We got to see vintage Entourage tonight with the fifth season’s fourth episode, “Fire Sale.”
It’s easy to forget that the show is actually about show business when we mostly see hot girls and parties all the time. But tonight blazingly fast episode was all about the back and forth between client, manager, agent and studio.
L.B and Nick’s script for Smoke Jumpers becomes the subject of a bidding war as Ari and Vince shop the project around to studios. On the flip side, Ed Norton is seriously interested in it, while his agent Amanda works to get it bought from E.
And then we have Drama’s appearance on The View with the cast of Five Towns. His cast mates chastise him for being dumped by Jacqueline, which forces Drama to “punk out” and cry on national television. What ensues is Drama getting drunk (again) and getting arrested. You’ve got to love Drama, but I think Kevin Dillon continues to be the most under-utilized actor on the show. You know it’s bad when even he can’t make a jail scene funny.
The bidding war comes to a crescendo when Vince agrees to take a supporting role in Smoke Jumpers. L.B. and Nick have a solid deal in place with a half a million dollar check awaiting them. But in typical Entourage fashion, that offer is countered with a 2 million dollar deal with Ed Norton and the exclusion of Vince. Worsening the situation is the fact that Alan Grey, who hates Vince, is the one who will be writing that check.
The writer’s are really driving the point home that Vince is no longer thought of as the star of the biggest grossing movie of all-time. It looks like they’ll continue to enforce that idea next week when Vince’s Maserati gets repossessed and Aqua-Man seriously considers making a G-Rated “Benji” just to make some much needed money.
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