Charlie Sheen and Bobby Brown: An Analysis of the Bad Boy…….
Bad Boy/Actor Charlie Sheen makes about $20,000,000.00 a year. That is nothing to sneeze at. That is Twenty Million Dollars a year…. More money than most of us will see in a lifetime… He makes most of it as the star of his own TV show ``Two and a Half Men.’’ The show debuted in September of 2003—a double lifetime in the world of Hollywood Situation-Comedies. It just happens to be one of my favorite TV shows. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t go out of my way to see it. I couldn’t even tell you when it comes on, or the network it comes on--but I find it extraordinarily funny and well written for North American TV…
The show presents Sheen almost as he is in real life, a well healed, spoiled, womanizing White dude who only respects a certain part of a woman’s anatomy found somewhere in her midsection. He wouldn’t know what the heck to do with a woman who was able to think for herself or who had any real feelings... He (and the humorous character he plays) likes women who are just after his wallet, male anatomy and sports cars… Then there is his mother, who is hilarious (Holland Taylor). She gets the best of him every time, which is part of the allure of the show. His brother (Jon Cryer) is also very funny because he is so clean cut and respectful of women, well kind of, that people think he is a homosexual. The kid (Augus T. Jones) is also funny as the son and nephew.
What makes the show work is Sheen’s dead-pan humor as he goes after every blonde or brunette who walks across the set. (Knowing him, Sheen probably has it in his contract that he gets to sleep with every beautiful woman who has ever been or who will ever be on the show). But Sheen, in real life, is married!! So what, you might say, judging from the character he plays. He was recently arrested, on Christmas Day 2009, I believe, for allegedly putting a knife to his wife’s throat and threatening to kill her if she left him and took their children. This is no laughing matter!!
Sheen has a long history of ``allegedly’’ abusing the women he sleeps with and has a string of failed marriages and relationships with women. He seems to care about nothing except his libido and how to satisfy it… (I could go on for pages about libido and men. Homosexual men as well as straight men [in high places and low places] are notorious for having a lot of sexual energy & conquests while ignoring other parts of their lives. This really includes Black as well as White and Latin men of all sexual persuasions.) But Sheen seems to take the cake, the bathtub and the sink. In fact, he usually takes the whole bathroom if there is a beautiful ``chick’’ included with it… In fact he takes the cake home with him and eats it all for himself… He is the ultimate Hollywood Bad Boy… He is a party animal with a persistent violence and drug problem that one day soon is bound to get him into deeper trouble than just making threats and slapping women around…. One day one of those women is going to cost him more that a bruised ego, a few thousand bucks, another arrest, some bad publicity and some embarrassment.
Bobby Brown is perhaps the Black antitheist of Sheen. He starred in ``A Thin Line Between Love & Hate,’’ (1996) Written and Directed by Martin Lawrence; and ``Two Can Play That Game’’ (2001) Directed by Mark Brown. This bad-boy actor/rapper was married to singer/actress Whitney Houston in one of the most tumultuous and long lasting Hollywood marriages of its type. They both apparently experimented with harsh drugs while mistreating and abusing each other. Brown apparently had many sexual exploits with other women (he has come out with statements refuting some of these allegations) and is blamed by many for most of the abuse. The couple have a daughter together who is now a teenager.
But look at the way the White established Goliath media handles the two men!! Sheen is seen as the consummate playboy. His antics are portrayed mostly as harmless and funny. On the other hand, Brown is seen as an abuser of women and a serious problem for Houston, who has recently successfully rein fused her career without him. Brown has not escaped the ``evil character’’ label. He is seen as a more serious problem and almost a threat to National Security... While I am not saying he doesn’t deserve some of the labeling (Houston said on the Oprah show recently that he actually spit at her), it is interesting to take note of the dichotomy between the two men’s media images.
The two men are basically doing the same things—drinking, womanizing, drugging, abusing and otherwise misbehaving. Yet Sheen manages to control his image and maintain a Twenty-Million-Dollar a year job. Brown, on the other hand, has not managed to control his image as well and has not escaped the many negative labels. Maybe Brown should hire Sheen’s PR people… Neither men seem to live up to the negative characterizations and admit to any such behavior--even though there have been testimonials against them, pictures, multiple arrests and other evidence. It is especially sad when children and possible custody battles are involved in such men’s lives…
The irony of the Sheen case is that he had everything handed to him. (Which may have been part of the problem). Early success and critical acclaim in the film ``Platoon,’’ (1986) Written and Directed by Oliver Stone, and–most importantly—a father named Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen could almost be compared with Martin Luther King Jr. if one considers the amount of work he has done for progressive causes and for the human rights agenda he has helped promote. He was around in the early days of the Civil Rights struggles in the U.S. and has always be a humanitarian, a stellar character and a seemingly ``good father.’’ He has supported just about every worthy liberal or progressive cause under the sun for the last 30 plus years with his money and hard work.
But Charlie Sheen has rejected all the fatherly advice and love in the world from his gentle and caring Dad and put the pedal to the medal in chasing women, drinking, drugging and abusing himself and his women partners. Somehow Charlie Sheen has remained above the fray and kept his job and the twenty million bucks a year to boot. (Only time will tell if he is able to do this after his latest personal and career blunder.)
Bobby Brown is no where nearly as successful as Charlie Sheen, but isn’t hurting for bucks either. I have to wonder if Oprah will take up the cause of Sheen’s wife and children as she did for Houston and lambast Charlie Sheen all over TV as she did another Black singer, (Chris Brown) after his ``alleged’’ abusive behavior…
Not to beat a dead horse, but Tiger Woods, who is a White wana-be and who doesn’t accept or recognize his own Blackness, (and apparently has no taste for our beautiful Black Sisters) has his own problems as the new Bad Boy on the block. Tiger was stripped of some of his endorsements within weeks of the tumultuous revelations surrounding his own behavior and womanizing. (No concrete drug abuse allegations have been revealed as of press time on 12-30-09 concerning Mr. Woods).
At the same time, however, the companies that he has endorsed directly and or with which he shares a brand name lost something like $12 Billion Dollars (That’s with a ``B’’) since the revelations came out about the laundry list of White woman friends and intimate acquaintances he has shared bed action with). He certainly seems to have suffered greatly as his squeaky clean image of a married, high profile, professional golfer and high-minded business man went down the drain.
Bad Boy/Actor Charlie Sheen makes about $20,000,000.00 a year. That is nothing to sneeze at. That is Twenty Million Dollars a year…. More money than most of us will see in a lifetime… He makes most of it as the star of his own TV show ``Two and a Half Men.’’ The show debuted in September of 2003—a double lifetime in the world of Hollywood Situation-Comedies. It just happens to be one of my favorite TV shows. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t go out of my way to see it. I couldn’t even tell you when it comes on, or the network it comes on--but I find it extraordinarily funny and well written for North American TV…
The show presents Sheen almost as he is in real life, a well healed, spoiled, womanizing White dude who only respects a certain part of a woman’s anatomy found somewhere in her midsection. He wouldn’t know what the heck to do with a woman who was able to think for herself or who had any real feelings... He (and the humorous character he plays) likes women who are just after his wallet, male anatomy and sports cars… Then there is his mother, who is hilarious (Holland Taylor). She gets the best of him every time, which is part of the allure of the show. His brother (Jon Cryer) is also very funny because he is so clean cut and respectful of women, well kind of, that people think he is a homosexual. The kid (Augus T. Jones) is also funny as the son and nephew.
What makes the show work is Sheen’s dead-pan humor as he goes after every blonde or brunette who walks across the set. (Knowing him, Sheen probably has it in his contract that he gets to sleep with every beautiful woman who has ever been or who will ever be on the show). But Sheen, in real life, is married!! So what, you might say, judging from the character he plays. He was recently arrested, on Christmas Day 2009, I believe, for allegedly putting a knife to his wife’s throat and threatening to kill her if she left him and took their children. This is no laughing matter!!
Sheen has a long history of ``allegedly’’ abusing the women he sleeps with and has a string of failed marriages and relationships with women. He seems to care about nothing except his libido and how to satisfy it… (I could go on for pages about libido and men. Homosexual men as well as straight men [in high places and low places] are notorious for having a lot of sexual energy & conquests while ignoring other parts of their lives. This really includes Black as well as White and Latin men of all sexual persuasions.) But Sheen seems to take the cake, the bathtub and the sink. In fact, he usually takes the whole bathroom if there is a beautiful ``chick’’ included with it… In fact he takes the cake home with him and eats it all for himself… He is the ultimate Hollywood Bad Boy… He is a party animal with a persistent violence and drug problem that one day soon is bound to get him into deeper trouble than just making threats and slapping women around…. One day one of those women is going to cost him more that a bruised ego, a few thousand bucks, another arrest, some bad publicity and some embarrassment.
Bobby Brown is perhaps the Black antitheist of Sheen. He starred in ``A Thin Line Between Love & Hate,’’ (1996) Written and Directed by Martin Lawrence; and ``Two Can Play That Game’’ (2001) Directed by Mark Brown. This bad-boy actor/rapper was married to singer/actress Whitney Houston in one of the most tumultuous and long lasting Hollywood marriages of its type. They both apparently experimented with harsh drugs while mistreating and abusing each other. Brown apparently had many sexual exploits with other women (he has come out with statements refuting some of these allegations) and is blamed by many for most of the abuse. The couple have a daughter together who is now a teenager.
But look at the way the White established Goliath media handles the two men!! Sheen is seen as the consummate playboy. His antics are portrayed mostly as harmless and funny. On the other hand, Brown is seen as an abuser of women and a serious problem for Houston, who has recently successfully rein fused her career without him. Brown has not escaped the ``evil character’’ label. He is seen as a more serious problem and almost a threat to National Security... While I am not saying he doesn’t deserve some of the labeling (Houston said on the Oprah show recently that he actually spit at her), it is interesting to take note of the dichotomy between the two men’s media images.
The two men are basically doing the same things—drinking, womanizing, drugging, abusing and otherwise misbehaving. Yet Sheen manages to control his image and maintain a Twenty-Million-Dollar a year job. Brown, on the other hand, has not managed to control his image as well and has not escaped the many negative labels. Maybe Brown should hire Sheen’s PR people… Neither men seem to live up to the negative characterizations and admit to any such behavior--even though there have been testimonials against them, pictures, multiple arrests and other evidence. It is especially sad when children and possible custody battles are involved in such men’s lives…
The irony of the Sheen case is that he had everything handed to him. (Which may have been part of the problem). Early success and critical acclaim in the film ``Platoon,’’ (1986) Written and Directed by Oliver Stone, and–most importantly—a father named Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen could almost be compared with Martin Luther King Jr. if one considers the amount of work he has done for progressive causes and for the human rights agenda he has helped promote. He was around in the early days of the Civil Rights struggles in the U.S. and has always be a humanitarian, a stellar character and a seemingly ``good father.’’ He has supported just about every worthy liberal or progressive cause under the sun for the last 30 plus years with his money and hard work.
But Charlie Sheen has rejected all the fatherly advice and love in the world from his gentle and caring Dad and put the pedal to the medal in chasing women, drinking, drugging and abusing himself and his women partners. Somehow Charlie Sheen has remained above the fray and kept his job and the twenty million bucks a year to boot. (Only time will tell if he is able to do this after his latest personal and career blunder.)
Bobby Brown is no where nearly as successful as Charlie Sheen, but isn’t hurting for bucks either. I have to wonder if Oprah will take up the cause of Sheen’s wife and children as she did for Houston and lambast Charlie Sheen all over TV as she did another Black singer, (Chris Brown) after his ``alleged’’ abusive behavior…
Not to beat a dead horse, but Tiger Woods, who is a White wana-be and who doesn’t accept or recognize his own Blackness, (and apparently has no taste for our beautiful Black Sisters) has his own problems as the new Bad Boy on the block. Tiger was stripped of some of his endorsements within weeks of the tumultuous revelations surrounding his own behavior and womanizing. (No concrete drug abuse allegations have been revealed as of press time on 12-30-09 concerning Mr. Woods).
At the same time, however, the companies that he has endorsed directly and or with which he shares a brand name lost something like $12 Billion Dollars (That’s with a ``B’’) since the revelations came out about the laundry list of White woman friends and intimate acquaintances he has shared bed action with). He certainly seems to have suffered greatly as his squeaky clean image of a married, high profile, professional golfer and high-minded business man went down the drain.
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