ENTOURAGE

Shortly after Ari Gold’s bandmate Adrian Grenier (who also starred in Ari’s movie Adventures of Power) was cast as Vinnie Chase in the TV show Entourage, Adrian’s team “borrowed” Ari’s cool name (without permission).

Not wanting to interrupt his friend Adrian’s success, Ari decided not to sue. He wasn’t expecting the character of Ari to get so annoyingly famous, until the second season when, biking through Times Square, Ari saw a giant Entourage promo billboard reading “Ari Gold is a Douchebag!”

When the Entourage douchebags announced a movie, Ari had had enough, so he adapted the show’s annoying themes of douche-bros into a shot-for-shot remake of Avicci’s “Wake Me Up,” replacing the pretty female models with a male model and his “bro” puppet.

"ENTOURAGE"
A Film By Ari Gold. Directed by Ari Gold and Louis Arogant. Conceived by The Gold Brothers. Music by Ethan Gold with vocals by Louis Arogant.

 NOTE FROM ARI: 

People have been asking me for years how much I was paid for giving my name to my friend Adrian's TV show, or conversely, whether I was re-named retroactively by my mother to capitalize on the show. First answer: nothing (they didn't ask my permission); second answer: you are not a smart person. I'm not the only Ari Gold on earth, but I am the best dancer. 

As for Entourage, it was a Microsoft email client for Mac. My brother Ethan Gold wrote a song about it, and Spacehog's Louis Arogant, Haroula Rose and I made a video. Louis sang and the real-life dance-pop sensation Ari Gold (now going by Sir Ari Gold) gave us some backing-track dance floor emoting. An organic chef named Ari Gold sent good vibes from Portland. And a bunch of friends not named Ari Gold came out and made a video, which is about as coincidentally similar to Avicii & Aloe Blacc's "Wake Me Up" as the name "Ari Gold" is similar to my given name. In other words, a lot similar. I recognized the "Wake Me Up" locations from my movie Adventures of Power so I went back to lovely Piru, California to tell this tale of two beautiful brothers on a quest to find out the meaning of Ari Gold and Entourage. There's a message in it for all of us.

VIDEO produced by Haroula Rose, Ari Gold, Louis Arogant. Edited by Louis Arogant & Ari Gold. Starring Anthony Greenfield as the beautiful bro, Sven. Saxon as the little bro, puppeteered by Mr. Jared Ramirez, voice by Amber Richey.

SONG written & produced by Ethan Gold, with lyrics by Ethan Gold, Ari Gold, & Louis Arogant. Vocals by Louis Arogant. Backing emotion vocals by Sir Ari Gold. Harmony vocals by Ethan Gold. Engineered by John Hiler. Remixed by Reza Safinia.

With guest appearances by Ari Gold as DJ AG Aricii, Mickael De Cinno & Jared Ramirez as the "new bros" and the "anti-bros", and Michelle as the singer.  Partiers and passersby include Sarah Gail Armstrong, Amber Richey, Robert Sheehan, Sofia Boutella, Haroula Rose, Mika Wendy Sam, Dovelie Lovelie, Vera Wu, Ryanne White, Aaron Shorter, and others please contact me and I'll add you here because I can't find the sign-up sheet. Thank you for drinking my beer.