Charlie Sheen's Media Tour

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 10:57:08 PM EST
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Until tonight, I managed to avoid the Charlie Sheen Unmagical Mystery Tour, where every network is giving him prominent air time. I caught about 15 minutes of 20/20, just enough to wonder what world he's living in. He's straight now he says, and there's no drugs in the house he's living in with his "two goddesses", a p*rn star and model.

He pooh-poohed all the negative reports on his behavior, and blamed his New York hotel brouhaha on, of all things, Ambien, which he called "the devil's aspirin." He's not into pills he said, and Ambien wasn't part of his "normal blend." He chain-smoked through the interview.

As to the speculation he's bi-polar: "And then what? What's the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen."

He's obviously intelligent. And oddly entertaining to watch -- in very small doses. But despite what he believes, he's really not that interesting. Or sexy. Or charismatic. As this writer says, "Finally: Charlie Sheen is bats--t crazy. And Charlie Sheen is perfectly sane." [More...]

And oddly enough, he may be winning the media battle. Meanwhile, his wife Brooke Mueller got a restraining order against him today, and a judge refused to cut off his custody. The kids have been staying with him lately. He pays $110,000 a month in child support. (Update 3/2: The police came to Sheen's house Tuesday night and removed his sons based on the restraining order which alleged he threatened Mueller. Charlie was on the Today show to talk about it.)

And now, you can follow him on Twitter. Apparently, a lot of people are choosing to do that.

He did turn down one show: Nancy Grace. So he hasn't lost all his marbles.

I wish Charlie Sheen good luck. I think he has a long road ahead of him and he's going to have a lot of fences to mend before he gets to the end. His judgment doesn't seem to be the best.

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Bi-polar (5.00 / 2) (#2)
by Tony on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 01:14:10 AM EST

He sounds and acts like every bi-polar person I've ever met who's in their manic phase.

It's hard not to watch. I'm following him on twitter and it's easy to be entertained, until you realize there's a real person in there somewhere. Nonetheless, I am, like the rest of the country, captivated. Not particularly proud of it, but it's true.

I really liked this article by NPR blogger Linda Holmes.

: That was my reaction -- called a friend and said (none / 0) (#42)
by jawbone on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 08:31:42 PM EST

our bi-polar friend was on TV.... She gets more of his calls (midnight, 3AM, 6AM, etc.) than I do and couldn't take watching Sheen.
Mostly I was very upset that our MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) is using an obviously sick person for their own benefit.
The terrible thing is that there is nothing we can do for our friend, except wait out the manic phases and then try to get his friends (remaining friends; bi-polar episodes are deadly on friendships) where he lives now to get him to a doc. Does not always work.
Then we try to help him get back some of the money he spent manicly.
Charlie Sheen has lots more money to spend, lots more power, so how he gets help I don't know.

: Psychological diagnoses are crap (none / 0) (#72)
by NealB on Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 06:17:47 PM EST

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the APA is worse than the Judeo-Christian bible. Well, not worse so much as the same myth-based idiocy. Its sole purpose is to legitimize condemnation (and forced restraint) of others the thing(s) feared in ourselves.

He does have some great lines (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by jbindc on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 12:48:18 PM EST

"I'm not bi-polar, I'm bi-winning. I win here and I win there.

and

"I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground."

"Stay away from the crack, which I think is pretty good advice, unless you can manage it socially."

"You're dealing with a vatican assassin. Sorry. I'm a high priest vatican assassin warlock."

"You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard. It fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this terrestrial realm. When you've got tiger blood and Adonis DNA, it's like, get with the program dude."

and, my pesonal favorite and what I will think will be my new tag line:

"I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total bitchin' rock star from Mars."

I don't want to laugh at what looks like (5.00 / 2) (#17)
by vml68 on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 01:09:40 PM EST

definite signs of mental illness but the "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA" just crack me up. I cannot imagine being able to keep a straight face if any guy were to say that to me.


I know, and I agree (none / 0) (#19)
by jbindc on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 01:18:45 PM EST

they played many of these (and others) on a local radio show this morning, and they were even talking about how bad is everyone in the media going to feel if this guy crashes and ends up hurt or dead, but you can't help but laugh at some of these.

Between Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan, we have two very good examples of what happens to your brain on drugs.


I don't think (5.00 / 1) (#33)
by Jeralyn on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 03:20:14 PM EST

you can say either is permanently damaged by drug use. Lindsay was totally together in her Kimmel appearance after the Oscars. And Charlie may not be the way he is because of drug use, it could just be the way he's wired.

Not all recreational drug users fall to pieces or suffer serious mental impairment. You sound like an advertisement for the National Drug Control Policy office.


Right (none / 0) (#35)
by jbindc on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 03:25:33 PM EST

Because drugs don't do damage to the brain.

And Charlie and Lindsay are not "recreational" users.

Sounds like a NORML position.


: NORML (none / 0) (#37)
by Jeralyn on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 03:59:24 PM EST

addresses only marijuana reform. I don't know if either Sheen or Lindsay smoke pot. They have used other drugs and alcohol.
According to this 2010 UN report, 6 million people in North America used cocaine in 2008. (Table 22) Do you think they all have brain damage?
I'm not advocating drug use. I'm objecting to your opinion, stated as fact, that it causes long-term brain damage.

I don't think anyone who uses drugs (none / 0) (#36)
by Anne on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 03:56:28 PM EST

or drinks alcohol does so with the intent to damage their minds or bodies, but some discover that it feels like it fixes something that's broken in them - and these are often the people who get into trouble; they're self-medicating instead of addressing the reasons why they don't feel normal or why they hurt so bad.

And that's not the drugs' fault; anyone who's ever walked into their house at the end of a sceamingly stressful day and headed right for the liquor cabinet or the wine rack was also self-medicating - and it's only when happy hour arrives at breakfast time instead of dinner time that anyone ever thinks there's a problem.

I don't profess to know what sent Lohan and Sheen down the paths they've been traveling, but in a society awash in alcohol and whose airwaves send out the message that drugs - the legal kind - are the answer to everything that's wrong with us, it's not hard to understand how they ended up where they are.


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