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	Brooks, James L.
		He is also one of the few who have become highly successful screenwriters and directors of feature films.
		He worked as writer and co-producer on the film Starting Over and in 1983 he wrote, produced, and directed Terms of Endearment, a highly successful film in terms of both box office and critical response.
		Film writer, producer and director of Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Big, and others.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/brooksjames/brooksjames.htm (1042 words)

	James L. Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His first project was being writer and co-producer on the film Starting Over and later wrote, produced, and directed Terms of Endearment in 1983.
		Gracie Films would produce the television series The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons, and The Critic.
		Gracie Films' notable film productions were Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets, Bottle Rocket, and Broadcast News.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_L._Brooks (329 words)

	Britmovie - Gracie Fields Biography
		By the time she made her film debut in 1931, 'Our Gracie' was already a star of the music hall and a major recording star, with an audience that had followed her progress since 1915 when she left Rochdale and the Lancashire cotton mills to join musical revue.
		In the films, she creates the same solidarity with her working-class audience but also functions as the bridge to a national community which crosses class boundaries.
		Gracie tends not to have a plot or a romance of her own but facilitates the plots and the romances of others, her own romantic inclinations only hinted at with a glance and quickly suppressed with a shrug or a funny face.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/f/004.html (292 words)

	Gracie Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gracie Films is a film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986 for The Tracey Ullman Show.
		The company is primarily associated with film studio and distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment, but still has an office at the 20th Century Fox lot due to the indefinite contract Gracie Films has had with Fox for the last 19 years for The Simpsons.
		The theme during the Gracie Films production logo is claimed by some to be an instrumental version of Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gracie_Films (219 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gracie Films (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gracie Films logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo.
		Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Look up film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Gracie works at the hotel cigar stand and after thoroughly exasperating customer George, he opines that she could make it big in the movies-as a vampire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gracie-Films (740 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: The Fruits Of My Labor
		I, unfortunately, had hopes that Gracie would be on the side of the fans, but they either don't have the time to care or want to go with the studio attitude on this.
		A film that not only he labored to bring to the screen, but hundreds of others who don't enjoy the same amount of power and clout that he has received on behalf of their efforts.
		Film is now an assembly line product that can be retrofitted after production to suit the whims of lazy parents and praise-happy filmmakers and studios not comfortable with the decisions they made years ago, now that the tide of public opinion has shifted.
	www.dvdfile.com /news/viewpoints/crusade/1999/september_29.htm (1146 words)

	Films And Stars In Mid-1930s Britain - history paper
		Following their premiere, the films from this selection generally returned, as the leading film in a double film programme, to one of the twice weekly change cinemas listed in Table 1 for a second-run approximately four weeks later - commonly with a gap of a three to four weeks between any subsequent runs.
		Table 2 lists the thirty films from the selection of 119 ‘hit’ films which recorded six or more distinct appearances in Bolton's cinemas: they were amongst the most popular films shown in the town during the 1932-38 period.
		The film opened as a single billing at the Capitol for a week on 7 October 1935 and played at a further six venues on half weekly programmes, only one of which was shared with another feature film.
	www.history.ac.uk /eseminars/sem18.html (8838 words)

	Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - George Burns and Gracie Allen
		Gracie even made a bid for the White House in 1940, bursting onto other radio shows as a nominee of the "Surprise Party."
		For two decades, the way the two of them dealt with day-to-day living became fodder for their comedy until Gracie retired in 1958.
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, a situation comedy about the private lives of a show business couple, aired from 1950 to 1958.
	comedycollege.publicradio.org /archive/burns_allen.shtml (159 words)

	Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig - Penguin Group (USA)
		Groening was happy to have it in the film, but he told Else to contact Gracie Films, the company that produced The Simpsons.
		Gracie Films was okay with it, too, but they, like Groening, also wanted to be careful.
		And thus, at the very last minute before the film was to be released, Else digitally replaced the four and a half seconds of The Simpsons with a clip from another film he had worked on—The Day After Trinity.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0143034650,00.html (946 words)

	'Biography': For Love of Gracie Allen (washingtonpost.com)
		Gracie Allen was engaged to another man when she first teamed with George Burns on the vaudeville stage.
		Gracie, who stood five feet tall and weighed 100 pounds, had one green eye and one blue and was sensitive about it even though the TV show was in fl-and-white.
		Similarly, instead of clips from Gracie's films, which have to be paid for, the documentary uses excerpts from the trailers, or previews, which are believed to be in the public domain.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2908-2002Jul25 (891 words)

	Gracie Films, Inc. v BAL c/o Krystina Puzluska - Case No. 98214
		Gracie Films, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (“Complainant”) represented by
		Complainant is incorporated under the GRACIE FILMS mark and has used the mark continuously since as early as 1984 in connection with its entertainment creations and productions.
		Complainant has established its rights to the GRACIE FILMS mark through the continuous extensive use and the international fame the GRACIE FILMS mark has achieved.
	www.arbforum.com /domains/decisions/98214.htm (1008 words)

	Gracie Films - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gracie Films - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Their logo, shown at the end of every Simpsons episode, depicts a noisy movie patrons at the movie theatre hearing a man saying "Shhhhh!" in the back row so they can show the movie: "Gracie Films."
		Gracie Films, Notable TV Series, Entertainment companies of the United States, Film production companies and Television production companies.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gracie_Films (219 words)

	Classic Movie Musicals: Actors A
		Singer / dancer / actress began on stage and in short films in New York.
		Extremely gifted and vivacious singer / dancer / actress who got into films as musicals were on their way out.
		Spent most of her career in teen exploitation films, but not before turning in some outstanding performances in several musicals of the early 1960s.
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /actorsa.htm (751 words)

	James L. Brooks
		James L. Brooks is a writer, producer, and occasional director of films and television.
		Brooks owns Gracie Films, named in honor of the late commedienne Gracie Allen.
		Gracie has produced only a handful of films, but most have been good-to-great: Big, Bottle Rocket, Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Spanglish, and The War of the Roses.
	www.nndb.com /people/209/000024137 (491 words)

	British Film in the Thirties
		By 1936 the Moyne Committee more emphatic: "film is undoubtedly a most important factor in the education of all classes of the community, in the spread of national culture and in presenting national ideas and customs to the world...
		Financing and the lack of consolidated home-grown film industry in the period partly accounts for this, and British films often perceived as being inferior (stagey, or quota-quickies).
		Since 1927 Government attempts to protect native film industry, mainly through demands for quotas, (20% of exhibited films1933-8), but the system had not been entirely successful: "quota quickies" held little attraction for audiences, and some "quickies" had to be shown when cinemas were closed for cleaning!.
	www.newi.ac.uk /rdover/medcult/thirties.htm (944 words)

	Gracie Allen
		Gracie Allen' s high-pitched voice and scatterbrained comedic persona were balanced by George Burns' mentally nimble straightman and their chemistry made a hit out their popular radio weekly, "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show."
		On the CBS network "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" ran for an amazing 239 episodes and garnered 12 Emmy nominations.
		In addition to being identified by his trademark cigar and televised specials for his 90th, 95th and 100th Birthday Parties, George Burns was a Kennedy Center Honoree and a fixture at the legendary Friars Club Roasts.
	www.hollywoodlegends.com /gracie-allen.html (211 words)

	FilmStew.com • Spanglish Casting Call
		Spanglish is the story of a Latina mother and daughter as they move to Los Angeles and confront the opportunities and challenges of life in the United States.
		Brooks' company, Gracie Films, is currently looking for three bilingual Latina actresses to play the following roles: Mother, age 26-34; Daughter, age 6; Daughter, age 12.
		Buzz Johnson is a regular contributor to FilmStew.com, a leading source of film industry news and information, and sister company to Hollywood's Master Storytellers and Project Tracker.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6422 (265 words)

	As Good As It Gets - About The Filmmakers
		Through Gracie Films, Brooks produced "The War of the Roses," co-produced, with Robert Greenhut, "Big," and served as executive producer on "Bottle Rocket".
		During her tenure at Gracie, Johnson worked on such films as "Bottle Rocket" and "Jerry Maguire." Before moving into film, Johnson edited the Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and then became the editor of publications for the then-fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
		Upcoming films for Mark include "Deep Rising" (January `98), starring Treat Williams, "The Object of My Affection" (March `98), starring Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Nigel Hawthorne and directed by Nicholas Hytner, and "A Small Mirracle" (September `98), starring Ashley Judd and Joseph Mazzello.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=as-good&File=filmmkrs (890 words)

	Big (1988)
		His naive outlook on the world proves an unexpected aid in his advancing up the corporate ladder and also in drawing the attraction of a female co-worker.
		They were fantasies about the rediscovery of lost and missed childhoods, fantasies that seemed to be advocate a retreat to innocence as panacea for the stresses of the executive boardroom.
		Marshall has unabashed pleasure, revelling in crazy-foam and laser-strike fights, advocating trampolining as a form of relaxation therapy, and with some charming moments dancing on a giant piano keyboard spread out across a department store floor like a zebra crossing.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/big.htm (619 words)

	Bottle Rocket (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I like Owen Wilson, I think the guy is hilarious, but I often find myself laughing my ass off during one of his films while the rest of the cinema is sitting in a sea of unimpressed silence (they'll crack up when he falls over or something mind you...).
		As seems to be the problem with this film.
		I showed it to my brother whose taste in films is close to my own, but he barely even cracked a smile.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0115734/combined (448 words)

	Films under fire
		The scope of the film is amazing, and the audience's breath is easily taken away by the faith and skill with which Cameron replicates the disaster in the film's second half, and the touching (while fictional) romance in the first.
		The film, which cost an estimated 200 million dollars and involved the construction of a nine-tenths model of the ill-fated ship, was shot in a specially made 64 million litre studio in Mexico, and is an example of how big-budget Hollywood ought to work combining all of the best the industry has to offer.
		These are all four-star films, truly the pick of the crop of 1997, a welcome sight at the theatre after such disappointments as The Lost World, Gattaca, Bean, The Postman and, especially, Seven Years in Tibet.
	www.snn-rdr.ca /old/feb98/february/johnm.htm (746 words)

	Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James L. Brooks is a three-time Academy Award winner and 12-time Emmy Award winner whose production company, Gracie Films, brought "The Tracey Ullman Show," "The Critic" and THE SIMPSONS to Fox Broadcasting Company.
		Through Gracie Films, Brooks served as executive producer for the feature films "Say Anything" and "The War of the Roses." He also co-produced 20th Century Fox's mega-hit comedy "Big" with Robert Greenhut.
		Brooks' company, Gracie Films, made an overall deal with Sony Pictures in 1990.
	members.aol.com /bazzyat10/brooks.html (272 words)

	Owen Wilson
		A native of Dallas, Texas, Owen Wilson's career in film started when he signed up for a playwriting class in college.
		It eventually caught the attention of Polly Platt, a producer who worked for Gracie Films, the production company headed by James L. Brooks.
		After meeting with Wilson and Anderson, Brooks agreed to produce the film and Bottle Rocket became a full-length feature, winning a Lone Star Film Award for Debut of the Year for Luke, Owen and Anderson.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3454 (408 words)

	Crazy Credits for "The Simpsons" (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gracie Films logo may have it's music changed to match the episode's theme, and a character may be saying something comical during the end credits.
		Occasionaly, the Gracie film logo is replaced with an element of the current episode.
		In the episode "The Old Man and the Key" the closing credits are a parody of the ending of "the Beverly Hillbillies", with the Simpsons standing in front of a doorway waving at the audience, while banjo music plays.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0096697/crazycredits (504 words)

	Animation World News - Internet & Interactive
		Shockwave.com has finalized an exclusive deal with Oscar and Emmy award-winning director, producer, screenwriter James L. Brooks' Gracie Films to create animated programming.
		Gracie Films and Brooks, whose credits include executive producer of The Simpsons, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, will hold complete artistic control over the characters and properties created for shockwave.com.
		It will be a great day for the Internet when programming from Gracie Films premieres." The new content should hit shockwave.com beginning Fall 2000.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue5.01/5.01pages/5.01internet2.php3 (812 words)

	Say Anything... (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I had thought this was going to be just another in a long link of Pretty in Pinkish movies with predictable characters and a bad case of puppy love, but what I got was a surprisingly refreshing, unconventional story with a complicated and well-developed emotional depth flawlessly captured by the actors and Cameron Crowe.
		I'm so used to seeing the man take the assertive and mature role while courting a woman of limited financial or intellectual means...but in this film it's the girl that's got her future together and the guy who's more than willing to concentrate his attention on making her happy.
		This is one of the few films that really captures the feeling of love.
	us.imdb.com /Details?0098258 (599 words)

	The Wonderful World of Nate - Porfolio 2000
		The first thing we did was just a flash version of the Gracie Films logo, with the added addition of seeing the "Gracie Girls" face for the first time.
		The original concept was that the Gracie Girl would become the host introducing the shows and giving her commentary.
		Essentially this would be a wrap around story as the Gracie Girl would have her own issues.
	www.worldofnate.com /static/2000.html (495 words)

	WGA targets 'Columbine' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The nonfiction film -- the United Artists release of the Alliance Atlantis/Salter Street Films/Dog Eat Dog Films production offers an opinionated examination of America's gun culture -- is the first documentary ever nominated by the writers in the category, WGA officials said.
		Also missing in action in the WGA lineup are such touted films as "The Pianist," "Road to Perdition," "Talk to Her" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien." However, both "Talk" and "Mama" were ineligible for guild consideration because neither production is a guild signatory or a signatory to an affiliated foreign guild.
		A total of 201 films released in 2002 were eligible, with 110 scripts qualifying in the original category and 91 in the adapted category.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1811812 (1048 words)

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