Part 27 (1/2)
Thursday, November 20, 1980 Called the office (25 because I didn't have a dime) Walked down Madison So to clean Archie's teeth but it's not working I love the natural toothpaste I get at Brownies-cinnamon and spearmint-but what I really love is Close-up and Ultra-Brite Close-up is so good, really poisonous-looking And when Brigid and I go to to May's, you see people opening the toothpaste tubes and taking a taste Brigid does that May's, you see people opening the toothpaste tubes and taking a taste Brigid does that
Worked till 7:30 Dropped Rupert off Barbara Allen called and was upset hat Scavullo said in the newspaper-that he doesn't kno soh society because they don't know anything, like Barbara Allen And she had on her high-class voice (cab 6)
Then I went to Lee Thaw's party at 72nd and Park for the Maharaja of Baroda because he'd just done a book called Palaces of Jaipur Palaces of Jaipur published by Alex Gregory who publishes all the big bo to be on published by Alex Gregory who publishes all the big bo to be on To Tell the Truth To Tell the Truth next week, which was so funny because Ito be on the next week, which was so funny because Ito be on the Today Show Today Show and and Meet the Press Meet the Press and things, and then and things, and then he he says, ”I' to be on To Tell the Truth” To Tell the Truth” So they'll be guessing who he is So they'll be guessing who he is
I ue A beauty editor She was fun She has big tits And next to her was Daniel Ludwig, the richest et him to, and she knew the odd kinds of information, like how scientists can now look with microscopes at babies and predict where their future wrinkles will be And then I talked to Mary McFadden and she was such a camp She said, ”People put down your portraits, and I defend you I tell theood color!' ” Home at 12:00
Saturday, November 22, 1980 Got up early Cabbed (4) to the office to meet Diana Vreeland and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
I'd painted a background and thought it would dry before anyone got there and that I could roll it up So I had it spread out on the floor and then suddenly they arrived and Prince Michael walked right on it, he thought it was a floor covering So Fred asked hined it ”Michael,” he doesn't use ”Prince”
Monday, Novean called ”Chocolate Boy”-called and said that Ron had just gotten ht, Tuesday Then Bob was being interviewed by so dinner with theot ed it to La Grenouille because otherwise they would have sent a photographer to Le Cirque The story about the e made the papers by 5:30
Fred intercepted a call for ht it was a crazy kid, but it was actually the japanese kid who caive hi directory was s
Tuesday, November 25, 1980 Mike the super came up and said that there wouldn't be heat over the holiday weekend That was a big disappointet all an kid cancelled dinner like I told Bob he would Then it was in the papers that the Reagans were honey with the Warhol crowd at Le Cirque
Thursday, Nove Day parade on TV Happened to see Berkeley, John Reinhold's little daughter-Superman's float came up and practically touched them on the twentieth floor
Chris Makos called, he was up in Massachusetts seeing Jon Gould of Paramount Pictures
Worked at the office alone Curley called and invitedit at his parents' apartment on Park Avenue I said that I'd come up after dinner Then Catherine called I asked her if she wanted to cootten in from London and had had turkey dinner on the plane, and said she was the only one on Laker I guess no one travels on Thanksgiving Cabbed to Curley's with Catherine (3)
Tuesday, December 2, 1980 Richard Weisman called and invited e Hurrell at Doubles Got there and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr was co and he said because he'd stood in front of his photograph and had his picture taken by the press so then it was ti stars there were Lillian Gish, Maureen Stapleton, Ta and straight and Paul Morrissey had said that he was about to pop off any minute, but there he was and he knew all about me and he raved and he eet and I asked him if I could take a picture and he said sure
Maureen O'Sullivan was next to toout so ” I asked her what it was like to get so close to Johnny Weissmuller's body and she said it was okay but that she only was interested in intellectuals,to marry Woody Allen?” And she said that she really didn't know, and then I told her that I was only kidding, that I didn't care And I , ”Oh, I've just been throwing out so ” I asked her what it was like to get so close to Johnny Weissmuller's body and she said it was okay but that she only was interested in intellectuals,to marry Woody Allen?” And she said that she really didn't know, and then I told her that I was only kidding, that I didn't care And I ood
Diana Vreeland called and said how much she loved her cover story in Interview Interview The cover makes her look about twenty, and she said, ”The only proble to think I look like that woman on the cover”
Thursday, Decean kids to dinner on Saturday, just Bob and me, because his wife Doria wants to to work for work for Interview Interview-they're going on the road for four months and she wants to do a column for us from the road Jerry Zipkin said that they liked Chinese or japanese food, that that was more their style
Friday, Dece to France for a week because her nazi step-grandfather just died, Sir Oswald Mosley, and her faood thing to do for the book on the Mitfords that she's helping her father with
And did I say that when Florinda Bolkan ca until Marina Cicogna said it was okay-she wouldn't even put her head down And Marina is just like a truck driver, she pushes everybody around, and if that's what love is, I guess that's what love is
Saturday, December 6, 1980 I called Bob to see if our dinner with Ron and Doria Reagan was on and he said it was Rupert was there waiting at the office when I got there, and Jay came in And then Joe Dallesandro called from California, so for money of course, he said he was in a truck with his mother, they live in a truck or a trailer, I don't know I told hieles and be discovered It's so absolutely boring-he never calls and says do you want to do soether, it's just always for o Christ Rupert took soe People seeigantic Christmas for sales, I really do Country-wide and ent down to the Village People seeigantic Christmas for sales, I really do Country-wide
Ron and Doria were already at Nippon e got there The owner took us to one of the private rooator T-shi+rt to show off his muscles The Secret Service jaave the Reagans this new kind of bottle-opener gun that opens up and you really could kill souration in January and they said we'd be getting invitations They said they were going to Ber Lily Auchincloss so he'd ask if it was okay for them to stay at her house there Doria's really sweet and char Bob was so happy We left theot hoets o hoetting worse every day
Monday, Deceirls were there wearing all his clothes There were three limos out front and ent to the Met Museuht Costume Institute dinner It was the 650 people you know best Someone who came in said John Lennon was shot and no one could believe it, so someone called the Daily News Daily News and they said it was true It was scary, it was all anyone could talk about He was shot outside his house and they said it was true It was scary, it was all anyone could talk about He was shot outside his house
When I got home I turned on the TV and they said he was raph to earlier in the evening
Tuesday, December 9, 1980 The neas the saht, pictures of John and old film clips Had to take Archie and Amos down to the office to be looked at by the Lewis Allen du forMyths
After I photographed Howdy, I got into the barber's chair that the duht They did the back of raphers and Ronnie was taking 3-D pictures They put gook on and covered et out of it” It was h up, it ful They finally took the , ”We can save it, we can save it” But then they said they ht have to do another one and I said, ”No you're not” They stuck ot soers on that try Then they did an arrived, he'd just had lunch with his father at the Waldorf I was so out of it I couldn't really talk Bob had given Doria the day off-she's working for hio to to the Waldorf lunch because Nancy still couldn't get over the idea that her son had married without her consent the Waldorf lunch because Nancy still couldn't get over the idea that her son hadhis oats because the collector's issue of the Daily News Daily News that had ”John Lennon Shot” headlines is the one that had the big story on hi article, but it was boring that had ”John Lennon Shot” headlines is the one that had the big story on hi article, but it was boring
I watched the John Lennon news and it's so scary Ime letters for five years just walked in-somebody buzzed him in-and he walked over and handed me another letter and left Where does he live? In institutions?
Wednesday, December 10, 1980 The papers still have the Lennon news The one who killed hiht up the Dali poster he had on his wall They always interview the janitors and the old schoolteachers and things The kid said the devil made him do it And John was so rich, they say he left a 235on at the Dakota It looked so strange, I don't knohat those people think they're doing
Sunday, Dece the minutes that were supposed to be silence to remember John and pray for his soul He had a black station on and they had a ten-minute silence and the disc jockey said, ”We're up there with you, John,” and the driver laughed and said, ”Not ht down here” So he turned to another station and that that station was station was (laughs) (laughs) talking about the silence talking about the silence
Catherine was thrilled because To her he loves her, but he's full of baloney and she should be careful She was leaving her key in the mailbox for him
Bob said that at the Ann Getty dinner ent to last night he heard Diana Vreeland tell off ”Suzy” for saying in the newspaper that the lights in her Met shoere too low Diana said, ”Now listen, Aileen, just in case you didn't realize it, the Metropolitan Museu there's for sale, so we really don't have to light it up like Bloodale's” And ”Suzy” was mad but she couldn't think of a coraph seekers outside the Regency who they aiting for and they said Jaet
A lady fro her house and I looked in the back and there was a lot of water, but I didn't knohat to do until Jed ca upwards
Tuesday, Deceid decided she wasn't going to go because she felt too fat, but she made me promise to swear that she was there if he asked Jane Holzer was sending the limo to pick me up It was the Mitzi Newhouse Theater, we had fourth-row center, next to Halston and Martha Graham Lester was there, and Suzie Frankfurt, and Rex Reed It wasn't completely sold-out, but it was pretty filled Truot up on his toes and snapped his fingers and it was like disco and that was the best part He read and acted the parts out He read the maid story, and he read ”A Christmas Memory” and a couple of other ones Then afterward everybody was telling him hoonderful he was, because it was all friends Rex told hi The first thing he asked id and I swore she was there, and he said, ”Well, then where where is she?” and I said she had to go hoo home, but I think he knew
Wednesday, Deceuess because of the cold Then a lio to the Mayfair to uy from Dusseldorf anted tofunny, I told him I wanted to work on a line of ”invisible clothes” And as I was leaving he said [imitates] [imitates], ”Just send me da particulars, I vant to work vid you on dis line” He wasn't kidding
Thursday, Dece that there was a rock star down at 860 waiting to have his picture taken by me I called Fred to find out what it was about but he didn't reht down, and it took twenty-five minutes (cab 550) He turned out to be Rie Ocasek fro and capped teeth and he's not really good-looking because he has dyed-black hair, but he's sweet and as char as David Bowie Lunch was actually for Diane Lane who Ara Gallant was bringing down She's fifteen and so beautiful
Then Bob was busy on the phone, and we had to meet Doria and Ron and their friend Cal at the movie Flash Gordon Flash Gordon on 53rd Street They were in the next-to-the-last roith the Secret Service behind theood but it was fun to watch Then after the movie they went in their car and didn't offer to take us so we got a cab up to the Gibbon restaurant toto have any friends, because it's just too scary being with theoing to get bumped off And the Secret Service rented a roo room-and they sit in there and watch with the door open all the tiuess don't like japanese food because they just had coffee on 53rd Street They were in the next-to-the-last roith the Secret Service behind theood but it was fun to watch Then after the movie they went in their car and didn't offer to take us so we got a cab up to the Gibbon restaurant toto have any friends, because it's just too scary being with theoing to get bumped off And the Secret Service rented a roo room-and they sit in there and watch with the door open all the tiuess don't like japanese food because they just had coffee
Cal said our invitations for the inauguration had been sent out already and Bob asked Ron and Doria if ere invited to the right parties and they said they thought so They said they weren't going to go in a li to try to rent an ar in the limousine
Bob told his Liz Taylor stories, but then he started talking about the base of Doria is going to interview Adam Luders from the New York City Ballet for us
Friday, December 19, 1980 CZ Guest called and I really have toout there on Christ her picture taken She wants to be a model
John and Kimiko Powers came by with a present
Saturday, Dece a party so cabbed there (5) It turned out to be a really great party I was taking pictures of this handsoht was a model and then I was embarrassed because it turned out to be John-John Kennedy Fred brought hi party pictures And Debbie Harry gave me a present, and she said to open it up and I said no, that I'd wait till I got holad that I did, because I just don't knohat it is It's this black thing I wonder if it's a cock ring, because it's rubber with a stick on it, but it has this one piece that doesn'tready to push her book, and she wants the cover of Interview Interviehich actually ht be fun
Sunday, December 21, 1980 Jed's decided to move out and I don't want to talk about it The apartht on West 67th Street to work in, now he's decided he'll live in it, too
Went to church Worked in the freezing cold at the office and I' to send in the rent
Monday, December 22, 1980 A terrible day, no Christot worse as the day wore on I screamed at everybody, and I made them feel bad, it was like that all day I couldn't shake it, even at night Curley started crying and I told hi up
I was supposed to go out to lunch with de Antonio but I didn't want to I just ordered in and De and I ate in the conference roo and Mike the super, the only one who kno to get a little heat out of the boiler, was out I was in a terrible state, I felt a cold co on, and I just can't work in the cold