The Torpedo Tour opened to mostly bad reviews. Although the Sheen camp chalked it up to one small group unsatisfied with the performance gaining control of the audience and inciting a mob mentality. However, there are many shows left to turn things around - let's see if he is up to the challenge.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Bret Easton Ellis Calls it Performance Art
Having to dodge bullets and defend knee-jerk reactions against his work of fiction that was so clearly absurdist satire, Ellis is no stranger himself to notoriety.
His take is refreshingly logical and well thought out and tidily places Sheen within the sickening time we live in:
It’s thrilling watching someone call out the solemnity of the celebrity interview, and Sheen is loudly calling it out as the sham it is. He’s raw and lucid and intense: the most fascinating person wandering through the culture. (No, guys, it’s not Colin Firth or David Fincher or Bruno Mars or super-Empire Tiger Woods.) We’re not used to these kinds of interviews. It’s coming off almost as performance art and we’ve never seen anything like it—because he’s not apologizing. It’s an irresistible spectacle. We’ve never seen a celebrity more nakedly revealing—even in Sheen’s evasions there’s a truthful playfulness that makes Tiger’s mea culpa press conference look like something manufactured by Nicholas Sparks.
Full article Bret Easton Ellis on Charlie Sheen
Source: The Daily Beast
Charlie Sheen for President?
Talks between critical players in deciding Charlie Sheen's potential return to Two and A Half Men and other shows could break out of rumor status real soon.
Read full story Charlie to Return to TV?
But to go so far as to say Charlie has more of a shot (in degrees of popularity) then say, Sarah Palin, at a successful run for presidency, now that sounds more like pure spin from the rumor mill. Yet defeat Palin he did, in addition to one-upping a ridiculously more credible candidate, residing current President Barack Obama, in a recent Public Policy Poll published by Time Magazine.
"Conversely (yet somewhat unsurprisingly), Republicans would rather see Sheen and his goddesses turn the White House into Sober Valley Lodge than give Obama a second term in office, by a slim margin of 37-28. Now that's saying something."
Wow. Read Time Poll & Story here: Sheen for President
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Mindy Kaling Admires Charlie's Vocabulary
It's nice to see Charlie getting credit for the astounding imagination and vocabulary he's unleashed on the public. Writer/Director/Actress of The Office fame Mindy Kaling had an interesting spin on Mr. Sheen's word choice:
“He’s taking time to articulate what a hideous troll you are. I mean, where does the language come from? He has like, a thesaurus."
Read Full Story
source: EW.com
Howard Stern on Charlie Sheen
The King of All Media says a few words on Charlie Sheen in this month's issue of Rolling Stone:
"I sort of admire Charlie Sheen's ability to say f**k you to the world," Stern admitted. "It's a fascinating car wreck because, you know, how many people are in Hollywood dying for a hit television show? I don't know whether to give him a medal or to throw him in a loony bin."
Source: Full Excerpt
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Winning?
The antics of Charlie Sheen have been in and out of the spotlight for decades now. What's different about today's center spotlight media chokehold is that his previous escapades were somehow managed or manageable.
Legendary stories of sex, drugs and violence perpetuated by Charlie, hard to ignore, would surface and disappear. With too much money to be lost by those benefiting from his fame, handlers and PR people must have undoubtedly worked overtime behind the scenes, practicing safe and effective damage control.
But Charlie is having none of it, no longer. Offering no apologies for living a life the way he sees fit, regardless of how unconventional that life may be, he's bulldozed his way into the public eye and seems intent on staying there.
Freedom to live as one chooses is the benchmark of living in a democracy. If looked at a certain way, Charlie is simply living his unique American dream, and to him, this can be summed up by the simplicity of his oft-repeated mantra of "winning."
A lot of mean things are being said about him. To some he's sad and pathetic; to others, the greatest thing on Earth. Wherever you fall on this spectrum, how he acts and how others react to his actions - this can be a great springboard for discussion.Contradictions abound.
Certainly there is something admirable about breaking loose from the machine, at considerable risk to an already deeply flawed public image and just kind of hanging out there on your own. How far he is going to distance himself from the PR machine, though, is questionable to some. Exhausting the talk show circuit and brazenly thrusting his unorthodox personal life on the public, not only painting with excessive detail a world where multiple partners are porn stars and recreational drug use is SOP, he not only wants it all out in the open as an idealistic, desirable and healthy way of living but he wants us to buy into it.
Not too sure how the notion of his life as an example and aspiration will be swallowed by a public brought up to chase an American ideal of a balanced and healthy functioning family unit where simple pursuits like homeownership, putting children through college, achieving a satifying career and being financially sound enough to enjoy a couple vacations a year are the norm. During a confusing political time and a struggling economy where these time-honored traditions and pursuits are becoming more and more difficult to achieve for so many, only time will tell how all this will pan out.
If anything, Charlie Sheen is offering a source of entertainment to some, a pretty standard text book example of schadenfreude. As cruel as this phenomenon can be, maybe Charlie doesn't truly see it this way, if he's as self-actualized as he wants us to believe.
Legendary stories of sex, drugs and violence perpetuated by Charlie, hard to ignore, would surface and disappear. With too much money to be lost by those benefiting from his fame, handlers and PR people must have undoubtedly worked overtime behind the scenes, practicing safe and effective damage control.
But Charlie is having none of it, no longer. Offering no apologies for living a life the way he sees fit, regardless of how unconventional that life may be, he's bulldozed his way into the public eye and seems intent on staying there.
Freedom to live as one chooses is the benchmark of living in a democracy. If looked at a certain way, Charlie is simply living his unique American dream, and to him, this can be summed up by the simplicity of his oft-repeated mantra of "winning."
A lot of mean things are being said about him. To some he's sad and pathetic; to others, the greatest thing on Earth. Wherever you fall on this spectrum, how he acts and how others react to his actions - this can be a great springboard for discussion.Contradictions abound.
Certainly there is something admirable about breaking loose from the machine, at considerable risk to an already deeply flawed public image and just kind of hanging out there on your own. How far he is going to distance himself from the PR machine, though, is questionable to some. Exhausting the talk show circuit and brazenly thrusting his unorthodox personal life on the public, not only painting with excessive detail a world where multiple partners are porn stars and recreational drug use is SOP, he not only wants it all out in the open as an idealistic, desirable and healthy way of living but he wants us to buy into it.
Not too sure how the notion of his life as an example and aspiration will be swallowed by a public brought up to chase an American ideal of a balanced and healthy functioning family unit where simple pursuits like homeownership, putting children through college, achieving a satifying career and being financially sound enough to enjoy a couple vacations a year are the norm. During a confusing political time and a struggling economy where these time-honored traditions and pursuits are becoming more and more difficult to achieve for so many, only time will tell how all this will pan out.
If anything, Charlie Sheen is offering a source of entertainment to some, a pretty standard text book example of schadenfreude. As cruel as this phenomenon can be, maybe Charlie doesn't truly see it this way, if he's as self-actualized as he wants us to believe.
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