Charlie Sheen Hospitalized for Being Charlie Sheen; CBS Cashes Checks and Ignores

This sort of thing is not news any longer, but the Eye has been keeping tabs on Charlie Sheen ever since the laughable notions arose last year that the Aspen district attorney’s office might throw the boo at him for a Christmas Day domestic dispute arrest and/or CBS might put the brakes on his bad boy behavior in order to protect their brand. No such luck on either count.

Sheen was arrested at the New York Plaza shortly after 2 AM this morning. Hotel security called police after crashing sounds were heard from his room. Police found Sheen intoxicated and naked amid the destroyed room. He was taken to the hospital for what his reps say was an allergic reaction to medication. I was not aware a vodka and cocaine cocktail qualifies as medication, but perhaps I have not Gone Hollywood enough to grasp such concepts.

He was accompanied to the hospital by his ex-wife, Denise Richards. She is not the one he tried to give a Colombian Necktie to on Christmas Day. They were actually I New York together with their daughters. No word on were the little girls wound up during all this. Perhaps the hooker Sheen was sharing his suite with looked ater them for the evening.

Sheen’s rage allegedly began when he discovered his wallet was missing after a night of partying. Presumably, the hooker wanted her ash up front in case Sheen later pulled out a knife or gun, as he is wont to do, and she had to eat a hasty retreat. Said wallet is enormously important because it most certainly holds so many $100, sheen canot fold it over properly.

There is were the real issue comes in. Sheen is te star of Two and a Half Men. It is one of the highest rated shows on television and the highest rated sitcom on CBS. What is more, its ratings peaked after the Christmas Day domestic dispute incident in which Sheen pinned his wife down and held a knife to her throat. With circumstances like that, there is no compelling reason for CBS to step in to control his behavior. The network is making money regardless.

What does Sheen have to do for CBS to step in? Pull one of these stunts in public? Beat his wife to a bloody pulp? how about--and God forbid--injure or kill one of his daughters? Considering that Sheen’s character on Two and a Half Man is a not too exaggerated caricature of himself, viewers are enjoying watching him make a buffoon of himself in droves, and CBS is making a mint on all of it, nothing he does may make difference anyway.