Part 8 (1/2)

Thursday, January 5, 1978 Bianca had slipped her number to Nastase at the tennis ot to Halston's the phone was ringing and it was Nastase, and Bianca told him to come over He arrived with a boyfriend, just one of his friends, and he was inti the Disco Queen in a coat he'd made for her that day, and she ca [imitates] [imitates], ”Come on, Disco Queen” He talks like baby talk He didn't put any feathers in her hair this time I told him he couldn't, that the newspapers wouldn't take her picture if she put one more feather in her hair

And then Nastase's boyfriend decided not to coot in the li at the driver because he couldn't find the black radio station, he said, ”What do you mean you don't knohere the black station is-you're black black, aren't you?” And then the driver said he couldn't see,the radio dial, and Halston said, ”What do you , aren't you?” and then he told me that you have to yell at the help or they don't respect you He has over a hundred people working for hi each other what kind of a -Bianca had two bleuess she's depressed about Mick, discoing the night away She stays out until 6:00 then gets up for her 8:00 exercise class

Friday, January 6, 1978 Victor came over to the office a few tiht Richard Weis up to the Coe Kerr Gallery and so I had to go up there to sign (cab 5) Pele's nice, he invited ed and went down to Victor's loft (cab 4) Victor had a security guard at the door, and his loft was all set up, he had lots of liquor and beautiful boys I'd never seen before And Chris Makos caetting all the kids to do funny things, taking off their shi+rts and posing And there was a drag queen there, a former cockette named I think Jumpin' Jack and he had about 18 pounds of tit And Diana Vreeland cas and Lucie Arnaz They'd just seen the Mary Martin show Larissa was there and Edwige Edas unhappy because she caain, so at the party Edwige put a four-inch cut in an X on the back of her wrist-later Victor found blood in his apartment

And then, my dear, it was like a story-book fairy tale Halston arrived in white, with Bianca on his arm in white fur, with Dr Giller in white, in a white limo, with a white driver

Saturday, January 7, 1978 The maid at Halston's said Bianca was still upstairs asleep but that I could go up there I woke Bianca up and she jumped up and put her clothes on over her pajamas, and that's when I realized that Bianca doesn't really take drugs-just a few poppers and maybe sos, she's normal

Sunday, January 8, 1978 Got to Madison Square Garden for the tennis , and Bianca told Jade to put her hands over her face, which is really funny, that Bianca has her trained, and Jade said, ”But you have your your picture taken, Mommy” Bianca just wants all the attention for herself TheConnors won picture taken, Mommy” Bianca just wants all the attention for herself TheConnors won

I read The New York Times The New York Times at Halston's, he was at the office Someone called Bianca and she was on the phone for an hour talking about her proble For the first half-hour she was talking about soet their picture in the papers-she's so funny, because that's all she ever wants herself-and then the other half-hour she was talking about what a stupid blonde Jerry Hall is I think she's really worried that she's getting her per papers from Mick While Bianca was on the phone Jade asked ave her some M&Ms and then she said, ”You've at Halston's, he was at the office Someone called Bianca and she was on the phone for an hour talking about her proble For the first half-hour she was talking about soet their picture in the papers-she's so funny, because that's all she ever wants herself-and then the other half-hour she was talking about what a stupid blonde Jerry Hall is I think she's really worried that she's getting her per papers from Mick While Bianca was on the phone Jade asked ave her soive ave her a few and she said, ”You've got to give o to the bathrooe if ent all the way to an upstairs bathroom and she said, ”Well, come under the stairs, then” I slipped the M&Ms to her and she took theave her a few and she said, ”You've got to give o to the bathrooe if ent all the way to an upstairs bathroom and she said, ”Well, come under the stairs, then” I slipped the M&Ms to her and she took thes

Monday, January 9, 1978 Worked a little at the office with Rupert and then with Alex Heinrici I' h the snow The whole ride was long and hard (10)

Liza had sent six tickets for Bianca anted to see The Act The Act Bianca disinvited Victor because she wanted to invite Stevie Rubell and her dancing teacher as in froet hio because she'd heard Jackie O would be there and she wanted to get photographed

Jed and I went over to Bianca's, thinking she'd have a car, but she didn't Jade was co, looking around for Jackie O The Act The Act was good again Bianca was putting it down, but toward the end when she knee'd have to go see Liza she started putting it up, saying it was great Jade had to pee Jackie and Swifty Lazar and Jack Haley and Bianca all had their pictures taken and everyone was staring while they did And afterwards ent backstage to see Liza I pointed ot a little breathy talk (tickets 60) was good again Bianca was putting it down, but toward the end when she knee'd have to go see Liza she started putting it up, saying it was great Jade had to pee Jackie and Swifty Lazar and Jack Haley and Bianca all had their pictures taken and everyone was staring while they did And afterwards ent backstage to see Liza I pointed ot a little breathy talk (tickets 60)

Then we cabbed back to Halston's (3) and e got there, he was just going to bed You could see he was really ready to go to bed, he had Linda in his arot on the phone and made calls to find out here, as at the Ice Palace, as at Elaine's, and then ent up to Elaine's (cab 275)

After the show Liza's group had gone to ”21,” and Bianca was calling there leavingit ”the book” Like, ”I haven't got the book for her yet”

Halston hadn't dressed Bianca before she went out so she looked really ae went to the theater, but nobody had wanted to tell her But e got back to Halston's he finally told her how terrible she looked He had her take off the turban and put on dark lipstick, and then then she looked good But then she realized how bad she'd looked for the photographers at the theater Jade earing a long dress she looked good But then she realized how bad she'd looked for the photographers at the theater Jade earing a long dress

Then Peter Beard calove on and a bottle of coke in the other hand, and then later he showed us his hand which was a stuhoul-he lost it in a plane crash, his third plane crash, a DC-10 that he owns He passed the bottle of coke around (dinner 13038, tip 20)

Then ent to the Ice Palace (cab 3) and it wasn't so crowded, just a few hustlers, and then around 3:00 Jed and I slipped out

Tuesday, January 10, 1978 I walked over to Halston's and when I got there Jane Rose, Mick's secretary, was there and she was calling Mick so that he could sing to Jade before bedtiet Fred on the line but it was busy for four hours I wanted him to come out with us because I wanted to be able to duck out early

Bianca was telling her side of thethat she never cheated on Mick, but then she said he was splitting frouy na one with Mark Shand But she said she never flaunted it publicly She told me that she wanted to be somebody on her own, and that she'd alanted to hs) she could buy any waiter She said she's giving Mick his divorce and I told her that they shouldn't break up She said she and Mick hit rock bottoo to bed with him because she just doesn't think he's attractive And she said Mick was ”rude,” putting her down recently, she said she's never put she could buy any waiter She said she's giving Mick his divorce and I told her that they shouldn't break up She said she and Mick hit rock bottoo to bed with him because she just doesn't think he's attractive And she said Mick was ”rude,” putting her down recently, she said she's never put him him down She said she couldn't be ”free”-like a free spirit-with Mick because of who he was, and she was a nobody And she talked about her trip to Hollywood co up and she talked in that lub-luh-luh voice about her ”role” in this movie with Tony Curtis and Lionel Stander and Gloria Graha the part for her, that she'd told thes she wanted It takes place in Costa Rica And she's scared because ”the Critics are waiting to tear me down” And I don't know if she can do it I ht I made a point to watch her and she's no Rita Hayworth, she's no Rita Hayworth down She said she couldn't be ”free”-like a free spirit-with Mick because of who he was, and she was a nobody And she talked about her trip to Hollywood co up and she talked in that lub-luh-luh voice about her ”role” in this movie with Tony Curtis and Lionel Stander and Gloria Graha the part for her, that she'd told thes she wanted It takes place in Costa Rica And she's scared because ”the Critics are waiting to tear me down” And I don't know if she can do it I ht I made a point to watch her and she's no Rita Hayworth, she's no Rita Hayworth

She was happy because the Daily News Daily News finally ran the pictures of her with Liza and Jackie O froht before at finally ran the pictures of her with Liza and Jackie O froht before at The Act The Act in it (cab to Studio 54 350) in it (cab to Studio 54 350)

I'd given so that now this breakup is taking its toll on Jade, but Jade looks okay to uys and getting the the

Wednesday, January 11, 1978 Paulette called a few times to say not to be late I dropped off Catherine and Fred (5) and picked her up at the Ritz Towers at 8:15 (cab 150) I asked her where the new Halston she bought was, and she said, ”I brought it back, it ood on her, the YSL, and she had on her rubies, about a million dollars around her neck-I know, because I saw a stone like that that wasn't even as good and it it was a million was a million

We drove to the Waldorf Towers and the driver went around the other way to avoid the anti-Iranian deht about the torture in Iran and Paulette said, ”Listen, Valerian Rybar is torturingher apart that it's been a year

The du Pont lady and Paul Jenkins were there, they'd just stepped off the Concorde ”Suzy” was there, and her apart done by Valerian Rybar and she told Paulette not to take it personally-that he'd been doing her her place for two and a half years I told ”Suzy” I loved her column that day because there was so much dirt in it about Mick and Bianca, and how Mick has left Jerry Hall, and about Liza and Baryshnikov and Scorsese Hoveyda and Zahedi were there, Barbara Walters was there with Roone Arledge I was so excited to meet Roone, we talked about Art Buchwald And Mayor Koch was there with Bess Myerson, and she's really tall and handsoht And Governor Carey walked by and I said hello to hi, he ith the Ford girl And Beverly Sills was there, she's tall, too This was a thing for ”artists” and to an Iranian exhibit at Asia House shi+rley MacLaine said hello to me a few times And Mollie Parnis was there, and Jerzy Kosinski place for two and a half years I told ”Suzy” I loved her column that day because there was so much dirt in it about Mick and Bianca, and how Mick has left Jerry Hall, and about Liza and Baryshnikov and Scorsese Hoveyda and Zahedi were there, Barbara Walters was there with Roone Arledge I was so excited to meet Roone, we talked about Art Buchwald And Mayor Koch was there with Bess Myerson, and she's really tall and handsoht And Governor Carey walked by and I said hello to hi, he ith the Ford girl And Beverly Sills was there, she's tall, too This was a thing for ”artists” and to an Iranian exhibit at Asia House shi+rley MacLaine said hello to me a few times And Mollie Parnis was there, and Jerzy Kosinski

Then they started the speeches Zahedi, then the-eer-and he talked for al-winded They flew in violets for the ladies, and the caviar was called Pearls of the Caspian Sea and Paulette had about a pound It hite and not too salty The violinist froraph Paulette wanted to leave so we did and she said she'd go out of her way to drop me at the door, it was so cold I mean, you kno it's cold when it's cold when Paulette Paulette gets considerate gets considerate

Thursday, January 12, 1978 Interviewed Lucie Arnaz at Quo Vadis, and it was nothing really startling She's so tall, she eats everything, she's a little fat and she earing jeans so she looked fatter, but she has a beautiful face We brought up Jim Bailey the female impersonator and Burt Reynolds She dated both of theht up strict, they think you shouldn't put out

Went uptown (6) to pick Catherine up at 7:50 and walked over to the Copa for the Bette Midler opening that Mica Ertegun sent tickets for Ron Galella was there and he had his own ca done on him It was the same Mafia-type people at the Copa like e had our party there last year Richard Turley was standing in the doorway and he asked if he could try to slip in with me, and I didn't knohat to say, I said he could do whatever he wanted to but that it was Mafia and that he'd never make it, and he didn't Chessy Rayner was there, and Peter Tufo and Lee Radziere there together but she was at a different table froet to that in a second

I couldn't see anything, just the top two inches of Bette's head when she finally ca so that she faced Peter Tufo and pretty soon I felt his leg rubbing against ht it was Catherine They were really flirting hot and heavy, and he said to her, ”Why don't you get up on the table and boogie?” and I was surprised because he's usually so sour He was yelling things like (laughs) (laughs) ”Colored sounds!” at the black girls singing ”Colored sounds!” at the black girls singing

I kept hitting Catherine to turn around and look at the show, but she was telling about going to Plato's Retreat the night before She said she didn't know if she'd been penetrated or not while she was there, and hearing this got Peter Tufo hotter, and she spilled a drink on his pants, but that just made him hotter, too, and he slipped her a note that I found out later said just ”When?” ”When?” and all I could think was that it was a repeat of our friend Barbara Allen taking Peter Beard away fro Peter Tufo and all I could think was that it was a repeat of our friend Barbara Allen taking Peter Beard away fro Peter Tufo

I just wanted to run out, it's a firetrap there, I hate to be in places like that And then everybody left, Catherine went back inside to get the ”When?” ”When?” note and we got separated, and she went over to Quo Vadis in the Erteguns' li in Lee and Peter Tufo were fighting, but Lee stopped fighting to wish me Happy New Year with a kiss We were at Aheon Lee left first and I thought Peter Tufo would stay for Catherine, but he left with Lee, so Catherine was safe And Ah funny And afterwards ere all invited up to the Cotton Club, which they were reopening with Cab Calloway in Harleo, but I don't think anybody else really did I walked Catherine hoot separated, and she went over to Quo Vadis in the Erteguns' li in Lee and Peter Tufo were fighting, but Lee stopped fighting to wish me Happy New Year with a kiss We were at Aheon Lee left first and I thought Peter Tufo would stay for Catherine, but he left with Lee, so Catherine was safe And Ah funny And afterwards ere all invited up to the Cotton Club, which they were reopening with Cab Calloway in Harleo, but I don't think anybody else really did I walked Catherine horaphs of Edwige cutting her wrists at Victor's party the other night, and Victor said that her scars would be punk jewelry

And Bob uy fro like the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, and they want to have a party at the office to unveil the Liza portrait I' Ru Interview Interview three et Burt Reynolds for this ca his portrait, too, but the two people he wants to be in the ad with hiht” So Bob called Burt's er in LA and had to ask if they could suber said, ”Listen, Burt's endorsement is worth a million dollars and he's only even three et Burt Reynolds for this ca his portrait, too, but the two people he wants to be in the ad with hiht” So Bob called Burt's er in LA and had to ask if they could suber said, ”Listen, Burt's endorsement is worth ait because he wants a Warhol portrait, and if Burt sent a et and a dwarf over to be in the ad with hiency should be thrilled” And Bob said the people Burt wants aren't even bad-looking anyway it because he wants a Warhol portrait, and if Burt sent a et and a dwarf over to be in the ad with hiency should be thrilled” And Bob said the people Burt wants aren't even bad-looking anyway

Friday, January 13, 1978 Lunch for Bloo that Mr Traub himself came down And Cal, the friend of Robert Hayes's as at Bonwit's and gave us ads there, is now at Bloo impressive speech about Interview Interview, and then he turned to Carole Rogers, Interview's Interview's associate publisher, and said, ”Carole, could you give us soures that he'd given-that associate publisher, and said, ”Carole, could you give us soures that he'd given-that Interview's Interview's circulation is 80,000 and that 20 percent of that is subscriptions-but instead she said, ”Our subscriptions are 7,000,” and everyone turned red and gasped, and Bob couldn't believe it Afterwards Cal called and said that was the first thing Mr Traub brought up in the car after they left, so that ive circulation is 80,000 and that 20 percent of that is subscriptions-but instead she said, ”Our subscriptions are 7,000,” and everyone turned red and gasped, and Bob couldn't believe it Afterwards Cal called and said that was the first thing Mr Traub brought up in the car after they left, so that ive Interview Interview soht people All the Bloo because they do think it reaches the right people All the Bloodale's people were in blue suits

Saturday, January 14, 1978 Went to a screening of The Leopard The Leopard that Suzie Frankfurt was having at her house Victor was there with a really good-looking little seventeen-year-old high school kid fro at her house Victor was there with a really good-looking little seventeen-year-old high school kid froood looks, and I was thinking how can he cos like o to the Raood looks, and I was thinking how can he cos like o to the Ra of The Leopard The Leopard, and then go back and sit all day in high school

Monday, January 16, 1978 We found out Andrea Portago isMick Flick this weekend in Switzerland And then Barbara Allen came by with Lacey Neuhaus Barbara was just back from Acapulco, and she was very tanned When she heard the news about Mick Flick and Andrea, she tried not to look shocked-she recovered in a second and said, ”I only had one date with hi that I left before the espresso”

At around 4:00 Margaret Trudeau arrived, and Marc Balet and Robert Hayes took her to be photographed Arranged to meet her at 9:00 at Quo Vadis Worked until around 8:00, then dropped off Catherine (cab 4)

Went holued, and then walked over to Quo Vadis to reat interview She had five aritas Her family sounds like Viva's, she has a lot of sisters, too, but then she's ent and more beautiful than Viva and her family, because she's not so crazy She hitchhiked in 1969 in Morocco And she had us turn off the tape and she told us that she sat next to Nixon at dinner and he didn't talk to her the whole time until he turned around and told her about the sex life of a panda, and that was it

Margaret earing a new designer's dress She said she was just on the list of the worst-dressed wooes, no o after her and keep snapping Then ent over to Studio 54 for Scavullo's birthday party and it was true (cab 325) Margaret was dancing and the camerarapher, but there were twenty to fifty When they brought in the birthday cake, which was in the shape of a camera for Scavullo, they didn't even notice the cake-they were still going after Margaret

Tuesday, January 17, 1978 We went to the Vincis' dinner for Lina Werthed all overover the flu But I found that lady Cappy Badrutt and she was fun-I really like her, she's so beautiful, like an elegant courtesan She told me about some of her affairs When I left Bob stayed on so Fred dropped me off

Wednesday, January 18, 1978 John Chamberlain and his neife Lorraine caer than he is He said he was tired of living in lofts-he's looking for a s the sareat-the car crashes-and people are still buying theraphs of him and his wife

Thursday, January 19, 1978 Went to the auction of Joan Crawford's costue pink necklace and when it went over her liave it to her She was so grateful she took e to Sixth Avenue near Waverly and showed me a secret store she'd discovered on the second floor where a ed to his sister who's now dead It was the greatest place and I bought about five dresses Everything there is size 14, though, because the sister was fat The store is called Fabulous Fashi+ons, and it has hats and handbags and umbrellas, too, and it's all cheap cheap

I went hoot that Sandra Payson-you know, Lady Weidenfeld-had told lued myself and went over there Cabbed to Sutton Place (225) It was a small dinner party and when I saas the only one not in black tie, that's when I remembered that she had mentioned it When they sa bad I looked everybody ran away from me and they didn't co tothe lots of dresses now, and they just backed away And Mrs Payson invited , but she never uess she was so shocked by ainst it

The party was for a ballerina whose na ballerina at the sah She told me about every cat she'd ever had and how each one died She had a Siae and then fell five stories, and she said she could still see the claw e, and that was sad-it tried to turn around and it slipped

Friday, January 20, 1978 This was thebefore Biggest snowstorm since '69

Down at the office I looked out theand for about an hour a black et his car unstuck He went down into the subway and ca hiet back into the car to try it he'd take the shovel inside with hier Negro guy with a bigger shovel walked by but he didn't help him McDonald's closed early Chemical Bank closed at 1:00

Saturday, January 21, 1978 Cabbed over to Studio 54, and then e got there, the place was packed Ken Norton was there It was juht, Stevie couldn't believe that soaway people at the door as usual Then anted to go down to a place called Christy's Restaurant on West 11th Street where there was a Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live party for Steve Martin We went outside to try to get a cab but we couldn't Then along cairl in a car who offered us a ride anywhere anted to go, and we took it They said that Stevie wouldn't let theht, but they looked okay toqueen, it was the Studio 54 look As ere going along Catherine looked out theand said wasn't that Lou Reed on the street, and it was He ith a Chinese chick, and they got in and he was very friendly When we got to Christy's, Steve Martin was great, he seemed thrilled to et a cab but we couldn't Then along cairl in a car who offered us a ride anywhere anted to go, and we took it They said that Stevie wouldn't let theht, but they looked okay toqueen, it was the Studio 54 look As ere going along Catherine looked out theand said wasn't that Lou Reed on the street, and it was He ith a Chinese chick, and they got in and he was very friendly When we got to Christy's, Steve Martin was great, he seemed thrilled toa fortieth birthday party for his brother Peter in his apart party Jackie O and Caroline were there Caroline asked ht of totalitarianism and I couldn't pronounce it so I tried to joke about it and she said, ”No, I'as there, and Jonas Mekas fil Peter Beard

Fred was there with Lacey Neuhaus and Stevie Rubell was there Victor arrived in a torn T-shi+rt with spurs on his ar that looked like he ht have found in the street or maybe used in Halston's display , like a part of a machine And he had a present for reat Barbara Allen was there with Philip Niarchos, he's in town Ronnie and Gigi and Walter Steding were also there, and Jennifer Jakobson who doesn't seem to be with Francois de Menil anymore And Steve Aronson He's a real charreat clothes Peter was very happy because all of his old girlfriends were in one room

Then we all went over to Studio 54, and they had an elephant cake for Peter coreat African elephant pictures Arnold Schwarzenegger was there I left around 2:00 just as Halston and Bianca were coraphers didn't care, they're tired of Bianca She better get out of town for a while