Diff'rent Dana

Diff'rent DanaUnlike the average 24-year-old, Dana Plato did not spend a large portion of her youth watching television. She was too busy living television. For seven years, in the long-running comedy series Diff'rent Strokes, she was the sweetly smiling epitome of the teen-queen schoolgirl--5'2", freckle-faced, with twinkling blue-green eyes and a blonde ponytail. And by then, she was already considered an old-timer in the business. "I started when I was six," she recalls. "...