James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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Which won the Emmy, all the Emmys every year forever and ever.
It was Carl Reiner and it was Sheldon Leonard.
And it was really everybody's Bible.
I mean, you just were in awe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then she had an on-the-air commitment from CBS, and strangely, they gave us the shot.
Yes.
The network didn't want us.
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It was sort of amazing because it's an infamous story.
But when we went to pitch and we pitched through a semicircle of executives, we had come in with the idea that Mary be divorced and she had to build a new life.
One of these eight guys, the guy, the programming guy, said there are three things that the public doesn't like.
Divorce, Jews, and men with mustaches.
What a list.
Looking at me, who had a mustache and isn't Jew, as he said, it sounds surreal.
It's happened.
Were you divorced yet?
Maybe you were three out of three.
I was going to say you were two out of three, but maybe you were three out of three.