In snubbing Haim, Hollywood gets last word

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It’s never too late to give Corey Haim another beatdown. Hollywood took what may be its last opportunity to snub the late actor—whose entire life after The Lost Boys was essentially one giant snub—by leaving him out of Sunday’s “In Memoriam” segment at the Oscars. Haim, who died of pneumonia and a heart condition last March at age 38, had been an outcast in the movie business for the better part of 20 years because of his chronic drug problems.

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