When Child Stars Grow Up: Neil Patrick Harris vs. Stevie Wonder
The Overthinkers continue to discuss art, age, maturity, and who has made the most successful transition into adult fame.
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Childhood Icons on Overthinking It
Who Has Made the Most Successful Transition from Child Star to Adult Star?
The Overthinkers discuss art, maturity, and who gets to decide what growing up means.
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Gary Coleman (1968-2010)
Gary Coleman, the African American actor and gubernatorial candidate who, along with Emmanuel Lewis, reinvented a performance paradigm for the “child star” that, for a decade in our history occupied a central place in the public consciousness, has died at … Continued
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Wilford Brimley: America’s Grandpa, or Secret Alien Killer?
How one horror movie ruined the Quaker Oats spokesman forever.
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