Chapter 20
Monday, February 11, 1980-Zurich Slept late and then Thomas Ammann woke me up to do a portrait. A beautiful wife with a fat husband. I said she didn't need makeup. She was easy to do because she was a raving beauty. Her husband tells her she's ugly-Thomas says that's how Swiss people treat their wives because they never want them to get too secure. We gave them a book and an Interview Interview and we sent out the film. It's so hard to find anything but SX-70 film here, they're phasing the other out. We bought English papers which I paid for ($5). and we sent out the film. It's so hard to find anything but SX-70 film here, they're phasing the other out. We bought English papers which I paid for ($5).
We had lunch downstairs in the restaurant with Loulou de la Falaise Klossowski and her husband Thadee and Thomas. We signed for it. The food was good. The place was so beautiful with a view of the lake and the mountains. We were the only people there and the sun was beating through the window on our backs. It'd been hailing in the morning. The weather has been so strange. Loulou told us that YSL really was such a genius that he just can't take it, he has to take a million pills and the whole office gets so depressed when he's depressed except for her. She said she acts happy no matter what. That's why she gets sick, because she's always trying to act happy and it's really a lot of stress on her liver. She hasn't had a drink in a year and a quarter but she doesn't think cocaine is bad. I do, though. We talked about her stepfather, John McKendry. She said he had so many boyfriends. His idea of marrying Maxime was fantasizing that her son Alexis was going to live at home with them and that he could have an affair with him. But the son immediately got married and moved to Wales. Then he envisioned Loulou being there bringing home pretty boys every minute that he could f.u.c.k. And actually he did steal her boys.
Loulou said John McKendry was actually killing himself slowly because he'd always fantasized how great and romantic and wonderful and literary the aristocracy must be. Then when he met them, and married a countess-her mother-and got to meet Jackie O. and people like that every day through his job at the Met, he realized they were just normal dumb people like everybody else. There was nothing left for him to live for. Of course I think that Maxime just drove him crazy. I couldn't say that to Loulou, though. Then we took a cab downtown ($10.50).
Thursday, February 14, 1980-Dusseldorf We had to take Hans Mayer's car and drive out to the country to a small town to photograph a German butcher. His company is called Herta, it's one of the biggest sausage companies in Germany. He was a cute guy. He had this interesting building. You could see all the employees. He had my Pig on the wall. Junk everywhere. A lot of toys. A lot of stuffed cows, stuffed pigs. Pigs, pigs, pigs all over the place. And there was art. There were funny things hanging from the ceiling. There were water-dripping paintings. He buys a lot of art, he said they sell more sausages that way because the people are very happy. Then he gave us a white smock and white hat. We went through and watched the ladies make the sausages. It was really fun. You could smell the sauerkraut cooking, but they didn't give us any hot dogs there. He had the whole portfolio of Pica.s.so that I did the Pica.s.so print of Paloma in. We looked at that, then we had to look at more pigs and more salamis and more hams and more ham art.
Then we took Polaroids for the portrait and had some tea. And his wife came by. They didn't offer us lunch. Then all of a sudden he asked us if we'd like to try one of his hot dogs. They cooked some up and we had two apiece. One white one and one black one. They were really good. We had them with mustard. He said he had to go have lunch back at the lunch room. We had to go off without lunch which we thought was really strange. We got in the car and drove to a restaurant in a place called Bottrop.
As soon as we came in they told us it was this crazy day where all the women chase the men. They cut off your ties. But since we knew that was happening-we saw these drunken ladies running around-we took our ties off and hid them in our pockets. But then they got my s.h.i.+rt tail and they cut it off and it was my good s.h.i.+rt and I was so mad. These women were really bullies. We got back in the car and drove back to Hans's gallery. I was so tired, and I was really upset about my s.h.i.+rt.
Monday, February 18, 1980-New York I was jetlagged and overslept. I made the kids come in to work on the holiday because they'd been loafing for two weeks while I was gone, but it turned out the building wasn't open and the heat wasn't on. And the discotheque on the ground floor is still being built, they had the nerve to send me an invitation to the opening. They broke the elevator and it wasn't working, and I think the no heat is something to do with them, too.
Ronnie's trying to memorize his big role in the Walter Steding extravaganza performance coming up soon somewhere downtown, and since I'm Walter's manager, I should find out where it is.
It was great to be back. I thought it'd be forty degrees, but it turned out to be still twenty. I wandered around and pa.s.sed out Interviews Interviews, then got a cab to Union Square ($3.50). The heat finally came up in the front, but it was still cold in the back. Brigid was working on the same piece of paper she was working on when I left. I mean, she thought I wouldn't recognize it?
And I just don't know where to paint anymore now that Interview Interview has taken over my old room. David who works for has taken over my old room. David who works for Interview Interview was finished painting it ($50 to David for paint). was finished painting it ($50 to David for paint).
Tuesday, February 19, 1980 I got up before 9:00 to watch the Today Show Today Show and try to figure out why Gene Shalit hasn't used the thing he did on me. He'll use it after I die, he'll say, "I spoke with Andy Warhol in 1980 and here is that clip." I must be a really terrible guest. I mean, I must be too weird for TV because it's always the same thing-they never know what to do with it. Well, the and try to figure out why Gene Shalit hasn't used the thing he did on me. He'll use it after I die, he'll say, "I spoke with Andy Warhol in 1980 and here is that clip." I must be a really terrible guest. I mean, I must be too weird for TV because it's always the same thing-they never know what to do with it. Well, the 20/20 20/20 thing that Karen Lerner shot during the thing that Karen Lerner shot during the Exposures Exposures tour is supposed to be on next week. The twenty-eighth. tour is supposed to be on next week. The twenty-eighth.
We had office pizza lunch ($5).
Oh, and this guy from New York New York called about the first part of called about the first part of Popism Popism that they're running on the cover. Wouldn't it be great if the book was a big hit and we didn't have to work to promote it? that they're running on the cover. Wouldn't it be great if the book was a big hit and we didn't have to work to promote it?
Ron Feldman came down and we looked at the Ten Jews. It's really such a good idea to do that, they're going to sell. And all the Germans want portraits. Maybe because we have a good person selling there, Hans Mayer. How come we don't get many American portraits?
And I forgot to say that when I was walking along University Place a kid stuck his head out of a car window and said, "Aren't boys cuter in cars?" cars?"
Thursday, February 21, 1980 Did I ever say that a couple of weeks ago Bianca asked us about the night she gave Bob a ride home from Halston's after he threw up in the sink? Bob was sort of shocked that she would bring it up. This is the night we saw the chauffeur getting out of the back part of the limo. Bob said he told her, "Well, Bianca, you just took me home. Everyone called me up the next morning and said how it was nice of you to stay with me for an hour and a half. I said you hadn't been with me me. They told me they found you and the chauffeur in the back seat together." She said that she just pa.s.sed out after she dropped Bob off because Mick had given her three vodkas in a row at the Erteguns' house and that she got so excited at seeing him there that the vodkas just made her black out. She said that the chauffeur was in the back with her really just trying to wake her up. And Bianca told me she was never jealous of Jerry, that she knows Mick is with Jerry because he's into a real s.e.x trip right now. And I said, "Well, Jerry told us that she gives Mick a b.l.o.w..j.o.b before she lets him out of the house," and Bianca said, "Why didn't you put that in her interview?" I said, "Because you were mad enough at us for putting her in Interview Interview in the first place, let alone if we had her talking about s.e.x with Mick." Bianca said she wouldn't care, she said the only girlfriend of Mick's she ever got jealous of was Carly Simon, because Carly Simon is intelligent and has the look Mick likes-she looks like Mick and Bianca. in the first place, let alone if we had her talking about s.e.x with Mick." Bianca said she wouldn't care, she said the only girlfriend of Mick's she ever got jealous of was Carly Simon, because Carly Simon is intelligent and has the look Mick likes-she looks like Mick and Bianca.
Richard Weisman asked me if I wanted to meet Stallone and have lunch with him on Friday on the set of his movie. He said Stallone may want his portrait done.
Some j.a.panese journalist came by. He'd gone with us in j.a.pan from Tokyo to Kyoto, copying me by taping the trip, but nothing was said (laughs) (laughs). The j.a.panese Warhol. So he was in town and I thought I would give him some material to write about since his last time with us wasn't much, so I took him with me and we went to Madison Square Garden to the antique show (cab $3). And in the cab I said, "Where's your tape recorder?" and he pulled it out of his bag-it was the only thing in the bag, this tape recorder running-but it turned out that it was running slow and the batteries were no good, and he was just crushed, he couldn't believe it and he said, "Oh Jesus Christ, oh Jesus, oh Christ, oh Jesus, oh G.o.d, oh Christ," and I said, "Well, there's your interview." But it was sad, he felt so bad, and I said, "Oh, you can remember." Anyway, we got to Madison Square Garden and it was really great, I couldn't believe all the junk (tickets were 2 x $4 = $8). Ran into Tony Bill.
Friday, February 22, 1980 Richard Weisman called and said lunch with Stallone was on for 12:30.
Oh, and I forgot to say that Truman called. He said that he was..h.i.t by a fat skier when he was walking across a ski slope in Switzerland. He sounded more like his old self. I guess he's in a good mood because Lester gave him $450,000 for his thing from Interview Interview, "Hand-Carved Coffins." We don't get anything out of it, though.
We went to where Stallone was shooting on First Avenue, they had about 300 extras. The movie's called Hawks Hawks, I think, and Martin Poll is the producer, he's the one who took Stallone to my Whitney portrait show. Martin and his wife were there. They had huge crowds there. The set decorator came over and said that he'd been the set decorator on Bad Bad.
We went to a restaurant near there. I guess they sent one person out all morning to look for a quiet place for the director to have lunch. It was Richard and Martin Poll and his wife and Stallone and me. Stallone is so cute, so adorable. I guess he's lost sixty pounds. He's s.e.xy. All the stars usually think they should have their portraits done free, though. He's intelligent, he's taken over directors.h.i.+p of the movie and now he's in trouble because the union has a film of him saying, "Lights, action!" It's going before a board. Stallone was telling stories about how much trouble he's had with the union, how there's this little Irish guy that he just wants to beat up so badly. He said he had this one shot all set up, everybody was in costume and makeup with blood and everything for a fight scene and it was snowing, just perfectly and they said, "Okay, stop, everybody break for dinner," and he said he practically got down on his knees pleading, "Please, just let's get this one shot, please, I'm a fellow worker, please, I'm Rocky!" and they wouldn't let him. They broke for dinner and then he had to start all over again.
I said to him how could he go and tell the papers the truth-that he wasn't wasn't having an affair with Bianca. I told him he should have said he having an affair with Bianca. I told him he should have said he was was, that he should have gone for the glamour. He said he and Bianca were "just breaking each other's b.a.l.l.s." I don't know what that means. He told us that he'd gone over to pick her up and she was wheezing and had a cold and she looked so horrible that the romance fell apart right there. But he probably doesn't like Latin types, I think he likes big blondes. His manager loved us because Interview Interview had just done a story on his only other client, Ray Sharkey. Then we left (cab $3). had just done a story on his only other client, Ray Sharkey. Then we left (cab $3).
Afterwards Martin Poll's wife called, she said she was calling for a favor to Stallone and wanted a discount, but I mean, he's so rich.
Monday, February 25, 1980 I picked up a couple of fans in the morning. One said he wrote in for me in the last presidential election.
I ordered some Popism Popism books from Harcourt Brace, they make good presents. I worked all afternoon waiting for Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich to come to dinner. They wanted to have a candlelight dinner at 860, they said. I can't figure them out, they're strange, they don't like to go out. We're trying to sell them some new stuff. Rupert brought some prints by. Heiner and Philippa came. I showed them the work. Robyn brought food from 65 Irving and put it in the stove. He stayed on to be the butler. Philippa doesn't eat anything, but at this dinner she ate everything, so either she's nervous when she's out at restaurants and doesn't eat or she was nervous at 860 and did eat or else she was just hungry for the first time. I can't figure it out. She even ate two pieces of banana pie. She was fun. Robyn got a good a.s.sortment. books from Harcourt Brace, they make good presents. I worked all afternoon waiting for Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich to come to dinner. They wanted to have a candlelight dinner at 860, they said. I can't figure them out, they're strange, they don't like to go out. We're trying to sell them some new stuff. Rupert brought some prints by. Heiner and Philippa came. I showed them the work. Robyn brought food from 65 Irving and put it in the stove. He stayed on to be the butler. Philippa doesn't eat anything, but at this dinner she ate everything, so either she's nervous when she's out at restaurants and doesn't eat or she was nervous at 860 and did eat or else she was just hungry for the first time. I can't figure it out. She even ate two pieces of banana pie. She was fun. Robyn got a good a.s.sortment.
They asked why we didn't come to La Monte Young's concert, their Dia Foundation supports him. I didn't tell them that I just couldn't face hearing one note. Heiner and Philippa are just back from Turkey. Oh, and
Wednesday, February 27, 1980 Truman called the other day and said he wouldn't be giving in any more articles. He said it was because he was going to give us Answered Prayers Answered Prayers when it was finished in October. I told Bob he was just lying. He's a different person now, Truman, he's dropped us and I can't figure out why. when it was finished in October. I told Bob he was just lying. He's a different person now, Truman, he's dropped us and I can't figure out why.
At the office Jill Fuller called and said she'd rented the helicopter to take us out to the Na.s.sau Coliseum to see Pink Floyd, they're friends of hers. I called Catherine who's working for Richard Weisman now and she got excited about the helicopter so I got my courage up and thought it might be fun.
And the guy downstairs said the disco is opening on Thursday night and he was leaving my name at the door. They turned the music on yesterday and it was so loud, everything was just shaking, and I could hear them through the elevator shaft screaming, "Louder, louder!" and it was just so loud already already you couldn't believe it. you couldn't believe it.
Picked up Catherine (cab $4). Went to Jill's. Jill gave us a bottle of champagne and we took a cab to get the helicopter (cab $3). It was a beautiful beautiful ride, we drank the champagne. Four limos were waiting.
Then they started the show and this show is so complicated and expensive that they're only able to do it in California, New York, and London. It's big statues like the Macy's parade.
Thursday, February 28, 1980 Picked up Catherine, cabbed to Harry Bailey's on East 72nd Street ($2). It used to be George Gershwin's apartment. Barbara Rose was there with her husband, the "Hound Dog" guy, Jerry Leiber, and she's so horrible. She's the worst person, she comes over and says things like, "Oh, I love your new writing style that you didn't write." I mean, what makes people do things like that? They must be sick. She was just the worst-dressed woman there, she looked so awful. I should have said to her, "I love your clothes." I've got to start thinking faster. I don't know why Harry would want to have dinner with Barbara Rose unless he thought she knew what art he should be buying.
Friday, February 29, 1980 We had Toiny Castelli and her a.s.sistant and Iolas and Brooks and Adriana Jackson at the office for lunch. Toiny wants to give me a print show. And Iolas is opening a new gallery.
Studio 54 lost its liquor license-they had pictures in the paper of Sylvester Stallone getting the last drink from the bar-and Steve's other restaurants on Long Island lost theirs, too.
Sat.u.r.day, March 1, 1980 Victor Bockris called and said that the dinner with Mick Jagger at William Burroughs's was on. Victor's doing a book on Burroughs. Decided to stay at the office and not go home. The driver pa.s.sed 222 Bowery, he was going too fast (cab $3).
We went upstairs and I hadn't been there since 1963 or 1962. It used to be the locker room of a gymnasium. There's no windows. It's all white and neat and it looks like sculpture all over, the way the pipes are. Bill sleeps in another room, on the floor. I don't think he's a good writer. I mean, he wrote that one good book, Naked Lunch Naked Lunch, but now it's like he lives in the past.
A girl who was there-Marcia was maybe her name-said she's been photographing Kenneth Anger at his place on 94th Street. I told her not to mention my name or he might beat her up, that he thinks I'm the Devil. She said the apartment is all red, and he has everybody's picture up and he puts everybody down. Bill was asking Mick about the "drug culture" and the "revolution" and all that and then Mick and Jerry left. I stayed there for a little bit. Then Victor Bockris walked me down and we waited for half an hour before a cab came (cab $5). Home at 11:00.
Sunday, March 2, 1980 It was very cold out. I went to church. Then I had to be ready at 2:30 to go to the Regency to take photographs of Sylvester Stallone. Fred was waiting. Suite 1526. Sylvester was looking good. He's back with his wife, Sasha, she was there, she's cute and smart, she looks very young. I don't know why he would leave her for Susan Anton.
I made him take off his s.h.i.+rt and he was wearing some kind of medal. I used ten rolls of film, because he's really really hard to photograph. From the front his neck is skinny, then from the side it looks three feet wide. From the front he has a huge chest, and from the side no chest at all. His hands are pretty, I used his hands, but sometimes they look tiny and sometimes they look huge. He's like Rubber Man.
He had the bodyguard who was the bodyguard Tom Sullivan used in Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys, so we talked about Tom. Sylvester talked about the Academy Awards, he said he hated All That Jazz All That Jazz. He said the Academy Awards ignored him and Woody Allen this year.
He said he's about to go to Hungary to do a movie, an action movie, and then after that he wants to do the Jim Morrison story. I told him we were really good friends with Jim, and that Tom Baker was his good friend and that he should talk to Tom who's in town, by the way, and he's calling me.
I told Stallone he should do the Linda Lovelace book. He said that he was worried, I guess, that he was a one-movie person, and he named a few people that were one-movie people. He named somebody from The Boys in the Band The Boys in the Band.
We were there for about an hour. His wife had gone into the other room and she didn't come out to say goodbye, I don't know why.
Monday, March 3, 1980 Cab to Union Square ($2, supplies $8.10, $20.50). I was meeting Carol, a cousin of mine from Butler, Pennsylvania. She drove me up the wall because she talks so slow. Then she left and I worked all afternoon. I made Rupert come up. I needed someone to go with me to the Ted Kennedy poster signing. So we went up there, to Madison Avenue (cab $4) to the Brewster Gallery. But Ted Kennedy didn't show up, he was in Ma.s.sachusetts. It would only have been good if he was there signing, too. I'd been signing all afternoon. All the Kennedys were there. Kerry and one of her sisters, and Kerry's prettier. They're all funny-looking, those kids. Pat Lawford was there, and they posed us together. She was nervous so she was drinking and she gave a speech. It was hard work. Kerry went around selling the posters. They were $750 and $2,000.
Tuesday, March 4, 1980 Catherine Oxenberg came for her cover Interview Interview lunch at 1:00, and she's only eighteen so she was nervous and really blabbed everything about her mother sleeping around and how Sharon Hammond's sister Maureen was married to her father, but how Maureen is now living with Catherine's lunch at 1:00, and she's only eighteen so she was nervous and really blabbed everything about her mother sleeping around and how Sharon Hammond's sister Maureen was married to her father, but how Maureen is now living with Catherine's half-brother half-brother who's maybe nineteen and she must be about forty, I guess. Her mother's Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia. It was a Balducci's lunch, it was a good interview. Tom Baker came to say goodbye, he's leaving town. I told him about Sylvester Stallone wanting to play Jim Morrison and he said Stallone was too old to do it. who's maybe nineteen and she must be about forty, I guess. Her mother's Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia. It was a Balducci's lunch, it was a good interview. Tom Baker came to say goodbye, he's leaving town. I told him about Sylvester Stallone wanting to play Jim Morrison and he said Stallone was too old to do it.
Wednesday, March 5, 1980 Picked John Reinhold up and we walked over to lunch at Pearl's. We talked about diamond dust. The dust is actually just like powder, but the chips chips are what would look pretty and they would make a painting cost $20,000 or $30,000. It was nice to see Pearl again. are what would look pretty and they would make a painting cost $20,000 or $30,000. It was nice to see Pearl again.
Thursday, March 6, 1980 Lunch was for Richard Gere and his girlfriend Silvinha, who's in this issue of Interview Interview. Fred invited a couple of Swedish people, and Chrissy Berlin and Byron the pool player who's somebody Zoli fell in love with, but he doesn't want to be a model-he plays pool and thinks modeling is too frothy. He knows everything, like that at British Airways on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Park Avenue, you just sign in and there's free shrimp buffets.
Amina, the black model who's writing a play, kept saying, "Where is that Richard Gere? He's supposed to be here!" But then when he came he didn't pay attention to her, so she didn't like him anymore and she came over to where I was signing Kennedy posters. Robyn brought the lunch from 65 Irving, but then Brigid ate every bit that was left, so he didn't have any.
Then it was a beautiful day so I said why didn't Brigid and Chrissy and I go over to University Place to see if Bea was in her antiques shop. We pa.s.sed out Interviews Interviews to the junkies who've moved from Park and 17th to the corner of 14th. Then we were all in Bea's and Brigid said she'd be right back, that she was going across the street to get a pack of cigarettes. And a second after she left, I heard a big noise and a thud, and I just knew. I ran out, and there was Brigid lying in the street with a truck one inch away from her fat belly. Then she got up and she was laughing and she said, "No no, I'm all right." It was a truck from an art restorer. The kid was sweet, he wanted to take her to the hospital, but she was so relieved she was all right that she said no. She was just scared out of her wits. Chrissy was so nervous she had to go home. to the junkies who've moved from Park and 17th to the corner of 14th. Then we were all in Bea's and Brigid said she'd be right back, that she was going across the street to get a pack of cigarettes. And a second after she left, I heard a big noise and a thud, and I just knew. I ran out, and there was Brigid lying in the street with a truck one inch away from her fat belly. Then she got up and she was laughing and she said, "No no, I'm all right." It was a truck from an art restorer. The kid was sweet, he wanted to take her to the hospital, but she was so relieved she was all right that she said no. She was just scared out of her wits. Chrissy was so nervous she had to go home.
I was so happy Brigid was alive that I told her she could have anything in the world so she had ice cream cones ($.75 x 4 and $.90 cookies from Greenberg's and then cake $12, Big Macs $8.52). We walked around for an hour to make sure she was okay. All we could think about was here today/gone tomorrow. I hope it taught her a lesson to be more careful.
Then we went back to the office. I told her she could have the rest of the day off but it turned out they needed her. She went to an A.A. meeting and then came back. Fred was really drunk at the office, he'd been to the Cecil Beaton memorial thing. He was talking like Diana Vreeland and making business calls, so I just hope he called the right people.
Monday, March 10, 1980 Got up and watched the Today Show Today Show and the weather guy I liked so much they just got rid of. The Ryan guy, he was so great. Then the and the weather guy I liked so much they just got rid of. The Ryan guy, he was so great. Then the Donahue Show Donahue Show had four fairies on. Again. had four fairies on. Again.
Sent Brigid to the bookstore to buy eight copies of Popism Popism ($94.56). ($94.56).
I stayed downtown and cabbed with Vincent and Sh.e.l.ly to Charles Maclean's party, it was in Jennifer Bartlett's studio on Lafayette Street. It was a big party for English kids. Clare Hesketh, the wife of Lord Hesketh, said, "Oh, isn't Fred wonderful, he stayed up until 11:00 this morning with me." I said, "Oh really? really? That's very interesting. He came to work at 11:15." That's very interesting. He came to work at 11:15."
Tom Wolfe was there and Evangeline Bruce and the McGraths. Oh, and also Steve Aronson, and he introduced me to a lot of writers.
Tuesday, March 11, 1980 Kenny Lane called me and invited me to lunch at his place to meet a Kuwaiti sheik (cab $3). The place was really pretty. Kenny introduced me to the sheik and his wife-they call the women sheiks, too-and she said, "My husband is short, so if he comes over to talk to you he may stand on a chair." She buys modern art, and he's out to buy $200 million worth to stock his museum with-like Kuwaiti rugs.
Marion Javits was there and she did the funniest thing, she said to Bob, "Ask me questions the way a newspaper reporter would, and let me see how I would answer." And so Bob asked her why did she smoke marijuana in public and why does she go to Studio 54. And Marion said, "Because it turns me on." And Bob said, "But you can't say that, Marion." And so then she said, "Well, perhaps you're not aware that my husband introduced legislation to legalize marijuana."
Then we had to go back to the office (cab $3).
Rupert came, I closed up at 7:00 7:00.
Dropped Bob off. Glued myself together and walked over to Diana Vreeland's. Elizinha Goncalves was there and Fernando Sanchez and Sharon Hammond, and I taped Mrs. Vreeland. She told us the funniest story about going to see Deep Throat Deep Throat. She has this friend who lives on top of her building who lost her eyesight but one day she called Diana up and said, "Diana, I can see. I have my eyes back, and I want to go to a movie." Diana said, "So I took her four blocks to see Deep Throat Deep Throat. And we got to the theater and the ticket lady said, 'Do you two ladies realize what you're getting yourselves into?' And my friend was so excited she was going to the movies she kept saying, I'm so thrilled, I'm so excited.' So we get into the theater and like in all p.o.r.nographic movie theaters, there's n.o.body there. Just about twenty men, most of them asleep, they've slept through the thing seven times and don't know where they are, and the movie comes on and my friend's eyes were popping out of her head. She hadn't seen anything for ten years and now she was getting Deep Throat Deep Throat. And for days after that she called me up saying, 'Diana, do you think that girl's hurt her insides? How did she do it? Her throat must be all bruised.' And I said, 'Well, I don't really think about things like that-to me the whole movie was a romance.' " And Bob said, "Diana, how could you do that to an old lady?" And she said, "What else do you take someone to see who hasn't seen anything in ten years? It gave her a lift!"
Then she took us to Quo Vadis.
Wednesday, March 12, 1980 I bought a hundred Popisms Popisms from Harcourt Brace. from Harcourt Brace.
Gregory Battc.o.c.k came down, I gave him some books. Gerard called up for two copies of the book. We still need an idea for the next cover of Interview Interview. I gave Brigid the tape of Diana Vreeland and Sharon Hammond, but I forgot that for about ten minutes Sharon and I were talking about Brigid on it. I had told Brigid about Diana Vreeland going to Deep Throat Deep Throat. So that sounded funny, that's what I thought I was giving Brigid and that's what she thought she was getting. But as Brigid had the earphones in and was listening to the tape she got ten different colors on her face. Sharon was saying things like, "Well yes, if Brigid leaves her job, yes, I'd love to take it over." And then Brigid thought I was being mean, giving her the tape, but I just forgot we'd said anything about her on it. She got so upset she called her sister Chrissy to come over and hold her hand. On the tape I was saying that she got hit by a car-whammo-and that afterwards I'd bought her five ice cream cones, and Brigid got hysterical when she heard that-she said it was only three cones, that the other two were mine. But I think I convinced her she had four. I named the flavors. Chrissy's weight is going up. She's 145 and Brigid is 166. Brigid was in a state of shock for the rest of the day, she stayed until 6:30.
I called Brigid when I got home. She and Chrissy had just gone to dinner and had dessert. I had to think of a way to get Brigid to lose weight and so I told her I'd give her $5 for every pound she lost, but that she had to give me $10 for every pound she gained. She's bringing her electric scale in to the office tomorrow.
Sat.u.r.day, March 15, 1980 Farrah Fawcett called and said she was on her way down to Union Square, and she arrived in half an hour with Ryan O'Neal. They looked at her portrait and I didn't think Farrah liked it, but then she studied them for about half an hour and finally said she loved it. I had Bob come down because I thought he could talk them into doing a cover, and she said she would. And she looked pretty, her hair was all washed, and she looked very very nice. She's sweet. So then they left and I stayed alone with Rupert. Dropped him off (cab $4). Then glued myself together because I was invited to Prince Abudi's dinner for Marion Javits.
His place was just around the corner, at 10 East 68th Street, and as I'm walking in, in comes Ultra Violet, wearing the same dress from the sixties, with the same gold coins, and I said, "Gee, Ultra, you shouldn't do that-it might have been a camp when a gold coin was worth $35 but now they're, you know, worth $775 apiece apiece, so you should be careful." But she said she's had to sell most of the good ones, she was just wearing her pesos, very heavy pesos. And it was really fun seeing her again, I kept asking her, "Well, who invited you, how did you get here?" I think she's a good friend of Marion's. I have a funny feeling that maybe she services people or something, I have a funny feeling that maybe that's it-like when there's a guy, an older guy maybe, she'll go out with him or something. But she was fun. I spent the whole evening with her because it was a really awful party. Abudi was very quiet. Although he's a Saudi Arabian prince he didn't have any young princesses there, so it was just all the people I know, like Sam Green and Kenny Lane, and Marion's boyfriend who makes holograms. And she likes him. I don't see what she sees in him, but he's the mistress. What would you call a guy who a woman sees? A "lover?" A gigo -no, a lover, I guess.
And who else was there? Oh, the Bulgaris came, but I didn't get a chance to talk to them, because Ultra Violet went to the caviar dish and she said it smelled like a tin and then Kenny Lane came over and said it was the best caviar you could buy, so then she decided to eat half a pound of it. And she said she was going to write her memoir. Oh! And she finally told me how she got sick. It was all over Ruscha, the artist, Ed Ruscha. She had fallen madly in love with him and he had a wife and he just couldn't handle it, and she just went too crazy because she was too in love with him, she let her whole nervous system fall apart. And that's when she was eating a piece of gold every day-somebody told her that Indian people eat gold or something like that, and it ate a hole in her stomach.
And now Ruscha doesn't have the wife but it's not the same. And she's looking for another young somebody. It ended up we were there until 3:00.
Sunday, March 16, 1980-New York-Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.
Went to Was.h.i.+ngton to the Goldman Fine Arts Gallery and Judaic Museum at the Jewish Center in Was.h.i.+ngton. To the gallery. And they had Popism Popism and and Exposures Exposures. It was hard. Every single person would think that they had to ask me an intelligent question: "Did you use all these different pieces of paper to show all the different facets of Gertrude Stein's personality?" I just said yes.
Monday, March 17, 1980-Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.-New York Well, it was St. Paddy's day. Bob ordered breakfast up. I didn't have a good sleep. We watched the Match Game Match Game and it was a fast round where the answer was "Andy Warhol" and one person was guessing "Peter Max" and then "Soup Can" and then "Pop Artist." and it was a fast round where the answer was "Andy Warhol" and one person was guessing "Peter Max" and then "Soup Can" and then "Pop Artist."
Our breakfast was cancelled at the White House. I guess the Carter administration doesn't want to see us anymore because I did the Ted Kennedy poster. But we were glad we didn't have to get up so early to be over there at 7:30 7:30. We slept till 11:30.
A girl came and took us to Kramerbooks, it's a bookshop/coffee house, and so everybody was drinking. Bob loves the place because it's where he picked kids up when he was at Georgetown. People were shoving everything at me to sign and I signed it all-underwear, a knife. Oh, (laughs) (laughs) and I signed a baby. and I signed a baby.
We had to get the shuttle at 9:00 (tickets $153). Bought some newspapers and a Newsweek Newsweek ($2). And ($2). And Newsweek Newsweek had a great review of had a great review of Popism Popism.
And I forgot to say that at the bookstore in Was.h.i.+ngton Sargent Shriver went out of his way to come by and say h.e.l.lo. He used to be so handsome. And oh G.o.d, it's just so hard to talk to old ladies like I have to sometimes-they're so old and their teeth are crooked and all you see is their mouths, and it's just so hard to stand it, and I guess that's about all the philosophy for now. Went to bed, had a gla.s.s of wine, fell asleep.
Tuesday, March 18, 1980 I'd invited Ultra Violet for lunch, and in the daylight she really looks like an old woman, but at night, with makeup, she really looks gorgeous.
Then Divine was at the office. He said he had $2,000 to spend on a birthday present for Joan Quinn, and I told him we didn't have anything that cheap. But then afterwards it occurred to me that I'm sure he was just getting something for Joan's husband to give to her, that he had given Divine the money, so he was playing games. Because I mean, Divine wouldn't have had $2,000.
And I don't know why Divine is so fat, he had one sandwich and then I offered another and he said, "Oh no, thank you." And Divine really is the only one who you can't tell if it's a boy or a girl. Because of the long earrings, maybe. Like Edie Sedgwick earrings. And actually his face is the Edie type of face, but fat.
Rupert came by and helped out.
Bob was nervous, he was giving a lecture at Bard College that night, and he left at 4:00. His first lecture on gossip.
Karen Lerner called and said that the 20/20 20/20 segment was put off for two more weeks. But I'm thinking, I don't really want it to go on, anyway, because when you get publicity on TV it just makes too segment was put off for two more weeks. But I'm thinking, I don't really want it to go on, anyway, because when you get publicity on TV it just makes too many many people aware of you. I think I'm just doing okay with the little bit of publicity that I get, anyway. Because also, they use you up. And it's scary. Yeah, I think you can just get along on a steady little bit of publicity. people aware of you. I think I'm just doing okay with the little bit of publicity that I get, anyway. Because also, they use you up. And it's scary. Yeah, I think you can just get along on a steady little bit of publicity.
Carmen D'Alessio called and said she visited Steve Rubell in jail and that he sleeps, eats, and plays handball. He's talking to Neil Bogart about buying Studio 54. He says when he gets out he wants to do something completely different.
Then I left to meet Richard Weisman and Catherine at the Mayfair House. Catherine's been working for him and they were spatting. It came out that she'd just told him she quit. It was an easy job-he just was sending her out to buy his presents for him, I think (drinks $20).
Cabbed to Diane Von Furstenberg's ($4). I had a fight with the cab driver, he wanted to go the way he wanted to go. Richard wasn't invited but he was Catherine's date. The first person I ran into was Laverne of Laverne and s.h.i.+rley Laverne and s.h.i.+rley, and we talked about the "L" painting I was going to do for her. Richard was acting like a host-he always does, somehow. He's very insecure and he does drive you up the wall, but he's nice. He thanked Diane for inviting him, but she hadn't. Harry Fane was there, and Barry Diller. It was a party for Nona Summers and her husband, whose name I always forget, so they think I'm wigged out. That's the new thing they're calling me. Like in Newsweek Newsweek they called me that. they called me that.
The same people as usual... Berry Berenson and the Niarchos kids, who it's so funny to listen to after you've heard Fred imitate them, the lisps. And Barbara Allen was running around saying that all her boyfriends were there-Mick Flick, Mick Jagger, Philip Niarchos, and Bryan Ferry. Barbara looked gorgeous.
DVF said she couldn't wait to read Popism Popism, and that everybody loves it. And then Silvinha arrived with Richard Gere and said that I was her sixties, so she'd try to be my eighties. Silvinha takes painting lessons from Mati Klarwein the painter, who has the kid with Caterine Milinaire.
So Silvinha and a girlfriend were talking and Silvinha said she was making it with Max DeLy's friend, that Italian kid Danilo-she was saying this when Richard wasn't nearby-and then she said, "I don't know what to do about Richard, we stay out till 4:00 and then sometimes we have s.e.x and then sometimes we don't, and I want to expand his mind and take him to art galleries."
Francois de Menil was there, I didn't even know it. And in the bedroom they were all taking stuff. And Harry Fane was putting the make on Silvinha or her girlfriend that she was talking to, he put on the "f.u.c.k Me" look. And Barbara Allen was running around saying who should she go home with. And then just as I was quietly slipping out, Richard Weisman saw me and was screaming, "Andy! Andy! Are you leaving?" leaving?" And then he wanted to leave, too, and he does his thing of saying goodbye to everybody, just what I didn't want to do. And then in the car he said, "Do you think I made a mistake the other night, going to bed with Catherine?" I said, "What?" I mean, I knew that he and Catherine had had s.e.x once a while ago, but now here he was saying that they And then he wanted to leave, too, and he does his thing of saying goodbye to everybody, just what I didn't want to do. And then in the car he said, "Do you think I made a mistake the other night, going to bed with Catherine?" I said, "What?" I mean, I knew that he and Catherine had had s.e.x once a while ago, but now here he was saying that they just just had it, and I mean, I can never bring it up to Catherine because it's too embarra.s.sing. And Richard was saying how he felt guilty and did I think that was why Catherine quit, because when you do it with somebody you work for, then you think you had it, and I mean, I can never bring it up to Catherine because it's too embarra.s.sing. And Richard was saying how he felt guilty and did I think that was why Catherine quit, because when you do it with somebody you work for, then you think you always always have to do it. have to do it.
Wednesday, March 19, 1980 We were going to see Heartaches of a Cat Heartaches of a Cat, the play that Kim D'Estainville produced. At the Anta Theater.
I went over to pick up Paulette and we went over to the theater. Paulette signed autographs. The play was so cute, so unusual. Really beautiful masks of the animals. All the actors have animal faces, like the toy things in old French books. Everybody loved it. It could be a hit. I mean, if the kids love Peter Pan Peter Pan they'll just love this. It's the Argentinian group that broke away from Paloma's husband. they'll just love this. It's the Argentinian group that broke away from Paloma's husband.
Claudette Colbert was with Peter Rogers, and for some reason she's always so happy to see me. Jerome Robbins was there, I think he helped with it.
When they did the speeches in French it must have sounded so elegant, but in English, Miss Piggy speaks so much better.
Then we went across the street to Gallagher's for the after-the-show party.
Bianca, it turned out, never came because she had to wait at the airport for three hours to pick up a painting for Thomas Ammann and she was mad ($10 to the limo).
A nice lady came to ask Paulette if she would give her daughter her autograph and Paulette took the lady's hand and lifted it off her shoulder and said, "I hate greasy hands on my white dress."
Sat.u.r.day, March 22, 1980 Worked till 7:30. Then cabbed to Si Newhouse's ($4) on East 70th Street-a big wide house. An art party. Bruno Bischofberger was there. And Mel Bochner the artist who was married to Dorothea Rockburn the artist and got ideas from her. And Mary Boone who said she'll give Ronnie a show, but he's not interested because she calls him every night at 4:00 in the morning. Carl Andre was there. I invited the Newhouse daughter to lunch on Monday, she's just a shy girl, but then I found out that her parents were divorced when she was little, so I don't know if she's in the bucks or not. Mark Lancaster was there.
Bianca had called me before I went to the Newhouses' and invited me over to Halston's later, but I couldn't bring Mark because Halston gets upset when you bring another person. So cab to Halston's ($1.50).