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Grading President Bartlet
Call it the No Actor Left Behind Act.
Now that he's being termed out of The West Wing after a seven-season run as President Josiah Barlet, Martin Sheen's planning to go back to school.
And we're not talking Rodney Dangerfield remakes.
The 65-year-old Sheen, who last week wrapped his final episode on NBC's Emmy-winning White House-based series, will enroll as a full-time student at the National University of Ireland to fulfill a promise he made to himself long ago to get a "proper education."
Sheen--whose mother hails from Ireland--revealed his post-West Wing plans Monday, upon accepting an honorary arts doctorate at the university. He announced he would become the "oldest undergraduate" at NUI Galway starting in the fall, when he arrives as a "foreign student" majoring in philosophy, theology and English literature with a special concentration in oceanography.
"We are developing that interest with him [and are] looking forward to welcoming [him]," a spokesperson for the school told the BBC.
No word whether the thesp--who has received numerous honorary degrees--will take any political science classes. And if he needs a gut, there's always theater or film.
The National University of Ireland is highly regarded for its Huston School of Film and Digital Media, named after late Hollywood director John Huston, whose Oscar-winning spawn Anjelica Huston is a patron.
And if the students are looking for someone to lead in campus protests, Sheen's their man. The actor is well known for his activism--he's been arrested more than 60 times in acts of civil disobedience.
But while Sheen remains critical of the current administration's policies, don't expect him to pull a Ronald Reagan.
In a New York Times interview this week, Sheen said he has vetoed overtures from the Democratic Party in his native Ohio to run for U.S. Senate.
"I'm just not qualified," he told the Times, adding that he has no problem speaking in favor of social programs and environmental initiatives or against the war in Iraq. "You're mistaking celebrity for credibility."
Although he's determined to "slow down a bit," Sheen is by no means retiring from screen life. He'll next be seen in Bobby, a movie written and directed by son Emilio Estevez about 22 people whose lives intersect at the Ambassador Hotel the day Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Meanwhile, NBC will air the series finale of The West Wing, presumably with Sheen's Bartlet ceding power to his successor, Jimmy Smits' Congressman Matthew Santos, on May 14.
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