December
18
Piven Turns Into a Thermometer
Whatever happened to "The show must go on?" When I ran into Jeremy Piven at the Toronto Film Festival, he was miffed that I was asking him about HBO's Entourage, when he was starring in a Feature Film (Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla). Excuse me. Doesn't he know that HBO's programming is often better than most movies?
Piven may not want to admit that he was born to play Ari Emanuel Gold, at the same time that he may not be made of the stern stuff required to trod the boards on Broadway. After missing several performances of the well-reviewed revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, Piven's doctor diagnosed him as too ill to forge on.
Mamet gave this response to Variety:
"I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."
Norbert Leo Butz, and then Bill Macy, will fill in for Piven.
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hahahahaha.... he's a big effing crybaby.
Posted by: DeafBrownTrashPunk | December 18, 2008 at 05:32 PM
Someone forgot to tell Piven that late-night partying does not go well with 8 shows a week.
Posted by: Dixon Steele | December 19, 2008 at 04:49 AM
he's a true party monster.
Posted by: thelma adams | December 19, 2008 at 09:01 AM
There's mercury in hair plugs.
Posted by: Bingo | December 19, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Bars close at 2am in LA.
Face it Ari, you just can't hang in NYC.
Posted by: JaeJae | December 19, 2008 at 10:23 PM