Editing Albert Brooks (section)

==Early life==
Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein on July 22, 1947, into a [[Jewish]] show business family in [[Beverly Hills]], [[California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.egothemag.com/archives/2006/01/comedy_in_the_m.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210221819/http://www.egothemag.com/archives/2006/01/comedy_in_the_m.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 10, 2006 |title=Comedy in The Muslim World |work=EGO Magazine |date=January 2006 |first=Rachel |last=Astarte Piccione }}</ref><ref name="filmreference"/> to [[Thelma Leeds]] (née Goodman), an actress, and [[Harry Einstein]], a radio comedian who performed on [[Eddie Cantor]]'s radio program and was known as "Parkyakarkus".<ref name="filmreference"/> He is the youngest of three sons. His older brothers are the late comedic actor [[Bob Einstein]] (1942–2019), and Clifford Einstein (b. 1939), a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His older half-brother was [[Charles Einstein]] (1926–2007), a writer for such television programs as ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' and ''[[Lou Grant (TV series)|Lou Grant]]''. His grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia. He grew up among show business families in Southern California, attending [[Beverly Hills High School]] with [[Richard Dreyfuss]] and [[Rob Reiner]].<ref>Kaufman, Peter (January 22, 2006). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10F58714871BD6E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "The background on Albert Brooks"]. ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Buffalo News]]''. Accessed April 24, 2008. "Albert Brooks, who grew up in a showbiz family and attended Beverly Hills High School, has never been interested in being an outsider."</ref>