Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen is bouncing back, baby. Got a new show oozing up on FX called Anger Management, loosely based on the very excellent movie of the same name starring Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler. If you haven't seen the movie dial it up right now. You can read this later.
Sheen had a major melt down. Blew everything. Trouble with the cops with women with the network. He claims he was not using at the time. I don't believe him but I would be willing to have a civilized whiskey with him to discuss it. He pissed off Hollywood years ago and has not starred in a movie for a while. He toured with a one man show that sucked and got cancelled.
Interestingly enough he sued Warner Brothers for $100 million for breach-of-contract for Two And A Half Men and WON a settlement from Warner Brothers for $25 million.
My initial reaction to him bouncing back would be resentment. Resentment because he is rich and famous and gets all the breaks. If I did what he did I would be broke, and incarcerated with my new best friend for life, Mongo.
The rules of the game are different for him. The way I look at it, he put himself in the position of privilege with his talent. The man can act. Although I never liked Two And A Half Men, never thought it was that funny and never understood why everybody else raved about it. I hope he does better with Anger Management. And I will check it out, out of sheer curiosity.
People like the Kardashians, Paris Hilton and other useless phonies like that are not even useful as fertilizer. These people contribute nothing, they have no talent, they are the embarrassing cross result of inherited wealth and the preoccupation in this country with celebrity.
They are not celebrities. They are lumps of flesh taking up valuable space on this planet that they don't deserve.
Charlie Sheen is a celebrity. He has talent. The rules of the game say that if you have talent and you find a way to succeed, you get perks. Same with athletes, musicians, writers, composers, poets, artists. Even amoral corporate execs.
I have not and never will be able to put myself in a situation of celebrity perks. Neither will you. I pay a heavy price for my mistakes, my stupidities and so do you. And yeah it is unfair. There are two sets of rules.
But it is what it is, baby.
Sheen had an advantage coming from an acting family, but he still had to deliver to succeed as he did. And he did deliver and I hope he does again. I'd like to see him make it back to the silver screen.
I like the guy.
He is insane. This world needs more of that kind of insanity.
People ask me why I love Keith Richards so much. My answer, in part, is that he is a multi-millionaire derelict. That is my ultimate goal.
Charlie Sheen fits the same mold.
The article I just read in Rolling Stone makes it clear that he has not mended his ways, downing shots of tequila in the restaurant where he is being interviewed.
His father talks about what a sweet kid he is when he ain't boozing and holds out hope for The Ultimate Epiphany.
Why?
Leave the man be.
Maybe he is the answer to this wimpy society we have bred and maybe he is a warrior against the hypocrisy of the entertainment world, nay, the entire employment world.
Question everything, fight back, don't take shit from anybody.
These rules make sense to me.
And if you have an occasional melt down involving porn stars, drugs, alcohol, law suits, getting canned, tiger blood and winning; so be it.
This world has become sanitized and we are all under someone else's thumb.
Charlie Sheen is doing it his own way, baby and the established order can't handle it.
Me, I celebrate the ripples in the pond.