I like Albert Brooks. The actor, comedian, producer, director, whatever. I first saw him in a very funny movie called 'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World'. It is a fantastic satire on the excesses and vulgar spend of large corporations or governments that only spend to create an aura of being focused on important strategic matters while basically wasting money on something pathetic.
The film has scenes that portray in a not so subtle way how meaningless reports that may sound all too important are just that, meaningless; no matter how much effort some minions may have spent to create it.
Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein and famously quipped that the real Einstein likely changed his last name to sound important. His comedy is sometimes masked, random, and seems like a throwaway but its there if you don't look quick.
I am waiting to see an older film he did with Meryl Streep called 'Defending your life'. Its premise is classic Brooks where he is going to defend the life he lived while in Los Angeles when being interrogated at the Pearly Gates.
He just wrote a book called 'Twenty Thirty', that describes life as it would be with all the technology surrounding us and yet most of us wandering vacant and lost with all that extra free time on our hand in the year 2030.
Watching him perform is like reading P.G. Wodehouse. The comedy sometimes cracks you up loud regardless if you are in a public space, and at times you continue to smile just watching his constipated look, anticipating something hilarious to come out of his mouth.
The film has scenes that portray in a not so subtle way how meaningless reports that may sound all too important are just that, meaningless; no matter how much effort some minions may have spent to create it.
Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein and famously quipped that the real Einstein likely changed his last name to sound important. His comedy is sometimes masked, random, and seems like a throwaway but its there if you don't look quick.
I am waiting to see an older film he did with Meryl Streep called 'Defending your life'. Its premise is classic Brooks where he is going to defend the life he lived while in Los Angeles when being interrogated at the Pearly Gates.
He just wrote a book called 'Twenty Thirty', that describes life as it would be with all the technology surrounding us and yet most of us wandering vacant and lost with all that extra free time on our hand in the year 2030.
Watching him perform is like reading P.G. Wodehouse. The comedy sometimes cracks you up loud regardless if you are in a public space, and at times you continue to smile just watching his constipated look, anticipating something hilarious to come out of his mouth.
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