RIP Gary Coleman

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

whoa

rip lil man

seemed imminent

bummer tho

whatchoo talkin bout Death

Wow, I'm kinda shocked. This is very sad news.

the hell was he doing in utah

RIP

oh wow.

RIP.

Different stroke, or was it normal one?

RIP, shame.

He's lived in Utah for years.

the question stands!

RIP btw. what a life.

Poor dude, RIP.

in utah, everyone looks tiny next to their majestic mountain peaks

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

Death

On May 26, 2010, Lewis was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, after falling and hitting his head[11] and suffering an intracranial hemorrhage at his home outside of Salt Lake City, UT. He was announced to be in critical condition.[12] By mid-morning on May 27, 2010, Lewis was conscious and lucid. By mid-afternoon on May 27, 2010, Coleman was unconscious and on life support.[13] On May 28, 2010, it was announced that he was still unconscious and on life support.[14] Coleman died in the afternoon of the same day.[15][16]

what?!

already gone

RIP wiki

crazy

rip lil guy

Read that as "interracial hemorrhage."

No, that was Tom and Helen on "The Jeffersons."

I really had an insane amount of affection for all of the tv movies he did -- they seemed to be on television all of the time when I was younger. He seemed like he had a lot of pain and sadness in his life, hope he is in a better place now.

I'll second that. But I haven't thought about him for years.

Also: "Diff'rent Strokes"'s ratings were never commensurate with its hold on popular culture, oddly.

Muttered elsewhere that On the Right Track was something I actually saw in the theater on first run. Can even remember the final semi-gotcha final line.

What's the one in which he plays a genius? I saw that one.

(Nobody check wiki!)

My TV 1980 or so, summed up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFgCHlyiTQ

i met gary once

on a junket for the old konami game "nightmare creatures 2"

he was working for UGO, they had had some kinda web auction to raise money for him, then he ended up working as a "freelance journalist" for them for a minute...

he was real friendly....seemed very "in character", or trying to be what people wanted, almost overly weirdly friendly

we ended up as some empty goth/industrial club where they had all these goth slutty looking chicks dancing and a terrible industrial/goth band playing

i was out smoking with one of the bouncers, and gary came out, said goodbye, went across the street to the payphone, made a phone call at it...then walked off into the night

the PR ppl were looking for him and me and the bouncer told them he had left

one thing i remember is he was a really diligent note taker, during the presentation for the game he had a notepad and was taking notes....

he had his web article written out longhand (or so he told us, he was like really cheerful "I've already got my story done!") maybe he went home to type in into the computer....

so that's my gary coleman story.

RIP.

intense.

was that here? as in, was that ground zero you went to?

haha no i think it was L.A., might have been SF...but YES cheesy 90s goth club vibe exactly like ground zero

http://sonofbillbrasky.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/2605064082564mark-messier-gary-coleman.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA

What little I know indicates Gary Colemen had a lot of issues to live with. I was never in his viewer demographic, though, so he never meant much to me. RIP.

I love this pic so much. RIP wee man.

http://josdigital.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/knight_rider.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0NWLCvTGk

ha--you can tell he's laughing when he hits the ground after being beaned by the prop guitar

poor guy. he had a rough life. RIP.

http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w38/woodsix/lowriderhasselhoffb6bq.gif

A figure of real pathos. Hollywood has a lot to answer for.

It was cool how he basically oked having the piss taken out of him by Matt Groening by appearing on that Simpsons episode where he's talking into an unplugged phone and doing karate moves and whatnot.

to expand on what Morbz posted (and hopefully not inappropriately), but there really was something shamefully indecent in how Hollywood treated gary coleman (and emmanuel lewis too). looking back now, there's something really disturbing about how show biz infantilized these two actors into perpetual pre-adolescence -- even when they were well past puberty -- simply because of their size. and i'm not even touching on the ugly racial overtones here.

at the least, i hope that gary coleman found some peace and wisdom before his death. RIP.

what Morbz said

Yeah, this, but the 'find someone with fucked kidneys to play a kid forever' thing was not limited to black guys, there was also this woman:

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

“I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy,” he said in an A.P. interview in 2001. “And I don’t even have a worst enemy.”

Ironically, the condition which permitted her to play child-like roles long after her childhood ended, eventually took her life.

so ironic ;_;

Alanisesque understanding of irony there A+++ well done.

wait, that actually is sort of ironic

“I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy,” he said in an A.P. interview in 2001. “And I don’t even have a worst enemy.”

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, May 29, 2010 9:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah this was heartbreaking to read.

How many child stars have come out unscathed? Drew Barrymore? (even that's debatable)...

only the ones who get out

I think Linda Blair does OK

i would say Rick Schroder, but there's this: He is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [6]

ron howard seems happy and sane.

I credit Aunt Bea for that.

fred savage is an awesome director of tv shows

maybe ron is kept sane by the fact that he doesn't have his brother's career ... and has never had to appear in Uwe Boll films to make ends meet.

Rip dude. I was astounded my husband had never seen the show.

i was gonna say that maybe they didn't show it in Belgium ... but then i realized that if that were true, then you wouldn't know who gary coleman was either.

ron howard made the transition to director pretty early and smoothly. he's sort of the poster -ahem- child for "child star makes good."

xpost i have a sick fascination/obsession with popcult. :-(

Feel sad. RIP Gary.