Couldnt it be clean, or cleaner. 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. It was terribly disconcerting because I knew that they werent going to cure me. 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 used to steal hers. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write aboutthe movies. I can put my hand on any book in the whole house; I know where they are. But you could live in New York. You're only as good as your last haircut. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). Lebowitz: No. They had very good writers, but they were these old, stout white men. No one I knew talked about money. In fact, most of the offending language appears in the trailer alone. Well, I work on amachine. What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. But I wanted to be a beatnik when there were already hippies. 246, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk discover her shape or identity or essence. Next, Allan Gurganuss reading of his story It Had Wings, about an arthritic woman who finds a fallen angel in her backyard, is interspersed with a version of the story rendered as a one-woman opera by the composer Bruce Saylor. The essays were published inMetropolitan Life(1978) andSocial Studies(1981). I started being a poet when I lived in Poughkeepsie, and I wrote a book of poetry called Poughkeepsie Blood. My whole movie consciousness was based on movies no one else had ever seen. CLEMENTE: And the illustrations were by Marc Balet? Ill also invent things, like I have to clean the entire apartment before I write. We would think of them together, and then he would execute them. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. Lebowitz: Ive had a number of interesting, colorful jobs. We have something here that you dont hear about anymore; we have tolerance. And, first of . High Times: Were you a behavior problem in school? After that I switched back to Larks, and I smoked those for a really long time. She was part Carib Indian, and they used to call her the Red Woman. Im great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic. I never had any skilled jobs because I never had any skills. )Feature about Roy M. Cohn with full page photo by ROBERT MAPPLETHORPEGallery and fashion adsFran Lebowitz ("I Cover the Waterfront" column)music reviews, party pics.Funny classifieds.COVER IS torn (upper I had never really read any poetry, so it was a completely invented style. And if you asked them, Do you like that Jew? She would say, No, I hate him. Do you like that girl in the head scarf? No, I hate her. But heres the great thing about New York: They leave each other alone. The Great Gildersleeve. In person, that voice pours out in great glittering riffs (on politics and personal space, on AIDS, the 80s, New York, and everything in between) that set Lebowitz atop our list of dream dinner-party guests and probably put her in the running for greatest talkers ever. High Times: If someone offered you an hour TV special that you could do anything with, what would you do? CLEMENTE: Have you been following the presidential campaign? 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. The Modern Farmer came on before Sunrise Semester, and it was about farming. She has two children from her marriage to the composer Allen Shawn, the son of the former New Yorker editor William Shawn, and in the living room she displays on a tableproudly, apologeticallyproductions from the arts-and-crafts camps and classes that her son and daughter attended over the years. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. And in order to do that, you have to change it so they like it. I hated the we. I remember it because they gave me the topic: What was the effect of AIDS on the culture? The novel is reputedly about rich people who want to be artists, and artists who want to be rich people. This is why I have problems with books, because you cannot do that the night before. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves. . And I said, Well, I dont really care. Lebowitz: I had a parakeet when I was four called Polka Dotty, and I killed Polka Dotty by eating its food. I rolled my own cigarettes. Fifty years later, she's still there, and the author, public speaker and humorist has a lifetime's . "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 . Lebowitz discoursed without pause for two hours, chain-smoking all the while. Lebowitz: My writing habits are basically nonwriting habits. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. Customers paid 99 an hour to listen to this garbage. I like Woody Allen. It didnt rhyme. There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. Rare Vintage Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine, September 1981, featuringCover: FRAN LEBOWITZ w/ feature interview by JOHN WATERS (HYSTERICAL! 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. 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, Especially because I was the only girl. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. I used to be ashamed to be seen with her because she was so sexymen of all ages would stop her and talk to her. High Times: Do you watch anything else on TV besides Family Feud? Im very vilified for this, I have to say. "Eric Adams I saw coming. Polka Dotty ate seeds and celery tops, and my mother would give me Polka Dottys food, and I would go downstairs and eat it. I was really young. Did Lucy come out of a feeling that you needed to put your arrival to America in its place somehowto examine it, or to leave it behind? Capitalism, pretty old-fashioned, too. Im a horrible girlfriend. Knowledge of a culture. To me, it would be even a slower way to write. I Cover The Waterfront. EW cover star Bowen Yang stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers . 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. At the beginning, every day, you asked me a hundred questions about myself. No, youre not. Lebowitz: I dont really remember it. That never used to happen. These four guys figured out how to lift New York out of this dire financial condition with the campaign I Love NY. I hated this thing. Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. LEBOWITZ: Here are my qualifications: I am a New Yorker. 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. He was the only person who took me seriously enough to ban me. Fran Lebowitz, ace epigrammatist, is further a first-rate conversationalist, a hall-of-fame bibliomaniac, a chronic self-caricaturist, a gal-about-town, the soul of the city, a snappish social . Lebowitz: I have to say I have only written back to important people, people in the publishing business. The two things I hate the most. 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 . I just dont want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours. To me, dictating a book seems impossible. After he described his husband's final day, terminally ill and surrounded by their four poodles, I said, "That's so special. Not only dont they not understand people different from them, they hardly understand themselves. Or acceptance or understanding. Glenn OBriens interview with the iconic Fran Lebowitz from the August, 1978 issue of High Times magazine. Youre so judgmental I would find it helpful. I would stand in front of the class and report on a book I had made up. They were terrible. I like Dorothy Parker. I published it under the name of the headmaster who threw me out of school. LEBOWITZ: This has happened to me my whole life. 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. January 30, 2011. I believe Im a great friend. 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. 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 . So Scully put on something called Village Varieties, and he hired all these teenaged artists-to-be, and it opened at ten in the morning and closed at six. I would say maybe 74, 75. Her father, Harold Lebowitz, owned a furniture store and upholstery workshop. LEBOWITZ: I drove a cab. Lebowitz: Id like to have a talk show with no guests. Fran Lebowitz is an American author who may be recognized for her role as Judge Janice Goldberg on Law & Order. 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 . High Times: Do you remember the first funny thing you ever said? I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. I suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradisenot the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before. After gaining recognition for her I Cover the Waterfront, Lebowitz moved onto Mademooiselle before publishing her first two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. It wasnt enough that he had Charles Mingus playing there every night. CLEMENTE: If you were going to run for office in New York, what would be your program, and what kind of qualifications would you declare you have? I still have the clothes I bought at Bonwit Teller. One of which is that I strongly object to having more than one generation of a family being president. But Ive never missed a deadline. Why dont you just put two of them in storage? Anna Rahmanan. And its also not a modern idea; dictators are an old-fashioned idea. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. She went from the New School in Manhattan to Franconia College in New Hampshire, and worked at Magnum Photos and at the teen magazine Ingenue. Its not an area of interest. And I reviewed those. It actually works here. I never write anyone letters. People say, "All the things that we like about New York are gone.". The housing problem would be solved completely. There are these prototypes all over the place, mixed in with my own crummy furniture. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards. High Times: What jobs have you had besides writing? I get tired, but fear keeps me awake. You see a young girl wearing a headscarf, and standing next to her is a Hasid. I was simply sent away to support them. Then I moved here. And its not just New York; its the whole world. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. Its a very bad idea. But what would also be impossible, would be to write on one of those word processors. 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. An opinion piece by the one and only Debbie "Blondie" Harry, right in time for Valentine's Day! I wanted to know what a vodka for women meant. Im simply not a fan of navet. He packs them, and then every time you move, they have to be put in different ways. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming uh-huh, yes?. I said to my friends, 'He's going to make you long for de Blasio, [and] he was terrible,'" the author . I had always heard that Jeb Bush was the smart one. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. My fathermy stepfatherhad gotten ill, and my parents had three boy children. 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. But after a while Fran outgrew the bad-flick format. 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. To celebrate, were republishing Glenn OBriens interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. LEBOWITZ: Yes. But then I found out it was fraud or something and I could go to jail, so I sent the money back and wrote to the people who sent it to me. Twenty-five people sitting in the room staring at you while you are thinking. Im a great relative. I never saw those issues. Lebowitz: Not from the people who made the movies. The good thing about being in someone elses apartment is its so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out. But I will go see any comedian. And I like cities. No effect? Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz are trying to remember how they met. This is why you have so much idiotic behavior among male writers. CLEMENTE: Is there any aspect of New Jersey that you miss? I talked out of turn, I talked too much, I talked in class, I made jokes during the lessons, I whispered to other children. It was kind of adolescent-petulantsulking, rebellious. They would give you $15 and a sandwich. movie. Fran is a renowned humorist and essayist. On the Boston University phone you dialed N-E-E-D and a concerned Jewish graduate student came over and took me to Mass. There may, in fact, still be no ceiling in the bathroom. Photograph: Ali Smith/The Observer. 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. American International made so many great movies that theyve all melted in my mind into one great A.I.P. Okay? Jan. 11, 2021 2:36 PM PT. I didnt do anything interesting. You can get this book in the Derby Library in Derby, Connecticut, where my grandmother lives.. For instance, I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. They were also the most interesting people. 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. Lebowitz: Not Samuel Z. Arkoff or anyone, but the press agent there loved me. Im only afraid when I write. 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 . Its very important who the president of the United States is. In "Public Speaking," the initial documentary, Ms. Lebowitz brilliantly notes that one of the great tragedies of the AIDS crisis was that the city lost not only a generation of artists and. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. Fran Lebowitz slams NYC mayor Eric Adams. I would read it to him, because you cant read my writing. Black cigarettes, every horrible adolescent smoking gesture imaginable. Fran Lebowitz, ca. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. There were just tons of these and I never waited tables. And a piano player is sitting there as well. Wasnt London still a capital of empire in the mid-60s, the cultural center of the Commonwealth? The last one took me 11 hours to type. AS NEW.' Known for her white shirts and blue Levis jeans, Fran Lebowitz was named one of the most stylish women by 'Vanity Fair's 68th Annual International Best Dressed List in 2007. This is America, what is the culture? Nearby are a vegetable garden caged against wildlife and a cottage in which lives Trevor, her bearded young assistant. 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. 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. CLEMENTE: Youre a New Yorker, but you were raised in New Jersey, no? But I know a lot about them because its impossible not to. 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. I hate money. I Married Joan, I Love Lucy, I loved all those situation comedies. Amazon. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. Which, in my opinion, was: What is culture without gay people? I met some very interesting taxi drivers. Lebowitz: I was beatnikesque. I wasnt an interesting behavior problem. The duo were discussing their childhoods, saying as children they were never able to partake in "adult" conversations unless they were . What are they going to possibly say thats of interest? You can see in it the sentimentality of Jane Eyre. The idea wasnt that I would establish myself and then have the rest of my family join me. And I participated a lot in market research. Fran Lebowitz is a writer born on 27th October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. . I am alternately very gregariousvery sociableand then very solitary. High Times: What writers have inspired you? I met Marc in . Im a great relative. I used to sneak out of bed to watch it. Famously known to have sidestepped buying into browsing the Internet or even owning a computer, the iconic humorist doesn't - nor will she ever . I get rid of the ones that I can bear to give up or never wanted to begin with. But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. He was stuck, and he asked me to come help. LEBOWITZ: Yes, the night before. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. Male writers like them because they have this sneaking suspicion that writing is not the most masculine profession. Ill take you to 21 if you type for me. Ive typed some of my columns. No one else remembers things from this whole period, but I wasnt high. As a Democrat, Id quite like him to be the candidate. Used Planes comes out every single month. CLEMENTE: No, I can sleep. Paper, you can feel it. What are those computer letters made of anyway? There is no such thing as inner peace. Plus they are paid by the minute. I remember what year that was. Go to California. I sold belts on the street. LEBOWITZ: I used to. [5] She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the . I would have liked to have met Nabokov. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists. Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. By Susan Devaney. Lebowitz: Yes, but not with much zeal. People say, Oh, did you like New York better when it was filthy and dangerous? No. You published Metropolitan Life in installments in Interview. But my mother didnt tell me. That's honestly, that's love.". 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. Things that New Yorkers need. I also have several writing habits necessitated by living in this apartment. High Times: What brands have you smoked since then? This month weve got the new heat from a lot of Cop List OGs like Ten Co, Myco.Oakland, Planta, Alien Labs and more! And you know what we have enough of? by . "It's a thousand billion," she continues, audibly indignant. I saw a lot of movies that were never released because people knew of my interest in that sort of movie, so I often went to distributors screenings and sat with 12 men with cigars. It was like the myth where if a girl gets pregnant and takes the boy to court, if three other boys come into court and say that they had slept with her, they would all get off scot-free. To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on Antigua in 1949. I also did some subcontract work for porn writers. I have to take all the junk off the desk and wash the desk. Until then homesickness was something I only knew from books. She takes one. High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do. So should I win the lottery, I will have that type of library. She thought it might be broadening to be banned from fashion shows and book-launching parties as well, and came up with a new name for her new, improved column, I Cover the Waterfront ." There were maybe 40 poems, the only poems I ever wrote. 19 January 2021. Lebowitz: I see no reason to get up before one oclock except to watch Family Feud. I didnt know that there was anything about me that had a name, that could be diagnosed. Your email address will not be published. I also went through a period of watching Name That Tune. Lebowitz: Actually my main occupation in bed was book reports. They told you what to write. LEBOWITZ: Or ballet. SHOP NOW. High Times: Do you ever think you cant do it? Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. 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 wrote for the school newspaper. I answered Steve Pauls telephone and was a general schlepper and errand girl for him, and I drove for him. I did that for a couple of years. Lebowitz: I was a behavior problem as far as talking. I styled myself to look like no one else. Fran Lebowitz has tough love for tough COVID-19 times. After the latters death, the former mysteriously disappeared. 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. This is not a middle-aged curmudgeonly attitude; I didnt like people that age even when I was that age. 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. Im happy none of it was ever published. In the earliest days of the lockdown . Lebowitz is strictly opposed to technology and to this day has no cell phone, computer, or typewriter. I dont want them to come. LEBOWITZ: Money. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. They had one guy who was like an Elvis imitator, only he imitated Oscar Wilde. CLEMENTE: But if you drink a little bit of coffee before you go to sleep, this doesnt happen. At the age of 21, Lebowitz was hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist . Good Books Books To Read Acceptance Speech National Book Award Wordsmith Great Words Ex Libris Reading Material Women Humor More information . 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