You're not a NYer are you
― calstars, Sunday, 17 September 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Yes. I share that distinction with 99.9% of the world's population.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 17 September 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
lol
― calstars, Sunday, 17 September 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
"Immigrants make the culture and tourists ruin it."
Great interview from Sydney Opera House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvmRbq-5h-o
― Josefa, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
For me she is emblematic of a particular type of NYC bore, a person with nothing going for them other than being smart and an avid culture consumer, who thus either lacks the imagination or defensively refuses to acknowledge that there could be anything more to life than living in NYC and consuming culture.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
like what?
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
posting obv
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
I like her Photos
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
Frannie Leibovwitz
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
to the first question "what did you have thought you would have done with your life" she answers, "well, i wanted to be a writer... and now I am" which begs some serious questions.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 19 March 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
"what did would you have thought you would have done with your life?", rather.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 19 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
I kinda like her but I know what man alive means seems like her whole worldview is kinda obsolete
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, thirded
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 March 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
Netflix series with Martin Scorsese premiering January 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MClMxqD-HNA
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
Will watch
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Blew through the first three episodes this morning, laughing hard enough to wake my sleeping husband at least twice. I'm as worn down by the world as anyone else right now, but the presence of Lebowitz, Scorsese and, in a few interview clips, Spike Lee just makes me feel overwhelmingly grateful that we have these people right now.
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 January 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Love the moment in ep 1 where she talks about being on the subway and observing her fellow man
― calstars, Sunday, 14 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
Felt her 90 mins in the movie previously translated better than several episodes
― scampsite (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
best thing about it is scorsese’s uncontrollable laughter at every single thing she says
― flopson, Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
A friend has been bugging me to watch this.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
I only saw the first ep a few months ago and I’m still thinking about some of the things she said
― calstars, Saturday, 6 March 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
https://cultmtl.com/2022/03/fran-lebowitz-on-will-smith-chris-rock-and-the-slap-heard-round-the-world/
“No one should hit people because they don’t like a joke. First of all, this is a terrible precedent because most comedians tell lots of jokes that are bad, most jokes are not funny, most people are not that good at their job.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
Thank you for posting that here and not in the will smith thread
― calstars, Saturday, 2 April 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
Author Fran Lebowitz is in attendance for tonight’s game. #WNBATwitter pic.twitter.com/jFhQ5UfFeW— Her Hoop Stats (@herhoopstats) August 28, 2023
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 06:55 (eight months ago) link
I saw her live and she made a sincere parallel between that Will Smith slap and Putin invading Ukraine.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:56 (eight months ago) link
I think of when authors like Mark Twain spent as much time on lecture tours and the Chautauqua circuit as they did actually writing. She's making her living in a job that hasn't existed in 100 years.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
the slap heard round the caucasus
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, August 29, 2023 3:56 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i feel like you have to explain more
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:41 (eight months ago) link
As best I can remember: Leibowitz was talking about Ukraine, and making it very clear she thinks Putin is a tyrant and the war an act of unprovoked aggression, "there are no two sides to this!". And this then segued directly into "just as there are no two sides when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, there is no two sides to this", delivered without the slightest hint of irony. I found the idea that I should bring the same amount of moral clarity and conviction to an actual war and some silly showbiz event puzzling.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
i feel like launching into some baudrillardian thing about the surreality of both events and their identical function in the american media as a locus for the affirmation of certain kinds of moral convictions but i won't do that actually, even if i kind of think that
which wouldn't make the FL thing any less silly but idk
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 15:29 (eight months ago) link