Part 36 (1/2)

Friday, Septeton, DC-New York Got back to New York Went to the office, worked with Benjaotten his clean ”negative” results back on his gay cancer tests I was invited to Marisa Berenson's birthday party at Mortimer's for her husband, Richard Golub, who's the man who made Brooke shi+elds cry On the witness stand The lawyer Karen Black came and that was fun Took pictures Left at 12:00 (cab 5)

Saturday, September 18, 1982 Got up early, it was a beautiful day I couldn't ith Jon because he had to go to a gay cancer funeral at Paramount, it was a secretary there-a et so nervous, I don't even do do anything and I could get it anything and I could get it

Ithat Connecticut senator, Dodd, who's not divorced yet, and then I realized Maura worked for Page Six, but she's a good De would ruin somebody's political career”

Sunday, Septe down the street with so, and so I thought they'd broken up, and I asked Marc Balet and he told ay cancer but that it was a secret But then later that day Robert told o and it takes three years for it to show up, but I don't kno they would know that, since they don't know anything about it or even what it is Robert says he's been checked and he doesn't have it But he'd been going to Janet Sartin and he was there at the same time I was, and I just know she used the same needle on me, and I don't know if she sterilizes it I only like it when you use the needle once and throw it away And I'o to her anymore, anyway, because I'ood it's done

Monday, September 20, 1982 It was a busy day but I left early to catch Lana Turner at Blooht one of her books (16) Then went up to her and she said, ”I don't think I want to talk to you, I've taken you out of my prayers, you said I was better when I hadn't found God, so now I pray for you- badly” badly” So I think it was so I said in the Faye Dunaway interview in So I think it was so I said in the Faye Dunaway interview in Interview Interview, I guess she read it And I didn't knohat to do, I was a nervous wreck, I said, ”Oh no, Lana, you've got got to pray for me, please put me back in your prayers!” And I said, ”Oh won't you please autograph your book to me?” And so she finally did and wrote ”To a Friend” with a question mark and then ”God Bless You” with another question mark And Lana and her fairy hairdresser and I were all there with the same hair to pray for me, please put me back in your prayers!” And I said, ”Oh won't you please autograph your book to me?” And so she finally did and wrote ”To a Friend” with a question mark and then ”God Bless You” with another question mark And Lana and her fairy hairdresser and I were all there with the same hair

Tuesday, September 21, 1982 Ran into Lynn Wyatt as just back fro and Prince Albert couldn't talk

Went to Diane Von Furstenberg's (cab 4) Barry Diller was there and Valentino But out of the corner of e Plian running around e helped Jean Stein with the Edie Edie book She was like a headless chicken running around, justall these noises And I told her, ”Look, I don't knohat you're carrying on about I don't care about the stupid book” I should have said that if she wanted to make it up to e and later he told s in the book about me when he knew me personally and he knew they weren't true and that Edie ay from the Factory for years before she died book She was like a headless chicken running around, justall these noises And I told her, ”Look, I don't knohat you're carrying on about I don't care about the stupid book” I should have said that if she wanted to make it up to e and later he told s in the book about me when he knew me personally and he knew they weren't true and that Edie ay from the Factory for years before she died

Monday, October 4, 1982 Down to ht Jean Michel Basquiat with him He's the kid who used the name ”Sae and paint T-shi+rts, and I'd give him 10 here and there and send him up to Serendipity to try to sell the T-shi+rts there He was just one of those kids who drove me crazy He's black but some people say he's Puerto Rican so I don't know And then Bruno discovered hireat loft on Christie Street He was a e and things-and he was trying to be like that, painting in the Greenwich Village

And so had lunch for them and then I took a Polaroid and he went ho was back, still wet, of hi to Christie Street must have taken an hour He told me his assistant painted it

And by the way, Ronnie Cutrone's art is selling like crazy, too-Steve Rubell's brother just bought a Cutrone

Tuesday, October 5, 1982 There was a lunch and Gaetana Enders brought a politician fro, he has a cane, and his wife's beautiful I'd h-he said that ”maybe someday” he'd ”surprise her with a portrait”

And then Governor Carey's wife-the Greek lady, Evangeline-came and she ca a hat like she always does, and so I said, ”Where's your hat?” and she said, ”None of your girls wear hats in their portraits” So I took pictures of her and then I didn't knohat to do so I called Bob in, and he talked to her, and then he told her how much the portraits cost, and I think she uy call and say that a governor's wife couldn't spend that much on a portrait while he was in office But before, she'd been saying that she wanted to have it done while he was in in office because then it would have ” to do all these e” So she was trying to do all these ot to add that with Jean Michel Basquiat the day before, he reached into his pocket and said he'd pay back the 40 he owed me from the days when he painted T-shi+rts and used to borrow money from me, and I said oh no, that's okay, and I was eht it was more

So ere busy all afternoon Andone at Xenon later

Wednesday, October 6, 1982 Went to Sotheby's and ran into Mr Dannenberg who has a shop in Paris now and he said, ”I'll have to watch you, because whatever you buy is going to be the next big thing” So there was all this really beautiful David Webb stuff, but after he said that I just looked at it and turned up hs) Sunday, October 10, 1982 I think I got up with a cold Went to church Jay Shriver called and said he wasn't going to co ”a statement” So I told him he didn't have to, that I could do it myself Benjao buy makeup

Monday, October 11, 1982 Took aspirin, still trying to get rid of the cold that's beginning Carried about thirty Interviews Intervieitha lecture to a group of schoolkids in the front, so I handed out all the witha lecture to a group of schoolkids in the front, so I handed out all the Interviews Interviews It was a ”field trip” to Fiorucci's, that's what school's come to And then froot the Atari ga There was a Columbus Day parade (cab 7)

Worked out with Lidija and Chris Makos I'd , so I had to get people together to entertain hiet people together to entertain hi

Then at 9:00 Doc cox cox picked me up in his Rolls, I don't knohy he decided to take it, and we Rollsed off to Mr Chow's picked me up in his Rolls, I don't knohy he decided to take it, and we Rollsed off to Mr Chow's

Wednesday, October 13, 1982 Cabbed tofor lunch because he was upset because in Paris in a cab he'd just lost a million dollars' worth of jewelry He hadn't wanted to leave it in the hotel rooot and left it in the cab And that can happen to anybody It's so scary He said he could never replace them, that it was all sentimental value, his whole life mementos So lunch was just for Linda Christian's son

Tuesday, October 19, 1982 This Retin-A stuff that's for curing acne is working, but just on half my face Half of my face is perfect and the other half is broken out, all eruptions It peels away your face I went to a new beauty doctor and he gave ives out things he wants to get rid of And he's such a caers and touched my face he said, ”Doesn't this feel tense?” and the second tiers and touched my face the same way and in the same place and he said, ”Doesn't this feel relaxed?”

Cab (6) to B Althfalutins Ran into Sid and Anne Bass, and into Ashton Hawkins Got drunk and said terr-said funny-I was outrageous, I guess When I get drunk I get-outrageous Then left at 11:00 Wanted to go see the Go-Go's but I was just so drunk

Wednesday, October 20, 1982 The guy who's doing a TV show on our trip to Hong Kong was at work We're going for the opening of the ”I” Club that this young cute kid is organizing with Citibank That's e're going to Hong Kong for-the opening of a discotheque

Thursday, October 21, 1982 I have a pain fro the me out too hard

The jewelry auction the other day ell, so thatup

And Pontus Hulten called and wants a free thing, so I cabbed down to meet him (cab 650, supplies 7, 662, 279, 319) It's always the sa-a free print for a free reat and then they fire hi, they fired hi there And now he's opening a s for free, he thinks he's living in a Socialist country It's like Jonas Mekas, that saot to say that the other day Governor Jerry Brown called and said, ”Hi Andy, it's nice talking to you We know each other and you kno I feel about art, and if you could do so with the other artists I could put your art up as collateral and get a loan from the bank and fund my run for the senate”I told him to talk to Fred I overnor and the city or the state could have paid for it, they were having to do his portrait anyway Well I mean, Marcia Weisman or so into have to cut down the exercise classes

Friday, October 22, 1982 Wandered down Fifth Avenue Passed out Interviews Interviews Tried to give thehed roup of construction workers in the next block asked asked for some, so that balanced it out for some, so that balanced it out

Later, after work, I went to pick up Chris (cab 5) to go to Calvin Klein's big birthday bash at Studio 54 Mark Fleishman had said that the best time to come was really early, at 10:00 or so Maura cah because she's-kind of messy There's always a spot or a stain someplace (cab 5)

In the entrance of 54 there were balloons and white grand pianos and stick-on bows on the floor I felt slighted because Calvin was at a table with Bianca and sorandmothers I would have liked to meet the Kong Arrived in Hong Kong, evening It was hot and y, Florida-type weather Twelve hours' difference in tie your watch, which was kind of great

Alfred Siu, our host, met us Rolls Royce and limousines Jeffrey Deitch of Citibank was at the airport to uy He's the one who got us involved with the whole project Mandarin Hotel We were all on different floors-I was in 1801, Chris in 1020, Fred in 820, and his girlfriend Natasha Grenfell in 722 I had a suite overlooking the harbor, it was very beautiful, but everyone said Hong Kong was having a recession

And then after we got straightened up Alfred wanted us to go to the I Club to look at it, it was just a block away in the Bank of America on the first floor and it still wasn't finished, they had three days to finish it And we ner of it, Joe D'Urso He said he'd decorated all of Calvin's apartments Alfred is so pretty-a spoiled, cute kid, just adorable And Joe D'Urso is this fat little slob but really talented Went back to the hotel, called New York

Thursday, October 28, 1982-Hong Kong Up early to do the two sides of Hong Kong looking for tailors All the kids were getting clothes except me, I'm just not a clotheshorse (cabs 450, 5, 6) Lunch at the I Club with Alfred Siu and about eight girls that he thought were going to have portraits done One was an American married to a Chinese, the others were Miss America types-Miss Taiwan, Miss This and That, and they'd uys from the construction business and they all hate each other and they're all beautiful Bureous dolls dressed to kill And after lunch Alfred's beautiful wife took us to a place where they do fortune telling and it was like 8,000 fortune tellers and you had to pick the one you wanted, so I picked this lady and I asked how hs) she said I' proble probleraphs and he took so fortune tellers and the flash woke theuess none of them wanted their picture taken because of the evil eye or whatever it is

Alfred had a dinner party and it was so glamorous, we took a junk out to his private boat He iraph us while ere there and they were awful, seven of them, and I don't even want to re queen place, and an English girl came up to me and wanted to dance and I didn't want to and she said, ”You're not anything like what they write about in the papers,” and I said, ”Well, I know that”

Friday, October 29, 1982-Hong Kong Muggy Took the boat across the river to Kowloon (12 there and back) We had to meet the Sius at their house way up on the hill, you can see all of Hong Kong We were followed by the crew everywhere, everyparty was ”exclusive,” rand, lots of people The shoas okay The gyot me on aout of my pockets and my hair almost fell off Then went to the disco It was just finished oneDanced with Natasha Grenfell, pushed her around, I was drunk All our possible portraits fell through and Alfred was embarrassed We sneaked out about 2:00

Saturday, October 30, 1982-Hong Kong GotCo is actually owned by the Chinese, that England just rents rents it! So now I knohy everyone's nervous here, the lease is almost up it! So now I knohy everyone's nervous here, the lease is al of the I Club was 8:30 to 1:30 Home at 4:30 Called New York

Monday, Noveing great Aot to the Great Wall it actually was really great I'd been putting it down, but then it was staggering We went on the left side because it wasn't so steep and so crowded, and all the Chinese were taking pictures of theot a picture of it Soldiers go there with their girlfriends It's like walking up to the Eot in a bus and went to the Ming To, too, and that was somehoo hours away, too It was a whole afternoon

Went to bed withHotel The place was infested with roachUp at 6:30, another crew day Went to the bird fair, that's where people get together and sell birds, that's what they do with their tiot on the bus and went to the Summer Palace Met Americans we knew there-Lita Vietor as so nice to us in San Francisco, and some Palm Beach people, they were on a tour Stopped off at the IM Pei hotel and photographed it

Went to a co ”God Bless A because it was just so sad to see these little kids having to perform like animals Another truckload of bus people would arrive after us and it would be the sa you, sa We left the hotel to catch the 8:45 flight Had some tea (12) You can't tip people Everybody tells on everybody Then we found out that if you give thearettes, that's what they really want Should have done things like that, but we hadn't figured it out So got to the airport and sat around for hours Then a lady and her husband had lost their passport and for an hour and a half they were going through everything looking for it, and the lady was screa at her husband, it was just such a movie scene, and then two minutes before the plane was ready to leave, the lady put her hand in her pocket and found it They were really old, it was sad It was so horrible They were old and they couldn't get out of China ”Where is it?” ”You had it last”

Ran into one of those English groups, like maybe the Clash, on the elevator On the sa-New York Took a Valiuhteen-hour plane ride Read the Neil Sedaka book and the Britt Ekland book and they were both so bad Neil's daughter, Dara, is the biggest thing in Singapore and Tokyo

Monday, Novehs) because I hadn't gotten any gifts for anybody when I was in China And I also told hiifts for anybody when I was in China And I also told hi fired because I was so tired of looking at Chinese people that he was under consideration for being fired because I was so tired of looking at Chinese people

Did h one-third of what I have to to catch up on I began getting jetlag Decided to stay in catch up on I began getting jetlag Decided to stay in

Wednesday, Nove lunch with Jann Wenner at Le Cirque But I knew Jann couldn't take him away from us because Bob makes so much more money at our place I think Jann just wants to pick his brain And Bob said John Fairchild and Jauess it's the new place for gossipers

Worked all afternoon Decided to stay hoet rid ofwas the baby getting kidnapped, because they used a real baby You kno usually TV shows use a doll? Well and the best thing was the baby getting kidnapped, because they used a real baby You kno usually TV shows use a doll? Well Dynasty Dynasty had the real baby being dashed through the streets with its head bobbing and bouncing around And gee, everybody on that show has such awful hair had the real baby being dashed through the streets with its head bobbing and bouncing around And gee, everybody on that show has such awful hair

Saturday, November 13, 1982 Chris had invited us to the Shafrazi Gallery for the closing of the Keith Haring show, he's the one who does those figures all over the city, the graffiti His boyfriend is black, and so he had 400 black kids there, so cute, so adorable Just like the sixties, except (laughs) (laughs) black black

And Ronnie was there looking very chic with his girlfriend His art's selling like crazy

Then there was a party for the show in the baseo go down, but I knew o down, but I knew o