Chapter 34
Thursday, March 25, 1982 Lord Jermyn was giving a dinner for Fred at the Odeon (cab $8). It's such a long ride down there. Mick Jagger arrived and that was the big moment, everybody in the place got excited. And Charlie Watts was with him. No Jerry. They were on the loose. Julian Schnabel still wants to paint me, and he says Sat.u.r.day is the only day he can do it because he's going away. He gets $40,000 for a portrait, he's the Jim Dine of the eighties. He copies people's work and he's pushy and he's a friend of Ronnie's and he's married a rich girl already. I'm going to have to sit for it. He does it abstract, anyway, but I guess I have to because he wants the inspiration.
I ordered sweetbreads which I hate so that I wouldn't eat anything. Then we went to John Samuels's birthday party at his father's big loft on Broadway. Jane Holzer was talking about Ian Schrager, she's so hot for him, she said he's the best s.e.x, and we sat there talking till 2:00 so I missed Jon's call from California.
Friday, March 26, 1982 This was the night Radio City was having its fiftieth anniversary, and Maura Moynihan had called a few times during the day so I thought she'd be a good date, and we could continue the Music Hotel Music Hotel tapes-that's what my musical is called now-about her and her two boyfriends. So cabbed to Radio City ($2). It was boring. tapes-that's what my musical is called now-about her and her two boyfriends. So cabbed to Radio City ($2). It was boring.
Maura called her boyfriends but they weren't home. She's working at the Post Post now. She makes $100 a day and she works about three days a week, reading things and editing them, I guess. now. She makes $100 a day and she works about three days a week, reading things and editing them, I guess.
Sat.u.r.day, March 27, 1982 Got a call from Jon in L.A., he was meeting Bob and Thomas Ammann out there for lunch.
Sunday, March 28, 1982 Bob came back from California, I guess just for a jeans party in Tribeca at some new cafe. He left Hollywood for that.
I ran into Mary Richardson and she said she was getting married to John Samuels's roommate from Harvard. Carlos Mavroleon. Well that's what she says but I remember he had a lisp. It'd be funny if he's a straight person with a lisp, but I don't know.
Monday, March 29, 1982 Got up early, tried to make exercise cla.s.s on time. Lidija told me that Sharon said that the woman downstairs from her complained that we make too much noise, and so that's Sharon trying to tell us we can't use the room anymore, so I guess our days there are numbered.
Bob arranged dinner with the mayor. This is the dinner for Alice Neel's birthday that was scheduled for a month ago but then it was cancelled when the mayor's father died. And Polly Bergen was having an Academy Awards party. And Lester Persky was having a dinner and party at Xenon to (laughs) (laughs) "honor the stars." "honor the stars."
Cabbed to Gracie Mansion ($6). It was all artists, sort of horrible, Henry Geldzahler was there with Raymond, and Duane Hanson and Alice Neel and Tom Armstrong were there. And everyone was complaining because the Whitney hadn't loaned the portrait that Alice Neel did of me for the dinner, you have to give them a month's notice and I said that that was just fine with me, that it was a closet painting. And Alice had a nude of herself. Her family was there. She turns these paintings out so fast. And the mayor was nice, he made a cute speech, one-liners.
And then suddenly some creep got up and started a speech and it was Stewart Mott and it was the oddest speech. He talked about how Alice Neel had lived in the gutter for so long and didn't have a pot to pee in and how she lived on like 109th Street on the East Side and then on 105th Street on the West Side and now, as a present to Alice, would the mayor please give his views on nuclear war and disarmament. And the mayor said something like, "Now listen here, we're finished with your speech."
Bob told the mayor we wanted him for the cover of Interview Interview and the mayor said, "After the election," and Bob said, "Oh couldn't it be before?" but the mayor said, "After'll be better." So that was disappointing. and the mayor said, "After the election," and Bob said, "Oh couldn't it be before?" but the mayor said, "After'll be better." So that was disappointing.
And did I ever say that my favorite person is Mrs. Senator Al D'Amato. She actually talks like Judy Holliday. A real person who actually talks that way.
Tuesday, March 30, 1982 Christopher wanted to go out looking for ideas. It was a beautiful day. We went to Dubrow's the cafeteria, this is in the garment center, and they have all the red lights on the food so it all looks so good and everything is oversized and it's full of air. I thought it'd be cheap but it wasn't ($20). Then we only had time to do the bottom floor of Macy's because Chris had an appointment.
Talked to Jon, he was entertaining Barbara Allen out in LA, she's out there with John Samuels.
Then there was a gallery opening at the Sperone West.w.a.ter Gallery for Cy Twombly. David Whitney and Sandro Chia and a couple of Italian artists were there. Then we went to Odeon. I was next to Si Newhouse who talked about the new Vanity Fair Vanity Fair. He just bought a $800,000 Jasper Johns. I told him I had some Warrens and Natalies that I would part with.
Sat.u.r.day, April 3, 1982 I went to Pasta & Cheese and I took out a jar from the refrigerator there and I dropped it and it hit the floor the right way to open it and the top came off and marinara sauce went all over and all over me, it was so embarra.s.sing. They said not to worry about it. It's never happened to me before.
We went down to Lafayette to Bob Rauschenberg's party and on the way we ran into Henry Post. Lady McCrady was there and she's doing drawings at the h.e.l.lfire Club which is a straight club where girls lead the men around on leashes and things, and it's p.i.s.s and s.h.i.+t for straights.
Left there at 12:30. Went to Studio 54 where there was a birthday party for the black star on Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live who's just signed to do a movie with Paramount. Eddie Murphy. And he's sort of handsome. The place was jammed but with n.o.bodies. who's just signed to do a movie with Paramount. Eddie Murphy. And he's sort of handsome. The place was jammed but with n.o.bodies.
Sunday, April 4, 1982 Chris called and said he wanted to go to the P.S. 1 thing out in Queens. This thing had gotten good writeups. And Henry Post's live-in boyfriend was exhibiting. The place was packed, and it reminded me of years ago, going to places like Settlement House for these types of things. But years ago they did have better people-Oldenburg and Whitman. Brooke Adams was there, she was sweet, she said hi. And Princess Schleswig-Holstein-Pingle-who we sort of let go from working at the office because she was such an egghead, she was there and now she works at this place about one day a week. We had her give us a tour.
And we saw Henry Post and looked at his boyfriend's stuff which was okay but it was just a copy of Jedd Garet. Jon really sees things in paintings that I don't see. Like, there was an abstract painting and he saw all these figures of people painted over it. They were there but I hadn't seen them and paintings do have things to say, but I never looked at them that way.
There was a c.o.c.ktail party that Henry was having at Anna Wintour's place where she lives with that Michael Stone.
And Henry put down the Rauschenberg party the day before, saying his was going to be so grand, so chic. But I'm beginning to think that maybe Henry doesn't really know what an elegant party is like, that he hasn't been to many. Because this party-I mean, they didn't even really have food. It was 6:30 to 8:30 and it was broken-up crackers. It was on Broadway and 70th and 71st. And they had big trees and three maids, but so what, because there was no food. And the reason I'm putting it down so much is because Henry put down Rauschenberg's so much, saying how much better his was going to be. And Jed was there. I'd asked Henry if he was going to be, and he said yes, that Jed was one of his best friends. And there were no stars.
Steve Rubell was there. But the strangest thing is that he was with the prosecutor who sent him to jail! And I think Henry-who actually wrote the article that started all the trouble-I think Henry got them together. I mean, it's like if somebody got you evicted from your apartment and then you decided the next year to be friends with them. Or is it trying to get involved with the guy who's smart enough to get you, and getting him then involved in what you do.
Monday, April 5, 1982 Worked all afternoon. The place suddenly got busy. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne, but then Thomas Ammann called and invited me to dinner at Mr. Chow's and I gave the tickets away to Agosto. Cabbed to Mr. Chow's ($7).
We talked art. Thomas told the story of the Pica.s.so he bought from Paulette G.o.ddard, it cost $60,000 and he brought it to one of the Pica.s.so kids and they said it was a fake, and he said Paulette gave him a hard time, that she was "difficult," but she did give him his money back. But when you think about it, thirty years ago would somebody really be doing a forgery of Pica.s.so? He started to get really really big in 1950. I came to New York in 1949 and Sidney Janis and those galleries were around and the Museum of Modern Art and art became really big and Pica.s.so became the number-one artist. But it's very early to have somebody be doing a forgery, so I don't know.
Then Thomas had invited Jerry Zipkin and he came by. He puts people down when he's "on," though, he thinks he has to entertain. I was saying that Holly Solomon and her husband owned the building that Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller lived in and Jerry was putting her down, the way she looks, the way she dresses. And Jerry said that what a lot of wives do is they tell their boyfriends they want a $150,000 pin and the boyfriend gives them the money and then they tell the husband the same thing, and he gives the money, and then they buy the pin and they pocket the other $150,000 and each one thinks they bought it. And also he said that a lot of husbands buy their wives jewelry in the company name so that when they break up, the jewelry belongs back to the company. But a lot of wives have copies made and sell the real ones before that.
Wednesday, April 7, 1982 We still didn't have an Interview Interview cover and then I guess they decided to use Dyan Cannon, and Robert Hayes told Bob that I'd said it was okay, which I know I didn't because I would never say it, because I can't stand her so much. We had tried to get Rachel Ward but her agency said no. cover and then I guess they decided to use Dyan Cannon, and Robert Hayes told Bob that I'd said it was okay, which I know I didn't because I would never say it, because I can't stand her so much. We had tried to get Rachel Ward but her agency said no.
I decided to go see Cat People Cat People. Was picked up by Jon and went to the Gemini (cab $3, tickets $10). I really liked the movie so much. I guess I really like the Scarfiotti art direction. And this time I really loved the arm being bitten off and how they did it and the snap when it came out of the socket.
Friday, April 9, 1982 It was my last exercise cla.s.s at Lady Sharon's. I'm so mad at her, she got us all involved in this, and then she just dumps us out on the street and she says it's the people downstairs complaining but I know it's not. If it didn't bother them before, it's not bothering them now. So I'll be doing cla.s.ses at John Reinhold's for a little while and by then the exercise equipment I ordered should be at the office.
Monday, April 12, 1982 I don't know why I should really hate Sharon so much, but I just do, I just resent her so much for getting me started on exercising at her house and then just kicking me out. I really resent her.
Billy Squier came to lunch, and also at this lunch was Issey Miyake, and he's going to start a men's line. He was saying that j.a.panese people spend so much on clothes and he told me about the 6' x 4' hotel rooms where you strap a TV around your head. He said that when j.a.panese people come to New York City they have nervous breakdowns because of "all the s.p.a.ce," and they can only send people from the suburbs there here.
Monday, April 19, 1982 Chris called and said there was a screening of the Fa.s.sbinder movie we'd seen them shooting in Germany. I had a lunch to go to so we only saw an hour and a half of the movie and that much was okay, but it was going to go on for another forty minutes.
Tuesday, April 20, 1982 It was a busy afternoon. Fa.s.sbinder and his producer came by, I told him I loved the movie. Then they went out and the producer came back and said he'd left Fa.s.sbinder in a p.o.r.no shop in the Village. He's strange, Fa.s.sbinder. He was nice when I introduced him to the boys at the office, but when I introduced him to Lidija the exercise teacher he was peculiar.
I called Edmund Gaultney because Calvin Klein had asked me to get in touch with Georgia O'Keeffe because he wanted to meet her and buy a painting. And then I called Juan Hamilton and he was being grand, he said that Calvin could fly to Albuquerque but he didn't know if Georgia would see him, and I said that Calvin didn't do things like that and he said, "That's how it goes." So I called Calvin and told him that he should call Juan himself, because really, it's all personality.
Wednesday, April 21, 1982 The limousine was picking us up to take me to Butler Aviation where I was shooting an ad for U.S. Air. They had like 100 people for this commercial and the Rockettes were in it, and d.i.c.k Cavett who had just left, and I
The makeup girl covered my pimple, then I was put on the plane next to a lady in a grey wig. My line was that I had to pick up a bagel and say, "What is art?" and I couldn't get it right- the first time I said, "What is a bagel?"-and I had to do twenty takes.
Oh and I could just scream at Paul Morrissey because I open the paper and I see that Frankenstein Frankenstein is now playing in fifty theaters and during this time when he's quibbling and nitpicking with is now playing in fifty theaters and during this time when he's quibbling and nitpicking with me me about every little dot in this formal contract he wanted made up to spell out what percentages he owns of which movies, and while he's having his lawyer, Chase Mellen, write up every little thing-like in twenty years if I'm not around what happens-here Ponti or some Mafia company or about every little dot in this formal contract he wanted made up to spell out what percentages he owns of which movies, and while he's having his lawyer, Chase Mellen, write up every little thing-like in twenty years if I'm not around what happens-here Ponti or some Mafia company or somebody somebody is making a fortune off is making a fortune off Frankenstein Frankenstein, so why wasn't Paul on top of that? that? I think I'm now going to really read the contract he wants me to sign and then I'll say that I won't sign things until they're even I think I'm now going to really read the contract he wants me to sign and then I'll say that I won't sign things until they're even more more spelled out-I mean, what happens if spelled out-I mean, what happens if he's he's not around in twenty years? I don't want to have to negotiate with his not around in twenty years? I don't want to have to negotiate with his mother mother over foreign rights. I think I'll do that. Yeah, I think I will. over foreign rights. I think I'll do that. Yeah, I think I will.
And have I mentioned that Mrs. Rupert Murdoch wrote me a letter about saving the church? The one on 66th Street that I go to, St. Vincent Ferrer. It's in danger of people not going to it. It used to be the chic Catholic church, but now it's always empty.
Thursday, April 22, 1982 Halston's show was great, the simple wonderful clothes he does. And he used ten or twelve girls. He had this new fabric that's beautiful, that's like paper and silk, and people were feeling it to see what it was. It came in gunmetal grey and gunmetal green and like with a waterfall through it, like iridescent. And studs everywhere, lots of studs. Lauren Hutton was next to me and she was using the same camera that I use but she was shooting from the hip and I told her that she'd never get a picture unless she looked through it and put the circle in the right place. She said wasn't it great we were Montauk neighbors now-she and Halston and Peter Beard's brother bought 100 acres and she and Halston are going to divide up the land and build on it.
Discussed the Extinct Animals portfolio with Ron Feldman.
Sunday, April 25, 1982 Picked up Jon to go to the park. By accident ran into his boss Barry Diller who was with Calvin Klein, David Geffen, and Steve Rubell out together for a walk. It was sort of a shocking moment. Everybody looked guilty for something.
Monday, April 26, 1982 Jane Fonda called and she's coming on Thursday for me to do her portrait. I decided to do it after Fred read her husband's bio and political ideas and told me I should.
Sean McKeon called and he's back from a modeling job in Hamburg. He said he's breaking up with the girl he's living with-she has a nice apartment-and that he was up for grabs if I want him, so I said I'd think about it and call him.
Tuesday, April 27, 1982 It was nice to be in the rain with an umbrella, n.o.body bothers you.
Chris came by and was having marriage problems-Peter had stayed out till 3:00 and Chris got hysterical crying, and here's this person who you've only seen being strong and you would never dream that he would ever get like that, and it shocked me so much, I decided that I really liked him a lot because he's actually this marshmallow. I decided that I really had to help keep the marriage together so I invited them out to dinner.
Worked all afternoon.
Went to the Coach House and it's so fattening there-corn sticks and things, it's so good. I'm 120 now but I'd like to get back down, I don't think I'll see 115 again. I'm not anorexic anymore, but I want to be. Lidija says it's muscles making me heavier. I mean, you see these kids who've been working out for a year or so, like Marc Balet who once had a slight hourgla.s.s figure, and now it looks like he's put on a coat! It's so strange (dinner $250).
Wednesday, April 28, 1982 The marriage of Chris and Peter is recovering.
And I redid the lips on the Agnelli portrait. I wonder what's going to happen to all these portraits in ten years when the little silkscreened dots that make up the image start to flake off.
Thursday, April 29, 1982 Jane Fonda was coming down at 2:00 and I had a beauty cla.s.s at 1:00. Fred and I had a big fight about the makeup person and he had to go out to cool off. Then he came back. Jane Fonda had her own hairdresser and her own makeup person with her, and she was on crutches and she was oh-so-charming because she was wanting something free. Really charming. She asked about Geraldine Smith and Eric Emerson who she and Vadim once took back to their hotel room with them after meeting them at the Factory. I told her Eric was in heaven and Geraldine was in the phone book.
I had Brigid st.i.tching away on the new sewing machine I bought because I want to sew my photographs together, but then it turned out that the best sewer is my bodyguard, the ex-Marine Agosto, because he worked in a sweatshop in Hawaii before he went into the marines.
Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Cabbed to 720 Park Avenue which is at 70th, the very chic building. Mrs. Landau wants the color of her hair in her portrait changed from black to brown. A boy butler brought in food, mushrooms with pate, stuffed, and then peapods stuffed with cheese. What kind of food is that? Is it French? I knew it must have been handled so much but I was so hungry I ate it. And she has so many Pica.s.sos. We talked about restaurants and paintings. Then I said I had to go because Steve Rubell was picking me up to go to a black-tie Democratic dinner.
He had a girl driver in a miniskirt and blonde so she looked like Blondie but she was a slow driver and so Steve shoved her aside and took over. Went to the Sheraton Center, to the ballroom. It's so crummy there. Steve wants to get his liquor license back so he's contributing to everybody's campaigns.
Thursday, May 6, 1982 The birthday dinner for Richard Gere that Silvinha was giving wasn't until 10:00 it turned out, so I went home and worked a while (cab $5.50).
Went to Richard Gere's on East 10th Street (cab $7). It was the penthouse apartment with a big terrace, it seemed like it was almost a block long. Silvinha paints there. Diane Von Furstenberg was there and the South American kids. And John Samuels was there, he said he'd gotten the lead in Hotel New Hamps.h.i.+re Hotel New Hamps.h.i.+re with Diane Lane and Amanda Plummer, directed by Tony Richardson. with Diane Lane and Amanda Plummer, directed by Tony Richardson.
Jann Wenner and his wife were there and he looks like he's losing weight now. Stayed there till about 2:00.
Sunday, May 9, 1982 Thomas Ammann came to town and asked about the art business. I asked him if he wanted to go to the opening of the musical Nine Nine with me that evening and he said yes. It was the night of Bob's birthday party at the new Club A that Elizinha Goncalves was giving for him. with me that evening and he said yes. It was the night of Bob's birthday party at the new Club A that Elizinha Goncalves was giving for him.
I picked up Jon and we went to 333 East 60th Street to Club A (cab $7). It was really a great party, so glamorous, you'd never think it was for Bob, all these great people were there. I was next to Betsy Bloomingdale and I talked to her, she said Alfred was still sick. "Suzy" was there, and Lynn Wyatt flew in for the party, and Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal. They had these old men serving who looked like they were from those restaurants on the Lower East Side from years ago, the good kind of waiters. It must have taken a lot of work, this party, and a lot of planning. And the food was really great. They had caviar stuffed into smoked salmon so you had two courses in the same breath.
Monday, May 10, 1982 I was invited by Jon to see An Officer and a Gentleman An Officer and a Gentleman with Richard Gere and Debra Winger. I can't tell if I liked it or not. Jon said he cried three times during it. Richard Gere has gotten to be a really good actor now, though. And Debra Winger is a good actress but she has this nose that just misses. If she had a nose job she could look like Ava Gardner-or anything. with Richard Gere and Debra Winger. I can't tell if I liked it or not. Jon said he cried three times during it. Richard Gere has gotten to be a really good actor now, though. And Debra Winger is a good actress but she has this nose that just misses. If she had a nose job she could look like Ava Gardner-or anything.
Tuesday, May 11, 1982 Got up early, did the phones. Had an appointment with Doc c.o.x, walked up there. The receptionist lit into me about how I didn't pay my bills on time and how Vincent was so awful when she called and I was starting to tell her off but then I stopped. And Doc c.o.x could hear everything so I guess he was the one who told her to say those things. And Rosemary is still the big cheese over there. I had an 11:00 appointment but I didn't get out until 1:00 or 1:30.
The New York Times had a big article about gay cancer, and how they don't know what to do with it. That it's epidemic proportions and they say that these kids who have s.e.x all the time have it in their s.e.m.e.n and they've already had every kind of disease there is-hepat.i.tis one, two, and three, and mononucleosis, and I'm worried that I could get it by drinking out of the same gla.s.s or just being around these kids who go to the Baths. had a big article about gay cancer, and how they don't know what to do with it. That it's epidemic proportions and they say that these kids who have s.e.x all the time have it in their s.e.m.e.n and they've already had every kind of disease there is-hepat.i.tis one, two, and three, and mononucleosis, and I'm worried that I could get it by drinking out of the same gla.s.s or just being around these kids who go to the Baths.
Thursday, May 13, 1982 At the office Ronnie was still being difficult. The day before we'd had a fight and I'd told him to cool it. It's like that time I sent him out and told him to get anything but a key lime pie and he brought back a key lime pie and we couldn't figure out why he would do that. Well he was stretching and doing it crooked and then we had a fight and he said to me, "Well you, don't paint, you don't photograph, and you don't stretch-what else can you not do?" not do?" I don't know what he's trying to do. He's the way he was when he was drinking and taking drugs, only he's not doing that now. Worked till 6:30. I don't know what he's trying to do. He's the way he was when he was drinking and taking drugs, only he's not doing that now. Worked till 6:30.
Sat.u.r.day, May 15, 1982 Went downtown to the gallery where Chris Makos was showing his drag pictures of me and where there was a show of Candy Darling photographs by all different photographers. The place was mobbed, it was the opening, and people like Jackie Curtis and Gerard Malanga were there (cab $6). Dropped Jon (cab $6.50).
Monday, May 17, 1982 I went in at the end of the lunch for Jody Jacobs from the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times, and Joan Quinn and Bianca Jagger came. Bianca said she wanted to do the Steven Spielberg interview with me. And now that I'm thinking about it what made Joan Quinn look unusual was that her hair wasn't colored, the pink and green-it was regular hair. And for once she didn't ask for a painting.
Tuesday, May 18, 1982 I tried to get some background information on Steven Spielberg for the interview with him. I decided not to be mad at the horrible P.R. girl who wouldn't let me into the screening of E.T. the other night. She sent orchids to apologize and it's stupid to keep thinking about things like that.
Wednesday, May 19, 1982 Went to the Sherry Netherland with Bianca to interview Spielberg and he was really sweet (cab $3). He was on his bed and he invited us to have some dinner. Bianca was hot for him because she wants to be in one of his movies, and he was hot for Bianca because he liked her in her her movie. He said that he saw my movie movie. He said that he saw my movie Sleep Sleep when he was about twelve and that inspired him to make a movie called when he was about twelve and that inspired him to make a movie called Snore Snore. He said it was the most fun interview he'd ever done. We were going to invite him down to the office to try to sell him some art but then he suggested it himself. He said he'll be back in town on the twenty-seventh and I said I'd be out of town but we'd arrange something. I dropped Bianca at the Carlyle and I went to Jon's to pick up a script (cab $4). Stayed twenty minutes.
Thursday, May 20, 1982 Watched W.C. Fields with a mustache in a movie I'd never seen before.
Fred was working out our itinerary and plans for Europe. Brigid and I went over to the beauty parlor on Third Avenue and I got a pedicure and manicure. People going by looked in the window and saw me and couldn't believe it ($26).
Two girls from Visual Arts saw me and came in and then ran back to school to get their art portfolios out of their lockers to show me. Brigid ran into Gerard Malanga on the street on her way out and brought him in and he had his camera with him but the wrong lens so he was going crazy because he couldn't take a picture of me getting a pedicure. Then the Visual Arts girls came back and I introduced them to Gerard and it was like old times, seeing him go after beautiful young girls. And while I was there two men came in and made appointments, I guess because they saw me in there. One was a fas.h.i.+on victim. The manicurist said there'd be a three-day wait and he said, "Well, put me down."
I've gained weight. I don't know what to do, my s.h.i.+rts are getting too tight for me.
Monday, May 31, 1982 Talked to Brigid, she's up to 170 and people are asking her if she's having a baby. I called Jay Shriver and he came in on the holiday because it's been such a crummy weekend. Worked all afternoon. Sent Jay for supplies ($30). Did some hand-painting. Finished the Crosses. Dropped Jay (cab $5.50).
And England is winning in the Falklands.
Friday, June 4, 1982 Had a 2:00 shooting at Avedon's for a Christian Dior spread. Andre Gregory was there and he's in a play downtown that he wrote. He co-wrote and produced the movie My Dinner with Andre My Dinner with Andre, and he told me that when he was raising $500,000 for it, they told him, "What're you trying to do? Make an Andy Warhol movie?"
Everyone was wearing Dior clothes and they wanted to shoot me painting, but I said that it'd be more modern if it wasn't, to keep it simple or it'd ruin the shot. Doon Arbus was there and it was her first time back working with him, she and Avedon had had a big fight.
Sat.u.r.day, June 5, 1982 Up early. Got supplies for the office ($22.73, $33.82). I went into one of those Korean produce stores and there were about fifteen people in there, it was mobbed, and I listened to this guy rave about a pineapple for ten minutes, and by the time he was through, I was dying to get one, too. He was saying, "I want it ripe and ready! Juicy! Luscious! Ready to eat, right off the bat!" And then I turned around and it was Nixon. And one of the daughters was with him, but looking older-maybe Julie, I think. And he looked pudgy, like a d.i.c.kens character, fat with a belly. And they had him sign for the bill. There were Secret Service with him. And the girl at the cash register said he was "Number-One Charge."
Went to My Dinner with Andre My Dinner with Andre (cab $4) and there was a line so I told the girl that Andre sent us and would she please let us in and she thought I meant for free, but I said that I'd pay. I fell asleep, it was so boring. Hippie talk. I guess the kids are thinking this is intellectual because it tells about feelings. Home, bed at 1:00 (cab $4). (cab $4) and there was a line so I told the girl that Andre sent us and would she please let us in and she thought I meant for free, but I said that I'd pay. I fell asleep, it was so boring. Hippie talk. I guess the kids are thinking this is intellectual because it tells about feelings. Home, bed at 1:00 (cab $4).
Tuesday, June 8, 1982-New York-Baltimore-New York I had to go to Baltimore to see Richard Weisman's father, Fred, present my portraits of Ten Sports Figures to the University of Maryland. By the way, does the Diary know that Fred Weisman got his skull fractured by Frank Sinatra in the sixties? At the Polo Lounge in Los Angeles. They didn't know each other. Sinatra hit him with a phone.
Decided to fly on New York Air because I'd done the commercial for them, and it was a mistake because the plane didn't take off for forty-five minutes, they said they were waiting for parts but I think they were just waiting for the plane to fill up. And n.o.body mentioned my commercial, not even the stewardess when she handed me a bagel.
Arrived at University of Maryland and a girl comes running up and says, "How does it feel to be at the school that graduated Valerie Solanis?" I didn't know that Valerie went there! I'd never heard that, so that was new.
Was photographed and invited to the house of the president. And so we walked over across the campus, to his house, to sit and chat with a select few, which is always so boring. Got the shuttle and was back in New York at 3:45.
Rupert came and we worked on the poster for the Fa.s.sbinder movie till 8:00.
Wednesday, June 9, 1982 Somebody stopped me on Park Avenue and said, "You're that person on that commercial," and I said yes and gave him an Interview Interview, and then he said, "Maybe you can help me?" and I said what was it because I was in sort of a rush, and he said that he wrote scripts and would I look at them and then he said, "And what's your name?"
Curley had his twenty-fifth birthday, and so we sent out for things and had drinks.
Thomas Ammann just called to tell me that Fa.s.sbinder just killed himself. Well, he really was strange. When he came to the office he was reeeally strange. And when I say somebody's strange, you know they're strange. He was thirty-seven and did forty movies.
Dropped Rupert (cab $5). Went home and was picked up by Richard Weisman to go to the Grease II Grease II premiere. Jon was taking Cornelia Guest. The movie was everything I dreamed for. I loved the Pfeiffer girl and the Caulfield boy and Pat Birch's direction was great. It was so good. John Travolta is so dumb for not doing premiere. Jon was taking Cornelia Guest. The movie was everything I dreamed for. I loved the Pfeiffer girl and the Caulfield boy and Pat Birch's direction was great. It was so good. John Travolta is so dumb for not doing Grease II Grease II. What is he doing now? Can you imagine being a star and not working? Do you sit in your palace and take (laughs) (laughs) acting lessons, or what? acting lessons, or what?
Friday, June 11, 1982 Cabbed to "21." I was meeting Richard Weisman who was having a party for the c.o.o.ney-Holmes fight. Then we walked over to Radio City to watch it (tickets $30). I guess they have a new screen, the image was so so clear, you could see the pimples on the fighters' faces. We'd made bets beforehand and I had "Holmes in the fourth" and that almost happened because he was knocked down in the second, but in the end Richard's girlfriend won. I was the money-holder. At Radio City everybody was for c.o.o.ney, all the Irish. Holmes won by a TKO in the thirteenth round and everybody booed. clear, you could see the pimples on the fighters' faces. We'd made bets beforehand and I had "Holmes in the fourth" and that almost happened because he was knocked down in the second, but in the end Richard's girlfriend won. I was the money-holder. At Radio City everybody was for c.o.o.ney, all the Irish. Holmes won by a TKO in the thirteenth round and everybody booed.
Sunday, June 13, 1982 Watched Dog Day Afternoon Dog Day Afternoon on TV and who was that playing the drag queen? That was good acting. He held his hand up a little too much to his neck, that was all. Otherwise, it was really perfect, and good lines, one was like a Candy Darling line. on TV and who was that playing the drag queen? That was good acting. He held his hand up a little too much to his neck, that was all. Otherwise, it was really perfect, and good lines, one was like a Candy Darling line.
Tuesday, June 15, 1982 Sent Agosto up to the Madison Avenue Bookshop for copies of Edie Edie, and they told him, "It's selling like crazy" ($60). And in the book is a photograph of this totally wrong birth certificate for me. I just don't understand it. For Andrew Warhola, and it's from a different city and it says October 29, 1930, I think. Where could they have gotten a thing like that? What is it? And with the mother's name blocked out. I don't get it.
Was picked up at 6:00 by Chris and Peter for Grease II Grease II, I was seeing it again. Saw the movie on a smaller screen and it didn't hold up. Without the blasting sound from the Ziegfeld, I could understand why the critics said it was boring.
After it was over I went to Ashton Hawkins's for dinner. Annette Reed and I sort of hit off a conversation. She said she saw Clint Eastwood's movie Firefox Firefox at a benefit on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art, and that Clint was there, and so was his girlfriend, Sondra Locke. And after seeing the movie they all went to the Pierre for dinner and she said it would have been so much nicer, darling, to just have gone to "some Italian joint with friends." She said Clint was "fascinating" and the movie was "interesting" but that she would rather have been with at a benefit on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art, and that Clint was there, and so was his girlfriend, Sondra Locke. And after seeing the movie they all went to the Pierre for dinner and she said it would have been so much nicer, darling, to just have gone to "some Italian joint with friends." She said Clint was "fascinating" and the movie was "interesting" but that she would rather have been with friends friends, darling, and let the movie end the experience.
Wednesday, June 16, 1982 I decided to see Grease II Grease II for the third time. Lorna Luft was having a screening at Paramount (cab $5.50). But Lorna wasn't even there. Her husband, Jake Hooker, was, and he said that Lorna's seen it too much. Sat in the back row and this third time it was better than when I sat up close in the screening room. for the third time. Lorna Luft was having a screening at Paramount (cab $5.50). But Lorna wasn't even there. Her husband, Jake Hooker, was, and he said that Lorna's seen it too much. Sat in the back row and this third time it was better than when I sat up close in the screening room.
Thursday, June 17, 1982 Forgot to say that on Wednesday, Jay Johnson brought Marianne Faithfull to the office. He wasn't drinking, but she was, and she had I guess a boyfriend with her. And when she got there she was sort of out of it, but then she had some wine and by the time they left she was bubbling. Tom Cas.h.i.+n's signed a modeling contract with Pierre Cardin, so he travels a lot now.
I went out with John Reinhold. We went to the Odeon and Henry Geldzahler was eating alone so we took him to dinner ($198.85). He told stories about Jean Stein and that's when we got the idea that he should tell her I was doing a book on her her.
Friday, June 18, 1982 Brigid made Jay Shriver go out drinking with her. I think the Edie Sedgwick book has been hitting her hard because I think she thinks it should have been a book on her her. So she took Jay out drinking at lunch and told him her San Simeon stories from when she was a little girl visiting there when her father ran the Hearst Corporation. Then she came back to the office and wanted to be entertaining, so she was rolling on the floor but it was just a fat person rolling on the floor.
Monday, June 21, 1982 Met Sean McKeon and Chris and Peter at the Mayfair (drinks $20). Chris had his car and we went over to Couri Hay's party for Cornelia Guest, a barbecue on West 81st Street. And Cornelia's coming-out party the other night that I didn't go to made The New York Times The New York Times. I should have gone. And Cornelia's gotten so fat she looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
As we were walking between Amsterdam and Broadway there was a woman walking with two dobermans and a man carrying a wrench.
And Bob Colacello has a life of his own now. I never see him after work anymore. Is he doing great things? Is he having fun?
Talked to Jon in California and he was going to stay an extra day because he's trying to move from media relations into production.
Wednesday, June 23, 1982 Jane Holzer picked me up and she looked pretty in a red Halston. We went to City Center for the Martha Graham thing. After the performance, Bianca lost Tricky d.i.c.ky Cavett and had to find him and then we went over to Halston's. And d.i.c.k was telling me about this transs.e.xual in New Orleans that was after him and asking me what he should do and I just kept saying he should f.u.c.k her, and I don't know what he wanted to hear. And d.i.c.k was doing anagrams for a whole hour. And I went completely off my diet, I had potato chips and drank and I felt like Brigid.