Hook-y, get it? I crack myself up.
As you know, Jeremy Piven eats his weight in sushi every day and miraculously became the first person ever to come down with mercury poisoning from too many California rolls. (Right before he ordered up a model like she was room service and then took off for a vacay in Thailand.)
Turns out in the process he screwed the producers of Speed-the-Plow out of a hefty sum of money, as the show was just a week away from recouping its $3.5-million initial investment. Now with Piven gone, they haven’t been able to pass that threshold. Luckily, the producers have some recourse:
But under the Actors’ Equity contract, the producers are entitled to have Piven’s medical records examined by another doctor. If they suspect fraud, they can sue him.
“If it turns out this is phony, it can really kill him,” says a veteran producer who’s not involved in “Speed-the-Plow.”
Yesterday, the show’s lead producer, Jeffrey Richards, said that Piven has in fact been examined by another doctor.
Richards declined to divulge the results, saying, “They are confidential.”
He adds: “We’re in the process of discussing what our next step will be.”
Read between the lines: The medical file says the “mercury poisoning” was pure seahorse sh*t.
By the way, he may want to find a lawyer who’s better qualified than his doctor.
As longtime Deceiver readers know, I am fully committed to vegetarianism. That’s right: I refuse to eat any animal that did not eat its vegetables. It’s a daily challenge, but so far I’ve been brave enough to stick to my principles. Which is why it’s so nice to be namechecked by Vegetarian Star:
Holly Won’t, The Oversneer, and Simon Scowl at Deceiver would have a ball with this one.
Remember Lake Bell, the actress we recently discovered was vegan? She talked about how she was in charge of vegan sweets during the holidays with her family and she went to Baby Cheeks, Sweetie Buns, Baby Cakes bakery in NY for all her vegan goodies?
We did some research in the archives and discovered she has a fish problem, or at least she had one last year at a party for her childhood friend Lyn Devon’s fashion show.
New York Mag caught up with her and asked her why the heck she was eating a salmon hors d’oeuvre if she was a vegan.
“It’s okay, I already came out about my fish-eating-ness to my closest vegan friend, Alicia Silverstone, and she already approves,” Bell said.
It’s hard to believe that Lake Bell and Alicia Silverstone were in the same room without the sheer star power blowing the roof off. I know that when I’m trying to decide what to have for dinner, I think, “What would Alicia do?” If she says Lake Bell isn’t a silly hypocrite for eating animals and yet claiming to be a vegetarian, then the rest of us should just get over our hangups about “words” and their alleged “meanings.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have a few beers because I’m a teetotaller.
Lindsay Lohan is the subject of a profile written by actress Lauren Hutton in the new issue of Interview. There are a lot of interesting moments between the two with flashes of insight and others with questionable truth — such as when she claims it’s unfair that people see her as a party girl:
“And the worst part is, in terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn’t know how to focus, doesn’t know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party. And you know what? I was 20 years old. I never went to college. And I lived maybe six months out of my life like that, doing something wrong, and then I stopped. God forbid I should have ever learned my lesson.”
And then she goes on to blame this fabricated image for the reason she doesn’t get good opportunities anymore:
“I mean, it is what it is. This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that’s what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don’t get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to last forever.”
Here’s the issue: Even when she’s stable, she isn’t stable. How many stories have you read recently — I mean in the post rehab, pseudo-lesbian era — where she’s acting destructively? Whether it’s drinking champagne straight out of the bottle or breaking girlfriend’s Samantha Ronson’s belongings or trashing a posh London hotel room, she can’t exactly blame directors and producers for being a little wary of working with her.
(Hat tip: HuffPo)
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