Part 13 (1/2)

Picked up Catherine and Jed in a cab (4) and went to Madison Square Garden to see Bruce Springsteen (tickets 19) We'd gone on Monday night, too, but only saw the last few seconds of the show So this tiht down in the orchestra, 30,000 kids in the place They were all young and cute and why doesn't Interview Interview appeal to the and modern My headup and screa for Bruce and I was the only one who didn't appeal to the and modern My headup and screa for Bruce and I was the only one who didn't

Oh, and Susan Blond called irl had called her up because she was upset because Bruce Springsteen was upset because he said I'd taken his picture on Monday night She said that he doesn't like anybody anybody to take pictures-that his girlfriend's a photographer and even to take pictures-that his girlfriend's a photographer and even she she can't take his picture But the funny thing is, I'd just gotten ure out what night I was looking at and who I'd taken a picture of-I didn't even recognize that it was Bruce Springsteen-I thought it was Al Pacino I'd forgotten where I went! Why is Bruce Springsteen big, though? He talks the dumb way Like Sylvester Stallone Is that why these people are big? Because they talk that way and people identify? He does work really hard can't take his picture But the funny thing is, I'd just gotten ure out what night I was looking at and who I'd taken a picture of-I didn't even recognize that it was Bruce Springsteen-I thought it was Al Pacino I'd forgotten where I went! Why is Bruce Springsteen big, though? He talks the dumb way Like Sylvester Stallone Is that why these people are big? Because they talk that way and people identify? He does work really hard

Friday, August 25, 1978 Theot a job at Viva Viva And she's fat again, so she'll be leaving as fat as she came But then I found out she cried for everyone, so it wasn't special that she cried forto be senior editor over there It turns out maybe it's the job they offered Bob last year They came after her and then she went after it Jonathan Lieberson and Steve Aronson helped her write a paper on how she would change their azine Everyone at Interview Interview is so thrilled to see her go I was surprised-I didn't know they felt that way is so thrilled to see her go I was surprised-I didn't know they felt that way

Saturday, August 26, 1978 Went over to the Plaza to interview Shaun Cassidy The intervieas terrible because he's got to keep it really clean because his fans are young He has dark circles under his eyes so we think he has a secret life He's very tall He gave stock answers We kept asking hi, and he was insisting that it didn't change you, and then alked through the lobby, through the screaed He was so different so different The limo came and he had a whole different personality

We went don because he was going to be photographed for Interview Interview by Barry McKinley Shaun just turns into so just happens to him, he just falls in love with his when he's photographing-instead of saying things like Scavullo and those people say, like, ”Marvelous, marvelous,” Barry says by Barry McKinley Shaun just turns into so just happens to him, he just falls in love with his when he's photographing-instead of saying things like Scavullo and those people say, like, ”Marvelous, hs), ”Give it to me, motherfucker Push it out out Push out all you can” ”What kind of drug are you on, motherfucker?” It was so unbelievable that I went and taped it

Later at Madison Square Garden in Shaun's dressing rooirlfriend, and he had on stretch pants with his big cock showing, and he brought the band in to give theo slow and how to turn on the thirteen-year-olds It was funny

When ent out to our seats Shaun's mother shi+rley Jones was there and I bent over to say hello where she was sitting and she looked scared, but then I said, ”I'rabbed my hand and eet and she introduced els Then Shaun cairls went crazy They took e at the Garden S: ”Andy” And he does sexy things with the s and he touches his cock a little, and he's like a Mick Jagger for the young kids

Monday, August 28, 1978-New York-Montauk Went to the dentist Dr Lyons gets sort ofoff the X-rays I told him about the dentist on TV who said it was silly to take X-rays, but Dr Lyons said he didn't care, that if I wanted him to be my dentist, I had to do what he wanted

Oh, and Bob MacBride called and said that Tru back this week, but I can't see how, he'll just get out and do the sa all the time that maybe Truman never did write any of his own stuff, that uy there to do it To do rewrites Because I mean, Truman showed me a script he did, and it was just awful, and when he shows you these things you can't iood, they're so bad And I uys are all supposed to be ”writers” but you don't really knohat they write, and now Bob MacBride gets his naood, so otten sobecause he hasn't done anything in ten years, and that's a long tiood, they're so bad And I uys are all supposed to be ”writers” but you don't really knohat they write, and now Bob MacBride gets his naood, so otten sobecause he hasn't done anything in ten years, and that's a long ti, so soood on paper are interesting, so soood on paper

The car picked me up at 3:50 and Catherine and I rode out to Montauk, it was a nice ride We stopped at Burger King and picked up a couple of steak sandwiches for Mr Winters (5) When we got to Montauk I gave Mr Winters and his wife Millie the sandwiches and a painting I brought hiht soazines better than the sandwich, and I think Mr Winters liked the sandwich better than the painting I thought he could put it away and keep it I tried to get Mr Winters to be in the movie, but he didn't want to be in it There are soand there were still so many Said hello to Winnie, Tom's Danish wife, who I see is actually beautiful, after all and I think his wife liked the azines better than the sandwich, and I think Mr Winters liked the sandwich better than the painting I thought he could put it away and keep it I tried to get Mr Winters to be in the movie, but he didn't want to be in it There are soand there were still so many Said hello to Winnie, Tom's Danish wife, who I see is actually beautiful, after all

Went over to the yacht club hotel and checked in Toht his Betamax by Ulli and his wife Sukey came We had dinner at the yacht club and it was terrible, the place was rotten Jack Palance who's in To there at first but he hated it, they were so rude

Then at ht ent to Southampton to one of those beautiful movie houses to see the rushes froood, lots of airplane shots and Jack Palance, and Touess that's what he's actuallythe movie for, to introduce his band They drove me back to the yacht club and I fell asleep with ust 29, 1978-Montauk-New York Catherine came to my room and Tom picked us up and drove us over to the house for breakfast Then Jack Palance ca He's fifty-five and looks thirty He's there with his dog, Patches, and his girlfriend I think he's half Russian and half Ukranian I'd asked Toht to cast Jack Palance and he said they were thinking about Rod Steiger-they wanted somebody butch, an old butch actor-but Jack had a far, he said he just likes to drink, so he takes any role

Jack played a character naer, and Toer with a band We went outside to doit of the people who run off with the coke They decided to put ave me some lines, which I'm terrible at I just don't kno to be real

I interviewed Tom at dinner and his real life story was just like his character's life story in the movie-how he burned his body in a plane crash in Colombia and some people found him and took him in a private plane to New York

I passed out in the liot to the city around 2:30

Wednesday, August 30, 1978 Talked to Brigid as typing the interviee did with Shaun Cassidy and she said it was no good, that nobody said anything

Thursday, August 31, 1978 Bob had a fight with Fran Lebowitz on the phone, she said she wasn't going to write for Interview Interview anyed some of her words, and I ed soe words? change words? Is it drugs? Is it drugs?

Friday, Septe on Monday for her job at Viva Viva Her salary will be 30,000 and her new date is Stephen Graham They went to his uess she'll be offered the editorshi+p of the Washi+ngton Post Washi+ngton Post, too Wait till they find out she can't do anything

Fred's been invited to Avedon's dinner before his show at the Met He's buttering up to Fred He wants soive an interview to Interview Interview because he said it wasn't ”right” for hiot Bob to do publicity on hiot Bob to do publicity on him in Interview Interview, he turned around and said that I mean, he's just somebody orked for Bazaar Bazaar He took those pictures of ned releases for hiave us prints Viva's in his new book, but at least she got some prints

Saturday, Septes (fruit 2380)

Got a load of 1950s used shoes down on Canal Street for 2 a pair It's just the shoes I used to draw, all the Herbert Levine shoes with the creative lasts Shoes first got really pointy in '5455, and then they got round in '57

I went in the back and I tried to paint but uy

Sunday, Septes and Dia had improved from the day before, I was back into it, it had been so bad on Saturday And I got paint on et acrylic on theets ot to the office, Brigid was sitting there at her typewriter looking her age which was going to be forty toive her another tape to type

Wednesday, Septeirls froazine there, even though I was nervous because on the news the night before there was a new outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease on 35th Street between Sixth and Seventh, that now they think is caused by a bacteria that forazine there, even though I was nervous because on the news the night before there was a new outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease on 35th Street between Sixth and Seventh, that now they think is caused by a bacteria that for systems

Blue Cross called to say that Ronnie sent them a doctor's bill he wanted coled against hiot scratched

Toni Brown cah Times I told her she shouldn't have told Carole that I said she was crazy, and then I had to call Carole and say, ”I didn't say you were crazy, I said you were crazy,” crazy,” and then and then (laughs) (laughs) she understood It's so funny when you just say the same word but in a heavier way and she understood It's so funny when you just say the same word but in a heavier way and then then people understand people understand

Cabbed to the Waldorf (3) There was a party in honor of me because this was the day ere supposed to leave for Iran, but then the civil war broke out The Hoveydas looked really suntanned and healthy Mrs Hoveyda said she didn't know anything about as going on in Iran because her husband wouldn't tell her, and he just said, ”If things were really bad, would I be sitting here tonight?”

Thursday, September 7, 1978 Called Truman's apartotten back froo, that they'd practically just walked in the door, and Truet his face scraped or sandpapered

Met Catherine at La Folie for the Joan Fontaine book party (cab 4) I introduced her as the new senior Viva Viva editor, and what a difference that o,” and they really hustled She was Miss Big editor, and what a difference that o,” and they really hustled She was Miss Big

I dropped Catherine off and near 63rd Street we ran into her new editor, the girl who hired her, and (laughs) (laughs) she's so thrilled to be getting Catherine she's so thrilled to be getting Catherine

Bob got a car and we picked up Fred and went out to Alex Guest's party for his sister Cornelia who's going off to Foxcroft There was a girl there named Lisa Rance who's after Robyn Geddes, but she's chubby and I told her She earing a white Valentino and some kid came and threw ”invisible ink” on it, and it did disappear but I'll bet it's not really gone, that in a different light you can still see it I think the dress is finished

Friday, Septe so he was boring I paid for lunch because he looked like he was out of money (60) I taped, took pictures, and then ent over to his bank, the Midland Bank Bob MacBride went hoether, soends!” And at the bank Tru 5,000 in cash in fifty-dollar bills and the bank guy asked him was he sure he wanted it like that since he'd taken out 25,000 eightaccount had 16,000 in it and his savings 11,000 and he took 10,000 out of the savings to transfer so thatSo he does have money, theto rain and this girl fro on the Brian DePalma movie and that she would be so honored if she could let us use her umbrella so alked with her for a little while

Sunday, September 10, 1978 Picked up Bob and alked over to UN Plaza and the dogs actuallythe whole way, I was surprised, they loved it

Truuy there from California ore bluejeans, and I can't stand people with 38” waists who still wear bluejeans

Tru caviar and potatoes, but instead he had bad quiche Tru to records, Donna Suuy from California had joints and he and Bob and Truman smoked them, and Tru and interesting but he wasn't I was talking about the Gay Bob doll Robert Hayes had one at the Factory, it's a doll that co and a necklace and a plaid shi+rt and bluejeans and a handbag and a big cock, and I guess I said the wrong thing because everybody there was naet them that, it's so funny

Monday, September 11, 1978 Rupert came over Worked on some Fruits and ”landscapes” and Jewelry Catherine called fro lunch with Delfina Rattazzi who still works at Viking to try to pick her brain Catherine was trying to find out how you find neriters And today she's having lunch with Victor Bockris to try to pick his his brain So she's scraping the botto the bottoot to say that on Saturday my house shook They bombed the Cuban embassy on 67th between Fifth and Madison and when I looked out the , across the street where the girl with the creorks for YSL lives, her boyfriend was leaning out theand he was naked and good-looking

Tuesday, September 12, 1978 I discovered that Archie and Aht were mosquito bites onflea collars and I should be wearing a flea collar, too

Thursday, Septereat to have hily that made him stop I think that's the bee that sticks in his bonnet, when someone tells him, ”You have to cool it” Then he does Like Stevie told hiuess so ot into lio over to Studio 54 for Dr Giller's birthday There was a cake with a syringe (laughs) (laughs) that said ”Dr Feelgood” I ran into Barbara Allen and she was laughing She said that she'd just been up in the balcony with one of the Robert Kennedy sons-the one with buck teeth who looks really like his father-and he took out a joint so they could smoke it and when he lit the match he paused and looked into Barbara's eyes and said, ”When I look into a flame, I see the face of my uncle” You know, the Eternal Flaive him 10 but he wouldn't take it (cab 250) that said ”Dr Feelgood” I ran into Barbara Allen and she was laughing She said that she'd just been up in the balcony with one of the Robert Kennedy sons-the one with buck teeth who looks really like his father-and he took out a joint so they could smoke it and when he lit the match he paused and looked into Barbara's eyes and said, ”When I look into a flame, I see the face of my uncle” You know, the Eternal Flaive him 10 but he wouldn't take it (cab 250)

Saturday, September 16, 1978 Walked over to meet Bob and Joanne du Pont and Paul Jenkins on the corner Drove out to New Rochelle where there was a birthday party for Mr Kluge who is chairman of Metromedia Everybody there was really, really rich The house was on the beach and painted yellow They had a tent for food and a tent for dancing, and lots of security people I sat next to a lady who said she had a sore thumb and I asked her if it was a ”murderer's thumb” She ful She said she was ”Mrs Goldenson” and I asked her who she was and she said, ”If you don't know, I' to tell you,” and I'd ask her another way and she'd say, ”You should know, so why should I tell you” Later on I found out her husband is a chairman at ABC, Leonard Goldenson But she was so rotten, I didn't talk to her for the rest of the night

Then Bob found me and said that Mrs Pota to meet me so ent and found her And Bert Parks was there and I was so excited, Bob and I had been sitting at his table, and I started talking to Mrs Bert Parks and she got a little fresh, she pushed her tits againstinto trouble and came over and put his arm around her to distract her and she squeezed his ass, and then Bert saw that she was getting fresh and said, ”Let's go dance, darling”

I think everybody ht, a ned All rich old people and attractive young girls for the old fogies They started serving breakfast at 1:00 They had huge seashellsme that everybody wanted portraits, but I was so drunk I didn't care

Monday, September 18, 1978 Got up early Slept with et bitten by fleas I have about forty bites all over me and they came on different days, you can tell by when they disappear

We haven't heard fro to California tomorrow