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As He Was: Remembering The Jeremy Piven Of Yesteryear
Posted by Seth at 10:30 AM on April 1, 2008
We've spent a long time now with the freewheeling, Emmy-winning Jeremy Piven of Today: Oozing confidence from every pore of his shredded, hairless body (save for his scalp), that Piven is an Arian super-man. It's enough to make you forget about the Jeremy Piven of Yesterday, as featured in the clip above from a 1995 episode of Chicago Hope. Playing a patient with a stubbornly persistent erection (an ominous harbinger of things to come? Discuss), that Piven comes far closer to the Piven we first grew to love: Back when the hairline was making a break for the border, chest fur rolled across his torso like tumbleweeds, and carbohydrates still played a series regular role in his diet.
We've spent a long time now with the freewheeling, Emmy-winning Jeremy Piven of Today: Oozing confidence from every pore of his shredded, hairless body (save for his scalp), that Piven is an Arian super-man. It's enough to make you forget about the Jeremy Piven of Yesterday, as featured in
- Chicago Hope: Love and Hope [Hulu]
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badideajeans
Posted 12:20 PM 1/4/08
i thought he won the emmy for that...
badideajeans
spanktastic
Posted 12:17 PM 1/4/08
Pass me that dog turd.
spanktastic
CrankYank
Posted 12:16 PM 1/4/08
@CrankYank: "excited", don't know what that typo means.
CrankYank
CrankYank
Posted 12:15 PM 1/4/08
Anyone else excite that "Greg" once pretended to handle Piven's whoopsie? Those crazy 90's!
CrankYank
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 11:55 AM 1/4/08
Loved him in Grosse Pointe Blank.
Trixie from Toronto
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 11:46 AM 1/4/08
Aww, memories...but he'll always be Cusack's second fiddle and Evanston's (or is it Rogers Park's?) biggest douche to an entire generation of Chicagoans.
Little Mintz Sunshine
Glass_Family
Posted 11:33 AM 1/4/08
Wait, he was losing his hair? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Glass_Family
ObtuseIntolerant
Posted 1:22 PM 1/4/08
How about a clip of him as cousin Spence on "Ellen"?
ObtuseIntolerant
HPgirl
Posted 2:07 PM 1/4/08
OMG, he has my everlasting love due to Larry Sanders.
Yeah, he was rather...pasty and cuddly, no? He is so...damn, now.
HPgirl
Desk_hack
Posted 1:54 PM 1/4/08
@Trixie from Toronto: "Ten! Yeeeeaaarrrs!!!"
Desk_hack
raincoaster
Posted 6:02 PM 1/4/08
@Desk_hack: TWENTY YEEEEEEEEEEEEARS!
I don't care. Chubby or slim, hirsute or "naturally waxed" I will take my Pivert however I can get him.
raincoaster
LittleMissPartlyCloudy
Posted 9:19 PM 1/4/08
How could ya all forget his turn as the doc who gave his present-of-a-shirt to DeNiro in "Heat"? LMPC is ashamed.
LittleMissPartlyCloudy
CourageousCoward
Posted 1:16 AM 2/4/08
Receding hair in PCU: [imdb.com]
CourageousCoward
CourageousCoward
Posted 1:21 AM 2/4/08
Even better clip: [www.starpulse.com]
CourageousCoward
brechtgirl
Posted 4:11 AM 2/4/08
I guess he decided he could either be Kevin James and kiss Will Smith in Hitch or be Ari Gold and have lindsay lohan hanging all over him at his birthday party.
brechtgirl
snappyface
Posted 4:16 AM 2/4/08
I'm very disappointed in myself for not being able to find a clip of him as Spike in "Lucas." Especially the scene where he is shirtless, on a lunchroom table, and squeezing oranges betwixt his biceps.
snappyface
Wendy_Kroy
Posted 6:32 AM 2/4/08
They just re-ran the episode of Seinfeld he guested on, where he played a short, dumpy bald guy auditioning for the "George Costanza" role in the show-within-a-show. Piven's a natural-born George, but nowadays, with his rug/weave/implants, I'd say he's more of an Art Vandelay...
Wendy_Kroy
waytogeaux
Posted 8:11 AM 2/4/08
he also had a great cameo in Singles:
+ Watch video
waytogeaux
dr.funke
Posted 8:07 AM 2/4/08
@Desk_hack: "Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater."
dr.funke