Liebowiitz

There was an excellent Scorsese documentary about Fran Lebowitz on HBO the other night. Lebowitz, if you aren't familiar, is a very witty, sardonic, intellegent essayist, reminiscent of Dorothy Parker. She's got a new book out titled "Public Speaking".

I saw the documnentary and it was fantastic. She validates the truth of something the Sunday School leader mentioned last week, which was that, in this society, we are visually oriented, and receive information through images, and not through the written word. Her writing is very humerous and witty, but it seems to me that people these days haven't developed the patience to enjoy what could be a very pleasurable experidnce if they took the time required to read it.

And now for my personal confession......

My friend Susan Craft called to tell me the show exsisted and when it would be on TV. I said, "Gee, but that's when "Hawaii Five O is o." she said, "Hmmm... Fran Liebowitz or Hawaii Five O... What was it that Rudolfo used to say..? (Rudolfo is her brillant deceased husbansd.) Oh yes! 'Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intlellegence of the American public."