Charlie Sheen has set a new record in attracting followers of a Twitter account, reaching his first million faster than even Lady GaGa. It′s easy to see why. Last night, for example, Sheen ‘tweeted’ that thanks to “lunar channeling”, he has come up with a titled to a proposed tell-all book he intends to write…”Apocalypse Me”. Film fans will recall that his father, Martin Sheen, starred in the movie “Apocalypse Now”. A reworking of the 1902 Joseph Conard novel “Heart of Darkness” reset during the Vietnam War. The two questions here are: A) how will Kurtz-Sheen self-destruct in this real-life epic and B) why are we so fascinated by such train and car wrecks? Perhaps ′Question B′ should be is Charlie Sheen Hollywood′s answer to NASCAR?
Many people often ask why I still live in Detroit? The simple answer is, Detroit is not Hollywood! Even in the ‘fair city of Detroit’, when a man threatens to sever his wife′s head and mail it to her mother, the man usually winds up either in a jail cell or rubber-coated room of a psychiatric ward. But in Hollywood, such a man sets records for new Twitter followers and earns millions of dollars. He even gets to live in mansion with a model and a porn star! You gotta wonder why the NOW chapter in California is not picketing is home 24/7 for his misogyny?
I suppose it is a Midwestern ‘thing’. Detroiters work hard for a living and attempt, usually with some success, to live normal, moral lives. If there is any redeeming factor to Charlie Sheen′s behavior, it is that it does provide us a distraction from other events in the world, such as unrest in the Middle East or news that the National Debt has grown to $14.2 Trillion dollars. General George S. Patton Jr. once said that “America loves a winner.” In the age where NASCAR is about as popular as NFL football, America also loves a car crash, too!
Charlie Sheen is headed for the South Wall at 200 MPH and his brakes have failed. In both ″Apocalypse Now″ and “Heart of Darkness”, the Kurtz character is insane and dying. He’s a genius gone bad and has become delusional with god-like opinions of himself. During the recent series of interviews this past week, Sheen describes himself as super-human, an “Adonis” with “tiger blood”. Mortal men would died instantly while ingesting 7-gram rocks of crack cocaine. But not Charlie Sheen! “Winning!”
So the latest freak-show epic continues to roll forward as Charlie Sheen goes “beyond the pale of any acceptable, human conduct.” Will the “better angels of our nature” prevail in his case? Sheen may be setting new records on Twitter and living large with a model and a porn star, but does anybody see any possible happy ending in this? I suspect that in entitling his tell-all book “Apocalypse Me”, Charlie Sheen is writing his own epitaph. This whole affair is looking more and more like the “South Park” episode where Britney Spears shoots half of her face off with a shotgun. Celebrity self-destruct is America′s newest blood sport and Charlie Sheen is the latest contestant to see whom can have the messiest, most spectacular ending. “The horror…the horror…”
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March 4th, 2011 at 8:38 am
We watch because the guy seems to have it all and is in the process of self destructing. It’s a sad but true part of human nature that the have nots, and those who struggle for what they have, will resent the haves or those to whom what they have seems to come without effort.
I read today that Craig Ferguson has decided that he no longer finds the funny in this. I think he’s a class act. No matter what you think of Sheen as an actor, his show or his lifestyle, this truly is a trainwreck and there will be casualties.
March 4th, 2011 at 8:51 am
I’ve seen this so many times its not even funny.
The grandiose before the crash.
Regular folks with limited enabling crash and burn much quicker sometimes bringing them the much needed epiphany.
Whats sad is when you have as much money as Sheen does you wont reach that point of awakening in time.
All one can do is sit back and watch the train wreck in slo-mo and scrape up the survivors once it all comes to a halt.
Intervention only works at certain levels of progression. His attitude puts him past that.
March 4th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Nobody wants to call NOW a bunch of hypocrites? They were all over Schwarzenegger for the ‘Hollywood equivalent’ of a pat on the butt. Sheen has a long, long history of using and abusing women.
I feel for his kids. but beyond that I’ll admit that I’m enjoying this. It could not have happened to a better person. I’ll bet his daddy is really proud of the fine job he did raising Charlie.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
@Andy – Totally agree that his treatment of women is appalling…. though I will say some of these chicks do seem to be doing as effective a job degrading themselves as Sheen does. (Yes, I am a woman saying this.) As for Ahnold, while his offense may have been minor in comparison, I do tend to hold governors to a higher standard than sit-com actors.