Behind the Bell by Dustin Diamond

Author:Dustin Diamond [Diamond, Dustin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Transit
Published: 2009-12-29T08:00:00+00:00

ZACK AND KELLY COZY UP TO THE BOSS

I’ve heard lots of Hollywood hearsay in my day, but I can only vouch for what I saw with my own two eyes and heard with my own two ears. Here is one of the most fucked up things I saw behind the scenes of SBTB. Draw your own conclusions because I still don’t know what to make of it.

The Golden Child started getting called to St. Peter’s office for long meetings. Extremely long. He wasn’t in any trouble, there was no Zack Morris spin-off in the works; he just slipped into the office and closed the door behind him. Which was weird in and of itself, because typically Peter kept his office door open for most meetings. But then again, most meetings with the cast only lasted several minutes. So what were these talks? What was going on?

I had heard stories about St. Peter, rumors beyond the dope and party days. Nothing I could verify of course. All I know is what I saw. I used to hang upstairs around the NBC offices at Stage 9 (where Good Morning, Miss Bliss started and where the original SBTB ended) because I liked to check out all the hot chicks who were cast as extras, the hot extras who were getting bumped up a notch to speaking parts, and, of course, the hot interns. This was during the time when The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was taping next door on Stage 11. We shared wardrobe rooms side-by-side with their show, and I used to play chess backstage with Will Smith, who was a strong player.

I was upstairs one day when the Golden Child had been in St. Peter’s office, door closed, for like an hour and a half.

Tiffani also began to be summoned upstairs for long, closed-door meetings with St. Peter. I mean, a couple of hours each time. Then, both Mark-Paul and Tiffani (!) were called, together, into St. Peter’s inner sanctuary for another mystery marathon behind closed doors.

Just for perspective, I remember when St. Peter called me up to his office for a meeting. At first I was like, “Uh oh, what’d I do to fuck up this time?” It really was like being called to the principal’s office, but way worse than Mr. Belding ever gave it to Screech. I entered with great trepidation as St. Peter told me to take a seat. I was scolded for some minor transgression on the Peter Engel morality meter, but St. Peter did leave his office door open the whole time.

Those long, closed-door meetings were all happening in 1992, prior to gearing up for our first movie, SBTB: Hawaiian Style. But before the movie was scheduled to begin filming on location in Hawaii for three months, the network was setting up an overseas trip for two cast members to do a press junket in Paris. Our promotional events had evolved over the years from mall tours and amusement parks to overseas trips as the popularity of the show spread in syndication around the world.

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