James L. Brooks

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q95125: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: The Simpsons (1989); As Good as It Gets (1997); (rom-com filmmakers); unspecified. Count them as director (8 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Batman (TV series, 1966-68) (1966): 1 line

industry (industry) · through The Simpsons (1989), which they wrote: Batman (TV series, 1966-68) ⇒ The Simpsons (the host's read). The Radioactive Man parody mirrors the fate of old Batman actors doing car-dealership appearances in costume.
“that's the kind of thing that the Simpsons parodies, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:50:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Cameron Crowe: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: James L. Brooks ⇒ Cameron Crowe (the host's read). Crowe is described as Brooks's protégé, and the two share a tone.
“And Cameron Crowe was like his protégé.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

people (people) · through As Good as It Gets (1997), which they wrote: As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read). Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together.
“They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Don Payne: 1 line

career (career) · through The Simpsons (1989), which they wrote: The Simpsons ⇒ Don Payne (the host's read). Payne's weirder ideas in superhero movies came out of his Simpsons background.
“But I think it came out of the Simpsons.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:46:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (13) everyone in directing

director, As Good as It Gets (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
director, Terms of Endearment (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
director, Broadcast News (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
director, I'll Do Anything (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
director, Spanglish (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
director, (model for Is This Thing On?) (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
director, Terms of Endearment (The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’)
writer-director influenced by Sturges (directing half), unspecified (The Big Picture, Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag)
director, Terms of Endearment (Blank Check — Patreon, Eraserhead (Ad-Free))
director, Terms of Endearment (Blank Check — Patreon, The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free))
director, As Good as It Gets (Blank Check — Patreon, The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free))
director, Broadcast News (Blank Check — Patreon, The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free))
writer-director (directing half), (rom-com filmmakers) (Blank Check — Patreon, You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free))

Writing (4) everyone in writing

punched up the dialogue (script originated elsewhere), As Good as It Gets (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
creator/producer (TV: Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Tracey Ullman, The Simpsons), The Simpsons (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
writer-director influenced by Sturges, unspecified (The Big Picture, Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag)
writer-director, (rom-com filmmakers) (Blank Check — Patreon, You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career): James L. Brooks → Broadcast News. Brooks moved from sitcoms to films and had a big success with Terms of Endearment, then Broadcast News, argued to be even better.
“makes huge success in terms of endearment, then broadcast news, which we argue is even better.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): James L. Brooks → Spanglish. After Broadcast News Brooks took the wrong lessons from each film about what he used to do well.
“from broadcast news on, he takes the wrong lessons from each movie about what he used to do well.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:54:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

lineage (lineage): James L. Brooks → Cameron Crowe. Crowe is described as Brooks's protégé, and the two share a tone.
“And Cameron Crowe was like his protégé.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.