Posted on 06/18/2006 6:58:50 PM PDT by nypokerface
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.
He's selling the shirts on his Web site: http://www.getdshirts.com.
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.
FYI: Dustin Diamond is a love child of Dustin Hoffman and Neil Diamond!
LOL!!!
Slow news day, huh?
I wonder what happend to him
No wonder he was down in Boca Raton last week pushing his comedy act (which according to my friend, is not half bad).
oh good grief, he was annoying enough on "TV",,,cry me a river screetch.....lol
exactly
I'd like some help, myself.
)8-D
might be time for him to find another line of work, or a cheaper house.
...and there, but for the Grace of God, go I.
I give him credit.
He is trying to EARN his money.
He is selling a souvenier t shirt.
This is no different than the IRS tapes from willie nelson.
At least here he is likely to make the money.
Perhaps HBO will buy his act.
i doubt the HBO crowd would enen remember him,,,, lol
even,,,just daym,,,i hate typos
He should write a book or better yet get a book advance from Simon & Schuster...promise lots of dirt on his costars...you know...act like a 'rat.
Too bad Screech is using a altered photo of a Protest Warrior op in DC to sell his T-shirts. You would figure that he should be rolling in dough with residuals. Maybe he should hit up AC Slater for a loan.
I was looking at that too...I wonder...hmmm.
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