Actor Gary Coleman died at 42..

[SRT-440]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/28/obit.gary.coleman/index.html?hpt=T2

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

"What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"

RIP

[Johnny SixPack]

Wow, I guess that's a 'different stroke'.

OK, I'm going to hell now.

R.I.P. Gary, you were a memorable part of my childhood.

[Ponch ®]

Wow, I guess that's a 'different stroke'.

too soon man, too soon.....but I also thought of that joke as soon as I heard...

evil minds think alike, I guess.

[Mike DC]

 
The article said he was 18yo when "Diff'rent Strokes" ended.  Wow.  Too bad.  He always seemed like a decent guy who had a rough time of it as he got older. 

I think if some TV show in Hollywood had ever given him a break in recent years, like maybe a recurring minor role, the public might really have welcomed him back.  He had been a famous butt of jokes long enough and he always seemed to take it pretty well.   



I remember "The Simpsons" once did a show that ended with Gary Coleman & Bart & Lisa sitting around debating 20th century political science in a junkyard.  That was cool.

 

[Brock Lee]

I think he life has always been rough. I remember in the late 70's when he still looked like he did in the earliest Diff'rent Strokes episodes, he was in a commercial where he brought awareness to kids that had kids that had kidney disease. I believe he had many kidney transplants in his life. His parents also blew a good portion of his money. Te show ended just as he became an adult. Without work, what money he did have left had to go to his healthcare to keep him alive. I am sure he blew tens of millions of dollars of his own personal money for treatments over the years.

[Todd Wilson]

Didnt he die of what Brett M just got done dealing with?


Todd

[Johnny SixPack]

Didnt he die of what Brett M just got done dealing with?


Todd

Pretty close, IIRC.

But Gary had a lot of other issues for a long time (both kidneys gone already for one).

[Mike DC]

    
There is some hypocrisy in everyone lamenting the death of Gary Coleman though.  I would still be right there joking about him with everyone else if he was still alive.    



As Corey Feldman recently said, "Where were all these supporters for the last 10-15 years of Corey Haim's life?"

 

[loudmouthaussie]

ive read a fair bit about midgets over the years and this doesnt suprise me. midgets usually dont live past their 40's 

RIP

hopefully todd bridges can keep outta trouble or thats 3 outta 3!

[PocketThunder]

ive read a fair bit about midgets over the years and this doesnt suprise me. midgets usually dont live past their 40's 

RIP

hopefully todd bridges can keep outta trouble or thats 3 outta 3!

what? Kimberly died also? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Plato

i'll be damned, and it was a long time ago also...     

[SRT-440]

And now that "Blanche" died today the Golden Girls are on the endangered species list. Only one left. 

[moparstuart]

 i HEARD ON THE RADIO , GARYS WIFE ?  NOT REALLY HIS WIFE ANYMORE , SAID PULL THE PLUG ON HIM BUT WASNT REALLY AUTHORIZED TO DO IT .   they have been devorced  for 3 years , and she kept runninng away from him when he fell because she is scared of blood . I think  She must have pushed him down the stairs ?