Part 28 (1/2)

I worked until 8:00 with Rupert He dropped me off at Chris's We talked about different projects and then went to have dinner at the Coach House restaurant One of the waiters, it turns out, was the kid who once brought ot it at auction at Parke Bernet But when I saw it, I kneasn't wasn't n it, but I told hiive him instead It's a backwards Soup Can and I just don't reh it really looks like I did it But I don't remember that kind of paper And it's backwards so I would have had to photograph it and then trace it, and I don't res and they were all in such a short tin it, but I told hiive him instead It's a backwards Soup Can and I just don't reh it really looks like I did it But I don't remember that kind of paper And it's backwards so I would have had to photograph it and then trace it, and I don't res and they were all in such a short time But I ood (300) can't even really reood (300)

Then Jon Gould had this friend named Lady McCrady who lives on Park Avenue who's done about twenty children's books and ent to her apartment and she had a lot of friends there fro in the fifties, it was that kind of apartment-all the kids were like ballet dancers and artists and witty, like Jonathan Roberts, the boy who thought of the idea for The Preppie Handbook The Preppie Handbook The apartment was painted sky Jon knowsthat they give during the su Stone before he went to Paramount before he went to Para at the Gray-Gaultney gallery and as ere leaving we ran into Governor Carey downstairs, and he said that I should tell the mayor to let Christo wrap Central Park in plastic, that it would give lots of Puerto Ricans jobs

Sunday, February 15, 1981 Brigid went home from work on Friday and when she looked around for her cat, Billy, she couldn't find hiht another cat! bought another cat! Can you believe a person would do that? For 300 Then she brought the new cat home and she heard a meow and opened the closet and there was Billy in a pail, so she returned the new cat Can you believe a person would do that? For 300 Then she brought the new cat home and she heard a meow and opened the closet and there was Billy in a pail, so she returned the new cat

My two nieces cah and I entertained them for a couple of hours They look alike And they look like they did ten years ago, they haven't aged Went to church

Monday, February 16, 1981 Got up at 9:00, it was a holiday Presidents' Day-they've put Washi+ngton and Lincoln together and made it on a Monday

Fred came in nobody asked him about his father's funeral

I worked on Myths-Dracula and the Wicked Witch I look pretty good in drag, and I thought it would be fun forat a later date, not to use up the idea on this portfolio

How do you not get bags under your eyes? I know it's froet the a game show, Blockbusters Blockbusters with Bill Cullen, and it o black guys, a warden and his cousin, against a white girl and the category was ”Letters” and the question was: ”Andy Warhol is a 'V' ”And with Bill Cullen, and it o black guys, a warden and his cousin, against a white girl and the category was ”Letters” and the question was: ”Andy Warhol is a 'V' ”And (laughs) (laughs) she got the answer right, she said, ”Virgin” And then Bill Cullen said, ”That's right, at fifty-one” She won 500 and she got it up to 12,000 she got the answer right, she said, ”Virgin” And then Bill Cullen said, ”That's right, at fifty-one” She won 500 and she got it up to 12,000

Oh, and I got a letter from Ger and the only sentence I can read is so funny: ”In this filen!”

Wednesday, February 18, 1981 Doria Reagan caid could teach her how to type up interviews And then I invited her to stay for lunch I didn't see any Secret Service but when Ron cauys

Thursday, February 19, 1981 I wanted to go pass out Interviews Interviews but it was too late I had to land at the office (cab 550) Doria Reagan was there, typing away And they really don't have one Secret Service guy with her, and she could be with baby I randson? but it was too late I had to land at the office (cab 550) Doria Reagan was there, typing away And they really don't have one Secret Service guy with her, and she could be with baby I randson?

And Brigid and I are finally going to see Mary Tyler Moore on Monday She's trying to change her ie so she's a problem-she didn't want to wear rich Halstons for the photos, and she didn't want to coo to rich Quo Vadis for dinner-she wants us to meet her at John's Pizza Parlor on Bleecker Street

And did I remember to say that Faye Dunaway called the other day? She's doing Mo Joan Crawford, and she wanted to know if I had bought Joan Crawford's heart pin at that auction and could she borrow it But I hadn't Faye just picks up the phone herself and calls, so she's fun, so et her nuood to do a story on I just saw up soood to do a story on I just saw Hurry Sundown Hurry Sundown on TV and she was so beautiful on TV and she was so beautiful

I invited Jon Gould to see 42nd Street 42nd Street because he's looking for ideas for Para for ideas for Paraest Popisht a copy Wouldn't it be great if he got Paramount to buy it? And then I could work on it with hiures and surveys-he'd really be a good person to get to know to hireat if he got Paramount to buy it? And then I could work on it with hiures and surveys-he'd really be a good person to get to know

Cabbed to Wintergarden (4) Frohs), you can only see the knees Then after the shoalked to the Russian Tea Room to meet Chris Makos who'd been to see Sphinx Sphinx and loved it and loved it

Monday, February 22, 1981 Jerry Hall called She said that poor Mick has been down in Peru with the Herzog movie and it rains all day and he has to sleep on a wet mattress and Jason Robards was taken aith pneuo back And I invited her to lunch with the Basses from Texas

When I was on y” as on the cornera phone call I kneho he was because he handed e credits on it He said he'd just been through Roy Cohn's garbage and Gloria Vanderbilt's I think he began his career with Dylan's I was scared that he'd see where I lived so I went in the other direction

Finally got holued, and walked to the armory It was Roy Cohn's birthday party Black tie The Mafioso types weren't in black tie, though Steve and Ian didn't come because they didn't want the publicity There were about 200 people Lots of heavies Donald Trump, Carmine DeSapio, the D'Amatos, David Mahoney, Mark Goodson, Mr LeFrak, Gloria Swanson, Jerry Zipkin, CZ Guest and Alexander, Warren Avis, Rupert Murdoch, and John Kluge And the reason I'ave a speech where he uy and I said how terrible it was that they wanted to tear down this beautiful arood idea because he was in construction They brought out a lot of cakes-each had one letter that spelled out ”Happy Birthday Roy Cohn” Roy really got the press there, the Times Times and the and the Post Post

Monday, February 23, 1981 Are called and said to meet Mary Tyler Moore at John's Pizza at 8:30 instead of 8:00 and I decided that I would just stay don and work until then

Jay Shriver dropped Brigid andheavily It's a small place, only about 20' X 40' The owner had started to drink, he was nervous because ere coid was still on her diet so she just had Tabs But the oas offering her wine and he was showing her the sixty kinds of pizzas and she was going nuts The teid weak in the brain The oas smashed

Mary and Ara came five minutes late and she was really sweet The juke box was forties Sinatra and it was so loud The owner had pulled up a chair and was part of the party He'd had the New York Times New York Times review of the place printed on the napkins review of the place printed on the napkins

Well, Mary Tyler Moore is trying to be a neoid told Mary she loved her crow's feet, which she does, but it sounded insulting Brigid was trying to get the conversation around to plastic surgery but she let it drop there, she didn't pursue it And then Brigid said, ”There's only one thing I want to ask you-are you going out with Warren Beatty?” and Mary gulped and Ara gave a funny look, and she said, ”Well, 'going out' is just, you know, 'going out' ” So that was never answered Mary looks like an old Barbie doll She's perfect-short hair, a beautiful body, like the mother of Barbie She looks like Doris Day in the fifties And she eats a lot And later I noticed she walks fast and never looks at anybody so nobody ever stops her She's a dynamo Then soood-looking I asked one of them if he wanted to meet Mary Tyler Moore and ask a few questions This cop was really cute, he said he used to sing with a group called so like the Passions in the sixties or fifties, and that they had a few hits He asked her if she wanted to ride on a horse outside and she said yes, that she wanted to right then, but then he got nervous that soave her an honorary police card instead They were flirting

Mary's studying political science and, Iin politics since Ronnie Reagan She goes to a psychiatrist two or three tie sundae so I said Serendipity was the best really good place and she liked the idea of that

When alked into Serendipity the whole place hushed-”There's Mary” We sat under the lao I ordered half a sundae and so did Mary and Ara

And she's so ”assured of herself” it's funny Do you knohat I mean? It's almost comical

Monday, March 2, 1981-Paris We made a lot of phone calls to see to see as in town, and then we got a car and we drove out to Chateau La Hori to this dinner that Bergitte de Ganay was giving for Charlotte Greville and her husband Andrew Fraser They were there for the hunt This is where the hunt has gone on since the days of old Charlotte has forty letters of introduction, she can go anywhere in the world But now so in France They actually let the dogs tear the deer apart Or they knife theot a car and we drove out to Chateau La Hori to this dinner that Bergitte de Ganay was giving for Charlotte Greville and her husband Andrew Fraser They were there for the hunt This is where the hunt has gone on since the days of old Charlotte has forty letters of introduction, she can go anywhere in the world But now so in France They actually let the dogs tear the deer apart Or they knife the the ride back Fred freaked out and it was just too e was normal, and then all of a sudden he was a different person for ten ot really scared, though, and al that nobody ever is nice to hilected, too

Sunday, March 8, 1981-Dusseldorf At the cocktail party at Hans Mayer's house last night, there were a lot of people I'd done portraits of who I didn't recognize, so I thought they were potential new portraits, (laughs) (laughs) Oh God, no wonder people think I'm out of it Oh God, no wonder people think I'm out of it

We had breakfast with Joseph Beuys, he insisted I come to his house and see his studio and the way he lives and have tea and cake, it was really nice He gave me a work of art which o bottles of effervescent water which ended up exploding inI have, so I can't open the box now, because I don't know if it's a work of art anyot to get hin the box because it's just a real muck

Monday, March 9, 1981-Munich Very sunny and very cold Went to the gallery where they were having a little exhibition of the glittery Shoes, and had to do interviews and pics for the Gero back to the hotel and be picked up by the ”2,000” people-it's a club of twenty guys who got together and they're going to buy 2,000 bottles of Donon which they will put in a sealed room until the year 2,000 and then open it up and drink it and so the running joke is ill be around and on't

It was fun because all theout with theht-course dinner with a lot of different wines during each course The first food was fresh liver, the goose was just killed in the kitchen and the liver was just taken out and cut into slices and waroose It was delicious, but after you thought about it you wanted to throw up The second course was soup Then lobster with baby quail-you got the breast of the little quail, as big as your fingernail It was really good, but just so sad, like eating the chest of a roach Then in between courses we had some sherbet and they made it look like Jackson Pollock because they pureed fresh kiwi and strawberries and threw them on a plate Artistic Then they had lamb encrusted and it was the best lamb I ever had encrusted

And the different twentyseats so they could sit next to ood conversation, but I was just absolutely drunk

Thursday, March 12, 1981-New York Vincent told me that Bill Copley's wife, Marjorie the Czechoslovak h-the one I just did the portrait of-walked out on Bill and went to Tiffany's and ran up a big bill, cleaned out their bank account Took the two portraits She always takes a private plane fro at the airport for her with a bouquet of roses, and instead of her couy came off with a divorce suree burns When they were down in Key West he was s in bed and she was asleep in another room and the thores-friends of Marjorie's -that had flon to Key West with her went out and when they came home at 5:00 they found the fire He could have died And she said she was asleep the whole ti, but the house was half burned down The firerafts and everything, he's had a few operations It was really terrible And he's always alone because she fired the assistant and the secretary

Read id was excited about getting an eye lift She sent the ot a rich girlfriend

Johnny Pigozzi came by and he had a new camera that went in a circle and took a whole panoraet one just like it for , and he always suspected someone else did it for ave us free drink tickets, and Walter Steding went on right at 11:30 and was really good It's so strange to see so ability

Friday, March 13, 1981 Brigid was typing up the tape of the day ent to Port Jervis to see Charles Rydell, and she said that after hearing herself she was never going to drink again

Ara invited me to a party for Jack Nicholson at 212 East 49th Street at 11:30 It all-to-wall reat he was in Postreat I talked to a kid orked on the crew of and that everybody thinks Jessica Lange is great I talked to a kid orked on the crew of Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys and he toldheroin for years, and that his mother drove a bus in Tampa This kid said To marijuana -not cocaine-up fro a divorce from Tom Stayed there till 3:00 Franco Rossellini was there Bob Raphaelson was there, he's really nice And Ara was really sweet and he toldheroin for years, and that his mother drove a bus in Tampa This kid said To marijuana -not cocaine-up fro a divorce from Tom Stayed there till 3:00 Franco Rossellini was there Bob Raphaelson was there, he's really nice And Ara was really sweet

Saturday, March 14, 1981 I went to the Loyola church for the 11:00 wedding of the Michael Kennedy kid to Vicky Gifford Fred was there (cab 4) The streets were mobbed with TV crews and police

Churches always make me dizzy They had pretty flowers on all the pews The brides with that was that when Bob was in Switzerland they were owns there and they were saying, ”These are for the Kennedy wedding, they've ordered all these nightgowns” nightgowns” So here were all these girls in what I kneere nightgowns that cost probably 75 each Purple with pink ballet shoes Kerry Kennedy was a bridesmaid and Mary Richardson's sister And then the bride came in and she was the prettiest bride I've ever seen in et married, it really did I'd hter So here were all these girls in what I kneere nightgowns that cost probably 75 each Purple with pink ballet shoes Kerry Kennedy was a bridesmaid and Mary Richardson's sister And then the bride came in and she was the prettiest bride I've ever seen in et married, it really did I'd hter

Cab to the St Regis where the reception was on the roof (4) It was beautiful up there I had to shake hands again Robert Kennedy wanted to trade ties with me, and then he was peculiar, he wanted to trade pants He's the other good-looking one, he was going with Rebecca Fraser Really, these kids were all so good-looking, just a roo boys and seventy-five of the best-looking girls, and then about twenty older people Caroline Kennedy wouldn't talk tome the cold shoulder, I don't knohy But John-John was nice, he said hi and everything

I went quickly through the receiving line Senator Kennedy was so sweet tothe posters for hi

I was invited to Stephen Graham's and then Franco Rossellini called and invited an was having dinner there, too

Walked over there and we got the worst seats, we couldn't see anything, so Franco took the best seats and he started describing to us every little thing the presidential party was doing All of the tables had reporters having dinner to cover the president The whole place was foreigners, Bob and I were about the only Ao by the president's table because it was too groupieish-everybody else was stopping at the table-so ent the other way, but then they called us over, Jerry Zipkin was yelling, and I ood to o to Stephen Grahao home with him and I didn't knohat to do because nobody had ever asked me that I mean, in those words (cab 5) Bed Then Chris Makos called I kneas calling from the Baths, and then he admitted it