The reason I posted that is it creates an interesting debate on a couple fronts, and not necessarily the obvious. Here you have Feldman, a former heroin addict, slamming Charlie Sheen for his behavior. Now Sheen has taken an approach of 'embracing' his addictions in an effort to combat judgment, he's just giving up - which like others have said is classic addict behavior.

Yet a former addict sees it as reckless and not something to be proud of. Now we've heard alot of comments from psych & addiction doctors about Sheen's behavior, but this was interesting to me because this is a junkie vs. a coke head.

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Now as for the Haim thing, obviously Charlie Sheen has been a more successful actor and brand name for movies, whether theatrical, direct-to-video, or doing TV shows. Yes, with the great film "Lucas", Haim was the star with Charlie supporting him, despite Haim being younger and not coming from the Sheen/Estevez family. And yes Haim had some significant hits and/or cult hits in the 80's, up through the early 90's. But Sheen was already doing Haim-stature films in the 80's in-between his theatrical stuff (I love the Sheen film The Wraith, which was low-status, just like I love Watchers, a low-status Haim horror film during that time). Haim then got relegated to doing cable/DTV, low-budget films by the early 90's, while Sheen was still doing theaterical work. After films like Fast Getaway II, Haim's career flatlined. Although he was still working, he was never in a film again that really had any kind of significant effort put into it, the films were just near-porno budget, other than maybe the godawful Crank 2. Sheen was doing action films like No Code of Conduct, while Haim was doing Demolition High. There just was no comparison.

And of course Two and a Half Men trumps all. That's probably the most financially lucrative thing Sheen has done.

Haim should've been honored at both SAG & the Oscars. Period. It was in absolutely poor taste that he wasn't, especially considering he died from pneumonia at 38.

But if Sheen od's, i'm sure he'll get all kinds of memorials, for being fucking stupid.

Still, with that said - Feldman should not let his appreciation for Haim and his memory cloud truth. Haim was better than he got credit for, but Sheen is a superstar compared to him.