{"id":2195209,"date":"2025-12-11T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195209"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T17:23:17","slug":"james-l-brooks-the-empowered-womens-man-behind-the-mary-tyler-moore-show-the-simpsons-and-ella-mccay-gets-star-on-the-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-l-brooks-the-empowered-womens-man-behind-the-mary-tyler-moore-show-the-simpsons-and-ella-mccay-gets-star-on-the-walk-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"James L. Brooks, the Empowered Women\u2019s Man Behind \u2018The Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u2019 \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 and \u2018Ella McCay,\u2019 Gets Star on the Walk of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000985\/\">James L. Brooks<\/a> had his first encounter with showbiz royalty as a student journalist at Weehawken High School in New Jersey in the 1950s, when he managed to wrangle a one-on-one interview with legendary jazz trumpeter and singer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001918\/\">Louis Armstrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked him a question that nobody had asked him up to that time. I said, \u2018How do you take care of your lips?\u2019\u201d recalls Brooks, who conducted the interview at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13813511\/\">Armstrong<\/a>\u2019s house in Queens. \u201cAnd the answer was a 45-minute show where he\u2019s taking out more creams and things, because he really had an elaborate routine for taking care of his lips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what was his reward for this precocious celebrity get?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was loathed,\u201d says Brooks. \u201cThe fact that I was an unpopular kid whose picture was on the front page of the school paper [with a celebrity] \u2026 Actually, it made me be bullied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, Brooks is showbiz royalty in his own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James L. 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