Jason Schwartzman
Jason Schwartzman Talks Stripping and Swinging on 'The Overnight'
About halfway through “The Overnight,” Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman strip down and dance completely naked. We sat down with Schwartzman to get the low down on the upcoming comedy.
Philip Roth Types Are Outdated? Tell Us Something We Don't Know!
A self-absorbed jerk of a writer befriends another Philip Roth type. That’s the premise of ‘Listen Up Philip’ — and Anya Ulinich says it’s why the flick’s such a bore.
Lena Dunham, Joseph Gordon-Levitt added to Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 276 new members to join its 16 branches.
On Lena Dunham’s Wacky New Yorker Video
Who better to herald the next lurching step in the death march of print media than Lena Dunham? The 25-year-old writer-slash-director-slash-star of “Girls” also wrote, directed and starred in a five-minute web video introduction to the publication’s “head-spinning” new portable portal, where a bizarro, slacks-clad version of herself named “Lanny Donhom” (?) takes to a fake talk show and uses host Jon Hamm as interlocutor to elucidate crucial questions like “what is an iPhone?”
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Lisa Loeb, Ally Sheedy, Jason Schwartzman, Brandon Cohen, Roni Rabinovotz
Q&A: Jonathan Ames on Being 'Bored to Death'
Jonathan Ames is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and, most recently, the creator of “Bored to Death,” an HBO comedy starting its third season October 10. In the show, Jason Schwartzman stars as a fictional version of Ames who moonlights as a private detective on Craigslist to relieve a bad case of writer’s block. His friends, comic book artist Ray Hueston (Zach Galifianakis) and magazine editor-cum-restaurateur George Christopher (Ted Danson), join him in his adventures. Ames spoke to The Arty Semite at a café in his Brooklyn neighborhood of Boerum Hill about dealing with success, making the move from literature to television, and the source of his Jewish anxiety.
