Where there is smoke, there's fire.  And tonight's episode of Entourage was hot. 

With the fires raging in Calfornia at this time, a movie, even a fictional movie in a fictional tv show, is very current and aprapos.

But, alas, Smokejumpers won't be coming to a theater near you anytime soon.  Why, you ask?  Because production of this film just went up in smoke!

That's the bad news. Equally bad is that this film was to be Vincent Chase's (Adrian Grenier's) return to the big screen.  This once hot actor was blazing a trail across Hollywood.  But, since the disasterous Medellin, he hasn't been able to reignite his career.

The good news is that, despite the fact that hot head Verner fired Vince from the set (what the heck, Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly)?  why didn't you stand up for your boy?), the whole movie has now been put on the back burner.  So, rather that it looking like Vince was let go because his acting was less than inspired, it will be just another example of a movie that went over budget by burning thru money too fast

Verner's combustable persona saw fit to that when Dana Gordon (Constance Zimmer) and Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) confronted him and led him to bust up a meeting with the studio owner.  After that, it all went up in smoke and Vince, Dana and Verner all got burned.

Meanwhile, Turtle aka SAL (Jerry Ferrara) found himself back in LA play'n with fire with Soprano's star Jamie Lynn Siegler.  Will these two continue to keep this new flame going next season or will Vince's career extinguish this budding romance the same way it smothered Eric and Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui)?

Next week, Vince and the boys head back home to Queens, NY to a warm welcome home.  With Season 6 confirmed, I have to believe that, like Phoenix, our hero will rise from the flames and be hot again.  But, based on the previews, it looks like things will  blow up even more before that happens.

Let's hope Doug Ellin puts a fire under production and we start getting sneak peeks from the set again in February 2009.  Because, if we thought waiting for over a year to find out what happened with Medellin was unbearable, this is going to make it seem like that was a day at the beach.