Part 21 (1/2)
Bianca was talking on the phone to Steve Rubell in jail, and Steve was having to put in nickels every three minutes Because you can't call them and you can't write the Somebody asked him if the phone was tapped and he said, ”No, no” But then so that when they talked to hi hi hi a wonderful time, that he's put on eleven pounds, and he had sloppy rice for dinner He said that if he can get his liquor license back for Studio 54 then he'll liquidate, because it'll be easier to get rid of it with a liquor license
He said that the top people were there I think he said Sindona, but I' all these things to hiique later to try it out and that she'd been at Xenon the night before I guess she thinks that kind of talk-that that's the kind of talk that'll excite hi nickels in Bianca had John Saot a haircut, and he looks fifteen
Monday, March 24, 1980 I bought Wrestling Wrestling and and Petland Petland and and Jet Jet-lots of different et ideas for Interview Interview (850, cab 3) (850, cab 3)
I had to be photographed by soency and they did their whole setup and then asked me why I was so creative, and I said, ”I', they didn't knohat else to ask Then I took the car up to Bloodale's I was forty-five raphed a lot of books Then the car drove
Went to La Boite to the dinner Bob organized for Popism Popism And there were terrible speeches by Henry Geldzahler who said I was the mirror of our times, and Ahmet who said everybody loves me Richard Gere eet and said he'd read the book and loved it Stallone crashed with two girlfriends, and he and Bianca had a big fight because he heard her putting hi ”Happy Birthday” to John Samuels who turned twenty And our editor Steve Aronson was there and he kept his whole table laughing
Sunday, March 30, 1980-Naples Lucio Aot us the ”Elizabeth Taylor” suite But they gave Beuys the bigger suite upstairs-that's why they kept pushi+ng the Liz Taylor business toover the black-arettes
Then we rested and were taken to Graziella's brother's who lives on the waterfront and they made us some dinner There was an old ex-ner They served all this food but Graziella and her brother didn't eat anything themselves, and that does make you feel very peculiar, so I learned my lesson-from noe invite people to lunch I'll eat
Monday, March 31, 1980-Naples We had to do TV in the streets, in the slureat to see that old-ti in the street from oneto another
We went back to the hotel to meet Joseph Beuys and then we had dinner with Beuys and his family at some funny little Italian restaurant He eet Really a lot of fun
Tuesday, April 1, 1980-Naples Up at 10:00, intervieith Expresso Expresso again Lucio picked us up and took us to the gallery because we had a press conference with 400 people Joseph Beuys loves the press now because he's running for president of Geret e-no, it's the Green Party, that's it Then So Schluer arrived and we invited her to lunch at this waterfront place Then ere picked up for the opening and there were at least 3,000 or 4,000 people there, you couldn't get in, it was horrible, and finally we slipped away, they were giving us a party at a place called sohtclub Finally after three hours of waiting, this drag queen with hair on his chest ca so she told me to shut up, she did a couple of numbers and then all of a sudden pushed me aside and stormed out and we didn't understand what had happened, but so for ot insulted because the TV lights were shi+ning on us too long, and told Lucio off, that it was the , and that Lucio had wasted our ti wouldn't sell pictures, and that he was just using us to get into show business We didn't get into bed till about 4:00 again Lucio picked us up and took us to the gallery because we had a press conference with 400 people Joseph Beuys loves the press now because he's running for president of Geret e-no, it's the Green Party, that's it Then So Schluer arrived and we invited her to lunch at this waterfront place Then ere picked up for the opening and there were at least 3,000 or 4,000 people there, you couldn't get in, it was horrible, and finally we slipped away, they were giving us a party at a place called sohtclub Finally after three hours of waiting, this drag queen with hair on his chest ca so she told me to shut up, she did a couple of numbers and then all of a sudden pushed me aside and stormed out and we didn't understand what had happened, but so for ot insulted because the TV lights were shi+ning on us too long, and told Lucio off, that it was the , and that Lucio had wasted our ti wouldn't sell pictures, and that he was just using us to get into show business We didn't get into bed till about 4:00
Wednesday, April 2, 1980-Naples-Rome Fred and I had to leave for our private audience with the pope by 10:00 so we left Naples at 7:00 When we caet into the city We had to follow a cab to take us to Graziella's office to pick up two tickets to have a private audience with the pope Suzie was very upset because it was too exclusive for her to go go, so she gave Fred her cross to have blessed
We got our tickets and then the driver dropped us off at the Vatican When5,000 other people standing around waiting for the pope, too, I just knew that Graziella hadn't gotten us a private audience But Fred put on airs and went up to the guards and said that we had a private audience with the pope and they laughed
They finally took us in to our seats with the rest of the 5,000 people and a nun screaraph?” She looked like Valerie Solanis so I got scared she'd pull out a gun and shoot raphs for other nuns And I just get so nervous at church And then the pope caold car, he did the rounds, and then finally he got up and gave a speech against divorce in seven different languages There was a bunch of cheerleaders saying, ”Rah-rah, pope” That took three hours It was really boring, and then finally the pope was co our way He shook everybody's hand and Fred kissed his ring and got Suzie's cross blessed He asked Fred where he was fro pictures-there were a lot of photographers around-and he shook my hand and I said I was from New York, too I didn't kiss his hand The people next to iu down fro to take a Polaroid but I said they'd think it was a ot a Polaroid of the pope As soon as Fred and I got blessed we ran out
We decided it would be fun to ood story to tell Suzie, so ent to have lunch on the Piazza Navona (45) We made up that we'd had a private audience with the pope and that he liked Fred so ive us back Suzie's cross
Saturday, April 5, 1980-Paris We went to Kim D'Estainville's new shop near the Arc de Trio fro on Broadway There was nobody in town to try to sell ads to We had dinner at Club Sept (cab 4)
We had a big table and ere disappointed, there wereones had been invited off to glaood-looking We were there for an hour, about, and then Francesco Scavullo and Sean Byrnes came in and they sat doith us, we invited them to dinner And then Francesco told s he heard I did at Studio 54 and I just couldn't believe it, all the boys he heard I brought home to the house, and I just was shocked, I ot his inforossip fros
Oh, and he told ot the news Steve and Ian sold it So the end of an era
And we also heard that Halston went to Xenon with Bianca, so that's a first And Bonds clothing store is going to reopen soon as a discotheque on Broadway Scavullo paid for dinner-I didn't want him to because I'd invited him, but he did
Sunday, April 6, 1980-Paris Easter I had a horrible night I had two night out Fred went out and ran into shi+rley Goldfarb, she said her eighty-eight-year-old mother in Miami Beach just sent her the 25 she sends her every Passover for matzoh balls
Monday, April 7, 1980-Paris-New York Got up at 8:00 in Paris Had a restless night because I thought I heard Fred slip out I heard the door shut and the things click that would all mean he had slipped out But then when I asked hi, he said that he hadn't, so I don't know All I would've had to do was look, but I didn't And I get so scared when I'm alone someplace, and I don't keep people's phone numbers-I should, but I don't But I will froot to the airport, Charles DeGaulle, really really fast so we had an hour and a half before the plane Then there was a black guy in the waiting rooetting on the Concorde And then he said to raphed me yet” But I still didn't knoho he was And then suddenly I figured out he was Dizzy Gillespie! He'd just been in Africa and he said things were great down there He was adorable, so cute He said he loved Africa, that there was a lot of dirt on the ground, that he liked that how he could afford to be getting on the Concorde And then he said to raphed me yet” But I still didn't knoho he was And then suddenly I figured out he was Dizzy Gillespie! He'd just been in Africa and he said things were great down there He was adorable, so cute He said he loved Africa, that there was a lot of dirt on the ground, that he liked that
He said he'd been photographed by a farapher once, and at first he didn't remember who, but then I think he said Carl Van Vechten, and that raphy I just read and he was jazzy, he always had these jazz people Dizzy said he had a new book out and we said anted to interview him, so we took his number in New Jersey
Andrew Crispo was also on the plane He's bought all of somebody's Art Deco collection He had a Dunand vase with hiet off the plane (tips 10) We went through custouy was really impressed with the picture of us with the pope on the top of the bags We got out and our car wasn't there, so we juh it was the middle of the transit strike, there was no traffic! The driver kept saying he didn't believe it We sailed right in But at 89th Street when Fred got out, a lady julish because there's a rule on that you have to have at least two people in a car during the strike I saw a cop ive so people
It was really a beautiful, beautiful day There were sobecause of the transit strike Wandered to the office Brigid and Robyn were there I worked all afternoon, waited for Rupert who didn't arrive till 6:30 because he walked Brigid and I went out passing Interviews Interviews A bagthat if I would only stand still he could get a picture of s for his camera And then I asked him if I could take a picture of him him and he said no, but I did, anyway He really had a caht or so man He was about forty and he said no, but I did, anyway He really had a caht or so man He was about forty
Tuesday, April 8, 1980 Rupert came in and orked on the Jewish Geniuses Truman called and he sounded like his old self, he said he'd been working hard He said that his Cha to be in the Book-of-the-Month Club, and I asked hi to be in the Book-of-the-Month Club, and I asked hi a good writer froood writer
Karen Lerner called and said that Hugh Doas going to do an update on the 20/20 20/20 story and that it was for sure going to run this Thursday She thinks it's going to be thirteen minutes, and I' to fall apart after that kind of big network exposure That's what I've really co to run this Thursday She thinks it's going to be thirteen minutes, and I' to fall apart after that kind of big network exposure That's what I've really come to decide
I watched the Today Show Today Shohere there was a forty-seven-year-old black man as a boxer and then becaoing to be a boxer again, and it was such an up story where there was a forty-seven-year-old black man as a boxer and then becaoing to be a boxer again, and it was such an up story
I bought soarlic is against sickness, and I believe that, it seeot to say that at a cocktail party the other night a woman came over and kissed ” Why do people do that? Are they trying to pass their disease on to somebody so they they won't have it anymore? won't have it anymore?
Wednesday, April 9, 1980 Walked in the rain to the office Transit strike still on Worked all afternoon Locked up at 6:00 Gael Malkenson's boyfriend Peter Love had a truck and it took us forty o around the corner In the truck was Robyn, Aeyung from Interview Interview, Bob's sister, Bob, and Tinkerbelle And Tinkerbelle was putting down the Jews and we said, ”Are you Jewish?” and she said, ”Oh my God, no, of course not!” I said, ”But Tinkerbelle is a Jewish naot hoetting so bad It was froht and then said, ”I' pill and went to bed, but it didn't help, ot worse
Oh, and Car Steve in prison once a week They haveroos She ht-hand man of Sindona who stole a lot from the Vatican She said everyone's really nice in the prison except for one guy with tattoos who's the bowling-ball ned a contract with Mark Fleish parties and publicity He thinks he'll have a liquor license within twelve weeks
Thursday, April 10, 1980 They were going to fil it-and the car was picking me up at 10:00
The Omnibus Omnibus people arrived at the office at 7:30, they'd worked it all out with Vincent the day before This was a show on Carly Si her portrait painted by me and by Larry Rivers and by Marisol I'd said that I wouldn't do onepaid, and Vincent worked out a contract with the to pay for most of it people arrived at the office at 7:30, they'd worked it all out with Vincent the day before This was a show on Carly Si her portrait painted by me and by Larry Rivers and by Marisol I'd said that I wouldn't do onepaid, and Vincent worked out a contract with the to pay for most of it
I was in the lihway I had a camera with o to prove that I really do go to all these places every day The s of the car were black so to do it I had to roll thehway said, ”Hi, Andy” Then we got off the highway at 23rd Street and this black kid said, ”You filthy white rich person, all you think about is ot scared Fred told me later that I should have screaet it” And they kept following the car It scared et it” And they kept following the car It scared ot to the office and they wired me and sent the car back for Carly Simon
Carly was too nervous to come up until we sent some wine down to the car Then she came up and was sociable We ry and we sent to Brownies for health sandwiches and she loved that I taped it all (Brownies 830, 2344) And then Ara Gallant ca and she twisted Bob's arm to interview her, she's just written a book
At 6:00 Jodie Foster came to 860 She looked beautiful With her e-Jodie's the father She's very intelligent and she's gotten into all the colleges she's applied to except she hears frooes to Harvard ere telling her about John Samuels and how cute he is, but I don't knohat type she'd like because she dresses really like a boy-all in Brooks Brothers
While ere there Brigid called the restaurant to say that the 20/20 20/20 segh Downs narrated it And Brigid's so critical of me, so I was relieved Iwith it, it h Downs narrated it And Brigid's so critical of me, so I was relieved Iwith it, itKitty Miller's everything Christie's is IShe has (laughs) (laughs) three unused Halston shi+rts And she's got a few Revillon furs that cost 80,000 that'll probably go for 3,000 Furs have no resale valueI know killing animals tocows to eat they're so big and beautiful and three unused Halston shi+rts And she's got a few Revillon furs that cost 80,000 that'll probably go for 3,000 Furs have no resale valueI know killing animals tocows to eat they're so big and beautiful and everything's everything's alive-the plants are screa 140, I don't understand it, I'ed I should be 136 But now I's that I'allbladder, because I think the gallbladder pills are helping so that I can can eat the fat so for that reason I'll have to stop eat the fat so for that reason I'll have to stop
Walter Steding is perfor at the Squat Theater on 23rd Street-that theater where they did that thing called ”Andy Warhol's Last Tape”
Friday, April 11, 1980 Henry Geldzahler ca a poster for New York City and Fred thought it was a good idea Then Henry wanted to go right out and photograph a tree for the poster He needs it in teeks But I' to think Henry may be crazy He said Ellsworth Kelly wanted to paint on top of my portrait of him, and I said sure, but then he admitted that he wanted et a free painting out of e that Mayor Koch gave hi portfolios The Ten Jewish Geniuses portfolio really sold, so now Ron Feldman wants to do Ten Rock Stars, but that's corny, isn't it? Or Ten Phantoms, like Santa Claus But I think the Jewish Geniuses only sold because they were Jewish Jewish, so we should do Ten Jewish so else Like Ten Jewish Jewish Rock Stars Rock Stars
I called Harcourt Brace and screahty books that I paid for Jackie Curtis ca on the phone at theht out And I screairl said, ”Well, you paid with a personal check and we had to wait to see if it cleared” Can you believe it! I think Jovanovich must be so petty himself because he runs the worst coot a na took all afternoon
Saturday, April 12, 1980 Got up early and watched the cartoonies I had to carry a portfolio don for a lady who's trading for an ad (cab 4) And then she went through thee ot that froh theid how she was co the Jodie Foster tape, and she said she'd been working on it for hours, that it was great, great And I asked her to be more specific and she said she was at the part where Jodie was looking around the office and I mean, ere only at the office for the first two , and I screamed
Random House wants to do 400 of a special edition of the portrait catalogue They'd h, so ere trying to think of what to do
Monday, April 14, 1980 Went out on the street with some Interviews Interviews and I was curious to see if people were still recognizing me all the time from the 20/20 TV show, but they weren't So this means that TV makes you famous for one day and then it fades Passed out and I was curious to see if people were still recognizing me all the time from the 20/20 TV show, but they weren't So this means that TV makes you famous for one day and then it fades Passed out Interviews Intervieandered, and took a couple of cabs but was shocked out of my mind-the fare increase was in effect (cabs 405, 505) It really does see to tip a suess I'll have to walk to work Halfway to work Eventually got to Union Square
We were having lunch for Henry Geldzahler The eighty Popis and I gave they with theraph the tree for the city poster, but just as ere having lunch it started to rain finally arrived froave they with theraph the tree for the city poster, but just as ere having lunch it started to rain