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raincoaster
09/10/09

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Oh Fran, how I love you. I'd turn gay for you. But only if you wrote another book.
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Mymoustache
09/10/09

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The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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BxgrlJeri
09/10/09

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Fran Lebowitz's "Metropolitan Life" was brilliant snark before snark had a name.
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Antonella
09/10/09

@BxgrlJeri:
She's genius. Purely hysterical. For those who haven't heard of her, pick up "The Frank Lebowitz Reader" which has both "Metropolitan Life" and "Social Studies"
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vampirebris
09/10/09

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Why all the hate? I am inspired by lazy/rich balance she's struck. And she makes a point about the poors and money -- when you don't make a lot of money, the best way to have it "work" for you, is not to spend it in the first place. I say that without any malice because I myself am a member of the poors.
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/10/09

@vampirebris: I thought that was in the creative underclass rulebook. As a card-carrying member of the poors who blogs, freelances five, six days a week, the very idea of an 11-year period of writer's block --! -- on top of that creamy lazy/rich bragadoccio is just de trop.

Of course you are right, though. If we were to cross the divide and become at one with the jetsetera, we would sell out just as quickly as the editors at Spy magazine. It's just human nature (said with tongue in cheek; sorta).
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/10/09

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What the fuck does Fran Lebowitz know about managing money, or, for that matter, a hard days work. "I've never met anyone who even comes close to me in laziness," Ms. Lebowitz told The New York Times in 1994. Her entire "literary output" is a thin gruel indeed. Aside from two books of sardonic essays slapped together rather hastily, her entire professional accomplishment appears to consist wholly of her being famously surly at swishy parties.

As if that passes for wit.

What would Frannie do if not for the lagniappe of her generous friends Si Newhouse and the late Malcolm Forbes and, last but not least, Andy Warhol.
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Kitten_Witawip
09/10/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: She also turns up on L&O as a judge from time to time.
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BettyCrocker
09/10/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: I had to whip out my lorgnette to make out the word lagniappe, but once I did - wow.
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Baroness
09/10/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: Well, she did drive a cab once, before she got on that gravy train forever, as a jet set mascot. At least she's honest about her laziness.

She really is surly though. I had read her first book as a teen, and 20 years ago, passed her on Fifth Ave. I guess I had a naive smile, she could sense my recognition and made hacking, phlegmy sounds, like a growling warning she'd expectorate on me if I dared say anything to her. A charming lady.
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/10/09

@Kitten_Witawip: Dick Wolf is kind ..
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ShanghaiLil
09/10/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: Fran Lebowitz has been one of the funniest people alive for something like 30 years. And I'm pretty sure she's a lesbian. Do you know what a challenge that is? And how much work it takes? It's like a paraplegic becoming a long-distance runner, and holding the championship for decades. So don't be dissing Frannie until you've loafed a few hours in her shoes. While chain-smoking.
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forwardmotion
09/10/09

@ShanghaiLil: The reason you're only "pretty sure" she's a lesbian is because she's never actually come out of the closet. Which is probably her version of good money management.
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ShanghaiLil
09/10/09

@forwardmotion: No, the reason I'm only "pretty sure" she's a lesbian is that I don't think she's had sex since 1983. She was too busy smoking. So it's more a difference of "in theory" vs. "in practice" thing.
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forwardmotion
09/10/09

@ShanghaiLil: I see. You are right, she is quite an unrepentant smoker.
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doodlebug
09/10/09

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Remind me again why this crowd is referred to as "the beautiful people."
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naugahydeinplainsight
09/10/09

@doodlebug: With some photos, less is more. And even if not, sometimes less is less, but that's A-OK.
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momof3wildkids
09/10/09

@doodlebug: People hanging out at OTB's look better than her.
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DaveCrabtree
09/10/09

@momof3wildkids: That's very funny, but I have to say that she's aged well. She doesn't look any worse at 60 than she did at 40. How many of us can say that?
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momof3wildkids
09/10/09

@DaveCrabtree: The better question is why did she look like that at 40?
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valet_of_the_dolls
09/10/09

@momof3wildkids: Chainsmoking, if Metropolitan Life is to be believed.
One of many reasons why I quit.
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dado
09/10/09

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When asked why she robbed banks, she replied...
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BettyCrocker
09/10/09

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All I could hear in my head as I read this was Gilbert Gottfried telling dirty jokes about Joan Rivers.
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m4ximusprim3
09/10/09

@BettyCrocker: She's so old, her pussy has MICE!! BWAAAA!!!
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BettyCrocker
09/10/09

@m4ximusprim3: She's had her chin tied around her ears so many times, she goes to Bliss to get a Brazilian on her mouth!
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El_Gato
09/10/09

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Financial advice, from one hideous monstrosity to another.
How is that the people running the world's leading fashion magazines look like walking sticks of poo.
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MrInBetween
09/10/09

@El_Gato: You'd look that way if you had spent the '80s slurping up food, booze and smoke at Elaine's.
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bytememehard
09/10/09

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Thanks for this. She was sitting near me in a restaurant and I recognized her face but couldn't think who she was.
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lefty
09/10/09

@bytememehard: Sorry about your spoiled meal!
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bytememehard
09/10/09

@lefty: I was once eating in a country diner and saw a car crash into the back of a logging truck stopped at the red light. A log went through the windshield and decapitated the driver. I didn't lose my lunch then, either.
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