Sometimes a dead weight fixture of the celebrity culture turns a corner and reveals unsuspected talents that are very different from those that are most useful in the area where he or she has been flaunting his or her inadequacy all these years. George Hamilton and Leslie Nielson become self-parodying comedians; Ben Affleck, to the shock of one and all, reveals that God and nature meant for him to be a director. Now Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, both of whom once burned brightly as a mouthpiece alter ego for Oliver Stone and a walking pin-up in Wild Things respectively, before sliding very far very fast, have found their niche. Neither is going to be winning any Oscars or mistaken for a rocket scientist any time soon, but it turns out that they were put on this Earth to star in one of the splashiest public divorces since the golden days of Joan Collins and Peter Holm. ABC News and Sheila Markikar provide a handy timeline of the ongoing breakdown in the Sheen-Richards peace negotiations, which took a rocky turn this week with the premiere of Richards's new reality show on E!, It's Complicated.
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