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So an Imam Walks Into a Mosque . . .
New York Times - January 8, 2006 | link
Freshly returned from the Middle East, where his new film, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" had its world premiere as part of the second annual Dubai International Film Festival, Albert Brooks sounded exhausted, elated and relieved. more ›

Diplomatic Mission
Indian Express/Arts Etc - Sunday, December 11, 2005 | link
You've seen him in Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver. In The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and in The Muse, where Sharon Stone played the title role. Twenty-six years after comedian Albert Brooks played himself in Real Life, another idea for a self-portrayal unfolded in his head. more ›

American Comedy in Dubai
Guardian - December 9, 2005 | link
Middle Eastern settings are unsurprisingly writ large over the lineup of the second Dubai Film Festival this weekend. The Film festival, which has livened up the Gulf city's cultural life, is seen as a venue for new filmmakers to present their often quite challenging fare to audiences of considerable ethic diversity. more ›

Comedy in the Muslim world?
Rediff India Abroad - November 18, 2005 | link
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, temples and monuments,' quickly discovered that his list did not include the embassy. more ›

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Townhall.com - November 9, 2005 | link
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 fearful? more ›

Funny choices
Los Angeles Times Calendarlive.com - September 27, 2005
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 part on how much of a role our movies played in stirring Muslim rage against America. more ›

From Albert Brooks, Discomfort's a Joy
Washington Post - May 23, 2003
As an anxious Everyman caught in a whirlwind of international intrigue and ever-escalating action, Brooks is a quietly molten core of hapless, and helplessly funny, midlife angst. more>

Brooks is just right for role of neurotic dad
Los Angeles Daily News (registration required) May 21,2003
A good father will do anything for the sake of his children. He'll swim the deepest sea. He'll fight anyone who threatens them, even if the villain has a nuclear-powered submarine, or is a dentist. more>

Albert Brooks: Hollywood's brainiest funnyman
Actor-writer has been ahead of his time for a quarter-century
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (registration required) May 23, 2003
Albert Brooks is the guy eggheads call genius. And if you found enough energy to cart your carcass into Mr. Peabody's way-back machine and travel to 1979, you'd find Brooks at the forefront of what has now become America's favorite obsession: reality television. more>

Now, he leaves neuroses on set
New York Daily News - May 22, 2003
Albert Brooks is not pacing around his hotel room. He has two movies about to open — "The In-Laws" tomorrow and "Finding Nemo" May 30 — but angst is not piling up in little neurotic molehills. more>

Unlikely, and that's the point
Los Angeles Times - May 18, 2003
In "The In-Laws," Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks clown and carouse in the best tradition of comedy teams. more>

Albert Brooks Question + Answer
ReelWest Magazine
In 1971, a stand-up comic named Albert Brooks wrote an Esquire article about a non-existent school for comedians. Later, PBS hired him to make an information commercial for the same fake school. more>

Albert Brooks & Michael Douglas of The InLaws interview
Underground Online - May 2003
“I have a four year old boy and a three year old girl. They never walked around the house saying Debbie Reynolds was robbed. You do a cartoon movie for them. more>

Tribute’s Bonnie Laufer talks to Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas about starring in their new comedy, The In-Laws.
Tribute.com - May 2003
I learned how to relax from Albert who makes his comedy look effortless. He’s got it down to a science and it was fascinating watching him. He truly is a master, I felt privileged to work with him. more>

Q&A with Albert Brooks
People Magazine - May 2003
Can you believe it? It's an Albert Brooks summer!
You own this summer! I'm stunned. I have to go see Terminator 3, I might be in that. more>

He's plane nervous
Toronto Sun - October 13, 2001
"What you do is just try to give these kids as many laughs as you can every day," he says. "The world's always strange and it's going to be stranger when they get a hold of it." more>

Feeling More Lost Than Ever
Albert Brooks, who satirized America's voyeuristic streak two decades ago, ponders the world of 'Survivor' and 'Millionaire.'
Los Angeles Times - Sun June 25, 2000
"In 10 years the show will be: I can shoot you as soon as I see you. Just watch--it'll be legal in some country soon. Someone will take a chance on it. Tourism is down, the economy is bad, Fox has a new affiliate: 'Watch Jack get killed at 9 p.m.!" more>

Very A-Muse-ing
Albert Brooks thinks about inspiration
People Online - August 30, 1999
Ask writers their biggest fear in life and most will undoubtedly reply "writer's block." Try to imagine the frantic feeling that your creative well has run dry at the same time that your livelihood depends on it flowing and you'll get the panic behind Albert Brooks's new comedy The Muse. more>

Albert Brooks: West Coast Woody Allen
New York Observer - August 30, 1999
The Muse is a fresh rumination on the malady that plagues every neurotic hack in the movie business: writers block. Mr. Brooks, who looks like an aging schnauzer desperate for an air-conditioned kennel, stars as an Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter who, in the hilariously authentic opening sequence, is being presented with an industry humanitarian award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel? more >

Brooks Reveals His 'Muse'
New York Daily News - August 24, 1999
Albert Brooks has been kicking around Hollywood for more than three decades. But the way he tells it, it's more like Hollywood has been kicking him around. more >

Albert Brooks: Funnyman Whose Muse Is in the Mirror
New York Times - Sunday August 22, 1999
LOS ANGELES -- On a recent hot afternoon, Albert Brooks could be found in his office at Universal Studios, getting worked up over a snapshot. more>

Meeting of the Comedy Minds
ShoWest award-winners Brooks and Johnson find lots of love with each other.
The Hollywood Reporter - March 5,1997
He was born with the name Albert Einstein. She? been married nine times and says that, in her younger years, ?eing a medical assistant and a go-go dancer was my dream, but the writing thing came up. Is it any surprise that the two would team to write some of the wittiest, most off-the-wall film comedies of our time? more>

To The Top
People Magazine - January 27, 1997
Back in the summer of 1995, Albert Brooks began searching for a woman to play the title role in his new movie, Mother, a comedy about a middle-aged writer (Brooks) who, after two divorces, tries to straighten out his life by moving in with his mom. more>

MUM'S WORD WHO BETTER TO ASSESS ALBERT BROOKS' MOTHER THAN ALBERT BROOKS' MOTHER? THELMA BERNSTEIN TELLS US HOW CREATIVE HER YOUNGEST SON REALLY IS
Entertainment Weekly - 1996
Although I don't feel Mother 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. more>

Film fest for fans of Brooks
USA Today - March 21,1995
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. more>

ALBERT BROOKS
Rolling Stone - April 18, 1991
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. more>

Mr. Ear-Laffs
Time Magazine - August 4, 1975
There are at least half a hundred incarnations of Albert Brooks, and all of them are funny. more>

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