Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010
**WHERE:**
The Hollywood Palladium
6215 W Sunset Blvd, [Hollywood, CA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood "Hollywood")
**WHO:**
Honoring: Kathy Griffin, Trevor Life Award and Levi Strauss & Co., Trevor Hope Award
**Performances by:** Wayne Brady, The Dan Band, Taye Diggs & Idina Menzel, Neil Patrick Harris & James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Telly Leung, Sarah Silverman, and Tracie Thoms
**With Celebrity Guests:** Jessica Alba, Will Arnett, Skylar Astin, Kristin Bauer, Meredith Baxter, Cat Cora, Rachael Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Anna Kendrick, Jane Lynch and the cast of Glee, Joe Manganiello, Dave Navarro, Amy Poehler, and Brittany Snow
**Live Auctioneer:** Andrea Fiuczynski, President of Christie’s Los Angeles
**TICKETS:**
Individual and group tickets for the dinner and show or the show alone are available at http://bit.ly/TrevorLIVEtickets. Individual ticket prices start at $100 (show only), with Titanium tickets (priority dinner seating, Celebrity VIP reception and Gift Bag) at $1,500.
**ABOUT THE TREVOR PROJECT:**
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis intervention and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves young lives through its free and confidential lifeline, in-school workshops, educational materials, online resources and advocacy. For more information, visit www.TheTrevorProject.org.
Trevor LIVE at the Hollywood Palladium is the signature annual event of The Trevor Project and this year has both a new name and a new location. As always, this December event brings together top entertainers and corporate leaders to support the organization’s lifesaving initiatives, including its free and confidential lifeline, suicide prevention workshops, community outreach, advocacy efforts and educational resources. (More at www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive)
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**Tags:** Idina Menzel, James Marsden, Kathy Griffin, Levi Strauss & Co, LGBT, Queen Latifah, Taye Diggs, Trevor Project
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### [Sunday, Dec. 5: Trevor LIVE at the Hollywood Palladium Honoring Kathy Griffin and Levi Strauss & Co.](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/19/sunday-dec-5-trevor-live-at-the-hollywood-palladium-honoring-kathy-griffin-and-levi-strauss-co/)
**Published:** November 19, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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Performances by Sarah Silverman, [Queen Latifah](http://www.queenlatifah.com/ "Queen Latifah"), [Neil Patrick Harris](http://twitter.com/actuallynph "Neil Patrick Harris") & [James Marsden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marsden "James Marsden"), [Taye Diggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taye_Diggs "Taye Diggs") & [Idina Menzel](http://www.idinamenzel.com "Idina Menzel") and MORE!**
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Hollywood’s most talented and irreverent stars will gather at the Hollywood Palladium to celebrate “Trevor LIVE”, the annual show benefitting [The Trevor Project](http://www.thetrevorproject.org/ "The Trevor Project") on Sunday, December 5, 2010. Recognizing the suicide prevention efforts of community leaders, the Trevor Life Award honoree is Kathy Griffin, and Trevor Hope Award honoree is Levi Strauss & Co., with guest performances by Sarah Silverman, Wayne Brady, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, Neil Patrick Harris and James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Telly Leung, The Dan Band, and Tracie Thoms. This one-of-a-kind show is under the guidance of Special Guest Producing Director Adam Shankman, with Special Guest Musical Director Ricky Minor, Special Guest Choreographer Mia Michaels, and Special Guest Script Writers Carol Liefer & Bruce Vilanch.
“Trevor LIVE closes an historic year for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community as the tragic losses of young people have caused a resounding national outcry calling for an end to the bullying aimed at LGBTQ young people,” said Charles Robbins, Executive Director of The Trevor Project. “This event honors vanguards Kathy Griffin and Levi Strauss & Co. who are helping to usher in positive cultural change in this country. Their contributions to the LGBTQ community have always been significant, but especially recently, when young people looking for role models needed them, Kathy Griffin and Levi Strauss & Co. made their voices heard.”
“Trevor LIVE”, an evening of irreverent comedy, music
and awards benefitting The Trevor Project, providing
crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning
WHAT: (LGBTQ) youth.
**WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010**
Press Check-in: 2:30 p.m.
Talent Arrivals: 3:00 to 5 p.m.
Dinner: 5:00 p.m.
Trevor LIVE Show: 6:00 p.m.
**WHERE: The Hollywood Palladium
6215 W Sunset Blvd, [Hollywood, CA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood "Hollywood")**
**Honoring: Kathy Griffin, Trevor Life Award and Levi
WHO: Strauss & Co., Trevor Hope Award**
*Produced by: Adam Shankman, Special Guest Producing
Director; Ricky Minor, Special Guest Musical Director;
Mia Michaels, Special Guest Choreographer; Carol Liefer
& Bruce Vilanch, Special Guest Script Writers*
*Performances by: Wayne Brady, The Dan Band, Taye Diggs &
Idina Menzel, Neil Patrick Harris & James Marsden,
Queen Latifah, Telly Leung, Sarah Silverman, and Tracie
Thoms*
*With Celebrity Guests: Jessica Alba, Will Arnett, Skylar
Astin, Kristin Bauer, Meredith Baxter, Cat Cora,
Rachael Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Anna Kendrick,
Jane Lynch and the cast of Glee, Joe Manganiello, Dave
Navarro, Amy Poehler, and Brittany Snow*
*Live Auctioneer: Andrea Fiuczynski, President of
Christie’s Los Angeles*
**Individual and group tickets for the dinner and show or
the show alone are available at http://bit.ly/
TrevorLIVEtickets. Individual ticket prices start at
$100 (show only), with Titanium tickets (priority**
dinner seating, Celebrity VIP reception and Gift Bag)
TICKETS: at $1,500.
ABOUT THE TREVOR PROJECT:
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis intervention and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves young lives through its free and confidential lifeline, in-school workshops, educational materials, online resources and advocacy. For more information, visit www.TheTrevorProject.org.
Trevor LIVE at the Hollywood Palladium is the signature annual event of The Trevor Project and this year has both a new name and a new location. As always, this December event brings together top entertainers and corporate leaders to support the organization’s lifesaving initiatives, including its free and confidential lifeline, suicide prevention workshops, community outreach, advocacy efforts and educational resources. (More at www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive)
MEDIA CONTACT: Laura McGinnis (laura.mcginnis@thetrevorproject.org; 323-423-7405)
/PRNewswire — Nov. 18, 2010/
SOURCE The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project
Web Site: http://www.thetrevorproject.org
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### [Vilanch To Host "Standing On Ceremony" Dec. 6th, 2010](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/17/vilanch-to-host-standing-on-ceremony-dec-6th-2010/)
**Published:** November 17, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[**Theater News
Bruce Vilanch to Host Opening Reception and Performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
By: Andy Propst · Nov 17, 2010 · Los Angeles**](http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/11-2010/bruce-vilanch-to-host-opening-reception-and-perfor_32178.html)
Bruce Vilanch will host a special performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays at Largo at the Coronet on Monday, December 6. The event will raise funds for the [American Foundation for Equal Rights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Foundation_for_Equal_Rights "American Foundation for Equal Rights") (AFER) and Equality California. The show, conceived and directed by Brian Shnipper, will then play a limited engagement at the theater, running Mondays, January 10 – February 7.
Standing on Ceremony is comprised of short plays that look at the institution of marriage and relationships, written by Jordan Harrison, [Jeffrey Hatcher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hatcher "Jeffrey Hatcher"), [Moisés Kaufman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s_Kaufman "Moisés Kaufman"), [Neil LaBute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_LaBute "Neil LaBute"), Wendy McLeod, [Kathy Najimy](http://www.kathynajimy.com/ "Kathy Najimy"), [José Rivera](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rivera_%28playwright%29 "José Rivera (playwright)"), [Paul Rudnick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudnick "Paul Rudnick"), and Doug Wright. Casting will be announced shortly
At the opening event for the production, [Bruce Cohen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Cohen "Bruce Cohen") will provide comments about the first day of the AFER’s case before the [9th Circuit Court of Appeals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit "United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"), and the performance will be followed by a reception that will take place in the courtyard at Largo with a special surprise by Vilanch.
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### [Dishing It Out In Mesa](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/17/dishing-it-out-in-mesa/)
**Published:** November 17, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**[State Press
Celebrities (Sorta) Dish in Mesa
By Ana Anguiano November 17, 2010 at 12:01 am](http://www.statepress.com/2010/11/17/celebrities-dish-on-the-lives-of-their-peers/)**
****
Memories can be pools of great knowledge, advice and life lessons. Writing about your life is a great accomplishment and usually means you have something profound to say. This seems to go out the window however, if you’re a celebrity.
“[Celebrity Autobiography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Autobiography%3A_In_Their_Own_Words "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words")†takes the self-absorbed autobiographies of celebrities such as Madonna, [Ozzy Osbourne](http://www.ozzy.com "Ozzy Osbourne"), Eminem, Tommy Lee and [Pamela Anderson](http://pamelaanderson.com/ "Pamela Anderson") and shares them with an audience. Celebrity Autobiography is coming to the Mesa Arts Center this month and hopes to appeal to families and college students alike.
Some of the cast members performing at Mesa Arts Center are [Maggie Wheeler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Wheeler "Maggie Wheeler") (Janice on “Friendsâ€), original “[Saturday Night Live](http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/ "Saturday Night Live")†cast member [Laraine Newman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laraine_Newman "Laraine Newman"), comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), [Danny DeVito](http://twitter.com/danny_devito "Danny DeVito")’s daughter Lucy DeVito and co-creators of “Celebrity Autobiography,†[Eugene Pack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpage_Eugene_Pack "Subpage Eugene Pack") and Dayle Reyfel.
Laraine Newman has only performed with “Celebrity Autobiography†in Los Angeles, but calls the show a “pick-up band†— it can go anywhere.
“All of us at one time or another take ourselves too seriously,†Newman says. “Most of the things I said in print when I was young were embarrassing.â€
Newman says some celebrities are too busy to write their own autobiographies, so they have them ghost written, or have unauthorized versions.
“Brooke Shields was in college when her autobiography came out. She only wrote a couple of paragraphs and an entire book was written,†Newman says.
Newman says co-creators Pack and Reyfel pick the different autobiographies that intersect on the same event to get different perspectives — something Newman can relate to.
“I’ve read so many accounts of ‘SNL’ and how I remember them is wrong, even though I am dead-certain that what I remember is correct,†she says.
On stage, Newman has read Suzanne Somers’s early poetry and newscaster [Joan Lunden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lunden "Joan Lunden")’s autobiography.
Maggie Wheeler says they will be pulling out all the stops for the college night performances.
“Material we don’t use in earlier performances, we especially perform that night,†she says. The final college night for the Mesa stop is Thursday, Nov. 18.
Wheeler has read [Ivana Trump](http://www.ivanatrump.com/ "Ivana Trump")’s and [Elizabeth Taylor](http://twitter.com/dameelizabeth "Elizabeth Taylor")’s autobiographies in Los Angeles and New Hampshire.
“I get to play with wonderful people,†Wheeler says. â€We have a fantastic assortment in the rotating cast. It is unadulterated and very funny.â€
Wheeler was invited to become a part of the show in California and was in after seeing it for herself.
“It’s a really fun night with unexpected laughter and humor,†she says. â€We have audience volunteers too.â€
The first half of the show is stand-alone performances, while the second half is group pieces.
“It’s not stand-up comedy,†Wheeler says. “It’s something unique.â€
**If you go:**
**“Celebrity Autobiography†— College Night (contains adult content)
Mesa Arts Center — Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse.
1 E. Main St., Mesa.
480-644-6500, mesaartscenter.com.
Thursdays November 4, 11 & 18, 9:00 p.m.
Tickets are $35, $20 for students.**
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Help GLAAD Celebrate 25th Anniversary!](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/16/bruce-vilanch-to-help-glaad-celebrate-25th-anniversary/)
**Published:** November 16, 2010
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**GLAAD Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Opinion by GLAAD
(3 Hours Ago) in Society / Gay Issues**
LOS ANGELES — The [Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation](http://www.glaad.org/ "Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation") (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today marked 25 years of service to LGBT Americans.
To honor GLAAD’s 25th anniversary, [Chaz Bono](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaz_Bono "Chaz Bono"), [Wilson Cruz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cruz "Wilson Cruz"), Amber Heard, [Michael Kearns](http://michaelkearns.net/ "Michael Kearns"), Kathy Najimy, [Holly Robinson Peete](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Robinson_Peete "Holly Robinson Peete"), Doris Roberts, Jean Smart, Bruce Vilanch, Steven Weber and more will join GLAAD’s founding members Jehan Agrama, [David Bohnett](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohnett "David Bohnett"), Dean Hansell and Michael Keegan in Los Angeles on December 3, 2010, for ‘GLAAD at 25,’ an event to recognize and celebrate the people and events that launched GLAAD’s work to amplify the voice of the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community").
Jonathan Murray of Bunim/Murray Productions will receive the GLAAD Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking work to bring stories of [LGBT people](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") to Americans as Executive Producer on shows including The Real World, Road Rules and Project Runway. Richard Jennings, former President & Executive Director of GLAAD, will also receive the GLAAD Founders’ Award.
GLAAD will also celebrate this milestone with a series of blog posts at GLAADBlog.org that recognize 25 years of GLAAD’s culture changing work through the voices of former and current GLAAD staff members and volunteers.
“Since 1985, GLAAD has amplified stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people that build acceptance and advance equality through news, entertainment and today, on Facebook and social media outlets,” said GLAAD President [Jarrett Barrios](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrett_Barrios "Jarrett Barrios"). “Continuing to share these stories is moving the public to support our full legal equality and will lead to a nation where we are all accepted, respected and valued.”
GLAAD began in 1985 in New York City as a response to the [New York Post ‘s](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post") sensational and dangerous coverage of the HIV/AIDS crisis. GLAAD’s media advocacy efforts quickly spread to Los Angeles, where GLAAD worked with film studios and television networks to stand up against stereotypical and defamatory images and increase LGBT-inclusive programming. GLAAD continues to serve as the leader in working with and through the media to achieve full equality for LGBT people.
Over the course of the coming year, GLAAD is also excited to announce additional events nationwide as well as a national campaign to amplify the voice of the LGBT community in celebration of GLAAD’s 25th anniversary.
For more information about GLAAD’s 25th Anniversary, visit www.glaad.org/25
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**Tags:** Chaz Bono, David Bohnett, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Holly Robinson Peete, Jarrett Barrios, LGBT, Michael Kearns, Wilson Cruz
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### [LCD Soundsystem's Video For "Pow Pow"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/11/lcd-soundsystems-video-for-pow-pow/)
**Published:** November 11, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Mister D:** *What’s Bruce got to do with it? Well, there’s that lyric in the song that goes, “”Eat it, Michael Musto/You’re no Bruce Vilanch.” All in jest, I’m sure!*
[MTV Shows](http://www.mtv.com/ontv/)
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**Categories:** Music, Video
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### [The Entertainers of International Mr Leather](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/09/the-entertainers-of-international-mr-leather/)
**Published:** November 9, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Video
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### [Celebrity Memoirs: Bruce Takes Stage In Mesa November 3 - 21](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/11/04/celebrity-memoirs-bruce-takes-stage-in-mesa-november-3-21/)
**Published:** November 4, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Mesa’s comedic line-up will include Laraine Newman (“Saturday Night Liveâ€), Bruce Vilanch (“Celebrity Fit Club,†TV writer), Maggie Wheeler (“Friendsâ€), and the show’s creators, Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel.
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**Unintentionally funny celebrity memoirs take center stage
Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 12:10 pm, Wed Nov 3, 2010.
Mandy Zajac, East Valley Tribune**
Truth is more entertaining than fiction.
At least, that’s the case in “Celebrity Autobiography,†an off-Broadway hit in which actors and comedians read verbatim the unintentionally funny memoirs of celebrities.
The show opens Thursday at Mesa Arts Center and runs through Nov. 21. And Mister Vilanch is in it.
For more information: [**Click Here**](http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/article_106398bc-e6bf-11df-a679-001cc4c03286.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Takes In The Premiere Of "Priscilla" In Toronto](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/28/bruce-vilanch-takes-in-the-premiere-of-priscilla-in-toronto/)
**Published:** October 28, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Categories:** Sightings
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### [Bruce Vilanch - from the toronto opening of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT ](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/27/bruce-vilanch-from-the-toronto-opening-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert/)
**Published:** October 27, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") arrives on the pink carpet at the [Princess of Wales Theatre](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.64694,79.38938&spn=0.01,0.01&q=43.64694,79.38938 (Princess%20of%20Wales%20Theatre)&t=h "Princess of Wales Theatre") in [Toronto](http://www.toronto.ca/ "Toronto") for the [North American](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America "North America") premiere of *[Priscilla Queen of the Desert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla%2C_Queen_of_the_Desert "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"): The Musical*. The show runs until Jan. 2.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Brings One Man Show To Feinsteins in January](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/25/bruce-vilanch-brings-one-man-show-to-feinsteins-in-january/)
**Published:** October 25, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch will bring his wonderful and witty one man show to Feinsteins in New York January 11, 12 2011 at 8:30 PM. Tickets are on sale now so act fast before they sell out.
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") will bring his wonderful and witty one man show to Feinsteins in [New York](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York "New York") January 11, 12 2011 at 8:30 PM. Tickets are on sale now so act fast before they sell out. Â Feinsteins is located at:
# [Loews Regency](http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=19762#)
540 Park Ave @ 61st Street
New York, NY 10065
**To purchase tickets**: Â [Click Here](http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=19762)
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**Categories:** Announcement, Cabaret, Comedy Show
**Tags:** Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, Metro Areas, New York, New York City, Shopping, Theatre, United States
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### [Bootleg Betty And We Got Bruce To Postpone Closure To Explore Options](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/16/we-got-bruce-and-bootleg-betty-to-close-oct-31/)
**Published:** October 16, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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*Dear fans and subscribers,*
Hate to jerk you around, but I’ve decided to explore a couple of options before I finally decide to close down my sites. Years and years of hard work have been invested in these pages, so if I have the opportunity to save them from obscurity I might as well give it a try. I believe in the work we’ve done as a community and one lawsuit shouldn’t scare me away. I’ll just try to learn from it and move forward. If it doesn’t work then I’ll close down at the end of the year. In the meantime, it’s back to business as usual.
*Love, Mister D*
PS: Before you vilify me you may want to read these two articles:
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**Categories:** Announcement
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### [Bruce Vilanch a presenter at the Halo Awards honoring B. Harlan Boll](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/23/bruce-vilanch-a-presenter-at-the-halo-awards-honoring-b-harlan-boll/)
**Published:** October 23, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") was among many presenters this year honoring B. Harlan Boll at The Southern California Motion Picture Council’s annual Halo Awards according to BroadwayWorld.com.
The articles states that Mr. Boll, “in addition to published books, traveling as an honorary ambassador of arts and culture to the [Peoples Republic of China](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China "People's Republic of China"), producing and/or directing projects including the recently EMMY nominated PSA’s for the Channing/Kullijian Foundation for the Arts as well as the Smithsonian Institute’s tribute to Legendary Ladies of Stage & Screen, has scheduled thousands of appearances or participation by public personalities for non-profits. Realizing early on that his voice alone was not influential enough to cause change change, he began enlisting help from many industry personalities that could garner tremendous success in reaching and educating others in order to raise awareness of numerous important issues and topics.”
The SCMPC is a non-profit organization founded in 1936 to promote the best in entertainment. The Council encourages production of family oriented films and television programs; promotes civic-minded, educational and cultural programs of exceptional merit and presents awards for the best in movies, television, stage plays and the performing arts. Only the “Best of the Best” in movies and television, stars whose performances deserve special recognition or members of the industry whose outstanding contributions to the field of entertainment, are selected. The Golden Halo is the SCMPC’s highest award. A partial list of past acting honorees includes [Bette Davis](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000012/ "Bette Davis"), [James Stewart](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/ "James Stewart"), [Grace Kelly](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000038/ "Grace Kelly"), [Robert Mitchum](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053/ "Robert Mitchum"), [Doris Day](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000013/ "Doris Day") and [Charlton Heston](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/ "Charlton Heston").
**Read more:** [**Click Here**](http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_B_Harlan_Boll_Honored_at_Golden_Halo_Awards_20101023#ixzz13CBHopGI)
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins "Celebrity Autobiography" Cast In New Hampshire](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/21/bruce-vilanch-joins-celebrity-autobiography-cast-in-new-hampshire/)
**Published:** October 21, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[**Capital Center For The Arts
Celebrity Autobiography
Sat, October 23, 2010 8:00 PM**](http://ccanh.com/ShowDetails/31/539)
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Starring, among others, Saturday Night Live veteran Rachel Dratch, show creator Eugene Pack, Sex in the City Wedding Planner Mario Cantone, Annie Golden, Michael McGlone, Maggie Wheeler from the hit TV show friends and Emmy award winner, Bruce Vilanch, who starred on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray and along side Whoopi Goldberg on The Hollywood Squares . One of New York City’s most buzzed-about shows, Celebrity Autobiography pokes giant-size fun at the often-ridiculous memoirs of A-listers from Vanna White and Star Jones to Sylvester Stallone and the Jonas Brothers.
**Additional Information:**
How does Vanna flip her panels? What does Stallone have in his freezer? Why did Burt and Loni topple from the upper tier of their wedding cake? What makes the Jonas Brothers get along? Find all this out and more in the new hit comedy Celebrity Autobiography where super star memoirs are acted out live on stage. Audiences walk away from the show asking, “Did they actually write that?” Yes, we couldn’t make this stuff up!
Created and developed by Emmy award nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, Celebrity Autobiography features a first rate comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of celebrities. The passages run the gamut from the “poetry” of Suzanne Somers to the shocking “romance tips” from Tommy Lee to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history—Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Eddie Fisher. And what’s remarkable and unforgettably hilarious—It’s all in their own words.
Running for three sold out years in New York; Celebrity Autobiography recently won the 2009 Drama Desk Award in the category of Unique Theatrical Experience and the 2010 Bistro Awards. The show has been one of the most critically acclaimed productions ever in the Off-Broadway scene and one of the most “buzzed about shows” of recent years.
**Contains adult material.**
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### [Bruce Vilanch Helps Sell Out "The Road Ahead"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/10/07/bruce-vilanch-helps-sell-out-the-road-ahead/)
**Published:** October 7, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[El Camino Union
Celebrities illuminate the Road Ahead
By: Erika Maldonado
Posted: 10/7/10](http://www.elcaminouniononline.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=0d242712-556a-40c9-b9a6-3b0a97ab9ec1)
[Hollywood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood "Hollywood") came to the college, Sept. 25 as the sold out celebrity benefit event, “[The Road Ahead](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead "The Road Ahead")” debuted at the Campus Theatre, Foundation Board Director David Kartsonis said
The night was hosted by comedic writer [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"). It featured an eclectic cast of film and TV celebrities reading and performing inspirational poems and excerpts from various scripts, books and other literary works. Cedering Fox, artistic director, said the performance was directed and cast by her company, WordTheatre.
“It was very inspiring. It was crazy to see so many familiar celebrities in the same room. I also liked how the music tied in so well with the stories,” Lily Vasquez, 22, business major said. Vasquez heard of the event through her theater professor.
In addition to the $25 million contribution to [California community colleges](http://www.cccco.edu "California Community Colleges System") by the Bernard Osher Foundation last year, the Osher Foundation also agreed to a 1 to 2 match on every additional dollar contributed to colleges. The main objective of “The Road Ahead” event was to contribute toward this initiative, Rachael Kartsonis, foundation board director said.
The event raised more than $3,000.
From surviving concentration camps in Auschwitz and the gang-infested streets of L.A., to recovering from debilitating injuries; stories of overcoming adversity and achieving success were read by actors such as [Adrian Pasdar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Pasdar "Adrian Pasdar"), Justin Chambers, [CCH Pounder](http://cchpounder.com/ "C. C. H. Pounder"), John Heard, [Johnny Simmons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Simmons "Johnny Simmons") and [Jon Huertas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huertas "Jon Huertas").
“It’s important to always give back. If I can do what I love to do and raise money and awareness for a great cause like education, then I’m there,” Huertas said. Huertas plays a detective on the ABC-TV series “Castle.”
In between the diverse stories told by Hollywood actors were musical selections by chorale members and a house band.
With songs such as R. Kelly’s, “[I Believe I Can Fly](http://musicbrainz.org/album/fab2ce33-bb3d-460b-8252-ff1a96542a9f.html "I Believe I Can Fly"),” “Don’t Stop Believing” by the ’80s band, Journey, and the Motown hit, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” the night was uplifting and empowering, Christopher Craig, 21, psychology major said.
“We got a lot of positive feedback. It was hectic because we only had a week to prepare, but everything went smoothly. A lot of people came up to me after and told me they were really touched by what we did,” Craig said.
Craig and a handful of other singers and musicians worked with Fox to prepare the music for the event that tied in with the script. Craig was originally asked to perform solos, but thought that a choir and a band would add more to the event.
The campus was transformed into a night fit for Hollywood with heavy security by police and several recognizable celebrities floating around campus. The VIP reception, held in the quad of the Music Building, featured multi-colored [LED lights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode "Light-emitting diode") reflecting on walls with a large projection of the EC logo commanding an entire wall.
“The event is a different format. It’s something you don’t see a lot so it’s hard to explain. We tried to market it the best we could, but we’re hoping with it being such a success this year, more people will hear about it. Our hopes are to be able to move it to the Marsee next year and raise even more money,” Rachael said.
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### [Bruce Vilanch will host "Crescendo" Oct 10](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/30/bruce-vilanch-will-host-crescendo-oct-10/)
**Published:** September 30, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Bay Area Reporter
SF Gay Men’s Chorus is ready for ‘Crescendo’
Sept. 30, 2010**
Comedian [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") will host “Crescendo,” the annual fundraiser of the [San Francisco](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco") Gay Men’s Chorus on Sunday, October 10 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Green Room at the [War Memorial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_memorial "War memorial") Building, 401 [Van Ness Avenue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ness_Avenue_%28San_Francisco%29 "Van Ness Avenue (San Francisco)").
“Yes, it’s 10/10/10,” said chorus President Michael Tate. “Ten times the excitement, 10 times the luxury, and with Bruce at the helm, 10 times the fun.”
The event features a gourmet brunch donated by Patrick David’s Catering and Events, and complimentary beverages. Soft [piano](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano "Piano") music will accompany the luxurious menu and the chorus’ small ensemble, Vocal Minority, will give a short performance prior to the live auction. Vilanch will close the event with [comedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy "Comedy") and a question and answer session with the audience.
Crescendo raises funds for the chorus as well as the annual “fund-a-need” that highlights a particular service. This year, guests will be invited to help the chorus expand its Experience Music Program (launched in April at Mission High School) to 7-10 year olds so that they can experience the joy of singing, to other [high school](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school "High school") students, and to provide more resources for the chorus.
Tickets start at $100 and can be purchased online at [**www.sfgmc.org/crescendo**](http://www.sfgmc.org/crescendo).
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### [Five Finalists Chosen For the Great Gay Screenplay Contest; Bruce Vilanch One Of Judges](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/24/five-finalists-chosen-for-the-great-gay-screenplay-contest-bruce-vilanch-one-of-judges/)
**Published:** September 24, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** The final five screenplays have been sent to our panel of judges including Billy Cogan from Here, Anthony Rapp, Billy Masters, Bruce Vilanch, and theater and film professionals from across the country who will select the Juried Winner.
The screenplays will be performed in an A and B Program, and people attending both programs will be eligible to vote for the Audience Favorite Award. Both the winner chosen by the reading panel, and the audience favorite, will be announced at the conclusion of Sunday night's program.
The staged readings are directed by Pride Films and Plays Artistic Associate John Nasca.
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**Five Finalists Chosen For the Great Gay Screenplay Contest
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by BWW News Desk**
Five [screenplays](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay "Screenplay") with GLBT themes or characters have been named finalists in the first Great Gay Screenplay Contest sponsored by Pride Films and Plays, and will be performed as staged readings in the Great Gay Screenplay Weekend on November 20 and 21 at the Center on Halsted. PFP’s Executive Director David Zak says “It has been a fantastic first year for this contest, and I know audiences will thoroughly enjoy getting to see these works performed live.”
**The five finalists are:**
Bethlehem by Chris French,
Detasseling by Tom Hietter,
The Queen of Harts by Gary Polston,
Skirt by Chris Mason Johnson and Kate Stayman-London,
and The Trouble With e by Louise Wadley.
The final five screenplays have been sent to our panel of judges including Billy Cogan from Here, Anthony Rapp, Billy Masters, [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), and theater and film professionals from across the country who will select the Juried Winner.
The screenplays will be performed in an A and B Program, and people attending both programs will be eligible to vote for the Audience Favorite Award. Both the winner chosen by the reading panel, and the audience favorite, will be announced at the conclusion of Sunday night’s program.
The staged readings are directed by Pride Films and Plays Artistic Associate John Nasca.
Tickets for each program are $10 or $5 for students or industry professionals. A Screenplay Weekend Pass may be purchased for $15. Tickets may be bought on line for Program A, Program B, or the weekend pass, or by calling 1 800 838 3006.
Screenplay weekend is sponsored Pride Films and Plays, Lampkin Music Group, the Queer Film Society. and Center on Halsted.
**The performance schedule is:**
Program A, Saturday November 20 at 5:00 pm.
The Trouble With e by Louise Wadley, Sydney, NSW
Beautiful, sexy DJ e seems to have it all, but looks are deceiving. Stumbling on a stash of cash, e goes on the run. To stay alive, e has to find the courage to follow her dreams.
Detasseling by Tom Hietter, [Los Angeles](http://www.lacity.org/ "Los Angeles"), CA
In Detasseling, a gay teen’s urgent desire to flee his small and stifling Midwestern town sets off a bittersweet and, at times, harrowing journey of self-discovery over the summer of 1985.
Program B, Sunday November 21 at 3 pm.
Bethlehem by Chris French, New York, NY
With a baby on the way, gay thirty-somethings in [New York City](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City") struggle to reconcile their definitions of “family” with their Christian upbringings and parents’ expectations — in a modern retelling of the Christmas story.
Skirt by Chris Mason Johnson and Kate Stayman-London, [San Francisco](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco"), CA
When idealistic campaign worker Allie agrees to pose as her female boss’s girlfriend in order to help promote marriage equality, she soon finds herself in political and romantic hot water.
The Queen of Harts by Gary Polston, Aliso Viejo, CA
Suffering an identity crisis, a famous drag queen returns to his southern roots seeking a more masculine way of life. He discovers the road to acceptance is full of bumps and leads to unexpected places.
**[Screenwriter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter "Screenwriter") Bios:**
Chris French (Bethlehem) spends much of the year at high altitudes. He runs the world’s largest club for LGBT skiers and snowboarders, exploring terrain from the Alps to the Andes. When he’s not in the mountains, he’s writing. Originally from rural Illinois, Chris currently lives in New York City.
Tom Hietter (Detasseling) has been working as a freelance Reality [Television](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriting "Screenwriting") Writer/Story Producer for over 7 years. In 2007, he wrote and produced the feature comedy-mocumentary FELLOWSHIP OF THE DICE which won “Best Professional Film” at GenCon 2007 and a “Spewgie” for Best Geek Film of 2008.
Chris Mason Johnson, Writer-Director (Skirt) freelanced as a Script Analyst and Editor for Miramax, Dimension, Fine Line, [ABC Family](http://www.abcfamily.com "ABC Family") and Disney, and rose to the position of Head of Development at Open City Films in New York. In addition to Skirt, Johnson is developing Static, a psychological horror-sci-fi set in a small California town. He was a mentor in Film Independent’s Project:Involve and has taught screenwriting at Amherst College and Rutgers.
Gary Polson (The Queen of Harts) is an active member of the [LGBT community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community"). Raised in the backdrop of small town religious conservatism, coming out was an adventure that continues to bring smiles along with some great writing material. Gary lives in Southern California with his partner and their twenty pound cat, Monster.
Kate Stayman-London, Writer (Skirt) is a current candidate for an MFA in Writing for Film and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her first solo screenplay, a baseball sex comedy called Slump Busters, was awarded the Frank R. Volpe Scholarship and the National Association of Theater Owners Scholarship. Stayman-London has strong roots in playwriting: at Amherst College, she studied with acclaimed playwright Connie Congdon, and she’s currently writing the book for the next musical from this year’s Ovation Award winner, Erin Kamler.
Writer / Director Louise Wadley (The Trouble with E) attended the National Film and Television School in London. Her short films have played at festivals around the world. Her screenplay She Sells Seashells by the Seashore is a semi-finalist in the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship Competition. She is aiming to shoot The Trouble with e in spring, 2011.
Founded in 2010 to foster excellence in great GLBT writing for the stage and screen, Pride Films and Plays links an international network of writers with professionals working in film and theater.
Through readings, contests, classes, screenings and full Theater Productions, Pride Films and Plays engages artists and audiences in the full developmental process needed to make great artistic experiences.
Great Gay Screenplay weekend is sponsored by Pride Films and Plays, Lampkin Music Group, the Queer Film Society, and Center on Halsted.
For more information about the company, including details about the upcoming performances of the five finalists, visit [**www.pridefilmsandplays.com**](http://www.pridefilmsandplays.com).
For tickets and information visit [**brownpapertickets.com**](http://www.brownpapertickets.com) or call 1800 838 3006.
**The Great Gay Play Contest**
We are searching for the best gay new GLBT play of the year! The Great Gay Play Contest is accepting entries through October 31. We will have 15 semi-finalists announced by the end of the year, and five finalists performed as staged readings in the Great Gay Play Fest at Center on Halsted the first week of March, 2011.
We hope this will become an annual event that will benefit theater companies and audiences everywhere.
Find contest rules and submission materials here.
**The Great Plays of Terrence McNally**
We are down to the final two readings in the Terrence McNally series.
His wonderful Corpus Christi is this Sunday at Mary’s Attic, 5400 NortH Clark, at 6 p.m.
The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: “We are going to tell you an old and familiar story.”
But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again as McNally tells a story about Joshua, a gay man coming of age in Corpus Christi, Texas, that parallels the story of Jesus’ birth, disciples, death, and resurrection in a remarkable and unforgettable evening that deals with love, faith, marriage and more.
Patrick Rybarczyk directs a cast which includes Jake Szczepaniak, John Highberger, Patrick Gannon, Beau Forbes, Lee Wichman, Scott Merchant, Steven Anderson, Spencer Davis, Tyler Dean, Justin LeClaire, Eric Casady, Nick Inzeo, and Frank Sawa.
Our Celebrity Host is Fausto Fernos.
For tickets call 1 800 838 3006 or go here.
And the very madcap comedy The Ritz is Sunday October 24 at Stage 773, 1225 W Belmont at 7 p.m.
John Nasca directs an exciting cast featuring Alexandra Billings, Michael McAssey, David Cerda, Ed Jones, Michelle McKenzie-Voigt, Michael Barr, Charles Berglund, Patrick Gannon, Eric Casady, Marie Clawson, Jonas Grey, Michael Hampton, Jonathan Helvey, Albert Huber, Nick Inzeo, Michael Korte, David Lipschultz, Jason Nykiel, Jeffrey Patrick Olson, Chad Ryan and Kevin Webb.
Our Celebrity Host is Honey West.
At the Ritz, the rates are low, the decor is rococo, and the clientele is congenial. Gaetano Proclo reasons this all-male bathhouse is the perfect place to hide from his murder-minded brother-in-law Carmine.
But what Gaetano and his fellow bathhouse patrons get is an exercise in wild, manic mayhem as he eludes “chubby chaser” Paul B. Price, entertainer Googie Gomez, and his wife Vivian. He also encounters The Ritz’ gatekeeper Abe, habitué Chris, go-go-boys Tiger and Duff, detective Michael Brick, and his wife Vivian. The Ritz premiered in 1975.
Stage manager-Robert Hilliard, Assistant Director-Tiffany Nasca, Assistant Stage Manager-Christine Rivera, Hair & Make-up Design-Robert Hilliard, Graphic Design-Tiffany Nasca, Program Design-Michelle McKenzie-Voigt.
For tickets go here. or call 1800 838 3006.
Thanks to all the great actors and directors who worked on this series, and to Mr. McNally himself for sending his support along the way!
**About Pride Films and Plays**
Pride Films and Plays is dedicated to comprehending the history of great gay writing and fostering its excellence in new works for the stage and screen.
Pride Films and Plays, based in Chicago, links an international network of writers with professionals working in film and theater.
Through readings, contests, classes, screenings and full Theater Productions, Pride Films and Plays engages artists and audiences in the full developmental process needed to make great artistic experiences.
[**www.pridefilmsandplays.com**](http://www.pridefilmsandplays.com)
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### [Review: Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/23/review-oy-vey-my-son-is-gay-2/)
**Published:** September 23, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Content:**
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**Here!
Starring: [Lainie Kazan](http://www.lainiekazan.com/ "Lainie Kazan"), [Saul Rubinek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Rubinek "Saul Rubinek"), [Vincent Pastore](http://www.vincentpastore.com/ "Vincent Pastore"), [John Lloyd Young](http://www.johnlloydyoung.com "John Lloyd Young"), [Jai Rodriguez](http://www.myspace.com/jairodriguezmusic "Jai Rodriguez"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and [Carmen Electra](http://www.carmenelectra.com "Carmen Electra").
Written and Directed by Eugene Afineevsky
A wildly funny farce about two [Jewish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews "Jews") parents who don’t want to believe their son is gay.**
In the farcical tradition of Norman, Is That You?, Mambo Italiano and [La Cage aux Folles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28musical%29 "La Cage aux Folles (musical)") comes this raucous, star-studded comedy about two determined Jewish parents who will do anything to keep their faygala son on the straight and narrow. The indomitable Lainie Kazan is the brassy and opinionated Shirley, and Saul Rubinek is her long under-her-thumb husband, Martin. Blissfully unaware that the sexual revolution has come and gone, their only wish is that their son marry a nice Jewish girl. When their very successful (and so handsome!) son Nelson reluctantly reveals that his is in fact gay (and on top of that, his lover is a goy!), it sets off a series of actions by his frantically scheming parents to make him understand that it’s just a phase.
A terrifically funny cast includes a beardless Bruce Vilanch as a (barely) closeted husband, Jai Rodriguez (“[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy](http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Eye-Straight-Guy-Dressing/dp/140005446X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D140005446X "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy : The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better")â€) as the love interest and the burley Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranosâ€) as Jai’s accepting father. But it is Carmen Electra, who steals every scene she is in, as the blonde bombshell vixen asked by the parents to seduce the son back to heterosexuality. More Jewish than kugels and Manischewitz, Oy Vey delivers the laughs big time.
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### [Video: Join Bruce Vilanch at Crescendo, the Annual Fundraising Gala of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/23/video-join-bruce-vilanch-at-crescendo-the-annual-fundraising-gala-of-the-san-francisco-gay-mens-chorus/)
**Published:** September 23, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Join Bruce Vilanch at Crescendo, the Annual Fundraising Gala of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, on Sunday, October 10, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at The Green Room in the War Memorial Performing Arts Center
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Join [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") at Crescendo, the Annual Fundraising Gala of the [San Francisco](http://www.sfgov.org/ "San Francisco") Gay Men’s Chorus, on Sunday, October 10, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at The [Green Room](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Room_%28White_House%29 "Green Room (White House)") in the [War Memorial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_memorial "War memorial") Performing Arts Center, 401 [Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ness_Avenue_%28San_Francisco%29 "Van Ness Avenue (San Francisco)") (Located between [McAllister](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McAllister_%28politician%29 "David McAllister (politician)") and Grove Streets). For more information, go to [**https://www.sfgmc.org/crescendo**](https://www.sfgmc.org/crescendo) .
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### [Annual Victory Documentary Trailer](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/17/annual-victory-documentary-trailer/)
**Published:** September 17, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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The battle for [GLBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") [civil rights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights "Civil and political rights"). The story is told through the life and experiences of ROBIN TYLER and DIANE OLSON, one of the 14 couples involved in the historic [litigation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit "Lawsuit"), with a look at some of the 18000 couples who got married during the window of legality between May and November, with thought and commentary provided by a host of celebrities, including JAY LENO, [BRUCE VILANCH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), LIZA MINELLI, [MARGARET CHO](http://www.margaretcho.com "Margaret Cho"), LONI ANDERSON, [CYNDI LAUPER](http://www.cyndilauper.com "Cyndi Lauper"), JANE LYNCH, [SIGOURNEY WEAVER](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver "Sigourney Weaver"), JUDY SHEPARD, LESLIE JORDAN, PINK, KELLI OSBOURNE, ERIC McCORMACK, KATHRYN JOOSTEN, DANA DELANEY, ALEC MAPA, GEORGE TAKEI, REICHEN LEHMKUHL, CLEVE JONES, DEADLEE, SISTER UNITY, [Mayor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor "Mayor") ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, Mayor [GAVIN NEWSOM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom "Gavin Newsom") and others.
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**Categories:** movies, Video
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosts An Evening With Tab Hunter Oct 12th](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/16/bruce-vilanch-hosts-an-evening-with-tab-hunter-oct-12th/)
**Published:** September 16, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**An Evening with [Tab Hunter](http://www.tabhunter.com "Tab Hunter") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
By Pamela Magette**
**Event date: October 12, 2010**
PAWS/LA will present “An Evening with Tab Hunter” — an up-close-and-personal conversation with this Hollywood icon. The evening, hosted by Bruce Vilanch, one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the [entertainment industry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainment_industry_topics "List of entertainment industry topics"), promises to be a lively look at the life of one of Hollywood’s most popular movie legends. Get the real, inside-Hollywood story as shared by 50s heartthrob, Tab Hunter. A product of Hollywood’s golden age, Tab was one of one of cinema’s most sought after romantic leads.
Tab will share revelations from his recently published autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential which became a national best seller and garnered critical raves and praise from the [New York Times](http://www.newyorktimes.com "New York Times"), [Daily Variety](http://www.variety.com "Variety (magazine)"), [San Francisco Chronicle](http://sfgate.com/ "San Francisco Chronicle"), Washington Post, [Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com "Vanity Fair (magazine)"), [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post") and dozens more. Guests will enjoy a gourmet sit-down dinner presented in the intimate theater setting of the Avalon Hollywood.
Funds raised will help underwrite PAWS/LA’s programs to assist in the care of the animals of low-income elderly and people living with life-threatening illnesses. “An Evening with Tab Hunter” is sponsored by: [Wells Fargo](http://www.wellsfargo.com/ "Wells Fargo") Foundation; Wallis Foundation; ACMS; [PetCo](http://www.petco.com "Petco") Foundation; Art Laboe Foundation; and David Bohnett Foundation.
Ticket prices are $125 & $200. For more information or to order tickets call 213.741.1950 x 113 or go online at [**www.pawsla.org**](http://www.pawsla.org).
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**Categories:** Benefits, Interview
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### [Bruce Vilanch To Host El Camino College Foundation's Benefit, "The Road Ahead"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/16/bruce-vilanch-to-host-el-camino-college-foundations-benefit-the-road-ahead/)
**Published:** September 16, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Stars from popular films and television shows such as "Grey's Anatomy," "Freaks and Geeks" and "Sin City" will share the Campus Theatre stage for the El Camino College Foundation's benefit event titled "The Road Ahead."
Partnering with WordTheatre, a night of storytelling centered on education and the college's campus will be interpreted through dozens of celebrities beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25, foundation board directors, David and Rachael Kartsonis, said.
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**[El Camino](http://www.elcamino.edu/ "El Camino College") Union
“The Road Ahead” paves way for students’ futures
By: Erika Maldonado
Posted: 9/16/10**
Stars from popular films and television shows such as “[Grey’s Anatomy](http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy "Grey's Anatomy"),” “[Freaks and Geeks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks_and_Geeks "Freaks and Geeks")” and “[Sin City](http://anyclip.com/sin-city "Sin City")” will share the Campus Theatre stage for the El Camino College Foundation’s benefit event titled “The Road Ahead.”
Partnering with WordTheatre, a night of storytelling centered on education and the college’s campus will be interpreted through dozens of celebrities beginning at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25, foundation board directors, David and Rachael Kartsonis, said.
“We want people to come out and see this, but most of all, we want students to be able to be there. It would be amazing to see the place packed with students,” Rachael said.
Comedic writer and [actor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor "Actor") [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch"), who was recently seen on the Emmy’s, will be hosting with narration by [voice over actor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting "Voice acting"), Dave Fennoy, Rachael said.
Actors such as Justin Chambers from the [television series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program "Television program") “Grey’s Anatomy,” [Linda Cardellini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Cardellini "Linda Cardellini") from the TV series “Freaks and Geeks” and Carla Gugino from films such as “Sin City” are just a few of the actors that are scheduled to perform.
Although tickets are $150 each, students with a valid student ID may visit the Foundation Office located in the Administration Building Room 117 and pay $35 to be wait listed for the event. Instructors and staff members may purchase tickets for $75 each with a limit of two tickets per person.
The show is scheduled for the Campus Theatre and those on the wait list will then have guaranteed admission and will be notified by phone on Monday, David said.
“The more money we make at EC, the more scholarships will come to our students,” David said.
Celebrating the power of education by creating new paths for people from all walks of life, as stated on WordTheatre’s website, proceeds from the event will contribute to the Osher Initiative.
The Osher Initiative is “the single largest gift to a community college system in the nation and one of the largest gifts ever made to [higher education](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education "Higher education"),” the California Community College’s Chancellor’s Office official website said.
The initiative challenges Calif. [Community colleges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_college "Community college") to fund raise $50 million, which will be matched through the initiative.
“Not only are we raising money for EC, but we’re building more awareness for people who normally wouldn’t have known about the Osher initiative. We’re passionate about it and think scholarships are very important,” Rachael said.
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### [Bruce To Host "Gay Days Anaheim" October 2, 2010 At DisneyLand](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/14/bruce-to-host-gay-days-anaheim-october-2-2010-at-disneyland/)
**Published:** September 14, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** For more information, check out We Got Bruce!
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**Tags:** American Idol, Bruce Vilanch, Entertainment, House of Blues, Las Vegas Nevada, Shopping, tickets, United States
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### [September 15th Marks LGBT Center Awareness Day](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/09/09/september-15th-marks-lgbt-center-awareness-day/)
**Published:** September 9, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Gay Lesbian Times
September 15th Marks [LGBT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT "LGBT") Center Awareness Day
National day to celebrate GLBT Centers
BY IVAN GARCIA, ASSISTANT EDITOR
Published Thursday, 09-Sep-2010 in issue 1185**
Our [community](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_community "Gay community") LGBT Center is one of the biggest and best resources for everything and anything community based. They host social programs, outdoor events and it is the gathering point for many GLBT related community events. Such as the Day of Decision march during the Prop 8 trial ruling. Our [San Diego](http://www.sandiego.gov/ "San Diego") LGBT Community Center is an invaluable asset to many in San Diego, just as many other centers are valuable to their respective communities throughout the country.
September 15th 2010 marks the 2nd celebration of LGBT Center Awareness Day, a day dedicated to creating awareness of these valuable centers throughout the country as well as highlighting their services offered for the gay, [lesbian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian "Lesbian"), [bisexual](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality "Bisexuality"), [transgender](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender "Transgender") community. This day was also created to promote the central role that GLBT centers play in local communities, as well the growing GLBT political and social movement.
Founded by [CenterLink](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenterLink "CenterLink"), a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable GLBT community centers, LGBT Center Awareness Day is dedicated to the promotion of community centers that help to empower the GLBT community.
Founded in 1994, The CenterLink organization has played an important role in supporting the growth of GLBT centers across the country and addressing the challenges they face, by helping these centers to improve their organizational and service delivery capacity and increase access to public resources.
Based in [Washington, DC](http://www.dc.gov/ "Washington, D.C."), CenterLink works with other national organizations to advance the rights of GLBT individuals and to provide their respective community centers with information and analysis of key issues.
Launched in 2009, Center Awareness Day saw resounding success and support with celebrity testimonials from the likes of VH1’s [Celebrity Fit Club](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Fit_Club "Celebrity Fit Club")’s Ant and comedians [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") and Margaret Cho. A letter of support from President [Barack Obama](http://www.whitehouse.gov/ "Barack Obama") and varying nationwide events proved to be successful in 2009, LGBT Center Awareness Day returns in 2010 with just as much, if not more support from the nation and the community.
This year’s theme is “Building Our Community From The Center,†a theme that marks the unified effort and hard work of each GLBT center’s respective community and the growth that could arise from them.
San Diego’s own LGBT Center and its San Diego community are sure to gather for this day of awareness and appreciation for The Center and its staff. Since this is a national day of recognition toward centers nationwide, each center will take this day to create awareness of the resources and services each is valued for.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Attends The 62nd Emmy Awards](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/31/bruce-vilanch-attends-the-62nd-emmy-awards/)
**Published:** August 31, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Vilamch (without moi) attends the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Governors Ball held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on August 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Hosts "An Evening With Tab Hunter"](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/27/bruce-vilanch-hosts-an-evening-with-tab-hunter/)
**Published:** August 27, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** PAWS/LA is proud to present "An Evening with Tab Hunter" — an up-close-and-personal conversation with this Hollywood icon. The evening, hosted by Bruce Vilanch, one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the entertainment industry, promises to be a lively look at the life of one of Hollywood’s most popular movie legends. For more info on tix visit We Got Bruce...
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[**ORDER TICKETS TODAY!**](http://www.pawsla.org/order-tickets-for-tab-hunter-bruce-vilanch/)
With special guest [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch")
Sponsored by [Wells Fargo](http://www.wellsfargo.com/ "Wells Fargo") Foundation
Tuesday | October 12.2010 • 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
**Avalon Hollywood
1735 Vine Street | Hollywood**
PAWS/LA is proud to present “An Evening with [Tab Hunter](http://www.tabhunter.com "Tab Hunter")” — an up-close-and-personal conversation with this Hollywood icon. The evening, hosted by Bruce Vilanch, one of the most sought-after jokesmiths in the [entertainment industry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainment_industry_topics "List of entertainment industry topics"), promises to be a lively look at the life of one of Hollywood’s most popular movie legends.
Get the real, inside-Hollywood story as shared by 50s heartthrob, Tab Hunter. A product of Hollywood’s golden age, Tab was one of one of cinema’s most sought after romantic leads.
Tab will share revelations from his recently published autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential which became a national best seller and garnered critical raves and praise from the [New York Times](http://www.newyorktimes.com "New York Times"), [Daily Variety](http://www.variety.com "Variety (magazine)"), [San Francisco Chronicle](http://sfgate.com/ "San Francisco Chronicle"), Washington Post, [Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com "Vanity Fair (magazine)"), [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/ "New York Post") and dozens more.
Guests will enjoy a gourmet sit-down dinner presented in the intimate theater setting of the Avalon Hollywood.
Come and join us for this special event. Funds raised will help underwrite PAWS/LA’s expenses to provide veterinary care to more than 2,000 animal companions of our clients.
“An Evening with Tab Hunter” is sponsored by: Wells Fargo Foundation; Wallis Foundation; ACMS; [PetCo](http://www.petco.com "Petco") Foundation; Art Laboe Foundation; and David Bohnett Foundation.
For more information contact Pamela Magette via email at pmagette@pawla.org or by phone at 213.741.1950 x 113.
**Ticket prices:**
General Seating
Individual ticket – $125
Table of 10 – $1,000
VIP Seating\*\*
Individual ticket – $200
Table of 10 – $1,800
\*\*Includes preferred seating and private reception with Tab Hunter.
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### [Bruce Vilanch Joins The Bev Leslies For Performance In Queens Theatre in the Park, May 7](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/25/bruce-vilanch-joins-the-bev-leslies-for-performance-in-queens-theatre-in-the-park-may-7/)
**Published:** August 25, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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**Playbill
Christine Ebersole, [Adam Pascal](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/bfb69118-86f5-413d-affd-f12399819a55.html "Adam Pascal"), [Bruce Vilanch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Vilanch "Bruce Vilanch") Will Perform at Queens Theatre in the Park
By Adam Hetrick
25 Aug 2010**
Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole, Billy Stritch, Adam Pascal and Bruce Vilanch have been announced to appear during the 2010-2011 season at the Queens Theatre in the Park.
Comedian Jackie Mason will perform his new solo evening of comedy Oct. 23 at 8 PM and Oct. 24 at 3 PM; Tony nominee Tsidii (The Lion King) will offer her tribute concert to Odetta, [Nina](http://www.amazon.com/Nina/dp/B00004NK76%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00004NK76 "Nina") Simone and [Miriam Makeba](http://www.miriammakeba.co.za/ "Miriam Makeba"), To the Rising Sun, Oct. 24 at 3 PM and Nov. 13 at 2 PM; and Robert Royston’s dance musical One Ride will be presented Oct. 29-Nov. 7.
Rent star Adam Pascal and Larry Edoff will present meandlarry, a concert of original songs and music from Pascal’s stage career, Nov. 13 at 8 PM.
The 1960’s-themed musical The Bikinis, featuring “It’s In His Kiss” and “Under the Boardwalk,” will run Dec. 2-12. Ray Roderick will direct the musical he co-wrote with James Hindman. The Ma Yi Theatre Company will present I\_NY, which explores the lives of immigrant [New Yorkers](http://www.nyc.gov/ "New York City"), Dec. 18 at 8 PM.
The new musical Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup, with a book by Tony nominee John Pielmeier ([Agnes of God](http://www.amazon.com/Agnes-God-Jane-Fonda/dp/B000063ING%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000063ING "Agnes of God")) and a score by Emmy winner Matty Selman, will run March 18-27, 2011, under the direction of Nancy Robillard.
Tony winner Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch will perform highlights from their concert careers and their album “Sunday in New York” April 16, 2011, at 8 PM; Neil Berg will bring offer [Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre") Showstoppers April 22-May 1, 2011.
Award-winning writer and Hairspray star Bruce Vilanch will join the Bev Leslies for an evening of comedy May 7, 2011, at 8 PM, and TheatreworksUSA will perform the [Lynn Ahrens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens "Lynn Ahrens")-Stephen Flaherty musical Seussical May 28, 2011, at 11 AM and 1 PM.
For tickets phone (718) 760-0064 or visit QueensTheatre. The Queens Theatre in the Park is located in [Flushing Meadows Corona Park](http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_flushing_meadows/vt_flushing_meadows_park.html "Flushing Meadows – Corona Park"), Flushing, NY.
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### [Reminder: Bruce Plays Provincetown Tonight And Tomorrow Night](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/21/reminder-bruce-plays-provincetown-tonight-and-tomorrow-night/)
**Published:** August 21, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** Bruce Vilanch takes you on a trip behind the scenes of every major show business event and into the distressed minds of the participants. Bruce will be performing August 21 & 22 at 7:30 p.m Tickets are $25.
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Bruce Vilanch takes you on a trip behind the scenes of every major show business event and into the distressed minds of the participants. Bruce will be performing August 21 & 22 at 7:30 p.m Tickets are $25.
Tickets can be purchased at the Madeira Room /Vixen box office or by calling 508-487-6424.
**When:** Sun Aug 22 7:30pm – 9:30pm Central Time
**Where:** Madeira Room/Vixen located at 336 Commercial Street, Provincetown (map)
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### ["HELP IS ON THE WAY" BIGGEST SUCCESS EVER](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/20/help-is-on-the-way-biggest-success-ever/)
**Published:** August 20, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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HELP IS ON THE BIGGEST SUCCESS EVER
by Buzzin’ Lee Hartgrave‚ Aug. 20‚ 2010**
*HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS TERRIFIC A.I.D.S GALA*
CAROLE COOK COMES OUT IS A MAGNIFICENT RED DRESS. SHE STANDS AND GLARES AT THE CROWD AND SAYS: “You don’t leave the [Rolls Royce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_%28car%29 "Rolls-Royce (car)") in the Garage, do you?†Then she quipped “There isn’t a man in this audience that wouldn’t arm wrestle for this dress.†And that is what began a wild and wonderful evening of song, dance and Comedy. The Comedy was by [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897358/ "Bruce Vilanch") and singing was by dozens, but here are some of the highlights. [James Darren](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201626/ "James Darren") called me to tell me how much he enjoyed being in the show. I got kind of confused when he called and said: “Hi Lee – this is Jimmy Darrenâ€. I’ve always known him as James. He’s a really great star and showed the audience (who really went berserk) when he came out and sang a stunning version of “You’d Better Love Meâ€. And…of course everyone did. He’s coming back to [San Francisco](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&spn=0.1,0.1&q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&t=h "San Francisco") to see about doing a few nights at a club here. Maybe, even the Rrazz Room. I’m sure they would love to have him there.
Davis Gaines (of Phantom Fame) sang a wonderful “Somewhere [Over the Rainbow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow "Over the Rainbow")†– best I’ve ever heard. Bruce Vilanch broke cracked us with “Everything is Beautiful at the Ballet†– and he looked very fluffy and pink in his Ballet outfit. The fabulous star for all time — [Carol Channing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151919/ "Carol Channing") wrapped her love around the audience with “Before the Parade Passes By.†[Melissa Manchester](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541386/ "Melissa Manchester") touched the audience a whole lot with the song “Help is on the Way!†Her and [Carole Bayer Sager](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004728/ "Carole Bayer Sager") wrote the song. And with Dream Girls opening soon – it was wonderful to hear a man version of “And I Am Telling You, I’m Not Going!†([Dreamgirls](http://www.amazon.com/Dreamgirls-Full-Screen-Jamie-Foxx/dp/B000O179A4%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000O179A4 "Dreamgirls (Full Screen Edition)").) This is the most exciting, pulse raising version of the song EVER by Von Smith. You can catch him on [You Tube](http://www.youtube.com/ "YouTube") – by searching Von Smith – The View. You’re gonna fall in love with it. There was so much talent on the stage – and I want to thank all of them for helping “Help Is On The Wayâ€. Next up – will be the cast of Dreamgirls singing for REAF.
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### ["Platinum" Opens Tonight!](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/17/platinum-opens-tonight/)
**Published:** August 17, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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Well the reason this fabulous show is here at **Glamwire Television** is that famous Emmy winning Tv Writer **Bruce Villanch** wrote the book for this along with Tony award Nominee **[Will Holt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Holt "Will Holt")** With music By Tony Nominee **[Gary William Friedman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295218/ "Gary William Friedman"),** who composed the theme music for television’s legendary show **“The Electric Companyâ€** and lyrics by **Mr. Holt,** this new version features revisions and direction by **Ben West** (How Now, Dow Jones).
An electrifying story of ambition and survival, Platinum follows Lila Halliday (Larsen), a dazzling Hollywood legend trying to make a comeback in the explosive music industry of the 1970s. Determined to reignite her career, she turns to rock star Dan Riley and finds herself falling for him as they both fight to stay in the game.
This new one-act version of Platinum will be performed by a cast of five and feature two new songs (â€This One’s for Meâ€, “Momentsâ€), with four other musical numbers and eight characters having been eliminated. The [production](http://www.joakimvujic.com/ "Theatre")is choreographed by Rommy Sandhu (How Now, Dow Jones, Mary Poppins) with musical arrangements by Mr. Friedman (â€The Electric Companyâ€) and musical direction by Fran Minarik (Sessions, The J.A.P. Show).
Said director Ben West: “Platinum is an extraordinary project on which I began working four years ago. In addition to focusing the story, we have redefined the musical language of the show by eliminating four songs and adding two new numbers, one which was cut prior to and another which was written after the original run. The time has also shifted to 1976, the year in which the Recording Industry began issuing platinum certifications. With its unique concept and its exhilarating original material, I am thrilled to be further developing this project as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and look forward to returning Platinum to the stage.â€
Theatre, dates and additional casting for this FringeNYC developmental production will be announced shortly. Tickets are available starting July 23 by visiting www.FringeNYC.org or calling 866-468-7619. For more information, visit: www.PlatinumTheMusical.com. FringeNYC 2010 runs August 13 – 29.
The original [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889%20%28Broadway%20theatre%29&t=h "Broadway theatre") production of Platinum opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on November 12, 1978 starring Alexis Smith under the direction of Joe Layton. The production played 33 performances and received two [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award")nominations for Smith and co-star Richard Cox. It has not been seen since. An earlier version titled Sunset was directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune at the Studio Arena Theatre in 1977. The authors, Holt and Friedman, revisited their original Sunset in 1983 at the Village Gate. The cabaret production starred Tammy Grimes.
[LIZ LARSEN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Larsen "Liz Larsen") Broadway: Hairspray, [The Rocky Horror Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show "The Rocky Horror Show"), The Smell of the Kill, The Most Happy Fella (Tony, Drama Desk, [Outer Critics Circle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award "Outer Critics Circle Award") noms; LA Drama Logue Award), [Damn Yankees](http://www.amazon.com/Damn-Yankees-Tab-Hunter/dp/B0002Y4TII%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0002Y4TII "Damn Yankees"), A Little Night Music, Starmites, Fiddler on the Roof, Blues in the Night, [Annie](http://www.amazon.com/Annie-Special-Anniversary-Aileen-Quinn/dp/B0000VCZKM%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0000VCZKM "Annie (Special Anniversary Edition)"). Other NY: Such Good Friends (NYMF – Outstanding Performance Award), A New Brain, Bingo, Him and Her (FringeNYC Excellence Award), Newyorkers, Loman Family Picnic, Personals, Little By Little. Regional: Sunday in the Park with George (Helen Hayes Award), Baby (Helen Hayes nomination), Falsettos, Guys and Dolls, The Value of Names. TV: “My Guys†(series regular), “[Law & Order](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098844/ "Law & Order")“, “[Law & Order: SVU](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203259/ "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit")“, “Third Watchâ€.
[SARAH LITZSINGER](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Litzsinger "Sarah Litzsinger") is Broadway’s longest running Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Other Broadway credits include Marilyn: An American Fable, Oliver!, Les Miserables and Amour. Sarah also played Eva Peron in the 25th anniversary tour of Evita and starred as the Narrator opposite Donny Osmond in Joseph…. Some of her other favorite roles are: Cathy in The Last 5 Years, Susan in Tick, Tick…Boom! and Cordelia in Falsettos (George Street Playhouse). Sarah is also the recipient of the 2007 Breakout Award at the HBO Aspen comedy Festival (for her comedy act she wrote and starred in with partner, Kate Reinders). She also performed this act at the TBS Comedy Festival at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 2008.
**WILL HOLT** Broadway: Come Summer (Agnes de Mille, Ray Bolger), The Me Nobody Knows ([Gary William Friedman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295218/ "Gary William Friedman"); Tony nomination, Drama Desk and [Obie Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obie_Award "Obie Award")), Over Here! (The Andrews Sisters; Tony nomination, Best Musical), Me and Bessie (Linda Hopkins), Music Is (George Abbott), Platinum (Alexis Smith). Off-Broadway: Taking My Turn (Outer Critics’ Circle Award; PBS Great Performances Series), Signs Along the Cynic Route, That Five A.M. Jazz, A Kurt Weill Cabaret. Other work: A Walk on the Wild Side (L.A. Dramalogue Award), Jack (Goodspeed Theater). Mr. Holt is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
**BRUCE VILANCH** has written for the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the Grammys, winning six [Emmy Awards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") in the process. He has starred on Broadway in Hairspray and has graced the cover of his book, Bruce! My Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Essays, and his documentary, Get Bruce! He is also appeared on “Hollywood Squares†for four seasons and in his one-man show as well as “It Nearly Wasn’t Christmasâ€, “The Morning Afterâ€, “Bosom Buddiesâ€, “The Ice Pirates†and “Call Me Clausâ€. He devotes endless hours working with such charitable organizations as the Anti-Defamation League, National Foundation for Jewish Culture and numerous AIDS organizations.
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### [Tonight - "Platinum" Returns To The Stage](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/17/tonight-platinum-returns-to-the-stage/)
**Published:** August 17, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
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[Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") Musical** ***[Platinum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_%28musical%29 "Platinum (musical)")*** **Polished at FringeNYC Beginning Aug. 17
By Adam Hetrick
August 17, 2010**
A revised incarnation of the 1978 pop musical *Platinum*, starring Donna Bullock and Sarah Litzsinger, begins performances Aug. 17 as part of the [New York International Fringe Festival](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_International_Fringe_Festival "New York International Fringe Festival").
Ben West, who directed and adapted the streamlined production of *[How Now, Dow Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Now%2C_Dow_Jones "How Now, Dow Jones")* for the Fringe last summer, has also revised *Platinum*, which he also directs. Performances will take place Aug. 18, 19, 20 and 21 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
*Platinum* has a book by [Will Holt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1592823/ "Will Holt") and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897358/ "Bruce Vilanch"), with music by [Gary William Friedman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295218/ "Gary William Friedman") and lyrics by Holt. Rommy Sandhu choreographs with musical direction by Fran Minarik.
Jeff Award winner Bullock (*Take Me Along*) stars as Lila Hallidy opposite Litzsinger (*[Beauty and the Beast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast "Beauty and the Beast"), Amour*) as Crystal Mason. The cast also features Bruce Sabath (*Company*), Wayne Wilcox (*[Coram Boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coram_Boy_%28play%29 "Coram Boy (play)")*) and Jay Wilkison (*Rent*).
The one-act Fringe production features two new songs, “This One’s for Me” and “Moments.” A cast of five (down from the original 13) performs the latest version that has excised four songs and eliminated eight characters.
According to producers: “An electrifying story of ambition and survival, *Platinum* follows Lila Halliday (Bullock), a dazzling Hollywood legend trying to make a comeback in the explosive music industry of the 1970s. Determined to reignite her career, she turns to rock star Dan Riley (Wilkison) and finds herself falling for him as they both fight to stay in the game.”
*Platinum* ran only 33 performances on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1978. The musical garnered [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") nominations for Smith and her co-star Richard Cox. The musical was revived Off-Broadway in 1983, reverting back to its original title *Sunset*, and ran for 14 performances.
Holt and Friedman are also the writers of the Tony Award-nominated musical *The Me Nobody Knows*.
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### [A 'Platinum' Polish](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/16/1850/)
**Published:** August 16, 2010
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**Theatermania
Ben West Is Polishing Platinum
by Peter Filichia’s Diary
August 16, 2010**
Ever hear of Platinum? It was a 1978 musical with book by Will Holt and [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313181759 "Bruce Vilanch"), lyrics by Holt and music by [Gary William Friedman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295218/ "Gary William Friedman"). New Yorkers had 45 chances to see it, thanks to 12 previews and 33 official performances.
With a run such as that, you might be surprised to hear that it even got two Tony nominations. One went to Alexis Smith, in her first musical since you-know-what, for playing Lila Halliday, a faded Hollywood star who was trying a pop music comeback. The other was bestowed on Richard Cox as Dan Danger, a rocker who might become her boy toy. Both lost.
Even if you have heard of Platinum, you probably haven’t heard the score, because it yielded no official original cast album. Still, it was a show that caught the interest of Ben West. Once he learned of it, he wanted to read it, hear it and savor it. Once he did all of the above, he wanted to rework it. The fruits of his labor will be seen in FringeNYC for five performances this Tuesday through Saturday at the Lortel.
Last year, West adapted another underappreciated [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre") musical, but one that ran seven times as long and did get recorded: [How Now, Dow Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Now%2C_Dow_Jones "How Now, Dow Jones"), the 1967 tuner about a false stock market report. Still, you wouldn’t expect that show to interest a guy who wasn’t even born when Platinum debuted. West is a mere 27, but his heart is in [musicals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre "Musical theatre") of yore.
He knows he’s atypical for his generation. “Some years ago when I was an actor and auditioning,†he says, “it’d drive me crazy when I mentioned Comden and Green to the other auditioners and so many wouldn’t have a clue who I meant. Many people of my generation don’t understand that Spring Awakening happened because somebody else laid the groundwork for it 50 or 60 years ago.”
West was born out west in Minneapolis, then spent some time in Chicago where in kindergarten he staged his own puppet show. “The Weisslers were considering moving it,” he jokes.
After he moved to Miami, he of course did school plays; favorite roles include The Emcee in Cabaret and Mrs. Drudge in The Real Inspector Hound. He studied at NYU’s CAP 21 for a couple of years, and later appeared in Paper Mill’s Of Thee I Sing. Later he became assistant director to Gordon Greenberg for Breaking up Is Hard to Do, a [Neil Sedaka](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781226/ "Neil Sedaka") jukebox musical.
All the while, however, West was reading every book he could on musicals, with Steven Suskin’s and Ken Bloom’s ranking among his favorites. They led him to [Cy Coleman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170990/ "Cy Coleman"), whose music greatly delighted him. Once he decided to track down every Coleman score, that led him to Wildcat and Little Me. Through them, he became even more entranced with Coleman’s lyricist on those projects, one [Carolyn Leigh](http://www.last.fm/music/Carolyn%2BLeigh "Carolyn Leigh").
“She’s the best!” West exclaims, with the exuberance of youth. “I made a vow to track down everything she wrote, too, and that led me to How Now, Dow Jones. I loved her lyrics and Elmer Bernstein’s music, too.”
West doesn’t add that he loves Max Shulman’s book for the show. He obviously didn’t, for he soon started making changes. “I got in touch with Samuel French,” he says, “just to see if they could point me in the direction to get the rights so I could really do something with it. They didn’t answer for months, but somehow I never ever thought it wasn’t going to happen. Eventually they contacted me and told me how to reach June Silver, Carolyn Leigh’s surviving sister; Eve Bernstein, Elmer’s widow; and Max Shulman’s agent. They all gave me the go-ahead to do an adaptation.”
West eliminated some songs, added others that had been dropped from the original 1967 production, wisely moved “Step to the Rear†to the rear of the show as an eleven o’clock number – and staged the show as a taut 90-minute presentation. The result was one of the major hits of last year’s FringeNYC — “although,” West concedes, “nobody from any of the estates decided to attend.” Nevertheless, the response was so successful that West says that we just might just see How Now again. “Oh, not at the Shubert,†he admits. “but the Little Shubert isn’t out of the question. That’s what I want for these shows. Maybe a summer run in an off-Broadway house.”
That goes for Platinum, too, which has a less-than-platinum history. It started out as Sunset at the fondly missed Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo in 1977, and then morphed into Platinum at the more fondly missed Hellinger. In 1983, it was revamped and revised without Vilanch and returned to its original name. But Sunset rose and set on Nov. 7 at the Village Gate.
Still, it got a cast album, a copy of which West saw one day in the also fondly missed Tower Records. “After doing extensive research,†he says, “I’ve been able to combine the first Sunset with Platinum and have come up with something that I believe works.â€
What he’s also done is pare down the 13 characters Platinum had to a mere five. Lila and Dan (now surnamed Reilly) are joined by Jeff Leff, the recording studio head with whom Lila has shared a professional relationship and perhaps a romantic past. Also on hand are Crystal Mason who used to be Dan’s back-up singer, but who has now broken out on her own – as Dan is becoming broken-down – and Jamie, who runs the recording sessions but wants so much more from life.
West’s other future projects include Seesaw — “although no one from any of the estates knows I’m working on it,†he says. “It’s just what I do in my spare time” — and [Barefoot Boy with Cheek](http://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Boy-Cheek-Max-Shulman/dp/0404152961%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0404152961 "Barefoot Boy With Cheek"), the 1947 musical that Max Shulman adapted from his own hilarious novel about fraternity life. “It got great reviews in Boston,” reports West, “and while the New York reviews were favorable, they suggested that everybody had seen this life-in-college musical before. Well, I say we now haven’t seen one for a while, so the time is right for it again.”
If West really has his way, we’ll eventually see an unproduced Leigh show, too. “I have June Silver’s permission to do [The Great Gatsby](http://www.amazon.com/Great-Gatsby-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0743273567%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0743273567 "The Great Gatsby") and an okay from the Hugh Wheeler estate, too. What I don’t have is clearance from the [F. Scott Fitzgerald](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald "F. Scott Fitzgerald") estate — but I’m working on that.â€
Don’t be against him. He’s a young man with his feet firmly planted on the stage. When I asked him what he’d go back and see if there were a time machine, he gave me an answer I’ve never heard from the hundreds of people I’ve asked that question. “I wouldn’t want to see any of these shows as they were originally done,†he says, “because then I’d know for sure that I couldn’t begin to top what was originally put on stage.â€
Then he pauses. “Though I guess I would like to see the original Follies.†Pause. “And any Ziegfeld production,†he adds with a little more excitement in his voice. Pause. “Oh, and Little Me – and …â€
You may e-mail Peter at pfilichia@aol.com. Check out his weekly column each Tuesday at www.masterworksbroadway.com.
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### [Reminder: "Platinum" Debuts Aug 17 At The New York International Fringe Festival](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/16/reminder-platinum-debuts-aug-17-at-the-new-york-international-fringe-festival/)
**Published:** August 16, 2010
**Author:** MisterD
**Excerpt:** An electrifying story of ambition and survival, Platinum stars Donna Bullock (Ragtime, City of Angels, A Class Act) as Lila Halliday, a dazzling Hollywood legend trying to make a comeback in the explosive music industry of the 1970s. Determined to reignite her career, she turns to rock star Dan Riley and finds herself falling for him as they both fight to stay in the game.
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[**http://www.PlatinumTheMusical.com**](http://www.PlatinumTheMusical.com)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. presents
a developmental production as part of the 2010
New York International Fringe Festival.
[](https://wegotbruce.com/images/2010/08/main_revised.jpg)An electrifying story of ambition and survival, [Platinum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_%28musical%29 "Platinum (musical)") stars Donna Bullock (Ragtime, City of Angels, A Class Act) as Lila Halliday, a dazzling Hollywood legend trying to make a comeback in the explosive music industry of the 1970s. Determined to reignite her career, she turns to rock star Dan Riley and finds herself falling for him as they both fight to stay in the game.
Written by [Emmy Award](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award "Emmy Award") winner [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313181759 "Bruce Vilanch") (Hairspray, “Hollywood Squares”) and [Tony Award](http://www.tonyawards.com/ "Tony Award") nominees [Will Holt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Holt "Will Holt") and [Gary William Friedman](http://garywilliamfriedman.com "Gary William Friedman") (The Me Nobody Knows), this new version features revisions and direction by Ben West ([How Now, Dow Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Now%2C_Dow_Jones "How Now, Dow Jones")). The musical is choreographed by Rommy Sandhu (How Now, Dow Jones, [Mary Poppins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_%28musical%29 "Mary Poppins (musical)")) with musical arrangements by Mr. Friedman (“The Electric Company”), musical direction by Fran Minarik (Sessions, The J.A.P. Show), costume design by Janine Marie McCabe (Waiting for the Moon) and lighting design by Joe Hodge ([Perfect Crime](http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Crime-Anti-Nowhere-League/dp/B000001LF6%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000001LF6 "Perfect Crime")).
The original [Broadway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre "Broadway theatre") production opened November 12, 1978 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre starring Alexis Smith under the direction of [Joe Layton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Layton "Joe Layton"). The musical played 33 performances and received two Tony nominations for Smith and co-star Richard Cox.
**NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL**
August 17 – 21, 2010 **TO BUY TICKETS**: [**CLICK HERE**](http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=P#Platin)
ONLINE: [**www.FringeNYC.org**](http://www.FringeNYC.org)
PHONE: (866) 468-7619
Tickets: $15 (advance) / $18 (door)
**LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE**
121 Christopher Street
(btw. Bleecker & Hudson)
**PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:**
Tuesday, August 17 @ 5 PM
Wednesday, August 18 @ 7:15 PM
Thursday, August 19 @ 11:30 PM
Friday, August 20 @ 2 PM
Saturday, August 21 @ 9:15 PM
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**Tags:** Arts, Broadway theatre, GARY WILLIAM FRIEDMAN, Joe Layton, Performing arts, Platinum, Theatre, Tony Award
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### [Provincetown: The grand marshals for the annual Carnival parade are Margaret Cho and Bruce Vilanch](https://wegotbruce.com/2010/08/16/provincetown-the-grand-marshals-for-the-annual-carnival-parade-are-margaret-cho-and-bruce-vilanch/)
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Days and nights of jungle fun during Carnival Week in Provincetown
[Margaret Cho](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158632/ "Margaret Cho") joins with [Bruce Vilanch](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897358/ "Bruce Vilanch") to act as grand marshal for Carnival parade on Thursday
By Melora B. North
Provincetown Banner**
PROVINCETOWN —
If you wake up one morning this August and the weather is humid and sticky, and Commercial Street brimming with madness and fun, then you know it’s time for Carnival — oh, yes, it’s time for a parade, dancing, games, music and so much more.
“Jungle Fantasy†is the theme for this year’s Carnival Week, running Aug. 15 through 20. The grand marshals for the annual Carnival parade are Margaret Cho and Bruce [Vilanch](http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1313181759 "Bruce Vilanch"), who will also be performing at the Madeira Room at Vixen throughout the coming week.
Cho’s been in town before with her comedy show, and, in fact, she was even Chief of Parade in Sydney, Australia, when she led the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival down Oxford Street back in 2008. So, it should be a no-brainer for her to team up with Vilanch to head the party on Thursday.
Best known for her explicit comedy routines, she takes on all the hot issues of the day, such as substance and alcohol abuse, from which she herself is recovered; eating disorders, another challenge she has faced; her bisexuality and obsession with gay men; and of course, politics, the ever so popular brain tease of heated debate, which in 2004 got her un-invited to speak at the Human Rights Campaign/National Stonewall Democrats benefit at the Democratic National Convention because the powers that be feared her strong voice would cause some unwanted excitement.
Hailing from San Francisco, Cho has worn many hats over the course of her career, which started when she was in high school and got involved in an improvisational comedy group. That led to her building her own routines, which launched her stand-up career practicing her trade in local clubs as well as performing an opening act for [Jerry Seinfeld](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000632/ "Jerry Seinfeld"). The Seinfeld stint led to a spot on a [Bob Hope](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001362/ "Bob Hope") special. Along the way she got involved in acting and appeared in the “Golden Girls†spin-off called “The Golden Palace,†as well as an ABC [sitcom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_comedy "Situation comedy") based on her comedy routine, “All American Girl,†featuring an East Asian family. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled but the outcome was a positive one, the publication of her first book, “[I’m the One That I Want](http://www.amazon.com/Im-One-That-I-Want/dp/0345440145%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dbootlegbetty-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0345440145 "I'm the One That I Want").â€
She has several stand-up films to her name and had a clothing line which faltered. She has another book on the stands, “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight,†and a reality show, “The Cho Show.†Cho has worked on the Lifetime series “Drop Dead Diva†and even writes songs and performs belly dances. She is married to artist Al Ridenour, with whom she says she shares a “conventional marriage.â€
Cho appears at Vixen doing her stand-up and songs Aug. 15-24 (no show Aug. 19) at 9 p.m. Tickets are $40.
A comedy writer and [actor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor "Actor"), wisecracking Vilanch became a household name when he appeared on the re-born “Hollywood Squares†along with Whoopie Goldberg. He attended [Ohio State University](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.0,-83.0145&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.0,-83.0145 (Ohio%20State%20University)&t=h "Ohio State University") from which he graduated with a BFA in theater. He has appeared on television in “Bosom Buddies†and “[Law & Order](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098844/ "Law & Order")†and was in the film “The Ice Pirates.†Vilanch writes joke material for awards shows and, back in the ‘70s, wrote material for “The Donny and Marie Show.â€
On the big stage he played Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray†in 2005 on [Broadway](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=40.7558333333,-73.9863888889 (Broadway%20theatre)&t=h "Broadway theatre"), and he has been the inspiration for two documentaries. Vilanch is gay and an admitted, eager carnivore. He takes the audience on a humorous gig behind the scenes of show biz at Vixen Aug. 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.
Some other highlights of Carnival include the Jungle Opening Party on Sunday at 9 p.m. at the Boatslip Resort, with guest appearances by Felicity Layne and music provided by DJ Maryalice.
Nature fans can enjoy a whale watch “Saltwater Safari†on Monday when boarding starts at 9:30 a.m. at MacMillan Pier. Also at the pier from 3 to 8 p.m. is the Jungle Jam Pier Dance and Jungle Fantasy costume contest.
Tuesday morning kicks off the “Rumble in the Jungle†volleyball tournament held at Ryder Street Beach. From 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. that afternoon the party continues to rock at The Banana Boat at MacMillan Pier with beats provided by DJ Lee Thornhill.
Festivities on Wednesday include Drag Bingo at 6:30 p.m. at the UU Meeting [House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/ "House (TV series)") and, at 9 p.m., the “Night of Tarzan’s Temptation†at the Shipwreck Lounge.
On Thursday, starting at 3 p.m., parade fever will storm through town in all its jungle glory, and afterwards, at 10:30 p.m., the party will go on at Club Purgatory.
It will all end on Friday night with the Monkey Business Closing Party at 9 p.m. at the Crown & Anchor.
Every day from 12 p.m. on, beads, T-shirts and event tickets are available for sale at Carnival Headquarters at 258 Commercial St.
For more information, tickets and entry fees, call the Provincetown Business Guild at (508) 487-2313, or visit [www.ptown.org](http://www.ptown.org) to find out about other events such as the Jane Loves Jane Dance Party on Wednesday at the Pied Bar, the Drag Brunch on Friday at Patio, the Inn Stroll through town, the Jungle Beat Dance Party at the Atlantic House, and Kate Clinton at the Crown & Anchor, to name just a few more events.
\[Banner correspondent Tsetsi Malinova contributed to this report.\]
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**Categories:** Festival, GLBT
**Tags:** Arts, Bob Hope, Broadway theatre, Bruce Vilanch, House (TV series), Margaret Cho, Ohio State University, San Francisco
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