You know how everyone keeps saying how brilliant Piven is on 'Entourage?' Well, he's sharing screen time with the likes of Adrian Grenier and the bully from 'Rocky V' -- he's good, but he's not that good. Those guys make him look like a young Pacino. And the same goes for Walsh here -- throw a professional actor in the middle of amateur hour and he's always coming off twice as good as usual. Just remember this when Piven is accepting his Emmy next month.
This is the second dumbest thing Sports Guy has ever written (behind the just painful comparison of his vision in basketball pick up games at Holy Cross to the vision of NBA point guards--I'm serious, he really wrote that). Piven's career speaks for itself: PCU, Old School, every John Cusack movie, and the short-lived brilliance that was the tv show Cupid. I'm serious--Piven has never really been given a shot to show his ability until Entourage (remember, PCU was PG-13), and he is amazing as Ari Gold. Just perfect. No one else could play that part. No one deserves it more.
Now is a good time to mention that my all time favorite teaching evaluation came from a student who said that they liked my sense of humor because it reminded them of Jeremy Piven. I had that eval pinned to the fridge for months.
Sports Guy is an idiot on this one. He should stick to politics.
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Tom has bingo!
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