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So you have to figure out a way to entertain the audience while the sound effects editor is thanking his Hebrew school teacher.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Social media is routinely incorporated now in awards shows -- 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.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"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.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"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 in 'Tiffany's,'\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e              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.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"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. \u003cbr/\u003e              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.\u003cbr/\u003e              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.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"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.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              It also became an Oscar template.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"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.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              1. FILE -- Various of Oscars statues\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, 6 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Vilanch, former Oscars show writer: \"One of the interesting things about the Oscars show is that the writing doesn't change fundamentally. Because it's the 90th year and the Academy has kept its basic structure going 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.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              3. FILE -- Various of Oscars green room \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, 6 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Vilanch, former Oscars show writer: \"The thing about the Oscars is it's the biggest one. It's the one that they all point towards. And that's the inherent glamour of it. And the tradition – that they own the 90 years.I would love to see them do more to own the past and the history of the movies. You try to nod to it every year. But 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. And now it's scary, because you can be referring to people who were common parlance, and there will be a component of the audience saying, 'Audrey Hepburn? Was she the one in the boat with Spencer Tracy -- with the guy. Oh, she was 'Tiffany's.' Oh that's her. And you know, it sounds bizarre but it's real.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              5. FILE - Still images: Oprah Winfrey with David Letterman\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, 6 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Vilanch, former Oscars show writer: \"If you get too inside or too snarky, then you'll run into trouble. Especially – things like mildly insulting people. It's a rough room. I mean, when Lettermen came out and did his Uma – Oprah routine, neither of those women were there that night to have their names made fun of. I mean, they've come a little further than that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              7. FILE - Still images: Various of Billy Crystal, Jack Palance \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Los Angeles, 6 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Vilanch, former Oscars show writer: \"I don't have a favorite. There are some that live in legend. I guess my favorite would be the year that Billy Crystal hosted and Jack Palance came out and did his one arm push-ups. And we tossed out the jokes that Billy was going to do and we wrote stuff as the evening went on about that – we kept referring to it. 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.' We won an Emmy for writing that show a year later. The other academy gave us an award for it. So that would probably be my favorite. Of course, it was the most exciting night because you really got to dive in. It also became a template for every other host. From then on, every host was watching the show in the wings, and as things were happening we were writing new jokes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              9. 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