STAGE TUBE: Jeremy Piven Talks 'Fish' On CBS' The Late Show

Jeremy Piven visited The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday Sept. 1, 2009 and talked "fish" and Broadway with the comic legend. Late Show airs at 11:35pm on WCBS channel 2 in the tri-state area.

Piven is best known to tv viewers as Ari Gold, the manic agent on HBO's hit Entourage. He can be seen on the big screen as Don Ready, a high powered car salesman in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. The actor was forced to step down from Broadway's 'SPEED-THE-PLOW' in December, citing severe fatigue. He later revealed he had been diagnosed with toxic mercury poisoning due to his love of sushi.

His shocking departure left the production scrambling to find a last-minute replacement in the form of actors Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy. The producers took their complaint to the Actors Equity Association, claiming Piven's exit jeopardised show earnings.

The decision in the matter of the Arbitration between Speed the Plow Company, L.P. and Jeremy Piven & Actors' Equity Association was voted in favor of Mr. Piven and AEA. The decision acknowledged that Piven did not breach his individual employment contract nor did he breach the Equity-League collective bargaining contract.

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