Sutherland Dismisses Drinking Reputation.

He tells Premiere magazine, "I said, 'Something tells me you have a wonderful chance - but you gotta change your name: There was a wonderful star named MARILYN MILLER, and nobody's used it (name). You should be Marilyn.' "Then the phone rang and it was a guy I used to write scripts with whose name was TOM MONROE... She said, 'Who were you talking to?' 'I was talking to your last name... You're Marilyn Monroe.'" Sutherland Dismisses Drinking Reputation.Actor KIEFER SUTHERLAND has rubbished reports he has an alcohol problem, arguing he simply doesn't have the time to drink and film hit TV show 24.The 40-year-old claims he is so busy playing agent JACK BAUER in the television drama, currently in its sixth series, that his social life cannot be a priority.He says. "24 doesn't make itself while I'm in a bar somewhere."I maybe deserve to get drunk once in a while but I've never once been late for a day's work."