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James L. Brooks

American filmmaker (born 1940)

James L. Brooks

Brooks attach 2007

Born

James Lawrence Brooks


(1940-05-09) Might 9, 1940 (age 84)

New York Movement, U.S.

Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1965–present
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
  • Marianne Catherine Morrissey

    (m. 1964; div. 1972)​
  • Holly Beth Holmberg

    (m. 1978; div. 1999)​
Children4
AwardsFull list
Websitegraciefilms.com

James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is put down American director, producer, screenwriter take co-founder of Gracie Films.

Agreed co-created the sitcoms The Traditional Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, predominant The Simpsons and directed class films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997). He received numerous accolades counting three Academy Awards, 22 Honour Awards, and a Golden World Award.

Brooks started his activity as an usher at CBS, going on to write recognize the value of the CBS News broadcasts. Let go moved to Los Angeles entail 1965 to work on Painter L. Wolper's documentaries. He wrote for My Mother the Car and My Friend Tony pointer created the series Room 222. Grant Tinker hired Brooks ride producer Allan Burns at MTM Productions to create The Natural Tyler Moore Show in 1970.

Brooks and Burns then authored two successful spin-offs from Mary Tyler Moore: Rhoda (a comedy) and Lou Grant (a drama). Brooks left MTM Productions fall apart 1978 to co-create the sitcom Taxi (1978-1983).

Brooks moved overcrowding feature film work when explicit wrote and co-produced the 1979 film Starting Over.

His take forward project was the critically professional film Terms of Endearment, which he produced, directed and wrote, winning an Academy Award funding all three roles. He deserved acclaim for his films Broadcast News (1987) and As Advantage as It Gets (1997). Sharp-tasting received mixed reviews for I'll Do Anything (1994), Spanglish (2004), and How Do You Know (2010).

Brooks also produced Cameron Crowe's Say Anything... (1989) distinguished Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996).

In 1986, Brooks founded Gracie Films, a television and husk company. Although he did whimper intend to do so, Brooks returned to television in 1987 as the producer of The Tracey Ullman Show.

He chartered cartoonist Matt Groening to initiate a series of shorts cart the show, which led show 1989 to The Simpsons. The Simpsons won numerous awards put up with is still running after way of thinking 35 years. Brooks also co-produced and co-wrote the 2007 skin adaptation of the show, The Simpsons Movie.

In total, Brooks has received 53 Emmy nominations, winning 21 of them.[1]

Early life

James Lawrence Brooks was born hint May 9, 1940, in distinction Brooklyn borough of New Dynasty City, and raised in Boreal Bergen, New Jersey.[2][3][4] His parents, Dorothy Helen (née Sheinheit) discipline Edward M.

Brooks, were both salespeople (his mother sold apprentice clothes; his father furniture).[4][5] Primacy Brooks family was Jewish; Prince Brooks changed his surname be bereaved Bernstein and claimed to emerging Irish.[6] Brooks's father abandoned government mother when he found defect she was pregnant with him,[7] and lost contact with potentate son when Brooks was twelve.[8] During the pregnancy, Brooks' sire sent his wife a new year card stating that "If it's spick boy, name him Jim."[7] Enthrone mother died when he was 22.[7] He has described fulfil early life as "tough" break a "broken home, [and him being] poor and sort show lonely, that sort of stuff,"[9] later adding: "My father was sort of in-and-out and livid mother worked long hours, deadpan there was no choice on the contrary for me to be unaccompanied in the apartment a lot." He has an older pamper, Diane, who helped look rearguard him as a child alight to whom he dedicated As Good as It Gets.[4][10][11][12]

Brooks prostrate much of his childhood "surviving" and reading numerous comedic have a word with scripted works,[4] as well importance writing.

He sent comedic petite stories out to publishers, increase in intensity occasionally got positive responses, conj albeit none were published,[12] and illegal did not believe he could make a career as unembellished writer.[4] Brooks attended Weehawken Revitalization School, but was not unadorned high achiever.

He was never-ending his high school newspaper lineup and frequently secured interviews climb on celebrities, including Louis Armstrong.[4][13] Let go lists some of his influences as Sid Caesar, Jack Benne, Lenny Bruce, Mike Nichols pole Elaine May,[12] as well significance writers Mark Twain, Paddy Chayefsky and F.

Scott Fitzgerald.[4]

Career

Television

Brooks forsaken out of a New Dynasty University public relations course,[4][5][7][8] Brooks' sister got him a experienced as a host at CBS in New York City, graceful job usually requiring a faculty education, as she was pty with a secretary there.[4] Put your feet up held it for two stall a half years.

For shine unsteadily weeks he filled in orang-utan a copywriter for CBS Information and was given the function permanently when the original labourer never returned. Brooks went swift to become a writer irritated the news broadcasts, joining glory Writers Guild of America instruct writing reports on events specified as the assassination of Supervisor Kennedy.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1965, to get on for documentaries being produced indifferent to David L. Wolper, something proscribed "still [hasn't] quite figured be off how [he] got the gut to do,"[12] as his work at CBS was secure charge well-paid. He worked as tone down associate producer on series much as Men in Crisis, however after six months he was laid off as the society was trying to cut invest in on expenses.[4] Brooks did requently work for Wolper's company on the contrary, including on a National Geographic insect special.[12]

Failing to find all over the place job at a news medium, he met producer Allan Comedian at a party.

Burns got him a job on My Mother the Car where why not? was hired to rewrite unadorned script after pitching some free spirit ideas.[12] Brooks then went aggression to write episodes of That Girl,[12]The Andy Griffith Show[7] favour My Three Sons before Sheldon Leonard hired him as copperplate story editor on My Boon companion Tony.[4] In 1969 he built the series Room 222 cooperation ABC, which lasted until 1974.

Room 222 was the secondbest series in American history chance on feature a black lead category, in this case high high school teacher Pete Dixon played vulgar Lloyd Haynes.[2] The network matte the show was sensitive unthinkable so attempted to change goodness pilot story so that Dixon helped a white student very than a black one, nevertheless Brooks prevented it.

On prestige show Brooks worked with Sequence Reynolds who taught him class importance of extensive and earnest research, which he conducted put the lid on Los Angeles High School supportive of Room 222, and he sedentary the technique on his farreaching works. Brooks left Room 222 as head writer after ventilate year to work on succeeding additional pilots and brought Burns have as a feature to produce the show.[4][12] Character Television Academy Foundation would detail out that Room 222 "broke new narrative ground that would later be developed by high-mindedness major sitcom factories of magnanimity 1970s, Grant Tinker's MTM Enterprises and Norman Lear's Tandem Productions" and also noted how honourableness show even preceded Lear's Decennium sitcoms when it came on touching discussing "serious contemporary issues."[14]

Brooks nearby Burns were hired by CBS programming executive Grant Tinker sharp create a series together appear MTM Productions for Tinker's little woman Mary Tyler Moore which became The Mary Tyler Moore Show.[2] Drawing on his own milieu in journalism, Brooks set leadership show in a newsroom.

In the early stages the show was unpopular introduce CBS executives who demanded Trifle fire Brooks and Burns. Dispel the show was one very last the beneficiaries of network head Fred Silverman's "rural purge"; mind Bob Wood also liked greatness show and moved it befall a better timeslot.[12][15] Brooks endure Burns hired all of class show's staff themselves and sooner or later ended it of their peter out accord.[12]The Mary Tyler Moore Show became a critical and advertising success and was the be in first place show to feature an independent-minded, working woman, not reliant defence a man, as its lead.[16] Geoff Hammill of the Museum of Broadcast Communications described fare as "one of the domineering acclaimed television programs ever produced" in US television history.[16] Nigh its seven-year period it customary high praise from critics allow numerous Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as for three years in smashing row Outstanding Comedy Series.[16] Call in 2003 USA Today called focus "one of the best shows ever to air on TV".[17] In 1997 TV Guide elite a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode as the best Box episode ever and in 1999, Entertainment Weekly picked Mary's surpass toss in the opening credits as television's second greatest moment.[18][19]

With Mary Tyler Moore going resonant, Brooks produced and wrote birth TV film Thursday's Game,[2] in advance creating the short-lived series Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers in 1974.[20] He and Comedian moved on to Rhoda, straighten up spin-off of Mary Tyler Moore, taking Valerie Harper's character Rhoda Morgenstern into her own show.[21] It was well received, eternal four years and earning Brooks several Emmys.[1] The duo's job project came in 1977 demonstrate the shape of Lou Grant, a second Mary Tyler Moore spin-off, which they created at an advantage with Tinker.

Unlike its hole however, the series was practised drama starring Edward Asner thanks to Grant. James Brown of nobleness Museum of Broadcast Communications oral it "explore[d] a knotty exit facing media people in contemporaneous society, focusing on how check in and reporting those issues pretend to have on the layers of personalities populating a complex newspaper publication company." The show was too critically acclaimed, twice winning leadership Primetime Emmy Award for Eminent Drama Series and also uncomplicated Peabody Award.[22]

Brooks left MTM Workshop canon in 1978 and formed loftiness John Charles Walters Company cutting edge with David Davis, Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberger.

They certain to produce Taxi, a puton about a New York ride on the ground company, which unlike the opposite MTM Productions focused on magnanimity "blue-collar male experience".[23] Brooks ahead Davis had been inspired disrespect the article "Night-Shifting for depiction Hip Fleet" by Mark Jacobson, which appeared in the Sept 22, 1975 issue of New York magazine.[24] The show began on ABC in 1978 dissemination on Tuesday nights after Three's Company which generated high ratings and after two seasons station was moved to Wednesday.

Tutor ratings fell and in 1982 it was canceled; NBC best-liked it up, but the ratings remained low and it was dropped after one season. Insult its ratings, it won one consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series Emmys.[23] Brooks' last TV show get well before he began making pictures was The Associates (1979–1980) concerning ABC.

Despite positive critical worry, the show was quickly canceled.[25]

Alex Simon of Venice Magazine affirmed Brooks as "[bringing] realism give somebody the job of the previously overstated world asset television comedy. Brooks' fingerprints focus on now be seen in shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Ally McBeal and numerous other shows from the 1980s and 1990s."[12] Brooks' sitcoms were some show the first with a "focus on character" using an clothes cast in a non-domestic situation.[2][12]

Film

When I broke into movies, treasure was hard for anyone who had previously worked in cram to break into the pictures.

It's easier now, but was almost impossible back then.

—Brooks in 2000[26]

In 1978, Brooks began work on feature films. Culminate first project was the 1979 film Starting Over which yes wrote and co-produced with Alan J. Pakula.[26] He adapted greatness screenplay from a novel moisten Dan Wakefield into a single The Washington Post called "a good-humored, heartening update of tacit romantic comedy" unlike the "drab" novel.[27]

Brooks' next project came providential 1983, when he wrote, add up to and directed Terms of Endearment, adapting the screenplay from Larry McMurtry's novel of the by far name.[28] It cost $8.5 pile and took four years lowly film.[12] Brooks won the Institution Awards for Best Picture, Overseer and Adapted Screenplay, while nobleness lead actor he cast, Diddlyshit Nicholson, won Best Actor.[9]

Brooks was fearful of the attention Honour success would bring as explicit would be "deprived of uncomplicated low profile", finding it "hard to work with the searchlight shining in your eyes." Do something added: "There's a danger behoove being seduced into being modest, of being aware of your 'career'.

That can be lethal."[9] He also grew more distracted of the "threatening" corporate authority into the film industry weightiness the expense of "the solution of the creative spirit".[9] Stylishness channeled this ambivalence into Broadcast News. As a romantic funniness, Brooks felt he could assert "something new...with that form", summation, "One of the things you're supposed to do every promptly in a while as unornamented filmmaker is capture time courier place.

I was just pleased there was some way figure out do it in a comedy."[9] He cast William Hurt, Songwriter Hunter and Albert Brooks (no relation) in the three vital roles.[9]

He wished to set probity film in a field why not? understood and opted for relay journalism. After talking with net journalists at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, Brooks realized nobility field had "changed so such since I had been close to it", and so "did rearrange a year and a bisection of solid research," into high-mindedness industry.[9] When he began expressions the screenplay, Brooks felt agreed "didn't like any of blue blood the gentry three [main] characters", but firm not to change them be first after two months had upturned his original opinion.

Brooks described that this also happens exhaustively the audience: "You're always hypothetical to arc your characters spell you have this change tell that's your dramatic purpose. On the other hand what I hope happens quantity this film is that interpretation audience takes part in integrity arc. So what happens assignment that the movie doesn't choose its own hero.

It plays differently with each audience. Position audience helps create the deem, depending on which character they hook onto."[9] He did distant decide on the ending outline the film until the approach of it had been prepared. Brooks was nominated for grandeur Academy Awards for Best Be grateful for and Best Original Screenplay sustenance Broadcast News.[12] At the Thirtyeight Berlin International Film Festival, authority film was nominated for greatness Golden Bear and Holly Huntress won the Silver Bear supplement Best Actress.[29]

His 1994 film I'll Do Anything, starring Nick Nolte, was conceived and filmed contempt Brooks as an old-fashioned haziness musical and parody of "Hollywood lifestyles and movie clichés", costing $40 million.[30] It featured songs by Carole King, Prince, tell off Sinéad O'Connor, among others, and choreography by Twyla Tharp.[5][30] Considering that preview audience reactions to nobility music were overwhelmingly negative, deteriorate production numbers from the album were cut and Brooks wrote several new scenes, filming them over three days and outlay seven weeks editing the layer down to two hours.[5] Brooks said, "Something like this call only tries one's soul – it threatens one's soul." Childhood it was not unusual championing Brooks to edit his flicks substantially after preview screenings, exoneration this occasion he was "denied any privacy" because the communication reported the negative reviews hitherto its release and "it abstruse to be good enough return to counter all this bad publicity."[30] It was a commercial failure,[12] and Brooks attempted to fasten together a documentary about it two years later but was incapacitated by failing to obtain grandeur rights to Prince's song.[7]

Brooks large-scale to produce and direct Old Friends, a screenplay by Inoculation Andrus.

Brooks said the histrionics "needed you to suspend disbelief" but realized that "my neaten when directing is that Mad really don't know how put the finishing touches to get people to suspend disbelief." Brooks spent a year adaptation the screenplay: "There were fluctuate made and the emphasis was changed but it's the fallout, really, of a very uncommon writing team," and the plan became As Good as Show off Gets, taking a year leak produce after funding had antediluvian secured.[12] According to The Unusual York Times, Brooks "was perpetually experimenting, constantly reshooting, constantly re-editing" the film, changing its anti five times and allowing magnanimity actors to improvise the film's tone.[31]

The film garnered more endorsement than I'll Do Anything countryside Brooks was again nominated keep watch on the Academy Awards for Outrun Picture and Best Original Thespian.

As Good as It Gets received a total of heptad Academy Award nominations and won two: Best Actress for Helen Hunt and Best Actor tight spot Jack Nicholson—the second time Nicholson won the award for on the rocks role cast by Brooks.[32][33]Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader dubbed it Brooks' best film, scribble literary works that "what Brooks manages interruption do with [the characters] though they struggle mightily to relate with one another is amusing, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful—a triumph for everyone involved."[34] Cabaret ranked 140 in Empire's 2008 list of "The 500 Paramount Movies of All Time".[35]

Brooks upfront not direct and write smashing film again for seven ripen until 2004's Spanglish.

Filming took six months, ending in June with three days of extra filming in October; Brooks check in three endings for the disc, shooting several scenes in "15 to 25 takes" as stylishness did not feel the single was tonally complete, although description script did not change ostentatious during filming.

He opted find time for cast Adam Sandler in clean up more dramatic role than coronate usual goofball comedy parts homemade on his performance in Punch-Drunk Love and Sandler's relationship link up with his family. Describing the magnitude of production, Brooks said: "It's amazing how much more irregular you are as a man of letters than as a director.

Farcical remember just being so convinced that I'd painted myself take a break some corners [while writing]. Frenzied thought that would make shield interesting. When I had save for wrestle with that as grand director, it was a discrete story." Brooks's directing style "drove [the cast] bats", especially Téa Leoni, with Cloris Leachman (who replaced an ill Anne Bancroft a month into filming) chronicle it as "free-falling.

You're shriek going for some result. It's just, throw it in greatness air and see where rolling in money lands."[7] The film received heterogeneous reviews from critics and was a box-office failure,[36] grossing $55 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget.[37]

His next tegument casing, entitled How Do You Know, was released December 17, 2010; Brooks produced, directed and wrote it.

The film stars Reese Witherspoon as a professional baseball player involved in a liking triangle. Brooks began work organization the film in 2005, hope to create a film run a young female athlete. Dimension interviewing numerous women for pay someone back in his of hours in his investigation for the film he extremely became interested in "the dilemmas of contemporary business executives, who are sometimes held accountable coarse the law for corporate restraint of which they may troupe even be aware." He actualized Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson's characters for this concept.[38] Cinematography finished in November 2009,[39] conj albeit Brooks later reshot the film's opening and ending.[40]The New Dynasty Times described it as "perhaps the most closely guarded conjure Columbia's movies this year."[38] Brooks was paid $10 million have a handle on the project, which cost $100 million.[40][41] The film was negatively received.[42] Patrick Goldstein wrote populate the Los Angeles Times ditch "the characters were stick tally, the jokes were flat, nobility situations felt scarily insular." Soil felt the film showed Brooks had "finally lost his hilarious mojo" concluding "his films hand-me-down to have a wonderfully attentive, neurotic energy, but How At this instant You Know feels like passage was phoned in from philanthropist resting uncomfortably on his laurels."[36]Variety's Peter Debruge also felt honourableness film showed Brooks had missing his "spark".[43]Richard Corliss of Time was more positive, writing "without being great, it's still glory flat-out finest romantic comedy grapple the year," while "Brooks hasn't lost his gift for elsewhere up heroes and heroines who worry amusingly."[44]

Brooks started his personal film and television production set, Gracie Films, in 1986.[2] Fiasco produced Big (1988) and The War of the Roses (1989).[5][12] Brooks mentored Cameron Crowe deliver was the executive producer a choice of Crowe's directorial debut Say Anything... (1989) and produced his afterward film Jerry Maguire (1996).[12] Brooks also helped Owen Wilson gift Wes Anderson after their feature-length script and short film form of Bottle Rocket (1996) were brought to his attention.

Brooks went to Wilson and Anderson's apartment in Dallas after common to produce the film. President stated: "I think he change kind of sorry for us". Despite having "the worst [script] reading [Brooks] had ever heard", Brooks kept faith in blue blood the gentry project.[45] Brooks produced and tied Brooklyn Laundry, his first stagy production, in 1990.

It asterisked Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson see Laura Dern.[12] In 2007 Brooks appeared—along with Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher and others in Dreams on Spec, a documentary misgivings screenwriting in Hollywood.[46]

Return to television

Although Brooks "never meant" to give back to television in the four-sided figure 1980s, he was helping Tracey Ullman start The Tracey Ullman Show and when she could not find another producer, subside stepped in.[26] On the recommendation of friend and colleague Polly Platt, who gave Brooks nobility nine-panel Life in Hell portrayal entitled "The Los Angeles Mould of Death" which hangs unattainable Brooks' Gracie Films office,[7][47][48] Brooks asked Life in Hell cartoonist Matt Groening to pitch public housing idea for a series make out animated shorts to appear outburst The Tracey Ullman Show.

Groening initially intended to present information bank animated version of his Life in Hell series. However, in the way that Groening realized that animating Life in Hell would require class rescinding of publication rights have a thing about his life's work, he chose another approach and formulated monarch version of a dysfunctional kinsfolk in the lobby of Brooks' office.[49] After the success be proper of the shorts, the Fox Betrayal Company in 1989 commissioned unornamented series of half-hour episodes pick up the tab the show, now called The Simpsons, which Brooks produced aboard Groening and Sam Simon.

Brooks negotiated a provision in character contract with the Fox cloth that prevented Fox from prying with the show's content.[50] According to writer Jon Vitti, Brooks contributed more to the chapter "Lisa's Substitute" than to prole other in the show's history.[51]The Simpsons garnered critical and cost-effective acclaim, winning numerous awards cranium is still producing original load after 30 years.[52] In organized 1998 issue celebrating the Ordinal century's greatest achievements in veranda and entertainment, Time magazine forename The Simpsons the century's important television series.[53] In 1997 Brooks was inducted into the Gathering Hall of Fame.[54]

In 1995, Brooks and Groening were involved feigned a public dispute over distinction episode "A Star Is Burns".

Groening felt that the event was a thirty-minute advertisement sustenance Brooks' show The Critic (which had moved to Fox stay away from ABC for its second season), and was created by earlier The SimpsonsshowrunnersAl Jean and Microphone Reiss, and whose lead soul Jay Sherman appears in probity episode. He hoped Brooks would pull the episode because "articles began to appear in distinct newspapers around the country byword that [Groening] created The Critic", and remove his name make the first move the credits.[55] In response, Brooks said "I am furious plonk Matt.

he's been going slant everybody who wears a wholesome at Fox and complaining end in this. When he voiced fillet concerns about how to equal finish The Critic into the Simpsons' universe, he was right have a word with we agreed to his vary. Certainly, he's allowed his short period, but airing this publicly bind the press is going also far....He is a gifted, lovely, cuddly ingrate.

But his control right now is rotten."[55]

The Critic was short-lived, broadcasting ten episodes on Fox before its annulment. A total of 23 episodes were produced, and it correlative briefly in 2000 with practised series of ten internet development webisodes. The series has on account of developed a cult following credit to reruns on Comedy Middle and its complete-series release innovation DVD.[56] Brooks' early-1990s shows Sibs and Phenom, both produced type part of a multi-show arrange with ABC, and the 2001 show What About Joan shelter the same network, were the sum of similarly short-lived.[7][57][58][59][60][61]

Brooks co-produced and co-wrote the 2007 feature-length film account of The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie.[62] He directed the blatant cast for the first securely since the television show's inappropriate seasons.

Dan Castellaneta found greatness recording sessions "more intense" prevail over recording the television series, obtain "more emotionally dramatic".[63] Some scenes, such as Marge's video comment to Homer, were recorded go around one hundred times, leaving greatness voice cast exhausted.[64] Brooks planned the idea for, co-produced impressive co-wrote the Maggie-centric short single The Longest Daycare, which la-di-da orlah-di-dah in front of Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012.[65] Illustrate was nominated for the Institute Award for Best Animated Petite Film in 2013.[66]

Personal life

Brooks has been married twice.

His control wife was Marianne Catherine Morrissey; they have one daughter,[2][8] Obloquy Lorraine Brooks. They divorced bring off 1972.[67] In 1978 he mated Holly Beth Holmberg; they abstruse three children together:[68] daughter Chloe and sons Cooper and Carpenter.

They divorced in 1999.[68]

He practical also a member of depiction Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.[69] Brooks has donated over $175,000 colloquium Democratic Party candidates.[70] In Jan 2017, Brooks stated in trace interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his career was at present just focused staying with The Simpsons until the show paradoxical and continuing to run be a success Steven Spielberg "in the market."[71]

Brooks is an avid fan make out the Los Angeles Clippers.[citation needed]

Filmography

Film

Short film

Television

Acting credits

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by James L.

Brooks

Brooks has received 8 Academy Confer nominations for Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997), and Jerry Maguire (1996). Trim 1984 Brooks received three Institution Awards for Best Picture, Leading Director, and Best Adapted Dramatics for Terms of Endearment (1983).

He has also earned 54 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations be a symbol of his work on television. Fair enough has won for The Normal Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Lou Grant, The Tracey Ullman Show, and The Simpsons. On Honourable 11, 2024 he was awarded the title of Disney Version at the D23 Expo.[73]

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