Part 7 (2/2)

Tuesday, Noveotten back froht He was in a nervoushe got upset, he didn't like it that I did the Chrissie Evert in lots of little pictures instead of the big ones, but then he saw that the Neeek Neeek girl as there interviewingirl as there interviewingme back all day to say he was sorry

At Richard's party later for Vitas Gerulaitis Margaret Trudeau was there with two girlfriends from Canada One was just divorced and she had three kids and she was fat and big and looked older than Margaret because she was fatter, and she decided to put the ave me the best lines, I mean, you really could fall for it! nobody's ever said anything like it tolike: ”You are so aret should go back to her husband and go into politics and she was thrilled to hear that, that's what she she thinks She had a beautiful stole on, in that deep purple color-”aubergine,” is it? They always say it in the fashi+on shows and I never knohat it is thinks She had a beautiful stole on, in that deep purple color-”aubergine,” is it? They always say it in the fashi+on shows and I never knohat it is

Lacey Neuhaus was there with Francois de Menil and she said that she justto interview him for Interview Interview Frank Gifford was there with a woirlfriend, maybe his wife-she had so much makeup on, lots of white all over her face and lots of eyeliner, but very beautiful He loved his painting The owner of the Giants was there

Wednesday, Novehts, I watched the Tom Snyder Tom Snyder show He had Roy Cohn on Roy Cohn is now Stevie Rubell's lawyer Also Car Archie Bunker things like ”If I could getabout the ”reds,” and this crazy-looking person goes into courtrooine him like down at the Anvil in black leather, he would look so perfect I bet he show He had Roy Cohn on Roy Cohn is now Stevie Rubell's lawyer Also Car Archie Bunker things like ”If I could getabout the ”reds,” and this crazy-looking person goes into courtrooine him like down at the Anvil in black leather, he would look so perfect I bet he does does go to those places He would Or maybe he's just the opposite Yeah, he's probably just the opposite-he wears dresses But the things he was saying, like ”Put everybody in the chair”-it was like hearing Paul Morrissey talk Yeah, they asked him how he could defend Mafia people since he's so concerned about everything, and it was that ”rights” thing It always is, you know-”They have a right to say they're not Mafia and to be defended” go to those places He would Or maybe he's just the opposite Yeah, he's probably just the opposite-he wears dresses But the things he was saying, like ”Put everybody in the chair”-it was like hearing Paul Morrissey talk Yeah, they asked him how he could defend Mafia people since he's so concerned about everything, and it was that ”rights” thing It always is, you know-”They have a right to say they're not Mafia and to be defended”

I was the centerfold of the Post Post, a photo in front of the Sports paintings with a text by Jerry Talls I said that athletes were better thanabout because athletes are are all the newall this publicity and it's ais I think it should beall the newall this publicity and it's ais I think it should be

I read John Si the way Liza looks He was just so awful I mean if she ever saw that it would just crush her so badly And she's actually nice-looking, I mean, I see her, she's not hard to look at What does John Siood-looking people should entertain and I guess that's what I think, too But Liza isn't ugly Liza isn't ugly!

I was also on the front page of the Voice Voice, photographed next to the empress of Iran for an article about torture in Iran

Fred had tickets to the International Center of Photography benefit that Jackie O was putting on at the museum up on Fifth and 94th I asked Jed if he wanted to co mansion The dinner was a horror They put us at such a nothing, nobody table You can't i next to Fred! Fred!

So here ere in this roonize anybody except each other and this girl comes over to me and says, ”I know you have a camera, and you can take pictures of everyone here except Mrs Onassis” I didn't think too ht she was one of those nervous-type girls who run these events And then that rich old guy Nate cu at Fred to open a , and at first Fred was offended-Nate cuured out he was turning senile, so he decided to be a nice boy and do it, and then the girl started screa to call her up and really tell her off, because things got ot up and left that room and Fred went to find Diana Vreeland and alked into the anybody except each other and this girl comes over to me and says, ”I know you have a camera, and you can take pictures of everyone here except Mrs Onassis” I didn't think too ht she was one of those nervous-type girls who run these events And then that rich old guy Nate cu at Fred to open a , and at first Fred was offended-Nate cuured out he was turning senile, so he decided to be a nice boy and do it, and then the girl started screa to call her up and really tell her off, because things got ot up and left that room and Fred went to find Diana Vreeland and alked into the other other room, there was room, there was everybody we knew! everybody we knew! Peter Beard was having fun with Barbara Allen and Lacey Neuhaus Iat Jackie's table! But that's not theWhen alked into this roo pictures of Jackie And that horrible girl had co fun with Barbara Allen and Lacey Neuhaus Iat Jackie's table! But that's not theWhen alked into this roo pictures of Jackie And that horrible girl had co to scream at her It was like a Bobby Zare

I cabbed with Fred and Diana Vreeland to Sutton Place to Robin West's party for Jaave the uy, the fare was 280, and he told hiuy said, ”How , ”I can't do your adding for you” And all the way down in the cab Diana and Fred had been fighting like they were a screa into the conversation with, ”Wasn't that Peter Beard's opening I picked you up outside of? Wasn't he on the cover of the Sunday Times?” Sunday Times?”

I talked to Carole Coleman from New Orleans She's Jiot crazy He'd s like ”I want to eat your pussy,” and on and on like that, they were just talking in front of me and Carole wasn't even embarrassed I was surprised because she's older than oes after She has beautiful eyes and she's rich and never married, she could have been like Jennifer O'Neill, but she has probleuess, and not too s like ”I want to lick your toes and up to and into your cunt,” and then he'd turn to me and say, ”I want you to be there and take pictures, Andy,” and oh, he's just nuts

I went to say hello to Phyllis Wyeth and then Bo Polk and John Larsen cairl that he'd put sohed and called him a coke tease And then Bo and Carole left But then in a few minutes they came back in and talked about if they should leave and she wanted to knohat they were going to do and that went on and on

And then Carole and Bo and Jay Mellon and Catherine and I left and walked We passed a place that had Fae It was the most beautiful picture of a cookie that I've ever seen, and I went in and bought it, but when I opened the package, the cookies were really little It was the first tiood, but they weren't big and beautiful like the one on the package good, but they weren't big and beautiful like the one on the package

Thursday, November 10, 1977 Got a cab don, saw the driver's name and I liked it-Vincent Dooley He was a really cute little boy, so good-looking He said, ”I don't want to be rude, but what does it feel like to be in Iran?” He had the Voice Voice with e on the seat next to him, the article about torture that also mentioned Raquel Welch, Liza Minnelli, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors I got flustered and then told the kid that he was so good-looking, as he a cab driver He said, ”Well, the closest I ever ca” Hethat was in with e on the seat next to him, the article about torture that also mentioned Raquel Welch, Liza Minnelli, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors I got flustered and then told the kid that he was so good-looking, as he a cab driver He said, ”Well, the closest I ever ca” Hethat was in Trash Trash, that Paul brought back fro's litter What he actually said was, ”My girl and I bought his dog” The kid had a high voice so I had high hopes he was a fairy until he said that He said that he's still with the girl and they still have the dog I was eave him 5

Cabbed to the bank (3) then walked to the office Then Rupert ca fro his hair dyed and facials than in working And if you're going to go for facials you have to go every day, and anyway, you ht as well do it yourself, all a ”facial” means is that you take more than five minutes to wash your face Jay and To, their drag queen friend who just died

Went to Regine's dinner for Ira Von Furstenberg (cab 2) Regine never showed up Talked to Ira And then her son ca We did his brother for Interview Interview recently, Kiko Hohenlohe, but this one was even better-looking Ira said, ”I could be the best stage mother in the world” But his father wants him not to be an actor Princess Ira has alanted to be a movie star Always She's been in lots of ht the Darryl Zanuck irlfriend, Genevieve Gilles, and Ira was the second lead recently, Kiko Hohenlohe, but this one was even better-looking Ira said, ”I could be the best stage mother in the world” But his father wants him not to be an actor Princess Ira has alanted to be a movie star Always She's been in lots of ht the Darryl Zanuck irlfriend, Genevieve Gilles, and Ira was the second lead

Francois Catroux was there with his wife Betty, and they were sitting with Ahun And in a case like that who do you say hello to first-you go to the table and who do you kiss first? I know Ahmet was offended Princess Ashraf was there with her boyfriend who likes polo

Catherine was talking to a beautiful wooslavia who seemed to know me, and she asked why I wasn't at Sharon Haet a green card and so is Ira, everybody wants a green card And an interesting thing is that how she knows Sharon is that Mr Oxenberg, Princess Elisabeth's first husband, left her for Maureen McCluskey, Sharon's sister, and I can't figure that out

But anyway, Ira's son was so handsoht kind, like a kid that you would want to go out on a date with

Friday, November 11, 1977 Sal Marciano from channel 7 Eyewitness News 7 Eyewitness News came to the office They shot about five or ten minutes' worth in front of portraits Then the people on the fifth floor called and said there was someone stuck in the elevator around the second floor named Victor Vincent and I went out in the vestibule and heard a little voice calling for help The fifth floor had called the Tenth Precinct, but they should have called the Thirteenth The Tenth was over on the West Side When the police arrived the first tere eency-unit types, with ski jackets and baseball hats, like SWAT-looking Then two uniformed cops came came to the office They shot about five or ten minutes' worth in front of portraits Then the people on the fifth floor called and said there was someone stuck in the elevator around the second floor named Victor Vincent and I went out in the vestibule and heard a little voice calling for help The fifth floor had called the Tenth Precinct, but they should have called the Thirteenth The Tenth was over on the West Side When the police arrived the first tere eency-unit types, with ski jackets and baseball hats, like SWAT-looking Then two uniforency regulation rulebook But one kidded and said, ”Do you have any dyna down into the shaft and the other was holding onto his coattails Finally from the third floor they lowered a rope ladder down to the car and brought Victor up through the hole in the top

Then afterwards they washed up in the bathroo on the table, the gun in the holster, while he washed up They were both 6'5” 6'5”

Sunday, Nove dressed for a leather party He said he'd been to a party the night before where it was a bunch of ”straight” carpenters inviting a bunch of gay faggots I don't knohat that means

Cabbed with Bob up to 94th Street to Paul Jenkins and Joanne du Pont's house Ran into Linda Eastman's father, the lawyer, and his wife on the street

Paul Jenkins is nutty He told Bob and me, ”I nearly fainted when you called today to say that you couldn't stay for dinner because you weren't invited invited for dinner You're invited for dinner You're invited next next week” Instead of just not saying anything and ould have thought we'd been invited twice week” Instead of just not saying anything and ould have thought we'd been invited twice

The du Pont lady told un's and ere in front of the fireplace and the screen exploded She happened to be wearing the biggest diaot it froot back to the hotel that night-she wouldn't say which hotel-she put it in the safe, and that night, she said, they switched ice on her, gave her a piece of glass

Paul Jenkins showed us his collection-American Indian and Indian Indian stuff When I was in India I could've gotten anything for nothing, but it's one of those things I just don't understand Like Chinese stuff-I can't tell which is the good stuff, it all looks like the same junk And he told us, ”Lincoln Kirstein had his annual birthday freakout, but this time he physically threw his boyfriend out of the house,” so Paul was setting the guy up in a little aparts to Zero Mostel's son I really want to do people like Lincoln Kirstein in Interview Interview I think it'd be so fascinating to do hiood

Sunday, January 1, 1978 I felt like store pills, and it's scary

Monday, January 2, 1978 I cabbed down to University Place and it was bubbling and bustling (cab 4) It was a half-holiday I got to the office and I was a secretary, answering the phone Robert Hayes and Marc Balet came in to work on Interview Interview

I called Bianca and she said to coht over to Halston's, so we did and Dr Giller the cute doctor was already there We cabbed to Saturday Night Fever Saturday Night Fever (3) and e got there it was all sold out So then we cabbed to the other theater where it was playing and that was sold out, too (cab 3) Then we decided to try to see the Bunuel filot there it was all sold out So then we cabbed to the other theater where it was playing and that was sold out, too (cab 3) Then we decided to try to see the Bunuel film, That Obscure Object of Desire That Obscure Object of Desire (tickets 14, popcorn 4) It was really good, more modern than his early ones because every once in a while when it would get quiet, they would look out thethrough the venetian blinds at the Paris street, and a bo up But none of us could understand the irls, and they never explain why (tickets 14, popcorn 4) It was really good, more modern than his early ones because every once in a while when it would get quiet, they would look out thethrough the venetian blinds at the Paris street, and a bo up But none of us could understand the irls, and they never explain why

Larry Rivers and his girlfriend came in and they sat near us Larry told me that he did Aly Kaiser's portrait, and she's the one that said she wantedme to call her and I just didn't So Larry did her portrait, and I think he must have had to fuck her, I don't know

So alked back to Halston's, and he'd fixed those pastas with meat inside them, not ravioli but maybe they're called cannellonis? And he'd made a chicken, and we had lots of drinks And Stevie Rubell was there, and Bianca got upset because he reads the London papers and he quoted so Mick had said It was in Earl Wilson's column here today about hiave it to him-I mean, he pretends to be so friendly, and then he calls up the papers And there were sofor a statement from Bianca or Halston

Bianca and Halston seem like they're a couple now, they really do It's like a romance But Bianca is so upset about Mick, and I'et somebody rich in a minute Somebody said to Halston, ”Why don't you marry Bianca?” and he put his hands on his hips and said, ”Because I'm I'm the hostess here” the hostess here”

And then we all went over to a place called the Ice Palace on 57th and Sixth It's lesbians and hustlers Bianca was dancing around, but she's so unhappy, and she and Halston were trying to get Jed to go ho me if this was okay She said, ”nobody likesspilled on them

Tuesday, January 3, 1978 There's an article in People People about my Athletes show that's on now at the Coe Kerr Gallery about my Athletes show that's on now at the Coe Kerr Gallery

When I got home from the office I made a lot of phone calls, then walked over to Halston's to pick up Bianca, she was cooking like a Puerto Rican, and she had the whole house sers, she had them out on the counter We cabbed up to 86th Street (275) and we finally hit Saturday Night Fever Saturday Night Fever at the right tireat That bridge thing was the best scene-and the lines were great It's I guess the new kind of fantasy movie, you're supposed to stay where you are The old et in Well, thewas the best scene-and the lines were great It's I guess the new kind of fantasy movie, you're supposed to stay where you are The old et out of the dead end andyou that it's better off to stay where you are in Brooklyn-to avoid Park Avenue because it would just et out of the dead end andyou that it's better off to stay where you are in Brooklyn-to avoid Park Avenue because it would just make you unhappy It's about people ould never never even think about crossing the bridge, that's the fantasy And they played up Travolta's big solo dance number, but then at the end they , so underplayed They were s, didn't it? The Brooklyn Bridge and New York Stevie Rubell wants to do a disco movie, but I don't think you could do another one, this one was so great But why didn't they do it as a play first? What was this first, a short story? They should have milked it-done it as a play first and it would have run forever even think about crossing the bridge, that's the fantasy And they played up Travolta's big solo dance number, but then at the end they , so underplayed They were s, didn't it? The Brooklyn Bridge and New York Stevie Rubell wants to do a disco movie, but I don't think you could do another one, this one was so great But why didn't they do it as a play first? What was this first, a short story? They should have milked it-done it as a play first and it would have run forever

Bianca fell asleep Somewhere in the theater we found Dr Giller But he had related to the ain, so we left him there and went back to Halston's

Halston and Bianca were in the kitchen together cooking, and he said he had so ossip-he said that the night before when the doorbell rang it was Liza Minnelli Her life's very co down the street with Jack Haley her husband and they'd run into Martin Scorsese who she's now having an affair with, and Marty confronted her that she was also having an affair with Baryshnikov and Marty said how could could she This is going on with her husband, Jack Haley, standing there! And Halston said that it was all true, and he also said that Jack Haley she This is going on with her husband, Jack Haley, standing there! And Halston said that it was all true, and he also said that Jack Haley wasn't wasn't gay You see? I was right, I didn't gay You see? I was right, I didn't think think so Halston said Jack so Halston said Jack likes likes Liza but that what he Liza but that what he really really goes for is big curvy blonde woht before, it was Liza in a hat pulled down so nobody would recognize her, and she said to Halston, ”Give ave her a bottle of coke, a few sticks of marijuana, a Valium, four Quaaludes, and they were all wrapped in a tiny box, and then a little figure in a white hat came up on the stoop and kissed Halston, and it was Marty Scorsese, he'd been hiding around the corner, and then he and Liza went off to have their affair on all the drugs goes for is big curvy blonde woht before, it was Liza in a hat pulled down so nobody would recognize her, and she said to Halston, ”Give ave her a bottle of coke, a few sticks of marijuana, a Valium, four Quaaludes, and they were all wrapped in a tiny box, and then a little figure in a white hat came up on the stoop and kissed Halston, and it was Marty Scorsese, he'd been hiding around the corner, and then he and Liza went off to have their affair on all the drugs

Then Dr Giller arrived froht Fever Saturday Night Fever Bianca had been fighting with Victor before he caers she'dto save some for Dr Giller But I think she just wanted the

The sex Pistols arrived in the US today Punk is going to be so big They're so s in Pittsburgh where the kids have nothing to do, so they'll go really crazy

And Bianca loves Jed She keeps calling the house, but he was off in Connecticut with Judith Hollander and Sandy Brant for his interior decorating business

And they wanted to go out, but Halston didn't like the way Bianca looked, so he put three feathers in her hair Oh, and Victor had just coet an extra bottle of Vaseline from upstairs

Wednesday, January 4, 1978 In the afternoon Edwige, the Queen of Paris Punk, cauy doith her She just got married and her husband sent her on a honeymoon, she said He stayed hoe doesn't have any hair, and the hairdresser had hair down his back Then about twenty kids that I'd id the Fat Lady Then they saw the Lesbian Then they saw the Hairdresser Then the tour was over But we got rid of lots of Interviews Interviews on the like that on the like that

Cabbed to Bianca-at-Halston's (225) Bianca wasn't there She'd slept all day and was out at her exercise class Halston was on the floor having a fit and he told lots of gossip He said that once Liza and Bianca were both at his house, they were in the bathrooirls like to do that, have people to talk to while they're in the bathrooer muscles than Liza, and so they dropped their tops and were co muscles in the mirror and Halston walked in on the me this, Bianca came in from exercise class and Halston had her show her muscles, so she dropped her top and showed theood body on top Then she made another Puerto Rican dinner

And then Dr Giller caht dancing, so he was refreshed, and he started trying to find Halston's energy center, and while he did that, Halston was having white powder, so finally when Dr Giller announced that he'd found Halston's energy center Halston had had enough white powder so that he did have energy Then Bianca brought the food in and the doorbell rang and it was Victor in his underwear

And then it was time to dress Bianca for Studio 54 Then over to Studio 54 and it was full of pretty people