Jeremy Piven

By Seth Page Six Magazine writer Annie Karni reports that Jeremy Piven doesn’t always take kindly to direction. At a September Page Six Magazine photo shoot to promote his starring role in the Broadway revival of Speed-the-Plow, the actor was in a foul mood. “This isn’t my first time on the merry-g...

By Kyle Buchanan 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. Jeremy Piven: Mercury Rising [Fox News] Jeremy Piven Says Mystery Mercury Illness Was "Crippling" [Us...

By Kyle Buchanan Though we'd love to brainstorm the sort of hit on Piven that Broadway producers might organize (would it be a murder already beloved on film, but then adapted for musical theater in a splashy megamillion production?), we have a feeling that the Pivs won't be returning to New York anytime s...

By Kyle Buchanan Since we would never impeach Casablanca's credentials and the stories of Piven misbehavior certainly sound true, we've got some advice for the producers of Speed-the-Plow: if you're planning on firing your most famous actor, maybe use the meantime to line up a backup actor with more st...

By Kyle Buchanan An intriguing therapy indeed—instead of realizing that he is an actor who plays the agent of Vincent Chase on Entourage, Piven thinks he is Vincent Chase on Entourage. Whether his role-playing session will lift his spirits and better his constitution remains to be seen, though we have a f...

By STV · SAG blinked. · Jeremy Piven SushiGate continued this week as audiences and castmates alike revolted against the star's suspicious Broadway exit. And just in case his mercury-poisoning excuse is legit, the makers of that toxic WALL-E bento box have just the remedy.

By STV · Worst Week went to sitcom heaven, Anthony Pellicano went to prison, and Sam Bottoms caught the perfect celestial wave. · The whore-plagued bachelors of Momma's Boys sure could use a yentazilla like Ellen DeGeneres right about now.

By Kyle Buchanan Sadly, Piven's entreaties were greeted with stunned laughter from alienated comrades John Cusack, Jack Black, and Stephen Dorff, though each reappeared in different guises after an unagi-fueled fainting spell led Piven to a hallucinatory dream worthy of Dickens. The Ghosts of Piven...

By Seth · 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]

By STV 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, w...

By Molly Friedman “On a recent weekend, Jeremy rode the Planet Hollywood private jet from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and...started chatting about Entourage. [Piven] suggested that it would be fun to have [his seatmate] make an appearance...Jeremy was overheard calling a producer and telling him as soon as the pla...

By Mark · Dueling premiere parties, arguments over release dates (too close to Labor Day, American Gangster, and Brad Pitt's Jesse James flick?), and bickering over one-sheet images that reportedly made notoriously cuddly star Russell Crowe feel fat: the tension between Lionsgate and its 3...

By Seth · Jeremy Piven (for some reason, E! Online's Kristin Veitch refers to him as "Mr. Ari Fleiss," but we're pretty sure she means Ari Gold, and not some Hollywood agent/madame hybrid) ditched his date at the after parties for someone younger, hotter, and who didn't give birth to him: Melrose B...

By Mark THOMAS HADEN CHURCH BROKEN TRAIL JEREMY IRONS ELIZABETH I JUSTIN KIRK WEEDS MASI OKA HEROES JEREMY PIVEN ENTOURAGE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 64TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS [HFPA.org]

By Seth In today's episode: Robert Duvall, Thandie Newton, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Vartan, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Padrón and Paul Herman; Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Stephen and Billy Baldwin; Britney Spears and Justin Long; Jeremy Piven, Dee Snider and Kurt Fuller; Andie MacDowell; J...