My Name is Lucas, I Live on the Second Slab
(Whoop whoop for Phil)
Or
Lost Boy
(Cap tip to Monty)
Or
License to Die
(Muchos gracias de Monty)
Or
License to Drive - a Hearse
(Additional Accolades for Mark)
Or
Now There's Only One Corey
(Kudos for Kirsti)
Corey Haim, whose best performances came in the pages of Teen Beat, has died of what everyone knows was a drug overdose regardless of how long it takes the California Attorney General’s office to tell us at the age of 38. The former child star appeared as the brilliant, lonely dork in Lucas, the paralyzed dork in Silver Bullet, the dorky vampire hunter in The Lost Boys before peaking as the dork who can’t operate an automobile in License to Drive. Along the way he befriended his fellow Corey, frequent co-star Corey Feldman to form the defining duo of the 1980s. With the end of the ‘80s came the end to the Corey-dom, and Haim ended up in rehab 15 times, then stayed in his apartment for 3 and half years, ballooning to 304 pounds. He resorted to selling an extracted molar on eBay before attempting to jumpstart his comeback by sharing the home of fellow fell-out boy Feldman as the two clawed desperately at fame by appearing in a reality series and hoping for a direct-to-video sequel to The Lost Boys (which Haim was first rejected for before filming a cameo so bad it only appeared during the credits). The idea was a kooky Odd Couple-esque series. The edited version of reality was an abject lesson in dysfunction, which ended when Feldman told Haim he couldn’t watch him self-destruct further. And when Corey Feldman is telling you to get your life together…
Or
Lost Boy
(Cap tip to Monty)
Or
License to Die
(Muchos gracias de Monty)
Or
License to Drive - a Hearse
(Additional Accolades for Mark)
Or
Now There's Only One Corey
(Kudos for Kirsti)
Corey Haim, whose best performances came in the pages of Teen Beat, has died of what everyone knows was a drug overdose regardless of how long it takes the California Attorney General’s office to tell us at the age of 38. The former child star appeared as the brilliant, lonely dork in Lucas, the paralyzed dork in Silver Bullet, the dorky vampire hunter in The Lost Boys before peaking as the dork who can’t operate an automobile in License to Drive. Along the way he befriended his fellow Corey, frequent co-star Corey Feldman to form the defining duo of the 1980s. With the end of the ‘80s came the end to the Corey-dom, and Haim ended up in rehab 15 times, then stayed in his apartment for 3 and half years, ballooning to 304 pounds. He resorted to selling an extracted molar on eBay before attempting to jumpstart his comeback by sharing the home of fellow fell-out boy Feldman as the two clawed desperately at fame by appearing in a reality series and hoping for a direct-to-video sequel to The Lost Boys (which Haim was first rejected for before filming a cameo so bad it only appeared during the credits). The idea was a kooky Odd Couple-esque series. The edited version of reality was an abject lesson in dysfunction, which ended when Feldman told Haim he couldn’t watch him self-destruct further. And when Corey Feldman is telling you to get your life together…
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