@TCM won't tell you (oversight), but today would've been Oscar-winning screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond's 100th birthday. Best writer I ever knew, best Dad, too. @biscuitkitten @thefilmcrowd @patrickkincaid @Markgatiss @DrMatthewSweet @jonathancoe @ElainaCScott . More all day. Ask ?s.

As it approaches 1AM in California, I'm gonna take a break from the Centennial Iz-Fest. I leave you with a rare early photo, Billy and a rather dapper Iz in 1956 at Studio de Boulogne, Paris during Love In The Afternoon. Billy was 50. Iz was 36.

More in the morning.

All righty. Here's Marilyn with the boys and her axe (She's TINY). My Mom insists I saw her on the Coronado Beach location and loudly said "Who's the fat lady and why is everyone paying attention to her?"

Maybe I said that. Just shows -- don't take 7 year olds on your set.

And one more from SLIH. You forget that absolutely everybody smoked, smoked all the time. I'm lucky to have any lungs at all.

Still answering questions, still trying to grab @tcm attention. #IALDiamond100