James L. Brooks
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Blessed moment in my life.
And I was alone with him backstage.
As a kid reporter, I asked him a question that he hadn't been asked.
how do you take care of your lips?
Oh, really?
And he lit up and he brought out draws of stuff.
Turned out to be a major part of his prep for performing.
I don't know how I did it.
I did letters.
I somehow got myself backstage as a high school kid with Anne Bancroft, who was then just crazy, the gorgeous Toaster Broadway.
And I was trying to flirt with her.
I think she was in her 20s at the time.
I'm a high school kid or something like that.
She was very nice.
I saw her standing in a circle.
I second acted.
You know what second acting is?
No.
I worked as an usher.
And as I walked home, this is my afterschool job,