The Two Coreys
Template:Future television series The Two Coreys - or, simply, "The Coreys" - is a reference to two popular teen actors from the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, who appeared in many films together - most notably, a number of successful teen-oriented films in the late 1980s. Feldman starred in Gremlins and The Goonies, while Haim starred in Silver Bullet and Lucas before being joined together in the movie The Lost Boys in 1987.
Celebreality Program
The Two Coreys is also a celebreality program on the A&E Network. After wrestling with personal demons ranging from substance abuse to obesity, Haim tries to put his life in order. [1] The premise is that Haim, unemployed, single, and slovenly, moves in with Feldman and Feldman's wife, Susie Sprague (married by fellow celebreality star M.C. Hammer on a 2002 Surreal Life episode) in a threesome in the style of the film You, Me & Dupree. The actors play characters which are not meant to represent their real persons. Although Haim concedes some plotlines were contrived, he's hoping for a payoff. Haim and Feldman are producers on the program.[2] Despite being presented as being set in Hollywood, the show is filmed near Vancouver Canada, and its production is in part covered through Canadian grants. The show began filming on December 4, 2006 and premiered on A&E on July 29, 2007.[3]
Information
- RFD USA vice president Greg Goldman said because Feldman and Haim have been friends on and off screen for several years, the chemistry between the two "just pops off the screen." He explains, "Everyone feels like they know the Coreys."[4]
Films
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- License to Drive (1988)
- Dream a Little Dream (1989)
- Blown Away (1992)
- Dream a Little Dream 2 (1994)
- National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994)
- Busted (1996)
- Lost Boys 2: The Tribe (2008)
Trivia
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- In the 2003 film, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Haim & Feldman both appear in the credits, singing on the song "Child Stars on Television". They mostly sing with the rest of the group, but they do sing two lines in the song.
- Both Coreys are Jewish.[5]
- Haim and Feldman were both born in the same year.
- In the TV show Big Wolf on Campus, both Coreys appear as themselves. However, they do not appear in the same episode, although their appearances are connected: Haim appears first, then Feldman appears in the final season, looking for Haim. The story was that during the making of The Lost Boys they were actually turned into vampires. Haim is "killed" by the end of his episode, and Feldman reveals that he is a vampire hunter looking for Haim but turns out to be a vampire as well.
- In an episode of Family Guy, Brian sings to an old reclusive woman about life after the 1960s a song which includes the lyric, "We're not too far from voting Feldman-Haim", and he proceeds to reveal an election banner which reads, "Corey x2 in 2004." In another episode, Stewie, wandering a sewer, sees the Goonies followed later by Haim. Haim states that he is not with the Goonies, but rather lives in the sewer, before catching, killing, and eating a sewer rat.
- In a season two episode of Robot Chicken (in a segment called "Corey & Corey Save the World"), the two Coreys, who provide their own voices, try to rescue the Bush twins (Barbara and Jenna) when their helicopter crashes in Brazil on the way to a USO Tour event. The two Coreys take a bus to South America and wander into a bar looking for the Twins. When they end up in a bar fight with the locals, Dustin Diamond ("Screech" from Saved by the Bell) saves the two and gives them the location of the Twins. When the partying twins refuse to return to the States, the two Coreys masquerade as the Twins, fooling the President, who says, "Anyone who hates the Coreys, also hates America".
- In Weird Al Yankovic's song "Couch Potato" he mentions "the rise and decline of twelve actors named Corey".
References
- Corey Haim at IMDb
- Corey Feldman at IMDb