Actor Robert Lesser recounts meeting Diane Keaton at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City when she was 19.
While driving into Los Angeles, Lesser's wife called to inform him of Diane Keaton's passing, bringing back memories of their time together in 1965 as first-year acting students.
They met at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where Diane, then known as Diane Hall, was a new face in New York City, having moved from Orange County, Calif.
Lesser recalls Diane staying at The Rehearsal Club, a strictly women's boarding house, while he lived in his first New York apartment.
She was 79, I’m older, so how ever could that be? Though more than a half century back, the memories are sharp, intensely etched as only young love is.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser shares memories of his romance with Diane Keaton in New York City.