When I saw this one as an upcoming new release, I immediately threw it in my “want to read” list on Goodreads. I was interested in to learn more about his life growing up with an actor dad and an actor brother. I was interested in some of his movies that I thoroughly enjoyed – Young Guns, Major League I and II, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and both Hot Shots.
Well, I was a bit disappointed as, besides his childhood, he mainly talked about Platoon and a lot of about sex, drugs, and alcohol. Nothing but a short sentence on most of the majority of the movies (maybe he is planning another book or maybe he just plain forgot what he did).
He did have a really cool childhood as him, his three siblings, and his mother often traveled wherever Martin (dad) was filming, so he got to experience the business early on. He was gifted a video camera at a young age, and learned to make movies with his siblings and friends, and a lot of his sets and designs came from his dad’s films. One of those friends growing up was Chris Penn.
I knew a little about the other side of Charlie, and he was very honest and open about all the sex (paid and not paid), drugs, and alcohol he consumed. He also talked about being HIV positive. He has been sober free from alcohol since 2017.
He does talk openly about his marriages, divorces, kids, and even grandkids.
He uses quite a lot of strange spellings of words, dood instead of dude for example.
