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Dustin Neil Diamond (born January 7, 1977) is an American actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian widely known for his role as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television shows Saved by the Bell, Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.
Diamond was born on January 7, 1977, in San Jose, California. His father taught digital electronics for a computer-processing firm and his mother was a computer operator for Pacific Bell. He attended Zion Lutheran School. His father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His mother had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Dustin's maternal grandmother's family has lived in the American South for many generations.
Diamond began acting as a child. He became known for playing the nerdy and lovable Samuel "Screech" Powers on the television show Saved by the Bell, a role he played for close to thirteen years from its beginning as Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1988–89) through its final incarnation, Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1994–2000). Continuing the series into college, Saved by the Bell: The College Years shows most of the cast transplanted into not only the same college, but also the same college dormitory, where Screech continued his typical misadventures. The College Years was canceled after one season. Diamond returned to Bayside High as Principal Belding's assistant in The New Class episodes, remaining with the show until its cancellation.
Oprah Gail Winfrey, born January 29, 1954, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is now North America's first and only multi-billionaire Black. Several assessments regard her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer. He is best known as the host of The Howard Stern Show, his long-running radio show which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005 before its move to Sirius XM Radio in 2006. Stern first wished to be on the radio at five years of age. He landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University—WTBU, the campus station, and WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts. From 1976 to 1982, Stern developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, WWWW in Detroit, Michigan, and WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985.
In 1985, Stern began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City, where his show was syndicated to 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners. Stern won numerous awards, including Billboard’s Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight times. He became the most fined radio host when the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling $2.5 million to station licensees for content it deemed indecent. Stern became one of the highest paid radio figures after signing a five-year deal with Sirius in 2004 worth $500 million. In recent years, Stern took up photography and has had work featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America's Got Talent.
Actors: Jon Huertas (producer), Kel Mitchell (actor), Flavor Flav (actor), Jon Huertas (actor), Dustin Diamond (actor), Wilson Bethel (writer), Wilson Bethel (actor), Wilson Bethel (producer), Wilson Bethel (producer), Micaal Stevens (actor), Utkarsh Ambudkar (actor), Chanel Raisin (miscellaneous crew), Verton R. Banks (actor), Rochelle Aytes (actress), Deborah S. Craig (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Monique Dupree (actress), Eve (actress), Dustin Diamond (actor), Marc Maron (actor), Michael Mailer (producer), Nick P. Ross (actor), Keith Mackler (actor), Jackie Moore (actress), Scott Rodgers (actor), Casey Smith (actor), Jason Stein (writer), Jason Stein (producer), Ron Artest (actor), Jason Stein (director), Tim Curcio (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Ron Jeremy (actor), Joshua Nelson (producer), Dustin Diamond (actor), Kevin Harrington (editor), Kevin Harrington (producer), Carlin Adelson (actress), Lauren Kelston (actress), Jamie Farrell (actress), Elizabeth Izzo (actress), Gregory Van Voorhis (producer), Gregory Van Voorhis (director), Gregory Van Voorhis (actor), Jacques Mitchell (actor), Gregory Van Voorhis (writer), Kirkryan McFarland (actor),
Plot: V has turned into everything that women hate, but still has no trouble finding a number of them to sleep with...and then not call. When he realizes that his womanizing ways can't erase what's been plaguing him, he turns to his friends Nick, Scott (also known as "Squatty" for his urination techniques), and Desmond, whose lives aren't as cozy as they seem either, and they head upstate for a month-long bonding adventure. In the woods of their childhood summer stomping grounds, they are met with freedom, temptation, euphoric outlets, and a powerful dose of reality. It is here that they are visited by a free-spirited local and her bag of goodies who provides them with unconventional wisdom, but it's up to them to know what to do with it. As the summer nears its end, their friendship is inevitably tested as each must confront his own inner demons before they all head back home to straighten out their lives. The film takes a look at issues that people face as they head into their 30s and more specifically touches on broken and failing relationships while examining how vulnerable lifelong friendships truly are. We never realize how fragile our connections with people really are. This film plays with the strings that bind friends and family, and it sometimes pulls too hard.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Kevin Grevioux (actor), Corey Haim (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Brendan Fraser (actor), Corey Feldman (actor), Joey Diaz (actor), John Farley (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Alan Blumenfeld (actor), Kevin P. Farley (actor), Tom Arnold (actor), Gary Coleman (actor), Jeff Conaway (actor), Barry Livingston (actor), Todd Bridges (actor),
Plot: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie's special world include: Sidney, Dickie's longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie's real mother; George, Dickie's adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.
Keywords: actor, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, alcoholics-anonymous, character-name-in-title, children, family-relationships, former-child-star, has-been, little-boy, little-girlActors: Carlos Gómez (actor), Bobby Lee (actor), Charles Fleischer (actor), Snoop Dogg (actor), Corey Feldman (actor), Clint Howard (actor), Dr. Dre (actor), Todd Bridges (actor), W. Earl Brown (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Carson Daly (actor), Tommy Chong (actor), Kurt Loder (actor), Tommy Lee (actor),
Plot: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted...his plan worked. A week or so later the LAPD is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room that he's hiding out in and throw him in LA County's celebrity wing.
Keywords: actor-director, actor-name-in-title, actor-playing-himself, black-comedy, celebrity, character-name-in-title, claim-in-title, death, directed-by-star, faking-own-death