James L Durrance

As Twitter has become a legitimate source of news, opinions and even a place for television pitches, movie studios have warmed to its other feature: Promotion.The latest is How Do You Know, the James L. Brooks dramedy scheduled for release next month. Too bad that particular promoted hashtag isn’t going as well as Columbia Pictures probably hoped.

The Simpsons is discussed by many Archive of American Television interviewees including Dan Castellaneta, James L. Brooks, Ron Howard, and more.

How did The Simpsons skyrocket from short reels to record setters? In his 2003 Archive Interview, Executive Producer James L. Brooks discusses The Simpsons rise from bumpers on The Tracey Ullman Show to the stand-alone, half-hour program that debuted on December 17, 1989.

Five former secretaries of state—Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, James A. Baker III, Lawrence S. Eagleburger and Colin L. Powell—on why the treaty should be ratified.

Producer Brooks discusses writing for The Andy Griffith Show and producing classic shows like Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Tracy Ullman Show, and of course, The Simpsons.

Option 5) L.A. Clippers: LeBron going to the Clippers would be like\r\nMegan Fox marrying Donnie Wahlberg. Right house, definitely wrong\r\nbrother.

James L. Houghteling was a man who made lots of money in banking and real estate. When business associate Potter Palmer began inviting his friends to join him in building homes among the sand banks on the city's near north side in the early 1880s, Houghteling took the call and built himself, and his family, a fine home on the recently laid out Banks Street.

Stung by the widely circulated “SEAL pals” account of what really happened in Somalia (discussed here last Friday), the Obama administration had National Security Advisor James L. Jones and a number of anonymous Pentagon sources give their side two days ago in a Washington Times exclusive. Their mission, according to reporter Bill Gertz, was