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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer is book 18 of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, published October 24, 2023 by Amulet Books. Greg Heffley tries to save Larry Mack Middle School from closure amid budget cuts, school ads, and book bans.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School, book 10 of Jeff Kinney's series, published November 3, 2015 by Amulet/Abrams; Greg Heffley faces an electronics-free town and a farm field trip; 224 pages, black cover.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper is book 20 of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, published October 21, 2025 by Amulet Books/Abrams. It follows Greg Heffley's chaotic self-planned birthday party and a rare MicroCreatures trading card, released in 26 countries.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, book 2 of Jeff Kinney's series, published February 1, 2008 by Abrams/Amulet: Greg Heffley is blackmailed by brother Rodrick over a summer secret, with the band Löded Diper; adapted into 2011 live-action and 2022 Disney+ animated films.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011 film)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is a 2011 American family comedy film directed by David Bowers, the second film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (film)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is a 2025 animated Christmas comedy on Disney+, the fourth animated Wimpy Kid film, adapting book three; directed by Matt Danner and Gino Nichele, written by Jeff Kinney, starring Aaron D. Harris as Greg Heffley.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is the ninth book (2014) in Jeff Kinney's series, following Greg Heffley's disastrous family road trip; a 2017 live-action film adaptation with a fully recast cast followed.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (film)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) is the fourth live-action Wimpy Kid film, directed by David Bowers with Jeff Kinney, with a fully recast Heffley family on a road trip to Meemaw's 90th birthday; it earned $20.7 million in the US and 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Diary of the Dead

Diary of the Dead (2007) is George A. Romero's fifth zombie film, a found-footage horror movie about film students documenting a zombie outbreak; also the title of an unrelated 1976 Arvin Brown drama.

Dias Gomes

Dias Gomes (1922–1999) was a Brazilian playwright and television author whose play O Pagador de Promessas won the Palma de Ouro at Cannes in 1962.

Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic: paired music-theory terms from Greek tetrachord genera. Diatonic notes belong to a key's scale; chromatic notes fall outside it, with distinct semitone sizes in unequal tunings.

Diatonic scale

The diatonic scale is a seven-note musical scale with five whole steps and two half steps per octave, the basis of most Western tonal music.

Dibakar Banerjee (दिबाकर बनर्जी)

Dibakar Banerjee (दिबाकर बनर्जी), born 1969 in New Delhi, is an Indian Hindi-film director, screenwriter, and producer, not the astrophysicist or other namesakes. Known for Khosla Ka Ghosla, LSD, Shanghai, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, and the shelved Netflix film Tees.

Dibaratrir Kabya

Dibaratrir Kabya (দিবারাত্রির কাব্য) is a Bengali novel by Manik Bandopadhyay, written in 1929 at age 21 and published in 1935, an early study of love and the human mind.

DIC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment (DiC), also DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, and DIC Animation City, was a French-American children's animation studio founded by Jean Chalopin in Paris, famed for Inspector Gadget, sold to Cookie Jar in 2008, library now with WildBrain.

Dice (band)

Dice (band) covers several unrelated acts: DICE, a Perth indie-rock quartet formed 2020 (Midnight Zoo, ARIA charts), and DICE, a German progressive rock band founded 1974 by Christian Nóvé, plus other artists sharing the name.

DICE (group)

DICE (ไดซ์) is a ten-member Thai T-pop boy group under SONRAY MUSIC, formed from 789 SURVIVAL trainees and debuting in 2024 with the single "Mona Lisa".

Dichen Lachman

Dichen Lachman (born 1982, Kathmandu) is a Nepalese-born Australian actress known as Katya Kinski on Neighbours, Sierra in Dollhouse, and Ms. Casey/Gemma in Severance.

Dick (film)

Dick is a 1999 American political comedy directed by Andrew Fleming, starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as two teens who secretly caused the Watergate scandal.

Dick and Jane

Dick and Jane are the characters of Scott, Foresman's American basal reading primers, first published in the 1930 Elson-Gray Basic Readers. Created by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp, they taught millions via the look-say whole-word method until retirement in 1965.

Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett (born 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska) is an American talk-show host, comedian, and writer whose The Dick Cavett Show ran on ABC, PBS, USA, CNBC, and TCM from 1968, known for long-form conversational interviews and Emmy wins in 1972 and 1974.

Dick Clark

Dick Clark (Richard Wagstaff Clark, 1929-2012), American TV host and producer, "America's oldest teenager," who hosted American Bandstand 1956-89, survived the payola scandal, created the American Music Awards, and hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve from 1972.

Dick Clark Productions

Dick Clark Productions (DCP) is the American live-event TV producer founded by Dick Clark in 1957, known for New Year's Rockin' Eve, the AMAs, Golden Globes, and Billboard Music Awards, now owned by Penske Media and Eldridge.

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (NYRE) is ABC's annual New Year's Eve music special, debuting on NBC in 1972, hosted by Dick Clark until 2012 and Ryan Seacrest since, culminating in the Times Square ball drop.

Dick Cusack

Dick Cusack (Richard John Cusack, 1925-2003), American advertising executive turned Emmy-winning documentarian, screenwriter of The Jack Bull, character actor, and father of actors John, Joan, Ann, Bill, and Susie Cusack.

Dick Dale

Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour, 1937–2019), the King of the Surf Guitar, created surf music with the Del-Tones at the Rendezvous Ballroom; known for "Misirlou" (Pulp Fiction), and for developing the Fender Showman, Dual Showman amps, and stage reverb with Leo Fender.

Dick Dastardly

Dick Dastardly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon villain created in 1968 for Wacky Races, voiced by Paul Winchell, who leads the Vulture Squadron chasing Yankee Doodle Pigeon in the 1969 spin-off with Muttley.

Dick Ebersol

Dick Ebersol (born 1947) is an American television executive who co-created Saturday Night Live, led NBC Sports from 1989 to 2011, produced 19 Olympic telecasts, and created Sunday Night Football, distinguishing him from other media executives named Ebersol such as his son Charlie.

Dick Emery

Dick Emery (Richard Gilbert Emery) was an English comedian and star of the BBC sketch show The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981, 18 series, about 17 million viewers), creator of Mandy, Lampwick, Hettie, and the catchphrase "Ooh, you are awful... but I like you!".

Dick Figures

Dick Figures is a 2010-2014 flash-animated YouTube comedy web series by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller about stick figures Red and Blue, produced by Six Point Harness with Mondo Media, spanning five seasons and a Kickstarter-record 2013 feature film.