“He was a really sweet kid.
“I remember [Diamond] always being sweet and really funny.
I was very fond of him, as I was all of them.”

Lark Voorhies, Heather Hopper, Dustin Diamond, Max Battimo, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Hayley Mills.Everett Collection
“The success of that series has been so great,” theAcademy Award-winning actressshares.
It was fun, and I loved doing it.
It’s odd because even though I only did one season, it never did go away.
That one season gave me a whole new image on television.”
Prior to that, she made appearances onThe Love BoatandMurder, She Wrote.
“It was a very different experience, working on a sitcom.
I had never done that before, and it was really nerve-wracking,” she recalls.
“They re-write [dialog] up until the last minute.
It really keeps you on your toes!
But the spontaneity, it’s quite good for comedy.”