Charlie Sheen

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#699
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-groner/has-the-media-been-fair-t_b_829504.html

Everyone's talking about Charlie Sheen's radio rant and meltdown. He'll appear on 20/20 tonight in which, according to released clips, he'll discuss the recent uproar over his comments about CBS and Two and a Half Men. Now, he's reportedly demanding a raise and looking to write a $10 million tell-all book about his experiences at CBS. Faced with Sheen's self-destructive and strange behavior, should the media back off from this story, or are journalists, with captivated audiences in mind, providing an appropriate response?

The media is exploiting him: This is "a story with absolutely no socially redeeming value," says David Zurawik in the Baltimore Sun. Once CBS pulled the plug on "Men," "a responsible TV press would have moved on and let Sheen debase himself in private." But we keep pushing, pretending "we are doing something important by pointing a camera at this sorry wreck of an actor and miking him up for more ridiculous and ignorant quotes." Reporters are acting like "jackals" - "Is TV not feeding off the remains of Sheen's celebrity carcass?" We should be above that.

It's troubling, and bad for Sheen: "When a drunken fan runs onto the field at a baseball game, all the cameras look away," says Aaron Barnhart in The Kansas City Star. Back off, people. "It's time for all the tabloid media to stop returning Charlie's texts and calls. Instead, they should be using their journalism to identify the people around Charlie who can actually get him into a rehab facility -- against his will if necessary -- and then start badgering them to do something."

He welcomes the coverage: "The hilarity is lessened by the fear that he's self-destructing before our eyes, though if he is, it's not very high on the list of tragic things in the world," says Jaime Weinman in Maclean's. This is "his own decision" which is what makes this meltdown "so entertaining" to watch. There's also less of a "guilt factor involved" because "there's also the feeling that he knows exactly what he's doing." There's also a sense that he "wouldn't listen (hasn't listened) to anyone, whether or not there was a media circus going on."
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#700
I admit I was SHOCKED to hear that Piers Morgan was interviewing Charlie Sheen tonight -- makes me wonder, would Larry King have jumped on the bandwagon and done the same thing? Or would he have remained a respectable journalist and stayed on the sidelines, allowing the other networks and TV hosts jump at the chance to play a role in Sheen's mental breakdown?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2011/02/charlie_sheen_exclusives_why_m.html

It is amazing how many "exclusive" interviews there can be with one celebrity.

Monday NBC, ABC, CNN, Access Hollywood and the E! channel all claimed "exclusives" with the TV's latest commitment of major airtime and promotional energies to a story with absolutely no socially redeeming value: interviews with Charlie Sheen. (Others probably made the claim as well, and I simply missed them.)

Last week, Sheen's crazed sense of self importance and anti-Semitism had already been revealed, and CBS pulled the plug of his series, "Two and a Half Men." At that point, a responsible TV press would have moved on and let Sheen debase himself in private -- if that was how he wanted to spend what was left of his career and fame.

But no, not our TV industry. We can't get enough of it, and we act like we are doing something important by pointing a camera at this sorry wreck of an actor and miking him up for more ridiculous and ignorant quotes.

This tweet from CNNPR and Piers Morgan Monday night touting the talkshow host's interview with Sheen neatly encapsulates the empty-headed TV-think behind the current Charlie-Sheen-interview-o-rama taking place on our TV screens: "Piers Morgan by CNNPR...BREAKING NEWS: I promised 'dangerous'.. Charlie Sheen just arrived at CNN for 1st LIVE television i-v on @PiersTonight - starts 6pm PT"

That the word "dangerous" or the term "BREAKING NEWS" can even be used by anyone at CNN for something like a Piers Morgan interview with a zoned-out celebrity fruitcake like Sheen when CNN has correspondents risking their lives in the Middle East to bring us a fact-based and reliable account of epic social and political upheaval is astounding. I'll say no more, except Morgan is not alone in his lack of perspective and sense of proportion..

Virtually everyone is TV news is behaving like the jackals that some in high places these days call members of the press. Is TV not feeding off the remains of Sheen's celebrity carcass? The media's excessive and shameless surrender of airtime in hopes of getting a large audience to witness the spectacle of Sheen's decline makes all who participate in that game not much better than him -- maybe worse

Are you watching and watching and watching the endless succession of "exclusive" Sheen interviews? What do you think? Is there anything socially redeeming about them -- or are they evidence of how celebrity-saturated and value-lacking our culture has become?

Or, is the fault not in TV, but rather in us -- that we want to see how low and crazy it can get for Sheen right before our eyes? Do you think maybe watching Sheen in his agitated and sorry state somehow makes us feel good, and TV is just the procurer of that sick pleasure for us?
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#701
Don't think this has been mentioned yet, but Charlie's long-time publicist and close friend just quit today.

Stan Rosenfield sent the following statement to ABCNews.com today: "I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much. However, at this time, I'm unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned."

The resignation comes just days after Sheen sang Rosenfield's praises to ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning.

"Stan's great," Sheen said. "He's not a publicist. He's a press agent. A little more vintage, you know? And Stan's beautiful. He's a beautiful man. And I just want to just hug him and just rub his head."

When Canning asked Sheen if he's a tough client, the actor responded: "I'm an exciting client."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ist-stan-rosenfield-resigns/story?id=12785991
 
#702
Here is more on that...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/charlie-sheen-publicist-quits_n_829324.html

Charlie's response....Sheen struck back, saying, "P**sy. He's not allowed to quit, so you're fired."



*want it all* said:
Don't think this has been mentioned yet, but Charlie's long-time publicist and close friend just quit today.

Stan Rosenfield sent the following statement to ABCNews.com today: "I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much. However, at this time, I'm unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned."

The resignation comes just days after Sheen sang Rosenfield's praises to ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning.

"Stan's great," Sheen said. "He's not a publicist. He's a press agent. A little more vintage, you know? And Stan's beautiful. He's a beautiful man. And I just want to just hug him and just rub his head."

When Canning asked Sheen if he's a tough client, the actor responded: "I'm an exciting client."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ist-stan-rosenfield-resigns/story?id=12785991
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#703
chantal1922 said:
I feel bad for his children. One day they are going to see these interviews.
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they've already seen it!!!
I just got done watching this morning's episode of ACCESS HOLLYWOOD LIVE (I have it set on my DVR -- I didn't record it because of this!), and they had Jeff Rossen on the show and of course, showed excerpts from the interview -- they asked Jeff what it was like when he got to the house, was the house in disarray, was Charlie all over the place, etc -- he said that when they got there, it appeared like any other normal house -- children's pics on the fridge, the chef was cooking breakfast for everyone, his two "Goddesses" were there helping Charlie get ready for the interview, and. . . HIS TWIN SONS WERE ON THE BACK PORCH BEING TENDED TO BY THE NANNY!!! So apparently, Brooke has chosen to leave their kids with Charlie while this whole thing is going on --

Honestly, I thought I had heard it all!!!

(altho I will say that Jeff did say that Charlie DOES seem to grasp what's going on -- he says it was almost like talking to a genius, who uses all these big words and grand gestures to get their point across -- but he DOES believe that he's in trouble and that there's definitely reason for concern. I just can't believe that two little boys under the age of 2 have been left in Charlie's care right now -- with a nanny, of course (and no, it's not the porn star - it's an ACTUAL nanny))
 
#704
Poor Denise. For years people didn't know he was such a douche and sided w/ him after their divorce. She seems like a really good mom, I have no doubt he's not seeing her girls at all right now and she's protecting them.
 
#705
I just can't believe the Mom's are not filing emergency visitation orders, and I include Denise. Brooke must be just as bad as Charlie.

I was kind of shocked that Denise seem to stand up for Charlie after the NYC fiasco. I would have tried to have supervised visitation after that nightmare.
 
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