Haim shopped for doctors

Actor Corey Haim employed “doctor shopping’’ to obtain 553 prescription pills in the two months before his death last month, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said yesterday. Haim obtained the meds, which included Valium, Vicodin, Xanax, and Soma, through seven doctors and seven pharmacies, Brown said. He called Haim — the star of 1980s films such as “The Lost Boys’’ and “License to Drive’’ — a “poster child’’ for prescription drug abuse.

Sheridan sues

Nicollette Sheridan

, who played a divorced real estate agent in ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,’’ is suing the show’s creator and producer, alleging assault and wrongful termination. Sheridan claims she had asked producer Marc Cherry about a line in the script, and he “took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head.’’ When she reported the incident to ABC, Cherry retaliated by killing off her character, Sheridan claims. The lawsuit, which also names ABC, seeks $20 million in damages.