April
7
Entourage Premieres, Movie Coverage Moves Online
Oddly enough, I didn't make it to the Entourage premiere Thursday night because I was honoring my commitment to manager Joan Hyler (who reps Diane Lane and Alfred Molina, and coaxed Peter O'Toole to come west for the Oscars) to help her teach her graduate USC film class in the super-moderne orange on white conference room at Endeavor (whose chief, Ari Emanuel, inspired Jeremy Piven's Ari Gold, and whose offices remind me of the airport in 2001: A Space Odyssey). She told them about mold-breaking ICM agent Sue Mengers; I talked about the subject of this week's column about the demise of Premiere Magazine and how movie coverage is migrating from print onto the web. This much Joan's proteges, the next generation of industry execs, agents and producers, already knew. UPDATE: Jeff Wells, Glenn Kenny and Kim Voynar respond.
Meanwhile, my colleague Cynthia Littleton, who will launch her new blog, Littleton On Air, next week, reports from the premiere:
"We may be whores...but we're not pimps." So says Ari Gold in a declaration of principle that is genuinely stirring, and laugh out loud funny, as only Jeremy Piven in his tenpercenter alter-ego can deliver in the second of the fresh batch of "Entourage" episodes set to bow Sunday on HBO. The first two episodes of the new season played very, very well for the receptive home town crowd that gathered Thursday night at the ArcLight for a screening followed by a premiere party down the block afterward at the Ivar. The life-imitates-art-imitates-TV tone was set by all the corporate branding on display at HBO's party, as skillfully mocked in the first of the new "Entourage" installments. (Vodka was the pour of the night, and this non-vodka lover warmed up to the concoction dubbed the Turtle, featuring a blend of orange and pomegranate juice.) The Ivar's many rooms were sprinkled with items from the show, including the life-size golf practice screen and practice putt set-up, a pool table and, of course, a few go-go dancers in itty-bitty metallic bikinis. Boys will be boys....
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