On May 1, 2011, Albert Brooks appeared at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at The Grove, a big L.A. shopping center. He was promoting his then-new novel, 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America and someone captured it with a shaky cellphone.
Mr. Brooks started off by saying that as a kid, he went to Kiddyland, an amusement park that was on the same ground on which that Barnes & Noble now stands. He was wrong. Kiddyland was torn down to build The Beverly Center, another big L.A. shopping center a mile or so away. He then talks about the book. He then takes questions from the audience and some of it's pretty interesting. Some it is pretty amusing. You can decide which is which…