Bout Dat Xperience

Charlie Sheen’s epic flame-out earlier this year didn’t hurt his bank account much. In fact, despite getting fired from TV’s top show for his erratic behavior, he pulled in more in the last 12 months than in any previous year: $40 million . The combination of his huge earnings, his ubiquity in the press and his impressive social media following makes him the highest-ranked TV star on this year’s Forbes Celebrity 100 , coming in at # 28 . How? Well, in 2010, prior to his crash and burn, he renegotiated his “Two and a Half Men” contract. For the last season of the hit CBS show, he netted about $1.3 million per episode in upfront salary, plus another approximately $600,000 in back-end syndication fees. That comes to $1.9 million for each 22-minute show. While he was fired before the season was out, he still made 16 episodes out of the 24 scheduled, making just over $30 million (note that Forbes Celebrity earnings numbers are based on pretax gross income – see our methodol...

Torpedoes of Truth! (You're either in Sheen's-Korner or you're with the trolls) Right where to begin on this one, if this was the wrestling business the SMARKS (A fan who understands some of the inner workings of the business) would be asking is this a SHOOT (a term that refers to any unplanned, unscripted or real-life occurrence within an event)or a WORK (an event booked to happen). The what seems to be meltdown of Charlie Sheen has been well publicized from the assumption of drug induced rants to accusations of being Anti-Semitic. The highest paid TV actor earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men has never been new to making the headlines over the years including reports about alcohol and drug abuse and marital problems as well as allegations of domestic violence. As of late the media attention has been on what some would call psycho-babble but in Sheen's poetic & cryptic rants is there deeper meaning?? I for one think YES!! Now not stan...