Checking In
January, 1981
Los Angeles free-lancer Richard J. Pietschmann met with Neil Diamond just as he completed a morning studio session for the album to "The Jazz Singer"--his first shot at the silver screen. Pietschmann's report: "Diamond strikes me as too tall for a superstar in a showbiz world populated by diminutive Jaggers, Johns, Hoffmans and Newmans. He was exceptionally polite and attentive but did blanch and swallow hard when I produced my tape recorder. No taping, he ordered, so I had to tak...
