This past week has been full of Charlie Sheen in the News. The Police taking his kids and putting them under the custody of a still-in-rehab mother. His uncanny comments about fame and how his actions are affecting his daughters. His calling himself a rock star in an interview where he is supposed to come clean with his behavior. Many of us expected him to apologize and give a heartfelt performance that Fame and fortune was to be blamed for his bad behavior, yet he defies the odds by putting one bad act after another.
Rebellious celebrities are nothing new. We have seen rebels from Linday Lohan and countless of rock stars. Everyone pitied Lindsay Lohan because they felt she had missed a lot of her childhood and that her parents were fame and fortune seeking. My sentiments for Charlie are with the general public, he is being a bad example to his children and his measures to rectify the situation are not really helping. Yet it makes me wonder, is he doing this for the attention that the media is giving him?
May be there is no such a thing as bad publicity. His bad behavior is talked about more than anything good going on. May be real punishment for superstars isn’t publicity to damage their names; it is shunning them from publicity all together. If Charlie Sheen does something bad, there should be no mention of him in the gossip columns. Then again, good news doesn’t sell as much as bad. Yet my sentiment to this is we are making them celebrities by wanting to know why, or following the next worst thing. The silent treatment works in many situations, may be situations like Charlie Sheen need the same.
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