Good Crazy

June, 2011

THERE'S A RIGHT KIND OF MAD AND A WRONG KIND OF MADAs I watched Charlie Sheen spiral into madness in front of millions of entertained viewers, I was reminded of a conversation I had with Charlotte Scott, a reality-TV producer. Scott used to book guestsfor the kind of daytime TV shows on which extended families mired in drama andtragedy yell at one another in front of a studio audi­ence. She told me she had a secret trick for choosing her guests."I'd ask them over the phone what medication t...