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 19.
While driving into Los Angeles, Lesser's wife, Annie, called 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, where Keaton, then known as Diane Hall, was new to New York City.
At the time, Keaton was staying at a women's boarding house called The Rehearsal Club, while Lesser had his first New York apartment.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser reminisces about his youthful romance with Diane Keaton.