Netflix: Pretend it’s a city

I heard about this. I can't wait.

Years ago, I was volunteering for a benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles at the Century City Hotel in Los Angeles. I was in the media wrangling, so I had free access to backstage and non-public areas. I saw Fran and her then husband standing off alone. I went up to her and complimented her on how stunning she looked that evening. I had a very nice five minute conversation with her.

Pleasant to be around when she isn't doing that voice.

R2 Fran? The lifelong Lesbian?!

Her story about the subway being shut down because they were investigating a "foul odor" was hysterical.

r2 is probably talking about Fran Drescher.

I’m sure he was talking about Drescher. I was at a book signing with this Fran - she was as friendly and chatty as someone can realistically be at a book signing. She’s wonderful.

Thanks, OP. I'm in the Netherlands and glad to see it's available on "our" Netflix. This is next on my list of things to watch.

Watching and loving it too, op. I needed something like this to take my mind off the insanity of the last three days.

Also, I loved learning about the Panorama in the Queens Museum. I’d never heard of it and I’m a native New Yorker, born and raised!

Try to keep up, R2!

[quote] This is a series produced and directed by Martin Scorsese about NYC’s favorite Curmudgeon Fran Lebowitz.

[quote] I saw Fran and her then husband standing off alone. I went up to her and complimented her on how stunning she looked that evening. I had a very nice five minute conversation with her. Pleasant to be around when she isn't doing that voice.

[quote] [R2] Fran? The lifelong Lesbian?!

[quote] I’m sure he was talking about Drescher.

This is why I will never be able to quit Datalounge.

Fran L is absolutely hilarious and spot on, as any NYer can attest to.

I don’t understand why l there are people who absolutely hate her

Started watching this last night. I love her. A true original. Makes me miss NYC so much. I can't wait for pandemic to be over so I can go back.

R2 sounds like a real idiot, can't tell the difference between Fran Lebowitz and Fran Drescher.

I laughed out loud several times

OMG I Love her so good

I think she's the only "get off my lawn" grump who makes sense since she doesn't necessarily aim her vitriol against younger generations and just accepts that they do things differently and will have to live with their decisions while she's dead by then.

I love how she is almost giddy sharing how bad she's with money and how every money decision turned out bad (like selling her Warhol art only a few weeks before he died or paying way too much for her apartment).

I especially love the anecdote about one of her neighbors seeing her with travel suitcases and asking her if she goes on a vacation and she barks back that she doesn't do vacations she only travels to make money (aka speaking engagements).

It was messy, the organization and editing were muddy and disjointed.

I'm almost as bad as r2. I thought they were talking about a photographer instead of a writer. Then I realized I was thinking of Annie Liebowitz.

I love her delivery. So matter of fact

This series really warmed me to her. She seems like a cool person to have a chat with.

She has the brains and the quickest, most hilarious comebacks. A lot of her opinions ring true. A real gem.

So Martin Scorsese has been reduced to being Ed McMahon, laughing uproariously at even the lamest utterance by Fran?

R22 omg this!!!

I enjoyed it. Some repetition but overall interesting. More about the conversation than the visuals. I put it on to listen to in bed.