Meet Lorraine Levine, The Carrie Bradshaw of Retirees
Over this past winter, Lorraine Levine felt so confined in her East Village apartment that she told her neighbor she was dying — of boredom.
“The way she said it, it was funny,” TV producer and writer Robert La Force says of the octogenarian he checks on often. With his last production in the can, La Force began recording the salty, swear-studded statements Levine made, showing friends and family the resulting videos. Their laughter inspired him to start posting clips online in March.
Thus “Ask My Neighbor Lorraine,” was born, a video series in which Levine tackles questions like “What’s the best hangover cure?” and “Is the third marriage a charm?” with her typical comic frankness.
(Answers: “Go out and get a drink, get laid, and call me in the morning” and “The third one doesn’t mean s—t.”)