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Sheen wants to get back to work soon

LOS ANGELES

A spokesman for Charlie Sheen says the “Two and a Half Men” star wants to get back to work this month.

The 45-year-old actor remains in rehab but hopes to return to TV’s top-rated comedy by the end of February, publicist Stan Rosenfield said Thursday. That’s a “target” projection, Rosenfield said.

The series halted production after Sheen sought treatment for undisclosed reasons after a 911 call and brief stay at a Los Angeles-area hospital last week. According to a tape of the 911 call, Sheen was said to be intoxicated and in pain.

With un-certainty over Sheen’s return, CBS is planning to use a combination of “Two and a Half Men” reruns and other sitcoms to fill out its Monday-night schedule. The network has two unaired episodes of “Men” in hand, which are to be broadcast Monday and Feb. 14.

‘Last Tango’ star dies

PARIS

Maria Schneider, the French actress who was Marlon Brando’s young co-star in the steamy 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris,” has died, her talent agency said. She was 58. Schneider died in Paris on Thursday “following a long illness,” a representative of the Act 1 agency said, but declined to provide details.

Schneider was 19 when she starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s racy “Last Tango in Paris.” In it, she played a young Parisian woman who takes up with a middle-aged American businessman, played by Brando.

Throughout her career, Schneider appeared in more than two dozen films, most of them French.