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TheRatPatrol
03-10-10, 06:36 AM
Former Child Star Corey Haim Found Dead (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-drugs-rehab-child-star/)

Corey Haim Found Dead (http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-died-death-lapd-overdose-corey-feldman-lost-boys-two-coreys/)

He was the same age as me, I grew up with his movies. :(
BattleZone
03-10-10, 06:48 AM
Unfortunately, this really doesn't come as much of a surprise...
shaun-ohio
03-10-10, 07:27 AM
yep another star who over dosed on drugs. rip
Hutchinshouse
03-10-10, 07:34 AM
RIP Corey
bicker1
03-10-10, 08:21 AM
Why is it that everyone seemed to know, prior to today, who this guy was, except me?
sigma1914
03-10-10, 08:24 AM
My favorite Haim movie...The Lost Boys.
dpeters11
03-10-10, 08:35 AM
Why is it that everyone seemed to know, prior to today, who this guy was, except me?

Maybe it's a generational thing. I do think Corey Feldman is the more famous of the two overall, but they will always be linked together.
SPACEMAKER
03-10-10, 09:42 AM
This is just sad. He never could pull it together.
bicker1
03-10-10, 09:42 AM
Maybe it's a generational thing.Gosh, I haven't been told that I'm too old to understand something that often. I do try to keep current, but I guess there are gaps...
bigshew
03-10-10, 10:20 AM
I remember Haim more for the lead in Lucas, which he made just before The Lost Boys. And he seemed to be on the covers of a ton of teen mags in the early eighties.
Charise
03-10-10, 11:22 AM
I remember Haim more for the lead in Lucas, which he made just before The Lost Boys. And he seemed to be on the covers of a ton of teen mags in the early eighties.
I was too old for "teen mags" when Lucas came out, but it was a very good movie, and he was good in it. Such a shame...
AntAltMike
03-10-10, 11:45 AM
I was too old for "teen mags" when Lucas came out, but it was a very good movie, and he was good in it. Such a shame...

I was too old for teen mags when I was a teenager, but I remember my loser friend, Louie, once oogling the pictures in a feature on Ann Margaret and lamenting, "Why can't we have any girls like that here?", to which someone replied, "What difference would it make to you? If there were a million girls like that here, and a million and one guys, you'd still be the guy that didn't get one."
phrelin
03-10-10, 04:17 PM
Perhaps the saddest obituary I've read in a long time is in the Toronto Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/truly-a-lost-boy/article1496428/), a long obituary I guess since he was Canadian, which ends with this: And this time the death of a former child star seems somehow a little sadder. Without fail, each TV news report said Haim was a former eighties teen idol, who once appeared in The Lost Boys.

Few of the brief obits bothered to point out that Haim had died in a decidedly low-rent area of Los Angeles, known as Oakwood. Or that his body was found in the same apartment complex where the body of former music star Rick James was found in 2004. In death, as in life, Corey Haim was little more than a passing pop-culture footnote. Very sad.
BattleZone
03-10-10, 08:12 PM
Why is it that everyone seemed to know, prior to today, who this guy was, except me?

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/quiz/victoria_beckham/victoria_beckham2a.jpg

Haim was best known for his roles in Stephen King's "Silver Bullet", "Lucas", and of course, "The Lost Boys." The latter was a huge hit in the late 80s, especially among teen girls, and was a Top 100 video rental for years afterwards.
n3ntj
03-11-10, 11:19 AM
Another druggie star in Hollywood. What's new?
trainman
03-11-10, 12:07 PM
Few of the brief obits bothered to point out that Haim had died in a decidedly low-rent area of Los Angeles, known as Oakwood.

It's not an "area of Los Angeles" in the sense of "neighborhood" -- it's an apartment complex. A large apartment complex, but still not what I would describe as an "area."

It's also not "decidedly low-rent" -- their website quotes $96 a day for a furnished 1-bedroom (http://www.oakwood.com/furnished-apartments/furnished/US/CA/Los-Angeles/prop22.html), which is $2,880 a month (although I believe they do charge less than that on a monthly or yearly basis). I'm on a month-to-month lease on an unfurnished 1-bedroom in a reasonably nice area of the San Fernando Valley, maybe 7 or 8 miles from the Oakwood complex, and pay only a little more than a third of that amount.