Ok, Charlie Sheen. This man is a legend. He was a once removed part of the 1980's Brat Pack. His brother, Emilio Estevez, was a member of the Brat Pack. Charlie was an icon of the 1990's Party/Drug/Escort scene and was known for paying for hookers, booze, and drugs; high end, low end, the price did not matter. The man is a legend! His acting career is also as amazing as his life!
Charlie started his career with Red Dawn in 1984 and went on from there making movies that showed off his hard, bad boy life with movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off (he played the bad boy in the police station), Maor League ("Wild Thing" Vaughn, the near sighted Pitcher), and Two and a Half Men (Charlie, the older, rich brother who cannot keep a woman for more than two episodes). Apparently, Two and a Half Men was the end of his career, when he went nuts, and started to go off on everywith with his Alien, Warlock, and mean talk about how he is his own drug, and all the other good stuff thatm akes Tabloid TV so juicy. But, let's not talk about that.. Let's talk about the fun Charlie.. The good Charlie.. The handsome Charlie we all love.
My love of Charlie started when I was 8 years old. I had seen the movie Eight Men Out with my mother, and he was so handsome with John Cusack.. And I started seeing movies he was in. So cute, so innocent looking. My father let me rent Young Guns, and I saw Charlie in that as Dick Brewer, the more in charge of the outlaws and who tried to wrangle in Billy the Kid (who was playing by Emilio Estevez), and I cried when he died in the middle of the movie. I saw Men at Work (once again collaborating with his brother Emilio), and I laughed when they drank beer, and hated their jobs because they were trash collectors, and did nothing else.. but drink and collect trash, but then got involved in bad dealings where someone was dumbing hazordous waste into the ocean.
Who can forgot Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Duex! Two amazing movies where Charlie played Topper Harley! LOL! National Lampoons spoofs where he had love, he lost love, he had love again, and lost it again, all while there were chickens, morons, and cheap Saddam Hussein jokes! It was the early 90's and it joke fodder! Who didn't love it! And then my all time favorite movie.. Ever! The movie that immortalized Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Tim Curry for me, forever.
The Three Musketeers. Charlie Sheen played Aramis, the deeply religious, yet seemingly passionate about having womenly affairs, yet still amazingly perfect swordsman who fights the evil Cardinal Richeliou. Having read The Three Musketeers, I know Disney editted the story, and had Aramis be a former student of the Cardinal, and stand in his way, only to be shot with the breath holding horror of thinking he is dead, as the Cardinal forced King Louis and Queen Anne away while Athos and Porthos fought with the Musketeers in the final end all battle. In the end, you find out the cross given to Aramis, by the Cardinal, took the bullet that saved his life, and Aramis saves the King and Queen and everything is perfect again. Charlie will forever be Topper Harley, Aramis the Musketeer, Richard "Dick" Brewer, and Oscar "Hap" Felsch.
Charlie.. Crazy Warlock Apprentice, Winner. Duh. We know you are. But pull your big nosed head out your behind, because you are making yourself look stupid and your fans miss you and your immortal characters... not these stupid ones you make up. Yes, you are a drug to some of your fans, yes, you are Charlie Sheen, you are a drug, your movies are a drug. I could watch a Marathon of your movies from 1984-1997 and never get tired of them.. But they way you are acting now.. Your fans are not happy, you are just Tabloid fodder.. Please stop. Your fans, your true fans, we miss you.