He’s going in front of the Actors’ Equity grievance committee in New York tomorrow, so they can laugh in his face as he repeats his stupid claim that he got mercury poisoning from eating too much raw fish and stuff. Page Six says:
Piven is expected to attend the hearing, which will be held at Equity headquarters on West 46th Street, so that he can make his case in person, sources told The Post.
“It’s my understanding that he’ll be there — unless he has too much sushi on the plane from LA,” joked a person involved in the proceedings.
Piven has made a career out of being laughed at on film. Now he’s finally famous, and yet he has to put up with being laughed at in real life.
The producers of Speed-the-Plow, which Piven dropped out of because he was sick and tired of being in a play, intend to prove that during the time when he claimed he usually went home sick after the show, he was actually going out and partying. Gawker/Defamer/Whatever-it’s-called-now has Piven’s social schedule, which may indeed have been sick but couldna been done while sick.
I don’t think anybody actually cares whether or not Piven’s telling the truth, besides the people who’ve lost money because of him. It’s just nice to see a weasel go pop now and then.
Hey, I got through an entire Piven post without mentioning his hairpiece. Whoops!
Update: Turns out my headline was 100% wrong. Congrats, baldy! The waterworks did the trick.
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I hope he loses a lot of money as a result of his douchiness. Not only from being fined by the play but from the other people who won’t work with him due to his being a complete and utter tool.
lol @ “douchiness”. good 1. even though my term of choice here would be “douchebaggery”. I almost couldn’t bring myself to watch Rock’n'rolla because the douche was in it. Almost. He almost interfered with me staring at Toby Kebbell’s…well, almost everything. Almost.
Is there someone out there who can tell this douche that his pathetic excuse of mercury poisoning don’t hold water? He’s getting more pathetic by the day.
I really hope he loses a lot of money due to this incident and is humiliated into losing that smug grin he always has on his face. He’s such an ass clown.
I hope my glee in his potential embarrassment isn’t misplaced, and the AE committee spanks his little bottom.
I think Piven needs to cough up great flipping wodges of cash just for enabling John Cusack to inflict himself on the rest of us*. That ALONE is worth filing a grievance, or maybe a class-action lawsuit.
*Piven and his dad were the ones who originally helped get Cusack and his umptybillion siblings into the movie business, IIRC.
I would watch “Old School” over and over again just to see his fate come in contact with the car.
We actually like to watch “Entourage”. *sigh*
Queen Bee, this is Hollywood you are talking about here, they would work with Pol Pot and Jeffery Dahmer if the money was right or it helped their career.
I actually find this hilarious. I personally love him as an actor and well what good would hollywood be without the crazy idiots like him?
What, Beige, you don’t like John Cusack’s strident self-righteous liberalism or his ongoing love affair with black eyeliner?
His early movies are great (my husband and I still quote from ‘Better Off Dead’ because, yes, we are giant dorks) but his recent choices have been…questionable.
I’m avoiding the subject of this post because I’m trying to keep my blood pressure low.
U all need to get a life. Have you nothing better to do with your day than sit around and rip on someone you don’t even know. He has more talent in his pinkie than you do in your pathetic little pea sized brains
I don’t know about the rest of U guys, but I don’t really have anything better to do.
I see Mr. Piven has taken time from his busy day to respond ^^.
@MC Mom: Well, that’s one reason I loathe Cusack. Another reason might be the widely-credited reports (brought to the attention of most of us by the late Fametracker site) that he once crapped his pants and left them on the floor of his trailer for some poor PA to deal with. I believe it was on the set of “The Thin Red Line”. Anyone who would do that, or be friends with anyone who would, needs to be skinned alive and rolled in cornflakes. Although you’re right, “Better Off Dead” was probably Cusack’s peak in terms of appeal.
As for Thr33, I notice you’re sufficiently lacking in “life” that you jump on here and try your illiterate luck at ripping on us. Maybe you should get a job.
Beige – have you told you lately how much I adore you. I agree with Holly – take them up on her offer.
I’m here because I can waste the day at work and have a good laugh and not get into trouble with the Man. Thr33 is just a poser as opposed to the other brillant and whitty commenters. So Thr33, SUCK IT!
I check this site, like, five times a day. I definately have nothing better to do
THR33 – well my ass has nothing better to do but sit here just like yours….woohoo!
“He has more talent in his pinkie…” really, what talent would that be? crying in front of camera? coming up with fake illnesses? being a douche?….well okay he’s got me on that one
Could B!
I certainly “don’t have anything better to do but sit here”…well, there are some things I probably SHOULD be doing right now instead of sitting here, but there is no way they are better than sitting here. Nothing is better than sitting here. Nothing.
Simon, I heart you so much and probably would heart you more if I weren’t married.
Nope, me either, nuttin’ better to do at all. :-p
Y’all…are my people. Come, let us roast something, and tell of our mythic exploits. Or what we had for lunch.
AAW: That post from Holly made my day. Alas, I cannot code…well, anything, and I’m pretty sure she was kidding. But yay anyway.
Not kidding about you telegraphing rage better than anyone, but alas you’d have to talk to The Oversneer about hiring decisions.
Piven has no clue on what all entails living with a real case of mercury poisoning. I have a family member that has it and it is not something you can merely use as an excuse for wanting to take a day off from work here and there. Daily life as you know it comes to a screeching halt. You have not only crippling physical ailments, but behavioral and mental ailments too. You can’t get a sufficient amount of mercury in your body simply by eating sushi for several years like he says and you cannot be “cured” of it. It is a heavy metal that can’t be removed from the soft tissue of our bodies. It’s a really weak excuse to use to quit a job he no longer wants.