![]() ![]() But if you really hang with him and listen to what he’s saying, he’s one of the funniest guys ever. Especially in the first couple decades of his career, he was painted as this monster of gloom. It’s not extreme old age, but it’s the foothills of old age.” Isn’t that gorgeous? I found Leonard’s wit both immensely gratifying and also surprising. GOLDFINE Yes! “70 is indisputably not youth. What is that wonderful phrase he casually drops, “the foothills of old age”? ![]() He’s amazing in archival interviews because he essentially speaks in lyrics. ![]() You really saw him then reaching this pinnacle that made a Leonard Cohen concert so deep and so spiritual. But just as important was that Leonard felt as if he had never truly reached the same level as a performer as he thought he might have reached as a singer-songwriter. DAYNA GOLDFINE I had thought that the only reason he had gone back out on the road in his mid-70s, after a 14-or-15-year hiatus, was because he had had all his money ripped off, and it was a financial compulsion. ![]()
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