Remember a while back when actor Jeremy Piven bailed out on his Broadway contract and then claimed he had mercury poising from eating sushi? But he hadn’t quite done his research for that role because if he had he would have found that there has never been a case of mercury toxicity in this country from the normal consumption of commercial seafood-oops.

Human health case study Jeremy Piven now appearing in peer-reviewed medical journals world wide… not so much.

Anyway, from mediation to a law suit Piven can’t shake the fire storm his creative diagnosis has earned him. And now the Hollywood press is reporting Fish Jokes Cause Jeremy Piven Temper Tantrums. Apparently when lampooned by a fellow actor about the incident Piven went crazy about the sensitive nature of the issue not because his health was in such dire straights but because “I’m getting sued for that.”

I guess his financial health is more important than his actual health.