Nice timing, "Entourage."
Just hours after news broke that "Black Swan" producer Mike Medavoy will produce a movie about the Chilean miners' rescue, the HBO comedy returned for its final season Sunday with an episode in which lead character Vincent Chase — fresh from rehab — pitches his own miner movie.
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On the show, everyone around Vince (Adrien Grenier) agrees it's a terrible idea, but doesn't want to say so for fear of undermining his sobriety.
Medavoy shouldn't take the criticisms of the mining story personally — Vince's idea is about miners in Romania, not Chile. (A girl at a party tells him the Chilean miners have a more compelling story, and Vince eventually tweaks his plans.)
"Entourage" always plays with real-life events: One fan waiting for Vince to leave rehab holds a sign that says, "Winning!" But episodes are rarely so on the nose as Sunday's premiere, written by show creator Doug Ellin.
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