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#8

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:27pm

I'm interested in seeing where this is going.
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#11

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:32pm

Oh, for God's sake. You put out a breaking news statement that basically amounts to, "I'm not lying, let me say everything I've already said, with nothing new, YOU SUCK!!"

You could at least try harder, sir.
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#15

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:35pm

I don't believe him - if he couldn't complete the run, he should've been smarter and just hide for a while, and not show up everywhere he could looking perfectly healthy.
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#17

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:35pm

Elphaba3,

Yeah, I was angry too, when the statement was first released, and people immediately jumped on Piven. You're right: at least give him the benefit of the doubt.

But after the whole "The disease was life-threatening, I couldn't do it anymore, but I could go to the Golden Globes, and to Bangkok, but NOT A STAGE!", and the fact that his story doesn't hold together very well, doesn't help him at all.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#19

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:45pm

luvtheEmcee, I only said that so people wouldn't think I just jumped in without reading anything else about it.

BustopherPhantom, I know from personal experience that sitting on an airplane or sitting at a table doesn't take nearly as much energy as performing onstage. I think most people would attest to that. The fact that he looked terrible at the Globes also helps me believe him. He did look sick. Maybe he went to Bangkok to for treatment. Unless people are able to prove that he's full of crap, I personally will give him the benefit of the doubt.
#22

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:50pm

E3, he never even mentioned going to Bangkok for treatment. Surely it would have come up by now. You can't have a 3 day Hospital stay w/out missing a performance. He didn't look like **** at the Golden Globes, you must have confused him with being a ****.
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Updated On: 1/16/09 at 11:50 PM

#23

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:55pm

I think he looked awful at the Globes. Maybe it was because he was sick from Mercury, maybe it was because he was sick of lying. Maybe he was sick and he exaggerated it. I'll admit that parts of his story do seem fishy (no pun intended). If he is sick, I wish him a full and speedy recovery. If he's lying, karma is a bitch.
#25

re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri

Posted: 1/17/09 at 12:00am

JP's name should be synonymous with douche bag. In fact, does he have an urbandictionary entry yet?

Oh god, he has!

Jeremy Piven
- Slang for male reproductive organ, obviously referring to Entourage actor Jeremy Piven. As said by Kevin Nealon puts it on the seventh episode of the fourth season of Weeds.
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"

Updated On: 1/17/09 at 12:00 AM

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