{"id":2380,"date":"2012-11-28T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:06","slug":"the-conversion-of-angus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/the-conversion-of-angus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conversion Of Angus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angus T. Jones<\/p><\/div>\n

Does anyone else wonder if Angus Jones..who plays Jake..on the popular TV series \u201cTwo and a half men\u201d may be pulling the public\u2019s leg with his comments this week that the show is filth and urged people not to watch? Or is the 19 year old, who has been on the series since its inception 9 years ago, sincere about his recent Christian conversion and willing to bite the hand that\u2019s fed him millions? Here\u2019s part of what he told an interviewer\u201d \u201cYou cannot be a true God fearing person and be on a television show like that. I know I can\u2019t. I\u2019m not OK with what I\u2019m learning, what the Bible says, and being on that show.\u201d I certainly hope that this is not one big publicity stunt.\u00a0 The kid is right, of course, \u201cTwo and a half men\u201d has always pushed the limits with an abundance of sexual innuendo that long ago went way past \u201cinnuendo\u201d to \u201cin your face.\u201d\u00a0 Now, I\u2019m no prude and, in fact, watched the show in the early years because Charley Sheen made me laugh and when he delivered his lines, it was kind of like Dean Martin used to be; more naughty than smutty. But I always cringed when so much of the suggestive dialogue took place in front of the little boy, Jake (Angus T. Jones) around the kitchen table ..or even worse, when the writers had Jake joining in the dubious conversations. \u00a0I hope I\u2019M not biting the hand that feeds me. After all CBS is my network. But it\u2019s going to be interesting to observe the fall-out from this young actor\u2019s strong statements about his own series. He\u2019s already popular fodder for comedians, late night talk show hosts, pundits and bloggers.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Yup, that didn\u2019t take long. Young Angus has already said he\u2019s sorry for his tirade: “I apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indifference to and disrespect of my colleagues and a lack of appreciation of the extraordinary opportunity of which I have been blessed,” said Jones, who reportedly makes $350,000 an episode. “I never intended that.”\u00a0 He stopped short of actually retracting the things he said, though. I hope he sticks by his guns even though being a Christian in Hollywood is not unlike those early ones in Rome who were regular\u00a0dinner guests at the Coliseum. Then, like now,\u00a0the lions are always hungry. So far, there\u2019s been no official comment from the producers and other actors on the show. But Charley Sheen..whose famous personal meltdown led to his firing from \u201cTwo and a half men\u201d a couple seasons ago,\u00a0 told People magazine that Angus\u2019 Hale-Bopp- like video makes it radically clear that the show is cursed. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I suppose it\u2019s possible that since the series seems to be phasing-out Jake\u2019s character anyway (probably because he\u2019s not a precocious kid anymore) that might have something to do with Jones\u2019 conversion and candid comments.\u00a0 Oh, the Hale Bopp reference Sheen mentioned? \u00a0It was about the Heaven’s Gate religious cult, which committed mass suicide in 1997 because members believed death was the only way to gain access to an alien spaceship that was following the Hale-Bopp comet as it passed by Earth.<\/p>\n

I certainly wish Angus T. Jones all the best and hope the Christian community will have his back and call for help if the young man goes shopping for a purple blanket and a new pair of sneakers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does anyone else wonder if Angus Jones..who plays Jake..on the popular TV series \u201cTwo and a half men\u201d may be pulling the public\u2019s leg with his comments this week that the show is filth and urged people not to watch? Or is the 19 year old, who has been on the series since its inception…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11692,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}