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This is kind of going back a ways, but when Suzanne Somers left Three's Company, it still survived a while, and there's no doubting she was the *ahem* main attraction on that show.
I tried to watch the Piers Morgan interview and just couldn't get more than halfway through it. It just reinforced one of the reasons I hate Morgan. It was entirely clear that Morgan considers Sheen a friend and that he had sat him down behind the scenes and gave him a "talking to" about his behavior during the interview. Not only did Morgan softball every question, but he kept feeding into Sheen's notion that he was wronged by CBS. Not only that, he gave him an opportunity to pull back from all the stupid stuff he'd said in previous interviews (like deserving a raise, amongst many others).
And I could plainly see Sheen continually pulling himself back from going to that loony place, not just looking to Morgan to calm him in the moment, but occasionally verbally acknowledging that he wasn't going to go there, with a hint that he was following Morgan's (previously given) advice. One example came at the beginning of the interview, when he said he'd been "riding a Mercury surfboard," stopped himself, looked to Morgan and said, "Right off the bat, sorry."
But even holding himself back, I found it extremely humorous that yesterday he was "extra-terrestrial" and from Mars, and last night he went to Mercury and the moon (and who knows what other places in our solar system after I tuned out). To say the guy is really "out there" is an understatement. I understand your line of reasoning. However, just showing up to work and being able to say his lines are not the only stipulations or obligations he has in his contract. I don't speak from personal knowledge of his specific contract, but I do know that these contracts contain all kinds of other outs for the studios, including behavior outside the set, and even things as simple as dramatically changing one's appearance. For all we know, the show's insurance carrier threatened to drop the show's coverage based on Sheen's erratic off-set behavior, or may have actually dropped it, and that could be grounds for terminating him, ending the show and paying out the crew.
Piers Morgan is a no talent joke.
Aside from the contract and insurance there are the all powerful sponsors who have a say.
While I'll admit I was amused at the first or second outburst, I'm starting to feel disgusted with the media the way they keep feeding the fire in order to get ratings. Sheen is either mentally ill or an addict (or both) so now we've crossed the line into exploitation.
With all of the news saying Charlie Sheen is crazy I'm thinking that he could very well being playing it up to increase his popularity and stock in Hollywood. With all the interviews and the Goddesses and such he is the most searched Actor out there!
He is a genius if the above is the case!!
I the end he is much like Lohan :IMO In the end the chorttime gain in beig in the news may not be worth it'especailly on project where it has to be insured like movies etc.
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I understand your line of reasoning. However, just showing up to work and being able to say his lines are not the only stipulations or obligations he has in his contract. I don't speak from personal knowledge of his specific contract, but I do know that these contracts contain all kinds of other outs for the studios, including behavior outside the set, and even things as simple as dramatically changing one's appearance. For all we know, the show's insurance carrier threatened to drop the show's coverage based on Sheen's erratic off-set behavior, or may have actually dropped it, and that could be grounds for terminating him, ending the show and paying out the crew.
