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to walk away from hedge funds. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. >> giving up a lot to help kids. that does it for this edition of "360." see you tomorrow night. >> larry: tonight, corey haim death exclusive. his best friend corey feldman is here and speaking publicly for the first time since his pal died early this morning. at the age of 38. did haim predict his own demise on this show? >> i'm a chronic relapser for the rest of my life. >> larry: then farrah fawcett oscar snub. fans demand an answer. why wasn't she honored at the academy awards when others who had died were mentioned?
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her friend alana stewart tells us what she and ryan o'neal think, next on "larry king live." good evening. this is a sad day. corey feld mab, the longtime friend of corey haim, is here tonight. they co-starred in several movies including "the lost boys" and "license to drive." they also teamed up in the a & e reality series "the two coreys." and that occasioned the fact when they were both on this show together in july of 2007. corey haim passed away earlier today. how did you get the news? >> it was pretty terrible, larry, as these things always are. but i was in bed. it was 8:00 this morning. my son had gone off to school. my assistant comes in early and she takes him to school. she took him early today because she already knew what was going on. >> larry: she did and you didn't? >> right.
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basically everybody had pretty much known because it happened so early in the morning and i'm not an early riser. i woke up to my door being pounded on. my bedroom door. it was my sister's voice. she said, i need to talk to you right away. there's an emergency. are you decent? i said, yeah, come in. her and my brother came in. they said something about my son. i popped up out of bed and said, what's wrong? they said, no, no, no, he's fine. it is corey haim. he's gone. >> larry: was he your best friend? >> yes. he was my best friend. >> larry: how did you meet? the two of you. >> we met on the set -- well, not on the set, but due to working together in "lost boys." >> larry: you got booked together, worked together and became friends. >> there is a little more history to it than that. we were working simultaneously in the entertainment industry. we had parallel careers to some extent at that point. he had just kind of started receiving recognition for things like "silver bullet" and
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"lucas," some of his early work. i had been in the industry for about ten years at that point. what happened was a friend of ours, a mutual friend of ours a girl named robin lively, who is also a young actress, started kind of dating him a little bit. she was my best friend at the time, and she started dating him. she used to tell me about this kid corey and how cute he was and how sweet he was. i started opening the teen magazines where i occupied a lot of space at the time and started seeing, you know, little pictures of him next to a picture of me. i would go, who is this guy trying to steal my ink? >> larry: were you shocked? >> today? >> larry: mm-hmm. >> i was shocked, yes. yes, i was shocked. >> larry: was there some illness? well, first, you have spoken with his mom, right? >> i have spoken with his mom. i spent the afternoon with her. >> larry: she was with him?
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>> and with close friends of his as well. she was with him in the final moments. >> larry: how is she handling it? >> i mean, as well as can be expected. i was actually surprised to see that she had some stability and seemed to be cognizant and had her wherewithal. >> larry: how about his father? >> i haven't spoken with his father yet. his mom is battling cancer currently. she has radiation treatment. doesn't have her hair. she's swollen. all the signs of radiation. >> larry: when did you last talk to corey? >> probably about three or four days ago. >> larry: you spoke a lot, you were best friends. >> we were best friends. >> larry: best friends talk a lot. what was he doing at that time? >> he was fine. i mean, he was actually giving me some advice about something that i was upset about. he was being very positive. i had been getting him out recently. i had taken him up to the playboy mansion fairly recently for the super bowl party. after that i set him up with a
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girlfriend of ours named daisy de la hoya. the two of them had dated. i was trying to make matchmaker. >> larry: police say, corey, there is no evidence of foul play in connection with corey haim's death. the assistant chief coroner of l.a. county made this statement about the case. >> corey got woke up around 1:30 this morning, became a little dizzy. he kind of went to his knees in the bedroom. his mom assisted him into bed. he became unresponsive. that was around 1:30. she called paramedics. he was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced at 2:15. we found no elicit drugs, however, we did recover four of his prescription meds at the location. >> larry: the police have raised the possibility, corey, that given his history, drugs could have been involved in the death. what do you think? you can't know. but what do you think? >> first of all, let me say this, larry. in watching everything that's happened today and the reports
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that have come out, the first thing they need to say is people need to stop. they need to stop jumping the gun. they need to stop saying it is a drug overdose. they need to stop saying their theories of what they think it is or isn't. because at until the coroner's report comes out and we have specific evidence and we know what the toxicology reports say, nobody knows. nobody is going to know. we all are aware of the fact that corey haim had a long and detailed drug history and battled addiction for many, many years. i know it better than anybody because i have been the guy stuffing charcoal down his throat when he was od'ing. i was the guy trying to make him stand up and say a complete sentence. i've been with him many, many times. it happened badly and intensely through the years on many occasions. however, most recently he has been honestly in the best frame of mind he has ever been in in the past year. i mean, i would say with his mom battling cancer, he's really
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showed up. he's really become a man. he's been there for her, taking care of her. being responsible. >> larry: did you have a problem? >> i have had a problem. yes. years ago. 20 years ago. >> larry: doesn't he have movies coming out? >> he does have movies coming out. >> larry: they're made. done. >> yes. >> larry: were you two going to work together? >> we were negotiating a deal to do our first movie together in nine years. >> larry: the two coreys spoke about drug abuse and addiction here in 2007. here's some of that very candid conversation. watch. >> we took a break and we fell into our hard times. >> larry: and that was what, drugs? >> you name it. >> larry: was this together or separately? you went your way and went to drugs. >> oh, no, we did some drugs together. >> larry: you were friends. you weren't just co-workers. >> we're brothers. >> he went into his dark times separately. i went into mine separately. i got clean. he stayed out there for a while.
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>> a learning experience. >> he did some more research -- >> larry: did you go to rehab? >> oh, yes. yes. yes. many times. >> larry: hard to look at him? >> it's been a hard day all around, larry. i'm still reeling. i'm still in shock. this has been pouring in. i'm trying to digest it. i don't think i've even come close. >> larry: i understand completely. we'll get a break. corey feldman's with us. don't go away.
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[ dial tone ] >> larry: that was the first film the coreys did together, the 1987 big hit "the lost boys." that must be hard to watch, too. >> it's very hard. >> larry: you wanted to say something before we went to the break. >> we were talking about whether we feel it was drugs or not drugs. as i is going to have any answer on but i will say this much. i know he was fighting the good fight and at the end of the day i know that there were symptoms he was showing that expressed it could be a number of things. you know, this could have been a kidney failure, this could have been a heart failure. >> larry: was he on a lot of meds? >> well, he was. that's the thing. it could have been a mixture of drugs, a cocktail that is specific or it could have also been the fact that your body shuts down after years of abuse. >> larry: do you know his doctor? >> i'm sorry.
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>> larry: do you know his m.d.? >> i know he was seeing a treatment specialist who was new in the mix. who he'd only been seeing for the past two weeks. that treatment specialist put him on a new line of medications which were special medications. i'm not going to go into what they were. but let's just say that they may not have corresponded properly with the medications that he was currently taking. >> larry: we will someday have an answer. it takes a while, though. >> i appreciate the outpouring. the response, you know. the community is obviously crying out and reaching out and extending their hand. but i'm very troubled today, larry. i'm angry, i'm hurt and i'm sad, of course, for all the same reasons that a lot of people are. >> larry: troubled with what? >> the trouble for me, larry, is that i appreciate the fact that everybody reallies cares and is trying to show their expression of sorrow right now, but at the end of the day, larry, where were all these people the last ten years, the last 15 years of corey's life? corey was living in the oakwood
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apartments with his mom, very broke, very destitute. >> larry: that's a low-priced rental. >> it's a month-to-month living. he doesn't have anything. he didn't even have a car. where were all these people to lend a hand out? to reach out to him and say you are a legend. you are an amazingly talented wonderful person had has really never gone out of his way to hurt anybody other than himself. he was there for his mom. he took care of her. >> larry: what did you want people to do? >> you know, i don't have the answer to that. all i can tell you is that in this entertainment industry in hollywood, we build people up as children. we put them on pedestals. then when we decide that they're not marketable any more we walk away from them. and then we taunt them and we tease them and things like tmz outlets like that where it's acceptable in society, it's okay for society as a whole to poke fun at, to point fingers at, to laugh at us as human beings. why is it okay to kick somebody
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when they're down? i don't think it is. and i don't think it should be tolerated any more. i don't think it should be accepted any more within our society, within the entertainment industry, within the world as a whole. >> larry: did he feel that way? >> he very much felt that way. he had nobody to turn to. i was one of the few people left in his life. you see people making great statements and that's wonderful. i hope they're all there for the memorial, and i hope they're all there for the funeral, but where were they during his life? that is something everybody in this society needs to hold themselves accountable for. we all need to grow up and we need to think about every time we laugh at somebody in the tabloids or every time we poke a finger at somebody and say they're a joke or they're fat or they're a drug addict or they're washed up or they're a loser, we need to look at ourselves and say, who am i? >> larry: tell us about him. no one knew him better. what was he like? >> he was great. >> larry: was he funny? >> he was very funny.
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he was tremendously funny. >> larry: he was a good guest. >> he's the only person in my life that could make me laugh. laugh to the point of tears. we would just get into it. just three weeks ago i sat at his apartment with him and we were talking about my divorce, of all things. sorry. he was talking about my ex-wife and i was talking about her and we started talking about hey, wouldn't this be a great idea to have a third season of the two coreys. we could have you move back in with me, and now my wife is out, and you're in and this is what everybody wanted to see was the two of us living together in a house. we riffed on it for probably an hour to the point where we were both on the floor rolling around laughing. >> larry: was he close with his dad? >> he was close to all his family. he was a family guy. >> larry: were his parents together? >> no. they separated when he was >> larry: back with more with corey feldman. when i grow up,
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license. it's an automobile license. and it's not only an automobile license. it is a license to live. a license to be free, to go wherever, whenever, and with whomever you choose. >> larry: that's pretty good. from 1988's "license to drive." back in 2008, you told "people" magazine you weren't going to speak to corey again until he got sober. you didn't feel he was a safe person to be around? >> yeah. >> larry: what changed? >> he shaped up. he got his act together. he was doing so much better. as i mentioned, his mom got very ill. when his mom got ill, it was first time i ever saw corey grow up. he was grown up, responsible, he was with her every day getting the chemotherapy, was there every day getting the radiation. i picked them both up from the hospital and drove them back to their apartment because he didn't have a car. it was the first time in my life i had seen corey be that responsible stand-up guy for
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somebody else. >> larry: did he have brothers and sisters? >> he had a sister and a little brother, i believe. >> larry: he wasn't close with them? >> the little brother was a half brother because after the divorce his father remarried. his sister was his full sister. >> larry: you called him a tormented soul. what led to the torment? why was that kind of talent tormented? >> well, because that kind of talent was no longer allowed to express itself. that's why. his talent didn't go anything. it's the support, it's the backing. >> larry: was he his own enemy? >> he was his own enemy. i mean, look, a lot of people that are artists tend to be their own worst enemy because we're passionate people. we can't help it. it's part of our making. who we are, why we are and how we are. with that said, if we had the outlet to express our artistic integrity, to put forth our passions, if we still have our platform, then we're able to dispel some of that builtup
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energy. but corey is a guy who, granted, burnt a lot of bridges in industry. he made mistakes, as i did when i was young. i took 20 years of rebuilding to get to the point where people actually take me seriously. corey made a lot of mistakes for many years longer than i did. it took him a lot longer to get to the point of recognition. however, once he got there nobody was left to pull him back up. >> larry: do you know about the funeral plans? >> so far there is nothing set in stone. because obviously we can't even start to plan a funeral until we have the toxicology reports back. we don't know if there's going to be another autopsy. >> larry: there's automatically an autopsy? >> i'm sorry? >> larry: there's automatically an autopsy? >> of course. immediately. we do want to plan a sizable memorial. i would like to see people in hollywood pay their respects for him for the work he's done. he's not a joke. he's done some amazing work. look at "lucas." look at "lost boys." look at "blown away." i mean, the kid was an amazingly talented actor. >> larry: when is the next film due that he made?
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>> there was recently a series of screenings in las vegas for one i believe is called "american sunset." it's opened to very good reviews. >> larry: have you seen it? >> i haven't seen it. >> larry: did he enjoy doing it? >> he enjoyed it very much. i heard from everybody that he did an amazing performance. i was very inspired by that. not only were we negotiating a film to do together, but corey had a concept to do "license to fly" which would have been a sequel to "license to drive." we will a series of meetings this week -- >> larry: you would have both been in it? >> both of us would have been in it. he would have been one of the writers. i would have been one of the producer. we wanted to do a trilogy, which was all his concept. "license to fly," and "license to dive." it was going to be caper movies. >> larry: before we close out, what is that hair coming down? because i know people must be thinking. is that a style? >> it's the strand. >> larry: i'm get used to it. >> thank you. thank you. i appreciate it. it is not to make a fashion statement.
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it was more a personal thing. i went through a hard year. i lost michael, i lost my grandfather. i lost like seven people that were close to me. >> larry: michael jackson. >> michael jackson. >> larry: you were on the show for him. >> i ended up going off after my divorce and doing "lost boys 3" ironically in africa. i was there as a rebel, a lone soldier in the world. and this was kind of the mark of the soldier in the movie. >> larry: we're pressed for time. how are we going to best remember corey haim? >> hopefully he's going to be remembered as a beautiful, funny enigmatic character who brought nothing but life and light and entertainment and art to all of our lives. >> larry: i thank you for coming. i know this was hard. we appreciate you coming here. >> thank you, larry. thank you for doing him justice. >> larry: corey feldman. corey haim's agent will join us next.
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you collect insects? >> no. to collect them you have to kill them. i just look at them. >> oh. >> where the hell are you from, krypton? >> phoenix, actually. lucky me, we moved here. >> girls are always pissed off guys don't want to commit.
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i want to commit. she won't let me. >> we are, in fact, going home. okay? >> thanks for letting me crash. >> no problem. good night. >> good night. >> larry: joining us now from seattle is the late corey haim's agent, mark heaslip. mark, how did you find out about this? >> larry, i was actually in bed this morning and the phone kept ringing at my house. i told my wife let it go to voicemail. it kept ringing and ringing and we looked at the caller i.d. and it was news -- all the different news stations. finally i looked -- my wife woke up and says, why is the news keep calling? i basically looked at my cell phone and saw i had a lot of missed calls from julia, corey's mom. so i immediately called her and i got the news. she was trying to call me the whole night, and i had my phone
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on vibrate. >> larry: you raised the possibility, mark, that corey's death could have been drug related. that's speculation. you base that on what? >> i don't know if corey's -- i'm hoping it's not because corey was doing so good in his career. he was making his comeback. but he also at the same time he was showing me he was clean on the phone. i don't get to see corey every day. i do a lot of talking to him on the phone because i'm out trying to get him another project. he was really excited about his career. he was motivated. he was working out. he was sticking to his program. he wanted his career back. he showed no signs of that. i talked to his mom today about yesterday, and there was no signs of him overdosing. from what his mom was telling me.
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so i know he had a flu and he was running a 99 temperature to 101. he mentioned to his mother that he was having problems breathing late last night and his mom asked him to roll over on his side and he started feeling better and then pretty much they went back to sleep. everything was fine and he -- his mom actually heard someone walking around the room. she opened her eyes it was corey walking and stumbling and he fell straight to the floor and that's when all this happened. then they called an ambulance. and the ambulance came and, from what i heard from the hospital, he had a cardiac before he actually got there. >> larry: the magazine "in touch weekly" said dr. drew pinsky, a guest tomorrow night, confirmed to them that corey had been approached to participate in vh-1's "celebrity rehab."
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is that true? >> not with me. not since i repped corey. i never got a phone call about dr. drew. >> larry: is it true he was approached to take part in the "celebrity fit club"? >> yes. i thought me being his agent, corey is a movie guy. we wanted to focus on movies. i always told him i will give him representation if he remains clean. i won't rep him otherwise. and we put together a great program for him, and he was doing well. he was starting to get movie after movie. he was actually starting to book up this whole year, and he was excited. he actually had a chance to direct his first film this year. >> larry: when will we see "american sunset"? >> "american sunset," you know, i'm hoping soon. i heard there was rumor with regal. but i'm not sure. i put a call into jackie jerocs. so we're waiting for the film to
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get bought. >> larry: thank you, mark. we'll keep in constant touch and we extend our condolences. mark heaslip. corey haim's agent. >> thank you. >> larry: actress nicole eggert was very close to corey. as you can imagine, she's grief stricken today, but she is here in his honor to speak with us next. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. tools are uncomplicated. nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping's easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. no. come on. how about... a handshake. alright. (announcer) priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship.
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>> larry: nicole eggert and corey haim dated. they were very close friends. she co-starred with him and corey feldman in the '92 movie "blown away." she's currently on vh-1's "celebrity fit club boot camp". she's understandably upset tonight. we thank you for being here. you probably best known her as summer quinn on "baywatch." how did you learn about corey's passing? >> i woke up at 6:00 and turned on the news and it was first thing that i heard. i thought that maybe i heard wrong, you know? did some channel surfing and that's how -- then i turned my phone on -- >> larry: had you seen him or spoken to him recently? >> the last time i had spoken with him was when he and corey were talking about doing the show "the two coreys" and me possibly being involved. it had been a little while. >> larry: how long did you date him?
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>> well, we dated when we were very young. i met him right after he moved to los angeles after finishing the movie "lucas." we dated off an on for a few years after that. we worked together in the late '80s, early '90s. >> larry: what was he like? >> he was -- he was fun. he was fun to be around. he was light spirited, believe it or not. he was never stressful or angry. just always trying to have a good time. happy guy. friendly guy. >> larry: did you know about his drug problems? >> of course. yes. yeah. >> larry: was he having a tough time battling it? >> yeah. he was definitely struggling with a lot of demons. i spent a lot of -- a few nights in the emergency room with him. and you know, it's just -- he just struggled, he struggled most of his adult life. >> larry: what was it like to work with him?
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>> sometimes it was really great working with him. sometimes it was really hard because sometimes it would take him a while to come out of the trailer. sometimes he would be, you know, too intoxicated to work at times and we'd just have to wait. but at the end of the day, it was always a good day with corey. >> larry: did you get angry? >> i didn't get angry. i got sad. frustrated at times. but i don't know if angry is the right word. >> larry: did he give you a ring? >> he did give me a ring. it was a time when he was in a really, really bad place and we were filming together and we would film all day and at night i would spend the nights with him in the emergency room hooked up to an i.v., begging doctors for a different prescription and stuff like that, then going back to work again the next day. i think he felt like i was really there for him. he was a hopeless romantic and
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such a lover. he was such a loving guy. at the end of the shoot he gave me a ring and asked me if i would marry him. >> larry: did you consider yourself engage >> no. no. i love him. i have always loved him and will continue to always love him but ed? he is just battling too much. >> larry: so very hard on a relationship? >> it's very hard. it's very hard on a relationship, a friendship. when you love somebody you want to be there for them but at some point you can't sit there and watch it happen anymore. >> larry: you say you loved him. were you in love with him? >> i think there were times in my life that i could maybe have been in love with him. but very young. but i loved him deeply. >> larry: had he straightened out, could you have seen a life with him? >> i've known him -- well, i don't know. i don't know.
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i never thought about it like that because he had started at such a young age that it just never -- that was never a possibility. >> larry: his feelings for corey feltman were very strong. >> they're amazing. >> caller: corey was here earlier. and it was really sad. >> it is sad. so many people have contacted me today and i've heard so many people make statements. it's so nice that people are going to remember him this way, because for the past few years, i just heard snarky remarks and people more making jokes and, you know, not giving him any credibility. so today was kind of nice but a little late, you know. >> larry: that's what corey feldman said. >> it is. it's a little late. if people realized he would have liked to have heard that while he was here with us, it could have maybe made a difference in his life. >> larry: thanks for coming, nicole. >> thank you for having me. >> larry: farrah fawcett, was she intentionally snubbed at the
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>> larry: alana stewart is here, an actress, longtime friend of farrah fawcett. best-selling author of "my
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journey with farrah." and producer of the emmy nominated documentary "farrah's story." dick van patten, actor, farrah's good friend, author of "80 is not enough." one actor's journey through american entertainment. candy spelling, the widow of producer/writer aaron spelling. among his many credits, of course, "charlie's angels" which made farrah fawcett a star. candy is the best-selling author of "stories from candyland." every year at the oscars they have the in memoriam list. saluting those people in the movie industry who had died in the previous year. there were many people saluted. one of those not mentioned was farrah fawcett. oscar winner jane fonda probably spoke for a lot of people. she said, where was farrah fawcett? and she should have been included. alana, why do you think she wasn't? >> i know why she wasn't. i mean, when i saw it along with everyone else, i just thought it was an oversight. some horrible oversight. and it wasn't. because they made a statement,
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and i actually spoke to the director of the academy myself. they made a conscious decision not to include farrah because they felt she was more well known for her television shows and flips than her movie career. >> larry: bruce davis said she should be honored at the emmys. >> that's right. >> larry: he said she left jean barry off as well. >> i guess they didn't read her bio. farrah did 16 films. she did "the apostle." a highly acclaimed film with robert duvall. she did "extremities." she has been a voting member of the academy for 30 years. >> larry: i forgot about "extremities." she was great. >> very good. >> larry: did you watch the academy awards? >> i was very upset. >> larry: were you ticked? >> i was up at hugh hefner's. 35 of us were in the screening room. when they got through, the whole place said, what about farrah fawcett? she was an icon. in the '30s it was jean harlow, in the '50s it was marilyn monroe, in the '70s, it was farrah fawcett.
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>> larry: most associated with television. when you think of her. although you point out some things appropriately, don't you think of farrah fawcett and think of television? >> she got very good reviews in all the movies she did. i even saw her in new york in a play. i forget the play now. >> "extremities." >> and she was so good. >> larry: candy were you surprised? >> i was very surprised. i also was surprised with jean barry and also bea arthur. she was excluded. and she was in "auntie mame." lucille ball. not the original one. she did a film or two. because she was so well known as maude and "golden girls" they thought she was more television. >> larry: mr. davis added a statement, though. there's nothing you can say to people, particularly family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all. they tend to be surprised and
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hurt. we understand that. we're sorry for it. they said they're sorry for it. do you take that as an apology? >> i think they're saying that family members and friends are upset. but it's not just family members and friends. i said that to mr. davis, and all due respect today. it's millions of fans. the minute she was not part of that memorial it started on twitter. i mean, it was absolutely -- the e-mails i've gotten, people are outraged by it. >> larry: they can't make it up, dick? >> not to me they can't. it's unforgivable. >> larry: next year they are going to say something? >> it was unforgivable. >> larry: were you shocked, candy, it was not an overlook. it was deliberate. >> yes, oh, yes. >> larry: they just didn't include her. >> it was deliberate because the year aaron died he was also left off because they thought of him more as television. he made over 20 motion pictures. "mr. mom" "soap dish." >> larry: and there were people
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on the list that nobody -- or very few people heard of, right? >> exactly. >> larry: not that they didn't deserve to be on, but they certainly weren't as well known as farrah fawcett. >> i'd like to make one point. and all due respect. michael jackson is a huge music icon, but i believe that he only did one move >> larry: the last movie. y. >> that's right. right? oh, no, he did one other. >> "the wiz." >> larry: we'll take a break. if you have thoughts you may want to call in. what can you tell me about shell nitrogen enriched gasoline? they clean up gunk left by lower quality gasoline. then they act as a protective barrier... that shields and protects engines... against performance-robbing gunk. thanks for the info! shell nitrogen enriched gasoline, helping you get the most out of every drop. (announcer) we all want to stay active.
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>> larry: anderson cooper is standing by. he will host "ac 360" at the top of the hour. what's our lead tonight, anderson? >> tonight haiti. where is the help in haiti? hundreds of thousands of people living in the camps in and around port-au-prince say they've heard nothing from the haitian government. the rains are coming. a situation that can't get worse might do that. where is the aid? we are keeping them honest. we'll also talk to actor sean penn who just got back from haiti who will go back there in a couple of days about the work he's doing. she calls herself jihad jane. an american accused of helping promote violence and the other american extremists who support
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her here on the streets of new york. drew griffin's stunning look of people preaching jihad against america right here in america. you'll meet the 7-year-old boy who saved the day. he called 911. broke up a home invasion. meet the little hero named carlos. that all starts at the top of the hour. >> larry: that's anderson cooper "ac 360," 10:00 eastern. we're back with alana stewart, dick van patten and candy spelling. do you think you said during the break, you think they should apologize? >> oh, absolutely. i think they owe everyone, not just her family and her friends, but all the millions of fans that loved her, i really do think they owe everyone an apology. >> larry: no way they can make it up, right? >> no. you know, you mentioned the racetrack before. you know, i have taken a lot of different celebrities to the racetrack and nobody says anything the next day. once about two years ago, i took
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farrah to the racetrack. the next day, that was farrah fawcett. the whole racetrack went crazy. i mean, she was really big. and nice. >> larry: one thing you point out, she only did one year of "charlie's angels." >> only one year of "charlie's ange angels," but it was the poster that made her a ne nom none. >> larry: they left off maurice who wrote the music for dr. zhivago. how did they miss him? >> i think they should make the memorial part a lot longer and take away some of those parts were we all go get something to eat, you know? >> you know, larry, i don't understand is that it's really still that snobbery of movies versus television and yet, this show that we watched was on television. that's where it's aired? it's on television. >> a good point. >> so i don't understand.
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>> larry: the michael jackson, you understand, although he made less films. >> yes. yes. >> larry: if they left him off, people would have gone nuts. now there is a movement started about farrah, right? jane fonda leading it? are you surprised at that one? >> i'm thrilled about it. and i think that everybody feels the same way. the gentleman who is driving me here tonight said everyone feels this way. it's not just a few handful of people. >> larry: what was special about her, dick? >> first of all, she was very smart. people don't realize how smart she was and she had a great sense of humor and she loved sports, she loved the sun. she was a sun worshipper. she used to come over to our house and bake in the sun. remember how she used to love the sun? >> loved it. >> she was fun to be with. she had a great sense of humor. and she was smart. she could see through everybody. >> and the interesting thing is that you just said, the point, that she was so much fun. i mean, besides being a wonderful, loving, kind human being, and she was nice to everybody, but she actually was
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so much fun to be with. >> yeah. >> larry: ryan and tatum are very upset, too, we understand? >> they are. i'm looking at this clip that have you on right now, which happens to be my old tennis court. that's where we shot her. >> larry: did you like her a lot personally? >> i liked her a lot. she was a nice person. >> larry: people say people die as they live. and classy people die. how did she die? >> fearlessly. just the way she lived. she had that same fearless quality in her work, in her life, and in her battle with cancer. >> larry: were you with her at the end? >> yes, i was. >> larry: was it peaceful? >> it was. it was very peaceful. >> larry: much pain? >> no. no. she didn't feel a lot of pain at all. and they kept her very medicated right at the end. >> larry: did she know she was dying? >> you know, she never talked
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about it. that was the interesting thing. we -- it was something that i think we were all in denial about, but she never really talked about. i remember her saying a couple times to me over the last couple of years, she said i just want to know when i have two months left so i can get all my affairs in order. but she never really had anybody tell her that because she took kind of a nose dive so quickly. >> larry: yeah. you went to germany with her, right? >> many times, six times. >> larry: you talked to her a lot, dick? >> my wife was a very good friend of hers. so she was over at the house a lot. >> larry: you talked to her a lot. >> you were in germany together. >> yeah, that's right. >> larry: candy, you talked to her a lot? we will be back with our remaining moments on this edition of "larry king live." by the way, saturday night, aretha franklin. you know, when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with kids.
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>> larry: got a call from new york, hello? >> caller: yes, i would like to know alana's feelings on the lack of coverage of farrah's death due to the fact that michael jackson passed so soon after and that just seemed to be the big news? you know, that overpowered her. >> larry: yeah, alana, good question.
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>> i think it was unfortunate because it did kind of overpower her death, and it just happened so quickly afterwards. >> larry: understandable, wasn't it, dick? >> yeah. but she would have got an kick out of that. she would have laughed. here he's taking all my -- >> you know what? i said that, too. because she got so fed up with paparazzi chasing her. i thought she's up there going, finally, they're looking at somebody else. >> larry: thought you were going to say something else. miami, hello? miami, hello? is miami there? how is she going to be remembered, dick? >> well, she was an icon. she's going to be remembered as a beauty that could also act. she was a wonderful actress. and also beautiful. and sometimes you can't have both, but she had both. >> larry: she belied the dumb blonde theory? >> yes, that's right. >> larry: how do you think she
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will be remembered, candy? >> i think she will be the farrah phenomenon. >> larry: she was a talent, a phenomena higher than a talent. >> absolutely. and i think that that's good thing. did they spell my name right kind of thing? >> larry: what a face. look at that. >> gorgeous. >> a golden girl. >> larry: alana, how do you think we'll think of her? >> she was our golden girl. you know, she really was. she was just the golden girl. she was as nice as she was beautiful. >> larry: you were bonded at the hip, weren't you? >> we were, for many years. for 30 years. i think it was the texas thing kind of. and one of the things that we all loved about her, she was so down home. >> larry: dick, you knew her for year, right? >> oh, yeah. nobody nicer, nobody prettier. >> larry: you met her because your husband hired her? >> he put her in a couple of small tv films first to see how

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