"I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground."Rockstar, man. Totally rockstar.
CBS halted production of Two and a Half Men on Thursday after Charlie Sheen lambasted the show's creator in bizarre interviews.Soo... that was pretty stupid. Alex Jones is a nutcase, and Sheen was probably just acting crazy to go along with the show.
"Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of Two and a Half Men for the remainder of the season," says producer Warner Bros. Television and the network that broadcasts the program, CBS.
I am surprised that any amount of crazy statements can cause CBS to discontinue production of what I assume is a profitable show.People care more about their egos then the bottom line. If a boss doesn't feel respected he's liable to hurt a profitable business venture in order to get respected (just look at Keith Olberman at MSNBC) especially if they have a good excuse.
What does this say about Haim Levine [Chuck Lorre] after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me. I gracefully ignored this folly for 177 shows ... I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can't handle my power and can't handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. I urge all my beautiful and loyal fans who embraced this show for almost a decade to walk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong.posted by birdherder at 7:11 PM on February 24, 2011 [3 favorites]
Remember these are my people ... not yours...we will continue on together...
Charlie Sheen
I don't care whether Charlie Sheen kills himself in a wild hookers-and-blow orgy that would force Caligula to return from the grave in order to pay respect. And Chuck Lorre will be just fine, as will all the other names you recognize from Two and a Half Men.What's with all the concern over the show? The show sucked! The next Seinfeild could take it's place (it was a mid-season replacement, remember) People lose their jobs on TV all the time. Frankly, the fact that Two and a half men has been removed from television ought to be something to celebrate. Most of those people will probably just end up working on other shows. Hopefully better shows.
I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can't handle my power and can't handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words -- imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists..... what?
cavalier: Also, it was only 4 more episodes, not like they stopped it mid season or anything.But wait, if it ends four episodes early, we'll never find out the answers to all those pressing, unresolved questions and lingering mysteries- like what, exactly, was the
But just because something is crafted to appeal to the popular masses doesn't mean that every one of the millions of people who work in the particular industry creating and distributing that product deserve to lose their jobs at the whim of one egotistical narcissist superstar at the top of the food chain.Well, that's how it works, though. Shows get canceled, business go under all the time. I'm not sure I understand why some circumstances are supposed to terrible.
Now imagine one of the VPs decides to just hose the company, putting it in bankruptcy, and everyone is out of a job. Then he gloats about how great he is so who cares? Now maybe you could find a job. Maybe a company making a horrible product going out of business is good. Maybe you don't deserve another job any more than all the unemployed people on the street. But none of that is the point.Well, no one is saying he's not a jerk! The thing you described happens all the time by rapricious 'private equity' investors who pillage companies for all there worth and leave them as hollow shells. And those people are definitely jerks!
The point is that this guy is a jerk and couldn't care less about the hundreds of people working hard to make him a success and are now out of a job solely because he is a jerk.
I think it's quite possible that he was just fucking around with Alex Jones, a paranoid nutcase prone to bouts of antisemitism. The Sheen quotes could easily be taken as making fun of the 9/11 Truther audience that Jones attracts.Yeah but he was definitely on something when he wrote his response.
Which would make this awfully ironic : a sober Sheen attempts to play a joke on a nutty radio host, and gets fired because his own recent conduct has been so outrageous that everybody thinks he's being serious.
Ha! I'm detecting some misdirected jealousy here in the various avenues of condemnation.Really? He had a contract where he could get a nine-figure payout if he was fired for any reason? (This isn't exactly his first time to the druggie rodeo, remember.) And even if he did get a big chunk of termination money from them, so what? His lifestyle isn't exactly conducive to stable money management. Mike Tyson made something like $300 million in his life, and he's dead broke.
Damn near everyone has had a job where they have fantasized about publicly telling their boss to go fuck themselves, consequences be damned. Sheen gets to do that and the possible outcomes are either he gets fired and walks away with hundreds of millions of dollars or he keeps his obscenely high-paying job after having publicly told his boss to go fuck himself.
CHARLIE: Rose, am I a misogyinist?Personally I'm of two minds on the vanity card. On the one hand, this one could be seen as playing to a public image that Sheen seems to revel in, so you could make the argument (I wouldn't, see following) that it's at least inconsistent of Sheen to take offense at it. On the other hand, even if that's Lorre's stated rationale for that card, it's at least passive aggressive if not downright aggressive. It's kind of small behavior for someone with show-running responsibility. But I guess, given the egos involved, that shouldn't be surprising either.
ROSE [belly-laughs*]: Oh, dear, what, did somebody say you're not? [suddenly serious] Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were proud of that.
Mr. Sheen's conduct has caused significant damage to Warner Bros. By way of example only, due to Mr. Sheen's conduct, Warner Bros. has lost ten episodes of the Show—two last year and eight for the remainder of this season. In any ensuing arbitration, Warner Bros. will seek recovery of all of its damages including lost revenue from the Show, and all other damages the law allows.It also includes the word "turd" six times.
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