NO MORE “DIFF’RENT STROKES” FOR GARY COLEMAN

There’s exactly one week left to ask Gary Coleman about his past on “Diff’rent Strokes”– at least that’s the promise the pint-sized actor is making at the moment. Beginning in 2001, Coleman says he’ll stop discussing the series that once made him a star.

“I’ve come up with the policy that, come 2001, I’ll answer no more ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ questions,” he told the New York Daily News. “We’re in the 21st century here.”

While talking to the paper, he made his final reflections on the show, which ran from 1978 to 1986. According to Coleman, the fresh series quickly became stale only halfway through its run.

“I would like to think that the first four years of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ was quality TV,” he explained. “Sad to say, I don’t think the last four years was.”

Coleman, who vowed in 1999 to never again utter his famous line “Whatchoo talkin’ bout, Willis?” currently works as a part-time security guard and writes a hobbyist column for the website www.ugo.com.


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