Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dracula

Dracula: You are magnificent.

Buffy: I bet you say that before you bite all the girls.

Dracula: No, you are different — kindred.

Buffy (to Dracula after staking him a second time): “You think I don’t watch your movies? You always come back.”

Nostalgia and the Good Old Days

It’s easy to become nostalgic for what people refer to as the “good old days,” when almost everyone was trusted.

Back then, children would play for hours in the neighborhood — and in other people’s homes and yards — unsupervised. Back then, children would walk to school, head gleefully to sleepovers, and participate in overnight camps, all without an ounce of parental concern.

But those times are past (meaning long since over) now. We are a sadder but wiser society. The knowledge we have about child molesters has come at a heavy cost and is often shared by people out of the pain of their personal experiences. It’s time we heeded this information and did all we can to protect children.

The Two Coreys

We all have our teen idol fantasies. For me, there are two teen idols of the 80s — Corey Scott Feldman and Corey Ian Haim. Corey Feldman is so cool with his charisma. Corey Haim had green eyes that were so intense, as well as an aura that makes him so irresistible to girls and women as well.

Together, the Coreys are an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. And they’re brilliant actors.

An example of Corey Feldman’s brilliancy is the 1986 movie Stand by Me, where he played the character of Teddy Duchamp.

In the movie, Gordie Lachance (who’s a writer at the beginning of the film) says this about Teddy:
“Teddy Duchamp was the craziest guy we’d hung around with. He didn’t have much of a chance in life. His dad was given to fits of rage. One time he held Teddy’s ear to a stove and almost burned it off.”

And one of what Teddy considers to be his “words of wisdom” is “I’m in the prime of my youth, and I’ll only be young once.”

Then in 1987, on the set of the film The Lost Boys, he met another actor/teen idol who shared his first name — Corey Haim. They portrayed Sam Emerson and Edgar Frog in the fictional small town of Santa Carla. Showing they saved Santa Carla from four teenage vampires made moviegoers realize that the Coreys had chemistry.

In the 1988 film “License to Drive,” the Coreys bring back memories of what it was like to be sixteen years old and get your driver’s license.

“It was really, really hilarious.”

“It reminded me a lot of me.”

“I borrowed my father’s car once.” (Les Anderson’s father, Robert: “What?!”) “Just kidding, Dad.”

“I’ve had some pretty wild nights, but nothing like this.”

In the 1989 film “Dream a Little Dream,” the Coreys explore what it’s like to be in love, and Jason Robards’ character, Coleman Ettinger, learns what it’s like to be a teenager with some help from Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman), whom he has accidentally switched bodies with.

May the Coreys live on in teenage dreams forever!

Update: I have learned that Corey Haim has, as of March 10, 2010, gone the way of all the earth. He will be missed dearly.

Rest in peace to Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 — March 10, 2010), Jason Robards (July 26, 1922 — December 26, 2000), Marc Rocco (June 19, 1962 — May 1, 2009), and Marc’s adopted father, Alex Rocco (February 29, 1936 — July 18, 2015).