Charlie's lost his 'sheen'..



Charlie Sheen was never known for being a civilized human being, and very few people on the planet would've taken the effort of raising their eyebrows after his fallout with Warner Bros. and his subsequent elimination from Two and a Half Men became public. The studio has said that they would be continuing the show with another actor replacing Sheen for the role of Charlie Harper.

All said and done, whatever his misgivings may be, Charlie Sheen did an incredible job in Two and a Half Men. That probably had more to do with the fact that the character of Charlie Harper was a parallel drawn from his own lifestyle than his limited acting prowess. A condescending, masochistic, narcissist womanizer who preferred the touch of a bottle at his mouth to pretty much anything else.

It has been a tradition with almost all great TV actors to commit some or the other form of harakiri when the going has been good. The great Matthew Perry himself was no exception. Besides the fact that he barely managed to make it back to the show. No one is indispensable, and Charlie Sheen is no exception. It remains to be seen however, whether another actor can fill the shoes of Charlie Harper as breathtakingly as did Charlie Sheen.

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