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When Hollywood men go bad |
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Written by Knight Ridder
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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There’s been a real-life casting call for cads, creeps and cuckoos — and yesteryear’s leading men are lining up.
Although they once were cuties craved by fans, select celebs have fallen from grace. Gross displays of drugs, violence, idiocy and slutty sleaze-tactics seem to rule in Hollywood heartthrob land.
BIGGEST #@!% AWARD
Charlie Sheen gets the biggest dunce cap for achieving all the above, according to divorce papers filed by his estranged wife Denise Richards.
In court papers, Richards accuses the prime-time TV star of having a prime time with prostitutes, drugs, gambling and harassment that are worthy of at least “Two and a Half Men.”
Allegedly hooked on Xanax, Norco and Ativan, Sheen is accused of physical menacing, threatening Richards’ life and safety, watching what appeared to be underage porn (of girls and boys), regularly sleeping with prostitutes, gambling away hundreds of thousands of dollars, mood swings and paranoid acts.
His idea of a romantic chat? Try this excerpt from one of six voice messages he allegedly left Richards one day: “I hope you f*** rot in hell. So f*** you. I hope I never f*** talk to you again, you f*** c***. F*** you. You’re a coward and a liar and a f*** n*** all right? So f*** you.”
In addition, Richards claims he wished various cancers upon her, and fixated on the gruesome death of Nicole Brown Simpson. And while Sheen denies all the allegations, his fate may be cast in audience minds. But he’s not alone.
There’s a host of other Hollywood hotties whom we now love to hate.
From overdone hunks to today’s top guns, keep reading for leading men that make us quake and quiver.
YOU DID WHAT AWARD?
JUDE LAW
The British-born actor became a Hollywood heartthrob after starring in “Cold Mountain,” “Alfie” and “Closer” within a year. Though engaged to stunning, trend-setting actress Sienna Miller, Law, 33, stupidly took his “Alfie” role as a serial philanderer home with him - he was caught giving his children’s nanny a fringe benefit in the bedroom.
R. KELLY
The hunky R&B crooner, 39, became a perennial Grammy winner in the 1990s as both a singer and songwriter. But he should have kept his kinky tastes in the closet - and his camera in its case. Not only did his videotaped sex romps make the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee epic look tame, some of the young ladies R. Kelly believed he could fly with were allegedly minors.
TOM CRUISE
The “Mission: Impossible III” star, 43, has been a box-office top gun for more than 20 years. But if leaping on Oprah’s sofa, verbally slamming Brooke Shields and jawing with Matt Lauer wasn’t enough to turn Cruise into a national punch line, his faster than lightning meet-become engaged to-I’m pregnant! performance with Katie Holmes left his loyal audience wondering. Now Katie’s all alone with baby Suri and Tom is back on the promotion trail.
LANCE ARMSTRONG
The inspirational bicycle champ was living strong after overcoming testicular cancer and winning a record seven Tour de France races. His fans turned as tough as a race to the finish line when he started changing partners like flat tires. After splitting from the wife who nursed him through his illness, Armstrong got engaged to rock singer Sheryl Crow - and dumped her three weeks before the singer announced she had breast cancer.
REDEEMED CAD AWARD
BEN AFFLECK
The male half of “Bennifer” made headlines while he was with Jennifer No. 1 (Lopez) for reported strip-club visits, all-night poker binges and other bad-boy behavior. But with Jennifer No. 2 (Garner), he’s vanished from the public eye, visited the stepfolks in West Virginia and turned into a doting dad and husband.
BILL CLINTON
Bubba’s legacy was more than a little in doubt when he left the West Wing, thanks mostly to women named Monica and Paula, the pardon of financier Mark Rich and other messes. But his record since leaving office has been nothing short of flawless: At 59, he’s raised billions for charity - for his Clinton Global Initiative and (with Bush “41”) for tsunami and Katrina victims - and he’s still the most compelling public speaker alive.
GOLDEN BOY AWARD
MATT DAMON
Not only did the “Bourne Identity” star go goodwill hunting for a wife outside the Hollywood dating pool, he did the honorable thing by marrying her. Damon, 35, wed his pregnant fiancee, bartender Luciana Bozan, in December. He’s also a doting stepdad to Bozan’s 7-year-old daughter from her first marriage.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL
Girls gaga over the “Brokeback Mountain” star, 25, call themselves Gyllenhaalics. The Columbia dropout is a Zen Buddhist, implying tranquility rather than turbulence. Free from his longterm gal pal Kirsten Dunst (with whom, reps say, he remains close friends - another good sign), the brother of indie film darling Maggie is now on the market.
WILL SMITH
Smith, 37, is still a fresh prince. Wife Jada Pinkett recently told a magazine that her hunky husband saved her from a life of drugs, booze and casual sex by providing a “comfort zone of knowing that I had a relationship that was solid.” Together they take their love to the nation via the feel-good family sitcom “All of Us.”
PETER SARSGAARD
From “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Kinsey” to “Jarhead” and “Garden State,” the indie darling, 35, seems to do no wrong. He’s dated equally adorable Maggie Gyllenhaal (double-A names flock together, apparently) for about four years; the couple recently got engaged and are expecting their first child this fall, with an Oscar for Sarsgaard to follow at some point.
MATTHEW FOX
Studly star surgeon on ABC’s “Lost,” devoted husband, father of two and Columbia graduate, Fox, 39, is about as All-American as you can get, even if his beautiful wife, Margherita, is Italian. In his spare time, he rebuilds vintage cars, listens to bands like Interpol and Modest Mouse and gets only positive reviews from anyone who knows him. | Only registered users can write comments.
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