Editing Martin Brest (section)

==Early life and education==
Brest was born to Eastern European Jewish immigrant parents in a working-class neighborhood in [[the Bronx]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/martin_brest|title = Martin Brest|website = [[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate = April 5, 2023|publisher = [[Fandango Media]]}}</ref><ref name = Coleman>{{cite web|url = https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/21952%7C0/Martin-Brest/#biography|title = Martin Brest|work = [[Turner Classic Movies]]|last = Coleman|first = Bryce|accessdate = April 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 5, 1984 |title=Marty Brest, Clicking |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/12/06/marty-brest-clicking/41aa6805-a13e-445f-b72e-5974dc41e5cc/ |access-date=2024-06-10 |work=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> He was influenced by watching ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' as a child, saying in a 2023 interview, "I was a kid watching it in a household that was economically not that different than in the show. I felt like it was a show made for my neighborhood. And that character of [[Ralph Kramden]] really touched me, that angry soul whose spirit blossoms".<ref name = Gilchrist>{{cite news|url = https://variety.com/2023/film/features/martin-brest-director-beverly-hills-cop-gigli-1235672428/|title = Director Martin Brest Revisits the Triumphs of 'Beverly Hills Cop' and 'Midnight Run,' and Reflects On His Post-'Gigli' Hollywood Exile|work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|last = Gilchrist|first = Todd|date = July 18, 2023|accessdate = July 18, 2023}}</ref> 

Brest graduated from [[Stuyvesant High School]] in 1969 and from New York University's [[New York University School of the Arts|School of the Arts]] in 1973.<ref name="Coleman" /> His New York University undergraduate student film,  ''[[Hot Dogs for Gauguin]]'' (1972), starring a then unknown [[Danny DeVito]] and with a small part by then unknown [[Rhea Perlman]], was one of 25 films chosen in 2009 by the [[National Film Registry]] of the Library of Congress to "be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures"<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-250.html|title=Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|date=December 30, 2009}}</ref> and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Brest attended the [[AFI Conservatory]], where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1977.<ref name="Coleman" />