Part 10 (1/2)

Then Tos for ine and Diana and then nelli

Saturday, April 8, 1978 I' for a way to paint the BMW David Whitney said why didn't I get one of those paint rollers that you roll flower designs on the ith, so I went to paint stores and finally one place could have one for me on Monday, so I'll send Ronnie up (cabs 200, 215, 160)

Bob said let's take Mick and Jerry out and entertain them, and so we invited theot drunk (dinner 320) Then ith Mick back to the Pierre because he wanted to take his sneakers off-why is everybody wearing sneakers? Why don't they make them in dark colors so they could be dress shoes, they'd be so co point of calling her Miss Hall all the ti that they should really go to a new place Because Mick had always been at the Pierre with Bianca It took the to move to the Carlyle

Mick wanted us to hear his new record, and ere going to bring it over to Studio 54 but it was at Earl McGrath's house, so ent over there (cab 4) Jann and Jane Wenner were there and Stephen Graha wrapped in foil in his pocket It looked like drugs, but it turned out to be a Rice Crispie cookie

We went to Studio 54 and e got there it was already so late, I didn't realize it And Jane and Steve Grahaot so to do anything like that again It's bad ie And by the way, Bob says he saw ums ere in Mick's rooer was in my mouth, but, uhokay, so I didn't leave there until 4:00 When I got ho, and so they notified Jed what ti home

Monday, April 10, 1978 Mr Ballato is in the hospital and they're operating on him tomorrow He's lost fifty pounds in awith him He said New York Hospital was so bad to him He went in for tests and when they were over he had a black eye His wife is running the restaurant

Tuesday, April 11, 1978 Watched the Today Show Today Shoith Gene Shalit interviewing Fran Lebowitz in theFran Lebowitz in theand waited for the word Interview Interview but she only mentioned but she only mentioned Made enough to work it in if she wanted Gene Shalit thinks she's hysterical

And then Averil Meyer came to the office because she wanted towith Dotson Rader at 3:00 (cab 4) But they didn't get there until 4:00

Brigid was offended that Dotson said ”fuck” and ”shi+t” in front of Ruth, and she said, ”There's nothing left to respect in life if he can say that in front of the president's sister It just shows you that Nixon should be back in the White House” And Ruth Carter Stapleton eet, and Dotson was disgusting as usual She wanted a Polaroid of us and naturally there weren't any bulbs, so Ronnie went out to get some and Vincent took a Polarvision ave her a Bad Bad T-shi+rt T-shi+rt

And the guy fro a portrait of a haot me the job I can't re, not Wendy's, not Wetsons-soh Ti me up in a limo at 8:30 So I waited until 10:00 and finally they arrived, then we picked up Brigid I wanted to tape the a T-shi+rt of two guysme up in a limo at 8:30 So I waited until 10:00 and finally they arrived, then we picked up Brigid I wanted to tape the a T-shi+rt of two guysit

Well, ent down to 10th Street between First and Second to Princess Pa like that Carole was in a fur coat We rang the doorbell and Princess Pa She looked like a drag queen, so you get the idea They'd expected us at 8:30 Well, ent up the stairs to the second floor and there was nobody else in the place but two Negro girls, waitresses-entertainers It was three little rooirls were about thirty-five and sort of intelligent, but like black Valerie Solanises It was a restaurant with readings in between courses The place started out fifteen years ago, and Craig Claiborne gave it a couple of stars in 1966 when it was on the ground floor And they had pictures of Norman Norell on the wall and he's dead already of throat cancer, probably fro about Idi A over from Paris once for a party at her place but I don't know, that that I

Toni and Carole-all they talk about is 1966 I kept asking thes, I guess, so they said, ”Nothing”

The princess put on a gown and was singing, and she brought in a 2' X 1' peach cobbler made out of a canned peach and it was so sad because nobody had been there, it wasn't even cut into She said, ”I made it just for you” And I didn't want to eat it, so to ave ives her her, and said how dare I And the princess had a brochure about the place that had soid was just in love with the place, you kno overboard she goes She's going to start going there all the time And then I couldn't take it anymore, I just had to leave, so I went downstairs Toni paid the bill

Wednesday, April 12, 1978 Suddenly TV ca thelater on Well, it was ato roll the paint on with a roller with the flowers on it, and I was going to do it in pink and black but then Chris Makos had e it to yellow and black, and I started to roll it on, and the paint was shi+ny and it slipped, and it wouldn't stick to the car model, and Victor Bockris was there and I rolled it on hiot sick, it was such a mess

Thursday, April 13, 1978 Interview lost the Halston centerfold ad,me it's on the way, and then yesterday they called and said they didn't know anything about it, so we don't know Victor's so out of touch with the Halston house now Stevie is Halston's new best friend -he's over there every night instead of going to work at Studio 54 Victor always said that you did have to watch Halston-that he could turn on you-that you had to stay lamorous for him lost the Halston centerfold ad,me it's on the way, and then yesterday they called and said they didn't know anything about it, so we don't know Victor's so out of touch with the Halston house now Stevie is Halston's new best friend -he's over there every night instead of going to work at Studio 54 Victor always said that you did have to watch Halston-that he could turn on you-that you had to stay la that happened was a kid arrived with a singing telegram for Marc Balet's birthday, but Marc wasn't there yet, so they caetMessenger” I asked hi ”I'm So Glad You Came Out of the Closet Today,” which he said is one of their s, so that was funny

Friday, April 14, 1978 Went with Richard Weisman to the Hotel Americana for a banquet for the Yankees The master of ceremonies was Howard Cosell, and they ie Jackson's autograph And it was funny because Averil Meyer's grand, ”I own the Mets,” and everybody thought she was crazy She wrote Yogi Berra a note and passed it on toward hiot up and went and took it back He used to be with the Mets The note said so like: ”Reave ot his award-that's what it was for And Howard Cosell was introducing people frouess Richard is pushi+ng to get the paintings sold

I talked to Suzy Chapstick and she said that she's noticed that et famous are tomboys when they're little, and I said that I'd been a to proble around saying that if Halston didn't pay us the ht from us, that he, Victor, would repossess them and sell them to Elsa Peretti Halston asked Fred if we'd put Victor up to it Fred said no And Halston's fired everyone at the house -Lorenzo and thetrouble with his line, he can't work, he's been so upset The other night in the baseht that Elsa started-she was attacking Stevie and calling everybody faggots and it was really bad, I guess I wasn't there Bob finally got her to leave with hih to make you want to stay holasses and everything So between Victor and Elsa, Halston's really a wreck

The other big event at the office in the afternoon hen Ronnie opened the door to the bathroom in the conference rooaret Trudeau sitting on the toilet with her pants down and a coke spoon up her nose He said, ”Excuse me,” and backed out She'd come doith Tom Sullivan

Saturday, April 15, 1978 I don't kno to handle the Victor situation He called and I talked to hi reat, it's just like my philosophy, I wish I could remember it all He follows her advice and creates all these probleht a s to do and she thought if she could get nervous everyto pay her the rent that that would reat? And Victor says he just makes all these proble I tell hi so easily with Halston” And he says, ”I can't, I have Latin blood I can't pretend, it's nice to fight It ets so ith Victor on the phone so I tell hi so easily with Halston” And he says, ”I can't, I have Latin blood I can't pretend, it's nice to fight It ets so ith Victor on the phone

Sunday, April 16, 1978 The gossip froht at Studio 54 before was that Jack Nicholson came in and Ryan O'Neal was there with Barbara Allen and everyone was trying to keep Jack and Ryan apart so they wouldn't see each other Barbara thought it was because of her, but it was the situation with Anjelica-she's been seeing Ryan lately And Stevie called and said how hard he worked, that it was sowith Mona Christiansen And Stevie said that Liza was dying for Marty Scorsese to get back to town, because Baryshnikov just sees too irls

I worked all afternoon and then I watched Holocaust Holocaust and kept rapefruit juice and vodka and kept passing out They gassed the little girl I was thinking everybody really is in their own little world They tell you to do so on, they're the ones who know, you're at theirthe Jeere really bad so they had to kill theether with theht next door, so they knew they weren't bad But it's like when you go to a hospital-they take you and they do anything with you, because you don't know about their world Or it's like investing in art, you trust people, or investing in stocks, you don't know, so you accept what they say is good or bad, or even sports Or terrorist groups, they're out in the street handing you things and they're in their oorld and kept rapefruit juice and vodka and kept passing out They gassed the little girl I was thinking everybody really is in their own little world They tell you to do so on, they're the ones who know, you're at theirthe Jeere really bad so they had to kill theether with theht next door, so they knew they weren't bad But it's like when you go to a hospital-they take you and they do anything with you, because you don't know about their world Or it's like investing in art, you trust people, or investing in stocks, you don't know, so you accept what they say is good or bad, or even sports Or terrorist groups, they're out in the street handing you things and they're in their oorld

But still, today, if somebody said, ”We have to do this to the Puerto Ricans,” I mean, could you do it? You couldn't So how did they do it? I mean, think of some German you actually know: could they they do it, orBut if you do it once, you can do it again and again, that's for sure So after they did one, I guess it was easy do it, orBut if you do it once, you can do it again and again, that's for sure So after they did one, I guess it was easy

Monday, April 17, 1978 Closed up early because we had to go see Tom Cashi+n open in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the musical down on Second Avenue and 13th Street (cab to theater 230) I had to pay for the tickets, they weren't free (23) Toood, he was cute He got a big hand I got out at 8:00

Then I stuck on a black tie with my bluejeans and rushed over to Lee Thaw's It turned out I was early, and then a little later when Bob and Fred ca excuses for me, that I'd be late, before they realized that I was already there This was a dinner for the Van der Kes from Houston were there and Mary McFadden and Tammy Grimes Ione of Mary's dresses,” and she said, ”No, a Fortuny” I said Mary's name first because the last ti a Fortuny,” the person said, ”No, it was a Mary McFadden” Then Mary showed me the difference-hers had a machine-stitched hem and the Fortuny's he one of Mary's dresses,” and she said, ”No, a Fortuny” I said Mary's name first because the last ti a Fortuny,” the person said, ”No, it was a Mary McFadden” Then Mary showed me the difference-hers had a machine-stitched hem and the Fortuny's hem was hand-stitched

And then there was a party at Hurrah's for Too there, but we stopped at Studio 54 for a minute (cab 3) And ere there Halston tapped me and said that Liza and Baryshnikov were there and wanted to go right then to see the portrait of Liza So ent to the Olyreat Baryshnikov talked about them for hours And Baryshnikov toldhi, and he had Harper's Bazaar Harper's Bazaar around and knew about the art director Brodovich I don't knohat city in Russia, it ht up Chrissy Berlin as the one who actually helped him defect, and he said that she was just soirl for a minute He said his first love was Makarova-she left her husband for hied her ain he went to her wedding in San Francisco and he didn't feel a thing He was the best uy around and knew about the art director Brodovich I don't knohat city in Russia, it ht up Chrissy Berlin as the one who actually helped him defect, and he said that she was just soirl for a minute He said his first love was Makarova-she left her husband for hied her ain he went to her wedding in San Francisco and he didn't feel a thing He was the best uy

Tuesday, April 18, 1978 I finally got a BMW painted, black with pink roll-on flowers Maybe they'll read ht me up soe of the Post Post today It explodes and crackles inside your mouth today It explodes and crackles inside your oes to hospitals and ements for cancer patients, and I told her I'd like to, too I wouldn't wouldn't like to, though I was going to ask her wasn't she afraid she'd catch cancer, but I don't know, maybe a little bit of flowers does make a dif- Oh, I don't know Floouldn'tto ask her wasn't she afraid she'd catch cancer, but I don't know, maybe a little bit of flowers does make a dif- Oh, I don't know Floouldn't make me me feel better if I were a patient Only that you'd know that on a certain day a person was co in to feel better if I were a patient Only that you'd know that on a certain day a person was co in to do do the flower Isn't it funny that they can cure diseases and still not knohat causes theet it And all those kids dying in New Jersey of cancer I guess it's the water the flower Isn't it funny that they can cure diseases and still not knohat causes theet it And all those kids dying in New Jersey of cancer I guess it's the water

Wednesday, April 19, 1978 Called John Reinhold and he invited ot a cab (250) to 46th and Fifth I went upstairs and looked at stones, he's teaching me all about them He said that he never buys hot stones or cheap stones, that he just waits for the good things and pays the price We walked over to Pearls in the rain for lunch, and it was fun On the way inCorice Ar the car John and I talked about Holocaust Holocaust and I always thought that John was born in Europe because he has sort of an accent, but he was born in the US, I guess he needs the accent for the diaood lunch, we had whiskey John had a kid staying with him and his ho-he'd reminded me of Rene Ricard when I met him-I said was a creep, and then I had to explain hohen I say ”creep” it doesn't mean that I don't like them, and that took an hour After work I had to leave for Eleanor Lambert's cocktail party for Bernadine Morris, the and I always thought that John was born in Europe because he has sort of an accent, but he was born in the US, I guess he needs the accent for the diaood lunch, we had whiskey John had a kid staying with him and his ho-he'd reminded me of Rene Ricard when I met him-I said was a creep, and then I had to explain hohen I say ”creep” it doesn't mean that I don't like them, and that took an hour After work I had to leave for Eleanor Lambert's cocktail party for Bernadine Morris, the New York Tiraph book with a girl photographer on fashi+on fashi+on writer who's done a photograph book with a girl photographer on fashi+on

I was talking to Calvin Klein and he said he was going on vacation and I said where, and he said, ”And I' anyone, and just alone alone alone, absolutely no one, and it'll be so wonderful” And then I went across the roo, that he was going for teeks alone alone alone to the Greek islands and I said, ”Are you sure you're not going with Calvin Klein?” and he said, ”Oh, you know everything,” everything,” and I said no, that I'd just put two and two together and I said no, that I'd just put two and two together

And Diane Von Furstenberg was there and she lives in Eleanor La so she invited Bob and me down for dinner and to watch Holocaust Holocaust So ent down and Diane's na Diane's mother had been in Auschwitz, and when the concentration ca-she said that they lamorous than it hen she was there, that all the women had crewcuts and it was a lot more crowded, that where the movie had 20 people there were really 300,000 And it eird to be seeing this with Marina Cicogna whose family was so involved with Mussolini Before it was over, Diane was ready to go out, she was calling for a limousine

Friday, April 21, 1978 Milton Greene was at lunch at the office and he said that I'd given hi ten photographs of her for 3,800 Fred told hih, but he said he's already sold a few to ood And it see He and Marilyn had that coirl The Prince and the Showgirl I know Milton because he and Joe Eula were the nicest to me on the first day I came to New York-he and Joe were close for years but then later Milton iven me their names, to look them up, and I did and they told , but I never took thehs) they were so nice it they were so nice it scared scaredot a kiss out of hiaret Trudeau was there and said she'll do the Ruo home, but Carole of Toni and Carole wanted us to see her new apartment, so ent over to, I think, 79th and the Hudson River And it was a nice apartment It was really neat, and it looked rich, and she and her girlfriend said their most treasured possession was a Warhol over their bed, and ent to look at it, and it was so sad, because it was a fake And I knew it, and Brigid knew it, and Victor knew it She said it was part of her ”divorce settlement” from Toni Should I tell her? It was so sick

Saturday, April 22, 1978 Went up to the Carlyle where Jerry Hall is registered as ”Miss Philips” On the e got filot there, she came down in a second Cabbed to Quo Vadis (2) She's so beautiful, everybody looks at her She's only twenty, I didn't know she was so young We avoided talking about Mick She said she left Texas and went to Paris when she was sixteen Her first roommate was Tom Cashi+n and then sheOh but Mick and she are going to have beautiful children, and I guess Mick really does want children-he had Jade, and Jade's pretty, but the kids he'll have with Jerry will be stunning Maybe a beautiful boy I think he wants so to be on the road too ive up her career

Then after we left Quo Vadis alked along Madison back to the Carlyle and had chae juice While they stay there Mick pays the hotel and Jerry pays rooood money, 750 or 1,000 a day She showed us a love letter froned ”M” with an ”X” We didn't have any more tapes so I said, ”Why don't we tape over one of Mick's?” You know, , but wouldn't that have been funny? Jerry wants to be an actress She's taking lessons

Sunday, April 23, 1978 Bob said he and Kevin had had dinner with Diana Vreeland and that Diana was saying that I wasn't avant-garde anyraphy book-Chris Hearde, and she said that Jackie O had said I wasn't avant-garde, either So it's all just Chris He to both of the it Because they they don't even don't even knohat I do And Diana was saying how great Saul Steinberg was, and Bob told her, ”He's just an illustrator” Sheood tiht last week, she was soher book for her Fred set that up what I do And Diana was saying how great Saul Steinberg was, and Bob told her, ”He's just an illustrator” Sheood tiht last week, she was soher book for her Fred set that up

Then Stevie called and told me to ask Bob to invite Elsa Peretti, he said he didn't care about that fight in the basement, that he didn't care that she called him a kike

So I picked up Catherine and ent over to Halston's Then the doorbell rang and Joe Eula came back and said that it was Barbara Allen-I'd told her about Halston's party-and Halston got offended and said, ”This was supposed to be a snelli and Baron and Baroness Von Thyssen, who I didn't recognize, but I guess they thought I was ignoring theo And Bianca and Dr Giller had gone to the Erotic Bakery and gotten a bigan ass, and then another one of just a cock Over on 70th and Amsterdam They have the stuff in the s, and the cookies are chocolate tits And Bianca brought the cake in and she put the cock and balls up against her, and it was coffee-colored so she looked like Potassa the drag queen Halston was pretending to eat it and suck it And Catherine nelli and Baron and Baroness Von Thyssen, who I didn't recognize, but I guess they thought I was ignoring theo And Bianca and Dr Giller had gone to the Erotic Bakery and gotten a bigan ass, and then another one of just a cock Over on 70th and Amsterdam They have the stuff in the s, and the cookies are chocolate tits And Bianca brought the cake in and she put the cock and balls up against her, and it was coffee-colored so she looked like Potassa the drag queen Halston was pretending to eat it and suck it And Catherinewould be to cut the cake and eat it, and he said, ”No, that would and said the chic thing would be to cut the cake and eat it, and he said, ”No, that would not not be chic” He was high and he wanted to leave it uncut As I sat there looking at Bianca I started getting h and he wanted to leave it uncut As I sat there looking at Bianca I started getting more and more nervous about Interview's Interview's cover story next month on Jerry Hall cover story next month on Jerry Hall

We stayed at Halston's until about 1:00 drinking, then ent over to Studio 54 in linelli didn't come with us, he went ho-he's so out a ransom deal with the terrorists The baron and baroness caot lost fro to the basement And Stevie had the basement decorated noith scarves and candles and popcorn, but it's (laughs) (laughs) like going to a St Mark's Place hippie pad like going to a St Mark's Place hippie pad

Tuesday, April 25, 1978 The Run, they said the FCC is giving thearet Trudeau would be too hot to do, for sure So then I had Bob call theet it

Chris Makos called abouta book on IQs and I said I wouldn't do it unless I got paid, and he called back and said, ”1,000,” and I asked Fred and Fred said it sounded like fun, so then I said okay

The Ungaro party was at Doubles Then dinner-Quo Vadis-Margaret was being so sweet, she was gossiping and saying that she knew (laughs) (laughs) she could tellbecause I wouldn't tell anybody She said that Pierre Trudeau was in town and that she'd introduced him to Lacey Neuhaus and she was thrilled that they'd hit it off she could tellbecause I wouldn't tell anybody She said that Pierre Trudeau was in town and that she'd introduced him to Lacey Neuhaus and she was thrilled that they'd hit it off

And Margaret is so in love with Toia and she said that To so fast on a horse that she had to hide behind a tree and close her eyes, that it was the fastest she's ever seen anyone go He does take chances, Tom

Wednesday, April 26, 1978 Closed the office early because Fred and I were going up to his place to wait for Averil to pick us up and go to the Mets gaot how expensive cabs up to 89th Street are

Drove out to Shea Stadium with Fred and Averil in her ivenAt the end of the eighth inning e left it was 0-0 and on the way in on the radio it was still 0-0 (toll 75)

Averil dropped her ot a cab for Elaine's Bob was having a dinner for Baron Leon Laian bank, so he had Chris Makos and Catherine Guinness, and Catherine earing a T-shi+rt that said ”Where is Palestine?” Her great-grandfather was Lord Moyne of Palestine who got assassinated there in 1944 by the Stern Gang She asked Leon if he was Jewish And he's half-Jewish, his mother's soive a darandfather would be dictator of England?” Sir Oswald Mosley The founder of the British Fascist Party But Bob said Catherine and Leon seemed to hit it off anyway

Then Chris's boyfriend arrived, Peter Wise So ent over (cab 325) to Studio 54's anniversary party We got out on West 53rd Street and went in the back way because there were old pillows and the ceiling sounded like it was going to fall through frohs) rehearse for later when they brought the cake in and we had to give speeches, so he rehearsed rehearse for later when they brought the cake in and we had to give speeches, so he rehearsed his his speech Truman had a tin-foil hat band around his black hat and I was talking to hiave Halston a really big kiss, so that was Fashi+on News Yves looked like he could have been on so speech Truman had a tin-foil hat band around his black hat and I was talking to hiave Halston a really big kiss, so that was Fashi+on News Yves looked like he could have been on so

Then ent upstairs and sat on a piano in front of the curtain and the cake never arrived and Halston made a speech about how ood, and then he said, ”And now I'll pass the mike to Andy” But I already had ato say when you're holding one one ee, uhhh ” I don't know, I just made sounds and you couldn't have heard it anyway, and people laughed, and then Bianca said souan because you couldn't understand it, and then she passed theso like ”Embraceable You” but it was froee, uhhh ” I don't know, I just made sounds and you couldn't have heard it anyway, and people laughed, and then Bianca said souan because you couldn't understand it, and then she passed theso like ”Embraceable You” but it was froet Donald Brooks/Halston has all the looks” And Bob said that he hadn't heard such self-indulgence by a clique since Hitler in the bunker Left with Catherine, dropped her off (350) and it had lines like ”Forget Donald Brooks/Halston has all the looks” And Bob said that he hadn't heard such self-indulgence by a clique since Hitler in the bunker Left with Catherine, dropped her off (350)