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When I first came here, meeting writers wasnt available to me; but now that I have met tons of those people, I wish I hadnt. Lebowitz: I wrote a book when I was about eight called The Secret Castle that owed a lot to Carolyn Keene, who wrote the Nancy Drew books. I dont know howbecause when I was young, boys didnt type. This must be about 15 years ago. So I would go to these AIP screenings. It was The Modern Farmer. I mean, unless you have an erotic interest in them, what other interest could you have? When it was on at 1:30 I saw no reason to get up in the morning, but now its on at 11:30, so sometimes I wake up to watch it. Lebowitz: I went through a period of watching $20,000 Pyramid, but it was too frustrating because every day I won $20,000 and I have no money. I wanted to know what a vodka for women meant. "And you know, fell into the clutches of Andy who told her she was." Fran continues, "A 25-year-old man who becomes a 25-year-old woman is not a woman at all . had one incredible movie after another. When she started realizing cigarettes were missing it never occurred to her to accuse me, so she went to the supermarket where she bought her cigarettes and told the manager that the boys who worked there were stealing packs out of the cartons. By Kate Mossman Enough time has passed, Fran Lebowitz thinks, to admit she went to a birthday party on 9/11. I wanted to be a beatnik. I do remember that the worst movie I ever saw was called Four Flies on Gray Velvet, with Mimsy Farmer, one of your great loves. It was charity really. That was on the second floor. But John Springer banned me from his screenings. I believe Im a great friend. Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. You might want this, but I will do that. I used to steal hers. Your email address will not be published. Then I moved to New York and switched to exotic foreign brands. A Bic pen. I mean, there are fewer good things than bad things. They made me wait three hours to see the psychiatrist, and by that time I was starting to come down. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. Lebowitz: I smoked Tareyton the longest, then I switched to Lark. One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. Im not afraid to be on TV. Why dont you just put two of them in storage? High Times: Why did you smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day? I played cello in the school orchestra, but I was so horrible that I soon got over the notion of being a cellist. There was nothing televisiony or psychological about it. I would personally just like to vet each person. Two rare items of Andy Warhol: 1) Pop goes art - Institut fr Popkultur - 1990 - Box - Contains several items: - Glossy folder of loose-leaf art-paper reproductions. But I did actually graduate from high school, because I took the New Jersey High School Equivalency Test. But, of course, Ive always been old at heart. Fran Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. Fran describes Ralph Lauren's copying, and eventual embodiment, of Brooks Brothers WASP style. Im such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. When I was really young I wanted to be a toll taker because I thought they kept the money. by . Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. But I will go see any comedian. LEBOWITZ: The first thing I would do is say, I dont care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business, which is what happened. Over some twenty years, Kincaid has made what my partner, the poet James Fenton, calls a plantsmans garden, full of rare species. Steve paid me excessive amounts of money to answer his telephone. I wrote it in a loose-leaf notebook in pencil. I didnt want to have my consciousness expanded, I wanted to have it restricted. I like lots of writers, but now I cant think of them. Instead of representing oil as self-evident, Sinclair imbues it with a kaleidoscopic range of associations that reimagine it on visionary new terms.. And I would always give it back. But, I mean, no one talked about money. Lebowitz: I have to say I have only written back to important people, people in the publishing business. If you were going to have dinner with some of those older people you mentioned, say writers, which ones would you pick? LEBOWITZ: I would talk to them, but luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You dont have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from. Im sorry, were full up. Lebowitz: To be glamorous. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. But I just cant smile at people for money. Photograph by Christopher Macsurak. High Times Greats: Fran Lebowitz, Americas Funniest Femme Fatale. For instance, I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. Lebowitz was born in 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of furniture store proprietors. Im great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic. Subscribe for free:Stitcher|Apple Podcasts|Google Play, 2023 The Paris Review. Or I would call people on the telephone and have their responses broadcast. June 15, 2021 6:30 AM PT. There are these prototypes all over the place, mixed in with my own crummy furniture. My mother came from Dominica, and the thing about those little islands is that people from one island or the other dont like each other. LEBOWITZ: Yes. I like Dorothy Parker. So all the judgment left at the same time that all this creativity left. They also deserve him as candidate, all these so-called mainstream RepublicansI dont know what thats supposed to mean. At the age of. A pen. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born October 27, 1950 Add to list Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy 1 win & 3 nominations total He was the one that was supposed to be president. Fran Lebowitz.the toast of the town; a brilliant writer who almost never writes. All-around cultural oracle Fran Lebowitz really began her ascent to that pulpit here at Interview, in 1972, writing a wonderful column about terrible movies, and then covering the waterfront, as she called it: opining on sundry topics, giving advice, ranting, reflecting, and hooking the reading world (such as it is) on that voicethat saucy, salty, intrepid, enchanting, and hilarious voice. Id like to be admissions director of New York. She is alive to the advantage in the irony that her literary heritage had not predicted her, exalted, brave, free. texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on "Update,"'" he continued. One was called Catherine the Great, and it had a picture of her on the label. America is a great idea, so thats why its a great country. You sit or stand in the subway, and you look aroundI do, because I dont have a phone so Im not playing a gameand you see people. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. . This is why I have problems with books, because you cannot do that the night before. I knew about four or five people who wrote porn books at the time that I was a poet. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. Getty Images. Lebowitz: I dont really remember it. I would say maybe 74, 75. I have to take the TV off the chair. In introducing Fran Lebowitz to a contemporary large audience, the combination of biographical perspective and quasi-vrit style addresses the opposition between private and public (Arendt and Habermas). CLEMENTE: There was a brilliant article by Rgis Debrayhe was a guerrilla guy with Che Guevarasaying that, since the election of the American president has an effect on the life of every citizen of the planet, all citizens of the planet should vote. And I like cities. Ive never seen the Kardashians; Im not sure who they are. I was caught smoking, and I didnt have the cigarette in my hand or smoke coming out of my mouth, and they suspended me anyway, so it turned out not to be true, just suspicion was enough. Fran readily agreed, as she was banned from most movie screenings because of her old column, Best of the Worst. I would have liked to have met Nabokov. Then one day Polka Dotty was found dead. Lebowitz: Every single time Ive ever written I thought I couldnt do it. People say, "All the things that we like about New York are gone.". Speaking to celebrated New Yorker Fran Lebowitz over the phone is an experience as hilarious and eye-opening as one would imagine it to be. I know Ive said this before, but the audience for the artswhether it was for writing or films . I did that for a couple of years. That tends to upset people. Were you expected to criticize what was going on? I couldnt imagine knowing someone who was that funny. At the foot of his driveway in California, Jack Douglas had a sign that said Have you called these people? I also thought Oscar Levant was hilarious. This conversation began at a public event at the 92nd Street Y in 2013, and was picked up again in her Vermont kitchen eight years later, in the summer of 2021, when the social restrictions of the pandemic had, for a time, eased. Needless to say, I'm a big fan and I'm telling everyone I know to watch it right away. General in Boston. The duo were discussing their childhoods, saying as children they were never able to partake in "adult" conversations unless they were . In fact, most of the offending language appears in the trailer alone. And sometimes I went on at ten oclock in the morning and read to the guy sweeping up from the night before. Good Books Books To Read Acceptance Speech National Book Award Wordsmith Great Words Ex Libris Reading Material Women Humor More information . It was originally built as a sailors rooming house, because its very close to the river. See, then, if you had no money, you had a horrible apartment. I also used to write a zillion songs. High Times: Do you remember the first funny thing you ever said? You can probably tell from my writing that Im obsessed with notions of justice and injusticethose things that are wrong that can never be made right. Her early fiction, much of which also appeared in that magazine, was collected in At the Bottom of the River (1983), a book that, like her Talk stories, announced her themes, her style, the uncanny purity of her prose. No one I knew talked about money. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. Lebowitz maintains that she wrote the columns with the intention of building a distinct collection of essays. Fran Lebowitz: I cover the waterfront. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. We were all really jealous of him. They told you what kind of sex to put in it. We think his version of the navy pinstripe would fit right in Fran's rotation. I hit my limit at 19, and I havent had any since. But its important who the president is. I used to sneak out of bed to watch it. Knowledge of a culture. I dont want them to come. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. Also a TV show that was on Sunday morning for four hours: I cant remember the name of it, but Sonny Fox was the emcee. So I evolved the theory that horses are hands. Anna Rahmanan. It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. They thought I had taken acid, and I couldnt convince them it was marijuana. My whole movie consciousness was based on movies no one else had ever seen. Because someone once told me that horses legs are actually like fingers and that their hooves are actually fingernails. They dont know what anything is, so they have to make it up. High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? We Pick Up With Our Adventurers As The Party Begins. I never had any machines. Hes not going to be president. People ask me, Arent you interested in what theyre thinking? LEBOWITZ: That was later, for my next column, I Cover the Waterfront. That was after I met Marc. More information Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. My inspiration for wanting to be a beatnik was not Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac but Maynard G. Krebs from the Dobie Gillis show. Bankers. But you could live in New York. Lebowitz: Ive gotten some marriage proposals, but I dont think they were serious. An opinion piece by the one and only Debbie "Blondie" Harry, right in time for Valentine's Day! I wasnt glamorous and rebellious. You dont have to pay me. She said, It is out of the question that this is going to come in without needing editing. And when I gave it in, she called to apologize. The rest of them were mostly folksingers and blues musicians and other horrible poets. All Rights Reserved. When I moved out nine years later, there was no ceiling in the bathroom. Theres an out-loud laugh (or more) on every page, as well as many passages destined for the quotation dictionaries, and the best epigrams written since the invention of television. You might say that was the influence of my mother. I still have the clothes I bought at Bonwit Teller. CLEMENTE: I know you follow politics, and I always thought you would make an excellent mayor of New York. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming uh-huh, yes?. Paper, you can feel it. Everyone thought that to actually suspend you for smoking the matron had to catch you either holding a cigarette or with the smoke coming out of your mouth. I just dont want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours. 2011. At first Fran had to sneak in her own brand of humor. Lebowitz: Not from the people who made the movies. The day my grounding was up and I was going to be allowed to go out on Saturday I got the flu and was sick for two weeks. I think I first came across it in one of the Bronts. People say, Oh, did you like New York better when it was filthy and dangerous? No. Your email address will not be published. I saw a group-therapy movieand the whole thing took place in redwood hot tubs with people screaming their problems at each other. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years. Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese. Lebowitz: I dont remember. They were terrible. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. So I have a state diploma. Just because its February doesnt mean were talking Roses! Fran Lebowitz, who is featured "Pretend It's a City" on Netflix. I said, "Toni, the restaurant's five blocks away.". This is why you have so much idiotic behavior among male writers. The Fran Lebowitz Reader. "And then we did it the Saturday . I guess I could have gotten into driving school. Not only dont they not understand people different from them, they hardly understand themselves. I firmly believe that. I think my most enormous smoking punishment was being grounded for a month. Its not an area of interest. And that is the only place I have those columns, because when I moved from my first horrible apartment, I had every Interview, ever. I just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. Lebowitz is strictly opposed to technology and to this day has no cell phone, computer, or typewriter. Im a horrible girlfriend. Because I had an ounce of marijuana. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. But at a certain point, you hit your limit, and thats it. I got up every morning, brushed my teeth and went to the Village Vanguard and read poetry. Thats what Id like to do. We lived in these horrible places. In person and on the page, Kincaids is a literary voice. This is America, what is the culture? There was a sink in the bathroom. I had always heard that Jeb Bush was the smart one. I was simply sent away to support them. I always was.FRAN LEBOWITZ. I Cover The Waterfront. Maybe 20 people had read it, and he acted like it was in the Daily News. The first thing I did was a movie review column, just bad movies, called Best of the Worst. There used to be a company called AIP, American International Picturesthey mostly made movies for drive-ins; some of them would come to Times Square. And a piano player is sitting there as well. Initially, she covered "Best of the Worst Movies," but later changed the name of her column to "I Cover the . What are those computer letters made of anyway? High Times: I remember telling you youd never make it as a writer until you learned how to type. Lebowitz discoursed without pause for two hours, chain-smoking all the while. So I went to his studio several times while he was making the ballet. 15.19. In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a CityThe Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban lifeits fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. And as Fran took on polyester, landlords, press agents and pop psychology, her reputation grew. Wielding a sharp pen in one hand and cigarette in another, Fran Lebowitz wrote for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine beginning in 1968; published two classic collections of tart, humorous essays Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981) and has ever since remained a fixture of the Manhattan social scene as a sort of critic without portfolio. People say, Well, what would you do with Times Square? And I always think, Gee, I dont know. LEBOWITZ: It really depended. I had been spending all of my time with drug-addict college students. I was a poet for about nine months. I think Brigid Polk did that once. SHOP NOW. ever react to your devotion to their product? Lebowitz: I was 19 at the time, so I thought it was entertaining. The dancers sit there waiting for him to come up with something. And at that time he had every important movie, and that ended my movie-reviewing career. Lebowitz: The Village Vanguard. The years have gone by, but she is still tall. Too insubstantial. CLEMENTE: Since we are New Yorkers, we should talk real estate. In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. January 30, 2011. Thats not writing. Aside from the collected Talk Stories (2001), her nonfiction works include A Small Place (1988), a reckoning with the colonial legacy on Antigua; My Brother (1997), a memoir of the tragedy of AIDS in her family; and two books on gardening, My Garden (Book) (1999) and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (2005). I never make the connection between someones writing and who they are. They would give you $15 and a sandwich. CLEMENTE: But if you drink a little bit of coffee before you go to sleep, this doesnt happen. Lebowitz: I didnt worry about it. I was the best-dressed nanny you ever saw. And you didnt have to think about money every second. OK, come on. By Susan Devaney. There were maybe 40 poems, the only poems I ever wrote. High Times: When you were writing The Best of the Worst what was the best bad movie you ever saw? And I read them. Monday June 7 2021. When I got to the hospital I was restrained. Theres a huge gap in what people know, and theres no context for it anymore. But this idea that people cannot kill each other? I got a lot of tips. In those days you smoked whatever pot you had that day, so rather than share with others I smoked as much as I could humanly smoke. I was more of a drinker. An interview with the late, great actor, comedian, and cannabis fan Richard Belzer (1944-2023). New Yorkers, weve seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. I like New York. She said, You know what its like being with you? All-around cultural oracle Fran Lebowitz really began her ascent to that pulpit here at Interview, in 1972, writing a wonderful column about terrible movies, and then covering the waterfront, as she called it: opining on sundry topics, giving advice, ranting, reflecting, and hooking the reading world (such as it is) on that voicethat saucy, The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. While working in the local Carvel ice-cream store, she attended an Episcopalian day school until she was thrown out for non-specific surliness. Certain that she would starve to death following this banishment, Lebowitz skipped college and moved to Manhattan, where she pursued such jobs as taxi driving, belt peddling, apartment cleaning (with a small specialty in Venetian blinds), and selling advertising space forChangesmagazine. I liked it better than critics screenings because they didnt sit there trying to think of entertaining comments; they just sat there with their cigars, trying to figure out how much money they could make on it. Fran rose to her now-legend status starting at Interview magazine where she wrote a column called "I Cover the Waterfront," She is also the author of two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, and the world awaits further writings. It was really a passion with me. CLEMENTE: One of my favorite things that you ever published was something that came out at the height of the AIDS epidemic, when the amount of nonsensical, prejudiced, ridiculous things being said was really extraordinary, and you came up with a few paragraphs that really nailed the situation. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. Id like to be the admissions director of New York. "Pretend it's a citywhere there are other people ," she pleads. Children played marbles on it. Here's one guarantee in 2021: author Fran Lebowitz won't read this. But because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints. I have to take all the junk off the desk and wash the desk. One of the other ones was a Manson-type film, a hippie death cult. They all say, Oh I did it this afternoon, or, Oh, Im finished. Her essays and topical interviews on subjects ranging from the difficulty of finding an acceptable apartment to the art of freeloading at weekend houses have come to be regarded as classics of literary humor and social observation. I love Richard Pryor. Now I call up friends during the day and theyre writing. I know who I like. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The blood pressure or the air pressure? Im not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who was funny. Fran Lebowitz is an American author and a public speaker. It went on at five-thirty or six in the morning. Okay? And the matron walked in, and the girl actually swallowed it. But, I mean, years ago I had a girlfriend who summed me up perfectly. Lebowitz earned a GED and worked several odd jobs before Andy Warhol hired her as a columnist for Interview Magazine in 1972. Her father, Harold Lebowitz, owned a furniture store and upholstery workshop. Because it doesnt agitate against human nature. The psychiatrist also had shoulder-length hair and Levis under his white coat, and I spent ten minutes arguing with him over whether Id taken acid or smoked pot. Correct? That was actually a job. But there was a myth about her. I am alternately very gregariousvery sociableand then very solitary. I was quite happy to be out. Which is why I remember things. "One of the reasons people our age came to New York, if you were gay, was because you . Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do. I thought theyd probably just give me another joint. LEBOWITZ: Well, you know, so few Americans vote that we may not even notice it. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. So he gave me enough Thorazine to put the entire college to sleep. "Candy was a man who wanted to be a female movie star," says Fran in the opening of the under-three-minute teaser. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. 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