A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

HE CAN TURN INVISIBLE IF HE TRIES REALLY HARD:  Neil Diamond turns 72 today. In August 2008, he told a Hartford audience:

“This is my job... Someone much greater than me gave me that job. He said, ‘You, you with that stupid look on your face — go out and sing until I tell you to stop.’ I haven’t heard the word yet so I’m just going to keep doing it.”

from the archives: It was once Neil Diamond Week on Idol, during which Paula Abdul started reviewing performances which hadn't happened yet.

(Worse Diamond atrocity: "Heartlight" or The Jazz Singer? Possible tiebreaker: for only one of the two did he don blackface.)