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the new york stock exchange. the unemployment dropping below the 9% to 8.6 mark. how is the stock market taking it? >> it's taking a breather at this point. the rally has fizzled out because investors had a look at the report. they got a look at what is just behind the headlines. what it showed is that 120,000 jobs were added in november with september and october numbers revised higher by a total of 72,000. sure, the pickup in hiring. it's a good sign. but it's still not great. the country is barely creating enough jobs to keep up with population growth and 13 million people are sti...

Charlie sheen last night. you heard him in his own words. now cbs president lez moonves says he hopes that "2 1/2 men" comes back but he's made no promises. i want to know what the experts think. joining me is bob forest, director of the hollywood recovery services. an addict himself and an addiction specialist. one of the best cries i p.r. men in the field, howard bergman. you've been in this crisis management for a long time. your old friend, stan rosenfeld, who is charlie sheen's publicist, resigned yesterday. clearly felt that he could no longer control his client. what did you make of tha...

>> tom, don't do that. >> i'm tired of talking. >> blame me, because i'm saying that you should stay. they're following doctor's order when i say that. >> it doesn't matter to me. i'm leaving. >> larry: why did you do it on national television? why did you agree to that? >> i was intoxicated, i think. no. i know i was. i'm lying about seeing my kids there. i want to go home. i don't want to go to rehab. i actually at some point -- it's all blurry, but i called bob or drew and said i need help badly. i thought i was going to die. it got bad, but when it came to doing it, the first time they tri...

>> larry: welcome back. tom sizemore, our special guest joined by bob forest, drug counselor, celebrity rehab with dr. drew. he's founder and director of hollywood recovery services and is a recovering addict himself. he was in and out of rehab two dozen times before finding sobriety in 1996 and he's known tom sizemore for 20 years. what took you so long? >> me, i saw you guys talking about what a bottom is. it's an interesting subject. tom and i just seemed to be people that have thick skulls and what gets through to other people doesn't get through to us. >> larry: what happened to you that ...

>> larry: we're back with tom sizemore and bob forest. tom co-starred in 1993's heart and souls with robert downey, jr. he's had his own well publicized drug problems, and he talked to me about it in october of 2005. watch. have you come to an understanding behalf it's all about? >> there's certainly aspects of it that -- there's a reason it's listed in american medical book as a disease. there's a part of it that's largely a moral issue, but i think once you have an opportunity to get the help you need to get out of it, you just have to remember that sometimes that train doesn't come back aro...