Making the Wrong Move…
Zak Vora, March 8th, 2011
08/03/11
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The unimaginable has finally happened, Charlie Sheen has finally managed to get himself fired from the popular TV sitcom Two and a Half Men. Now you may be guilty of never having heard of the show, and for that you’ll be forgiven, but you’d have to be encased within a Chernobyl radiation bunker to not have heard of the deeds of the Sheen.
After a lot of shenanigans, (and the list is just too long to mention), insulting the producers, (something about them being suckers of male manhoods, allegedly, or something to that effect, along with a few other choice words), the highest paid TV actor, receiving $2 million per episode, (Bob Diamond, CEO of Barclays eat yr heart out), was finally sacked. Warner Brothers had finally had enough, yet if could well prove one of the worst moves in show business. I know of a lot of men who’d never heard of Two and a Half Men, but they’d heard of Charlie Sheen and were getting keen to check out what all the fuss could be about. Warner may well have forgotten that time old adage, ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity’.
Middle aged men see Charlie Sheen as the man they could never be, saddled with children and a mortgage, the Sheen is their alter ego, they live vicariously through his madness. Quietly, in dark places they look up at the man in wonderment who has tried to have sex with two prostitutes and a Japanese anatomically correct latex sex doll dressed in a cheerleader’s outfit. Granted the night ended with the two ladies being chased out of his home and the latex doll, after having a hand chopped off with a meat cleaver, then being disposed of like a real life corpse. The story has a certain American Psycho-esque feel to it, but producers at Warner beware, the Sheen always has a meat clever handy.
The move by the producers at Warner may not have been the only bad move of the last few days however. Whilst Gaddafi continues to fight on in Libya eight British SAS/SIS men were found in rebel territory, allegedly trying to make contact with the rebel leadership in advance of talks. Yet the men came unannounced and almost like assassins in the night were dropped into territory before advancing and then finally getting caught. The UK has stuck to its claims that they were there in advance of diplomatic talks yet the facts don’t seem to stack up. Could an alternative scenario of the government publicly voicing its desire of a regime change but privately wanting Gaddafi, a man they’ve been doing business with now for over 40 years to remain and the special forces men were there for less diplomatic reasons? There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors and the wet explanations by a government caught out don’t seem to wash, meanwhile the price of oil remains high and foreign workers at Libyan oil fields remain absent whilst the conflict continues. I’ve mentioned previously that if there’s one regime that was likely to remain it would be Gaddafi’s. He’s been around for a long time, has constantly been accused of supporting terrorism but the West still do business with him, he knows how to play the game, the question remains which side of the chessboard the British troops were on.
Have a good day…
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