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Being a stand-up comic and collecting 80-90s TV series residuals apparently doesn’t pay very well. I’m reminded of David Spade’s movie, Dickie Roberts, about child actor stars and how Hollywood sucks them in and spits them out. Have any of the Brady kids gone on to success? There are exceptions like Opie AKA Richie Cunningham AKA Ron Howard, but most child actors meet a much less financially rewarding future.
Add Dustin Diamond, perhaps forever known as the dude who played Screech on Saved by the Bell to the list of the Hollywood child star victims. I’m not sure ‘victim’ is the right word, but somebody needs to get these kids some real money managers (not their parents, it seems).
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.
I wish Mr. Powers the best of luck selling those 30,000 shirts he needs to save his home. We were thinking about buying the Saved by the Bell DVDs so perhaps that will be our donation to Diamond’s cause. Nice how he added an extra ‘e’ to the Screech t-shirts so he didn’t get bagged for copyright infringement. Yeah, like that’s not still some kind of infringement.
Update 11:48am PST: Updated this post with banner and link to where these t-shirts can be purchased. Didn’t hotlink Screech’s bandwidth.
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Screeech needs to get with the program. Put up a Pay-pal donation site and blog it, dude.
Comment by Sterling Camden — June 20, 2006 @ 12:51 pm PST
Actuallyt that’s a good piece of advice, Sterling. Check out the end of the article where it indicates Screech has no active email or phone number, much less a blog. He could be the one and only Screeech blogger (complete with extra ‘e’). He could title his blog: Saved by the Blog.
Comment by TDavid — June 20, 2006 @ 12:56 pm PST
Ha! That’s so good, somebody should do it even if he can’t.
Comment by Sterling Camden — June 20, 2006 @ 1:03 pm PST
The site and story for his t-shirts is here. He calls himself the “Dman” ??? ROFLMAO!
Interesting that he took his story to Howard Stern. A friend of mine who also lives in Wisconsin heard about the situation on the radio. Check it out, according to the Wikipedia entry on Dustin Diamond he tried to sue and lost claiming dustindiamond.com which looks like a really bad geocities webpage.
Comment by TDavid — June 20, 2006 @ 1:55 pm PST
O. M. G.
Comment by Sterling Camden — June 20, 2006 @ 2:29 pm PST
Screech bailed out on a radio tour on the morning that you posted this, right after the first station, because he took offense to them making fun of him for selling t-shirts.
Too funny.
Comment by Matt Wardlaw — June 22, 2006 @ 10:09 am PST
Too funny indeed. A stand-up comic and washed-up actor sells t-shirts to pay his mortgage, and he expects NOT to draw a few chuckles from the audience?
Comment by Sterling Camden — June 22, 2006 @ 12:49 pm PST
Shhesh!! Hey..my mortgage is a little late this month, I need to pay off my college loans, I need a new car and I can’t afford to send my kids to summer camp this year…I’m thinkinnnnnn this T-Shirt gig might pay off?? Lemme see….??? Perhaps screech can offer some unique T-Shirt design ideas?? What a freakin genius!! This idea beats just getting a job that can actually PAY THE BILLS! WTF?!?!
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Comment by Irene — June 27, 2006 @ 4:15 pm PST
What do we get out of this? screech shouldnt ask for any money from strangers. like bums but he has a roof over his head.
Comment by Jennifer Smith — July 7, 2006 @ 12:52 pm PST
Am I the only one that is wondering how a “celebrity” such as Dustin has NO money???? Give me a break dude and be a man! Get a real job like everyone else and go rent an apt. You really have to be kidding me! Grow up….
Comment by KD Gould — August 9, 2006 @ 5:02 pm PST
I don\’t think so Screech. I am a very compassionate person and volunteer my time and donate money regularly, but give me a break Screech!! It\’s called get a regular job with benefits - medical, retirement plan. Go to college and get a degree. Look at the article in a recent People\’s magazine about the kids from Boy Meets World. They are doing things with their lives outside of acting and making money and surviving. Everyone hits rough spots…losing their jobs, their life savings and end up living on the streets, do any of you supporters of Screech out there donate regularly to homeless shelters and see what\’s really going on. He could have sold his house and restarted his life on a smaller scale. The \”average\” Joe has to do it at times, what makes him different? I don\’t want to hear about him not being able to get a \”standard\” loan and I\’m sure this didn\’t happen overnight. Stand up and be a man and take control of \”your\” life. Where are his own friends and family to help him? Lastly…good luck to you Screech, I hope you find the strength!!!
Comment by Lisa — August 14, 2006 @ 10:26 am PST