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Hey, Charlie Sheen Was On TV Tonight (TVNewser)
Got to hand it to Piers Morgan. After Charlie Sheen gave living-room interviews to ABC's Andrea Canning on Saturday, NBC's Jeff Rossen on Sunday, and a backyard interview with TMZ.com Monday, Sheen headed to CNN's Hollywood studios for a sitdown with Morgan Monday night. Rossen interviewed Sheen again Monday for a new interview that will air Tuesday on Today. Then there's the 20/20 special Tuesday night. Had enough yet? Mediaite: "Are you under the influence right now of any substance?" Morgan asked. "No, right now I'm under the influence of you," Sheen replied. In an attempt to prove his case, Sheen dug into his bag and pulled out a piece of paper he described as drug-test results that "prove" he's clean. Mediaite: On ABC's Good Morning America, Sheen explained that his behavior may be hard for non-Sheens to understand. "You borrow my brain for five seconds, and just be like, 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard.' Because it fires in a way that's, you know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm." NYT / Media Decoder: On his conversations with doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where he was admitted last month for abdominal pains: "They were like, 'AA this,' and I was like, 'Bye bye, that.' " THR: Sheen said he regrets making comments about Two and a Half Men co-creator Chuck Lorre that the Anti-Defamation League called "at best bizarre, and at worst, borderline anti-Semitism." THR: Lorre seemingly addressed the Sheen situation in the vanity card on one of his other CBS shows Monday night. Lorre didn't call Sheen out by name in the card, which aired at the end of Mike & Molly, but it seems clear that Lorre was responding to angry attacks recently made against him by Sheen. TheWrap.com / The Box: Sheen may never work in Burbank again, but we think Warner Bros., CBS, and Lorre will finally decide to continue producing Two and a Half Men anyway -- in a new format or with a new star. THR: The troubled star is saying he's ready to return to acting, but the real question is whether anyone would hire him -- and how much it would cost to insure him. LA Times / Show Tracker: Veteran Hollywood publicist Stan Rosenfield, who represented Sheen through the actor's rehab attempts and breakup with his employers on hit sitcom Two and a Half Men, abruptly resigned Monday. The Daily Beast / Sexy Beast: The surest sign of the star's implosion: He's become best friends with baseball has-been Lenny Dykstra. Mashable: The YouTube community has responded to Sheen's very public meltdown the way it always responds to celebs in trouble: by piling on.
Oscar's Big Night Comes Up Short (WSJ)
A smaller audience tuned in for the Academy Awards Sunday night on ABC, reversing two years of growth for one of television's biggest events. Multichannel News: While ABC's telecast sustained audience erosion, E! netted its most-watched red-carpet show ever Sunday night with the Academy Awards prelims. TechCrunch: Twitter has changed the way we watch television. Say what you will about the 83rd Annual Oscars (and thus far the consensus is "meh"), you've probably already said it on Twitter.
Christiane Amanpour Gets First Interview With Gaddafi (HuffPost)
Christiane Amanpour nabbed the first U.S. interview with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Monday.
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