Leo Lerman Redux

Some Leo Lerman journal entries about Marlene Dietrich have filled the pages of a new book, New York Diaries: 1609-2009. Its editor, Teresa Carpenter, included Dietrich-related highlights from Lerman's writings that had been published in 2007 under the title, The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman. Instead of sighing at the accounts of Dietrich's love-sickness, financial woes, and alcoholism that pervaded the Lerman book, you'll laugh again about Greta Garbo's unsanitary austerity, Dietrich's animated wig, Prince Philip's flirtations, and Andy Warhol's inability to distinguish Dietrich from Josephine Baker. Below are both books for you to compare:

New York Diaries: 1609-2009


The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman

A couple more newslinks!

Leo Lerman's salacious journals to be published April 14th

Maria Riva not so pleased with that tootpick Paltrow playing her mother?

How about this cream in your coffee?

I wouldn't expect Page Six of The New York Post to uphold the Sabbath. Nevertheless, its Dietrich item today is quite blasphemous. She truly was just a gigolo.