Mark Cuban recently announced that he had toyed with the idea of selling the Dallas Mavericks after they lost in the Finals last season. He said he felt like a target for David Stern's wrath and was tired of continually paying fines levied by the commissioner. He also perceived an unfair standard of referring against his team but in the end he felt that he owed it to Dirk Nowitzki and the rest of the players to stay on board.
If a report in Page Six today is true he may hope that he had sold the team since it doesn't figure to go over that well in Texas. Helpfully headlined "H'Wood's 9/11 Idiot Brigade" the item deals with the independently financed documentary "Loose Change," which alleges a government orchestration of the World Trade Center collapse. The internet phenomenon will be repackaged with narration by Charlie Sheen.
Sources say Sheen - whose father, Martin Sheen, has been arrested 63 times protesting on behalf of various leftist causes - is in talks with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures to distribute "Loose Change." Sheen has called for a new independent probe of the attack, telling Alex Jones' radio show: "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75 percent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions."
Sheen's rep confirmed his participation. Cuban e-mailed us: "We are having discussions about distributing the existing video with Charlie's involvement as a narrator, not in making a new feature. We are also looking for productions with an opposing viewpoint. We like controversial subjects, but we are agnostic to which side the controversy comes from."
One thing is for certain, if Cuban does get involved you won't be able to find the film on YouTube for much longer. It's a bit harder to see what impact Charlie Sheen's involvement might have on the film's acceptance on a broader scale. It's likely to lose the Denise Richards segment of the population but should gain cheerleader-clad hookers and child porn enthusiasts. Those are sizable chunks of the population, to be sure, but hardly the type that will make for top-notch congressional witnesses.
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