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**RollWithEm** · 06-15-2012, 07:54 AM

Charlie Sheen Talks About ‘Anger Management’ and Anger Management

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Q) Do you have any money on the Kentucky Derby?

A) I don’t bet anymore. I’m a retired gambler. Not a recovering gambler. Big difference. I’ll still look at the lines. I’ll be like, yeah, that’s a blowout, that’s a 40-point blowout. Easy, right? I’ll watch the game. It’s 40-point blowout the other way, and I can just walk away. I don’t have some dude calling, like, “Hey, yeah, so tomorrow, huh?”

Q) Before you gave it up, what was the biggest bet you placed?

A) Million dollars. Pacquiao. It was a wrong-way spread and I had a dream a week before that he was going to beat De La Hoya like a drum, and he did. Second round, the punch score was like 300 to 2. And it was like, pfffft, whatever. I felt nothing. And I went, O.K., there’s nothing left for me here. Unless my children are involved in the wager, no sense in making it, you know?

He bets based on his dreams.

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Q) How did the plans for your “Anger Management” series start to come together?

A) Mark Burg, my manager, said a couple years ago, “Let’s look at this Tyler Perry model if this Warner Brothers thing doesn’t pan out. It’s an intensive amount of work for a very short time and then you’re done.” And then Lionsgate approached and said, “How do you feel about ‘Anger Management’?” I said, “Well, I spent a year in it.”

Q) How did that go?

A) I could have been done in one session. “Got it, O.K., thank you, sign here, great. Here’s 50 grand.” They say count to 10 – it takes a little bit of time, it slows you down a little bit. I say count your teeth with your tongue. Most people have 28 teeth, minus the four wisdoms. I got 26. Nobody told me there’d be math. [laughs] But I got that little nugget before I landed in therapy. The guy was really good and gave me some good advice. And I don’t follow it. I’m a rageful weirdo. No, I’m joking.

Q) So once the concept for “Anger Management” was in place, how did it become a series?

A) It started to get momentum and everything just started falling into place. It’s one thing, a year later, to have been in a very public manner, fired from – or traded – from the most valuable sitcom in the universe and sent off to the cornfield like some crazy person. And then to have a show put together, not only this fast, but a show that’s this good, it just doesn’t happen. That wasn’t meant to be my legacy. This is. There’s no way that I can hang my hat on that and say, “Yeah, most of it went great. Went a little weird at the end but, hey, we’re all friends.” We’re not friends.

**RollWithEm** · 11-01-2012, 12:40 PM

Charlie Sheen's Anger Management will be syndicated to Fox stations.

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"Typical wisdom says off-cable shows aren't right for general syndication, but that's way too narrow minded for today's reality. When a program produces these ratings, regardless of the platform, you have to take it seriously. We did, and we expect Anger Management to be a key piece of our sitcom dominance for years to come," said Fox TV Stations SVP Frank Cicha in a statement.

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