James L. Brooks
speaker
774 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Dec
James L. Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's an Einstein Brooks.
What does that mean, an Einstein?
His father's real name was Einstein.
Oh.
And they called him Albert, and he did not want to be Albert Einstein.
Right, okay.
And your dad changed the name to Brooks to appear to be Irish.
He changed from Bernstein.
He was the last man trying to pass the change of his being Jewish.
Yes, yes.
I was 12 years old.
I thought I was Irish.
Oh, no kidding.
Younger than that.
I was nine.
And then suddenly I saw my paternal grandfather's name was Bernstein.
And I slowly managed to put two and two together.
Not dragged back.
Okay.
Somebody gave me a tape of who she was, and I'd never seen anybody, an absolutely original talent.
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