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July 26, 2007
Thursday 26 July 2007 on CTV

Lindsay Lohan isn't talking, but her friends and family are; Nicole Richie will sit down for an interview with Diane Sawyer; Paris Hilton is recording another album; Rachel McAdams was spotted wearing a rock on her ring finger; Catherine Zeta Jones was stunning but solo on the red carpet for the...

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Brooks supported The Simpsons episode "Moaning Lisa", because he always wanted to do a plot involving a character being sad and not knowing why. (edit) Brooks has deemed The Critic as a "labor of love". (edit) After they brought Bottle Rocket to his attention, Brooks mentored Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson. Owen believes they wouldn't have gotten the film made if it wasn't for Brooks' help. (edit) Brooks mentored Cameron Crowe and was the executive producer of Crowe's directorial debut Say Anything... Crowe later recalled, in an interview of the film's anniversary, that he approached Brooks and told him about these ideas he had. Upon hearing this, Brooks encouraged Crowe to keep writing. (edit) Brooks is a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch) [2006-]
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Brooks: (about Patty & Selma) They suck the joy out of everything. (edit) Brooks: When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful, they're lifelong. (edit) Brooks: (about film making) Sometimes the battle is to make it a little more personal to you to really get into it, and sometimes the battle is to make it less personal to you so you can get more objectivity. (edit) Brooks: (about The Simpsons) It’s 16 years, and we have gathered together the people who have been there from the beginning, and everybody who ever was a show runner on it, so we’ve all gathered together and we’re looking at this right now. It was my full time job for two, two and a half years. (edit) Brooks: If you’ve put in your time and you say, “Okay, I know I spent a lot of time on this, I know I listened,” then you go forward, and one of the key things of my research was the first time I think it happened once where three mothers in a group, three Hispanic mothers in a group brought their children and the three kids spoke English and the three mothers did not. The conversation that started there led to so much in the script, that one session.
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