Featuring Famous People: Bruce Vilanch
Fixing Famous People with Chris DeRosa & Dominick Pupa
Chris DeRosa & Dominick Pupa
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In our first of many spcial Featuring Famous People episodes, Dominick and Chris talk with LIVING LEGEND Bruce Vilanch about The Star Wars Holiday Special, writing for The Oscars, what producing TV was like back in the day, and how Dominick and Chris were probably both turned gay by different versions of Hollywood Squares.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, listeners, have you ever wondered what you're missing on the Patreon? Let us ask you these |
| 0:05.5 | questions. Do you like the prefix? There's an extended version of it every week on the Patreon |
| 0:10.4 | called the Alicart. Do you miss your favorite dead celebrities? We have a medium who comes on |
| 0:15.9 | to talk to them on the Patreon. Are you an astrology buff? We have an astrologer who comes to the Patreon to read The Celebrity Stars. |
| 0:23.4 | Do you want to hear what we edit out of the podcast? |
| 0:25.8 | Then you can listen to our cutting room floor episodes on the Patreon. |
| 0:29.8 | Do you ever wish we could fix you? |
| 0:32.1 | Then listen to our all-tier advice episodes right now on the Patreon. |
| 0:35.9 | And if you ever want to Kiki with other listeners of |
| 0:38.5 | this pod, come to one of our hilarious live Zoom spectaculars. Still not convinced? No problem. |
| 0:47.0 | Head on over to patreon.com slash fixing famous people to listen to an example episode of each of these, |
| 0:53.6 | absolutely free. See you on Patreon. |
| 0:57.7 | Where Shelley? |
| 1:00.9 | This is Fixing Famous People, the podcast where two reality television producers pitch solutions |
| 1:07.7 | to save celebrities in dire straits. |
| 1:15.8 | But first, let's get to the prefix, your weekly pop culture roundup. |
| 1:22.5 | Christopher, when we have guests on this podcast every week, we humor the listenership by saying this is a legend. This is an icon just to blow smoke up their ass. I mean, we love everyone |
| 1:26.8 | who comes here, but they're legends only to us. |
| 1:29.7 | This is our first bona fide actual legend. |
| 1:35.2 | He was the writer and headwriter of the Academy Awards for 25 years. |
| 1:40.1 | Maybe you've heard of them. |
| 1:41.4 | Maybe you've heard of the Academy Awards. |
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