Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)-29 May 2010

Subject: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: Amergin
Date: 28 May 10 - 08:43 PM

Apparently, Gary Coleman has died from a brain hemorrhage....I use to watch his show as a kid...but now that I am grown...and (legally) mature I can't stand it....especially as how unrealistic it was....some rich guy who takes in his maid's kids after she dies...typical eighties bullshit trying to show the rich as benevolent masters over the poor. Anyone recall when he ran for governor of California?

Anyway, his obit is here: Gary Coleman Dies at 42

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 May 10 - 12:09 AM

Says he died after a fall..........Probably didn't fall from too high.......................................................I'll get my hat.............

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: Lox
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:28 AM

Sad weird f***ed up life.

A perfect case study in why fame damages childrens lives.

He ended up as a security guard at one point.

He received a lot of abuse and became very bitter in later life.

He was used as a caricature and spent his whole life being laughed at for all the wrong reasons.

He's at peace now.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: gnu
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:30 AM

Right on the money Lox. RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 May 10 - 07:41 AM

The entire series had problems. Todd Bridges went through a dozen years of hell before coming out the other side. Dana Plato never came out.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 10 - 11:25 AM

I agree with Pat. I was flipping through channels the other day and came across Todd Bridges on Oprah. What a strange sad story his life has been.

RIP, little man.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 29 May 10 - 09:16 PM

He was a security guard at one point.

That's probably why his character was one when he guest voiced on the
Simpsons.

It's a shame that he died so young.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 10 - 10:05 PM

His life was a caricature of itself, lived out loud.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)-29 May 2010
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 May 10 - 12:34 AM

it was shit

we never enjoyed it over here in the uk.

that was way back in the days when we knew our UK comedy TV was superior
and funnier and liberated and free from ultra right christ cock suckin end of days doom worshipping censorship bleeping
network tv money god praising ultra clean white teath gleaming etrc etc etc..

then you yanks somehow come up with HBO


HBO Best most intelligent funniest tv entertainment this corporate world cultute
has yet failed to kill ..

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)-29 May 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 May 10 - 03:23 AM

There there pfr... Keep calm.

Yes a lot of 1980's and 90's primetime tv in the US was utter shite. Which is why I stayed up late to watch Carson, Saturday Night Live, and the really great stuff from Canada and UK to be found on PBS (Public Broadcasting Stations).

SCTV (Second City TV - Canada)

Are You Being Served
Black Adder
Allo, Allo
Yes Minister
Monty Python
a smidge of Red Dwarf at the end of the 80s and early 90s.

One Foot In the Grave, Keeping Up Appearances, Murder Most Horrid and Waiting for God in the 90s. (I was utterly hooked on the British comedies on PBS buy then)

another comedy from Canada that I loved ... The Red Green Show (also the 90s).

Subject: RE: Obit: Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes)-29 May 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 May 10 - 03:25 AM

should, I am sorry re Coleman. Always felt the show was exploitative and hated how many child actors from 70s forward ended up.