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.
While driving into Los Angeles, Lesser received a call from his wife, Annie, with the sad news of Diane Keaton's passing 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, where Keaton, then known as Diane Hall, was a newcomer to New York City from Orange County, Calif.
At the time, Keaton was staying at a strictly women's boarding house called The Rehearsal Club on West 53rd Street, while Lesser had just scored his first New York apartment.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser remembers his youthful romance with Diane Keaton.
- Diane Keaton was 19 when she met Robert Lesser.
- They met at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City in 1965.
- Keaton was a newcomer to New York City from Orange County, Calif.