Resplendent in a yellow Dick Tracy hat, black-and-white striped jacket, a clashing print shirt and socks with fish on them, an unshaven and voluble Charlie Sheen tells the story of his canceled wedding plans.
"I was engaged for one year, one month and two hours," he says in a husky growl of a voice. "But I was working for 10 months out of the 13 that we were engaged. Then the whole thing kind of fell apart."She was Kelly Preston of `Twins" fame - just ask her. No, I didn't mean that.
"I can't imagine what I was thinking when we got engaged. I had a complete lapse of logic for 13 months."
Sheen, 25, one of four children born to actor Martin Sheen and his wife over the course of a long marriage that has defied Hollywood odds.
But the younger Sheen, whose brushes with scandal are documented in show business scandal sheets while his father is busy demonstrating for the homeless, isn't ready to take the plunge.
Instead, the actor whose interest in acting was sparked during the eight months he spent with his dad in the Philippines during the filming of "Apocalypse Now" says he is going to concentrate on a career whose latest turn is a starring role in "Navy Seals."
The role of the obsessive, redneck Seal is one of a string of ensemble pieces Sheen has created in such films as "Major League," "Young Guns, "Eight Men Out" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." The star of Stone's "Wall Street" as well as the co-star of his brother, Emilio Estevez' recent release, "Men at Work," Sheen likes to keep working.
When he isn't, the New York-born and California-raised actor is busy denying gossip columns items about himself.
Just before he and Preston broke off their engagement, there was a shooting incident at the home they shared and Preston was taken to the hospital with a leg wound. Sheen later explained that a gun on a hamper in their bathroom had fallen and gone off, grazing Preston.
More recently, Sheen's name was listed as a steady customer in the books of a Midwest escort service when the police raided the establishment located near Milwaukee, where part of "Major League" was shot.
"That one really got me. The bottom line is that when I was filming 'Major League' in Milwaukee, I called the police department because my hotel room was robbed. Someone took my jewelry and my wallet.
"Now, it doesn't take Dick Tracy to figure out that it was probably some guy using my I.D.
"These stories really used to get to me, really chap me. Then it dawned on me that that's what they wanted from me -- a rise, a reaction."
As he speaks, Sheen folds his hands laden with rings in front of him, using the calm, assured voice that is so like his fathers.
Martin Sheen, an outspoken advocate of liberal causes, has seen the gung-ho, pro-military "Navy Seals" three times.
"He said,'Son' -- and he never calls me son -- and he was complimentary about my work in it. But he was obviously not interested in the type of politics the movie offers."