“He was the coolest of cool, the hippest of the hip. Every time he opened his mouth it was like a flower came out.” Erica Pomerance talks about Leonard Cohen in the 1960s

Allan Showalter

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[Leonard Cohen] was very charismatic. He was always on the make, but that was his whole thing — he was always so charming to women, it was just a second reflex to him that you always thought he was trying to pick you up. He was not just after sex, he had a much subtler way of being romantic

 

Erica Pomerance

Erica Pomerance, “then a folk singer, later an actor and today a veteran documentary filmmaker,” talks about her friend and occasional date, Leonard Cohen, Marianne, and both Suzannes at Leonard Cohen’s long-time friend recalls the bard by Irwin Block (Senior Times: February 2, 2017)

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Feb 7, 2017.

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