Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: Josh
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: TehMac
I just started watching Entourage Season 4 with a friend a while back, and it seems like a pretty decent (if very far-fetched) show.
Loosely based on Mark Wahlburg's life.
My step-sister's husband is co-head chef at Paul Wahlberg's restaurant and after hearing some of the stories Paul has about his brother, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the stuff in Entourage is closer to reality than you'd think.
Examples, please.
Mark grew up in Dorchester was basically a car thief before breaking into the movie business. The guys that he and Paul keep in touch with are basically the same make-up as Drama, Eric, and Turtle except that Paul isn't an aspiring (or failed) actor.
The way Vince is so casual with money is pretty realistic too -- Mark shelled out about half a million dollars just to fly Paul around the world to cook for him. What that really meant is that he flew Paul out, spent the whole time getting high with him, then paid another professional chef to cook for all of them. He flies private planes simply so that he can make sure his drugs stay with him.
He recently had an interview with a guy from variety or something and the guy was supposed to tail Mark all day and see what his life was like. To make a long story short, Mark made up hundreds of excuses to get away from the guy because he gets high around the clock. The guy ended up writing an article that talked about how dedicated Mark was, when in reality Mark just wanted to smoke some MJ.
A while ago Mark supposedly found Jesus and had a huge ice sculpture made of his crucifixion that was the centerpiece of a big swanky party he had. He now has some huge monstrosity of the crucifixion in his upstairs hallway.
Vince's character, according to Paul, is pretty similar to Mark, he doesn't want to deal with shit, he expects stuff to happen simply because he's a movie star. It's his manager that arranges everything for him, from sending Paul out to pick up the newspaper every morning, to making sure that there is food for dinner. It's nuts.
Mark likes to act, he just hates doing it over and over again. He tries to do his movies in binges, so that he gets it all out of the way for a few years.
I've only spoken to Paul for a few minutes here and there and he hasn't been down at the restaurant in a while, so most of the good stories I still don't know. I guess none of those stories really seem too crazy, but after talking with him and then hearing stories from Jeremy (step-sister's husband), the things I see on Entourage don't sound too surprising at all.
If you're curious, the restaurant is
Bridgeman's
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