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TELEVISION On TV From TCA July 20, 2005 Martin Sheen to guest on 'Two and a Half Men!'
Admission: I have eaten more food off of CBS' dime in the last 24 hours than I think is technically correct under the Times' ethics policy. That's not to say the spread was exactly impressive last night at the CBS party, held in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum in Westwood (Volvo SUVs in a valet parking scrum in the underground garage, etc.) and not at the Getty, which I thought was a place you could buy your way into but anyway. A sushi station was the highlight. There, standing in line like an idiot, I argued with Lynette Rice of Entertainment Weekly about whether "CSI: New York's" Gary Sinise was wearing a hairpiece. She said no, I said yes ("It's a little one," I said, mimicking what my father used to tell me, "You can't just think in terms of wigs. Like, for instance, that one Kevin Dobson over there is wearing..."). If you cover television this can be, you know, how you live your life. And if I'm wrong about Sinise I'll clarify in a future post. Clarifying in a future post is the only way I can blog. The whole point of blogging, as it's been explained to me by people in the office who throw around the word "blog," is that it's supposed to be sarcastic and immediate. I can think sarcastic but not so much immediate. So in that spirit I'll probably be running second-day clarifications. As in, clarification: Yesterday I said "Ghost Whisperer" is a rip-off of "Medium." But of course it's also a rip-off of "The Sixth Sense." One show "Ghost Whisperer" is not a rip-off of, I'm pretty sure, is "Two and a Half Men." They're first up this morning, day two of CBS day of press tour, here at the Beverly Hilton, otherwise known as the House of Merv. And get this: They have the caterers wearing these "Two and a Half Men" Bermuda shirts that apparently they can't even keep, as I overheard the discussion between several employees. At 9 a.m., it was time to meet the millionaires and multi-millionaires behind "Two and a Half Men." But boy, what a dud this session turned out to be. I was hoping series creator Chuck Lorre was going to spout off about how his top-rated comedy didn't get an Emmy nomination while "Will & Grace" did, and "Everybody Loves Raymond" did, and "Arrested Development" did. But Lorre was disappointingly unperturbed, like he'd come from therapy and was feeling that feeling you feel after therapy, relatively centered and upbeat, and the reporter/critics in the room, for some reason, kept asking about the acting craft. Did they realize this was the people from "Two and a Half Men" before them? All these questions about how this or that actor gets into his or her character. It's a sitcom - don't they all get into character when a bell goes off? Oh, well. You learned Martin Sheen'll be on the show next season. And this clarification from CBS head of publicity Chris Ender: The "Two and a Half Men" shirts the Hilton waitstaff can't keep are "from wardrobe" on the show. Meaning that Charlie wears them and they want them back, which doesn't quite add up, but, I don't know, that's all I know at this point. Posted by Paul Brownfield at July 20, 2005 10:39 AM Comments Post a comment |
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