After hearing chants of “Refund! Refund!” and being booed, even Charlie Sheen knew his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” had bombed on its debut in Detroit Saturday night.
Sheen, until recently the highest paid actor on a TV sitcom for portraying a skirt-chasing bachelor on “Two and a Half Men,” staged a live variety show to prove to the TV producers who fired him that he was on the mend from more than a year of legal troubles and drug and alcohol abuse.