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Psychologists might note that neither had any fondness for his mother, and that both have wildly unstable relationships with women. But Loewe is mockingly uninterested in psychoanalysis, while Lerner believes in it strongly, has had a pride of analysts. Loewe professes not to worry about his health, while Lerner is a bit of a hypochondriac, makes a fetish of weighing himself daily; he buys a new scale wherever he goes, probably owns the largest collection this side of the Office of Weights and Measures. Loewe has hated the telephone ever since he answered it once when...
Both men seem to have yearnings for aristocracy. Loewe murmurs now and again that his mother was a baroness, and Lerner is proud that his present wife is an indirect descendant of Napoleon. Lerner would be unlikely to cross a street unless the trip made reasonable sense, but Loewe once flew with a friend from Los Angeles to Vienna just to taste again those wonderful Little Wiener Wrsteln, (Vienna frankfurters) that "spit in your mouth." Then he got on another plane and flew back to California. It was an epically impractical journey, but it did, however briefly, take him home...
...turned left in the grill room." On his way he passed the table of a thin young man who, he knew, had written some good sketches for the Gambols. "You write good lyrics," said Loewe. "Would you like to do a musical with me?" "Yes," replied Alan Jay Lerner, 'T happen to have two weeks...
Radio Row & Park. Lerner could have had, say, two years off if he had wished. He was as rich as Loewe was poor. But he was working as a radio scriptwriter on "a schedule so tight," he remembers, "that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde, turned out great hunks of audiopageantry for Philco Hall of Fame and Cavalcade of America, all the while keeping dark the personal secret that he was an heir to the loverly fortune that...
...Alan Lerner was raised in a 17-room Park Avenue apartment with a paneled library and wall-to-wall antiques. He adored his father and resented his forceful mother. There was considerable tension between the parents (later divorced). Alan's mother once slapped his face, saying: "You look too much like your father." Muses Alan now: "My mother really didn't start loving me until Brigadoon...