The “Lost Boy” tried, but never found himself.

Canada and Hollywood lost one of its ’80s heroes this morning when 38-year-old Corey Haim was pronounced dead in the early morning hours after an apparent drug overdose.

I have to admit, I’ve spent a few weekend afternoons watching self-made marathons of “The Two Coreys” On Demand, and it was at once entertaining, uncomfortable and heartbreaking to watch Haim — who his longtime friend and occasional foe Corey Feldman called a “tortured soul” — try to regain his footing in life and in acting.

The Toronto native was just about 15 years old when he starred with Winona Ryder and Charlie Sheen in “Lucas,” and “The Lost Boys” followed the next year, setting off a string of movies with Feldman for which Haim would forever be known.

For more on Haim and a wonderful, complete obituary, visit CBC.ca.