‘Two and a Half Men’ star begs viewers to stop watching Two and A Half Men

By Jane Zuckerberg

Was “Two and a Half Men” teen star Angus T. Jones so turned off by the recent storyline that had his character Jake Harper making out with Miley Cyrus that he’s now biting the hand that feeds him by trashing the series he’s starred on for the last decade?

No, it goes much deeper than that. Not only has the 19-year-old called his series “filth” in a new interview, but he also begs viewers to stop watching “Two and a Half Men” and talks about how being on the show goes against his religious beliefs.
“Jake from ‘Two and a Half Men’ means nothing,” Jones says in a video interview with Chris “The Forerunner” Hudson, who leads a Seventh day Adventist-leaning video series. “If you watch ‘Two and a Half Men,’ please stop watching ‘Two and a Half Men.’ I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth. Please.”

Jones also talks in the video about how TV, and apparently “Two and a Half Men” specifically, does the work of the devil.
“A lot of people don’t like to think about how deceptive the enemy is,” Jones says. “He’s been doing this for a lot longer than any of us have been around. There’s no playing around when it comes to eternity.”

So why, you wonder, is Jones still appearing on a show he so clearly detests and is publicly trashing?

“It’s very weird being on a television show, especially now that I’m trying to walk with God, because my television show has nothing to do with God and doesn’t want anything to do with God,” Jones said during a Seventh-day Adventist Church workshop on his birthday in October (as reported at Vulture.com). He said that he had considered not continuing his role, but “it’s a strange position that I’m put in … I’m under contract for another year, so it’s not too much of a decision on my part. … I know God has me there for a reason for another year.”

In the workshop testimony, Jones also talks about his parents’ divorce and his own drug use.

CBS declined to comment on Jones’s interview. A representative for Jones, who is reportedly paid between $300,000 and $350,000 per episode for “Two and a Half Men,” has not responded to our request for comment.

Jones, along with co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer, signed a one-year deal to continue the 10th, and current, season of “Two and a Half Men,” in which his character has graduated from high school and joined the Army. The sitcom remains a top 10 ratings hit for CBS.

On Twitter, reaction to Jones’s video vacillated between comments on Jones’s actions and his religious beliefs and, of course, blaming Charlie Sheen, the man who played Jones’s on-screen uncle for eight — well, seven and a half — seasons before a public meltdown (which included publicly making disparaging comments about the series) ended with his getting axed from the sitcom.

100Feed: Matthew and Michael Clark Actually Aging Backwards

 

By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks’ two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons,” Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

Diagnosed with a terminal form of leukodystrophy, one of a group of extremely rare genetic disorders that attack the Myelin, or white matter, in the nervous system, spinal cord, and brain. In the Clarks’ case, the condition has not only eroded their physical capacities, but their emotional and mental states as well.
Only six years ago, both brothers were holding down jobs and growing their families. Today, they spend their days in the care of their parents, both in their sixties, playing with Mr. Potato Head, fighting over Monopoly, and in rare lucid moments, struggling to understand why their lives have changed so dramatically.

Before the Clark Brothers were diagnosed, they were living independent lives. Michael served in the Royal Air Force and later became a cabinet maker. Matthew worked in a factory and was raising a teenage daughter. Tony and Christine, meanwhile, had retired and moved from the UK to Spain. Then in 2007, both of their sons fell off the radar. They stopped returning their parents’ calls and texts, and as the Clark brothers’ conditions developed, their lives fell apart.

 

 

Michael surfaced in a soup kitchen, and was referred to medical experts by social      workers. After an MRI scan, he was diagnosed with the incurable degenerative disorder. Soon after Matthew received the same news. In the U.S. alone, about 1 in 40,000 children are born with a form of the neurodegenerative disease, according to Dr. William Kintner, President of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation. While some forms of the disorder are potentially treatable if discovered in the earliest stages and not all cause an emotional regression, the brothers are unlikely to be cured. “It’s very difficult to do anything once progression has occurred,” Dr. Kintner tells Yahoo! Shine.

As of April, when the Clarks were first written about in the British press, their mental age was 10.
“We will be out walking and things which might interest a toddler interest them, the other day we were walking home when Michael saw a balloon and pointed it out to us,” father Tony Clark, told The Telegraph last spring.
Today, the brothers are even younger mentally.
“Just like small children, they wake up a lot during the night,” mom Christine said in an interview published in The Independent this week. “I was up seven times with them last night.”
After learning of their diagnoses, Tony and Christine returned to the UK and moved in with their sons. Their daily struggles as a family have been chronicled in a British documentary, “The Curious Case of the Clark Brothers,” airing Monday in the UK.

Earlier this year, Matthew became a grandfather, when his daughter had a son. But the news for the family was bittersweet, as the Clark brothers’ mental age continued to creep backwards.
“There’s no return to them being cute little boys,” said Christine, who regularly manages their tantrums and fights over Monopoly. “They’re big strong men—and that presents a quite different set of problems.”More recently, even their physical strength began deteriorating. “A few weeks ago, they could still manage with a knife and fork, but now that’s getting too difficult for them—they get the food onto their forks, but somehow it all falls off before it reaches their mouths,” she said.

Now walking is the next hurdle; Matthew is already confined to a wheelchair.

“The likelihood that they’re on a terminal course is fairly certain, but who knows?” says Dr. Kintner, who is familiar with the Clark case but didn’t meet the brothers. “If they were citizens of U.S., we’d try to get them to the National Institute of Health for diagnostic work, but in the UK the system is different. There is no comparable organization with genetic diseases, so it’s a little more difficult there.”

Dr. Kintner estimates there are several million cases of one of the estimated 40 types of leukodystrophies in the U.S., but an exact number is hard to pinpoint. The different forms of the disorder are still being identified and tests for each known type are still being developed. “It’s going to take a long time,” says Dr. Kintner. “I hope in my lifetime I see a cure for some of them.”

Evil Dead Remake Poster Makes A Bold Promise

Fans tend to think they know better than filmmakers when it comes to how to handle a franchise. So, when news arose that an Evil Dead remakes was in the works, the outcry was intense and immediate; many declared that without Bruce Campbell as Ash, it could not rightfully be called Evil Dead. It wasn’t enough for this group that Campbell–who became a cult icon from the original trilogy–and Sam Raimi, who wrote and directed them, were on board to produce. It wasn’t enough that Raimi handpicked the reboot’s director Fede Alvarez, and contributed to the script. This reboot, many fans declared, could never be as good as Evil Dead.

At NY Comic Con this year, Campbell took these criticisms on with gusto, proudly proclaiming true horror fans who crave gore, guts and absolute terror will love this new Evil Dead. He made a believer out of everyone in that auditorium. Then the trailer they saw that day was unleashed on the web, and more formerly outraged Evil Dead fans admitted this could be good. Now, Yahoo’s got a new poster, which like the trailer it clearly defines this is a little bit of old—in this case a nod to the old logo—with a little bit of new—like the deeply unnerving image of a girl covered in dirt and blood stumbling down a dirt road.

I don’t know why, but I am captivated by this poster. The black and white image is chilling, with the gritty impression of blood on creeping down her legs. It’s not audacious in its visuals, just in its bold claims: “The most terrifying film you will ever experience.” I know many of you are disappointed Raimi is not helming this himself, but if this is a sign of what his mentoring can bring forth from new filmmakers, I think we’ll all be grateful and terrified next spring.

Sister Simone Campbell Battles It Out With SE Cupp On Inequality

Sarah Elizabeth Cupp (aka “SE Cupp”, aka “Per SE”, aka “Sippy Cupp”) was unnecessarily rude to the founder of Nuns on the Bus, and one of the honorary speakers at this year’s DNC, Sister Simone Campbell. A discussion about pay inequality turned into an argument of morals when Sister Simone stated that “minimum wage should be raised to $12.50 an hour.”

Cher Has a Smart Crush on MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

Cher has a crush on *gasp* MSNBC’s Chris Hayes!

CHER has fallen for a guy half her age – 33-year-old, married, MSNBC newscaster Chris Hayes. The “Believe” singer, 66, has been gushing to friends about her huge crush on the nerdy rising cable star, who hosts the weekend morning show “UP w/ Chris Hayes.”

Though Chris is clearly married, outspoken Cher says her passion for him has inspired her to give up bad boys. Now she’s looking for a political wonk just like the young commentator. “Cher adores Chris,” revealed an insider. “She says he’s the perfect man for her despite the age gap and is bummed out that he’s married. “She doesn’t want to mess around with tough guys and bikers anymore. She’d like to finally settle down with a man who can discuss things like world affairs and economic policies. She’s put the word out to all her friends that she’s ready and willing to be set up with a lawyer, financier or professor – no hell-raisers need apply.”

Cher went public with her feelings, tweeting that she has a “smart crush” on Chris. Cher’s been married twice, first to the late Sonny Bono and then to rocker Gregg Allman. She’s since dated a string of younger men including “Bagel Boy” Rob Camilletti, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and former Hell’s Angel Tim Medvetz, whom she briefly reunited with over the summer.

But the new mellow Cher has gone intellectual, said the source, adding: “She’s even e-mailed Chris to try to arrange a meeting – just to chew the fat about politics and the economy.”