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Enough, Already, About Charlie Sheen’s Hooker-and-Booze Antics

As you know, it’s increasingly difficult to get through a week of culture without hearing or reading about Charlies Sheen’s latest lurid exploits. Historically they involve some ho or porn star and a couple gallons of booze in a hotel room — quarters the Two and a Half Men star invariably trashes (i.e. breaks a chair and musses the bed, or something) — followed by breathless record of their fraught time together. I don’t want to spend too long belaboring a post about not caring, but at some point, we really should take a moment to ask: Who cares? Enough, already!

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Enough, Already, About Charlie Sheen’s Hooker-and-Booze Antics

Catherine Keener: ‘At Some Point You’ve Got to Call Reality’

This week’s Please Give returns Catherine Keener to the fraught, funny world of Nicole Holofcener, marking their fourth collaboration since 1996’s Walking and Talking . This time, the crisis on hand is as social as it is personal — the epidemic of white liberal guilt that wallops her Kate into a new, unusual variety of midlife crisis. Making matters worse, Kate’s daughter Abby (Sarah Steele) has bad skin and a jones for $200 jeans, while husband Alex (Oliver Platt) has only slightly more compunctions about the affair he’s having with his neighbor’s granddaughter (Amanda Peet) than he does about waiting for the neighbor to die so he can expand their apartment.

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Catherine Keener: ‘At Some Point You’ve Got to Call Reality’