Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven known for his role as “Ari Gold” in Entourage will be at the TI See more of Treasure Island Hotel & Casino on Facebook.
Gold -- that is, Jeremy Piven -- Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Wheeling and dealing: Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) and Nick Cassavetes in "Entourage" flock to downtown Las Vegas on first night of casino reopenings.
Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven known for his role as “Ari Gold” in Entourage will be at the TI See more of Treasure Island Hotel & Casino on Facebook.
I tell you, Ari used to say he was popping into the casino, and fifty grand later he'd still be there. Deaf and poor: that's where grand prix weekend leaves you.
Gold -- that is, Jeremy Piven -- Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Wheeling and dealing: Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) and Nick Cassavetes in "Entourage" flock to downtown Las Vegas on first night of casino reopenings.
As for Ari Gold's future -- the "end game," as his assistant Lloyd put it -- viewers will have to wait for next season. Piven, whose scene-stealing, motor-mouthed antics have earned him an Emmy nomination while skewing the series' storylines much the way David Spade stole the spotlight on NBC's "Just Shoot Me. All of which raises the question: How true to life is Ari Gold's fall from grace? The show's gossip factor reached a new high with the final two episodes of the season. One confided that he watched the season's final episodes "with my heart in my throat. Ellin said, adding, "Ari was in very good shape when he left his agency. Ellin said that while agency coups are common, he specifically did not write the "Entourage" finale with Mr. Ellin based the character of Ari Gold largely on his own real-life agent, Ari Emanuel. Summarily dismissed, he was stripped of his clients, company phone and company car an S-class Mercedes , and reduced to being driven home by his assistant in what he derisively called "a prop car from 'The Fast and the Furious. Emanuel declined to comment for this story. Piven's character would go a long way toward determining his fate. That they are. Home Page World U.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Piven's Ari Gold, likewise, is regarded as the most incisive portrait of a big-stakes talent agent since Tom Cruise in "Jerry Maguire. Or rather, whom you can get on the phone. Levinson manages the actor Mark Wahlberg, one of the show's executive producers and the model for the character Vincent Chase, a rising young star played by Adrien Grenier. Emanuel in mind. Norman Aladjem, a senior partner at the Paradigm Talent Agency, said "there are kernels of truth" that make the show's portrayal of agents highly watchable. This summer, no show captivated Hollywood's "10 percenters" the way that "Entourage" did, thanks largely to Mr. Stephen Levinson, a Hollywood talent manager who is one of the program's executive producers, said the episode resonated with industry viewers largely because of its accuracy. Other insiders disagreed, saying that Wagnerian theatrics are not uncommon when high-profile agents unexpectedly part company. Creative Artists was itself founded by rogue agents who had left the William Morris Agency. Ellin, hinting that the popularity of Mr. The answers can begin to sound like fodder for a future "Entourage" episode. Emanuel staged an agency coup of his own several years ago, starting the Endeavor Talent Agency with a small group of agents who had abruptly quit shops like International Creative Management and the Creative Artists Agency. While contractual terms can vary from agency to agency, the tactics used in such situations can range from filing lawsuits to confiscating phones, changing office locks, even posting photographs of the dismissed agents in company parking garages. Those plans were thwarted by a back-stabbing fellow agent, Adam Davies Jordan Belfi. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}That is where the HBO series "Entourage" left Ari Gold, the conniving talent agent played with lip-smacking relish by Jeremy Piven, as its second season ended Sunday night. A week ago, Ari -- rankled at the unexpected return to power of his duplicitious boss Terence played by Malcolm McDowell -- plotted to break away and start his own agency. Real-life Hollywood agents found the verisimilitude of Ari's situation a little too close for comfort. For every agent who admitted to watching the final episodes of the series with rapt attention, others invoked Hollywood-speak, insisting that "there's no upside" in commenting on a fellow agent, even a fictional one. Levinson said. Like many things in Hollywood, reality depends on whom you ask. I wound up using it for four more months. Within hours of last week's episode, some Internet message boards devoted to the show were filled with speculations by viewers on the plausibility of a powerful entertainment agent -- a senior partner and profit participant -- being dismissed from his agency in a matter of minutes and locked out of his office by armed security guards. Sures said.