Hours after the January 6th Committee showed behind-the-scenes footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders calling and even begging federal officials and others for resources to stop the attack on the Capitol, CNN showed extended clips throughout much of Anderson Cooper’s AC360.
The clips were riveting, capturing Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell working in unison to try to secure federal and state law and enforcement to quell the violence. As the Capitol was breached, the congressional leaders were taken to a command center at Fort McNair, about two miles away, and it was from there that they called cabinet secretaries and Vice President Mike Pence. They also considered reconvening Congress at that location if the Capitol could not be secured.
In one moment, Schumer shouted into the phone at Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, as...
The clips were riveting, capturing Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell working in unison to try to secure federal and state law and enforcement to quell the violence. As the Capitol was breached, the congressional leaders were taken to a command center at Fort McNair, about two miles away, and it was from there that they called cabinet secretaries and Vice President Mike Pence. They also considered reconvening Congress at that location if the Capitol could not be secured.
In one moment, Schumer shouted into the phone at Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, as...
- 10/14/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: The January 6th Committee concluded with a unanimous vote to subpoena Donald Trump.
“We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this in motion,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-wy).
Trump seems likely to try to fight the subpoena. It’s rare for any congressional panel to subpoena a president, current or former.
After so many months of anticipation, this hearing again lived up to and even exceeded expectations in the offering of new material, first and foremost being video footage. That was particularly true of the behind-the-scene footage of congressional leaders as they feverishly sought help as the attack on the Capitol unfolded.
After the hearing, committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-ca) told Deadline that the footage was taken by Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker who is the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Previously: The January 6th Committee showed riveting, behind-the-scene footage of House...
“We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this in motion,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-wy).
Trump seems likely to try to fight the subpoena. It’s rare for any congressional panel to subpoena a president, current or former.
After so many months of anticipation, this hearing again lived up to and even exceeded expectations in the offering of new material, first and foremost being video footage. That was particularly true of the behind-the-scene footage of congressional leaders as they feverishly sought help as the attack on the Capitol unfolded.
After the hearing, committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-ca) told Deadline that the footage was taken by Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker who is the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Previously: The January 6th Committee showed riveting, behind-the-scene footage of House...
- 10/13/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
“Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”
This is how former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said former President Donald Trump responded when then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told him that the Justice Department “can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election.”
The account of the Dec. 27 call between the former president and the upper rungs of the Justice Department came on Thursday during the Jan. 6 committee’s fifth public hearing, which is focusing...
This is how former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said former President Donald Trump responded when then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told him that the Justice Department “can’t and won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election.”
The account of the Dec. 27 call between the former president and the upper rungs of the Justice Department came on Thursday during the Jan. 6 committee’s fifth public hearing, which is focusing...
- 6/23/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Updated, with latest: A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-al), sought presidential pardons after January 6th, according to testimony before the committee’s hearing on Thursday.
“The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is you think you committed a crime,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-il).
The committee showed text of a January 11 email in which Brooks was seeking pardons to “every congressman and senator who vote to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania.” Gaetz was included in Brooks’ request for a pardon.
In videotaped testimony, Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, talked of pardons sought by other lawmakers, including Andy Biggs, Scott Perry and Louie Gohmert. She said that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-oh) “talked about congressional pardons, but he never asked me for one.”
John McEntee, a Trump aide, said in a...
“The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is you think you committed a crime,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-il).
The committee showed text of a January 11 email in which Brooks was seeking pardons to “every congressman and senator who vote to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania.” Gaetz was included in Brooks’ request for a pardon.
In videotaped testimony, Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, talked of pardons sought by other lawmakers, including Andy Biggs, Scott Perry and Louie Gohmert. She said that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-oh) “talked about congressional pardons, but he never asked me for one.”
John McEntee, a Trump aide, said in a...
- 6/23/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Federal authorities on Wednesday raided the Virginia home of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the push to overturn the results of the 2020 election. News of the raid was reported Thursday afternoon and confirmed by a U.S. attorney’s office spokesperson.
Clark is a key player in Trump’s effort to leverage the Justice Department to help him stay in office. Investigators believe Clark may have used his former position as an assistant attorney general for the environment and...
Clark is a key player in Trump’s effort to leverage the Justice Department to help him stay in office. Investigators believe Clark may have used his former position as an assistant attorney general for the environment and...
- 6/23/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
It’s no small testament to Todd Haynes that this is the second interview this website’s conducted with him since August. Although the opening of his newest film, Wonderstruck, is a proper excuse, that’s only ostensibly the occasion; the truth is that we’d gladly go over his decades- and genre-spanning filmography any day of the week and still have plenty of ground to cover.
So it’s doubly to our fortune that Wonderstruck befits multiple rounds of discussion. A children’s adventure movie wrapped in a two-pronged period piece that can hardly conceal the tragedies this kind of work so often doesn’t want you to think about, it finds Haynes and the usual band of collaborators — Dp Ed Lachman, composer Carter Burwell, and costume designer Sandy Powell among them — working on their biggest canvas yet. For recalling the director’s artistic history as much as anything else,...
So it’s doubly to our fortune that Wonderstruck befits multiple rounds of discussion. A children’s adventure movie wrapped in a two-pronged period piece that can hardly conceal the tragedies this kind of work so often doesn’t want you to think about, it finds Haynes and the usual band of collaborators — Dp Ed Lachman, composer Carter Burwell, and costume designer Sandy Powell among them — working on their biggest canvas yet. For recalling the director’s artistic history as much as anything else,...
- 10/17/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese's massive Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a new box set featuring over two hours of never-before-seen interviews and footage.
The new set will include extended interviews with Dave van Ronk and Liam Clancy, plus an interview with Scorsese about the making of the film. Among the other bonus features are the unedited "Apothecary Scene" from Dylan's 1966 U.K. tour, an unused promotional spot for "Positively 4th St." and the fabled clip of Dylan playing "I Can’t Leave Her Behind...
The new set will include extended interviews with Dave van Ronk and Liam Clancy, plus an interview with Scorsese about the making of the film. Among the other bonus features are the unedited "Apothecary Scene" from Dylan's 1966 U.K. tour, an unused promotional spot for "Positively 4th St." and the fabled clip of Dylan playing "I Can’t Leave Her Behind...
- 10/4/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Judge Aaron Persky, who was responsible for sentencing Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to just six months in jail for his sexual assault of a woman during a frat party, has been removed from a new sexual assault case. Judge Aaron Persky Removed From Case Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen motioned to disqualify Persky from […]
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- 6/17/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Judge Aaron Persky, who made the controversial decision to sentence former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party in January 2015, was removed from a new sexual assault case on Tuesday after the prosecutor filed a motion alleging bias. The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office confirmed Judge Persky's removal to People, saying attorneys used a procedure known as 170.6 to file the peremptory challenge. It prevents him from presiding over a preliminary hearing for a case involving a Cecil Webb, a 54-year-old male surgical nurse who allegedly touched...
- 6/15/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Judge Aaron Persky, who made the controversial decision to sentence former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party in January 2015, was removed from a new sexual assault case on Tuesday after the prosecutor filed a motion alleging bias. The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office confirmed Judge Persky's removal to People, saying attorneys used a procedure known as 170.6 to file the peremptory challenge. It prevents him from presiding over a preliminary hearing for a case involving a Cecil Webb, a 54-year-old male surgical nurse who allegedly touched...
- 6/15/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Judge Aaron Persky, who presided over the Stanford rape case, has been removed from another pending sexual assault trial. As reported by the Washington Post, prosecutors asked for another judge after being surprised by Persky’s “unusual decision to unilaterally dismiss a case before the jury could deliberate,” according to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen in a statement to TheWrap on Tuesday. According to USA Today, Persky was briefly transferred to a case in order to decide whether a former San Jose nurse will stand trial on sexual assault charges for allegedly assaulting a patient while she was sedated.
- 6/15/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
A petition aimed at forcing impeachment hearings against the judge in the Stanford rape trial has garnered over one million signatures. “We the people would like to petition that Judge Aaron Persky be removed from his Judicial position for the lenient sentence he allowed in the Brock Turner rape case,” the Change.org campaign states. “Despite a unanimous guilty verdict, three felony convictions, the objections of 250 Stanford students, Jeff Rosen the district attorney for Santa Clara, as well as the deputy district attorney who likened Turner to ‘a predator searching for prey’ Judge Persky allowed the lenient sentence suggested by the probation department,...
- 6/10/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
A former star swimmer at Stanford University was found guilty Wednesday of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman outside an on-campus fraternity party in January 2015, according to reports. Brock Turner, 20, was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman; sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object; and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object, reports the San Jose Mercury News. He faces up to 10 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, the paper said. Turner remains free on $150,000 bail.
- 3/31/2016
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
A former star swimmer at Stanford University was found guilty Wednesday of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman outside an on-campus fraternity party in January 2015, according to reports. Brock Turner, 20, was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman; sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object; and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object, reports the San Jose Mercury News. He faces up to 10 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, the paper said. Turner remains free on $150,000 bail.
- 3/31/2016
- by Tim Nudd, @nudd
- PEOPLE.com
28 Entertainment principals announced on Tuesday [18] that they have acquired the life rights to country music legend George Jones and his wife Nancy.
The story will cover Jones’ battle with alcoholism and drug abuse and the career-saving relationship with his
The musician, who scored 14 number one hits and was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1992, had been collaborating with the filmmakers before he died in April aged 81.
“George had hoped to see the movie before he passed and worked with me to make sure the story was complete,” said Dennis L Baxter, who wrote the screenplay and will produce alongside Entertainment’s Jay Hoffman and Brian A Hoffman. Jones’ wife Nancy will serve as executive producer and consults on the project.
“We are huge fans of George and his music and look forward to working closely with Nancy as we bring his life to the big screen,” said Jay Hoffman.
Chris Corabi negotiated...
The story will cover Jones’ battle with alcoholism and drug abuse and the career-saving relationship with his
The musician, who scored 14 number one hits and was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1992, had been collaborating with the filmmakers before he died in April aged 81.
“George had hoped to see the movie before he passed and worked with me to make sure the story was complete,” said Dennis L Baxter, who wrote the screenplay and will produce alongside Entertainment’s Jay Hoffman and Brian A Hoffman. Jones’ wife Nancy will serve as executive producer and consults on the project.
“We are huge fans of George and his music and look forward to working closely with Nancy as we bring his life to the big screen,” said Jay Hoffman.
Chris Corabi negotiated...
- 6/18/2013
- ScreenDaily
28 Entertainment announced today the acquisition of the story rights to George Jones and his wife Nancy for a feature film project about the incredible life and career of the iconic country singer. The project, written by Dennis L. Baxter and produced by Baxter and 28 Entertainment’s Jay Hoffman and Brian A. Hoffman, depicts George’s life as a country music legend while battling his personal demons.
“Over the years we have been approached to make George’s life into a feature film, but it was not until Dennis Baxter became involved that we were confident the story could be told accurately. George and I started working with Dennis six years ago in crafting the life-long story. Knowing George had input in this film and that it will be told the way he wanted it told, I feel we are in good hands to collaborate with 28 Entertainment as we move forward with production,...
“Over the years we have been approached to make George’s life into a feature film, but it was not until Dennis Baxter became involved that we were confident the story could be told accurately. George and I started working with Dennis six years ago in crafting the life-long story. Knowing George had input in this film and that it will be told the way he wanted it told, I feel we are in good hands to collaborate with 28 Entertainment as we move forward with production,...
- 6/18/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If he lived in England, he'd surely be Sir Bob Dylan.
The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts. According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn't decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.
"The board of directors considered the diversity of his work and acknowledged his iconic place in the American culture," Dajani said recently. "Bob Dylan is a multi-talented artist whose work so thoroughly crosses several disciplines that it defies categorization."
Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, had no immediate comment on Dylan's reaction – Dylan did accept membership,...
The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts. According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn't decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.
"The board of directors considered the diversity of his work and acknowledged his iconic place in the American culture," Dajani said recently. "Bob Dylan is a multi-talented artist whose work so thoroughly crosses several disciplines that it defies categorization."
Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, had no immediate comment on Dylan's reaction – Dylan did accept membership,...
- 3/12/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The 'spirit of the fringe' is pitted against capitalism as awards director dismisses standup's complaints about commercialisation of Edinburgh comedy
Best of this week's news
Halfway through week one of the fringe, and the big story is – well, pretty much the same as last week's big story. Stewart Lee's broadside against the commercialisation of Edinburgh comedy (see below) set the agenda for the opening days of festival 2012, with Edinburgh comedy award director Nica Burns responding to it in her annual pep talk at the weekend. Burns dismissed Lee's grumble as part of "a bit of competition to create controversy", and set against his claims the argument that free shows are now as important to the fringe as ticketed events. Free events now number more than 800 in the fringe programme, compared with 177 free shows in 2006.
Elsewhere in Edinburgh, the promoter who last week had her charity comedy gig pulled at...
Best of this week's news
Halfway through week one of the fringe, and the big story is – well, pretty much the same as last week's big story. Stewart Lee's broadside against the commercialisation of Edinburgh comedy (see below) set the agenda for the opening days of festival 2012, with Edinburgh comedy award director Nica Burns responding to it in her annual pep talk at the weekend. Burns dismissed Lee's grumble as part of "a bit of competition to create controversy", and set against his claims the argument that free shows are now as important to the fringe as ticketed events. Free events now number more than 800 in the fringe programme, compared with 177 free shows in 2006.
Elsewhere in Edinburgh, the promoter who last week had her charity comedy gig pulled at...
- 8/9/2012
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
The legendary Bob Dylan turned 70 years old on May 24th. This article takes a close look at his association with the movies…
Bob Dylan had his first acting gig aged 21 on British TV with a play called Madhouse on Castle Street. His eponymously-titled first album had been released but few people in Britain would have known him; this was a few months before Freewheelin’ hit the shelves and Dylan-fever (which is like Beatlemania, only less wild and more pretentious) swept the Western world. He was intended to play the lead but quickly proved that he wasn’t interested in learning lines and was perhaps more interested in his recent discovery of cannabis, so David Warner was hired as the lead and Dylan provided a Greek chorus to the action.
In its wisdom, the BBC has long since destroyed the footage so it’s not easy to gauge how people would...
Bob Dylan had his first acting gig aged 21 on British TV with a play called Madhouse on Castle Street. His eponymously-titled first album had been released but few people in Britain would have known him; this was a few months before Freewheelin’ hit the shelves and Dylan-fever (which is like Beatlemania, only less wild and more pretentious) swept the Western world. He was intended to play the lead but quickly proved that he wasn’t interested in learning lines and was perhaps more interested in his recent discovery of cannabis, so David Warner was hired as the lead and Dylan provided a Greek chorus to the action.
In its wisdom, the BBC has long since destroyed the footage so it’s not easy to gauge how people would...
- 6/1/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Ken Regan Dylan with mask in mirror
Ken Regan is reclusive, a trait he shares with Bob Dylan (when he’s offstage of course). Over the last 30 years, Regan has followed Dylan, documenting both his public and private moments. To celebrate Dylan’s 70th birthday (today!), Regan released never before seen photographs of Dylan during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975 in a book entitled “Ken Regan Presents Bob Dylan.”
The Wall Street Journal: Throughout the years, did you maintain a special relationship with Dylan?...
Ken Regan is reclusive, a trait he shares with Bob Dylan (when he’s offstage of course). Over the last 30 years, Regan has followed Dylan, documenting both his public and private moments. To celebrate Dylan’s 70th birthday (today!), Regan released never before seen photographs of Dylan during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975 in a book entitled “Ken Regan Presents Bob Dylan.”
The Wall Street Journal: Throughout the years, did you maintain a special relationship with Dylan?...
- 5/24/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Is Charlie Sheen poised to return to CBS' "Two and a Half Men"?
According to NBC's Jeff Rosen, CBS is courting the recently fired actor.
"Sources close to Charlie Sheen tell NBC News, CBS has offered him his job back. Discussions ongoing. Not a done deal," Rosen Tweeted on Monday. Adding in another Tweet, "Per my sources: CBS is happy to have Charlie Sheen back on show...If Warner Bros, Chuck Lorre, and Sheen can settle differences."
A source told Access Hollywood that discussions about Sheen's possible return to the CBS hit comedy began last Wednesday.
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According to NBC's Jeff Rosen, CBS is courting the recently fired actor.
"Sources close to Charlie Sheen tell NBC News, CBS has offered him his job back. Discussions ongoing. Not a done deal," Rosen Tweeted on Monday. Adding in another Tweet, "Per my sources: CBS is happy to have Charlie Sheen back on show...If Warner Bros, Chuck Lorre, and Sheen can settle differences."
A source told Access Hollywood that discussions about Sheen's possible return to the CBS hit comedy began last Wednesday.
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- 3/21/2011
- by nobody@accesshollywood.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Craig Ferguson isn’t going to make any jokes about Charlie Sheen. He likens the media and general public’s infatuation with the Hollywood celebrity’s suicide by camera to an 18th Century psychiatric hospital where people paid to tour the facility, peek into the padded rooms, and gape and point and laugh at all the patients who had flown over the cuckoo’s nest. Ferguson’s usually my moral pop culture compass (Why? Because he’s awesome.), but on this point I disagree. It certainly would seem appropriate if everyone had the self-restraint not to gawk at Sheen’s drug abuse and domestic violence charges, but his subsequent adoption of social media doesn’t all look like the violent and haphazard path of a star on a train that’s careening off track. There’s more to it. Like Sheen says, “If people could just read behind the hieroglyphic,...
- 3/7/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Charlie Sheen has blasted his estranged wife Brooke Mueller for making up "colourful" lies after she accused the actor of threatening to kill her in a heated phone call on Sunday.
Mueller's lawyer obtained an emergency restraining order against Sheen on Tuesday, hours after the real estate worker was refused physical custody of the couple's twin sons in an ongoing custody battle.
In her legal papers, Mueller admitted she feared for her safety and that of her two kids after claiming the troubled star had made threats against her life during a heated weekend phone argument, when Sheen allegedly raged, "I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom!"
But the Platoon actor has hit out at the accusations in a new TV interview, which he shot on street outside his Sherman Oaks, California home early on Wednesday morning.
Appearing alongside his lawyer, a calm Sheen told Today Show reporter Jeff Rosen he had not made threat, stating, "It's colourful... That's a good one I guess. If you spend enough time around me you can formulate things and make it sound like it could have come from my mouth..."
Sheen was forced to temporarily give up his 23-month-old sons, Bob and Max, to police on Tuesday night, when officers paid a visit to his Beverly Hills mansion, and he told Rosen he has no idea where his kids were taken.
He insisted he is not "panicking" and is eager to settle the custody dispute because his boys are better off living with him and his two live-in girlfriends: "There's more love, compassion, support, childcare... in this lovely home."
And Sheen has issued a plea to his ex, urging her to get in touch so they can work out their latest problems amicably.
Speaking directly into the camera, he said: "Brooke, I'm sorry you felt this had to be done in this way, but this does not display any responsible parenting... and I think that cooler and smarter, leveller heads can prevail, and I urge you to reach out to me immediately, if not sooner, and tell me where our sons are."
Sheen's marriage to Mueller began unravelling after a Christmas Day bust-up in 2009, which landed the Two and a Half Men star behind bars and eventually led to an assault charge. They are currently in the midst of divorce proceedings.
Mueller's lawyer obtained an emergency restraining order against Sheen on Tuesday, hours after the real estate worker was refused physical custody of the couple's twin sons in an ongoing custody battle.
In her legal papers, Mueller admitted she feared for her safety and that of her two kids after claiming the troubled star had made threats against her life during a heated weekend phone argument, when Sheen allegedly raged, "I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom!"
But the Platoon actor has hit out at the accusations in a new TV interview, which he shot on street outside his Sherman Oaks, California home early on Wednesday morning.
Appearing alongside his lawyer, a calm Sheen told Today Show reporter Jeff Rosen he had not made threat, stating, "It's colourful... That's a good one I guess. If you spend enough time around me you can formulate things and make it sound like it could have come from my mouth..."
Sheen was forced to temporarily give up his 23-month-old sons, Bob and Max, to police on Tuesday night, when officers paid a visit to his Beverly Hills mansion, and he told Rosen he has no idea where his kids were taken.
He insisted he is not "panicking" and is eager to settle the custody dispute because his boys are better off living with him and his two live-in girlfriends: "There's more love, compassion, support, childcare... in this lovely home."
And Sheen has issued a plea to his ex, urging her to get in touch so they can work out their latest problems amicably.
Speaking directly into the camera, he said: "Brooke, I'm sorry you felt this had to be done in this way, but this does not display any responsible parenting... and I think that cooler and smarter, leveller heads can prevail, and I urge you to reach out to me immediately, if not sooner, and tell me where our sons are."
Sheen's marriage to Mueller began unravelling after a Christmas Day bust-up in 2009, which landed the Two and a Half Men star behind bars and eventually led to an assault charge. They are currently in the midst of divorce proceedings.
- 3/2/2011
- WENN
Logging in more time on the talk-show circuit than he is on his own show Two and a Half Men, Charlie Sheen offered a peek inside what he calls "Sober Valley Lodge" - the L.A. mansion he shares with two women he calls "the goddesses": Natalie Kenly, a self-described porn star, and model Rachel Oberlin. "These women don't judge me.," the actor told NBC's Today show, which he invited back into his home only hours after an interview Monday - the same day that his publicist quit. "They don't judge me," Sheen repeated. "They don't lead with opinion.
- 3/1/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Charlie Sheen is unapologetic for his "insane" behaviour following the cancellation of his hit sitcom Two And A Half Men, insisting he has no reason to make amends for lashing out at creator Chuck Lorre.
The troubled star's future on the TV show has been thrown into doubt after CBS network producers scrapped the programme for the remainder of the current season in response to Sheen's very public war of words with the comedy writer.
Sheen has opened up about the feud in two candid U.S. TV interviews, and in his first chat with ABC News, he offered Lorre a half-hearted apology.
He said, "I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't know you were so sensitive. I just thought, you know, after you wailing on me for eight years that I could, like, take a few shots back. I didn't know you were gonna take your little ball and go home and punish everybody in the process."
But the actor had changed his stance by the time he gave his second high-profile interview to NBC host Jeff Rosen, in which he appeared defiant and unrepentant about his controversial actions.
During the chat, he brazenly demanded to be paid $3 million (£2 million) per episode if producers wanted him to return to work on Two and a Half Men, because he's "tired of pretending he's not special".
Asked whether he owes CBS chiefs and Lorre an apology, he replied, "No, they owe me a big one, while licking my feet. People think I'm insane, or they don't think what I'm saying is true; I have no interest in their retarded opinions. I will live the way I want, I will live inside of every moment and they can find the most comfortable chair in their small house and enjoy the show."
And Sheen insists he won't be the one suffering from a lack of work as a result of his unruly behaviour - he claims he's been inundated with scripts and potential projects.
He says, "(I don't need to) convince anybody (to work with me). (Movie information website) IMDb, right there, 62 movies, a ton of success. Come on, I won Best Picture (for Platoon) at 20. I wasn't even trying, wasn't even warm.
"I've got Roman Coppola with a script. David Ward with Major League 3, I've got Nick Cassavetes' God is a Bullet... And they're so excitable that I might be available, because I haven't been for ages."...
The troubled star's future on the TV show has been thrown into doubt after CBS network producers scrapped the programme for the remainder of the current season in response to Sheen's very public war of words with the comedy writer.
Sheen has opened up about the feud in two candid U.S. TV interviews, and in his first chat with ABC News, he offered Lorre a half-hearted apology.
He said, "I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't know you were so sensitive. I just thought, you know, after you wailing on me for eight years that I could, like, take a few shots back. I didn't know you were gonna take your little ball and go home and punish everybody in the process."
But the actor had changed his stance by the time he gave his second high-profile interview to NBC host Jeff Rosen, in which he appeared defiant and unrepentant about his controversial actions.
During the chat, he brazenly demanded to be paid $3 million (£2 million) per episode if producers wanted him to return to work on Two and a Half Men, because he's "tired of pretending he's not special".
Asked whether he owes CBS chiefs and Lorre an apology, he replied, "No, they owe me a big one, while licking my feet. People think I'm insane, or they don't think what I'm saying is true; I have no interest in their retarded opinions. I will live the way I want, I will live inside of every moment and they can find the most comfortable chair in their small house and enjoy the show."
And Sheen insists he won't be the one suffering from a lack of work as a result of his unruly behaviour - he claims he's been inundated with scripts and potential projects.
He says, "(I don't need to) convince anybody (to work with me). (Movie information website) IMDb, right there, 62 movies, a ton of success. Come on, I won Best Picture (for Platoon) at 20. I wasn't even trying, wasn't even warm.
"I've got Roman Coppola with a script. David Ward with Major League 3, I've got Nick Cassavetes' God is a Bullet... And they're so excitable that I might be available, because I haven't been for ages."...
- 2/28/2011
- WENN
Charlie Sheen has urged fans not to worry for his health because he is not using drugs. During an interview with Today Show reporter Jeff Rosen, Sheen was questioned as to the last time he indulged in narcotics. "Don't remember. Don't care. Drug tests don't lie," he retorted. The actor went on to admit that a January hospitalisation that might have been linked to substance abuse was a low point, but he hesitated to brand his behavior as "out of control". "I don't know if I'd call it out of control, but the choices I was making weren't leading to the choice I wanted," he said. "I woke up and thought, 'You're 45 years old with five kids. Let's do something different'. I got bored." Sheen also claimed that he has cured any issues he once had with addiction, adding: "I will not believe (more)...
- 2/28/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Charlie Sheen is demanding to be paid $3 million (£1.8 million) per episode to return to work on Two And A Half Men, accusing the producers of putting him through "psychological distress".
Bosses of the hit series pulled the plug on the current season after Sheen's headline-grabbing personal issues and his public rants against writer Chuck Lorre.
Sheen sat down for several TV interviews to give his side of the story and has explained to NBC host Jeff Rosen, in a chat which will air in the U.S. on Monday, that he wouldn't go back to the show unless he has a $1 million pay rise - insisting he's "tired of pretending he's not special".
In the interview, Sheen says, "I'm not angry , I'm passionate. Everybody thinks I should be begging for my job back and I'm just gonna forewarn them that's gonna be everyone else that's gonna be begging me for their jobs back. I'm a man of my word, I'll finish the TV show, I'll even do season 10 but at this point because of psychological distress I want $3 mil an episode, take it or leave it.
"Look at what I've been through. (I make) roughly ($2 million) now. I'm underpaid right now, for sure. If you look at the money that (the producers) are making yeah, it's ridiculous. I'm tired of pretending I'm not special."
Sheen sat down for the interviews last week (ends27Feb11) and subsequent reports in the New York Post suggest the star is now preparing to sue TV bosses, as well as Lorre and Warner Bros. chiefs, for a staggering $320 million (£200 million).
Bosses of the hit series pulled the plug on the current season after Sheen's headline-grabbing personal issues and his public rants against writer Chuck Lorre.
Sheen sat down for several TV interviews to give his side of the story and has explained to NBC host Jeff Rosen, in a chat which will air in the U.S. on Monday, that he wouldn't go back to the show unless he has a $1 million pay rise - insisting he's "tired of pretending he's not special".
In the interview, Sheen says, "I'm not angry , I'm passionate. Everybody thinks I should be begging for my job back and I'm just gonna forewarn them that's gonna be everyone else that's gonna be begging me for their jobs back. I'm a man of my word, I'll finish the TV show, I'll even do season 10 but at this point because of psychological distress I want $3 mil an episode, take it or leave it.
"Look at what I've been through. (I make) roughly ($2 million) now. I'm underpaid right now, for sure. If you look at the money that (the producers) are making yeah, it's ridiculous. I'm tired of pretending I'm not special."
Sheen sat down for the interviews last week (ends27Feb11) and subsequent reports in the New York Post suggest the star is now preparing to sue TV bosses, as well as Lorre and Warner Bros. chiefs, for a staggering $320 million (£200 million).
- 2/28/2011
- WENN
The great fear commonly voiced by liberals when it comes to the Supreme Court is the prospect of a conservative majority striking down Roe v. Wade. With the recent Citizens United ruling on political-campaign spending, the current Court has certainly shown that is capable of rolling back major progressive achievements with stunning swiftness. But there's more. According to Jeffrey Rosen, who argues in The New Republic that Chief Justice John Roberts is reneging on his promise to seek greater consensus on the Court, another major pillar of liberalism, the Voting Rights Act, barely survived when it came under review last term:...
- 4/13/2010
- Vanity Fair
Nicole Wong, dubbed "Google's Gatekeeper" by the New York Times Magazine and "The Decider" by her colleagues, is the person at Google with the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to honor takedown requests for YouTube videos, blog posts, and other content that world governments or private entities deem offensive or illegal. Google and its various properties have been blocked in 24 different countries over the last few years.
Interviewed by prominent legal scholar and journalist Jeffrey Rosen at South By Southwest, Wong sounded brilliant, articulate, and pretty overwhelmed by the demanding responsibilities of her job--15 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute--and its enormous leverage over free expression rights, which can be a matter of life and death in countries around the world. "YouTube has been blocked in Turkey for almost a year," she said. "I’m at that point where I feel like we’ve played all our legal cards,...
Interviewed by prominent legal scholar and journalist Jeffrey Rosen at South By Southwest, Wong sounded brilliant, articulate, and pretty overwhelmed by the demanding responsibilities of her job--15 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute--and its enormous leverage over free expression rights, which can be a matter of life and death in countries around the world. "YouTube has been blocked in Turkey for almost a year," she said. "I’m at that point where I feel like we’ve played all our legal cards,...
- 3/18/2009
- by Anya Kamenetz
- Fast Company
- Quick Links > I'm Not There > Todd Haynes > Cate Blanchett > Marcus Carl Franklin > Christian Bale > Richard Gere > Heath Ledger > Ben Whishaw > Montreal production pics Currently in the post production phase, a familiar finder has swooped up the rights to the imaginative Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic. The Weinstein bros. who were big on his glam rock flick Velvet Goldmine back during the Miramax days, have picked up the North American and U.K. rights to I'm Not There. The company plans to release the movie later this year in the U.S. Produced by Killer Films, Jim Stern’s Endgame Entertainment banner with John Goldwyn, Jeff Rosen and John Rosen on board, the pic currently in post prod was shown in portions to some of the indie distribs – and the Weinsteins probably landed the rights, and this is purely specualtion … in the more than 10 plus million mark. It
- 1/3/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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