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"I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury," Mamet told Daily Variety. "So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."

That's David Mamet skewering Jeremy Piven after Piven abruptly dropped out of a production of one of Mamet's plays.

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