Corey Haim

Corey Haim was found dead of an overdose this morning. Hollywood really took its time killing this one. Gave him a reality show and another little taste of fame just to put him over the edge. Tsk.

When will the public wake up? When will our little girls stop idolizing this two-faced industry? We glamorize Hollywood and that lifestyle, luring people with fame and riches. Take a closer look. Look at Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse, Tila Tequila. Three very different kinds of careers, three very messed up women. The Hollywood machine takes what it needs to turn people into commodities, how do they even breathe with all of that pressure? That person can't cope with being a good and so they turn to drugs to turn their feelings off and they become that commodity. Eventually their soul can't take it and then the public tunes in to watch them drown. It was no secret Corey Haim had major drug problems - why do you think the coreys got that show? If they had been two regular has-beens nobody would have watched. But we did. We watched to see what crazy shenanigans that drugged up Corey would come up with.

Think about yourself for a moment. Think about all of your secret insecurities and how you would destroy yourself if every bad hair day, every roll of fat or bite of food you took was photographed and analyzed. If millions of dollars were riding on your performance at work and everyone else's hard work came down to you. And inside, you're just a person, scared, annoyed, and flawed like everyone else. But everyone else expects you to be perfect. Add a little teenage angst in there and it's no wonder child actors so often end up on this path.

Remember, people - a talent and a good publicist do not a decent person make.

UPDATE 03/11/2010:

Everyone around Corey is saying he had been clean for a year and a half, but some people say he was on prescription drugs (and there were four prescription medication bottles found around him).  Will our pharmaceutical society never learn that just because some asshole in a white coat who wants to line his pockets writes a prescription, they are still drugs and are STILL DANGEROUS?!  And what's with these celebrities who have years-long documented drug addictions and then when they die suddenly the story flips and it's "No way, you've got it all wrong, it wasn't drugs at all!"  Yeah, okay.  If I spend years and years wearing my body down with drugs and then I die, please tell everyone the cause of death was sunshine and rainbows, wouldja?  Apparently Hollywood thinks you'll swallow anything it squirts at you.   Well, I guess Labor Pains could also prove this point...