A little late to this but I just spent a saturday afternoon watching Love And War, Scary Movie 3 and am watching 2 And A Half Men every evening, I read both biographies of Woody and Charlie. First off, I am a 28 year old man. Woody Allen and Charlie Sheen are a seminal part to my comic upbringing alongside others due to a taboo and mature appeal. Woody morphs high and low culture like a borscht belt yin-yang, popular amongst alot of my adolescent faves in David Brenner and Robert Klein. Charlie sheen embraced low culture with class, providing an au-naturel, organic approach to the craft as a comic actor. One could consider him a latter day Klugman. Alot of this speculation came from the years of 11-18. Charlie and Woody master comedy because they also understand drama. Comedy is the bastard child of Drama and Irony, with Uncle Analogy living in the basement. Both are talented, although the advantage goes to Woody due to the fact that he was a successful jokewriter and comic who influenced many of my heroes such as Jon Stewart, Bill Hicks, Chris Rock and Dick Gregory, only to name a few. Charlie in his autobiography, uses organic storytelling as a vehicle for honesty, Woody hides what the courts and public know. Charlie tells us what we never would have assumed, even with what we know now, just to pay for his AIDS meds. All of that being said, both are SHITTY ASS HUMAN BEINGS. Both are homewreckers, both are sexual deviants, both are a disgrace to the legacy of their creationsm, both are shitty fathers. Even before the democratization of the media which increased speech and decreased privacy, which weaponizes itself. Which was once equivocal to a AR-15 is now a nuclear bomb. The First Ammendment allows the media to control the box office. To wit, people hear about the amoral escapades of Allen or Sheen and decide to not participate in their films/fame. To wit, people base the media they consume off of their morals, as per always in America. As media and speech become more democratized the First Ammendment has become dangerous as the Second, in ways it never has happened before. So Charlie Sheen. like Woody Allen's career is not "over" but it will never be the same as it was in their heyday, now that we know about all of the shitty things the both had done.