MercuryGate Continues! The Pivert Is Ready To Throw Down!
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MercuryGate continues!
Jeremy Piven and the Actors' Equity and producers of Speed the Plow will appear at an arbitration hearing on June 8th and 9th in New York to voice their continued disputes over the Pivert's early exit from the Broadway production.
To prepare their case, the producers of Speed the Plow have requested a heap of personal information from the Pivert, such as "medical records and documentation of Mr. Piven's activities both during and after the run of the show", which will be subjected to strict confidentiality agreements.
In response, the Pivert issued the following long-winded statement:
After Mr. Piven was diagnosed with a potentially toxic Mercury level, he reluctantly left SPEED-THE-PLOW at the insistence of his doctors, who warned him that enforced rest was required to avoid severe medical problems, including a heart attack. Mr. Piven is looking forward to testifying in Arbitration along with his doctors so that the truth comes out about the very health serious risks caused by Mercury exposure, which the Obama administration has recently described as the world's gravest chemical problem.
Starting back in December, Mr. Piven repeatedly offered to turn over his medical records to the Producers subject to an appropriate confidentiality agreement. The Producers repeatedly rejected that proposal. It is obvious that the Producers did not really want the medical records Mr. Piven volunteered to provide, since those records would confirm the medical necessity of his withdrawal from the show. The Producers' recent statement claiming that they had offered to keep the medical records private is nothing more than PR "spin." We have confirmed with Actors Equity today that the Union is not aware of any such confidentiality proposal by the Producers.
In addition to repeatedly offering his medical records subject to a confidentiality agreement to prevent the Producers from disseminating them to the media, Mr. Piven had also repeatedly offered to be examined by a doctor designated by the Producers both before, during and after his hospitalization for toxic Mercury levels. The Producers never took him up on that offer.
The fact that the Producers issued a statement announcing the Arbitration dates suggests that this is part of a punitive strategy to intimidate actors so that they ignore serious health symptoms and the advice of medical professionals due to fear that they will be sued.
Holy shiz! Them's fighting words!
We wonder how this will all go down!
[Image via WENN.]
im so tired of hearing about this guy. i don't even know who he really is, but i don't want to take the timeto even read an article about him to find out
IS HE PASSING GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is the ugliest man in town
This guy is a bitch!
This old tired bitch is a freak !!! I hope they nail his lazy coked out ass…
Wow he's sexy!!
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Jeremy Piven is HOT!!!
why are you sooo interested in seeing him get in trouble perez? he must have some backup in medical records if he is continuing to fight the producers of the show. What I don't understand is why you are so interested in a show that was a limited run show in New York? I highly DOUBT that you were one of the backers of the play-you are too cheap to do that. and this was not a musical, so, you know, no songs, no dancing, no costumes, no interest by perez. so, why the hate on for piven? turned down your offer of a bj? turned the other way when you jumped up and down yelling 'jeremy, jeremy, I am your biggest fan! sign my Entourage shirt, please jeremy?
Re: justtfax – You tell him Turtle!
Piven is fierce! Love him and love Entourage!
Is that Sharon Osbourne behind him?
I am on Jeremy's side. I just don't think he would back out of the show if he just didn't feel like doing it. He is AWESOME. They should just hug it out.
heh… I like how he throws in Obama's name.
Well hell…. If Obama said something… it must be true.
Piven FTW
Re: justtfax – You ROCK!!!!
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I LOVE Jeremy Piven and Entourage!!
Man Jeremy Piven is hilarious…but I'd like to see more celebrities get involved with something positive. Thats why i like 99problems.Org becuase alot of celebrities get involved with making a difference
Jeremy Piven is Sexy as Hell….
Oh please. If Piven was so sick then why was he out partying in bars and clubs the night after he dropped out of the play because of his terrible, terrible sickness?
If you're so sick you have to pull out of a professional engagement in which there are dozens of actors and production crew relying on you, then you should be way too sick to be out partying and boozing at the bars and clubs.
FYI:
His comments are arbitrary; like he can say whatever he thinks; that doesn't mean it is true or correct!
SPin Control! He needs to pay up. He is a loser / and he needs to come out of the closet! -
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Yeah Jeremy ! I hope Jeremy wins his case…he's hot !
He's winding up the leg….don't be in the way when he lets go!
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I've worked with him before and there's no doubt he's a very talented guy, but he's got even less of an attention span then someone with A.D.D. I'm sure he just got bored doing that show every night and discovering his mercury level had spiked provided a very convenient excuse. By the way, is he wearing dark brown socks with a navy suit in that photo?? Yikes! Where's his stylist??
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you're the only one that cares gay man.. i don't even understand why you do anyway. it's not like you would have seen it
Wish we were on the couch together watching the first season of "Entourage" on DVD! Ymi, b
Who is this guy? That guy that was on the Ellen sitcom? Who cares?
I read though that after leaving the show and being diagnosed he was partying every night, which doesn't make sense. If he wasn't well enough to do the show, why could he go out? Priorities people. Work before pleasure. I hope he enjoyed the pleasure of partying, because he might have just partied himself out of Hollywood.
Douche.
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UGH. Shut the F*CK UP, Piven. You are loser who lied and is getting caught. If anyone is spinning anything, it is you. Irresponsible, egocentric assh*les always lash out until the verdict. I know Piven, I know Cusack. Not that they are still friends, but I knew this whole crew well. They are all total assh*les (I know, very disappointing; I had hoped for more from JC, although I must say John McGinley is very, very nice and surprisingly smart; why he hung w/ them, who knows). But, Piven takes the cake for totally beyond measure D*CK who thinks he's beyond rules, ethics, morality, decency; the "man" is one of the lowest scumbags on the planet. He'd lie on the grave of his dead father to get laid or get away with something. TRUST.
p.s. yes, he plays Ari well, but he's still a disgusting, lying scumbag of a human being (it's hard to even call him that).
Considering the substatial medical backing he has here, I'd wouldn't be suprised if he wins and then sues the producers of this show for slander.
He thinks all that BOOZE and COKE leeches the mercury out of his system, apparently! What a loser!
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He just looks like a KNOB!
i am so tired of this fuck, i am sick of reading his name, looking at his dumb picture and hearing about his mercury bullshit.
if it walks like a douche
and talks like a douche
then…
thank you. perez just forget this dumbass please.
Why does this story go on and on? Medical records would prove, once and for all, if he truly had mercury poisoning or not. Settle it, already.
Me thinks Jeremy doth protest too much.