Posted on 06/17/2006 9:27:54 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(AP) MILWAUKEE More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.
"If the public didn't care, I as an entertainer wouldn't have been a success," he said.
Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts — at $15 or $20 (autographed) each — to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn't have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.
The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, "Save My House." The back of the shirt reads, "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house." The third "e" was added to get around copyright laws, he said.
The foreclosure order was filed last month in Ozaukee County Circuit Court.
Diamond appeared on Howard Stern's satellite radio show Tuesday to plead his case. "I'm doing great with my comedy, but this is definitely a low point," he said. "Real life comes in and affects you."
Diamond doesn't have a listed phone number, and e-mails to the address on his Web site and at an alternative address were not immediately returned Thursday.
I used to watch on Saturday am for the chicks.
I was much younger then, so it was OK.
I think that was 'Silver Spoons.'
I got him confused with the Zack actor...
The guy who played the main character was a regular on NYPD Blue. Tiffany Thiessan did well on 90210.
Mark-Paul Gosselar played Zack. He was on 'Commander-in-Chief' -- then it was cancelled.
"Real life comes in and affects you."
yeah, yeah it does.
Like WORKING for a LIVING?
Sometimes that money is earned a little harder then other times eh?
Because stand up comics, even successful ones, don't make big bucks? I gather that the money comes in when/if they get a gig like their own sitcom.
In the meantime it's nickle and dime stuff on the podunk comedy club circuit.
He probably bought/built the (too big and expensive) house (with mortgage) when he was making money off of "Saved By The Bell." His error is not what he's doing now, it's what he did then.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.