"Two and a Half Men" Cancels Production After Charlie Sheen Rants

Sheen had slammed his boss, AA & Thomas Jefferson
By DANIEL P.
TUCKER and
DANIEL MACHT
Fri, Feb 25,
2011
NBC New York
Charlie Sheen's bosses have had enough.
CBS announced Thursday it won't produce any more episodes of its top-rated hit "Two and a Half Men" this season, hours after the show's star unleashed a major league rant on the Alex Jones radio show. Sheen also told TMZ Thursday he was itching for a fight with "Men" creator Chuck Lorre.
"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," network execs said in a statement to People and TMZ.
Sheen, who is vacationing in the Bahamas, responded in a text message to RadarOnline that the move was "crazy" and "sad."
But he claimed to be close to securing a deal for his own HBO program with a 10-show guarantee.
“It will be epic, all types of guests and we will focus on the truth and the absurd," he told Radar.
Earlier Thursday, Sheen appeared on Alex Jones and inexplicably let loose against Alcoholics Anonymous, the institution of marriage -- and even dismissed Thomas Jefferson with an expletive when told he sounded like the founding father.
But Sheen saved his harshest words for Chuck Lorre, the executive producer who took his hit show “Two and a Half Men” on hiatus so TV's highest paid actor could seek help.
Lorre joked last week in a vanity card that "if Charlie Sheen outives me, I'm gonna be really pissed." That comment apparently didn't sit well with Sheen, who was set to return to the "Men" set next week, nearly a month after being ordered to his latest stint in rehab.
“I’ve spent next to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin can into pure gold,” Sheen said, addressing the producer. “And the gratitude I get is this charlatan chose not to do his job, which is to write.”
Sheen said his post-rehab goal was to “violently love” his family and “violently hate” everyone else. He told Jones that people, including Lorre, failed to understand how his short stint in rehab could prove successful.
“Check it Alex, I embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his unevolved mind cannot process,” Sheen said. He also used an anti-Jewish slur to refer to Lorre.
Sheen went on to boast that AA had nothing to do with how he quickly kicked booze and drugs.
“The one thing I’m addicted to right now is winning," he said. "This bootleg cult arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous supports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is a hundred percent. Do the math.”
The interview wasn’t all negative. Sheen described a new tattoo he had gotten as “pure and complete gnarlyism.”
What's even more gnarly is missing out on $2 million an episode.
Sheen's show shut down after bizarre rant
Feb. 25, 2011

Production of Two And A Half Men has been shut down after troubled actor Charlie Sheen lambasted the show's creator on the Alex Jones Radio 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," said a statement by producer Warner Bros Television and CBS, the US network that broadcasts the top-rated comedy sitcom.
Overnight Sheen went on an expletive-filled rant live on radio against Alcoholics Anonymous, party girls, his ex-wife and Two And A Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, calling him a "charlatan (who) chose not to do his job", a "piece of s**t" and a "stupid, stupid little man".
"I was told if I went on the attack, they would cancel the show," Sheen added.
He also compared himself to Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now.
After the Warners-CBS announcement, Sheen issued an open letter, published by celebrity website TMZ.com, again attacking Lorre.
"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."
Two And A Half Men is a huge moneymaker for CBS and Warners.
Earlier this year the network said it was "highly concerned" about Sheen following a wild 36-hour party at his home that ended with him being hospitalised for abdominal pains.
Production of Two And A Half Men was suspended with eight episodes still to be shot in the current season to allow Sheen to enter rehab.
Throughout much of 2010, Sheen was involved in a series of drug and alcohol-related incidents, and last August he pleaded guilty to an assault on his now ex-wife.
Sheen - the highest paid actor on US television - was scheduled to return to the set of Two And A Half Men this week.
- ABC/Reuters







