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Charlie Sheen's Media Tour

By Jeralyn

Until tonight, I managed to avoid the Charlie Sheen Unmagical Mystery Tour, where every network is giving him prominent air time. I caught about 15 minutes of 20/20, just enough to wonder what world he's living in. He's straight now he says, and there's no drugs in the house he's living in with his "two goddesses", a p*rn star and model.

He pooh-poohed all the negative reports on his behavior, and blamed his New York hotel brouhaha on, of all things, Ambien, which he called "the devil's aspirin." He's not into pills he said, and Ambien wasn't part of his "normal blend." He chain-smoked through the interview.

As to the speculation he's bi-polar: "And then what? What's the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen."

He's obviously intelligent. And oddly entertaining to watch -- in very small doses. But despite what he believes, he's really not that interesting. Or sexy. Or charismatic. As this writer says, "Finally: Charlie Sheen is bats--t crazy. And Charlie Sheen is perfectly sane." [More...]

And oddly enough, he may be winning the media battle. Meanwhile, his wife Brooke Mueller got a restraining order against him today, and a judge refused to cut off his custody. The kids have been staying with him lately. He pays $110,000 a month in child support.

And now, you can follow him on Twitter. Apparently, a lot of people are choosing to do that.

He did turn down one show: Nancy Grace. So he hasn't lost all his marbles.

I wish Charlie Sheen good luck. I think he has a long road ahead of him and he's going to have a lot of fences to mend before he gets to the end. His judgment doesn't seem to be the best.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).