Paul Diamond
@pbdiamond.bsky.social
50 years of getting paid moneys to write stuff.
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Paul Diamond
@pbdiamond.bsky.social
· Nov 25
My First Celebrity; L Wolfie Gilbert. Songwriter of Waiting for the Robert E Lee.
In 1912.
Quiet quite ready to sing us a dusty hit. till 1980
In 1912.
Quiet quite ready to sing us a dusty hit. till 1980
After today's demo I'm not buying R.U.R. stock for awhile
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
After today's demo I'm not buying R.U.R. stock for awhile
I was just, for some reason, thinking of Willie Hamilton.
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I was just, for some reason, thinking of Willie Hamilton.
This is what your children and grands should inherit: Japanese crane books.
September 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is what your children and grands should inherit: Japanese crane books.
Pitching a new show: Worlds Fastest Tattoo Artist. Once we get past some casting glitches we're straight to pickup.
August 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Pitching a new show: Worlds Fastest Tattoo Artist. Once we get past some casting glitches we're straight to pickup.
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Thank you, Noah! Yes, I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism.
Another very fine piece, this time on #BillyWilder, from @benschwartz.bsky.social in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Billy Wilder’s Battle with the Past
How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor's guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust and the paradoxes of Zionism
www.thenation.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Thank you, Noah! Yes, I have a new piece up @thenation.com on Billy Wilder, the Holocaust, survivor's guilt, and confronting the limits of Zionism.
Waiting for Hail Fredonia to break out.
August 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Waiting for Hail Fredonia to break out.
The bat never did get to tell his story, did he?l
July 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The bat never did get to tell his story, did he?l
BBC World is now 40 minutes into nonstop Ozzy coverage in the US. Cool. And RIP.
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
BBC World is now 40 minutes into nonstop Ozzy coverage in the US. Cool. And RIP.
Too bad there's no 7 degrees of separation gag anymore;
Me to model/Mom/Barbara; to artist Don Bachardy; to writer Christopher Isherwood, then WH Auden
Fun.
Me to model/Mom/Barbara; to artist Don Bachardy; to writer Christopher Isherwood, then WH Auden
Fun.
June 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Too bad there's no 7 degrees of separation gag anymore;
Me to model/Mom/Barbara; to artist Don Bachardy; to writer Christopher Isherwood, then WH Auden
Fun.
Me to model/Mom/Barbara; to artist Don Bachardy; to writer Christopher Isherwood, then WH Auden
Fun.
My God, Broderick Crawford in Fellini's Il Bidone looks and carries himself exactly like Gandolfini. (First view).
June 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
My God, Broderick Crawford in Fellini's Il Bidone looks and carries himself exactly like Gandolfini. (First view).
Riot if you will -- I just took my best shot at playing "Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands" in an arthritic donkey's year
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Riot if you will -- I just took my best shot at playing "Mary Ann with the Shaky Hands" in an arthritic donkey's year
Want to stop the L. A. BS? Disable all mobile video service. If it doesn't stream it didn't happen and who cares?
June 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Want to stop the L. A. BS? Disable all mobile video service. If it doesn't stream it didn't happen and who cares?
Excellent opportunity for LAPD and LASO to put their hero cop costumes on. Fingers crossed.
June 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Excellent opportunity for LAPD and LASO to put their hero cop costumes on. Fingers crossed.
Hey, World Today... You're the BBC -- it's a lorry, not a truck. We're buying the stylebook here, face it.
June 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hey, World Today... You're the BBC -- it's a lorry, not a truck. We're buying the stylebook here, face it.
Two mail deliveries today, both of them with residual checks. It's morning in America!
June 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Two mail deliveries today, both of them with residual checks. It's morning in America!
'Gifting' is a remarkably stupid bit of language.
May 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
'Gifting' is a remarkably stupid bit of language.
Watching (1925) Ben Hur. Reminds me of the most pleasure I ever got from writing childrens' faith TV -- for BBC Kids -- was in my dialog for a Roman orgy. "Some party, huh? You oughtta see the line for the vomitorium!"
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Watching (1925) Ben Hur. Reminds me of the most pleasure I ever got from writing childrens' faith TV -- for BBC Kids -- was in my dialog for a Roman orgy. "Some party, huh? You oughtta see the line for the vomitorium!"
You know what this Kilmar deal, the dude in El Salvador, what it needs, is cigar smoke and letters of transit.
April 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
You know what this Kilmar deal, the dude in El Salvador, what it needs, is cigar smoke and letters of transit.
I see the nefarious hands (and sticks) of Simon Phillips in this Who mystery. Where have you been since 1989?
April 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I see the nefarious hands (and sticks) of Simon Phillips in this Who mystery. Where have you been since 1989?
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So, it was a job, already. This looks like one of the good days for Billy and Iz.
April 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So, it was a job, already. This looks like one of the good days for Billy and Iz.
Yes, there was an earthquake. Just not here. Don't panic, as someone once said in somewhat different circumstances.
April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yes, there was an earthquake. Just not here. Don't panic, as someone once said in somewhat different circumstances.
Wow. Wheeler and Woolsey's "The Rainmakers" is their usual fairly high standard, but also some not too bad comic FX. Not a bad introduction to the boys
April 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Wow. Wheeler and Woolsey's "The Rainmakers" is their usual fairly high standard, but also some not too bad comic FX. Not a bad introduction to the boys
Soi-disant writers and authors. You really aren't squat if you can't tell the difference between 'jive' and 'jibe'
Really, please (sighs).
Really, please (sighs).
April 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Soi-disant writers and authors. You really aren't squat if you can't tell the difference between 'jive' and 'jibe'
Really, please (sighs).
Really, please (sighs).
What a Whopper is a very strange little film. I have little to say. It's late in the not uk.
April 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
What a Whopper is a very strange little film. I have little to say. It's late in the not uk.