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Seriously considered "Eyce Charry" for his professional name. Screen-tested for the lead in the movie Lenny, based on the life of famed comedian Lenny Bruce, but turned it down. When he and Barbra Streisand had a smash hit in 1978 with "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", it was not the first time that the Brooklyn-born superstars had sung together. While students at New York City's Erasmus High School, they both sang in the school choir. Was a Pre-Med student, interested in Biology, at NYU, but left with less than a year left, due to his dislike of Organic Chemistry. His soundtrack to the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull grossed more than the movie itself. Penned hits for other pop groups before making it on his own, including the Monkees' "I'm a Believer." For his role in The Jazz Singer, Diamond became the first ever "Winner" of a Worst Actor 'Razzie' Award. Father-in-law of actress Sheryl Lee. Was a top fencer during his time at New York University. In 1981, his screen "acting" debut in The Jazz Singer beat out Kirk Douglas (Saturn 3), Anthony Hopkins (_Change Of Seasons, A (1980)_ ), Richard Dreyfuss (The Competition), Michael Caine (The Island), Robert Blake (Coast to Coast) and four others to "win" the first-ever Worst Actor Razzie Award for 1980. Was forced to pay $150,000,000 to former wife Marcia Murphey in their divorce settlement. This holds the record as the most expensive divorce in history. Went to NYU on a fencing scholarship. Suggested for the lead role in Taxi Driver. His 1982 Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer Sager-penned hit "Heartlight" was inspired by the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Originally denied Quentin Tarantino permission to use his hit song "Girl, you'll be a woman, soon" for the famous scene in "Pulp fiction" in which Uma Thurman lip syncs the words to the song. Diamond eventually relented after his agent assured him that Tarantino was an up and coming director.