Last month, the Charlie Sheen saga entered a brand new phase when the Hollywood studio Warner Bros. fired him from the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. At the time he was fired, Sheen was yet to complete about eight episodes in the 24- episode schedule of his latest contract signed in May…
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Standoff at the Golden Globes: The Big Rumble in the Backroom
On January 16, celebrity British comedian Ricky Gervais will host the 68th Annual Golden Globes ceremony with all its usual fanfare and more. Only this time there are such dark clouds gathering on the horizon that the awards ceremony of January 2011 may well be the last time that we’ll see the Globes the way…
How to avoid Gary Shandling’s big mistake
In 1998 comedian Gary Shandling and his former manager, Brad Grey, the current chairman and CEO of Paramount Studios in Hollywood had a major falling out, followed by a $100 million lawsuit by Shandling. Their long term relationship collapsed over money issues surrounding the well-acclaimed HBO series The Larry Sanders Show, which ran between 1992…