Jeremy Piven's Latest Excess

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Last year Jeremy Piven abruptly quit the Broadway revival of Speed the Plow because, according to him, he had mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi.

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Well now poor Mr. Piven has another problem he claims was brought on by excessive consumption: Man Boobs! The Pivenator says he had been drinking 20 cups of soy milk a day and the estrogen contained therein caused him to grow Moobs.

I wonder if "his people" are busy working on next year's dilemma. I'll bet he grows extra sharp toe nails from eating too much jello.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

12 cups, I think, but yeah - 12 cups of anything (except for water) is too much in a day, soy or not.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Bah, sorry. I mentally ran the cups (12) & years (20) lines together. Nevertheless, I still think he's a twit.

[Ghoulish Delight]

??? I'm a little baffled by the animosity towards him. What exactly makes you doubt his truthiness?

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

??? I'm a little baffled by the animosity towards him. What exactly makes you doubt his truthiness?

Perhaps the fact that he's using lame excuses like Hg poisoning from sushi and man boobs from estrogen in soy milk.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I still don't get it. They are both actual, possible outcomes of the stated behavior. If he really was eating fish twice daily for that long, mercury poisoning is definitely possible, even likely. And it's been shown that the estrogen from as little as 2 glasses of soy milk/day can have an effect on a woman's menstrual cycle, so I'd imagine that 6x that amount would carry the potential for some pretty drastic results (such as gynecomastia).

I just don't get the instant hostility towards the claim? What exactly did he do to SM that he so desperately wants to discredit him?

[innerSpaceman]

ok, he stood him up for a date once. S'maniac didn't want me to tell anyone, but there it is.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Because I think Piven is foisting truthiness on us, not truth.

Because I think he's a moron. Why would he eat all that sushi? Why would he drink all that soy milk? Why does he do things to such excess?

Because I think he quit Speed the Plow because he was in over his head, couldn't handle the rigors of Broadway, and made up an excuse to get him out of his contract rather than admit he wasn't up to the task.

Do I have a personal beef against him? No, he's done nothing to slight me personally*. I think he's a spoiled Hollywood star who has learned to not take responsibility for his actions.



*other than that date thing, but that's water under the bridge

[Ghoulish Delight]

*shrug* I guess I don't see his claims as all that far fetched. For the record, he never claimed to be eating sushi twice a day, he said he ate fish twice a day. Which, if it weren't for the fact that it tends to be pricey, and the known risks of mercury, I myself WOULD eat fish twice a day. I love fish and, aside from the mercury issue in quantity, is way healthier than other meats.

Yeah, that's a lot of soy milk. But then I consider people who drink 8 glasses of water a day a bit looney, so I guess that puts him at about the same level on my looney scale. Besides, aren't you someone who's been known to carry a gallon of milk with you for a day out on the town?

As far as I can tell, what he's reporting are reasonable outcomes of a couple slightly eccentric dietary choices. Doesn't seem like that big of a hit on his character to me.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

My love of milk is well documented. But I'm not blaming my moobs on dairy products or trying to weasel out of a contract by claiming calcium poisoning.