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Albert Brooks Costars in “Drive”
Rolling Stone | link › By Peter Travers Buckle up for the existential bloodbath of Drive, a brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it’s … read more »
Brooks takes a seriously funny look into the future of America
Boston.com | link › By Diane White Albert Brooks is a keen and critical social observer, attested by his work as screenwriter, director, actor, and comedian. His first novel, “Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happens to America’’ is … read more »
Albert Brooks on his new futuristic novel: I wanted it to read like a news story
Los Angeles Times | link › By Patrick Goldstein It’s hard not to argue, with only the smallest apology to Larry David, that Albert Brooks has the most distinct comic voice of his generation. When we were talking the other … read more »
New York Times: A Comedian Laughs All the Way To Dystopia
New York Times | link › By Dave Itzkoff LOS ANGELES — For a guy who just wrote a whole book about the myriad catastrophes that could befall the United States in the next 20 years, Albert Brooks says he’s … read more »
NEW YORK TIMES book review: A Wry Eye on Problems of the Future
With “2030” Mr. Brooks has made the nervy move of transposing his worrywart sensibility from film to book. Two things are immediately apparent about his debut novel: that it’s as purposeful as it is funny, and that Mr. Brooks has immersed himself deeply in its creation. “2030” is an extrapolation of present-day America into the not-so-distant future, and it is informed by the author’s surprisingly serious attention to reality. Unlike the fantasy writer who foresees a gee-whiz future full of alluring gimmicks, Mr. Brooks has dreamed up escapism about problems we cannot escape. read more »
Comedy in the Muslim world?
Rediff India Abroad By Arthur J Pais The script called for a shot of the exterior of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi but writer, actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks, who says he had received ‘unprecedented access to mosques, … read more »
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Townhall.com By John Stossel Sony Pictures got upset about a “bad” word. They demanded it be taken out of the title of a movie. The word is “Muslim.” Give me a break. Do we have to be that sensitive? Or … read more »
Funny choices
Los Angeles Times Calendarlive.com By Patrick Goldstein Something’s wrong when a studio balks at a comedy this inspired. In the days after the calamitous 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, there was a brief flurry of soul-searching in Hollywood, focusing in … read more »
From Albert Brooks, Discomfort’s a Joy
The Washington Post By Ann Hornaday Is there an actor alive who can make discomfort as hilarious as Albert Brooks? Woody Allen comes to mind, and indeed Brooks has often been called Allen’s West Coast obverse. But the comparison doesn’t … read more »
Albert Brooks: West Coast Woody Allen
The New York Observer by Rex Reed Salvaging what remains of the worst summer I can remember, I am off to greener pastures where, if I? lucky, I will not see a cell phone, a pierced tongue, a computer, a … read more »
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