Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (The Hollywood Reporter) Kua mate a Ben Powers, nāna i tākaro te tāne o Thelma (BernNadette Stanis) a Keith Anderson i te wāhanga whakamutunga o te whakaari CBS "Good Times", E 64 ōna tau. I mate a Powers i te 6 o Paenga-whāwhā i New Bedford, Mass., i whakapuakihia e tōna whānau. Kāore i whakaaturia te take o te matenga. I uru atu a Powers ki te kaiwhakaari o "Good Times" mo tana wa tuaono me te whakamutunga mai i te tau 1978 ki te tau 1979, e mahi ana i a Keith, he kaitakaro whutupaoro ngaio. Ko tana ahuatanga me Thelma i marena i te waahanga tuatoru o taua waa, engari ka whara ia i tona waewae i a ia e haere ana i waho o te whare karakia, ka pakaru to raua hononga. I whai waahi ano a Powers hei "Moochie" i runga i te whakaaturanga whakaari pirihimana CBS, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, mai i te 1984 ki te 1985. He iti te mahi a Powers i roto i te "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie" (1980). I hoki mai ia me te tokorua ngahau i roto i te "Things Are Tough All Over" (1982). I puta hoki ia i roto i te "The Man Who Loved Women" (1983) e wheturangitia ana e Burt Reynolds. I wheturangitia ano ia i nga whakaaturanga penei i te "Gimme a Break", "Flamingo Road", "The Greatest American Hero" me "Laverne & Shirley". I whanau mai i Brooklyn, i whakatipuhia i Providence, R.I., e ona tupuna, i haere a Alton "Ben" Powers ki te Rhode Island School of Design mo te peita me te tuhi i mua i te aro ki te mahi. I mahi ia i nga mahi whakaari tuuturu i Providence, me te whakauru i nga whakaaro me nga waiata ki tana mahi, i kitea ai e tetahi kaihoko Hollywood. Ko nga whakaaturanga i nga karapu Playboy i Los Angeles, New York me Boston i arahi ki te mahi i te tau 1977 i runga i te putanga whakaoranga o "Laugh-In". Ko tōna whaea me ōna tuahine a Yvonne rāua ko Maya ngā mea ora. Ko ngā tāngata i ngaro i a mātou i te tau 2015. ©2015 The Hollywood Reporter. Kua rāhuitia ngā mana katoa.
I uru atu a Ben Powers ki te kapa o "Good Times" mō tōna tau tuaono, whakamutunga hoki. I tākaro ia i te tāne o Thelma, a Keith Anderson.