There were a load of fishy stories this year--
Quick name a Tony award winning actor who is not Huge Jackman. I didn't think so.
Those finger-on-the-pulse-of-mainstream-America Broadway watchers over at the New York Times have crafted yet another rehash of the stale Jeremy-Piven-claims-to-have-mercury-poisoning story.
Jeremy Piven is out talkin' mercury poisoning again and, as usual, with shovel in hand he's diggin'. This time Piven goes into his ignorant song and dance about only eating fish for 23 years and how he became ill bla bla bla -the same dribble that earned him ridicule in the Hollywood press and a heaping pile of lawsuit to go with it.
Remember a while back when actor Jeremy Piven bailed out on his Broadway contract and then claimed he had mercury poising from eating sushi? But he hadn't quite done his research for that role because if he had he would have found that there has never been a case of mercury toxicity in this country from the normal consumption of commercial seafood-oops.
Human health case study Jeremy Piven now appearing in peer-reviewed medical journals world wide... not so much.
Jeremy Piven, is back in the headlines this morning thanks to a piece in People where he tells correspondent Nicholas White that he's been "fish-free' for 10 months now. You'll recall that at the end of last year that Piven abruptly pulled out of a Broadway production of Speed the Plow after complaining that he was suffering from a variety of maladies brought on by mercury poisoning that was caused by a diet that included too much fish.
This week actor Jeremy Piven takes his "I got mercury poisoning from eating too much fish and had to bail out of your play" argument before an arbiter as the play's producers seek money from the hard-partying star.
Apparently we haven't heard the usual whining and distorting associated with this silly case because the New York Post reports "everybody's under a gag order."
The star stuck New York Times is out shilling for Jeremy Piven. The Old Gray Lady appears to be smitten with the actor, perhaps that's why it's the only paper reporting that Piven, "convinced a group of fellow actors that he did not violate his contractual obligations when he dropped out of the Broadway play "Speed-the-Plow."
Hollywood blogs are a buzz this morning as actor Jeremy Piven has his quasi day in court-also known as a hearing before the Actors' Equity committee. You'll remember producers filed a grievance against Piven saying they didn't believe his outrageous and scientifically flawed claims that he came down with mercury poisoning from eating fish and therefore couldn't finishing out his contract in a play titled Speed the Plow.
A day after the FDA released an exhaustive, peer-reviewed, draft report analyzing the state of seafood science over the past 5 years that demonstrates just how much the benefits of eating seafood outweigh any concerns about trace amounts of mercury, you might wonder why I am blogging about Jeremy Piven. There is a tie-in, trust me.
Actor Jeremy Piven is in full damage control mode. Ever since his wacky mercury poisoning "diagnosis" and subsequent flight from Broadway he's been laying low-recuperating... except when there are award shows and parties to attend.
