With the opening of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard this weekend, today's edition of Sunday Blessings is devoted to Jeremy Piven, to which I can now hear a collective groan. Yes, I think Jeremy Piven is actually sexy, and yes, I believe him to be a pretty good television actor. He was funny in supporting roles on The Larry Sanders Show and Ellen, and I thought he was great on the original Cupid series. I'd actually consider that his best performance to date, has he possessed an endearing charm which hasn't been displayed since. And while his performance Entourage may have been over awarded, he has created a great character out of Ari Gold, and certainly deserved at least one of those Emmys. Now, as why for why people dislike him, it might not be completely unjustified. Leaving the Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow, claiming mercury poisoning from sushi, was just a bizarre situation, and he doesn't seem able to joke about himself, which perhaps is what hurts people's perceptions of him most. I mean let's be serious; are we not suppose to notice what's going on with the top of his head? Throughout the nineties he was working the receding hair line, which he did well, and combined with his hairy chest, which is now unfortunately shaven, he gave off a sexy daddy vibe. Then he appears on Entourage, and all of a sudden he has a full head of hair. It's as if all his chest hair migrated to his forehead. Why did he have to do that? Piven looked good bald. But now that he got plugs or a hairpiece, he should at least acknowledge it, making a crack about it on a talk show or something. I think people might cut him a little slack if he did. Amen.
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