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In between filming scenes for Entourage, Jeremy Piven warned beloved character actor Gary Cole to keep his flirting with female extras to a minimum unless he enjoyed being talked about the Howard Stern show and morning zoo radio shows. Piven said, "There's nothing quite like waking up to a Blackberry full of messages from your buddies on the East Coast talking about how some girl dragged your good name in the mud before getting on the Sybian or letting Beetlejuice throw lunch meat at her ass on the Stern show." Cole thanked Piven for the advice and told him that it wouldn't be an issue, seeing as how he's married.

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As he sits, posture impeccable, on the shag rug of a pool-side cabana at Beverly Hills' Avalon Hotel (we've moved on), he's recognized by two gleeful diners. Ivy Koral and Evan Cavic are junior managers with a management firm and, says Cavic, "When people don't know what I do, I ask them, 'Do you watch "Entourage"? I'm Lloyd.' " Koral laughs. "I live his life," she says, adding that she once worked for an agent who upset her so much she "had to pull over on the side of the road to throw up."

Lee listens to their stories with sympathy. "I'm shocked by how many people tell me that their bosses really do abuse them," he says, adding that people adore Lloyd because he's an everyman.

Perhaps Lloyd's shining example of grace under agent-induced fire can help those assistants prone to such episodes of reverse-peristaltic panic better deal with their stress; as they feel the bile quickly rising in their throats after enduring yet another threat by their boss to ship their dismembered bodies back to the Nebraska farm from whence they came for improperly conferencing a three-way call, they can take a deep breath, imagine the sassy quip their Entourage hero would employ to defuse a similar situation, and then profusely apologize for their utter inadequacy, knowing that any actual backtalk during their daily tongue-lashing would likely get them fired and/or killed.

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