{"id":1481,"date":"2006-08-29T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/staten_island_stalker_screech_edition.html"},"modified":"2006-08-29T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T18:01:50","slug":"staten_island_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/staten_island_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Stalker, Screech Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seen on Staten Island — Dustin “Screech” Diamond<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From 5 a.m. until after sunset last night, 100-plus ABC crew members descended on the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield, and a nearby office building to film parts of episode 4 of the Knights of Prosperity.<\/p>\n

The show, due to premiere Oct. 17, mixes sitcom fare with celebrity voyeurism by following a pack of goofy characters as they plot to rob the home of Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n

The plum-lipped, wire-thin rock icon, around whom the show has been built, makes an appearance as himself in the first episode, the production company divulged yesterday.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the TV people on scene at the Hilton Garden Inn yesterday guarded the set with passion equal to that of a Betty Crocker Bake-off contestant protecting a secret recipe.<\/p>\n

They couldn’t quite hide Dustin Diamond, however. The actor, who played the uber-nerd Screech in the early-1990s sitcom Saved by the Bell, has a cameo, although a spokeswoman for the production company was characteristically mum.<\/p>\n

He’s a little heavier and has a little more facial hair — other than that, he’s Screech, said hotel owner Richard Nicotra.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how much time and effort is spent on seven minutes of airtime, marveled Nicotra, as he watched the crew line up for a buffet lunch during a break in the 14-hour-plus day. We’re friendly to them. We enjoy doing this. It’s certainly good business.<\/p>\n

With some Hollywood set-designer magic, the hotel can be transformed into Anywhere, USA, and it receives frequent visits from scouts looking for locations to shoot.<\/p>\n

Knights of Prosperity, starring Donal Logue and a band of other actors who have yet to become household names, joins the ranks of such shows as Law and Order and The Sopranos in using the hotel as a set.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does Donal Logue<\/a> have to do to become a household name on the Island? Screech-struck ingrates . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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