Part 14 (1/2)

We went to Halston's and Dolly was there wearing the most horrible dress, a Halston that just looked awful She's fat, she likes to eat

Thursday, October 19, 1978 Watched Steve Martin on the Donahue Show Donahue Show He looked good I wonder if he asked for that angle

Thursday, October 26, 1978 Our li of hi a bar owner's cat as a lookalike for Morris the Cat who'd just died The bar was on Ninth Avenue in the 50s The driver said that he just fed the cat, then let it out like he always did, only this tio back to the bar and the owner accused hi to sell it as a replacement for Morris The jury deliberated for three hours before finding him innocent, so he felt he was a celebrity

Saturday, October 28, 1978 Tho at Fred's house We went to Christie's and got catalogues, because sos are up for sale They're from Bill Cecil, as killed in a car crash His family was in the American antiques business I think that's how I started collecting Aot my first cupboard from them, the cupboard that's now in the Interview Interview office, the one they keep the pencils and rubber ceues 6, 22, 8, 10) office, the one they keep the pencils and rubber ceues 6, 22, 8, 10)

Victor said that Halston had been trying to reach me to invite me to the benefit for John Warner that Liz Taylor Warner was having that night Liz looked very fat, but very beautiful Chen, her secretary, was there But John Warner wasn't even there Liz was upset at hoful the party was Halston told her he would have just given given her the 10,000 if that's all she was getting from it Some face doctor that said I'dtoall day and had co me He asked me how old I was and I said, ”Thirty-five,” and he said I looked forty-five He said her the 10,000 if that's all she was getting from it Some face doctor that said I'dtoall day and had co me He asked me how old I was and I said, ”Thirty-five,” and he said I looked forty-five He said (laughs) (laughs) that if I go to him I can look like ”a normal thirty-five-year-old,” because he would do nutrition and things I guess that's why he was telling , that I could coo to him I can look like ”a normal thirty-five-year-old,” because he would do nutrition and things I guess that's why he was telling , that I could come seven times if I went to him, too

Then Aline Franzen as in charge of the party decided to do her auction thing but nobody at this thing was about to buy anything-they were all just wearing the teentsyest jewel you could buy at Bulgari, or so that I did myself with my whole heart and ill bid on it?” And nobody did Finally Liz hit me and said, ”You better better bid on it,” and I said no, that I wanted to bid on the two tickets to Studio 54, and finally Liz screaht, I'll take it myself,” and Aline said, ”No, Liz, you bid on it,” and I said no, that I wanted to bid on the two tickets to Studio 54, and finally Liz screaht, I'll take it myself,” and Aline said, ”No, Liz, you can't” can't” and Aline threw herself on the floor and was crying and it was such a comedy and then Liz's secretary Chen said and Aline threw herself on the floor and was crying and it was such a comedy and then Liz's secretary Chen said she she would take it, and Liz screamed, ”No, Chen, you would take it, and Liz screamed, ”No, Chen, you can't can't, you don't have any money” And Lee Grant was an auctioneer, too, she auctioned off two teeth, porcelain ones I think, for 2 I' thing Oh, poor Liz And Aline said, ”You rich people are being cheap” And then John Cabot Lodge got up and made a peculiar speech because he talked about the Red Enemy, and it was so weird Then Halston and Liz said they would meet afterwards at his house

So Halston and I went to his house together Liz sneaked in later and he gave her soh and happy I told her, ”Look, you've got nine days until the election, you've got to really get down and talk to the Negroes” I said, ”This lady stuff isn't going to work” And she said, ”Oh lawdy lawdy lawdy” And I told her, ”Listen, if you lose the election and you leave your husband, I want you to play Tru and went into a trance and tried to talk like Truman, but she couldn't remember how he talked

Then Victor and I went into the kitchen and I fed Linda potato chips under the table which I wasn't supposed to do, which was fun, and Halston and Liz were talking intimately in the other roo her

I told her, ”Elizabeth”-you really do have to call her Elizabeth-I said, ”Elizabeth, it would be so great to see you in the White House” And she was cute, she said, ”Oh but I just want to be a senator's wife, I ine me in the White House? A Jew and married seven times?”

Sunday, October 29, 1978 Woke up at 10:30 but it was really 9:30 Daylight saving time

Then Bob called and said he was at Averil's and that ere supposed to meet Mike Nichols and the ”Dr Warhol” that Nichols was insisting I had to -lost cousin I didn't want to go-I can't stand Mike Nichols-but we had to go because Ara Gallant had set it up We were supposed to have Sunday lunch at the Carlyle, but then it was moved don to Lady Astor's

I went to church and then picked up Ara and Bob and Averil (5) When we got there Mike Nichols had left His assistant said Nichols was mad because ere fifteen o down there, and oh, it ful-this doctor guy telling me I'm Polish He spells his na me questions like did I live alone He invited us to Poland next September Mike Nichols met him because he collects Arabian horses-he has 120 horses in Connecticut-and when he goes to Coet more this Dr Warchol helps hi-business partner Judith Hollander about furniture restoration and about the fights I've been having lately with Jed

Wednesday, November 1, 1978 Tom Sullivan came by to show Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys to us on a Beta marijuana, and it was funny to smell it at the office Paul Morrissey watched a little of it and said it was too slow, and Brigid was in and out and thought so, too, but I liked it to us on a Beta marijuana, and it was funny to smell it at the office Paul Morrissey watched a little of it and said it was too slow, and Brigid was in and out and thought so, too, but I liked it

And I decided I'm not so bad in it They only let me do one take and I think if I'd been able to do otten better But I was better than in ”my first film,” The Driver's Seat The Driver's Seat And Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys has soh These dealers drop cocaine from a plane and a maid and a secretary find it and steal it Tom said it cost him 950,000 to ood h These dealers drop cocaine from a plane and a maid and a secretary find it and steal it Tom said it cost him 950,000 to make it, but I don't see how, it was non-union

Ed Walsh ca n on Great Jones Street [Andy bought this carriage house at 57 Great Jones Street as well as a four-story building around the corner [Andy bought this carriage house at 57 Great Jones Street as well as a four-story building around the corner - -referred to as ”342” or ”the Bowery”-in 1970] We're going to fix it up and then maybe rent it out

Friday, November 3, 1978 The Elvis at the Parke Bernet auction on Thursday went for 85,000 It was estio between 100 to 125 The market's peaked for conteo for 4,000 and he bid it up to 5,000 and then soot it so he was thrilled

Thomas picked me up in the limo and ent to La Grenouille I saw the lady who runs La Grenouille and she said that her son was getting ie Tech,to be an artist, and I won't help him out Because, well, I never liked thethe kid I took him out to Montauk a few times, and he justI don't know

Saturday, November 4, 1978 AfterPlatinuuess as our driver! The catnapper!! The one froo! we picked up a liuess as our driver! The catnapper!! The one froo!

Monday, November 6, 1978 Rupert came by and orked on the Grapes Cab down to Maxime de la Falaise's loft on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street (4) Everybody'd been eating dinner Susan Bottomly-International Velvet-was there So was there and Patrick O'Higgins, and John Richardson and Boaz Mazor and Amina came in from a fashi+on show benefit at Studio 54 and she looked beautiful She said she riting a play about men who put themselves down in a bar and I told her that everybody does that, why not make them fashi+on models who put thereat idea, that she'd just ave s And this guy who I've met before who did a movie about people who drill holes in their heads was there with his girlfriend and they'd both drilled holes in their heads

John was telling me that Boaz, when he first met him, was the star of Oliver Stone's first feature movie It was called Michael and Mary Michael and Mary Boaz was Michael They were shooting it on weekends and John said it was like Cocteau-beauties falling all over the place-and Oliver's ave all the kids in the movie poppers to make them act better Boaz said it was shown at the Thalia for a couple of weeks once

Susan Bottomly looks very skinny She's left her boyfriend in Wales, she said she couldn't take it anymore He wanted to have a baby and she didn't

Tuesday, November 7, 1978 It was Election Day, so many places were closed Catherine called and wanted to do so We stayed at the office until 6:30 or 6:45 and then went up to 725 Fifth Avenue to the Robert Miller Gallery for Juan Hauy caes froia O'Keeffe for years, saying that he was conspiring to get all Georgia's paintings

I left Rupert on 66th and went hos are so bad in Iran, and the du Pont girl and Paul Jenkins And then Bob invited Lily Auchincloss-her husband Douglas just left her for Kay Kay Larkin

We went over to Quo Vadis Hoveyda got a phone call and they told him that the phone lines from Iran to Paris and New York were out, and the Shah's put the er The Hoveydas looked worried

Then around the cornerTru Barbara Allen up with a millionaire I think it was actually his Jewish lawyer or so And Truman is a completely different person froive him? Really, this week he's so dapper and last week he was an alcoholic

Wednesday, Noveht now on one of the ht he worked for the CIA and I still do I just can't take it Hold on, I' to shut it off There, I feel so much better now

cocktails at Tatiana Liber in all these clothes that were so expensive, but she still has no style I told her we'd rent her a fag and he could take her around and tell her what to buy and how to put it together I said, ”Well, you're living in a chic building now, Barbara”-in the Galleria-”so you should really start to look look chic” I tried to be diplo just came out like the truth chic” I tried to be diplo just came out like the truth

CZ Guest had a dinner at Le Cirque Kim D'Estainville and Helene Rochas were there, they said that they'd just been in California and they drove alleries because they wanted to see soot there, there wasSur

Oh, and David Whitney called and said he was going out to California and Philip Johnson had given him a first-class ticket and he said, ”Oh Philip, you shouldn't have I don't need it,” and so Philip cashed it in for coach!

At dinner I was next to Doris Duke She was great Then afterwards everyone was going to Studio 54 and Bob took most of the ladies in his silver liot into that Then e got there she wanted to leave-she didn't want her picture taken-so I took her to her car and went back I saw the John Scribner boy and Robyn, and James Curley-he's a Mellon-he's the cute kid whose father was ambassador to Ireland Catherine was there and she's unhappy with her job at Viva Viva She said she wished she were back at Interview Intervieith Bob screa at her, she said every article has to have a dozen s about it I said I'd take her ho at her, she said every article has to have a dozen s about it I said I'd take her home It was around 2:00 (cab 4)

Friday, November 10, 1978 Adriana Jackson came down and I took soi did thethe faces white so the wrinkles don't show and they print up better and make up into better screens and also it see more special for them The pictures really do come out better The Swiss lady didn't like her nose, which actually was a nice one, so it was hard to take a picture that she liked her nose in

Bob Markell from Grosset & Dunlap ca should be out by May 31, and then he started talking abouton TV and I just looked at hi how everyone in Europe loved all these ”intiot nervous-(laughs) what if they what if they are are intimate? intimate?

Monday, Nove the piss on the piss paintings now the piss on the piss paintings now

Went over to Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth's at 1 East 66th Street for Phyllis's birthday party that Jamie had called that afternoon to invite me to Joanne du Pont's name came up I don't think Jamie likes her much, but I don't knohy not-I mean, he he married into the du Ponts, too married into the du Ponts, too

Nan Kempner arrived Bo Polk arrived and everyone was thrilled that Barry Landau wasn't with him Then Barry arrived And Bo should really be careful, because Barry even takes Polaroids now, and it could hurt the people if someday somebody showed pictures of everybody at his bathtub parties Because at the tiot printed in the papers it would look like so else

Tuesday, Nove Bob MacBride in his studio at 33 Union Square Truman may be on Lithium, because suddenly he's happy ButIsland and saw Jack Dunphy and that Jack Dunphy finally agreed to write Answered Prayers Answered Prayers for hi zipper and two zippers for the pockets He said it was a few years old But his hands are cold Which drug is that? for hi zipper and two zippers for the pockets He said it was a few years old But his hands are cold Which drug is that?

I worked at the office until 7:30 Rupert was helping me try to paint with a brush, the piss on the brush, but it was hard Dropped Rupert (4)

Ann La the Americans she's met in London the past couple of years It's incredible what a figure she has now

Wednesday, November 15, 1978 After e decided to open a bottle of chaet drunk This was 6:30 So Averil and Vincent and I got drunk, and then we left Averil stopped a lidale's and he said 10, so we got in Averil said that all the Kennedy kids would be at this opening of the Superot there to the Superain Howback camp?

Thursday, Nove for Viva/Penthouse Viva/Penthouse at Tavern on the Green the blond Smothers Brother-they're on Broadway in at Tavern on the Green the blond Smothers Brother-they're on Broadway in I Love My Wife I Love My Wife-came over and said, ”Hi Andy, how are ya” And then later when I went to the phone and tried to call the office, he aiting for the phone, too He talked about himself and said he didn't feel he was creative anymore and that it was probably because he was secure, and he asked me how I felt, and I said that I wasn't creative since I was shot, because after that I stopped seeing creepy people Then a kid said to him, ”Don't you remember me? I was so-and-so's chauffeur and also the first houseboy to work in the Sharon Tate house after the reat line

There's a rumor that Viva Viva is about to fold is about to fold

Saturday, November 18, 1978 It was a beautiful day, in the seventies I watched people on pogo sticks in the park

Sunday, November 19, 1978 Stevie Rubell had called o with Diana Ross to a s for her were giving Ashford and Simpson We li roo and the wife is cute When the audience saw Diana, the whole place uards with us, all the blacks just love her The Wiz The Wiz is a big hit, I didn't know that The concert was sensational, there were bravos is a big hit, I didn't know that The concert was sensational, there were bravos

Then there was a Valentino party at 54 I guess Stevie was trying to make it a really bad party, because he had the waiters dressed up like Pilgri turkey He said he had to explain to Valentino why he was doing it that way He said he told him, ”Well, you know America was discovered by an Italian,” and he said that they (laughs) (laughs) understood The front of Studio 54 was decorated like the front of a boat I lost Halston but I found hi, and he made me have some The last place you want to eatthe turkey, too, so I guess it was okay Barbara Allen was there, going home to meet Bryan Ferry understood The front of Studio 54 was decorated like the front of a boat I lost Halston but I found hi, and he made me have some The last place you want to eatthe turkey, too, so I guess it was okay Barbara Allen was there, going home to oing on The Stanley Siegel Show The Stanley Siegel Show again, but only because it's taped this tiain, but only because it's taped this tiazine did fold and now Catherine's out in the cold azine did fold and now Catherine's out in the cold