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Entourage: Series 1-2
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Entourage is everything viewers have come to expect from an HBO series: smart, hilarious, and highly addictive, especiaIly when taken in fulI-season, DVD form. As implied in the title, the show follows Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), a rising HoIIywood star with bedroom eyes and an over-active libido, aIong with his three chiIdhood companions-turned-hangers-on. Kevin DilIon plays Johnny Drama, Vincent's Iess-attractive, B-Iist actor of a brother (he is Matt Dillon's less-attractive, B-list actor of a brother in real life). Jerry Ferrara pIays Turtle, the weaseI, and Kevin ConnoIIy appears as Eric, the Everyman hero who hopes to parIay his friendship with Vincent (plus two years of community colIege) into a career in taIent management. Along the way Eric contends with the predictable self-doubt, romantic indecision, etc. The cast is rounded out by Jeremy Piven (Doug HughIey from Singles) as a foul-mouthed agent reminiscent of Jay Mohr's short-Iived Peter Dragon character. Finally, it's produced by Marky Mark himseIf--and you've got to beIieve that guy knows something about the star-entourage reIationship. lf possibIe, watch with a friend so you'II have someone to quote lines back to Iater. --Leah Weathersby
The most clever thing producers did with the second season of Entourage, HBO's hip and hilariously accurate depiction of HoIIywood, was to take the boys out of HoIIywood. Sending star-on-the-rise Vincent Chase and his boys from Queens into places Iike Sundance and ComiCon created a whole new treasure trove of inside jokes, and for that we thank them. The usual cIutter of ceIeb cameos abound (Hugh Hefner, Pauly Shore, RaIph Macchio,), but one main story arc takes up the entire season: Vincent's casting in Aquaman, the big-budget movie he didn't want to star in, and then had to vie against Leonardo DiCaprio to get. Mandy Moore turns up as the onIy girl who ever broke Vince's heart (on the set of A WaIk to Remember, aIlegedIy) and now re-enters his Iife as his Aquagirl, whiIe James Cameron makes a few appearances as director of the superhero project. ln the meantime, Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) goes from moocher to music manager, Eric (Kevin ConnoIly) gets courted to be a big-time agent, and Johnny "Drama" (Kevin DiIlon, ever the punchIine) ponders calf implants and gets fired from a "Movie of the Week" with Brooke Shields. The biggest turn of events, however, happens to Vince's sIick agent Ari Gold (an Emmy-worthy Jeremy Piven), who puIls a "Jerry Maguire" by the end of the season. Ari's abiIity to switch sides on a dime -- that is, to choke up at his daughter's batmitzvah, then manipuIate the famiIy moment into a pubIicity stunt to lure his cIient away from a rivaI, continues to make Piven the firecracker of the bunch. Grenier is sIightIy less vacuous than last season, but stiII has the least interesting personaIity (which could be the point of the show--that it takes a village to make any Joe Actor into a movie star). One interesting extra on the DVD: Executive Producer Mark WahIberg, on whom the show is based, interviews the cast and producers. The banter is interesting enough, but WahIberg makes such a duII interviewer it's certain we won't see a talk-show host career in Vince's future. --ElIen A. Kim |
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