Gary Coleman Dead At 42

[www.tglovers.com]

Gary Coleman passed away today at the age of 42. (http://cerebraldiva.blogspot.com/2010/05/gary-coleman-passes-away.html)

[Willie Escalade]

I hate waking up to news like that...:sadcry

[pman618]

What you talkin bout Willie???

[bte]

That sucks

[lovesall]

RIP my friend.

[giovanni_hotel]

Just awful. Things never went right for Gary once 'Diff'rent Strokes' was cancelled.

Hope his soul is at peace. Really brought me down to hear that he'd passed.

[Coroner]

R.I.P. Even I remember him.

[Norma]

R.I.P. Gary :sadcry

seriously, like an above poster mentioned, it just seemed like he had to make fun of himself for a buck for the rest of his life after Diff'rent S'trokes.

[Floyd R]

RIP -Gary Coleman.

[tsbrenda]

R.I.P.
does he have kids now?

I know he was married

[discarded]

I guess death is what willis was talking about. (too soon?)

[tstishadupree]

Rip Mr Coleman...

[kilakali]

R.I.P. its sad that only one of the kids from that show is still alive.

[sunairco]

What gets me about this today is all of the talking heads on tv are proclaiming a headline of something like "The Nation Mourns The Death of Gary Coleman..." , Outpouring Of Grief"..."Beloved Child Star...".

Yet nobody seemed to give a shit about him like another failed child star. If anything they lampooned his destitution and health problems from his working as a security guard to his attempt to auction himself for a date, or his bankruptcy problems. Endless criticism of his temper and behavior. Now he's dead and they act as if he was a venerated national treasure. How hypocritical. I'm sure he could have used that attention when he was alive to further his career and support for his health. I never watched the two shows or anything he was in. I wasn't a fan and only recall all of the negative press he got after the shows were over. Maybe he deserved it, but I can't judge. I just find it bizzare that they treat him with such respect in death but in life were only there for him when he fucked up or did something outrageous.

[Crawler]

I got him mixed up with Mason Reese as the fan of Glorya Wholesome's little shindigs. Who else - Joe Jackson used to dig the scene too....

[Helvis2012]

What 'choo talk about?!?!?!?!

[freak]

The guy was a real funny child star, he did become a bit of a joke when he got older but he did make me tune in every week when I was a kid. He lived a very hard life, he was never healthy. He did try to do good when he had the opportunity so the world did lose a good person today, my sorrows go out to his family.

Gary Colemen 2/08/1967- 5/28/2010 just 42 years old

[mansamusa]

......rip......

[Blazr63]

What gets me about this today is all of the talking heads on tv are proclaiming a headline of something like "The Nation Mourns The Death of Gary Coleman..." , Outpouring Of Grief"..."Beloved Child Star...".

Yet nobody seemed to give a shit about him like another failed child star. If anything they lampooned his destitution and health problems from his working as a security guard to his attempt to auction himself for a date, or his bankruptcy problems. Endless criticism of his temper and behavior. Now he's dead and they act as if he was a venerated national treasure. How hypocritical. I'm sure he could have used that attention when he was alive to further his career and support for his health. I never watched the two shows or anything he was in. I wasn't a fan and only recall all of the negative press he got after the shows were over. Maybe he deserved it, but I can't judge. I just find it bizzare that they treat him with such respect in death but in life were only there for him when he fucked up or did something outrageous.
Exactly! The hypocrisy is overwhelming.

[SarahG]

What gets me about this today is all of the talking heads on tv are proclaiming a headline of something like "The Nation Mourns The Death of Gary Coleman..." , Outpouring Of Grief"..."Beloved Child Star...".

Yet nobody seemed to give a shit about him like another failed child star. If anything they lampooned his destitution and health problems from his working as a security guard to his attempt to auction himself for a date, or his bankruptcy problems. Endless criticism of his temper and behavior. Now he's dead and they act as if he was a venerated national treasure. How hypocritical. I'm sure he could have used that attention when he was alive to further his career and support for his health. I never watched the two shows or anything he was in. I wasn't a fan and only recall all of the negative press he got after the shows were over. Maybe he deserved it, but I can't judge. I just find it bizzare that they treat him with such respect in death but in life were only there for him when he fucked up or did something outrageous.

Sadly that's just how things seem to work. At least all the day-late-dollar-short sympathy is making it easier on his widow (...supposedly anyway...).

I feel sorry for anyone who spends their childhood in the spotlight like he did. It sure has the habit of ruining people.