Part 41 (2/2)
Tuesday, Septe about her annual charity thing You never hear about her since she got sick It's so quick what happens in New York You can just get forgotten in five minutes Less You can see ht for years, and then they can forget you in a minute Benja I wish he would be He looks so e because he looks so slight and girlish as a boy, and then he goes into drag and you notice his hands are so veiny and he has big shoulders and tough hands
I'd like to start wearing lipstick at night so ht light someplace
Wednesday, September 28, 1983 Bianca called and askedfor the Nicaraguan Sandinista cultural uy as like de Antonio, being Communist-Peter Davis, he did a movie called Hearts and Minds Hearts and Minds And Cleee, I like him a lot-he's picked up the American attitude He understands Ae, because you don't understand how a person from another country can pick it up He doesn't say et hi up all the artists
And this other guy at the lunch had been a political prisoner somewhere in South America I think, and noorks for Mitterrand
It turned into a five-hour lunch The Nicaraguan cultural et there until late She's almost as pretty as Bianca And she says, ”Oh yes, people think we don't have art in a revolution but even as the bo, people are still raphers, and we're beco how the true revolution is really winning out, that ”the people are having their day” And I don't know, it was all so abstract, but then being at that big Heinz party the other night with all those rich Republicans I got a creepy feeling there, too It's like any people when they have the power, they don't want anyone else to ever get it It's like wo girls look like But I guess that's not only the rich
Anyway, they're saying they want us to coua and, and I don't know, support their art cause And Clereen card I went through so irl got into her liot into his his liht next to Tower Records, and his loft is just beautiful It's really an artist's loft, big paintings all over He produces a lot So uy ful, he walked on one of the, but I just know he kneas a painting liht next to Tower Records, and his loft is just beautiful It's really an artist's loft, big paintings all over He produces a lot So uy ful, he walked on one of the, but I just know he kneas a painting
Then they wanted to see my ”studio” so ent to the office, and there was just nothing there The contrast was so-evident We've gotten so involved with fashi+on that we don't know about all these other things like wars and governments anymore I didn't have any art to show them They wanted to see movies, but I didn't have any movies, either
So finally they all left I worked till 7:30 7:30 and Cornelia called and asked where I was because she was ready, and I had a black tie down there, so I just stuck it on and went to the Waldorf Towers I asked her to be downstairs since ere late, but she said, ”I don't want to wait downstairs like a prostitute” So when I got there the door in the cab he ca there So I did itCornelia's roo like a hooker But beautiful She's put on a little weight Oh, and I saw Mrs Douglas MacArthur while I aiting and she was great She's eighty-four or so and still has all her marbles And me, I can barely walk So then Cornelia came and ent to the Pierre (cab 8) to this fashi+on show for charity that Joanne Winshi+p organized and Cornelia called and asked where I was because she was ready, and I had a black tie down there, so I just stuck it on and went to the Waldorf Towers I asked her to be downstairs since ere late, but she said, ”I don't want to wait downstairs like a prostitute” So when I got there the door in the cab he ca there So I did itCornelia's roo like a hooker But beautiful She's put on a little weight Oh, and I saw Mrs Douglas MacArthur while I aiting and she was great She's eighty-four or so and still has all her marbles And me, I can barely walk So then Cornelia came and ent to the Pierre (cab 8) to this fashi+on show for charity that Joanne Winshi+p organized
Oh, and at lunch I brought up the Liz S the papers said they were such a hot item, and Bianca said, ”Ha-ha! What a joke!” So that's her position
Thursday, September 29, 1983 I woke up with flea bites and that ht flea collars for my ankles
Cabbed don (5) to the new chic supermarket at Park Avenue and 18th Street, the Food Euy there made my sandwiches and so I couldn't eat theht a 2,000 house in Bahia and eats coconuts all day His wife's having a baby His father must be a semi-rich producer Kennyca a B-12 shot from Dr Giller, and it was like the sixties when the kids would get shot up and co about this black graffiti artist that's in the papers now because the police killed him-Michael Stewart And Keith said that he's been arrested by the police four times, but that because he looks noro But this kid that was killed, he had the Jean Michel look-dreadlocks
Worked all afternoon Dropped Benjaine's alone, she was having a party for Julio Iglesias's birthday, and Lester Persky was arriving when I was, and ent in as a couple, and there were cahs) just Spanish television The usual people there, ”Suzy” and Jerry Zipkin and Cornelia And Julio Iglesias looks different than in pictures He's 6'3” and very handsome with a very dark tan, and teeth that are practically fluorescent He was very friendly as if he really knew me Maybe he knows somebody that we knoho talks about us all the time And Cornelia sat near so she could catch his eye Halston had called and said to come over to his place afterwards just Spanish television The usual people there, ”Suzy” and Jerry Zipkin and Cornelia And Julio Iglesias looks different than in pictures He's 6'3” and very handsome with a very dark tan, and teeth that are practically fluorescent He was very friendly as if he really knew me Maybe he knows somebody that we knoho talks about us all the time And Cornelia sat near so she could catch his eye Halston had called and said to come over to his place afterwards
So I went to Halston's and Jane Holzer was there and Halston was doing the same ”I'm so rich” routine, but Icauy ns hiuy ns hi hi Jerry Hall He still wants to nant, it'll be hard to dress her
Saturday, October 1, 1983 Had to get up early Maura and I were scheduled to interview Matt Dillon at Fred's house Finally Matt came and sat in the kitchen and Maura interviewed his she always asks: ”Are you Catholic?” and ”Are you Irish?” He said yes It's going to be the same exact interview as Brooke shi+elds
Wednesday, October 5, 1983-New York-Milan Got up early, tried to pack, was picked up by Benjamin (cab 650) Jean Michel Basquiat came by the office to work out with Lidija and I told hio, too, that he'd meet us at the airport Worked all afternoon till 4:30
I hadn't thought Jean Michel would co in line at the airport he appeared, he was just so nutty but cute and adorable He hadn't slept in four days, he said he was going to watchhis nose in paper bags It was as bad as Christopher Paige has turned hi baths We arrived in Milan practically on tiet the name
Thursday, October 6, 1983-Milan Did five or ten interviews this day, they kept coreat restaurant Really good food, people looked so beautiful, think we did a lot of Interview Interview advertising work Had a big dinner at so work Had a big dinner at some new disco place with all the beautiful models
Got hooing to kill hihed and said it was just because he hadn't slept for four days, and then after a while of that he went back to his room
Friday, October 7, 1983-Milan Had to do soallery with two paintings, and forty million people caet dressed for a big dinner party for Leandro Gualtieri and his wife, Regina Schrecker the designer Jean Michel caave everyone a portrait on a plate And it was gla and Jean Michelplay for Joanna Carson as in Milan
Saturday, October 8, 1983-Milan-Paris Jean Michel ca on with Keith Haring to get publicity-Keith had coe 30, bellboys 20, azines 10, doorman 5, taxi to airport 30)
Tuesday, October 11, 1983-Paris-New York When I got home to 66th Street I didn't shower because I knew that if I did I'd never get to work I earing (laughs) (laughs) ”Essence of France”-bo There was a strange picture of Mayor Koch in the paper, sneering at Nixon at the Cardinal Cooke funeral It was a weird picture (cab 6) Met Lidija Had a lot of coffee ”Essence of France”-bo There was a strange picture of Mayor Koch in the paper, sneering at Nixon at the Cardinal Cooke funeral It was a weird picture (cab 6) Met Lidija Had a lot of coffee
Worked till 7:00 or 7:30 Ronnie Cutrone came by and said that he was in Milan ere and that Jean Michel went off to Madrid Jean Michel's trying to get so fauess
Wednesday, October 12, 1983 I tried to get Thomas Ammann all day but he wasn't around He still wants to rent part of s in and I don't kno to get out of it, because you can't keep that kind of thing a secret, people would knoas e is really upset because Jean Michel hasn't called her He hasn't called us, either She sells his paintings, she's been doing that for a while And he dropped Mary Boone-she took 50 percent, Paige only takes 10 percent He's still with Bruno, though, so that's how he'll still be shown I told Paige that Jean Michel was after Joanna Carson in Milan, and et hi But naturally people are people and a fool is a fool so noin love
Thursday, October 13, 1983 Princess Caroline was getting to the office at 9:00 to pose for the Deceuest editor for this year's Christraph her So rushed (cab 650) She was already there, but it took her one or two hours to get dressed And they wanted pictures ofthe pictures of her so I called Chris and he came over She's pretty but she looks forty She looks like she's really been through the ether She had a japaneseus all up the wall He wants to do a remake of Pepe Le Moko Pepe Le Moko with children Paul does have good ideas, though, so if we could just ith hi-trash way He had Brigid retyping soh, so if we could just ith hi-trash way He had Brigid retyping some contracts
Tuesday, October 18, 1983 Jean Michel cahs) I' Kind of hard It shook him up a little I told him, ”How dare you du Kind of hard It shook him up a little I told him, ”How dare you dump us in Milan!” Benjamin put me up to it
Wednesday, October 19, 1983 The tree in front of o It's still green, but it hasn't grown Benjah Sreen
There were articles in the papers about the police arresting the ”Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll son” for being an i at all these people's houses Halston was sht away he told him to leave You could just tell in a second that this kid was lying But these other people all let him stay at their houses! I mean, he could have been anybody, he could have just wiped out a whole fa lunch at the office for the English contingent and Tab Hunter and his new producer ants me to do a poster for the movie, and an interviewer froe Poas there with soo to Vassar with Jennifer that night to give a talk-Jennifer goes to school there now-and the car was going to pick them all up
But Jean Michel told e up to Vassar with hiirls up there So when I got hoe was hysterical because Jean Michel had never come in the car to pick her up So that was oes and I said we'd go out for drinks and I called Sean McKeon to come with us so that I could handle it better And Sean's had a crush on me for a few years, and it's nice to be around solasses in People People this week this week
So ent to the Mayfair and had two chae was so upset-here she'd just handed Jean Michel a 20,000 check for selling sos She said she'd never show or sell his stuff again I told her I'd let her do an exhibit of o into my closets and find all the really horrible stuff that had never worked out, so then she cheered up a little But then in a little while she left because she was still so nervous Sean dropped me and I went to bed into my closets and find all the really horrible stuff that had never worked out, so then she cheered up a little But then in a little while she left because she was still so nervous Sean dropped me and I went to bed
Sunday, October 23, 1983 There's a painting ofup for auction soon, and it's only estimated at 100,000 I think it's a coke Bottle And Roy's things go go for five, six, or seven, and Jasper's go for a o for aand the heat's not co problethe Barbara Hutton book and the best thing is she had servants wiping her ass This is at the end when they're robbing her blind And in the end she was so poor froo and ask the people she'd given gifts to if she could have them back-oh, but wait It could have just been the people working for her who decided to do it I didn't think of that
I just keep worrying that I'veMaybe we just should have bought it and turned it over right away But it's the real estate key to that whole block, because of the T shape There's a truck cos out of 860
Tuesday, October 25,1983 Went to that restaurant Santa Fe (cab 550) and Bianca was on time Then Calvin arrived with the interviewer from Playboy Playboy Jean Michel had his hand on Bianca's knee-she giggled Then the greatest moment came when I went to pay the bill and Bianca said Calvin had paid
Bianca said she wanted to go go to where they were shooting to where they were shooting Rhinestone Rhinestone on West Broadway, at one of the galleries So ent down there and found Steve Rubell Then Stallone caht over And I yapped about where was alleries So ent down there and found Steve Rubell Then Stallone caht over And I yapped about where was et at some Marvin Davis charity auction out in Colorado And they'd turned this art gallery into a bar for theIt was the first time I'd been to aelse coht the cab that was sitting behind me was part of the ot in and took it hoet at some Marvin Davis charity auction out in Colorado And they'd turned this art gallery into a bar for theIt was the first time I'd been to aelse coht the cab that was sitting behind me was part of the ot in and took it home (6)
Wednesday, October 26, 1983 Jean Michel was at the office all afternoon Paige cauess it's over between them because he wants to be free and easy and she wants to be involved
Thursday, October 27, 1983 Gael Love called up screa that the newsstand dealers wereout coot to their stands to sell and I told her I'd do whatever I wanted to do
The Richard Gere issue was I think our biggest seller yet, even though the interview inside was so bad So it doesn't matter, it's just if it's somebody they want to read about
Tuesday, November 1, 1983 Cabbed to meet Lidija (6) A German kid was at 860 and said he'd been to that bar Cowboys the night before and that the AIDS scare is over, that ”the mood is back” And Robert Hayes's boyfriend who has it is in town staying with hi else happens when they do
And now Jean Michel has this blonde WASP girl that he's fucking I think he hates all white wooes out with no clothes on and see-through dresses and then she coreat red scarf that I got at a fashi+on show, so that's the end of that And it was finally the right red
Thursday, November 3, 1983 Brooke Hayward called and wants to do an intervieith ave Mick the big advance for And she got tough with ht if she's like that already alreadyoh, she's no good, she can't do anything I did likeoh, she's no good, she can't do anything I did like Haywire Haywire, but she's a one-book girl And anyway, I hate her because I keep on reot me in all this IRS trouble because they're the ones that askedclever, so I got that bright idea to do a green face of Nixon with ”Vote McGovern” under it And that's when the IRS got so interested in me
Walked to the new offices on 33rd Street and picked up a phone and made my first phone call from there I was there to scout corners where we could store props It's filled up already and I haven't evento look so bad, too I want to take pictures of the clutter, butjust looks neat because I don't get the bigger picture of the big mess that the little areas are all part of stuff in yet Andto look so bad, too I want to take pictures of the clutter, butjust looks neat because I don't get the bigger picture of the big mess that the little areas are all part of
Robyn decided to leave his job to go work for the Tower Gallery I don't think it'll last, though He wants to be an artist and he feels that's closer
Tuesday, Noveht, ood It was estimated at 70,000-90,000 But Thomas As