Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen is not winning in the nation's capital. After selling out within a matter of minutes in both Chicago and Detroit, tickets for the controversial actor's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option" show are still available in 17 other cities, including Washington. Sheen's show is mostly an approximately 80-minute spoken-word performance. The tour begins in Detroit on April 2 and wraps in Seattle on May 3. Sheen will appear April 19 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington.

Two years ago, Ocean City debuted a sunny, slightly absurd ad campaign starring a lifeguard named Rodney, who "rescued" people from their daily lives and whisked them away to the beach. With summer just around the corner, the ad series is back for another round of Rodney's rescues, which sees the lifeguard heading to downtown Baltimore and suburbia. Aired across the region, the campaign has made waves with tourists, according to town spokeswoman Donna Abbott. "It's not your standard beach advertisement," Abbott said.

Eight Men Out 8 p.m. [Versus] This critically acclaimed account of the 1919 Black Sox scandal stars a host of familiar faces, including John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney and Christopher Lloyd. The late Eliot Asinof, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, has a small role in the film. This is one John Cusack movie in which his sister Joan doesn't appear.

ABC gives one of its few non-Regis meal tickets the big send-off Wednesday night at 9, as Michael J. Fox waves good-bye to his stint as the star of "Spin City." In the hourlong season finale, Deputy Mayor Michael Flaherty (Fox) ends up taking the fall when a mobster's connections to City Hall hit the media. The show makes for a decent enough good-bye, although at an hour, it's way too long -- most of the second half just gives the cast members the chance to sit around and look misty eyed.

I opened my newspaper Sunday to find a front-page article about the football lockout and how it will affect certain people and their businesses. But wasn't there a huge earthquake that just hit Japan, and didn't more than 10,000 people lose their lives? Oh, I'm sorry, there was a small mention of the quake just above a huge picture of man who runs a local bar, and way back on page 17… I am a huge Ravens fan, but come on! Wasn't the devastation in Tokyo a little more newsworthy?

DIRECTOR JIM ABRAHAMS and Pat Proft, who collaborated with David and Jerry Zucker on ''Airplane!'' and ''Naked Gun,'' go to the same comic well for ''Hot Shots!'' which opens today.Proft co-wrote the script with Abrahams. This time, the results are mixed. At times, the film is very funny. At others times, it doesn't quite make it. But that's all right, there are enough laughs to keep the 85-minute feature afloat.''Hot Shots!'' is a sendup of the flyboy films, including ''Top Gun,'' the movie that made Tom Cruise a star, and ''Test Pilot.

Amy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days. So, let the star of Comedy Central's “Inside Amy Schumer” explain how it came to be that she finished her work for a bachelor's degree in theater at Towson University in 2003 but didn't receive her diploma until 2007 - in the lobby of Baltimore's Lyric Opera House. “I say I graduated in 2003 from Towson, but that's not actually true,” the 31-year-old New-York-born performer says in a recent interview.

Brady Anderson is carving a small block of time out of his packed training schedule to demonstrate the true purpose of the athletic life, which is not about money or women or fame or even fun. It's about beating you. The field of play - in this case - is a pingpong table in the middle of the Orioles' spring clubhouse at the Ed Smith Stadium Complex, where the team is preparing - with Anderson's help - for the 2012 baseball season. But it could just as well be a tennis court or a flag football field or the running track.

Fringe returns to Fox TV tonight with a big, shiny lead-in from American Idol, which will presumably deliver more than a few new viewers to the show, which has been hovering around the 9 million viewer mark with most of its new episodes. People who are already fans, though, won't have to sit through a reintroduction of the series. The series boasts one of Hollywood's most creative producers in J.J. Abrams and a strong leading lady in Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham, an FBI agent tracking paranormal cases.

One and two half men in Sheen household Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen and his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, are the parents of twin boys. Publicist Stan Rosenfield says the babies, Bob and Max, were born Saturday night in Los Angeles. Rosenfield says Mueller Sheen is "doing great" and the father is "ecstatic." Obama to visit Leno The White House says President Barack Obama will appear this week on Jay Leno's talk show. Obama will visit The Tonight Show With Jay Leno during his trip to Los Angeles on Thursday.