Our Quote of the Day this time is a show biz quote of the day from Betty White — who my 89 year old mother meet years ago on a plane and adored– commenting on Charlie Sheen. Via the New York Daily News:
“I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business, and who abuse it,” White told London’s Daily Mail. “Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too.”
“They are the most blessed people in the world and they don’t appreciate it,” the 89-year-old said.
And while White and her former sitcom co-stars “considered ourselves lucky to be on the box, never complained if a critic didn’t like us, dressed modestly and were always on our best behavior in public,” she pointed out that many in Hollywood can’t say the same today.
“They party too much, don’t learn their lines, are unprofessional and they grumble about everything. I think they are terribly ungrateful,” White said.
Sheen did his “show” at New York’s legendary Radio City Music Hall last night and reportedly stunk up the joint. The New York Post’s headline is “Charlie! losing! Oh, goddess, what an awful Radio City gig” A sample of the review:
Charlie Sheen stank up Radio City Music Hall last night like a flatulent goddess.
Sheen and his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour limped and sputtered through town. And when the show ended — ahead of schedule — the actor ran from the stage like a scared felon ahead of a lynch mob.
“F–k you, Charlie! F–k you, Charlie!” a row of young men chanted after Sheen sprinted from the theater.
For an hour, Sheen chain-smoked like a criminal — “can I have a f–king cigarette?” — lobbed the F-bomb like a 4-year-old suffering from Tourette’s, and praised Donald Trump as a “real f–king dude.”
He prattled and preened and told pointless — and worst of all, boring — stories about Hollywood, hookers, being rich and being Charlie Sheen.
He talked about nearly getting caught after locking himself in an airplane bathroom while flying with actor Nicolas Cage and a seven-gram cocaine rock.
“My balls are sweating like a gerbil in a Richard Gere convention,” he said. And that, my friends, was as good as it got.
At first the crowd — which favored 20-some- thing men from the Island loudly drunk on beer, and fat chicks who spilled out of tiny T-shirts emblazoned with Charlie’s buzzword, “Winning!” — seemed jazzed at his presence.
Charlie swept onstage. And for some reason I can’t fathom, he screeched, “Hey Mrs. Farmer — suck it!”
But in the next hour, he seemed to disintegrate. The show devolved into an incoherent snooze-fest, in which Charlie named every hotel he ever stayed in, every bimbo he’d ever slept with. He described how he once “performed CPR on a model in a heroin coma.”
The review ends with this quote:
Charlie pulled the plug after losing the crowd, and ran from the stage ahead of trouble.
“That was the worst show I’ve ever seen in my life,” said a young man. “He has the mind of a 12-year-old.”
It’s LITERALLY take the money and run…..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.