I hated watching a woman catch a nail in her shoe on a carpet snag and continue down the hallway as the carpet unraveled behind her. I also hate to watch Charlie Sheen come apart more every day. Ever since his celebrated fall from grace with his bosses at “Two And A Half Men,” Sheen has erratically unraveled more each time he interviews or performs. He’s bragged about being a crack addict, seeing nothing wrong with crack if you could handle it like HE could.
Huh!?
His interviews show otherwise. He is twitchy, random, angry, and not able to stay on any subject, other than bragging up his own machismo, moxie. and making anything he touches turn to gold.
It is just sad.
So why do we pay a guy like this--for interviews, movies, or one man shows?
He was greeted by a standing ovation inside Playhouse Square's State Theater when he opened his “Terrible Torpedo of Truth” tour in Cleveland. Wearing an Indian's jersey, the man who played Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the movie "Major League" knew how to milk and bilk the hometown crowd. He identified with their pain, comparing his feelings for his ex-wives with Cleveland’s toward Lebron James.
"It was boring honestly, no offense. I mean he's not a comedian. Stay on ‘Two and a half Men,’" said Gino Capriato of Cleveland. James Estrada from Bowling Green, added: "I thought it was horrible, there was a lot of people that were kind of cheering and egging him on, so it just kind of went everywhere; there was really no order to it, no structure or anything like that," he said. "It was kind of a waste of 50 bucks." Some paid over $300 per ticket.
But why?
Is this voyeurism a way of feeling better about our sins when we see the famous falling because of theirs?
Plenty of stones have been slung at Sheen. His producers didn’t want him. Pretty soon his fading star will completely burn out…unless he changes his ways.
Will we learn anything from Charlie’s self-destruction and spiraling down? Or will many follow him down the path of his losing philosophy of life that says: “Drugs (or fill in the destructive behavior here) are fine IF you can handle them?”
Jesus warned that people will be more easily deceived in the last days. By that standard, it seems the end is near: “…False prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them…every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved…who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness” (Matthew 7:15-16; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12).
