fran lebowitz: i cover the waterfront

In the mid-70s, she began to write for The Village Voice, but it was at The New Yorker, where she became a regular columnist for the Talk of the Town section, that everything changed for her. The Broad Stage presents An Evening with Fran Lebowitz, star of the recent Netflix series Pretend it's a City directed by Martin Scorsese. I was quite happy to be out. The book was released in a 1994 compilation entitled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's other bestseller Social Studies. I wanted to see Robert Young. But . The two close friends first came together for an HBO documentary Public Speaking in 2010, directed by Scorsese, which introduced Lebowitz to a new generation and helped established her continued relevance. I had such contempt for a certain kind of writing, which I would now call white writing. It was so dull and mannered. Wasnt London still a capital of empire in the mid-60s, the cultural center of the Commonwealth? Your email address will not be published. It was a very terrifying experience because when I started to flip out having smoked this much pot I was in a room with people who had also smoked this much pot and no one would help me out. When I got to the hospital they did not believe that I had smoked marijuana, I was so smashed. They would give you $15 and a sandwich. Male writers like them because they have this sneaking suspicion that writing is not the most masculine profession. The title refers to her frustration with people so absorbed in their devices that they bump into you on the street. When I was young, I liked romance. I said to my friends, 'He's going to make you long for de Blasio, [and] he was terrible,'" the author . You see a young girl wearing a headscarf, and standing next to her is a Hasid. Things that New Yorkers need. But perhaps it makes senseI grew up in a place where I saw the sea every day and, near the end of my life, Im living in a place where the water has run out. But, of course, Ive always been old at heart. She never really wrote anything else and has since made her living on the social commentary speaking circuit. French symbolist? I might have gone to the University of the West Indies. I watched 400 Bayer aspirin commercials. One day I went downstairs to eat Polka Dottys food, my mother told me that Polka Dotty had flown south for the winter. Lebowitz: I didnt worry about it. There are these prototypes all over the place, mixed in with my own crummy furniture. I hit my limit at 19, and I havent had any since. "It would have been . A childrens book, Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip, came out in 1986. One of the movies was The Thing with Two Heads, starring Ray Milland and Rosie Grier. And I like cities. But for I Cover the Waterfront, ordinarily I would go out to dinner with Marc the night beforeand when I say dinner, I mean some hamburger place or somethingand I would think of ideas, and then I would go home. She has plants that move her because of how they look or how they behave, or because of their histories. Metropolitan Life, published by E.P. Everyone I know says, Fran is a Luddite, she doesnt have a computer. But I never had a typewriter. To celebrate, were republishing Glenn OBriens interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. I talked out of turn, I talked too much, I talked in class, I made jokes during the lessons, I whispered to other children. 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. The episode closes with Dear Someone, a poem by Deborah Landau. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. But after a while Fran outgrew the bad-flick format. Okay? They were these huge hardcover books that were different aspects of Interview. "Eric Adams I saw coming. I sold belts on the street. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. Children would get up to watch other children playing marbles and Ping-Pong and stuff like that. Fran Lebowitz is a New York humorist who worked as a columnist for Andy Warhol's Interview before publishing her first collection of comic essays, Metropolitan Life, in 1978. I once read that deer are in the rodent family, and I still believe this. Jamaica Kincaid is a generous host. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. I get tired, but fear keeps me awake. Full-time Im watching daytime TV., The following interview took place one afternoon in an apartment overlooking the East River. This is another thing most people don't know about Toni: though she was incredibly hardworking, she was physically incredibly lazy. texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on "Update,"'" he continued. When asked about the long delay in its delivery to her publisher, she explained that she only works on it on the side. I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. Theres a connection. There are certain relationships I think Im great at: Im the worlds greatest daughter. Lebowitz earned a GED and worked several odd jobs before Andy Warhol hired her as a columnist for Interview Magazine in 1972. Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. The rest of them were mostly folksingers and blues musicians and other horrible poets. But now, as Ive grown up, all my friends have developed much more mature writing habits. We lived in these horrible places. America is a great idea, so thats why its a great country. by Anonymous: reply 136: January 15, 2021 3:23 AM: I adore her. It is boring and it is arithmetic. Who hasnt typed for me in a long time? I could probably get a secretary for what I spend getting my friends to type for me. The novel is reputedly about rich people who want to be artists, and artists who want to be rich people. - Booklet on 'New York's Underground' - Large . It was minute. I think if there were no such thing as men, there would be no word processors. When I was really young I wanted to be a toll taker because I thought they kept the money. Used Planes comes out every single month. 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. The housing problem would be solved completely. They thought I had taken acid, and I couldnt convince them it was marijuana. But it's a pleasurable one. Lebowitz: I dont remember. He was the only one of us to break out into the big time, because he got a job on the first gay cruise ship. No ones supposed to be the president. Why dont you just put some of your books in storage? And I always say the same thing: What if I told you I had four children? movie. Nowadays if I were to be homesick it would be for Vermont, which is strange. Id like to be admissions director of New York. Fran Lebowitz moved to New York City from her hometown of Morristown, NJ when she was 19. I saw an ad in the Village Voice that said WantedPoets. This really weird guy named Jack Scully, who was an ex-monk, had somehow convinced Max Gordon, who owned the Village Vanguard, that the fact that the Vanguard was empty during the day was losing him a great fortune. I know this sounds insane, but I just hate it. Rare Vintage Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine, September 1981, featuringCover: FRAN LEBOWITZ w/ feature interview by JOHN WATERS (HYSTERICAL! High Times Greats: Fran Lebowitz, Americas Funniest Femme Fatale. This has never occurred. Lebowitz maintains that she wrote the columns with the intention of building a distinct collection of essays. CLEMENTE: But dont you love being in someone elses apartment, possibly someone you dont know well or know at all? I remember I got $500 for it. 5. I think Brigid Polk did that once. She said theyd take one pack out and then move the rest up. She cooks with flair. Fran Lebowitz.the toast of the town; a brilliant writer who almost never writes. Then I moved here. The idea of writing something without publishing it is too horrifying to me. Couldnt it be clean, or cleaner. The two things I hate the most. I clearly had one of those eating problems, but I didnt know what they were. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. In time, she put herself on another path. I always liked people who are older. High Times: Why did you smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day? Dutton, is a collection of Frans columns. I had been spending all of my time with drug-addict college students. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Observer. Me and, like, five of what I then thought of as old menthey were probably 40smoking cigars, watching these movies. The title song was sung by a truck. I didnt know that there was anything about me that had a name, that could be diagnosed. Now she is winning new . High Times: Did you ever worry about not graduating from high school? Your email address will not be published. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. "One of the reasons people our age came to New York, if you were gay, was because you . They were also the most interesting people. One is that deers are rats. The dancers sit there waiting for him to come up with something. Its very important who the president of the United States is. Three or four hours, okay, fine. High Times: Do you ever think you cant do it? Fran Lebowitz slams NYC mayor Eric Adams. On the other hand, in the last few weeks, a couple of times I had dinner with people where I was the only American at the table, and I was yelled at for Donald Trump, like he was my fault. Not just New York. I sulk for several days. I had never really read any poetry, so it was a completely invented style. My first school punishment was sitting in the corner in kindergarten wearing a Band-Aid over my mouth and holding up a sign that said I am a chatterbox. That was my first run-in with authority. 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. Thats not writing. Once a girl was sitting on the window ledge smoking a cigarette and the matron walked in and the girl jumped out the window. Twenty-five people sitting in the room staring at you while you are thinking. And I was really distraught. I believe Im a great friend. And he would weigh them. The knowing audience also died and no longer exists in a real way. I like Mel Brooks, especially the 2,000-year-old-man records with Carl Reiner. Ms. Lebowitz was interviewed by Glenn OBrien, a longtime friend who has proposed marriage on several occasions. I met one who used to go to Kennedy Airport, to the terminals where people were coming from Florida, and there were a lot of Puerto Ricans who had never been to New York; he used to have a bathroom scale in the taxi, and he would tell these Puerto Ricans that in this country taxi rates were by weight and that it was a quarter a pound or something like that. At that point one of the boys I was with realized I was feeling better and got really mad at me for insisting on going to the hospital, and he screamed at me, which made me perfectly crazy by the time I got to see the psychiatrist. was he fascinating? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It didnt rhyme. They dont have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. And its not just New York; its the whole world. I am alternately very gregariousvery sociableand then very solitary. Fran Lebowitz is an American author and a public speaker. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. Plus they are paid by the minute. 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. The Modern Farmer came on before Sunrise Semester, and it was about farming. Just because its February doesnt mean were talking Roses! But when I say no kitchen, I mean no sink. They also deserve him as candidate, all these so-called mainstream RepublicansI dont know what thats supposed to mean. I was a poet for about nine months. CLEMENTE: No, I can sleep. Needless to say, I'm a big fan and I'm telling everyone I know to watch it right away. 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. Its almost as good as being a mechanic. By Kate Mossman Enough time has passed, Fran Lebowitz thinks, to admit she went to a birthday party on 9/11. 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). That was actually a job. Just one day the headmaster woke up and thought. But this idea that people cannot kill each other? These were oral book reports. Fran Lebowitzs trademark is the sneer; she disapproves of virtually everything except sleep, cigarette smoking, and good furniture. I finish things now, and I think, Who was the last person who typed for me? We have something here that you dont hear about anymore; we have tolerance. And then she would pop up somewhere else. In Andy Warhol's Interview: Volume 1: Best of the First Decade 1969-1979, edited by Sara J . Get notified of our the latest cannabis news, exclusive brand deals, events updates and more! 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. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. Not so much to put anything in its place as to give an account of what had happened to me. I also wrote plays for my cousins to perform at various family gatherings. After the latters death, the former mysteriously disappeared. Especially really horrible ones. The New York Times, especially at that time, was gigantic. I used to start at midnight, but thats gotten pushed up, so now its common for me to start at three in the morning. Im only afraid when I write. There is only nervousness or death. High Times: Were you a behavior problem in school? I like people older than me and children, really little children. I dressed in old clothes, thrift-shop clothes. Ive never had a job I liked. And its not my desire to make New York more suburban. I hated the we. And you would have cash at the end of the day. I used to sneak out of bed to watch it. "Pretend it's a citywhere there are other people ," she pleads. In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it follows Lebowitz and Scorsese as they prowl New York City streets, museums and members clubs for conversations about the city. Now I call up friends during the day and theyre writing. LEBOWITZ: I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19. ever react to your devotion to their product? For numerous reasons. 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. 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. LEBOWITZ: I used to. High Times: If someone offered you an hour TV special that you could do anything with, what would you do? They made me wait three hours to see the psychiatrist, and by that time I was starting to come down. I used to like this guy Milt Kamen. Those memories are a constant source of some strange pleasure for me. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: After a certain age, in the early hours of the morning, the pressure drops, which is the reason why. I like Dorothy Parker. He writes for the New Yorker. Im a horrible girlfriend. But I never liked pot much. 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 LEBOWITZ: When I move, I do. I cant remember the last funny thing I ever said. The first time we went to dinner and a movie togetherthis was shortly after we metwe got out of the movie, and she said, "Let's get a cab.". FRAN LEBOWITZ: The thing I did with Marty prior to this was a documentary film called Public Speaking. . Lebowitz: I guess after about six months I started getting caught constantly. 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 use them frequently. No one has ever said it that way. You cant do it. So I remember I said, Look, if you dont like it, give it back to me. Interview, at the time, six people read it, believe me. CLEMENTE: You were not good at math in school? A decade seems like a good enough time for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and cultural critic-writer Fran Lebowitz to return to the screen. In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. But my mother didnt tell me. Another time I saw a real pretty girl standing in front of the mirror with a little tiny cigarette butt hanging out of her mouth, teasing her hair. But in modern America - where, despite ostensible separation of church and state, the only thing that trumps the cross in terms of influence is the dollar sign - its possibly even worse. AIDS completely changed American culture. Then one day Polka Dotty was found dead. I wait until the editor says, Unless its in tomorrow morning at ten oclock we cant run it. Then I stay up all night and do it. 2. An interview with the late, great actor, comedian, and cannabis fan Richard Belzer (1944-2023). Lebowitz: I dont really remember it. 15 Times Fran Lebowitz Was The Most Interesting Woman In The Room. High Times: When you were writing The Best of the Worst what was the best bad movie you ever saw? High Times: What jobs have you had besides writing? As a result, the column was the last word on Hollywoods follies, and it was also hilariously funny, winning her a small cult of fanatical fans. Famously known to have sidestepped buying into browsing the Internet or even owning a computer, the iconic humorist doesn't - nor will she ever . The first time I ever came to New York by myself, I snuck to New York on a bus and bought a pair of bongo drums with all the money Id saved my whole life, which was $12. He said theyd fix it. LEBOWITZ: It may just be the offers Ive had, but generally, I think theres just more to say no to. But I would always say, Well, its not that I dont want to write for these big magazines, but you cant edit it. And they would always say, What are you talking about? And then they would name thousands of geniuses who willingly submitted to being edited. I was pulled out of school to take care of my youngest brother while my mother went to work, and when she realized I hadnt been looking after him properly, that I had been reading instead, she gathered all the books I had stolen from the library over the years and burned them. Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. And at the end of the book report you were supposed to tell people where they could get the book, and I would always say. This is America, what is the culture? LEBOWITZ: Yes, the night before. I Cover The Waterfront. Theyre acting as if the other people are Abraham Lincoln. February 10, 2022 Fran Lebowitz doesn't care what you think, unless you're carrying a gun. This is not a middle-aged curmudgeonly attitude; I didnt like people that age even when I was that age. That doesnt exist any more. They told you what to write. But, I mean, years ago I had a girlfriend who summed me up perfectly. And the truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. And I said, Well, I dont really care. Her big, broad-frame glasses evoke the Italian movie stars of the sixties. Im going out. Im the only person left who is this irresponsible. I remember she wore her hair in a French roll, and she wore what they called a hobble skirt. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. I mean, New Yorks not exactly antiseptic. Once I wrote a column for Interview called Send This Girl to Camp where I set myself up as some sort of fresh-air-fund child and announced that I wanted to go to camp: I invented a camp called Camp Sensibility and asked people for contributions to send me there. And you know what we have enough of? Fortunately they didnt, so its not around to haunt me. Go back. I think that would solve both problems. Im great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic. I think I got to 2, and then I slept 22 hours. 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. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. 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. Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. There was one 75-year-old woman who was a torch singer; she had varicose veins, and shed get up on this stool and sing Marlene Dietrich songs, also at ten in the morning. A brief follow-up conversation took place over the phone to Lebowitz, who had decamped to Princeton, New Jersey, where she was renting the house of a noted architect and sometime furniture designer. People say, Oh, did you like New York better when it was filthy and dangerous? No. Lucy is about the making of a person. LEBOWITZ: Here are my qualifications: I am a New Yorker. High Times: Do you watch anything else on TV besides Family Feud? I just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. At twenty-one, she began a column, I Cover the Waterfront, for Andy WarholsInterviewmagazine, before moving toMademoiselle. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. Here's one guarantee in 2021: author Fran Lebowitz won't read this. 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. And I feel this way more and more about the Republican candidates, certainly. Your friends who dont write will not stay on the phone with you, because they have other real things they want to do. Bloomberg was always bragging how many hotels were being builtI remember seeing him on the news, saying, And this is the nine millionth hotel in Queens. Queens! High Times: Did you watch television as a child? President Biden repeatedly framed his campaign and his administration as defending "the rule of law" after what he and others portrayed as the lawless reign of President Trump . Okay? What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. Fran Lebowitz. I loved dressing up and going out. I just talked too much. 15.19. I didnt connect with the fact that her father was a lord and that he had it privately printed, and that my father was not a lordhe owned a furniture store and had no intention of having a book privately printed. Fran Lebowitz: I cover the waterfront. At the age of 21, Lebowitz was hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist . I loved getting the measles and colds so I could sit on the couch and watch all those morning situation comedies. They told you what kind of sex to put in it. It was really a passion with me. She is alive to the advantage in the irony that her literary heritage had not predicted her, exalted, brave, free. Even ones that preceded me. General? And I said, Because I liked your clever ads.. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. . He was the one that was supposed to be president. So I went to his studio several times while he was making the ballet. Shes really not our type. I was home sick when I was expelled. I mean, knowing James Joyce . And I would always give it back. Its placing too great a burden on the average intelligence. The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. No one I knew talked about money. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. And Orson Welles agrees Behind him comes Fran Lebowitz, flustered from whatever is going on in the street. I wanted consciousness-restricting drugs; thats why I used to like liquor. They have a fresh approach. But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. With one suitcase? I guess I could have gotten into driving school. But why do these things have to be either/or? And people sent in money. But so far I have not. Fran readily agreed, as she was banned from most movie screenings because of her old column, Best of the Worst. So just think, if there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. Thats really interesting. I know Ive said this before, but the audience for the artswhether it was for writing or films . Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. At the age of 27, Fran Lebowitz has been suddenly hailed as the funniest writer to come down the pike since Dorothy Parker or, by some accounts, Oscar Wilde. Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. And the matron walked in, and the girl actually swallowed it. I mean, unless you have an erotic interest in them, what other interest could you have? But they didnt have any long-term plan in mind. But what I cant be is monogamous. Im speaking to you from a priceless, one-of-a-kind chair. And thats why Frans first book, Metropolitan Life, has become a smash hit. And I also knew I didnt want to write like anyone else. Ill take you to 21 if you type for me. Ive typed some of my columns. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards. Now youd have to have a zillion dollars to live there. But you need more room to do that. I cant imagine what I could have done with it. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. My parents did. They had a very weird array of people who worked there. Or acceptance or understanding. Then I switched to Carlton in an attempt not to smoke too much, and now I smoke nine times more Carltons than I ever smoked anything else. CLEMENTE: So everything that you write is written by hand? BUT.she has plenty to say and has absolutely no problem with verbal expression and is brutally honest. Fran Lebowitz, who is featured "Pretend It's a City" on Netflix. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. I had always heard that Jeb Bush was the smart one. My idea of pure hell. At that time colleges had these hotlines, and you could call up and say, My friend just ate 14 pounds of acid, and some graduate student would drive over in his little Chevy and rescue you. I have about ten thousand. I also used to write a zillion songs. I write with a pen. FRANCESCO CLEMENTES LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATION, ENCAMPMENT, WILL TRAVEL TO EVELEIGH, AUSTRALIA, THIS SUMMER. You're only as good as your last haircut. So in New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here. Lebowitz: I had a parakeet when I was four called Polka Dotty, and I killed Polka Dotty by eating its food. when asked about his sexuality replied "I cover the waterfront." Andy said it went over like a lead balloon. In placing them in magazines she was merely pursuing her policy of selling a piece of writing as many times as possible. I wrote an editorial about the matron and got kicked off the paper. Fran Lebowitz, ca. It was unavoidable. One was called Catherine the Great, and it had a picture of her on the label. Lebowitz: Not Samuel Z. Arkoff or anyone, but the press agent there loved me. I now dread the getting-it-typed part as much as I dread the writing part. China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. Saying no is a little different. Id like to be the admissions director of New York. I wouldnt say that I dislike the young. There are more male writers who own guns than any other profession except police officers. Im a horrible girlfriend. Because I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. Donald Trump is not my fault. 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. I have to take the TV off the chair. She takes one. But I really dont like animals at all. Black cigarettes, every horrible adolescent smoking gesture imaginable. I know who I like. And just think how fantastic New York would be. Jan. 11, 2021 2:36 PM PT. I wish it was still on, except now I guess it would be too modern. And as Fran took on polyester, landlords, press agents and pop psychology, her reputation grew. 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