Jeremy Piven --Too Ill For Broadway
This is weird.
Jeremy Piven, who has been starring on Broadway in Speed-the-Plow, has quit the play due to an illness.
Does he have the flu? The chicken pox? Laryngitis?
Nope, none of that. The actor has been diagnosed with a high mercury count. Whatever that means. According to the Piv's publicist, The Entourage star wanted to continue with his role in the play, but the doctors ordered him to quit.
The producers of Plow issued this statement: "We have been advised by Jeremy Piven's medical representatives that he is seriously ill and is unable to fulfill his contractual obligation to Speed-the-Plow. Consequently, he has left the production 10 weeks early."
If it sounds suspicious to you, well, you're not the only one. The show's writer, David Mamet, didn't sound too convinced.
"I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury," he told Daily Variety. "So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."
Ouch!
Fortunately, if you already have tickets, there are big names taking his Jeremy's place. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz and Fargo Oscar nominee William H. Macy will be hitting the stage for the remaining shows.
High levels of mercury, huh? Is it he glowing in the dark as we speak?
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Mercury poisoning is becoming more and more frequent as is heavy metal poisoning in general. Unfortunately, most of Americans have their heads up their butts and have no clue what that even means so prefer to inundate themselves with more chemicals in the form of pharmaceuticals. Vicious circle I'd say.
To 'duh': Pharmaceuticals cause mercury poisoning? Don't they have to have mercury IN them to do that? How do we know Piven's alternative medicine practitioner didn't inadvertently raise Jeremy's urine mercury levels while conducting chelation therapy--a very common purgative treatment among alternative physicians? It happens frequently. Even those of us with our heads up our butts might have heard something about it.
I was merely commenting that chemicals are all around us and are wreaking havoc with our health. I never said there was mercury in Rxs.