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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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