James L. Brooks
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774
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
He's an Einstein Brooks.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
What does that mean, an Einstein?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
His father's real name was Einstein.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Oh.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And they called him Albert, and he did not want to be Albert Einstein.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Right, okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And your dad changed the name to Brooks to appear to be Irish.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
He changed from Bernstein.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
He was the last man trying to pass the change of his being Jewish.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Yes, yes.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I was 12 years old.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I thought I was Irish.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Oh, no kidding.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Younger than that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
I was nine.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And then suddenly I saw my paternal grandfather's name was Bernstein.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
And I slowly managed to put two and two together.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Not dragged back.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
James L. Brooks (director and producer)
Somebody gave me a tape of who she was, and I'd never seen anybody, an absolutely original talent.