Steve Carell was my estranged father and that he’d just won an Oscar for playing Michael Scott in the Office. I was at there to congratulate him, so I followed him when he got backstage in my PJs and was like hey dad, congrats. He’s like thanks kiddo, let’s have dinner some day but he was super dismissive so I got angry and now I’m looking for revenge. In this realm, Steve is the founder of Tesla so to get my revenge, I go around town absolutely trashing all the Teslas I see. I never hear from him again.
I won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing the movie Pleasantville. I wore a salmon pink suit to the ceremony and looked super cool. They took me backstage to get my name engraved on my Oscar.
After I left the Dolby Theatre, I realized that I wasn’t holding the statue with my name on it. Instead I was holding the Oscar for Best Original Song for “Naatu Naatu” from RRR. I had been sitting next to MM Keeravani and brought home the wrong statue by mistake.
One of the best-loved Christmas songs was written by a Jew, Irving Berlin. He wrote it for the now-classic 1942 film Holiday Inn—but it was not intended to be the movie's big hit. That honor was to go to "Be Careful, It's My Heart," another Berlin tune. But "White Christmas," introduced by Bing Crosby, was the public's choice. It also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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