[jmacusa]

I’m a capitalist for certain but capitalism shouldn’t rise and fall on the likes of someone like Charlie Sheen. God help us if it ever does. I’m reminded of just a few years ago I don’t know if it was put on during a ratings sweep or during one of the SuperBowls as an alternative to the games half-time show but a re-broadcast of a very particularly funny episode of “The Carol Burnett Show’’( I think it was the one where they did the’’ Gone With The Wind’’ parody) drew millions of viewers. The response to it was phenomenal. That says a lot. It says a lot about America and where it was then and where it is now.

[paulycy]

If I were in charge of hiring people (and I was at one time, and in "showbiz" too) I wouldn't hire people like Charlie and I didn't. The people I hired were required by the nature of their craft to be technically perfect and artistically at the top of their game every day, day in and day out. Me too. Live performance is like that.

People like Charlie can't do that. It's a shame they are rewarded so highly for being able to hold it together for a half hour a week at most if they shoot in front of a live studio audience. Even then they have at least a chance of a second take. Not the kind of people I dealt with.