Charlie Who? Assignment 4-1

The name Charlie Sheen has been used in the last two decades in reference to a  phenomenal actor and a movie icon. Sadly, now the name stimulates jokes and concern for a truly troubled individual. One can hardly turn on the television or radio nowadays without this self proclaimed "rock star from Mars"  being mentioned in a negative way. Whether it's news of his latest episodes of debauchery or an update on his diminishing career, it's all too impossible to ignore. Charlie Sheen has irrevocably  hit rock bottom. Within the last 10 days Mr. Sheen has lost his job, custody of his twin boys with ex wife Brooke Mueller, and whatever respect the world still had for him. At first, I thought that maybe all of these losses would be a wake up call after seeing a live interview with him on the Today Show on March 2nd. In it he appeared coherent and truly shaken by the taking of his two children by the police the night before, but it seems to have been short lived. Yesterday a video surfaced of a rant that Charlie Sheen recorded on UStream where he speaks of trolls, warlocks and deems himself the "Malibu Messiah". Most of the video, though, was engulfed by his rage towards his previous employers as he vented that his termination from the hit CBS show, "Two and a Half Men", was illegal. This video comes just two days before his clip on Funnyordie.com where he posted a faux cooking show. Charlie named his show "Winning Recipes" and on it he joked that his “fingers tips radiate sunshine” that he waters his garden with “tears of a jaguar.” If I truly thought that it was all a joke then this cooking show spoof might actually be funny. Unfortunately, all of his mentions of magic wands and cauldrons are just a bit too disturbing.  Is this the end of of this Hollywood star?  I believe it is. Charlie Sheen is an attic that was already losing his grasp on reality with his out of control partying and now he has lost his job and his children, too. His many stints in rehab were not able to rid him of his demons so it is impossible to imagine that anything can. As no one is able to lasso in this troubled soul my guess is that within five years the conversation will be less about Charlie Sheen and more about Charlie who?.