Filed under: Wacky & Weird Adam Pascal -- "Roger" from the original cast of "RENT," now at the Pantages in L.A. -- put Jeremy Piven on blast last night for using sushi to bail on his Broadway play -- calling Piv's excuse "crap" and total bull. See Also Piven Back on... Permalink...

Jeremy Piven convinced five other actors his mercury poisoning is real, deadlocking a union hearing and sparing Piven penalties for leaving Speed the Plow. How did he do it? Maybe with some crying. The Entourage star was certainly in tears after the hearing, when he sat for an interview at the offic...

Jeremy Piven faced quite the gauntlet at last night's Globes: a press pack hungry to douse him in soy sauce and eat him alive, plus his aggrieved former Broadway costar, Elisabeth Moss. It was the first time he'd met the media since advancing the much-pilloried sushi excuse, and for the most part, h...

Jeremy Piven was looking well at the Golden Globe awards last night. Seemingly recovered from his recent suspicious mercury poisoning, he told an interviewer that the illness just left him like really wiped-out, man. Roger Friedman—from, gulp, Fox News—had a quick chat with the Entourage...

Though Jeremy Piven's ungraceful, sushi-related exit from Speed-the-Plow has at least secured him future savings on his Matsuhisa tab, he may part with that extra cash if the play's backers have their (angry) say. According to the New York Post , many involved with the production are pushing to have...

As so many stories wind down for the holidays, it's comforting to know that the new developments in Jeremy Piven's Sushigate scandal are even more delicious than the soft shell crab roll at Matsuhisa. First, the New York Post caught up with Piven's "visibly angry" Speed-the-Plow costar, Raul Esparza...

newVideoPlayer("/Piven_the_Plough.flv", 506, 423,""); New tidbits about the Jeremy Piven-destroys-Broadway story keep coming. "Mercury-filled sushi made him sick!" "Wrong! He quit early because he parties too hard!" Etc. Now an insider with the show, Speed-the-Plow, has provided some details. The En...