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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
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There are a lot of people who’ve never heard of Fran Lebowitz —
for good reason. 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. 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. 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.
Q: If a young person asked you wherethey should live, where would you send
them?
A: I don’t know. One of the reasons that
New York is less interesting than it usedto be is because everything is so
homogenized. I always like to blame a
lot of what happens in New York on
Bloomberg because I want to blame
everything on Bloomberg.
Q: Did you blame Giuliani when he was
in charge?
A: I did. This is the trajectory of my
relationship to mayors. 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 amayor worse than Giuliani.” And then
we have Bloomberg. We certainly could
never have a mayor longer than
Bloomberg.
Q: Do you go to the theater?
A: I don’t like the theater. I know, I’m a
horrible person for saying that. Though
in fact, I’m going tonight to see “The
Pee-wee Herman Show” because Paul
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Reubens is a friend of mine.
Q. 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. I gave him some advice and he
didn’t take it. I told him, “Come back. Don’t run away.” He didn’t kill anyone. I did say to him
getting arrested for jerking off in a porn theater is like getting arrested for eating in a restaurant.
That’s what they’re for!
Q. 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. 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. And horses! And I could not see. I could not see the entire time I was
driving. At the end of that night, I could hardly breathe. 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. 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. Of course if you do three books you have a body of work. But twois an awkward number.
A: It is. But I still do not intend it to be the final number. I do have two halves of two different
books done. And I did say recently to [Alfred A. Knopf editor-in-chief] Sonny Mehta, who is still
my publisher, “You know what, Sonny, I have two unfinished books. If you put them together, Ihave a book. 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.
People might think it’s some sort of post-modern trick. But in fact it’ll be a book.
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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
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There are a lot of people who’ve never heard of Fran Lebowitz —
for good reason. 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. 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. 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.
Q: If a young person asked you wherethey should live, where would you send
them?
A: I don’t know. One of the reasons that
New York is less interesting than it usedto be is because everything is so
homogenized. I always like to blame a
lot of what happens in New York on
Bloomberg because I want to blame
everything on Bloomberg.
Q: Did you blame Giuliani when he was
in charge?
A: I did. This is the trajectory of my
relationship to mayors. 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 amayor worse than Giuliani.” And then
we have Bloomberg. We certainly could
never have a mayor longer than
Bloomberg.
Q: Do you go to the theater?
A: I don’t like the theater. I know, I’m a
horrible person for saying that. Though
in fact, I’m going tonight to see “The
Pee-wee Herman Show” because Paul
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Reubens is a friend of mine.
Q. 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. I gave him some advice and he
didn’t take it. I told him, “Come back. Don’t run away.” He didn’t kill anyone. I did say to him
getting arrested for jerking off in a porn theater is like getting arrested for eating in a restaurant.
That’s what they’re for!
Q. 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. 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. And horses! And I could not see. I could not see the entire time I was
driving. At the end of that night, I could hardly breathe. 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. 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. Of course if you do three books you have a body of work. But twois an awkward number.
A: It is. But I still do not intend it to be the final number. I do have two halves of two different
books done. And I did say recently to [Alfred A. Knopf editor-in-chief] Sonny Mehta, who is still
my publisher, “You know what, Sonny, I have two unfinished books. If you put them together, Ihave a book. 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.
People might think it’s some sort of post-modern trick. But in fact it’ll be a book.
Public speaking
Monday, 10 p.m., HBO
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