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 The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

[Warren Beatty and a pregnant Annette Bening are in the audience]
Billy Crystal: As host, I have a lot of duties to do tonight. If Warren happens to be on stage, if Annette goes into labor, I have to be her Lamaze coach. But she's a pro and I know she'll do it in one take. And if Roberto Benigni gets out of hand, I've got the stun gun.
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Billy Crystal: Welcome to Oscar 2000, or as ABC calls it, Regis's night off.
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Billy Crystal: Who's in charge of security? Probably the same guys who protected Sonny Corleone at the tollbooth.
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[presenting Best Original Screenplay]
Mel Gibson: Consider the writer. Locked away in a lonely room, waiting for Lady Muse to alight gracefully and turn the stark blank empty void of a page into the stuff of masterpiece... geez, who writes this stuff?
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Cher: OK, you've probably noticed I am dressed like a grown-up. I'd like to apologize to the Academy, and I promise I will never do it again.
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