{"id":972,"date":"2011-09-21T08:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=972"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:38:30","slug":"dont-feel-sorry-for-charlie-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/dont-feel-sorry-for-charlie-sheen.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Feel Sorry For Charlie Sheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s finally behaving with a little bit of class, grace and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Credit <strong>Charlie Sheen<\/strong> for treating replacement <strong>Ashton Kutcher<\/strong> well when the pair ran into each other at Sunday&#8217;s Emmys.<\/p>\n<p>Sheen also had good things to say\/tweet about the debut of <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> with Kutcher as his replacement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-974\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/files\/2011\/09\/Charlie_Sheen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-974\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/248\/2011\/09\/Charlie_Sheen-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Sheen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If only he had acted this way sooner it would be easier to like Charlie Sheen, or at least feel more empathy for him.<\/p>\n<p>The two &#8220;girlfriends&#8221; are gone and so is the steady unbelievable paycheck from Two and a Half Men, but don&#8217;t feel too bad for Sheen.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly has another TV deal in the works and will make huge money in the sydication of his former program.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, maybe we should not have expected anything different from Sheen, however.<\/p>\n<p>His character on Two and a Half Men was a one-trick pony: a sex obsessed, self-absorbed guy.<\/p>\n<p>The one decent thing you could say about &#8220;Charlie Harper&#8221; is at least he let his brother and nephew stay with him.<\/p>\n<p>All the innuendo and worse behavior made the show unwatchable to me.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously 28 million Americans, the number of viewers for the season debut disagree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>be sure to check out my friend Joanna&#8217;s celebrity blog at http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/famecrawler\/2011\/09\/23\/dad-to-be-nicolas-sarkozy-and-his-presidential-style-photos\/<\/p>\n<p>I HIGHLY recommend it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s finally behaving with a little bit of class, grace and dignity. Credit Charlie Sheen for treating replacement Ashton Kutcher well when the pair ran into each other at Sunday&#8217;s Emmys. Sheen also had good things to say\/tweet about the debut of Two and a Half Men with Kutcher as his replacement. 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