Salon.com > Charlie Sheen http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 14:32:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Charlie Sheen is Lindsay Lohan’s mentor http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/charlie_sheen_is_lindsay_lohans_mentor/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/charlie_sheen_is_lindsay_lohans_mentor/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:53:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13218101 Recent news that Lindsay Lohan will guest-star as herself Charlie Sheen's patient-turned-love-interest on his FX show, "Anger Management," has raised some eyebrows: Sheen's career, like Lohan's, has been turbulent at best, spotted with alcohol and drug abuse and legal issues (the two of them have, at various points, have been among the least insurable in Hollywood).

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/charlie_sheen_is_lindsay_lohans_mentor/feed/ 1 Lindsay Lohan to guest star as herself on Charlie Sheen’s “Anger Management” http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/lindsay_lohan_to_guest_star_as_herself_on_charlie_sheens_anger_management/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/lindsay_lohan_to_guest_star_as_herself_on_charlie_sheens_anger_management/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13211622 Lindsay Lohan, the tabloid staple who has found an ally in the similarly out-of-control Charlie Sheen, is set to guest star in an upcoming episode of Sheen's show, "Anger Management." Her role is an eerie nod to real life: in it, she'll play herself, introduced to audiences as a therapy patient. FX announced today via press release that in the episode, Lohan "develops a romantic relationship with Sheen’s character," Dr. Charlie Goodson.

Sheen and Lohan, whom The New York Times describe as kindred spirits, have forged a close relationship over the years. Recently, Sheen lent the actress $100,000 to help her pay back taxes, and they're co-stars in the upcoming "Scary Movie 5" together, where they get pretty cozy:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/lindsay_lohan_to_guest_star_as_herself_on_charlie_sheens_anger_management/feed/ 0 Charlie Sheen’s demented non-comeback movie http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/charlie_sheens_demented_non_comeback_movie/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/charlie_sheens_demented_non_comeback_movie/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13191721 Don’t you have to go away – and have people, like, actually miss you – before you can stage a comeback? But the lack of any noticeable public desire to fall crazy in love with Charlie Sheen all over again is only one of the problems with “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,” which features sexy-vengeful Indian maidens, sexy-vengeful drone assassins in garter belts, a funeral for a toucan named Coco, and Charlie Sheen speaking Spanish with the maid. Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory. There’s no way I can make it sound coherent, and I can’t tell whether it’s supposed to be a Sheen-specific apologia pro vita sua or a grand artistic experiment by writer-director Roman Coppola (son of Francis and brother of Sofia). Some of both? I guess?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/charlie_sheens_demented_non_comeback_movie/feed/ 5 Charlie Sheen’s two-year plan http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/charlie_sheens_two_year_plan/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/charlie_sheens_two_year_plan/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13173060 On Thursday night, the FX sitcom "Anger Management" returns for its second and, in a sense, final season: After an initial run of 10 episodes, the next 90 (yes, 90) will run more or less uninterrupted over the course of the next two years. (They'll likely take a week off for the start of the NCAA basketball tournament in March.)

The deal allows FX to purchase a relatively inexpensive property, guarantees production company Debmar-Mercury syndication dollars starting in 2014, and hands star Charlie Sheen some walking-around money. The mercurial actor has a reported approximate 40 percent stake in the show, including the syndication profits.

Chuck Saftler, executive vice-president of FX and the man responsible for greenlighting episodes 11 through 100, was aware that the program -- with its laugh track and three-camera setup — has little in common with the network's edgier fare, like the critically acclaimed "Louie" and "Justified." "Prior to 10 p.m.," said Saftler, "we have 'Two and a Half Men,' "How I Met Your Mother,' and the best movie portfolio on the air. When you look at how 'Anger Management' plays with 'Two and a Half Men,' or movies like 'Iron man' or 'Taken' or 'Avatar,' it’s a very traditional fit."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/charlie_sheens_two_year_plan/feed/ 0 Charlie Sheen says “Two and a Half Men” is cursed http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/charlie_sheen_says_two_and_a_half_men_is_cursed/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/charlie_sheen_says_two_and_a_half_men_is_cursed/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:18:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13109260 Former "Two and a Half Men" star and public disaster Charlie Sheen has officially weighed in on his former co-star's bizarre outburst, in which Angus T. Jones called the show "filth" and urged viewers not to watch the show that Jones stars in. Jones has since apologized and Sheen said the outburst was uncharacteristic. “Obviously, not having been there for some time, the Angus T. Jones that I knew and still love is not the same guy I saw on YouTube yesterday," he said to TMZ.

But Sheen, himself a walking hyperbole, blamed the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, for Jones' "Hale-Bopp-like meltdown," saying, “I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre’s hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.”  Sheen told E! Online, "It is radically clear to me that the show is cursed."

 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/charlie_sheen_says_two_and_a_half_men_is_cursed/feed/ 2 “Two and a Half Men” star hates “Two and a Half Men,” too http://www.salon.com/2012/11/26/two_and_a_half_men_star_hates_two_and_a_half_men_too/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/26/two_and_a_half_men_star_hates_two_and_a_half_men_too/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13107727 Angus T. Jones, 19, who for nearly a decade has played the half-man on CBS’s vile, hugely popular “Two and a Half Men,” does not want you to watch “Two and a Half Men.” “If you watch 'Two and a Half Men,' please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men.' I’m on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don’t want to be on it," he says in a recent  video interview. "Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. Please."

"Two and a Half Men” has a very memorable history of its actors speaking out against it, but unlike Jones’ former costar Charlie Sheen, who infamously went off on the show as he was going off his rocker, Jones’ beef with “Two and a Half Men” is not that its creators won't let him misbehave to his heart's content. It's that "Two and a Half Men" is un-Christian.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/11/26/two_and_a_half_men_star_hates_two_and_a_half_men_too/feed/ 51 Is “American Horror Story” the future of TV? http://www.salon.com/2012/10/15/is_american_horror_story_the_future_of_tv/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/15/is_american_horror_story_the_future_of_tv/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:56:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13041160 RYAN MURPHY SEEMS to have something against HBO’s Treme, and it’s not hard to see why. As was observed by Vulture a few weeks ago, Murphy’s characters on both The New Normal and Glee have recently been throwing barbs at David Simon’s notoriously slow series as one that is either hate-watched or not watched at all. Last month, in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jonathan Alexander more charitably described Simon’s epic drama about post-Katrina New Orleans as a “long, slow, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tedious argument for itself.” Murphy, whose numerous hit series include FOX’s Glee and FX’s Nip/Tuck, would appear to ascribe to a different aesthetic philosophy. Advocating melodrama over studied observation, inspirational musical numbers and pockets of shriek-inducing violence over meandering narrative, and broad social statements over minute ethnography, Murphy, for his part, is likely the kind of maximalist auteur that would give David Simon heartburn. Though occasionally tedious, Murphy’s shows are rarely slow, and they never, ever make arguments for themselves. Murphy’s characters presumably hate-watch Treme because even they can’t imagine a world in which they would move with so little noise and so much meditation. Sometimes, especially on HBO, nothing terribly significant will happen in the space of a single episode; in a Ryan Murphy episode, sometimes everything happens all at once.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/10/15/is_american_horror_story_the_future_of_tv/feed/ 1 “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s misogynistic, homophobic comeback http://www.salon.com/2012/06/26/anger_management_charlie_sheens_crass_comeback/ http://www.salon.com/2012/06/26/anger_management_charlie_sheens_crass_comeback/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12945206 FX’s “Anger Management,” Charlie Sheen’s return to television, is a godawful, small-minded, crassly commercial exercise. It’s “Two and Half Men” on a cable channel, starring a more haggard-looking Sheen as a therapist with a temper problem. Insofar as giving the detestable, unreliable, post-“Winning!” Sheen a job and a platform is a risk, “Anger Management” is a bold step for FX. But everything else about the show, from its laugh track to the misogynistic, homophobic, lame and dirty jokes is utterly predictable. And that’s the point.

Television is in the midst of an extremely fertile period: This golden age of TV, from “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” on down through “30 Rock” and “Parks and Rec,” is a who’s who of shows that do something fresh and new, taking content, themes, language or characters in unprecedented directions. But smuggled into these shows, even the most revolutionary and cutting-edge, is something unoriginal. After the first episode, every installment of a TV show contains large quantities of sameness: The same characters, the same setting, the same premise. For all its innovation, each episode of "The Wire" featured established characters, Baltimore, that dialogue, and a worldview about the humanity-crushing nature of dysfunctional, dying bureaucracies. “Community’s” every episode may intend to blow minds and blow up genres, but audiences came to expect exactly that level of madcap energy every week. On shows like “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men” and “Louie” (which will air in a block with “Anger Management,” and by its very excellence act as a permanent rebuke), audiences wait for the surprising moment, the one that will be so great and awesome and unlike anything we can specifically imagine.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/06/26/anger_management_charlie_sheens_crass_comeback/feed/ 26 The best and worst tweets of the year http://www.salon.com/2011/12/21/the_best_and_worst_tweets_of_the_year/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/21/the_best_and_worst_tweets_of_the_year/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10702531 One hundred and forty characters can make or sink a career. They can start a movement. They can make history. We've witnessed for years now the power of social media – from bearing witness to the protests in Iran to providing a ringside seat to MIA's feud with Lynn Hirschberg. But in 2011, Twitter once again didn't just offer a bite-sized window into the news of the day – often enough, it became it. Whether they were funny, harrowing, or just plain ill advised, these were the tweets heard round the world.

"It's always wrong, that's obvious, but I'm rolling my eyes at all the attention she'll get."

While covering the Egyptian protests back in February, CBS reporter Lara Logan was separated from her crew and endured a horrifying sexual and physical assault. And when the news filtered out from Tahrir Square, New York University Center for Law and Security fellow Nir Rosen fired off a torrent of scathing tweets about the attack, admitting "She's so bad that I ran out of sympathy for her," and adding "it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson [Cooper] too." In the wake a furious backlash, Rosen swiftly deleted the tweets, apologized for his words, and resigned from NYU. Today, he's back on Twitter after a brief sabbatical, but as he wrote for Salon last winter, "with 480 characters I undid a long career."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/21/the_best_and_worst_tweets_of_the_year/feed/ 3 Why Charlie Sheen is still winning http://www.salon.com/2011/09/20/sheen_and_kutcher/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/20/sheen_and_kutcher/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2011/09/20/sheen_and_kutcher This article was supposed to compare last night's Comedy Central roast of Charlie Sheen and the premiere of CBS' "Two and a Half Men," starring Ashton Kutcher in Sheen's old role. That's not going to happen because after watching the roast, I can barely remember a thing about "Two and a Half Men." The Sheen roast -- and Charlie Sheen himself -- all but obliterated the CBS sitcom from my mind; any details contained herein are the result of consulting notes and a DVR recording.

Charlie Sheen tends to have that effect. The man is superficially charming but thoroughly loathsome, so bereft of anything resembling decency or common sense that the media and the public can enjoy his prolonged flameout without a twinge of guilt. And yet he's mesmerizing for precisely that reason. Nobody in the history of American popular culture has built such a long career almost entirely upon being a decadent, sarcastic, horny, volatile party animal, minus any remarkable talent to counterbalance it. It's unprecedented. But it's not as if it all started last month. 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/20/sheen_and_kutcher/feed/ 43 Charlie Sheen’s latest role: Acting normal http://www.salon.com/2011/09/16/charlie_sheen_acting_normal/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/16/charlie_sheen_acting_normal/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:17:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/09/16/charlie_sheen_acting_normal Of all the crazy stunts Charlie Sheen has pulled, this one takes the cake. Lately he's been acting … normal. Sober. Nice, even. What in the name of wizards and tiger blood is going on around here?

Making the talk show rounds in anticipation of his aptly named new sitcom "Anger Management" and his Monday evening Comedy Central roast, the Vatican assassin is revealing a more sedate side of himself this week. On the "Today" show Friday, Sheen insisted he's "a lot calmer, a lot mellower," and said, "I think it's important that people see that ... was just one crazy chapter, one weird phase, and that I was this guy before it started so I could be that guy again afterward." And discussing his "Two and a Half Men" flameout this week with Jay Leno, Sheen confessed that "I would've fired [me] too." He even admitted he'd "be completely on board for" a guest shot on his old show  This from the guy who mere months ago called his boss Chuck Lorre a "contaminated little maggot."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/16/charlie_sheen_acting_normal/feed/ 14 Five pop culture items we missed http://www.salon.com/2011/08/12/pop_five_horsemanning/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/12/pop_five_horsemanning/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/08/12/pop_five_horsemanning 1. Internet art project of the day: Videogum's challenge to its readers to draw their own signs complaining about celebrities, just like this pizza restaurant owner did about that cheapskate Adam Sandler.

2. Pretend meme picked up by a morning show of the day: Horsemanning, as demonstrated by Kathie Lee and Hoda on "Today." From the screenshot, I'm guessing it's like owling or planking, except you have to be drunk on white wine at 9 a.m. in order for it to count.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/12/pop_five_horsemanning/feed/ 3 Five pop culture items we missed http://www.salon.com/2011/08/09/pop_five_american_girl_dolls_yellow_fever/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/09/pop_five_american_girl_dolls_yellow_fever/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/08/09/pop_five_american_girl_dolls_yellow_fever 1. Internet crackdown of the day: California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is trying to ban the use of social networking for prisoners, saying it "has seen numerous instances in which inmates, using their Facebook accounts, have delivered threats to victims or have made unwanted sexual advances."

2. Cringe-worthy Hitler analogy of the day: Sorry, Kanye, your reign was but too brief. Today, the crew of "Two and a Half Men" claim that they prefer working with Ashton Kutcher over "Hitler." Look, Charlie Sheen may be a lot of things, but he obviously does not have his life together enough to start a genocidal war.

3. Remake of the day: "Dirty Dancing," which will be directed by the film's original choreographer Kenny Ortega. Does no one remember the travesty of "Havana Nights"?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/09/pop_five_american_girl_dolls_yellow_fever/feed/ 8 “Two and a Half Men’s” gory elimination of Charlie Sheen http://www.salon.com/2011/08/08/charlie_sheen_death_revealed_two_half_men/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/08/charlie_sheen_death_revealed_two_half_men/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/08/08/charlie_sheen_death_revealed_two_half_men As if CBS' new "Two and a Half Men" naked promo wasn't enough to convince audiences that next season is going to be for adults only ("No kids allowed! Sorry, Angus T. Jones!"), today's plot leak regarding a certain character's certain demise in a certain type of "meat explosion" should do the trick. (Sorry, I didn't want anyone to get upset over spoilers.)

Here's the spoiler alert: CBS went all out in its fantasy killing of Charlie Sheen's dopplegänger, Charlie Harper.

From Reuters (citing TMZ):

According to TMZ's taping attendee, the plot lays out how Rose (played by Melanie Lynskey) -- the neighbor who had been doggedly pursuing Harper, and whom Harper brought to Paris last season -- married Harper while in the City of Lights, but later caught him cheating on her in the shower.

According to TMZ's, Rose speaks at Charlie's funeral, telling everyone that while she and her spouse were waiting in a Paris subway station the day after the shower incident, Charlie "slipped" onto the tracks, in front of an oncoming train, resulting in a "meat explosion."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/08/charlie_sheen_death_revealed_two_half_men/feed/ 26 Charlie Sheen dies and lives again on TV http://www.salon.com/2011/08/03/charlie_sheen_dies_on_two_and_a_half_men/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/03/charlie_sheen_dies_on_two_and_a_half_men/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:35:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/08/03/charlie_sheen_dies_on_two_and_a_half_men Does CBS really want to kill Charlie Sheen? It's been months now since the tempestuous warlock rock star and reliably incoherent tweeter finally pushed his luck too far with his network overlords and was fired from his long-running, wildly overpaid gig as star of "Two and a Half Men." And ever since, speculation has been running high that his fed-up former creative team, led by the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, has been planning to give Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, a big -- and unmistakably final -- send-off for the season premiere.

With the show going into production this week and just a few weeks to go before the season premiere airs, though, the network has been doling out only the smallest of clues regarding the fate of Harper -- and how the replacement member of the trio, Ashton Kutcher, will be introduced. But CBS head of entertainment Nina Tassler noted at a press conference this week that the remaining cast are "very nuanced actors who can cover every subtlety," and that Lorre has the ability to turn the comedy "on its ear and … become a one-act play, a drama." Sounds like code for "dead Sheen" to me!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/08/03/charlie_sheen_dies_on_two_and_a_half_men/feed/ 2 “Two and a Half Men” gets sexy http://www.salon.com/2011/07/19/two_and_a_half_men/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/19/two_and_a_half_men/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/19/two_and_a_half_men With Charlie Sheen booted from the show and replaced by Ashton Kutcher, CBS's "Two and a Half Men" is now gearing up for a season aimed at a new demographic ... the ladies.

In preparation for its Sept. 19 premiere, the first promotional poster has been released, showing Kutcher and costars Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones totally naked; a sign with the date of the show's return and the phrase "All will be revealed ..." is the only thing protecting their male modesty. "This isn't your dad's 'Two and a Half Men'!" the picture may as well shout.

It's a bold move, one that highlights the sex appeal of the newest cast member, but also that of Cryer and, more important, the underage Jones. Angus is now 17 and missing a good chunk of his signature baby fat, so putting him in the new promo is sure to raise questions about the sexualization of a teen actor who started the show at age 10. It's definitely going to generate mixed reactions, and that's not a great thing for producer Chuck Lorre.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/19/two_and_a_half_men/feed/ 11 Once bitten: Charlie Sheen’s death rumor still a computer virus http://www.salon.com/2011/07/13/charlie_sheen_web_virus/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/13/charlie_sheen_web_virus/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/13/charlie_sheen_web_virus Charlie Sheen: the gift that keeps on giving. Sadly, herpes is no longer the only virus you can catch from the former "Two and a Half Men" actor: Now even reading about him can lead to an infection. You won't need penicillin, but this nasty computer bug uses your Facebook account to perpetuate itself and potentially install malware onto your hard drive. And this isn't even the first time this scam has worked or a Charlie Sheen death hoax has gone around.

How did this happen? Early today, stories began popping up on Twitter and other social-networking sites hinting at the actor's demise, with links promising "breaking news" on the event. To be fair, considering where we left the warlock, it wouldn't be unreasonable to wonder whether his winning luck had run out.

Fortunately for Sheen, he's not dead. He's just been taking a really long nap, according to a recent tweet from the actor's account.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/13/charlie_sheen_web_virus/feed/ 4 Charlie Sheen will be roasted on Comedy Central http://www.salon.com/2011/07/05/charlie_sheen_roast/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/05/charlie_sheen_roast/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:59:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/05/charlie_sheen_roast Over the years, Charlie Sheen's antics have been picked apart by a pop culture-consuming public by turns frightened, shocked and fascinated. Now, the former "Two and a Half Men" star will be ridiculed on television by a team of professionals. Yes, Charlie Sheen will be the subject of a Comedy Central Roast; no, it's not likely to be pretty.

This roast is just the latest move in Sheen's parade of self-destruction. (Or as Sheen himself puts it: "You could say I’ve been providing kindling for this roast for a while. It’s time to light it up. It’s going to be epic.") The show is set to air on September 19, when it will compete with the first episode of Ashton Kutcher's new "Two and a Half Men."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/05/charlie_sheen_roast/feed/ 1 Five pop culture items we missed http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/pop_five_harrison_ford_vs_shia_labeouf/ http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/pop_five_harrison_ford_vs_shia_labeouf/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/06/29/pop_five_harrison_ford_vs_shia_labeouf 1. Grizzled old man uttering profanities of the day:

Harrison Ford on Shia LaBeouf talking crap about the last "Indiana Jones" movie, "I think he was a fucking idiot." Boom!

2. Major nerd accomplishment of the day:

Fifty thousand Lego pieces and a love of "Lord of the Rings" is what inspired Kevin Walter to create the world's most complex model of the Dark Tower Barad-dûr. One block to rule them all?

3. Exposed Twitter (non)scandal of the day:

The reason for Lindsay's sudden interest in the Federal Reserve? The Twitter blast was actually a sponsored message paid for by the National Inflation Association. Are there really so many people out there that look to Lindsay Lohan for financial advice? Wasn't she just released from house arrest today for stealing a necklace?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/pop_five_harrison_ford_vs_shia_labeouf/feed/ 1 Five pop culture items we missed http://www.salon.com/2011/06/28/pop_five_meme_drinks/ http://www.salon.com/2011/06/28/pop_five_meme_drinks/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:29:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/06/28/pop_five_meme_drinks 1. PETA pets of the day: Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand were named Sexiest Vegetarians of 2011 by the animal activist group. Now how long until they try to convince the stars to pose naked?

2. Actual nudity of the day: The Gloss' Jamie Peck walked around topless in Central Park to prove that it's legal for women to go shirt- and braless in public under N.Y. state law.

3. Secret wedding of the day: No-longer-"Ugly" star America Ferrera married longtime boyfriend Ryan Piers Williams in an intimate ceremony last night.

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