Charlie Sheen: Sheen's Korner charity will launch by helping comatose Giants fan Bryan Stow
This post has been corrected. Please see the note for details.
Charlie Sheen has started a charity that will, for its first fundraiser, link his love of major league baseball to his show Saturday night in San Francisco.
Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who remains in a coma following a brutal beating outside Dodger Stadium on opening day, will be the first beneficiary of the Sheen's Korner charity. All merchandise proceeds from the show at Nob Hill Masonic Center will go to the Bryan Stow Fund, Sheen's rep told the Hollywood Reporter.
Stow, a 42-year-old Santa Clara paramedic, is a Santa Cruz resident and father of two. He was assaulted March 31 in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after the L.A. and San Francisco teams met for opening day. On Tuesday, doctors again began attempts to ease him out of his medically induced coma, the Mercury News reported. That process could take up to five days, Stow's cousin told the paper; a previous attempt did not succeed. As of Wednesday there had been no seizures, the family said on its website.
A $150,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the assailants. The Dodgers organization has been among those raising money for Stow's care.
Sheen set up the charity to "benefit those in need," his rep told THR. Before his second show in Toronto, the former "Two and a Half Men" held an impromptu walk to benefit a Canadian bipolar disorders support organization.
Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth / Defeat Is Not an Option" tour, which had a rocky start April 25 in Detroit, heads to Vancouver after San Francisco, then wraps up Tuesday in Everett, Wash.
If the "Sheen's Korner" moniker sounds a bit familiar, well, you might have already seen something like that on the Internet.
[For the record, 6:39 p.m. April 28: This post originally said Bryan Stow is from Santa Clarita. He is a paramedic in Santa Clara and hails from Santa Cruz. Thanks to commenter @Denise for flagging the gaffe.]
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Photo: Charlie Sheen and "goddess" Natalie Kenly watch the Florida Marlins play the Colorado Rockies in Miami Gardens on April 24, 2011. The Marlins wound up #winning. Credit: Steve Mitchell / US Presswire
Correction: Bryan Stow is a Santa Cruz, CA resident. A SF Giants fan, he lives 75 miles south of the city of San Francisco. Come back to the park soon Bryan!
Posted by: Denise | Apr 28, 2011 at 06:25 PM
Thats good news. Lets encourage Charlie to have more "helpers highs." It takes the focus off ourselves.
Posted by: Margo | Apr 28, 2011 at 07:37 PM
http://www.support4bryanstow.com/ Please San Francisco give 100% of the money you would spend going to this show on tickets and T-Shirts directly to the family of Brian Stow and Brian himself. AGAIN...the website to donate directly 100% of your money to Brian Stow is http://www.support4bryanstow.com/.
Posted by: sls | Apr 28, 2011 at 08:26 PM
Want to REALLY help Bryan Stow and his family? Donate directly via http://www.support4bryanstow.com
He is donating profits from merch sales - probably 10-25% of what you are paying for the item. Not a single penny from the $85-$110 ticket price is going to the Stow family. He reportedly earned $300,000 for the first TWO shows alone.
This is a self-serving action from a self absorbed and delusional misogynist. Sales and reactions to this sham of a "tour" have been brutal. He is USING this terrible tragedy to boost sales and his own agenda. Period. As he said to a heckler at one of the first shows "I already have your money, dude!"
Donate the price of the ticket and tshirt - heck, donate HALF the price of a ticket and t-shirt and the Stow family would receive $50-$100 instead of the $5-$10 'profit' on a "Winning? duh" t-shirt. A check from +this+ non-billionaire is already in the mail to the Stow family.
Posted by: eileen | Apr 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Christie D'Zurilla here from the Ministry of Gossip with a note: While in general we do not publish comments that include links, I've made an exception for the comments above, as they are to the Stow family website.
Thanks for the comments -- moving forward, no additional links plz.
:)
//cdz
Posted by: cdz from the ministry | Apr 29, 2011 at 01:39 AM