I don’t know if y’all remember The Two Coreys. This still from “The Lost Boys” is classic! To be honest I was just a little too young to remember them at the time (i.e. I wasn’t buying copies of Tiger Beat when they were at the height of their fame). I do remember girls having photos of their favourite Corey taped up inside their locker, but I was a late bloomer and wasn’t interested in pin up posters. I wasn’t really allowed much secular culture growing up (that’s another story!) and so when I did start to explore those boundaries and go a bit secular I was too scared of scary movies. They would give me bad dreams and I’d have flashbacks of the scary bits, the blood-covered parts would haunt my thoughts for days and keep me awake at night. It’s only now that I can watch a Stephen King movie and not be freaked out for a week. Is that a ‘welcome to adulthood?’ Should I be opening a bottle of champagne to celebrate the fact that I can now watch scary movies?! (well, some of them - I had nightmares after watching ‘Mandy’ even thought it was really good!)
The thing about The Two Coreys is bittersweet, I mean, how amazing were they? A force to be reckoned with, 2 teenage boys taking over the world, making their mark in Hollywood, starring in iconic films, living the dream. But how sad the reality is; Haim passed away of a drug overdose after years of addiction, he was a victim of sexual abuse, poor Corey! I don’t think Feldman had it any easier, but at least he’s still with us.
I guess it’s a reminder that we are all fragile, and no matter how good it seems someone else has it, they will have their own shizz to deal with. In these odd times of Covid pandemic, climate crisis, #metoo, race riots, terrible Trump, terrible Brexit, Beirut bombings, and what feels like general injustice in the world, not to mention ongoing issues of world hunger, child labour, etc it’s easy to feel like it’s the end of days. I think uniting through love and empathy is one way to act locally, and if we all put a lot of love out there and show kindness to our friends and neighbours, we can make an impact globally. Together we can shift collective consciousness. Sounds a bit like hippy stuff, right? But watching ‘The Lost Boys’ for the first time in years gave me this little light bulb moment, and here I am sharing that with you.