Corey Haim: The Biography

Before I get into the messy details of COREY HAIM'S life, here's the good stuff . . .

--Corey broke through in 1985 and 1986 . . . when he played the wheelchair-bound hero in the Stephen King werewolf flick "Silver Bullet" and the title character in the coming-of-age flick "Lucas".

(--His co-stars in that movie included Charlie Sheen, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Piven and Courtney Thorne-Smith.)

--In 1987, the release of "The Lost Boys" brought us THE DAWN OF THE COREYS . . . marking his first team-up with the man who would become his best friend and most frequent co-star, COREY FELDMAN.

--The Coreys would go on to bless us from the late 1980s through the '90s with such cinematic masterpieces as "License to Drive", "Dream a Little Dream" and its sequel, "Dream a Little Dream 2", "National Lampoon's Last Resort", "Blown Away" and "Busted".

--Sadly, the quality of those team-ups dropped dramatically over time, and it's pretty much been downhill since then.

--The most press Corey's received in recent years was for "The Two Coreys" . . . that A&E reality show he and Feldman did from 2007 to 2008 . . . and for his botched cameo in the "Lost Boys" sequel.


--Next month, Corey was supposed to begin directing and starring in a movie called "A Detour In Life" . . . about a man who succumbs to alcohol and, quote, "other self-destructive impulses."

(--Here's a trailer for one of Corey's last movies, "American Sunset" . . . which will probably be coming straight-to-DVD in the near future . . .)