Jeremy Piven, the short, formerly balding -- but charismatic -- star of HBO's Entourage series earned some unexpected food-related headlines recently. He left the new Broadway revival of David Mamet's black comedy, Speed-The-Plow due to, his doctor insists, mercury poisoning from eating too much sushi.
Naturally, the fishing industry lobby -- and lots of New York sushi restaurants -- went nuts, claiming Piven's illness was nothing but a fishy story concocted to let Piven break his contract and