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'Screech' actor turns to fans for help
Yahoo News & AP ^ | June 18, 2006

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.


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KEYWORDS: dustindiamond; hollywood; savedbythebell; screech
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1 posted on 06/18/2006 6:58:51 PM PDT by nypokerface
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To: nypokerface

FYI: Dustin Diamond is a love child of Dustin Hoffman and Neil Diamond!


2 posted on 06/18/2006 7:00:38 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Revolting cat!

LOL!!!


3 posted on 06/18/2006 7:01:13 PM PDT by SIDENET (I like liberals...they taste like CHICKEN.)
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To: nypokerface

Slow news day, huh?


4 posted on 06/18/2006 7:01:35 PM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle (Retired US Marine wife)
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To: nypokerface

I wonder what happend to him


5 posted on 06/18/2006 7:01:54 PM PDT by cmsgop ( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
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To: nypokerface
There is a way to restart his career -- RUN for Governor . . .
6 posted on 06/18/2006 7:02:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: nypokerface

No wonder he was down in Boca Raton last week pushing his comedy act (which according to my friend, is not half bad).


8 posted on 06/18/2006 7:03:45 PM PDT by Clemenza (The CFR ate my bilderburgers! Time to call for a trilateral commission to investigate!)
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To: nypokerface

oh good grief, he was annoying enough on "TV",,,cry me a river screetch.....lol


9 posted on 06/18/2006 7:04:21 PM PDT by meanie monster
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I don't understand...he doing ok as a comedian, he doesn't pay his bills ..and now he is on my news and in the paper whining and... begging...he really shows responsibility
10 posted on 06/18/2006 7:04:57 PM PDT by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)
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To: conservativehusker

exactly


11 posted on 06/18/2006 7:07:01 PM PDT by meanie monster
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To: conservativehusker

I'd like some help, myself.

)8-D


12 posted on 06/18/2006 7:08:37 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: nypokerface

might be time for him to find another line of work, or a cheaper house.


13 posted on 06/18/2006 7:09:30 PM PDT by Lee N. Field
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To: nypokerface

...and there, but for the Grace of God, go I.


14 posted on 06/18/2006 7:10:50 PM PDT by mort56
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To: nypokerface

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.


15 posted on 06/18/2006 7:12:38 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

i doubt the HBO crowd would enen remember him,,,, lol


16 posted on 06/18/2006 7:17:17 PM PDT by meanie monster
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To: meanie monster

even,,,just daym,,,i hate typos


17 posted on 06/18/2006 7:17:58 PM PDT by meanie monster
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To: nypokerface

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.


18 posted on 06/18/2006 7:22:08 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: nypokerface

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.


19 posted on 06/18/2006 7:24:29 PM PDT by superfluousdude
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To: superfluousdude

I was looking at that too...I wonder...hmmm.


20 posted on 06/18/2006 7:26:17 PM PDT by I got the rope
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