Charlie Sheen Analysis

Charlie Sheen: Hollywood Gold Living in the city of Los Angeles it's difficult not to notice that most of today's actors work, live and play in the city of angels. One does not have to drive out to sunny southern California and take a cruise down Sunset Blvd to get a glimpse at what actors and actresses are doing. Finding access to their glamorized private lives is as easy as reading headlines on tabloid publications staring you down when standing in checkout lines and due to the fact that major television networks often reveal moments in their lives as breaking and time worthy news. American actor Charlie Sheen has been making films and television shows for nearly three decades and remains on top of Hollywood's food chain by making TV Guides Top Earners list in 2010. Nonetheless, this long career has proven to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. With fame and fortune, Charlie Sheen has had a troubled time line beginning in his early career filled with scandal, drug use and a recurring fixation of adult female stars. Is this erratic behavior hard proof of Sheen's addiction? Or is it simply a tale of a average guy with a lifestyle and attitude that cannot be matched. Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estevez on September 3, 1965, in New York City. Sheen was introduced to acting as a young child through his father, Martin Sheen, who had been acting on Broadway and small television throughout the late 60's and early 70's. At the age of nine he was given his first role alongside his father in 1974's Execution of Private Slovik. After being expelled from high school in Santa Monica for bad grades and poor attendance, Charlie concentrated his full effort into pursuing as many acting roles as he could. He struck success in 1984 by landing a small role in Red Dawn (1984) and landed the role of a lifetime when he was casted as the lead in Oliver Stone's epic Vietnam War tale Platoon . After Platoon, Charlie starred alongside his father in Wall Street and finished of