Report: Corey Haim, teenage actor, dies at 38, ‘apparent overdose’

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Reports are just coming up now from California via KABC news that Corey Haim, who with Corey Feldman made up the iconic late 80s acting team of ‘the Coreys,’ has died at 38.

The KABC website is running the following banner:

Actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38, LAPD confirms

The Coreys in recent years went from a punchline in obscurity to a reminder in real-time of the toll that being a teen heartthrob can take on people. The A&E reality TV show ‘The Two Coreys’ showed Haim and Feldman’s struggles to get along in the years following on their stardom in such films as ‘The Lost Boys’ and ‘License to Drive’. The show kind of set the stage for what we’re seeing today – Feldman depicted as neat and respectable, Haim struggling to get along in a world that had passed him by in all but late night cable TV movie re-runs.

More news as it emerges.

Update: 8:34 am – TMZ reports that Haim was found dead of an ‘apparent overdose.’

8:37 am – Both KABC and Radar are calling the overdose ‘accidental.’ KABC adds that Haim was living with his mother in North Hollywood.

8:44 am – Sheesh, Corey and Corey’s careers may have been left in the 80s, but their websites appear to have been left behind in the 90s. Haim’s MySpace page has not been updated since early last year.

9:24 am – TMZ got Corey Haim on video outside a night club on February 18. He talks about making ‘License to Fly’ which is presumably a sequel to ‘License to Drive’ and that he’s directing for the first time. He was with Feldman and it was touching how they said they’d be best friends forever, but there’s also the fright of these two guys, and Haim in particular, like moths to a flame. It’s just so sad in a lot of ways – if he died of a drug overdose, isn’t this a person who could least afford to have one? And in that way, he was kind of like everyone else in the world now, no longer the celebrity self he knew for a short time in his teenage years.

9:32 am – Interesting fact via TMZ – Rick James died of an OD in the same apartment complex as Haim. Sources tell them it was ‘possibly accidental.’

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