Brooks and Albert Fritz, Western Cape provincial minister of social development, said the accused man had been a family friend.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The writer-director-actor Albert Brooks, caught in a limbo of his own making.

NEWYORKER: The Muse

"I didn't have my first conversation until I was in graduate school, " said Mr. Lutz, whose self-consciousness and half-joking self-deprecation made Woody Allen seem like Albert Brooks.

WSJ: Celebrating a Decade of the Believer

Barstow Police Chief Albert Ramirez released a statement alleging that when the police dog was sent into Brooks' SUV, Brooks choked and hit the dog with a socket wrench.

NPR: Freeway Chase Led To Ex-Nev. Lawmaker's Arrest