To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Would you say, You just cant afford to house four children. Jamaica Kincaid is a generous host. She was an outsider in Antigua, and she looked different. Because I was stupid. High Times: Why did you smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day? She has plants that move her because of how they look or how they behave, or because of their histories. I like people older than me and children, really little children. CLEMENTE: Did you talk with the clients of your cab? There were just tons of these and I never waited tables. Book 7. High Times: What was the first thing you wrote as a serious attempt to be a writer? I mean, unless you have an erotic interest in them, what other interest could you have? But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. 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. I used to like this guy Milt Kamen. I just dont want to hear someone else walking around. Things that New Yorkers need. This has never occurred. I was mesmerized by The Modern Farmer. 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 Married Joan, I Love Lucy, I loved all those situation comedies. And the truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. That was on the second floor. 2. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. "If you can eat it, it's not art. Fran Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. And you know what we have enough of? Which is why I remember things. I loved to smoke. There may, in fact, still be no ceiling in the bathroom. But because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints. I used to start at midnight, but thats gotten pushed up, so now its common for me to start at three in the morning. CLEMENTE: Youre a New Yorker, but you were raised in New Jersey, no? My whole movie consciousness was based on movies no one else had ever seen. But I thought it was a job. Well, I work on amachine. I had this aunt who had a book called The Night Visiters. It was on West Fourth Street, between Jane and 12th. I mean, knowing James Joyce . Lebowitz: Actually my main occupation in bed was book reports. Wasnt London still a capital of empire in the mid-60s, the cultural center of the Commonwealth? The 70-year-old . I hated the we. I didnt want to have my consciousness expanded, I wanted to have it restricted. 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. 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. One day I went downstairs to eat Polka Dottys food, my mother told me that Polka Dotty had flown south for the winter. In placing them in magazines she was merely pursuing her policy of selling a piece of writing as many times as possible. It didnt rhyme. I was a poet for about nine months. Well, perhaps, but I never really felt I belonged even in Antigua, even when I was little. There are certain relationships I think Im great at: Im the worlds greatest daughter. Fran took on modern manners, aesthetics and culture the way William Buckley takes on liberalism. Her first published work, movie and book reviews, appeared in that magazine when she was twenty years old. I wanted to be a beatnik. Id rather have people shooting up in my apartment; at least I dont have to smell it. Im only afraid when I write. I have a real aversion to machines. You can see in it the sentimentality of Jane Eyre. References This page was last . Just because its February doesnt mean were talking Roses! Volume 1: Best of First Decade 1969-1979. As a child I kept the opposite hours. I like Thurber. 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. Im going out. Im the only person left who is this irresponsible. I was not surprised to see this. Fran Lebowitz Toni Morrison was one of her best friends for almost 40 years, up to Morrison's death in 2019. Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz are trying to remember how they met. Even ones that preceded me. They were terrible. I had an ingrained hatred of Jeb before I ever saw him. Its not my preference, but it is my lot in life. I did once smoke an ounce of marijuana in one day and ended up in the emergency ward at Mass. I got a lot of tips. I didnt do anything interesting. She is an actress and producer, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). I never write anyone letters. The one I wrote myself was called House of Leather. It was The Modern Farmer. Lebowitz earned a GED and worked several odd jobs before Andy Warhol hired her as a columnist for Interview Magazine in 1972. Theyre acting as if the other people are Abraham Lincoln. What are they going to possibly say thats of interest? Now youd have to have a zillion dollars to live there. CLEMENTE: So everything that you write is written by hand? Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. Bankers. Get notified of our the latest cannabis news, exclusive brand deals, events updates and more! I mean, that is why we had that little war with England. Fran Lebowitz has realised George Costanza is, in fact, an idiot. He was stuck, and he asked me to come help. The idea that New York is over makes some people angry, but it makes me laugh. I don't care how she makes her money but she helps make the world a better place in to live in. I always was.FRAN LEBOWITZ. On the other hand, in the last few weeks, a couple of times I had dinner with people where I was the only American at the table, and I was yelled at for Donald Trump, like he was my fault. It used to be a tradition in agricultural families that youd sacrifice the eldest child. And now I eat a steak before I write, like a prizefighter. I wrote an editorial about the matron and got kicked off the paper. Lebowitz: Id like to have a talk show with no guests. The idea of writing something without publishing it is too horrifying to me. They like machines because it makes them seem more masculine. The knowing audience also died and no longer exists in a real way. In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. Theres no reason why it has to be the way it is. There are these prototypes all over the place, mixed in with my own crummy furniture. CLEMENTE: Do you think youre the manifestation of integrity? Florinda Donner and Carlos Castenada were both accused of fabricating their encounters with Indigenous healers. Unless they own a hotel chain, I dont think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this. I got on this list, and I went and discussed products. Capitalism, pretty old-fashioned, too. And I said, Well, I dont really care. But when I say no kitchen, I mean no sink. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. Why dont you just put two of them in storage? LEBOWITZ: The first thing I would do is say, I dont care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business, which is what happened. It became the major thing I was punished for. LEBOWITZ: I never remember saying that, but I would have to abridge that. 817K views 3 years ago #amanpourpbs Known for her sardonic wit, social commentator Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. It was the only thing I wanted to be except for a brief flirtation with wanting to be a cellist. I didnt know that there was anything about me that had a name, that could be diagnosed. For numerous reasons. She was part Carib Indian, and they used to call her the Red Woman. 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. You can get this book in the Derby Library in Derby, Connecticut, where my grandmother lives.. Because its everyones dream: Someday Im going to go to New York and go to Queens. Every place theres a hotel, theres one less apartment building. I wanted to know what a vodka for women meant. I just talked it while a speed freak typed it. By Meredith Blake Staff Writer. "It would have been . It decimated not just artists but knowledge. The first people who died of AIDS were artists. One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. I get tired, but fear keeps me awake. I knew about four or five people who wrote porn books at the time that I was a poet. Three or four hours, okay, fine. January 30, 2011. Famously known to have sidestepped buying into browsing the Internet or even owning a computer, the iconic humorist doesn't - nor will she ever . Talking is not writing. 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. I was never interested in having such interesting experiences. He writes for the New Yorker. After nearly half a century as a journalist, author, social critic and "talker," the quintessential. I thought theyd probably just give me another joint. For instance, I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It was unavoidable. But I would always say, Well, its not that I dont want to write for these big magazines, but you cant edit it. And they would always say, What are you talking about? And then they would name thousands of geniuses who willingly submitted to being edited. I was a big fan of Sky King. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: After a certain age, in the early hours of the morning, the pressure drops, which is the reason why. 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. Lucy is about the making of a person. General? And I said, Because I liked your clever ads.. At first Fran had to sneak in her own brand of humor. High Times: I remember telling you youd never make it as a writer until you learned how to type. 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. It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? I get rid of the ones that I can bear to give up or never wanted to begin with. LEBOWITZ: No. It was originally built as a sailors rooming house, because its very close to the river. This conversation began at a public event at the 92nd Street Y in 2013, and was picked up again in her Vermont kitchen eight years later, in the summer of 2021, when the social restrictions of the pandemic had, for a time, eased. Fabulous. 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. Paper, you can feel it. Go to California. LEBOWITZ: I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. So I would go to these AIP screenings. I also went through a period of watching Name That Tune. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. Then 50 questions, then 20 questions, then, finally, you said, Can you see Im trying to read?. I never make the connection between someones writing and who they are. 5. Full-time Im watching daytime TV., The following interview took place one afternoon in an apartment overlooking the East River. I had been spending all of my time with drug-addict college students. I was very bitter about it because I had before me what seemed to be a successful future. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write aboutthe movies. 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. Ray Millands head was on Rosie Grier. A prominent liberal Democrat with a keen political eye, Lebowitz has. One of them was my columns. Lebowitz: Every single time Ive ever written I thought I couldnt do it. And he would weigh them. 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. Lebowitz will appear on stage for four performances only . I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. I was simply sent away to support them. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. 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. The Great Gildersleeve. Thats what Id like to do. AIDS completely changed American culture. And even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places. I reviewed lots of movies that never opened in New York, only in drive-ins. "It's a thousand billion," she continues, audibly indignant. Fran Lebowitz: I Cover the Waterfront. ' Thats how I feel. LEBOWITZ: But what about the caffeine? 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. High Times: What was it like being a cab driver? Especially because I was the only girl. You're only as good as your last haircut. Fran rose to her now-legend status starting at Interview magazine where she wrote a column called "I Cover the Waterfront," She is also the author of two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, and the world awaits further writings. Customers paid 99 an hour to listen to this garbage. Lebowitz: To be glamorous. That was one. [Clemente laughs] I mean, the great thing about New Jersey is that its close to New York. LEBOWITZ: Well, you know, so few Americans vote that we may not even notice it. And as soon as we finished, Marty goes, "Let's make another one." What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. This must be about 15 years ago. Obviously, I was opposed to this, and I still am. And you didnt have to think about money every second. 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. I just talked too much. Now she is winning new . Im such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. Im not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who was funny. The film, a mix of interviews and clips of Lebowitz, is . The book was released in a 1994 compilation entitled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's other bestseller Social Studies. And soon she had a book offer from a fan in publishing. The building is still there. SHOP NOW. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. Then I switched to Vantage. 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. 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. Then I moved to New York and switched to exotic foreign brands. We didnt live well. Not only dont they not understand people different from them, they hardly understand themselves. Male writers like them because they have this sneaking suspicion that writing is not the most masculine profession. A decade seems like a good enough time for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and cultural critic-writer Fran Lebowitz to return to the screen. 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. 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. Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese. And at the end of the book report you were supposed to tell people where they could get the book, and I would always say. LEBOWITZ: When I move, I do. Im very vilified for this, I have to say. Thats why visitors was misspelled. The person who checks you in and takes your name and insurance came over to me and actually said, to me, Why did you choose Mass. LEBOWITZ: That was later, for my next column, I Cover the Waterfront. That was after I met Marc. I also cleaned peoples houses, specializing in Venetian blinds. But a lot of people didnt like that piece and were angry at me. But, I mean, no one talked about money. But what would also be impossible, would be to write on one of those word processors. I mean, New Yorks not exactly antiseptic. I did every single one like that. 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. French symbolist? High Times: What jobs have you had besides writing? LEBOWITZ: Thats kind of backwards. I would personally just like to vet each person. 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. So I wrote The Secret Castle and was very disappointed to discover that no one published it. I loved dressing up and going out. And sometimes I went on at ten oclock in the morning and read to the guy sweeping up from the night before. People were pretty angry in general then. There are musings about Times. It was like watching children at a birthday party. In the past ten years, Lebowitz has been a regular guest on the television showLate Nightwith David Letterman. It was the most money Id ever made. texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on "Update,"'" he continued. Used Planes comes out every single month. And its not my desire to make New York more suburban. Theyre all right-wing nuts. So I would lie in bed and make up book reports about books that I made up. 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 . High Times: Did you ever get any bad reactions from your bad movie reviews? Black cigarettes, every horrible adolescent smoking gesture imaginable. I picked up two famous people: one was Dr. Joyce Brothers, who undertipped me, and one was Rod Steiger. I mean, it is pretty shocking. They made me wait three hours to see the psychiatrist, and by that time I was starting to come down. CLEMENTE: I think in your life youve said no more than yes. 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 so far I have not. "One of the reasons people our age came to New York, if you were gay, was because you . You published Metropolitan Life in installments in Interview. I like lots of writers, but now I cant think of them. I would rather have a typist. And he did those illustrations. American International made so many great movies that theyve all melted in my mind into one great A.I.P. Lebowitz: I dont think I was a poet for even an entire year. That was actually a job. I like Woody Allen. - 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. 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. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. We have something here that you dont hear about anymore; we have tolerance. Because I had an ounce of marijuana. Fran Lebowitz is a New York humorist who worked as a columnist for Andy Warhol's Interview before publishing her first collection of comic essays, Metropolitan Life, in 1978.
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