Yeah, it’s getting scary. Rooftop, machete, something called tiger’s blood, which makes me think of Michael Jackson’s Jesus Blood, and more wild proclamations.
Is anyone trying to have him committed? And if not, why not?
Because he’s famous and has money; that makes him the American version of an aristocrat. He’ll be allowed to run wild until he commits a crime too big and public to ignore, as is standard practice with such people.
On the news this morning they showed some sort of webclip with him ranting …
He looked like absolute shit, his hair was a mess, he was looking like he has been on a 3 day amphetamines jag, and doing the psychotic break thing.
Can’t some shrink who sees him ranting like that sign papers on him to do one of those commit for observation period things on him based on that clip? Holy shit, he looks like he could grab a gun and do a McDonalds driveby at any minute. If I were anybody on the production staff, I would be seriously worried for my life :eek:
The goddesses already have two openings for Charlie.
Three.
Each.
Ewww. I wouldn’t use THAT one.
“NO! Poor people are crazy, Jack. I’m eccentric.”
I don’t know exactly what the laws are for involuntary commitment in California. If it was here in Illinois, literally *any *adult could (try to) get him to the ER and convince a doctor that Sheen was a danger to himself or others for a 72 hour evaluation hold. Doesn’t have to be a family member, or even anyone who actually knows him.
And yeah, he needs serious help.
My guess - only a guess, of course - is that he hasn’t had much contact with anyone except The Goddesses (who are clearly terrified) and a couple of reporters, who are probably hiding behind some kind of nonintervention journalistic theory, and his lawyer, who probably couldn’t get him to order a half-caf these days. It’s sad, but I don’t think they have men in white coats who come to your home anymore when you’re losing it. I think someone needs to actually get him to go *to *the hospital, or he needs to commit a crime first.
Plus, Charlie’s got untold millions for lawyers and a vengeful streak a mile wide - what doctor wants to risk him getting his shit together for those 72 hours, getting out, and suing everyone involved for malpractice?
Here’s a relevant article from the New York Times. They interviewed Tom Arnold (who had issues of his own:
“I went to a person close to him and said, ‘This guy is in serious trouble with serious drugs. We’ve got to help him,’” Mr. Arnold recalled in an interview. “And this person flat-out told me to my face, ‘We make a lot of money from him. I can’t be part of it.’ That tells you everything you need to know.”
Hmmm…and from Dewey Finn’s link:
(bolding mine)
It sucks to be Conchata Ferrell & Holland Taylor. Finding work on network TV if you’re a woman who is not young and gorgeous is next to impossible. I love Ferrell and waited decades for her to get a hit show.
I don’t think the lack of a morals clause covers crazy. His solo webcast is a self-recorded mental breakdown. His delusions of grandeur are quite evident.
Yes, but is there a crazy clause in his contract? He claims (and I haven’t heard anyone dispute this) that despite his excesses he is always at work when scheduled, so that whatever crazy things he’s saying and whatever crazy things he’s ingesting, it hasn’t affected his work.
IIRC the show has been on hiatus at least twice for him to go to rehab. If true, would that constitute grounds for firing?
You stole my response!
My neighbor works in a state hospital in Illinois and she said it’s next to impossible to commit someone unless they are a clear and present danger to themselves or someone else. That means they have to clearly be a danger and that danger has to be present. Not something they’ve done in the past or are likely to do a year from now.
I find a lot of these things Sheen says to be way to clever for him. I am suspcious that he has some kind of writer, writing things for him to say, so he can sound like this. Why? So he can gain publicity.
Remember he still gets money from reruns. The more he’s exposed the more likely people will tune into his show in reruns “just to see what it’s about.”
As for Sheens look, yes he does look bad, but a lot of it is simply 'cause he’s not made up. He’s a middle aged man. On his show his hair is professionally styled, his skin is worked over so it’s all smooth, he wears veneers over his teeth.
I’ve seen Oprah without her makeup and she looks horrible. Whoever does her makeup deserves an Emmy as she looks bad without it.
Even TV anchors I’ve seen around Chicago look a lot worse without make up.
So you can’t go by look alone.
Of course this isn’t to say he isn’t on drugs and that is 'causing him to look so bad. It’s just you gotta look at another side as well.
What he is saying is obviously spur of the moment. He is reacting to what is being said to him and blurting out the first thing that comes to his mind. He’s making video rorschack tests of himself.
Yeah, but I was thinking of his father and his brother, who are also rich and famous, thus immune to threats of being cut off.
I dunno. I’m uncomfortable with the sentiment that someone should be able to have another involuntarily confined easily.