MUM’S WORD

January 1, 1996

WHO BETTER TO ASSESS ALBERT BROOKS’ MOTHER THAN ALBERT BROOKS’ MOTHER? THELMA BERNSTEIN TELLS US HOW CREATIVE HER YOUNGEST SON REALLY IS.
Entertainment Weekly Review by Thelma Bernstein, Lois Alter Mark

Although I don’t feel Mother (1996, Paramount, PG-13, $101.99) is about me, the first thing I did after seeing the movie was run to my freezer. Not that I had an eight-pound hunk of cheese in there like the mother in the film, but I must tell you, the next day it was a lot emptier. I do buy ice cream and sherbet in large quantities–I never know if someone’s going to come in or if I’m going to need it–and I opened one box and saw a little “protective ice.” I couldn’t believe it. That box went right down the drain.
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Film fest for fans of Brooks

March 21, 1995

USA Today By Marshall Fine

Comedian/filmmaker Albert Brooks knows that opportunity rarely knocks twice. That’s why he said yes when asked if he’d like to be honored with a retrospective of his films at the first U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, which starts Wednesday in Aspen, Colo. read more »

ALBERT BROOKS

April 8, 1991

Rolling Stone by Bill Zehme

Hello and welcome. You have begun to read something we like to call the Albert Brooks Celebrity Profile. This is an exciting opportunity for you to learn about Albert Brooks, a man most experts believe to be the funniest human being currently living. You say, If Albert Brooks is so funny, why haven’t I seen more of him? The answer is not simple, but let me ask you this: Is it necessary to see more of someone in order to appreciate how funny he or she is? In fact, aren’t most people actually funnier in retrospect than they are when you’re with them? And whats funny, anyway? It’s a foolish word, when you think about it. Funny. How would you like to be called funny? It’s not exactly dignified, is it? Therefore, if people were running around calling you the funniest man alive, maybe you wouldn’t want to be making a public spectacle of yourself. Maybe you’d like a little privacy and prefer to stay at home and watch a great deal of television and think about death. Well, thats what comedian-auteur Albert Brooks has done, and now he’s ready to talk about it – just in time to coincde with the release of his fourth film in twelve years, Defending Your Life, in which he and Meryl Streep portray two very funny dead people.

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Mr. Ear-Laffs

August 4, 1975

Time Magazine

There are at least half a hundred incarnations of Albert Brooks, and all of them are funny.
There is the elephant trainer who has lost his elephant and now must get through his act using a frog instead. The trainer looms over the little fellow, urging him through his paces with a whip, trying to get the frog to perform such evergreen elephant stunts as Roll Over and Find the Peanut. read more »