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AN OSCAR FAN’S THANK YOU SPEECH

By | March 2004

I would like to thank the Academy for keeping this one under four hours. I would like to thank them for limiting Robin Williams’ shtick to two mercifully brief minutes, and for allowing Will Ferrell and Jack Black to sing the funniest introduction to an award all night…

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