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Revision as of 21:45, 17 January 2005 by 134.134.136.13 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Corey Haim (born December 23, 1971) is a Canadian who became famous as an actor in Hollywood during the 1980s.
Haim, a native of Toronto, named James Dean and Cybill Shepherd as his favorite actors. His friendship and collaboration with Corey Feldman was widely publicized during the 80's, and they were dubbed The two Coreys.
One of his first appearances was in Lucas, alongside Charlie Sheen. He and Feldman quickly became teen-idols. His breakthrough role came in Joel Schumacher's 1987 hit film, The Lost Boys, where he and the other Corey battled teenage vampires. Then, in 1988, he made the movie License to Drive, where he undertook the main character and Feldman had a secondary role. For their next movie, 1989's Dream a Little Dream, they reversed roles, with Feldman on the lead and Haim as a secondary character.
With rumours and gossip of a serious a drug problem circulating in the lates 80s, a self-promotional video documentary "Corey Haim: Me, Myself, I Am" was released in which he is shown taking part in wholesome family activites and discussing his career and ambitions.
After the 1980s, his career began to fade. Dream a Little Dream was his last film with a major theatrical release, afterwhich it was strictly straight-to-video fare, which included Dream Machine, Blown Away, Snowboard Academy, Demolition High, Demolition University, and Busted.
He dated several high profile actresses including Alyssa Milano, Nicole Eggert, Holly Fields and Victoria Beckham.
In 1996, he was sued by Lloyds of London for $375,000 after pulling out the the film "Paradise Bar" because of drug problems, which he had failed to mention on the insurance form. He filed for bankruptcy in 1997. According to the bankruptcy report, he had $100,000 outstanding to the IRS, $100,000 in debts, and his assets included $100 dollars cash, $750 dollars worth of clothing, a red 1987 BMW (as seen in Corey Haim: Me, Myself, I Am), and a $31,000 dollar pension fund.
In 1999, he tried to sell one of his teeth and some of his hair on E-Bay. E-Bay stopped the auction, but not before bidding had got to $10. He was the subject of an E! True Hollywood story in 2001. In late 2001, he suffered a drug induced stroke.
Presently, Corey is renting out a basement apartment in Toronto and works part-time at HMV record store.
He is the subject of the single "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim" by The Thrills, released in September 2004.
His has-been status has been parodied in MTV's animated series Spy Groove, where he has his face done like Agent#1 in the hopes of making a comeback.
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