Part 20 (1/2)

Monday, February 11, 1980-Zurich Slept late and then Thomas Ammann woke me up to do a portrait A beautiful ith a fat husband I said she didn't needbeauty Her husband tells her she's ugly-Thomas says that's hoiss people treat their wives because they never want theave them a book and an Interview Interview and we sent out the fil but SX-70 fillish papers which I paid for (5) and we sent out the fil but SX-70 fillish papers which I paid for (5)

We had lunch downstairs in the restaurant with Loulou de la Falaise Klossowski and her husband Thadee and Thoood The place was so beautiful with a view of the lake and the mountains We were the only people there and the sun was beating through theon our backs It'd been hailing in the e Loulou told us that YSL really was such a genius that he just can't take it, he has to take a ets so depressed when he's depressed except for her She said she acts happy no ets sick, because she's always trying to act happy and it's really a lot of stress on her liver She hasn't had a drink in a year and a quarter but she doesn't think cocaine is bad I do, though We talked about her stepfather, John McKendry She said he had sothat her son Alexis was going to live at home with them and that he could have an affair with hiotthere bringing home pretty boys every minute that he could fuck And actually he did steal her boys

Loulou said John McKendry was actually killing hireat and romantic and wonderful and literary the aristocracy must be Then when he ot to h his job at the Met, he realized they were just nor left for him to live for Of course I think that Maxih Then we took a cab don (1050)

Thursday, February 14, 1980-Dusseldorf We had to take Hans Mayer's car and drive out to the country to a sraph a Gerest sausage co building You could see all the e on the wall Junk everywhere A lot of toys A lot of stuffed cows, stuffed pigs Pigs, pigs, pigs all over the place And there was art There were funny things hanging fros He buys a lot of art, he said they sell es that way because the people are very happy Then he gave us a white sh and watched the ladies es It was really fun You could sive us any hot dogs there He had the whole portfolio of Picasso that I did the Picasso print of Palos and more salamis and more hams and more ham art

Then we took Polaroids for the portrait and had some tea And his wife came by They didn't offer us lunch Then all of a sudden he asked us if we'd like to try one of his hot dogs They cooked some up and we had two apiece One white one and one black one They were really good We had theo have lunch back at the lunch rooht was really strange We got in the car and drove to a restaurant in a place called Bottrop

As soon as we came in they told us it was this crazy day where all the women chase the men They cut off your ties But since we knew that was happening- these drunken ladies running around-we took our ties off and hid theot ood shi+rt and I was so ot back in the car and drove back to Hans's gallery I was so tired, and I was really upset about my shi+rt

Monday, February 18, 1980-New York I was jetlagged and overslept I made the kids co for teeks while I was gone, but it turned out the building wasn't open and the heat wasn't on And the discotheque on the ground floor is still being built, they had the nerve to sendThey broke the elevator and it wasn't working, and I think the no heat is so to anza perfor up soon soer, I should find out where it is

It was great to be back I thought it'd be forty degrees, but it turned out to be still twenty I wandered around and passed out Interviews Interviews, then got a cab to Union Square (350) The heat finally caid orking on the sa on when I left I nize it?

And I just don't knohere to paint anymore now that Interview Interview has taken over my old room David orks for has taken over my old room David orks for Interview Intervieas finished painting it (50 to David for paint) was finished painting it (50 to David for paint)

Tuesday, February 19, 1980 I got up before 9:00 to watch the Today Show Today Show and try to figure out why Gene Shalit hasn't used the thing he did on me He'll use it after I die, he'll say, ”I spoke with Andy Warhol in 1980 and here is that clip” I uest I mean, I -they never knohat to do with it Well, the and try to figure out why Gene Shalit hasn't used the thing he did on me He'll use it after I die, he'll say, ”I spoke with Andy Warhol in 1980 and here is that clip” I uest I mean, I -they never knohat to do with it Well, the 20/20 20/20 thing that Karen Lerner shot during the thing that Karen Lerner shot during the Exposures Exposures tour is supposed to be on next week The twenty-eighth tour is supposed to be on next week The twenty-eighth

We had office pizza lunch (5)

Oh, and this guy from New York New York called about the first part of called about the first part of Popisreat if the book was a big hit and we didn't have to work to proreat if the book was a big hit and we didn't have to work to promote it?

Ron Feldman caood idea to do that, they're going to sell And all the Gerood person selling there, Hans Mayer How coot to say that when I alking along University Place a kid stuck his head out of a carand said, ”Aren't boys cuter in cars?” cars?”

Thursday, February 21, 1980 Did I ever say that a couple of weeks ago Bianca asked us about the night she gave Bob a ride home from Halston's after he threw up in the sink? Bob was sort of shocked that she would bring it up This is the nightthe chauffeur getting out of the back part of the limo Bob said he told her, ”Well, Bianca, you just tookand said hoas nice of you to stay with me for an hour and a half I said you hadn't been with me me They told ether” She said that she just passed out after she dropped Bob off because Mick had given her three vodkas in a row at the Erteguns' house and that she got so excited at seeing him there that the vodkas just made her black out She said that the chauffeur was in the back with her really just trying to wake her up And Bianca told me she was never jealous of Jerry, that she knows Mick is with Jerry because he's into a real sex trip right now And I said, ”Well, Jerry told us that she gives Mick a blow job before she lets him out of the house,” and Bianca said, ”Why didn't you put that in her interview?” I said, ”Because you wereher in Interview Interview in the first place, let alone if we had her talking about sex with Mick” Bianca said she wouldn't care, she said the only girlfriend of Mick's she ever got jealous of was Carly Sient and has the look Mick likes-she looks like Mick and Bianca in the first place, let alone if we had her talking about sex with Mick” Bianca said she wouldn't care, she said the only girlfriend of Mick's she ever got jealous of was Carly Sient and has the look Mick likes-she looks like Mick and Bianca

Richard Weisman asked me if I wanted to meet Stallone and have lunch with him on Friday on the set of his movie He said Stallone may want his portrait done

Soone with us in japan fro was said (laughs) (laughs) The japanese Warhol So he was in town and I thought I would give him some material to write about since his last time with us wasn't much, so I took him with me and ent to Madison Square Garden to the antique show (cab 3) And in the cab I said, ”Where's your tape recorder?” and he pulled it out of his bag-it was the only thing in the bag, this tape recorder running-but it turned out that it was running slow and the batteries were no good, and he was just crushed, he couldn't believe it and he said, ”Oh Jesus Christ, oh Jesus, oh Christ, oh Jesus, oh God, oh Christ,” and I said, ”Well, there's your interview” But it was sad, he felt so bad, and I said, ”Oh, you can reot to Madison Square Garden and it was really great, I couldn't believe all the junk (tickets were 2 x 4 = 8) Ran into Tony Bill

Friday, February 22, 1980 Richard Weisman called and said lunch with Stallone was on for 12:30

Oh, and I forgot to say that Truman called He said that he was hit by a fat skier when he alking across a ski slope in Switzerland He sounded oodfroet anything out of it, though

We went to where Stallone was shooting on First Avenue, they had about 300 extras The movie's called Hawks Hawks, I think, and Martin Poll is the producer, he's the one who took Stallone to my Whitney portrait show Martin and his ere there They had huge crowds there The set decorator came over and said that he'd been the set decorator on Bad Bad

We went to a restaurant near there I guess they sent one person out allto look for a quiet place for the director to have lunch It was Richard and Martin Poll and his wife and Stallone and uess he's lost sixty pounds He's sexy All the stars usually think they should have their portraits done free, though He's intelligent, he's taken over directorshi+p of the movie and now he's in trouble because the union has a fil before a board Stallone was telling stories about how much trouble he's had with the union, how there's this little Irish guy that he just wants to beat up so badly He said he had this one shot all set up, everybody was in costuht scene and it was snowing, just perfectly and they said, ”Okay, stop, everybody break for dinner,” and he said he practically got down on his knees pleading, ”Please, just let's get this one shot, please, I'm a felloorker, please, I'm Rocky!” and they wouldn't let hiain

I said to hio and tell the papers the truth-that he wasn't wasn't having an affair with Bianca I told hi an affair with Bianca I told hione for the gla each other's balls” I don't knohat that one over to pick her up and she heezing and had a cold and she looked so horrible that the roht there But he probably doesn't like Latin types, I think he likes big blondes His er loved us because Interview Interview had just done a story on his only other client, Ray Sharkey Then we left (cab 3) had just done a story on his only other client, Ray Sharkey Then we left (cab 3)

Afterwards Martin Poll's wife called, she said she was calling for a favor to Stallone and wanted a discount, but I mean, he's so rich

Monday, February 25, 1980 I picked up a couple of fans in theOne said he wrote in for me in the last presidential election

I ordered soood presents I worked all afternoon waiting for Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich to coht dinner at 860, they said I can't figure theo out We're trying to sell theht some prints by Heiner and Philippa ca and put it in the stove He stayed on to be the butler Philippa doesn't eat anything, but at this dinner she ate everything, so either she's nervous when she's out at restaurants and doesn't eat or she was nervous at 860 and did eat or else she was just hungry for the first tiure it out She even ate two pieces of banana pie She was fun Robyn got a good assortood presents I worked all afternoon waiting for Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich to coht dinner at 860, they said I can't figure theo out We're trying to sell theht some prints by Heiner and Philippa ca and put it in the stove He stayed on to be the butler Philippa doesn't eat anything, but at this dinner she ate everything, so either she's nervous when she's out at restaurants and doesn't eat or she was nervous at 860 and did eat or else she was just hungry for the first tiure it out She even ate two pieces of banana pie She was fun Robyn got a good assort's concert, their Dia Foundation supports hi one note Heiner and Philippa are just back fro Dervishes to Dr Giller for acupuncture All All of the for a Warholtonext door to us wants 300,000 just to of the for a Warholtonext door to us wants 300,000 just to rent rent

Wednesday, February 27, 1980 Tru in any ive us Answered Prayers Answered Prayers when it was finished in October I told Bob he was just lying He's a different person now, Truure out hen it was finished in October I told Bob he was just lying He's a different person now, Truure out why

At the office Jill Fuller called and said she'd rented the helicopter to take us out to the Nassau Coliseum to see Pink Floyd, they're friends of hers I called Catherine who's working for Richard Weisot uy downstairs said the disco is opening on Thursday night and he was leaving my name at the door They turned thewas just shaking, and I could hear the, ”Louder, louder!” and it was just so loud already already you couldn't believe it you couldn't believe it

Picked up Catherine (cab 4) Went to Jill's Jill gave us a bottle of chaet the helicopter (cab 3) It was a beautiful beautiful ride, we drank the cha

Then they started the show and this show is so complicated and expensive that they're only able to do it in California, New York, and London It's big statues like the Macy's parade

Thursday, February 28, 1980 Picked up Catherine, cabbed to Harry Bailey's on East 72nd Street (2) It used to be George Gershwin's apart” guy, Jerry Leiber, and she's so horrible She's the worst person, she co style that you didn't write” I s like that? They must be sick She was just the worst-dressed woman there, she looked so awful I should have said to her, ”I love your clothes” I've got to start thinking faster I don't knohy Harry would want to have dinner with Barbara Rose unless he thought she knehat art he should be buying

Friday, February 29, 1980 We had Toiny Castelli and her assistant and Iolas and Brooks and Adriana Jackson at the office for lunch Toiny wants to give allery

Studio 54 lost its liquor license-they had pictures in the paper of Sylvester Stallone getting the last drink fro Island lost theirs, too

Saturday, March 1, 1980 Victor Bockris called and said that the dinner with Mick Jagger at Williahs Decided to stay at the office and not go ho too fast (cab 3)

We went upstairs and I hadn't been there since 1963 or 1962 It used to be the locker rooymnasium There's no s It's all white and neat and it looks like sculpture all over, the way the pipes are Bill sleeps in another rooood writer I ood book, Naked Lunch Naked Lunch, but now it's like he lives in the past

A girl as there-Marcia was er at his place on 94th Street I told her not to ht beat her up, that he thinks I'm the Devil She said the apartment is all red, and he has everybody's picture up and he puts everybody down Bill was asking Mick about the ”drug culture” and the ”revolution” and all that and then Mick and Jerry left I stayed there for a little bit Then Victor Bockris walked me down and aited for half an hour before a cab came (cab 5) Home at 11:00

Sunday, March 2, 1980 It was very cold out I went to church Then I had to be ready at 2:30 to go to the Regency to take photographs of Sylvester Stallone Fred aiting Suite 1526 Sylvester was looking good He's back with his wife, Sasha, she was there, she's cute and s I don't knohy he would leave her for Susan Anton

Isome kind of medal I used ten rolls of filraph From the front his neck is skinny, then from the side it looks three feet wide Froe chest, and from the side no chest at all His hands are pretty, I used his hands, but soe He's like Rubber Man

He had the bodyguard as the bodyguard Tom Sullivan used in Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys, so we talked about Tom Sylvester talked about the Academy Awards, he said he hated All That Jazz All That Jazz He said the Acadenored hio to Hungary to do a movie, an action movie, and then after that he wants to do the Jiood friends with Jiood friend and that he should talk to To me

I told Stallone he should do the Linda Lovelace book He said that he orried, I guess, that he was a one-movie person, and he named a few people that were one-movie people He named somebody from The Boys in the Band The Boys in the Band

We were there for about an hour His wife had gone into the other roooodbye, I don't knohy

Monday, March 3, 1980 Cab to Union Square (2, supplies 810, 2050) I wasCarol, a cousin of mine from Butler, Pennsylvania She drove me up the wall because she talks so slow Then she left and I worked all afternoon I o withSo ent up there, to Madison Avenue (cab 4) to the Brewster Gallery But Ted Kennedy didn't show up, he was in Massachusetts It would only have been good if he was there signing, too I'd been signing all afternoon All the Kennedys were there Kerry and one of her sisters, and Kerry's prettier They're all funny-looking, those kids Pat Lawford was there, and they posed us together She was nervous so she was drinking and she gave a speech It was hard work Kerry went around selling the posters They were 750 and 2,000

Tuesday, March 4, 1980 Catherine Oxenberg came for her cover Interview Interview lunch at 1:00, and she's only eighteen so she was nervous and really blabbed everything about heraround and how Sharon Hammond's sister Maureen waswith Catherine's lunch at 1:00, and she's only eighteen so she was nervous and really blabbed everything about heraround and how Sharon Hammond's sister Maureen waswith Catherine's half-brother half-brother who's uess Her oslavia It was a Balducci's lunch, it was a good interview To town I told hi to play Jim Morrison and he said Stallone was too old to do it who's uess Her oslavia It was a Balducci's lunch, it was a good interview To town I told hi to play Jim Morrison and he said Stallone was too old to do it