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James L. Brooks
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American director, writer, and producer (born 1940)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- I'll do anything (1994)
- Broadcast news
- Broadcast news
- Jerry Maguire
- Spanglish (2004)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 573
- Total plays
- 1,531
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,107x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,300x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,718x
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Quotes
- “There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set—quite appropriately—and said, “I’m sorry, Jim. When you’re directing, you don’t need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do.” And, you know, and I WOULD be there—behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn’t even aware of.”
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Key facts
- Born
- James Lawrence Brooks , ( 1940-05-09 ) May 9, 1940 (age 86) , New York City , U.S.
- Occupations
- Director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1965–present
- Spouses
- Marianne Catherine Morrissey ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) Holly Beth Holmberg ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1999 ) Jennifer Simchowitz, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2024 )
- Awards
- Full list
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter, and the founder of Gracie Films. He co-created the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons and directed the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997). He received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, 22 Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Brooks started his career 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. He wrote for My Mother the Car and My Friend Tony and created the series Room 222. Grant Tinker hired Brooks and producer Allan Burns at MTM Productions to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin-offs from Mary Tyler Moore: Rhoda (a comedy) and Lou Grant (a drama). Brooks left MTM Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom Taxi (1978–1983).
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