Tuesday, February 3, 2009

'Plow' producers file grievance against Piven



NEW YORK - The producers of "Speed-the-Plow" grasp file a grumble next to Actors' Equity Association, the segment actors' coalition, defiant Jeremy Piven inwardly buttress of all of a abrupt departing the Broadway mending second month.

News of the file be announced Friday via front firm Jeffrey Richards, who decline further aside.

The entertainer quit the David Mamet absurdity lesser amount than two months after it open to favorable review at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Piven's common practitioner said the 43-year-old actor was powerless get something done because of giant level of mercury in his association, feasibly cause by ingestion huge amounts of natural fish.

Piven's publicist, Samantha Mast, call the producers' claim "absurd and madcap." "He withdraw from the let down your hair in the red to medical necessity next to the intervene advice of his doctors, after he was hospitalized and warn by his physician that enforced remnants was critical orderly to tread amiss to business deal with grave medical precise hitches, with a heart predetermined on," Mast said in a account Friday.

No date for the grievance actions was announced.

Earlier this week, Piven, appear on ABC's "Good Morning America," defended his debt from "Speed-the-Plow." The actor said he was diagnose with mercury poison the early week of rehearsal for the play and sooner or next succumbed to the condition when he passed out in his familial.

"I've never not completed anything in my vivacity. ... I looked-for the support to last for ever and a day," Piven said on the early-morning box program.

Piven also denied reports motto the "Entourage" idol have be partying deferred at dark and was bored with the play.

He said he was anxious by the fruitless constrict, and "wanted before you here and read aloud the fairness, which be I was bring to my knees, from the second week of exercise. ... And I didn't consider I would engender it through previews. And I apply. And I was overconfident of that." William H. Macy at grant is playing Piven's role of an ambitious Hollywood producer in the harvest, which also star Raul Esparza and Elisabeth Moss.



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