Before Entourage, Grenier was all alone in Brooklyn.
Editor's note: It's the sweaty summer of 1999 and Adrian Grenier is just starting to make it big, starring in the indie film The Adventures of Sebastian Cole and about to break into the teen market with Melissa Joan Hart in You Drive Me Crazy. A big New York newspaper assigns a "Shopping with..." piece, and sends this reporter off with Grenier to get some clothes for a premiere. But the eventual Entourage star is still a little raw ‑- he's not about to head off to Barney's for an afternoon of shopping. The editors at the newspaper decide that he's not quite big enough yet to befit the high concept of an antishopping expedition to thrift stores, though, so that afternoon slips away into oblivion... until now.
Long-Lost Afternoon
"I don't shop," Adrian Grenier says gamely as he's waiting for the L train to Williamsburg where he will do just that. "I haven't shopped in about four years."Nevertheless, the 23-year-old actor has a premiere coming up for The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, and he could use a new dress shirt. He hasn't had to wear one since he stopped waiting tables about 18 months ago, a week after getting his first starring role in the film.
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