The continuing adventures of Mr Sheen

[Borracho]

I never managed to fathom why this godawful show was so popular in the US, but it looks like we won't be seeing much more of it in any case.

There's an anti-Jewish dig in there somewhere as well. Not a good move in Hollywood.

Apparently the stupid drunken bastard is (or was) getting something like $1.2 million per episode.

[Renart]

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I predict a Mel Gibson-Charlie Sheen buddy movie in the near future.

[erwin]

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I've always had a problem with lots of money. What do you do with it?!

If I had 1.2 million in my hand (not every week, mind, just 'in') then the .2 would probably be enough to see me through to the end of my days in the style to which I'm accustomed.

And the 1, well, I wouldn't really care, cause I'd be dead.

[Ginger Yellow]

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The decision came days before Sheen, the highest-paid actor on US television,

Seriously? Why?

[WOM]

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erwin wrote:

I've always had a problem with lots of money. What do you do with it?!

If you're Mr Sheen, you have coke parties with hookers and porn stars - that go on for days - in $10,000 a night hotel suites, and then you smash up the room.

[WOM]

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I'd recommend something more conservative, though: low-cost ETFs or index mutual funds, divided between US, Global, Emerging markets and laddered bond funds. Proportions will depend upon your age and tolerance for risk.

[Renart]

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Charlie Sheen seems to have a very high tolerance for risk.

[Incandenza]

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The most baffling thing for me was why Charlie Sheen was on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' show.

[Renart]

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Sheen's a 9/11 conspiracist, so he's probably a Jones fan.

[Incandenza]

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Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Also, in case any of you hadn't heard, last week Sheen dropped in on a UCLA baseball practice and told the players "don't smoke crack, drink chocolate milk...that's all I got" and walked away. He just walked up to them, said that, then left.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

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Analogue Bubblebath II wrote:

I never managed to fathom why this godawful show was so popular in the US, but it looks like we won't be seeing much more of it in any case.

There's an anti-Jewish dig in there somewhere as well. Not a good move in Hollywood.

Apparently the stupid drunken bastard is (or was) getting something like $1.2 million per episode.

He's mad as a wheelchair on stilts, but fits perfectly in the show which is brilliant.

I don't get people who don't find 2 1/2 Men funny, but find How I Met Your Mother brilliant.

Sheen, at least, makes sense to play a swine, while Neil Patrick Harris in the role as a dog who gets laid all the time, well, it's like casting Dopey the dwarf in a porno with Jenna Jameson in the mixed techniques style Gene Kelly did a film with Jerry the mouse.
Harris is a nerd.

2 1/2 men is one of the best comedies of the past decade, together with Everybody loves Raymond.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

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Incandenza wrote:

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Also, in case any of you hadn't heard, last week Sheen dropped in on a UCLA baseball practice and told the players "don't smoke crack, drink chocolate milk...that's all I got" and walked away. He just walked up to them, said that, then left.

Genius.
Why was he there?

[G-Man]

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Harris is a nerd.

And he is one of the finest exponents of comedy on TV today. You really haven't seen much of the show you're criticising.

Far more interesting to me is that Two And a Half Men, which is a really awful throwback to the sitcoms of two decades ago, is made by the same "charlatans" who make The Big Bang Theory, which is a really good throwback to the sitcoms of two decades ago.

As far as Charlie Sheen is concerned, I feel sorry for his father, by all accounts an excellent sort of fellow. Brother Emilio might have been no great shakes as an actor, but he came acress as a decent sort as well.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

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G.Man wrote:

Harris is a nerd.

And he is one of the finest exponents of comedy on TV today. You really haven't seen much of the show you're criticising.

Far more interesting to me is that Two And a Half Men, which is a really awful throwback to the sitcoms of two decades ago, is made by the same "charlatans" who make The Big Bang Theory, which is a really good throwback to the sitcoms of two decades ago.

As far as Charlie Sheen is concerned, I feel sorry for his father, by all accounts an excellent sort of fellow. Brother Emilio might have been no great shakes as an actor, but he came acress as a decent sort as well.

I've forced myself to watch at least 10 episodes because the praise it got from OTF and I usually value what's said here, but it's utter shit!

It's on par with Steve Urkel.

It's like having a friend who thinks Maradona was a great player, and then he says that Michael Owen is one of the best players in the world ever. It doesn't make sense. It's lunacy.

I imagine that whoever thinks Harris is funny and that sit com is good, you could tickle him/her and they'll giggle like loons for hours. The same people who would find Beavis & Butthead funny and groundbreaking, or Big Brother entertaining after day 43.

[G-Man]

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You forgot to point out that I smell of poo.

[rick derris]

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the video of sheen delivering his powerful message is here

http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/10/charlie-sheen-video-crack-drugs-speech-ucla-bruins-baseball-team-cocaine-chocolate-milk/

[The Alan Partridge Project]

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Dennis Pennis: [referring to a British brand of cleaning product] Mr Sheen, you are the most polished performer I know. I mean you've had a lot of smudging and smearing but you think you've wiped the slate clean? I mean, are you gonna shine through? You're a shining example, Mr Sheen?
Charlie Sheen: [oblivious to what Dennis is really talking about] I would like to believe so and I thank you for your optimism, thank you.
Dennis Pennis: My pleasure, I never use anything else.
Charlie Sheen: Your optimism matches only mine.
Dennis Pennis: Uh-huh! I'll work that out when I get home.

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

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G.Man wrote:

You forgot to point out that I smell of poo.

What are you on about?

You presumed I haven't watched the show much. You know, I've probably watched closer to 20 of the shit episodes, than 10.

So you gathered from, what, not any info, that I must have seen it only once or twice and not much more to select that I find it utter crap?

I'm sorry if you worship that show which I find pathetic and I don't worship it as much, in fact find it the typical low standard Hollywood sitcom production.

Oh, this is so funny, I think I will choke with laughter

Oh, no, please, I have to stop watching it, I think I'll pee all over myself and die drowning in my own piss if I watch as much as a second more.

It's so funny I think comedy should just stop try anything beyond it.

[hobbes]

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If you're Mr Sheen, you have coke parties with hookers and porn stars - that go on for days - in $10,000 a night hotel suites, and then you smash up the room.

I'd do much the same, only I wouldn't smash up the room and I'd probably have a whip round with the hoover before I left.

2 and a half men is as funny as being woken up every day for the rest of your life by Jim Davidson shouting abuse into your face. I've seen half a dozen and not managed to even break a rueful smile.

[WOM]

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If the ongoing Sheen saga intrigues you, you'll probably enjoy this.

[Ray de Galles]

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rick derris wrote:

the video of sheen delivering his powerful message is here

http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/10/charlie-sheen-video-crack-drugs-speech-ucla-bruins-baseball-team-cocaine-chocolate-milk/

Did anyone else think "Paul Gascoigne & Raoul Moat" watching that?

[Incandenza]

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Quotes from his interviews this morning:

* Why he deserves a raise: "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special. I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitchin', a total frickin' rock star from Mars. People can't figure me out, they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain."
* His new family: He has two live-in girlfriends he calls "the goddesses," one of whom is a porn star.
* How he describes himself: "I'm extremely old-fashioned, I'm a nobleman, I'm chivalrous. I believe that chivalry is not dead, it's just been in a coma for a while."

* Whether he's on drugs: "I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body." (He did submit to urine and drug tests, both of which came back negative, although that only proves he's been clean for three days.)
* Why people think he's on drugs: "People misinterpret my passion for anger. ... You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be, like, Dude! Can't handle it! Unplug this bastard! Because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm."
* Whether he has psychological problems: He says he's not bi-polar, but he is "bi-winning."
* When he last took drugs: He claims not to remember, but says at that time, "I probably took more than anybody could survive. ... I was bangin' seven gram rocks and finishing them, because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: go."
* How he feels about his drug-fueled days: Proud, because "I exposed people to magic, I exposed them to something they're never otherwise gonna see in their boring, normal lives."
* How he cured himself of addiction: "I closed my eyes and made it so."
* Why he's special: He has "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA."

[Renart]

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Wow. I feel a little guilty enjoying this meltdown as much as I am. Mr. Sheen's really not well, is he?

[Incandenza]

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A good column from David Carr today:

In addition to wreaking all manner of havoc on himself with drugs and alcohol that has put him in the hospital and the show on hiatus, Mr. Sheen has done a lot of damage to the people around him, women in particular.

In 2006, his wife at the time, Denise Richards, filed a restraining order, charging that Mr. Sheen had pushed her down, thrown chairs at her and threatened to kill her in person and on the phone. The couple eventually divorced.

Mr. Sheen then had a series of very public relationships with sex film stars, which is certainly his prerogative — talent is as talent does — but he also continued to exhibit a pattern of violence toward women.

Mr. Sheen was charged with a felony for an incident on Christmas Day in 2009 in which he threatened to kill his wife, Brooke Mueller, while holding a knife to her throat. According to the police report, Mr. Sheen “started to strangle Mueller then he pulled out a knife he always carries on his person and held the knife to Mueller’s neck and threatened, ‘You better be in fear. If you tell anybody I’ll kill you.’ ”

Last fall, Mr. Sheen went on a rampage in the Plaza Hotel in New York. A hired escort who had locked herself in the bathroom claimed he had put his hands around her neck and threatened her while his former wife Ms. Richards and his children slept down the hall.

Yet none of these incidents got Mr. Sheen fired from his lucrative day job as a sitcom star, not even suspended. What did? He insulted his boss.

Last week, while vacationing on the Bahamas, Mr. Sheen got on the phone with a radio show host and called his boss, the executive producer Chuck Lorre, “a clown” and then went on to make what many saw as an attempt at a slur, calling Mr. Lorre “Chaim Levine.” Just in case people didn’t understand the true nature of his feelings, he told TMZ that “I violently hate Chaim Levine.”

CBS and Warner Brothers immediately pulled the plug on the season and issued a joint statement: “Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Brothers Television have decided to discontinue production of ‘Two and a Half Men’ for the remainder of the season.”

CBS executives said that a human calculus was underway, that both companies were concerned about Mr. Sheen’s survival, not their business interests. But the business interests — hundreds of millions in broadcast and syndication revenue will be lost if the show is gone for good — continued to prevail even as he terrorized the women in his life.

[WOM]

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True. But there aren't many companies that would get involved in whatever it is you do in your off-hours/personal life, unless it starts to affect your performance at work or the company in general.