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Charlie Sheen, Victim

Posted on | February 28, 2011 | 18 Comments

Last week, Charlie Sheen got himself denounced by the Anti-Defamation League after a radio interview in which he mocked Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre as “Chaim Levine” (for the record, Lorre’s birth name is Charles Levine). Not surprisingly, CBS responded by canceling the rest of the show’s season.

Evidently unsatisfied with partial career destruction, Sheen announced that he would sue Lorre, CBS and Warner Brothers, and went on NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America to let loose with yet more unhinged manic rants:

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From the Good Morning America interview:

“I get in trouble for being honest . . . I’m extremely old-fashioned. I’m a nobleman. I’m chivalrous. . . . I woke up and decided, y’know, I’ve been kicked around, I’ve been criticized. . . . People misinterpret my passion for anger. . . . They’re on a battlefield and they let their emotion and their ego — basically, they stomped on their diapers. They’re in breach [of contract], they’re in radical breach, and I’m like, ‘Sorry, guys, you screwed up.’ . . . . I’m out of a job. I’ve got a whole family to support and love. . . . I’m here to collect. They’re going to lose. They’re going to lose in a courtroom, so I would recommend that they do an out-of-court settlement.”

From his Today show interview:

“I don’t think people are ready for the message I’m delivering. . . . [He and CBS are] definitely at war. . . . The war is that they are trying to destroy my family, and I take great umbrage at that, and defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock. . . . They’re trying to take all my money and leave me with no means to support my family. It’s not rocket science.”

Addressing himself to Lorre, Sheen then recited a series of questions, including: “What [scripts] would we have shot, had you not ordered the suits into my home to shut down my party?” Sheen then read, for Lorre’s supposed benefit, from the handbook of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Watching Sheen on these video — thin, pallid, bleary-eyed, sweaty — ought to convince anyone who has any experience dealing with the mentally ill that, whatever his substance abuse issues, Sheen’s real problem is a narcissistic personality disorder. On the one hand, he wallows in self-pitying victimhood (his enemies wrongfully persecuting him) while on the other hand, in his grandiose moments, Sheen imagines that he will emerge victorious from this “battle.” It’s truly frightening to watch someone destroy himself in this manner.

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  • http://twitter.com/vermontaigne Dan Collins

    Truly frightening. And don’t hog the popcorn.

  • Barrett Brown

    My ears are burning!

  • http://twitter.com/mooseandskwerl Natasha

    What a train wreck. I think he meant he’s got a harem of hookers and strippers to support.

  • Polichinello

    I don’t think Lorre deserves much pity, for the record. Remember, Sheen shot Kelly Preston (literally), beat Denise Richards and held a knife to Brooke Muller. None of this affected Sheen’s career at CBS. Not even a bit.

    But Sheen takes one poke at Lorre–who had taken a poke at Sheen in one of his “vanity cards” earlier–and *boom* that’s it. Plug’s pulled. So there it is. In Hollywood, you can get away with murder (or at least an attempt at it), but whatever you do “DON’T MOCK ME!!1!!!!”

    Also, Sheen got the “Chaim” from another one of Lorre’s vanity cards, where Lorre does talk about changing his name from “Chaim Levine” to “Chuck Lorre.”

  • Charles Johnson

    I welcome Charlie Sheen.

    He makes me look rational, sober, and restrained.

  • Anonymous

    OH yea hes been kicked around so much. His tough life of growing up the son of a star and then going on to become a star and he has gotten some good roles despite his acting ability. Not all were great but some were at least pretty cool roles that just needed better writing and him some acting classes. Sorry man i just dont feel sorry for you Charlie you have led a charmed life that most of us would kill for and you sit there and complain about how pitiful you are. Yea man FU.

  • http://www.cbs.com/primetime/two_and_a_half_men/cast/ Charlie Sheen

    I am pissed off when politicians steal my shtick.*

    *In the exile language of Chaim Levine, that means my “act.” This is Hollywood talk.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Charlie Sheen in a word: Fuuuuuuuuugbuck.

  • http://twitter.com/dustbury Charles G Hill

    Geez. All he needs to do is threaten to kick some ass at BP and he can move right into the White House.

  • Lindsay Lohan

    Thanks Charlie!

    I need a break from being the bad girl.

  • http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/ Charles

    Charlie Sheen says Chuck Lorre had mocked him in the past by calling him by his birth name Carlos Estevez, so he mocked Chuck by calling him by his birth name Haim Levine.

    To channel like Mattie Ross in True Grit, I’d rather see him hang for the wife and girlfriend beating charges, not for the anti-semiticism charge.

  • FenelonSpoke

    Charlie Sheen sounds like he has some mental health issues that have never been properly addressed and treated-bipolar perhaps?

  • http://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro The Monster

    According to Sheen, Chuck Lorre would call him “Carlos Estevez” all the time, so reciprocating by calling him “Chaim Levine” as his vanity card said would be entirely reasonable.

    But the reason someone named “Chaim Levine” changes his name to “Chuck Lorre” is to avoid antisemitism, so calling him by his original name is by some weird logic antisemitic itself.

  • http://twitter.com/DeanLogic Dean Logan

    The local Rush morning show had the interesting take on this. They were arguing that Sheen had a point about being special and that he should be rewarded for being special. He was the driving force behind a successful show that made CBS money, so he’s just not your average actor.

    All the other stuff is irrelevant compared to the PCifying of today’s children by telling them that they are all special. Reminds me of the quote from ‘The Incredibles’ “I’ll sell my inventions so that *everyone* can have powers. *Everyone* can be super! And when everyone’s super… no one will be.”

  • Polichinello

    The thing is, in that vanity card, Lorre makes it pretty clear that he changed the name because of his own disgust with his family’s culture. If there’s any explicit “anti-Semitism” here, it’s Lorre’s.

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  • Tziller

    frightening to watch as another victim of the drug war ruining someones life, livelyhood, reputation. What happened to the right to ones body? According to Supreme Court decision Roe Vs Wade a person has the right to their own body-unless you take a drug

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