Bret Easton Ellis Calls it Performance Art

I don't think anyone can capture what Charlie Sheen is doing to our celeb-obsessed culture better than novelist Bret Easton Ellis, best know for penning opus American Psycho, which was adapted for the big screen to a deafening roar from feminists who reacted vociferously to his alleged objectification of women.

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.

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Source: The Daily Beast