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Tom Shone
Growing up Jewish in the Chicago suburbs, beaten by his father, abandoned by his mother, Diamond is by 15 a punk with a carving a Dead Kennedys logo into his desk, seeking plaintive escape in films like “Pretty in Pink,” “Home Alone” and “The Breakfast Club.
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