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At his prompting, the crowd heartily agreed that they, like him, were winning. They cheered at his stock references to tiger blood and Adonis DNA. They hailed his stated motivation as an actor: "thousands of chicks and tons of cash." But attention and material (the crowd's and Sheen's) were wearing thin by the time Scoleri asked one question too many about Sheen's film career. "Borrring," someone called out. And when Sheen was about to talk about his kids, another audience member erupted, "We don't want to hear about that." What began as supportive yelps and squeals had grown into an inattentive hubbub. To his credit, Sheen was unfazed by the heckling, though he wondered aloud why people don't plan better. Like, plan to "drink less and not yell at the guy you've been waiting six weeks to see." At the 45-minute mark, Sheen and Scoleri took a break while his video, "Charlie Sheen Unedited," (already viewed on YouTube more than 1.3 million times) unreeled. Returning to the stage, Sheen hurriedly introduced his two "goddesses," the by-now-famous former porn star, Rachel Oberlin, and actress, Natalie Kenley, who live with him. Then talk finally turned to "Two and a Half Men." As if he had never thought to mention it before, Sheen noted that he hadn't quit the CBS sitcom but was fired from it. And of course he wants to come back to it, he declared, also not for the first time. Why wouldn't he? It's "the greatest sitcom ever
-- EVER," he explained, an overblown assessment received by his wearying flock with a smattering of boos. By then, Sheen had crossed over from comedy to preaching and the audience just wasn't in the mood. Maybe sensing that the crowd was about to turn, Scoleri said the night would end ("That's it?!" someone exploded) with Sheen disclosing items from his personal "bucket list." The aisles began to fill with people startled at the concert's brevity yet all too willing, after just an hour, to make for the exits. One of his bucket list dreams: "I want to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge wearing a parachute," Sheen said above the uproar. "I'm not opening it, just wearing it. I'll live." Maybe so. It's still his story, what he bills as the truth. For now, he's still winning, even when his fans don't.
[Associated
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Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at
fmoore@ap.org
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