Part 11 (1/2)
Friday, May 26, 1978-Zurich Paulette called and said she thought the shoas so exciting And then I called Bob at the office and he was in a very bad
Tho queens singing to American records ”There's No Business Like Show Business” Fred and I wanted to throw up
Stayed a fewparty at an old castle a little out of town, so ent All Zurich society (cab 4)
Sunday, May 28, 1978-New York Still off-schedule froized for being cranky on the phone and said that he'd gotten robbed and that hy, that after Studio 54 he went down to the Cave and two boys froht it all back the next day He said that he was through with drugs, and that he was drying out, too
Oh, and I guess Marina Schiano's spread it all over, that Diana Vreeland and Fred had a big fight outside New Jimmy's in Paris When he caht he ument The real story is that Diana actually hit hiht between Fred andBecause she's jealous of Lacey Neuhaus, she thinks Fred'sit with Lacey and I think she wants him to make it with her her Can you believe it? It's so crazy
The new Interview Interview looked good Paloood Paloes of ads
Hoveyda was giving a dinner for Mrs Saffra at the Pierre (cab 3) We went up to a whole big chic apartht in the hotel I sat next to Mimi Herrera under a Motherwell She had a forty-carat diaida was the only person there who had fake jewelry, I think Fake e tits I should interview her I told her she should hook up with Dino De Laurentiis She said she didn't know hiuy we knew in the sixties, Carlos, the one who always said Edie stole his leopard-skin rug, gave the toast I remember he sent a contessa down to the 47th Street Factory to try to get the coat back But you kno that I think about it, I guess Edie probably did did steal it, but only in fun steal it, but only in fun
Monday, May 29, 1978 Went down to David Bourdon's to get so is on 10th Street, in the e, and David was upset by it-too many Howdy Doody men
We walked over to have lunch at One Fifth, and on thePatti S food for her cat I invited her thinking she'd say no, but she said, ”Great” When alked in, there was the nu with Lisa Robinson One Fifth is pretty-bright and chintzy
Patti didn't want to eat too much, so she ate half my lunch She said she only loves blonds and that she wanted to have an affair with a blond All I could think about was her bo-she wouldn't be bad-looking if she would wash up and glue herself together a little better She's still skinny She's with a gallery now, doing drawings and writing poetry The Robert Miller Gallery
She had a baby, she said-that's why she originally left New Jersey, and she said that the baby was adopted on Rittenhouse Square She called it ”it” and David asked her what ”it” was and she said a girl She re was put on She said she was in Italy the day Moro was kidnapped and that she and Moro were the big things on Italian TV that day She said she didn't take drugs in the sixties, that she'd only started recently, and just for work
Anyway, I ossip (lunch 35) Patti lives over One Fifth and so she went upstairs and David and I walked over to Mays to get soot tired fro in the sun
And the hot water here on 66th Street is overheating and leaking and I have a vision of an explosion and the guy won't come
Tuesday, May 30, 1978 I called Doc cox and wanted to ask about the gallbladder uess he's too busy with his garden party
Francois de Menil called and invited Fred and me for dinner, but then later on he called and said he had to make it for just drinks He's just back froned a deal with a woman naoing to talk movie-talk with him (cab 4) Francois looked heavier and happier He told us his5 million God, it's so incredible, to have that much money, it's so abstract You just sit there and try to think of how to be creative with it We stayed there until 8:30
I began watching The Valachi Papers The Valachi Papers on TV with Charles Bronson, and then I fell asleep, and then I woke up and ran to the hen I heard a voice say, ”Open up, it's the narcotics squad,” and then I realized it was on the TV It was scary to think that when you drea what's on TV, and it's so real I really thought the narcotics squad was right there on TV with Charles Bronson, and then I fell asleep, and then I woke up and ran to the hen I heard a voice say, ”Open up, it's the narcotics squad,” and then I realized it was on the TV It was scary to think that when you drea what's on TV, and it's so real I really thought the narcotics squad was right there
Wednesday, May 31, 1978 There was an event up at Gracie Mansion Left at 6:30 and the traffic was bad, it took an hour to get there (cab 550) The Mayor wasn't there yet, but Arts Co he said was, ”I don't have any of your your art up here” He had Bob Indiana there, and George Segal, and a lot of creepy people It looked like the people ork at the city Welfare Departal, and a lot of creepy people It looked like the people ork at the city Welfare Department
Thursday, June 1, 1978 It turned out it was Catherine's birthday And Robbie Robertson fro me to do a poster for The Last Waltz The Last Waltz, and so Fred and I were going up there to meet him at his place at the Sherry Netherland to talk about it, and when Catherine found out, she said that that could be her birthday present So we all cabbed up at 6:30, traffic was bad (4)
We went up to the Scorsese-Robertson suite-Marty was in Rorave of Roberto Rossellini Robbie gave us cha, they always say, ”Well, will you do this art poster for us and then ill sell it for you and isn't that wonderful?” And it's mixed in with hippie talk and phrases, and then everyone was too embarrassed to talk about money, so finally Fred said, ”Look, rave of Roberto Rossellini Robbie gave us cha, they always say, ”Well, will you do this art poster for us and then ill sell it for you and isn't that wonderful?” And it's mixed in with hippie talk and phrases, and then everyone was too embarrassed to talk about money, so finally Fred said, ”Look, hs) Yeah, he really said ”man” Oh, and the butler who answered the door was that kid Marty'sthe movie about, Steven Prince Yeah, he really said ”man” Oh, and the butler who answered the door was that kid Marty'sthe movie about, Steven Prince
Then cabbed up to Suzie Frankfurt's (310) Fred and Catherine had a big fight because she was putting down the Jews saying again that if only Hitler had wonFred told her how could she say that because she was in a Jewish house I honestly don't know if Suzie's Jewish or not I ot baptized this year But ould she turn Catholic unless she were Jewish? I don't know, I think she's just crazy
Cabbed to the Eberstadts' (200) When we got there only Lord ”Brookie” was there, Harrison Ford and Earl McGrath Fred was chasingout of it, weird And Keiko Carimati broke an antique nutcracker they had, it was in three pieces, and we didn't knohether we should say anything or not And then Catherine dropped a chalass and within a lass all over and it was eain
Friday, June 2, 1978 Robert Kennedy, Jr was on TV for the tenth anniversary of when his father was shot, so it's ten years since I was shot, too-he was the day afterat Fred's house for teeks, Robert With the Fraser girl, Rebecca They're heavy in love
Saturday, June 3, 1978 Ran into Dino Fabio on the street, the one who sold the house in LA to the Arabs, who I unners around it While I was talking to him about five cars of people yelled my name so he was impressed One of the you to the Copa” He's Paul's brother, but I don't knohat he does yet
Fred told me about his scene with Freddy and Isabel Eberstadt after I left on Thursday Freddy started picking on hi uncontrollably, he couldn't stop Isabel and Freddy had to take hiht
Averil Meyer toldto do, so I invited her to a job at the office I asked her to be a volunteer She's supposed to come in on Monday, but she won't show up She's too rich
Sunday, June 4, 1978 Watched the Tonys on TV on the phone with Brigid Liza was there with Halston, and she won for Best Singer in a Musical, and when they called her name Stevie Rubell juainst Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu Timbuktu and Madeline Kahn in and Madeline Kahn in Twentieth Century Twentieth Century
Catherine called and said that Steve Aronson ca to visit in Southao at all-so he and Catherine were both depressed together Catherine is in love with Too out to Montauk and be a maid and Tom doesn't want to be serious, and she once told et serious about it but she is, so she was depressed And Margaret Trudeau's run off with Jack Nicholson or so And we're upset if there was a party for Liza and eren't invited Yeah, I' Madison handing out Interviews Interviews People really know ular newspaperman (cab 350) Worked till 6:40 then went holued myself and went to the Carlyle (cab 225) to pick up Jerry Hall to take her to the dinner Hoveyda was giving for the Shah's brother way down at Windows on the World
Mick opened the door I thought he wouldn't be there He was on his way up to Woodstock I asked hiht 200 acres up there and he said no, that he was just living upstairs from a duood, pull-out, die-cut, but they were back in drag drag again! Isn't that so?
After we left the Carlyle I told Jerry I thought Mick had ruined the Love You Live Love You Live cover I did for the, and he wrote so big The kids who buy the albuood piece of art if he hadn't spoiled it And Stevie got it into Earl Wilson's colu that she ”slowed down divorce proceedings,” but Jerry said the song was really written about cover I did for the, and he wrote so big The kids who buy the albuood piece of art if he hadn't spoiled it And Stevie got it into Earl Wilson's colu that she ”slowed down divorce proceedings,” but Jerry said the song was really written about her her She earing the sareen Oscar de la Renta dress she wore the last tiot into the elevator I noticed that she had underarot dressed So I guess Mick must like bo I didn't have a limo but she didn't land where she ith Bryan Ferry Bryan never gave Jerry her clothes back after she left hi them because he knew she'd come back-and after Barbara had been over there once, she told Jerry she'd been trying on her clothes, and that did upset Jerry, but she said she hopes Bryan and Barbara make it as a couple (cab 10) Down at the World Trade Center the as really blowing so that's when I was really noticing the bo We went up to the 107th floor and our ears popped The Secret Service was there because of the Shah's brother, and Peter Beard said the waitress and the bartender were SS because he'd heard the her kiss him on the lips
The food was rotten but the sunset was so beautiful Everybody was trying to make Jerry On the way home in a limo we picked up out front, she told me her philosophy of How to Keep a Man: ”Even if you only have two seconds, drop everything and give him a blow job That way he won't really want sex with anyone else” And then she said, ”I know I can tell that to you (laughs) (laughs) because you won't tell anybody” She's so funny, she says such stupid things But then she'll be able to rattle off the nale person sheto Jane Forth used to be like (limo 20) because you won't tell anybody” She's so funny, she says such stupid things But then she'll be able to rattle off the nale person sheto Jane Forth used to be like (limo 20)
Tuesday, June 6, 1978 Adriana Jackson and Clarisse Rivers and Princess Marina of I guess Greece ca the night before to the eneoing to who also (laughs) (laughs) does readings And they all looked into the crystal ball the guy had and nobody could see anything because there was so uy told Nicky Weyot on the Concorde anyway, although she was shaking, and it didn't crash But they all say they're going back to hio back when they know that what the person said didn't happen? does readings And they all looked into the crystal ball the guy had and nobody could see anything because there was so uy told Nicky Weyot on the Concorde anyway, although she was shaking, and it didn't crash But they all say they're going back to hio back when they know that what the person said didn't happen?
Christopher Sykes ca the newspaper in falsetto and opera, which I've alanted to do He sang the story about the girl going to the erotic dentist and another story about a chicken I told hie him and book him at Reno Sweeney's and Trax, but he said he only perforlish kid
At Trax, Toirlfriend, but that they shouldn't let it show in public because it crairls
Rupert's assistant told ay world anymore, and it's true-it's the hot tamales like Victor who ht Stevie called Bob and asked him to spy there for hiuy with a foreign accent called the office and said there'd be a ”bohs) which (laughs) which party So I started getting a headache We were going to parties at Fiorucci and then Barbetta's and then MOMA party So I started getting a headache We were going to parties at Fiorucci and then Barbetta's and then MOMA
The cover of the Voice Voice this week is ”Studio 54 and the Mafia,” and when Bob called Stevie to invite hi favor-”Oh yeah, I'll co for Andy” this week is ”Studio 54 and the Mafia,” and when Bob called Stevie to invite hi favor-”Oh yeah, I'll coht at Halston's (cab 4) Stevie was going to be there and Catherine had said we should show loyalty on the coo to Studio” It was jaot to say that the other day Doc cox told me that Dr Jacobs said I couldn't take this new allstones-because my stones are too hard on the outside
Sunday, June 11, 1978 Went to church, got azines (6) and went to the office (cab 3) because Rupert was bringing by the Flower things I decided I won't sign the fake ones that're turning up all over Europe-the ones the people told us they bought froood on the fakes in Europe I don't know, I'll see I dropped Rupert (cab 350) and stayed hoot to say that last hen Jed and I alking on Madison we ran into Dustin Hoff lots of record albums from the house that he and his wife, Anne, live in behind the Cerfs' house, carrying the home, which I just read in the paper
Tuesday, June 13, 1978 When I got to the office Phyllis Diller was already there with Barry Landau eating lunch She looks really old, but she was great I don't think the facelift did ain, maybe it did Averil had invited her mother Sandra Payson and her brother Blair Meyer, and John Reinhold was there, too
Dropped Vincent (cab 4) and then cabbed with Jed (450) to the opening of Grease Grease Edd Byrnes came over and said hello, and Randal Kleiser, the director It turns out he's the kid rote Jed letters from California and then was the assistant assistant director on Heat Heat when Paul and Jed filmed it in LA in 1972 when Paul and Jed filmed it in LA in 1972
Fatso Allan Carr was there What a butterball-if you pushed him over he'd roll Catherine was there with Stevie Rubell as cool to azine that I was standing in line to get into Xenon, which I wasn't The les he looks like a turtle, but with the right ones, he looks like the new Rudolph Valentino Stockard Channing is actually pretty but one side of her face isin line to get into Xenon, which I wasn't The les he looks like a turtle, but with the right ones, he looks like the new Rudolph Valentino Stockard Channing is actually pretty but one side of her face is much better than the other
We walked over to Studio for the Grease Grease party and went in the back door where all the fifties cars were parked and the waiters were siphoning the gas out of the tanks because I guess you're not allowed to bring cars with full gas tanks into buildings John Philip Laas behind us They were giving out hair poers, everything from the fifties Met Mr Nathan of ”Nathan's,” he and his ere doing the hot dog stand party and went in the back door where all the fifties cars were parked and the waiters were siphoning the gas out of the tanks because I guess you're not allowed to bring cars with full gas tanks into buildings John Philip Laas behind us They were giving out hair poers, everything from the fifties Met Mr Nathan of ”Nathan's,” he and his ere doing the hot dog stand
Sunday, June 18, 1978-London Staying at the Dorchester in a big ugly Spanish-style suite overlooking the park Ran over to Sotheby's to see the Von Hirsch collection, the biggest since Scull
Monday, June 19, 1978-London Lunch at La Faes to say that one wrong thing With Bianca sitting right there he asksout?”
Walked on the King's Road Fred was hawking, trying to sell Bianca's autograph and ot very embarrassed
At the Turf Club Ball Fred evidently flipped out-he started crying about the passing of the nineteenth century-how there were so s done in it and how the people who did it were now all gone-and a girl took him into a room alone I was upstairs with Bianca Later we found out that Fred stopped in a bar on the way ho his shoes from outside his door
Tuesday, June 20, 1978-London The phone operators at the Dorchester were so great, very sharp One said, ”There's a fake Mrs Jagger on the line Do you want to talk to her?” I said, ”Okay,” but when I said hello the girl hung up The operators screen every call and they knohere you are every minute, they don't have to look it up I reat London this time was so reat people only were there for these two big weeks of events, so
At lunch ere teasing Bianca that it had so to sell her autograph on the King's Road and that nobody had wanted it, and she believed us and got upset all over again