James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I got in there and then it was better than anything I'd known.
I had a lot of friends and
So I just didn't go to class.
Okay.
You know, it was awful.
That's what happened.
Yeah, I was having my first fun.
I'm glad you prioritized that.
My sister got me a job as an usher.
It was my first lucky break.
And usually you had to be a college graduate at that time to be anything because that was the first foot in the door.
And then they started to theoretically promote you.
And then I got another great lucky break because they used, they call them pages.
And we filled in for notches above us jobs when the notches above us job went on vacation.
And I got a notches above me fill-in job.
as a copy boy at CBS News.
For the news?
Yeah.
And the guy never came back.
That was a big break.