It's Oscar time! Otherwise known as the most wonderful night of the year, when even those of us who aren't foot fetishists become transfixed by something called ShoeCam, and everyone claps for a montage of dead people!
This week, President Obama decided to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act -- a decision that, in another time, would have been expected to prompt major blowback. The fact that it didn't is another indication that social issues no longer pack the punch they once did. Elsewhere, the fighting escalated and an embattled strongman stuck back aggressively. I'm talking, of course, about Charlie Sheen, who unleashed a series of ugly diatribes aimed at his producer, Chuck Lorre, prompting CBS to pull the plug on Two and a Half Men for the rest of the season. If this is a harbinger, The Fighter will take home the best picture Oscar. But the buzz at all the pre-Oscar events is that it's a two-film race -- The King's Speech vs. The Social Network. What's your prediction?
The network and studio have been backed into a corner and unfortunately for the crew, the only way to deal with situation is to take the old show out behind the barn and put it out of its misery.
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Here's your Friday budget update. If I were you, I'd find a chair to plop down into, because this promises to be more frustrating than translating Sanskrit into Japanese using Morse Code smoke signals in the rain.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to think about Justin Bieber when people are risking their lives to end corrupt governments in so many places right now?
Charlie Sheen is just trying to heal himself on some level. And you can heal and transform yourself too. You're a natural born healer, even if you've temporarily lost connection with those talents.
Sometimes you have to confront bad news head on. Recently, these folks and brands have been victims, many self-inflicted, of good stories gone bad.
Next time things aren't going your way, just think of all the bad stuff Charlie Sheen packs in to a mere week!
I was walking the dogs with my friend Kerry, and out of the blue she says, "How come Lindsay Lohan and Britney are drunken bimbos but with Charlie Sheen it's boys will be boys?"
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