Telling A Proper And Respectful Story Of Corey Haim Should Be The Goal

The Wolfpack, or whatever you want to call the organized effort out there attempting to expose Corey Feldman and poke holes in his narrative, has been effective. I wouldn't make a guess about how many people they have gotten to consider more sides to the story, but their dedicated social media effort has had an impact. I freely admit that I was a big fan of Corey Feldman in the 1980s and Corey Haim as well, but I've attempted to be neutral in this whole thing. I just want the truth, which I don't suspect I will get anytime soon.

After watching the documentary that Corey Feldman finally released last week, I was a little bit disgusted by what I saw. Exposing the pedos in Hollywood is a good thing. If you can keep the child stars of today and the future safe by bringing change, it's worth doing. If you can help change laws to give victims more ability to speak out later, it's a good thing. It seems Feldman has been very effective in the latter, but in the former, he comes up lacking.

I can hear the believers saying, *But, he finally told the story about Corey Haim and himself. He risked his life." To that I ask, did he? Did he really? I have my doubts. Even if he exposed the truth, and if there was more going on than just the one person that seems to be agreed upon as a molester of Haim, he did it wrong. "But, Feldman..." Stop it. He did it wrong, and anybody who is capable of free thinking at least has to question the way he portrayed Corey Haim and Judy Haim in his documentary.

Even if Corey Haim is a victim, and let's say all three people that Feldman named did actually do something, is it truly respecting Haim to describe things the way they were described in that documentary? Feldman didn't take time to mention anything respectful or nice about Haim or the fact that he was a critically acclaimed, awarded child star back in those days. He jumped right in and belittled Haim and used his platform to lord himself over Haim as if he was better than him. Most rational thinking people would ask Feldman, "Was that really the way to honor somebody you considered your best friend?"

Secondly, he completely disrespected Judy Haim. I'm really not interested in emails that he claims are her leading the opposition against him. First of all, if she asked him not to mention her son in his book or his documentary and he decides to do it anyway, he is disrespecting her. It's hard to look at it any other way. Therefore, if she did use whatever little influence she had amongst the compassionate people who care about her and her son, she would have that right to do so. She can't pick up the phone and call somebody in Hollywood and ask them to ask Feldman to just drop it. She doesn't have the money to step in and do much of anything. She wanted him to leave her son out of it, and he didn't.

Not only did Corey Feldman not leave Judy Haim's son out of it, he proceeded to trash her worse than him. She was painted as a bad mother who let everything bad happen to him and now happens to be in denial. He absolves himself of any of the blame he might deserve. Feldman's lawyer even went so far as to have the audacity to say that Judy Haim engaged in slander. There are lawyers who would look at this documentary and wonder who it was that was really slandered. Perhaps Judy Haim and Corey Haim?

It's out there now. Much like most of what Feldman has done in the last decade, it's met with a resounding, "meh", from the public. It's not that they don't care, but they've seen this song and dance from him before. These names have already been leaked out there long before the documentary, and there was nothing new in this, other than more bashing and slandering of Feldman's supposed best friend and his mother. If the current news regarding the virus wasn't out there, the buzz from this documentary would have died a slow death regardless.

Feldman was hoping for a groundswell of support to come in from other victims. He was hoping to take down Charlie Sheen or get Sheen so upset that he might actually sue him in court. Sheen is playing it exactly the way he should, because there is no proof. Sue Feldman and he has an opportunity to be painted guilty based on the circus that would surround a trial. Ignore Feldman and Feldman will point a finger and say, "See, he knows he's guilty." But if he doesn't sue and lets It go, the uninterested public will let It fade away anyways. Nothing was accomplished by going rogue, disrespecting the Haim family and telling this story.

It's unfortunate to say that the Haim family may not be in a position to do much. Legally, they may not have the resources to challenge what was in the documentary. Also, they may not have the kind of sway that would lead to what really needs to happen. There needs to be more positive stuff out there about who Corey Haim was, his accomplishments in Hollywood, his hopes and dreams and the fact that he was back and ready to make a comeback at the time of his death. Who will tell that story and not focus on the negative aspects of everything else?

Having watched a Bobby Wolfe production recently analyzing The Two Coreys reality series and asking some very important questions, the answer becomes clear. The very opposition, the Wolfpack or whatever you want to call them, could play a big role in this. These people are fans who love Corey Haim and wanted to do what they could to respect his legacy. If they are in fact in any sort of contact with the Haim family, they could put together something more positive and put it out there for the public to see. The real story of Corey Haim needs to be told.

Obviously, it would be my hope that something more official from Hollywood with the family involved would be put out there. A biopic, a documentary or what have you. This would focus on Corey Haim. The Two Coreys aspect, though mentioned, would not completely define who he was any more than his struggles that have been documented all too well. For that matter, there should be more of a movement towards getting Corey Haim's movies re-released on DVD for the next generation of fans, maybe organizing a film festival and certainly movements to get him stars on the Canadian and Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I've never been somebody who likes to engage in the negative. I'll sit behind the keyboard and type all kinds of crazy things, but rarely do I hit send in those situations. People are going to do what they think they need to do in regards to Corey Feldman on social media, and that's their issue. However, it would be nice to see more focus on the career of Corey Haim. Just by what's out there on the internet alone, there's plenty of good material to use. Isn't it time we put Corey Haim in a positive light and stop letting his struggles define all that he was? 

I want to add a link below from a documentary that Bobby Wolfe put together analyzing The Two Coreys reality series and how Corey Feldman presented himself as opposed to Corey Haim. I know that reality programs aren't real, but rather exaggerated versions of the people starring in them. While you might question what was true and what wasn't, you can easily make a case that Corey Haim was made out to be lesser than Corey Feldman throughout the series. Furthermore, somebody who was your best friend wouldn't allow you to be portrayed the way Corey Haim was at the end of this series. In my opinion, Feldman endorsed that portrayal.

Judge for yourself - https://youtu.be/djApxFbVqek

Being Disrespectful To Judy Haim Doesn't Solve Anything

I'm a little disturbed by the shaming of Judy Haim that I see on social media. There's been a little bit of that going on for the past decade, but a little bit more since Corey Feldman released his documentary. Yes, I think there is an attempt to shame Judy. Bear in mind that people don't know the whole story. They know what little snippets they read from interviews and the rest is usually just people offering their opinions on things they don't know enough about. They comment as if they are experts on the subject.

Corey Feldman said some mean, disrespectful things about Judy in his documentary. He's taking personal shots at her, because he feels justified. Why? Judy had asked him not to include her son in his little crusade, and he refused to respect her wishes. Therefore, Judy has been left to defend her family as best she can given the fact that she is somewhat outnumbered and out financed in the battle.

All she has asked for is basic respect for her son, who is no longer here to explain anything or defend himself. Was Corey Haim a victim? I think we can all agree that he was to one degree or another, but what is the truth and what is false is subject to debate. People are pointing fingers at Judy and blaming her for everything, and yet somehow Feldman gets a pass as the supposed best friend who introduced him to some of the bad elements that led his life into a negative direction.

The fact is we don't know everything that happened behind the scenes. If Judy has made mistakes, you can bet that as a mother she has had to live with that. You can also bet that he she and her son had those conversations to bring them to a better understanding. This is between them, and Corey's own stance on this matter should be respected. He loved his mother, and he was there to take care of her when she got sick. These are facts, not spin.

When people want to take shots at Judy, they need to understand that she and her son were in a good place in the end. She loved her son, and her son loved her. There wasn't a lot of dredging of negative things from the past. Corey was there to help her through a difficult time in her life, and he was also planning his return to more acting opportunities. His early demise is what ended that. Everything else at this point is just noise.

Hurling insults at Judy is disrespectful and just plain wrong. It's easy to believe that her son would not be happy with that. Any story about Corey Haim at this point is her and her family's story to tell. She has good reason to speak out against Feldman and any issues she has with what he's been saying, what was written in his book and what was presented in his documentary. She's not a bad person for taking the stance she has taken. She is a mother who has had to deal with the pain of losing her son way too early and simply wants to leave the past in the past. It would be nice if people would stop being so disrespectful to her.

Why We'll Likely Never See Dennis DeYoung With Styx Again

We're about 20 years removed from the infamous Behind The Music episode in which the members of Styx took turns trashing founding member Dennis DeYoung.  I've since learned that this particular show took joy in digging up dirt on the various bands that they covered and overstating things.  Plus, it was very much pro whatever the lineup of the band was at the time.  The negative vibe of this show is a big reason Kansas never did an episode.

Love him or hate him, Dennis was the guiding force of Styx.  From the moment Lady became a hit, he took the reigns, but he did so in a way in which Tommy Shaw and James Young still shined brightly.  Dennis wrote 8 Top 10 hits for this band and brought a whole new group of fans to their music.  They made a lot of money on tour.  Yet, he's still vilified by Tommy and James years later.  Dennis seems willing to make amends and do something with the band.  With his own successful solo tour, he doesn't need this.  He just knows that the fan base is fractured, and he'd like to do something with them that all Styx fans could embrace.

The reason for the breakup is simple.  It wasn't because Dennis was an evil tyrant.  It was about the money.  Tommy and James saw dollar signs.  The "Mr. Nice guy" of the current lineup, Larry Gowan, was brought on board for the musical ride of his life as a replacement for Dennis.  He's not getting off any time soon.  Despite the fact that he enables the band to continue and even as a Dennis supporter myself, it's hard for me not to like Larry.  Besides, if it wasn't him, it would be somebody else.  Tommy and James are determined to do this without Dennis.

Money was a big motivating factor.  Plus, they could guide the ship in a way where they could alter the image of the band.  Certain hits were removed from the set list, and a bigger emphasis was put on Tommy.  Tickets continue to sell.  It makes no difference that they don't always headline.  They consistently tour, and they all make pretty good money.  It beats having a regular day job.

The fact that Dennis can write hits doesn't matter at this point.  The music industry has changed so much at this point that it's doubtful that even a reunited Styx would crack the Top 10 on the charts. Record sales aren't what they once were, and they would likely be pigeonholed as just a "Greatest Hits" band.  Dennis has embraced that with his own tour.  Styx, on the other hand, can give the fans some hits and play songs off of their newest CD, The Mission.  They continue to evolve in this lineup and make enough money as it is.

It boils down to the fact that they don't need Dennis to do what they do.  They get plenty of gigs and have recorded a new album to tour on.  As a Dennis DeYoung fan, I've accepted this and look forward to his new solo album, though he's not likely to play any of that live.  Both sides will rock on until they are ready to hang it up.  The only thing I would add is that if they can't do one more tour together, maybe they can stop with the trash talking?  It seems to be coming more from Tommy and James.  Seems to me that if they are happy with things as they are, there's no need to talk about Dennis.  It's already been said.

Does The Charlie Sheen/Corey Haim Story Make Sense

Now that Corey Feldman has told the story that he says Corey Haim told him about Charlie Sheen, the question has to be asked. Does this ring true to you? Considering the crash landing Sheen had after what went down during the time he was on Two And A Half Men and was ultimately removed from the show, it's easy to make up just about anything about him. Charlie was not hiding the fact that he liked women, he liked to party and he did an excessive amount of drugs.

Because of that, you can paint a picture of the man as doing just about anything degrading that you can think of, and there's going to be a segment of the population that will believe it. Because of the bad things that we know happen to children in the world and the cases that have been proven, it's not hard to believe that things of this nature are happening in Hollywood. Many people believe that, and there are some people who believe some of the most famous and respected stars, directors and producers are all part of this.

The rumor has been out there for several years now. The story goes that while making the movie Lucas, Charlie Sheen raped Corey Haim. Longtime Corey Feldman friend Dominick Brascia sold a story to the National Enquirer claiming as much. Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, denied these claims. It was about the time that Corey Feldman announced that he would be revealing the names in a movie he planned to make when Brascia took it upon himself to sell the story to the National Enquirer. Or did he? Could it be that Feldman influenced Brascia to do this and then came out immediately with a no comment?

Obviously, what I am saying is speculation. However, the same can be said for the story Corey Feldman told in his documentary regarding Sheen and Haim. How do we know Haim told Feldman this story when he is no longer alive to verify that he did? If Judy Haim claims she never heard the story and Sheen denies it ever happened, then all we're left with is Feldman telling the story. It's not too far of a stretch to believe that Feldman was aware that Brascia was going to sell the story to the National Enquirer ahead of time.

You might ask why Feldman would do such a thing. The Inquirer did contact him to comment on this story, and he said that he couldn't comment. Maybe the point of selling the story was to get it out there to the public. If you're going to make it more believable to the public by the time  Feldman ever released a movie or a documentary, it would be useful if there was a story out there in a printed publication before saying things similar to what Feldman would reveal in his documentary.

It should be asked, however, whether the story really makes sense. It's been said by David Seltzer that at the time they were filming Lucas, Sheen was a bit of a ladies man and was also a perfect gentleman. If we're going to believe stories that people who were not on the set of Lucas are going to tell, then we should also believe things that are said by people who were on the set, including the actual director of the movie.

The Feldman story goes as follows, Sheen propositioned Haim. He may have been a bit reluctant, but Sheen supposedly convinced him by saying this was something all guys did in Hollywood. It was normal. He then proceeded to lead Haim between a couple of trailers, still in daylight. Haim pulls his pants down, and Sheen lubes him up with Crisco oil and does his business. You can fill in the blanks. We've been waiting for Feldman to reveal what he supposedly knew about Sheen, and this is the story he told us? Feldman has always said Haim told him this story, and the documentary had a few other people saying that Haim told them something happened as well.

Just give some thought to the story that Feldman has told. Does it make sense? There are going to be people on the set of Lucas, and there are going to be people around the trailers. There's going to be armed security guards. So, is it really believable that this happened the way Feldman describes it? And furthermore, how is it that Sheen is carrying around Crisco to use as lube for this deed? Crisco oil is not something people are going to be carrying around with them. It's not like he had a can of it on his person for just such an emergency. 

If his trailer is one of the trailers that they are standing between, perhaps Charlie went into his trailer and retrieved the Crisco, but that raises another question. Why wouldn't he just have him go into his trailer? Seltzer does point out in his director's notes that are available online that Haim had a personal bodyguard. So where was his bodyguard? If Sheen does convince him to sneak off, they're probably not going to go back to Haim's trailer, where Judy probably would have been as well. But, Sheen was an adult at the time and may have had a trailer of his own to himself. If he's going back to get the Crisco, why wouldn't they just do the deed there? 

For those people who believe it's possible that Sheen did this to him, and I admit that I have been one of them, when you finally hear the story as told by Feldman, you question whether this is true or not. It sounds so ridiculous that it almost reaches out to other stories from other real victims and makes them ridiculous by association. That's the level of absurdity to the story that Feldman has told. There were people willing to believe this story based on Sheen's actions through the years as well as Haim's struggles, and then they hear the details that Feldman has provided us.

I'm really at a loss to say anything else here. Feldman has doubled down. If Sheen doesn't sue him and follow it through the court system, Feldman will cite that as proof that Sheen is guilty. Sheen doesn't have to prove anything. The burden of proof is based on evidence, and there is no evidence. Corey Haim is dead. Unless you start questioning the people who were there on the set of Lucas 35 years ago and somebody saw something and is willing to talk, you've got nothing but a story that sounds silly when you watch Feldman explain it in the documentary.

We all must keep in mind that the very real truth is that Corey Haim was going through pain that was obviously based on bad things that happened to him in Hollywood in the 1980s. He battled those demons for many years, and now, 10 years after his death, he's almost being made into a joke by Feldman. This is a documentary that didn't hesitate to reveal how messed up on drugs and how sex-crazed he was, while painting Feldman as strong and brave while he was supposedly being victimized himself.

At the end of the day, I'm not convinced that anything I heard on the Corey Feldman documentary is true. Do I believe that bad things could have happened? I do. Given the erratic behavior Feldman has exhibited and stories that are being contradicted, we must keep one thing in mind. The only corroboration of any accusation that Feldman has made in his documentary based on things that supposedly happened to him or Haim was the revelation that Dominick Brascia molested Haim. Feldman and Judy Haim have both said this. In all honesty, most of what Feldman presented would be laughed out of the court.

Did My Truth: The Rape Of Two Coreys Really Reveal The Truth?

My Thoughts after viewing My Truth: The Rape Of Two Creys

Right out front, I have to say that I was a big Corey Feldman fan in the 1980s. For that matter, I was a fan of Corey Haim. I knew they both had crash landings in life, but I was cheering for them to have a big comeback when they reunited for The Two Coreys TV series. I had no idea of the things that were happening in their lives back in the glory days other than rumors I'd heard about Feldman being molested. 

Secondly, I have supported Corey Feldman's right to make this documentary all along. I've always believed he had a story to tell, and I felt and still feel this was something he needed to do. It just needed to get out there in Feldman's own words for people to hear and decide for themselves. What exactly should we believe after seeing this documentary, reading Corey's autobiography Coreyography and watching the Lifetime movie The Tale of Two Coreys?

Naming The Names

Let's keep this strictly to the documentary that played a day late to the public on Tuesday, March 10th. This is the 10th anniversary of the passing of Corey Haim. Corey Feldman delivered on his promise to name the names, and they included Cloyd Jon Grissom and Alphy Hoffman as people who molested Feldman, Dominick Brascia and Marty Weiss as people who Feldman says molested Haim. There's also Bob Hoffman, the alleged older gay lover of Alphy Hoffman, though I don't know that Feldman made any specific claim of him doing anything inappropriate with minors.

Who was the big name? We've had many guesses, but there were two that were close to the mark of who Feldman would say it was based on his clues. I'll leave one name out of it as he was never mentioned, but the big-name ended up being Charlie Sheen. That's right, according to Corey Feldman, Sheen took Corey Haim between two trailers on the set of the movie Lucas, convinced him that what was about to happen was something men just did in Hollywood, used Crisco oil to lube him up (I kid you not) and...

You can guess the rest. This is pretty much the story that Feldman told. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether this scene rings true to you. He had other people in the documentary claim that this happened. There were at least a half-dozen of them.

It's important to point out that nobody who was on the set of Lucas was among these witnesses. Nobody purporting to be a friend of Corey Haim outside of Hollywood. None of it. This is just what people in Hollywood said happened. How does Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, feel about this? Feldman showed her appearance on Dr Oz around the time that the story appeared in the National Enquirer saying that her son was raped by Sheen. She said, and still says, that Sheen never did anything to her son, but she did say that Dominick Brascia raped him.

There were some people who were outraged because Corey Feldman didn't reveal the truly big names in Hollywood. Some Academy Award-winning people have been speculated on based on the fact that Feldman said he was going to name names and in his 2011 interview said a big mogul in Hollywood did this to Haim. However, people were not really paying attention to what Feldman has been saying all along.

Peoples Expectations And The Bungled Movie Premiere

His ill conceived Indiegogo campaign to raise 10 million dollars for a motion picture budget was so that he could make a movie based on Coreyography. When that didn't pan out, it was going to become a documentary based on the book, or at least the molestation allegations part of the book. It's much cheaper, and Cory has even said it was around $300,000 for the production of the documentary alone. The rest of the 1.7 million dollars was for bandwidth for streaming online and insurance to cover himself from the storm that may be blowing his way as a result of this documentary.

This movie was always just going to name the six people Feldman knew were involved with himself or Haim. We can speculate whether he knew more, as I do believe it's possible he did, but he's never hinted at any of that publicly. It's just speculation, and he's always only hinted at six names. Though he occasionally made it sound like it would be bigger than it would be, he's always come back to the idea of six names at various levels, one of them big.

Then we had the internet streaming debacle on Monday night. Here's where I don't believe we're necessarily getting the truth. The early official report was that the site had been hacked, but the site was up for most people. The movie never played and always had an error. The best people got was the first 15 or so minutes before the opening title sequence rolled and we start getting to the names. After that, it stopped. 

You can take this at face value if you want, but some will look at Feldman's behavior on the night this thing was airing in front of select people in a theater in Hollywood. When Feldman heard that the stream stopped for the people at home, he stopped the movie. He was concerned that he wasn't doing right by the people who paid him $20 a piece to watch the movie and wondered whether he should continue to play it at the theater. I knew when I heard this that there was no way they weren't going to see this movie, but he had to look concerned. It was Rosanna Arquette who led the audience in saying to play it for them. 

Rather than pick that all apart, let's move to the way social media was handled. Feldman made one comment to acknowledge the internet issues, but basically he was more worried about showing the movie in the theater to the important Hollywood people that were there and then going to the after party. There were no official comments on social media coming from him for a couple of hours, and Feldman didn't think to hire anybody to work social media in the event that there was an issue.

Obviously, there may not have been any sort of official statement that could be said other than, "We are aware there's a problem, and we will handle it. Thank you for your patience." They could have said something along those lines to make it seem like he cared. I'm not suggesting Feldman didn't care, but the way this whole situation was handled doesn't look right. That leads to all sorts of speculation about what really did happen. Ultimately it was decided on Tuesday at around 2 p.m. on the West Coast to just stream the movie in a loop for 24 hours so that people around the world who paid for it could watch it at a time that worked for them. 

People who hadn't paid for a ticket could buy one and watch it. It almost feels like a marketing ploy to get more money out of people based on the buzz generated by the media who had already seen it. There were several news sources reporting the names and what went on in the theater, so people who were doubting Corey was doing anything now knew that he really was. If you don't have the money to hire a real marketing team, and there's no reason to believe Feldman does, this would seem to be the next best thing.

Feldman's Depiction Of Corey Haim And Judy Haim

Let's get to the way Feldman handled his supposed best friend Corey Haim. I've maintained that I don't necessarily believe these two were best friends or worst enemies. They had a complicated relationship, and this went on until Haim died. At times it seemed a bit toxic, and my impression was that Feldman was certainly the more controlling dominant person in the friendship. Sometimes he would come to the aid of his friend, but other times he manipulated him. Call it what you will, but I call it complicated.

My problem with the way Corey Haim is depicted in this documentary is that Feldman could have taken a little bit of time to respect his friend for his acting ability and the fact that he was critically praised and awarded back in the 1980s for his performances in multiple movies. I'm sure all of the people he hired to say certain things in the documentary, or speak their truths as may be the case, could have had a sound bite or two about the acting ability of Haim and how his performances were in certain movies. We don't see any of that.

We see plenty about the tormented victim. This is the only narrative that apparently mattered to Feldman. Haim is portrayed in the first few minutes once this thing gets going as being a drug addict who could charm people into helping him go get prescriptions. We also see him portrayed as a bit of a sex addict who didn't care whether he got it from men or women. You'll notice that we didn't hear much about him having sex with women. It was men, which means the continuing narrative that Feldman has painted of his friend being gay.

Feldman is going someplace with this, however. He's trying to use the narrative that what Charlie Sheen allegedly did to Haim on the set of Lucas resulted in him being a damaged person who would be sent into drug addiction and was hyper-sexualized. In other words, it wasn't Haim's fault that he was gay. Though you can clearly see the narrative being painted that Haim wanted sex with these people, it's still being laced with comments that he was molested. I'm not going to get into the psychological thing of how people who are molested are damaged, because I know that's true. My problem is the way Feldman portrays Haim. He's not doing a good job of respecting and showing love for somebody he still calls his best friend.

Then, there's Judy Haim. Basically, Feldman throws the mother of his best friend under the bus and gleefully backs it over her multiple times. She's portrayed as an uncaring mother who fed her child to the wolves, and Feldman has several people making comments throughout the movie to support this claim. Though he lets Judy speak in her own words from clips on Dr Oz, Feldman is the one controlling this documentary. Therefore, he can paint his narrative and have the last say on Judy.

It's been hinted at in a couple of interviews and certainly on social media that Feldman believed Judy Haim organized this group of people who attack him every day on social media. They have been dubbed The Wolfpack, and Feldman produces multiple emails and messages he says are from Judy giving orders to people on how to do what needs to be done to discredit Feldman. There's even one person who defected from that group who Corey flew out to California to make a few statements for the documentary.

I have an issue with the way he treated Corey Haim. I feel like he could have respected him more and not spent so much time trashing him and discrediting his character. If he must have used Corey to make a documentary on this problem in Hollywood, maybe that would have been a better way to go. I have to point out what the critics have said, also said by Judy Haim. They say Feldman should have told his own story and not used Haim. Some will say that without the use of Haim, the documentary never would have happened or drew any attention.

At times following this thing on social media feels like a bit of a LARP. Or, a made for social media entertainment program of some sort. This would include the anti Feldman side, or The Wolfpack. Whatever you want to call it. I don't know that they've ever called themselves that, and the name derives from somebody who made YouTube videos against Feldman whose last name happened to be Wolfe. It's interesting to note that they were pretty much silent on Monday night when this thing was having its disaster on the internet and weren't heard from too much on social media Tuesday. I'm sure they'll have things to say soon. The content in the documentary lends itself to serious skepticism.

Haim's Supposed Abusers Picking Sides?

What I find interesting is that the two supposed abusers of Haim that Feldman by his own admission introduced to him have chosen different sides. Marty Weiss, who has been outed for the crimes he committed against another young actor in the documentary An Open Secret, has sided with Judy Haim. He's very active on Twitter defending himself, accusing Feldman of lying and supporting Judy and Corey Haim.

A follower of this crazy story will find that Corey Feldman, many years after the alleged Haim/Weiss thing happened, was seen thanking Weiss publicly on the PA. This was when Feldman got his Lifetime Achievement Award at the Young Artist Awards ceremony in 2004. He and his then wife Susie we're both pictured with Weiss that day smiling. Keith Coogan, who's also in this documentary and played Weiss in A Tale of Two Coreys, has been shown pictured with Weiss after he knew about the allegations as well. 

Dominick Brascia was the unidentified person mentioned by Corey Haim in that tense moment we've all seen many times from The Two Coreys reality show. He was the guy that Haim said Feldman introduced him to and remained friends with. Feldman's story about parting ways with Brascia in this documentary remains at odds with facts as they have been shown. However, Feldman has never uttered Dominick Brascia's name in this context until this documentary. Brascia, however, was the one who sold the story about Charlie Sheen to the National Enquirer. Feldman distanced himself from him with a "no comment" when The Enquirer asked for his thoughts on the story.

Closing Thoughts And Conclusions

What do I believe here? I believe bad things happened to both Coreys, and I tend to believe it was very bad. What the actual truth is, I don't know. What the actual truth is from this documentary when it comes to both of them, I don't know. I do know that Corey Haim deserves better than to be dragged through the mud 10 years after he died. If you truly are his best friend, when you're making a documentary, you show a little bit more respect.

Corey Haim loved his mother. His mother dearly loved him too. Even if Haim asked Feldman to tell his story, do you really think he would have been happy being portrayed as a druggie and a sex fiend? Would he have been happy with the hatchet job Feldman did on his mother? Somehow, I doubt it.

This documentary is the culmination of a lot of Feldman promises to the fans. I know people will want to see it, but do you really want to pay to see Haim dragged through the mud yet again? You will certainly go through many emotions if you let your guard down and watch this with an open mind, but will you be hearing the real truth? I suppose that's for you to decide, but I'd advise you not to be so quick to believe everything you see. It's certainly my belief that we have yet to see an accurate representation of what Corey Haim's life was, and I'm not so sure we'll ever see it at this point. Certainly, Feldman is not the one to tell it.

Let Us Not Forget That Corey Haim Was More Than Just A Victim And A Drug Addict

The news is out, and names have been named. I don't want to talk about any of that, but I do want to talk about Corey Haim. It's been 10 years since we lost him. You know what really makes me sad? On a day when we should be remembering some of the good things and the happiness that Corey brought us, what are we remembering today? 

Is this all he was, a victim and a drug addict? Are these the only things that we should remember about Corey Haim'? A mother lost her son. A sister lost her brother. I can't even imagine the grief Judy Haim went through on that day and in the years that followed. No parent expects that they will outlive their child. It's always the parent's hope that their child goes on to experience love and happiness long after they are gone.

When I hear all of the stories of Corey Haim, one thing consistently stands out. This was a boy who loved his mother. His mother loved him. Everything didn't work out so perfect in their lives, and maybe mistakes have been made. You're certainly going to find no shortage of people pointing fingers given the way Corey Haim's life has been portrayed during these past 10 years.

What of the boy who loved sports and played hockey? What about the boy who wanted to get into acting and delighted us with some of his earlier movies such as Lucas, A Time To Live and Silver Bullet? The boy who went on to make big box office hits such as The Lost Boys and License To Drive? The boy who won awards from his peers and critics dubbed one of the big stars to watch for in the future? Respected film critic Roger Ebert was very high on the future of Corey Haim.

We can talk about where the story went after the 1980's, but what of the man who still had so much love in his heart? What about the man who had an artistic side. He loved to paint. He loved to create music. The man certainly got knocked down multiple times in life, but that's not the whole story. What about the man who kept getting back up and fighting? What about the man who pursued his passion of acting and was well on his way to a comeback in Hollywood when he tragically passed away?

People are going to say their things. One thing we love to do on social media and feel we have a right to do is to take shots at each other. We feel we can say some of the meanest, most disgusting things to each other on the internet, and these are things we'd never say to somebody's face. Corey Haim becomes an even easy target. People can say what they want about him, and he's no longer here to defend himself. He's no longer here to tell his story.

It's been 10 years, and let's not forget one of the most important things to remember. Corey Haim had family, friends and fans who loved him. The fans may never have met him, but he brought them joy with his acting. His family and friends knew him and loved him and no longer see his smiling face everyday. I know that there are bad things that happened in his life that maybe have to be remembered, but those things should not be what define him and his legacy. Corey Haim was more than just a victim and somebody addicted to drugs. He was a human being who brought love and happiness to so many people. 

This is the way I will remember him. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. It is my hope that should they decide to tell a proper and complete  story about his life, they get the help and resources they need to do it right. They are the ones who loved him and knew him best.

The Risk Corey Feldman Takes In Revealing Corey Haim's Abusers

Corey Feldman will be naming the names of people he said abused Corey Haim, and the name everybody's wanting to know is the big name from the set of the movie Lucas. Feldman has been hinting at something for years, but there's another way to look at this. This particular name is going to shock and surprise a few people. Others may not be surprised as it will seem believable to them. However, Feldman has no proof of anything. 

I mention this specific name and not the other two names that Feldman will mention as having molested Haim. In a court of law, you'll be asked certain questions. With the other two names, Feldman could at least point out that he introduced them to Haim. In his autobiography, Coreyography, he admits to setting up Haim with Marty Weiss and another person he named in his book as Tony Burnham. Others have speculated that Burnham is Feldman's friend Dominick Brascia. Judy Haim herself went on The Dr Oz Show and said it said that Brascia molested her son.

In those two particular cases, Feldman might be able to answer multiple questions while being under oath. The question he'd be able to answer for sure, based on his what he wrote in his book, is did he introduce Haim to these two people. It's interesting to note that convicted pedophile Marty Weiss is on Twitter attacking Feldman for doing this documentary. Weiss maintains nothing ever happened between he and Haim. Feldman feels confident enough in mentioning these two people because he admits he introduced Haim to both of them. 

The person on the set of Lucas was said to be an adult male according to Feldman. This seems to be the most brutal incident, according to Feldman, because he has referred to it as rape. There is just one problem with this when it comes to a court of law. Feldman and Haim weren't anything more than acquaintances at best at the time when this alleged incident happened. They were just two Hollywood child stars trying to make their way in the business at the time. Sometimes they were going up for the same roles. 

In a court of law, Feldman would be asked how he knew anything happened between this person and Haim. The only evidence he has is a conversation he had with him early on in their friendship. Feldman tells a story that early on Haim told him that this had happened. The way Feldman describes this incident is to establish that Haim was also sexually confused and had made sexual advances on him based on what allegedly happened on the set of Lucas. He claims that the incident made Haim more sexually aware.

After the lawyer would ask Feldman how he knew, obviously the next question the lawyer would ask him would be was he there? Did he witness anything? When the answer was no, the lawyer would quickly do away with this accusation as hearsay. Unless Feldman knew others who specifically knew more and were willing to go under oath, that's as far as this would go. This is also the reason Feldman has not gone public since his book was released by naming any names that had anything to do with Haim. 

Basically, he didn't even go so far as to use a pseudonym in his book for the person on the set of Lucas. There is a reason for that. Unless there's something else that Feldman hasn't been telling us, the only evidence he may have that anything ever happened was the story that Haim supposedly told him early on in their friendship as they were getting ready to make the movie The Lost Boys.

When it comes to his own story, Feldman can talk all he wants. If the people he names feel strongly that he is lying and slandering them, they could have their day in court with him. Then Feldman can say what allegedly happened in these cases. In fact, he has not only outlined what happened in his book, he's also told some stories in various interviews through the years. This is another matter entirely, because Corey may or may not have first-hand evidence to support his claims against the people he says molested him, Alphy Hoffman and Cloyd Jon Grissom.

You might think that the fact that Feldman actually named Marty Weiss as somebody who molested Haim is big proof that something really happened between the two. However, even though Feldman was associated with Weiss at the time, this name never would have come out of Feldman's lips, at least up until the time the documentary airs, if not for the fact that Weiss has been convicted in another case. This has been outlined in a documentary called An Open Secret. 

The fact that somebody else named Weiss in a different situation gave Feldman the confidence to name him in his book and further have him depicted in the Lifetime movie A Tale Of Two Coreys. If this is a lie as Weiss maintains it is, he certainly has strong grounds to pursue Feldman legally in a court of law. However, if there are other cases of Weiss and inappropriate behavior with other miners, which some have speculated could be the case, he also has reason to just complain a little bit on Twitter, maybe write a book and otherwise let it pass. It might not go well for him, but this is purely speculation on my part.

Feldman is very correct when he says that he has to legally protect himself before naming these names. He knows two names because he introduced those people to Haim, although the line of questioning he'd face in those two instances would certainly be interesting to hear. Feldman has never said he witnessed anything personally, just that he heard sounds from another room and that sort of thing. A lawyer will then have some interesting questions to ask him regarding whether he really knows anything about those two incidents at all. When it comes to the identity of Burnham, who some say is Dominick Brascia, there could be other interesting questions as Haim's mother, Judy Haim, has identified him as the only one she says molested her son. Speculation is that Brascia was the person Haim was really alluding to in that dramatic moment during The Two Coreys TV series.

You can't just name names without having the proof. For instance, the late Isaac Kappy willingly threw out many names as being pedophiles. What proof exactly did he ever have to make such claims? Anybody could pick out names and say that they did things. Kappy himself named Academy Award winners from Hollywood and made serious allegations against them. Had there been a day in court with Kappy on the witness stand, he probably wouldn't have lasted long. While some people believe what he said, it's important to point out that he never actually provided proof.

This is the thing about the internet age. We need to be very careful what it is we listen to and read, because people can say anything on the internet. They can make interesting and very compelling videos or write articles that claim anything, but everything they put out there could just be fabricated lies. However, to the untrained mind, they might be inclined to believe it. They just saw it or read it on the internet, so it must be true. Right?

I'm not suggesting that Feldman doesn't know anything regarding Haim, but there is a saying, "Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof." There is no doubt that when he names the names in his documentary, if it indeed it airs, people will start talking. What will the reaction be of the person who has been named? It stands to reason that this person is going to deny it. Will they lawyer up at that point and come after Feldman? Don't you think they would have a right to do so when his only proof is a story he says that Haim told him that according to everything else out there was never told to Haim"s own mother?

What Feldman is doing is brave, some will say stupid, but it's very risky. He could legally be in hot water over this whole issue. You can't just make a claim like this that if proven could destroy a person. If there is no proof, it becomes slanderous. What Feldman is really hoping is that he'll create a "Me Too" movement for kids. If this particular person abused any other underage kids, what he's really hoping for is that they will tell their stories and he gets the ball rolling. 

What are the odds that this is going to happen? Will people come forward, or will people just remain silent? Are they remaining silent out of fear or because they have no story to tell? This still leaves Feldman standing out there having revealed the names. This documentary could have consequences, but what consequences? Will real criminals be brought to justice or will Corey Feldman face legal consequences himself? Or, will people continue to talk about this whole thing, mock Feldman and just go about their lives? That remains to be seen.

I think the reason this story has struck such a nerve for so many years is because it's believable to think that bad things have happened to both Feldman and Haim. Both of their lives spiraled out of control as the 1990s came to be. Feldman may have been erratic here or there, but he somewhat recovered. Haim never really did. He was, in some people's opinions, so damaged by what he went through that he never fully recovered. However, what is the truth? Perhaps something bad happened and that we will never really know the answers to. This documentary may therefore add to a conversation that may never truly go away.

My Truth: The Rape Of Two Coreys Airs Online Monday Night

The Corey Feldman story is certainly an interesting one. I also believe it's important to watch this all play out and to let the man talk. For those who don't know, the former child star who was in such iconic 1980s movies as The Goonies, Stand By Me and The Lost Boys has been hinting at revealing the names of the people responsible for molesting himself and his friend Corey Haim. There are people who want him to go away and shut his mouth, but I believe it's important that he finally put it all out there for people to hear the facts as he sees them.

There has been a hint of something bad happening with Feldman and Haim for many years, but it's likely that people will remember two important moments where it came to the public's attention. The first was a big scene in The Two Corey's reality TV show where Haim confronted Feldman about something that happened when they were younger. We all know they were speaking of being molested. A year after Haim died, Feldman got on National TV and told people what the biggest secret in Hollywood was.

I thought things might be about ready to come to a head back then. I'll never forget Feldman saying, "The biggest problem in Hollywood is, was and will always be pedophilia." He had my attention, because like many others, I suspect that some very dark things have happened to children in Hollywood. We have a tendency to laugh at and mock child stars through the years when they fall from grace and the paparazzi and tabloid media mocks them all. Nobody ever asks what is at the root of these moments, and that's intentional. You need to do a little homework when it comes to these former child stars.

In the 2011 interview, Feldman went on to say that his friend Haim was haunted by something that happened at the hands of a Hollywood mogul. He knew the name, but it wasn't for him to tell the story. I thought for sure he might say something soon, but he didn't. This led to a popular passtime on the internet by people who know something dark is going on in the world. I call it "Guess the Pedo". It's a dangerous game, because you really need to know what you're talking about before just throwing any name out there.

It wasn't much longer before Feldman put out his autobiography, Coreyography. If you haven't read this book, you should get a copy. You gain some insight into Feldman and his troubled childhood behind the scenes as we've watched him go from being the little boy in the McDonald's commercial, to the kid making several appearances on different TV shows and eventually one of the top child stars of the 1980s in movies like the ones I mentioned above and so many more.

I guarantee you'll be moved in one way or the other when you read Feldman's account of things. When he gets around to talking about what he knows about Corey Haim, it gets even more disturbing. I had to remind myself when Feldman admitted that he introduced Haim to two men who ultimately molested him that Feldman was a victim himself. He doesn't paint the most flattering picture of Haim while claiming he introduced him to Marty Weiss and the man Feldman refers to as Tony Burnham.

People are going to speculate that Feldman wasn't the best friend of Haim, and I don't blame them for that. Personally, I believe they were best friends in the 1980s. I believe they stayed in touch in the years that followed, although I'm not exactly sure that best friends really covers it. They loved each other, they hated each other and they were always going to be bonded through the experiences they had growing up in Hollywood. I have some speculations and observations that I am so tempted to put here, but I wonder what good it will do.

I will say here and now that I don't like that Feldman controls so much of the Corey Haim narrative these days, but this isn't necessarily his fault. Feldman says he made a promise to his friend, and we weren't there. We don't know if that's the truth or a lie. Too many people are claiming it's a lie, based on the negative reactions that Haim's family has to Feldman doing what he's doing. The Haim family should tell the story of Corey Haim, because they are the ones who are the keepers of his legacy. It baffles me that they are doing nothing.

I don't say that to judge Corey Haim, and this is a completely different topic. What I mean is that he was a good actor in his own right, but nothing is being done by the estate to keep some of those big movies out there for a new generation to see. They're not telling the story of who he really was. They're not doing much to keep his legacy alive. Therefore, most people only know Corey Haim as somebody who had a lifelong battle with drug addiction who was molested multiple times. This will never change until his family takes a hold of the narrative and tells us more about who he was. Between that and trying to get him stars on the Hollywood and Canadian Walk of Fame, there are still things to be done in his memory.

Feldman has been ridiculed and attacked. Some people have a personal axe to grind with him, and others just pick sides and throw daggers. This is easy to do on social media. Has Feldman given them easy things to target in the last decade? Absolutely. There's Feldman trying to pattern himself after Hugh Hefner and creating Corey's Angels and his parties at the "Feldmansion". There are his interesting musical attempts, such as performing Go For It on The Today Show and a video I personally enjoyed for the song Ascension Millennium. There is the Corey's Angels Tour that ended abruptly as Corey said he had an attempt made on his life.

At the heart of all of this is still the story of both Coreys being molested, and who it was that did this. In his book, the only actual names we read are Marty Weiss and Bob Villard. Both had been convicted in other cases, and Feldman made no claim that Villard did anything to either one of them. He just happened to be somebody they were around. After reading the book, people tried to figure out the clues and name the names, and you can find that easily enough on the internet. However, we all want to hear it from Corey's own lips. Who did what to who? 

Coreyography was his attempt to get the names out there, but the publisher forced him to use pseudonyms on most of the names he mentioned. Feldman admitted on The Wendy Williams Show in 2013 that he pulled stuff from the book and had plenty more to say in another book, if he ever chooses to write it. I know, or at least I can say I believe, there's more that happened with Feldman himself than he'll admit, and I don't say that to judge. It's his story to tell. If it's as ugly as I think it could be, I can't blame him if he wrapped it up with this documentary and is content to keep working with Child USA to work on changing the laws in order to protect children.

Within the last few years, Feldman went on The Dr Oz Show and told his story. It was revealed that Cloyd Jon Grissom and Alphy Hoffman had molested Feldman. In his book, he used the pseudonyms Ron Crimson and Ralph Kaufman. In fact, he also refers to Bob Kaufman, the father or actually male lover of Ralph Kaufman. Bob's real name would be Bob Hoffman, and he was somebody responsible for getting child stars, including Feldman, roles on various sitcoms in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There's an interesting tie in between Hoffman and the male producer of the movie Lucas, which Haim was in. More on that in a moment.

Feldman had been saying when he started to get serious about his crusade and revealing names that he was also revealing a pedophile ring. People were automatically shrugging and saying, "Nothing to see here." What is really interesting is that he's pointing out photographers of kids in child star magazines, kid's agents and a man, Alphy Hoffman, who organized the Soda Pop Club parties for the young teens from 1986 to 1989. There is much to be told here, and it does potentially link up with people higher on the ladder than Corey knows or is willing to speak of.

Let's use a generic story, although there is truth in it as has been revealed by others. The agent of a child star gains the family's trust. Suddenly, the child star is being given permission to stay with the agent because there's an early audition or whatever. Now, an agent who has a thing for kids might eventually use this to groom the kid. Once they get their trust, the molestation begins to varying degrees. In other cases, they begin passing these kids around to others. When the Feldman story started leaking out, Alison Arngrim, a star on Little House on the Prairie, was quoted saying that it was common knowledge that The Two Coreys were passed around. Is this true? I don't know, but there are other stories involving other child stars that point out that there is truth to this theory.

With Alphy Hoffman, he used The Two Coreys to launch his parties. Eventually, Alphy took advantage of Feldman. Haim has actually been quoted on this subject from somebody who did an interview with him. You can find what Haim said in an article on vice.com. I believe the interviewer was trying to find out if Alphy introduced Haim to the drugs he eventually became addicted to. This didn't happen. Feldman says Grissom was the one who got him started, which could have ultimately affected both Coreys.

Haim said that Hoffman was a bad man and a user, but he denied anything about drugs. He said he got into that after he stopped attending those parties and was going to other clubs. He was adamant about that. The interviewer couldn't get him to elaborate any more on Hoffman. One would only be speculating if they assumed that Haim was referring to Hoffman doing anything of a sexual nature with underage children when he referred to him as a bad man. However, the last time he and the reporter talked, Haim tried to keep things low-key. I don't know if an article was ever written, but the interview was shared on vice.com.

For Feldman, Grissom was the one he went to live with after emancipating himself from his parents. Grissom was the one advising him to do so, and it appears as if this is when bad things started happening to him and Haim. What we don't know yet are the actual names of some of Haim's abusers. All we know is what Judy Haim, Corey's mother, admitted on the Dr Oz Show after Feldman had made his first appearance. By then, Judy had gotten hostile towards Feldman, claiming that this is just about money to him. Personally, I don't believe that to be the case, but I do believe Feldman knew that he needed financial help to ever tell any kind of a story. He simply isn't rich enough himself. This is probably the biggest reason he would have avoided this entirely if he could have. Hollywood was never going to back him on this.

Yes, Feldman would like to make money. We all would like to have enough to get by. Feldman was brought up in Hollywood at a young age and knew no other way. Some will say he should have moved on and started another career, but it's not fair to say that when Feldman has in fact been able to find steady work in direct-to-video movies and reality shows. Work is work to somebody in Hollywood. What he and Haim were unable to find after very early in the 1990s were any starring roles In major motion pictures. Their fall from grace due to drug use and perhaps whatever secrets they knew could have assisted that, but I won't speculate any further.

Feldman is on a crusade. If you believe he's lying in his book, ask yourself a serious question. When you read how things went down with Haim and the two older men, according to Feldman, why would he admit anything? It doesn't make Feldman look very good. I personally don't believe Judy Haim when she says it only happened to her son once, but I'm not calling her a liar either. 

I believe that Corey loved his mother so much that he wouldn't want her to know out of concern for how she would take it. She might blame herself. Haim dropped everything to care for his mother when she got sick. She may not know. Some speculate she did, but that leads us in directions that we can't ultimately prove and goes nowhere.

I believe Judy witnessed some incident where the truth came out regarding the man she named, Dominick Brascia. Internet sleuths had already put the clues together to come up with this as the identity of the person Feldman names in his book as Tony Burnham. As of yet, Feldman hasn't revealed that name, but it will happen in his documentary. Was it Brascia? If so, why didn't Feldman corroborate what Judy said back then, and why didn't he say anything after Brascia died? 

Another thing people point to is a picture from 2004 of Feldman and his wife at the time smiling with Marty Weiss. This was at a young Hollywood actor's awards ceremony. Feldman is heard at the podium clearly giving a shout-out to Weiss in a video clip that you can find on the web as well. Why so friendly? This has been the cause of much speculation. 

There's also the fact that Feldman was friends with Brascia for years. Brascia even had a part in the Corey Feldman E True Hollywood Story documentary, which can be found on YouTube. After watching some of the heartbreaking stories depicted in the documentary An Open Secret, one can add the fact that had Feldman said something about Weiss, the kid who ended up having his experiences that ultimately got Weiss arrested and convicted might have been safe? Again, it's only speculation. Hindsight is 20/20.

If I were to guess the mind of a victim, I believe that for many of these kids, it's not something you easily can come to grips with. Who would believe you? Was it your fault? When Michael Jackson was being investigated in 1993, Feldman was on record naming the men who abused him, but the police officers almost made a joke of it. Think about that. They could have personally escorted him to the jurisdiction that would help him while he legally could have done something, but he got victim shamed. They didn't believe him, so why would anybody else? Feldman never did anything with it, but there is actual documentation that he did in fact reveal names in 1993. In fact, Feldman said he also had an off-the-record conversation with the officers where he mentioned the ones who abused Haim.

The last name to drop is the biggest name of them all. This would be the adult on the set of Lucas who took advantage of Haim. That's more or less how Feldman referred to him in the book. In the interview in 2011, he referred to this person has a Hollywood Mogul, which tends to make people think this would be a producer type. I won't name the name here, but you can easily search the name of the male producer of the movie Lucas and find it along with his rather interesting career producing TV, movies and music entertainment. Not to mention, this person has a tie in with Bob Hoffman as well as the TV series Feldman starred in during the late 1970s, The Bad News Bears.

In looking around, you can find another clue. One person who did this to Haim was 42 years old. This was claimed in an interview that People Magazine did with Haim after the controversy that erupted on The Two Coreys reality TV show in 2008. However, there are two ways to read that. Haim didn't specifically say the person was 42 years old when it happened, just that they were 42 years old. Was he talking about in 2008 or back in 1985? If we are talking 2008, this man was definitely a big Hollywood star. I would say an A Lister with a family involved in movies for decades.

The story gets more interesting when you find out that Dominick Brascia sold a story to the National Enquirer at about the same time that Feldman began his current campaign to bring out the names. It was at a time when his Angels Tour came to an abrupt end, and Feldman gave The Inquirer a strict "no comment" in reaction to them seeking his thoughts. We have to remember that Brascia and Feldman, at least for several years, were friends. Whether that was the case at the time of the National Enquirer story, I won't speculate. The interesting thing is Brascia named Charlie Sheen as the one who molested Corey Haim. This resulted in a lawsuit from Sheen to the National Enquirer.

This is the problem with the game of "Guess the Pedo". You'll find people naming some of the biggest producer and director names in Hollywood and saying they did something to The Two Coreys back in the day. Proof? It makes me think of Isaac Kappy, an actor who had bit parts in several movies who claimed to be friends with Seth Green. Isaac flat-out named some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and never backed down from that. Proof? That's the problem. Where is the proof? The biggest proof cited by Kappy's believers is that moments before an apparent suicide from jumping off of an overpass, he was on video saying he wasn't suicidal, though he certainly appeared distressed.

Something happened to The Two Coreys. Both were victims. We see stories get told sometimes, and they are swept under the rug quickly. When Feldman started this crusade in the shadows of the Me Too movement, Alex Winter of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and The Lost Boys fame said it happened to him with an older actor in a stage production. Anthony Edwards of Revenge of the Nerds, ER and other things went on to say it happened to him at a young age as well. They got brief attention, but within a week or two, the stories were swept under the rug.

It's really no wonder that none of these child stars want to talk, and it's also no wonder people are willing to believe that things are happening that could go all the way to the top. Haven't we learned anything from the Catholic Church Scandal, Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky, The Franklin Cover Up, Jeffrey Epstein and so much more? This is the story they don't want to talk about, because it's about the biggest sin we commit if we do harm to a child. Talk about Harvey Weinstein and what he did to women who we're willing to do anything for a part in a movie all day long, but don't mention the sick things happening to children.

I will not victim shame the women, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the obvious. Most of the time, they had a choice before it got out of hand. There were women who said no and we're blackballed for it. The women who played ball might get victimized, but often times they ended up with a big payday. In the case of these kids, the story is a little bit different. They are being used and abused before the age of consent. Corey gained a little bit of heat by talking about how the women had some sort of upside, but kids like he him at the time did not. I don't know how you can touch on the subject without appearing to be unsympathetic or just a bad person, and yet it's fair to say something as part of the public discussion. Harvey Weinstein deserves to be punished for what he did, make no mistake.

I also believe that these adults who are revealed to be pedophiles with the young stars deserve to be punished as well. There's never really been much of a hint at justice, but people can see it's all bubbling up. We know the stories at certain studios such as Nickelodeon and Disney, and they continue to sweep them under the rug before truly shining the light of day on the matter to get to the bottom of it. This is why I believe the Feldman story is important, and he needs to tell it.

Feldman is hoping that when he explains the who, what, where and why in his documentary, others from back in those days or even during other eras will come out and tell their stories. They will be more encouraged to do so in much the same way the first woman in the Me Too movement encouraged others to speak up. Corey knows the stories of others who were around him back then. However, those are things he can't really get into. He's already taking so much heat for fulfilling what he says was a promise to Haim by telling his story.

I hate to be pessimistic at a time like this, but I don't really believe that this is going to start the wave of change. It will, however, be more ammunition. Eventually, the truth will get out. It won't be stopped. In that way, it's important that Feldman tell his story for people to hear and understand. Many will believe him, and others will choose not to believe. What is the truth? Without these people being brought to trial, all we are left with is speculation. Speculation can also be a dangerous thing, but what else is there?

I don't believe Feldman is doing this documentary to further his career, because all this will truly do is damage him more in Hollywood. Despite not being given any plum rules or the second chance that others have been given, Corey has nonetheless found steady work in direct-to-dvd movies and low-budget productions. Did he make mistakes that caused him to be punished? Sure, but did he deserve to be punished by the Hollywood establishment a as much as he has been? They gave Robert Downey Jr and Drew Barrymore second chances, and both shined very brightly. We might make mistakes, but we can also have redemption.

Feldman says he spent close to $2,000,000 to put this whole thing together so that he could air it twice online. Consider the possibility that if Feldman really wanted to get some sort of comeback in Hollywood, he'd take all the money that he could afford, find people to back him and do his own movie. I'm not talking about what he's going to reveal in the documentary, but an entertainment movie. A subject that will inspire passion in Feldman. 

He'd be writing a script with others. That could ultimately fail, but it could also turn out to be something that made him a few dollars and was well received by the fans. He won't make money off of this documentary, and he could ultimately burn the bridges if there was even consideration of him getting another good role in Hollywood. This is the risk he takes to put the story out.

On February 22nd, tickets went on sale at Feldman's website, www.mytruthdoc.com. They are $20 a piece. He had to secure insurance to legally protect himself in this documentary, and a good chunk of money also went into bandwidth costs. Feldman just revealed that the company will work with him enough to enable him to show the documentary a second time in Europe at a better time. On the West Coast at 8 p.m. at March 9th, the movie will be showing for the first time. 14 hours later, for the people around the world, the movie will have a second showing.

Feldman has said this will be it for the documentary. People are asking why? Legally, he could get into big trouble for naming any names, even if he's telling the truth. You can be sued for slander, and at least one person, the name who allegedly molested Haim on the set of Lucas, has the money to pursue this all the way. Therefore, you're not as likely to see Feldman put his movie out there for people to view for free the way the people did with the documentary, An Open Secret. In the case of An Open Secret, it's pretty much a slam dunk. The criminals mentioned in the documentary have had their day in court. It's a matter of public record. In Feldman's case, it's a bit different.

I think Feldman deserves to be heard, but whether people will spend $20 for a viewing depends on the person, their lack of funds and how much they really care about the topic. Feldman has done all he can at this point. However, you know people will be "sailing the high seas", so to speak, so others will eventually get to watch it. Within a matter of hours, the names will be put out there in various internet stories as Feldman is quoted word-for-word. Others will do their reviews on their YouTube channels. In that way, Feldman's story is finally getting out there as a matter of public record.

They say this is the first step towards healing, and that might be true. Sadly, I don't believe that Corey Feldman will truly be healed from what happened to him. He may have greater understanding, and he has certainly been more of a functioning adult than Corey Haim was able to be, but the hurt will always be there. In the case of Corey Haim, his struggles ultimately led him to an early demise. It wasn't an overdose or a suicide, but one can certainly make a case that he suffered his health complications from his drug addiction.

We never got to see these two become the adult stars they could have been. It's not difficult for me to imagine how good they could have been on the big screen in major motion pictures, and it wouldn't have required them acting together. Feldman knocked on the door in the mid-1990s, but it was abruptly slammed shut on him. Haim nearly got the role in Batman Forever as Robin. Can you imagine? What if that would have been the catalyst for him to make a major comeback? Might he still be here today? 

I often speculate when I think about these two, especially Haim. I wonder if Corey Haim truly had the best friend he needed, and I have my doubts. Feldman was certainly a friend, but not the best friend he needed. It wasn't all bad, but it wasn't all good either. At times Feldman was not the friend he really needed, but they maintained a connection to the end. I don't think that person was truly there for Haim. Would it have made a difference? I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that I could have been a friend and maybe made a difference. Others have probably felt that they could have been a good friend to him. But who knows? We're still left with some enjoyable movies like Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive and so many others. 

My thoughts on Corey Feldman and this documentary are summed up this way. You may like him, you may hate him, you may think he's crazy, you may think he was a druggie or you may think anything you want. However, if you care at all about him and what he's about ready to reveal, you'll check out the documentary to hear what he has to say. If you have kept coming back to the story through the years as many of us have, you owe it to yourself to see it through to this point.

The documentary will air at the website link below. All the information you need can be found there.

www.mytruthdoc.com.

Corey Feldman To Name Abusers Of He And Corey Haim

In The Two Coreys reality TV show, few can forget the memorable scene where Corey Haim confronted Corey Feldman about what had happened to him back in the 1980s when they were best friends and two of the biggest teen stars in Hollywood. What Haim alluded to was a time when he was molested by a man that Feldman knew and was good friends with.

The video clip of that scene can be found on YouTube. Here's one link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZxPPzjIb0

Corey Feldman has said that he will be naming the names when he puts his "My Truth: The Rape Of Two Coreys" documentary up on his website on March 9th. The person Haim alludes to in the above clip, pointing out that Feldman was still friends with him, was reportedly Dominick Brascia. In Feldman's book, he doesn't admit the name. He uses the pseudonym Tony Burnham. It was Judy Haim who said it was Dominick Brascia in her appearance on Dr Oz. Speculation is that Feldman will finally confirm that in the coming documentary.

Things get a bit interesting from there, and I'm going to use a People Magazine article that is still on their website at the link below.

people.com/archive/the-lost-boys-vol-70-no-5/

This interview happened back in 2008, a few months after that episode alluded to in the video clip we linked above. Both Corey Feldman and Corey Haim were interviewed at separate locations. There are a couple of very interesting things to point out in the People Magazine article. I have linked the article, but I want to talk about a couple of specific moments within it.

In the setup to the interviews, there is this interesting snippet here.

During the show’s second season, both actors confessed that they had been sexually abused as kids: Feldman by a man hired to be his assistant, Haim by a 42 year old man he won’t identify.

My question is who is the 42 year old man that Haim will not identify? The age mentioned here does not line up with Dominick Brascia. At the time the incident would have happened, Brascia would be in his twenties. At the time this interview was done, Brascia would be well over 42 years of age.

This part becomes speculation.  There is only one potential age of a name that Feldman may drop in his documentary that lines up with the 42 year old man. Feldman has hinted that when he first met Haim prior to filming The Lost Boys, Haim aditted to being molested by an adult male on the set of Lucas. Internet sleuths have deduced the name. Some have said it was the producer, and some have said it was a co-star who was about 6 years older than Haim at the time. What the truth is, I don't know.

The producer of that movie probably would not have been 42 years old at the time. Getting his exact age has been difficult as he doesn't have a profile on the internet showing his date of birth. The man has been very involved in producing movies, TV series and even been involved in the music industry for several years. He is still involved to this day, but he'd be in his thirties at the time of the alleged incident when it happened and well over 42 years old at the time that Haim did the 2008 interview.

This is where it gets interesting. While the co-star would have been about 19 years old at the time the alleged incident would have happened, he would have been around 42 years old at the time that Haim did the interview. Who was this co-star? I hesitate to post the person's name, although he was a pretty big TV star in the last 15 years or so before kind of going off the deep end. He was making more money for a TV series than anybody in Hollywood up to that point.

What I can say is that about the time that the Corey Feldman Tour with his angels came to a grinding halt, Dominick Brascia sold a story to the National Enquirer claiming that Charlie Sheen had molested Haim on the set of Lucas. Feldman refused to comment on the interview, and Sheen sued the National Enquirer for defamation of character. I'm not saying anything other than Sheen would have been 42 years old at the time that Haim gave the 2008 interview to People Magazine.

I prefer to use Corey Haim's own words. Since he's no longer alive, all we have are old interviews. In his portion of this interview with People Magazine, Haim made this statement when asked why he blames Feldman for his childhood sexual abuse.

He said, “I’ll always have your back.” But he knew that there was a rape issue going on with me for about two years, and what did he do about it? Nothing.

A few thoughts come to mind based on that response. He said Feldman knew there was a rape issue going on. What was the context? He mentions a two-year period, which could encompass the time before Feldman met him when Haim mentioned what had happened to him on the set of Lucas through the time Feldman introduced him to Tony Burnham (later revealed by Judy Haim to be Dominick Brascia). 

I could certainly understand Haim eventually realizing what was going on. He trusted Feldman with his secret, and Feldman eventually still introduced him to a man who continued this abuse. Is that the context, or is Haim saying that whatever was happening with this particular man was ongoing for two years and Feldman did nothing about it?

A lot of things go through your mind as a victim. There's the confusion at the time.  Did you ask for it? Then you realize that's not what it was. Haim said more on that in the interview.

I was molested at a young age and I felt like I let it happen, man. I had come to terms with this a long time ago, but then, obviously not. I’m still working on it. Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you.

Feldman clearly indicates in his book that he introduced Haim to two of the men who did this to him, although he also points out that Haim was already affected by what had happened on the set of Lucas. He insinuates that Haim was looking for sexual activity with Feldman, but Feldman didn't want to do that. Some people will point to how attractive Haim was and the fact that he could have found a girl his age if that was his desire. That's obviously a topic that could be pursued deeper.

I don't know what Feldman would have to gain in his book (Coreyography) by admitting that he set Haim up with adults for sex. It doesn't make Feldman look very good. It doesn't really make Haim look good either as Haim is made to look a little bit over-sexualized in the book. He wants it, and he's not concerned with whether he has it with a man or a woman. The other question one would have is why would Feldman only try to set his friend up with men? Again, another topic worthy of discussion.

Judy Haim, who is at odds with Feldman over the book he wrote that talked about Haim and is none too pleased about this coming documentary, has said it only happened once with her son and it was with Dominick Brascia. However, the quote in this People Magazine interview seems to indicate it happened more than once. 

It's a sad, sick, disgusting story, and it breaks my heart to see what happened to these two promising young stars. What they could have become was derailed by what they went through. It's also not a rare story, but it isn't every child star from Hollywood who's willing to go out and admit this. It's brave of Haim to have said anything in any interview, and it's also brave of Feldman to be leading this crusade.

The names of Feldman's abusers have already been released on episodes of Dr Oz. Feldman says it happened to him at the hands of Alphy Hoffman and Cloyd Jon Grissom. Hoffman ran the Soda Pop Club parties for the kids in Hollywood from 1986 through 1989. Haim admitted in a vice.com piece that he and Feldman were the original hosts of the first party, and he didn't have flattering things to say about Hoffman. He did deny that Hoffman had anything to do with his drug use.

Corey Haim Article In Vice Magazine

 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4wqnx3/him-himself-and-he-0000193-v19n4

Feldman has explained that Grissom was the adult he stayed with after he emancipated himself from his parents. Grissom was the one who influenced him in making that decision, and Feldman claims Grissom is also the one who introduced him to the drugs he started taking. Last report was Grissom was living in Mexico and fleeing the law.

In his book, Feldman named Marty Weiss as somebody who had molested Haim, and he further depicted him in that light in A Tale of Two Coreys, which is a Lifetime movie from a few years ago. Weiss is active on Twitter speaking against Feldman. He denies having done anything with Haim, although he's been convicted for doing other things with another child star. He was involved for many years representing child stars, and you can hear more about his case in a documentary called An Open Secret. I personally don't believe Feldman would have put the name Marty Weiss in his book had Weiss not been convicted in another case.

Feldman claims he attempted to name all six names in his book when it was released in 2013, but he had the pseudonyms forced on him for legal reasons. Weiss was the only name Corey released that he claims had anything to do sexually with Haim. When Feldman revealed that Alphy Hoffman had molested him, he revealed that Hoffman wasn't really the son but was the gay lover of Bob Hoffman. Bob Hoffman had a role in helping get Feldman and other child stars roles in various TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s, although Feldman doesn't claim anything sexually happened with him. The producer on the movie Lucas has a tie in with The Bad News Bears TV series and at least one of those movies before that as he was involved in the production.

This means that the names that have actually been revealed of the six are Bob Hoffman, Alphy Hoffman, Marty Weiss and Cloyd Jon Grissom.

Though Judy Haim has claimed that Dominick Brascia molested her son, Feldman has not corroborated that. The two were indeed friends for many years, and Brascia spoke on Feldman's behalf in The E True Hollywood Story about Feldman back in the late 1990s. He had a role in the movie Busted that Feldman directed in 1997 and was in one of the Friday The 13th movies with Feldman as well. It remains to be seen whether Feldman will reveal the identity of Tony Burnham as Dominick Brascia or not.

The big name is the person on the set of Lucas. Was it the actor that some people believe did it or was it the producer? Was it somebody else? Feldman has claimed he's going to name that name, and it's certainly going to get people talking and could ultimately bring a lawsuit against Feldman.

Feldman is going to talk about who did what and also explain how and why these things happen to kids in Hollywood's. He's going to outline how this happens on all different levels. The documentary is certainly going to be something that people will want to see.

Corey has created a website where it will stream exclusively on March 9th at 8pm Pacific Time. 14 hours later, it will air a final time to make it easier for people around the world to view it. Feldman has claimed he will not air this anymore after that. Therefore, unless a studio or a streaming service decides to take this documentary and run with it, that will be it.

You can go to www.mytruthdoc.com to find out how to watch it.

Should We Be Afraid Of Artificial Intelligence?

Elon Musk was in the news warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence and said we need to keep a close eye on what is being done in this field. Professor Stephen Hawking made similar warnings. But, is AI something we should fear?

As technology advances, more and more things are becoming possible. There's still debate on what is good and bad. There have been people in the trans humanist movement who have the spoken of their goal of merging man and machine to achieve immortality and godhood. That sounds silly to some of us, but just imagine if these people are successful.

Would AI attack its own creator? That's certainly something to fear. If we actually do create computers capable of thinking or even thinking robots, what would they think of us? We're not exactly setting a good example for AI or any alien life form that's out there watching us. I'm not putting down mankind here, just making an observation.

Not long ago, there was a movie about AI called Her. It won the Oscar for best screenplay. In the movie, a lonely man falls in love with an AI operating system on his computer. The problem was, that AI was is love with hundreds of people at the same time. In the end, these operating systems just left the people behind one day to go think about everything.

Movies like The 13th Floor, Terminator and The Matrix tell a different story. Some have suggested you could almost consider The Matrix a sequel to The Terminator. In The Terminator, AI actually sets off nukes to try and kill mankind. In The Matrix, mankind is enslaved inside an alternate reality they don't even know about while their body warmth is used for energy for the very AI machines that enslave them.

What would AI do to us? Does it have to be doom and gloom? Could AI be created that helps make our lives better? I think it's possible. However, it's just as possible that it could be used for our enslavement as we enter the surveillance society where everything we say and do is on record. In the end, I tend to agree that we need to keep an eye on how this technology develops.

Was Ghostbusters 2016 Really That Bad?

I'm not a fan of reboots or remakes. It doesn't seem like that long ago when some of these movies were originally made, and then they got the remake treatment. Movies like Footloose, Total Recall and the retooling of the Star Trek franchise come to mind. Count me as somebody who wasn't a fan of any of these. I prefer the originals. Yeah, I sound like one of those "get off my lawn" types.

The thing about franchises is they have fanbases. The way those franchises were done in the first place won those fans over. This created the expectations of those fans. So, if you get too cute with things, you risk the wrath of the fans. This seems to be happening a lot in the science fiction genre. Things like Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who and Ghostbusters are mired in heated discussions that at times evoke heated political and social debates.

When Ghostbusters 2016 was announced, I was sort of curious. When I heard it would be an all female cast and basically a reboot, I just casually said, "no thank you," and moved on with my life. Of course, the discussions continued between the Ghostbusters fan base and the new stars of this movie, and it got heated. People were calling each other names, and at times you started hearing about political affiliations and political correctness. 

With the announcement that there will be a sequel to Ghostbusters 2, I finally sat down to watched Ghostbusters 2016. I know I'm late to the party, but considering the debate that started raging again about the most recent movie, I wanted to enter the discussion with my own opinion. I had one thought on my mind as I clicked play. Was this movie really so bad? My answer after watching it is no. It was actually pretty good and stuck to the established Ghostbusters formula.

A thought crosses my mind. They did have some of the stars from the original movies in the most recent movie. However, they did not reprise their iconic roles. Therefore, you didn't get what might have made this a little bit more palatable to the die hard fans. You didn't get the stars of the original passing the baton over to the new stars. Or, maybe some of them could have shared the stage with them in some capacity. Maybe they could have done more movies together after this. I think it's fair to ask, had they done it that way, would this movie have performed better at the box office?

I'm not going to get into the comments that were thrown back and forth between the supporters and the haters. It's all subjective. Ghostbusters 2016 sticks to the formula. I mean, you can easily put the four original Ghostbusters in the roles of the four new characters. With just a little bit of tweaking of the dialogue, you would have your typical Ghostbusters movie. The story takes place in New York. The bad guy opens a portal from the netherworld to the real world to cause mayhem. The Ghostbusters have to figure out how to save the day.

I know one criticism I read was that all four women were trying to be the funny one. What movie were you watching? That's not what I saw at all. Kristen Wiig, for instance, wasn't trying to be the funny one. She did a great job in her role and pretty much played it straight. Melissa McCarthy was a little funny, and more there for the physical stuff as she is want to do. Leslie Jones really did a good job as the everyday woman who became a Ghostbuster. Attacking her for her skin color is petty and so unworthy of even me commenting on it any further. She deserved better than that.

If there is a weak link in the four, it's Kate McKinnon. I admit I'm not a fan of her on Saturday Night Live, nor the political bent in her humor on that show, but I can separate that from the movie. Saturday Night Live has nothing to do with it, even though one of the things I like about that show, Jones, is in this movie too. My problem with Kate is she could dial it down a little bit. A little Jim Carreyish, if you ask me. She does have a Geena Davis quality to her that I like, but she was here to be the funny one. I liked her toast to the other girls at the end of movie. Maybe her best scene.

Critics were merciless, leading movie supporters to bring up the possibility that the hate was based solely on the fact that the four stars were women. Is that the case? Maybe. I personally would have a problem if women were being cast just for the sake that we have to have women in these roles as some sort of message. However, it wasn't like there were just four women on the screen. They acted and they did their parts well enough.

As I watched this movie, I looked for any signs of some sort of agenda, as has been suggested by the film's detractors. I've seen some really ridiculous criticisms by people like Milo Yiannopoulos and others. They suggested it was about "women good, men bad." They claimed that all of the men were stupid and needed the women to save them and other such nonsense. I didn't notice that, subtly or more obviously. All I noticed were actors playing their roles. I didn't even think about who the actors were, because I was enjoying the story they were trying to tell. I know Hollywood loves messages, but not every movie is filled with some agenda driven message.

I would say this was the third best movie in the franchise, but that's not a knock against it. The first two movies were just that good, in my opinion. This may not be the best movie ever, but it held my attention from start to finish. That's all you can ask from any movie such as this one. If you're entertained and get a few laughs out of it, it did its job. I think the ladies were hoping it would do well enough that there would be sequels. While I still haven't seen the evidence that they actually lost more money than they spent making this movie, it wasn't a blockbuster. It did not warrant a sequel.

Then, we got the announcement of the new movie in the pipeline that will be a Part 3. Understandably, the makers of Ghostbusters 2016 weren't happy. They felt assaulted by the critics. Then, we started reading comments about how doing a sequel to the other Ghostbusters movies is like rewarding the fans for their behavior. That's the type of comment that we're seeing in our political discussions these days, and this is supposed to be entertainment. I wish PC, politics and all that stuff could be separated from entertainment, but that's not the world we live in now.

Illustrating that point, Jones made the comment that it was like a Donald Trump type of thing making a sequel to Part 2 instead of allowing the ladies to reprise their roles. I really wish she hadn't said that, but as I understand she was attacked verbally on social media when this movie was released. I get it. I wouldn't deny her her right to an opinion. Personally, as she played the niece of Ernie Hudson's character, I'd love to see her be the niece of Winston in the next movie. It probably won't happen.

I know people have strong opinions. I too want to see a continuation of the original two movies. I can't help but feel bad for the ladies though. The baton may be passed in the next movie, but perhaps the ladies should have been afforded that opportunity in the 2016 movie. And if they had, would the public outcry over their movie been as bad? Would they have made a little bit more money and be talking about their own sequel this time?

There's just one thing I would ask anybody who is objective. And maybe this goes for people who skipped out on Ghostbusters 2016 when it came out. Disassociate this movie from the first two movies and the controversy behind the scenes. Judge the ladies on their merits in this movie and what it has to offer. I think you'll find that while it may not be the best movie ever made, it wasn't so terrible either. It maybe was a victim of the times that we're living in these days. Not everything is some crusade. Sometimes a movie is just that, a movie,