Charlie sounds like Ghaddafi, plus the author of Drugstore Cowboy, runners-up for top story
Actor Charlie Sheen. Again. Sigh….This time, after romping with several hookers on a cocaine-fueled orgy and, well…unless you live in North Korea, you know the rest. What else needs to be said, other than “Charlie, stop playing Charlie Harper. You’ve been sober before and you can do it again. It’s time, before you end up six feet under.” Unfortunately, he’s got too damned much money, at least until he spends it all on “goddesses” and cocaine.
Mohammar Gaddafi (AKA Khadafy), whose rambling diatribes are not dissimilar to those of Charlie Sheen’s (the only real difference is the subject). One interpreter reportedly said, “I just can’t take it any more,” after having gotten lost in translation. Another said, “He’s not exactly the most lucid speaker. It’s not just that what he’s saying is illogical, but the way he’s saying it is bizarre.” Gaddafi’s claim that protestors against his regime are fueled by milk and Nescafe spiked with hallucinogenic drugs by Islamic terrorists perhaps qualifies as a bit more than “bizarre.” The same interpreter said Gaddafi has a habit of repeating the same phrase over and over. (Sort of like Charlie Sheen’s “tiger blood and Adonis DNA,” below under “quotes of the month.”) Another interpreter said that his extemporaneous ramblings are a particular challenge: “Sometimes he mumbles, sometimes he talks to himself.” All are very similar to an amphetamine and barbiturate addict named Adolf Hitler.
By way of comparison, the form addiction takes is a function of environment, circumstances, personality type and position of power. At the risk of inflaming Charlie Sheen’s supporters—and I am one who hopes only that he gets clean and sober before tragedy happens—I would suggest that the difference between Sheen as he is now and Gaddafi is environment, circumstances, personality type and position of power. Therefore, we should not be surprised by anything Charlie does so long as he is not clean and sober. Remember Phil and Brynn Hartmann.
Author James Fogle, pleading guilty to the May 2010 robbery of a Redmond, WA pharmacy in which he and a partner tied up several employees and filled trash bags with drugs. Fogle, 73, knew something about the subject when he wrote the book Drugstore Cowboy, which was made into the critically acclaimed 1989 movie starring Matt Dillon: he was in the Walla Walla Washington State Penitentiary at the time of the movie’s release, serving time for exploits similar to those of the addicts he portrayed roaming around the Pacific Northwest robbing drugstores.