The New Issue: Leo Lerman
Leo loved to gossip with his friends. Here’s a shot of him shooting the shit with Mitzi Newhouse, whose husband, Samuel owned Mademoiselle, for which Leo worked. Leo and Mitzi – maiden name Epstein – were friends long before Samuel became Leo’s boss.
December 27, 1970: People who minutely analyze their own lives to one another, this is destructive. Some part of oneself must remain secret – for self-nourishment and for the nourishment of the relationship. There must be informed blindness in any close relationship.
This book is terrific!
Thanks for that…and yes, read the book.
I loved the current pictures too!
STB
What’s pretty extraordinary about Lerman’s journals — aside from the thoughtful writing and personal honesty — is his first-person candid commentary about still-fascinating cultural figures such as his buddy Marlene Dietrich (who tells LL that she doesn’t like sex, but since men seem to expect it from a sex symbol, however old she’s getting, Dietrich just gives in to get it over with) and Maria Callas (who spills the beans about Ari Onassis’s preference for anal sex and how Jackie O refused to go that far). It’s like an insider’s guide to the realities behind 20th-century culture.