A ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed, versatile actor, often in brooding, aggressive roles, Tom Berenger came to attention as the self-effacing Tom Selleck-like TV star in Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" (1983) and also headlined that year's "Eddie and the Cruisers", a film that subsequently acquired enough of a cult following to warrant a 1989 sequel in which he did not appear. With his classically handsome features criss-crossed by a huge ugly scar, he received acclaim and an Oscar nomination for his performance as the battle-hardened Sergeant Barnes in Oliver Stone's "Platoon" (1986) and then