Having
parents that are both in the entertainment business it was only
natural that Albert Brooks, birth name Albet Einstein, would grow up
with the show business bug. It wasn't before Albert showed sings of
catching that bug. In his late teens he began a 4 and a half decade
career as a comedian, writer, voice-overr artist, and director. In
that career he has been on just about every talk & variety show,
and has over 35 acting credit. The movie he is probably most
remembered for is 1991's “Defending your Life” that he also wrote
and direct.
Mr.
Brooks has had some hits & misses in his career but has always
kept us laughing. The following are five things that make Mr. Brooks
one of our favorite comic personalities:
As
fans of Mr. Brooks we knew how good he is on screen. Then in 1987
Hollywood recognized what we all knew when he was nominated for an
Academy Award for his supporting role in “Broadcast News. In the
movie Mr. Brooks played writer/reporter Aaron Altman who was involved
in a love triangle with his two co-workers at a news station.
This
side of him really showed through in the relationship between Mr.
Brooks and Merle Streep in the movie “Defending your life”. Then
his carismatic showed in real life when in
1997 Mr. Brooks married Kimberly Shlain, a website designer. A year
after they were married they had their first child, a son, Jacob. A
few years later the couple had their second child, a daughter,
Claire.
He
tells Vanity Fair magazine, "I think we give each other a huge
amount of freedom to be who we are. There's so much trust that nobody
thinks twice about it. And if I need to be in my cave, and I'm trying
to write something, it's understood. There's no clock punching... I
was very fortunate when I met Kimberly - things gelled."
One
example of this is his book "2030: The real story of what
happens to America". In the year 2030 people are living longer
because cancer has been eradicated. As the saying goes “beware of
what you wish for because it might come true”. .
Mr.
Brooks has joined forces with Will Smith, Ridley Scott, and several
other Hollywood heavyweights to make a flim to bring attention to
concusion and the aftermath. The movie is to be a dramatization of
the real story of the doctor that discovered a corrolation between
concussions and CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). CTE is a
brain diorder that has been found in several retired NFL players that
suffered multiple concussions during their career.
In
the both the 2003 movie “Finding Nemo” and its upcoming sequal
“Finding Dory” he has been the voice of Marlin, Nemo's father.
Even though the character was a fish he portrayed the caring father
figure that endears him to adults and children.
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