Part 40 (1/2)

Walked the Village and then went to Tower Records and bought the Talking Heads albu did the cover for He was upset because he only got 2,000 And I told hiotten 25,000

Wednesday, July 13, 1983 Okay, well this was the night of the glittering event, the pree was having a lunch for two gay guys froe Clobber for a teacher at Pratt, so we talked about that George Clobber was the first person who told ay life

Went to to meet Maura at 6:45 (cab 7) at the Russian Tea Roofeld and there were the crowds lined up And now there's a new thing-for meet Maura at 6:45 (cab 7) at the Russian Tea Roofeld and there were the crowds lined up And now there's a new thing-for Good Morning Araph you they say, ”Are you aware that you're being photographed for when they photograph you they say, ”Are you aware that you're being photographed for Good Morning Aive your consent?' ” I said, ”I do” And do you give your consent?' ” I said, ”I do”

And then eighteen bodyguards came in and Stallone and his wife arrived and I was on the aisle and he saw hts went down and Frank Mancuso gave a speech And then Sasha Stallone gave an emotional speech about their autistic child that the benefit was for, and all I could think of was Bad Bad because ere the first to have an autistic kid in a movie because ere the first to have an autistic kid in a movie

I loved Staying Alive Staying Alive Then the party at Xenon was at 11:45, so ent over there and on the e ran into Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon I'd never met him and I had copies of Interviews Intervieith ht that one” And she doesn't have any wrinkles and she's like 110 years old or soht that one” And she doesn't have any wrinkles and she's like 110 years old or souards and in the ht his eye and he caht

Thursday, July 14, 1983 We took our ti to the theater to see Farrah Fawcett in Extreht we had plenty of ti the curtain for us Farrah was good, but not as good as Susan Sarandon had been And it's funny, I hadn't liked Susan Sarandon in anything except The Other Side of Midnight The Other Side of Midnight until then, but then I saw that she was really good until then, but then I saw that she was really good

Soirls tried to pick Benjamin and e and they were gushy It's so hard to talk to actors, all they want is to talk about the the sa about Paul Morrissey and telling ain And he really wants the part of dick Tracy that Warren Beatty's supposed to get Ryan thought Jon was an i hiether once on the beach at Malibu

Friday, July 15, 1983 Maura cao out to interview Richard Gere at the Astoria Studios where they're shooting Cotton Club Cotton Club

We were nervous about our interview because we had a feeling it would be difficult Maura had read Stanislavsky And so ent through dick Sylbert's sets for Cotton Club Cotton Club which was exciting And Richard was back in this slu old movies on TV So what he does is he watches every oldand copies details, the way other actors do things He actually told us his firstAnd Richard was back in this slu old movies on TV So what he does is he watches every oldand copies details, the way other actors do things He actually told us his first movie was Days of Heaven Days of Heaven which I knoasn't, but that's how uncooperative he was, he wouldn't give which I knoasn't, but that's how uncooperative he was, he wouldn't give anything anything The only interesting thing was telling us that he spent all of the ti in the filthy trenches in Mexico in the hospital hooked up to an IV for dysentery-they'd disconnect hio to work and then he'd be back It was the movie with Michael Caine The Honorary Consul The Honorary Consul And he liked Maura, but she's a friend of Silvinha's so that complicated it And he liked Maura, but she's a friend of Silvinha's so that complicated it

Sunday, July 17, 1983 It was hot, another scorcher I overslept

Worked with Chris and Peter on working out theirshi+pped in from California on Thursday

Tuesday, July 19, 1983 Called John Reinhold and invited him for coffee (phone 50, coffee 5) I told hi a project with the them, and he said he'd find some for me

Victor and Farrah are now best friends because he told her how bad she was in Extre And now she says her performance is so much better and she owes it all to Victor But actually, she and what she did wrong And now she says her performance is so much better and she owes it all to Victor But actually, she as really good, and Victor was so highit that he didn't knoas going on really good, and Victor was so highit that he didn't knoas going on

Thursday, July 21, 1983 I could never really describe the Diana Ross concert in Central Park The sky darkened and the rain ca I've ever seen Just the event of the century-her hair blowing and soaking wet, and if only they'd had a covering on the place where she was, she could have kept on singing and the kids would have stayed and she would have had her concert for TV But they stopped it in the ain toet her to stop but she said that she'd waited for twenty years to do this The lightning uess, but it was like a drea this spectacle It was like the greatest scene from a movie ever When they do her life story in the e event and then later she's crying and saying, ”Why did this happen toher wrists But oh, the thunder and lightning looked so great So beautiful

We were in the VIP area, but because I'd had Benja under the canopy And Rob Loith us and he's so beautiful It's like his eyebrows are penciled on and his lips painted on-everything so perfect And he's just like the kids we know, just regular, and he's looking for girls, that's all he can think about I asked him to draw me a pussy and he drew a pussy and then I said, ”What's that?” and I then drew hi up because whenever she called him on location in Canada the operator would say, ”He's in Nastassia Kinski's room,” so then when he would tell her the next day that his phone had been out of order she would tell hi And he says he's not in love with Nastassia, though, that it's just sex But he earing a toy snake around his waist which was a joke on her Avedon poster, so he was thinking about her so maybe he is is in love He's nineteen And he was just after any old lady Just anybody Like Susan Sarandon She was there with Richard Gere and Silvinha in love He's nineteen And he was just after any old lady Just anybody Like Susan Sarandon She was there with Richard Gere and Silvinha

And oh you should have seen it Jerry Zipkin in the soaking rain And I felt so sorry for Jon because he's worked so hard on this, because Parahts

And then finally people were leaving the park and so we followed the blacks and wound up co out at 72nd Street near the Dakota And we had to cli in a war zone And then after we got out of the park I took Rob Lowe and Benjao there, Matt Dillon and Sean Penn-and then we got there and had drinks and absolutely nobody was there (drinks 8350)

Then I got home and called Rob Lowe at the Sherry and he said that he aiting for a phone call froo ahead without hi for the party So I went and when I got there, he was getting out of the cab So that was kind of ain because ere being caoing to give you a ride, that's all-it was no big deal” ahead without hi for the party So I went and when I got there, he was getting out of the cab So that was kind of ain because ere being caoing to give you a ride, that's all-it was no big deal”

And Cornelia had been at the park, too And a newspaper photographer took her and pushed her next to one of the people ere stabbed, just to get that kind of a picture of a socialite and a stabbed person Cornelia didn't knoas going on

And at the party at the Gulf + Western Rob was after Cornelia and Maura He and Cornelia kept going off alone

I gave Diana Ross a Dia at tapes of the concert Barry Diller careat and he said, ”You always like disasters You liked Grease II” Grease II”

Harvey Mann orks for Liz S more about Calvin and AIDS He said that they'd killed the rumor in their column And then Calvin came in and he kissed me so hard and his beard was stubbly and I was so afraid that it was piercing intoone in three years

And by the way, Rob Lowe also said that up in Canada where they were all shooting Hotel New Ha the Philosophy Philosophy book book

Friday, July 22, 1983 It was the day of the second Diana Ross concert because they decided to redo it (cab 8) Cornelia came Rob Lowe didn't coular

But then afterwards the kids started rioting, and if it weren't for the police the whole place would have gone crazy It was 99 percent black The guy ns Cafe Central took us out of the park so we cao to Cafe Central He had a cane to Cafe Central He had a cane

And e got there, Rob Lowe came and Andrew McCarthy who's also in the ets Jacqueline Bisset And he's just regular, a nice kid

At Cafe Central they're trying to treat people rotten to be like Elaine's The waitress caot to leave this table, it's reserved for Lorna Luft” And Cornelia just burst out laughing that anyone would ask her to move to make room for Lorna Luft And it was so stupid because if they'd just been nice and said, ”Would youto a s anyway because we'd said ere going to the 11:00 show of Class Class, which Rob and Andrew had passes for Maybe this kind of treato there, but it sure doesn't o there (dinner 100 with tip)

So then ent over to 66th and Second and Cornelia was chattering away, she repeats everything over and over, just like herhis eyes

The reat and cute Afterward I tried to sell Andrew and Rob's autographs in the lobby for a nickel, but nobody bought any

Monday, July 25, 1983 Mrs Winters's son, Al, who's the caretaker now, called and said that Paul Morrissey is out in Montauk in the little house and I don't think Halston and Victor know he's there And he's following Al around and telling hi him crazy And Al says, ”Call Vincent,” and Paul says, ”Listen, I own half this property” And now Paul wants n a new piece of paper-he's decided that the one he dreith his lawyers andI told hi more” All these years Paul made such stupid deals for us with other people and now here he's trying to be so ”shrewd” in business with or so more” All these years Paul made such stupid deals for us with other people and now here he's trying to be so ”shrewd” in business with ive him better deals than anybody else all the time anyway, for all those years

Tuesday, July 26, 1983 Christopher brought his new young live-in love that he imported froave theive Chris less work but he canot all involved with Chris and Peter and giving theht if they could make their relationshi+p work, then there was hope for e and Chris is with his new kid Brian, and I don't believe in dale's and the fairies wereit and everything

Wednesday, July 27, 1983 Cabbed to meet Lidija (6) DidGordon Liddy and ere going to do a pro around doing debates now together

And Gordon Liddy talked about ”takeovers” Like if you're walking down the street and soer than you they take you over And he pulled a knife out of his waist, and I couldn't believe it I was surprised that he's so small He's about my size, and in a way he's like Mr Milquetoast And he pulled out these pictures of his three sons fro bruisers in swimsuits and you can see the outlines of their dicks These were like 8” X 10” color photographs-artistic, with ripples in the water! I e way to take pictures of your kids to carry around! And he was thrilled because one of the kids was going to be a Marine They're all at Fordhairls didn't want him to carry their pictures, but I'irls, he was just thrilled with the big bruisers And one of the boys had a two-inch cat, a little kitten, that he was holding And he also had pictures of his house, on the Potomac And Tim was there with his hippie talk, and Gordon Liddy would spout facts about how many A-bombs have been exploded And he's sort of lost, Liddy, it's odd It's like he doesn't knohat to do with himself He liked me a lot, he wants us to see more of each other Tim left and he stayed on for a while

Thursday, July 28, 1983 Got up early and had to move fast because I had an early appointment at the office with Pia Zadora, so I was excited

She arrived and was so cute Her husband, Riklis, caoing to be a big star Her skin is beautiful They've got a new house in California and she liked sos

Later the office was so busy, it was the day before Fred's birthday and he didn't want anyone to know, but (laughs) (laughs) Suzie Frankfurt sent a huge balloon and carnations Suzie Frankfurt sent a huge balloon and carnations

Monday, August 1, 1983 Peter Sellars and Lew Allen came to lunch and they've rented an apart with Andy Warhol An Evening with Andy Warhol And the play is scheduled to go on a year froazines like Life Life and everything are supposed to do big things on it And souess we'll be linked together for life because of it and everything are supposed to do big things on it And souess we'll be linked together for life because of it

Then Vincent picked me up (cab 6) in black tie, and ent over to the New York State Theater for the North A pushedand he eet, we talked about his interview in Interview Intervieasn't at ex-President Ford's table, but I sat right behind hiot scared because when I get below 120 I lose s when you're that thin