3 h. ago The flaw with Charlie Sheen’s memoir is the tragedy of his own life

The now-sober actor tells all in ‘The Book of Sheen’, an autobiography that covers his childhood, early stardom and tumultuous adulthood. It’s a compelling story that gets waylaid by tales of debauchery, writes Louis Chilton – but isn’t that the perfect metaphor?

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5 h. ago aka Charlie Sheen review – A selective tale of manic but benign destruction

Netflix’s documentary about the ‘Two and a Half Men’ actor may be a PR exercise, but it’s hard to look away

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5 h. ago aka Charlie Sheen review – A fascinating look at how it all came crashing down

Netflix’s documentary about the ‘Two and a Half Men’ actor may be a PR exercise, but it’s hard to look away

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8 h. ago AKA Charlie Sheen review – he shows no genuine remorse for all the terrifying things he’s done

This flimsy tell-all about the actor’s decades-long addiction to pills, alcohol and crack-cocaine is far too light on contrition or self-reflection. You pity everyone around himIf it comes as a shock to anyone that at some point in the grip of a decades-long addiction to pills, booze and crack cocaine the essentially heterosexual Charlie Sheen occasionally “turned over the menu” and had sex with men, then I am delighted. I did not know such pockets of naivety could still exist in this benighted world. You sweet things. Enjoy your time!That this is the fact that has made headlines (the few there have been) around the release of the two-part documentary AKA Charlie Sheen is testimony to how little new information there is in it. How, really, could it be otherwise? Every one of the three acts – which in the film he labels “Partying”, “Partying with problems” and “Just problems” – of his adult life has been comprehensively documented by the media in real time. Sometimes that was via sto...

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52 h. ago Charlie Sheen issues plea to Jon Cryer after documentary appearance

Cryer appears in the new Netflix documentary ‘aka Charlie Sheen’

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5 d. ago Charlie Sheen issues public plea to Jon Cryer after documentary appearance

Cryer appears in the new Netflix documentary ‘aka Charlie Sheen’

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