Entourage: Let's Blog It Out

Just in time for the Season 5 finale and the third installment of the Joshie Awards. Sweet!

The group is called Blackcowboy. The song is called "Come On." The chick in the video is Gisele. And the director is Kevin Connolly. Watch and see.

Blackcowboy Video "Come On"

OK, folks, it's Joshie Award nominee season.

In the past, I've "studied" all the season's episodes and come up with the categories and nominees for the Joshies, which honor excellence in "Entourage."

I will do the same again for Season 5, but in the interest of character/plot development, I'm opening up the nominee suggestion box to readers.

Below you will find the Joshie categories for Season 5. If you don't know what the Joshies Awards are, you better ask somebody. Feel free to use the comments here to suggest scenes for each category worthy of Joshie consideration. Heck, you can even suggest new categories.

No guarantees, of course, but my hunch is you might be able to sway the academy.

As for the voting schedule, it goes like this: We'll post all the nominees on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The polls will be open for one week, closing at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 2. Then, on Thursday, Dec. 4, the Joshies will be unveiled to the world.

Fire away!

Best Best Printable Line

Best Johnny Drama Moment

Best Random Hot Chick

Best Storyline

Best Location

Best Guest Star

Best Character You Want to See More of

Best Comeback

Best Overall Performance

Best Ari Gold Moment

Best Scene

Best Episode

Relive past Joshie Awards

No doubt this episode will be in the running for Best Episode when the Joshie Award nominees are announced next week.

Continue reading "Entourage 5/11: Best episode so far" »

In an episode where every Ari Gold moment on screen was fantastic, it's hard to pinpoint the actual AGM. But alas, I have a job to do.

Continue reading "Entourage 5/11: The Ari Gold Mine" »

Sal!

Say it with me now: Sal! Sal! Sal!

And we've got ourselves a first name for Turtle. It only took 65 episodes. This is the biggest character development for Turtle -- oopsies, Sal -- since he met Ari to have the suits back him getting Saigon a record deal.

Are we surprised it's an extremely Italian name? Nope. Are we surprised it took a sweet girl in a romantic arc to get him to reveal it? Nope.

But I was always of the belief his first name would be Anthony.

Isn't it funny how when even the hardest or most wiseassest of men will confess just about anything to a woman they really like, especially in those early stages of courtship? I think Turtle is falling for Jamie-Lynn Sigler pretty hard right now, at least based on what we've seen so far. His guard is dropped down lower than Roy Jones Jr. in his prime.

Next up: Mrs. Ari!

(HBO Photo of Jerry Ferrara as "Turtle," oops "Sal.")

With one episode left in Season 5, Ari Gold locked up his second straight Big Knish and third overall.

Here's how he did this week. Vince has just been fired from "Smoke Jumpers" and Team Chase is going through a mini-meltdown. Drama was ready to throw Verner, the crazed German director, a Queens-style beatdown. E was doing his usual over-reacting. Vince was actually angry.

Ari Gold arrived on the set in Big Bear and tried to calm them all down in Vince's trailer. He assured them that he would handle everything and fix it for Vince. They asked how.

Ari responded:

"Because the Jew has arrived and he doesn't like Germans."

Outstanding wording, outstanding delivery.

We'll celebrate Ari's Big Knish Award next week in a special blog ceremony.

Continue reading "Entourage 5/11: Best Printable Line" »

We've all been there, in that groggy state of "I'm still asleep but for some reason I answered the phone."

We're our most honest, natural selves at that point. So when Jamie-Lynn Sigler called Turtle at 4 o'clock in the morning, it came as no surprise to see Turtle be his usual smart-ass self.

"Are you sleeping?" Sigler asked.

"No, I'm fly-fishing," Turtle responded.

Props to whichever suggested fly-fishing as the activity of choice to use in that situation. Absolutely hilarious. Go ahead and try to substitute another action in its place that would be as funny.

"No, I'm walking the dog."
"No, I'm swimming naked in the lake with Drama."
"No, I'm cooking a peanut butter and jelly calzone."
"No, I'm washing my car in the rain."

See, fly-fishing was the perfect choice. Well played.

It's almost time for the Season 5 Joshie Awards, saluting excellence in "Entourage."

We'll have a little announcement concerning this year's awards on Tuesday around lunchtime, so make sure you read it.

In the meantime, re-familiarize yourself with what The Joshies are all about.

(AP Photos)

I hate Seth Green on "Entourage," which is what we're supposed to do.

But when he's on the show, it usually means a gratuitous scene with Emmanuelle Chriqui, our all-time favorite gal.

So if we need to see Seth Green every week in order to see Emmanuelle Chriqui every week, then under the La Monica Fair Trade Act, so be it!

For the record, the La Monica Fair Trade Act (LFTA) states that if you must endure something you don't want to see in order to see something you want to see, then man up and deal with the bad until the good arrives.

The LFTA has its roots in "The Thomas Crown Affair." In order to see smokin' hot Rene Russo not wearing any clothing, we had to accept the shots of Pierce Brosnan's unclothed backside. Under LFTA guidelines, that's worth it.

And so it goes here with that jerk Seth Green on "Entourage." To be clear, we have no issues with Seth Green in real life. But we cheered when Bow Wow cold-clocked him. And we cheered when Sloan entered our television screen from the right side with a deep-plunging, open-back dress.

Seriously, she's so unfair to men. She's what we call a Night Ruiner.

Turtle, seriously, I know you pushed a certain button to get that super serve in Wii Tennis. Drama was right and I know it. It can't just be hitting the ball at its zenith or swinging your arm really hard. You were doing something extra. (Oh yeah, by the way, in regards to next week's coming attractions, DO NOT screw that up again!)

Hey, Drama, learn how to master using the frontcourt guy in Wii Tennis and you will be unstoppable. The superfast serve is easily returnable. It's all about the front guy. Trust me.

Man up, E! There comes a point where business isn't worth being turned into a chump by a squirrly little dweeb such as Seth Green (to clarify, we're talking only about Green's portrayal of himself as an over-the-top jerkface on the show, not him in real life). Salvage some of your manhood and tell him in not-so-polite fashion to have a threesome, just without anyone else in the room.

Keep fighting for yourself, Vince. It's good to see you stepping up to the plate to demand more for your role in "Smoke Jumpers." After all, this is your career we're talking about and it's about time you stop letting Ari and E handle it all. This isn't about doing an indie flick or buying a script. It's about not winding up in some "Whatever happened to . . . " photo gallery on Defamer, TMZ or E!

Did Ari Gold, the flesh-eating uber-agent, really follow the advice of his 15-year-old daughter, at least for the first half of the show? Really, Ari? Well, at least your impression of Barbara Miller was hilarious. Keep it up.

Nice work, Bow Wow, and we're not talking about punching Green in the face or quitting your job folding shirts in a retail shop.

P.S. Sloan, it's obvious you and E both still care about each other, so you might have to wear the pants here and make it happen.