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Former child star Gary Coleman has died. He was 42. Coleman died at 12:05 p.m. at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, where he had been in a coma after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage at his Utah home on Wednesday night. Coleman, who was plagued by health problems his entire life and never grew taller than 4’8”, burst into the spotlight at age 11 as the star of Diff’rent Strokes. We was never able to repeat his early success and his adult life was marked by a series of personal problems.
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Whatchu’ Talkin Bout Grim Reaper!?!???
Everyone should watch this two minute interview with Gary from when he was 17. His intelligence and sadness is touching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqVsNBnLynU&feature=player_embedded
Gary’s dead?? Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Nellie?
Correction: Nellie, it’s ” He was”, not “We was.”
Actually, I like to think his early success was all of our responsibility / fault.
For many reasons I can’t watch a rerun of Diff’rent Strokes any more.
There is now another reason. I’m very, very sad tonight.
we’re all tall in death
R.I.P, Gary. You were an integral part of my childhood memories.
I guess Todd Bridges’ phone is blowing up w/ cable talk show bookers.
Sad. Hollywood used him and broke him and left him to flail away the rest of his life in turmoil. It’s rather unconscionable and is certainly tragic. R.I.P.
how’d Hollywood use him? they paid him handsomely. his parents were the people that stole from him. what was left over he spent on model trains.
His parents need to be flown to Singapore and flogged for what they did to him. In addition, dig up Jackie Coogan’s folks and ship them over, too, on general principles.
Everybody made a ton of money off this guy. Agents, network, producers. There were not enough laws and concerned people or something, anything, to keep the parents from stealing the money and just being bad parents. That makes it the industry’s fault. I personally think it’s so greedily irresponsible to create “child stars” that I would never produce a show that centered around one. You can count on one hand the child stars that became physically and emotionally healthy, financially stable adults.
A Im Sorry for the news that Gary’s dead. That bad and I wish he could stay alive longer than 42 years ,,
I miss you Gary alot
awww. isn’t that sweet? why dont you just die with him and you guys can get a room in heaven??
wow. someone cant post an RIP without you ripping on him/her? good for you dude. cool.
You know, if you think about it, he really lived a brave life. RIP Gary Coleman.
Next time anyone you know wants to be a stage parent and make their kid a “star” tell them the story of Different Strokes.
Proving once again, it’s better to be dead than in Utah.
R.I.P. Coleman.
Gary was part of a holy trinity of short black actors in the 1970s. Let’s not forget Rodney Allen Rippy and Emanuel Lewis. I would have loved to see a film with all three of them.
The way he was harangued on his last ‘media firestorm’ appearance on some morning show over some b.s. with his wife …was it Fox? was ugly, really sick and definitely a new low for celebrity tabloid tv
How pathetic does one have to be to make jokes about the tortured life and untimely death of another human being?
This guy suffered and struggled with a disease his entire life. He was shoved into showbiz by Stage Parents, and subsequently robbed blind by them. His career, as it were, became nothing but a running show biz joke. And now his death is nothing but fodder for snarky smartasses…
You should be ashamed.
Word, Earl.
thank you, earl.
A Tragedy. Gary Coleman was a marvelous actor and a great joy to us all. His loss is a shame. But let’s not forget also the way in which he was treated by the industry we all love in general… More or less pushed aside… and also an example of the way in which child actors need to be protected even from those they trust the most sometimes. But then again that is what all actors and artists are facing these days…
His life and death are not a joke. Rest In Peace Gary
Can we show a little respect here please?
a piece of our childhood is gone
i wonder if it was a brain hemmorage or 2 diff’rnt strokes
not funny
that is actually one of the funniest things Ive ever read! How can I reach you? Id like to rep you as a writer?
Mike, you, sir, are a low-life, pathetic cocksucker… a human being is dead. that is not a punchline.
A case study for parents not being able to spend their kids’ cash!
Coincidentally, Alan Thicke never wrote another good theme song after Strokes. Sad day for former building security guards everywhere.
I never thought Todd Bridges would be the last Drummond kid standing.
You all could show some respect for him today.
So sad, he never was able to recover his career after his parents ripped him off. RIP Gary!
R.I.P. Gary Coleman