fran lebowitz: i cover the waterfront

I do remember that the worst movie I ever saw was called Four Flies on Gray Velvet, with Mimsy Farmer, one of your great loves. Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. Thru Show Type: Comedy Box Office: 800-775-2000 www.auditoriumtheatre.org I wasnt glamorous and rebellious. But when I say no kitchen, I mean no sink. I was the best-dressed nanny you ever saw. High Times: Do you remember the first funny thing you ever said? Lebowitz: I like Marshall Brickman. I have to take all the junk off the desk and wash the desk. She said, You know what its like being with you? It was actually a show for farmers. I have to take the TV off the chair. High Times: What brands have you smoked since then? I picked up two famous people: one was Dr. Joyce Brothers, who undertipped me, and one was Rod Steiger. 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. Rare Vintage Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine, September 1981, featuringCover: FRAN LEBOWITZ w/ feature interview by JOHN WATERS (HYSTERICAL! Im sorry, were full up. . Fran Lebowitz. Then she published two books of essays Metropolitan Life and Social Studies - both wonderful. 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? Shes really not our type. I was home sick when I was expelled. screening with three movies and lunch. 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 remember one of the best days of my life was an all-day A.I.P. I met Marc in . Since 1974, High Times Magazine has been the #1 resource for cannabis news, culture, brands and marijuana legalization laws. They thought I made them up. I guess it didnt go. Lebowitz: Actually my main occupation in bed was book reports. I was mesmerized by The Modern Farmer. LEBOWITZ: This has happened to me my whole life. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. Not just New York. So I wrote The Secret Castle and was very disappointed to discover that no one published it. Lebowitz: Not from the people who made the movies. Her voice is as musical as ever, high-pitched, the Anglo-Caribbean lilt beguiling. "If you can eat it, it's not art. 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 ." It used to be a tradition in agricultural families that youd sacrifice the eldest child. The housing problem would be solved completely. 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. Lebowitz: To be glamorous. 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. . If someone else has to write, then you know you have a willing companion to talk to on the phone for hours and hours while they put off their writing. With one suitcase? Florinda Donner and Carlos Castenada were both accused of fabricating their encounters with Indigenous healers. I know this sounds insane, but I just hate it. 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. 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 . LEBOWITZ: I would talk to them, but luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You dont have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from. Lebowitz: No. Meet Fran Lebowitz and join her on her rambles as she muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers and total building fails. I watched 400 Bayer aspirin commercials. High Times: What was it like being a cab driver? I wrote a musical comedy for my grandparents 35th wedding anniversary. In between writing books Lebowitz is a guest editor and occasional columnist for Vanity Fair. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. The title refers to her frustration with people so absorbed in their devices that they bump into you on the street. 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. One day I went downstairs to eat Polka Dottys food, my mother told me that Polka Dotty had flown south for the winter. New Yorkers, weve seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. They were also the most interesting people. That was one. As a Democrat, Id quite like him to be the candidate. Her hundreds of plants are layered into a composition of informal design, expressive of her refined aesthetic and untroubled eccentricity. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The thing I did with Marty prior to this was a documentary film called Public Speaking. My inspiration for wanting to be a beatnik was not Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac but Maynard G. Krebs from the Dobie Gillis show. It was originally built as a sailors rooming house, because its very close to the river. But this idea that people cannot kill each other? Ill take you to 21 if you type for me. Ive typed some of my columns. Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz are trying to remember how they met. In the early 1970s, Andy Warhol hired Lebowitz as a columnist for his magazine Interview, where she wrote a column, I Cover The Waterfront. 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. press handouts. Richard Robinson thinks there should be a TV station thats only the best commercials. I had always heard that Jeb Bush was the smart one. Maybe Ill donate them to one of those film schools in Los Angeles for a tax write-off. I cant believe anyone has ever made a ballet. I always was.FRAN LEBOWITZ. One was called Catherine the Great, and it had a picture of her on the label. The idea that New York is over makes some people angry, but it makes me laugh. "It's a thousand billion," she continues, audibly indignant. Correct? It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? CLEMENTE: Do you think youre the manifestation of integrity? I thought they owned the roads; I always used to tell my parents I wanted to be a toll taker, and they couldnt imagine why. I could have written a trilogy in 11 hours. They all say, Oh I did it this afternoon, or, Oh, Im finished. 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. LEBOWITZ: Well, you know, so few Americans vote that we may not even notice it. You can get this book in the Derby Library in Derby, Connecticut, where my grandmother lives.. It wasnt enough that he had Charles Mingus playing there every night. 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.. Especially because I was the only girl. I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. So I went to his studio several times while he was making the ballet. Lebowitz discoursed without pause for two hours, chain-smoking all the while. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. For numerous reasons. I never watched TV at night because my mother put me to bed at 7:30 until I was 12. A Bic pen. In person and on the page, Kincaids is a literary voice. 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 . What youre supposed to have is, say, all Henry Jamess novels and the letters, which is more elegant. Its placing too great a burden on the average intelligence. Unless they own a hotel chain, I dont think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this. You have to say fuck, you have to have these kinds of sex. High Times: Did you ever worry about not graduating from high school? References This page was last . I wrote it in a loose-leaf notebook in pencil. High Times: What was your best subject in school? My fathermy stepfatherhad gotten ill, and my parents had three boy children. Hes not going to be president. Im happy none of it was ever published. He packs them, and then every time you move, they have to be put in different ways. I dont want them to come. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. I like Mel Brooks, especially the 2,000-year-old-man records with Carl Reiner. 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. CLEMENTE: Did you take drugs before you were 19? And, of course, New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New Yorkand by New York, I mean Manhattan. I wrote an editorial about the matron and got kicked off the paper. I sold belts on the street. I was a poet for about nine months. When she was sixteen, her family interrupted her education, sending her to work as a nanny in New York. During that period I had stripes cut on my hands. There was nothing televisiony or psychological about it. We think his version of the navy pinstripe would fit right in Fran's rotation. 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? Amazon. Its the thing that Im most criticized for. I said to my friends, 'He's going to make you long for de Blasio, [and] he was terrible,'" the author . I answered Steve Pauls telephone and was a general schlepper and errand girl for him, and I drove for him. Anna Rahmanan. CLEMENTE: One of my favorite quotes of yours is when you said that youve never been in a relationship for longer than six months, because you didnt want to switch from boredom to contempt. 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. There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. Im only afraid when I write. After nearly half a century as a journalist, author, social critic and "talker," the quintessential. He said, Id like you to come and sit there while Im doing it. Immigrants are good, tourists are bad. In my grammar school we got extra credit for extra book reports. I like Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, anything with recipes that use marshmallows and American cheese in the same dish. Why is that? LEBOWITZ: Money. Lebowitz will appear on stage for four performances only . In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. 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. I had this aunt who had a book called The Night Visiters. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. I mean, knowing James Joyce . This is another thing most people don't know about Toni: though she was incredibly hardworking, she was physically incredibly lazy. Or acceptance or understanding. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldnt have all these books. Then 50 questions, then 20 questions, then, finally, you said, Can you see Im trying to read?. And I said, Well, I dont really care. No effect? He was the only person who took me seriously enough to ban me. Exec Producer, Star, "Pretend It's a City" Having previously starred in and produced a documentary with pal Martin Scorsese (HBO's "Public Speaking"), Lebowitz knew what type of . Once a girl was sitting on the window ledge smoking a cigarette and the matron walked in and the girl jumped out the window. So I have a state diploma. This will come as no surprise to anyone who is even vaguely familiar with her work, which, in the past four decades, has largely consisted of being Fran Lebowitz: a strong-willed, grumpy,. I met some very interesting taxi drivers. I was simply sent away to support them. I dont remember who published it. They had a very weird array of people who worked there. I like lots of writers, but now I cant think of them. Your friends who dont write will not stay on the phone with you, because they have other real things they want to do. To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Over some twenty years, Kincaid has made what my partner, the poet James Fenton, calls a plantsmans garden, full of rare species. 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. I liked it better than critics screenings because they didnt sit there trying to think of entertaining comments; they just sat there with their cigars, trying to figure out how much money they could make on it. After the latters death, the former mysteriously disappeared. I would read it to him, because you cant read my writing. Lebowitz: Every single time Ive ever written I thought I couldnt do it. In the past ten years, Lebowitz has been a regular guest on the television showLate Nightwith David Letterman. And as soon as we finished, Marty goes, "Let's make another one." But what I cant be is monogamous. What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. Its very important who the president of the United States is. 2. . The only shows I remember when I was a little kid are Miss Francess Ding Dong School, which I watched because everyone made fun of me because my name was Frances. I loved getting the measles and colds so I could sit on the couch and watch all those morning situation comedies. After that I switched back to Larks, and I smoked those for a really long time. was he fascinating? I drove a taxi. Twenty-five people sitting in the room staring at you while you are thinking. And he would type it. 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. Lebowitz: I was unceremoniously expelled from prep school in my senior year for no apparent reason. I mean, that is why we had that little war with England. Why did your family send you to America? When I started writing Talk pieces at The New Yorker, I tried to get away from the anonymous we they used. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. This must be about 15 years ago. 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. 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. When I moved out nine years later, there was no ceiling in the bathroom. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. Fran Lebowitz. There are certain relationships I think Im great at: Im the worlds greatest daughter. Bankers. 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. Me and, like, five of what I then thought of as old menthey were probably 40smoking cigars, watching these movies. And its not just New York; its the whole world. 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. Thats good for at least an hour of not writing. I firmly believe that. To celebrate, were republishing Glenn OBriens interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Then I try to bargain with them to wait until I get to the absolute edge of the deadline. I would stand in front of the class and report on a book I had made up. But he was very nice, and in the letter that banned me he told me how much he liked 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. So I didnt have a kitchen. High Times: Have you gotten any marriage proposals? It reminds me of when a choreographer I know was creating a ballet. 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. Meeting James Joyce would be more on the order of sightseeing, like seeing the Washington Monument or the Jefferson Memorial. Although complaint was her form, the result was a celebration of practical intelligence, a kind of Dr. Atkins epicureanism. Ive never seen the Kardashians; Im not sure who they are. Polka Dotty ate seeds and celery tops, and my mother would give me Polka Dottys food, and I would go downstairs and eat it. People say, Well, what would you do with Times Square? And I always think, Gee, I dont know. I wanted to see Robert Young. Male writers like them because they have this sneaking suspicion that writing is not the most masculine profession. It was The Modern Farmer. Glenn OBriens interview with the iconic Fran Lebowitz from the August, 1978 issue of High Times magazine. There were just tons of these and I never waited tables. 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. Because I was stupid. Fifty years later, she's still there, and the author, public speaker and humorist has a lifetime's . Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards. One is that deers are rats. When I got to the hospital they did not believe that I had smoked marijuana, I was so smashed. The Great Gildersleeve. Interview was then a film magazine, and it reviewed almost every film that was released. I just talked it while a speed freak typed it. 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. 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 because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints. And just think how fantastic New York would be. This is why I have problems with books, because you cannot do that the night before. Her first published work, movie and book reviews, appeared in that magazine when she was twenty years old. When she started realizing cigarettes were missing it never occurred to her to accuse me, so she went to the supermarket where she bought her cigarettes and told the manager that the boys who worked there were stealing packs out of the cartons. I remember I got $500 for it. I often think of the time before my brothers were bornand this might sound very childish, but I dont careas this paradise of my mother and me always being together. 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. Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do. I hated the we. He said theyd fix it. . 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. Don Rickles. And he did those illustrations. Ive never had a job I liked. 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. Im great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic. I just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. They had very good writers, but they were these old, stout white men. But since that apartment was infested with roaches, I decided not to bring them to my nice, new apartment. Youre so judgmental I would find it helpful. I remember she wore her hair in a French roll, and she wore what they called a hobble skirt. In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. Fran Lebowitz: "A dumb woman is the preferred woman in the USA" The essayist and speaker on her Manhattan lockdown, 9/11 and disappointing Americans - from Andy Warhol to Joe Biden. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. 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. To me, it would be even a slower way to write. by . But I will go see any comedian. Theyre all right-wing nuts. Scorsese ventures that it was at a literary party on New York City . The writer and raconteur embodied the hip, downtown Manhattan of the 70s. 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. Im simply not a fan of navet. But it's a pleasurable one. When asked about the long delay in its delivery to her publisher, she explained that she only works on it on the side. But, I mean, no one talked about money. Plus they are paid by the minute. I sulk for several days. And I always start writing very late at night. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. 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. Lebowitz: Ive had a number of interesting, colorful jobs. Customers paid 99 an hour to listen to this garbage. It was like watching children at a birthday party. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. Did you write it at the last minute? Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. Okay? Because someone once told me that horses legs are actually like fingers and that their hooves are actually fingernails. Everyone I know says, Fran is a Luddite, she doesnt have a computer. But I never had a typewriter. The good thing about being in someone elses apartment is its so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out. Getty Images. 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 dressed in old clothes, thrift-shop clothes. I just dont want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours. People were pretty angry in general then. Thats what Id like to do. 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. I wrote for the school newspaper. LEBOWITZ: Im following it, but in a way, I also feel the way I feel about the Kardashians: I feel like its following me. I never saw those issues. America is a great idea, so thats why its a great country. The rest of them were mostly folksingers and blues musicians and other horrible poets. CLEMENTE: But dont you love being in someone elses apartment, possibly someone you dont know well or know at all? For instance, I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. Like, this is the smart one, this is the pretty one. 19 January 2021. LEBOWITZ: Yes, I was born in New Jersey and I lived in New Jersey until I was 18. Even ones that preceded me. For some reason, I decided to cut off my hair and bleach it blond. 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. Id just sit at a desk and talk. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. 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. FRANCESCO CLEMENTES LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATION, ENCAMPMENT, WILL TRAVEL TO EVELEIGH, AUSTRALIA, THIS SUMMER. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. At twenty-one, she began a column called "I Cover the Waterfront," for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. They like machines because it makes them seem more masculine. I remember the darkness of being sent awaysheer misery of a kind that I didnt know existed. A decade seems like a good enough time for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and cultural critic-writer Fran Lebowitz to return to the screen. Not at all, because I was going as a servant. The first people who died of AIDS were artists. And its also not a modern idea; dictators are an old-fashioned idea. LEBOWITZ: I used to. It was incredibly boring writing that stuff. Theres no reason why it has to be the way it is. I know Ive said this before, but the audience for the artswhether it was for writing or films . Thanks for offering this from your Archive. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump. Paper, you can feel it. Fran Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. An opinion piece by the one and only Debbie "Blondie" Harry, right in time for Valentine's Day! LEBOWITZ: I mean, because I had no money. Lebowitz maintains that she wrote the columns with the intention of building a distinct collection of essays. Im not afraid to be on TV. Lebowitz: Not Samuel Z. Arkoff or anyone, but the press agent there loved me. Lebowitz: Tareyton, because thats what my mother smoked. Copyright 2023 Interview Magazine. I read How to Be a Naked Bus Driver and My Brother Was an Only Child. She is a presence; everything begins to happen when she talks. But all the rest of them were, including Jeb Bush. It was minute. When I was young, I liked romance. 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