Theater video tags: Fran Lebowitz

Pretend It’s a City

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Directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese, Pretend It’s a City features the return of sardonic writer and public speaker Fran Lebowitz in conversation with the director as she shares anecdotes about her early life and career in New York City in the 1970s. The Netflix series continues the partnership of the longtime friends, who worked together on the 2010 HBO documentary Public Speaking.

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Creative Nonfiction
Spoken Word
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Pretend It's a City
Fran Lebowitz
Martin Scorsese
documentary
Netflix
2021
movie trailer

Fred Bass Remembered

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At a public memorial at New York City’s Strand Book Store, family members, colleagues, and writers including Gay Talese, Fran Lebowitz, and Paul Krugman remember and honor Fred Bass, the bookstore’s longtime owner who died at the age of eighty-nine on January 3. The bookstore was founded by Bass’s father in 1927, and he began working there at the age of thirteen, taking over its management in 1956.

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Strand Book Store
Fred Bass
Gay Talese
Fran Lebowitz
bookstore
New York City
in memoriam
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