Sheen media blitz heads to Twitter after TV shows

The public’s fascination with Charlie Sheen’s melodrama showed no sign of slackening as his new Twitter account took only hours to attract more than a half-million followers.

On Tuesday, the day production was to resume on CBS’ ‘Two and a Half Men’ after a break for Sheen’s personal troubles, his Twitter postings were the only fresh entertainment starring the actor – unless news interviews also counted.The Charliesheen Twitter account, which had been verified, featured a family-friendly photo of him and porn star Bree Olson, smiling and holding up bottles of chocolate milk and juice over the caption, ‘Winning! Choose your vice.’After giving the actor a break to seek rehabilitation following wild partying and three hospitalisations in three months, Warner and CBS announced last week they had decided against resuming production on the remainder of the season. They cited Sheen’s conduct and comments.Sheen (45) has found ready outlets at TV networks and other outlets eager to air his often-outrageous comments.’Are we tired of Charlie Sheen? … Or is it the kind of thing we can’t get enough?’ David Letterman asked Tuesday on his CBS late-night show. ‘If you thought you were going to see 100 wrecks a day, would you take a lunch? It’s kind of like that, isn’t it?’Asked Tuesday on NBC’s ‘Today’ about reaction to comments in which Sheen called himself ‘a total rock star from Mars,’ among other startling descriptions, he shrugged off the reaction.’I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life. I’m tired of being `aw shucks.’ That’s not me. What’s wrong with that?’ he said.Sheen also had high praise for the two women living with him whom he called ‘goddesses.’’These women don’t judge me. … They don’t lead with opinion. They don’t lead with their own needs all the time,’ he said. Sheen asserted he isn’t using drugs, saying ‘drug tests don’t lie’ and presenting recent test results with ‘the word `negative’ is, like, printed, like, 18 trillion times.’ ‘Don’t remember, don’t care,’ he said when asked the last time he’d used drugs. He has rejected attempts by his family, including father Martin Sheen, to intervene in his life and told them, ‘I appreciate your love and your, and your compassion, if that’s what you want to call it.’’I’m not interested in people treating me like a 12-year-old,’ Sheen said. Sheen has left open the possibility for reconciliation with most of those he has attacked in recent days. But when it comes to getting ‘Two and a Half Men’ back on the air, he has made clear he wants it on his terms. On Monday, Sheen told The Associated Press he wasn’t satisfied with Warner’s payment to the crew for four of the eight unfilmed episodes. He said he would lobby for the other four and that compensation for co-stars Jon Cryer and Angus T Jones was ‘next’ on his to-do list. Also on Monday, Sheen told NBC he would return to the show. ‘I’m a man of my word, so I will finish the TV show. I’ll even do season 10, but it’s at this point because of psychological distress, oh my God it’s three mil an episode, take it or leave it.’ – www.news.yahoo.com

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