The film industry is a massive enterprise, so, inevitably, attempting to honor everyone who has died in the last year in one four-minute "In Memoriam" segment during the Oscars is a doomed enterprise. Someone is always omitted, to the anger of an aggrieved many. Two years ago, the Academy Awards did not include Brad Renfro in their "In Memoriam" segment. Last year, they left out Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur. This year, the "honor" of omission was shared by Corey Haim and Maria Schneider, neither of whom had their pictures shown while Celine Dion sang. (Which might be a blessing.)
It's a nice touch that Haim and Schneider would be linked in death, considering it is extremely unlikely that the two names were ever in the same sentence in life. Haim, who died last March at the age of 38 of a drug overdose, starred in two legitimate hits, "Lucas," and "The Lost Boys," before sliding into irrelevance and self-parody later in life. (The culmination of which resulted in a reality show on A&E titled "The Two Coreys," which followed him and his fellow '80s teen heartthrob, Corey Feldman, in their later-career struggles.) Schneider shocked audiences with her performance in 1972's "Last Tango In Paris," starring opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's sexual drama. She died of cancer earlier this month.
Haim was also left out of the Screen Actors Guild award montage of performers who died in the last year, causing his former co-star Corey Feldman to blast SAG.
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