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Nov 10, 2023 · James L. Brooks looks back on his debut feature as a director, which won him 3 Oscars, reflecting on collaborators Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger and Polly Platt.
In his five-and-a-half-hour interview, James L. Brooks recalls his early days as a page at CBS -- working his way up to the newsroom -- and speaks about his transition from researching documentaries to writing comedy. He tells of writing scripts for Hey Landlord, The Andy Griffith Show, and My Three Sons before co-creating (with Gene Reynolds) Room 222. Brooks describes being teamed with Allan Burns to create and produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show and discusses his work on the program's spin ...
Nov 23, 2023 · As "Terms of Endearment" turns 40, director James L. Brooks recalls directing Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine to Oscars — and previews his next film.
James Lawrence Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series My ...
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and movie director. He is best known for creating American television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show , The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi .
Dec 11, 2023 · James L. Brooks remembers the moment he won his first Oscar. "It was as orgasmic as moments could be," he says now, 40 years after the fact. At the time, he thought to himself, "I won the Oscar. I won an Oscar. I won an Oscar!" And then he won another one! And then another one! "It was nuts.
Since the late 1960s, writer-director-producer James L. Brooks was a powerful comedic force on both the big screen and on television, creating multi-awarding winning fare that also proved to be ...
