RAMBLE: Seriously, Leave the Man Alone!

SOURCE: People

I honestly don't know why I am bothering to write another post about Charlie Sheen, but here I am, doing exactly what I said I wouldn't do, which is give Charlie Sheen more publicity that is detrimental than beneficial or therapeutic.  But, as I chew on my foot and go back on my word, I am compelled to write something about the latest Charlie Sheen news.

This past weekend, Charlie Sheen opened his one man show, "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option" in Detroit.  Apparently, the show was so awful that the Detroit audience booed him off the stage and demanded a refund.  Excuse, but what kind of show did they expect?  They essentially paid money to see a very mentally sick man to perform!

According to People, an audience member stated, "I thought he was pretending he was crazy until tonight.  It was all crap.  We'd rather lose money at the casino than come to another one of his shows."  I guess in this day and age with celebrities playing games with the paparazzi for publicity, pretending to act crazy is an option, but was it really an option for a celebrity like Charlie Sheen?  Does it seem plausible for someone who is in a number one television sitcom to play crazy in front of the cameras, get publicly fired in front of the world while drinking a bottle of "tiger's blood," and have CPS remove his children from his house all for the sake of added publicity?  I don't buy that his behavior and actions are just a mere publicity stunt.

I have some sympathy (albeit not much) for the audience members who paid money to see Charlie Sheen and didn't get the type of show they were expecting, but like any show you buy a ticket for, don't you take a risk that you might not like it?  How many times have we gone to a movie because it received rave reviews or you thought the previews for the movie looked good, only to be severely disappointed in the end?  Although I am sure there are some people who will go to the box office to demand their ticket money back, most will not and simply shrug it off to taking a risk that they might not like the movie.  Same thing with Charlie Sheen's one man show.  These people took the risk that they would be spending their money for a show that they might end up not liking.  They still got a show though and got something they paid for...Charlie Sheen showed up, but the audience booed him off stage.  If I were the show producers, I wouldn't refund their money.  The producers promised a show, but didn't promise the audience they would like it.

Seriously, the man needs help and giving him an opportunity to take his mental instability on the road really doesn't help him at all.  Enough said.