AKA Charlie Sheen

I don’t know what to make of this.

It seems to exist as a way for Sheen to announce that he’s fine now and for him to praise his father who never stopped trying to save him.

There are plenty of drug stories (including one I don’t quite believe about him rescuing a damsel in distress). But there’s nothing really about his work. 

The people around Charlie all get to have their say but Heidi Fleiss is the only one who seems to tell the whole truth. Sean Penn seems a little too enamored with Charlie’s exploits.

My dad was a serious alcoholic and I see a little too much of my mom in Denise Richards who stays a caretaker long after she probably should have done what was best for herself. 

The documentary leaves us with a new revelation about Sheen’s sexual exploits that isn’t as shocking as everyone in the documentary seems to think it is. And with the idea that after decades of addiction that Sheen is now a good father. 

I am reminded of an old Lewis Grizzard joke about a preacher who called the faithful to confess in front everyone all their sins. 

“Tell it all brother, tell it all,” he exhorts. 

And then when one guy tells one sin too many he replies, “Damn brother I don’t believe I would have told that.”