June 17, 2006

Saturday Pity Party

To call this sad is an insult to velvet-art crying clown portraits everywhere:

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.

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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.


No wonder Bill's been in mourning over at INDC Journal---it's hard when we realize the icons we worship are stone and not gods.

Posted by Steve at June 17, 2006 04:17 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Poor Screech. He was always the guy who was almost as cool as Slater, but Zak had him beat by miles.

Hmm. At least he didn't do "Showgirls" like Elizabeth Berkley.

Posted by: agent bedhead at June 18, 2006 12:08 AM

He should give Gary Coleman a call. Didn't he go through something similar where he gave a shout-out to fans to help bail him out of financial ruin?

Posted by: Gary at June 19, 2006 10:00 AM

I've never met Dustin Diamond in my life, but can't everyone just chip in $15 or $20 so the guy who kept us laughing for years isn't on the street!!! I would LOVE to see him do stand-up if he comes around by me, but I can't do that if he's out doing porn or crawled up in a gutter somewhere!!!

Most people can afford $15 and most businesses can afford $1000 for a "brick" and some MAJOR exposure and business on his website www.getdshirts.com -- it works both ways and it all adds up, let's all help him out before it's too late!!!??

Let's all help the poor guy out!!! I did!!

Posted by: Compassionate Chic at June 28, 2006 09:30 PM