Chapter 57
Tuesday, April 8, 1986 Worked till 8:00. I have to have the Maria Shriver thing done soon. I guess I can't go to her wedding because they won't let me bring anybody. And I'd have to stay in Boston and then go alone to Hyannis. Fred wasn't invited. He wasn't even invited to Caroline's. I think hers is before Maria's.
Wednesday, April 9, 1986 Was picked up by Paige at 11:00. We went over to Elektra Records, and she was in a funny mood all day and never got out of it. Then, at the end of the evening, she handed me her video camera and said she didn't want it, that she wasn't going to take pictures anymore.
Thursday, April 10, 1986 Missed lunch at the office, but got in a few good hours of work. Paige gave me the rest of her camera, the attachments, and I told her I couldn't use that voltage in Europe but she said to do whatever I wanted with it, that she was through with it.
Sat.u.r.day, April 12, 1986-Paris The gallery was pretty nice, and I guess the guy's just trying to make a name for himself (cab $5.00). Lavignes-Bastille. The dollar's gone down now in Paris so people are more interested in art. I had done the 10 Statues of Liberty thing (cab $6). Wandered around Paris with Chris Makos and Fred. Went to the Cafe Flore and didn't meet anyone (dinner $100). Stayed in and watched TV, caught up on sleep.
Tuesday, April 15, 1986-Paris We were going to do live TV on this very famous Johnny Carson-type show. When we got there they were setting up. All of a sudden they heard about Libya being bombed, so the main guy had to leave and he left some lady there, so then they weren't interested in me anymore but they had to pretend to still be, and I don't know if they were really doing it or just going through the motions. I think they just faked it. They didn't even ask me anything and it sounded like they just made it up. They said they put it on tape but I don't think they did (cab $10, $5).
Went to an Arab restaurant or Libyan, one of those kinds of restaurants in the rich area, near YSL. It was fun, started to rain more. Couscous (lunch $75).
We had dinner with Billy Boy and all the people from the gallery and it was like a twenty-course dinner and Billy Boy said he was a health-food person, that he didn't drink, but there he was drinking right in front of me while he was telling me. He ate meat while he told me he didn't, too. He was great company because all you had to do was say "Barbie," and he just talked away and that solved everything, n.o.body had to worry about conversation. We had a good time and then Chris went off with Billy Boy and did the nightclub scene.
Monday, April 21, 1986-New York Sam didn't call. Paige didn't call.
Cabbed to 33rd and Fifth ($6) and then the party problems started. I was planning to have a surprise birthday party for Sam, but then Paige had already organized one, but Paige wasn't talking to me. I called her at Interview Interview and she said, "I'm working, I can't talk." I said, "Paige, it's and she said, "I'm working, I can't talk." I said, "Paige, it's me." me." And she said, "Yes, well, I'm very busy." And so she was mad at me, but I knew she was mad at me before we went to Europe because she gave me the camera, and now Paige without a camera just isn't herself, there's no more darting around and being hysterical. And this went on all afternoon, and then Jean Michel called and came over and Paige came in while we were sitting together, and that was tense, and then she said that she would set up the dinner for Sam's birthday at Odeon but that she wouldn't be going to it, and she left work early. And then somebody at the office talked to Paige and told me what was wrong and we straightened everything out-she was mad that I didn't call all the time I was over in Europe, since And she said, "Yes, well, I'm very busy." And so she was mad at me, but I knew she was mad at me before we went to Europe because she gave me the camera, and now Paige without a camera just isn't herself, there's no more darting around and being hysterical. And this went on all afternoon, and then Jean Michel called and came over and Paige came in while we were sitting together, and that was tense, and then she said that she would set up the dinner for Sam's birthday at Odeon but that she wouldn't be going to it, and she left work early. And then somebody at the office talked to Paige and told me what was wrong and we straightened everything out-she was mad that I didn't call all the time I was over in Europe, since she she always calls always calls me me when she's on vacation, and also because she said I led her on right up until the last minute, letting her think I would make it okay with Fred that she could go on the Paris trip and then instead we took Chris. Fred just didn't want the extra work-it's so easy to dump Chris at a hotel and with Paige it would've meant finding her a nice hotel and then picking her up and having dinner and seeing advertisers, and all that. And Fred was so grouchy on this trip and I told him he was and he said, "I'm old enough to be rotten if I want." when she's on vacation, and also because she said I led her on right up until the last minute, letting her think I would make it okay with Fred that she could go on the Paris trip and then instead we took Chris. Fred just didn't want the extra work-it's so easy to dump Chris at a hotel and with Paige it would've meant finding her a nice hotel and then picking her up and having dinner and seeing advertisers, and all that. And Fred was so grouchy on this trip and I told him he was and he said, "I'm old enough to be rotten if I want."
And so at the office I talked to the girl from the Schwarzenegger wedding and they won't let me bring somebody so I told them I just couldn't go alone, and so she started giving me my choice of people to go with and she said, "You can go with Grace Jones." I said, "Grace is not reliable. And if she did go she'd bring her own people, anyway." And then they said, "Well Abe Schmuck is coming, you can go with him," and I said, "I don't know Abe Schmuck." And then they said, "Joanne Schmuck is going," and I said, "I don't know Joanne Schmuck." And then they said, "Lady Schmuck is going, you can go with her," and I said, "I do not know Lady Schmuck." And I mean who are these n.o.bodies? I said, "I guess I can't go." So I guess I'm not going. And Fred said not to try to get him invited, since he hadn't been invited on his own. And Maura Moynihan called and said she hadn't been invited to the thing but that she was going up anyway, to Boston, because Kerry Kennedy and Mary Richardson were going to be there.
So anyway, Paige and I sort of made up and so it was over, it was interesting. It's weird that Paige would get so emotional about me. And then I had to be creative to think of birthday presents for Sam during the fight with Paige. I stuck money in that grandmother-type birthday card, and I did a canvas that had dollars pasted onto it and then I remembered they even make those sheets of money, but this you can just rip money off when you need it, like for tips. Went home and Geraldo Rivera was starting to open Al Capone's secret rooms on live TV in Chicago, but it was going to go on for two hours.
Sam picked me up (cab $10) and we went to the Odeon. And Paige had some advertisers there to do some business, and I told her to invite Keith and his new Juan, and then Billy Boy had just arrived in town from Dallas and Paige invited him, so it was actually fun and not strained. And Keith gave Sam a radio from the Pop Shop which he just opened, and Paige gave him a book on the White House and Wilfredo gave him boxer shorts from Armani.
Tuesday, April 22, 1986 Dilly-dallied around. Went to the office. Gael came up and made those mm-mm noises she makes and she mmm'd and looked at her portrait. I decided to make it a portrait, not a drawing, just because it was easier. She was hard to do. She has good eyes but her jaw was difficult. She was thrilled, I guess. Grace Jones called with laryngitis and I said that maybe I'd rent a plane for the Schwarzenegger wedding on Sat.u.r.day, so maybe we'll go up together.
Wednesday, April 23, 1986 I didn't call Grace yesterday but I guess we're going to the Schwarzenegger wedding because the weather's supposed to be nice.
Walked down for a while then cabbed ($3) and there was a huge lunch going on. There were Whitney Museum people and s.h.i.+seido cosmetics people and someone from Guy Laroche. And the Laroche people told about being in the same building with Adolfo and how the Adolfo people spray their perfume in the lobby and then the Guy Laroche people come and scrub it down and put theirs theirs, and back and forth.
Billy Boy came by to see Gael for something and I caught him before he left and invited him up, and it was a good thing I did because he entertained those s.h.i.+seido people, he just filled up the lunch with Barbie talk.
Thursday, April 24, 1986 Brigid came rus.h.i.+ng into the middle of the Fiorucci lunch and I don't know what was wrong with her-she had this gold bracelet and she said, "I got the guy on the street down from $60 to $40." And I just looked at her and said, "Are you serious?" She said, "Look, it's got 14K in four places." And Jay laughed and asked her, "Was it a black guy?" and she said yes. And I said, "Don't you know that they just sit there on the street with a little stamper machine and stamp on the 14Ks?" And she wouldn't believe us, and I told her to go to the jewelry store on the corner and ask the guy. I bet her $5, and then when she came back from the place she sent $5 upstairs to me because the jeweler just looked looked at it and said, "No." I didn't want the money, though-I just wanted her to have it tested. And Jay was wearing a suit. He looks nice when he wears a tie and jacket, but then you can't ask him to at it and said, "No." I didn't want the money, though-I just wanted her to have it tested. And Jay was wearing a suit. He looks nice when he wears a tie and jacket, but then you can't ask him to do do anything. anything.
I called Rupert to find out where he was and he said Edmund Gaultney was rushed to St. Vincent's. He just came back from Taos. He was going to move there. I don't know why he was taking these plane trips, you really pick up viruses on planes. Like he went to Key West before. And they thought he'd had a heart attack, but it was an epileptic seizure. Now he's in a coma.
Friday, April 25, 1986 I talked to Dolly Fox and she said that Charlie Sheen sent her a ticket to go to the Philippines. So that's exciting. I read in the papers that Grace Jones was taking me up to the Shriver-Schwarzenegger wedding in her her plane, so I guess Grace called her press agent and put that in so I guess that means we're going. And I called her a few times during the day and she'd answer the phone and say h.e.l.lo in this low slurred voice and then hang up. She'd stayed up all night I guess and was answering the phone in her sleep. plane, so I guess Grace called her press agent and put that in so I guess that means we're going. And I called her a few times during the day and she'd answer the phone and say h.e.l.lo in this low slurred voice and then hang up. She'd stayed up all night I guess and was answering the phone in her sleep.
Peter Wise agreed to fly up with us-the wedding's right near his house on the Cape, and then drive us back to the plane, so that'll be good.
Went over to Bernsohn's and it was sort of fun. He gave me a bear hug and asked if anybody'd ever given me one, and I said no. But I didn't tell him I didn't want one.
Worked on drawings of Maria Shriver to give for a wedding present.
Sat.u.r.day, April 26, 1986-New York-Hyannis, Ma.s.sachusetts-New York I got up at 6:00, called Peter at 7:00. The doorbell rang half an hour early and it was Peter with no Grace. He said he went to pick her up and woke her up and she said to come back in an hour. The weather was just a little off. Slightly cloudy.
We went to pick up Grace in the Village and she came out in Norma Kamali black wool underwear. Also a fur Kenzo hat. She put her makeup on in the car and in the plane. We arrived an hour late to the airport. The flight was so easy, through this grey fog all the way and nothing happened, whereas on a clear day sometimes you hit an air pocket and go diving. Grace put on a green Azzedine in the ladies' room of the airport. Peter rented a car, a yellow station wagon, and he knew where the church was and drove us there. Then he went to check on his house in East Falmouth.
The crowd outside the church screamed, "Grace!" and "Andy!" There was the biggest mob I've ever seen around a church. We went in and they had folding chairs near the door. Oprah Winfrey gave a speech. Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth were in front of us and they turned around and said that we'd caused too much commotion outside, they were funny. And at the car rental we'd seen all these glamorous names like "Clint Eastwood" and "Barbara Walters" and the St. James girl, but they weren't there. And watching this storybook wedding, you just wonder about what it'll be like when the divorce comes.
Jackie got communion so she walked all the way around the church with John-John to show herself off, she looked beautiful. The church service was an hour, and the wedding ceremony was fifteen minutes. They had a girl singing "Ave Maria." Peter was waiting outside and later he told us that when Arnold and Maria went out they were nice for the photographers, they rolled down the window and smiled and posed. But Jackie never smiled at anyone, she was a sourpuss. And I guess they'd had parties for three days or something, because everyone told me that at a thing the night before, Arnold gave my portrait of Maria to the Shrivers and said, "I'm gaining a wife and you're gaining a painting." And everyone was telling me how great it was, they really loved it. And then a friend of Arnold's brought in a sculpture that Kurt Waldheim sent them and it was really ugly. And Arnold's always giving all these speeches, and he said, "My friends don't want me to mention Kurt's name because of all the recent n.a.z.i stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too and so thank you, Kurt."
Outside the church there was a limo and a guy shoves us in and we couldn't see Peter. Then we got to the compound and Peter had seen us get in the limo and followed us so he was right there. He handed me the drawings I did of Maria, but then I didn't know what to do with them. But Eddie Schlossberg saw me and he said he'd put them in the house and I thanked him.
It was freezing. Ran into an Austrian and he took us to a tent where oyster openers were getting oysters ready and Grace wanted some right then and there but they said they were being served to people in the other tent, but then someone came over with a plate of them just for her and she ate thirty oysters and then twenty more, just slurping them down.
And Christopher Kennedy was around, he's so cute. Jackie was sitting with Bettina. And Marc Bohan. I didn't look at Jackie, I felt too funny. Then there was dancing and music. Peter Duchin and his wife. He was (laughs) (laughs) going off to do another party. He works so hard. Grace began dancing and it was like in a movie, everybody stopped to watch. She was dancing with a little boy. We were at Joe Kennedy's table with his wife. Talked to Nancy Collins. I asked her if she was covering it and she said, "Oh no no no. This is a personal thing." She was best friends with Maria, I don't know when. We talked about the Stallone piece she did for going off to do another party. He works so hard. Grace began dancing and it was
Like at Madonna's wedding, they should have let guests take pictures because people at a wedding, they'd just be doing it for themselves anyway. Maybe years years later you'd use them but you wouldn't rush them to the later you'd use them but you wouldn't rush them to the New York Post New York Post in the morning. in the morning.
The food was so good, raw vegetables that they steamed while you watched. Grace and Ted Kennedy danced. Then Grace and Arnold were having a talk about what she should do about Dolph because he's f.u.c.king all her girlfriends. I told her she should marry Dolph just for a minute, because it'd be such a great wedding. But I always give Grace the wrong advice. I'm the one who told her she'd never make it unless she toned down her look, that people would never go for anything so extreme.
The cake was six or ten feet high. Everybody was coming up and telling me how they loved the painting. Shriver gave a speech, he was in tails. And he was talking about "losing a daughter." Well, I mean, she's twenty-nine-he's lucky to lose her.
And Arnold gave a speech and was saying wonderful love things like that he'd make her happy. It was the first time I've seen really announceable love, saying everything all out loud.
Then it was time to leave and two Kennedy boys had Grace by the door and one was rubbing his c.o.c.k against her and then we went to the airport.
Sunday, April 27, 1986 The day started out early with my brother John and his wife. And it's so odd, it's two people you don't really know who look so different from you and their ideas are so weird and it's one more thing to make you think what is this life all about. Their son Donald is still in college, he'll get out in August and he's a computer expert so maybe we should hire him at Interview Interview if it's not too late, if we don't need somebody before then. if it's not too late, if we don't need somebody before then.
Went to the flea market and ran into Billy Boy with Mel Odom. When the sun was out it was hot, but when it was in it was cold. Billy Boy wasn't in a money-spending mood. They really see him coming and jack the Schiaparelli prices up. He could be good-looking, he has good proportions, but he stoops over and he's pigeon-toed, so you don't notice. But then he is about 6'2" and he had on a leopard jacket and tights and pointed shoes and a Chanel-type cross and dark gla.s.ses and no makeup.
Imelda Marcos was on the news crying that she's still in Hawaii and it's like those English movies where the relatives come into the dungeon and say, "We love you darling, but we have to cut off your head because it's the thing to do."
Monday, April 28, 1986 Went over to see Dr. Li and she said, "You've had champagne and cake," because obviously she'd seen in the papers that I'd been at the wedding. So she blew it.
Then went to the office (cab $6). Fred ranted and raved at me when I walked in, with his teeth showing and everything, saying that he couldn't entertain these people, that it was me they were waiting to see. And I said, "Well I was at my doctor's."
Some lady was getting made up for a portrait. She's one of those people plastic surgery couldn't help because it wouldn't be much different. But she has a nice pretty smile, and an open and loving personality. It was a lunch from Cafe Condotti and there was so much of it. I screamed the other day at Valerie from Interview Interview who was dumping into the garbage all these beautiful fresh tomatoes and basil, and she said she was doing it because it was 3:00 and n.o.body had eaten it yet. These kids are so spoiled. who was dumping into the garbage all these beautiful fresh tomatoes and basil, and she said she was doing it because it was 3:00 and n.o.body had eaten it yet. These kids are so spoiled.
Then a TV crew with fifty people came to film me for a one-second thing for Chemical Bank and they set up for so long and I did it.
Suren Ermoyan called and asked me to do the cover of Madison Avenue Madison Avenue magazine of Ted Turner and I said yes because he gave me one of my first jobs, he was the art director at Hearst in the fifties, and then Fred screamed at me. I feel bad because I also turned down doing an American flag for them once. magazine of Ted Turner and I said yes because he gave me one of my first jobs, he was the art director at Hearst in the fifties, and then Fred screamed at me. I feel bad because I also turned down doing an American flag for them once.
Tuesday, April 29, 1986 Got to the office and had a talk with Fred about his mood the day before. He's still referring to what I told him in Paris, it stuck with him, about how he should have a young att.i.tude and stop being grouchy.
Keith called and said he was picking me up at 6:00 for the AIDS benefit that Calvin was giving at the Javits Center, where they were going to take a huge picture-done in sections-with Liz Taylor there and lots of celebrities.
Got to the center, there were 100 students from F.I.T. and Parsons. The place is huge and then it snakes around. Liz Taylor was late because she was getting a dress from Calvin. And the little boy from Indiana was there who they say has AIDS so they won't let him go to school. He was really cute. Brooke s.h.i.+elds was there looking so glamorous. She's the most beautiful living breathing doll I've ever seen. And I always thought Cornelia was beautiful, but when she stood next to Brooke she looked like an ugly duckling, everything was wrong, and she was saying things sort of to Brooke but under her breath like, "Get away!" She didn't want to stand near her-she knew knew.
The mayor finally arrived and got in the center and Liz hadn't shown yet. It was supposed to be a shot of her and Calvin and the mayor. I was talking to a kid and then he said he was an AIDS patient and you don't know what to say-"Gee, what a great party?" And then you looked and there were spots, and that was back to reality.
Then Liz came in and everybody went crazy and mobbed her, and Keith said, "What do you have to do to be that famous?" And then they dragged her across the room and then all the photographers rushed at her and smothered her and crushed her and when they had used her up, they just dumped her and she was left standing there, alone, they'd gotten what they wanted. It was so strange to see.
Jumped in the limo and went to Mr. Chow's and said h.e.l.lo to all the people we'd just said goodbye to. Grace Jones was making phone calls to Rome-I don't think Tina knew.
Thursday, May 1, 1986 Fred was being nice to me and then it came out what he wanted. He said, "If you come to Europe to the Thurn und Taxis party it'll ruin my whole trip." Because he thinks he'd have to take care of me. I guess he wants to kick up his heels or something. But I can just take someone else with me, I don't know what he's so worried about, I don't have to go with him him. It's the huge birthday party Johannes's wife Gloria is giving for him-it's days and days of events.
And Sam was in a foul mood so we had a fight, I asked him to get me some potato chips and he turned me down. He was just moping. And Vincent asked him to do something and he didn't. He says he wants a more "important" job.
Sat.u.r.day, May 3, 1986 Stopped at Sotheby's. Looked at my paintings. Somebody put one of my Ticket to Studio 54 paintings up for auction and somebody's going to make $5 or $7,000, that's the estimate on it... I wonder who's selling it. I gave them to Halston and Barbara Allen, people like that.
Paige picked me up and we went to Kenny's opening, but first we went to the Pop Shop, Keith's store that opened the other week that I still hadn't been to. And he has five people working there, two bosses and three kids. And they get paid $8 an hour. But the store is hard to find, it's that little bit out of the way that makes a big difference. I don't know if people will go, but there were people in it. Bought watches.
Went to Kenny's. It was a good party. They had three cooks there making pasta under the right kind of light and it looked so chic. Kenny was unusually high.
Monday, May 5, 1986 Cabbed to the office ($6) and it was really busy. Anthony d'Offay from London was there and he's decided he loves the Self-Portraits. They acted so unsure before that I didn't think they were going to take them, so when Keith saw them and wanted to use them on T-s.h.i.+rts for his Pop Shop I said sure, and I think they've made up 200 of them, so now I guess we have to buy them all back.
And Bruno came by, and Senator Dodd, I don't know why, and Peter Beard dropped in and everything just all converged. I gave tours.
Then Sylvia Miles said to pick her up at 8:00 for the Liz Taylor tribute at Lincoln Center. Cabbed uptown ($5). And Sylvia was all dressed up and we walked over to Lincoln Center. Liz was an hour and a half late. Finally she came and they showed clips and gave speeches. And I don't know how she gets work, she's so late late. And her mother was there looking so beautiful. She was the one person Liz thanked. And Liz's one beauty problem now is that when she lost the weight her nose never did get smaller. The liquor's still in it. She has a twenty-inch waist now, though.
Tuesday, May 6, 1986 Wilfredo picked me up and we went over to Calvin Klein's on 38th and Broadway which seemed like a firetrap, you wait for the elevator for hours. John Fairchild was twenty minutes late and they held the show for him. It was great to read in Page Six that Jerry Della Femina's ad agency did a Perry Ellis ad and the boy model was reading a book and there was the word "f.u.c.k" and Fairchild wouldn't run it in WWD WWD and Della Femina said something like, "Who does John Fairchild think he is? He may be able to push Jerry Zipkin and all the other walkers around, but not the ad agencies." So that was kind of great, hearing Fairchild get told off. and Della Femina said something like, "Who does John Fairchild think he is? He may be able to push Jerry Zipkin and all the other walkers around, but not the ad agencies." So that was kind of great, hearing Fairchild get told off.
I thought the show was like mild Halston, with the sweaters tied around the shoulders and things like that, coats and hats and pants and all lengths, but Fred said it was "Rich Wasp."
Tried to get work done (cab $4). Bruno had left candy for me and it was all I could think about, sitting there, so I ate it and it gave me energy.
Rupert came up and he still has the same cough, but he said his psychiatrist says it's just a way of hanging on to the boyfriend who died.
Wednesday, May 7, 1986 Ran into Bianca and she thanked me for saving her life by sending her to Eizo for s.h.i.+atsus and now he gave her another person who'll do additional work on her. She's not walking with the cane now.
Claudia Cohen Perelman was giving a party for Bill Bla.s.s, I went up at 7:30 (cab $5). It was heavy-duty. Their house is so chic, she had Jerry Zipkin and Nan Kempner and Carolina Herrera. Do you think they're buying Bill Bla.s.s? A girl from WWD WWD was there, and she's the type who wears no lipstick and asks tough questions, she's going to go far. was there, and she's the type who wears no lipstick and asks tough questions, she's going to go far.
And the big media news of the day was that Joan Rivers was going into compet.i.tion with Johnny Carson, and it was Barry Diller who got her for the Fox network. She's going to go on a half-hour earlier than Johnny. I don't know, though, it could backfire. You can get sick of people, it can be overexposed, that same style over and over. Poor Johnny-one more woman to worry about.
Thursday, May 8, 1986 Wilfredo picked me up and we went to the Perry Ellis show at 40th and Seventh (cab $6). And at the end there was a pause and they carried Perry out. And some people were crying, they said he had AIDS. Before they'd been saying that he was just upset and having a nervous breakdown because his boyfriend died of it.
Went to the Palladium for the late version of the Andre Walker fas.h.i.+on show. And as we were standing looking over the balcony my crystal fell out of my stomach onto the dance floor and I had to go down and find it. Wilfredo actually found it. Tony Shafrazi was next to me when it fell. It could've killed somebody. I wear it over my stomach between the surgical corsets and it just fell out.
Sat.u.r.day, May 10, 1986 On Madison Avenue all the people filing into the doorway of the new Ralph Lauren store on 72nd-it looks like people walking into the subway entrance at rush hour.
I had a weird confrontation with Tama at a blind-date business dinner at Odeon. She started saying things to me like, "Do you believe in children?" and "You can always adopt" and "You should get married." And then she said, "Maybe this is too personal for you, we can go into it another time." So now I'm thinking that maybe Tama has put ideas about me into Paige's head, because it was odd when Paige got so upset that I didn't call her from Europe. But then I thought maybe Tama's doing this for herself herself. I don't know, it's too odd. What's wrong with them? Can't they see they're barking at the wrong tree? Someone should set them straight.
Thursday, May 15, 1986 Vincent on the other line just said our Fifteen Minutes Fifteen Minutes show won the Fas.h.i.+on Show Video Award at the Palladium thing last night. I was avoiding Paige because I felt strange about all that stuff Tama was saying to me the other night. show won the Fas.h.i.+on Show Video Award at the Palladium thing last night. I was avoiding Paige because I felt strange about all that stuff Tama was saying to me the other night.
Oh, and I'd talked to Halston and he said that I should get the "art press" for the Martha Graham benefit and I told him, "Uh, Halston (laughs) (laughs), art doesn't really have a 'press.' " And he said, "No art press? No art press?" This was news to him. He said, "Well then we'll have to get UPI and AP."
Friday, May 16, 1986 Worked till 8:00. Was picked up by Thomas Ammann at 8:45 to go to dinner at Aurora on East 49th. Joe Baum who had the Four Seasons and Windows on the World and the Bra.s.serie has it. Met Stuart Pivar and Barbara Guggenheim there and the place had sixty lamps, it seemed like a lamp store. Stuart loved it, though. Why is Stuart looking for other girls, with Barbara so in love with him and she's pretty and intelligent and now is even making lots of money? Why? It's crazy. I mean, why did he leave his family to just live alone the way he's doing and worry all the time about finding girls to have s.e.x with? And actually, I think he's only interested in twelve-year-old girls. I see him looking at them. It's sick. Creepy. I have a feeling he likes to do things like smell dirty underwear, though. I just (laughs) (laughs) have that feeling about him. Barbara likes him because she says it's like not being with anybody, that he's just absorbed in his own things. He's really interesting, though, he knows so much about art and music and history and everything. The food was cold, but it came with those covers on it like it was supposed to be hot. have that feeling about him. Barbara likes him because she says it's like not being with anybody, that he's just absorbed in his own things. He's really interesting, though, he knows so much about art and music and history and everything. The food was cold, but it came with those covers on it like it was supposed to be hot.
Sat.u.r.day, May 17, 1986 Fred was upset because I'm doing the Martha Grahams, that 300 more prints of mine will be in circulation. And I'm upset because the Kent Klineman contract for the Cowboys and Indians gives Klineman "final approval" and I can't believe Fred would let that happen.
And there's that problem with that John Wayne print, they can't get permission for it because n.o.body can give it. It's a still from a Warner's movie and I don't know why it was even called called a John Wayne because otherwise you couldn't tell a John Wayne because otherwise you couldn't tell who who it is. it is.
Ran into Tama, she said, "I'm sorry for asking you all those personal things the other day."
Sunday, May 18, 1986 We went to the Javits Center for the accessories show. Gave out 250 copies of Interview Interview. And I was so shocked at the show because I had just bought some b.a.l.l.s from a girl at the antiques flea market who had become sort of a friend, she was from Max's and everything, and she even told me this story story about how she got these one-of-a-kind b.a.l.l.s, and then I go to the accessories show and there was a about how she got these one-of-a-kind b.a.l.l.s, and then I go to the accessories show and there was a whole crate of them! whole crate of them! I was so hurt because I thought she was a I was so hurt because I thought she was a friend friend.
It's why I stopped buying American Primitive, because people could just paint it and bury it for a day and sell it to you. That's when I got into Art Deco because it was with a label and in books. But Stuart thought of a great way to get even with her, he's going to tell her, "You know that horse I bought from you for $12? I sold it for $10,000. It turned out to be the prototype prototype for all those fakes." He'll just tell her that. Isn't he smart? Isn't that great? for all those fakes." He'll just tell her that. Isn't he smart? Isn't that great?
Oh, and did I say that Tama told me she once knew a girl who worked for Stuart at his apartment, and this girl thought he was so peculiar because he kept a quart of sour milk in the refrigerator and he would go to it once an hour and smell it.
Wednesday, May 21, 1986 Anthony d'Offay flew in from London and he said he didn't like my Self-Portraits. Here's a gallery owner being an art director. He said he liked the other ones that I did but he didn't like these where my hair's up like Jean Michel's. And Rupert's been working so hard on these. Edmund is still in a coma. They're talking about pulling the plug out. I'm so afraid I'll get senile and how will I know? I told PH it was up to her, that she's the one I'm a.s.signing to tell me when I get senile, and she said, "I promise I will tell you but I promise you won't believe me."
Stephen Sprouse called and he was going to the Palladium to Keith's birthday party. We went over to pick up Debbie Harry at the Chelsea (cab $5). The party was fun, except that a cute actor named Tim stole my date, Sam (laughs) (laughs), because when Tim said he was staying, Sam said, "I think I will, too." I wasn't upset, though, I was glad because then that means I don't have to feel guilty about going places with Wilfredo. Really I was.relieved because I don't want to get involved. It's so nice not to get bothered by anybody. Somebody asked me if Sam is h.o.m.os.e.xual or just immature. I don't know. He likes older women, but maybe he wants to be mothered. Who knows? I wish I were twenty and could go through all this again but I never want to go through anything or anybody again in my whole life. Sam and I just kid around. But he cleans up well and he learns things fast. But when somebody corrects him he gets an att.i.tude sometimes and that's hard to change.
Thursday, May 22, 1986 I just read the interview the guy from Splash Splash magazine did with me and I don't know how he made it so good because magazine did with me and I don't know how he made it so good because I I wasn't good when he was doing it. wasn't good when he was doing it.
There was a camera crew waiting at the office, some English thing that d'Offay set up, I don't know what it was. I mumbled.
Left early. Was picked up at 8:00 by Sam (cab $8). Got to the Beacon for the stage show Yoko was doing and she was on already. Met Stephen Sprouse there. She was doing the happy years from 1980-81 in men's clothes and Reeboks, and I don't know why she's doing this. She looks great but this is so stupid, she should be up there in furs and Armanis and looking really rich. And she should let John rest in peace. All I can think of is that Sean must really want his mother to stop this. He must be embarra.s.sed.
Then went down to Grace Jones's birthday party at Stringfellow's, it was like a trip back into the seventies, neon dance floor and Bunnies with a.s.ses. And there was no dinner, so we left there, we just wanted something to eat, we were all hungry, so we went over to the Caffe Roma for just something quick and quiet and we walked into this big scene, it was a dinner for Prince Albert and Bob Colacello was there and Cecilia Peck and Cornelia Guest. A hundred people to say h.e.l.lo to. Took the cheese off and ate the pizza.
Monday, May 26, 1986 Memorial Day. I went out with Stuart again and we went to the same places, the auction houses, and it's so great to go back more than once because then the stuff starts to look bad to you and you get sick of it without even buying it. Ran into Tom Armstrong and his wife.
Tuesday, May 27, 1986 Fred's going to Europe on Friday to the big Thurn und Taxis thing. I'm not going-he doesn't want to take care of me.
Worked until 6:45 and then all the dishes from the lunch were still in the kitchen and I told Fred that the kitchen was dirty and he looked at me and said, "Well I'm I'm not going to do the dishes." Diana Vreeland has been really a bad influence on him. I should've broken that up. In the old days Fred would have been the first person to roll up his sleeves and start scrubbing. I had already called for a car so I just had time to clean the coffeepot and I guess Jay cleaned up the rest. Jay's in a good mood lately. Maybe he has a new girlfriend. Thomas Ammann saw Jay's art and loved it, but that was a one-time painting-he's not painting like that now. The young artists are all now doing abstract paintings because they're making fun of not going to do the dishes." Diana Vreeland has been really a bad influence on him. I should've broken that up. In the old days Fred would have been the first person to roll up his sleeves and start scrubbing. I had already called for a car so I just had time to clean the coffeepot and I guess Jay cleaned up the rest. Jay's in a good mood lately. Maybe he has a new girlfriend. Thomas Ammann saw Jay's art and loved it, but that was a one-time painting-he's not painting like that now. The young artists are all now doing abstract paintings because they're making fun of that that now. They're going through now. They're going through everything everything, making fun of every period.
Went to see Martha Graham with Jane Holzer and Halston. Halston did the costumes. They did ballets from like 1906 and 1930 and it was funny to see what dancers were like then-they were like hoochy-koochy girls. (laughs) (laughs) Ballet needs a new defector-you watch these Russian dancers and we don't have anything like that here. I was watching a Russian group do "Swan Lake" and it was just such a difference. Ballet needs a new defector-you watch these Russian dancers and we don't have anything like that here. I was watching a Russian group do "Swan Lake" and it was just such a difference.
Thursday, May 29, 1986-New York-Boston-New York Read an article about the "Billionaire Boys Club" kids who're going on trial in L.A. for killing Ronnie Levin.
At 2:30 was picked up by Fred and Kate Harrington because we had to go to Boston. Cabbed to the airport. New York Air. I was reading this Peggy Guggenheim book and the best part in it was when Iris Love finds out (laughs) (laughs) she's Jewish-they take her aside and tell her in school. she's Jewish-they take her aside and tell her in school.
Ted Turner's on Donahue Donahue right now. He's so smug. I hate him. Ever since he wouldn't say h.e.l.lo to me once at the White House. right now. He's so smug. I hate him. Ever since he wouldn't say h.e.l.lo to me once at the White House.
When we got to Boston Mary Richardson picked us up and took us to a Hilton Hotel. And Joe Kennedy came out and gave a speech and he's not a good speaker. He said, "That great American artist who brought art down"-and Fred almost fainted-"to the American people." Well I guess Pop Art did, but he really is a bad speaker. He sounded so false, no heart to it.
Sunday, June 1, 1986 Edmund Gaultney and Perry Ellis both died this past week.
Monday, June 2, 1986 Joe Kennedy came by with Michael Kennedy and I don't know how he can be running for things, he's kind of weird. And they had a bodyguard with them, they'd been down on Wall Street. And after they left I was having trouble blow-drying a painting.
Wednesday, June 4, 1986 There was a lunch for forty-five at the office for Cris Alexander because he's retiring. Peggy Ca.s.s was there and I told her she should do a movie about when they operated on her leg and it was the wrong one and then she was crippled in both. And it was all because she wanted to be a good Catholic and be able to kneel, that's how she won the case.
Kent Klineman came by the office and he didn't like the Annie Oakley, and I said how could he not like it since that's the way he made made me do it. And so then I asked him if he got the John Wayne thing worked out and he said oh yes, that the son, Patrick Wayne, would give permission if I gave him a painting that he could donate to charity, so that was all worked out, and I said, "Uh, what?" He said Fred had agreed, but I know Fred never would have. I mean, this was Klineman's responsibility and I'm not going to take it on for him. If Patrick wants a painting Kent can pay me to do it and then me do it. And so then I asked him if he got the John Wayne thing worked out and he said oh yes, that the son, Patrick Wayne, would give permission if I gave him a painting that he could donate to charity, so that was all worked out, and I said, "Uh, what?" He said Fred had agreed, but I know Fred never would have. I mean, this was Klineman's responsibility and I'm not going to take it on for him. If Patrick wants a painting Kent can pay me to do it and then he he can donate it. And then it was time to go up to the Museum of the American Indian to my opening, so I had to ride up to Broadway and 155th Street with him after this fight, just forgetting about it and putting it behind us because you have to-these days you have business fights and then just have to go on being friendly. can donate it. And then it was time to go up to the Museum of the American Indian to my opening, so I had to ride up to Broadway and 155th Street with him after this fight, just forgetting about it and putting it behind us because you have to-these days you have business fights and then just have to go on being friendly.
And Crazy Matty's there to greet me, drinking wine. It's a courtyard and small buildings. Really nice, and they did a nice show. It was packed.
Friday, June 6, 1986 There was a dinner for the Oreo cookie at the Waldorf, and I really want to do the cookie's portrait. It's having its seventy-fifth birthday.
I decided to take Wilfredo. All the cookie sellers were around, they were all dressed to the hilt, and it's sad to see these people who have to come from all over the country and put on beautiful clothes to go to a cookie party. As we were edging in, the security man said (laughs) (laughs), "Mr. Warhol? Are you cras.h.i.+ng this party?" The P.R. lady had to come to tell him it was okay. And the big cookie looks so great. The new giant-size Oreo that comes just one-to-a-package. About five times the size of the regular one and lots of cream and the chocolate's so black and bitter, just great.
I was dressed in black and white so I looked like an Oreo, and when the cameras were on I ate the cookies and said, "Miss Oreo needs her portrait done." So I hope the bigwigs get the hint. Oh, it would be so good to do. Jerry Lewis was the emcee.
Wednesday, June 11, 1986 Rupert and I had a big confrontation at the office about Edmund's memorial service, about if I was going, so I went. The traffic was so bad and now I know why commuters get heart attacks from stress, not that I was rus.h.i.+ng to get there, but if I had been it would've been awful. We got there at the end. Edmund's father looked like a Southern preacher, a movie character. He was peculiar.
Then Paige and I walked to the Plaza for the Yoko Ono thing and she had her shoes off and I told her she was crazy. I had her turn her Interview Interview T-s.h.i.+rt around because it was black tie (cab $4). Yoko and Sean were there. Nona Hendryx was, too, and Roberta Flack got there an hour late. Cab Calloway got a medal. It was a benefit to get Harlem kids adopted. And when you see these kids you do really want to adopt one. They're so cute. I'll give money to anyone who'll raise one of these kids. Spread the word. T-s.h.i.+rt around because it was black tie (cab $4). Yoko and Sean were there. Nona Hendryx was, too, and Roberta Flack got there an hour late. Cab Calloway got a medal. It was a benefit to get Harlem kids adopted. And when you see these kids you do really want to adopt one. They're so cute. I'll give money to anyone who'll raise one of these kids. Spread the word.