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 Many people remember Corey Haim with a smile. Those that recall the teen
beat craze of the two Corey’s on the top of the world may have shed a
secret tear on March 10, 2010 when media outlets began to report that
Corey had indeed passed away due to complications of pneumonia.
Newer fans who discovered Corey through his legacy of amazing
performances also expressed dismay and posted online tributes to him and
sent flowers to his funeral and for his burial. Corey was also snubbed
by the Oscars and from SAG memorial tributes. Some speculated this was
due to his reputation rather than the “timing" reason given.
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A lot of untruths were, and have since been, printed about Corey and we
feel that those wrongs need to be put right and the family deserve to
know just how much he was loved and that we do not always believe what
the media say. This campaign is a way of doing this. Justice for Corey
and his family.
Corey stated he wanted a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
A fan of Corey’s on Twitter (@neverforgethaim)
created an online
petition through twitter (known as a ‘twitition’) and has begun a
campaign in support of this, in order to get Corey the star he wanted.
Since then there has been an army of support from Twitter and Facebook
fans alike. In support of the twitition, Jennifer has created a
Facebook page so fans who do not sign up to Twitter can get involved
as well.
A massive boost for Jennifer and the Fanbase came when Joe Raffa and
Harrison Smith (writers/producers) of forthcoming movie six Degrees of
Hell, starring Corey Feldman agreed to back this campaign. Six Degrees
of Hell tweet regularly about the campaign to their followers, wrote an
extremely touching and passionate blog and are working on plans for
helping bring this to fruition.
We are all massively boosted by the knowledge that Corey Feldman is 100%
supportive of all the efforts being taken to secure this for “The
Haimster” and to know that Corey’s family – particularly his mum, Judy
and sister Cari – are aware and pleased with our efforts.
We recently were lucky enough to secure contact with the web mistress for
Corey’s website
and she has very kindly posted the links to the twitition and FB page on
his site and will hopefully post important updates as and when we have
them.
The Fanbase have managed to secure support in the form of signatures on
the twitition from industry folk as well – Actor Sean Astin, Singer
Debbie Gibson (both of whom have since followed-up with tweets about
this campaign) to name a couple. There has also been interest from
fansites, media outlets and film companies, across the globe, who have
all offered to help and either the Fans or Six Degrees are in the
process of responding to these.
The effort now going into this ‘project’ is now phenomenal and we want
every Corey Haim fan to have the opportunity to make a difference, to
help make this happen. Please take a minute to
sign the twitition
– this does require a twitter account (it takes 2 minutes to sign up and
is an excellent way of keeping in touch). If you don’t have/want Twitter
but have Facebook,
head on over to the page and give us a ‘Like’ and leave a message if
you wish. If you have neither but wish to
send a message or idea of how to help I am sure liketotally80s.com
would be happy to forward these to us.
We are truly grateful to liketotally80s.com for posting this article for
us and hope that you enjoyed it and feel compelled to join this cause. #GetCoreyaStar
Sincerely,
Jennifer, Carol, Rachel, Rhianne & Marie
For and on behalf of The #HaimArmy
