Chapter 62
Tuesday, January 13, 1987 Had to go to a Food Emporium on 70th and West End Avenue for an Easter Seals thing that Dr. Kritsick the handsome veterinarian helped organize where Almond Delight breakfast cereal was putting hundred-dollar bills in the boxes and you had to go through the store finding them. Like an Easter egg hunt (cab $4). And there were no celebrities, really, although there were supposed to have been. Just a karate guy. But the great and only celebrity was Eddie Fisher and he wa.s.so much fun! He looks young but ugly, but he's He looks young but ugly, but he's so much fun! so much fun! I can see why Carrie Fisher married the Simon guy because he's like Eddie without curls. If I'd ever met Eddie in the sixties we would've been best of friends. Now he just does charity work. The first thing he said was, "You did a picture of me." The one I did in 1962-the newspaper front-page of him and Liz. And I told him about all my crystal doctors and chiropractors and he was really interested and then later as I was leaving the office at 5:00-I had to leave early-he was calling, he'd looked up the I can see why Carrie Fisher married the Simon guy because he's like Eddie without curls. If I'd ever met Eddie in the sixties we would've been best of friends. Now he just does charity work. The first thing he said was, "You did a picture of me." The one I did in 1962-the newspaper front-page of him and Liz. And I told him about all my crystal doctors and chiropractors and he was really interested and then later as I was leaving the office at 5:00-I had to leave early-he was calling, he'd looked up the Interview Interview number, and so I'll call him back. He was so much fun. number, and so I'll call him back. He was so much fun.
Anyway, back at the thing, we went through the store and I only found one box but Kritsick found ten and Eddie found two so I gave him mine to make it three. So then I was leaving and they offered me a car but I was grand and said no, but I should've taken it because it was so windy out (newspapers $5, phone $2, cab $5).
Wednesday, January 14, 1987 It was a beautiful warm day. Went to the office and Ian McKellen was there for lunch, it was Fred's lunch, and Sarah Giles from Vanity Fair Vanity Fair. And he was so cute, he's so s.e.xy, his play Wild Honey Wild Honey just closed on Broadway and I really wanted to see it, it looked so good in the TV ads. just closed on Broadway and I really wanted to see it, it looked so good in the TV ads.
Went to the Dolly Parton party with Sam and Len down to the Gotham (cab $3.50). Dolly was arriving right when we got there and she gave a speech saying that this was a party to celebrate signing with CBS Records after being with RCA for twenty years. She just turned forty and she looks absolutely beautiful, but like everything's been done. She's really tiny but her t.i.ts are so huge they have have to be implants because you just can't get that thin and still have those big t.i.ts- I'm sure they would've shrunk. Barry Diller came with Calvin and Kelly, and David Brenner came. to be implants because you just can't get that thin and still have those big t.i.ts- I'm sure they would've shrunk. Barry Diller came with Calvin and Kelly, and David Brenner came.
Dolly was sweet. Danny Fields was there and I told him I want to tape his life story and he said he would let me.
All the Details Details people were there and they had the new issue with Stephen Saban's pictures that he took in a photo booth in '65 when we were down at the University of Pennsylvania for my first art show. I guess at the time he was a student and he had me sign one picture and Edie signed another and Gerard signed another. It's a full page and it looked great. Annie Flanders was there and Michael Musto. James St. James was wearing four-inch heels and so was Dolly. And a black guy named Childs was there and he said, "I'm Cedar Bar," meaning he was somebody who used to hang around there, and he looked at young Sam sitting there with his snotty att.i.tude and said, "I see these young kids and all I can think is, 'Pay your dues.' " And he was right, Sam has a lot to learn and I hope he learns it. I spoiled him, taking him to glamorous places when his mind wasn't ready for it. Now he thinks that's what he deserves and he's fresh to everybody. people were there and they had the new issue with Stephen Saban's pictures that he took in a photo booth in '65 when we were down at the University of Pennsylvania for my first art show. I guess at the time he was a student and he had me sign one picture and Edie signed another and Gerard signed another. It's a full page and it looked great. Annie Flanders was there and Michael Musto. James St. James was wearing four-inch heels and so was Dolly. And a black guy named Childs was there and he said, "I'm Cedar Bar," meaning he was somebody who used to hang around there, and he looked at young Sam sitting there with his snotty att.i.tude and said, "I see these young kids and all I can think is, 'Pay your dues.' " And he was right, Sam has a lot to learn and I hope he learns it. I spoiled him, taking him to glamorous places when his mind wasn't ready for it. Now he thinks that's what he deserves and he's fresh to everybody.
And then Paige and I walked over to Nell's. It was beautiful weather, in the forties or fifties. And Nell's was so glamorous. Fred was there with Ian McKellen and his I guess boyfriend Sean. And against the wall was Claus von Bulow and Cosima and Andrea Reynolds, and Nell just goes around taking pictures of people like Fred pa.s.sed out on the divans. She has a funny picture of Taki whispering in Bob Colacello's ear and Anthony Haden-Guest trying to hear it. And Sting was there, he wears Cerutti clothes now, and Nell asked him how his career and all started and he said this and that happened and then he said, "And then Andy made me a star." Maybe we were the first to put him alone on a magazine cover. He said he wants to do plays now. I don't know why Sting would ever do that Frankenstein movie, The Bride The Bride. If it had been a singing singing Frankenstein, that would've been something. Frankenstein, that would've been something.
And then Nell left her chair and then Bob Dylan came over and sat down and he said he'd just seen my photography show at the Miller Gallery-that he'd literally just come from there. And then Nell came back and pretended she didn't know who he was and said that that was her her seat. seat.
I want Nell to take pictures for Interview Interview, but she only takes color pictures so I left her some of my black and white film.
I introduced von Bulow to Nell and then to Dylan. I lost my scarf and I was glad because I hated it. But then I found it. That cashmere scarf I ordered from Brigid's friend who knitted it on a machine and it was supposed to be like the red Halston one I'd lost, but the Halston one was somehow so light and this one is so heavy. Paige dropped me off at 2:00.
And poor Bess Myerson's on suspension. She's really in trouble because they say she sort of bribed a judge to reduce her married boyfriend's alimony payments. I can't believe all these men fighting over this sixty-year-old lady.
Friday, January 16, 1987 I just can't face going to Europe. And the TV news said they're smearing themselves with bear grease in Russia this week, it's so cold over there.
Rode uptown to the David Salle opening. Bruno and Yoyo were there. It's sixties work all from Jim Dine and Rauschenberg and Jasper and me-all put together and beautiful. It's intellectual.
And Sam Wagstaff died the other day.
Then cabbed to Mr. Chow's for the Salle dinner ($5). All the art dealers were there. And Mary Boone who wants to give me a show, the Rorschach things. And the Voice gave Voice gave my photography show a good review. my photography show a good review.
I still want to do the "Worst of Warhol," all the stuff that didn't come off. I'll (laughs) (laughs) have to do more, though. have to do more, though.
Bruno wanted to sit with Robert Mapplethorpe but I didn't want to. He's sick. I sat at another place.
Sat.u.r.day, January 17, 1987 Did a last Diary with PH before the European trip where it's still so cold. Went to the office and worked until 7:00, and then Paige picked me up and we went down to Keith Haring's opening. Keith's show was interesting, the work looked different, it was as if he wanted to have a lot of things to show so he worked faster, it's not so planned-looking. Yoko and her Sam were there but Sean wasn't, Yoko said he had gone off to a birthday party, that he was old enough now to be making his own plans. Later I said to Keith, though, "Oh, gee, where's Sean?" To make sure he noticed that Sean hadn't come. To rub it in. I guess it was mean but (laughs) (laughs) I'm still jealous that Sean likes Keith better than me. I'm still jealous that Sean likes Keith better than me.
Sunday, January 18, 1987-New York-Paris The weather in New York was great and I hated to leave it. Got up at 6:00 and packed. I tried not to think. The bag was too heavy, don't know why. I never change clothes over there and never take a shower. I always wind up just sleeping in my clothes every night. Chris Makos picked me up at 10:00. Picked Fred up, he was on time. Got to the airport (driver $60). Wore layers, everything on my back.
Got to Paris. A driver named Freddy picked us up. Checked into Hotel Lenox. Chris had the better room, naturally, what else is new? My room was freezing but it was cute. Small but cute. All that nice old kind of French wood. We walked on the ice to the Cafe Flore. Had some sandwiches and that was it. We were the only ones there, we closed it ($35). Back at the hotel I fell asleep with all the lights on. Chris was smart, he had two heaters sent up to his room.
Monday, January 19, 1987-Paris We went to the Beaubourg and Chris got us in free and we saw the Schnabel show there and it looked great, he looked like a talented artist, and then we went up to the j.a.panese show, it looked like they copied everything from the West, a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright. Lunch at this chic cafe ($35). I went down to pee and it was a wonderful bathroom, a big sheet of gla.s.s with water running behind it and you p.i.s.s on the gla.s.s. So modern, so weird. If Chris hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known where to pee. It looks like a fountain.
Tuesday, January 20, 1987-Paris Ran into Art Kane, the photographer, and spent some time with him. He said he was married again, to a French wife. Ran into Fred, had something at Cafe Flore ($15). Bought magazines, caught up on the good ones ($20). Tried calling some kids for dinner but n.o.body seemed to answer their phone-James Brown and all those kids. Chris looked at our plane tickets and noticed that they went to Rome instead of Milan, so I decided we were going to fire our travel agent. Chris worked on the phone getting it straightened out. Stayed up reading magazines.
Wednesday, January 21, 1987-Paris-Milan Met by the police and they took us right through customs and everything because Lisa Soltilis was with lolas and she'd gotten the police to do everything for us. If we'd been sneaking in marijuana or drugs it would've been so easy. She was so friendly, but later we began hearing wild stories about how her husband was keeping lolas in a sanitarium. Found lolas in the VIP room. He was like a little old lady wrapped up in fabric. We found out later he'd come out of the hospital just to pick us up. Then the whole story began unraveling. lolas was just presenting presenting me at the bank Credito-Valtellinese. "Alexander lolas Presents Andy Warhol." He must've gotten all this money to "present" us. My Last Supper show was closing down that day and my other show was opening, so there was lots of publicity. lolas was really sweet. He had to be driven back to the hospital. Lisa took us to the hotel. Our rooms were beautiful. The Principe di Savoy. Christopher took the best room with the TV. Fred was down the hall (bag man $10, magazines $25, waiter $5). Daniela Morera called and began taking over. She said she had the flu and I knew I was going to get it from her. Went to the gallery to do press and TV. We had a car of our own, twenty-four-hour service. me at the bank Credito-Valtellinese. "Alexander lolas Presents Andy Warhol." He must've gotten all this money to "present" us. My Last Supper show was closing down that day and my other show was opening, so there was lots of publicity. lolas was really sweet. He had to be driven back to the hospital. Lisa took us to the hotel. Our rooms were beautiful. The Principe di Savoy. Christopher took the best room with the TV. Fred was down the hall (bag man $10, magazines $25, waiter $5). Daniela Morera called and began taking over. She said she had the flu and I knew I was going to get it from her. Went to the gallery to do press and TV. We had a car of our own, twenty-four-hour service.
Thursday, January 22, 1987-Milan Went to the gallery for the 11:00 press conference, 250 press people. Scary and stupid. Got that all over with. Signed a lot of posters. Then we had free time. Lunch with Gianni Versace, went to his castle. Rizzoli's old castle. Big Roman and Greek statues that Suzie Frankfurt got Versace to buy. It was grand, huge, so glamorous. We had a good time.
Then had to go back to the gallery to do another press conference at 4:30. Stayed till 8:30 with Daniela coughing in my face and me signing autographs. Gianni did the costumes for Bob Wilson's Salome Salome at La Scala. He got us tickets so I could slip away from my opening when I got tired. Finally Fred grabbed my pen and whisked me away. at La Scala. He got us tickets so I could slip away from my opening when I got tired. Finally Fred grabbed my pen and whisked me away.
Sat in a box seat watching the opera, then had to go to this dinner for me. Saw Gerard Malanga's first girlfriend there who he wrote all the poems about, Benedetta Barzini. She was with her husband and being so grand. I ate a lot and Daniela was coughing into my food. I'd been resisting her flu for two days straight while she talked into my face, but finally I gave in and got it. Went home just exhausted.
Friday, January 23, 1987-Milan Woke up feeling a little funny, read the newspapers (waiter $5). Daniela was going to come and take us to lunch but I was exhausted and I decided I'd stay in and nap a little. My temperature went up to 100 so I began taking vitamin Cs and my stomach got sour. Then lolas called to say he was coming over and I'd never really gotten a good night's sleep. Daniela went out with Chris and Fred and they brought me back drugstore medicines which turned out to be antihistamines which kept me up instead of putting me to sleep, so it was a day of horror but it went by fast.
Iolas looked all right. And Fred stayed on an extra day to do business with him. Chris came by and ordered soup, taking my temperature every minute. It went up and down. He went out and had a good time discoing and I kept taking Valiums and not being able to sleep. My temperature went down. Watched TV and tried to sleep, getting ready to get up at 6:00.
Sat.u.r.day, January 24, 1987-Milan-New York Got up in Milan. I hadn't slept all night after taking the pills that Daniela got me. All they did was dry me up and the suppository didn't do anything, but my fever was going so I think I just had the twenty-four-hour flu, after all. I'd taken vitamin C and even aspirin. Christopher got me some soup and bread. But those pills sort of hung there all night, just stuck, and didn't go anywhere. I hate Daniela for giving me the flu and I hate her for those pills. But I'd also taken Valium like crazy and nothing happened, but then in the morning everything was fine. Left the place (concierge $50, doormen $25, baggage $10, driver $100, magazines $20). Got to the airport easily.
And on the plane a milestone happened-I was in the International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune and I didn't even bother to clip the article. I just-didn't-care. So I've gotten to that point. Maybe it was just that I felt so sick, but still I didn't bother. And Chris pointed out that this lady in Milan who was so nice and sweet and glamorous when she was interviewing me wrote horrible mean things. and I didn't even bother to clip the article. I just-didn't-care. So I've gotten to that point. Maybe it was just that I felt so sick, but still I didn't bother. And Chris pointed out that this lady in Milan who was so nice and sweet and glamorous when she was interviewing me wrote horrible mean things.
We got to New York and the driver was waiting (car $70). I didn't get a receipt. I really wasn't feeling well.
Sunday, January 25,
And Mrs. Aquino's being so grand in the Philippines, smiling away, and her guards killed thirteen people at the palace. Why didn't they shoot over their heads? Or use tear gas. It makes you think that Communists did it to other Communists just to start trouble. Or something.
It was Superbowl Sunday and seeing the people in the stands, football games are really the best places to meet macho guys. If Paige wants to meet men and get married she should be going to football games, not to the ballet! Go bowling in Brooklyn-Manhattan is too sophisticated.
Then there were tickets put aside for me at the Joyce Theater where Robert LaFosse was doing a guest appearance in Karole Armitage's ballet. This is the thing that her boyfriend David Salle did the costumes for, he's the artistic director. And then Paige had arranged dinner at Indochine with the New York City Ballet people to talk about the curtain they want me to design. That was at 9:45 or 10:00.
The phone kept ringing and my stomach was a mess, I shouldn't have eaten the dessert Paige brought. Kenny Scharf called trying to get me to buy land in Brazil and I'd been ready to send him a check but then Fred had screamed at me about it while we were in Europe. He was insisting that it's just black-market sales and you don't have a contract or really proof that you own it. But it's so cheap. And Paige wanted to go in on it with me and she was going to go down for a week and check it out. You get (laughs) (laughs) your own coconut tree. But they say there are too many killings there and that they could just take the land away from you at any time. But gee, it's so cheap. your own coconut tree. But they say there are too many killings there and that they could just take the land away from you at any time. But gee, it's so cheap.
Stuart and I went to Sotheby's and it was packed, they had Americana. Jamie Wyeth was there but not Phyllis, and he looks older, he's lost his boyish charm, he's grander. Then I felt worse so I went to the drugstore and got some Maalox.
And Peter Wise called up, I knew he would call because I heard he wants a job with Stuart Pivar. But ever since that time he wouldn't accept my word over Kent Klineman's, I just think he's stupid....Didn't I ever tell the Diary about this? About the big fight I had with Peter? I mean, here I'd been good friends with him for six years and I'm telling him a fact and suddenly he was saying, "Well that's not what Kent says," and I said, "Well if 1 say something's red and you can see that it's not, you should still believe me because we're friends." So I told him that if he didn't want to believe me he should just ask Fred and he did and it turned out I was right, but he hadn't believed me alone, and that made me so mad, I just thought it was so awful. And when he called yesterday we never got around to talking about the job he wants to get working for Stuart, but I know that's what he wanted.
And now somehow I've hired Chris's friend Ken to pick me up in the mornings, he's going to be my new bodyguard. He's a really good-looking tall blond kid. The one from Florida.
So then I went over to the Joyce Theater and Tama met us there, she came in from Princeton (tickets $40). The production was stinkeroo, but Robert LaFosse is really professional.
Then after the ballet I couldn't face dinner at Indochine so I just went to a fruit stand and I got a pineapple and bananas and apples and I went home. The driver asked me for an autograph so I had to tip big (cab $9). And then I made juices out of the stuff and by the time I was done it had taken so long I could've gone to the dinner-after squeezing everything and was.h.i.+ng out the juicer. Took a sleeping pill and slept all night. Woke up at 6:00.
Monday, January 26, 1987 Ken picked me up and it was too cold to pa.s.s interviews interviews out so we didn't even take any (magazines $6). Went to the West Side to Dr. Li's (cab $4). out so we didn't even take any (magazines $6). Went to the West Side to Dr. Li's (cab $4).
Our Charlie Sheen cover is really good timing. Platoon Platoon is the big thing. And is the big thing. And Interview's Interview's coming down an inch, Gael said. With the new postage rates it'll save $20,000 a month. I guess a big-size magazine doesn't mean anything-I don't know what does. coming down an inch, Gael said. With the new postage rates it'll save $20,000 a month. I guess a big-size magazine doesn't mean anything-I don't know what does.
Paige said there were big advertising dinners on Wednesday and Thursday, and Nikki Haskell called and invited me to a couple of parties at the Tunnel on those nights. I don't know about these advertising dinners-you give up a night of your life just to try to get one ad. But on the other hand you do meet people, and sometimes it turns into other other business with them. business with them.
Nick Rhodes called and wanted to go to dinner. Cabbed to II Cantinori ($5). And when Pino doesn't do the food it's just awful. It was also with Elizabeth Saltzman and her new boyfriend- Glenn Dubini! Glenn Dubini! And it was so odd to see him there making out with her. And I guess he does have money after all, I wasn't sure when he was with Bianca. They had just flown to the Superbowl in a private plane and stayed at the Beverly Hills and come back the next day. Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes arrived (dinner $240). And it was so odd to see him there making out with her. And I guess he does have money after all, I wasn't sure when he was with Bianca. They had just flown to the Superbowl in a private plane and stayed at the Beverly Hills and come back the next day. Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes arrived (dinner $240).
Oh, and I talked on the phone to Glenn O'Brien about why the sixties were coming back or something, he was doing an article for Elle Elle, he was fun.
Got home and at 12:00 the phone rang and it was Billy Name. Have I forgotten to say that he's been calling? He's up there in Poughkeepsie and he's organizing a sixties reunion and he has like three jobs up there, deputy sheriff and everything, and he was just chattering away-"You know how deeply I love you, honey"-about how Gerard is coming up and Ingrid Superstar and how I'd be picked up and taken to Stephen Sh.o.r.e's house-he works at Bard College now-and all this stuff. But I'm going to just have to tell Billy that I can't face the past. And I'd walked into the house and didn't look where I stepped and so I was talking to him with dog p.o.o.p all over my shoes.
Tuesday, January 27, 1987 Manson was on the Today Show Show and he was saying why did he kill so few people-that he could've been and he was saying why did he kill so few people-that he could've been really really big and killed everybody. Here's all this money wasted on keeping him alive when he should just be killed. big and killed everybody. Here's all this money wasted on keeping him alive when he should just be killed.
Mich.e.l.le Loud came to work, she's back from vacation and she's working on the sewing machine st.i.tching together the p.o.r.no photos I've been taking, but I have to call the office office and say to hide them because those kids we've got around the office now-the ones from and say to hide them because those kids we've got around the office now-the ones from Interview Interview who I don't even know-they'd probably report me to the police. It'd be the sixties all over again. I bet they could still arrest you for taking p.o.r.no pictures, if they who I don't even know-they'd probably report me to the police. It'd be the sixties all over again. I bet they could still arrest you for taking p.o.r.no pictures, if they wanted wanted to. to.
Wednesday, January 28, 1987 Howard Read said Victor Bockris came to interview him for his book about me. I'm surprised Howard could give an interview-he doesn't know anything about me.
I met a boy named Cal who's cute but only has half his teeth, he's a messenger, and messengers really are the best dressers, but I guess they already did the Kevin Bacon movie about a bike messenger, but n.o.body's done a print spread on them yet. He's been hit by a bus a couple of times.
Thursday, January 29, 1987 At 9:30 A.M A.M. I was already rus.h.i.+ng out because I'd promised Phoebe Cates I'd go to the Hard Rock Cafe for a benefit for Covenant House which is for runaway kids. Went with Ken. He's nice but he's real slow. But he's a better walker than Tony because he picks out good-looking Interview-type people and hands the magazine to them. Mathilda Cuomo was there.
After that I cabbed to Chris Makos's to photograph more nudes ($4, modeling fees $300). Did that from 1-3:00 and while I was there I heard Chris call Paige so I got on the phone to tell her that La Vie en Rose might want to advertise and she started screaming at me that I hadn't shown up for an important advertising lunch, and it was like having a nagging wife. And then she accused me of just being down at Chris's to take male p.o.r.no photographs, which I was, but I mean, it was for work! work! I mean, I'm just trying to work and make some money. I mean, there's a lot of hungry mouths to feed at the office! I have a business to keep going! I mean, the p.o.r.no pictures are for a I mean, I'm just trying to work and make some money. I mean, there's a lot of hungry mouths to feed at the office! I have a business to keep going! I mean, the p.o.r.no pictures are for a show show. They're work work.
Sat.u.r.day, January 31, 1987 Paige had an advertising dinner planned at Caffe Roma. I worked till 8:00 (cab $7). Heather Watts wanted to meet the poorest kid in New York because she's been spending so much time with Anne Ba.s.s, so Stephen Sprouse brought her a cute messenger who has a twelve-inch tattoo. They put two tables together for us in the front, and there was a Mafia-type guy at the bar who said stuff about Stephen's punk hair, and Stephen got so scared he left and then Paige went over and started telling the guy off, and she almost got it, she really almost was history. He was a greaseball, a big ox, about 6'5". Huge. So then Peter Martins was obligated to go over and defend Paige and then Jock Soto got up, too, and all I could think of was that the whole New York City Ballet company would be wiped out by this Mafia bruiser at the bar. It was scary. A lot of talk like "a.s.shole" and all those words. Heather loved loved it. it.
So Peter was a man and defended Paige but after the bruiser left, he was so relieved that he sank in his chair and he told her, "Paige, I'm never going out with you again-you're too much troubled troubled Dropped Wilfredo off and went home to bed (cab $6.50).
Monday, February 2, 1987 Was picked up by Ken. Stuart's friend Christopher O'Riley, the pianist, got great reviews in The New York Times The New York Times in an article on virtuosos. in an article on virtuosos.
And Liberace's dying. He looked so healthy when he came to the office last year, didn't he?
I called Nell to ask her to be that week's emcee for our TV show but she said she was on the other line talking to Australia and she'd call me right back but she never did, which I thought was weird.
A couple of people have called and said they were doing biographies of me. Fred told them we didn't want them to, but they said they'll do them anyway.
Worked and then they picked me up for the black-tie dinner at the Saint that Rado Watches was giving and it was all built around the painting I did and Sarah Vaughn singing. And we were all afraid to eat anything because the Saint has the gay taint from when it used to be a gay disco. It was so dark there and they were serving the food on black plates black plates.
But Sarah Vaughn sang and she was great-fat and sweating but she's still got a voice. And then they wanted us to go to her room and so they took us there and it was past all the bad rooms where all the s.e.x things used to happen. We were holding our breath. And we told Sarah she was great, but she was just interested in her drink, she told somebody, "Cap my brandy," or something like that. She'll be at the Blue Note in April.
Then we were hungry so Paige and Wilfredo and I went next door to that place called "103" on Second Avenue and that's that's where we should take people to dinner because it came to $11 for three teas, a c.o.ke, a bowl of chili, and two sandwiches. Could that have been a mistake? Left a big tip ($20). And we picked up a couple of waiters for Wilfredo to use as models in the shoots he's setting up in Atlantic City for where we should take people to dinner because it came to $11 for three teas, a c.o.ke, a bowl of chili, and two sandwiches. Could that have been a mistake? Left a big tip ($20). And we picked up a couple of waiters for Wilfredo to use as models in the shoots he's setting up in Atlantic City for Interview Interview.
Tuesday, February 3, 1987 Ken picked me up and he's good because he's big and strong so he can carry all the interviews interviews. I just have to sign them. It was such a beautiful day out. It was hard to think about going to work so we went to eat ($15, phone $2, newspapers $2, cab $7.50). Didn't run into anybody.
Nell finally called back and when I asked her to do the TV show she said she'd have to check with her partners, but I think she just wanted to think about it. I think she's like Ann Magnuson, that's why she just hasn't made it. I mean, in show business. They're both the same-at the last minute they get odd and don't want to "give it away," but they're not doing anything else anyway. They need more exposure.
Wednesday, February 4, 1987 And the Post Post had a picture of Ingrid Superstar with a big story: "Warhol Star Vanishes." I thought she was going to be at the reunion Billy Name is setting up. I wonder if Gerard gave this to the papers just to get his name in. Brigid never even told me they called about her. I would've had a picture of Ingrid Superstar with a big story: "Warhol Star Vanishes." I thought she was going to be at the reunion Billy Name is setting up. I wonder if Gerard gave this to the papers just to get his name in. Brigid never even told me they called about her. I would've cared cared that that Ingrid Ingrid was missing. was missing. People People magazine had been calling because they're doing a story on Ivy Nicholson and they wanted me to give a quote and for her I did tell Brigid to tell magazine had been calling because they're doing a story on Ivy Nicholson and they wanted me to give a quote and for her I did tell Brigid to tell People People we'd "never heard of her," but that was only because it was we'd "never heard of her," but that was only because it was Ivy-Ingrid Ivy-Ingrid I would've cared about. But I bet something did happen to her. It said she went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is in upstate New York. And I would've cared about. But I bet something did happen to her. It said she went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. This is in upstate New York. And People People said Ivy was doing a "comeback," but I mean, what would it be said Ivy was doing a "comeback," but I mean, what would it be as? as? Could she still model? I wonder how she looks these days. Could she still model? I wonder how she looks these days.
Alba Clemente came to have her picture done for a portrait, and she's so beautiful. I photographed her nude.
Andre Balazs invited me to a Details screening of Black Widow with Debra Winger and Teresa Russell. Cabbed ($5) to 58th and Third. And the movie was nothing, a lesbian movie. The only thing I really wondered was whether that black-widow pin she got as a wedding present was real or costume, and I looked across the aisle to PH and she was wondering the same thing.
Thursday, February 5, 1987 Went to E.A.T. and our favorite girl gave us extra food (tip $15). I ate it all, which was a mistake (phone $.50, newspaper $1, cab $5).
And then at the office, Sam had potato chips with vinegar and salt and I ate so many of those because they were so unusual. Vincent was doing the TV show and there were no celebrity hostesses available so we used a cute girl model. But when I did my scenes with her, I sat in a funny position and I got a pain and it didn't go away.
Paige was home sick so I had a free night, no advertising dinners, and Sam and I decided to go to a movie and then John Reinhold wanted to join us so we could talk about the jewelry business at dinner first. So went to Nippon (cab $6). And we did that stuff, and then we decided to see the Bette Midler Outrageous Fortune Outrageous Fortune movie since it was the big money-maker of the week, but as we were leaving the restaurant I felt a sharp pain and I couldn't go on. I got scared and said I couldn't go and they dropped me off. I was trying to think positively and mind-over-matter and when I got to my front door it was like a miracle, it suddenly went away. It was completely gone. And then I wished I'd hung on for a few minutes because then I wouldn't have had to tell anybody something was wrong. But I went inside and locked the dogs out of the room because they were bothering me and they got mad, they didn't understand I was mentally unstable. And I fell asleep and woke up when Joan Rivers was on and she was doing something odd on her show, solving a mystery of somebody being killed, like a game. movie since it was the big money-maker of the week, but as we were leaving the restaurant I felt a sharp pain and I couldn't go on. I got scared and said I couldn't go and they dropped me off. I was trying to think positively and mind-over-matter and when I got to my front door it was like a miracle, it suddenly went away. It was completely gone. And then I wished I'd hung on for a few minutes because then I wouldn't have had to tell anybody something was wrong. But I went inside and locked the dogs out of the room because they were bothering me and they got mad, they didn't understand I was mentally unstable. And I fell asleep and woke up when Joan Rivers was on and she was doing something odd on her show, solving a mystery of somebody being killed, like a game.
So now I'm throwing out all the junk food. I guess it was a gallbladder attack. And then I remembered that when I got the first one was when Fred took me to the Waldorf to meet the old Mrs. Woodward who was about ninety then-it was '73 or '74 I think-and he had to take me to the hospital, and then this week is when that novel Nick Dunne wrote, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, is on TV, which was really the Elsie Woodward story, so I felt like there was a connection.
Friday, February 6, 1987 Ken picked me up and we walked up Madison with interviews interviews.. It was a beautiful day. Then went to lower Broadway with Stuart and looked for stuff, then he dropped us off at the office office. Rupert was closing down his office so he didn't come in. He finally unloaded the Duane Street building he owns for $1.1 million. These kids who were living there were so horrible, they wouldn't move out. Rupert offered to pay them off but they wouldn't move. He sold it to Israelis, and you can bet they'll get them out.
Worked all afternoon and then decided to try again to see Outrageous Fortune Outrageous Fortune. Wilfredo came and Len and Sam, and we went to Nippon first to discuss Interview Interview articles that they're working on (dinner $175). articles that they're working on (dinner $175).
We couldn't get into Outrageous Fortune Outrageous Fortune, the line was too long, and so we went and saw a movie about the KGB, an English movie, and we all fell asleep, it was absolutely boring (tickets $24, popcorn $5).
Wilfredo dropped everybody off ($10). And then watched MTV and waited for commercials for our show on Sunday, which I finally did see and the show looks like it might be interesting, it's on Romance.
Sunday, February 8, 1987 Stuart picked me up at church, and it was embarra.s.sing to walk from the church steps into a big black limo. And we went to 76th Street to the flea market to get books. This one guy bought somebody's library so he's got forty boxes of books to sell and he brings one box in every week and people line up for it at 9:00. I got some books, even a Museum of Modern Art catalog from 1962 when the de Menils had a show, and I didn't even know them then.
Stuart always buys an old hat and always loses it. He loves old clothes, he loves to smell them.
We were going to see Johnny Mathis and we got Alba Clemente and John Reinhold tickets, too, so Stuart dropped me off and then Paige rang my bell and had pineapples for me and I had to just dump them in the hallway because I'd already locked up. She had high energy and it was, "Hi-i-i-i-i!" It's just too much. So we went to Radio City (cab $5). It turned out to be two hours of hits from Henry Mancini, he opened the show, so it was the Pink Panther Pink Panther and everything else and it was sooo boring, and Paige was going, "Isn't this greeeaaat!" She's and everything else and it was sooo boring, and Paige was going, "Isn't this greeeaaat!" She's got got to get cooler, I wanted to slap her out, my nerves were jumping. Then Johnny Mathis came out and he's still got his voice. I never noticed that so much depends on how you hold the microphone. And then finally it was over, but then he came back and did an encore. And then we left. Paige dropped me and I watched MTV. to get cooler, I wanted to slap her out, my nerves were jumping. Then Johnny Mathis came out and he's still got his voice. I never noticed that so much depends on how you hold the microphone. And then finally it was over, but then he came back and did an encore. And then we left. Paige dropped me and I watched MTV.
Monday, February 9, 1987 I went to the dentist really early in the morning. Dr. Lyons and his perfect American family are doing fine. Then Ken picked me up there. The temperature was dropping fast from the time I went out in the morning. Cabbed to the West Side to Dr. Li ($4, newspaper $3).
Cabbed downtown ($6). Brigid had to go home to give her mother a morphine shot. She was back in a couple of hours, it didn't take long-she's really upset at the idea that her mother's going to go in the winter and it'll be another funeral in the cold ground, she would rather it would be in spring. And I don't know why they didn't cremate Liberace right away and not give him an autopsy-they should've just rushed him through.
I asked Paige to go to the Dionne Warwick perfume thing at Stringfellow's and we went down there. She brought the issue of Interview Interview to show to Dionne that had the writeup we gave her perfume last year when it came out, but then Jacques Bellini took it from Paige before she had the chance to give it to her. And Dionne's distributing the perfume herself, it turns out. It smells like lemon chiffon pie. Very strong. And Stringfellow and his daughter were there, and it was just so easy-got photographed and got out of there. Tipped the doorman ($5) because I thought it was the guy who always got me cabs at the Palladium and Studio 54, but it wasn't him. Went to Nippon (cab $6). Had dinner, lots of free food-Paige paid. We talked about the shows I'll be having this year-another photography show at Robert Miller and then some new paintings at Mary Boone... I don't know yet what they'll be. to show to Dionne that had the writeup we gave her perfume last year when it came out, but then Jacques Bellini took it from Paige before she had the chance to give it to her. And Dionne's distributing the perfume herself, it turns out. It smells like lemon chiffon pie. Very strong. And Stringfellow and his daughter were there, and it was just so easy-got photographed and got out of there. Tipped the doorman ($5) because I thought it was the guy who always got me cabs at the Palladium and Studio 54, but it wasn't him. Went to Nippon (cab $6). Had dinner, lots of free food-Paige paid. We talked about the shows I'll be having this year-another photography show at Robert Miller and then some new paintings at Mary Boone... I don't know yet what they'll be.
Finally made it to see Outrageous Fortune Outrageous Fortune and it wasn't much-they didn't even give Bette Midler one really great scene to do. and it wasn't much-they didn't even give Bette Midler one really great scene to do.
Tuesday, February 10, 1987 In the morning I bought so much big stuff-huge painted backgrounds that I'll have to find someplace to store at the office. Fred will scream when he sees them about the room they'll take up, they're huge.
I got to the office office early. Vincent showed me the the video for this week's MTV show, and it looks interesting, different, kind of odd. early. Vincent showed me the the video for this week's MTV show, and it looks interesting, different, kind of odd.
Cabbed to Clemente's ($5). I thought they entertained all the time but they said the last dinner party they had was the one we were at. Robert Mapplethorpe was there. He looked more healthy than I've ever seen him, he had color in his face. I think they're trying out a new drug on him, I hope he makes it. And we talked about the people from the seventies. I asked him about his old girlfriend Patti Smith and he said he'd just shot her and I said why didn't he give the pictures to Interview Interview and he said Vogue already had them. And then that reminded me that I'd bought and he said Vogue already had them. And then that reminded me that I'd bought People People magazine and there was their article about Ivy Nicholson-she's now a bag lady in San Francisco and her twin sons are twenty-one years old. She looks like the most beautiful bag lady you'll ever see, though. It says she's fifty-three. She's up against the wall with her legs straight out and a form-fitting top. It's like with Nico-everything just looks magazine and there was their article about Ivy Nicholson-she's now a bag lady in San Francisco and her twin sons are twenty-one years old. She looks like the most beautiful bag lady you'll ever see, though. It says she's fifty-three. She's up against the wall with her legs straight out and a form-fitting top. It's like with Nico-everything just looks right right when she does it, so it's these raggy clothes, but they look great. And it's sort of the hippie look, really, with three crinolines and just the right when she does it, so it's these raggy clothes, but they look great. And it's sort of the hippie look, really, with three crinolines and just the right (laughs) (laughs) raggy bow. Left at 11:00, Paige dropped me. raggy bow. Left at 11:00, Paige dropped me.
Wednesday, February 11, 1987 Fred called to tell me that he heard Bob Colacello was writing a book "on the seventies" so that was, uh, swell to hear.
Oh, and Nancy Reagan was on TV reading one of her six billion drug letters and crying-big tears just whaling down her cheeks, it was the best acting ever-she'd never do it over Ron Jr. or Doria. And Ron Jr. still hasn't made it, and it's because he just isn't good-looking. If he were, he'd have a big career by now. And Prince Andrew has gotten so ugly, he's looking like his mother. And let's see what else...
Okay, went to see Dr. Reese, he's in town. He looks a lot younger, like he's using Grecian Formula to get rid of his grey hair.
So I left there and Paige was having a lunch for condom advertisers, and she said that Sam had called her and said that she couldn't mix her (laughs) (laughs) dirty condom people in with my Italian guy who was a shoe manufacturer from Italy who wants his portrait done. When I got to the office (cab $6) I told the condom people that I wanted a demonstration dirty condom people in with my Italian guy who was a shoe manufacturer from Italy who wants his portrait done. When I got to the office (cab $6) I told the condom people that I wanted a demonstration (laughs) (laughs) and then they all took out their rubbers and they showed how the rim of it has adhesive so it wouldn't slide off. So I said and then they all took out their rubbers and they showed how the rim of it has adhesive so it wouldn't slide off. So I said (laughs) (laughs), "Oh great, so you can reuse it three or four times and not take it off!"
Then I made plans to go to dinner with Wilfredo and David LaChapelle, the Interview Interview photographer, and Sophie Xuerbe's son who I think wants to talk because he read we're doing a movie of Tama's book and he wants to be in a movie. So we went to Provence, this is the restaurant that the guy who was at Le Cirque started. We talked about the magazine (cab $6, dinner $180). photographer, and Sophie Xuerbe's son who I think wants to talk because he read we're doing a movie of Tama's book and he wants to be in a movie. So we went to Provence, this is the restaurant that the guy who was at Le Cirque started. We talked about the magazine (cab $6, dinner $180).
Oh, and Dolly Fox called and she's at the Chateau Marmont because she and Charlie Sheen broke up.
Thursday, February 12, 1987 Paige was having an Interview Interview dinner at Texarkana and I invited Victor Love from dinner at Texarkana and I invited Victor Love from Native Son Native Son for her. Kenny and Teresa Scharf were coming to the dinner and Wilfredo. Keith is going to South America for the winter. for her. Kenny and Teresa Scharf were coming to the dinner and Wilfredo. Keith is going to South America for the winter.
Ulrik came by to talk about the curtain I'm doing for the New York City Ballet. I've got to get working on that, it's due soon.
So went down to Texarkana (cab $5). Heather Watts was there, and Stephen Sprouse and T.T. Wachtmeister, and Richard Johnson from Page Six and Freddie Sutherland. And Jeff Slonim from Interview Interview he's Tama's cousin, and he has perfect teeth, a beautiful toothpaste smile. Oh, and Howard Read from the Miller Gallery has been staying at the Gramercy Park Hotel because his apartment burned down and his cat was killed in the fire. he's Tama's cousin, and he has perfect teeth, a beautiful toothpaste smile. Oh, and Howard Read from the Miller Gallery has been staying at the Gramercy Park Hotel because his apartment burned down and his cat was killed in the fire.
We were there till 1:00.
Friday, February 13, 1987 Ken picked me up. Went to Bloomingdale's (phone $.50, newspaper $.70). Lunch at the office was for Pat Patterson and the new president of Henry Bendel's and he brought me soap.
And Howard Read brought a lady by for a portrait, so that was fun, worked on that. Worked till 8:00. Then the birthday party at Raoul's for Barry Tubbs didn't start until 11:00 and what're you supposed to do until then. Called John Reinhold and Wilfredo. John picked me up and we went to Castellano's for dinner ($170). Then we went to Raoul's, and Barry had odd people there-like Larry "Bud" Melman and Judd Nelson and Lynn Redgrave and Tom Cruise's sister. She's sort of cute. She looks like (laughs) (laughs) somebody's sister. We were there till 1:00. somebody's sister. We were there till 1:00.
Sat.u.r.day, February 14, 1987 A really short day. Nothing much happened. I went shopping, did errands, came home, talked on the phone....Yeah, that's all. Really. It was a short day.
Sunday, February 15, 1987 The house was freezing. Stayed upstairs in bed watching TV. Stuart kept calling, talked to him about ten times. Sam called and Wilfredo. And John Reinhold. It was a big day on the phone but nothing else. I didn't go out, didn't even go to church. It was just so cold. I watched Agnes of G.o.d three times and it was so boring. And I saw The Story of Will Rogers with Will Rogers, Jr. and Jane Wyman, and the son played his father. The son was on the Today Show Today Show at CBS when I did the weather drawings in the fifties. at CBS when I did the weather drawings in the fifties.
Stayed up to watch Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes on MTV. on MTV.