Charlie Sheen, Out of Control

Published in Libération
(France) on 8 March 2011
by Fabrice Rousselot (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Courtney Webster. Edited by Heidi Kaufmann.
Those who would like to can read in this Wednesday’s Libération the tragic comedy that Charlie Sheen has brought to America the past three weeks. The open warfare that he entered into with Warner Bros. and CBS, which just fired him from his sitcom, “Two and a Half Men,” took on epic proportions. And no one knows whether to laugh or cry.

Just to have you understand this madness, I want to post the link for the latest video that the actor has put on online streaming on his new web page, Sheen’s Korner. For those who watch it, Sheen seems to be losing it, with insults, incomprehensible sentences and uncontrolled facial tics.

The New York Times, which had long neglected the Sheen crisis, finally decided to devote two articles to the actor. In one of them, the newspaper tells the story of the actor’s long decline and his addiction to alcohol and cocaine. But it also tells how everyone in Hollywood left Sheen without trying to help him simply because he was the star of a hit series with 15 million viewers each week. And he brought in a lot of money …

I’ll leave you to think about the moral of this sad story, if indeed there is still any morality in Hollywood.


Ceux qui en ont envie pourront lire dans Libération de ce mercredi la tragi comédie à laquelle Charlie Sheen soumet l'Amérique depuis trois semaines. La guerre ouverte qu'il entretient avec Warner Bros et CBS, qui viennent de le virer de sa sitcom "Two and a Half Men", a pris d'épiques dimensions. Et on ne sait plus si on doit en rire ou en pleurer.

Juste pour bien comprendre la folie de la chose, je voulais vous poster le lien vers la dernière vidéo que l'acteur a mis en ligne en streaming sur sa nouvelle chronique web Sheen's Korner. Pour ceux qui iront voir, Sheen a l'air de naviguer en plein délire. Entre insultes, phrases incompréhensibles et tics du visage incontrôlés.

Le New York Times, qui a longtemps délaissé l'affaire Sheen, a finalement décidé de consacrer deux articles à l'acteur. Dans l'un d'entre eux, le quotidien raconte la longue décadence du comédien, son addiction à l'alcool et à la cocaïne. Mais il raconte aussi comment tout le monde à Hollywood a laissé faire Sheen sans même essayer de l'aider, tout simplement parce qu'il était la vedette d'une série à succès avec 15 millions de téléspectateurs chaque semaine. Et qu'il rapportait beaucoup d'argent...
Je vous laisse cogiter sur la morale de cette triste histoire, si toutefois il y a encore une morale à Hollywood.
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