OFF BEAT: Director has no regrets hiring uninsurable Charlie Sheen

Actor Charlie Sheen's winning ways apparently do not impress underwriters. In an interview with Details magazine, director Roman Coppola said his decision to cast the notoriously dissolute actor in the lead role of his new movie made it impossible to secure insurance or a bond on the film.

The movie, “A Glimpse Inside the Mind Of Charles Swan III,” stars Mr. Sheen as a successful graphic designer in a “comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies …”

While few would fault the unnamed insurance company's underwriters for exercising discretion, Mr. Coppola said he does not regret the decision to cast Mr. Sheen, whom he has known since 1979.