'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.
Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.
Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young black brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," has died.
"I think they got off the track when they first hired a standup comic to do the lead," he said. "Instead of people creating real situations, you get people trying to act funny."
he lamented the fading of situation comedies that he said were about something.
