Charlie Sheen

LITTLE WONDER that D.C. police have had such a hard time explaining the department's police escort of Charlie Sheen. After all, what possible justification could there be for District police vehicles speeding down a Virginia highway so that Hollywood's most notorious bad boy wouldn't be too late for a paid appearance? The unsettling incident — as well as the contradictory explanations that followed — demands a rigorous review and a public accounting. Mr. Sheen was running nearly an hour late for his Tuesday night appearance at DAR...

Regarding Dominic Basulto's Jan. 6 Business commentary, " Al Gore, Al-Jazeera and the American audience ": About two years ago, whoever was masquerading as a news person on whichever network broadcast I happened to be watching at that moment said the words "Charlie Sheen" one time too many. I fled, surfed channels in desperation and stumbled upon Al-Jazeera English . I've never left. By concentrating on and reporting news, Al-Jazeera English provides blissful relief from the info-pap that prevails on our so-called news shows.

Charlie Sheen and Lionsgate — the company that makes "Mad Men" — made it official Monday, putting out the "For Sale" sign on a new comedy series starring wild-child Sheen as a guy with anger-management issues. It's the Practically Perfect Sheen Project. First, the obvious: typecasting. The new comedy series will be loosely based on the 2003 flick "Anger Management" in which Jack Nicholson played an athlete turned counselor who has serious anger-management issues. This means any new TMZ fodder that...

A "White House official" set off a bit of consternation — okay, maybe panic — in a number of agencies Wednesday when he (or she) apparently confirmed that Attorney General Eric Holder , Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius , and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki were staying. Some of "The Unlisted," such as Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack , were almost certainly staying, sources said. But others, such as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood , were seen as possible departures.

Seven months ago, Charlie Sheen was on a drug called Charlie Sheen. Now he seems to be on an image rehabilitation tour unofficially dubbed Charlie Sheen 2.0. At Sunday's Emmy Awards , he gave his blessing to his former colleagues at " Two and a Half Men ," from which he was fired in March during what I'll refer to as his Sober Valley Lodge/Warlock Period. "From the bottom of my heart, I wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season," he proclaimed. His words said: "Really, good luck, you...

Charlie Sheen and his erratic live tour — concisely titled "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option Show" — will touch down in Washington on Tuesday. Thus far, the traveling rant-a-thon, which began April 2 in Detroit, has played with all the consistency of an unhinged metronome, with Sheen earning boos one night, standing ovations the next. So what can Washington audiences expect when the Warlock in Chief strolls onstage at Constitution Hall? We can't say for sure, but the following "Torpedo of Truth" primer...

A couple of thousand people were held hostage by Charlie Sheen's ego Tuesday night in an auditorium named after the female descendants of the American Revolution, half a mile from the World War II Memorial in the capital of the free world. This prompts an icky existential question: If the abusive ex-star of a CBS sitcom can compel a legion of citizens to pay $104.25 apiece to be doused in cultural bile, is the free world a little too free? The answer, of course, is no. Mostly no. No, except for the five seconds after...

A random sampling of celebrities brought their A-game to Comedy Central in an effort to embarrass Charlie Sheen on national television—something that up until this point the actor has been tackling solo. Led by roaster-in-chief Seth MacFarlane , entertainers such as William Shatner , Kate Walsh and Mike Tyson seized the opportunity to riff on Sheen in a Comedy Central roast, which aired Sept. 19. The Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes notes that timing was...

Charlie Sheen is being replaced on the CBS sitcom " Two and a Half Men " — again. This time by a 63-year-old woman. The increasingly tedious nose-thumbing that's been going on between Warner Bros. and Sheen, its former "Two and a Half Men" star, suddenly got interesting again when CBS announced that an upcoming episode of "Men" will feature the return of Sheen's character, Charlie Harper. Except Harper will be played by Academy Award-winning actress...

NEW YORK — Charlie Sheen is spoofing his famous "20/20" appearance in a new online video. Uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, the seven-minute parody intercuts his newly taped responses with questions posed by ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning in the widely viewed interview that aired last month. As Canning is seen repeatedly asking Sheen if he's on drugs and when he last used them, the former "Two and a Half Men" star makes fun of his various catch phrases, his...

Angus T. Jones, the "Half" on CBS's "Two and a Half Men," wants us to know how sorry he is if we misunderstood him when he described as "filth" the show that's paying him millions of dollars a year, and begged people to stop watching it. Also weighing in Wednesday on Jones's biting of the hand that feeds him — you know this one's coming: "Men's" 2011 career-killer Charlie Sheen, who said it is impossible for anyone to spend 10 years in show creator...

The teenage star of "Two and a Half Men" apologized Tuesday (Nov. 27) for calling his show unbiblical "filth" and encouraging people not to watch it during a videotaped testimony about his conversion to Seventh-day Adventism. Angus T. Jones, who has starred in the salacious sitcom since he was 10, said he considers the cast and crew "an extension of my family. " "I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the...

Katie Couric finished first among new daytime talk shows during its premiere week, early stats suggest. "Katie's" week, which started big before taking a spill, ended strong Friday with a Jennifer Lopez interview. (Couric got J-Lo to comment on the new "American Idol" judging panel by incorrectly assuring her that Fox had confirmed the names — which Fox did not do until Sunday). But "Katie" finished No. 4 among all syndicated daytime talk shows. The top spot...

A onetime D.C. police commander whose unit was involved in a controversial high-speed police escort for actor Charlie Sheen has filed a multimillion-dollar civil suit against city officials, claiming that he was demoted after testifying against his superiors at a D.C. Council hearing on the incident. D.C. police Capt. Hilton B. Burton sued the District, Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, and assistant chiefs Lamar Greene and Alfred Durham for "infliction of emotional distress.

Superheroes are not above the earthly pitfalls that afflict the likes of Charlie Sheen , Lindsay Lohan and the rest of the human race. At least that's the case in William Segal and Brendan Snow's musical at the Capital Fringe Festival, "Superhero Celebrity Rehab. " The show's gold-spandex-clad protagonist, Supernova, has a cocaine habit that gets in the way of his ability to deftly dispatch villains. The snorting savior routine lands him in Origins, a rehab facility for superheroes with...

I could never work up much of a theory about Charlie Sheen's whatever-it-was — flameout? Rebirth? That saga seemed to explain itself easily enough through the available gossip: a lot of money, a lot of substances, perhaps mental illness. (Banal explanations, but there you go.) What was trickier to decipher was the whole celebratory fervor — the re-tweeting, the interviews, the concert tour; watching Sheen's fans and admirers surf giddily in the wake of his diatribes and unhappy departure from CBS's...

Like the sight of relief workers pouring into devastated areas, nothing so heartens reporters chronicling the gut-wrenching story of a Hollywood celebrity crackup as the sight of e-mails streaming in to offer unsolicited assistance in the form of easy quotes from academics, lawyers, and other aspiring talking heads. And so it has been for the past several days since the Charlie Sheen story blew up: Hi Lisa, Charlie Sheen got FIRED from his show. Sad! So wrote an emissary for Fordham...

The same night Ashton Kutcher makes his debut as The Solution to CBS's Charlie Sheen Problem, Charlie Sheen will be back on TV, playing the star of Comedy Central's latest made-for-TV roast. Comedy Central announced Tuesday that it will telecast the "Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" on Sept. 19 — just 30 minutes after CBS returns " Two and a Half Men " to its schedule for the sitcom's first Sheen-less season. "Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this roast...

Charlie Sheen is being replaced on the CBS sitcom " Two and a Half Men " — again. This time by a 63-year-old woman. The increasingly tedious nose-thumbing that's been going on between Warner Bros. and Sheen, its former "Two and a Half Men" star, suddenly got interesting again when CBS announced that an upcoming episode of "Men" will feature the return of Sheen's character, Charlie Harper. Except Harper will be played by Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. It's...