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FILE - This Jan. 28, 2009 enter photo shows Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - The public's fascination with Charlie Sheen's melodrama showed no clew of slackening as his new Twitter statement took only hours to attract more than a half-million followers.

On Tuesday, the period creation was to resume on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" after a break for Sheen's individualized troubles, his Twitter postings were the only firm recreation starring the person — unless programme interviews also counted.

The Charliesheen Twitter account, which had been verified, featured a family-friendly photo of him and porn grapheme Bree Olson, smiling and holding up bottles of chocolate milk and juice over the caption, "Winning! Choose your vice."

Another picture showed Sheen and a imitation block illustrated with an accolade statuette direction his grappling and "Oscar 2011."

"Winner! 2012," says the caption, ostensibly an pollyannaish prevision of laurels life aweigh in theaters for the "Wall Street" and "Major League" film grapheme of the 1980s and primeval '90s.

Sheen, who joined Twitter the period after his publicist, Stan Rosenfield, resigned, had posted meet a few tweets by weekday night. They included a one-liner most Chuck Lorre, the "Two and a Half Men" chief shaper who's condemned the brunt of Sheen's attacks in an escalating dispute with filmmaker Bros. Television and CBS.

"Just got invited to do the Nancy Grace exhibit ... I'd kinda go on a long agency trip with Chuck histrion in a '75 Pacer," Sheen tweeted.

After gift the person a break to seek rehabilitation following wild partying and threesome hospitalizations in threesome months, filmmaker and CBS announced terminal hebdomad they had definite against resuming creation on the remainder of the season. They cited Sheen's conduct and comments.

CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves said weekday the loss of octad episodes this flavour isn't causing business pain for CBS in the brief term, because stipendiary for fewer half-hours than designed of the pricey sitcom is "financially a gainer."

Moonves told an investors' conference in San Francisco that he hoped TV's top-rated comedy would return to CBS, adding, "We'll see."

"Going down the agency ... I don't undergo what's feat to happen," Moonves said, then took a pokeweed at Sheen's underway media tour. "He's on the expose quite a bit these days. I desire he would have worked this hard to promote himself for an Emmy."

Sheen, 45, has been nominated quaternary times for advance person in a comedy program for "Men," but has never won.

He has found ready outlets at TV networks and another outlets hot to expose his often-outrageous comments.

"Are we bushed of Charlie Sheen? ... Or is it the category of abstract we can't get enough?" David Letterman asked weekday on his CBS late-night show. "If you intellection you were feat to wager 100 wrecks a day, would you verify a lunch? It's category of same that, isn't it?"

Asked weekday on NBC's "Today" most activity to comments in which Sheen titled himself "a amount rock grapheme from Mars," among another startling descriptions, he shrugged soured the reaction.

"I am highfaluting because I springy a highfaluting life. I'm bushed of existence 'aw shucks.' That's not me. ... What's wrong with that?" he said.

Sheen also had high praise for the two women living with him whom he titled "goddesses."

"These women don't determine me. ... They don't advance with opinion. They don't advance with their own needs all the time," he said.

Asked if the unify support tending for his children, which include nearly 2-year-old twins with Brooke Mueller, Sheen replied, "Oh, yeah. If I can't be there, they're there, and it's same everybody helps out. ... There's nothing broken here."

Sheen asserted he isn't using drugs, saying "drug tests don't lie" and presenting past test results with "the articulate 'negative' is, like, printed, like, 18 trillion times."

"Don't remember, don't care," he said when asked the terminal instance he'd used drugs.

He has unloved attempts by his family, including ascendant Martin Sheen ("The West Wing," "Apocalypse Now") to interact in his life and told them, "'I appreciate your love and your, and your compassion, if that's what you poverty to call it.'"

"I'm not fascinated in grouping treating me same a 12-year-old," Sheen said.

Sheen has mitt unstoppered the possibility for equalisation with most of those he has attacked in past days. But when it comes to getting "Two and a Half Men" backwards on the air, he has prefabricated clear he wants it on his terms.

"I'm meet feat to ready pressing the truth. ... And everybody's feat to win because they followed, surmisal whose plan?" he told "Today." He did not come whether that organisation includes Lorre.

On Monday, Sheen told The Associated Press he wasn't mitigated with Warner's payment to the crew for quaternary of the octad unrecorded episodes. He said he would lobby for the another quaternary and that rectification for co-stars Jon Cryer and beef T. designer was "next" on his to-do list.

Also on Monday, Sheen told NBC he would return to the show. "I'm a Negro of my word, so I will closing the TV show. I'll modify do flavour 10, but it's — at this point because of psychological distress, oh my God — it's threesome mil an episode, verify it or yield it."

Following the comments, his attorneys said Sheen would closing the exhibit at his underway pay rate, which is $1.8 meg an episode. The attorneys said Sheen would be seeking a improve to $3 meg an program if he were to do a 10th season, which would begin in the start and run finished outflow 2012.

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Entertainment Writers suffragist McCartney in Los Angeles and Jake Coyle in New York contributed to this report.

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