Ari Emanuel In The News Round-Up

Since yesterday, Official Agent Dance mascot Ari Emanuel has blogged his little heart out for the HuffPo, been accused of pro-SUV behavior by the NY Daily News, and been reflexively name-checked in a NY Times story about Entourage. We're forced to adopt the round-up format to do adequately track The Smiling Face of Ten Percent's recent media ubiquity:

· While you were gobbling a variety of grilled meats and chugging cold brews, Emanuel spent his Labor Day at Arianna Huffington's online cocktail party for semi-internet-savvy liberals, slamming the Bush administration for its failure to live up to its vaunted businesslike approach to governance: "Forget Business School," snarks Emanuel, "these guys need an elementary school refresher: 'Reading is FUNdamental'." We wonder which one of his A-list writer clients lent him that pithy, post-capping blow. [HuffPo]

· Gossip watchdog Lloyd Grove notes that Mark Wahlberg, star client of the hybrid-loving, anti-SUV crusading Emanuel, has a contract calling for the actor to be ferried about in a convoy of the gas-guzzling behemoths. (All green convictions aside, doesn't Grove realize how uncomfortable it is to host a groupie threesome in the confines of a Prius?) Grove gives the wily agent an escape route, however, allowing for the possibility that Marky Mark's lawyer negotiated the evil SUV caravan. The hugging-out of bitches is sure to ensue. [NY Daily News]

· In an article on how "chillingly realistic" agents all over town supposedly found the recent agency-defection plotline on Entourage, the NY Times does the obligatory Ari-Gold-is-based-on-Ari-Emanuel explanation, then throws in a bonus about Endeavor's sacred creation story: "Mr. Ellin based the character of Ari Gold largely on his own real-life agent, Ari Emanuel. Mr. Emanuel staged an agency coup of his own several years ago, starting the Endeavor Talent Agency with a small group of agents who had abruptly quit shops like International Creative Management and the Creative Artists Agency." There is no indication that fictional Ari's intimation that he porked Jessica Biel (with chopsticks providing a novel visual aid for the sex act) has any basis in reality. [NY Times]

• Previously: Home Purchase Helps Ari Emanuel Achieve Muse-Level Creative Influence [Defamer]

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