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Is Charlie Sheen Unstable?

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Mark Giardina

Did anyone catch the interview that Charlie Sheen had with ABC News? He's suing CBS plus demands a 50% raise! What was really weird is the answers he was giving to questions posed to him.

I like Two and a Half Men, but personally I think that show is history now because of Sheen's recent "rants" and it's a shame because a large number of off-air personnel are now without jobs.
 
Is Charlie Sheen unstable?

Is a bird in the hand worth two in the bush? ;D
 
From what I saw he's been drug free for over 72 hours therefore he should be allowed to go back to work on the best sitcom on tv.
 
teevee said:
From what I saw he's been drug free for over 72 hours therefore he should be allowed to go back to work on the best sitcom on tv.
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First off, 72 hours does not a recovered addict make.

Second, nobody in America would be allowed to talk to their bosses in private like that and get away with it, let alone in public. The amount of damage he's done to the show, and Chuck Lorre's company, cannot just be ignored. As an avid TAAHM fan, honestly I hope they refuse to work with him, and spin off the show so the rest of the staff can continue working. The rest of Chuck's shows are doing just fine, so it's not just Charlie who makes or breaks a show. Obviously Chuck can work with the 6 other stars, so it's not a problem in-house. It's time that Charlie realize that he's a mediocre actor at best, but it was good writing, and a good supporting cast, that made the show what it is.
 
teevee said:
From what I saw he's been drug free for over 72 hours therefore he should be allowed to go back to work on the best sitcom on tv.
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Charlie is completely bitching, a rock star from Mars, nobody can understand him.
No one can profit if he keeps covering that fact up!!!
They should have let him back in two days ago.
Why, oh why, won't anyone believe him?
 
Mark_Giardina said:
KeithE4 said:
Is Charlie Sheen unstable?

Is a bird in the hand worth two in the bush? ;D
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LOL! That would make a great Gecko commercial!
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"Can you save 15% on your car insurance by switching to Geico? Is giving an interview to Charlie Sheen a really bad idea?"

Cut to Sheen ranting incoherently. The reporter faces the camera and says, "This was a really bad idea." ;D
 
He's a bit unstable I'd say, but so what? So was Britney Spears, remember a few years back. She ranted and raved and then released an album that went straight to number 1 and became a huge seller.

Sheen's rants are only likely to make the show MORE popular as people who don't tune in the reruns will now do so.

As for being critical, the money usually makes up for that. When Carroll O'Connor had a public dispute with Norma Lear, Lear was ready to write O'Connor out of the show (remember the four part episode where Archie was missing), then CBS said to Lear, "If it's a choice between O'Connor and you, you're going."
 
Mark said:
As for being critical, the money usually makes up for that. When Carroll O'Connor had a public dispute with Norma Lear, Lear was ready to write O'Connor out of the show (remember the four part episode where Archie was missing), then CBS said to Lear, "If it's a choice between O'Connor and you, you're going."
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Yeah, but Carroll O'Connor wasn't doing cocaine off of hookers.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Mark said:
As for being critical, the money usually makes up for that. When Carroll O'Connor had a public dispute with Norma Lear, Lear was ready to write O'Connor out of the show (remember the four part episode where Archie was missing), then CBS said to Lear, "If it's a choice between O'Connor and you, you're going."
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Yeah, but Carroll O'Connor wasn't doing cocaine off of hookers.
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And O'Connor's and Lear's dispute was about salary. If CBS canned Lear, wouldn't that mean the whole show would be scrapped, unless someone else produced it? And it would have affected "Sanford and Son," "The Jeffersons," and maybe "Good Times?"
If CBS was in charge of salary, wouldn't O'Connor have had the dispute with them? I don't know, I'm just askin'.

Chuck Lorre's also producing "Big Bang Theory" so CBS is surely figuring that into it.
 
it wouldn`t have effected sanford and son.that was on NBC.

if anyone besides norman lear was behind those shows it wouldn`t nearly be as good.of course if o`conner was not on all in the family it would have folded.both were equally needed.i`ts a good thing nobody left.

i still think two and a half men can survive sheen being not on it.
 
I agree the Lear/O'Connor dispute wasn't the same, but what I'm getting at is when there's money to be had, that pretty much decides it.

"Two And A Half Men" without Charlie would be like doing "Happy Days" without the Fonze. Both shows have ensemble casts but there clearly is a revolving point and Sheen's character is it.

Meltdowns are common and have been. Anyone remember Rita Hayworth locking herself in a hotel room and refusing to open the door when the IRS was coming after her, then husband, Dick Haymes. This was a huge thing back then. Then you have Rita Hayworth and her future huband Aly Khan, racing though the streets of Paris while photographers chased them. She was one scandal after another. It didn't hurt her popularity any.

Who talks about Mariah Carey's meltdown which 'caused her career to hiccup but hardly did much long term damage. Britney Spears did very well selling albums during and after her meltdown.

The fact that Sheen's behaviour is largely the same of his character is probably helping limit the damage.
 
Yeah, but Carroll O'Connor wasn't doing cocaine off of hookers.
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...Aaaaannnd thank you for putting THAT image in my head!
 
After seeing snips of his interview on ABC, I think Charles Manson was more stable than Charlie
Sheen.

Sheen seems to think he is Jesus, Gandhi, Rod Stewart, Jose Canseco and the Great Gazoo (Flintstones) all rolled into one.
 
teevee said:
From what I saw he's been drug free for over 72 hours therefore he should be allowed to go back to work on the best sitcom on tv.
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And who would he play? An old boyfriend of Penny's or the wackiest professor in the physics department?
 
vchimpanzee said:
teevee said:
From what I saw he's been drug free for over 72 hours therefore he should be allowed to go back to work on the best sitcom on tv.
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And who would he play? An old boyfriend of Penny's or the wackiest professor in the physics department?
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I think teevee was saying that Sheen should return to tv, but he should go on "The Office."
To replace Carell, I guess?
Or he might have meant "Hot In Cleveland."
 
It's sad to see a talented guy go manic because of the obvious effects of substance abuse, combined with whatever other issues are bubbling up from his past.

However, we haven't seen the last of him. I'd be willing to bet that he'll soon be offered, and accept, a reality show on E! the same way Anna Nicole Smith did a few years before her death. I hope the story doesn't end the same way...
 
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