Charlie Sheen, Out of Control

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.