James L. Brooks On ‘Ella McCay’ Origins, Meeting Albert Brooks & ‘I’ll Do Anything’ War Stories – Crew Call Podcast

James L. Brooks On ‘Ella McCay’ Origins, Meeting Albert Brooks & ‘I’ll Do Anything’ War Stories – Crew Call Podcast

A widow’s relationship with an astronaut, the love triangle of a broadcast news team, and now a state lieutenant governor-turned-governor who is bogged down by the men in her life, chiefly her knuckleheaded husband in 20th Century Studios’ dramedy Ella McCay. The characters on the surface may appear as though they’re not in our immediate sphere, but James L. Brooks in his seven picture directorial canon, has a knack for holding a mirror up to …