Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
The beautiful Charlie "Charles" Sheen has been in numerous films.
Unfortunately, he almost always plays a Good Guy, something he is not
well known for in his personal life. I know, I'm disgusted by his choice
of roles too, but he has been a Bad Guy in two notable roles. (I haven't
yet seen Wall Street, so this homage may be updated in future.) As an
aside here, during 1986, Mr. Sheen played
The Wraith in the
obscure film of the same name. His character was the reincarnation
of a teenager who was killed by a gang of troublemakers during a
drag race. He came back as Charlie Sheen with a fabulous car to get
revenge on his murderers. He essentially drag raced them to death.
If you haven't seen this movie and you like cheese, I highly
recommend it. And also, the Hot Bad Goddesses debated long and hard
about whether the guys from
Young Guns
qualified for Hot Bad Guy Status. Alas, we decided they were more
anti-heroes, so we don't get to include him for his role as Richard
Brewer, nor do we get to include a whole slew of Hotties, including
Mr. Sheen's brother, Emilio
Estevez, Lou Diamond
Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland,
Dermot Mulroney, or
that guy who played Zod
in Superman II.
In 1986, Mr. Sheen played the immortal Boy in Police Station in the pro-school delinquency flick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. While the Lovely Matthew Broderick had the top honors throughout much of the film, Mr. Sheen's small role really made the movie, plus he got to semi-corrupt the Too Good Jennifer Grey in the process. And didn't he look simply smashing in that leather jacket? We don't know too much about Boy, but we do know he was collared for drugs and that's good enough for us.
Mr. Sheen played Hap Felsch, one of the doomed White Sox players in the film Eight Men Out. The problem with this movie, from a Bad Guy Perspective, is that the real Bad Guys - Charles Comiskey, who didn't pay his players a living wage and treated them like cattle, and the group of gamblers who arranged the fix on the 1919 World Series, who didn't pay the players what they were owed, threatened their families and whatnot - were not at all Hot. The Hot Guys were the players, but their Badness was somewhat understandable. Mr. Sheen's character in this film, Hap Felsch, was most assuredly guilty of conspiring to throw the World Series. He got $5,000 (he was owed $20,000) and he obviously threw a couple of games. He even seemed to revel in his actions, boasting about them in a bar. He was lovely, especially in 1919 era clothing. He didn't even chew all that much tobacco, comparatively. And my how he filled out that baseball uniform!
As total asides to this homage, I personally think that third baseman Buck Weaver, played by Hot Bad Guy John Cusack, was innocent of wrong-doing. He didn't take any money from the gamblers and he played well during the Series. Should he have informed management of the plan? Absolutely, however it's understandable why he didn't, given the continuous ill-treatment the players received, plus taking into consideration the team dynamics. Weaver was "one of the boys" and he didn't want to put himself at risk. Seeing how some of the other players were treated by teammates, you can certainly understand that. Was Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by the Lovely When He Doesn't Have a Cheek Full of Tobacco D.B. Sweeney, also innocent? Less innocent than Weaver, since he did take some money, but he didn't appear to play with anything less than his top abilities. And Hap Felsch, like the other seven members of the White Sox who were condemned for their actions, was never allowed to play professional baseball again. Unfortunately, the Real Bad Guys in this drama escaped without punishment. This episode was a stain on the Sacred Institution of Baseball and the White Sox of 1919 will forever be known as the Black Sox.
I love a man in uniform
the leather jacket, mmmm... the leather jacket
Princess
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