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How the power players do it - by Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers

Charlie Sheen's innocent Wall Street days

March 3, 2011: 3:23 PM ET

by Patricia Sellers

Back in 1987, Charlie Sheen was starring in the movie Wall Street and on the cusp of a big career.

And when we at Fortune challenged the Wall Street cast to a softball game in Manhattan one night, Sheen struck us as a cocky 21-year-old who ogled the girls and wagged his butt at the plate.

He didn't seem terribly threatening when I pitched against him that night. But he did get at least one hit off me, as I recall.

Yesterday, after I published "Let's boycott Charlie Sheen" on Postcards, Gary Belis, the former Fortune PR boss who got our magazine into that first Wall Street movie, emailed me and offered pictures that he took at the game.

So forgive me, since I urged a boycott of the troubled CBS (CBS) TV star. Here is Charlie in his more innocent days...

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Pattie Sellers
Patricia Sellers
Editor at Large, Fortune

Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
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