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...utterly blank faces of Fox, his family, and friends—posturing, wry, flummoxed, or brooding countenances as they fit their respective characters—allow for development that’s left totally up to the script. Fox’s son Ash, voiced by Jason Schwartzman, another perennial Anderson collaborator, strikes the perfect timbre between obnoxious humor and endearing awkwardness. Schwartzman’s delivery is appropriately adolescent, all but reprising a more frustrated Max Fischer—the protagonist of “Rushmore,” the movie that made both him and Anderson famous...
...gloriously anachronistic stop-motion, by Mark Gustafson. In his corduroy suit, Mr. F. is a woodsy gentleman crook, a raffish Raffles specializing in chickens. When his wife (voiced by Meryl Streep) becomes pregnant, Fox retires to write a newspaper column and help raise his underachieving son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman). Yet the artist in Fox yearns to pull off one last heist: raiding the farms of Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon) and two other big landowners...
...mortgages. Mrs. Fox, so sweetly supportive of her partner in the book - it is she who dubs him "fantastic" - is now a dubious sort who limits all praise and wields a sharp claw. Mother to four in Dahl's story, here she has only one kit, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), who is petulant, undersized, uncoordinated and insecure. "You're supposed to be my lab partner," he says to a comely young fox named Agnes, who is distracted in their biology class by the Foxes' glamorous houseguest, Ash's cousin Kristofferson (voiced by Anderson's brother Eric). "I am," Agnes protests...
...year's Starz sitcom Party Down (gearing up for a second season next year), about aspiring showbiz types working for a catering company in L.A., perfectly captures the Apatow vibe of improv-like, conversational comedy. Likewise, HBO's Bored to Death, a literary slacker-com about a writer (Jason Schwartzman) posing as a detective, has a voice and offbeat style that recall indie-film comedies - the kind, like Rushmore, that star Jason Schwartzman...
Tell me a little bit about your HBO show coming out in September. It takes the basic premise of the short story, which is about a writer named Jonathan Ames who puts an ad on Craigslist and becomes a private detective. It stars Jason Schwartzman playing Jonathan Ames. I mean, he's not playing me, just a character with my name. And Ted Danson plays an older friend, a mentor in the publishing business. Jonathan does freelance work...