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Goonies Never Die! (right?) So, what ever happened to Corey Feldman?

Well, for 10 days ending last Friday, he was working in and around
Philadelphia on Bikini Bandits: The Movie.

The low-budget film (as if the name didn't give it away) is a full-length feature
version of Internet film shorts by the same name, found on www.atomfilms.com,
which feature four armed, scantily-clad ladies who carry out crime sprees
against corporate America.

"I did it for art, truthfully... [director] Steven Grasse contacted me and said he
wanted me to do this art piece called Bikini Bandits... and I thought, well, you
know, in my career there's been Stand by Me, there's been Dream a Little
Dream, and then the pinnacle, really, could become Bikini Bandits. That really
could be the crux, if you will, of my being," Feldman, now 30, was quoted as
saying in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday.

In response to my truly obvious question "Why use Corey Feldman?" Grasse
simply replied, "Have you seen The Goonies? The man's a genius."

Jello Biafra, the former San Francisco mayoral candidate and leader of the
proto-punk band Dead Kennedys, Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool,
DeeDee Ramone, comedian Bret Reilly, and the "Howard Stern Show's" Gary
the Retard are also on the list of well-known figures featured in the movie.

"Everyone in the film's a cult figure, including Corey," Grasse remarked.

Grasse said that he had planned to have Corey Haim (with whom he notes
Feldman is still good friends) in the film also, but complications with working
papers for Haim would have cost too much.

The Bikini Bandits are led by Heather-Victoria Ray of USA's "Tropical Tease"
and Hulk Hogan's "Thunder in Paradise," who said that in Bikini Bandits: The
Movie the girls gather their (wits?) to take on Satan (played by Keenan).

While working with Feldman, Ray said at times she felt as if she were River
Phoenix, on the set of Stand By Me. "I felt like I grew up with him and hadn't seen
him in 10 years."

She also added that he is "really short," or at least in comparison to her, and
she wasn't used to having to lean over to kiss her leading man.

The Bikini Bandits' crew has been filming around the area since last week,
shooting at the Trocadero, the Camden County Airport, and in Lancaster
County.

Grasse, co-owner of Philadelphia's alternative advertising agency Gyro
Worldwide -- the same guy who organized the "Shock the Vote!" party at the
Troc, which included drag queens, strippers and pierced attendants, during last
year's Republican National Convention -- is known for his Howard Stern-esque
style of political incorrectness. This film also adopts his crass touch with
characters such as a retarded Amish boy, Evil Porn Director, Satan and the
Pope. The films are a tribute to soft porn film-maker Russ Meyer, Grasse
has said.