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‘Screech’ portrays Weinstein in music video
Actor Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in the ’90s TV show “Saved by the Bell,” portrays disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in a bloody new video.
The band TENLo released the video for its song “Kill All the Things” on Tuesday. The band members are Joey Zak and TomE LaBrosse who are from Milwaukee and now live in Nashville, Tenn., according to the TENLo Facebook page.
The video features Diamond, who is identified as Weinstein. Wearing a wide open collar shirt, Diamond’s character swaggers into a bar and is seen consuming shots and snorting cocaine in a bathroom. He then encounters actress Kelly Cunningham, a “vengeful nun,” and meets a bloody demise at her hand.
The celebrity gossip site TMZ said the band recently decided to include the Weinstein angle in the video.
Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women, including numerous well-known actresses.
In May 2015, Diamond was found guilty of two misdemeanors — carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct with a concealed weapon — in connection with the stabbing during a brawl at a saloon in Port Washington, Wis., the previous Christmas evening.
He was cleared of the felony charge of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and sentenced to 120 days in jail and 15 months of probation. with an autonomic disorder that prompted her to pull out of an upcoming New Year’s Eve performance.
“The past five months I have been quietly treating, and working through an Autonomic Disorder. It been a journey that hasn’t been easy on me,” she wrote on Instagram.
The artist did not share what type of autonomic disorder she was diagnosed with, but the term refers to a breakdown of the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary bodily functions.
“Sometimes I feel cool, and other times not so cool at all. It’s a complicated diagnoses, and I’m still learning so much myself, but right now, my doctors are not clearing me for such an extended lengthy flight, and doing a rigorous show right after.”
Because her doctor’s concerns, she said, she had to cancel her performance at the Afropunk Festival on New Year’s Eve in Johannesburg, South Africa.