In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. Lebowitz: Daddy. My mother taught me to say that so I would wake my father up instead of her. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: After a certain age, in the early hours of the morning, the pressure drops, which is the reason why. High Times Greats: Fran Lebowitz, Americas Funniest Femme Fatale. 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. He was the only person who took me seriously enough to ban me. Then, in 1972, she began writing for Andy Warhols Interview. Fran Lebowitz moved to New York City from her hometown of Morristown, NJ when she was 19. Its very disconcerting to be in the basement of a night club at ten oclock in the morning reading poetry on a stage with a spotlight on you and no one there. I always was. The two things I hate the most. I picked up two famous people: one was Dr. Joyce Brothers, who undertipped me, and one was Rod Steiger. Lebowitz: Ive had a number of interesting, colorful jobs. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. She takes one. I said, How could I help you choreograph a ballet? So all the judgment left at the same time that all this creativity left. Since 1974, High Times Magazine has been the #1 resource for cannabis news, culture, brands and marijuana legalization laws. Me and, like, five of what I then thought of as old menthey were probably 40smoking cigars, watching these movies. 2011. 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. And I even have the Richie Rich home game. I was more of a drinker. 15.19. So he wasnt a surprise to me. 19 January 2021. But I did actually graduate from high school, because I took the New Jersey High School Equivalency Test. It was minute. When I was really young I wanted to be a toll taker because I thought they kept the money. LEBOWITZ: Yes. Id like to be admissions director of New York. I think Brigid Polk did that once. I dont remember who published it. Over some twenty years, Kincaid has made what my partner, the poet James Fenton, calls a plantsmans garden, full of rare species. Full-time Im watching daytime TV., The following interview took place one afternoon in an apartment overlooking the East River. I was simply sent away to support them. My inspiration for wanting to be a beatnik was not Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac but Maynard G. Krebs from the Dobie Gillis show. This must be about 15 years ago. So I would lie in bed and make up book reports about books that I made up. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. 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. I dont want them to come. So I didnt have a kitchen. Lebowitz: Because I was 19 years old. Fran Lebowitz photographed in Chelsea, New York, January 2021. With one suitcase? I never watched TV at night because my mother put me to bed at 7:30 until I was 12. But so far I have not. I just talked too much. I met Marc in . I was a big fan of Sky King. It was terribly disconcerting because I knew that they werent going to cure me. I like New York. Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do.FRAN LEBOWITZ, LEBOWITZ: It was for The New York Times. 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. But its important who the president is. The title refers to her frustration with people so absorbed in their devices that they bump into you on the street. 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. . A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. I wanted to see Robert Young. But I thought it was a job. She began a similar column (although PG rated) in Mademoiselle. In conversation with Interview pal Francesco Clemente, Lebowitz here lays out her tongue-in-cheek platform for a mayoral run, declares the Donalds run done, and explains why New York is the greatest place in the world. by Anonymous: reply 136: January 15, 2021 3:23 AM: I adore her. The Great Gildersleeve. That's honestly, that's love.". High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? Why was your first apartment so horrible, apart from the roaches? High Times: What was the first thing you wrote as a serious attempt to be a writer? My idea of pure hell. And I said, Well, I dont really care. There are a lot of funny people around, and a lot of writers too, but somehow the combination of great humor and great writing has become an exceedingly rare commodity in the modern world. Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. By Susan Devaney. I remember walking in the hot sun to one of the American bases in Antiguapast the crazy house, as we called the lunatic asylum, and the dead house, where the bodies of people who died in the hospital were put until they were collected by the undertakerto be interviewed by an American soldiers wife. 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. Fran Lebowitz.the toast of the town; a brilliant writer who almost never writes. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. They dont know what anything is, so they have to make it up. 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An opinion piece by the one and only Debbie "Blondie" Harry, right in time for Valentine's Day! Then I moved to New York and switched to exotic foreign brands. 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. The knowing audience also died and no longer exists in a real way. One of which is that I strongly object to having more than one generation of a family being president. So I evolved the theory that horses are hands. If theyd known anyone in London, they would have sent me there. But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. No one I knew talked about money. Then she published two books of essays Metropolitan Life and Social Studies - both wonderful. No, Im just intrigued by them, because, to me, theyre like talking animals. Okay? Rare Vintage Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine, September 1981, featuringCover: FRAN LEBOWITZ w/ feature interview by JOHN WATERS (HYSTERICAL! So I went to his studio several times while he was making the ballet. I think if there were no such thing as men, there would be no word processors. They were terrible. And especially the ones that I knew. . I was the best-dressed nanny you ever saw. texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on "Update,"'" he continued. I loved to smoke. I just dont like domestic life. In the earliest days of the lockdown . I saw the super once, just when I moved in, and I pointed out to him there was no ceiling in the bathroom. 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. The writer and raconteur embodied the hip, downtown Manhattan of the 70s. Oh, now I remember my favorite TV show from my childhood. Lebowitz: I dont really remember it. High Times: What was it like being a cab driver? Lebowitz: A writer. High Times: Didnt you write some pornographic books as a struggling artist? For numerous reasons. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. And he did those illustrations. The building is still there. I could have written a trilogy in 11 hours. But, I mean, years ago I had a girlfriend who summed me up perfectly. Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. A pen. Go back. I think that would solve both problems. I can put my hand on any book in the whole house; I know where they are. The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. I think I got to 2, and then I slept 22 hours. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). 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. CLEMENTE: And the illustrations were by Marc Balet? I would rather have a typist. General? And I said, Because I liked your clever ads.. I published it under the name of the headmaster who threw me out of school. Lebowitz: I dont think I was a poet for even an entire year. One is that deers are rats. During that period I had stripes cut on my hands. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. General with two other people who were also smashed out of their minds. I just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. Thats good for at least an hour of not writing. Fran Lebowitz, the writer, cultural critic, and professional raconteur, spoke with me over the phone via landline, as she famously doesn't own a cell phone or computer. But since that apartment was infested with roaches, I decided not to bring them to my nice, new apartment. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. At my high school they employed a woman known as the matron whose sole job was to go into the girls bathrooms and catch people smoking. Nowadays if I were to be homesick it would be for Vermont, which is strange. I don't care how she makes her money but she helps make the world a better place in to live in. No ones supposed to be the president. - 48-page book (text in German) covering the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground in film and a discography, with many b&w and colour photos. ' Thats how I feel. CLEMENTE: Did you talk with the clients of your cab? For two reasons: First of all, I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car? I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. . Especially because I was the only girl. CLEMENTE: You failed to describe your qualifications to be mayor of the city. In Andy Warhol's Interview: Volume 1: Best of the First Decade 1969-1979, edited by Sara J . But what I cant be is monogamous. 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. In my grammar school we got extra credit for extra book reports. Its placing too great a burden on the average intelligence. It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. Lebowitz: The Village Vanguard. June 15, 2021 6:30 AM PT. I used to like this guy Milt Kamen. That was one. After the latters death, the former mysteriously disappeared. Immigrants are good, tourists are bad. Lebowitz: I had a parakeet when I was four called Polka Dotty, and I killed Polka Dotty by eating its food. 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. By the time my youngest brother was born her life had collapsed on her, but she was a very elegant woman when I was young. I didnt have any adventures. Fran Lebowitz, ca. CLEMENTE: So everything that you write is written by hand? As a Democrat, Id quite like him to be the candidate. Even ones that preceded me. Scorsese ventures that it was at a literary party on New York City . It used to be a tradition in agricultural families that youd sacrifice the eldest child. February 10, 2022 Fran Lebowitz doesn't care what you think, unless you're carrying a gun. I never make the connection between someones writing and who they are. Once a girl was sitting on the window ledge smoking a cigarette and the matron walked in and the girl jumped out the window. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. And I participated a lot in market research. One was called Catherine the Great, and it had a picture of her on the label. But, of course, Ive always been old at heart. CLEMENTE: Did you take drugs before you were 19? Fran Lebowitz Toni Morrison was one of her best friends for almost 40 years, up to Morrison's death in 2019. Interview was then a film magazine, and it reviewed almost every film that was released. Im a great relative. press handouts. Im the worlds greatest daughter. But when I say no kitchen, I mean no sink. The New York Times, especially at that time, was gigantic. 2. Amazon. Because someone once told me that horses legs are actually like fingers and that their hooves are actually fingernails. I never saw those issues. I sulk for several days. You have to say fuck, you have to have these kinds of sex. He packs them, and then every time you move, they have to be put in different ways. During the time that I read poetry, because I was such a wonderful reader of it, people who actually had a legitimate interest in poetry would hear me and ask me to send it to them because they thought it was good. I remember the darkness of being sent awaysheer misery of a kind that I didnt know existed. 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. I think I will learn to type. Like there is an American family where someones supposed to be president. And then I would go out, get Marc coffee and a Danish, bring it to his apartment, and he would type it for me, because I never had a typewriter. Im sorry, were full up. After addressing her reaction to the Mueller . I think there should be an oldies TV station like theres an oldies radio station, with Dobie Gillis and Life of Riley and all those great shows. Theres no reason why it has to be the way it is. The first sentence of one of those books was, It was autumn in New York; you could tell it was autumn because chorus boys all over town were losing their leaves. I thought that was the most hilarious thing Id ever read. Glenn OBriens interview with the iconic Fran Lebowitz from the August, 1978 issue of High Times magazine. The one I wrote myself was called House of Leather. LEBOWITZ: No. If you don't know Fran Lebowitz, you'll get to know her very well in Pretend It's a City, the new 7-episode docuseries directed by her longtime friend, Martin Scorsese.Lebowitz has been . CLEMENTE: You didnt have a kitchen, but I doubt that you cook. Paper, you can feel it. And you didnt have to think about money every second. 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. 817K views 3 years ago #amanpourpbs Known for her sardonic wit, social commentator Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. One day they would show you how to plant tomatoes, the next day theyd show how to raise chickens, the day after that how to can peas. Fran Lebowitz contains multitudes: author (with a decades-old writer's block), journalist (Vanity Fair and Interview, et al. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. The Fran Lebowitz Reader. 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. Too insubstantial. 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. 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 and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in 'Pretend It's a City' The Netflix series, featuring Lebowitz and directed by Scorsese, offers acerbic commentary and a sense of. Im such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I like Woody Allen. When Im at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV., Some years ago, Lebowitz sold a proposal of a novel entitled Exterior Signs of Wealth, a reference to a French conspicuous-consumption tax figured on the basis of display of wealth. We were all really jealous of him. Thats really interesting. Maybe Ill donate them to one of those film schools in Los Angeles for a tax write-off. I Cover the Waterfront is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, and Hobart Cavanaugh.. Based on the book, by Max Miller, a reporter for the San Diego Sun, the film is about a reporter who investigates a waterfront smuggling operation, and becomes romantically involved with the daughter of the man he is . There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. 1. Nearby are a vegetable garden caged against wildlife and a cottage in which lives Trevor, her bearded young assistant. Getty Images. It was 87. That was on the second floor. She was a hot little number in 1978 . Lebowitz: No. In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. Im afraid Im sitting beyond my means.. Because I was stupid. Im simply not a fan of navet. For some reason, I decided to cut off my hair and bleach it blond. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. It seemed cruel even to other people because I was known as what we called a bright child. No, there wasnt any cause for celebration, though my mother did make me a new dress and see me off to the airport. Fran took on modern manners, aesthetics and culture the way William Buckley takes on liberalism. The film, a mix of interviews and clips of Lebowitz, is . Once I got the contract for Metropolitan Life, I started writing longer things, because the editor said, You cant write these little, tiny things. I have the exact opposite problem of every writer Ive ever met: Every writer Ive ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down. Lebowitz: I was 19 at the time, so I thought it was entertaining. LEBOWITZ: When I move, I do. CLEMENTE: How do you keep ten thousand books in order, do you have a personal librarian? Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. And Orson Welles agrees Behind him comes Fran Lebowitz, flustered from whatever is going on in the street. They had one guy who was like an Elvis imitator, only he imitated Oscar Wilde. Alison Roman Dishes on Resy, Air Fryers, and Erewhon, The Gatekeepers of New Yorks Most Coveted Tables Tell All, Kathryn Newton and Paul Rudd on the Joys of Being Extra, Alex Cooper Calls Her Daddy Mel Ottenberg at the Prada Show in Milan. She has published the novels Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), Mr. Potter (2002), and See Now Then (2013). Kincaid divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor of African American studies at Harvard University, and Bennington, Vermont, where her large brown clapboard house with yellow window trim is shielded by trees. It became the major thing I was punished for. When I moved out nine years later, there was no ceiling in the bathroom. 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. 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! 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. Monday June 7 2021. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. I would read it to him, because you cant read my writing. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards. One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. She is alive to the advantage in the irony that her literary heritage had not predicted her, exalted, brave, free. Id like to be the admissions director of New York. Lebowitz is an atheist, so for her, no. It was on West Fourth Street, between Jane and 12th. There were times when my mother and I would go swimming and she would disappear for a second, and I would imagine the depths just rolling over her, that shed go deeper and deeper and Id never see her again . The first people who died of AIDS were artists. Everyone I know says, Fran is a Luddite, she doesnt have a computer. But I never had a typewriter. I also wrote plays for my cousins to perform at various family gatherings. I have two animal theories. General in Boston. By Kate Mossman Enough time has passed, Fran Lebowitz thinks, to admit she went to a birthday party on 9/11. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. When I got to the hospital they did not believe that I had smoked marijuana, I was so smashed. But I will go see any comedian. I also have the Family Feud home game, but I cant figure out how to play it. New Yorkers, weve seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. High Times: What are your favorite magazines? The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Lebowitz: I guess after about six months I started getting caught constantly. CLEMENTE: Have you been following the presidential campaign? . I like lots of writers, but now I cant think of them. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I remember it because when I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. Its like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. But this was the 60s, and there were all of these Harvard medical students there learning to be doctors, so all the doctors in the hospital had hair down to their shoulders and granny glasses. Unless they own a hotel chain, I dont think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this. When I was young, I liked romance. Florinda Donner and Carlos Castenada were both accused of fabricating their encounters with Indigenous healers. American International made so many great movies that theyve all melted in my mind into one great A.I.P. I dressed in old clothes, thrift-shop clothes. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. 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