All those trees and data bits expended trying to explain Charlie Sheen, and here Roseanne Barr comes along to sum up the imploding TV star in just a couple of sentences.
"Charlie Sheen was the world’s most famous john, and a sitcom was written around him," Barr writes in an article for New York magazine. "That just says it all. Doing tons of drugs, smacking prostitutes around, holding a knife up to the head of your wife — sure, that sounds like a dream come true for so many guys out there, but that doesn’t make it right!"
But Barr - a Salt Lake City native who's coming back in June to be grand marshal of the Utah Pride Parade - can relate to Sheen's battles with "Two and a Half Men" producer Chuck Lorre, because (as she explains in great and arguably self-serving detail) she had similar problems with the men in charge of making her sitcom, "Roseanne." (One of them was Lorre, whom she fired at one point.)
"Where I can relate to the Charlie stuff is his undisguised contempt for certain people in his work environment and his unwillingness to play a role that’s expected of him on his own time," Barr wrote.
