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Charlie Sheen Gets Chest Tattoo, Passes Home Drug Test
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 27, 2011
Modified Feb 27, 2011
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Maybe Charlie Sheen is explaining his odd behavior through his new tattoo: It's a quote from Apocalypse Now (which starred his dad), "Death from Above," with an apple and dripping blood. Sheen said on Alex Jones' radio show, "[It's] the banner from the death card that Kilgore is throwing on his victims, but there's also falling from it, is the apple from The Giving Tree. There's my life. Deal with it. Oh wait, can't process it? Losers. Winning. Buh bye." Because he's totally going Colonel Kurtz by way of Shel Silverstein? Except he's got porn stars (Bree Olson is with him in this picture) by his side, not apples or an army.
Sheen had also explained, "I'm not just my dad. I'm putting up the river to kill another part of me, which is Kurtz. I'm every character in between, save for that little weirdo with his guts strapped in, begging for water. That's not me. But there are parts of me that are Dennis Hopper," and quoted Kurtz from the movie, "You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me," and said, "Boom. That's the whole movie. That's life." Will Sheen quote President Jed Bartlet next, "Hace credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scico? Cruciatus in crucem. Tuus in terra sertvus, nuntius fui. Officium perfecti. Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem."
In the blood-and-guts portion of today's Sheen news, he took a home urine test and passed it. Radar Online actually watched: "The First Check home test was used and administered before RadarOnline.com's Senior Executive Editor Dylan Howard and two producers so it could not be faked. The negative result is a preliminary finding pending a further urine and blood test by a court-certified toxicology laboratory which was conducted at the star's Los Angeles mansion Saturday." Here's Radar's coverage of the blood test.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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