Gawker
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health
Jeremy Piven Says Barack Obama Has His Back
Producers still want vengeance against Jeremy Piven for dropping out of Speed the Plow due to "mercury poisoning." They've been thwarted once, and the actor now claims history and Hope are on his side. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SaraRueful: The capitalization of the statement isn't odd if you realize that the Obama administration IS GOING TO INVADE MERCURY!!!1!! 1 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Felicity Huffman: 'My Husband Is Still Babysitting Jeremy Piven'
Felicity Huffman was on Letterman last night when the subject of her husband, William H. Macy, replacing the sushi-poisoned Jeremy Piven in the play Speed-the-Plow play came up. Felicity wasn't exactly kind to the Piv. More »
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Comment by Sproing: This particular half of Filliam H. Muffman has never struck me as one to suffer fools. 8 Responses | Other threads
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bad dates
Sushi-Poisoned Jeremy Piven Likes to Get His Dates Drunk On Sake
For his sake. You know, to get her in bed. So says a model (well, from GoDaddy.com) named Simona Fusca, who supposedly went on a very rude date with the Broadway-abandoning actor.
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Comment by malke2010: Really, what's all the fuss about Jeremy Piven, anyway? He's not hot looking, he's on television, he sounds a little desperate,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
Jeremy Piven Cries, Escapes Punishment
Jeremy Piven convinced five other actors his mercury poisoning is real, deadlocking a union hearing and sparing Piven penalties for leaving Speed the Plow. How did he do it? Maybe with some crying.
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By Ryan TateComment by ellagood: reciting mamet for weeks could do this to anybody... but seriously, yes, he is full of shit. it wasn't sushi -... 9 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Jeremy Piven's Partying To Be Held Against Him In Court
Jeremy Piven is expected to show up for his Actor's Equity hearing tomorrow to determine whether his "mercury poisoning" excuse was totally made up, duh. The biggest hole in Piven's defense? His exhaustively documented partying. More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: Folksy Sex Troll: I'm sorry... "The Piven Theater Workshop?" Really? 5 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Jeremy Piven
1/24 — Saw JEREMY PIVEN sweating off all of that mercury on the Stairmaster at Equinox. He had bags under his eyes that rivaled Droopy the Dog's. [Hollywood PrivacyWatch is written by and for Defamer readers; send your sightings to tips@defamer.com.]
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By STVComment by TheSometimesWhy: You good folks have obviously missed the point: do you have any idea the kind of workout you can get... more » | Other threads
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jeremy piven
Photoshoot Thrown Into Chaos After Jeremy Piven Complains of Acute Shirtsleeve Poisoning
Here's a few reasons you might want to think twice about posing for the cover of Page Six Magazine: More »
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By SethComment by Victor Ward: Way to screw up a Joan Crawford quote, Piven. 1 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Jeremy Piven Fishes For Redemption With Diane Sawyer
Maybe Jeremy Piven isn't off the mercury—after all, his attempt to justify his recent behavior to Good Morning America was oilier than a soy sauce-slathered eel roll. More »
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Comment by kookla: Never mind the mercury levels, The Piv should be tested for rabies because that rodent on his head is foaming... 1 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Special Polo Lounge-Madness Edition
Went to the Polo Lounge this past Friday for lunch with a friend, fancy I know, but it was on his work account. Anyway... More »
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By STVComment by PhyrePhox: Every time I read about Piven's inexplicable popularity I remember this and it makes me smile. 4 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Fish-Free Jeremy Piven Confronts Elisabeth Moss, Press
Jeremy Piven faced quite the gauntlet at last night's Globes: a press pack hungry to douse him in soy sauce and eat him alive, plus his aggrieved former Broadway costar, Elisabeth Moss. More »
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Comment by HwoodHills: The best thing was watching the NBC guy who interviewed him telling him if he was hurt during a football... 1 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Piven Could Be Forced To Pay 'Plow' Producers Under 'Liar Liar Pants On Fire' Statute
Though Jeremy Piven's ungraceful, sushi-related exit from Speed-the-Plow has at least secured him future savings on his Matsuhisa tab, he may part with that extra cash if the play's backers have their (angry) say. More »
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Comment by Mr.Fluffy: ...I don't see "lets hug it out" working this time more » | Other threads
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sushigate
Sherri Shepherd Awoken At 1:30 AM By An Insistent Jeremy Piven
Last night, Jeremy Piven sent a very late text message to Sherri Shepherd—and for once, it didn't say "Come to my room - whoever responds first gets me for the night." More »
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Comment by hhpeterson13: A PR assistant totally wrote that. Actually wasn't such a bad idea. Even if it's false, it makes him look... 1 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Was Jeremy Piven Actually Stricken With Insufferable-Diva-Poisoning?
Aside from Fisher Stevens, everyone knows that Jeremy Piven's play-quitting sushi defense is bogus (but delicious!). However, E! is now alleging that Piven never actually quit—he was fired. More »
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Comment by everfade: Jeremy Piven suffers from the same disease that Michael Cera is afflicted with. I believe it's called, B-List thinks he's... 2 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Defamer Commenter Watched Jeremy Piven Doing Yoga Poses In First Class Edition!
Sherri Shepherd isn't the only one who's had a memorable run-in at 30,000 feet with Jeremy Piven. Commenter MontagueGoat wrote in with another, presumably pre-mercury-poisoned encounter:
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Comment by HwoodHills: I can see the wanting to protect himself from lookie-loos in the airport. That's got to be a natural defensive... 1 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Jeremy Piven Exposed To Toxic Sherri Shepherd-Levels During Escape From New York
Sherri Shepherd's got an entry for Hollywood PrivacyWatch! On a plane over the holidays, she realized that the "short," fedora-clad man she'd been bothering was none other than the famously mercury-addled Jeremy Piven.
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Comment by Tiger_Tanaka: I don't like flying with my own children, so, shockingly, I sympathize with him. 5 Responses | Other threads
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sushigate
Jeremy Piven Finds That Partying With Models Can Cure Mercury Poisoning
An affliction as unusual as Jeremy Piven's sushi poisoning demands a treatment that's equally unorthodox. And so it is that Piven has begun a rigorous medical trial to find models he wants to (therapeutically) bang. -
sushigate
Broadway Audiences Prefer Their Casts Mercury-Poisoned
Though we understood why Jeremy Piven's ditched Speed-the-Plow co-stars reamed him onstage Sunday, we couldn't fathom what it was that had made Elisabeth Moss allegedly start "sobbing." Then, we saw the Piven-less box office:
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Comment by Greganda: Team Mamet. Piven is a giant tampon. This is an especially ill-timed slap in the face to Broadway where ticket... 1 Responses | Other threads
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food art
'Wall-E' Sushi Mastermind Crafts Piven-Friendly Version
Much as we loved the famous Wall-E bento, the film needs all the Oscar support it can muster. Thus, a food art alternative for the mercury-poisoned SAG faction was born.
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Comment by jsurf2336: Do you think if she makes a "Delgo" taco it will make any money? more » | Other threads
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sushigate
SushiGateWatch: Jeremy Piven Attacked By Sobbing Co-Stars!
As so many stories wind down for the holidays, it's comforting to know that the new developments in Jeremy Piven's Sushigate scandal are even more delicious than the soft shell crab roll at Matsuhisa.
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Comment by OldTowneTavern: What the hell does this play do to actors? Didn't Madonna have a meltdown doing it 20 years ago? 4 Responses | Other threads
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sushifans
'Speed-the-Plow' Producers Excited to Publicly Make Fun of Jeremy Piven
Though David Mamet zinged Jeremy Piven's play-quitting sushi excuse in the press, other Speed-the-Plow producers were keeping their slams anonymous until they realized just how much fun it can be.
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Comment by navstar: So he removes hair from his chest, but adds hair to his head? You crazy humans. 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
In Tonight's Performance, Jeremy Piven Will Look A Lot Like William H. Macy
· Broadway and Dan in Real Life star Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy have swooped in to save Speed-the-Plow, following Jeremy Piven's abrupt departure due to an acute case of eight-shows-a-week-is-really-putting-a-damper-on-my-skank-banging-schedule-itis. [Variety]
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By SethComment by Benny: I feel sorta bad for Pivs on this one. Mercury poisoning can occur and is serious, and Chinese herbs have... 1 Responses | Other threads
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excuses
Jeremy Piven Willing to Contract Any Disease That Will Get Him Off Broadway
Hollywood community, Jeremy Piven is very disappointed in you. Why have you refrained from rallying around the actor as he suffers so dearly from mononucleosis... er, we mean "self-inflicted sushi poisoning"?
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Comment by Desk_hack: He seems to have made it through the last several years, despite his extreme case of douchious bagious. 1 Responses | Other threads
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excuses
'Avid Sushi Eater' Jeremy Piven Blames Spicy Tuna For Neuro-Muscular Dysfunction
When Jeremy Piven dropped out of Speed-the-Plow today and cited a "high mercury count" as the reason, we wondered whether that excuse could possibly be topped. As it turns out, it could!
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Comment by checkyaself: Why is everyone making fun of Jeremy? Do you know what high mercury levels can do to a person? If someone... 2 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Jeremy Piven's Play-Quitting Excuse Makes Enemy of Mamet
If ever David Mamet had justification to launch one of his famous, profanity-studded tirades, the news that Jeremy Piven had abruptly (and weirdly) quit his play Speed-the-Plow would certainly seem to fit the bill.
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Comment by Bellyboop: Maybe his hair plugs contain a mercury substance that is seeping into his system and overtaking his body? (See: Tobias... 1 Responses | Other threads
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do not try and bend the spoon
Tripping Balls With Ari Gold
What's to be done when you've exhausted every conceivable scenario in which to place your series's quartet of homoerotically bonded ne'er-do-wells? In Entourage's case, it means sending them to the desert with Eric "Abs of Steel" Roberts and a bag of magic mushrooms for a mind-expanding journey towards should-Vince-or-shouldn't-Vince-do-a-Benji-movie enlightenment. More »
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By SethComment by Reggie Cameron: I don't watch Entourage, so whenever I see Ari Gold in type (especially when followed by words like BALLS) I... more » | Other threads
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emmys
Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: Comedy Edition!
It's just two days before television's biggest event (that isn't the American Idol finale, the Oscars, or a political convention speech), and we at Defamer are gearing up to fulfill all your Emmy needs — at least, the ones that don't involve white linen slacks. Don't forget, we'll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT (West Coast spoilerphobes, beware: the Emmys air here tape-delayed). So who do we expect to be taking home the hardware? After the jump, get our official predictions in the Emmys' comedy categories (for dramas, head right here): More »
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Comment by busterbluth: Curb had an especially strong season. So there, Defamer. Mad Men *does* deserve every award it's up for,... 1 Responses | Other threads
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jeremy piven
Jeremy Piven's Toronto Appearance Reportedly Implodes Canadian Niceness Levels
There's only so much of the Toronto Film Festival's flavor and clusterfucky pageantry we can deduce from our workstation deep in the Defamer Salt Mines, but until the State Department restores our passports to good standing and we get that furlough we've been promised since mid-2005, we're happy to defer to our all-seeing operatives on the scene. One particularly attentive tipster writes today from the party honoring RocknRolla, Guy Ritchie's trilogy-launching crime caper featuring Jeremy Piven as the manager of a junkie rock star/art thief/Mafia scion. Which was evidently beside the point once Piven arrived with his own drama, as our mole reports after the jump: More »
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By STVComment by Bogart Shwadchuck: Very expensive or very skanky? While those are probably mutually exclusive traits in hookers, they also shouldn't be in question... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Comment by TedCopacabana: Piven, please let us all in on who gave you that head of hair! more » | Other threads
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entourage
Ari And Lloyd: A Love Story
With just a little over a week until the new season of Entourage begins, we thought we'd take a moment to salute the most complex and rewarding of all relationships in that ongoing industry sausage fest: that of Ari and Lloyd. And no better examples of their glorious co-dependency exist than in those moments when everyone's favorite double-banger-securing Zeus completely loses his shit on his fiercely loyal Gaysian henchman. Defamer videographer Molly McAleer combed through the Entourage archives to find the greatest of all spittle-flecked Ari-Lloyed exchanges—though call us biased, our favorite one didn't make the cut. More »
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By SethComment by Assistant/Atlas: Seriously, can we have a spinoff called "30 Minutes of Ari On the Phone" so I don't have to watch... more » | Other threads
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Comment by WisecrackingBrunette: The heels didn't save Mickey Rourke. Pivs, I see your future... more » | Other threads
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john cusack
'NY Post' Alleges That John Cusack's Childhood is Sold, Bought, and Processed
When John Cusack called us up and asked, "If I answer your questions, will you stop writing nasty shit about me?" we demurred — sadly, he didn't try the same tack with the New York Post. The left-leaning actor is a juicy target for the conservative tabloid, and after Cusack was asked to contribute an essay to the new HuffPost Chicago by his friend, "the good and great Arianna," the Post tore it wide open like a disgruntled Must Love Dogs ticketbuyter. What they allege they've found is a whole host of errors and made-up childhood reminiscences: More »
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Comment by Stylishbroad: @William Mize: @SteveRhodes: Well, Stevo, being a Northsider, who has lived in Chicago, namely Lincoln Park and Old Town, her... more » | Other threads
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Comment by navstar: I liked him more when he was chubby and nearly bald on Larry Sanders more » | Other threads
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Comment by raincoaster: That hat and that watch are a whole class war, right there. more » | Other threads
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miley cyrus
Why Lindsay Lohan Is To Blame For Miley Cyrus' Latest Nude Photo Scandal
Another day, another provocative pictorial series starring a scantily clad Miley Cyrus. The latest batch of photos featuring the 15-year old Billion Dollar Girl staging her own personal Playboy Jr. shoot for boyfriend Nick Jonas has surfaced online, thanks to a hacker who claims he got a hold of everything on Miley’s iPhone. We’ve already seen Miley’s makeout sessions with various girls and boys, eating her clothes off and, of course, daringly flashing her bare back in Vanity Fair. But now we have the (uncomfortable) pleasure of seeing the then-14 year old showering in a wet t-shirt, photographing her widely seen midriff and, in a highly anticipated step closer to actual kiddie porn, totally topless. And judging by Miley’s posing style, stances, and familiar Blow A Kiss act, this is not a matter of kids growin’ up so fast these days. If you’re looking to point fingers, look no further than original self-produced porn star Lindsay Lohan: More »
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Comment by joerosenberg: Slutty pics! Hooray! Girl-girl is the new in thing. It's exciting to see stars bold enough to talk about their... more » | Other threads
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jeremy piven
The Stanley Cup Had A Way More Fabulous, Celebrity-Filled Fourth Of July Than You Did
The Stanley Cup—aka Canada's Holy Grail, from which, legend has it, one sip of Labatt Blue renders the drinker immortal—took some time off from its currentdamnationhome in Detroit to take in some local sunshine and glamour. Starting in Manhattan Beach at the home of former San Jose Shark Brad Stuart, the cup then bounced into its rental (a convertible Sebring) and hightailed it down to Chris Chelios's place in Malibu. It stopped for breakfast at Coogie's Beach Café, where a cup-struck Rob Reiner bashfully approached it and requested a photograph. But it was once it arrived at Bally's gym owner John Wildman's annual Fourth of July party that it really started getting caught up in the Hollywood fast lane, rubbing handles with the likes of Detroit's own Kid Rock, David Spade, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven. The Stanley Cup Journal blog reports: More »
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By SethComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: @kprimo25: They left out a lot of people who showed up. By "people" do you mean the douches that sign... more » | Other threads
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jeremy piven
Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff Invoke Fragile Peace at 'Public Enemies' Wrap Party
We're happy to see today that the winged gatekeeper budget-monkeys on the set of Michael Mann's Public Enemies — who so scandalously sought to exclude scores of part-timers from the film's recent wrap party in Chicago — ultimately came around to relaxing their admission standards to the point where even Stephen Dorff was welcome. That would have been a good enough concession for the justice crusaders over here at Defamer HQ — but for Dorff's infamous urinal-queue archnemesis Jeremy Piven to show up as well? Jesus Christ, will they just let anybody into this place? More »
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By STVComment by Leviticus_71: What's a Tim Conway? About a hundred and fifty pounds. more » | Other threads
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