Justin DeMarco, BettyConfidential.com

Pete is the guy women should want to marry. He’s well-educated, handsome, funny and has made the world his playground, with the stamps on his passport to prove it. But the longest relationship on this 37-year-old bachelor’s resume is one year. The native New Yorker somehow manages to find all of the wrong women in all the right places.“I’ve dated lots of girls who are trouble,” Pete says. “And ‘trouble’ can mean she’s still married or going through a divorce that’s not quite over… I’ve had it all. One girl had a violent, estranged boyfriend who was still paying for the apartment she lived in. That was just bad news. I don’t know how I meet these girls.”

Pete’s dating life is the equivalent of the movie Groundhog Day. He meets a bad girl, dates her, breaks up with her, and then starts the cycle all over again. “Maybe I cause this to happen because I keep dating the same type of person over and over,” he says.

The bad girls in Pete’s life aren’t the street-corner types Donna Summer sang about way back when. The bad girls Pete has come to know so well seem to be normal. They’re attractive, intelligent, etc. but then all of a sudden – after a few months or maybe even a couple of dates – they open up like Pandora’s Box and let their personal problems and intimacy issues ruin the relationship.

The other defining characteristic of bad girls is that they’re inconsistent. Flirty one minute and distant the next. The type of girl who talks all week about how excited she is to have dinner with a guy but then sends him a text message at 7:50 p.m. saying she can’t make an 8 o’clock dinner. Ouch.

But if that girl knows how to play the game – when to seduce her man and when to let him long for her – she’s got it made. She’ll have whatever she wants from the guy whenever she wants. It’s the reason guys rip on this type of girl to their guy friends, but secretly wish they were with her instead.

As David, a 24-year-old producer, points out, men like to work for a woman’s affection and respect independent, self-sufficient woman. “Some guys want a challenge,” he says. “It’s like a video game. The more a girl flakes or the guy feels like he’s failing, the more he keeps coming back. There may be lots of obstacles along the way, but there’s lots of satisfaction in the end if it works out.”

The “if it works out,” is the key part of David’s theory – since all too often it doesn’t. As much as bad girls keep us on our toes, they also seem to need us in a way that women who have their act together don’t. They let us be rebellious and prove that we can make our own decisions and draw our own conclusions. But when the thrill of the chase wears off, and we’re caught in a continuous cycle of pursue-and-rescue, we’re left with someone who probably isn’t really longterm-relationship material – and even more likely, a broken heart. Sound familiar, ladies?

Drew, who’s tried being nice and naughty when it comes to bad girls (and has still ended up getting his fingers burned and his self-respect crushed), claims he has the solution for all the Petes out there when it comes to finding Miss Right.

“The key is to find a girl in the middle,” the 23-year-old says. “To quote the rapper Ludacris, ‘You want a lady in the streets and a freak in the bed.’”

That is, unless, she’s sharing that bed with lots of other men. Then just bolt.

Merlin Olsen, the Hall of Fame tackle who anchored the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome, the line that glamorized defensive play in the N.F.L., died early Thursday at a hospital in Duarte, Calif. He was 69.

His death was announced by his brother Orrin, who said he had been treated for mesothelioma, a form of cancer. Olsen was also a longtime color commentator for NBC’s pro football and Rose Bowl telecasts, working with Dick Enberg, and he acted on television, most prominently as the very large and bearded Jonathan Garvey in NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie” and in his own series, “Father Murphy.”

In the early 1950s, the Rams boasted a high-powered offense, led by quarterbacks Norm Van Brocklin and Bob Waterfield and receivers Tom Fears and Crazy Legs Hirsch. The Rams of the mid-1960s were renowned for defensive linemen who earned a collective nickname a decade before the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Steel Curtain.

The Rams had only one winning season from 1963 to 1966, the span in which all four “Fearsome” players were teammates, but those linemen were celebrated for their strength, flair, know-how and agility.

Olsen, 6 feet 5 inches and 270 pounds or so, played left tackle, jamming up the middle, stopping draw plays and screen passes and often pressuring the quarterback. Deacon Jones, another future Hall of Famer, extremely quick and adept at the head slap, lined up at left end. Jones joined with Lamar Lundy, the right end, in rolling up the sacks while Roosevelt Grier, the former Giants star, was a formidable presence at right tackle.

“Merlin had superhuman strength,” Jones told The Los Angeles Times in 1985. “If I was beating my man inside, he’d hold him up and free me to make the tackle. If he had to make an adjustment to sacrifice his life and limb, he would make it. A lot of the plays I made were because he or the others would make the sacrifice.”

Olsen felt that the Fearsome Foursome could have excelled in any era.

“What made the Foursome unique, I think, is that we could have fit in extremely comfortably in the modern game,” he told The Orange County Register in 1997. He estimated that the line’s average weight was 275 pounds and said that “there was not a weight lifter in the group.”

“Imagine how big we’d be today,” he added.

“We could all run,” Olsen said. “The other thing we had going for us was a rare chemistry. There was also a very special kind of unselfishness.”

Joining the Rams in 1962 from Utah State University, where he won the Outland Trophy as college football’s best interior lineman, Olsen spent his entire 15-year career with Los Angeles.

Olsen was voted to the Pro Bowl every year except for his final season, he was an all-N.F.L. selection six times, and he was chosen by the Maxwell Club of Philadelphia as the N.F.L.’s most valuable player in 1974. He was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. He was named, along with Jones, to the 75th anniversary all-N.F.L. team in 1994 in a vote by the news media and league personnel.

Olsen may have exuded a fearsome presence in his own right, but he was hardly a brute. He was named one of the nation’s top scholar athletes by the National Football Foundation in his senior year at Utah State and he received a master’s degree in economics while playing for the Rams.

Merlin Jay Olsen, a native of Logan, Utah, was born on Sept. 15, 1940. He was so awkward while pursuing sports in the ninth grade that a coach discouraged him from athletic aspirations.

“I was either stubborn or foolish, but I was unwilling to give up on my dreams,” The South Bend Tribune quoted him as telling a College Football Hall of Fame luncheon in 2007.

Olsen played a major role in reviving the football program at Utah State, leading the Aggies to appearances in the Sun Bowl and Gotham Bowl. He was one of the Rams’ two first-round draft picks in 1962, going third over all after they drafted quarterback Roman Gabriel.

Olsen was the N.F.L.’s rookie of the year on a team that won only one game. The Rams began a turnaround in 1966, when George Allen became the head coach, but Olsen never reached the Super Bowl.

In February 1977, shortly after retiring, Olsen signed a contract with NBC. In addition to working alongside Enberg in the broadcast booth and appearing with Michael Landon in “Little House on the Prairie,” he was featured in NBC’s “Father Murphy,” “Fathers and Sons” and “Aaron’s Way.” He was also a familiar spokesman for FTD florists in television commercials.

Utah State brought an ailing Olsen back to the campus for a halftime ceremony of a basketball game in December 2009, when it announced it would dedicate the football field at its Romney Stadium as Merlin Olsen Field in 2010. The St. Louis Rams — the Los Angeles Rams’ successor franchise — honored Olsen at a home game that month although he was unable to attend because of his illness.

Olsen was one of three brothers who played in the N.F.L. Phil Olsen was a teammate, playing defensive tackle for the Rams from 1971 to 1974 and later playing for the Denver Broncos. Orrin Olsen played center for the Kansas City Chiefs.

In addition to Phil and Orrin, he is survived by his wife, Susan; their children Nathan, Jill and Kelly; his brother Clark; his sisters Colleen, Lorraine, Gwen, Winona and Ramona; and several grandchildren.

Olsen overpowered many an offensive lineman, but he had something of mild-mannered outlook.

“I’m sure that I take out many of my personal aggressions on the field, but I don’t play football for that reason,” he remarked in the N.F.L.’s “The First 50 Years: The Story of the National Football League.”

“My roughness and aggressiveness at certain times are prompted by my desire to be a better football player. I don’t enjoy contact.”

Former mistress Jamie Jungers is No. 1 in Howard Stern’s eyes.

According to RadarOnline.com, Jungers took home the title and a $75,000 cash prize in the shock jock’s beauty pageant composed of Woods’ former lovers.


Also vying for the prize were ex-mistresses Loredana Jolie and Jaimee Grubbs, who is said to have won $15,000 for finishing in second place.

Jungers reportedly came out the winner after answering most of Stern’s prying questions, including those about Woods’ endowments and turn-ons.

The golfer’s No. 1 mistress, Rachel Uchitel, was reportedly banned from participating in the contest due to a settlement agreement with Woods, TMZ.com reported.

No word yet on who rated the women, though it’s doubtful Woods’ estranged wife, Elin, accepted Stern’s offer to judge.

* Corey enjoyed athletics and playing Ultimate Frisbee.
* As a child, Corey collected Archie comics and was an amateur keyboard player.
* Growing up, Corey was an avid ice hockey player. He was considering trying to become a professional hockey player but opted for acting instead.
* Corey auditioned for the role of Robin in the film, Batman Forever, but was unsuccessful.
* In 2006, Corey was ranked #8 on VH1’s ‘Greatest Teen Stars’.
* In 2004, the Irish band, The Thrills released a song called Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?.


* In 2002, Corey Feldman asked Corey to be his best man at his wedding to Susie Sprague-Feldman, but unfortunately he was unable to attend due to prior commitments.
* As at June 2007, Corey resides in Toronto, Canada.
* Corey lists his favorite food as pizza.
* Corey’s height is 5′8″ (1.73 m).
* Corey has two nicknames - ‘Space Ace’ and ‘The Haimster’.
* In 1993 Corey landed the starring role in the video game Double Switch.
* One of Corey’s hobbies is acrylic painting.
* In 2001, Corey entered rehab in order to beat his addiction to prescription drugs.
* In July 1997, Corey filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing debts that included nearly $104,000 to the I.R.S., and $100,000 in California taxes.
* In 1996, Corey became engaged to Holly Fields, but broke up after approximately a year.
* Corey’s favorite actress is Cybill Shepherd. His favorite actor is James Dean.
* Corey and Corey Feldman filmed seven movies together. As teenagers they were dubbed ‘The two Coreys’.
* Corey’s parents are Bernie and Judy Haim. Bernie worked as a Francophone Jewish-Canadian sales representative while Judy‘s occupation was as a computer operator. Corey has one older sister, Carol, and a younger half brother from his father’s second marriage, Daniel Lee.
* Corey’s Awards:
Nominated
1986 - Young Artist Award ‘Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor - Motion Picture’: Firstborn
1987 - Young Artist Award ‘Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a Feature Film - Comedy or Drama’: Lucas
1988 - Young Artist Award ‘Best Young Male Superstar in Motion Pictures’: The Lost Boys
1988 - Saturn Award ‘Best Performance by a Younger Actor’: The Lost Boys
1990 - Saturn Award ‘Best Performance by a Younger Actor’: Watchers
1992 - Saturn Award ‘Best Performance by a Younger Actor’: Prayer of the Rollerboys

Won
1987 - Young Artist Award ‘Exceptional Young Actor Starring in a Television Special or Movie of the Week’: A Time to Live
1989 - Young Artist Award ‘Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Fantasy’: License to Drive
* Brooke McCarter managed Corey up to the mid 90’s, when his drug problem caused a fallout.
* Corey got into acting when his mother put him into acting lessons to help him overcome his shyness. It became a career when his older sister Carol began auditioning for roles.

Quotes

* Corey: (revealing he briefly dated Victoria Beckham in 1995) I did date Victoria Beckham. When she kisses she does this funny thing. She does this gnaw thing. She liked to gnaw on my lip.
* Corey: (on his drug-induced stroke) I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg.
* Corey: (on his prior drug habit) I was working on The Lost Boys (1987) when I smoked my first joint. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986). I lived in Los Angeles in the ’80s, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack. I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I’m not talking about the other pills I went through.
* Corey: (on his previous drug use) I don’t even know why I’m still alive. My mum says I have angels and I hope that’s true.

According to Los Angeles police, the Mr. Haim died of an apparent drug overdose, he was discovered in his apartment.


Mr. Haim is perhaps best known for his role in the 1987 movie The Lost Boys. He recently starred in the reality show the Two Coreys with fellow 1980s star Corey Feldman.

He was 38.

His official website has not been updated with news of Haim’s death.