The world tells us that we must be celebrity. God tells us that we can be legend....
A Tuesday evening reflection
Three people have asked me about Charlie Sheen and bipolar disorder
Perhaps that’s been prompted by (A) Charlie Sheen’s out-of-control antics during the past 72 hours and (B) the “Being Bipolar” series that I recently started on this blog about my own experiences and struggles with bipolar.
And now it’s being asked aloud by a lot of bigger news outlets.
I’m not too “hip” about things on the celebrity scene. In fact, the last thing that I would ever want to be called is a “celebrity”. I am a character. My life is filled with lots of other characters (though more than a few are what pop culture would call “celebrities”). Charlie Sheen’s behavior exemplifies why I don’t want to be known as a celebrity.
But the more I’ve looked into his peculiar case, the more I am finding myself also wondering – not a professional psychiatrist, mind ya: I’m just a guy who has the condition himself – ...
Carrie Fisher now sez: STAR WARS wasn’t worth it
Carrie Fisher (depicted at right in the “Slave Leia Metal Bikini” from Return of the Jedi) was on The Today Show this morning shilling her new book Wishful Drinking. And she let loose what will no doubt be a shocking revelation to millions of fanboys: that she now regrets having anything to do with the Star Wars movies. That if she had known it would become so popular, Fisher would have “never” signed up to be Princess Leia at all. Fisher now blames the instant celebrity that Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and the ensuing sequels brought her for her bipolar disorder, her drug addiction (Cary Grant was brought in by her parents to counsel her to “don’t eat acid”), and the failure of her relationships such as her onetime marriage to Paul Simon.
I’m inclined to suggest that adolescent celebrities read what Carrie Fisher ...