SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford, MA, USA - After the insane fame and wealth of "Friends," David Schwimmer is back to what he considers to be his essence — trying to make it as a working actor-writer-director, albeit one who never again has to worry about making it.

It's a nice life, if also an odd premise for a career: He is as famous for what he did as he is anonymous for what he's been doing.

He burns to work with his heroes, like filmmakers Mike Nichols and Sydney Pollack. He's back to auditioning, as he did in his early 20s, when he was a waiter in the L.A.

AZ Central.com - AZ, USA - The moment David Schwimmer walks into the small Ritz-Carlton conference room the urge hits to ask him all sorts of Friends questions. After watching him play Ross Geller on the NBC comedy for 10 seasons, it is hard to see Schwimmer in any other role.

That's one reason he is on a promotional tour as a filmmaker and not as an actor. Schwimmer's first effort as a feature film director, Run, Fatboy, Run hits theaters Friday, March 28. He wants only to talk about directing the romantic comedy, which stars Simon Pegg. Run, Fatboy, Run is about how far a guy

BuddyTV - USA - David Schwimmer catapulted to stardom when he was cast on the award-winning sitcom Friends. For ten years, he worked as a regular cast member and even served as the director of several episodes of the series. As the paleontologist Ross Geller, he was distinctly known for his nasal voice, nerdy intellect and abstract sense of humor. His love for dinosaurs and other scientific beliefs often led to conflict with Phoebe’s self-devised beliefs, and were usually a recurring joke throughout the series. Described by his parents as a “medical marvel,” he was generally favored by his parents over his younger sister