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R.I.P., Gary Coleman

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
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He was never a big movie star, but in addition to his signature role as Arnold on TV’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ he did make a couple of features, including ‘Jimmy the Kid’ and ‘On the Right Track,’ as well as TV movies such as ‘The Kid with the Broken Halo’ and, as die-hard San Diego Padres fans will recall, ‘The Kid from Left Field.’ And of course he helped shape the tastes of any film and pop-culture fan who grew up in the 1980s. Clips and a walk down memory lane below.

-- Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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