Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon arrive at the 'Entourage' season six premiere in Hollywood. (photo: Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com)

Mistaken Identity

It's hard to write about your own life, especially when people close to you read your stories. And naming your main character after yourself doesn't make it any easier. Jonathan Ames — creator of the short story 'Bored to Death' and the new HBO series of the same name — does his best to explain. "It takes the basic premise of the short story, which is about a writer named Jonathan Ames who puts an ad on Craigslist and becomes a private detective. It stars Jason Schwartzman playing Jonathan Ames. I mean, he's not playing me, just a character with my name." Luckily, all this name-game confusion hasn't cramped the real Ames' style. "A lot of women write me very nice notes about the sexual aspect of my writing," he says. "So I don't think that's a problem. Once I'm in the relationship with someone, then people don't really like what I write. That's why my next book is going to be called, If You Know Me Please Don't Read This." (photo: Scott Gries/Getty Image)

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Constance Zimmer and Rachael Harris attend The Buzz Girls Creatives Dinner in West Hollywood, California. (photo: Michael Kovac/FilmMagic.com)

Pots Calls Kettle Black

It's almost an acting right of passage to complain that all of the good roles of one's native land are taken by Hollywood actors with the wrong accent. But Dominic West has taken it to a whole new level. The British actor recently explained that he felt justified in playing a famous Australian (Professor Howard Florey who discovered penicilllin) in an upcoming biopic because guys like Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp have been stealing the great British heroes on film. This is an admittedly bold stance for an Old Etonian who played a Baltimore detective on 'The Wire' for years. "I suppose for someone who made quite a lot of money out of being in an American TV show I shouldn't moan really, but it does annoy me when Beatrix Potter is played by a Texan (Zellweger)." He does have some empathy for his Baltimore fans: "I went to a 'Wire' quiz the other night and had to give out a prize or whatever and I started speaking and I could sense the deflation in the room when they found out I was just a dippy Sloane, instead of this hard-bitten cop they thought I was." (photo: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic.com)

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Tony Sirico, James Gandolfini and Vincent Pastore attend the after party for a screening of 'In The Loop' in New York City. (photo: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com)

Ready, or Not?

As Ari Gold, Jeremy Piven could sell a dog movie to an A-list actor. But remove the Beverly Hills glitz, and how'd he do with, say, used cars? Audiences will get to see the fast-talking actor do just that in the new film 'The Goods,' in which he plays hard-core car salesman Don Ready. But Piven insists he's not being type cast. "My character in The Goods ....wakes up and immediately goes to a strip bar so that he can eat breakfast. He is dirty and grungy, but he can move the metal and sell cars," Piven said. "Ari can sell a client, sell scripts all that stuff. But that's where the comparisons end because Don Ready ultimately goes through a life-changing event where he realizes, my God, I have no family, I have been on the road my whole life, what am I doing with my life? So he has a cathartic moment that Ari Gold would never have. I really relate to my character, it's about time!" (photo: Jesse Frederick Breedon/WireImage.com)

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Hope Davis attends the 11th Annual Broadway Barks in New York City. (photo: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com)

Socko!

The 'Entourage' boys are hitting below the belt with their latest round of off-screen prankstering. In his recent 'Tonight Show' appearance, Kevin Connolly told Conan O'Brien that Adrian Grenier enhanced his Bee Gees white polyster pantsuit for their EW photo shoot, while Connolly and Jerry Ferrara went au naturel; "Adrian put a sock [in his pants] ...," Connolly said. "When he was doing it, I said 'What are you doing?' and he said 'It's what they did in the '70s.'" Grenier rebutted: "What was he doing looking? And why was Conan looking too? It's weird! I've never scrutinized another man's groin area in my entire life — or his socks, for that matter." (photo: Jesse Grant/WireImage.com)

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara at the 'Entourage' Season 6 Premiere after-party. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Lloyd Tells All

Lloyd is mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore. Or, at least, he's mad as hell. In a new series of online video diaries, Lloyd reveals what it's like to work for Hollywood's biggest alpha boss. Check out his first "entry" in which Lloyd pumps himself up to confront Ari and demand his due. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

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