My old friend Mark Evanier introduced me to Gary Coleman once, and it's one of the saddest memories of my show business career. That same year, I heard stories from my friends on the TV series "Buck Rogers" about Coleman's perseverence and professionalism during his guest shot, despite great physical pain and hardship.
It seems most people mistake Coleman for another case of a former child star who lost everything because of his own self-indulgence and self-destructiveness. As entertainment writer Joal Ryan has pointed out so eloquently, Coleman didn't fit the profile because you can't throw away what you never had in the first place.
Sleep well, Gary. Most folk don't know that for you, life was like being run over by a truck. You've earned the rest.
2024 was a Quiet Writing Year
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2024 was a year without a major project on my To Do list. Part of that was
because no one was asking for a major project and also, I had mentally
reserved ...
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