{"id":3778,"date":"2013-11-12T00:29:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2013-11-12T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:29:59","slug":"arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/11\/12\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Ex-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRay Donovan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 EP Gets Support From Judd Apatow, Mark Gordon, Jon Voight &#038; Peter Berg Before Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"post thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnails\/6329122013-11-12-00-54-26-2013-11-12-00-54-26.png?w=525\"><br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-632920\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/11\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/djp-legal-badge-98\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DJP LEGAL BADGE\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DJP-LEGAL-BADGE__131112003305.jpg?resize=100%2C100\"><\/a>Having copped a guilty plea for his involvement in an illegal gambling group, Bryan Zuriff is now hoping some words of recommendation from some powerful Hollywood friends will encourage a judge to spare him some time behind bars. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bryan is prepared to take complete responsibility for his wrongdoing and complete whatever sentence you deem appropriate. With that said, I urge you to be lenient. Bryan is first and foremost a family man, dedicated to his wife and <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-632923\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/11\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/zuriff__130417032902-2\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"zuriff__130417032902\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/zuriff__130417032902__131112003501.png?resize=180%2C204\"><\/a>children. A harsh punishment will be a punishment, not just for Bryan, but for his entire family as well. They do not deserve that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/judd-apatow\/\">Judd Apatow<\/a> in a September 12, 2013 letter to federal judge Jesse Furman <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ZURIFF-LETTER-PETER-BERG-JUDD-APATOW-ETC-wm__131111235835.pdf\">(read it and other letters of support for Zuriff here<\/a>). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If there is good news here, it is that Bryan has taken the opportunity to face his demons and is coming out of this a better man in so many ways,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/mark-gordon\/\">Mark Gordon <\/a>in a letter to Furman detailing what a good producer Zuriff is. The PGA chief\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s company produces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/showtime\/\"><strong>Showtime<\/strong><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs hit <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/ray-donovan\/\"><strong>Ray Donovan<\/strong><\/a><\/em> series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/showtime-picks-up-ray-donovan-for-second-season\/\">which is set to come back for another season next year<\/a>. <em>Lone Survivor<\/em> director Peter Berg, <em>Hangover<\/em> producer Scott Budnick, producer Ann Biderman and, in his own handwriting, <em>Ray Donovan<\/em> star Jon &#8230; <span><a title=\"Continue reading this entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/11\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/#more-632912\">Read More \u00c2\u00bb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>via Deadline.com http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/11\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having copped a guilty plea for his involvement in an illegal gambling group, Bryan Zuriff is now hoping some words of recommendation from some powerful Hollywood friends will encourage a judge to spare him some time behind bars. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bryan is prepared to take complete responsibility for his wrongdoing and complete whatever sentence you deem appropriate. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/11\/12\/arrested-ex-ray-donovan-ep-gets-support-from-judd-apatow-mark-gordon-jon-voight-peter-berg-before-sentencing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arrested Ex-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRay Donovan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 EP Gets Support From Judd Apatow, Mark Gordon, Jon Voight &#038; Peter Berg Before Sentencing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-YW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}