Part 15 (1/2)

Bob dropped me home When I was in bed, already asleep, around 2:00, Victor called and told me to come over to Studio 54, that it was fun, that they had snow all over the floors But I didn't

Saturday, Dece how sheout with Christopher Walken and that his as getting upset She said she cut her arht-she'd broken into a friend's apartuess Tinkerbelle's really wild

Sunday, December 24, 1978 Up early New York was so unbusy, there were lots of cabs Everybodywas open and nothing was crowded Then cabbed to Union Square (3) I got Rupert to come up and help s

Oh, and in theI called David Whitney to wish him a Merry Christmas and Philip Johnson answered the phone and said he was cleaning up because the big winds had blown in a sheet of glass-he was at the Glass House in Connecticut-and it could have cut him in two Isn't that scary? David wasn't there, he was down at the greenhouse Truman called and said he was alone because Bob MacBride had to spend Christmas with his kids I worked all afternoon, left at 5:00, dropped Vincent and Rupert (450)

Tom Cashi+n came over to the house for a fast turkey dinner before ent to Diane Von Furstenberg's And Diane didn't invite Bob Colacello to her party Now everybody's saying that they only like me when Bob and Fred aren't around withon me soon, too, probably

But e got to Diane Von Furstenberg's she had a guilty pang and started saying, ”How could I be so evil? How could I be so rotten to Bob?” and then she called hi to Adriana Jackson's, but he said he'd cooing over, really hard It was a horrible Christmas party with horrible people-about fifty of them-so I didn't see why she couldn't have invited Bob in the first place

Barry Diller was there and I guess the reason he and Diane are a couple is because she gives hiives her powerfulness He's very very powerful And that producer Howard Rosenman was there, and someone screa fun talking to Cappy Badrutt She was the only fun person there powerful And that producer Howard Rosenman was there, and someone screa fun talking to Cappy Badrutt She was the only fun person there

Then we left for Halston's Catherine was there and I gave her a painting with some of my come on it, but then Victor said it was his his coht about that, but now that I think about it, it coht about that, but now that I think about it, it could could have been Victor's have been Victor's

Halston had a big fish I had red wine and was getting so tired that when Toue for the first time it really worked on oing to Studio 54 and I knew that we'd be up until 5:00

Monday, December 25, 1978 Went to church Tom Cashi+n called to say Merry Christmas

The turkey at Halston's was ready at 9 PM PM It was really good We reviewed the night before Halston revealed that Steve had spent the whole day with Roy Cohn and that he was only coo back to see him some more

At Studio 54 the IRS found a roo howus so wonderfully He could have been so generous and spending so much, and he just wasn't He did take us to La Grenouille once, but it could have been soabout Bianca's divorce, Steve saying she should hire Roy Cohn and sue Mick for everything, but the thing's so coet the divorce in London and Mick wants it in France because France is where she signed the paper saying she wouldn't get anything in a divorce settlement

Wednesday, Dece htest black pants, like she was poured into theht she could hardly sit down She was sitting next to uess she was on so She said that she told Cher she wouldn't do her TV special, that Cher flew up to Vegas to see her last week about it, but she turned it down She said, ”That's not ht now” Diana uses the hip lines, she said, ”I don't irl, but ” Weren't they best friends once?

Sunday, December 31, 1978 Fred's in the Aoing to go to Rosenquist's New Year's Eve party Rosenquist was hiring a live band again It was so successful the year before that he's doing it again

I worked all afternoon at the office It was nice working on New Year's Eve, I painted backgrounds Walter Steding ca an Alcoholics Anonyid stopped by to pick up sooing to be so chic,Jed and Halston said fine so ent over Catherine brought Tom and Winnie-Halston'd said fine to that, too To Catherine and me points in the movie, and that they had to reshoot a little iven 150,000 so they could Bianca was in a Dior

Oh, and Vincent called earlier and said that Mrs Winters had called and said that Mr Winters had what they think was a heart attack

Diana Ross looked beautiful And she had asked Halston over the phone if he was going to serve black-eyed peas at etting soul food And when she got there Halston was cooking ham hocks and ribs A few people said to her, ”Don't you want to check on the black-eyed peas?” They knew the peas were her idea, and they were just trying to be nice I guess she took it as an insult, though, because she said, ”No, thank you, darling, I think I've checked theirlfriend there and she was Jake LaMotta's daughter He's that boxer Bobby De Niro's playing in the new Scorseseat Halston's we had the radio on and it was ”live fro, ”Oh yes! Here they co in the door right now!”

Then we all did go to Studio 54 They had decorated it great, put silver glitter on the floor, and they had so that Bobby De Niro had been there since 10:00 They'd been having a press party

The whole night was spent losing and finding and looking and finding and looking John Fairchild, Jr has a crush on Bianca so ere looking for her, and then losing her, and then losing hi forhim

I was sober I had lots of Perrier The place was still ju at 7:00 Went outside, it aret in, as if it were only 1:00 Only the light was different

Monday, January 1, 1979 Maxi me a dinner party, which I didn't want So I told her to invite Bianca and the Herreras and I picked up Catherine And I also invited Allen Brooks, the porn star Cabbed to 19th and Fifth (5) Gloria Swanson was there with her new young husband Gloria used to be married to Maxime's ex-brother-in-law, the Count de la Falaise And she started saying, ”I set away fro froood nose and I know there are fu” And I just kneas the perfu It was jas research for a new perfuo near Gloria I went into the bathrooht I stayed about four feet away fro to talk to ood, though, with short grey hair Maxihetti

Mario Amaya, that person who stopped by the Factory in '68 and wound up getting shot in the ar me-he was there and he just quit his job at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk

Tuesday, January 2, 1979 Went to meet Truman at Dr Orentreich's office on 72nd and Fifth to tape the two of them for Truman's first ”Conversations with Capote” series in Interview Interview We went in the back door, and Dr Orentreich gave us free sa, saying everything he's doing Then he removed the veins from my nose I've had it done before, by Dr Doreat For about three ain He said that the doctor who sandpapered one too deep

Tru it hi to be ”supervised by” Dr Orentreich

Friday, January 5, 1979 Bianca had invited soof her that it turned into a big lunch And I'd invited all the kids who coured that when you see soood way to end it all, let theht I invited Curley, and Justin, and pecker who got fired as a waiter at Studio 54 for serving drinks in the ladies' room But since the ladies' room there is always full of men, anyway, I don't knohy they cared

Bianca had tickets for the John Curry ice ballet show at the Minskoff Theater After the shoent backstage to see John Curry The dressing rooms at the Minskoff are new and beautiful, air-conditioned and everything Jade ith us There's so about John Curry, he's so adorable, and when I was leaving he kissedthe show because he really hurt hi to run it for another week

Saturday, January 6, 1979 Walter Steding called and wanted to freelance, so I had hi up to John Curry (cab 10)

Vincent was calling Montauk because Mr Winters was failing, and Mrs Winters was upset I just couldn't believe that anybody who looked as good as Mr Winters did was in bad health But he has has been really cranky, I think last summer with Tom Sullivan out there really made him cranky been really cranky, I think last summer with Tom Sullivan out there really made him cranky

Then Bob called and said that Rod Stewart and Alana Hamilton wanted to see us for dinner, and that sounded like a fun thing I worked at home until 10:00, and then Bob picked me up and ent to Elaine's (cab 250) It turned out to be actually Swifty Lazar's dinner party, and the Erteguns were there, and Rod's ay with Bob Well, the party was so stuffy, poor Rod looked ood time, and they all wanted blows and nobody had any And then Francoise and Oscar de la Renta left and suddenly-it was incredible-everything picked up Who would think that just two people leaving could do so ed

Rod and Alana had thewhite reat-he looked better than she did

Then ent to Studio 54 Truoes up into the crow's nest where the DJ plays the records and it's like his private office People come up to see him, and he stays until 8:00 Truman said that Ivan Karp had seen Bob MacBride's art and said he'd put hiroup show in December of next year

Rod and Alana were in the back, I introduced theet coke there now, they're not really selling it And so me and John Fairchild, Jr cauy beaten up, and I really should get to know him better because he

Sunday, January 7, 1979 It was raining hard As I was leaving the house John Curry called to thankI sent him Went to Elaine's to have dinner with Phyllis Diller (cab 250) Barry Landau arranged it so he was there

Phyllis was cute, she's a happy divorcee Right as I was talking to Phyllis she finally realized that I was the person who'd asked if I could draw her foot in around 1958 She was just starting out then-it may have been at the Bon Soir or soether that that was me and this is me, and so she said, ”Oh, you're you're the foot fetishi+st!” the foot fetishi+st!”

Phyllis didn't eat much Tommy Smothers ith us and so was Tommy Tune He said that Elaine's had the best food he'd had in so long, and everybody looked at him like he was nuts Hetoward the table with his arhs) Barry Landau whispered to Phyllis quickly that she had just sent a bottle of chaned it fro Phyllis and so I said, ”If you can tongue-kiss her, you can tongue-kiss ive the rest when he knew me better Barry Landau whispered to Phyllis quickly that she had just sent a bottle of chaned it fro Phyllis and so I said, ”If you can tongue-kiss her, you can tongue-kiss ive the rest when he knew me better

Then ent to Studio 54 and it was very empty John Fairchild, Jr was there and he asked to borrow money, so I ripped a hundred-dollar bill in half and that upset him, but it was a memorable moment And I didn't realize it at the time, that he probably had his coat on only because he didn't have enough money to check it

And Halston is is funny-no rabs s me and kisses me and says, ”It's so nice to uarding me (20) funny-no rabs s me and kisses me and says, ”It's so nice to uarding me (20)

Monday, January 8, 1979 Vincent called and told me that Mr Winters had died

Did I say that Fred called the office the other day? He wasn't even in Bogota yet, they were in some small town He said that he and Rachel Ward fell out of the boat and she wasn't coerous He's with three or four Kennedys and Rebecca Fraser

Tuesday, January 9, 1979 I wanted to see The Wiz The Wiz, so Jed and I cabbed to the Plaza (cab 2, tickets 10) The ly and they ly Sidney Luraphed theht up Lena Horne's nostrils She's his ex-mother-in-law The play was a lot better, with the Geoffrey Holder dancers

Wednesday, January 10, 1979 Talked to Vincent, he went out to Montauk to see Mrs Winters He told her she could stay on if she wanted-she has a son and Mr Winters had a son, so maybe they can help her and maybe she can stay on there alone

Thursday, January 11, 1979 Fred was back from his trip, very very happy because he lost twenty pounds, he's back to 120, and sporting a ht me back an emerald, it's the smallest one I've ever seen-blink and you miss it It's a tenth of a carat and comes with a certificate and the certificate is really cute

Went to dinner at La Grenouille with Phyllis Diller and Barry Landau (cab 4) A lot of people were asking Phyllis for her autograph and not hs) said to me, ”Oh I'm sorry, dear, I felt so said to me, ”Oh I'm sorry, dear, I felt so bad bad for you” for you”

Friday, January 12, 1979 Tinkerbelle brought Christopher Walken down to lunch so that she could have a date with hi star now that he really threhen he said, ”A couple of years ago I was Monique Van Vooren's dancing partner” (laughs) (laughs) Isn't that so her act at that room that doesn't exist anymore Not the Maisonette, maybe the Rainbow Rooave hiuess when Monique was doing her act at that room that doesn't exist anymore Not the Maisonette, maybe the Rainbow Rooave him the name ”Christopher”