I know it’s still early but I don’t think we have to look much further for the obvious headline of the month. From the New York Times I give you:
Sheen Is Surrounded by a Coterie of Enablers
While bad behavior by star performers is tolerated in a number of industries — sports and high fashion, for example — Hollywood has a longer public history of aiding and abetting addicts. Doctors employed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer famously gave Judy Garland amphetamines and other drugs to combat fatigue and control her weight, setting up a life-long battle with drug addiction that she ultimately lost.
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In the case of a crack-smoking, prostitute-frequenting Mr. Sheen, many people in Hollywood say there is a long list of enablers: managers and agents and publicists; a coterie of assistants and party buddies; prostitutes, drug dealers and sex film stars; and the tabloid media, which have fed on Mr. Sheen’s antics for years.
Really? I never would have guessed that Charlie Sheen had a problem, much less that all the people sucking money off of him might not want him to change his behavior.
I don’t know if you have read Freakanomics or seen the movie, but I am reminded of the discussion of incentives
In this case the incentive for Sheen is attention. CBS tried to change his behavior by removing his platform for attention. Sheen broke their incentive scheme by becoming more outrageous and garnering attention in a different manner. Somewhere a Zen Master has asked, “What is the sound of one invisible hand clapping?” The answer is Charlie Sheen saying, “I’m an F-18 bro”.
doubleplusundead 
There’s a reason the Romans had a slave whispering “Remember you are mortal” in a conqueror’s ear.
What, because the conquerors were bipolar – er, I mean, bi-winning?
No, because otherwise they would forget they’re mortal.
You know, like Charlie Sheen.
In this case the incentive for Sheen is attention
Uh, wasn’t this the actor in the Breakfast Club, or something? – So, he’s still around, or something? And we “care” (or something)?
…wherein I reveal my utter lack of familiarity with current cultural trivia.
That was Emelio Estevez in Breakfast Club. They should totally boot CS off of 2.5 Men and replace him with Estevez like Darrin in Bewitched. That would be hilarious.
Yes, this.
Tnx.
…sigh, I have be-clowned myself, again. (I only remember the Breakfast Club because of Molly Ringwald, and her only because she was in some stupid pseudo-dystopian sci-fi whose name escapes me but that I recall because of the exo-skeleton of the …hmm, “Over Lord” or something.)
Never, ever have me on your trivia team for “current culture”. Or hell, Jeapordy.
That would be Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.
Emilio Estevez had a guest spot on 2.5 Men. They killed him off.
Which would make it even more hilarious if they hot-swapped him in.
Sheen was the J.D. hitting on Ferris Buehler’s sister in the police station.
“The Obama Misery Index and the Rise of Obamavilles” is the best blog post I’ve read in a long time. This is why President Obama will be a one-term president! http://t.co/hhFr73z
I can’t recommend this piece highly enough. This will be all the ammo we’ll need when talking to other voters during the 2012 general election.