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This story first appeared in the March 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
To some, he'll always be Duckie, the unlucky-in-love sidekick from John Hughes' 1986 classic Pretty in Pink. To others, he's Alan Harper, the unlucky-in-love brother to Charlie Sheen's lothario on the Chuck Lorre-co-created sitcom juggernaut Two and a Half Men, which had its series finale Feb. 19. Now Jon Cryer opens up about who he really is in So That Happened (out April 7 from New American Library), a wry, self-deprecating and funny memoir that covers his 35-year career from getting cast in Torch Song Trilogy on Broadway in 1983 because he looked like Matthew Broderick (whom he was replacing) to being frozen out by Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald during the making of Pretty in Pink to his Emmy-winning run on Two and a Half Men.
The Karate Kid star Ralph Macchio reveals that Robert Downey Jr., Nicolas Cage and Charlie Sheen all auditioned for the role.
Deadline:
Streaming service Crackle has set Thursday, January 12, for the premiere of its original film Mad Families, a multigenerational comedy executive produced by Charlie Sheen and starring Sheen alongside Leah Remini.
Directed and produced by Fred Wolf (Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser) from a script by Wolf & David Spade, the film centers on three families – one Hispanic, one African-American, one Caucasian – who end up sharing the same camping space over the Fourth of July weekend. After none of them volunteers to leave, the families must figure out a way to share the space peacefully, eventually settling on a series of competitions to determine the winner.
Poor Leah, she must be desperate in order to work with this HIV infected bag of trash.
Deadline:
Charlie Sheen will topline and executive produce Mad Families, a new comedy feature film from Sony’s digital platform Crackle. Production started last week in Los Angeles. Sheen is playing Charlie Jones, a loveable man-child with a heart of gold and a unique way of looking at the world.
