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This weekend enthusiasts and creators are gathering at the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Avenue between Union and President Streets in Park Slope, for King Con, the borough's first large comics convention, featuring fifty-plus exhibitors and top talent appearing in readings and panel discussions. Read the article and view a slideshow of illustrations and book covers by King Con artists and authors.This weekend enthusiasts and creators are gathering at the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth... more
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Bored to Death’s Jonathan Ames - the show’s creator, writer and all around bossman, as opposed to lead character, also called Jonathan Ames - has been a prolific creator across many media. Not only is there the show there are comic books, essays, novels, stage shows, memoirs. What we’re most concerned with here though, I suppose, are his works for cinema.
Currently in post production is The Extra Man, directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, and co-scripted by the directors and Ames. Coming up later, a possible picture based upon Ames’ comic strip The Alcoholic and a big screen version of Wake Up, Sir! that the novelist has written himself.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/16/jonathan-ames-scripting-adaptation-of-his-novel-wake-up-sir/Bored to Death’s Jonathan Ames - the show’s creator, writer and all around... more
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He’s spent most of his career as a literary cult figure who didn’t even own a television. Now Jonathan Ames is the writer and executive producer of the acclaimed HBO series, Bored to Death.
Will success spoil him? Ames lays it out to comedian Jordan Carlos in the latest of The Daily Beast’s interview series, Have a Drink With. An exclusive clip from episode four of Bored to Death follows.
Ames on Humping Jason Schwartzman, State of Literature
Things get off to an interesting start as Jonathan shows Jordan how he humped Bored to Death’s leading man, Jason Schwartzman. Ames also discusses two of his best-known works, one of which we can’t print the title of, the other best mentioned by Ames.
There two parts to this interview and a preview of episode four.He’s spent most of his career as a literary cult figure who didn’t even... more
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Jonathan Ames has been an Asylum favorite since we got a hold of his candid collection of essays, "What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer." The writer's latest comic self-exploration is HBO's new comedy "Bored to Death," which stars Jason Schwartzman as the character Jonathan Ames.
We sat down with Ames at the Brooklyn Public House in New York City to discuss his show, and were excited when he agreed to show us how to do a "hairy call." What is a "hairy call," you may ask? Well, you'll need to hear it to believe it.Jonathan Ames has been an Asylum favorite since we got a hold of his candid collection... more
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"Bored to Death is an almost too-perfect storm of literary and precious elements: It was created, executive-produced and written by Brooklyn author Jonathan Ames (Wake up, Sir!, What’s Not to Love?, I Love You More Than You Know), and is about a young Brooklyn writer named—yes!—Jonathan Ames, who is feeling lost thanks to a recent breakup and the looming pressure to deliver his second novel. He has a needy, pot-smoking magazine editor boss (a white-haired Ted Danson); a wacky graphic-artist best friend (a hot–off–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis); and, after an impulsive posting on Craigslist, a blooming side career as a private detective. Mr. Schwartzman plays Jonathan Ames as a white-wine–swilling, dreamy and deadpan neurotic, walking immaculate brownstone Brooklyn streets and having coffee with his buddy (where, appropriately enough, the sidewalk is crowded with Bugaboo strollers, though the F train he is often seen on is suspiciously spacious and shiny, and apparently timely). The writing is witty and deliberately offbeat, the situations quirky. Guest stars include Jim Jarmusch, Kirsten Wiig, Parker Posey, Oliver Platt, Denis O’Hare and Patton Oswalt. Jaded New Yorkers might find themselves fighting a reflexive eye roll—after all, isn’t it all just too-too? Too literary, too consciously cute, too meta, too hip, etc.?
>>READ 'JASON SCHWARTZMAN GOES TO THE EYE DOCTOR'
The answer (as it is with most things) is yes and no and well-wait-a-minute-not-so-fast. By its third episode, Bored to Death settles into itself—which is pretty quick if you think about the history of good television—and becomes the thing it’s straining so hard to be: charming. Mr. Schwartzman can take a lion’s share of credit— and isn’t this an actor who could be charged with carrying the same heavy load of too-too-ness himself? After all, this is the 29-year-old who started his career playing Max Fisher in Wes Anderson’s breakthrough, Rushmore. He would go on to collaborate with the ultimate-in-twee director again on The Darjeeling Limited—which he co-wrote—and to lend his voice on Mr. Anderson’s upcoming animated The Fantastic Mr. Fox, too. He’s also popped up repeatedly in the Judd Apatow universe (appearances in Freaks and Geeks, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Funny People); survived David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees; and played Louis XVI in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. He used to be in a band (he released a single with Evan Dando and Ben Lee in 2002) and composed music for Funny People, Cloverfield and The O.C., and even helped perform Bored to Death’s opening theme, which he co-wrote with Mr. Ames (the writer, not the character). And did we mention that he’s a Coppola, too (Mom is Talia Shire, sister to Francis Ford)? ...""Bored to Death is an almost too-perfect storm of literary and precious elements:... more
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