Post by Erika on Sept 3, 2006 13:37:46 GMT -5
Here is an interesting opinionated article. Just another idea to open our minds to. Judge how you want....what do you think??
www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=490306
Screech's many pleas sound like mere noise
Posted: Sept. 1, 2006
Mike Nichols
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If you're one of the good Samaritans (or just one of the chumps) who sent former child actor and current beggar Dustin Diamond a bunch of cash for a T-shirt that says "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house," you might want to file for a refund.
Just do it quickly, because there are a few people in Denver who wouldn't mind getting a piece of Screech themselves.
You might recall that Diamond, better known as Screech Powers on the '90s sitcom "Saved By the Bell," made a few headlines - and presumably a few bucks - when he went public earlier this summer with a suggestion he was about to lose his Port Washington home.
On the same Web site where you can buy a shirt, you can also download free ring tones that have Diamond, a stand-up comic, worrying about, among other things, being homeless or living under a bridge.
"This is Dustin Diamond," goes my favorite one. "Please buy a T-shirt from getdshirts.com. I really don't wanna do porn."
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6/19/06: Nichols: Help save Screech's house, but stay out
6/15/06: The bell may not save him this time
Forget about getting a shirt from the man. I say we all send him a pair of pants. Who, after all, wants to see Screech in neither a house nor a wardrobe?
Diamond didn't just get on Howard Stern with his plea. Executives at ManiaTV.com, the Internet TV network, even scheduled an Aug. 14 telethon out in Colorado.
Then something weird - or, should I say, weirder - happened. Jason Damata, ManiaTV.com's communications manager, said the company flew Screech and a girlfriend named Jennifer out and put them up in a fancy hotel where they ran up a bill in excess of $600, only to find that "their shtick entirely changed."
They somehow seemed to become uncomfortable with the fund-raiser.
When company executives tried to figure out what was going on, says Damata, Jennifer told the vice president of programming, Richard Ayoub, "This is more of a publicity stunt than anything. He is not really going to lose his house."
Not lose his house? What about Howard Stern? What about all the money he'd, you'd think, already collected? What about that impending career in nudie flicks?
Not wanting to be part of anything that might be a ruse, ManiaTV.com pulled the plug and told a Denver reporter that, along with everything else, Screech had been really strange and obnoxious.
"They pretty much pulled a fast one on us," is the way Damata put it to me.
I can't claim the whole thing was a fabrication because there really is a foreclosure action - B&L of Grafton vs. DND of PW - pending in Ozaukee County Circuit Court, and it contended, when it was filed in May, Diamond was five months behind on $2,260-per-month payments.
He is still, according to B&L partner Lew Herro, "pretty far behind."
Not that, according to Herro, B&L has seen any money from the T-shirt sales.
It appears possible Diamond really could lose the house, but Herro says his understanding is that he is making arrangements to get a mortgage - leading me to guess that maybe Screech realized having a big telethon and milking unsuspecting fans of their cash, at this point, would have been a creepy a thing to do.
Who knows? Maybe Screech will even send back any money he's already collected to unsuspecting fans who thought he was truly in trouble.
That would be the happy Hollywood ending, wouldn't it?
Too bad, in reality, he was still selling T-shirts on his Web site on Friday.
Anyway, whatever porn flicks are remembered for, I don't think it's normally their happy endings.
www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=490306
Screech's many pleas sound like mere noise
Posted: Sept. 1, 2006
Mike Nichols
If you're one of the good Samaritans (or just one of the chumps) who sent former child actor and current beggar Dustin Diamond a bunch of cash for a T-shirt that says "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house," you might want to file for a refund.
Just do it quickly, because there are a few people in Denver who wouldn't mind getting a piece of Screech themselves.
You might recall that Diamond, better known as Screech Powers on the '90s sitcom "Saved By the Bell," made a few headlines - and presumably a few bucks - when he went public earlier this summer with a suggestion he was about to lose his Port Washington home.
On the same Web site where you can buy a shirt, you can also download free ring tones that have Diamond, a stand-up comic, worrying about, among other things, being homeless or living under a bridge.
"This is Dustin Diamond," goes my favorite one. "Please buy a T-shirt from getdshirts.com. I really don't wanna do porn."
Advertisement
Recent Coverage
6/19/06: Nichols: Help save Screech's house, but stay out
6/15/06: The bell may not save him this time
Forget about getting a shirt from the man. I say we all send him a pair of pants. Who, after all, wants to see Screech in neither a house nor a wardrobe?
Diamond didn't just get on Howard Stern with his plea. Executives at ManiaTV.com, the Internet TV network, even scheduled an Aug. 14 telethon out in Colorado.
Then something weird - or, should I say, weirder - happened. Jason Damata, ManiaTV.com's communications manager, said the company flew Screech and a girlfriend named Jennifer out and put them up in a fancy hotel where they ran up a bill in excess of $600, only to find that "their shtick entirely changed."
They somehow seemed to become uncomfortable with the fund-raiser.
When company executives tried to figure out what was going on, says Damata, Jennifer told the vice president of programming, Richard Ayoub, "This is more of a publicity stunt than anything. He is not really going to lose his house."
Not lose his house? What about Howard Stern? What about all the money he'd, you'd think, already collected? What about that impending career in nudie flicks?
Not wanting to be part of anything that might be a ruse, ManiaTV.com pulled the plug and told a Denver reporter that, along with everything else, Screech had been really strange and obnoxious.
"They pretty much pulled a fast one on us," is the way Damata put it to me.
I can't claim the whole thing was a fabrication because there really is a foreclosure action - B&L of Grafton vs. DND of PW - pending in Ozaukee County Circuit Court, and it contended, when it was filed in May, Diamond was five months behind on $2,260-per-month payments.
He is still, according to B&L partner Lew Herro, "pretty far behind."
Not that, according to Herro, B&L has seen any money from the T-shirt sales.
It appears possible Diamond really could lose the house, but Herro says his understanding is that he is making arrangements to get a mortgage - leading me to guess that maybe Screech realized having a big telethon and milking unsuspecting fans of their cash, at this point, would have been a creepy a thing to do.
Who knows? Maybe Screech will even send back any money he's already collected to unsuspecting fans who thought he was truly in trouble.
That would be the happy Hollywood ending, wouldn't it?
Too bad, in reality, he was still selling T-shirts on his Web site on Friday.
Anyway, whatever porn flicks are remembered for, I don't think it's normally their happy endings.
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