By Dan Jovic | Fox 8 News
CLEVELAND, Ohio — He bombed in Motown and staged a comeback in Chi-town, but what does C-Town hold for Charlie Sheen?
Sheen is in town for his, “My Violent Torpedo of Truth: Defeat is Not an Option” tour, which kicks off at Play House Square at 8:00 p.m.
Sheen, formerly the highest-paid actor on U.S. television for his role in the sitcom “Two and a Half Men”, opened his new act in Detroit on Saturday and received heckles and boos from the audience.
But the show went on to its second performance in Chicago on Sunday night in front of a far friendlier crowd with a changed format that deleted some video sequences, sketches and long monologues from the Detroit show and replaced them with an interview-style format, according to media reports.
“The show is now more of a talk show format, with the fired ‘Two and a Half Men’ star finally taking some questions from the crowd, burning through cigarettes, looking spaced out and telling wild and crazy stories that make Charlie Sheen well … Charlie Sheen,” wrote a blogger on the website, ChicagoNow, an online community for the city.
The new style kept Sheen from going on boring, meandering rants about his recent life of personal and career turmoil and kept him on target with his off-the-cuff, telling comments on Hollywood stardom, past drug use and “goddess” girlfriends.
The result: a standing ovation for Sheen’s comeback. On Twitter, he told his fans, “I LOVE YOU CHICAGO! (the new Rock City!!!)”, referring to one of Detroit’s nicknames.
Following the show, Sheen told reporters outside a Chicago nightclub that “It was a good night. A couple of things we have to adjust, but we’re excited,” the Chicago Tribune reported.
The “Violent Torpedo” tour has 20 more shows to go. The next stop is Tuesday in Cleveland, and it continues through April, before making its final stop in Vancouver on May 2.