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Godric 2.0
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Now Vegas is changing it's famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign.
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Gotta love April 1. [Razz]
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http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/02/charlie-sheen-tour-review/

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53 — The show officially begins with a mock iPhone ad, advertising the “MaSheen.” This app will be used throughout the show to introduce each segment. Two attractive scantily clad women — contest winners Kelly Jean and Lisa Jaques — come onstage to sing the national anthem before a waving flag. They’re not exactly great singers. “Do it topless!” one audience member shouts.
8:58 — Film clips are playing onscreen. Die Hard, Midnight Express, Taxi Driver, Animal House, Sheen’s own Platoon, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and (of course) Apocalypse Now. There’s no context, just the violent clips. One imagines it’s like being inside Sheen’s fever dream and the experience is taking on a Clockwork Orange quality.
9:00 — Two goddesses are now making out onstage. And finally, Charlie Sheen returns. He holds up a sports shirt of the style that’s worn by his Two and a Half Men character and puts it on. The audience gamely boos. The Two and a Half Men theme song plays and is intercut with a scene from a classic film of a man screaming “Turn it off!” Then, Sheen grabs a Detroit Tigers shirt instead. The crowd roars and gives him a standing ovation. Regarding the Men shirt, Sheen says, “Take that out and burn it.” On video, the girls burn the shirt backstage.
9:07 — Sheen steps behind a presidential-style podium that proclaims “Warlock States of Sheen.” Guitarist Robert Pattinson is playing onstage. Sheen begins a lengthy speech in his newfound Malibu Messiah semi-coherent metaphor-stuffed neo-Hunter S. Thompson style, talking about his “napalm dripping brain.” “I’m here to solve a portion of this grand mystery,” he says.
9:08 — Sheen: “I am finally here to identify and train the Vatican assassin locked inside each and every one of you.”
9:10 — Sheen’s promises are largely incomprehensible, though at least seem intentionally so: “Freedom from monkey eyed…sweat-eating whores. Freedom from the dour and sour taste of malignant reproach… I’m a giant and leaky bag of mayhem.”
9:13 – Sheen: “They took my awesome children… They took my sometimes bitchin’ job… And when they thought there was nothing left, they tried to take my heart and brain and titanium spine. But they could not.” Audience growing restless. This show is all pump-up, no narrative.
9:15 — OK, nobody understands a word Sheen is saying. “”Is anybody else as confused by this s— as I am?” he finally asks. There are roars from the crowd. “I wrote every word!” Later, a cab driver tells me that it’s about this time that angry fans began walking out of the theatre.
9:18 – “Nothing terrifies a troll more than its own reflection,” Sheen continues, before shifting gears into politics. “In a recent poll, they told me I’d bring down that whore [Sarah] Palin. I don’t have time for that nonsense.” [Read about the poll he's referring to here.]
9:20 — People start booing Sheen. Not playing around, but actually booing him. Sheen yells, “I already got your money, dude!”
9:23 — We are watching video of Charlie Sheen playing Call of Duty.
9:35 — The show has become a padded and disjointed mess. Sheen plays an old short film he made called RPG starring a young Johnny Depp but the audience gets frustrated and starts booing. Sheen stops the video and says, “Okay, so RPG was a bomb. Tonight is an experiment.” One is reminded of Torpedo of Truth’s subtitle on the marquee outside: “Defeat is not an option.”
9:40 — Sheen says he’s going to “Tell some stories about crack. I figured Detroit was a good place to tell some crack stories.” This comment, not surprisingly, does not go over well. “Show of hands who here has tried crack?” Very few people raise their hand. “I don’t do crack anymore, but this is a good f—ing night to do some crack.” The audience boos.
9:43 — Sheen tells the audience, “You paid your hard-earned money without knowing what this show was about.” He asks if people have any questions. A girl from the audience asks for his best pornstar story. Sheen doesn’t want to tell that one. He’s starts telling a story about getting his car stolen — he says the story involves crack — but nobody wants to hear it. Another woman asks for a hug. He gives it to her and that’s nice — pretty much the whole audience could use one at this point.
9:50 — The show appears to be almost over. More padding, rap tributes to Sheen from YouTube. He plays a video that intercuts his 20/20 interview with new footage of him being obnoxious to Andrea Canning. It’s amusing at first, but drags on too long.
10:03 — The show is now an unmitigated disaster. There’s a fairly steady stream of people leaving early. Attendee Chris Acchione, a self-described Sheen fan who traveled all the way from Toronto for the show, says his entire mezzanine row walked out. “He’s making a fool of himself,” he says. “Is there a bigger loser in the world? He’ll be [begging] Chuck Lorre for his job back by the end of the week.”
10:05 — Sheen is composing a live tweet. More disappointed comments from people leaving early: “I was expecting a comedy show.” “I could have done a better job.” “It’s just like hanging out at his house,” says a man wearing an “I Believe in Tiger Blood” T-shirt.
10:20 — Sheen plays the track he recorded with Snopp Dogg. But Snoop, despite promises, is a no-show (he was actually back in Los Angeles, performing live on stage at Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards). Rapper Simon Rex comes out instead while Snoop’s video plays in the background. Lights come on. That’s it? Fans angry. When Oliver Stone or whoever makes the inevitable biopic on Charlie Sheen’s life, tonight’s event is definitely making the final cut.

Still winning I see

take bets, it's either getting committed/arrested or he eats a bullet at this point

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Well, if knowledge of pop culture zeitgeist is accurate, this will be a cue towards people beginning to be disinterested in Sheen (finally!) but there will be a brief period of schadenfreude masking as concern/pity for awhile first, and then finally things can get back to the rotating list of celebrity nonsense.
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actually for a lot the fascination keeps growing as the interest transfers from 'people legitimately thinking sheen is being awesome' to people being unable to stop watching because this is like a hypomanic, drug-addled train wreck in slow motion.

this is already worse than the worst you can see on Intervention.

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Well, if people will pay to see someone who is at least slightly mentally ill (and addicted to nearly everything) on stage, they should probably expect to have wasted their money.

More to the point - what were they expecting? It's just a freak show. And honestly, considering that the guy has five or six kids who now or one day will have to know about all this, very sad.

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Two of my friends went to see him here in Detroit, and while they stayed for the whole thing ("We kept waiting for it to get awesome!"), they wanted to leave after the first 20 min or so.

I think the media has done a fantastic job of playing into Sheen's problems, turning him into some sort of trainwreck folk hero. When I asked my friends why in the world they'd actually pay to see Sheen rant on a stage, they said "because it's Charlie Sheen!" as if that were some sort of an obvious answer, or any answer at all really. I also think people want to be a part of spectacles, or once in a life time pop culture experiences. But Sheen ain't Woodstock.

From what I can tell, no one knew what to expect from this, except they expected it to be awesome. I have zero interest in watching Sheen's death spiral, and I'll even admit to occasionally clicking a link related to celebrity news once in awhile on CNN. But this is actually a pretty interesting case of what happens when a star self-destructs, greatly assisted by the media, tries to directly commercialize it, and then ends up reviled when people get a look behind the curtain. Other celebrities have done a good job of being both in the spotlight and elusive at the same time. This is perhaps the biggest recent example that proves celebrity spectacles have absolutely no substance behind them.

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I wasn't really aware of Charlie Sheen until this whole thing started. I don't really understand why he's so special. What is he positively famous for? What awesomeness is he capable of?

His imdb record seems to be a list of unknown and/or second rate movies. Was he ever good? He seems to be a man in the wrong career.

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Can someone explain what the thread's title means?

"Drinks the Nescafe"? What the hell? I recognize the name as a brand of coffee, but what the hell does it have to do with anything?

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quote:
His imdb record seems to be a list of unknown and/or second rate movies.
Some of his movies were actually pretty stellar.
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Why... would anyone pay to see him? This I do not understand.
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quote:
Originally posted by Aris Katsaris:
"Drinks the Nescafe"? What the hell? I recognize the name as a brand of coffee, but what the hell does it have to do with anything?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360343/Libya-Gaddafi-blames-Osama-bin-Laden-hallucinogenic-pills-Nescafe-uprising.html
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quote:
Some of his movies were actually pretty stellar.
Alright... which ones?
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quote:
Originally posted by Teshi:
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Some of his movies were actually pretty stellar.
Alright... which ones?
Platoon for one. To me that is the definitive movie on the war in Vietnam. He did a fantastic job in that one.

Hot Shots 1 and Part Deux, as well as Major League 1 and 2 were both really funny to me when I was a teenager.

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Oh and Wall Street, but I haven't seen that one.
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Watch it.
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I'm 99% sure that means "watch Wall Street," but for some reason I initially read it more as "Be careful, you're on thin ice" or some equivalent.
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Link.
Looks like Sheen is back on Two and a Half Men, and making 1.8 million per episode for the next two seasons.

Winning! Color me surprised.

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That article is from almost a year ago.
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Huh, that's not what the wikipedia time stamp said. I've been had.

Link. Turns out discussions are still taking place, but the fact he could get his job back is still astounding.

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No it's not. Hollywood can forgive almost anything, if enough acting talent and/or money is involved.

See Robert Downey Jr.

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