TV TV Blog Popwrap Linda Stasi Michael Starr Phil Mushnick Reviews Listings Last Updated:Wed., Dec. 22, 2010, 12:47am Rex Ryan Bernard Madoff Eli Manning Gwyneth Paltrow WikiLeaks PicsPostToday in Pictures Story Comment Fran Lebowitz prowls the city.Blocked icon Humorist Fran Lebowitz still isn’t writing By MICHAEL GILTZ Last Updated: 7:39 AM, November 21, 2010 Posted: 9:34 PM, November 20, 2010 Comments: 0 Like 60 likes.</p><p> Sign Up to see what your friends like. 12 There are a lot of people who’ve never heard of Fran Lebowitz — for good reason.</p><p> No matter how much you laughed when she first published her bestselling essay collections, “Metropolitan Life” and “Social Studies,” you can’t help but notice she has beenabsent from the “New Books” section of Barnes & Noble for nearly 30 years.</p><p> Martin Scorsese has decided to capture this endangered New York icon in her favorite booth at the Waverly Inn, giving lectures and on-stage in conversation with her friend, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.</p><p> It alladds up to a new documentary, “Public Speaking.” Even if she doesn’t like to write, Leibowitz loves to gab, which she did with the Post.</p><p> Q: If a young person asked you wherethey should live, where would you send them? A: I don’t know.</p><p> One of the reasons that New York is less interesting than it usedto be is because everything is so homogenized.</p><p> I always like to blame a lot of what happens in New York on Bloomberg because I want to blame everything on Bloomberg.</p><p> Q: Did you blame Giuliani when he was in charge? A: I did.</p><p> This is the trajectory of my relationship to mayors.</p><p> I used to say,“We could never ever have a mayor that is worse than Ed Koch.” Okay? Then I used to think, “We could never have a mayor worse than Giuliani.” And then we have Bloomberg.</p><p> We certainly couldnever have a mayor longer than Bloomberg.</p><p> Q: Do you go to the theater? A: I don’t like the theater.</p><p> I know, I’m a horrible person for saying that.</p><p> Though in fact, I’m going tonight to see “The Pee-wee Herman Show” because Paul More Print Sponsored Links $54/Hr Job: Work at Home $18-$54/hr Part-Time Job.</p><p> Requirements: HomeInternet Access. www.News8Reports.com Make Money with Stocks Tricks to beat the stock market and to make a daiily Entertainment Best western Embrace the madness Just kidding...</p><p> Home TVMovies Music Fashion Theater Food Travel Pets Events Comics & Games Columnists Blogs Horoscope Lifestyle NYC Local Business OpinionNews Vacay-Rod Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz have their very own hot- stove...</p><p> Gossip Celeb Photos PopWrapPage Six Family feud Uber-conservative Stephen Baldwin is bracing for a Baldwin...</p><p> Teams High Schools Scores Sports Feeling 'Melo MEMPHIS — With each day, the Nets confidence seems to grow that...</p><p> PHOTOS VIDEOS BLOGS weather icon 0 ° Today's Paper Login Register Classifieds Archives Subscribe More in Photos Click on Each Photo Video More in Videos VIEWED COMMENTEDMost Popular 1.</p><p> Family feud 2.</p><p> Spidey's tangled web 3.</p><p> Hubby would take back 'vow' 4.</p><p> Rabbi indicted on murder charges in killing of ex-cop 5.</p><p> End for Andy? Reubens is a friend of mine.</p><p> Q.</p><p> How do you reach out to a friend who’s been arrested? A: During that escapade of Paul’s, I spoke to him on the phone a couple of times.</p><p> I gave him some advice and he didn’t take it.</p><p> I told him, “Come back.</p><p> Don’t run away.” He didn’t kill anyone.</p><p> I did say to him getting arrested for jerking off in a porn theater is like getting arrested for eating in a restaurant.</p><p> That’s what they’re for! Q.</p><p> Did you enjoy driving through the streets of New York while the Bernard Hermann score from “Taxi Driver” was playing in the background? A: That shooting was the most scared I’ve ever been in my life.</p><p> We did that on a Saturday night right through Times Square where there are billions of people and billions of buses and cars and rickshaws and bicycles.</p><p> And horses! And I could not see.</p><p> I could not see the entire time I was driving.</p><p> At the end of that night, I could hardly breathe.</p><p> I kept saying, “I can’t see.” No one cared.And they wrecked my car — plugging things into the cigarette lighter, pulling panels out, taping things to the steering wheel.</p><p> Afterward, I said, “You know, Marty, they just trashed my car.” He looked at me and said, “Fran, don’t you know never to allow people to make a movie in your caror your house?” Q: Do you regret publishing your second book? Because if you publish only one book it has a certain Harper Lee status to it.</p><p> Of course if you do three books you have a body of work.</p><p> But two is an awkward number.</p><p> A: It is.</p><p> But I still do not intend it to be the final number.</p><p> I do have two halves of two different books done.</p><p> And I did say recently to [Alfred A.</p><p> Knopf editor-in-chief] Sonny Mehta, who is still my publisher, “You know what, Sonny, I have two unfinished books.</p><p> If you put them together, Ihave a book.</p><p> Why don’t we publish the book, the first half of “Exterior Signs Of Wealth,” which is a novel? Then you turn it the other way around and you have “Progress,” which is non-fiction.</p><p> People might think it’s some sort of post-modern trick.</p><p> But in fact it’ll be a book.</p><p> Public speakingMonday, 10 p.m., HBO Like 60 likes.</p><p> Sign Up to see what your friends like. 12 More PrintNYPOST Comments (0) You must be logged in to leave comments.</p><p> Login ι Registerliving from it. http://www.hototc.com Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! www.AwesomePennyStocks.com Buy a link here Sponsored Links Get Renting Advice Currency from Amex: Earn.</p><p> Spend.</p><p> Save.</p><p> Share.</p><p> Sign Up Online Now!getcurrency.com $9 Car Insurance Breaking News: Car Insurance Companies Exposed - Get The Facts HereNewsToday9.com Business On Main Join The Community of Ideas, Tools, & Resources, Connected by Sprint!www.BusinessOnMain.comREAD Can't find what you're looking for? 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