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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  ABC EXECS FORCE ROBIN WILLAMS TO CUT OSCAR SKIT Sat Feb 26 2005 20:52:18 ET A growing chill is in the air over Hollywood Saturday night after ABC executives forced Robin Williams to drop a comic song from the Oscars show. Williams, the presenter of the Academy Award for best animated feature, decided last week that his one minute on stage would be a prime time to lampoon a conservative critic James C. Dobson, whose group Focus on the Family last month criticized the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants for appearing in a video about tolerance that the group called "pro-homosexual." NEW YORK TIMES reporters Dave Halbfinger and Sharon Waxman are developing a story for late Sunday editions detailing, newsrooms sources tell DRUDGE. Williams had hoped to joke using lisping character: "Pinocchio's had his nose done! Sleeping Beauty is popping pills! "The Three Little Pigs ain't kosher! Betty Boop works Beverly Hills!" "Fred Flintstone is dyslexic, Jessica Rabbit is really a man, Olive Oyl is really anorexic, and Casper is in the Ku Klux Klan!" Officials from ABC's broadcast standards and practices office were not pleased. Williams explains: "For a while you get mad, then you get over it. They're afraid of saying Olive Oyl is anorexic. It tells you about the state of humor." Developing... Developing late... |
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