With so much going on this week between Jerry Sandusky’s jury selection, which in case you haven’t heard took a total of two days, and all the strife around the world, it seemed to me a good time to take a look at what’s going on with Charlie Sheen.
Sure, it would be easy and fun to beat up Jerry and his penchant for toddlers, but all of that will be worked out over the next month and to slam him again now would upstage all the other juicy details that are starting to leak out, like his “love letters.” Sure, there’s that stuff about Iran supporting Syria in its dementia, and who better than the minions of Ahmadinejad to support such a brutal state. But there’s nothing quite as unbelievable as Charlie Sheen’s interview in the Rolling Stone magazine.
But then again, what better place for the aging star to start his apology to beg forgiveness as he readies a new small screen appearance?
First of all, when he blew up while working on Two Men and a Baby, no wait I meant, Two and a Half Men, it was unfathomable that someone could be so self-centered and egotistical and not be either President of the United States or at least a Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Yikes, talk about giving up a good job in a down economy.
And for him to go out with such a blaze of gory (sic). For months it seems all anyone had to talk about was Tiger Blood and winning. Well, the start of his apology doesn’t sound like he thinks he was a winner now. Actually, it sounds like someone who is working hard to get back into the good graces of the public he wants to woo in order to support his new TV venture.
In the real world, it’s hard to imagine anyone willing to take a chance on working with such a one-man pandemic. But he was a big part of Two Men and a Whoopee Cushion’s success, so I guess it was only a matter of time before someone would try to bring him back.
That job apparently has fallen on the FX TV channel. Yes, it’s true, Sheen will soon be headlining once again on TV, this time on the FX show Anger Management, appropriately enough. And, thinking about the title, maybe this is just another of those great reality TV shows? You know, shows like Jersey Shore, Billy the (Drugged) Exterminator, or in this case, Survivor?
Still, in the recent interview posted on CNN lately, it doesn’t make Sheen seem as if the Tiger has changed his stripes any. About alcohol, he said, “I mean, the “stuff” works.” But on a post, he also had this brief bit of self-enlightenment, "Clearly, a guy gets fired, his relationships are in the toilet, he's off on some [expletive deleted] tour, there's nothing 'winning' about any of that. I mean, how does a guy who's obviously quicksanded, how does he consider any of it a victory? I was in total denial."
So, how does a guy who is totally quicksanded right his personal ship? Simple, get some money hungry TV studio execs to buy into the idea that bygones are bygones and what happened in the past certainly isn’t a forbearer of what may happen in the future. It worked with the ’29 Stock Market, right?
I know I can’t speak for everyone, but it’s going to be pretty hard for me to sit down and watch his show knowing all the baggage he’s toting along behind him. I’m sure some people will want to watch, like those who stare at train wrecks or rubberneck serious accidents on the Interstates. But for me, my time would be better spent taking pictures of the feral cats in my neighborhood, or writing a new Butterside Up column.
Enjoy the show!
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