Gary Coleman, 42, the diminutive, wisecracking child star of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” whose adult life collapsed into a tabloid calamity, died Friday at a Utah hospital from a brain hemorrhage

Washington Post staff writer Hank Stuever will be online Friday, May 28, at 3:30 p.m. ET to discuss the life and career of Gary Coleman. In 2003, Stuever wrote about Coleman’s candidacy for California governor: Candidate With A Diff’rence