As I was telling Impy, I thought Mr. Powers was headed places after “Good Times.” Attractive, charismatic and very talented (gifted comedically, but could also handle dramatic stuff very deftly, including where he physically abused Thelma at one point), he could’ve been Denzel Washington before DZ came on the scene. Unfortunately, I think he fell into some bad times personally (I can’t confirm drugs or alcohol) and he left the business in the mid ‘80s and returned to be near his family in RI (where he had been in poor health for some time, though still trying to be entertaining and funny to those who paid him a visit).
I’m flashing back to when Mike Evans died.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757175/posts#36
Guy claiming to be Damon Evans posted here (I don’t know why anyone would pretend so I assume it was really him).
Actually I absent from FR at that time, you must have told me about it later.