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Alaskan King Crab Legs
Stuffed Eggplant Parmesan
Lemon Sole "Cardinale"

Champagne Toast
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events. She was "a doctor's wife and
Judaism. He attended religious
very stage-struck," Vilanch says, fond-
school at the Conservative shul his
ly. By age 7, he, too, was stage-struck,
grandfather helped found in
especially after seeing a Broadway
Paterson, N.J., and was active in
show in which "everything was pink
United Synagogue Youth.
and spangly.
Then came his high school trip to
At school, meanwhile, he played
Israel, where he discovered that he
the class clown, an attempt to com-
could daven in a bus or on a rooftop
pensate for his weight problem,
rather than in a fancy temple. He
Hennie suggests.
returned to Paterson with "disdain"
"I recall being alone a lot when I
for what he regarded as the "theatri-
was a kid because I was fat and
cality" of his suburban shul.
unathletic," Vilanch says. "Because I
Nevertheless, he remained inter-
couldn't run fast, I knew that I could
ested in spirituality and, in the
diffuse potential violence with a joke
1980s, was drawn to what he joking-
or the ever-popular fart noise."
ly calls the "booga-booga" aspects of
By high school, however, the class
Judaism. He began studying Kabbala
clown had become popular and the
with Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz and
star of all the school plays. In the
attended the Torah study class that
1960s, he went
off to Ohio
State, where he
wrote about films
for the school
newspaper.
It was while
writing a movie
column for the
Chicago Tribune
in 1970 that
Vilanch first met
Bette Midler, the
subject of one of
his pieces. He
told her that she
was funny and
Vilanch with Whoopi Goldberg on the set of "Hollywood
that she should
Squares,"
where he is a regular square as well as head writer.
joke more
onstage; she
asked him if he had any lines.
Streisand had created to prepare for
A Hollywood comedy writer was
Yentl.
born, but the beginnings weren't illus-
"When she left to make the movie,
trious.
the class kind of fell apart," Vilanch
Vilanch eventually moved to
says. One week, there were 100 peo-
Hollywood with the idea that he was
ple; the next, there were three of us
"going to conquer the world of TV";
saying, 'Where did everybody go?'"
instead, he got a job writing a Brady
Vilanch, who is gay, has participat-
Bunch variety show.
ed in benefits for Jewish groups such
Yet, over the years, he slowly built
as Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services
up a celebrity clientele that has
and the CHAT Center. But celebrities
included Barbra Streisand, Lily
know they can't "get Bruce" on Yom
Tomlin, George Carlin, Rosie
Kippur.
O'Donnell and Cher. Along the way,
"I don't belong to a synagogue," he
he wrote tributes for everyone from
says of his Jewish observance the rest
Liz Taylor to President Clinton.
of the year. "But I do sit in a room
Writing comedy for celebrities,
with other Jews and write jokes. It's
Vilanch says, is a bit like tailoring:
kind of the same thing." ❑
Everybody has different measure-
ments, so you manufacture a costume
Get Bruce! will be screened 9:30
that looks good on the individual. For
p.m.
Tuesday and 7 p.m.
material, Vilanch subscribes to 64
Wednesday,
Dec. 14-15, at the
newspapers and magazines. He is
Michigan
Theater,
603 E.
good at what he does because he is a
Liberty,
in
Ann
Arbor.
$7
tummler," he says.
adults/
$5.50
students
and
All his life, whether he has been a
seniors. (734) 668-8463.
class clown or a comedy writer,
Vilanch has been involved in
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