"Becoming a security guard was Gary's way of fulfilling that fantasy of being an action hero — playing a cop, being a cop," says Dion Mial, Coleman's lifelong friend and then manager. It wasn't ...

By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Upon his death in 2010 at age 42, the former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman was memorialized in many obituaries in a familiar way — as a brilliant ...