Charlie Sheen

[ShoreGrl]

sorry, but i dont feel sorry for the people who bought tickets to this.
he was at best a lunatic and at worst a very sick addict on a derailing train. Neither are entertainment, nor should they be. I hope he goes away for a while.

Totally agree.

 

[mh21]

sorry, but i dont feel sorry for the people who bought tickets to this.
he was at best a lunatic and at worst a very sick addict on a derailing train. Neither are entertainment, nor should they be. I hope he goes away for a while.

 

[Cat]

"I've already got your money, dude."​

The old saying holds true,"A fool and his/her money shall soon part."
The ticket holders are sicker in the head than Charlie Sheen in my book.It's more than obvious Sheen has some very serious mental health and substance abuse issues.These vultures paid to see a train wreck and he delivered,they don't deserve refunds.

 

[tweegy]

"I've already got your money, dude."

This pretty much summed it up...whoever paid for this apparently has nothing else better to do with their money and should have expected nothing more...

Charlie could have sat on stage and picked his nose for the whole show....

 

[ShoeFanatic]

This pretty much summed it up...whoever paid for this apparently has nothing else better to do with their money and should have expected nothing more...

Charlie could have sat on stage and picked his nose for the whole show....

I KNEW this would flop..
the guy isn't a comedian..
he's not funny in the least bit. He's a very dark person.
He's not even funny on his show, the
writing is good.

Why anyone would buy a ticket to
listen to his incoherent ranting, is beyond me.

 

[chantal1922]

I heard about his tour a few weeks ago and wondered who on earth would pay to see this man.

 

[tweegy]

I KNEW this would flop..
the guy isn't a comedian..
he's not funny in the least bit. He's a very dark person.
He's not even funny on his show, the
writing is good.

Why anyone would buy a ticket to
listen to his incoherent ranting, is beyond me.

Especially when they can hear it for Free!

 

[iluvmybags]

The show was in Chicago tonight -- they just reported about it on the news. Apparently he recd a standing ovation when he came on stage at 8:00, but by 9:00 tweets were flying out of the theater that it was a huge waste of money and that he totally bombed. He apparently re-tooled the show, starting out with a Q&A, but was pretty erratic and "off the cuff" for most of the show. A lot of people left during the intermission.

They interviewed some people after the show and most of the ones they talked to said it was awful, altho some of them said they enjoyed it -- one guy said that he's basically just taking people's money and isn't really doing much of a "show." Another guy said he was expecting some kind of comedy routine, but that it was all a bunch or ranting and raving and nothing really new. Someone else said, it was pretty much like watching a train wreck, and he wasn't expecting much -- surprisingly, most of the positive "reviews" came from women -- one who said that she really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun

They showed tape of when he arrived at the theater earlier today -- the bud pulled up alongside the theater in the alley and there were a TON of people waiting. He didn't talk to anyone, but handed out Tshirts, then went inside where he had to rehearse what he basically put together on the bus ride from Detroit.

The whole thing is just ridiculous -- the ones asking for refunds and saying it was awful, I don't know what they expected. The guy is an ACTOR, not a stand up comic, and just because some people found his ranting and ravings funny, that doesn't make him a comedy genius. What the heck did they expect him to do up there? 2 hours of skits like his Funny or Die video?

 

[iluvmybags]

this article seems like it's trying to put a positive twist on the story that was reported on local news outlets -- as if they're trying to say that it was bad, but better than Detroit

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/sheen-does-better-in-chicago-after-detroit-failure/59740

This time, Charlie Sheen got a standing ovation before and after his show.

After being heckled and booed in Detroit, Sheen made some changes to his road show. He used a talk show-style format Sunday night in Chicago, with an interviewer asking the actor questions about his life.

The changes seemed to help. Unlike in Detroit, audience members weren't booing or getting up and leaving in droves. Some said the show wasn't great, but it had amusing moments.

Fifty-five-year-old Ellen Olson of Elmwood Park said Sheen interacted with the audience, making it funny.

During the show, Sheen smoked cigarettes and answered questions from a master of ceremonies, talking about his marriages, his career and his life with the women he calls his "goddesses."

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

After being heckled and booed in Detroit, Charlie Sheen changed up his road show for his second stop, using a talk show-style format with an interviewer asking the actor questions about his life.

The changes seemed to help. Unlike in Detroit, audience members weren't leaving in droves Sunday and seemed more receptive to the actor.

As in Detroit, Sheen received a standing ovation when he took to the stage at the historic 3,600-seat Chicago Theatre. Some audience members chanted "Detroit sucks."

During the show, Sheen smoked cigarettes and answered questions from a master of ceremonies, talking about his marriages, his career and his life with the women he calls his "goddesses."

"They have not disallowed me everything that makes me happy. Period. The end," Sheen said of the former porn star and an actress who live with him.

Sheen also had some snappy comebacks for the interviewer.

Asked how many times he had been married, he said, "Seven-thousand. That's why I'm broke."

Asked why he's "paid for sex" in the past, Sheen responded, "Because I had millions to blow. I ran out of things to buy."

Early on, Sheen urged the crowd in an obscenity-laced statement "not to become (expletive) Detroit tonight. Let's show Detroit how it's (expletive) done.

Before the show, audience members said they had low expectations based on what they heard and read about the inaugural performance in Sheen's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option" tour.

"We figured we'd try it out and see what happens, and if it's bad, we'll leave," said Katie Iglehart, 23, of Chicago, who was attending the show with a friend.

Sheen's Detroit show began with thunderous applause but ended 70 minutes later. In between, Sheen tried to appease his audience with rants, a rapper and a question and answer session, ultimately concluding the first show was "an experiment."

Some fans predicted a premature end for the monthlong trek.

"No way" the show makes it through all the dates, said Bob Orlowski, a lawyer from Plymouth, Mich., who watched with six clients in a suite.

"He's not suited for this," said Orlowski, 46. "It wasn't funny."

Sheen's publicist, Larry Solters, declined to comment. Sheen, 45, reappeared after the house lights went up to thank the hundreds who remained.

It wasn't clear when the former "Two and a Half Men" star lost the audience, but there were many awkward moments.

Sheen, known for his wild partying and rampant drug use, said he thought Detroit would be a good place to tell some stories about crack cocaine. The remark prompted loud, immediate boos.

At another point, Sheen showed a short film he wrote, directed and produced years ago called "RPG." He sat in the front row to watch the flick, which starred a much younger Johnny Depp. Again, more boos.

But the show actually started off with a bang.

After a video montage of movie clips — Sheen in "Wall Street" and "Platoon" set to a guitar solo from Sheen friend Rob Patterson — the star emerged to raucous applause and a standing ovation. The cheering increased as the goddesses took the stage.

When the goddesses locked lips in front of him, Sheen smirked. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand.

"I don't see a single empty seat," he said.

That quickly changed.

As the showed bogged down, an audience member booed, prompting Sheen to reply, "I've already got your money, dude."

Things only got worse.

Sheen has made headlines in recent years as much for his drug use, failed marriages, custody disputes and run-ins with the police, as for his acting. Martin Sheen has compared his son's struggle with addiction to a cancer patient's struggle for survival.

In August, the wayward star pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colo., to misdemeanor third-degree assault after a Christmas Day altercation with his third wife, Brooke Mueller. The couple have since finalized their divorce.

Sheen's behavior, which included lashing out at "Two and a Half Men" producer Chuck Lorre, finally became too much for Warner Bros. Television, which fired him March 7.

Sheen fired back with a $100 million lawsuit and all-out media assault in which he informed the world about his standing as a "rock star from Mars" with "Adonis DNA."

 

[iluvmybags]

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b234446_charlie_sheens_torpedo_of_truth_round_2.html?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

After bombing in Detroit, it would seem Charlie Sheen found his frantic footing again after staying up until 4:30 in the morning reworking the show, he tells E! News.

"I just got back to basics," Sheen tells us. "Gotta go with what got you to dance and give the people what they want. On the bus someone said, 'You know, we could just keep driving to LA.' I said, 'F-ck that. That's what losers do. I won.' "

So what did the Chicago crowd experience that the Detroit crowd didn't?

Charlie, sitting in a chair, just talking. Which was the idea he apparently came up with in the wee hours of the morning between Detroit and Chicago. Sheen sat onstage with only a pack of cigarettes and his friend/tour coproducer Joey Scoleri interviewing him.

The show, which began 20 minutes late, started with Sheen receiving a standing ovation from the crowd along with chants of "Detroit sucks!" He then stood before the sold-out audience and read them a letter:

"Dear f--king awesome Chicago," he began, the paper shaking in his right hand. "I'm a veteran of a disturbing odyssey that at times had me questioning the very nature of my soul." Sheen, alluding to the disaster in Detroit, proclaimed he was back and stronger than ever.

Scoleri told the crowd he was going to ask Charlie "all the sh-t you guys wanna know." Instead of videos, rappers and opening acts, Sheen's show was as raw as it gets, much to the delight of the ticket-buyers. Among topics covered during the sit-down:

Marriage: "Marriage for me sucked," Sheen said. "I'm 0-for-3." He then called Denise Richards "the kidnapper" and spoke very bluntly about the night in March the cops raided his house, saying, "Nice try, *****. I got those kids back didn't I? She sent 9,000 cops to my house looking for drugs and guns. They found one gun from 1848."

His Aspen domestic violence arrest: "I don't know if we can get into that," he said, keeping mum. "There's legal sh-t happening with that. Aspen f--king sucks."

On CBS: "I didn't walk away from sh-t. I got fired. That's not f--king cool. They didn't give a f--k that I was hammered for eight years. But as soon as I spoke back and said, 'F--k you, you're a creep…' I'm not knocking Two and a Half Men. I'm talking about the weirdos who run it. If they hired me back I'd do it again."
Charlie Sheen

On AA: "I just stopped. I don't believe in all your fiction, all your bullsh-t. I got tired of losing. I said, 'F--k all this. It's time for winning.' "

How to be a goddess: After ripping off his shirt and bringing the crowd to its feet, a blonde in the front row shouted that she wanted to be one of his goddesses. "You have to be f--king me. Start there. The rest is up to you!" But apparently Sheen is wary of more than two ladies at a time. "I tried a third. I did. You can't keep an eye on the third one," he complained. "I have two eyes. I have two goddesses. I'm not bipolar. I'm bi-winning." Soon after, the goddesses were paraded out for a photo op.

On paying for sex: "So much f--king easier. Plus, I ran out of sh-t to buy."

The Plaza Debacle: "Here's what really sucks: I never f--ked her! And that's the f--king truth. You owe me a watch and some f--king love. That's what TMZ won't f--king tell you. Trolls, Music, and Zombies that's what it f--king stands for."

Well, the fans certainly got what they paid for: an in-depth and uncensored look inside Charlie's brain. Afterward, Sheen told fans, "I'm having the best time of my life. Unlike that death sentence that was Detroit."

The show ended with a standing ovation. After the show, Charlie was congratulated on his comeback. "Comeback? That would mean I was down," he responded with a smile.

 

[CobaltBlu]

i hope they pass out barf bags at these shows....

 

[Echoes]

Appears it was more a bad audience in Detroit than a bad show.

Turned out better in Chicago.

Detroit gets another bad knock in the press for their behavior.

 

[Ladybug09]

Appears it was more a bad audience in Detroit than a bad show.

Turned out better in Chicago.

Detroit gets another bad knock in the press for their behavior.

It wasn't the audience, he changed the entire format of the show from Detroit to Chicago.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/04/04/sheen.tour.chicago/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Chicago (CNN) -- Was Saturday night some crazy bad dream? Because the Charlie Sheen show I saw at the Chicago Theater on Sunday night bore absolutely no resemblance to whatever it was the Detroit crowd and I think we witnessed on Saturday.The entire nonsensical, rambling, random multi-media production? Scrapped.
In its place: A live 90-minute talk show, with Charlie as the guest.
From the start it was obvious a whole new show was planned.Gone was the sadly unfunny comedian warming up the crowd. Instead, a guy who never introduced himself to the audience was on stage at about 8:15 p.m. to introduce Charlie to Chicago. (I happened to recognize him since I interviewed him the day before in Detroit - Charlie's tour promoter from Live Nation, Joey Scoleri).
The crowd gave the headliner a standing ovation.
Charlie replied, "Wow.... wow," inserting one of his trademark expletives.
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Charlie and the still-unknown-to-audience "other guy" (Scoleri) sat down in two chairs on a spartan stage, with the audience still standing and cheering, then chanting "Detroit sucks! Detroit sucks!"
"No, they don't," Charlie said into the mic.
iReport: Charlie Sheen's Chicago show is a home run!
Scoleri was now the emcee, simply asking Charlie pre-planned questions covering everything including the "goddesses," his marriages, his firing from "Two and a Half Men," troubles with the law in Aspen, Colorado, call girls at New York's Plaza and why he pays for sex.
Answer: "I have millions to blow, and I ran out of stuff to buy."
It was classic Charlie. Caustically funny, crude, shocking and downright hilarious.
He was relaxed and smoking and playing with audience members with the emcee as referee.
He told the story of how he passed up being the original "Karate Kid" so he could take a much better opportunity in "Predator 2," based on his dad's very unwise advice. ("The Karate Kid," incidentally, was released in 1984. "Predator 2" came out six years later. Even the original "Predator" was released three years after Ralph Macchio waxed on and waxed off. And Sheen wasn't in either Predator movie.)
Laid back and comfortable, Sheen became the guy Detroit came to see, but didn't get. This was just funny, funny Charlie.
Yes, booze abounded here, too. And throughout, the highly intoxicated crowd was so pleased with Sheen that many just shouted, "(expletive) Detroit!"
It was as though the packed house of approximately 3,600 fans here in Chicago couldn't understand how Detroiters could have booed this show.
I wanted to stand up and scream at them, "DETROIT didn't have this show!" and then scream back at Charlie and the who-the-heck-are-you? "other interviewer guy," "Can you please bring THIS show back to Detroit?"
Detroit was apparently some demented practice session. Here in Chicago, not much circuitous babble about Vatican assassins and trolls and warlocks -- some, just not 20-minute rants.
Charlie felt the love and got his game on in Chicago.
At the merchandise stand tonight, I bypassed the shirt which said "Sheenius" and instead bought the $15 dog tag which on one side says: "Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth Defeat is Not an Option Tour 2011."
The flip side says....wait for it..... #winning. I'm wearing it now.
CNN's Kareen Wynter and Rachel Wells contributed to this report

 

[iluvmybags]

I find it kinda funny that the national news sites like CNN and E Online are saying that the show in Chicago was better and more of a success than Detroit and that "Charlie felt the love and got his game on in Chicago" cuz our local news outlets were there when the show let out and most of the people they interviewed said it was just awful (see my post above ^^ #890) -- they said that by 9:00 people were sending Tweets from the audience about how bad the show really was -- while some people said they enjoyed it, he lost about 1/3 the audience at intermission -- they left and never came back!

 

[Ladybug09]

Charlie to trademark his catch phrases.

Duh! Charlie Sheen to trademark catchphrases
Miley Cyrus recently tweeted that Charlie Sheen taught her a lot about "winning." The teen star could also learn a few things about trademark laws from the troubled actor.

Sheen's rep confirms to CNN that the former "Two and a Half Men" star is looking to trademark 22 of the catchphrases he has made famous during his recent rants.

Besides "Duh, Winning," Sheen has also registered such gems as "Vatican Assassin,” “Tiger Blood,” “Rock Star From Mars,” and “I’m Not Bi-Polar, I’m Bi-Winning,” reports Entertainment Weekly.

But it doesn't stop there: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sheen is also looking to trademark his name and signature, his nickname for his home, "Sober Valley Lodge," and, naturally, his pet name for his girlfriends, "Sheen's Goddesses."

This isn't the first time Sheen has gone trademark happy. In the late '90s, he tried to trademark "Drugs Are Loser Friendly" so his company Masheen Inc. could use it for stickers, mugs and T-shirts, says the Reporter. In 2005, his Three Dog Park company also filed to trademark "Sheen Kidz" for his couture line of kiddie clothing.