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Bobby Diamond, who portrayed a young orphan opposite Peter Graves and a wild stallion on the 1950s NBC series Fury, has died. He was 75.

Diamond died May 15 of cancer at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., author and longtime friend Laurie Jacobson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Diamond also starred with Jack Klugman on "In Praise of Pip," a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, and played Duncan "Dunky" Gillis, a cousin of Dwayne Hickman's title character, on the final season of another CBS series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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Bobby Diamond, who portrayed a young orphan opposite Peter Graves and a wild stallion on the 1950s NBC series Fury, has died. He was 75.

Diamond died May 15 of cancer at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., author and longtime friend Laurie Jacobson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Diamond also starred with Jack Klugman on "In Praise of Pip," a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, and played Duncan "Dunky" Gillis, a cousin of Dwayne Hickman's title character, on the final season of another CBS series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Legend has it he ...

The first phase of the Apples and Oranges Arts THEatre Accelerator culminates in a live Shark-Tank-style pitch session where participants present their shows to theatre and tech industry veterans including BroadwayWorld.com's Robert Diamond, Broadway Producer Deborah Taylor Barerra, Investor and Producer Frank Kavanaugh, and Senior Executive and Private Investor Jonathan Ledden.

Cennarium will host a 'Streaming the Performing Arts,' panel at Lincoln Center today, September 15. Acting as moderator will be BroadwayWorld's very own Editor-In-Chief Robert Diamond.

Cennarium will host a 'Streaming the Performing Arts,' panel at Lincoln Center on September 15. Acting as moderator will be BroadwayWorld's very ownEditor-In-Chief Robert Diamond.

Cennarium will host a 'Streaming the Performing Arts,' panel at Lincoln Center on September 15. Acting as moderator will be BroadwayWorld's very ownEditor-In-Chief Robert Diamond.

On the latest episode of BroadwayRadio's 'This Week on Broadway,' James Marino, Michel Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini chat with Broadway's Patti Murin about her recent efforts to reform theatrical message boards. In the discussion, she addresses what led to her initial blog post, the pushback she has had from online posters, and the positive response that she received from BroadwayWorld's Editor-in-Chief Robert Diamond.

CEO Robert Diamond and everyone at BroadwayWorld.com are excited to announce that this year We'll Be Back at the Bcefa Flea Market on Sunday, September 27 from 10am to 7pm. We haven't had a booth in a few years, as schedules prohibited us from participating - but, we have continued to be staunch supporters of Bcefa, raising funds for them in other ways.

CEO Robert Diamond and everyone at BroadwayWorld.com are excited to announce that this year We'll Be Back at the Bcefa Flea Market on Sunday, September 27 from 10am to 7pm. We haven't had a booth in a few years, as schedules prohibited us from participating - but, we have continued to be staunch supporters of Bcefa, raising funds for them in other ways.

On Monday night, January 20, 2014 BroadwayWorld.com kicked off its 10th Anniversary Celebration with the first in a series of concerts to be presented this year- BroadwayWorld.com Visits Oz. Tonight, join producer Lynn Pinto, editor Nicole Rosky, director Richard Jay-Alexander, and BroadwayWorld.com's Robert Diamond for a behind-the-scenes look at how we produced the concert in 'Capturing and Editing a Concert BroadwayWorld.com Visits Oz'.

It's not subtle, but Martin Scorsese's depiction of the debauched rise and fall of a wayward Wall Street broker is an exhilarating riot of bad taste

If you can imagine the honey-gravel of Ray Liotta's voice in Goodfellas saying: "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a stockbroker" you'll get some idea of Martin Scorsese's new movie The Wolf of Wall Street. It's a raucous, crazily energised, if occasionally slightly shallow epic on a familiar subject, conducted in the classic voiceover-nostalgia style with sugar-rush jukebox slams on the soundtrack. I've watched it twice in quick succession now, and though it skirts the edge of cliche, the sheer sustained blitz of bad taste is spectacular. This movie sprints frantically, in the direction of nowhere in particular, like our appalling hero after his first ecstatic toke of crack cocaine. It is based on the...

Bankers invited by Guardian to watch film find it to be a parody while women among them say sector's macho culture persists

We are just minutes into Martin Scorsese's financial black comedy, The Wolf of Wall Street, when the investment banker next to me starts slowly shaking his head.

On the screen Leonardo DiCaprio's character, the crooked stockbroker Jordan Belfort, is waxing lyrical about his millions, his cars and his trophy wife and combining those two latter passions in a characteristically prurient scene.

"This is what gives the City a bad name," says my viewing companion, one of a group of senior City bankers gathered to compare their own career experiences with the excesses in Scorsese's film, released in UK cinemas on Thursday.

As the story romps on through lavish beachside parties, office orgies and increasingly criminal dealings, the head shaking and seat-shuffling intensifies.

"I hope that people...

We need regulation of the press and financial sector that will hold people to account without smothering 'animal spirits'

How should David Cameron react to today's High Pay Commission report that blows the whistle on boardroom remuneration rackets that have seen pay rises of up to 5,000% over the past less-than-glorious 30 years? He should ask himself: "What would Dad think?" I imagine Dad would think much as Hugh Grant told us all on Monday what he thinks about the out-of-control tabloids.

I don't actually know what Donald Cameron – he died last year– would have thought of contemporary pay antics in the City, which have infected leading industrial firms and (even worse) the upper echelons of the public sector. But he was a senior partner of stockbrokers Panmure Gordon, which was swallowed up by the big fish after the "big bang" deregulation of the City in 1986 – though it has since been spat...

Four journalists tied for achieving the best score (21) when predicting the 26 competitive races at the Tony Awards. Congrats! And thanks to you all for sharing your predix with us. Brian Lipton (TheaterMania) — 21 Paul Sheehan (The Envelope) — 21 David Sheward (Back Stage) — 21 Matt Windman (amNY) — 21 Wayman Wong (New York Daily News) — 20 Robert Diamond (Broadway World) — 19 Andy Humm (GayUSA, Gay City News) — 19 Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby, The Envelope) — 19 Martin Denton (NYTheatre.com) — 18 Lane Brown (New York Magazine Vulture) — 17 Susan Haskins (Theater Talk) — 17 Harry Haun (Playbill) — 17 Thom Geier (Entertainment Weekly) — 16 Leonard Jacobs...

"Red" and "Memphis" are the front-runners to win best play and musical at the Tony Awards on June 13, according to the predictions of most pundits. However, the gurus are divided over some top races, including best drama actor: Denzel Washington ("Fences") versus Alfred Molina ("Red"). Also, best actress in a musical: Catherine Zeta-Jones ("A Little Night Music") versus Montego Glover ("Memphis"). Below, the views of these Tonys prophets: Melissa Bernardo (Entertainment Weekly), Lane Brown (New York Magazine Vulture), Martin Denton (NYTheatre.com), Robert Diamond (Broadway World), Thom Geier (Entertainment Weekly), Susan Haskins (Theater Talk), Harry Haun (Playbill), Andy Humm (GayUSA, Gay City News), Leonard Jacobs (Clyde Fitch Report), Brian Lipton (TheaterMania), Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby,...

A full and frank debate about the merits of high remuneration levels in the banking industry kicked off an interesting week. Guy Fawkes ended it

Sometimes, when the odds are stacked against you, playing in defence is a thankless task, and this week bloggers were in no mood for excuses.

Banker Arnold Philips got things going with his comments that not all bankers are fat cats, and are in fact ordinary people who sacrifice any semblance of life outside work for their hard-earned rewards.

"Wow!" leapt in scubadoc: "I traded in any semblance of a life outside of work as a trainee hospital doctor for several years. I am now, as a consultant, being asked to work from 7am to 7pm and provide cover overnight, probably living in the hospital, once a week. I'm held responsible for the team beneath me and we deal in life and death. If anything...

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, yesterday!

My birthday festivities usually fall close to Tony Awards night. So today I can let my inner theater geek out -- is it "inner" if everyone knows about it?. I'll probably tweet the actual ceremony... but if you're into Broadway and you don't mind spoilers there's already people tweeting from the dress rehearsal including Jane Fonda, Just Jared and Broadway World's Robert Diamond . In the meantime I thought I'd catch you up on a few recent stage shows that I haven't really discussed. As per usual, many of them have movie connections. But mostly I'm here to talk about West Side Story which is up for four TONYs tonight: Best Musical Revival, Best Actress, Best Featured Actress (Karen Olivo as "Anita") and Best Lighting Design.

Anita center (she's gonna get her kicks tonii-iiii-iight. she'll have

a private little mix tonii-iii-iight) and her fellow PRs.