Albert Brooks

At 77 years old, Albert Brooks has this physical status:

Career

Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but he left after one year to concentrate on his comedy career. Albert Brooks, his professional name, had changed to Albert Brooks, joking that "the authentic Albert Einstein changed his name to make him seem more mature." During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became a regular on variety and talk shows. On NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Brooks appeared in a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics. Steve Martin, Martin Mull, and Andy Kaufman's on-stage persona, that of an egotistic, narcissistic, nervous comedian, an ironic showbiz insider who insulted himself in front of an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, inspired other '70s comedic comedians.

Brooks left comedy comedy after two hit records, Comedy Minus One (1973), and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought (1975), so he decided to try his hand as a filmmaker. He had already produced his first short film, The Famous Comedians School, a satiric short and an early example of the mockumentary subgenre that first appeared on PBS' The Great American Dream Machine in 1972.

Ref.Ess, Ramsey, 1975. Brooks produced six short films for the first season of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Albert Brooks' "The Short Films of "The Short Films" Vulture is a form of irony. Vox Media, LLC. Retrieved October 26, 2022. In 1976, he appeared in his first mainstream film role in Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese encouraged Brooks to improvise a portion of his dialogue. After heading to Los Angeles to work in film, Brooks was in luck to land the role.

In 1979, Brooks directed Real Life, his first feature film. Brooks (playing a version of himself) films a typical suburban family in the hopes of winning both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, as a follow-up to PBS' An American Family documentary. It has also been seen as a foretelling of the emergence of reality television. Brooks appeared in the film Private Benjamin (1980), starring Goldie Hawn, and made a cameo appearance.

Brooks co-wrote (with long-time collaborator Monica Johnson), produced and starred in a string of well-received comedies, offering spins on his basic neurotic and self-obsessed characters from the 1980s and 1990s. These include 1981's Modern Romance, in which Brooks played a film editor trying to retrieve his ex-girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold). The film was limited in theaters and in the end, it grossed under $3 million domestically. Critics loved it, with one reviewer remarking that the film was "not Brooks at his best, but nonetheless amusing." Brooks and Julie Hagerty portrayed a couple who leave their yuppie lifestyle and fall out of society to live in a motor home as they had always dreamed of doing, with disappointment.

Defending Your Life (1991) by Brooks put his lead character in the afterlife on trial to answer his human fears and determine his cosmic destiny. As his post-death love affair, critics reacted to Brooks' offbeat premise and his chemistry with him. Brooks' later efforts at large audiences were not successful, but he did keep Brooks' name as a filmmaker. He received rave reviews for Mother (1996), which starred Brooks as a middle-aged writer who was returning home to address internal conflicts between himself and his mother (Debbie Reynolds). Brooks was featured in The Muse in 1999 as a Hollywood screenwriter who has "lost his advantage," drawing on the services of an authentic muse (Sharon Stone) for inspiration. "Brooks' distinctive film making style is remarkably subtle and unemphatic, with a classical precision and economy, shooting and cutting his scenes in smooth, seamless successions of medium shots, with clean, high-key lighting," Gavin Smith said in an interview with Brooks concerning The Muse.

During its time, Brooks has appeared on The Simpsons seven times (always under the name A. Brooks). He has been praised by IGN as the best guest star in the series "You Only Move Twice"; specifically for his role as Hank Scorpio as the supervillain Hank Scorpio.

Brooks appeared in other writers' and directors' films during the 1980s and 1990s. In the first scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie, he appeared as a chauffeur whose passenger (Dan Aykroyd) has a shocking mystery. Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy Award for playing an insecure, supremely ethical network TV reporter in James L. Brooks' hit Broadcast News (1987) and responds, "Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive" as a journalist. He also received accolades for his role in 1998's Out of Sight, playing both an untrustworthy banker and an ex-convict.

In My First Mister (2001), Brooks received raves for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner befriending a disillusioned teenager (played by Leelee Sobieski). Brooks continued his voiceover work in Pixar's Finding Nemo (2004) as the voice of Marlin, one of the film's protagonists.

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Sony Pictures' 2005 film Looking for Humour in the Muslim World was rejected due to the company's desire to change the name. In January 2006, Warner Independent Pictures bought the film and limited it to a limited opening; mixed critiques and a poor box office grossing followed the film. Brooks plays "Albert Brooks," a filmmaker who was ostensibly hired by the US government to see what makes the Muslim people chuckle, and he's heading to India and Pakistan on a Real Life tour.

In 2006, David Howard of Lost in America appeared in the documentary film Wanderlust as David Howard. Several other well-known people were included in the series. Russ Cargill, the central antagonist of The Simpsons Movie, continued his long-term association with The Simpsons in 2007.

On Showtime's television show Lenny Botwin, Nancy Botwin's estranged father-in-law, has appeared on Lenny Botwin's iconic father-in-law. On May 10, 2011, St. Martin's Press released his first book, 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America.

Brooks co-starred in the film Drive as the vengeful gangster Bernie Rose, the film's leading antagonist, alongside Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. His role received a lot of critical praise and glowing reviews, with several commentators lauding Brooks' appearance as one of the film's finest aspects. Brooks responded on Twitter with, "You don't like me." After receiving accolades and accolades from several film festivals and criticism organizations, but not an Academy Award nomination. "You really don't like me."

Brooks reimagined Tiberius, a curmudgeonly red-tailed hawk, in The Secret Life of Pets in 2016, and reprised the role of Marlin from Finding Nemo in the 2016 sequel Finding Dory.

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