Jerry Supiran, child star of the infamous late eighties sitcom, Small Wonder, is broke and homeless. He played Jamie, the unfathomably annoying son in the home of the family that kept a robot with the form of a little girl in a maid’s uniform as a domestic slave. I consider him within the bottom five worst child actors in television history. He is a contender for #1.
I announced this misfortune to my family, who, predictably, almost all understood the news that I was recounting. My sister-in-law snapped, “Good!” – with her voice inflecting an unmistakable “Serves him right!” pitiless judgment. It’s as though his absolutely horrendous performance on the 1980s syndicated sitcom had finally been accounted for and the child actor whose shouting, whiny delivery of inexcusably awful jokes was now paying the Read the rest of this entry »