“If a 13-year-old steals a car and goes joyriding, he can have the records of his deeds sealed by the court, lest a childhood mistake cast a pall over the rest of his life. Child actors don’t get the same latitude. So the most someone like Coleman could do is try to live out the rest of his life with some semblance of peace and solitude, and do his best not to make too much of a mockery of himself. Coleman, for the most part, did that. His co-stars on Strokes, Todd Bridges and the late Dana Plato, had much more spectacular downfalls than the 4’8” guy in whose shadow they worked. Coleman’s legacy, therefore, is not the catch phrase—though in truth, it’s invariably funny, even now—but rather the idea that there’s life after child stardom. He certainly made choices that society didn’t approve of. But, y’know, what might be right for you may not be right for some.”

Alston remembers Gary Coleman (via newsweek)

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