Do People See Charlie Sheen as the Howard Beale of Our Time?

He's mad-as-hell-etc.-etc. as the rationale for forking over actual money to see vampire's blood (or whatever it was) "perform"? That, anyway, is the supposition of EW's Owen Glieberman:

One thing is now clear: Sheen’s 15 minutes are over. Kaput. I don’t mean his 15 minutes of fame, of course, or even of infamy. I mean his 15 minutes of being a Rebel. For that, let’s make no mistake, is what this whole hellapalooza has been about: the prospect that Charlie Sheen, by saying whatever damn thing floats through his tiger blood and into his bizarrely semi-lucid crackpot brain and down to his hair-trigger mouth, could sort of, perhaps, just maybe be the Last Honest Man in a paralyzingly bogus media culture.

Frankly, I prefered the original (who, compared to Charlie, sounds like he kinda has his act together).