Weasel of the Week: Charlie Sheen

Yeah, he's back.

Just when you thought it was safe, the self-professed "warlock" is back in the news. This time, Sheen was interviewed by Sports Illustrated, which was doing a "Where are they now?" piece on the cast of the movie, "Major League". You may recall that Sheen played bespectacled, often erratic relief pitcher Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, part of an ensemble cast that also included Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Corbin Bernsen (then on LA Law, most recently on Psych), current Allstate insurance pitchman Dennis Haysbert, and the late James Gammon (who'd later turn up playing Don Johnson's dad on Nash Bridges).

What gets Sheen a fresh pair of weasel ears is the fact that the actor is claiming he was taking steroids to prepare for his role in the movie. He's saying he was emulating a lot of the real ballplayers of the period. Oh, please! Give me a break! The next thing you know, he'll claim Nickelodeon's cartoon series, Planet Sheen, was inspired by him. It's bad enough the man is living in his personal Twilight Zone 24/7/365, but between this and his persistent claims that he's on the verge of a new TV series that could go into production soon without the need for a pilot, the man needs to spend the next year and change in a detoxification unit.

Stop and think for a second. Has Charlie Sheen ever looked like he was on steroids? Now, I've never seen the "Hot Shots" movies, so I wouldn't know for certain. Based on what I've seen, and this amounts to "Major League" and passing glances at his work in Spin City (where he had the distinction of trying to follow Michael J. Fox) and Two and a Half Men, I don't think he'd been on the juice for too long. He's taken so many drugs----and gotten headlines for the misadventures that go with it---that he's lost sight of what his real life is really like. Sorry, Charlie, that ain't winning. That's flushing your career down the toilet. One toke at a time.