Starz Cancels ‘Blunt Talk’ After Two SeasonsJonathan Ames’s Blunt Talk will not be returning to Starz with another season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Starz has canceled the […]
ByMegh Wright
How Jonathan Ames Approaches Writing for TV
Jonathan Ames began his career writing novels and performing in small theaters around New York City before landing a job writing and starring […]
Finding Your Voice with Jonathan AmesJonathan Ames isn’t “just” a television writer. His prolific career spans from personal essays to graphic novels, storytelling, screenplays, a […]
MaxFunCon Is Heading EastMaximumFunCon, Jesse Thorn’s annual weekend of well-dressed, bookish comedy is getting an east coast version. From October 26-28, Maximum Fun […]
ByJesse David Fox
‘Bored to Death’ Alive?Clue #1) Ted Danson told a French journalist that a 90-minute Bored to Death movie is possibly in the works for HBO. Clue #2) HBO told Vulture […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: ‘Car Periscope’This week’s Curb sees Larry trying to better himself in more ways than one — working with a personal trainer (30 Rock’s Cheyenne Jackson) to […]
Lenny Kravitz Neither Seen Nor Heard at GoldBar Last NightJonathan Ames, self-described “journalist with bad breath, bad teeth, bad hair, and bad debt,” penned a hilarious essay for Spin about infiltrating GoldBar with the likes of Lenny Kravitz, who despite living a few blocks away takes a Town Car to the club (what, no Escalade?). Ames is blown away by the fact that Cameron Diaz isn’t even the prettiest girl in the place, which is “loaded with perfume, emanating from the dozens and dozens of beautiful girls” (hm, nothing about the smell of cigarette smoke). Kravitz, meanwhile, has been there, done that, hence this lyric from one of his new songs: “The night is young, GoldBar’s the place to be.” With that in mind, we slipped in last night for a $17 drink and a plate of his favorite truffle fries, to see if Kravitz’s name check has earned him a place on GB’s playlist.
last night’s gig
Jonathan Ames’s Punch-out!Last night, at Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo, with friend Fiona Apple cheering him on, Jonathan Ames took to the ring to duke it out with fellow writer Craig “the Crippler” Davidson in a publicity ploy for Davidson’s U.S. fiction debut, The Fighter.