Charlie Sheen (1993)

The Us lnterview Charlie Sheen porn actress AFTER\flEEKS OF INCESSANT former Allen, and rain, the sun is breaking GingerLynn datedStephanie over Malibu, and Charlie he briefly amongothers), Sheen'shouse is visible Seymour, quiet. from miles away. If Errol seems a very public Fiynn and Clark Gable After with drugand alco- still had hideaway cabins dance with in the valley below, they hol abusecoinciding - - a might look up and think if not causing of badmovies (from the mountaintop fortress string tbeRoad of curved glassand soar- 1.987'sThreefor t990's Nauy ing stone was a UFO. And through the actor seemed they might wish their Seals\, to regainthe high careershad come a couple unable groundhe setin fwo of the of generationsiater. most importantfilms of Inside the $3 million the Eighties: Oliver structure are the Prizes of The enfant terrible of Eighties Hollywood has Platoonand'Wall a successful Eighties Stone's Street.rJntil,in an unlike- movie career. Sheen's a new,pumped'up body and a cleanand (rela' doubleplay, Sheen mammoth collection of ly - emergedfrom his slumP baseball memorabilia tivelyI sober outlook' But don't worry he - rehab- sportinga rivals Cooperstown's: and new skill:comedy. There's the ball Mookie hasn't lost that outlaw mouth. By Tom O'Neill '86 Rickie Vaughn,the \Tilson hit to save the As pitcher who leads a team of World Series, Lou Gehrig's 1'925 contract down the canyon for a meal and back up to mohawked the !(orld Series in 1989's (which, at $25,000, cost Sheentwo grand the house, what was supposed to be two misfits to proved he could more than Gehrig's annual salary), Babe hours stretchesto three, four, almost five Major League, Sheen tWhen humor. The Ruth's hat, etc. The total worth? Sheen's hours. his inquisitor finally leaves, deliver sly, self-deprecating in the U'S. and publicist is reluctant to say for security rea- Sheen,relaxed in sweats,baseball cap and film earned $50 million young actor back to the ranks sons. So just ask Charlie, he'11tell you cleats,seems disappointed. Like he wanted vaulted the Then came L99'l"s Hot almost anything: "One point two million," to keep going and going and going. of bankability. and co-written by he sayswith a shrug. "That's an estimate." Maybe it's becausehe's been steering Shots!, directed Jim comic genius behind In an age when most actors have become clear of the pressand staying out of the tab- Abrahams, the Naked Gwn' The gag' circumspect about their iives and careers' loids for the last two years. Even his per- Airplane! and The spoof struck the same here'sone who isn't. In a marathon talkfest sonal life, once notoriously high profile (he a-minute Top Gun predecessors,earning over $68 begun in his cliffside batting cage, moved had long liaisons with Kelly Preston and chord as its us JUNE1993.37 PhotogrdPhs by MARK SELIGER The Us Interrriew million and sp awntng Hot Sh ots! Part D eux. smothered with onions and a side of fries. third one yet? Set to open May 21, the sequel finds Maybe that wasn't your body I saw in the I'm not going to do a third. I can't becauseI 'Hot Sheenplaying Navy pilot Topper Harley, Shots!' posters. don't think it's a good careermove, I don't recruited, Rambo-sty\e, out of retirement fLaughs] This doesn't represent the rype of know how enthusiastic or excited I can get in a Thai monastery to rescue American diet I've been keeping, but some days, man, about doing it again. hostagesin the Middle East. you just say, "F--- it!" And these are good gigs for Leslie Nielsen It was Sheen'swillingness to send himself Would you have been able to make the and Lloyd Bridges, but you've still got a up (like Abrahams alums Leslie Nielsen, film without transforming your body? lot of territory to explore as an actor. Peter Graves and Lloyd But I don't feel like I've Bridges)that atrractedthe been offered, or really director in the first place. done, the type of films that "Even though he's so represent me as an actol, young, he already has a at least not lately. It's fine preconceivedimage to if Shots /1 comesout and play with, " says does great business.bur Abrahams. "Part of why it's frustrating to do these movies work is "Line, line, joke. Line, because an audience line, joke." It's always knows that the actor is about faster and funnier, having a little bit of a you know? There's no Iaugh at his own expense, time in these movies t<-r and rhat comes across have any real moments. with Charlie." But being able to do come- "He can do all kinds of dy - that's a skill a lot of things," saysproducer Joe people don't appreciate in Roth, who signed Sheento a young actor. They're costar in the upcoming looking for the tortured Three Musketeers movie. posing of - well, I won't "He's certainly versatile name names, with action, drama anc I might. comedy. [And] I rhink that Go ahead. becausehe's quiet, people Nah, I don't want to don't really know whar trash anybody. lPause) - he'slike he'svery smart But I owe [Ray] Liotta a and very introspective." shot. I nevermet the guy Slotsl was Sheen'sfirsr and I was reading about film post-rehab; its him in a magazine.They sequel offers another asked, "Are you living startling transformation. the life of a young actor Two months prior to with the partying and all shooting, Sheendisap- the madness that goes peared to a Hawaiian with it?" And he goes, 'The 'They hideaway accompanied Sheen wanted to make Firm': were leaning towards me and "Nah, I'm pretty much ' only by his trainer and then [Tom] Cruise abandons a project and they're like, "Charlie who?" the homebody type, I chef to completely over- leave all that crazy stuff haul his body. After a grueling program They'd havedone it, but I wouldn't havefelt to Kiefer Sutherlandand Charlie Sheen." that combined weight training, martial as confident running around in a tank top. I Piss you off? arts, yoga and an entirely revamped diet, knew I wasn't going to look like Stallone, The context it was in didn't seem justi- he emerged looking scarily like the target but I figured if I could deliver a version of fied - having never been in the same of his parody, Sly Stallone. myself that I've never put on film before, room with the guy or even the same city "The abs have been a little tough to keep people wouldn't say, "He doesn't look like for that matter. up," laughs Sheenpatting his belly and puff- Stallone." but rather. "Look what he didl" What would you say if you ran into him? ing on a cigarette (at two packs a day, it's And they might wonder how you did it. Oh, I'd be polite. I'd say, "Yo, Ray, like one habit he hasn't eventried breaking). The talk amongst the crew when they saw what's up?" If someone'sbeen out with me No matter what may have happened me was, "The kid is doing the juice back in the days of yore when it was all inside his body and out, his vibrant person- [steroids]." I told them, "Anybody wants about getting nuts and staying that way and ality remains intact. He sayswhat he thinks a f---ing blood test, I'm standing here." If he saw the s--- going down, that's fine. I and with a casual abandon that's endearing I was on the juice I'd be angry, arrogant can't say it was fabricated, but in this caseit and endangering at the same time. Sheen's and short-tempered. iust seemeda little unfair. never been one to pull punches, and with And that's how you are anyway. So you're trying to put that image to rest? two years of holding back, he's rewed and lGrinslExaciy. Trying, but it's like a bullet wound. It takes ready to let fly - after, that is, a cheesesteak Have you signed the contract for the one second to do the damage and years and us JUNE1993.39 The Us lnterview Enterthe years to heal. It's funny, you have a bad interview or go a little over the edge in some article and people remember that s- -- for years. But you do a great inrerview and people only remember that for as long as it's on the stands. ls the media fair to you? Style They've been very cool lately. in the But not In the "days of yore"? EntertainmentWorld No, but I gave them a lot of ammunition. Gontest! You can't say all that s--- and then throw a Shannen Doherty on them, I know ltYith the Logics C0l0Reserve Shannena little bit. 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