Charlie Sheen has been leading another kind of tour lately – one of humility and redemption – and this tour stopped at the 63rd Annual Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

The 46 year-old actor presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy to winner Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory but it wasn’t the trophy that got Sheen noticed. It was his speech to the folks still on Two and A Half Men.

“Good evening,” he told the audience. “Before I present Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy, my old category, I want to take a moment to get something off my chest and say a few words to everyone here from ‘Two and a Half Men.”

“From the bottom of my heart, I wish nothing but the best for this upcoming season,” Sheen said extending the olive branch. “We spent eight wonderful years together, and I know you will continue to make great television. Now on to the Emmy.”

Sheen also tweeted his replacement on the series, Ashton Kutcher, posting a photo of them together and he gave him words of encouragement.

“Giving the new kid a little advice..! With @aplusk backstage at the Emmy’s…” Sheen tweeted. “Seriously… @aplusk great talking to you! We’ll all be watching! Make us proud!!”

Two and A Half Men season 9 with Ashton Kutcher premieres Monday, September 19th at 9PM. Charlie Sheen‘s Comedy Central Roast is on the same night at 10PM.

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Charlie Sheen is singing a different tune than he was just six months ago.

The actor whose career imploded in the blink of an eye when he was fired from the mega-successful CBS sitcom Two and A Half Men spent much of the summer waging a public war with Warner Bros (who owns CBS) and the producer of the show, Chuck Lorre, is now fessing up that he wasn’t “winning” at all.

“I said some things that were a little out there,” Sheen told Leno Thursday night. “I might have overshot the mark a little bit. But these were just metaphors. I didn’t really believe I had tiger blood or Adonis DNA. These were just jokes.”

Charlie also said he understands why he was sacked. “No, no. I would have fired my ass, too,” Sheen told Leno. “Well, maybe not like they did.”

The 46 year-old actor also told Matt Lauer that he was unprepared for how “biting” the comments would be at his Comedy Central Roast.

“It was raunchy. I thought I’d heard everything twice. Clearly I hadn’t,” Sheen said. “Yeah, no, they said, prepare yourself, and I said it’s just words. At the end of the day it’s just words and I was sitting there, and it was not just words. They were very biting.”

In the end, Sheen says he’s trying to make amends with his ex-wives, Brooke Mueller and Denise Richards, and have a relationship with his children.

The actor also says that he’s going to catch Two and A Half Men with Ashton Kutcher to see how it all turns out.

“Of course I will (watch ‘Men’),” Sheen told Lauer. “I’m also really curious about what happened to me. Because I don’t look at it just as what they’re doing forward, I look at it as what I left behind for them to continue, and how they’re going to figure all that out. So really, my hat’s off to them, if they can pull it off.”

Watch Charlie’s interviews with Jay Leno and Matt Lauer below. (Read the article)

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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, September 3rd, including:

1932 – Eileen Brennan, actress
1943 – Valerie Perrine, actress
1964 – Adam Curry, MTV VJ
1965 – Charlie Sheen, actor
1969 – Noah Baumbach, filmmaker
1976 – Ashley Jones, actress
1981 – Fearne Cotton, TV host
1984 – Garrett Hedlund, actor
1986 – Shaun White, pro snowboarder

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I’m not sure what there is left to joke about, but apparently Comedy Central thinks they can mine more gold out of Charlie Sheen‘s life and behavior.

Sheen, 45, is going to be the center of attention at the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen and he says he’s ready.

“You could say I’ve been providing kindling for this roast for a while,” said Sheen, in a statement. “It’s time to light it up. It’s going to be epic.”

The network claims that everything is on the table for the September yukfest (or yuckfest – your call) and that the Warlock himself gave them the green light.

“Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this Roast… which scares even us,” said Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s head of original programming and production.

And to continue the Two and A Half Men feud, the roast tapes in Los Angeles on September 10th but airs Monday, September 19th – opposite the sitcom’s 2011/2012 season debut with Ashton Kutcher.

Now who will be participating – is the question. Is Sean Penn coming out to make fun of his pal? Will Sheen invite Jon Cryer (even if he did – would CBS let him join in? Unlikely.) How about Charlie’s former goddesses? Or Kelly Preston? Rob Lowe?

Who do you think should give Charlie the once over? More importantly, even though nothing is supposed to be sacred – do you believe that to be true?

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Jon Cryer sat down with David Letterman last night and the talk show went right into the Charlie Sheen meltdown with Cryer.

“Boy, you’ve had an eventful six months, huh?” Letterman said to the Two and A Half Men star.

The Late Show host asked Cryer if he recalled when or how it all went so wrong and Cryer said he really didn’t know when it started, but he knew things were out of hand when he got an odd text from a friend.

“No, I don’t. It’s as much a mystery to me as everybody, I think,” the actor said. “My favorite moment… I got a text from somebody, I don’t remember who it was, saying Charlie Sheen just called Thomas Jefferson a p***y”

“I said ‘I think are getting out of hand.’”

Letterman made a great point – that things seemed tolerable to everyone until he started going after Two and A Half Men producer, Chuck Lorre.

In the end, Cryer was incredibly supportive of Sheen and wished him well.

Watch the video and tell us what you think.

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Ashton Kutcher quietly inked a deal with CBS and Warner Bros. to replace Charlie Sheen on Two and A Half Men.

Deadline reports the No Strings Attached star will step into the show made famous (and infamous) by Sheen and work directly with Chuck Lorre, show runner and creator of the sitcom who had such a public (and brutal) falling out with Sheen.

Kutcher can bring a lot to the table. He has extensive television experience as both actor and producer on shows such as That 70s Show, Punk’d, The Beautiful Life and True Beauty.

The actor has a considerable twitter following as well and that could add up to more viewers. Kutcher tweeted a hint about joining the show.

“what’s the square root of 6.25?” he asked his 6.7 million followers. (2.5 if you haven’t figured it out yet.)

Lorre, Warner Bros. and Sheen’s nasty battle this past spring looked like it would end the successful TV show as it appeared too much of a minefield for any actor to want to step in and take on.

But behind the scenes, Lorre has been working to fill the role with someone he could get “excited” about in that role.

It was revealed just a few days ago that negotiations with Hugh Grant as the new Men star fell through but Lorre must’ve had a back-up plan all along.

Now how the format is retooled and Kutcher ends up fitting into the show will be interesting. Kutcher’s character will need to fill out the other Men in the show: Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones.

What do you think? Ready to give the show a try with someone else? Or still invested in Charlie Sheen as the right man for the job?

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Charlie Sheen has a lot of things going for him (or against him, depending on your take on his current situation) but one thing he no longer has is a weekly television show that is extremely profitable.

After the acrimonious split Sheen had with CBS, Warner Bros, Chuck Lorre and his former TV home Two and A Half Men; Lorre wanted to replace the actor but only if it was the right actor – someone who wouldn’t cause Lorre and the show the kind of trouble that Charlie allegedly did.

After months of speculation, Deadline has revealed that all the previous names tossed out – you know who they were: Rob Lowe, John Stamos and Woody Harrelson, for example – were all wrong. Lorre and CBS were gunning for a huge international star: Hugh Grant.

Grant had been sooo darn close to signing on the dotted line, for $1 million an episode for the full season of 24 shows. That would’ve been a very nice payday for Grant.

Unfortunately it fell through during final negotiations because Hugh isn’t up to the long episodic haul involved in television.

Such a shame – that would’ve a been brilliant casting coup. It could have put Men back on solid ratings ground, made everyone forget Charlie ever had the role and given new life to Hugh’s career.

What do you think?

Superb choice? Lousy pick? or you don’t care at all.

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Rob Lowe covers the May 2011 issue of Vanity Fair and I had to do a double take. The man is impossibly hot and still young looking – I honestly thought it was an older photo of him on the cover.

Lowe’s upcoming autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends, is excerpted in the issue with a nod to his costars from The Outsiders and the then largely-unknown cast who rocketed to fame (and infamy) and the tabloid name “The Brat Pack” shortly after.

On Charlie Sheen: “We competed to see who could play harder, then show up for work and still kick a–,” Lowe says, recalling the 1987 days when he was filming Masquerade in the Hamptons while Sheen was filming Wall Street. “The verdict: Charlie by a nose.”

On Patrick Swayze: Swayze is “as cool as you want, wearing tight jeans and a tattered, sleeveless Harley-Davidson T-shirt revealing his massive, ripped arms. (This is his uniform, he never changes it, and if I looked like him, neither would I.).”

On Tom Cruise: “He’s open, friendly, funny, and has an almost robotic, bloodless focus and an intensity that I’ve never encountered before.”

The Vanity Fair issue is on sale in NYC and L.A. on Thursday and the rest of the country on April 5th.

Go here to listen to Rob and his stories.

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In an open letter to Charlie Sheen, actor Alec Baldwin gave a little advice to Sheen and it’s most certainly not what Charlie wants to hear.

Baldwin, who has been around the controversy block a few times himself, offers the recently fired Two and A Half Men star some tough love, telling him “You can’t win. You can’t.”

In the article at The Huffington Post, Baldwin relates his own difficulties with securing the sequel to The Hunt for Red October and the problems he and studio executive David Kirkpatrick had in negotiations to the now public spectacle Sheen has launched against Warner Bros. and producer Chuck Lorre.

Eventually the 30 Rock star says Sheen should “Take a nap. Get a shower. Call Chuck. Go on Letterman and make an apology. Write a huge check to the B’Nai Brith. And then beg for your job back. Your fans demand it.”

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Jon Cryer is finally responding to former costar Charlie Sheen’s accusations that he is a turncoat and a troll by admitting he is in fact, a troll.

Cryer appeared on Conan O’Brien Thursday night (March 10th) for his confession and the Two and A Half Men star had a message for all the other trolls out there: “It gets sorta better,” he said.

Watch the video – pretty funny.

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