Mark-Paul Gosselaar Slams Dustin Diamond's Book

[JamesG]

Mark-Paul Gosselaar Slams Dustin Diamond's "Saved by the Bell" Tell-All
Aug 7, 2014
by Liz Raftery


Mark-Paul Gosselaar disputes his "Saved by the Bell" co-star Dustin Diamond's claims that the show was one big drug-fueled orgy behind the scenes.

"Everything I've heard about his book is that it's very negative, and I don't remember those things," Gosselaar told HuffPost Live this week. "My experience on the show was very positive."

Diamond's 2009 memoir Behind the Bell is the basis for Lifetime's upcoming movie The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story.





Though Gosselaar admits that he doesn't discuss "Saved by the Bell" much, he says it's only because his memories of the show are sparse.

"I don't mind talking about it, I just don't really remember that time," he said. "But also, everything I do remember was extremely positive."





Gosselaar appeared on HuffPost Live with his "Franklin & Bash" co-star Breckin Meyer, who was less reserved when it came to his thoughts on Diamond.

"This guy's such a di--," Meyer told HuffPo Live. "I don't know Dustin at all, but ... the Dustin Diamond thing is just so silly. It's just so negative and it always bums me out."



Meyer also expressed skepticism about Diamond's alleged sex tape.

"That's not him!" Meyer said of the tape. "Screech is not packing that. Get the hell out of here. He doesn't have six Beldings beneath him. There's no f---ing way. You're full of s---, Dustin. Suck it."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mark-Pau...l-1085323.aspx

[irehtman]

The blame was on the both producers and writers on the original class.

The original class is supposed to be well-entertaining, but unfortunately, both the original class producers and writers did something
wrong:

"Making the original class too difficult and including both actor Dustin Diamond and his Screech role in a hurry."

What Dustin is trying to say is on the right move, but he should blame more on both the producers and writers of the original class for being careless and in a hurry rather than his castmates of the original class. Dustin has a correct argument and I 100% agree with him.

That's the reason why the original class should be put in low publicity forever starting right now!

[TMC]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...k-anymore.html

Dustin Diamond, who is executive producing the film based on his tell-all — which he claims was mostly fabricated by a ghostwriter — is "not out to trash anybody or put anybody down or make anybody look in a negative way. That was never the intent, so it’s definitely not the way it’s going to end up.”

[irehtman]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...k-anymore.html

Dustin Diamond, who is executive producing the film based on his tell-all — which he claims was mostly fabricated by a ghostwriter — is "not out to trash anybody or put anybody down or make anybody look in a negative way. That was never the intent, so it’s definitely not the way it’s going to end up.”

Dustin should not have trash his original class cast members at all and the other original class cast members should not have trash Dustin back at all either.

The blame was on the original class producers and writers for being too in a hurry appraising too much difficultly in a rush and included both Dustin and his Screech role at the same time in a careless way, even if the original class did well and was more entertaining along the way.

But here's an alternative question:

"Do you think there was a some big bad type of recession going on back in 1989-1993?"

If you are not sure, then I'll interrogate deeper along the way.

[TMC]

It was obvious that most of the book was fabricated. More to the point, it was like there were two storytellers. One that seemed to be more real, he wasn't close with the cast because he was younger and became friends with Dennis Haskins. The adult male crew were excited to work with Hayley Mills because they all had crushes on her from the Parent Trap days. Even some of the juicier stuff like he stayed with Tiffani Amber Thiesen's family when he had a stalker. And then there was the other, trashier side where he'd call Thiesen a slut, accused her, Mark-Paul Gosselar and Peter Engel of having a three way and that he pissed in Elizabeth Berkley's purse.

Dustin Diamond really when you get right to it, sounds like he is more sorry over the fact that his throwing of his fellow SBTB castmates under the bus for a quick payday had backfired. The sad thing is, that show will always be on, so all that Dustin had to do was be "normal" and he could have rode the wave of nostalgia for years. Instead, he pretty much ruined whatever credibility he had and alienated the rest of the cast, to the point where any reunion potential with him involved is pretty much gone.

[irehtman]

The original class show should be aired in low publicity because the fight between normal fans and the mental disabled fans of this original class will never end because of the way the original class became too difficult.

It has been revealed that there was a big bad oil recession back in 1989-1993 and things were too difficult for all helpless people back then.

Both Dustin Diamond and his Screech role are the examples of helpless people and what made it worse is when the original class producers and writers were too in a hurry to include both of them in the original class to make it well-entertaining automatically and earn more money in fast speed.

Dustin did not become a pervert until right after he was accepted in the original class and then turned down along the way.

I think Dustin should end the bashing on the original class members and the original cast members should end their difficult reactions to him.

The blame should be on the original class producers and writers for making the original class too difficult and include Dustin and his Screech role in a hurry at a same time.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by JamesG

Mark-Paul Gosselaar Slams Dustin Diamond's "Saved by the Bell" Tell-All
Aug 7, 2014
by Liz Raftery


Mark-Paul Gosselaar disputes his "Saved by the Bell" co-star Dustin Diamond's claims that the show was one big drug-fueled orgy behind the scenes.

"Everything I've heard about his book is that it's very negative, and I don't remember those things," Gosselaar told HuffPost Live this week. "My experience on the show was very positive."

Diamond's 2009 memoir Behind the Bell is the basis for Lifetime's upcoming movie The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story.





Though Gosselaar admits that he doesn't discuss "Saved by the Bell" much, he says it's only because his memories of the show are sparse.

"I don't mind talking about it, I just don't really remember that time," he said. "But also, everything I do remember was extremely positive."





Gosselaar appeared on HuffPost Live with his "Franklin & Bash" co-star Breckin Meyer, who was less reserved when it came to his thoughts on Diamond.

"This guy's such a di--," Meyer told HuffPo Live. "I don't know Dustin at all, but ... the Dustin Diamond thing is just so silly. It's just so negative and it always bums me out."



Meyer also expressed skepticism about Diamond's alleged sex tape.

"That's not him!" Meyer said of the tape. "Screech is not packing that. Get the hell out of here. He doesn't have six Beldings beneath him. There's no f---ing way. You're full of s---, Dustin. Suck it."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mark-Pau...l-1085323.aspx

Looking around at some stuff Dustin has said even recently, I honestly don't blame the cast for hating him. The dude is just nuts and delusional. Last week MPG's current co-star Breckin Meyer called DD a derogatory name while defending MPG in regard to stuff DD said about him, and DD's idiotic response was something like "does anyone even know who he is? I couldn't tell you one thing he's been in except for Clueless several years ago, but everyone knows Screech." NEWSFLASH you IDIOT, Breckin is a WORKING actor currently on TV and you're living in the past latching on to a character from 20 years ago. Pathetic.

[irehtman]

Originally Posted by TMC

Looking around at some stuff Dustin has said even recently, I honestly don't blame the cast for hating him. The dude is just nuts and delusional. Last week MPG's current co-star Breckin Meyer called DD a derogatory name while defending MPG in regard to stuff DD said about him, and DD's idiotic response was something like "does anyone even know who he is? I couldn't tell you one thing he's been in except for Clueless several years ago, but everyone knows Screech." NEWSFLASH you IDIOT, Breckin is a WORKING actor currently on TV and you're living in the past latching on to a character from 20 years ago. Pathetic.

No, it's both the original producers and writers that should be ended getting slammed instead, not Dustin nor the other original class main cast members!

[TMC]

From Amazon

"It's the worst book I've ever read. Ever.

Despite the book itself being horrible, there clearly was no editor. The grammar was appallingly bad. The former copy editor in me wanted to take a red pen to it even though it was a library book. Words were misspelled. He used idiotic words such as douchenozzle to make a point. He also writes moronic, vague sentences, then follows them with the sentence "What I mean to say is this." (Say what you mean! Use your words!) The literary violations extend beyond letting the author have artistic control. The most egregious error: when the word horses*** needed a hypen to split it onto two lines, the hyphen appeared between the s and the h. Yes, horses-hit. How does that even happen in the post-typewriter world?

[irehtman]

I know it is horrifying, but not all info are considered lies.

The ghostwriter is a prostitute who may have controlled his mind after the new class ended.

Dustin wanted revenge and payback on the other original class cast members. But it turns out the only people that he wanted revenge and payback on instead are both the original class producers and writers. The other original cast members should also want revenge and payback on both the original class producers and writers.

I used to be a fan of all Sbtb classes, but after that previous anniversary reunion incident, I quit watching all of them, especially this original one.

I am now a Hang Time fan forever instead.

[isiahthomas]

Irehtman, why do you keep defending Dustin Diamond and blaming his ******** behavior on other people? He may have talked bad about his co-stars in his book but from what i've seen of Saved By The Bell movie that came on Lifetime channel, he wasn't trying to make his co-stars look bad. So that's a good thing that he doesn't hold a grudge toward his co-stars but at the time when he wrote his book about what happened behind the scenes that he was pissed at his co-stars because they were more popular than him. I think he was also mad at his co-stars that they had a longer acting career than he did but it seems he may have gotten over that.

[robyrob]

I finally watched DD's "Unauthorized Saved By The Bell" movie - holy crap that guy is a self-obsessed narcissistic douche-nozzle.

We are expected to believe that he was good buddies with Brandon Tartikoff and he'd just walk into the Network President's office at will and then proceed to give him programming advice (I especially like the way BT says on the phone "Oh, I have to go - a REAL star just came into my office"); he actually believed that he was the real star of the show and that all the other stars got treated like royalty while he got crapped on.

[irehtman]

Originally Posted by isiahthomas

Irehtman, why do you keep defending Dustin Diamond and blaming his ******** behavior on other people? He may have talked bad about his co-stars in his book but from what i've seen of Saved By The Bell movie that came on Lifetime channel, he wasn't trying to make his co-stars look bad. So that's a good thing that he doesn't hold a grudge toward his co-stars but at the time when he wrote his book about what happened behind the scenes that he was pissed at his co-stars because they were more popular than him. I think he was also mad at his co-stars that they had a longer acting career than he did but it seems he may have gotten over that.

It was never Dustin's fault and it was also never the other original class castmembers' fault either.

The producers and the writers of the original class were the ones to be blamed for being careless on Dustin by making the original class too difficult on him and include him in a hurry at the same time to earn money in desperation.

Hurrying never works!

You think Dustin is a both pervert and a douche? He didn't become pervert until after he was accepted in the difficult original class in a hurry and turned down along the way. After the new class series ended, he may have gotten seduced in the group of evil people and then ended up becoming a douche.

From how Dustin is acting from the past until now, he needed both relief and innocence, but he completely lost them.

Right now, the brawl between normal fans and mentally disabled fans of this original class has been resumed infinitely.

[isiahthomas]

LOL@Robyrob hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I agree.

[irehtman]

You did not agree completely to Robyrob at all, isiahthomas.