Good News for your commute home. We went down to the York Street subway platform this afternoon with our trusty deer thermometer and discovered it's about 18 degrees cooler down there than it is on the open air sidewalks of New York. The thermometer showed a reading of 108 degrees on Jay Street in Brooklyn, and just 90 degrees underground. This shocking turn of events comes just days after we complained about it being around 90 degrees on the subway platform, when it was a chill 88 outside. Perspective!
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It's 18 Degrees Cooler On The Subway Platform Than Outside
Piven's "Mercury Poisoning" Seems Fishy to Producers
In a world torn by war, with an economy in ruins, it's nice to know we've still got Jeremy Piven's antics to take our minds off things—his abrupt departure from the modestly successful Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow has outraged the show's producers and cast members.Yesterday Piven's doctor, Carlon Colker, said he ordered Piven to withdraw from the production because of "elevated levels of mercury" in his blood, ostensibly caused by the hard-partying actor's penchant for sushi and Chinese herbs, which can contain heavy metals.
Jeremy Piven Quits Speed-the-Plow, Macy Takes Over
[CASTING UPDATE BELOW] Entourage star Jeremy Piven has gone from calling out sick to simply quitting his current gig on Broadway in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Mamet tells Variety: "I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." (Promises, promises.)
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