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 received a call from his wife, Annie, with sad news: Diane Keaton had passed away at 79.
She was the love of my youth... Though more than a half century back, the memories are sharp, intensely etched as only young love is.
Lesser and Keaton met in 1965 as first-year acting students at the Neighborhood Playhouse. At the time, Keaton was a newcomer to New York City, originally from Orange County, Calif., and still known as Diane Hall.
Author's summary: Robert Lesser reminisces about his youthful romance with Diane Keaton in 1960s New York City.