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Here is the latest hourly Charlie Sheen update: the troubled actor is following on his repeated threats that he would sue Two and a Half Men producer Warner Bros. TV and network CBS.
Warner Bros. TV confirmed a TMZ report that top litigator Marty Singer has sent a letter to the studio demanding that Sheen is paid in full for the 8 unproduced episodes of the show’s current eighth season. Sheen retained Singer a couple of months ago in an effort to prevent Warner Bros. and CBS from shutting down production on the show amidst his personal problems. The legal letter reportedly claims that Sheen had been ready and willing to return to work for weeks but Men showrunner Chuck Lorre and the studio had been keeping him sidelined, thus breaching his contract. Such letters threatening legal action are a Singer specialty. For now, he and Sheen are stopping short of filing a lawsuit against Warner Bros.
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This is getting juicy!
But sadly, the other cast and crew members of “Two And A Half Men” are caught in the middle.
And I think that within 24 hours (or by 4 P.M. EST tomorrow, March 1st), the show will officially get cancelled by CBS.
If CBS does cancel the show, are they still obligated to pay Charlie the final year of his two-year contract?
Good question, I’m guessing the terms of a potential settlement agreement between Sheen and CBS/WB would cover any outstanding obligations in his current contract. That is if CBS/WB do settle which I’m guessing they will eventually (long as Charlie keeps his trap shut).
“(long as Charlie keeps his trap shut).”
I don’t think he’s capable of it in his current state…
Depends what the contract says. I’ll bet it says that he is “Pay or Play” for all ordered episodes, but I do not know for a fact. He does have a top litigator working for him and no matter your feelings for Sheen as a person, he does pull in the TV ratings and from all accounts, ALWAYS showed up READY to work.
And then there’s that pesky morals clause, which is undoubtedly somewhere in Charlie’s contract. I wonder how Singer is planning on finding a loophole around that.
*popcorn*
I think Charlie’s idea of “ready to work” is different from most people at Warner Bros/CBS’s.
Gasp! You think he believes he’s an agent?
I think Charlie Sheen’s definition of “ready to work” is radically different than any rational human being’s definition of “ready to work.”
key word being “rational”
People, leave the guy alone. His judgment is clouded and there’s no need to expand on what I mean, you know. So what if he makes bank. I fell badly for his crew, but back off. We don’t kill our wounded.
“We don’t kill our wounded” ? It’s Hollywood man, we eat them.
Ha!
Sweety, you’d probably eat anything, if it got you outta working for a living.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! LEAVE… OOOPS! Wrong person.
Her knees haven’t touched since the fifth grade…
Hold onto your socks, people, this is going to get ugly. True, Sheen is an obnoxious manic alcoholic, but Chuck Lorre is a megalomaniacal, cruel monster, and if this one goes to court, the stories that will come out about Lorre and his gross mistreatment of the people that work for him are not going to be pretty.
True that. He has mistreated tons of people badly over the years and everyone’s kept their mouth shut. I just hope they’re willing to come forth with the truth about Lorre/Levine.
AMEN HOW OLD IS THIS DUDE?
Hold on to your socks? Ha!
That’s the best shit I’ve heard all day.
Better get back to your job writing for “My Two Dads”. I think they’re pissed.
Charlie doesn’t need an attorney he needs to find Jesus!
Did He get lost AGAIN?
Is that the same Jesus that sells bags of oranges on the Santa Monica Blvd. exit?
No, he calling on the Jesus that sends gays to hell. You’re talking about Jesus(Hey-sues) who just cross the border.
No, he’s talking about that dude who looks JUST like Jesus and walks around Hollywood and West Hollywood in a tunic. It’s so eerie…
No.
Can’t. Take. Anymore.
Please just go into a field somewhere and pass away.
They don’t shoot horses, do they? Do they??!!!
Go Charlie Go! The big question about shutting down production is this: Did Charlie do a bad job at work? I keep hearing interviews and rants on the air, but did Charlie act out at work, did he act inappropriately at work, on the show?
I’d be willing to bet CBS is going to dump this or try to replace Sheen ala Threes Company… If they can’t do that, they’re going to cancel the show.
No he didn’t. And CBS have commented on that just two or one month ago. (Or wat is WB, don’t remember). They said as long as Charlie is on set and does his job he can do what he want in his spare time. This was back during one of his trips to LV. It was reported here on Deadline.
I think that was before he spun off the rails and began throwing around anti-Semetic slurs.
Time to dust off Ted McGinley.
Hellooooo, there’s a morals clause in Charlie’s contract for the purpose of just what is happening!!! Advertisers are threatening to pull out!!! What’s the network supposed to do????
What is genius here is that a Warner Bros owned website.
NOW it’s getting good. Marty Singer’s arguably the most powerful lawyer in Hollywood. Two-to-one CBS/WB bucks, but only for publicity’s sake. They’ll eventually cave in a months time and settlement talks will begin.
It’s all up to Charlie at this point. I imagine Marty Singer and co. “counseled” him to shut the hell up, stay sober and keep the “girls” away. If Charlie REALLY wants to come up aces, he’ll make some public appearances with the kids and pay his mea culpas to AA and the rest of the cast and crew of 2 1/2 men.
Please. CBS/WB/Lorre would have ran the numbers before they acted. They know exactly what they would have to and would be willing to pay to get this albatross from around their necks. If they weren’t willing to lose the money they would have brought in Charlie’s drugged out rotting carcas to finish the ordered episodes.
Charlie is Jesus! Just ask him!!!
GO CHARLIE!!! Rooting for you man! The last honest man in Hollywood. When they make a biopic on you that’s what it should be called.
You are gonna win! I know it!
When you win, do season 9 and then say bye bye to Two and a half men and go back to movies=)
Alternate Ending -Platoon Script-
EXTERIOR – PALACIAL MANSION
Exit CHARLIE. His Mansion at DAWN. The Sun breaks across a gathering of passed out PORN STARS and PARTIERS by a large backyard POOL. OLIVER STONE is sleeping in a lounge chair, drool is seen dripping from the corner of his mouth. OLIVER’s right arm is clasped over a HUGO CHAVEZ cook book. Everyone is passed out except:
CUT TO
Enter CHARLIE playing CHARLIE
CHARLIE (V.O.)
I think now, looking back, I did not fight the
enemy, I fought myself – and the enemy was in me
… The fame is over for me now, but it will always be
there – the rest of my days. As I am sure John Holmes
will be – fighting with Jim Morrison for what Christian
Fundamentalists’ call the possession of my soul …
There are times since I have felt like the child born of
those two fathers… but be that as it may, those of us
who did fake it have an obligation to deceive again, to
teach to others what we should know and to try with what’s
left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this
strife…
In Camera. A lens flare erupts through PALM TREES as we DOLLY UP over a BACKYARD FENCE and glimpse ordinary Los Angeles. Concurrently, music swells with Nine Inch Nails “Something I Can Never Have”. FADE OUT TO BLACK. END CREDITS
–Charlie, find the courage to find another way. All the best.–
Seriously? You’re not a writer, are you?
I’m sure I’m just wasting my keyboard taps here, but all this amazes someone not in the business. Middle American’s are being foreclosed out of their $100,000 homes and Charlie wants $3 million an episode. Many of the Hollywood-types posting comments cheer him on or are excited about the legal fight to come. Whatever happened to the value system in America? Oh, but his show is a hit – seems to me that the 18-49 year olds that are supporting “Men” must all be Tinseltown insiders.
I guess I am just totally out of place reading this Blog because none of this – NONE OF THIS – is at all important in the greater scheme of things.
Coppertopolo … you are right.
Oh please…buhuuu!
Thanks Fryman for more than proving my point.
Coppertolo – if none of this is important in the greater scheme of things, then why are you reading and commenting on this twice? I think you more than disproved your own point.
But if your point is that you are “totally out of place reading this blog”, then yeah – you totally proved your point!
are you the sitcom director pamela fryman i worked with on fraiser
You are correct. probably shouldn’t be reading this blog as you are so above it all, right?
The thing is, Charlie Sheen makes all that money because your precious Middle America (I mean really, why do so many of you try to act like people there are anymore important than the everyday people living on the coasts?) are many of the same people who have made Sheen’s crappy show THE most watched show on television. What he makes per episode is proportionally related to what advertisers pay to have their ads on the show that all those good ‘ol folks in middle america are watching. I guarantee you all the costal liberals are not the ones watching that dreck.
Who uses the word Tinseltown with a straight-face if not for some fringe “Hollywood insider type”?
Tinseltown. Tinseltown?
Give me a break.
copper – Just think of the Steely Dan song – Show Business Kids making movies of themselves, you know they don’t give a f – - k about anybody else. They’re outrageous.
Most of middle America could not handle the stress of working in the entertainment business.
Karen, you haven’t got a clue. Most of the entertainment industry could not handle an 1 hour day in a steel mill.
You both have points. Hollywooders would collapse under the heavy, blue-collar burden of any kind of repetitous physical labor. However Middle America would run crying from the psychological attacks workers endure daily in Hollywood.
It’s splitting hairs.
Georgetown,
I covered this industry for 14 years. I am from a blue collar steel town in “Middle America.” It’s not ONLY physical labor blue collar workers endure. There are strong people everywhere in all industries. It took serious threats on my life and my phones being illegally wiretapped so my sources dried up on me before they stopped me in this town. And after they took my career and health away from me in what was a true conspiracy, I sued the domestic terrorists that did this. I didn’t run away crying. I am still fighting them. You really don’t know the grit of human nature … there are strong people everywhere in every industry. Don’t be so foolish.
Anita, Not a single solitary steel mill worker would put up with a 1 hour day of the typical ego-driven bull sh*t that goes on in an average entertainment industry office. Many moons ago a certain THR reporter (not you but you were on the paper at the time) got me canned from a temp job after I let her phone ring 2 times before picking it up.
I wish you would have come and told me. I’m sorry that happened to you.
Are you new? A LOT of the people who work in the business are from the Midwest.
and btw, Charlie Sheen’s lawyer Marty Singer is a very good attorney, but I question his ethics and believe he has no moral compass because he often used the thug who terrorized me and others, Anthony Pellicano, on his cases.
copper – this is, for us out here in LA, our WWE. Think of it as a grudge match between Lorre/Moonves and Sheen/Singer.
as U are an out of towner, here’s a quick primer Hwood primer:
Power – who has it and will they use it? We obsess about it here – just like someone in ur town does at an insurance co. or school district HQ
Money – we ALL want that & I don’t care where U live…
Art – believe it or not, we do make some of that too (watch Social Network)
Talent – Say what U want about Sheen, but he has talent and the public (yes, mostly out of towners who watch TV in America) gave him the ratings
Addiction – last I heard, there were ‘functioning’ working ones all over the WORLD
Lawsuits – Yes, there is a saying here that U’re nobody until ur sued or suing (yep, me too…) but we do live in California, after all
Fun – some of us may get our fun from the most twisted stuff going on (e.g the bloodsport between Sheen and Lorre) but hey, watch UFC if U want to see real blood, or WWE for some more fake stuff
Charlie shot himself in the foot. What do you do with a foot that has a gunshot wound infection? Amputate or give medication? It may be too late for medication.
I hope they pay him in full, exclusively for the purpose of taking the piss out of him and making him boring as fuck, so we no longer have to see/hear his rants. As amusing as the drama is, the best revenge would be forcing him into obscurity.
totally agree, well put
That would only work well if he was also then blacklisted.
forget the tv show. let’s go make “hot shots part tres”!!! hello anyone? avi? moshe?
ummm, that was his brother.
You might be talking about Navy Seals 2
Are you thinking of Emilio’s Loaded Weapon?
Guys, Charlie Sheen was in HOT SHOTS! and HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX. Look it up on IMDb.
i think today’s interviews killed season 9.
not only did it kill season nine, but it also killed any hope of Marty SInger (pig that he is) making a case on Sheen’s behalf! Charlie did himself in talking to the press!! Poor Stan Rosenfeld! To bad those sleazy guys, Oren and Mark are getting a bump from this!!! Actually the three of them deserve one another…..
This will end up being all about the dollars…and, that will determine how it is resolved.
I think the managment will win in the end. Charlie Sheen needs psychiatric and physical long-term treatment. My heart and sympathy goes to his family, and I feel so badly for the cast and crew. It does not matter who represents him legally, the law will win out.
If it is reported that John Stamos is being sought out to replace Charlie Sheen by CBS top management, that would be just fabulous.
I would probably pay-out Charlie Sheen for ONLY half of the episodes in a compromise settlement and let go and move forward.
“(Sheen)’s a very ironic character. He’s got pretension in the crosshairs of his wit,” Sean Penn said.
What he’s got is death in the crosshairs of his addiction. I wish him luck that he survives this ride. He needs it.
In a Chuck Lorre/ Charlie Sheen lawsuit, who do you root for?
Easy. This is one of the rare cases where it’s righteous to cheers for the attorneys. All the various law firmss are going to get rich if this goes forward. The real winner — the public that gets a front row seat to a freak-out.
winning! stand tall man.
Pay the delusional, psycho and call it good,then get out of whatever contract there is….Charlie is beyond bad news, its just pitiful to watch. I feel for his parents
This isn’t about Charlie Sheen anymore. This isn’t about whether he’s overpaid or smokes crack or sleeps with hookers. It’s about a giant corporation ignoring a contract. It’s about CBS and Warners deciding they could make more money with Chuck in the long run than Charlie so fuck him.
They got in bed with this maniac, made money off him, and they’re throwing him away like a used-up whore they’re done with.
I don’t particularly like the guy, I’ve met Charlie; I don’t like the show. But I like Les Moonves a whole lot less. And he will lie and fuck over anybody faster than Charlie. His addiction is power. You wanna talk overpaid? Look at his salary. Look at his bonuses. Makes Charlie look like a cheap whore.
Artists get abused in this town. Part of what Charlie is going through is the price to able to do what he does. He’s obviously given in to the darkest side of it. But that doesn’t give the give the corporations any excuse. I hope Marty Singer fucks them in the ass.
So our choich is “the darkness” or ” the darker darkness”?
this is all sounding like an NBC storyline
Smoke monster? Sadly I think Charlie probably has a better handle on where his life is going than the writers of Lost had on their storyline…
You know what is interesting? If you LOOK at Sheen, in all his impromptu interviews, he looks gross: embalmed, gaunt, hollow and horrible, and if this were a woman, the focus of the coverage would be on THAT versus the megalomaniacal acute mania ramblings we are unfortunately getting unfiltered.
Sheen has rotted his teeth by drugs, has ruined his looks and looks to kill himself in front of the coliseum of gawkers unless someone like his dad mans up and commits him.
Hey Marty Singer – maybe you should help facilitate THAT!
“has ruined his looks”
Umm – sorry to have to burst your bubble, but what is happening to him is that he is getting OLD.
Yeah, you keep believing that. Rob Lowe is actually a year older than Sheen and looks 20 years younger.
Thank you. Emilio, Sheen’s older brother, now looks like his son.
Mmmm – 10 maybe.