Trailer for Corey Haim’s most recent film project, American Sunset
The Los Angeles ABC affiliate has reported via Twitter that actor Corey Haim is dead. LAPD has confirmed the death and termed it accidental.
Corey Haim/Wikipedia
Corey Haim has been such a deeply embedded part of pop culture since the 1980s that it feels almost foolish to explain who he was. But to a generation of moviegoers, he and fellow actor Corey Feldman were “The Coreys” so called not just because they shared a first name but also because they seemed so well-matched. Haim and Feldman made it to big-time stardom in Joel Schumacher’s teen vampire flick The Lost Boys in 1987. While Haim had already starred in Lucas, which was critically well-received, Lost Boys cemented his status as a teen superstar and pin-up for an entire generation of acid-wash wearing, frizzy-banged teen girls. It seemed for a time that Corey Haim’s star was falling, though, as the 90s saw him making a series of forgettable, often direct-to-video flicks with titles like Snowboard Academy and Busted, which he again made with Corey Feldman. But the 21st Century saw the dawn of reality television and with that a resurgence in popularity for both Coreys. In 2006 The Two Coreys premiered on A&E, showcasing both Haim and Feldman as themselves – actors nearing middle age and still making it work as best as they could. With good-humored jabs at themselves as stop-motion characters on Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, both Coreys also proved adept at self-parody and self-promotion. To some degree, they saw renewed careers in the early part of this century and a resurgence in public attention and affection.
Corey Haim fought a lifelong battle against addiction and went to rehab more than once. Early reports indicate his death may have been an accidental drug overdose. [UPDATE: LAPD confirmed that Haim died from a probable overdose.]
There is a strange sadness in hearing one of the Coreys has passed. Both for his relative youth and for the feeling that his passing marks the end of era.
This is a link to Corey Haim’s website: CoreyHaim.us. His most recent project was a movie titled American Sunset.
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Trailer for Corey Haim’s most recent film project, American Sunset
The Los Angeles ABC affiliate has reported via Twitter that actor Corey Haim is dead. LAPD has confirmed the death and termed it accidental.
Corey Haim/Wikipedia
Corey Haim has been such a deeply embedded part of pop culture since the 1980s that it feels almost foolish to explain who he was. But to a generation of moviegoers, he and fellow actor Corey Feldman were “The Coreys” so called not just because they shared a first name but also because they seemed so well-matched. Haim and Feldman made it to big-time stardom in Joel Schumacher’s teen vampire flick The Lost Boys in 1987. While Haim had already starred in Lucas, which was critically well-received, Lost Boys cemented his status as a teen superstar and pin-up for an entire generation of acid-wash wearing, frizzy-banged teen girls. It seemed for a time that Corey Haim’s star was falling, though, as the 90s saw him making a series of forgettable, often direct-to-video flicks with titles like Snowboard Academy and Busted, which he again made with Corey Feldman. But the 21st Century saw the dawn of reality television and with that a resurgence in popularity for both Coreys. In 2006 The Two Coreys premiered on A&E, showcasing both Haim and Feldman as themselves – actors nearing middle age and still making it work as best as they could. With good-humored jabs at themselves as stop-motion characters on Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, both Coreys also proved adept at self-parody and self-promotion. To some degree, they saw renewed careers in the early part of this century and a resurgence in public attention and affection.
Corey Haim fought a lifelong battle against addiction and went to rehab more than once. Early reports indicate his death may have been an accidental drug overdose. [UPDATE: LAPD confirmed that Haim died from a probable overdose.]
There is a strange sadness in hearing one of the Coreys has passed. Both for his relative youth and for the feeling that his passing marks the end of era.
This is a link to Corey Haim’s website: CoreyHaim.us. His most recent project was a movie titled American Sunset.
[ABC7 on Twitter, KABC]