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  • 3
    Apr
    2011
    12:32am, EDT

    Duh, winning? Sheen gets cold reception in Detroit

    By Rich Shulman

    As P.T Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute. Full story.

    Carlos Osorio / AP

    An image of Charlie Sheen is projected in the background as he performs at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Saturday, April 2. Promising "the real story," the 45-year-old former "Two and a Half Men" star hit the road for a month-long, 20-city variety show tour, with the first stop Saturday's sold-out show in Detroit.

    Geoff Robins / AFP - Getty Images

    A patron of Charlie Sheen's show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan April 2 shows her displeasure following a performance which saw Sheen walk off the stage. Saturday was the first date in Sheen's cross country tour of his show "Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option".

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    It's not really too suprising that people paid good money to see this "train wreck", and he's just there to take their money. Kinda like people going to see Sarah Palin speak.

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    1:29pm, EDT

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    Britain's Mark Cavendish of team HTC-Columbia sprints to the finish of the 187km course in stage 5 of the Tour de France on July 8, in Montargis, France. The iconic bicycle race will include a total of 20 stages and will cover 3,642km before concluding in Paris on July 25.

    A fourth of the way through

    Mark Cavendish won the fifth stage of the twenty-stage Tour de France, but Fabian Cancellara keeps the yellow jersey. America's own Lance Armstrong is still in 30th place. Read the article here.

    Or take a look at the "Le Tour 2010" slideshow that will follow the tour from beginning to end.

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