The director of one of Corey Haim’s last movies has paid tribute to the former teen idol who died earlier today, aged 38, of a suspected accidental drugs overdose.

Michael Masucci directed Haim in the indie thriller American Sunset, and he revealed that the former Lost Boys star, who was upfront about his former drug problems, was always very professional and “a joy to work with”.

He said: “Corey was the ultimate professional.

“He was always very upfront and frank about his previous drug problems, but there was never any hint of it while he filmed American Sunset.

“There was no evidence of any drug or pill use on the film set, he was extremely hard-working.

“He always turned up on time, knew his lines and was friendly with all the cast and crew, he was a joy to work with.”

He added: “Corey was extremely talented and that showed through in his work and he will be sorely missed by me and a lot of people in the industry.”

Masucci also revealed that he had jumped at the chance to cast Haim in the lead role after hearing the actor wanted to make a comeback.

He said: “Like anyone my age I knew of Corey from the Lost Boys and those teen movies in the ’80s and early ’90s.

“I jumped at the chance to meet him…”

Masucci is hoping the movie will get a release date later this year.

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Jon Fiore told Radaronline.com that Brooke Mueller – the mother of Sheen’s twin boys – checked into a North Carolina centre to deal with emotional issues caused by the high-profile Christmas fallout with the actor.

“Brooke is doing great,” Fiore told the website. “Brooke is getting massages daily at Two Dreams [Outer Banks in North Carolina] and even played tennis with her mother while she was visiting.”

Despite widespread reports that Mueller is battling an addiction, Fiore denied that she had been admitted to the facility for any drug or alcohol abuse.

“She is just there to heal herself from all the stress. There really wasn’t any kind of drugs involved. Her body was in turmoil and she had a lot of stress, so she went there to rest and get away from everything.”

Famous exes Jude Law and Sienna Miller look to be rekindling their sizzling romance during a sun-soaked Caribbean getaway.

The freshly reunited lovers were spotted frolicking in the waves and making sandcastles in front of their luxury beachfront villa in Barbados with Law’s three children early on Sunday.

The couple’s post-Christmas get-together is reported to have caused tensions with Law’s ex-wife Sadie Frost, who usually spends the festive period with him and the kids at a far-flung destination.

Despite this, Law flew to the island on Boxing Day with Rafferty, 13, Iris, nine, and Rudy, seven. On arrival they were picked up by a limo and driven straight to the oceanfront pad where Sienna has been enjoying Christmas with her pals.

It is thought the actor was planning to whisk his stunning blonde away to the exclusive island of Bequia, a short hop from Barbados, to celebrate both their birthdays in style. Miller turns 28 on Monday, Law 37 on Tuesday.

Onlookers said the two A-listers certainly looked to be getting things back on track.

“They look like they never split up,” said one. “Jude’s children are clearly comfortable around Sienna and they all looked to be having a blast.”

Alec Baldwin has explained why he did some films just for the money, saying that being an actor is like plumbing – you need “to make a living”.

The 51-year-old makes his comments in an interview with Wired magazine, listing his lifetime of failures.

“I needed to make a living,” the actor says about some of his films which were panned.

“People don’t realise actors are like plumbers. When you invite a plumber to your house and say, ‘I want you to put this sink in my bathroom’, the plumber doesn’t say, ‘I’m not going to install that sink, it’s hideous. You have the worst taste in sinks’!

“No, he just says, ‘OK’ and he puts it in.”

And the actor isn’t afraid to name – and shame – one of his recent box office disasters – a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson.

“My Best Friend’s Girl had one of the worst scripts I’ve ever read in my life,” Baldwin says about the 2008 flop. “The movie was a huge disaster. Scathing reviews. And I realised, ‘I’m done with doing it for the money’.”

Natalie Portman has revealed that she did not smoke pot until she was in her 20s and denied sharing a passionate kiss with Sean Penn, in a recent interview with a US magazine.

The 28-year-old Star Wars actress – who began acting as a child – said that she was not a wild teen and didn’t touch marijuana in her high-school days.

She said: “I didn’t really go to high-school parties, and yeah I didn’t touch pot till I was in my 20s.

“I didn’t get flat-out drunk until I went to college. But I think that’s a good thing in many ways.”

The Harvard graduate, who was born in Israel, also denies the rumours that she shared a passionate kiss with Hollywood actor Penn, 49.

“He’s obviously someone I’m friends with,” she said.

“We were… on the [Cannes 2008] jury together – and we had a really great time, and then… It was one of those things where you’re like: ‘Oh my God. I’m that person who’s caught in this sh***y rumour brigade’.

“You can’t win. You don’t say anything and everyone’s like, ‘It’s true’. You say something, and you’re keeping the story alive.”

He then laughs out loud and insists: “I really don’t!”

The tattooed 21 year-old is hitting back at recent criticism that he is a Hollywood troublemaker after he was left fighting for his life after being stabbed at a party.

But Clark, the grandson of Hollywood legend Clark Gable, says he doesn’t care what the critics say about him.

Instead he is determined to prove them wrong and fulfill the legacy his famous grandfather left behind when he tragically died at the age of 59 in 1961.

Clark never met his grandfather but the resemblance to the Gone With The Wind actor is uncanny.

He has the same brooding good looks and at 6ft 3in tall is even taller than his 6ft 1in grandfather.

He also has the same intense presence as he speaks out for the first time about the stabbing two months ago which left him in intensive care after his lung collapsed.

The attack left him close to death but as he recovered he claims he finally realised that he wanted to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and become an actor.

Speaking at his Malibu home for the first time since the attack, Clark revealed: “The press reports about the stabbing didn’t really bother me but I just don’t want people to think that I am some kind of Hollywood brat.

“I have this great legacy that I’ve been left by my grandfather, that is amazing to have been born with.

“The stabbing has pulled me out of that other life that I was living and made me realize that I needed to wake up and use what I was born with.

“I realised that I needed to use this name that I was born with and follow in my grandfather’s footsteps.

“He was a legend. One of Hollywood’s greatest actors and I need to uphold that legacy.

“The criticism about me, or me cashing in the name, doesn’t bother me at all as I am not out there like other celebrity children or grandchildren.

“I’m not in Hollywood. Before the stabbing no-one knew who I was, or that I even existed!

“People have a false sense of who I am but I don’t think they should as they don’t know me.

“I don’t mind people knowing I am Clark Gable’s grandson but people need to know that I am not him.

“I am going to be doing my best to be myself.

“I want to make him and my father proud but I don’t want to be a clone. I am my own person.

“I want to follow in my grandfather’s footsteps the best way that I can. I am taking it one day at a time.

“I would love to be an actor. I don’t know if I could ever be on the level my grandfather was but I don’t mind if people make the comparison.

“But I don’t think people will compare me that much because I am my own person.

They are going to realize that once they see me on screen.”

Clark has begun taking acting lessons while he recovers from the stabbing.

He has also done some modeling work and appeared in a couple of commercials.

But now his goal is to make movies and hopefully one day become as famous as his grandfather.

He added: “I know the Clark Gable name is going to open some doors for me but I don’t want people to think that I am just using it and taking it for granted.

“I am not going to go out there and get loads of movie straight away because of the name, or going a win loads of Oscars.

“I am myself, my grandfather was his self. He had the fame, I got the name.

“That’s what I want to communicate to people.

“Even though my name is Clark Gable, I am still going to have to work to prove that I am good, perhaps even work harder because there is that legacy there that I have to live up to.

“I would love to play the Rhett Butler role from Gone With The Wind – just for the catchphrase.

“I love that catchphrase: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’.

“But right now it’s just one day at a time for me. I am still recovering from the stabbing and am on anti-biotics so I need to take things a bit slower than usual.

“But I’m taking acting lessons and having some coaching and learning everything first.

“I’ve done a couple of little commercials but nothing major yet.”

Clark is lucky to alive and able to take acting lessons after he spent nearly a month in hospital after the attack.

It happened two months ago at a party in Calabasass, just north of Los Angeles when he went to help a friend who was being threatened by four other men.

Clark explained: “I went outside the party and a bunch of guys were standing around my friend and one of them had a knife to his throat, so I ran and tackled the guy with the knife.

“I don’t know exactly when I was stabbed but I tackled him to the ground and I think that as I got on top of him someone came up behind me and stabbed me then in the side.

“I didn’t realize that I had been stabbed at first. I just thought someone had punched me really hard in the side.

“The fight had been broken up and those guys took off.

I walked inside the house and all of a sudden I felt this warm trickle down my back.

“Being stabbed doesn’t feel how everyone thinks it feels.

“When you cut yourself with a knife or scissors and you get that instant pain, it didn’t feel like that at all. Instead it was like a hot burning sensation.

“Then I walked into the house and collapsed and started bleeding profusely.

I tried to wrap something around my waist and I couldn’t. Someone in the house called 911 and the paramedics got there within five minutes.

I was in the ambulance and was stable. But then all of a sudden my lung collapsed.

“I couldn’t breathe. I stopped breathing. And I was still bleeding everywhere.

“I was airlifted to UCLA Hospital in Westwood and I was there for seven days.

Heather had found out what had happened through my sister.

“After seven days I was released and sent home. Everything was great and I felt great.

“But by the time I got home I was sweating. The next morning I woke up with a 104 degree fever and a full recollapsed lung.

“I was rushed out of my house by an ambulance after my dad called 911 at 6.30 in the morning.

“I was taken to hospital again and was there for another three weeks.

“I had extensive surgery. I had got pneumonia and I had to have all the pneumonia in my left lung taken out.

“After my surgery I had three test tubes coming out me, plus my stab wound was stapled shut.

“It was a nightmare. I couldn’t believe that it was happening.

“I kept thinking it was a dream and I would wake up. But I did wake-up. The whole thing was a wake-up call and happened for a reason.”

Clark also revealed the stabbing led to him being reunited with his girlfriend, Heather Chadwell, 34.

The couple, who were introduced by Clark’s sister Kayley, had split a few months earlier, mainly because of the 14 year age gap.

But once Heather, who has appeared on such reality show as Rock of Love and Charm School with Sharon Osbourne, heard about the stabbing she went to the hospital.

The pair have been inseparable since and Heather has helped nurse Clark back to health.

The couple are now also planning a reality show about their life together and Clark’s bid to become an actor.

Heather, who did not believe he was Clark Gable’s grandson when they first met, revealed: “I was in shock when I heard about Clark being stabbed.

“It really scared me. I didn’t know what was going to happen.

But I knew I needed to be strong for him and so I headed straight to the hospital and was then at Clark’s side the whole time he was in the hospital.

“I think the stabbing saved his life. He was surrounded by some wrong people and we were on a break.

I had not talked to him in a while, I knew he wasn’t happy though. I kept worrying and worrying about him.

“I’ve been looking after him since he got out of the hospital and it’s taking a while for him to get back on his feet and back to his full strength.

“But now we’re back together and are planning a reality show together, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

While the couple are waiting to film their reality show, Clark is spending his time getting better – and going on casting calls.

Clark said: “I was aware of my grandfather when I was about six years old.

“My own father sat me down and told me about him and showed me some of his movies – Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach and I think The Misfits.

“If I can be anywhere near as good as actor as my grandfather, I would be really happy.

“AT the moment I am still recouperating as I came out of the hospital 17lbs lighter, so I just need to get back to my full strength.

“Now that I look back on it, it’s like it all came together for a reason.

It all lined up perfectly to where I was meant to be stabbed that night.

I think it saved my life. It happened for a reason.

“It was a blessing in disguise because ever since this happened things in my life have only got better and better.

“I know I am going to make my grandfather proud.”

2012 star Thandie Newton said she has ‘never dated an actor’ and stopped using her sexuality as a tool in relationships a long time ago.

Newton, 37, married writer Ol Parker in 1998 and they have two young daughters together: Ripley and Nico.

The RocknRolla star appears in the new disaster movie 2012 alongside John Cusack, but she said she has never had a relationship with another actor.

She said to UK magazine In Style: “I’ve never dated an actor, just had the odd fling. Isn’t that weird?

“I don’t flirt with people – a long time ago, I stopped using my sexuality to have a relationship with people.

“I don’t think you really get a sense of me, sexually, and that’s why I have really great relationships with straight men.”

A-listers like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston may still be having nightmares about the low-budget fright flicks they have left firmly in the past.

Box-office heavyweights Johnny Depp and John Travolta could well be spooked by memories of being part of the body count in blood-and-gore fests.

Other stars whose stabs at horror when they were unknowns could still haunt them include Ben Affleck, Hugh Grant, Jim Carrey and Viggo Mortensen.

Even rising stars like Jessica Biel and Katherine Heigl have horror skeletons in their closets.

Brad Pitt went back to high school for 1989 movie Cutting Class, playing brooding Dwight Ingalls whose girlfriend catches the eye of a creepy classmate.

Teachers and students soon start turning up dead as the psycho suitor goes on a killing spree, which ends up in a showdown with Brad.

The movie hunk has admitted he is embarrassed by many of his early films – and he probably learned a few valuable lessons from this one.

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