Actor Robert Lesser recounts meeting Diane Keaton at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City when she was just 19.
Last Saturday, while driving into Los Angeles, Lesser received a call from his wife, Annie, with sad news: Diane Keaton had passed away at 79.
She was 79, I’m older, so how ever could that be?
Lesser and Keaton met in 1965 as first-year acting students at the Neighborhood Playhouse. At the time, Keaton was a newcomer to New York City, living at The Rehearsal Club on West 53rd Street, while Lesser had just scored his first New York apartment.
The memories of their time together remain sharp, intensely etched as only young love is.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser remembers his romance with Diane Keaton.