In a favorite scene from Entourage, the actor Jeremy Piven, aka Ari Gold, exclaims after making a mega deal for the guy with puppy eyes, Adrien Something, “You should call me Helen Keller because I’m a fuckin’ miracle worker.”
InToday,Nation, I struck such a deal and I’m not talking about a seven figure book contract. More impressive, I got my husband to agree to excuse me from going to a family wedding and spending Labor Day weekend at my in-laws which is our family tradition. Take it in. Take another minute. It’s okay.
The reason. The only reason: to write, of course. If you’re not writing this weekend, I hope you’re having sushi with Pevin. But hold on to your chopsticks, I hear he scarfs the stuff. Love, Betsy
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Betsy Lerner 
Did I miss something? Are you working on another book? Did I tell you I read Food and Loathing? Whoa.
DId the Entourage writers finish high school? Helen Keller was not the “miracle worker”, she was the patient.
Anne Sullivan was the “miracle worker”.
Yes, the line gets a laugh anyway, but having the Gold character say “Anne Sullivan” would have put an interesting intellectual wrinkle in the Ari Gold character, and it would have raised the show’s sights just long enough to hit a few more viewers.
As many writers, including those on the defunct Mystery Science Theatre 3000 staff, have observed, sometimes you don’t care if everybody gets it as long as the right people get it.
My bad — or possibly my bad since I didn’t dig up the episode and quoted it from memory. Sloppy! SOrry.
I hear Piven doesn’t eat sushi anymore because he got mercury poisoning, so he’d be the perfect person to go eat sushi with…nom nom nom.
And kudos to you for getting some writing time. Sometimes it feels like life interferes with the important stuff, like plot development.
Nice deal.
I’m mostly working on more promo schemes this weekend, though I took a day off to go dancing, and recover.
Labor Day is a big gay weekend.