January 12, 2006

Whatchu talkin 'bout AC

while watching the television the other day, up popped gary coleman and he was referred to as the greatest child actor kid star. in fact, it seems vh1 has done a show ranking them. my first thought hearing this was wtf!?!

i have nothing against gary coleman. i thought he did a great job playing arnold on different strokes... but greatest star? what else has he done? looking at his imdb entry, i don't recognize a single other thing in his list. maybe with some descriptions i might go... oh, yeah... i kinda remember that, but is that really the mark of greatness? i do remember different strokes, and he gets full props for that.

seriously though. even if you only take into account their work as a kid, haven't the olsen twins done more successful tv/movie projects? what about ron howard -- he was opie on the andy griffith show, ritchie cunningham on happy days, and was in american graffiti and probably its sequel. i also remember him from the movie night shift (with henry winker and these newer actors named michael keaton and shelly long); however, that wasn't main stream and he was beyond being a kid at that point.

again, nothing against gary. i'll give him the nod in one area... he (or the script writers really) are quoted more with the "whatchu talk'n 'bout willis" than the others. that certainly makes him iconic, but in my ever so humble opinion, it doesn't make him the greatest.

Posted by ac at January 12, 2006 02:01 PM