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. Keaton, then known as Diane Hall, was a newcomer to New York City from Orange County, Calif.
At the time, Keaton stayed at The Rehearsal Club, a strictly women's boarding house on West 53rd Street, while Lesser had 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.