Partying with Charlie Sheen

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Kacey Jordan, one of Charlie Sheen's porn-star girlfriends, tweeted a suicide attempt. I think she was also the one who posted a twit-pic of her crotch from Charlie Sheen's big party, the party that got this whole drama rolling. Celebrity newshound Muareen O'Connor comments:

Kacey wanted someone to "save" her, and in the process, she turned her low point into entertainment. We are no longer gawking at famous entertainers' occasional meltdowns; the meltdowns are the entertainment, and barely any fame is required to participate. Charlie Sheen didn't invent this genre (Dr. Drew preys on it, Tila Tequila clings to it), but he is its most successful practitioner. This is Charlie Sheen's legacy. Not his acting, not his wives and children, not even his meme-generating catchphrases. In the course of a few weeks, Charlie Sheen proved that the most transfixing version of a reality TV show is the one that airs in the real world, live, and amounts to a serialized slapstick snuff film.

Well, I could tweet about the books I'm reading, but I doubt anyone would care. We are fascinated by the lives of the rich and famous and beautiful, and I suppose seeing those lives torn apart by high-octane drama is that much more compelling. Between Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, free entertainment has never been so spectacular, at least not since O. J. Simpson was driving his white bronco-jeep down the California freeway to escape the cops after knifing to death his ex-wife. It's a bit sick, but life was never a prime-time family sitcom. Uncensored and unfiltered, it's just more real now.