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FX confirms Selma Blair exit over Sheen dispute
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The Charlie Sheen dispute with Selma Blair at FX's middling comedy has resulted in a casualty, and it wasn't Charlie. FX, via an outside public relations firm, has issued a statement saying Blair (Kate Wales) is leaving the series:
“We are confirming that Selma Blair will not be returning to Anger Management and we wish her the very best.”
This strange -- OK, maybe not so strange, but definitely ironic (right?!) -- fracas entered public view on TMZ a couple of days ago, with Sheen reportedly demanding her ouster from the series. TMZ via a post earlier this afternoon said that Sheen would quit the series by day's end if she didn't go. (Per TMZ, he claims she was bad-mouthing his work ethic.)
Needless to say, this is am embarrassment for FX which runs -- or appears to run -- a very tight ship; and for Sheen, still recovering from the "winning" phase; and for Blair.
At least she's still got a career -- she's a part of the "Hellboy" franchise. One wonders if FX still has a show after this fiasco, however.
Sorry, haters: Lindsay Lohan was good on 'Anger Management'
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"Anger Management," Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen... What's wrong with this list? Surprisingly, at least for one night only, nothing actually.
My review:
Yes, tacky. Really tacky. But what did you expect? It's FX's "Anger Management." Guilty as charged.
But the surprise was that actress who made an extended cameo. You may have heard...
Read more »Lindsay Lohan on 'Anger Management:' Take a look
Lindsay Lohan guests on "Anger Management" tonight and...well, why wait! A couple of clips...FX did not sent out a full episode for review, and you may interpret its reluctance to promote this any way you like...
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Read more »'Anger Management's' Charlie Sheen clears up Lindsay Lohan rumors
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Lindsay Lohan - whom we compulsively cover in this space because it has become almost impossible not to - has a cameo on tonight's "Anger Management," and where Lindsay goes, stories invariably follow. Charlie Sheen addressed a couple of them on last night's "Tonight Show:"
Lindsay Lohan and David Letterman: Well, how did it go?
So, how was Dave Letterman's interview with Lindsay Lohan Tuesday? Train wreck or smooth ride? How was the whole shebang as opposed to a brief clip about rehab and alcoholism?
It was actually fine, for him, for her, maybe even for viewers who may have stuck around for this. She played along, he played along, there were jokes about stealing, rehab -- yes, as if rehab could be funny -- and when the jokes went too far, it was she who pulled back, saying the whole process isn't funny, and -- well -- it's time to move along.
And Dave did.
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She ever briefly teared up at the end. Why? Maybe because she knew it would be over blessedly soon, this trial by Letterman fire. That was nice, too.
But in the end, it was the usual, or deja vu all over again: Lohan acknowledging the problem, indicating that it will never happen again (short here though of any declaration), and saying that she now has enough awareness in her life's journey to say the problems will never happen again -- that rehab will even be good for her.
The interview was like the third step in her 12-step program -- although a recidivist, you suspect she'll be saying the same thing to Dave (or Jimmy Fallon a year from now, when he's the new host of "Tonight"). Because: You also suspect that she desperately covets the attention, much as late night hosts (and TV blogs) covet giving it to her. But in some quiet place in her mind -- if there is such a place -- she has to realize that they wouldn't give her all this attention if she wasn't so troubled in the first place. That means interviews like this may all just be part of a vicious cycle.
But at least she laughed her way through Dave's barbs. Maybe she's on the fourth step.
Here's the full clip:
(Mobile users, click here to watch the clip: http://bit.ly/152o9KL )
