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President Obama obviously doesn't have enough time to watch TV regularly. Well, episodic TV, anyway. But when he does, he's said in several recent interviews, he tries to catch HBO's Entourage. A smart, hip choice, as you'd expect from a sophisticated guy like Obama. I suspect the main reason Obama watches is to catch the latest Hollywood adventures of Rahm Emanuel's brother, Ari, as played brilliantly (and only possibly fictitiously) by Jeremy Piven. Rahm's TV sibling is Hollywood superagent Ari Gold. One wonders if the real-life Ari Emanuel is half as funny or as entertaining as Piven's caustic, Type-a Ari, who' s prone to such outrageous outbursts as yelling, "I'll bet you don't drive like that in Tiananmen Square, bitch!" from his Porsche on Sunset Boulevard. (Piven's Ari is an acquired taste, but one Tinseltown apparently relishes.) Sunday's much-awaited »

- Bill Mann

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