One of Fran Lebowitz's finest stories in Netflix's Pretend It's a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it's a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington.
Interestingly, this is only the second-best Charles Mingus story featured in the show, but the point of the tale is that Lebowitz was struck at that breakfast by how deferential Mingus, a man of impeccable confidence and stature, was in Ellington's presence.
Lebowitz recounts this breakfast across two conversations, one a stage Q&A with Spike Lee and the other a documentary interview with Pretend It's a City director Martin Scorsese and executive producer Ted Griffin.
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