Piven Lashes Back over Grievance

Ari Gold has already approached a level above that of mere mortal, though still well under Chuck Norris (for now). However, after Jeremy Piven, the man who plays a super agent, dropped out of a Broadway production due to mercury poisoning (though there is suspicion that it was actually kryptonite, not mercury, that brought the super agent down), the play's producers filed a grievance against the actor.

By Saturday, a representative for Piven lashed back at the accusations that Piven was faking it, saying in published statements that leaving the play, Speed-the-Plow, was a "personal disappointment," and that the grievance claims are "absurd and outrageous. . . . [Piven] withdrew from the play due to medical necessity on the advice of his doctors, after he was hospitalized and warned by his physicians that enforced rest was necessary."

The statement was released by Samantha Mast, a representative for the comedian.

The producers should just be happy that Ari Gold didn't enlist Chuck Norris to roundhouse kick the producers into complacency.