The Resume

(March 11, 1938-May 22, 2011)
Born in New York City, New York
Wrote numerous advertising jingles, including Pepsi's 'You've Got a Lot to Live' and Maxwell House's 'Good to the Last Drop Feeling'
Wrote the song 'You Light Up My Life' (1977)
Composed music for the films 'The Lords of Flatbush' (1974) and 'Invitation to the Wedding' (1983)
Directed, wrote, produced and appeared in the films 'You Light Up My Life' (1977) and 'If Ever I See You Again' (1978)

Why he might be annoying:

His daughter Amanda said, 'My father is a bully and very scary and very intimidating.'
He was a regular client of Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis, who commented 'I can't say he had any redeeming qualities at all.'
According to Davis, he was fond of hiring girls to role play casting couch scenarios, where he would pretend to seduce actresses with drugged wine.
According to prosecutors, he went beyond role playing as they charged him with 91 counts of rape, sexual misconduct and assault against 13 women who he had lured to his apartment to audition for movie roles.
Prosecutors said there were an additional dozen women they might call as witnesses who had been assaulted far enough in the past that the statute of limitations on charging Brooks with a crime had run out.
While awaiting trial, he committed suicide by tying a plastic bag around his head and filling it with helium.

Why he might not be annoying:

He won several Clio awards for his ad jingles.
'You Light Up My Life' won an Oscar for Best Original Song and a Grammy for Song of the Year.
His ex-fiancee allegedly soaked him for a million bucks before revealing she was already married. (Although she partly made up for it by loaning him $500,000 for his bail.)

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 36]
• Film Composers
• Grammy for Song of the Year (Ranked: 1978)
• I Became a Dad in 1986
• I Committed Suicide
• I Died in 2011 (Ranked: 73)
• I Directed Myself
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Made a Perverted Ass Out of Myself
• I Stutter/Stammer
• I was Estranged From My Child
• Look at Me, I'm Handcuffed
• Look at Me, I'm with the Cops
• Oscar for Best Original Song (Ranked: 1977)
• Profiles 31251-31500 (Ranked: 31310)
• Rapists [Alleged or Convicted]
• Whores and Johns

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 23 Votes: 34.78% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 167 Votes: 58.68% Annoying