James L. Brooks, the Empowered Women’s Man Behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Ella McCay,’ Gets Star on the Walk of Fame

James L. Brooks had his first encounter with showbiz royalty as a student journalist at Weehawken High School in New Jersey in the 1950s, when he managed to wrangle a one-on-one interview with legendary jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. “I asked him a question that nobody had asked him up to that time. I […]
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