Owen Wilson gets the Attention

When all the news broke about Owen Wilson's suicide gesture, everyone acted surprised. I would assume this is because Mr Wilson seems very affable in his movie roles and rather sunny during press interviews. But you ask anyone who has gotten into a fist fight with Owen in the past, and they will tell you that he at least has a temper he doesn't seem to show everyone. It's a function of celebrity that we pretty much believe what we see. We noticed that the Hoff seemed to be a pretty sweet and uncoordinated drunk when his kids were around. We notice that Britney and Lindsay seem to have "issues". But Owen, well, he seemed immune. He didn't even have that aura of bisexuality that Matthew McConaughey has. There wasn't a hint of confusion about Owen, or a snippet of viewable depression, or a show of bad temper or even bad manners. He put forth a personna that we believed- including the lovable stoned guy on talk shows. On the celebrity blogs, if the posters there are to be believed, then Mr Wilson has had a very quiet drug problem. One which may, or may not depending on the veracity of a poster, have involved a stay at a rehab clinic- and not a fancy pantsy one either. Some say he also checked into the equivalent of the Ritz rehab also. What becomes of almost middle aged men who still believe that the girls will always love them and that their opportunities to be husbands and fathers will always lie ahead of them, and that they can drink/smoke/drug to abandon without consequence? What happens to these celebrities when they realize that they are now the "old guys" they made fun of. Owen Wilson is not a spring chicken- even if he is, make that WAS, box office gold. Did reality really hit him squarely between the eyes and make him look around at his "whole lotta nothin'"? I don't know Owen Wilson. I actually don't care about knowing him. But I care that he would believe his own hype, and take himself so seriously, that he could scratch on his arm and take some pills(allegedly) and then call his brother (allegedly). Unlike a lot of bloggers, I am not going to act as if I know what is best for him. I don't. But he comes from a stable family, has loving brothers, and surely could at least get help on some level- be it for addiction or depression or both. But frankly, with all his blessings, he just annoys me. I know money doesn't make one immune to depression, but it can buy a boatload of help. He should get help for as many years as it takes.