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The first night of fighter jet Charlie Sheen’s national tour may have been an unmitigated disaster, but the poem-fingered Vatican assassin seemed to have, uhm, recovered in time for Sunday night’s Chicago show, which seemed to—the Chicago Tribune‘s Steve Johnson writes—”satisfy, if not amaze, concertgoers.”
According to Johnson, Sheen left behind the weird videos and and rambling monologues and stuck with the onstage interview, during which he said he’d go back to Two and a Half Men if they gave him his job back, and said he was “wrong” to call costar Jon Cryer a troll. And, yet, a somewhat coherent show may have actually disappointed his crowd:
“I wanted to not go at all, then I read the review (of the Detroit show) this morning and it changed my mind,” said Bill Termunde, 26, a Wicker Park resident who works in marketing. “I wanted to see this disaster.”
Termunde and a friend paid $15 for $35 tickets outside the Chicago Theatre from someone who, they said, had made the opposite decision.
Sheen was, in a sense, bulletproof. “I’m not expecting him to do that well, or he wouldn’t be Charlie Sheen,” said Jenna Schaefer, a student at Eastern Illinois University from Gurnee.
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The Fifth Column 
Thanks for sharing that Moe. I was moved to tears as well. I’ve heard some really good speeches in the past few years but none compare to the Cuomo speech. Most people don’t realize this, but Obama has always been a centrist. Mario Cuomo has always been a LIBERAL.
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Just wanted to let you know that I watched that Cuomo speech at the 1984(?) DNC with my father, who was a lifelong NYC born Democrat, born in 1912 He wept. And so did I.
(wanted to leave this on your ABOUT page, but no could do!)
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