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.
It seems that all of the 'Saved by the Bell' actors/actresses have had bad luck. How tragic./s
cant he get himself on Surreal life?
Ooooops, already spent that dough.
What the *&%#*
Begs the question that if he is doing "great" with his comedy career why is his house under foreclosure?
One of the actresses from the show appeared on Broadway not too long ago. She made the gutsy move to write a letter to the Times critic essentially saying, "Review the play, not my past work." He gave her a rave.
Probably spending more than he's making, IMO.
How could he possibly owe $250,000 on a house? How did he get the house in the first place then?
Wasn't one of the girls from that show in a movie about a stripper or something? Her career didn't seem to last long after that.
She was in Showgirls and then the ill-fated Oliver Stone movie, On Any Sunday.
She recovered with a brilliant performance on Broadway in Hurly Burly.
"How could he possibly owe $250,000 on a house?"
Either he got a no or low documentation loan based upon stated income, with no money down, or he had better income when he bought the place and qualified for conventional financing, only to refi at 100% (or even 110%) and spent the money on frivolous, depreciating assets like a car, big screen tv or something. It happens.
The public doesn't care, and you are, obviously, not a success.
And move already.
They only cared because they wanted to see Tiffani Amber-Thiessen.
I'd like to know the details as to how he got himself into this situation in the first place. Why should the public chip him and help him out of a financial mess that I presume was of his own making?
The active run of the show happened before Diamond turned 18, and he said problems with his parents' spending his money and substantial tax miscalculations left him in debt as a young adult. His acting roles have since been sporadic.
On a 2001 bankruptcy filing from California, he listed his employer as NBC and his take-home income as about $5,300 a month.
I d0n't see anything wr0ng with that, and that's the truth.
Hey "Screeech":
"...therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
Didn't Schroeder do OK?
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