Reviewers seemed unable to separate the Lohan they saw on the big screen with the Lohan they saw on the TMZ small screen. Her last film The Canyons was largely panned before it even hit theatres. Lohan #tragic.įor bad boys like Sheen being bad is good for business. It also made frequent reference to her haggard appearance and questioned whether she would ever, ever get her once-promising career back on track. At the same time Sheen was gracing the cover of Rolling Stone, Lindsay Lohan appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in a piece that painstakingly detailed Lohan’s substance abuse issues and legal troubles. It doesn’t take long to see the double standard when it comes to celebrity meltdowns: Compare coverage of Sheen’s meltdown to that of Drake-lover Amanda Bynes or an umbrella-wielding Britney Spears. He earned reported $1.8 million (U.S.) per episode of Two and a Half Men. Instead, Sheen landed a 2012 Rolling Stone cover and made several prime time appearances.

Women or his lacklustre parenting record. Little mention was made of his history of violence against Then and now, his substance abuse problems, anti-Semitism, and responsibility for making #winning happen were largely swept under the rug. As it did with the actor’s well-publicized 2011 meltdown, media covered Sheen’s bad behaviour like it was a sitcom-wondering what hilarity and hijinks he would get up to next. Inside media’s troubling gender-biased coverage of celebrity meltdownsĬharlie Sheen took thinking outside the bun to a whole new level in July when he drunkenly wandered around a Taco Bell drive thru greeting fellow fast food visitors with “Sorry I am so fucking hammered.” Video of the incident soon made the rounds and the winning warlock was once again making headlines.

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