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'Screech' hopes to be saved by the T-shirt

Associated Press

Sat Jun 17, 10:15 AM ET

 

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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Edited June 17, 200619 yr by Goldmember

I think there are far more worthy charities for people to give their money .

Edited June 18, 200619 yr by Dick Allen

I think there are far more worthy charities for people to give their money .

 

 

I'd rather flush 15 dollars down my toilet. Maybe if it were Kelly Kapowski's house though.....

You know, Im not hearing Zach, Slater and Kelly complaining that they cannot pay their bills. Hey screech, move on with your life. Put screech in the backburner and try something new, maybe an indie movie or something.

You know, Im not hearing Zach, Slater and Kelly complaining that they cannot pay their bills. Hey screech, move on with your life. Put screech in the backburner and try something new, maybe an indie movie or something.

 

 

Tell me about it. If Screech saves his house, next thing you know Boner from Growing Pains and Buddy from Charles in Charge are going to want hand outs too.

he was on stern a few weeks back talking about this too. the story itself is pretty sad, however it was his fault that it happened in the first place.

 

then again, he was also talking about problems of having a 10" member too...

Why should I spend money to save his house when there are thousands of other people who lose their house and never got all the money he did as a child.

Why should I spend money to save his house when there are thousands of other people who lose their house and never got all the money he did as a child.

 

you must not be a true Saved by the Bell fan. For shame

 

you must not be a true Saved by the Bell fan. For shame

 

 

I still watch it in the morning's a lot of the times

I still watch it in the morning's a lot of the times

 

Then you should be buying T-shirts by the dozens. Honestly, what is wrong with you? I already have it in 4 different colors! I never get sick of seeing Screeech spelled wrong!

Kelly has spent her money wisely!

 

I can't believe I once paid $30 to see this f***ing hack perform. I could have bought 15 rolls of paper towels with that money.