Martin Sheen

For fans who enjoyed the image of Charlie Sheen as one of the last of Hollywood's hard-living rebels, reality came crashing down hard when it was revealed last year that the actor suffers from HIV.

Sheen is as famous for his decades of partying and bedding famous women as he is for his acting career, but the diagnosis served as a reminder that the self-proclaimed warlock from Mars is, in fact, quite human.

Earlier this month, Radar Online reported that multiple sources had verified the identity of the man who raped Corey Haim when the late actor was still in his teens.

The site chose not to reveal the name at that time for legal reasons, but a scathing report made it clear that the identity of the attacker was no longer in doubt.

Like most of us, Martin Sheen watched the Today show on Tuesday, November 17th, waiting for his son, Charlie to reveal that he was HIV-Positive.

What's in a name? As it turns out, maybe everything.

Since Shakespeare first posited the question in Romeo and Juliet, actors have been using fake names to land professional roles. Not only did it allow them some semblance of privacy before the dawn of Wikipedia, but let's face it, some people just aren't born with great names.