I know it wasn't the expected casting choice, but Richard Gere wasn't always the pretty boy he's been typecast/sterotyped as over the years. Check out "An Officer & A Gentlemen" (1982) and "The Cotton Club" (1984) and "No Mercy" (1986)
^never heard of them joints there........but I did feel that movie where his bitch was cheatin' on him and he crowned home dood wit the crystal ball and killed him......that shit was funny....