Charlie Sheen’s tour coming to South Florida

Prepare to win, South Florida. Coming to a theater near you: Charlie Sheen’s My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option Show.

Sheen is scheduled to appear in Sunrise on April 23 at the BankAtlantic Center as part of his 20-city tour. Sheen’s website said tickets are still available — ranging in price from $69 to $89.

On Saturday, the Hollywood actor turned one-man media meltdown, more famous now for his rants that include references to warlocks, tiger blood and goddesses than for his acting, kicked off his tour in Detroit to an applause that quickly turned to boos. Next up was Chicago.

The tour is the latest step in the Sheen saga, which stretches back to last year, when he pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colo., to misdemeanor third-degree assault after a Christmas Day altercation with his then-wife, Brooke Mueller.

Since then, he has talked about being a “rock star from Mars,” having “Adonis DNA” and called himself a warlock, with the women he lives with as goddesses.

Sheen’s behavior, which included lashing out at Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre, finally became too much for Warner Bros. Television, which fired him on March 7.

So he decided to go on tour. In Detroit, Sheen seemed to enjoy himself in the early moments, posting pictures on Twitter of the crowd and himself at a podium. Below a picture of the crowd, he wrote, “The most honest city in the world honors the most honest man in the universe #TruthTorpedo.”

In a second picture, he referred to himself as a “Sheenius.”

But the show didn’t come across as the work of a Sheenius or a genius, according to the reviews. Media covering the event reported a crowd that booed, heckled the actor and questioned if the tour would make a full run or close early.

How did Sheen feel about this? A regular poster to Twitter, with more than 3 million followers on the service, Sheen stayed silent Sunday.

Tickets to Sheen’s South Florida stop are available through Ticketmaster or at his website, www.charliesheen.com.

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Florida tourism promoters turn on the stunts

Snow, snow go away was probably the least profane thing a commuter trapped in falling snow and 13 hours of gridlock surrounding Washington could say Wednesday night. But Florida's tourism officials say keep it coming.

Winter is always high marketing season for the Sunshine State, prime time to lure those northerners on the verge of impaling themselves on a snow shovel to strip off their itchy wool and burn their pasty skin amid the swaying palm trees on our beaches.

But this year's miserable weather is producing some extreme moments of schadenfreude among our tourism industry folks too big to pass up.

Earlier this week, as the snow began in New York's Times Square, the Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau unveiled four blocks of ice holding polka dot bikinis and brightly colored swim trunks. The pitch: "Defrost your swimsuit" in Fort Lauderdale.

"We do like to see the weather in other areas. We say 'Ha, ha I'm going to the beach and it's 22 degrees' " where you are, said Francine Mason, the bureau's spokeswoman and a former New Yorker who sought refuge in the sun. "I have some heart; we don't want them stuck on the road."

When a freak of weather produced snow in all 49 states — yes Hawaii, too — except Florida a couple weeks ago, the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau produced a 10-second video called Not a Snowplow in Sight. It featured the sounds and sights of the ocean's rippling green-blue water.

The latest pitch comes from the state's public-private partnership, known as Visit Florida, which produced a spoof of a news release featuring an incognito Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog who burrows up from a hole and predicts, for millions of Americans, when winter will end, depending on whether he sees his shadow. According to the social media campaign, Phil had fled Pennsylvania for Florida and can be seen golfing, kayaking and, curiously, being held in the air by a shirtless man at a St. Petersburg resort.

It appears as though Phil is not willing to risk seeing his shadow Feb. 2 and does not plan to return home for Groundhog Day.

Tourism officials say there is a direct correlation between the weather up north and plans to visit a warm destination. The visitors bureau staff in Fort Lauderdale is so convinced of the connection that its uses the temperature to trigger media buys. When the mercury dips to 32 degrees in the Northeast, out come print, television and radio spots.

For those who can't get to Florida right away, the bureau features a live Webcam, trained on the beach.

"If that goes down, I can't tell you the number of calls we get," Mason said.

Perhaps that's what commuters stuck in the car in D.C. were watching on their iPhones

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