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Sheen gets booed in Detroit
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 picture, Charlie Sheen poses backstage at the 2008 ALMA Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Sheen's spokesman says the actor's two young daughters are doing fine after a Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle they were riding in collided with a sedan on Pacific Coast Highway on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, sparking a multi-vehicle crash that sent one person to the hospital.
Associated Press
DETROIT
Charlie Sheen and the women he calls his “goddesses” walked onto a Detroit stage to thunderous applause during the first of a planned 20-stop variety show tour.
It didn’t take long for the good will to fade, though, as audience members at the Fox Theatre began yelling at the former “Two and a Half Men” star for refunds and walking out in droves.
Sheen quipped after an audience member booed: “I’ve already got your money, dude.”
He was fired from the hit CBS sitcom in March over his alleged drug use and increasingly erratic behavior. Sheen responded by filing a $100 million lawsuit.
The actor has been everywhere lately, venting in interviews and online postings about being fired from his hit TV show and carrying on about the “tiger blood” coursing through his veins and the “trolls” who derailed his career.
So much has been said by and about the unemployed actor, it’s almost as though there’s nothing left to learn about him.
Promising “the real story,” the 45-year-old former “Two and a Half Men” star hit the road for a monthlong, 20-city variety-show tour, with the first stop Saturday’s sold-out show in Detroit.
Sheen appeared on stage to a standing ovation from the capacity crowd at the Fox Theatre, but it was only to bail out a comedian who failed to win over the audience. He returned backstage shortly afterward to put on his show attire.
Sheen and his publicist, Larry Solters, described the show in vague terms, saying it would last about an hour-and-a-half and feature guests, musical acts and a multimedia presentation. Sheen said rapper Snoop Dogg and guitarist Rob Patterson would be at Saturday’s show.
Sheen starred in a string of hit movies in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Oliver Stone dramas “Wall Street” and “Platoon” and the comedies “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Major League.” He later found small-screen success starring in the hit sitcoms “Spin City” and “Two and a Half Men,” where he seemed a perfect fit for his character, a womanizing bachelor.
Some of the fans who gathered outside the 5,100-seat theater before doors opened Saturday said they’d come from far away hoping to hear the unrestrained rants Sheen’s delivered in recent months.