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Bruce Gerald Vilanch born November 23, is an American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor. Vilanch is best known to the public for his four-year stint on Hollywood Squares , as a celebrity participant; behind the scenes he was head writer for the show. From to , Vilanch was the head writer for the Oscars , [ 2 ] after being an Oscar program co-writer for the previous ten years.

When he was four days old, [ 5 ] he was adopted by Jonas Vilanch, an optometrist, and his wife Henne, a housewife. While there, he appeared in student theater productions and wrote reviews, hoping it would be the beginning of a career as a playwright. Vilanch is Jewish and attended Hebrew school , was a member of United Synagogue Youth , and had a bar mitzvah ceremony.

Vilanch's career in the entertainment industry began with writing features for the Chicago Tribune. It was how he met then-struggling nightclub singer Bette Midler.

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Becoming friends, Vilanch later wrote comedy material for Midler's Broadway show Clams on the Half Shell and co-wrote Divine Madness for her in When asking him to write material for one of her concert tours, Barbra Streisand offered what Vilanch felt was a "ridiculously low" wage. Vilanch declined her offer. Vilanch co-wrote the book for the musical Platinum , which briefly played on Broadway in The show opened at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, receiving positive reviews.

Vilanch had a longstanding friendship with Henderson, writing for her one-woman show as well as several of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour episodes in the early s. Vilanch wrote for the Academy Awards from to , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] providing topical joke material for the show's hosts. He became head writer in , serving until