Here is addendum to movie
Diane Rose Marguerite Lozito
1973 garage apartment in Bradley Beach
met 1972
art director
moving to Washington with husband
Rita Lozito still wasn’t quite convinced that Bruce represented the
future she hoped for Diane. “She still told me to stay with [previous boyfriend] Kale because he was in law school and would have a real job.”
Stung but not entirely defeated, Bruce called Diane’s father, Mike Lozito, in New York and impressed him too. Although not enough for the old man to forget his own wanton ways, which he traced back to the part of his upbringing that took place among other jazz musicians in New York’s nightclubs. “They were so similar,” Lozito says of her father and her boyfriend. “But he still said, ‘Nope. Musicians will always fool around.’”
If Bruce and Lozito were disappointed by her parents’ disapproval, neither of them was going to let it stop them from living their lives. Bruce bought a pair of cheap wedding rings to fool the property owners (most of whom rejected unmarried couples), and eventually found a one-bedroom apartment in the seaside neighborhood of Bradley Beach, about five minutes south of Asbury Park. Asked for a recent pay slip or some other proof that he would be able to manage the monthly rent, Bruce came back to the landlord toting a recent copy of Newsweek that noted his being signed to Columbia Records. (June 1972)
“Then they figured he was legit, even if he was such a shabby guy,” Lozito says.