Albert Brooks News

On deck much sooner: a new solo album, "Kisses on the Bottom," released Feb. 7 by Hear Music/Concord, as well as a fully endorsed tribute record featuring covers of classic compositions from Sir Paul's catalog -- with The Beatles and Wings and from his solo career.

Veteran actor Albert Brooks won his role as a crime boss in action thriller Drive after scaring director Nicolas Winding Refn by pinning him up against a wall.

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This is how we meet them: "The final weekend of their marriage, hounded by insolvency, indecision and, stupidly, half-secretly, in the never-distant past ruled by memory, infidelity, Art and Marion Fowler fled the country." This middle-age Midwestern couple doesn't go far: just to Niagara Falls, where they spent their honeymoon.

First the good news: Joseph Cedar's Footnote scored another nomination for Israel in the Best Foreign Language Film category, making this Israel's fourth nomination in the last five years, and ten total since the founding of the state in 1948.

If you like your satire dark, I mean jet black, you probably love the scene from episode four, season four of "Weeds," in which Len Botwin, played by Albert Brooks, gives a history lesson to his young nephew Shane.

Mike Birbiglia is a strange breed of comedian. He doesn't really rely on punchlines and zingers but rather he takes the approach of storytelling.

This is how we meet them: "The final weekend of their marriage, hounded by insolvency, indecision and, stupidly, half-secretly, in the never-distant past ruled by memory, infidelity, Art and Marion Fowler fled the country." This middle-age Midwestern couple doesn't go far: just to Niagara Falls, where they spent their honeymoon.

The announcement of Academy Award nominations this morning immediately prompted a scan of the list for who was left out.

Funnymen Albert Books and Patton Oswalt may not have scored an Oscar nomination this morning, but at least they're getting plenty of comedic mileage out of it.

Source: twitter.com --- Tuesday, January 24, 2012ultraculture: The lack of nomination for Albert Brooks makes it all the less likely that he'll win.