A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Clubâs survey of TV at its most distinctive. For six yearsâlonger than the American involvement in World War IIâthe prisoners of Hoganâs Heroesâ Luftwaffe Stalag 13 fought the Nazis from deep inside enemy territory.
Ari Gold (born 1967) is Vincent Chase's movie agent. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University before earning his J.D./M.B.A. at the University of Michigan. Ari is Jewish and has one brother, Howard.
Ari's character is based in part on the real-life Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, who broke away from mega-agency ICM to form the Endeavor Talent Agency, which represents such stars as Vin Diesel and Larry David, both of whom are represented on the show by the fictional Ari Gold.