We Love You Albert Brooks!

Because you people know I love any excuse to read how great the great Albert Brooks is, here's an article in the Atlantic for you

But Brooks himself has no trouble saying no. He has repeatedly turned down the various Hollywood luminaries who asked him to star in their films—parts that ultimately went to Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Steve Martin, and in several cases altered the trajectory of their careers. He was offered the role Hanks played in Big, the role Crystal played in When Harry Met Sally, and the role Williams played in Dead Poets Society, to name only a few. (Brooks was somewhat reluctant to discuss this with me, as he didn’t want to sound “stuck up, because there are so many of them.”)

Instead, he went his own way, and has single-handedly shaped modern American entertainment to an astonishing degree. Pick a random moment in film or television from the past half century, and Brooks is often nearby. He was a repeat guest on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in the golden era of late-night television. Lorne Michaels asked him to be the permanent host of Saturday Night Live before it launched. (In declining the offer, Brooks suggested the rotating-guest-host format that has defined the program ever since.) Brooks wrote a satirical short called The Three of Us for SNL that seemed to predict the premise of Three’s Company, two years before Three’s Company existed. His first role in a big film was in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976). His mockumentary (Real Life, 1979) came out five years before Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap.

It's just paragraph after paragraph of how great he, enjoy! 🤗🤣

NOTE: as a lover of British television, it is my duty to point out that I don't know that they're talking about re: Three's Company; the show was based on a British show Man About the House that started in 1973, so....I mean camon The Atlantic be better. 😡😡😡😡