Todd Bridges

Killing Willis

• Author(s): Todd Bridges

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2010-04-03
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• Publisher: Simon and Schuster

The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity. For Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell. One of the first African-American child actors on shows like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Roots, Bridges burst to the national forefront on the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes as the subject of the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?" When the show ended, Bridges was overwhelmed ...

Jet

• Type: Magazine
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• Published: 1989-04-10
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• Publisher: Unknown

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Ebony

• Type: Magazine
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• Published: 1983-02
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• Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Jet

• Type: Magazine
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• Published: 1999-10-18
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• Publisher: Unknown

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Celebrity Tantrums!

• Author(s): Lisa Brandt

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003
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• Publisher: ECW Press

Catfights, temper, tantrums, felonies - from Naomi Campbell to Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson to Britney Spears - they're all here in scandalous detail. The only collection of highlights - or, rather, lowlights - of the world's most famous people as they've temporarily lost their cool in public displays of outrageously bad behaviour.