Amy Poehler, one of the smartest, funniest comic actors on screen, talks about her career - from improv and Saturday Night Live to the hit movie Baby Mama - and the new season of her critically acclaimed, Peabody-award-winning NBC series Parks and Recreation, in which she stars as the endearingly civic-minded, politically driven Leslie Knope.
Caryn James, a film and culture critic, is writer and owner of the “James on screenS” film and television blog for Indiewire and a contributor to The New York Times Book Review and other publications. Previously, she was film critic, chief television critic and critic at large for The New York Times. She is the author of the novels What Caroline Knew and Glorie.