Albert Brooks

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Cheers: Hooked on Weeds | Cheers & Jeers | 6/17/2008
Cheers to Weeds for scoring the summer's coolest guest star: Albert Brooks. Showtime's pot-com lost its way last season, but by making a run for the Mexican border — and casting one of the funniest people alive as Mary-Louise Parker's estranged ex-father-in-law — it's gotten back on track. With his perfectly deadpan delivery, Brooks fits right in as Len, a gambling addict who takes in drug dealer Parker's on-the-lam family, despite the fact that he's still never forgiven her for not... read more
Weeds Scoop: Albert Brooks Is Nancy's "Dad" | Ausiello Report | 4/14/2008
They wanted a "name" and they got one.A Showtime rep confirms that Weeds has tapped Albert Brooks to play Nancy's estranged father-in-law, Len, in at least four episodes. The Oscar-nominated multi-hyphenate — whose prior TV work has been limited to Simpsons voice-overs and a few random '70s guest stints — will turn up early in Season 4, which debuts June 16.In related news, Showtime has released the following semi-spoilery preview of Season 4:"What's cable's No. 1 pot dealer to do... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/19/2006
TNT's The Closer (Mondays at 9 pm/ET) is the hottest show on cable right now, and it has the number's to prove it. On th read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/20/2006
For Albert Brooks, it was a longer trip than expected fro read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/11/2006
An exchange between David Letterman and guest Albert Brooks on Monday night's Late read more
FlickChick | 8/21/2003
Question: My mother told me about a movie about a local news channel station whose management hires a total idiot as a n read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/4/2003
Who's that adorable groom-to-be in The In-Laws, you ask? He's not yet a household name, but Ryan Reynolds is known to fa read more
Today's News: My Take | 6/2/2003
Disney-Pixar's fishing expedition, Finding Nemo, paid off at the box office this weekend, earning $70.6 million. The und read more
Today's News: My Take | 5/27/2003
Jim Carrey's God-like comedy Bruce Almighty, ahem, deified the odds over the four-day Memorial Day weekend by crushing t read more
Today's News: My Take | 5/23/2003
Jim Carrey's God-like comedy Bruce Almighty, ahem, deified the odds over the four-day Memorial Day weekend by crushing t read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/22/2003
Funnyman Albert Brooks needs to take a chill pill. The 55-year-old — best known for writing, directing, and starring read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/21/2003
With The In-Laws (opening Friday), Michael Douglas takes a break from serious fare like A Perfect Murder and Traffic to read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/10/2002
"I look at real life and I'm going, 'This is like a time warp,'" says Albert Brooks, who watched some of his 1987 film B read more
FlickChick | 3/7/2002
Question: I saw a movie on HBO seven or eight years ago. I think it might have starred Steve Guttenberg and was about a read more