From "Fran Lebowitz vs. the World Talking (on a landline) with the star of Martin Scorsese’s cranky, necessary love letter to New York, Pretend It’s a City" (New York Magazine). I'm quite sure it's not necessary, but it's on Netflix, so I will check it out.
December 29, 2020
"I loathe domestic life.... I don’t want anyone in my house that I don’t know when they are leaving, so I don’t want there to be anyone else in the house."
"So you’ve never had a live-in relationship?"/"Never! That’s what I’m saying, never! Never. I never did it. I never would do it. I don’t want to do it. I have no interest in it. I don’t like domestic life like that. I am not that share-y a person; I’m not accommodating in that way, in any real way. I have zero ability or desire — the only monogamous relationship I have had in my life is with my car. That is my monogamous relationship; I still have that car, the same car, yes, and the reason that I still have this car is because, unlike humans, I am not tired of the car."
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Public Speaking was a delight. Fran Lebowitz may be many things but she’s never a bore.
I thought she died in a kiln explosion in 1978?
Is there anyone out there who's actually listened to FL over the years who doubts for a minute that she's whack?
Thanks Joe.
Fran Lebowitz looks like Ruth Bader Ginsberg as played by Martin Short.
One of the things that has been very bad about New York, uh, has been what kind of people can come here. Now it’s much less expensive, so I am assuming that people who could not come here, I mean to live, can come here now. So it’s a big opportunity, if you’re young, and it’s a big opportunity for the city to get rid of some of the people who are not contributing to the city and to get some young people who are going to be more interesting.
All that remains to be seen. And I think it's a stretch to assume that all the people who have left over the past 9 months or so weren't "contributing to the city". You may claim that they weren't contriubting culturally (which would be debatable) but they certainly were contributing in terms of taxes.
She had a recurring/occasional role playing a judge on Law and Order.
"I'll allow it, counselor." "The jury is instructed to disregard that last statement." "Sustained!"
And etc.
"I loathe domestic life"
I'm sure the feeling is mutual...
Ann! You missed the obligatory video of Queen performing: "I'm In Love With My Car".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7GJIloc1VQ
Life is better shared.
She missed plenty.
I thought she died in a kiln explosion in 1978?
According to the Daily Faberian she died in 1962.
My wife and I were watching something the other night and she was in it. I said I couldn't believe she was still alive. My wife wanted to know who she was and what's she's known for. I couldn't describe anything. She used to be a writer, now she's just known for being Fran Leibowitz. She's acerbic - but, even in whatever it was we were watching, she was just a droning old bore.
"According to the Daily Faberian she died in 1962."
I just hope Otter was able to get over it...with Shelley's help, of course.
"So you’ve never had a live-in relationship?"/"Never! That’s what I’m saying, never! Never. I never did it. I never would do it. I don’t want to do it. I have no interest in it. I don’t like domestic life like that. I am not that share-y a person; I’m not accommodating in that way, in any real way. I have zero ability or desire..."
Yeah, you're desire is what kept that from happening.
So... They'll leave a small town for the Apple in decay...
Monogamous? I am skeptical. I bet she changed the oil of many a car over the years. Rotated the tires too.
Fran Lebowitz is quite funny, but I liked her better as a "Where Are They Now" Ghost of the Eighties than a real and living presence in our world of today.
Remember when Susan Sontag died, and some people were posting that she was involved with Fran Lebowitz (rather than with Annie Leibovitz)? Fran Lebowitz and Susan Sontag - that would have been quite a domestic arrangement.
Is she a lesbian? I think she's a lesbian. I hope she's a lesbian.
At least then she'd have a chance.
No sane man would ever go near her...
“ Fran Lebowitz looks like Ruth Bader Ginsberg as played by Martin Short.”
Yes! Thanks for the chuckle.
She seems nice.
She sure spends a lot of time talking about herself.
It's a living, I guess.
I bet she really smells.
There is something about people who use the word loathe.
Never. I never did it. I never would do it. I don’t want to do it. I have no interest in it.
Why do I think she hasn't exactly had to reject a lot of offers?
I share her sensibilities, but have failed at following them.
I don't care about NYC any more, especially after being told over and over how much I should care about the people who don't care about each other.
I can't care about people who would hire someone like Commandante De Blasio to rule over them, or Governor Death Cuomo, or Dementia Joe. These people will never deserve or my interest or pity again.
I dunno. Pretty happy being single with a “friend” who visits on occasion or I visit her
Some old bag from NY is interesting? Highly unlikely.
This is not the first comment so I feel comfortable dumping on it. Fran Lebowitz is a nobody who has done nothing other than say the things New Yorkers, and people that read the New York Times, think and say. She shits on Trump in the usual ways. She loves New York in that self-conscious way New Yorkers do. And she pumps herself up about not having a companion, not living a 'domestic' life, to smooth over the fact that no one has offered or suggested they engage in such a thing together.
I did an abbreviated google search and find no facts that prove me wrong. Is there such evidence?
O h. G. o. d.
SAD SAD SADDDDDDDD !!
It's almost as if we give a shit.
I love her. She's living one my alternative lives, wherein I selfishly live alone in nyc and go to parties and openings and do what tf I want, critics and commenters be damned.
From the "Things best never admitted out loud" file.
And there are people that actually celebrate such hostility to fellow humanity.
... the only monogamous relationship I have had in my life is with my car ...
Surprisingly Fran Lebowitz actually does have a motor vehicle and actually does drive it.
Some Luddite, some New Yorker, she.
It probably reminds her of her cabdriving days.
Though Fran obviously hates Trump and Republicans, she did think that Sanders and Biden are both too old and decrepit to be president. She also liked Malcolm and Steve Forbes for some reason.
I've always liked reading Fran Lebowitz.
I'm pretty sure I would hate her.
Dysfunctional, certainly. Normalize, tolerate, or reject?
Fran Liebovitz looks like a dried up cow patty, and probably smells like one too. I wouldn't let her in my house, nor shovel my driveway.
So I take it that she wouldn't want John - the Thing That Wouldn't Leave - Belushi to come over for drinks?
https://vimeo.com/70753317
Does she haunt houses as a second line of work?
It seems to me that too many modern people don't understand what it means to grow up. They manage to set up their lives so that they don't need to.
Letting other people into your life is growth for you. You get bigger. A spouse, then children, then maybe other people as well. They become part of you.
Why would someone want to stay small?
Howard @ 2:59: you're mostly a giant troll and pain in the ass, but that cracked me up, and to paraphrase the Cable Guy "That was funny, I don't care who you are"
Cat ladies.
Is it just me, or did New York and New Yorkers used to be, you know...interesting?
Once again with feeling: “The American Psychiatric Association estimates that 20% of the adult population is walking around with a diagnosable mental illness. I think they’re light in the pot.”
I'm with wild chicken at 5:28. Interview Magazine was a blast and her books were funny. I was disappointed when she stopped writing. There's a place in this world for entertaining curmudgeons and she is in that place. I particularly like that she doesn't whine.
I’ll pass on that tedious hag yammering on about how she hates the — read rich — people that evil Giuliani brought to NYC, and how she now thinks more interesting poorer people will move in.
What NYC doesn’t have anymore isn’t poor people: they have plenty. Just not where she lives. It’s the tediously hated bourgeoisie who have been driven completely out of the city. It is now a city exclusively for the wealthy, like her, and poor people, including Chinese and Mexican illegals (lots of them) living off the taxpayers of New York State and the U.S. through welfare programs directed as federal disability payments, bloc grants, Medicaid and so on.
This is the sort of blather tax-dodger Anthony Bourdian would emit as he ripped off decent business owners by staffing his cool restaurants with illegals paid under the table while whining that the rest of us don’t care about them as we footed his bills. What a bunch of Marie Antoinettes. The hag also complained that she doesn’t have access to enough people cooking her food for her and that Republicans wanted COVID to kill New Yorkers.
That’s pretty evil, demented stuff.
I'm quite sure it's not necessary, but it's on Netflix, so I will check it out.
Netflix, New Yorker, don't let these bullshit entities dictate what you pay attention to.
Fran Lebowitz may be many things but she’s never a bore.
Present article notwithstanding?
Bob Smith said, 'Once again with feeling: “The American Psychiatric Association estimates that 20% of the adult population is walking around with a diagnosable mental illness. I think they’re light in the pot.”'
It really doesn't matter, as long as you're functional and don't kill anybody.
Textbook sociopathy.
She was funny in a dry, acerbic way. I liked her observations about lawyers, mothers and the difference between gay people in the 70’s and now. She would have gotten along with Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin crowd. Wit is rare.
I read the Wikipedia article and I can't figure out how she can afford to live in Manhattan. Two best sellers 40 years ago, a children's book 25 years ago. Occasional acting jobs on Law & Order (done by 2007) and occasional public speaking gigs. Even with rent control, how does she make her nut? She owns a car and smokes. Two packs of cigarettes a day must run you close to $150 a week in NYC. I don't even want to guess what garaging a car costs now. I am truly baffled.
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