Thursday, April 26, 2007

2nd Wikipedia edit for Entourage


Entourage, oh how I love this show. Unlike many things in life, this series never fails to live to up to expectations. Every week, after loyal cable viewers are disgusted by the mafia soap opera that has become The Sopranos, 10:00pm rolls around (eastern standard time) and HBO gets a much needed shot at redemption. At around this time, give or take 20 seconds, roughly everyone in the western hemisphere breathes a sigh of relief. They exhale a full week's worth of stress because they all know that nothing can touch them for next 22-28 minutes. In this small segment of time, a mere second in relation to the work week, they get to watch Vinny Chase and his crew effortlessly navigate the glamourous and seemingly mythical Hollywood scene. They watch four best friends cracking witty jokes at each other's expense, beautiful, scantily clad women smiling at ever street corner, and fast cars cruising down Sunset Blvd with their windows down and their music blasting. For a half hour, the audience gets to live vicariously through the show's well developed characters, characters that everyone can fundamentally relate too despite the gross differences in lifestyle. With that said, I pose one question, "can a man ask for anything more from life?" It's every 18+ year old male fantasy rolled into a cleverly written half hour of television greatness. Nonetheless, its time to come down from cloud nine and back to the real world. This fabled lifestyle is only reserved for a select few, and for those few, its still not always what it's "cracked up" to be. Entourage, in all its splendor, is now obviously exaggerated to the larger than life porportions we view every Sunday. Initially, the show was loosely based on Mark Wahlberg's various experiences as he rose from obscurity through the celebrity ranks to Hollywood stardom. However, its aim has changed and the show now focuses on providing the audience with sheer entertainment, fun in its purest fun. When I watch the show, I feel like a kid in a candy store. I almost, somewhat embarassingly, have to giggle at times. It's this type of fun that keeps millions of viewers waiting anxiously each week to see what grand plans the writers have in store for the entourage. However, though I felt it was necessary to make an edit on the fact that the show has diverged from its roots, I wanted to keep my comments more basic and formal with the hopes that my edit will last longer than 14 minutes this time around.

Entourage Edit 2:
Mark Wahlberg has recently stated in an interview with HBO.com that the newest episodes of the show are not at all based on his life experiences but are rather a product of the creative minds of the show's writers, namely Doug Ellin.

2 comments:

MiKe5 said...

Hey Dan, how are we doing this fine afternoon? I made a respone on my blog about you're Wikipedia edit on 'Entourage.' Check it out if you have a chance.

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Kyle Garis said...

As a big fan of the show Entourage, I found this Wikipedia edit pretty interesting. Like most of the show's viewers, I was always under the assumption that the show was based upon Wahlberg's life. To find out that the show's premise is actually based upon another person doesn't really make too much of a difference but its still interesting to find that out. And after all, the show is really about how great Jeremy Piven is as his agent.