Literary Hack

Pray that your life’s work won’t someday be reduced to a single catchphrase. That’s the moral that Gary Coleman leaves with us in the wake of his death by brain hemorrhage at the age of 42. As onlookers tweeted “Whatchoo talkin’ ‘bout, Jesus?” to each other, reminiscing about the “Diff’rent Strokes” star’s one claim to eternal life, it’s hard not to contemplate the purgatory of being assaulted by that one stilted, clownish phrase everywhere you go.

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