Chapter 21
Bianca was talking on the phone to Steve Rubell in jail, and Steve was having to put in nickels every three minutes. Because you can't call them and you can't write them letters, or he doesn't want you to or something. Somebody asked him if the phone was tapped and he said, "No, no." But then somebody else was saying that when they talked to him before, they could hear a guy warning him to watch what he said. Another inmate giving him advice.
Steve said he's having a wonderful time, that he's put on eleven pounds, and he had sloppy rice for dinner. He said that if he can get his liquor license back for Studio 54 then he'll liquidate, because it'll be easier to get rid of it with a liquor license.
He said that the top people were there. I think he said Sindona, but I'm not sure. He said Ian sleeps all the time. Bianca was saying all these things to him, like that she was going to Magique later to try it out and that she'd been at Xenon the night before. I guess she thinks that kind of talk-that that's the kind of talk that'll excite him. He kept putting nickels in. Bianca had John Samuels there, he got a haircut, and he looks fifteen.
Monday, March 24, 1980 I bought Wrestling Wrestling and and Petland Petland and and Jet Jet-lots of different magazines-to see what they were like to get ideas for Interview Interview ($8.50, cab $3). ($8.50, cab $3).
I had to be photographed by some ad agency and they did their whole setup and then asked me why I was so creative, and I said, "I'm not." So that blew their whole thing, they didn't know what else to ask. Then I took the car up to Bloomingdale's. I was forty-five minutes late and they were mad. I autographed a lot of books. Then the car drove me home. It was raining.
Went to La Boite to the dinner Bob organized for Popism Popism. And there were terrible speeches by Henry Geldzahler who said I was the mirror of our times, and Ahmet who said everybody loves me. Richard Gere was sweet and said he'd read the book and loved it. Stallone crashed with two girlfriends, and he and Bianca had a big fight because he heard her putting him down. Everybody sang "Happy Birthday" to John Samuels who turned twenty. And our editor Steve Aronson was there and he kept his whole table laughing.
Sunday, March 30, 1980-Naples Lucio Amelio put us in the Excelsior Hotel and kept saying he got us the "Elizabeth Taylor" suite. But they gave Beuys the bigger suite upstairs-that's why they kept pus.h.i.+ng the Liz Taylor business to me. But the rooms were big, really big, looking over the black-market people who sell cigarettes.
Then we rested and were taken to Graziella's brother's who lives on the waterfront and they made us some dinner. There was an old ex-movie star and an ex-fas.h.i.+on designer. They served all this food but Graziella and her brother didn't eat anything themselves, and that does make you feel very peculiar, so I learned my lesson-from now on when we invite people to lunch I'll eat.
Monday, March 31, 1980-Naples We had to do TV in the streets, in the slums of Naples. Suzie hid her jewelry. We toured and it was great to see that old-time thing of clothes hanging in the street from one window to another.
We went back to the hotel to meet Joseph Beuys and then we had dinner with Beuys and his family at some funny little Italian restaurant. He was sweet. Really a lot of fun.
Tuesday, April 1, 1980-Naples Up at 10:00, interview with Expresso Expresso again. Lucio picked us up and took us to the gallery because we had a press conference with 400 people. Joseph Beuys loves the press now because he's running for president of Germany under the Free Sky Party and with me he can get more coverage-no, it's the Green Party, that's it. Then So Schlumberger arrived and we invited her to lunch at this waterfront place. Then we were picked up for the opening and there were at least 3,000 or 4,000 people there, you couldn't get in, it was horrible, and finally we slipped away, they were giving us a party at a place called something like City Hall, a drag nightclub. Finally after three hours of waiting, this drag queen with hair on his chest came in and I was talking so she told me to shut up, she did a couple of numbers and then all of a sudden pushed me aside and stormed out and we didn't understand what had happened, but somebody said she was too emotional because she was singing for me, she gets that way. But it was too boring. Fred got insulted because the TV lights were s.h.i.+ning on us too long, and told Lucio off, that it was the most ridiculous evening, and that Lucio had wasted our time because that kind of evening wouldn't sell pictures, and that he was just using us to get into show business. We didn't get into bed till about 4:00. again. Lucio picked us up and took us to the gallery because we had a press conference with 400 people. Joseph Beuys loves the press now because he's running for president of Germany under the Free Sky Party and with me he can get more coverage-no, it's the Green Party, that's it. Then So Schlumberger arrived and we invited her to lunch at this waterfront place. Then we were picked up for the opening and there were at least 3,000 or 4,000 people there, you couldn't get in, it was horrible, and finally we slipped away, they were giving us a party at a place called something like City Hall, a drag nightclub. Finally after three hours of waiting, this drag queen with hair on his chest came in and I was talking so she told me to shut up, she did a couple of numbers and then all of a sudden pushed me aside and stormed out and we didn't understand what had happened, but somebody said she was too emotional because she was singing for me, she gets that way. But it was too boring. Fred got insulted because the TV lights were s.h.i.+ning on us too long, and told Lucio off, that it was the most ridiculous evening, and that Lucio had wasted our time because that kind of evening wouldn't sell pictures, and that he was just using us to get into show business. We didn't get into bed till about 4:00.
Wednesday, April 2, 1980-Naples-Rome Fred and I had to leave for our private audience with the pope by 10:00 so we left Naples at 7:00. When we came to the outskirts of Rome the driver didn't know how to get into the city. We had to follow a cab to take us to Graziella's office to pick up two tickets to have a private audience with the pope. Suzie was very upset because it was too exclusive for her to go go, so she gave Fred her cross to have blessed.
We got our tickets and then the driver dropped us off at the Vatican. When we saw 5,000 other people standing around waiting for the pope, too, I just knew that Graziella hadn't gotten us a private audience. But Fred put on airs and went up to the guards and said that we had a private audience with the pope and they laughed.
They finally took us in to our seats with the rest of the 5,000 people and a nun screamed out, "You're Andy Warhol! Can I have your autograph?" She looked like Valerie Solanis so I got scared she'd pull out a gun and shoot me. Then I had to sign five more autographs for other nuns. And I just get so nervous at church. And then the pope came out, he was on a gold car, he did the rounds, and then finally he got up and gave a speech against divorce in seven different languages. There was a bunch of cheerleaders saying, "Rah-rah, pope." That took three hours. It was really boring, and then finally the pope was coming our way. He shook everybody's hand and Fred kissed his ring and got Suzie's cross blessed. He asked Fred where he was from and Fred said New York, and I was taking pictures-there were a lot of photographers around-and he shook my hand and I said I was from New York, too. I didn't kiss his hand. The people next to me were giving him a gold plate, they were from Belgium. The mobs behind us were jumping down from their seats, it was scary. Then Fred was going to take a Polaroid but I said they'd think it was a machine gun and shoot us, so we never got a Polaroid of the pope. As soon as Fred and I got blessed we ran out.
We decided it would be fun to make up a good story to tell Suzie, so we went to have lunch on the Piazza Navona ($45). We made up that we'd had a private audience with the pope and that he liked Fred so much that he asked us to lunch and then he forgot to give us back Suzie's cross.
Sat.u.r.day, April 5, 1980-Paris We went to Kim D'Estainville's new shop near the Arc de Triomphe. A funny neighborhood. Kim's recuperating from his play folding on Broadway. There was n.o.body in town to try to sell ads to. We had dinner at Club Sept (cab $4).
We had a big table and we were disappointed, there were models there, but all the good-looking ones had been invited off to glamorous places and the ones leftover in town weren't that good-looking. We were there for an hour, about, and then Francesco Scavullo and Sean Byrnes came in and they sat down with us, we invited them to dinner. And then Francesco told me about all the dirty things he heard I did at Studio 54 and I just couldn't believe it, all the boys he heard I brought home to the house, and I just was shocked, I mean, I don't know where he got his information, and I was just trying to find out where he got his gossip from so I could figure out why they'd say all those untrue things.
Oh, and he told me Studio 54 shut down-that was the first time we got the news. Steve and Ian sold it. So the end of an era.
And we also heard that Halston went to Xenon with Bianca, so that's a first. And Bonds clothing store is going to reopen soon as a discotheque on Broadway. Scavullo paid for dinner-I didn't want him to because I'd invited him, but he did.
Sunday, April 6, 1980-Paris Easter. I had a horrible night. I had two nightmares about planes cracking open and the people falling out. Fred went out and ran into s.h.i.+rley Goldfarb, she said her eighty-eight-year-old mother in Miami Beach just sent her the $25 she sends her every Pa.s.sover for matzoh b.a.l.l.s.
Monday, April 7, 1980-Paris-New York Got up at 8:00 in Paris. Had a restless night because I thought I heard Fred slip out. I heard the door shut and the things click that would all mean he had slipped out. But then when I asked him in the morning, he said that he hadn't, so I don't know. All I would've had to do was look, but I didn't. And I get so scared when I'm alone someplace, and I don't keep people's phone numbers-I should, but I don't. But I will from now on.
We got to the airport, Charles DeGaulle, really really fast so we had an hour and a half before the plane. Then there was a black guy in the waiting room and I wondered (laughs) (laughs) how he could afford to be getting on the Concorde. And then he said to me, "You haven't photographed me yet." But I still didn't know who he was. And then suddenly I figured out he was Dizzy Gillespie! He'd just been in Africa and he said things were great down there. He was adorable, so cute. He said he loved Africa, that there was a lot of dirt on the ground, that he liked that. how he could afford to be getting on the Concorde. And then he said to me, "You haven't photographed me yet." But I still didn't know who he was. And then suddenly I figured out he was Dizzy Gillespie! He'd just been in Africa and he said things were great down there. He was adorable, so cute. He said he loved Africa, that there was a lot of dirt on the ground, that he liked that.
He said he'd been photographed by a famous photographer once, and at first he didn't remember who, but then I think he said Carl Van Vechten, and that made sense because he was in the Somerset Maugham biography I just read and he was jazzy, he always had these jazz people. Dizzy said he had a new book out and we said we wanted to interview him, so we took his number in New Jersey.
Andrew Crispo was also on the plane. He's bought all of somebody's Art Deco collection. He had a Dunand vase with him, and he was with a cute boy.
Didn't see Dizzy get off the plane (tips $10). We went through customs easy because the customs guy was really impressed with the picture of us with the pope on the top of the bags. We got out and our car wasn't there, so we jumped in a cab ($.75 toll). All the way in, even though it was the middle of the transit strike, there was no traffic! The driver kept saying he didn't believe it. We sailed right in. But at 89th Street when Fred got out, a lady jumped in our cab who didn't speak English because there's a rule on that you have to have at least two people in a car during the strike. I saw a cop making a girl with a car give some kid a lift. So everybody's meeting people.
It was really a beautiful, beautiful day. There were so many people out walking because of the transit strike. Wandered to the office. Brigid and Robyn were there. I worked all afternoon, waited for Rupert who didn't arrive till 6:30 because he walked. Brigid and I went out pa.s.sing Interviews Interviews. A bag man started screaming that if I would only stand still he could get a picture of me. He was really screaming, looking through his bags for his camera. And then I asked him if I could take a picture of him him and he said no, but I did, anyway. He really had a camera with a flash that worked. Maybe he was a playwright or somebody doing an article on what it's like to be a bag man. He was about forty. and he said no, but I did, anyway. He really had a camera with a flash that worked. Maybe he was a playwright or somebody doing an article on what it's like to be a bag man. He was about forty.
Tuesday, April 8, 1980 Rupert came in and we worked on the Jewish Geniuses. Truman called and he sounded like his old self, he said he'd been working hard. He said that his Chameleon Chameleon book is going to be in the Book-of-the-Month Club, and I asked him how you got that and he said book is going to be in the Book-of-the-Month Club, and I asked him how you got that and he said (laughs) (laughs) from being a good writer. from being a good writer.
Karen Lerner called and said that Hugh Downs was going to do an update on the 20/20 20/20 story and that it was for sure going to run this Thursday. She thinks it's going to be thirteen minutes, and I'm just so scared, I just think our whole business is going to fall apart after that kind of big network exposure. That's what I've really come to decide. story and that it was for sure going to run this Thursday. She thinks it's going to be thirteen minutes, and I'm just so scared, I just think our whole business is going to fall apart after that kind of big network exposure. That's what I've really come to decide.
I watched the Today Show Today Show where there was a forty-seven-year-old black man who was a boxer and then became a dentist for seventeen years and now he's decided he's going to be a boxer again, and it was such an up story. where there was a forty-seven-year-old black man who was a boxer and then became a dentist for seventeen years and now he's decided he's going to be a boxer again, and it was such an up story.
I bought some garlic pills because I just read a book that said garlic is against sickness, and I believe that, it seems right. Forgot to say that at a c.o.c.ktail party the other night a woman came over and kissed me on the lips and then said, "I'm so sick, I'm dying." Why do people do that? Are they trying to pa.s.s their disease on to somebody so they they won't have it anymore? won't have it anymore?
Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Walked in the rain to the office. Transit strike still on. Worked all afternoon. Locked up at 6:00. Gael Malkenson's boyfriend Peter Love had a truck and it took us forty minutes just to go around the corner. In the truck was Robyn, Aeyung from Interview Interview, Bob's sister, Bob, and Tinkerbelle. And Tinkerbelle was putting down the Jews and we said, "Are you Jewish?" and she said, "Oh my G.o.d, no, of course not!" I said, "But Tinkerbelle is a Jewish name. I mean, 'belle.' "
When I got home I cancelled out on a Regine's thing, my sore throat was getting so bad. It was from that woman who kissed me the other night and then said, "I'm dying." I took a sleeping pill and went to bed, but it didn't help, my throat still got worse.
Oh, and Carmen D'Alessio told Bob about visiting Steve in prison once a week. They have meetings in the waiting room where all the other prisoners are having their meetings. She met the right-hand man of Sindona who stole a lot from the Vatican. She said everyone's really nice in the prison except for one guy with tattoos who's the bowling-ball murderer. Carmen signed a contract with Mark Fleishman, the new owner of Studio 54, to continue doing parties and publicity. He thinks he'll have a liquor license within twelve weeks.
Thursday, April 10, 1980 They were going to film me for another ABC show, Omnibus Omnibus-they're reviving it-and the car was picking me up at 10:00.
The Omnibus Omnibus people arrived at the office at 7:30, they'd worked it all out with Vincent the day before. This was a show on Carly Simon getting her portrait painted by me and by Larry Rivers and by Marisol. I'd said that I wouldn't do one more thing without being paid, and Vincent worked out a contract with them-Carly was going to pay for most of it. people arrived at the office at 7:30, they'd worked it all out with Vincent the day before. This was
I was in the limo alone, and we went down the West Side Highway. I had a camera with me because I've decided to take pictures everywhere I go to prove that I really do go to all these places every day. The windows of the car were black so to do it I had to roll them down. A few people on the West Side Highway said, "Hi, Andy." Then we got off the highway at 23rd Street and this black kid said, "You filthy white rich person, all you think about is money." And there were a few of them, and I got scared. Fred told me later that I should have screamed back, "All you you think about is money! And mugging to get it." And they kept following the car. It scared me so much. think about is money! And mugging to get it." And they kept following the car. It scared me so much.
I got to the office and they wired me and sent the car back for Carly Simon.
Carly was too nervous to come up until we sent some wine down to the car. Then she came up and was sociable. We made her put on lipstick and then after we worked she was hungry and we sent to Brownies for health sandwiches and she loved that. I taped it all (Brownies $8.30, $23.44). And then Ara Gallant came with Susan Strasberg and she twisted Bob's arm to interview her, she's just written a book.
At 6:00 Jodie Foster came to 860. She looked beautiful. With her mother. She and her mother are a team. It's like a marriage-Jodie's the father. She's very intelligent and she's gotten into all the colleges she's applied to except she hears from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton on Monday. In case she goes to Harvard we were telling her about John Samuels and how cute he is, but I don't know what type she'd like because she dresses really like a boy-all in Brooks Brothers.
While we were there Brigid called the restaurant to say that the 20/20 20/20 segment on me had just been on TV and she said it was great. Hugh Downs narrated it. And Brigid's so critical of me, so I was relieved. I mean, if even she couldn't find anything wrong with it, it must've been okay. segment on me had just been on TV and she said it was great. Hugh Downs narrated it. And Brigid's so critical of me, so I was relieved. I mean, if even she couldn't find anything wrong with it, it must've been okay.
They're selling Kitty Miller's everything. Christie's is. I mean, her used underwear, her used potholders, everything. She has (laughs) (laughs) three unused Halston s.h.i.+rts. And she's got a few Revillon furs that cost $80,000 that'll probably go for $3,000. Furs have no resale value... I know killing animals to make coats is sad, but look, even when you think about killing cows to eat they're so big and beautiful and three unused Halston s.h.i.+rts. And she's got a few Revillon furs that cost $80,000 that'll probably go for $3,000. Furs have no resale value... I know killing animals to make coats is sad, but look, even when you think about killing cows to eat they're so big and beautiful and everything's everything's alive-the plants are screaming. alive-the plants are screaming.
I'm still weighing 140, I don't understand it, I'm not eating that much, my metabolism must have changed. I should be 136. But now I'm eating the nuts and chocolate and things that I'm not supposed to eat because of my gallbladder, because I think the gallbladder pills are helping so that I can can eat them. But I'm getting fat so for that reason I'll have to stop. eat them. But I'm getting fat so for that reason I'll have to stop.
Walter Steding is performing at the Squat Theater on 23rd Street-that theater where they did that thing called "Andy Warhol's Last Tape."
Friday, April 11, 1980 Henry Geldzahler came by to talk about me doing a poster for New York City and Fred thought it was a good idea. Then Henry wanted to go right out and photograph a tree for the poster. He needs it in two weeks. But I'm just beginning to think Henry may be crazy. He said Ellsworth Kelly wanted to paint on top of my portrait of him, and I said sure, but then he admitted that he wanted me to print another one so he was just trying to get a free painting out of me for Ellsworth Kelly to paint on. He still wears his badge that Mayor Koch gave him under his lapel.
Rupert came in and we were numbering portfolios. The Ten Jewish Geniuses portfolio really sold, so now Ron Feldman wants to do Ten Rock Stars, but that's corny, isn't it? Or Ten Phantoms, like Santa Claus. But I think the Jewish Geniuses only sold because they were Jewish Jewish, so we should do Ten Jewish something else. Like Ten Jewish Jewish Rock Stars. Rock Stars.
I called Harcourt Brace and screamed at them for not delivering the eighty books that I paid for. Jackie Curtis came up to get one and heard me screaming on the phone at them and got the message and backed right out. And I screamed at a few people, and finally the girl said, "Well, you paid with a personal check and we had to wait to see if it cleared." Can you believe it! I think Jovanovich must be so petty himself because he runs the worst company, they're small-time, they've got a name, Harcourt Brace, but that's all. So that screaming took all afternoon.
Sat.u.r.day, April 12, 1980 Got up early and watched the cartoonies. I had to carry a portfolio downtown for a lady who's trading for an ad (cab $4). And then she went through them all and found a smudge mark on one of them, she was an a.n.a.l retentive. I got that from Rupert, he called her that. She went through them from cover to cover.
I called and asked Brigid how she was coming with transcribing the Jodie Foster tape, and she said she'd been working on it for hours, that it was great, great. And I asked her to be more specific and she said she was at the part where Jodie was looking around the office and I mean, we were only at the office for the first two minutes, so I knew she hadn't done anything, and I screamed.
Random House wants to do 400 of a special edition of the portrait catalogue. They'd make a lot of more money off it than I would, though, so we were trying to think of what to do.
Monday, April 14, 1980 Went out on the street with some Interviews Interviews and I was curious to see if people were still recognizing me all the time from the 20/20 TV show, but they weren't. So this means that TV makes you famous for one day and then it fades. Pa.s.sed out and I was curious to see if people were still recognizing me all the time from the 20/20 TV show, but they weren't. So this means that TV makes you famous for one day and then it fades. Pa.s.sed out Interviews Interviews, wandered, and took a couple of cabs but was shocked out of my mind-the fare increase was in effect (cabs $4.05, $5.05). It really does seem to be a lot more. I'm just going to tip a small amount from now on and not even worry about it. I guess I'll have to walk to work. Halfway to work. Eventually got to Union Square.
We were having lunch for Henry Geldzahler. The eighty Popisms Popisms finally arrived from Harcourt Brace in the morning and I gave them out to everybody, but I'm going to be more stingy with them now, with inflation. Henry wanted to take me out to photograph the tree for the city poster, but just as we were having lunch it started to rain. finally arrived from Harcourt Brace in the morning and I gave them out to everybody, but I'm going to be more stingy with them now, with inflation. Henry wanted to take me out to photograph the tree for the city poster, but just as we were having lunch it started to rain.
Oh, and I forgot to say that during lunch Fred came in and told me there was a roommate of Steve Rubell's from prison there who wanted to to see me, and I said no! I mean, why would Fred even come and tell me that? Why would I want to talk to somebody like that? And Fred said that he thought I should see him, so I went out there, and this absolute creep is saying things like, "Steve says he can't talk on the phone because it's bugged"-like I talk to him, anyway, right? And he said, "Steve wants an Italian dinner." So Bob finally said, "Well what're see me, and I said no! I mean, why would Fred even come and tell me that? Why would I want to talk to somebody like that? And Fred said that he thought I should see him, so I went out there, and this absolute creep is saying things like, "Steve says he can't talk on the phone because it's bugged"-like I talk to him, anyway, right? And he said, "Steve wants an Italian dinner." So Bob finally said, "Well what're you you here for?" and the guy said he wanted money to buy the Italian food for Steve. So Bob gave him $20 and he said, "That's not enough." So Henry gave him another $20 and I had to pay them both back later ($40). But he was just shaking us down. And after he left I screamed at Fred for being so stupid, he should have just gotten rid of him. I mean, Fred must have stayed out all night and not had his brains right or something. here for?" and the guy said he wanted money to buy the Italian food for Steve. So Bob gave him $20 and he said, "That's not enough." So Henry gave him another $20 and I had to pay them both back later ($40). But he was just shaking us down. And after he left I screamed at Fred for being so stupid, he should have just gotten rid of him. I mean, Fred must have stayed out all night and not had his brains right or something.
Then we went up to Polly Bergen's apartment on Park Avenue (cab $3.50). This was the Academy Awards party. We were just in one TV room and we didn't see all the others. Ex-Mayor Wagner and his wife Phyllis who used to be married to Bennett Cerf were there, and the Helen Gurley Browns.
And Dustin won. Poor Bette Midler didn't, and she gave that part everything she had, right down to the last-fart.
Tuesday, April 15, 1980 Did I say yet that David Whitney said that the townspeople have been seeing Truman's car parked at Silver Hill and did some checking around and he's there? He's going into the local stores there buying those little doodads that he buys.
Went with Henry Geldzahler to the Village where the Women's House of Detention was, which is now a locked-up park. The trees there were just perfect to photograph for the poster. I gave an Interview Interview to the lady with the key to the garden. Then Henry left me in the Village and I was stopped by a kid who said he grew up in the foster home with Joe and Bobby Dallesandro and he said he was really good friends with Bobby. So I had to tell him Bobby committed suicide and he was just stunned. I left him there on the street being shocked. to the lady with the key to the garden. Then Henry left me in the Village and I was stopped by a kid who said he grew up in the foster home with Joe and Bobby Dallesandro and he said he was really good friends with Bobby. So I had to tell him Bobby committed suicide and he was just stunned. I left him there on the street being shocked.
Back at the office Bob was in a bad mood. I dropped him off (cab $5.50). Glued myself together, picked up Catherine, and cabbed to Bill Copley's place. Bill's secretary told me that Bill left Tommy the dog, who was the sweetest thing at the party, out on the terrace by mistake on the coldest day of the year, and somebody saw him out there and called the police who had to come and get him off. I said I wanted to take Tommy home with me, and Bill might let me have him, he's thinking about it.
Clarisse Rivers was there, just back from Mexico, and Vincent and Sh.e.l.ly and Michael Heizer. And Christophe de Menil was with Viva's ex-husband, Michel Auder-she goes after the worst people. She looked beautiful, like one of those old-fas.h.i.+oned prints. Her hair was up and she has a tiny body.
Wednesday, April 16, 1980 Henry Post came by the office and we were all shocked that he would because he had his lawyer send Bob a letter saying that he could sue us if he wanted to because Bob said in Interview Interview that Steve Rubell said the that Steve Rubell said the New York New York article Henry wrote on 54 was all lies. And Henry was supposed to be a friend. He looks terrific, he's been going to the gym. But I think he's still wearing makeup, like rouge. We were going to the Roy Cohn thing, it was for convicts who make art, prisoners who paint. There were about forty people there. Roy had borough presidents there and presidents of Revlon. And Cindy and Joey Adams were there and Joey gave a speech, he said, "I thought this was a party for Roy's clients, Ian and Steve. How come article Henry wrote on 54 was all lies. And Henry was supposed to be a friend. He looks terrific, he's been going to the gym. But I think he's still wearing makeup, like rouge. We were going to the Roy Cohn thing, it was for convicts who make art, prisoners who paint. There were about forty people there. Roy had borough presidents there and presidents of Revlon. And Cindy and Joey Adams were there and Joey gave a speech, he said, "I thought this was a party for Roy's clients, Ian and Steve. How come they they don't paint?" Andrew Crispo was an organizer of this thing and he bought a painting. It was embarra.s.sing because I didn't buy anything. don't paint?" Andrew Crispo was an organizer of this thing and he bought a painting. It was embarra.s.sing because I didn't buy anything.
Went home and glued myself and walked to Quo Vadis where we were interviewing Nasta.s.sia Kinski. She was very pretty and tall and spoke English well. We were afraid to ask her anything about Roman Polanski until the very end and then she told us she didn't have an affair with him. She was interesting, but not as fascinating as Jodie Foster. She speaks six languages and she could just redo every Ingrid Bergman movie. She looks like what Isabella Rossellini could look like. We dropped her off at the Navarro. She's been in town three weeks and wants to stay forever. She's staying with Milos Forman and I guess they're having an affair, because she was saying something about making dinner for him during the Academy Awards. She was telling us that he offered her the best movie role, the one of Evelyn Nesbit coming down the stairs naked in Ragtime Ragtime, and I didn't have the heart to tell her that that's the role Milos offers every girl he's been going after -Margaret Trudeau and two others. It's his line. So we dropped her off (cab $5).
Then we went to the Tavern on the Green party for the opening of The Watcher in the Woods The Watcher in the Woods. It was a party for Bette Davis that we got a telegram inviting us to. I went over to her and I thought we were friends because once I had a long conversation with her and she knew about when I was shot and was very sweet and everything. So I went over to her to refresh it and I said, "Oh, hi-I'm Andy Warhol, remember?" And she looked at me and said, "Yeeess." And she turned around and walked away. And then later somebody at her table said, "Oh have you met Andy Warhol?" and she said, "Yes, I've met Andy Warhol." Very cold. So I don't know what's wrong.
Sylvia Miles was there and she ran to get her pocketbook with all her clippings in it from Hammett Hammett and from some other movie to show me. Lewis Allen was there. We're still talking to him about doing and from some other movie to show me. Lewis Allen was there. We're still talking to him about doing Exposures Exposures and the and the Philosophy Philosophy book as a play. book as a play.
Sat.u.r.day, April 19, 1980 Fred called and said I had to pick up Lynn Wyatt, that the limo would be at my house at 8:00. The Sat.u.r.day newspapers were great. There was the bathtub murders, the guy says he kills things and doesn't remember-things like his wife and daughter-and that it used to happen to him with animals, too, that he'd wake up and look around and they'd be dead. And the full Barry Landau story, how he's Miz Lillian's best friend and he's going down to Was.h.i.+ngton to testify again.
Left the office at twenty to 8:00 and when I got uptown the limo was already waiting there (cab $5.50). So I went in and glued and Lynn Wyatt called and said that Jerry Zipkin was having c.o.c.ktails first, at 95th and Park, and I told her it was Harlem. But we went up there.
Then we went to the St. Regis where Francois de Menil was having his thirty-fifth birthday party bash and we went up to the roof. Francois had his new girlfriend from Texas there. And some of his old girlfriends, too. Lynn wanted to be at the table with Diana Vreeland and Fred. And Francois's older brother, George, who keeps a low profile.
Bob Wilson was there, he's dating the Schlumberger girl from Was.h.i.+ngton, Katy Jones. Little Nell was there, the English dancer. Aileen Mehle was there. It was an okay party. There was no big movie star or rock star there, it was just in a funny way all his friends.
Lynn couldn't come down to 860 to see her portrait, she was going to Paris the next day.
Monday, April 21, 1980 When I got into the office I noticed that Robyn was typing up one of those things that says what you've done-what's it called? A resume.
Iolas was coming to lunch with a couple of clients and we needed a couple of boys to entertain. And I called Curley and he brought his cousin David Laughlin who works at the Coe Kerr Gallery. Iolas arrived and his contact that he never takes out of his eyes got lost in his eye and he had me look for it, but I couldn't see it. Jackie Curtis came in in full drag and pink slippers and kept interrupting me to ask if he was interrupting anything. I told him no because actually he wasn't. He didn't eat anything because, he said, he was on a diet and had already had a half a pound of ham and three eggs that morning for breakfast. He wanted some Popisms Popisms so I gave them to him. He was on his way to a fas.h.i.+on show so he left. But then later he came back again. This time he so I gave them to him. He was on his way to a fas.h.i.+on show so he left. But then later he came back again. This time he was was interrupting and he was drunk. But Kimiko and John Powers had come by and Kimiko loved Jackie and if you can believe it, she didn't even realize it was a man. Jackie looked good, he's lost weight. He said he wanted to take Brigid's job, her typing job, and he said he'd be very good, that he'd just type in a corner. But oh, he talks right into your face. Jackie had a sequined s.h.i.+rt on and was wearing a bracelet he said I gave him but I don't remember. Then he gave bracelets to Brigid and Kimiko to try to buy their affections. interrupting and he was drunk. But Kimiko and John Powers had come by and Kimiko loved Jackie and if you can believe it, she didn't even realize it was a man. Jackie looked good, he's lost weight. He said he wanted to take Brigid's job, her typing job, and he said he'd be very good, that he'd just type in a corner. But oh, he talks right into your face. Jackie had a sequined s.h.i.+rt on and was wearing a bracelet he said I gave him but I don't remember. Then he gave bracelets to Brigid and Kimiko to try to buy their affections.
Tuesday, April 22, 1980 Cheryl Tiegs and Peter Beard came by. Peter naturally wanted a free artwork and performance out of me. I had to give them a tour around the place.
I had to leave early to make the 6:30 Martha Graham thing (cab $6). We got there and Martha was making her speech like she always does for an hour first. She wants to be an actress. Nureyev was terrible, he just doesn't know how to be a modern dancer.
Thursday, April 24, 1980 Got up at 8:00 because Vincent said we had to be at the TV studio at the dot of 9:00 for the ABC thing on Carly Simon where Larry Rivers and Marisol and I had to show our portraits of her. We went over there and then Larry and Marisol arrived by limousine. We met the director who had a phony high-cla.s.s accent. Larry was fun. He decided to make the director work and said, "Where should I stand? What should I say? How should I look? What should I think?" and things like that. I think Carly liked my portrait the best because she's paying for it. I only had one there, but Larry had five and one of his had a Chinese couple f.u.c.king in the background, and they made him take it out. And then afterwards they wanted to shoot us in front of blank easels listening to Carly, and Larry said no, that he'd submitted to what they wanted by taking the f.u.c.king couple out, so he wouldn't do this corny thing.
Then Larry and Marisol came to the office for lunch. Marisol was cute. She invited me to her fiftieth birthday party at Chanterelle, that very chic small restaurant downtown, but she said not to tell anybody it was her fiftieth.
Worked till 8:00. John Reinhold picked me up. Henry Geldzahler came and met us, we discussed the poster some more, and then cabbed ($2.50) to dinner at Da Silvano on Sixth Avenue. It was good but it wasn't as good as the first time we were there (dinner $98.40). The owner went out and bought the Times Times because Henry had a half-page interview with him in it and he was afraid it was going to say something unfavorable, but it didn't. Then we walked to the Ninth Circle because Henry wanted some interludes. The place was filled with intellectual fairies who wanted to talk to me about my art, but Henry told them I was too dumb to do it. because Henry had a half-page interview with him in it and he was afraid it was going to say something unfavorable, but it didn't. Then we walked to the Ninth Circle because Henry wanted some interludes. The place was filled with intellectual fairies who wanted to talk to me about my art, but Henry told them I was too dumb to do it.
Henry thought of a good quote about Popism: Popism: "It's a real can opener." Isn't that great? Oh, and I'm forgetting the most glamorous thing of the day is that Jackie O. called me twice at home and missed me and once at the office, about would I give a quote for Diana Vreeland's book "It's a real can opener." Isn't that great? Oh, and I'm forgetting the most glamorous thing of the day is that Jackie O. called me twice at home and missed me and once at the office, about would I give a quote for Diana Vreeland's book Allure Allure that's coming out that's pictures with captions. She said, "It's like your book that's coming out that's pictures with captions. She said, "It's like your book Exposures," Exposures," or something like that. or something like that.
Sat.u.r.day, April 26, 1980 Robert Hayes has been missing a lot of work, and Bob found out it's because he's taking a lot of c.o.ke, which isn't like him at all, but the photographers and the stylists just hand it out so freely, to editors especially, because they want the work, and so he's been calling in a lot and saying he has "a cold" and doing things that he usually doesn't do.
I had to go to Lincoln Center to see Clytemnestra Clytemnestra. The dance came out good, really great, and Martha was thrilled because she'd been worried about it. Nureyev danced, he was awful. Saw him in the dressing room and said h.e.l.lo. Bianca was wearing a Halston dress with an Ossie Clark coat. And the dress was beautiful, it was flesh-colored in a V on top so it looked low-cut.
And the best thing was Diana Vreeland eating a banana. This banana was lying around Martha's dressing room and Diana really wanted it so she peeled it and just ate it right from the peel, and it looked so funny. She's old enough to look really really funny. She loves bananas.
Afterwards we went over to Halston's and had a little supper. We tried to pick up some of the dancers and bring them with us but Halston said Martha wouldn't like it. So it was just Martha and Bianca and me and Diana and John Bowes-Lyons. And Liza and Mark Gero came over. And an English guy who said he wrote songs for Charles Aznavour. And he had a girl with him-Filipino, I think-and this girl said she'd lived with Michael Caine, and since Bianca had lived with him, too, the girl poured her heart out to Bianca and Bianca dished, too, she said she'd never talked about him before. They agreed that if he got drunk, he'd scream for hours. And this girl said she would just do everything for him, get up at 5:00 and make him breakfast, and then she'd go to the set, and then leave half an hour before he did to go go home and make him dinner. They both said that s.e.x with him was "memorable," but I don't know if they meant really good or really bad. home and make him dinner. They both said that s.e.x with him was "memorable," but I don't know if they meant really good or really bad.
Sunday, April 27, 1980 Nasta.s.sia Kinski came by the office. I wasn't friendly to her, though, because it turned out she already did the cover of Vogue Vogue and now we don't want to use her for the and now we don't want to use her for the Interview Interview cover, but she really is beautiful. Picked up Catherine. Cab to Hector's on Third Avenue and 82nd Street ($4). It's run by Stuart Lichtenstein, the kid who used to manage Max's. This was Averil Meyer's birthday party. She didn't put us with her, she was at a table with Diana Vreeland and Mick Jagger. And we were waiting to see where she'd put John Samuels who she'd slept with the night before. cover, but she really is beautiful. Picked up Catherine. Cab to Hector's on Third Avenue and 82nd Street ($4). It's run by Stuart Lichtenstein, the kid who used to manage Max's. This was Averil Meyer's birthday party. She didn't put us with her, she was at a table with Diana Vreeland and Mick Jagger. And we were waiting to see where she'd put John Samuels who she'd slept with the night before.
Then Fred invited all the fairies to come afterwards-Robyn and Curley and Curley's boyfriend and John Scribner and his current girlfriend. Not really fairies, but that feeling. I had a good time with Bill Pitt. I asked him if he still thought he was G.o.d and he said yes, but not as much. His father and Averil's father are best friends. He had a new camera that advances itself.
And Averil's father was..h.i.tting Catherine, really drunk, and had her dress up practically over her head, and his wife was just standing there. I thought Catherine would be Averil's new mother, but then he has no money, we found out. And Averil looked funny dancing with John Samuels because she was a foot taller in her shoes.
Tuesday, April 29, 1980 Bianca wanted to roller skate so we went to the Roxy in Thomas Ammann's limo. Bianca really wants to marry Thomas. She brings it up all the time. She's dying to have him marry her. We skated for about half an hour. Bianca skates like a little kid, and then she reminded me how she'd been on crutches because she'd pulled both her tendons when she was roller skating in L.A. once, and then I vaguely remembered because when she and Mick were starting to get divorced there were all those pictures in the paper of her going into the courtroom in California (laughs) (laughs) on crutches. on crutches.
Bianca figured out that John Samuels was out at Averil's in Manha.s.set. She put it together and then I confirmed it. She said that Averil always gets her leftovers, that it's so predictable. Bianca and John broke up on the night we all went to Martha's. She said, "He's a child."
Thursday, May 1, 1980 Calvin Tomkins has a big review of Popism Popism in the in the New Yorker New Yorker and it's a rave. I should tell Harcourt Brace to just go f.u.c.k themselves. What are they doing over there? When is the ad going to run in the and it's a rave. I should tell Harcourt Brace to just go f.u.c.k themselves. What are they doing over there? When is the ad going to run in the Times! Times!
In the morning I picked up Bianca and Victor and went to the Olympic Tower because I had an appointment with Halston to see his sportswear line ($4.50). Bianca had a great Halston top on and a blue bottom and her a.s.s really really was wide. She had on Manolo shoes and an Elsa Peretti belt. We got there just in time. Halston keeps using his aging models because he feels they were loyal to him so now he'll be loyal to them. was wide. She had on Manolo shoes and an Elsa Peretti belt. We got there just in time. Halston keeps using his aging models because he feels they were loyal to him so now he'll be loyal to them.
Cabbed to 860 ($5.50). Catherine was having a lunch for Alexander c.o.c.kburn and the P.J. O'Rourke guy from the National Lampoon National Lampoon. A writer-photographer from Stern Stern wanted to be photographed with me for the preface for his book, and Henry Wolf, an old friend of mine, was there to take a picture. He was the art director of wanted to be photographed with me for the preface for his book, and Henry Wolf, an old friend of mine, was there to take a picture. He was the art director of Harper's Bazaar Harper's Bazaar in 1960 and he changed the look of the magazine. It was either him or Marvin Israel, I can't figure out which, who first used ugly girls with big noses and things. And I guess Mrs. Vreeland probably encouraged it because actually it was, now that I think about it, just like putting herself on the cover. in 1960 and he changed the look of the magazine. It was either him or Marvin Israel, I can't figure out which, who first used ugly girls with big noses and things. And I guess Mrs. Vreeland probably encouraged it because actually it was, now that I think about it, just like putting herself on the cover.
Then the limo came at 2:30 to take us to Princeton for a book signing that Wilson Kidde set up for us. Ian Maxtone Graham from Brown came with us.
They had a place set up to sign outside. It wasn't a rich bookstore like the Harvard Coop. This was more just like a little bookstore in a building, so it was better being outside because the kids going by would see a crowd and go up to see. Then we had a tour of the campus. Really rich-looking. A naked rugby team ran by doing their numbers, just wearing jockstraps, some kind of initiation or something.
Then Wilson took us to an all-male club for dinner, the Ivy Club, and just a few girls came by for drinks. Champagne punch. All these rich kids. The grandson of Seabrook frozen vegetables. The son of J.D. Salinger, Matt. He was really good-looking. He's trying to be a photographer and he writes. A cousin of Frolic Weymouth's from Chadds Ford was there. And a kid who didn't belong to the club, Ritt, who was a model for Elite, but he didn't look like one-he had a big nose and beautiful eyes but he was short.
I bought books. One was the Liddy book ($20.92).
Dinner at this all-male club was leftovers. Like spaghetti al dente al dente, cheese on top. Baked alaska with Haagen-Dazs that was 2' X l' that Ritt made. Four bottles of wine.
Went back at 9:00, the drive was nice.
Friday, May 2, 1980 I'm still not sure if we'll take the 25 percent that that Hollywood guy, the one who works for Alan Ladd, is offering for Trash II Trash II, which Paul is now calling Trash-ier Trash-ier.
Worked all day. Rupert was there. Till 9:00 or 9:30. Dropped Rupert ($5). Then Jed had a temperature of 104 and thought he was maybe having a heart attack, so at 4:00 in the morning I had to take him to New York Hospital and Doc c.o.x was waiting there, but it was just chest pains like the flu, and he's at home but his temperature is still high.
Sunday, May 18, 1980 John Powers called and told me the prices at the art auctions, and the Triple Elvis went for $75,000 and he said he thought that was a fair price so I felt okay, but then he told me that the Lichtenstein went for $250,000 so I felt bad. Oh, and the three Jackies went for only $8,000, so that was a bargain.
Monday, May 19, 1980 I watched the Today Show Today Show and saw the volcano erupting. The man at the volcano who wouldn't come down must have been killed, they couldn't find him. and saw the volcano erupting. The man at the volcano who wouldn't come down must have been killed, they couldn't find him.
Gerry Ayres called and he's writing a movie called Painting Painting-he wrote Jodie Foster's movie, Foxes Foxes. He's the studio person that brought us out to Hollywood in '69. And he wanted to meet Henry Geldzahler. And so I made a lunch with Henry for Wednesday.
I met Bob in front of his house and we walked to the Plaza for the JOB Ball-Just One Break-and we'd missed the c.o.c.ktail hour. All the old bags came out for this. Nan Kempner was there with Jerry Zipkin. Robyn's mother was very sweet. She and Bob chatted, they're having the same problem-somebody is signing them up for all these magazine subscriptions and they keep coming in the mail. I sat next to Mrs. Tony Curtis. And so I said, "Oh, I wish I was home watching Tony Curtis on Moviola." Moviola." And she said yes, that she liked Tony a lot but that they were just breaking up. They'd been married twelve years. She was nice. And she said yes, that she liked Tony a lot but that they were just breaking up. They'd been married twelve years. She was nice.
Sharon Hammond was there with her new beau, Lord Sondes. She's gained five or six pounds and she was porking it up. And the lord has a potbelly, too. I couldn't believe it when I saw her eat a whole roll. I took it away from her.