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• Jeremy Piven's character is loosely based on one of Hollywood's top agents, Ari Emanuel, a partner at the Endeavor Agency.
  
  
• The show is loosely based on the Hollywood experiences of Mark Wahlberg, one of the executive producers.
  
  
• Ari Gold's clients that turn up in the show (Vin Diesel, Larry David) are in real life Ari Emanuel's clients.
  
  
• Ari Gold's "Let's hug it out, bitch" was ranked #6 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 20 Top Catchphrases" (21-27 August 2005 issue).
  
  
• Kevin Connolly had actually retired from acting when show creators first approached about doing the show. It wasn't until he was informed the part of Eric had been written specifically for him that he decided to take part.
  
  
• Creator John Koch claims that he doesn't know where Ari's famous "let's hug it out bitch" originated. The line is, in fact, something Jeremy Piven made up. In his previous TV show "Cupid" (1998), 15 minutes into episode 1.05 (First Loves), Piven's character is seen in a limousine yelling, "That's right good citizens, it's International Hug a Stranger Day! It's time to hug it out, you little freak!"
  
  
• The license plate of the vintage 1965 Lincoln Continental shown at the beginning of every show says QSV 11427. This is a zip code for Queens Village, New York and QSV may be an abbreviation of that.
  
  
• In the series Vince was at one point attached to star as Pablo Escobar in Medellin but ultimately loses the role to Benicio Del Toro; in reality, Del Toro was at one point slated to star in the film version of Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo.
  
  
• "Aquaman," Vince's first blockbuster film was inspired by Mark Wahlberg working with Wolfgang Petersen on The Perfect Storm (2000), Wahlberg's first major blockbuster.
  
  
• Vince's films include "Head On" in 2004 with Jessica Alba, "Queens Boulevard" in 2005 with Ethan Suplee, "Aquaman" in 2006 with Mandy Moore, and "Medellin" in 2007.
  
  
• Johnny Drama is based on actor 'Johnny Alves', Mark Wahlberg's cousin. Thus, in the pilot Turtle mentioning that Vince thought Johnny was his cousin until they were 14.
  
  
• Drama mentions that he made a guest appearance on "Blue" (short for "Pacific Blue" (1996)), which Turtle mistakes for "NYPD Blue" (1993). In real life, Kevin Dillon appeared in three episodes of "NYPD Blue".
  
  
• Whenever a boxing match is shown on TV, it is the exact same fight. Jerry Ferrara has commented, "I have that fight memorized."
  
  
• Ari talks to someone over the phone at least once every episode (with the notable exception of "Entourage: Welcome to the Jungle (#4.1)" (2007).
  
  
• In season 4, Vincent stars in the fictional film "Medellin." A trailer was created for the film (which can be seen in the DVD set), and at the end of the trailer is the Internet link "www.medellinthefilm.com", which is an actual website created for and about the fictional film. It includes the trailer, stills, an interview with Vincent Chase, and a synopsis for the film.
  
  
• It is mentioned several times throughout the show, that Jake Gyllenhaal has taken over the role that Vince had in "Aquaman" in its sequel. This refers to Gyllenhal almost taking over the role of Spider-Man from Tobey Maguire in the sequel (Spider-Man 2 (2004)) after Maguire suffered from a back injury and almost became unavailable to perform the required stunts for the movie. It is also worth noting that "Aquaman" is directed by James Cameron, who was attached to direct Spider-Man (2002) for a long time before Sam Raimi was hired.
  
  
• "Medellin" and its bad reception by critics and audience has a lot of simlarities to Southland Tales (2006). Both movies were big projects directed by directors (Billy Walsh and Richard Kelly), who had a huge success with an indie-flick (Queens Boulevard and Donnie Darko (2001)) that had a huge fanbases. Both movies were first screened at Cannes and a huge buzz about was created about them. After they were screened, they both received bad reviews (Southland Tales (2006) scored the lowest reviews for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, averaging 1.1 out of 5) and bad audience reaction. Additionally, Southland Tales (2006) went straight-to-dvd in many countries, just like "Medellin".
  
  
• The apartment building used as Drama's home in season four is, in real life, home to Ron Jeremy. On filming days, Jeremy would visit the set, a few floors down and many times fell asleep in video village.
  
  
• In season 4 Turtle asks Drama if he'd ever seen '24.' In real life Kevin Dillon appeared on three episodes of "24" (2001) during its second season.
  
  
• During a US Comedy Arts Festival panel discussion, host 'Elvis MItchell' asks series creator Doug Ellin about characters based on actual people. Doug states that "Billy Walsh" is based on executive producer Rob Weiss who directed only one film Amongst Friends (1993). When asked about "Harvey Weingard" being based on Harvey Weinstein, Doug appears to be uneasy and says: "I thought we weren't gonna talk about this." Then regarding the actor playing Weingard - Maury Chaykin - Doug adds: "I don't know who he's basing that on."
  
  
• In season 5, Ari Gold calls up 'his college roommate' 'Peter Berg' to try and talk him into directing 'Smoke Jumpers'. In reality, Ari Emmanuel's roommate at Macalester College in Minnesota was Peter Berg, according to The New York Times (June 10, 2009). 'Peter Berg' is also represented by Ari Emmanuel.
  
  
• When filming Medellin director Billy Walsh cries repeatedly out to his crew for "more fog". This is a reference to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) where a huge amount of fog is used throughout the film.
  
  

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