Warner Bros. Fires Charlie Sheen For Moral Turpitude

Warner Bros. Fires Charlie Sheen For Being Self-Destructive

Sheen's response: "They continue to be in breach, like so many whales"

Strange though it may seem, Charlie may be in the right. Not verbally of course, or mentally, but he may be right legally. His behavior has been the same for years - worse, in fact, because there was violence in the past - but they never fired him until he bad-mouthed his producer. That indicates that they did not fire him for the behavior, but for the comments. Pointing out that his producer and other network execs are assholes, however racist his verbiage, is probably not legal grounds for termination. I haven't seen Charlie's contract, but I have to think that those guys are speeding toward quicksand and are trying to back-pedal. Some general clause in the contract probably does permit them to fire him for public "moral turpitude," which is the precise phraseology they used in their release, but if his current behavior constitutes moral turpitude and grounds for dismissal, why didn't they fire him for the same behavior in the past? Let's face it, they should have fired him the first day that he failed to make a call without a good excuse, because that probably was a legitimate contractual violation, but they let everything slide over the years because Charlie was a cash cow. Charlie can prove that they felt that way because they made him the highest-paid guy on TV in spite of a history of wacky antics just as bad as the current ones.

Besides, do a bunch of Hollywood suits want to try to go to court and prove that Charlie was wrong and that they aren't assholes?