Sad. Sad. Sad.
According to longtime friend Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, 38, died broke and alone.
Feldman, who appeared on Larry King Live Wednesday night, said Haim was “very destitute, very broke,” had no car and few friends.
“At the end of the day, Larry, where were all these people the last 10 years, the last 15 years of Corey’s life?” asked Feldman, also 38. “Where were all these people to lend a hand out, to reach out to him and say, you know, you’re a legend, you’re – you’re an amazingly talented, wonderful person who’s really never gone out of his way to hurt anybody other than himself?”
But Feldman admitted that Haim “burnt a lot of bridges in the industry. He made mistakes, as I did when I was young. I took 20 years of rebuilding to get to the point where I am today, where people actually take me seriously. Corey made a lot of mistakes for many years longer than I did. And it took him a lot longer to get to the point of recognition. However, once he got there, nobody was left to pull him back up.”
Feldman stopped speaking to Haim in 2008 because the actor refused to get help for his substance-abuse problems. But recently, Haim “shaped up,” Feldman said. “He got his act together. He was doing so much better.”
Feldman also said Haim was recently seeing a new treatment specialist who put him on a new line of medications. Feldman did not specify which they were, but said, “Let’s just say that they may not have corresponded properly with the medications that he was currently taking.”
Feldman had noticed a marked shift in his friend since his mother, with whom Haim was living in a month-to-month rental property, was diagnosed with cancer. “He shaped up. He got his act together,” Feldman said. “When his mom got ill, it was the first time I ever saw Corey grow up.”
Feldman said “a sizeable memorial” will be planned for Haim – which he hopes will be well-attended. “You see these people making great statements and that’s wonderful and I hope they’re all there for the memorial and I hope they’re all there for the funeral. But where were they during his life?”
Extra tv host Mario Lopez, 36, is expecting a baby with girlfriend Courtney Mazza, 28, this fall. The couple met in 2008 when Lopez starred in A Chorus Line on Broadway.
“I’m really excited. I’m happy. I can’t wait to be a dad,” Lopez says.
Will the couple find out ahead of time if they are having a boy or girl?
“I’m fired up! I don’t know what we’re having. I’m going to wait to see [the baby's gender] so it will be a surprise,” says Lopez.
Congrats!
They’ve only been dating seven months, but it looks like wedding bells may soon be ringing for Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper.
“Renee is so in love with Bradley that her whole face lights up when she talks about him,” a source says. “The next step is marriage.”
Ever since falling for one another on the set of the horror film Case 39 last summer, the co-stars initially tried to keep their relationship a secret, but with romantic rendezvous in Barcelona, New York and Vancouver, the world knows they are together. Renee is rumored to be moving into the $4.7 million three-bedroom mansion that her boyfriend recently purchased in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
It was clear the couple was serious about each other when she celebrated Christmas with Bradley’s parents, Charlie and Gloria, and Renee took her future mother-in-law to the launch of Vera Wang’s Los Angeles store on March 2 (was she possibly checking out wedding gowns by the famous designer?).
Even though The Hangover star recently denied rumors that he was shopping for an engagement ring, the source insists Bradley, 35, has been visiting jewelers to buy a canary-diamond ring to put on Renee’s finger. And the wedding could happen as soon as May, right before he starts filming Dark Fields opposite Robert De Niro in his home town of Philadelphia.
“Renee would love a huge splashy wedding,” adds the source, “but that would take months to plan. Bradley told her to switch the date to a summer wedding, so she would have more time to plan her dream wedding but she doesn’t want to put it off any longer.”
Bradley and Renee, 40, are considering two locations for their dream nuptials. “They are planning to tie the knot in either Hawaii or Santa Barbara,” says the source. “They are being very tight-lipped, but they are telling family and friends to be on alert for the details of the secret location.” The source adds that the wedding party will probably be small: “Most likely there will just be a best man and maid of honor. Renee really wants to be the star of her wedding.”
Even though both stars have tied the knot before — Renee’s 2005 marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney was annulled after seven months and Bradley’s marriage to actress Jennifer Esposito lasted four months in 2007 — the two aren’t afraid of walking down the aisle again. “Bradley is very calm about the nuptials. He’s not nervous at all,” reveals the source. “He’s looking forward to their special day. He’s head over heels in love.”
The actor even confessed to his friends, “I am not even a little bit scared. I know Renee is the right one for me.” And she feels exactly the same way. “Renee is telling friends, ‘He’s the one. I want everyone to see how happy we are.’”
Charlie Sheen, 44, is checking out of rehab, a rep for the actor says. Sheen plans to resume filming his CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. Production on the series had been halted for an additional two weeks to accommodate Sheen’s rehab stint.
Sheen announced Feb. 23 that he was admitting himself to an undisclosed rehab facility for “preventative measures.”
Sheen has struggled with addiction before and has had a volatile several months. Last month he was formally charged for the Dec. 25 incident in which he threatened to kill his wife Brooke Sheen; he could face one to three years in prison. Another court date is scheduled for next Monday.
Brooke, 32, is also seeking treatment for her addictions to alcohol and drugs; she recently checked out of The Canyon facility in Malibu for at-home treatment.
Jennifer Aniston, 40, and Gerard Butler, 40, cover ‘W’ magazine in the walk-up to the release of their movie ‘The Bounty Hunter,’ out March 19.
Shot on a ranch about 45 minutes outside of Los Angeles in mid-January, the 13-page pictorial featuring Butler and Aniston consists of seven photographs by celeb shutterbug Steven Klein. Ironically, Klein also shot W’s infamous July 2005 cover featuring Brad Pitt – who had then-recently separated from Aniston – playing house with Angelina Jolie.
At the time, Aniston had complained about the cover because it was taken soon after her split with Pitt and showed him and Jolie, 34, as a 1960’s-style married couple.
“There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing,” she told Vanity Fair of Pitt.
For the April cover, on which hunky Scottish actor Butler wraps his arms around Aniston, the actress tapped into her inner fashionista and wore an Alberta Ferretti silk chiffon dress, Carine Gilson Lingerie Couture’s silk bra and silk lace briefs, Stella McCartney garters and Lanvin shoes. Total retail value for her outfit: $3,800.
As for the inside pictorial, it’s called “Speed Trap: Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler do a little role playing in the searing heat of the California desert where damsels aren’t always in distress and lawmen sometimes break the rules.”
Hmmm …role playing?
Actor Corey Haim, 38, is dead after an accidental drug overdose. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed that Haim, who battled substance addiction for several years, was found unresponsive in an Oakwood apartment and pronounced dead at Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center at 2:15 a.m. this morning. Reportedly, his mother was in the apartment at the time.
The Canadian-born actor starred the 1987 vampire flick “The Lost Boys,” but was probably best known for his roles with fellow actor Corey Feldman.
Haim began his career in 1984 as a child actor, but his big break came in 1987 with “The Lost Boys,” which also starred Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland.
Haim, who has been in and out of rehab, also starred in “The Two Coreys,” a reality show with Feldman that aired in 2007 and 2008.
The show was cancelled during its second season. Feldman reportedly refused to continuing working with Haim until he sought help for his drug addiction.
In a 2004 interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper, Haim spoke openly about his substance-abuse problems and said that he smoked his first joint on the set of The Lost Boys. The article says Haim had been in and out of rehab as many as 15 times.
“I lived in L.A. in the Eighties, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack,” he said in the interview.
Haim’s filmography on Internet Movie Data Base shows a number of recent projects in various states of development at the time of the actor’s death.
Yes! Betty White, 88, will appear on Saturday Night Live in the near future, she confirmed at Elton John’s annual Oscars viewing party on Sunday night.
When asked, “Are you doing Saturday Night Live,” she answered, “Yes,” even if she remains perplexed by the groundswell of support.
“I don’t know why or how,” she says, “but it’s been wonderful.”
Fans have been clamoring for White to do SNL, an idea she called “ridiculous” just a few weeks ago, ever since her comic turn in a Snickers ad during the Super Bowl.
One Facebook page devoted to the cause has attracted half a million fans.
White didn’t offer any details about the SNL appearance, and it remains unclear when she will appear, or what it will entail.
Not sure why the Academy decided to leave out Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur and Ed McMahon, as part of the montage of recently departed actors who appeared in film as well as on television.
Farrah may have been most widely known for her role on the television series Charlie’s Angels, but she also stared in big screen films such as Man of the House and Cannonball Run. Farrah was also in Extremities, and most notably The Apostle (which got an Oscar nomination), Dr. T. and the Women, and Logan’s Run, just to name a few.
That’s much more than Michael Jackson, and he made the list.
An Academy spokesperson told the AP, “Every year it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody.
Actress, comedian and singer Bea Arthur passed away in April at the age of 86. She also was most widely known for her role as Dorothy on The Golden Girls, but also starred in films such as Mame, opposite Lucille Ball.
Ed McMahon had a career spanning more than 60 years.
Ben Stiller dressed head-to-toe as a Na’vi to present the best makeup Oscar and began talking to James Cameron in Na’vi language and making Na’vi sex jokes.
“That means: ‘This seemed like a better idea in rehearsal,’” he said. “It was between this and the Nazi uniform but the show seemed a little Hitler-heavy… ”
After doing his damnedest to crack up James Cameron with his Avatar-cum-Vulcan impersonation, blue-faced presenter Ben Stiller then promised, “After I announce the winner, I will try to stand as far away from them as possible so as not to demean their moment of triumph.”
Mo’Nique continued her impressive streak of cleaning up Best Supporting Actress awards for her turn as an abusive mother in ‘Precious” as she collected the golden statue at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Other big winners were war drama, The Hurt Locker for Best Picture, and Best Director. Veteran actor Jeff Bridges won his first Best Actor award.
The major winners were:
Best Actor- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Best Actress- Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Best Picture- The Hurt Locker
Best Director- Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Best Supporting Actor- Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)
Best Supporting Actress- Mo’Nique (Precious)
Best Animated Picture- Up
Big budget extravaganza Avatar won gongs for Cinematography, Visual Effects and Art Direction while cult favourite Star Trek won Best Make-Up. The big showdown had been expected to come for the Best Picture and Director awards with former husband and wife team James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow going up against each other in a battle of cinema art versus mass appeal. Bigelow seemingly won this one hands down.
Would you read a book written by Lindsay Lohan?
Lohan already lives a very public life, but soon we may be able to read all about it in her own words. If you forget about her constant use of Twitter, of course.
“I write a lot and it’s very therapeutic for me because then I can see what’s happening on paper,” she tells OK! Magazine. “I’ve started writing a book. It’s going to take a while, all my life experiences. I started writing it a year ago. There’s a lot to put down, you know?”
Lindsay also compared her multiple stints in rehab to vacations. “It was a nice time to shut everyone off for a while because there was so much noise. There were some things I had done… I had put myself in situations which I probably should have thought through.”
Perhaps she wants to clear up the party girl image that she is so famous for. “When I was in school I didn’t drink, or even try one, until I was probably 18,” she said. “Literally, and I’m not lying about that. I’m just some sort of a target for some reason! I’m made out all the time to be the bad guy!”
Love is in the air for one sharp-tongued Brit. Simon Cowell is quite taken with his fiancée.
Uncharacteristic for Simon, he has opened his heart, confessing that he’s “smitten” with new fiancée, Mezghan Hussainy, 36.
“You confuse lust with love, you know, when you’re in your teens and stuff like that,” Cowell says. “It’s a difficult thing to describe other than you know it when you are.”
At times stumbling over his words, Cowell continues: “You just know when you’ve found somebody special and I feel very, very happy.”
Cowell, 50, is even talking about possibly having kids!
“I think I possibly need to have a few more Simons around,” he said, though he admitted he was “kidding.” Still, he says, “The thing about kids, it’s like marriage, you know you have to believe you’re in something that you’re in for the long term – a hundred percent.”
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