The idolatry of celebrity and money reflects a society that is so void of purpose and literacy. Fran is a critical thinker and an exceptional observer of society. She see the ridiculousness in our unenlightened behavior.
that is quite interesting because there are child prodigies in music and both are a kind of artistic craft, perhaps because writing is more vast and the mind is just as important as the actual form (i.e. most music prodigies do not create music), there are also teen prodigies in writing, rimbaud, keats/shellys/byron, perhaps because that is the earliest age to have a mature perspective.
It’s 2021 right now and everything Fran had been saying about any topic or person has only proven that she knew (and still does) what she was talking about. I would love to see and hear more of her, the Netflix series only made me want more.
I’m laughing because Fran would hate my guts but I still find her entertaining. I was in a hunting camp full of drunk Republican NRA Members the night Trump beat HRC. It was a great party. I’m a Canadian so it’s always fun to see these guys.
The Netflix series got me going, too. I’d seen her before, but now I can get enough. I’m replacing Dorothy Parker in the middle of the night with Fran interviews!
I’ve been listening to her on TH-cam for two days now. Can’t believe I just now discovered her! She has inspired me so much that I just got a great job today.
@@lesterdiamond6190 As a fellow Canadian, being present at party of intoxicated rednecks who are celebrating Trump's victory would make me wonder why I was in the company of such deluded people. Their solution to America's problems is another civil war. I’ve lived in the USA more than 20 years and love this country, but am aware it is going through a crisis of hatred and distrust, with plenty of blame to go around on both sides. At the root of America's identity crisis is its corrupt political system, created by not by an imaginary "deep state," but by the .1 percenters who fund the campaigns of shameless grifters whose job is to use their congressional and judicial authority to keep the rich in their privileged situation while the hard-working middle class is struggling to put food on the table. The people's anger is understandable. But until your redneck pals realize it is not the "deep state" that is ripping them off, but the super-rich who want to keep things just as they are, that their anger can be applied to electing sincere patriots, redneck patriots included! -- and reforming the Electoral College and other undemocratic laws and institutions. Even when honest and competent people are elected fairly to power, they will need a decade or more to get the country back on track. Nobody wants this to happen more than your next-door neighbors in the Great White North. Your country is the fortress of democracy against the growing rise of authoritarianism around the world.
I definitely agree w/Fran regarding how so many people care more about animals & very little about kids suffering. Our foster care system is atrocious & there are so many church organizations that sexually abuse kids for decades & so many more kinds of harm towards kids from different people. Everyone needs to get priorities straight.
There's something about the way that friend Leibowitz seemingly Nelson said most of us think about but do not expound on. I appreciate her tenacity and insight to do so.
I understand what she means regarding children. I don't want children because I don't want to bring anyone in this shit world and be responsible for that. I also know I probably wouldn't be a good mother. There are a ton of people who don't have these internal conversations with themselves. There are many people who shouldn't have children.
I felt the same way, I also heard it’s ironic but people like us would be better parents than the typical because we understand this and understand children more than those who have kids.
Nope. A few years ago she bought a spectacular luxurious condo in a posh Manhattan high rise - it cost over 3 million dollars. There is a website online, including the floor plan.... just do a Google Search and you can find it. Lots of detailed photos of her luxurious condo. She isn't in the Manhattan billionaire category but she definitely IS financially quite wealthy. The property tax on her condo is a small fortune she must pay every year. Technically, it was cited as a 1 bedroom, 2 bath BUT look at the architect blue print floor plan and it really is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a HUGE living room the size of a soccer field. Formal dining area and the living room is so huge - it could be split into yet a 4th bedroom quite easily. What I consider to be the additional 2 bedrooms were called a "study" and "sleeping area". She had horrendous writers block - what she euphamistically has called "Writers Blockage". The last book she wrote was way back in early 1980s......she wrote 2 books around the 1970s - both books were combined into an anthology. Then no books for many years - then she wrote a charming childrens book - a very quirky tale of two pandas who live in Manhattan and travel to Paris, incognito, dressed as dogs! The last book she published was way back in 1981. She earns a LOT of money from lecture circuit, tv shows, etc. Unfortunately, since Covid all of her public speaking tours were cancelled since all theatres are closed. Check out her documentary directed by Martin Scorcese "Pretend It is a City" - about her life in New York, HILARIOUS documentary She is basically unemployed since Covid and said she is living off her life savings. She definitely was quite poor when she was 19 and left her family home in suburban, solid middle class New Jersey. At 19, she was flat broke and had a jumble of very crap jobs - taxi cab driver, sold belts as a street vendor, was a cleaning lady......she REFUSED to be a waitress since she said it was MANDATORY sexual harrassment and all NY waitresses were forced to have sex with the restruant owner. She started to make decent salary when she started writing for Interview Magazine and being in the same social circle orbit as Andy Warhol made her a well known celebrity. BTW, she has stated publicly that she did NOT like Andy Warhol. She thought he was a phony, superficial, shallow and quite boring. She said Warhol did NOT like her because she wasn't "glamorous" or ultra-wealthy socialite. She said Warhol was a "user" and a social climber. She wrote "I Cover the Waterfront" for his Interview Magazine which was a hugely popular column. If truth be told, Interview Magazine was overly hyped. It really did not have a big subscriber base, or circulation base - outside of Manhattan, most people never heard of it - except as a "cult" publication. Being a contributing columnist for Interview Magazine led to her writing another column, simultaneously for Mademoiselle magazine. That always seemed incongrous since FL was the antithesis of fashion, glamour, style.....she is a social satirist, a humorist, a social critic.....really, I wish she had developed a stand up comedian routine. She is a brilliant raconteur, a storyteller and her greatest strength is as a conversationlist......a modern day Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain. She was expelled from high school for "being a misfit" and "not our type" and was always in trouble in grammar school for "talking too much". Fortunately, she created a career out of her gift for brilliant conversation! I am only 4 years younger than FL is and a generational cohort. I remember in the 1960s - 1970s the two greatest "Professional Conversationists" were Peter Ustinov and Peter O'Toole. I would have loved to have the three of them - all together in a public speaking tour praticing the Fine Art of Conversation.
I’m a fan of Fran, as they say. I don’t necessarily agree w/ everything she says, but 95% of the time, she’s absolutely right. I do find it strange, however, that she does not know a single Vietnam War veteran. That’s astonishing. I’m from (& still live in Baltimore City); Baltimore City-& Baltimore County-are literally BURSTING at the seams w/ Vietnam vets. My father is one (he was 16 when he went). Everybody I know is connected to Vietnam vets, by blood or marriage or working w/ them. They’re everywhere you turn here, & it’s odd to me that there’s ANYBODY who doesn’t know any Vietnam vets. That WAS a defining experience for that generation, because those vets experienced a lot in that war & still live w/ the physical & psychological consequences of Vietnam warfare from all those decades ago. It’s embedded into families.
She is from a Jewish Middle Class family. Most or 99% Jewish men at that time went to college. If you attended college or onward to graduate school you were not drafted like most working class or poor young men who didn't attend college during the Vietnam war period.
Fran Lebowitz was correct and is still correct on the majority of her views. Listening to these older interviews shows me just how much wisdom she has. I don’t agree with all of her opinions, just most. 🌝
She is along the same lines of a Christopher Hitchens... a social critic/anthropologist... Hitchens too attacked the cult of celebrity... He did it with Mother Theresa. I think it's important to have these critics - to keep everyone in check!
I don’t agree that the rich don’t have to answer to anyone and therefore have more freedom to be themselves. I believe amongst the affluent there are stricter codes of behaviour they need to adhere to. More expectations from society they feel they need to fulfill. What does everyone else think?
Well, I think that you *and* Fran are right, but that’s by extension of an element of being unfettered, and having the freedom of such behavior, that’s not being broached in the discussion, and that’s this: having anything to lose. People who have nothing to lose-by which I mean, they are unconcerned about any possible consequences of their behavior-are the people who have that kind of freedom, and that’s regardless of their place on the economic spectrum.
Watch all the many You Tube interviews when she lashes into Trump. She said, looking back and putting things into perspective that George W Bush was a "better" President than Trump.....she loathes Trump (who can blame her?)
What does Fran really think? She thinks it 's sad so few of her audiences buy her books. Ain't gonna happen! Fran is a survivor and aware her speaking career will be her legacy. Our divided country needs her to convince us of the foolishness on both sides of the political spectrum, and how much more we have in common than we realize, and how our zero-sum culture is making everyone miserable. The first step toward this country's return to sanity is a willingness to change. Fran can free us from the prison of our self-righteousness without arousing hostility. Fran makes us, all of us, see ourselves as we really are and forces us to conclude that maybe we don’t have all the answers. Rock on, Fran!
Within a century or this century? Cause we are in a new century since this interview took place😅 I never see her show any embarrassment or sort of a shyness to talk about a subject, unless when someone brings up the question about the estimate of when she is finishing her book💕
She is very private about her love life but has been quoted stating that she is a "horrible girlfriend" - she was emphatic that she "is a horrible girlfriend". Not much else, except for that comment about her love life - or lack of love life?????
You know someone really loves, respects and understands New York when they admit they were not born New Yorkers no matter how long they've lived there!
Yup, as of 2021 she is around 70 years old. She was born in 1950. Look for the interviews in her 20s she was actually quite pretty, despite no makeup, no interest in fashion, looked like she always cut her own hair - but remarkably pretty. Over the years she always wore the same "uniform". Man's tailored jacket, mans dress shirt, jeans, cowboy boots - very utilitarian. She is completely without a shred of vanity and remarkably humble for someone who is internationally famous. She is one in a million - I have been a huge fan since I was in my early 20s in the early 1970s....I have followed her career since I first discovered her when she wrote her brilliant column for Interview Magazine "I Cover the Waterfront".
O my I’m Fran Lebowitz I mean I’m Ruth U//////a but she just described me? Now I see how I sound to those who like and dislike me. Wow humour I gave up cigarettes small difference. I think we are sisters from other Jewish Mothers....
My father only knew one guy who went to Vietnam (and he was killed). My uncle was in the Air Force in the late 60s but never went. He was a pro skier and his service was as a ski instructor. We didn't know any other veterans. 🤔
@@LaineyTsang No, neither of my parents knew any peers that went to Vietnam except the one guy in my dad's class. My uncle was forced to do time in the AF because my granddad was a Colonel in the Army in WW2. Yet he didn't make either of his sons go to Vietnam.
@@LaineyTsang Okay. According to your "usually under 10" and cliched example, Amanda Gorman is not a child prodigy. I was attempting to give attention and praise to a great, young, living artist. Sorry if I stretched the definition beyond your sensibilities. My sensibilities take a dim view of narrow definitions and examples that have no relevance to the present.
@@friendofbeaver6636 no sensibilities have been stretched or hampered or otherwise affected. Amanda Gorman is amazing, but she wasn’t and isn’t now a child prodigy. That’s all I was doing; correcting you. Fran wouldn’t consider her a child prodigy either, and that’s the point.
Fran refuses to admit that writing requires coming up with the right words and that what she says usually is the right words. Maybe she thinks too much about it and should try saying a book and letting a ghost write it down and get it published.
You’re right. The thing is that the Scandinavian background extends throughout that particular part of the USA, so that regional style of living that comes from the descendants of Scandinavian Europeans is as well-known in the major cities of Minnesota as it would be in Fargo; and the big cities in that region have long suspected what NYC thinks of the world outside of NYC.
@@beboplady1542 Why does she mix with people she'll be gossiping about later? I can't do that. If I like you, you'll know it, and love it. If I don't, you're officially invisible...🎩🤔👎
Ann Coulter is many things but I wouldn't call her dumb. The fact that she is friends with Bill Maher should tell something. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if she writes out notes for her books when she's high.
I thought Jackie O brought class and art to this country who didn’t really didn’t know anything about it , but she was all about money for her self ! Look who she married after Jack ?
100spurs -- Fran doesn't bother with conformity (obviously) because she abhors the lack of personal originality that is endemic in our world. If she lived in any other city besides New York maybe she'd try to fit in with local norms for women's dress and makeup. If you look up her 1970s TV interviews, she was smoldering sexy. Really was.
My God, you can't tell a man vs a woman? Too bad she smokes like a chimney...therefore, her husky voice. And she READS. Not like stupid dRump who hasn't read a book EVER.
Fran, you are a gem.... an absolute gem...you open your mouth and brutal honesty comes out.
I've always loved her; glad everyone has caught on. 😃😎👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
How lucky we are to have her and to have the internet and TH-cam bringing her to us.
She is so intelligent and quick witted
The idolatry of celebrity and money reflects a society that is so void of purpose and literacy. Fran is a critical thinker and an exceptional observer of society. She see the ridiculousness in our unenlightened behavior.
Such a sophisticated and mature interview, take us back.
There's no such thing as a child prodigy in literature. wow love it
that is quite interesting because there are child prodigies in music and both are a kind of artistic craft, perhaps because writing is more vast and the mind is just as important as the actual form (i.e. most music prodigies do not create music), there are also teen prodigies in writing, rimbaud, keats/shellys/byron, perhaps because that is the earliest age to have a mature perspective.
That was the line I thought ‘I’m taking that’ today is Fran’s 73rd birthday.
I always notice how beautiful her hands are while she’s speaking
And how small! Lovely!
Girl, you are in love!
She has lovely hands.🤗
Oh my god I see what you mean! Gee I watched her Letterman supercut of 2h30 and didnt pay attention to that
me 2 me 2 me 2 im studying her closely and trying to incorporate her artistic fluid hand gestures into my conversational repertoire!
She is always hilarious, attractive and an original thinker.
It’s 2021 right now and everything Fran had been saying about any topic or person has only proven that she knew (and still does) what she was talking about. I would love to see and hear more of her, the Netflix series only made me want more.
I’m laughing because Fran would hate my guts but I still find her entertaining. I was in a hunting camp full of drunk Republican NRA Members the night Trump beat HRC. It was a great party. I’m a Canadian so it’s always fun to see these guys.
The Netflix series got me going, too. I’d seen her before, but now I can get enough. I’m replacing Dorothy Parker in the middle of the night with Fran interviews!
I’ve been listening to her on TH-cam for two days now. Can’t believe I just now discovered her! She has inspired me so much that I just got a great job today.
I agree with everything you said!
@@lesterdiamond6190 As a fellow Canadian, being present at party of intoxicated rednecks who are celebrating Trump's victory would make me wonder why I was in the company of such deluded people. Their solution to America's problems is another civil war.
I’ve lived in the USA more than 20 years and love this country, but am aware it is going through a crisis of hatred and distrust, with plenty of blame to go around on both sides.
At the root of America's identity crisis is its corrupt political system, created by not by an imaginary "deep state," but by the .1 percenters who fund the campaigns of shameless grifters whose job is to use their congressional and judicial authority to keep the rich in their privileged situation while the hard-working middle class is struggling to put food on the table.
The people's anger is understandable. But until your redneck pals realize it is not the "deep state" that is ripping them off, but the super-rich who want to keep things just as they are, that their anger can be applied to electing sincere patriots, redneck patriots included! -- and reforming the Electoral College and other undemocratic laws and institutions.
Even when honest and competent people are elected fairly to power, they will need a decade or more to get the country back on track. Nobody wants this to happen more than your next-door neighbors in the Great White North. Your country is the fortress of democracy against the growing rise of authoritarianism around the world.
Fran is one of a kind.
I find her so beautiful and her hands are very expressive and sweet too.
I could listen to her talk all day
great idea im retired im gonna give that a try! thanks
She's seriously so beautiful.
agree i a beautifull bookworm!
I love Fran! I have always been attracted to literary women. She would eat me alive.
Loved the conversation. Many things to think about.
5:33-6:10 Amazingly well put. And still true 25 years on.
Also 18:50-19:03 another spot-on remark.
At last we found a true intelligence. Marry me Fran! This is actually my husband’s picture, but please ignore.
🤣 you are so funny 🤣
Hehe 🤗
but please ignore ..lol .
"I took ten years off to sulk."
Iconic.
She’s says things others are scared to say. I’m happy to say she agrees with me.
I definitely agree w/Fran regarding how so many people care more about animals & very little about kids suffering. Our foster care system is atrocious & there are so many church organizations that sexually abuse kids for decades & so many more kinds of harm towards kids from different people. Everyone needs to get priorities straight.
Children have always been abused. Public schools. Religious businesses. Families. Neighbors. It's universal.
There's something about the way that friend Leibowitz seemingly Nelson said most of us think about but do not expound on. I appreciate her tenacity and insight to do so.
Oops should have edited better. The word friend obviously is her first name Fran. And the word Nelson I meant to say seemingly needs to be
Just edit your first comment.
Yes she gets to the point and is not at all obtuse.
Bravo Fran! Wishing you well!
l♡ Fran
Very thoughtful interview. Props to both of them!
I understand what she means regarding children. I don't want children because I don't want to bring anyone in this shit world and be responsible for that. I also know I probably wouldn't be a good mother. There are a ton of people who don't have these internal conversations with themselves. There are many people who shouldn't have children.
I felt the same way, I also heard it’s ironic but people like us would be better parents than the typical because we understand this and understand children more than those who have kids.
19 years later and no Exterior Signs of Wealth yet 😕
Mike Jim explain 🤔
Nope. A few years ago she bought a spectacular luxurious condo in a posh Manhattan high rise - it cost over 3 million dollars. There is a website online, including the floor plan.... just do a Google Search and you can find it. Lots of detailed photos of her luxurious condo. She isn't in the Manhattan billionaire category but she definitely IS financially quite wealthy. The property tax on her condo is a small fortune she must pay every year. Technically, it was cited as a 1 bedroom, 2 bath BUT look at the architect blue print floor plan and it really is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a HUGE living room the size of a soccer field. Formal dining area and the living room is so huge - it could be split into yet a 4th bedroom quite easily. What I consider to be the additional 2 bedrooms were called a "study" and "sleeping area". She had horrendous writers block - what she euphamistically has called "Writers Blockage". The last book she wrote was way back in early 1980s......she wrote 2 books around the 1970s - both books were combined into an anthology. Then no books for many years - then she wrote a charming childrens book - a very quirky tale of two pandas who live in Manhattan and travel to Paris, incognito, dressed as dogs! The last book she published was way back in 1981. She earns a LOT of money from lecture circuit, tv shows, etc. Unfortunately, since Covid all of her public speaking tours were cancelled since all theatres are closed. Check out her documentary directed by Martin Scorcese "Pretend It is a City" - about her life in New York, HILARIOUS documentary She is basically unemployed since Covid and said she is living off her life savings. She definitely was quite poor when she was 19 and left her family home in suburban, solid middle class New Jersey. At 19, she was flat broke and had a jumble of very crap jobs - taxi cab driver, sold belts as a street vendor, was a cleaning lady......she REFUSED to be a waitress since she said it was MANDATORY sexual harrassment and all NY waitresses were forced to have sex with the restruant owner. She started to make decent salary when she started writing for Interview Magazine and being in the same social circle orbit as Andy Warhol made her a well known celebrity. BTW, she has stated publicly that she did NOT like Andy Warhol. She thought he was a phony, superficial, shallow and quite boring. She said Warhol did NOT like her because she wasn't "glamorous" or ultra-wealthy socialite. She said Warhol was a "user" and a social climber. She wrote "I Cover the Waterfront" for his Interview Magazine which was a hugely popular column. If truth be told, Interview Magazine was overly hyped. It really did not have a big subscriber base, or circulation base - outside of Manhattan, most people never heard of it - except as a "cult" publication. Being a contributing columnist for Interview Magazine led to her writing another column, simultaneously for Mademoiselle magazine. That always seemed incongrous since FL was the antithesis of fashion, glamour, style.....she is a social satirist, a humorist, a social critic.....really, I wish she had developed a stand up comedian routine. She is a brilliant raconteur, a storyteller and her greatest strength is as a conversationlist......a modern day Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain. She was expelled from high school for "being a misfit" and "not our type" and was always in trouble in grammar school for "talking too much". Fortunately, she created a career out of her gift for brilliant conversation! I am only 4 years younger than FL is and a generational cohort. I remember in the 1960s - 1970s the two greatest "Professional Conversationists" were Peter Ustinov and Peter O'Toole. I would have loved to have the three of them - all together in a public speaking tour praticing the Fine Art of Conversation.
I’m a fan of Fran, as they say. I don’t necessarily agree w/ everything she says, but 95% of the time, she’s absolutely right. I do find it strange, however, that she does not know a single Vietnam War veteran. That’s astonishing. I’m from (& still live in Baltimore City); Baltimore City-& Baltimore County-are literally BURSTING at the seams w/ Vietnam vets. My father is one (he was 16 when he went). Everybody I know is connected to Vietnam vets, by blood or marriage or working w/ them. They’re everywhere you turn here, & it’s odd to me that there’s ANYBODY who doesn’t know any Vietnam vets. That WAS a defining experience for that generation, because those vets experienced a lot in that war & still live w/ the physical & psychological consequences of Vietnam warfare from all those decades ago. It’s embedded into families.
She is from a Jewish Middle Class family. Most or 99% Jewish men at that time went to college. If you attended college or onward to graduate school you were not drafted like most working class or poor
young men who didn't attend college during the Vietnam war period.
Fran Lebowitz was correct and is still correct on the majority of her views. Listening to these older interviews shows me just how much wisdom she has. I don’t agree with all of her opinions, just most. 🌝
Fran...it's time to finish that book!
Fargo is a phenomenal movie.
Good interview.
23:08 Mick Jagger
23:39 Frank Sinatra
She is along the same lines of a Christopher Hitchens... a social critic/anthropologist... Hitchens too attacked the cult of celebrity... He did it with Mother Theresa. I think it's important to have these critics - to keep everyone in check!
Interesting especially as many might say she has become a celebrity, ;-)
Agree, she has beautiful hands and also wonderful skin.
Umm... it's called TV lighting and TV makeup.
She is very clever. Respect
damn, I was 8 when she gave this interview
I was 6... so, I win?
I was born ten years later lol
Has she published that novel yet? Jesus Christ.
Fran- I wish you knew-- "old age" is 15 years older than you are-- throughout your life
omg, you are soooo right (says this 72 year old).
It is 1996 and the guy asks her "what deserves skewering"..... hey.... it gets better and better after 1996.
I don’t agree that the rich don’t have to answer to anyone and therefore have more freedom to be themselves. I believe amongst the affluent there are stricter codes of behaviour they need to adhere to. More expectations from society they feel they need to fulfill. What does everyone else think?
Well, I think that you *and* Fran are right, but that’s by extension of an element of being unfettered, and having the freedom of such behavior, that’s not being broached in the discussion, and that’s this: having anything to lose. People who have nothing to lose-by which I mean, they are unconcerned about any possible consequences of their behavior-are the people who have that kind of freedom, and that’s regardless of their place on the economic spectrum.
That interview guy reminds me a little bit of Rip Torn.
Oh wow, she's talking about Bush! hahah oh the times have changed
Watch all the many You Tube interviews when she lashes into Trump. She said, looking back and putting things into perspective that George W Bush was a "better" President than Trump.....she loathes Trump (who can blame her?)
@@colleenwhalen2924 She loathes them all if we’re being honest. You hate President Trump though and that is clearly all that matters to you.
@@timprescott4634 who of sane mind doesn't?
What does Fran really think? She thinks it 's sad so few of her audiences buy her books.
Ain't gonna happen! Fran is a survivor and aware her speaking career will be her legacy. Our divided country needs her to convince us of the foolishness on both sides of the political spectrum, and how much more we have in common than we realize, and how our zero-sum culture is making everyone miserable.
The first step toward this country's return to sanity is a willingness to change. Fran can free us from the prison of our self-righteousness without arousing hostility. Fran makes us, all of us, see ourselves as we really are and forces us to conclude that maybe we don’t have all the answers. Rock on, Fran!
Within a century or this century? Cause we are in a new century since this interview took place😅 I never see her show any embarrassment or sort of a shyness to talk about a subject, unless when someone brings up the question about the estimate of when she is finishing her book💕
A sad look, my heart sinks with hers
A part of me wishes I was a lesbian .. a woman .. and frans crush.
She is very private about her love life but has been quoted stating that she is a "horrible girlfriend" - she was emphatic that she "is a horrible girlfriend". Not much else, except for that comment about her love life - or lack of love life?????
18:08 Fran the children's cartoonist. A female Charles Schultz or Dr Seuss. I enjoy these YT videos. Thank you.
For some Odd Reason I like Fran. I'm very toxic. Born 21st of May.
God, she is remarkable.
But she missed that self imposed deadline...😎
I never liked him as an interviewer, but I miss the format on TVO.
You know someone really loves, respects and understands New York
when they admit they were not born New Yorkers
no matter how long they've lived there!
God, she’s so beautiful and smart. I love her humour and I wish I was her girlfriend or something 😛
I like to read and listen to you.
Looks a lot younger here can't be only 5 years ago.
Rukhsana Khan 1995?
This interview is dated 1996, so, going on 23 years ago.
Yup, as of 2021 she is around 70 years old. She was born in 1950. Look for the interviews in her 20s she was actually quite pretty, despite no makeup, no interest in fashion, looked like she always cut her own hair - but remarkably pretty. Over the years she always wore the same "uniform". Man's tailored jacket, mans dress shirt, jeans, cowboy boots - very utilitarian. She is completely without a shred of vanity and remarkably humble for someone who is internationally famous. She is one in a million - I have been a huge fan since I was in my early 20s in the early 1970s....I have followed her career since I first discovered her when she wrote her brilliant column for Interview Magazine "I Cover the Waterfront".
I think she's about 70 in 2020, and in this video she said she was 45, so this video is pretty old. Maybe 1995.
@@steveneardley7541 Its 1996 she was turning 46
Fuuuck hahah at first I got so exited bc I thought that it's Louis CK interviewing Fran
What show was this and who was the interviewer?
O my I’m Fran Lebowitz I mean I’m Ruth U//////a but she just described me? Now I see how I sound to those who like and dislike me. Wow humour I gave up cigarettes small difference. I think we are sisters from other Jewish Mothers....
I have always admired this interviewer and I cannot remember his name. Can someone answer this question for me, please?
Was that bloody pink suit on the block? An original Chanel suit from the 60s is pretty good already, never mind one with presidential DNA
You have to read Fran Lebowitz in order to understand post world war II along with Led Zeppelin.
Who is this interviewer, he's really good
My father only knew one guy who went to Vietnam (and he was killed). My uncle was in the Air Force in the late 60s but never went. He was a pro skier and his service was as a ski instructor. We didn't know any other veterans. 🤔
That’s because most of them never made it back home.
@@LaineyTsang No, neither of my parents knew any peers that went to Vietnam except the one guy in my dad's class. My uncle was forced to do time in the AF because my granddad was a Colonel in the Army in WW2. Yet he didn't make either of his sons go to Vietnam.
Is that a cat commenting just prior to seven minute?
San Fran is getting as expensive as new york.
Fran said "There's no such thing as child prodigy in literature." It's 25 years later but, Amanda Gorman is a contender!
She’s not a child at 23 years of age. Child prodigies are literal children, usually under 10. Think Mozart, who composed his first work at age 4.
@@LaineyTsang Ain't we specific! Her talent has been recognized since 2014. She'll turn 23 this March. Mozart's dead.
@@friendofbeaver6636 what does Mozart’s mortal status have to do with anything? He is simply an example of a child prodigy.
@@LaineyTsang Okay. According to your "usually under 10" and cliched example, Amanda Gorman is not a child prodigy. I was attempting to give attention and praise to a great, young, living artist. Sorry if I stretched the definition beyond your sensibilities. My sensibilities take a dim view of narrow definitions and examples that have no relevance to the present.
@@friendofbeaver6636 no sensibilities have been stretched or hampered or otherwise affected. Amanda Gorman is amazing, but she wasn’t and isn’t now a child prodigy. That’s all I was doing; correcting you. Fran wouldn’t consider her a child prodigy either, and that’s the point.
Who is the interviewer?
Fran refuses to admit that writing requires coming up with the right words and that what she says usually is the right words. Maybe she thinks too much about it and should try saying a book and letting a ghost write it down and get it published.
They bought a replica to make replicas of it... talk about kitsch...
Fran. Don't smoke. Eat grapes and have a toot once in awhile.
MARTY FEILDMENS SISTER
Howard Sterns
What does Minneapolis have to do with Fargo? They aren’t even in the same state.
You’re right. The thing is that the Scandinavian background extends throughout that particular part of the USA, so that regional style of living that comes from the descendants of Scandinavian Europeans is as well-known in the major cities of Minnesota as it would be in Fargo; and the big cities in that region have long suspected what NYC thinks of the world outside of NYC.
Conservative wasp here but I luv Fran.
Who is the interviewer, does anyone know?
It wasnt finish within the century...
"No, you have to be three" 💀
Yep 👍
Disconcerting.
Sweeping generalizations combined with relentless snobbery and a healthy spoonful of ignorance
I'm Canadian - 2023 - yes, Canadians are boring. Canada is boring. I wish there were more Frans here...merci Fran for who you are! 🙂
48,000. That could fund a shelter and free sterilization for dogs and cats for a year where I live, and reduce an epidemic.
Great interviewer. Most are terrible.
I would pay to see a talk between Camille Paglia and Fran Lebowitz!
Where does Fran Leibowitz like to dine in New York?
I assume at the best restaurants or as an invitee at dinner parties hosted by wealthy circles she mixes with.
@@beboplady1542 Why does she mix with people she'll be gossiping about later? I can't do that. If I like you, you'll know it, and love it. If I don't, you're officially invisible...🎩🤔👎
With e defines comments on her looks maybe she would have been better off in the radio era! You are such fools.
Is it only me thinking this a female version of Geoffrey Rush ? :))))
I don't get this channel. Fran and Ann Coulter? The smartest and dumbest women of all time? Wtf?
Ann Coulter is many things but I wouldn't call her dumb. The fact that she is friends with Bill Maher should tell something. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if she writes out notes for her books when she's high.
Unfettered way. Allowed to be themselves.
She's a multi-millionaire.
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Selfish people. Brutal world. Children.
Brutality to children.
ثi thoug
I thought Jackie O brought class and art to this country who didn’t really didn’t know anything about it , but she was all about money for her self ! Look who she married after Jack ?
Sometimes she's funny but more often than not she tries way too hard to be funny. Then she isn't. The Fran Leibowitz Reader is exhausting.
Who cares?
Dude or girl?
Woman duh😌
100spurs -- Fran doesn't bother with conformity (obviously) because she abhors the lack of personal originality that is endemic in our world. If she lived in any other city besides New York maybe she'd try to fit in with local norms for women's dress and makeup. If you look up her 1970s TV interviews, she was smoldering sexy. Really was.
Was she nonconforming in dress or smart enough to know that dressing in man's clothes would make her more acceptable among the men on their level.
My God, you can't tell a man vs a woman? Too bad she smokes like a chimney...therefore, her husky voice. And she READS. Not like stupid dRump who hasn't read a book EVER.
That’s such an ignorant comment I’m sorry but “ Ummmmm are you a man or a woman “ how would you like that question asked of you ?!