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  1. James L. Brooks is an Academy Award, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American television and movie director, producer and screenwriter. Brooks wrote for several shows before creating the series Room 222. Grant Tinker hired Brooks and producer Allan Burns at MTM Productions to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970.

  2. Nov 27, 2017 · A young man — a boy, in this case — is living in a fourth-floor walk-up in New Jersey. It's a small two-bedroom apartment on a hill, a block away from the palisades. The boy was Brooks. "You could look across from the window," he remembered, “which you can't do anymore, because they've built up the palisades.

  3. Nov 12, 2023 · It was stormy,” director James L. Brooks recalls now of the atmosphere. Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson in 'Terms of Endearment'. Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty. He wouldn ...

  4. Nov 10, 2023 · Director James L. Brooks talks ‘Terms of Endearment’ 40 years later, hinting at a new film. From left, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson in the 1983 movie “Terms of ...

  5. 1. 6. Primetime Emmy Awards. 22. 62. James L. Brooks is an American filmmaker. He is known for his work as a writer-director-producer. Brooks is mostly known for his film work often directing films such as Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as it Gets (1997). He has received eight Academy Award nominations winning ...

  6. Birth Place: North Bergen, New Jersey. Since the late 1960s, writer-director-producer James L. Brooks was a powerful comedic force on both the big screen and on television, creating multi-awarding ...

  7. Apr 30, 2023 · JAMES L. BROOKS: Writers rule. That was our idea when we started it, and [the] writer always has control over his or her material whether it's by directing or being a really active producer, ...