Part 40 (2/2)
Haig made a speech about war andGordon Liddy last week, well I guess you do need that stuff, but I don't knohat I believe in, because fighting's wrong, but then if you don't don't fightfight
And Fordretired and how he's going to be working for Reagan's reelection, and how the economy is better and so people could buy ust 5, 1983 Bianca's trying so hard to marry Calvin because she doesn't have any money She said that when she told hiht So Halston was just hating Bianca soJerry Hall to see hi she wanted He was saying about Bianca, ”I'll fix her wagon,” and that was scary So awful And Steve Rubell called froot on the phone and asked et Bianca and I said, ”Bianca, it's Steve” And Halston looked up and said, ”It's Calvin, Bianca”
Monday, August 8, 1983 Poor Monique Van Vooren was guilty of fraud, cashi+ng her mother's checks for a total of 18,000 And it was just so peculiar because I saw her and she denied it to uilty, she should have just said, ”Ohlike that And Jackie Curtis called me over the weekend to wish me happy birthday
Cabbed toabout the ”expanded fae” where they're both seeing different people and acting like they live in a co and I told hiive Christopher less darkrooether and then went to Claudia Cohen's new apart a party to look at the five seconds of fireworks that were going to be in the park because of Beethoven's overture She was having a big fire on her balcony, I'et into trouble for it She was barbecuing haers And I had soust 9, 1983 It was interesting that when John Russell wrote about Schnabel on Sunday, the portrait of me was the only one he didn't ht that e stayed overnight with Jean Michel in his dirty smelly loft don How I know it shs) it was like a nigger's loft, that there were crumpled-up hundred-dollar bills in the corner and bad bo all over and you step on paintings The day Jean Michel ca that Paige hadirlfriend, which she was at one point, but then he asked her out and she went And they had a date and this was the date-they rented a U-Haul and went out to Brooklyn to a black neighborhood and went to a White Castle and had eight ha sticks and they thought they were going to kill theer's loft, that there were crumpled-up hundred-dollar bills in the corner and bad bo all over and you step on paintings The day Jean Michel ca that Paige hadirlfriend, which she was at one point, but then he asked her out and she went And they had a date and this was the date-they rented a U-Haul and went out to Brooklyn to a black neighborhood and went to a White Castle and had eight ha sticks and they thought they were going to kill them You know, it was a ”kooky date”
This was the day before he went to St Moritz to see Bruno Mary Boone and Bruno are both handling hi had a feorks of Jean Michel's to sell I don't knohere he got them He said froe! Oh Thoh us and then being secretive I bet they were froo of Jean Michel's stuff!
Thursday, August 11, 1983 Tried to get the office to start packing Worked all afternoon on Pia Zadora, called her and she ay for teeks on a film
Went to see Mame Mame with Jon and Cornelia (tickets 120) The audience was just a bunch of old decorators Went to Orso's, right next door, and Marion Javits walked in with Gil shi+va And they had with Jon and Cornelia (tickets 120) The audience was just a bunch of old decorators Went to Orso's, right next door, and Marion Javits walked in with Gil shi+va And they had La Cage aux Folles La Cage aux Folles programs and so did everybody in the place, and we had to hide our programs and so did everybody in the place, and we had to hide our Maraust 12, 1983 Jerry Hall came to lunch to interview Bob Mackie for us (cab 6, supplies 102) And I told her that Halston wanted to see her and she said she's always been so nice to hi to be nice now (laughs) (laughs) She hasn't figured it out yet She hasn't figured it out yet
Sunday, August 14, 1983 Decided to go go see see Private School Private School (cab 4, tickets 10, popcorn 6) I wanted to see Phoebe Cates These movies are just like remakes of those French co boys In this one, it's ugly boys peeping in s at girls and taking showers and rubbing theuess that our irls always had such small tits (cab 4, tickets 10, popcorn 6) I wanted to see Phoebe Cates These movies are just like remakes of those French co boys In this one, it's ugly boys peeping in s at girls and taking showers and rubbing theuess that our irls always had such sust 15, 1983 Cabbed to meet Jean Michel Basquiat at the workout with Lidija, he was doing it with us (cab 5) He's in love with Paige Powell
Got a call fron and she'd take it with her if it fit into her husband's jet, so they werebrain surgery yesterday because he was kicked in the head on West 10th Street in a fight over soust 17, 1983 I've been getting notes and letters slipped under the door at iven Interviews Interviews to in the neighborhood and I don't knohat to do about that to in the neighborhood and I don't knohat to do about that
Went down to meet Jean Michel and did a workout with him and Lidija (cab 5) And he has bo It's like Chris who also thinks it's sexy when you exercise to have bo, but I want to say, it sure isn't And all this bo hasanything great Isex with Jean Michel and I think, how could she do it I ee, why don't we do soether?”
John sex ca, so it was cranky
Saw the show Vincent's working on and it looks really good We got a great writeup in one of the videoa party at Club A (cab 5)
Whitney's going crazy because his father's young wife had another baby Cornelia called hiain!” And his o down one more time
Then Madelaine Netter sat down and told me about how she'd been attacked in an elevator on West 96th Street They had her on the floor and were ripping her clothes off and she was screaot the idea to say, ”Jesus saves” And they freaked out and glued her back together
Thursday, August 18, 1983 Went to meet Jean Michel Basquiat and did a workout with Lidija (cab 5)
The Scull kid called and yelled atsoda
Chris called and said that Peter'scame by with his black boyfriend and I took pictures They were so lovey-dovey in the photos, it was nutty to see The big chalk drawing of a pregnant woht was his-it turns out it is, and we're trying to get it He did it a while ago
Picked up Cornelia and Sean McKeon and Maura in the limo, to drive out to Shea Stadium to see the Police, and Cornelia had hundreds of sandwiches and chane The rain cauess he wants to be in society because he was s Cornelia and Maura Francois de Menil came in with Laverne of Laveoes in and out She falls asleep on your arht out, and then she wakes up and has this energy
Sting came over and said hello, he looked a little old He ith a girl, I think it was his wife And Matt Dillon! Matt Dillon was there Oh he's so good-looking And the girls finally by the tiotten to the point where they were talking to hiet him for a cover after all
Left, dropped everyone
My sister-in-law just called She said that she ca So I guess I justby today, but I told her I'ust 20, 1983 I was reading the Life Extension Life Extension book and book and Connoisseur Connoisseur azine, and I fell asleep, so I woke up with theazine, and I fell asleep, so I woke up with them on top of me
Halston called, he said he'd left his vacation in Montauk because Victor was going crazy and he'd gone too far He said he'd send a car for me to come to dinner, but I said I'd walk over, so I did And we sat there and then in the other roouards that Halston had hired because Victor threatened to come and break all the s fro he loves Halston too rand but I rand then he can do it I know, though, that the drugs do take over, so I guess that's what's wrong with Victor And Halston called Victor's brother who lives in town to go and help him, but the brother said, ”I don't want to interfere in my brother's life”
Oh and Chris had co that I wanted to hear He said, ”Oh it's over between Brian andit anymore because we're tired of each other” And you can really see what a good hustler Chris is, because everything I wanted to hear he was telling ust 21, 1983 It was a beautiful day No one was around So I was all by o down to the office I take a sharp stick with me in case the elevator doors stick, so I can pry o over there alone on the weekend 1 always tell so over there alone on the weekend 1 always tell soet Victor on the phone and finally he seemed calone through The I Earnest, playing the parts together, and that cheered him up Worked till 7:00 Cabbed to e is just so nutty, she laughs so loud at nothing I would but her in the category of schizophrenia Jean Michel said he never finished high school I'e He's twenty-two Cabbed to Mr Chow's (5) And Lester Persky was there with the cute boy hite-blond hair who's training for the pentathalon He wants us to put hi, like a little fat Hitler
Monday, August 22, 1983 Went to meet Jean Michel at the office and I took pictures of hihiuess that's true, but stilland I don't knohat to do about Chris I ets paid for his sucker And anyway he gets paid for his Interview Interview pages every es every month Worked till 7:00 7:00
Picked up Cornelia at the Waldorf (cab 6) She had a copy of the new Life Life laazine that has the big spread on her and it all looked so glamorous, really kidnappable (tip to door to see Timothy Hutton and A Cornelia got so absorbed She's strange I really don't know if she's srid Superstar Cornelia just goes in and out and soot so absorbed in this, it was like a history lesson for her, and Iher on it later and she (15) The e I really don't know if she's srid Superstar Cornelia just goes in and out and soot so absorbed in this, it was like a history lesson for her, and Iher on it later and she had had understood everything This is about the Rosenbergs but it's fictional so they call the This is about the Rosenbergs but it's fictional so they call them the Isaacsons
And ent to Mortilish accent really loud, so I knoas drunk, and I was getting scared because he was table-hopping, and I was dreading to think what he was saying at each table
Tuesday, August 23, 1983 Cornelia wanted to go out, and I was invited to the opening of an escalator at Bergdorf Goodreat idea, I want to go I want to go!”
Picked her up Got to Bergdorf's (cab 7) and there was a waiter for every single guest And at the top of each escalator aJohn Duka fro to be quotable and s of doors, s, envelopes, and noas there so ere trying to be quotable and s of doors, s, envelopes, and now-an escalator! escalator!
Wednesday, August 24, 1983 It was a beautiful day I left the house early in order to go see Karen Burke to get collagen injections She wears high heels and rides a bike, which is so dangerous
After the injections, Dr Karen walked me all the way to 66th Street The injections did make me bleed on ust 25, 1983 I will never forgive Rupert for taking ht” I didn't know it until we got there and it was nothing but faggots and lesbians And I thought that for 40 tickets we'd be in the orchestra, but ay up in the balcony because it was a benefit so the tickets downstairs were over 100 or soht” I didn't know it until we got there and it was nothing but faggots and lesbians And I thought that for 40 tickets we'd be in the orchestra, but ay up in the balcony because it was a benefit so the tickets downstairs were over 100 or soays, you know, they refuse Interviews Interviews and always pretend they don't knoho you are, and then they go home and dish you These two dykes came over and said hello, and I asked them what this event was all about, and they said it was for the ”Islanders,” and I said, ”The Islanders hockey teahed and said oh ha-ha no And then Rupert nudgedabout and always pretend they don't knoho you are, and then they go home and dish you These two dykes came over and said hello, and I asked them what this event was all about, and they said it was for the ”Islanders,” and I said, ”The Islanders hockey teahed and said oh ha-ha no And then Rupert nudgedabout Fire Fire Island They said, ”How'd you wind up here in the balcony?” and I pointed at Rupert and said, ”Because this creep broughtthat I fell asleep a couple of times But this audience, this audience I le gay line-I mean anytime anybody referred to Island They said, ”How'd you wind up here in the balcony?” and I pointed at Rupert and said, ”Because this creep broughtthat I fell asleep a couple of times But this audience, this audience I le gay line-I , they clapped And everyone had a ht out of ten people there Finally it ended and we got out of there The two dykes askedto Cracker jacks? To the party?”
But all that was at night In the h Interviews Interviews to take around, just had a couple As alking on Madison between 66th and 67th, Raquel Welch calasses so you al for a Napoleon bed I gave her Dr Karen's card for collagen Fred likes the way et it done to take around, just had a couple As alking on Madison between 66th and 67th, Raquel Welch calasses so you al for a Napoleon bed I gave her Dr Karen's card for collagen Fred likes the way et it done
We were on Page Six because of our intervieith Georgia O'Keeffe where she called Philip Johnson athat he's not now, and she was saying that he was then, and so since she can't see now, she didn't know So I' myself for a call fro to drink, that the other night was just too much
Got home and there was a note that Ara Gallant called So I called hiovernor of Nebraska were over there, and he invited o back out back out
Talked to Jon in LA
Friday, August 26, 1983 Cab toto rent the carriage house n at 57 Great Jones Street So Benjaet a lease and I hope it works out Jean Michel is trying to get on a regular daily painting schedule If he doesn't and he can't pay his rent it'll be hard to evict hiust 28, 1983 After getting bitten some more I decided that Archie ood for fleas and this is one of therey day And in the park the Puerto Ricans were having some sort of event It wasn't even Puerto Rican Day, they just create a party and call it some occasion and then they have the park all day with mounted policemen, beautiful mounted policemen on horses Not one white person in the whole park
Monday, August 29, 1983 I just stepped in dog shi+t Inslippers but this time I wasn't And usually you can smell it a mile away, but it just didn't s it up And I'm all fleabitten When you know there's fleas, you keep feeling them all the tiet the shi+t offwhat disease I can pick up from this whole episode
Jean Michel and I went over to Yanna's, and we had our nails done And you know, ood story for Vogue Vogue (pedicures 30) (pedicures 30)
Victor ca And Victor says his brother's cock is so big he used to hit the table with it at breakfast I guess they were naked at breakfast, you know these South Aht situation like civilization But Victor's actually made out better than his brother-his brother still has to work