Jonathan Ames

...O. Russell's "I ? Huckabees"); his best friend, Ray (Zach Galifianakis, an appealingly bearish comedian); and George (Ted Danson), the editor-in-chief of a slick New York magazine that Jonathan sometimes writes for. In the story, Jonathan...

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...hour of Comic Neurosis TV. Schwartzman's Jonathan is loosely based on the real Jonathan Ames, who has ruthlessly and humorously chronicled his own most embarrassing moments, sexual experiences, and heartbreak. The more passive Jonathan in...

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...that he decides to become an amateur detective. Ames seems like Schwartzman's Rushmore character all grown up, still trying on vocations that he has seemingly no prior formal education for. New York as a milieu plays a major role,...

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...is constantly reading noir detective books. It's something he thinks he can pull off. And, at the very least, it will distract him from his writer's block. For a character created by the real-life Jonathan Ames, a writer not immune to...

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...us ecstatic. Enter HBO's new comedy, Bored to Death, which stars Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and Ted Danson (Cheers, Damages) in a series penned by author Jonathan Ames (The Alcoholic). Schwartzman...

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