Part 18 (2/2)

Then ent over to Ja an interview to WWD, and Phyllis was in the pool I talked to shi+rlee Fonda She said they sold their East Side New York house on 79th Street to David Brenner, but then he backed out at the last minute, he said that he was too famous to own a house She said that if Henry Fonda could own a house, David Brenner could, too But she's very happy because now they're renting the house for 5,000 athe place out, she found a big gold cross worth about 20,000 behind the bookshelves and they're going to try to find out who it belonged to She said that she wouldn't have felt right keeping it I could see that Suzie really wanted it badly, she likes gold crosses

We went back to Frolic's to change The girls got into their ball gowns Oh, and Henry Fonda has all his teeth He was eating green apples I'm sure they're his because they're sort of darkened

Suzie was rolling a joint and it was e I had one of those pepperot to feed the driver and that was terrible

At the museum Frolic introduced me to Governor Scranton and his wife and some old ladies Had a few drinks, pictures, dinner Marina Schiano and Jed changed placecards so they'd be next to each other, they weren't happy I was next to Nancy Hanks on one side and the sister of Henry Mcllhenny, Bonny Wintersteen, on the other side Nancy Hanks is the head of the National Endowot Jamie on her advisory committee, The National Council on the Arts Bonny Wintersteen was fascinating and fun She's fat with grey hair pulled back very tight She sold her ten o when they were going for very high prices, she said she got tired of people showing up at her house and de to see them

I met a lot of kids in black tie who said they o at the University of Pennsylvania when Edie and I went there for my show We left at about 10:30 and I fell asleep in the car

Sunday, September 16, 1979 Went to Lester Persky's Yanks Yanks party at Trader Vic's It turned out to be a really intimate dinner for only about fourteen people Lester arrived with Richard Gere, and John Schlesinger arrived and Tommy Dean Lester has a thin mustache now Richard Gere asked me how Lester and I had o, and this time Lester didn't like that, so it was my first party at Trader Vic's It turned out to be a really intimate dinner for only about fourteen people Lester arrived with Richard Gere, and John Schlesinger arrived and Tommy Dean Lester has a thin mustache now Richard Gere asked me how Lester and I had o, and this time Lester didn't like that, so it was my first faux pas faux pas Richard Gere said that ten years ago he came in on a bus from New Jersey and went to see our e, and he said fro to be an actor-it took hi We were talking about girls and he was talking about irl in Rome-Dalila DiLazzaro-at a party in Zeffirelli's backyard and I told hi a soap coe, and he said fro to be an actor-it took hi We were talking about girls and he was talking about irl in Rome-Dalila DiLazzaro-at a party in Zeffirelli's backyard and I told hi a soap commercial on Italian TV and made her the star of Frankenstein Frankenstein-and he was i to be in a new play called Bent Bent which is an English one about homos in concentration camps I asked him if he was Italian and he said no, that he was French and Irish which is an English one about homos in concentration camps I asked him if he was Italian and he said no, that he was French and Irish

Steve Rubell came later When Steve's normal, he's so distant Lester told funny stories Then I made another faux pas faux pas, I said that it was soright there And I wasn't even thinking about the party at 54, I was just wanting tous because he's always so cheap John Schlesinger gave a speech

Monday, September 17, 1979 Cab to Union Square (4) There was a lunch for Jack Kroll from Neeek Neeek and I had invited two friends of his, too, one who made a movie that Jack liked called and I had invited two friends of his, too, one who made a movie that Jack liked called Anti-Clock Anti-Clock, and I didn't know if the girl was his girlfriend or if she did PR It's a small movie, an art movie They told hs) (laughs), so you can iine what it's like

Bob told me the reason he's after Neeek Neeek is so they'll do a cover story onto say? Reporters will just rehash ”He lives on the Upper East Side with two dachshunds and he's a so-stick for Paulette Goddard” Well maybe they'll feel the sa I et s or lose a few hundred pounds or die, to be good copy is so they'll do a cover story onto say? Reporters will just rehash ”He lives on the Upper East Side with two dachshunds and he's a so-stick for Paulette Goddard” Well maybe they'll feel the sa I et s or lose a few hundred pounds or die, to be good copy

Dropped Rupert and Bob (4) and went hoot into black tie Robyn's mother, Mrs Amory, invited me to the Cancer dance I invited Gael Malkenson I went over to Gael's and she was in a bright green dress We had a drink there Her boyfriend is out of town He works at a cheese cos home all this cheese Cabbed to Lincoln Center (250)

They had an orchestra and all the old bags were out on the floor doing the foxtrot, and there's always that one seventy-five or eighty-year-old lady who gets out there and is the first to start really juo to bed with them They look like the ladies at Bonnie & Clyde, that dyke bar dohere every table it's women who look like anybody's mother

The Gilmans were there, they're now best friends with Robyn's mother, they have a house next to her in Tuxedo Park And I asked Sondra whatever happened to Adela Holzer, and she said, ”My dear, you won't believe it, she's been staying withto couess But then if she's such a good friend, why did she let her sit in jail for four days?

The raffle was a trip to Milan Why would soht talking about the et her to dish Bob, but she said she wouldn't talk about her boss, she just said she goes to the other side of the rooot that Halston was on the Donahue Show Donahue Show so Iready for his teeks off when he goes to California to visit Gigi

Wednesday, Septe lunch down at the office, Brigid had invited Stanley Marcus from Neiman-Marcus Cabbed to Union Square and walked to office (cab 3, kitchen supplies 125) The building had just finished painting the downstairs lobby They made it Puerto Rican colors and you just hate to walk into it

Mr Marcus was a funny little htFred back from Europe, but he never arrived Rupert came by Curley came and took the uo back to them Jack Heinz had called about it and said it was his favorite one

I told Carole Rogers at Interview Interview to try to register the word to try to register the word Out Out as the title for a ister it is to actually do up a duazine with that name Because I want to start another newspaper-one that's as the title for a ister it is to actually do up a duazine with that naer younger than than Interview Interview because because Interview's Interview's so established now Dropped Rupert (4) and got into black tie and went to pick up Suzie Frankfurt and Bob so established now Dropped Rupert (4) and got into black tie and went to pick up Suzie Frankfurt and Bob

We walked to the Pierre for the Gianni Versace fashi+on show Gianni Versace was at our table, but not until after the show And Carrie Donovan was there who always gave me my first jobs Andre Leon Talley was next to uy who doesn't like us from Women's Wear Women's Wear, what's his nairlfriend and this tiine's

The fashi+on show had Joe MacDonald and European girls It was funny fabrics-lace and suede and leather The clothes he h, kind of draped and ugly At the end he got ehs) cried cried

Ludovic invited us to Regine's, but ere going to first go to a party Nelson had invited us to for Michael O'Donoghue rote Mondo Video Mondo Video, a ot (15) to Tango Palace on 47th and Broadway and the place looked like the old Factory with silver tinfoil on the walls And the diirls now cost 20-a-second A lady with breasts as big as Geri Miller's in Trash Trash was there, vulgar, dancing The party was disgusting, the creepiest kids came over and talked toRichard Turley was there and he loved the place was there, vulgar, dancing The party was disgusting, the creepiest kids came over and talked toRichard Turley was there and he loved the place

Thursday, Septe of that movie Anti-Clock Anti-Clock that Jack Kroll's friends o alone, so I invited John Reinhold and Curley, and Thomas Ammann because he's interested in art movies We went to 48th and Broadway (cab 3) I was five minutes late and they'd started the movie It was out of focus, it only went into focus about four times It was a double screen, filirlin a shower Then the film looked like it broke and we didn't know if it had or if it was the end of the movie, and none of us dared to ask, so we just sat there in the dark, and then finally when a guy ca the film, we kneas really over We didn't knohat to say and the girl showing it wanted us to say so, so finally I said, ”I liked it,” and she was relieved that Jack Kroll's friends o alone, so I invited John Reinhold and Curley, and Thomas Ammann because he's interested in art movies We went to 48th and Broadway (cab 3) I was five minutes late and they'd started the movie It was out of focus, it only went into focus about four times It was a double screen, filirlin a shower Then the film looked like it broke and we didn't know if it had or if it was the end of the movie, and none of us dared to ask, so we just sat there in the dark, and then finally when a guy ca the film, we kneas really over We didn't knohat to say and the girl showing it wanted us to say so, so finally I said, ”I liked it,” and she was relieved

Friday, Septe out Interviews Interviews I went to Manolo Blahnik's new shoe store on 65th and Madison, next to Kron's, really beautiful, one-of-a-kind shoes Went to Kron's (5868) It was raining so it was just i But Gene Shalit ca in a car and said he'd drop me and I said that it ay too out of his way, and he said that anything I wanted wasn't too s-all he does is work He said he got Meryl Streep for an interview and I asked hiet her for ourhard He said he picks up the phone himself, that he never has an assistant do it He dropped me all the way don and I worked all afternoon, then dropped Rupert off (cab 4)

Then I got ether, I was Sharon Hammond's date for a party for Alexis Smith at a restaurant called Dukes, before they took The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas on the road Sat between Mrs Long and Twyla Tharp, and Tas saying that she was a has-been, that her movie career was over, that Lester and on the road Sat between Mrs Long and Twyla Tharp, and Tas saying that she was a has-been, that her movie career was over, that Lester and Hair Hair ruined it because they didn't use enough of her dancing, but I don't see how they could have used ruined it because they didn't use enough of her dancing, but I don't see how they could have used er boyfriend who she's been living with for years with her She tried to pretend that she didn't have anything to do with the Judson dancers-the dancers in Judson Church in the Village in the sixties-and when I would mention one of their names she wouldn't really say she knew the, but then after she'd had a few drinks, she began telling things about the dancers that she'd pretended she didn't know And her boyfriend had even said to her, ”Why are you pretending you had nothing to do with the Judson?” I guess she was just a du and just made it, somehow I don't kno She acts like she feels she's more important than them now It was fun to talk to her

Geoffrey Holder was there, and Geraldine Stutz, all the old-timers It was a nice party And then ent to New York/New York Lester Persky was there and he was fun, and Jack Martin, I always have a great time with Jack Martin, he's so ave Joyce Haber was getting et Rona Barrett to give hi, ”Oh Rona, what do you have that stupid thing for?” and so she gave it to hiave Joyce the Marilyn portfolio after she wrote that big article on us in the LA Times LA Times in the late sixties and she'd just broken up with her husband, Doug Craht the portfolio would cheer her up and it was before I kne much they'd be worth They're so expensive now in the late sixties and she'd just broken up with her husband, Doug Craht the portfolio would cheer her up and it was before I kne much they'd be worth They're so expensive now

Saturday, September 22, 1979 Down at the office I went across the street to the fars for the kitchen (8) Interview Intervieorking orking

Thomas Ammann picked me up in his limo and ent to Nippon to meet everybody It was Wilson Kidde and Billy Kioes to Harvard-John Reinhold, Robert Hayes, Curley, Keller Donovan the decorator, Rupert and his new friend-there were ten of us, all boys, so it was e I heard an older couple at the next table say (laughs) (laughs), ”Oh it must be a prep school with their headmasters,” because John and I looked the oldest and the kids were all in ties and jackets We had a good tio to Cowboys and after that ent to Rounds A guy there said he met me in Tennessee and he asked if he could sit with us to see what New York was really like (105) Joe MacDonald was there and said that Flauy let us in free because I'd judged a reat because it was brand-new, and then at 3:00 Thomas Ammann dropped me off

Sunday, Septelued ether and Curley picked me up and ent to 42nd Street to the WPIX radio station for the John Ogel Show John Ogel Show I'd invited Walter Steding to play his ent when he was interviewed

Then Lou Reed rushed in and said how glad he was to see us Lou told me one of his dachshunds had had an operation on his back I told him to come down to the Mudd Club with us later because they were having a Dead Rock Stars Night, and he said he would go as hiood for that now

We stopped for dinner at One Fifth (cab 3) When alked in Jackie Curtis-he's back to dressing as a girl-was at the bar with, who else, Taylor Mead, who happened to be waiting for, who else, Viva And then they were all on their way down to the Mudd Club Had drinks (4514) and then it was 11:30 so ent to the Mudd Club, too (cab 3) They had a roo needles in her aruess because of the ru to death with a plate of ham sandwiches in front of her and you could take the sandwiches and eat them It was really sick Vincent and Don Munroe were there videotaping

Viva was reading poetry but I missed it, I didn't see her Francois de Menil was there The ex-Mr Viva was there They had girls in black crying, and then outside a hearse pulled up I was really tired Dropped everybody off (cab 15)

Tuesday, October 9, 1979 Went to Union Square at 12:45 to meet the Newhouses, the ht pictures of the husband who just died, but they weren't right so they're going to send down soht want her portrait done, too nobody was around, so Victor served She's a short little wohty-two years old I asked the son about Self Selfby coazine-he said they survey everything by co

Had to go to Richard Weised Curley ith me, Fred had invited him Bad traffic, Castro's in town (cab 350) Bo Polk was there, and he invited e Bush party Then Pat Hickey the hockey player arrived with his girlfriend and he looked like the Tareyton ad, his eye was all black Governor Brown caave a speech and I taped it and afterwards he asked what I taped it for and all the kids told hi-he just throws the tapes in a box” He didn't say ive speeches all the time, what's left to talk about?

Stephanie was back with Bo Polk, Stephanie McLuhan, but I noticed she overnor when he arrived and kissed hih she didn't know hiot up and asked an involved question, I guess to show she was intelligent, but she was stupid and he was stupid He caet uess-the legislation that would s are resold-but it didn't otten too skinny, that he'd lost his ”love handles” and that she'd liked them I wanted somebody to ask, ”Is Jerry a fairy?” and Diane said no, that he wasn't, that Jerry's no fairy Judith Hollander and Jed were there, they came by on their way to Too hoo to Elaine's with Rod and Judy Gilbert and Pat Hickey and his girlfriend

Elaine was sitting at a table with five girls and one I think was Candy Bergen because later people said that it was but it didn't look like her and I looked at her and she looked atIf it was her, she looks older Pat Hickey took his girlfriend ho with hiet me to drink tequila, and about 2:00 I left (cab 3)

Thursday, October 11, 1979 Got up and it was raining, cold again Somebody ran into Truo to Nebraska Maybe he just needed soo to Nebraska to do a story for Interview Interview and we gave it to hiave it to him

I worked all afternoon in the back

Fred was in one of those o to the Larry Rivers show at Marlborough with us

Larry's show is like a retrospective of all his work It's funny, it's like he ran out of ideas and decided to repaint everything In the elevator I ran into the Greek wonize her And I also ran into Rupert who said uy said, ”I' your office is in,” and he said that he'd just rented the ground floor to a discotheque but that we shouldn't worry, that it wouldn't interfere with us because it wouldn't be going on during our business hours I told hireat? The Mafia discotheque fires will only burn the place to the ground after after office hours Isn't that wonderful, a discotheque for a neighbor office hours Isn't that wonderful, a discotheque for a neighbor

Then I went to dinner at the Gilo to tax-shelter school

Friday, October 12, 1979 It was raining, another awful day Michael Zivian called in the n some of my spacefruits, so I walked up Madison to his place

Henry Post called and I talked to hi He'd sent me an article he wrote on Quaaludes for New York New York He's still out to get Steve Rubell

Sunday, October 14, 1979 I went to church and it was pretty out Then o up to see the Dalai Lama at St John the Divine Cathedral on 112th Street and Broadway We picked Fred up and went uptown (cab 6) The Dalai La, he had an interpreter but I don't knohy because later he talked English very well He earing an orange and red dress Then there was a party in the back and everyone was standing around shaking hands Bob said he wasn't iood as the pope