Charlie Sheen Made Everyone Too Much Money To Be Stopped

The story of Charlie Sheen is still unfolding and the end has not been written, but the Charlie Sheen story goes beyond him. Charlie Sheen is maybe the most public face of the age old situation some find themselves in that are the cash cows for many others, don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs as log as it keeps laying golden eggs. The golden eggs in the case of Charlie Sheen were the episodes of Two and a Half Men.  An article on TMZ titled "Charlie Sheen Spills His Guts on TMZ" posted February 28, 2011 details some of the issues surrounding Charlie Sheen.

As long as Sheen could show up and crank out the shows there was a Bernie Madoff like ignorance of everything else that was going on. Despite all of the signs of trouble, which were not easy to miss as they were often splashed across tabloids and broadcast on the news, the show went on. Even with a hotel room trashing, reportedly naked Sheen and a hooker/porn star locked in a closet, the show still went on.

The only thing that stopped the show was a direct verbal shot from Sheen at his employers. That apparently was the last straw. Now you must weigh the gravity of a personal insult against the potentially life jeopardizing prior behavior of Sheen. It seems that the personal insult carried more weight that possibly having your goose that lays the golden eggs taken out by his own actions, then they stopped the show. Could it be that Charlie Sheen forced their hands because they would not pull the plug any other way until he could not lay any more golden eggs of his own accord.