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

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