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Despite his hankering for hookers, booze, cocaine, voicemail, knife threats, divorce, rehab, rehab and more rehab, Mr. Carlos Irwin Estévez aka Charlie Sheen has managed to stay within range of public favor while also keeping a flourishing career as a top-paid TV actor -- $1.8 million per episode -- on CBS' "Two and a Half Men."
Is Charlie Sheen our greatest, pop culture anti-hero? Is he a master sorcerer in the voodoo mind-control arts? Do we love him because he played himself in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Or is it simply because 80s Sheen was so hot. I'm confused. But I ain't mad atcha. Or surprised or outraged. Even though I probably should be.
TMZ's blurry pictures tell almost no story about what happened during Mr. Sheen's latest adventure in bad behavior, however the NY Post had quite a bit to say on the happenings of the mad hatter, reporting a naked "frothing" rampage with broken chandeliers, a bloody zebra rug and a gold-digging porn star locked in a closet. Must be Tuesday. Oh, it was.
Mr. Sheen did a number on his $1,000-a-night Plaza hotel suite in New York City, after which, cops took the rehab-friendly star for psychiatric evaluation.
Sheen agreed to pay the damage bill and no drugs were reported to be at the scene of freakout. The Young Gun "acknowledged drinking and using cocaine during the binge that preceded a desperate call to the hotel desk from his terrified 'date,'" police sources told the NY Daily News.
Dr. Drew is afraid that he's going to die; Charlie says he's fine and the whole thing was "overblown." A fine choice of words. Okay, enjoy the photo flashback.
