Perfect example: "The Goods" is the best movie he's been in? Seriously? He was in Say Anything, Singles, Gross Pointe Blank, Black Hawk Down, Heat...but "The Goods" trumps them all? Come on!
Interesting. When referring to himself (which is apparently often) Piven frequently states that "I'm just a Chicago theater guy". Funny...I thought they closed down those kinds of theaters due to indecency charges and to the impact of home videos.
Piven: You can either continue to be angry, and hold on to that, or you can go out [to THE GOODS and ENTOURAGE] and have a good time!
I will have a good time, Mr. Piven. You are a very good comic actor, and you make me laugh in a THE GOODS trailer that doesn't even have any jokes in it.
But, believe it or not, liking your work and not respecting you as a person are not mutually exclusive ideas.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum