Friday, February 25, 2011

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Charlie Sheen Commits Career Suicide (FishbowlLA)
Maybe it was better when Charlie Sheen was partying with porn stars and a "briefcase full of cocaine." TMZ: Sheen launched a nuclear attack on live radio, slamming Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, calling him a turd, and going on to call Thomas Jefferson a "pussy." Sheen unloaded while calling in to The Alex Jones Show and claimed he is 100 percent clean, saying, "Here's your first pee test, next one goes in your mouth. No, you won't get high." New York / Vulture: "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -- and this includes naps -- I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground." TheWrap.com / The Box: Conversations with Warner Bros. Television insiders suggested that they have no intention of paying Sheen the remaining salary for his contract as the lead of Two and a Half Men. Deadline.com: As Sheen's erratic behavior escalated, the sitcom's network and studio did the only thing they could in the situation: pull the plug. But they only did it for this season.) Two and a Half Men was scheduled to resume production Monday for four more episodes.) So the door is left open for a possible ninth season. Ad Age / MediaWorks: CBS not only removed the most expensive program for advertisers from its schedule -- a 30-second spot during Two and a Half Men costs an average of $206,722, according to Ad Age's annual survey of primetime ad prices -- but also took out a show that has been the linchpin of its Monday-night lineup. THR: Sheen's attack on Lorre is only the latest in a long line of troubles for the actor. Here are eight of his biggest screw-ups (in chronological order). Mediaite: While doing little to restore faith in his sanity, Sheen touched one of the most inflamed nerves in post-Tea Party America by going after Jefferson, and, by visiting a program like Alex Jones to begin with, he may be wanting a path to punditry.

Motion Picture Academy And ABC Renew Oscars Pact (LA Times / Company Town)
One of the longest streaks in television history will continue. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC said Thursday that they extended their licensing agreement six years, through 2020. The agreement keeps the Academy Awards telecast a fixture on ABC, and the announcement comes just days before this weekend's 83rd annual Oscar gala on the network. TheWrap.com / The Odds: The new Oscar hosts have gotten advice from Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, and Hugh Jackman, and now they can add some unsolicited (and, I suspect, unwanted) tips from Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais. GigaOM: Creating a second-screen experience to accompany a live broadcast has become a requisite part of putting on any live event, whether it be the Emmys, the Grammys, or even the Super Bowl. So this year, ABC and ATAS are truly stepping up, providing unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes material to be enjoyed online while also watching the telecast. But what's also unprecedented? The fact that there's a price tag. CNET: Since the announcement of the Academy Award nominations last month, a service called Tweetbeat has been collecting each and every Oscar-related Tweet, and it released its conclusions Thursday. With well more than 25,000 votes, if you can call them that, The King's Speech emerged as the clear Best Picture winner, with the support of 31.4 percent. Entrepreneur: Every time winemaker Kathy Joseph watches Oscar-nominated film The Kids Are All Right, she gets a jolt of excitement. That's because less than five minutes into the film, actress Annette Bening picks up an empty bottle of wine and asks her wife, played by Julianne Moore, "Do we have any more of the Fiddlehead?"

Fox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee To Lie, Records Show (NYT)
It was an incendiary allegation -- and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corp., had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.
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