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This story was originally published March 3, 1989 about Haim's role in the fim "Dream a Little Dream."

LOS ANGELES Teen actor Corey Haim is intent on doing whatever he wants to these days.

He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day, has mostly older friends and wreaks havoc upon his mother whenever he can.

Haim also co-stars as Dinger in "Dream a Little Dream," which opens today in Oklahoma City.

As Dinger, Haim portrays the best friend of Bobby Keller, played by real-life friend Corey Feldman.

Four days before filming began for the movie, Haim broke his leg.

Instead of the incident harming his chances of being in the movie, it actually enhanced his role and made it bigger, he said. The broken leg was written into the script, and Haim hobbled around with a cane.

Haim's first explanation for his broken leg was a bit exaggerated: "She (Haim's mom) got mad at me one day and took a hammer and went crack!" What really happened was Haim's mom was riding on his Moped and crashed with him on the back.

Haim lives with his mom, who also is his manager. He said he likes to wake her up in the middle of the night by shining two flashlights in her eyes and making a train sound.

One night he put on a mask and walked into her room with a butterfly knife just to scare her. Evidently he did, because, to his surprise, she called the 911 emergency phone number for help.

Wearing a black beret, black T-shirt with "MAMBO" written across the front and a black and white checked vest, Haim said, "I'm just a weird kid."

"All day yesterday I was just in a room, really quiet like this (he acts reserved). I'd go like this and look around. (I) start getting really paranoid for no reason, just about if, like, if Corey Feldman's giving me the evil eye, Meredith (Salenger) is, like, looking at me, I hope.

"I'm sitting here, and out of the clear blue I just go "shiggy-rock-jet-dawg.' I just start doing these things like right, and just, and just start calling these things out that mean nothing."

Haim said he and Dinger are similar in some ways.

"There's a lot of things that are the same that I do," he said, "but there's a lot of things that I also made up. That's why me and Marc (Rocco, director of "Dream a Little Dream') are doing a couple more movies after this, together. And I will only try to do movies with Marc now."

Although filled with energy and prone to pranks, Haim has admirers, including Rocco.

"They're (Feldman and Haim are) both tremendously talented," Rocco said, "but you have to tell them that the camera's rolling to get them to rehearse.

"Haim I think he's an amazing talent. He's a bundle to deal with because he just I never remember having that much energy," Rocco said, adding that Haim was fun.

"Haim scares you to death. He shows up. "What scene are we doing? I didn't read it.' " Fifteen minutes later, Haim has looked at the script and memorized his part, and his scene is finished in two or three takes, Rocco said.

Haim had more of a supporting role in "Dream a Little Dream," but Haim said he didn't mind.

"I can do a movie where I have one line to say," he said, "but it has to be the most quality line in the world."

"This part wasn't big at all, but it was quality." He later said "Dream a Little Dream" was the brain, body-switching movie a lot of people had been trying to make.

Haim said there are some things he misses due to his career choice of acting.

"I miss hockey. I miss Canada," he said. "I miss everything to an extent. I can take it two ways. I can look back and regret what I didn't do, or I could just grow up real quick out here."

Haim also said he wants to act in a part that is powerful.

"I want to do something like Dustin Hoffman did in "Rain Man.' I mean, I could pull something like that off, I think.

"I want to do something so powerful that it blows, like, everybody away."

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