Thursday, March 3, 2011

THE 'ROCK STAR FROM MARS'

What are we supposed to think about Charlie Sheen?

I saw him on TV the other day and he really did say he is a "rock star from Mars."

My god. How did the highest paid TV star in history -- $1.8 million per episode, I think -- get to be so nuts? Is it ego? Is it drugs? Is it another example of "We loved Elvis to death" as Merle Haggard once said?  

Let's start a betting pool. Here are the options:
1 - Charlie gets psychiatric help and goes on meds and gets better.
2 - Charlie lips off to the wrong guy in a bar some night and gets his clock cleaned so badly that he never comes out of the coma.
3 - Charlie drives into a light pole on PCH and that's the sad, bitter end.
4 - Charlie gets hired back on the TV show, "Two And A Half Idiots," ah, er, "Two And A Half Men," and things go on, and on, as they were, forever, like endless re-runs.
5 - Charlie wises up on his own and becomes normal.
6 - Charlie gives all his money to charity and becomes a Buddhist monk.
7 - Ratings on the show drop to zero, but Charlie keeps doing it on his own dime.
8 - We all get sick of talking about him and he goes away.
9 - Charlie goes back to Mars and we are all much happier.
10 - Charlie does one too many lines of coke some night, drinks a few too many shooters, and that's all she wrote.

Let me know what you think. I think the whole thing is really sad.  

© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle

(Links:)
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital

3 comments:

John said...

I like #8 I have never even seen the man but everyone seems to know who he is. Am I missing out on something?

Sharine said...

I think Charlie Sheen has been consciously creating the ultimate reality show for the last few months since his string of binges hit the "news."

This "drama" will culminate in a an actual television show but will continue to involve "news" outlets as part of the plot.

And quite possibly, CBS will become Charlie's Broadcasting Spectacle.

The Goddesses? Shit. People will believe anything.

Roger R. Angle said...

"The Goddesses?"
Huh?
I don't get it.