James L. Brooks Remembers Mary Tyler Moore: "She Made Grace Contagious" - PGA Awards

“Let me start with Mary,” said James L. Brooks stepping up to the podium tonight at the Producers Guild Awards where the TV creator/filmmaker was receiving the Norman Lear Achievement Award. “I promise you as a woman, she was everything you sensed. She had dignity, worth, legs, wit, she was intrinsically valiant, she was the woman who was at the center of the work and who never complained. She made grace contagious. Let’s have a hand for Mary.” Prior to Brooks speech, a…