MIKE NICHOLS IN MY OPINION Screech turns mild sympathy to disgust

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: October 8, 2006| Author: MIKE NICHOLS | Copyright information

Dustin Diamond, the onetime child actor who is proving all the stereotypes true, grew up in a make-believe world, so maybe he doesn't understand how things work in the real one.

In the real one, when you take money from people and promise them something in return, they get irritated when that something doesn't show up.

Sometimes, they do more.

They file a complaint.

That's what Tony Oliver, a Lafayette, Ind., dad who says he sent Diamond a.k.a., Screech Powers from...

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