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Sad, was waiting for Lost Boys 2.

Unfortunately, this will give fuel to Corey Feldman's desperate attempts to regain fame as he sobs in front of every camera within 5 miles of his face for the next 3 years. Why couldn't it have been Feldman?! WHYYYYYYYYY???!!!

Lucas!

The deaths are not as sad as the fact that for every Corey Haim, Brittany Murphy, etc., there are a thousand stage mothers just chomping at the bit to push their kids into the limelight and milk everything out of them by the time they are 15.

I had watched a few episodes of The Two Coreys and it was really sad to see how this once cute kid with a lot of potential had become so unbalanced. I don't remember, was it here on Pajiba that I read a review of an episode where Haim was having trouble on the new Lost Boys set and then basically went into his trailer and snorted his troubles away while sobbing? Just reading about that was heartbreaking. I hope he's at peace now.

One good movie that restarted the vampire craze and he gets a VH1 special and then we cry? He had little talent but a big ego, but not big enough to play with the big boys...

Next...

Sad, was waiting for Lost Boys 2.

3, actually. 2 was subtitled The Tribe.

Poor, poor Corey Haim.

:( I was hoping it was some sort of joke.

I met him once at a comic convention in London. I had no idea what to say. It was sad mainly as he was signing photos of himself back when he was a teenager.

If Haim makes the 'In Rememberance" montage at the 2011 Oscars, I'm cutting a bitch.

absolutely no offense meant, but i totally thought he was already dead. did anyone else or am i alone in this?

Lucaplagia.

This is sad, but not even remotely surprising. It was probably a combination of drugs and his heart probably gave out, no longer able to take it.

And I'm with you KBalls. If I see Corey's Feldman's sobbing mug ANYWHERE, I'm turning it off, turning the channel, clicking the X, kicking it in, whatever it takes.

On another note- what the hell happened to Kerri Green? One minute she's kissing a hot Charlie Sheen (pre-drugs and hookers) in Lucas and Three for the Road, the next she's gone. Hollywood really hates red-heads, huh?

OK, I know I'm old because I have no idea who this kid is/was. Now get off my lawn.

He was a cute and charming kid, likely scarred from way too many plowings on associate producers' couches. Sorry that things turned out this way.

It's not sad because Haim was some tremendous visionary, it's sad because he was just 38 years old and had already been washed-up for about twenty years. The drugs and ridiculousness were the fallout of that fact. Children just weren't protected in Hollywood then.

http://www.fandango.com/childstars:theirstory_v245576/summary

This was the panel discussion program I was talking about. Very informative, especially learning about the black and white era child stars.

"In recent years, he has struggled with drug dependence.."

Actually, this dude has had drug problems for 20+ years. Its 2010, Dustin.

Not a big shocker. Haim turned into a giant ass-hat, and pissed away fame and fortune most people can only dream about. It is sad, though, because I can't bring myself to blame him 100% for his troubles. Maybe 75%. The other 25% goes to his parents for not providing him with the guidance he so obviously needed.

Sad story. Rest in peace, Sam.

Please allow me to be the asshole of the page, since everyone else thinks its such a shame that a drug addict overdosed.

Boo-fuckin-hoo. The man was a stopwatch counting down to zero. it wasn't a question of if he was going to OD, it was a question of when. Personally, I don't feel sorry for the poor bastard. I feel sympathy for those who have to bury a friend, son, and brother, but not one lick of that goes to Corey himself.

You play with fire and you get burned. Quit feeling sorry for someone who made his choices and met the ultimate consequence because of them.

Bignick, true, true.
RIP Haim.

This man was a stopwatch counting down to zero.
Hmm. I would like to know where one can buy this quantum stopwatch, and will it also count to -i?

I guess I lack some sense of sentiment about these things. I've had a running $1 bet with a friend for 20 years -- whenever someone famous dies, the first one to think of a joke about it wins a buck. And yeah, I'll be collecting on the above joke.

Heartless? Maybe. If the guy never had a chance, I'd feel differently. And anyway, we're all whistling past the graveyard in our own way....

I swear to gods, my friend needs a light punch in the neck.

"We should all bow our heads in a moment of silence for the loss of Corey Haim. Looks like we can scratch Goonies 2."

He, and numerous people, swear up and down that the 2 Coreys were both in the Goonies. I hate these people.

On the other hand....I wonder if Meredith Salenger needs a comfy shoulder* to cry on.

By "comfy shoulder" I mean my penis.

I know his family and friends put together a couple of interventions and they did not work.

God knows he was loved and there were those who tried to help him.

Because of the addicts I've seen in my own life, I tend to have a matter-of-fact feeling about it now. Sometimes you just can't save someone from themselves. And if everything in the world you have done isn't working and the addict continues to uses, it's just a fact that sooner or later (and probably sooner), their body is going to give up and give out.

Feeling sorry for him doesn't do him a rat shit worth of good now. I'm going to watch Lucas tonight (my favorite movie of his by far) and remember him fondly and wish him well where ever he is now.

Snuggz, it's your favorite movie of his because it was the best one. People call him talentless, but that doesn't explain Lucas.

It's sad that he's gone. It's sad that those who loved him couldn't save him from himself. It's sad that he had so much promise and wasted it on las drogas (which, by the way: siempre hay que separa las drogas. Sorry, wrong Corey).

Was he a loser? Absolutely. His tragic death doesn't change his pathetic life. But his death was still tragic, especially considering how many people did love him. It won't matter to them that it was his own fault or that they did everything they could to help him. I'm sure they were hoping that they'd have thirty more years to plead with him to turn his life around.

I'm so sad for his family and friends, but I'm sad for him, too. I can't imagine the despair that must come with caring more about your next high than your own life. I'm glad that I can't imagine it.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHAAAAT

That was my literal reaction in reading the headline.

So sad. I had the hugest crush on him when I was around 8 years old. Damn yous Corey Haim! Why?!

I know that's the point, but he was still a PERSON.

Well, he was, and I'm disappointed when anyone dies young and avoidably. I'm disappointed in people who throw it away without reason. I'm more like raged out with people who dribble it away without choosing.

Whatever the choice, I'm with you but defaulting out via a shadow life other than what you prefer? Really?

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091126

... and we'll be looking at yet another tragic consequence of the medical community playing fast and loose with prescriptions.

And the guy who took the pills, without caring for himself, or worse, knowing his gambles? Or his friends?

The price of your life is you living it. I don't make the rules here, but it helps to know them.

Y'all are some heartless bastards. Whether or not it was inevitable, it's still sad. And personally, I was a fan. My pre-teen self fantasized about growing up and marrying one of the Coreys. Stupid? Yes. But it still makes me sad.

Seriously, I know! People are missing the most important part of this story: bignick's quantum stopwatch that counts down to zero.
I mean, this could revolutionize the world! Inverting the randomness of electrons, instant interstellar travel; a cleaner, more efficient waffle; change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy!
bignick, don't hold out on us! The scientific community is drooling for something like this!

@replica: Are you Corey Feldman in disguise?

This isn't about whether or not a person is alone in this world. It's called self-determinism. Look it up if you need to. If you're too lazy to do so, allow me to break it down Fisher-Price style for you: You make a decision; said decision gives you both positive and negative consequences. You continue to make piss-poor decisions. You receive piss-poor results.

Corey Haim was a drug addict. He continued to use everything except whatever was under his kitchen sink to escape...whatever he wanted to escape from. His body finally said, "Fuck You, I'm out!" and he died. End of fucking story.

Are you a friend of Corey Haim? A family member? A lover? If so, then my condolences for having to spend your time grieving and disposing of this dumbshit of a human being's corpse.

If you are none of the above, how the fuck does his death affect your life and the path you are on in any way, shape, or fucking form? The answer is NONE! You will still wake up tomorrow, smelling of douchbaggery and simple-minded emotions.

Bottom line, Corey made his choices and it cost him his life. His friends and family made theirs as well. Only choice left is whether to bury his ass or cremate him.

Thousands of addicts die every fucking day. Most of them aren't former movie stars. Where's your moral outrage over those deaths that are barely even recorded in your local newspaper? Weep for those nameless and forgotten people, not some movie star who couldn't handle the price of fame.

bignick, even if you do feel that it would be cheapening your discovery, that's not a guarantee that the quantum stopwatch will be cheapened like television or the talking vibrator. I mean, you probably weren't even considering societal change or lower miles-per-gallon for breakfast treats when you created this stopwatch. You just wanted to make a stopwatch that would count down to zero. That's the purity of the inventor's heart, right there. You should be commended.
Just know that someone else is going to make their own quantum stopwatch before you know it, and then your name will be lost in history. It'll be just like Tesla's low-sodium cracker organizer, or Corey Haim's electric duck.

@Jim Doggie: I can't stay mad at you. You make me laugh. If you OD, I shall feel sad. But not for anyone else.

@DarthCorleone:

So essentially your premise is that personal accountability doesn't exist? You're stating that he was hard-wired (i.e. lacking the proper free will to correct his decisions about substance abuse) so he couldn't overcome his addiction.

That's 12 step bullshit. The inherent problem with 12 step programs is that there is no personal accountability. An addict is powerless in the face of their addiction, as one of the steps states.

Well, I am addict and have been for almost 12 years. I've also been clean and sober for the last 9 of those 12 years. Didn't go AA or NA, kicked it cold turkey. I had help from friends but at the start and end of EACH and EVERY single day, I make the conscious decision not to relapse. I have the power to overcome my addictions.

Addiction is not a disease. It is a choice that is made and continues to be made. There are biological factors with addiction, such as the body's dependence on those substances to subsist, but we are conscious, thinking individuals. If any addict is unable to stop their addiction, it isn't because they are powerless to stop, it is because they don't WANT to stop. It's hard fucking work to stay clean. It's easier to let go, to let the drugs take away everything. But easy isn't better.

Personal accountability, you should try it some time. If you fuck something up, it wasn't because of something or someone else. You fucked up. If you're a drug addict, like me, its because you wanted to take the drugs, for whatever reason. You can also want to stay alive, to be clean, and to regain the power over your life.

bignick, I'm totally comfortable with the answer to that question. But I'll reiterate that there's no need to crash down so hard, so angry.

I'm not claiming to be 'transformed' by this either - I'm sad about it, yes. But what really gets me is knee-jerk reactions, pious judgments, and the endless search for a virtual high five from chortling, immature strangers that characterizes this vast internet, and now it seems...here.

It's the piss in my cornflakes today.

Lindsay Lohan, meet your future.

My pre-teen self fantasized about growing up and marrying one of the Coreys.

Me too, cydeleida.

RIP, Les.

I hope I wasn't one that was thought of as being a calloused asshole about him.

I think every single human's life has value. Even that Spencer Pratt douchebag. Even Heidi Montag.

But I've seen addiction too long, too up close and personal, to be very romantic about it.

Let's take my stepfather: if he died tomorrow from his liver finally saying "you know what? 35 years of this shit, I'm out" it would be sad not in the sense that he was dead (in fact, his own brothers have admitted it will be a relief when he dies) but for all the years he wasted on the sauce. His death from alcohol poisoning or liver failure or a car accident (dear God please don't let him take anyone else with him) is just a matter of freaking odds. Corey Haim? Same thing. Odds. He didn't beat them.

I participated in two interventions for my stepfather and set up and ran a third. He went to rehab--wait--15 separate times. I drove him to rehab seven of those times. One rehab stay was a long-term stint--six months--then a halfway house, then a sober living center, then an apartment with a roommate further along in the program than he was.

He went out and got drunker than Cooter Brown the first chance he got. All that help. All those family members killing themselves to help him, sobbing and weeping and rending their garments over him and he just keeps on keeping on.

The morning after I called 911 and he was admitted with a blood alcohol level of .689 (yes, you read that right--over half his blood was alcohol) I came into his hospital room. He was still drunk, of course, it would take days to be fully sober. The doctor told me he's seen corpses with a lower BAL and doesn't even know how he survived. I looked at my stepdad, started to cry, and said "I've tried to help..." and he stopped me and just said "why?"

That was it for me. Why, indeed? He obviously was hell-bent on some hari-kari mission and no one was going to stop him.

Addiction's a hell of a beast. But it can be overcome. I give my pity to those poor souls who don't even HAVE anyone who cares enough to try to help them, much less countless strangers weeping over them.

It's sad when anyone dies before their time, addict or not. But I guess all I've tried to say is that this was pretty inevitable. I hope it's not callous to just acknowledge that. I certainly wouldn't say it if I were speaking at his funeral or anything.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Not everyone is physically or emotionally capable of quitting shit cold turkey, you fucking littledick douchebag.

Good on you for being better than everyone else, though. Asshole.

Ooh, sorry, I spelled that wrong: s/b "self-righteous asshole."

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Not everyone is physically or emotionally capable of quitting shit cold turkey, you fucking littledick douchebag.

Good on you for being better than everyone else, though. Asshole.

Posted by: Anna von Murderpuppet at March 10, 2010 9:46 PM

Thank you for the compliments. Anna, I wouldn't recommend quitting cold turkey for everyone. Most people need rehab programs and good for them. Get the help you need. I couldn't afford rehab (but Corey could and last week refused to enter a rehab program)so I had to be locked down in a house for a week to get the junk out of my system.

I wasn't physically or emotionally ready to be clean but that choice was taken away from me by my friends. They got me clean. I had to stay clean. I refuse to shed tears for someone who had all the opportunities in the world to clean himself up (and Corey had more than a few) and still refuses to make the necessary changes.

In this case, I am better than Corey Haim, because I'm clean-sober LIVING. He is dead. That makes me better than him. Everyone on here apparently wants to think of him as a victim of his vices. He isn't a victim. His family and friends, who had to deal with him and his addictions, are the victims. They get my sympathy for the pain they have had to endure and still endure.

As for the Addiction is a Disease debate, here's some food for thought:

Were you forced to drink alcohol? Did someone hold a gun to your head and force you to drink? 9 times out of 10 the answer is gonna be NO. So as much as you wish to think that you are biologically-wired (and therefore devoid of the responsibility for your actions), the fact is YOU MADE A DECISION TO DRINK! And you continued to make the decision to drink.

Try to follow this logic: You are a young adult of 18 and have never drank alcohol. You are offered your first drink. You like the effects and the camaraderie that develops between your friends so you continue to drink. Soon you are unable to properly function without the presence of alcohol in your system. Your body was able to sustain itself without difficulty without the presence of alcohol for 18 years.

What you are referring to is the psychological need for a substance. You bullshit yourself into believing that you need the drug to fit in, to be social, to be confident, or whatever nonsense. Now without that drug you cannot be any of those things. After the body has kicked its addiction, the mind must deal with reality at face value, not behind the lens of a drug.

To Maryscott, I'm truly happy for you that you have been sober for 13 years. You've obviously been able to develop self-control, which is good. I hope that your can maintain it. If you can't, don't blame the booze. Blame the hand holding the booze.

bignick, first off, I'm not trying to cut you down as a person. I do think you make some interesting points, and I admire your tenacity. But honey, I am in no mood.

I still find your arguments extremely biased, shaded, influenced - whatever you wish to call it - by what I correctly guessed as a personal issue with the drug subject. It's pretty easy to see that this is a flashpoint subject for you, and fair enough. Be it, feel it. But on a memorial post? Please, spare us a moment of reflection, because being hateful about a deceased, troubled actor is beneath you.

All I can say about your last statement(s) is that you may as well fault the lactose intolerant for trying milk. There is more at play here than weak character and a self-programmed desire for social acceptance. Experience has an ebb and flow - it's some tricky shit. There's no sound of dice rolling when you try a new path, a new sport, new person or a new substance. If it were as easy as sounding a moral gong I'm sure many of us would be in a better place altogether.

We are all hardwired differently, and neither of us can claim what it would take to heal the addicted, and MOST ESPECIALLY neither of us can claim to know what Corey Haim experienced - or what drove him to this final error in judgement (be it accident or suicide).

You know what it took for you, but you speak for yourself. Don't forget it.
(And I'm having zero trouble following along. Thank you for your concern.)

Goddammit! That was supposed to be from admin!

The percentage of hard drug addicts who achieve lasting consistent sobriety is so small as to be statistically insignificant. It has reached the point where some medical insurance and some rehab centres won't accept certain kinds of addicts because they are considered basically incurable. I do not think this is because all these addicts simply do not wish to recover, I think it is that difficult. I think drugs worm their way into one's psyche and one's neurology that deeply.

The horrific suffering and indignity that your average addict goes through is not because it's all worth it for the high. For whatever complex biochemical and psychological reasons, they usually are just unsuccessful at clawing their way out, or staying out.

I understand people running out of sympathy, I understand people thinking, "well,why don't they just stop". I even understand the self-righteous judgments from ex-addicts and those who have no way of relating. None of that makes the plight of addiction any less real. For some people, the realm of choice and ability to cope and adapt and recover simply dwindles.

Addiction is a vicious syndrome for the addict and anyone orbiting around the addict. It's just a very sad thing.

I think a lot of the grief and sympathy people are expressing is the acknowledgment that there are things inside us, and in our environments that drag us down, and kill us very slowly with protracted suffering, and all the caring and medical attention in the world often does not prevent it. it's an ugly part of reality that we all live with. Call it a vice or a disease, its very real and destroys people. It doesn't just destroy the weak, it destroys strong people who struggle against it too. It makes everyone feel helpless -- and not surprisingly, the emotional responses range from pain to anger.

In the case of some of these celebrities, it sure can't help matters having one's every move dissected, exploited, discussed and judged publicly. Addiction makes me sad. The idea of someone struggling for years, failing over and again and being constantly mocked and gossiped about by strangers, the idea that the extended ruins of a persons life is idle chatter for millions carries a much more acute horror.

A decade or so ago, I watched part of some show about child actors and what became of them. Corey Haim was one of the interviewees.

The line that stuck with me -- I don't remember who said it -- went something like this. If you want somebody to have an unhappy life, make them a child star.

I think it's safe to say that most of us here aren't famous. Despite this, we manage to make it through the day without self-medicating. We didn't spend significant portions of our young lives with people fawning over us, so when they don't pay attention to us now, we don't consider it a problem.

Is Corey Haim's death more tragic than that of any other addict? Of course not. I'm still glad I didn't get his life.

Interesting post, I have to take some time to absorb it.

Here might not be exactly the place to say this but I do like and support Lindsay Lohan, she's got the right stuff IMHO, even if she may be a bit confused. Go, Lindsay!

In related news, Tiger changed his name to Cheetah.

Dev became the hook singer on FEM's Like a G6 and she now already records her own album. Her first single from her first album (which doesn't have a name yet) also features the producers The Cataracs, who also appeared on Like a G6. This track, titled Bass Down Low, is like Dev's other releases, such as Booty Bounce and Fireball! I wish Dev the best of luck in her singing career!

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