Fortunately they didnt, so its not around to haunt me. 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. Theyre acting as if the other people are Abraham Lincoln. It was really a passion with me. Now I hate the smell of pot. I also did some subcontract work for porn writers. I write with a pen. He wasnt a comedian, but he was the funniest talk-show guest. Photograph by Christopher Macsurak. by Anonymous: reply 136: January 15, 2021 3:23 AM: I adore her. But this idea that people cannot kill each other? I use them frequently. 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. CLEMENTE: Is there any aspect of New Jersey that you miss? I was mesmerized by The Modern Farmer. Im happy none of it was ever published. Bei/Shutterstock. Id call it Hello, This is Fran.. Fran readily agreed, as she was banned from most movie screenings because of her old column, Best of the Worst. But Ive never missed a deadline. In between writing books Lebowitz is a guest editor and occasional columnist for Vanity Fair. High Times: Why did you smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day? I loved to smoke. When I was really young I wanted to be a toll taker because I thought they kept the money. 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! In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. It was on West Fourth Street, between Jane and 12th. 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. Getty Images. I mean, that is why we had that little war with England. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. The New York Times, especially at that time, was gigantic. Had COVID-19 not been the new reality, we probably would have met at some vintage New York landmark, like The Players Club or McSorley's Old Ale House. I really wanted someone to save me. LEBOWITZ: No. I am alternately very gregariousvery sociableand then very solitary. And a piano player is sitting there as well. )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 No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves. I cant imagine what I could have done with it. Unless they die. I just dont want to hear someone else walking around. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on Antigua in 1949. CLEMENTE: I think in your life youve said no more than yes. 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. My parents did. There was a sink in the bathroom. . Fran Lebowitz moved to New York City from her hometown of Morristown, NJ when she was 19. I like Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, anything with recipes that use marshmallows and American cheese in the same dish. Im a great relative. I was really very proud of that. I was the best-dressed nanny you ever saw. I talked out of turn, I talked too much, I talked in class, I made jokes during the lessons, I whispered to other children. Then I start thinking that maybe somewhere in the house is a column that I never turned in. I rolled my own cigarettes. 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.". They like machines because it makes them seem more masculine. I like Ebony too, but its no Sepia. I wanted to know what a vodka for women meant. The terrace that starts at the back door ends in a border of stones; the lawn, planted with thousands of daffodils, slopes down to a thickly shaded creek. But, third of all, I used to say, I just cant go into a deli and order a roast beef sandwich and give them this.. After nearly half a century as a journalist, author, social critic and "talker," the quintessential. It was unavoidable. Lebowitz: Not Samuel Z. Arkoff or anyone, but the press agent there loved me. There were maybe 40 poems, the only poems I ever wrote. Book 7. This is not England. After I moved to New York, I modeled for people like Steven Meisel. Unless they own a hotel chain, I dont think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this. 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. At the age of. Her first published work, movie and book reviews, appeared in that magazine when she was twenty years old. Fran Lebowitz : I cover the waterfront | Semantic Scholar Corpus ID: 228333786 Fran Lebowitz : I cover the waterfront Sandra J. Brant, Ingrid Sischy Published 2004 Art No Paper Link Available Save to Library Create Alert Cite Related Papers Sorry, we did not find any related papers. Metropolitan Life, published by E.P. 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. 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 was a chauffeur for Johnny and Edgar Winter. Knowledge of a culture. High Times: Were you a behavior problem in school? Pretend It's a City. They dont have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. I wouldnt say that I dislike the young. So I evolved the theory that horses are hands. Then 50 questions, then 20 questions, then, finally, you said, Can you see Im trying to read?. 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. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. High Times: Did you watch television as a child? Lebowitz: I was unceremoniously expelled from prep school in my senior year for no apparent reason. No one has ever said it that way. He had only the biggest movies, and he acted like I was affecting the box office. A Bic pen. Lebowitz: I like Marshall Brickman. The rest of them were mostly folksingers and blues musicians and other horrible poets. Ive never had a job I liked. I dont like to go out during the dayits too crowded. No effect? - Booklet on 'New York's Underground' - Large . Three or four hours, okay, fine. LEBOWITZ: I used to. 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? LEBOWITZ: No. I have to take the TV off the chair. Here's what started happening: A few years ago, kidsand by which I mean, my friends' kidsstarted coming up to me and saying, 'Fran, where'd you get those vintage glasses?' And I said, 'They . It was written in the nineteenth century by, I think, a seven- or eight-year-old child who was the daughter of someone very rich who had this book printed. I styled myself to look like no one else. screening with three movies and lunch. I would have liked to have met Nabokov. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldnt have all these books. Your friends who dont write will not stay on the phone with you, because they have other real things they want to do. One of my resolutions is that I am going to start answering my mail. A decade seems like a good enough time for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and cultural critic-writer Fran Lebowitz to return to the screen. 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. Romantic love is mental illness. High Times: Tell me about your writing habits. 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 wrote a musical comedy for my grandparents 35th wedding anniversary. LEBOWITZ: Money. Im a horrible girlfriend. The housing problem would be solved completely. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. The Modern Farmer came on before Sunrise Semester, and it was about farming. As a child I kept the opposite hours. Well, I work on amachine. If you were going to have dinner with some of those older people you mentioned, say writers, which ones would you pick? I would stand at the border and say, Youre coming here to live, really? LEBOWITZ: I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. I just talked too much. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. BUT.she has plenty to say and has absolutely no problem with verbal expression and is brutally honest. At one point, I dont know why I had this idea, but it was probably after Andy did those big MaosI had this idea to do this wallpaper of Mao, and we made this fake wallpaper. They had a vision of me in a pink smock with a little square badge on it saying Fran. To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Fran Lebowitz, ca. I know Ive said this before, but the audience for the artswhether it was for writing or films . High Times: Do you watch anything else on TV besides Family Feud? FRAN LEBOWITZ: The thing I did with Marty prior to this was a documentary film called Public Speaking. Fran Lebowitz Toni Morrison was one of her best friends for almost 40 years, up to Morrison's death in 2019. Lebowitz: A writer. She said, You know what its like being with you? I cant remember the last funny thing I ever said. In person and on the page, Kincaids is a literary voice. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. At the age of 21, Lebowitz was hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for Interview magazine and began a column, "I Cover the Waterfront." Following that, she worked for Mademoiselle magazine.. Fran Lebowitz, who is featured "Pretend It's a City" on Netflix. She takes one. One of them was my columns. Then I moved to New York and switched to exotic foreign brands. Why dont you just put two of them in storage? I know who I like. High Times: What writers have inspired you? I firmly believe that. Why is that? Since 1974, High Times Magazine has been the #1 resource for cannabis news, culture, brands and marijuana legalization laws. CLEMENTE: Do you think youre the manifestation of integrity? If you can say 'I'll have that and a cup of coffee,' it's not art." 6. There are these prototypes all over the place, mixed in with my own crummy furniture. ever react to your devotion to their product? Because it doesnt agitate against human nature. Everyone was paid in cash. Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. That never used to happen. The book was released in a 1994 compilation entitled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's other bestseller Social Studies. To celebrate, were republishing Glenn OBriens interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Were you expected to criticize what was going on? I was simply sent away to support them. 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. It was the only thing I wanted to be except for a brief flirtation with wanting to be a cellist. But, I mean, years ago I had a girlfriend who summed me up perfectly. I like Dorothy Parker. I hit my limit at 19, and I havent had any since. I dont want them to come. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. No, Im just intrigued by them, because, to me, theyre like talking animals. High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? Twenty-five people sitting in the room staring at you while you are thinking. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The blood pressure or the air pressure? Fran Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. See, then, if you had no money, you had a horrible apartment. High Times: When you were writing The Best of the Worst what was the best bad movie you ever saw? 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. It is boring and it is arithmetic. Grammy-Award winning group members Vin Rock and KayGee reminisce on their New Jersey beginnings, the 30th anniversary of 19 Naughty III and monster hit Hip Hop Hooray, and their relationship with cannabis as a party catalyst and creative tool. I get tired, but fear keeps me awake. The episode closes with Dear Someone, a poem by Deborah Landau. I like Richie Rich comic books. I still have the clothes I bought at Bonwit Teller. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. It was one room, but that makes it sound grander than it was. 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. Lebowitz: Actually my main occupation in bed was book reports. CLEMENTE: What were his illustrations like? I dont think I was still writing for Interview, but once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that dont like you. Nearby are a vegetable garden caged against wildlife and a cottage in which lives Trevor, her bearded young assistant. It was like watching children at a birthday party. 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. But why do these things have to be either/or? The title refers to her frustration with people so absorbed in their devices that they bump into you on the street. I have two animal theories. Bankers. Now youd have to have a zillion dollars to live there. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. And even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. That doesnt exist any more. No one else remembers things from this whole period, but I wasnt high. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards. Did you write it at the last minute? LEBOWITZ: I drove a cab. It was charity really. I hated the we. My fathermy stepfatherhad gotten ill, and my parents had three boy children. A pen. Theres a connection. Then I moved here. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years. I like Rock Scene, Jet, Bronze Thrills, Interview, Italian Baby Vogue, Used Planes. 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. There are more male writers who own guns than any other profession except police officers. High Times: Did you ever worry about not graduating from high school? And people sent in money. Not only dont they not understand people different from them, they hardly understand themselves. My mother and father thought that because I didnt go to college Id probably end up working in the five-and-ten. It was 87. You're only as good as your last haircut. And sometimes I went on at ten oclock in the morning and read to the guy sweeping up from the night before. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write aboutthe movies. I have to take all the junk off the desk and wash the desk. Then she published two books of essays Metropolitan Life and Social Studies - both wonderful. I used to be able to do it without feeling it, but now Im in bed for three days afterward. I would have gotten a scholarship. Then I went to a prep school that had a paper called the Wilson Wyndowe. She said theyd take one pack out and then move the rest up. Donald Trump is not my fault. I think my most enormous smoking punishment was being grounded for a month. 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. More than it works in any other place. 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. One is that deers are rats. press handouts. I had an ingrained hatred of Jeb before I ever saw him. 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. Well, huge myths grew up around the matron at my school. Florinda Donner and Carlos Castenada were both accused of fabricating their encounters with Indigenous healers. I didnt do anything interesting. 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 mean, New Yorks not exactly antiseptic. Subscribe for free:Stitcher|Apple Podcasts|Google Play, 2023 The Paris Review. You cant do it. So I remember I said, Look, if you dont like it, give it back to me. 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 was really young. My inspiration for wanting to be a beatnik was not Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac but Maynard G. Krebs from the Dobie Gillis show. I would wake up and be so excited because I could smoke. Im a great relative. Its too expensive. 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 just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. The dancers sit there waiting for him to come up with something. I saw a group-therapy movieand the whole thing took place in redwood hot tubs with people screaming their problems at each other. I had been spending all of my time with drug-addict college students. LEBOWITZ: When I move, I do. And people are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I cant find a place to live, or real estate agents, You cant afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. I sold belts on the street. Lebowitz: I dont think I was a poet for even an entire year. That was one. Okay? 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. 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 didnt live well. 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. Lebowitz: I dont know if any inspire me. Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. High Times: What was the first thing you wanted to be when you grew up? As a Democrat, Id quite like him to be the candidate. General with two other people who were also smashed out of their minds. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. And I feel this way more and more about the Republican candidates, certainly. Lebowitz: I was beatnikesque. 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. 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. CLEMENTE: And the illustrations were by Marc Balet? I was a big fan of Sky King. He was the only person who took me seriously enough to ban me. It became the major thing I was punished for. Fran was raised in Morristown, New Jersey. Children played marbles on it. In placing them in magazines she was merely pursuing her policy of selling a piece of writing as many times as possible. I also cleaned peoples houses, specializing in Venetian blinds. I said, How could I help you choreograph a ballet? Im afraid Im sitting beyond my means.. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself. CLEMENTE: What aspect of New York do you think has really fundamentally changed? I like that Oscar Wilde. I was at that time living on the floor of a friends room at Boston University, and I knew that if I didnt smoke that ounce of marijuana, someone else would. 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. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. "And then we did it the Saturday . She never really wrote anything else and has since made her living on the social commentary speaking circuit. In my grammar school we got extra credit for extra book reports. It used to be a tradition in agricultural families that youd sacrifice the eldest child. 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. I didnt have any adventures. "It's a thousand billion," she continues, audibly indignant. During that period I had stripes cut on my hands. In the past ten years, Lebowitz has been a regular guest on the television showLate Nightwith David Letterman. I guess it didnt go. But I never liked pot much. Lebowitz: Sepia is my all-time favorite. I have a number of bookcases, big wooden bookcases with glass doors; most of them are 19th century. The years have gone by, but she is still tall. Lebowitz: Daddy. My mother taught me to say that so I would wake my father up instead of her. It was terribly disconcerting because I knew that they werent going to cure me. Lebowitz: I was a behavior problem as far as talking. Im sorry, were full up. Copyright 2023 Interview Magazine. General? And I said, Because I liked your clever ads.. Ray Millands head was on Rosie Grier. At least to my face. It didnt rhyme. Full-time Im watching daytime TV., The following interview took place one afternoon in an apartment overlooking the East River. "That is ridiculous as an amount of money. The novel is reputedly about rich people who want to be artists, and artists who want to be rich people. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). Im speaking to you from a priceless, one-of-a-kind chair. Lebowitz: No. First of all, there were a zillion bad jobs. He was stuck, and he asked me to come help. 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 . One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. Id like to be the admissions director of New York. And you know what we have enough of? 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. Until then homesickness was something I only knew from books. Then I switched to Vantage. 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. There is only nervousness or death. And I read them. I also have several writing habits necessitated by living in this apartment. 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. Lebowitz: I dont remember. I dressed in old clothes, thrift-shop clothes. 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. My first action on coming to New York was walking into Grove Press, plunking down the manuscript and demanding they publish it. We went to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut and interviewed the star of the play, and I wrote this incredibly bitchy Rex Reedish interview with her and got an outraged letter from her press agent. But he was very nice, and in the letter that banned me he told me how much he liked me. 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. And, first of . 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. Steve paid me excessive amounts of money to answer his telephone. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to workthere were rich girlsbut the ones who had to work were waitresses. General in Boston. "One of the reasons people our age came to New York, if you were gay, was because you . I like people older than me and children, really little children. 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