Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Response to Equity Grievance
Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Response to Equity Grievance
#1Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Response to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:16pm
Click Here to Read Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Updated On: 1/16/09 at 11:16 PM
#2re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:20pmHe is shameless.
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"
#2re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:21pmOh, this is going to get good.
#3re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:21pm
Difficulty remembering his lines? Does Matthew Broderick have mercury poisoning too?
I ate sushi every day for a month. Large amounts of sushi. I managed to avoid this mysterious mercury poisoning.
Updated On: 1/16/09 at 11:21 PM
blaxx
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#4re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:23pmWhat an idiot. Hope he never tries to do Broadway again.
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jennafan
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#5re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:24pmIf he can PROVE his illness including test results of high mercury, I think he can sue them.
#6re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Grievance
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:27pm
They're going to having a difficult time getting those private records released.
The fact that he said he was in the hospital for 3 days while the show was running, in which he missed zero performances, is telling enough.
#7re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:27pmI'm interested in seeing where this is going.
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#8re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:28pm
He must have spaced out his hospital visits and only gone on days when there was no show.
Shut up, Jeremy Piven. You're an ass.
#9re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:31pm
Hope he never tries to do Broadway again.
Who would hire him after this?
#10re: 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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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#11re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:32pmHe specifically said the hospital. Dr's visits are one thing but he specifically said hospital. I can't imagine a hospital letting a patient come and go for something as serious as mercury poisoning.
#12re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:32pmI've been following this story for the past month and I still don't understand why nobody believes him. I don't know whether or not he was faking it, but I'm at least giving him the benefit of the doubt.
ShbrtAlley44
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#13re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:33pmBobby, I was being sarcastic :)
blaxx
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#14re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:35pmI 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.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#15re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:35pm
I've been following this story for the past month
Yeah, and so have the people who think he's full of sh*t. Your point?
#16re: 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
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
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#17re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:40pmWhat kind of compensations do the producers owe Mr. Piven? Are the producers required to pay actors when they can no longer perform because of illness?
#18re: 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.
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#19re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:47pmWhy wont this man just shut up?
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#20re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:50pm...Plus that statement is ridiculous. It's like a twelve year old trying to fight back on a playground. It's really bitchy and pointless.
#21re: 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
#22re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:55pmI 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.
#23re: Breaking News: Jeremy Piven Releases Statement in Reponse to Equity Gri
Posted: 1/16/09 at 11:57pmHe's lying, no doubt about it.
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#24re: 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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