James L. Brooks
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 James L. Brooks facts

• Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing
• After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts
• He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L
• Wolper's documentaries
• After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series My Mother the Car
• Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on My Friend Tony and later created the series Room 222
• Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970
• The show, one of the first to feature an independent working woman as its lead character, was critically acclaimed and won Brooks several Primetime Emmy Awards
• Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin-offs from Mary Tyler Moore in the shape of Rhoda (a comedy) and Lou Grant (a drama)
• Brooks left MTM Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom Taxi which, despite winning multiple Emmys, suffered from low ratings and was canceled twice