Kenny Rogers The Gambler
Gangster's Boy
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Date of birth: |
1971-12-23 |
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Appearances
Canadian-born Corey Haim broke into the Film industry in 1984 as a young child in the hit movie Firstborn (1984). The following year he starred in the TV movie A Time to Live (1985), for which he received an award, and Silver Bullet (1985). Lucas (1986), in which he starred alongside Charlie Sheen showed his ability, but was not a big hit.
Cory Haim starred in eight movies with Corey Feldman: The Lost Boys (1987), License to Drive (1988), Dream a Little Dream (1989), Blown Away (1992), Last Resort (1994), Dream a Little Dream 2 (1995), Busted (1997) and Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008).
In a 2004 interview published in The Sun, Haim said, "I was working on The Lost Boys when I smoked my first joint. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas. I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack. I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day ? the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the Valium ? I?m not talking about the other pills I went through".
By 2004, Haim appeared to have overcome his drug habit after resettling in Toronto. In the Sun interview he said, "I'm clean, sober, humble and happy." In 2006, he was ranked #8 on VH1's Greatest Teen Stars. In December 2006, he began taping an improv/reality show with Feldman titled The Two Coreys. The show premiered on the A&E Network on July 29, 2007, with a second season of the show starting June 22, 2008.
At the end of his life, Haim lived in an apartment with his mother, who has breast cancer. On March 10, 2010, Corey Haim was taken from their home to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, and pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. Los Angeles police said that his death appeared to be accidental and may have been due to an overdose. He had been ill with flu-like symptoms for two days before his death. Haim's mother stated that the coroner's preliminary finding was that he died of pulmonary congestion and was suffering from an enlarged heart and water in the lungs.
Corey Feldman spoke with Larry King on the day of Haim's death, stating:
"...He was his own enemy. I mean, look, a lot of people that are artists tend to be their own worst enemy because we're passionate people... Most recently he's been, honestly, in the best frame of mind that he's ever been in, in the past year..."
Feldman added that Haim had died "very destitute" and alone. Furneal arrangements were paid for by the city of Toronto and his fans.
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