La-Di-Da Love: Diane Keaton's First Boyfriend Remembers Their New York Romance
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 young woman from Orange County, Calif., still known as Diane Hall.
She was staying at The Rehearsal Club, a strictly women's boarding house on West 53rd Street, while Lesser had just scored his first New York apartment.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser remembers his romance with Diane Keaton in New York City.