Part 43 (1/2)
Tuesday, January 31, 1984 Dr Karen Burke arrived, she thinks she knohat's id scratch, she thinks it's the cats So she waited until Brigid went hoid what if it turned out the cats had soet rid of thes
Saturday, February 4, 1984 Did a personal errand with Jon, but hepersonal about him in the Diary [Jon Gould was admitted to New York Hospital with pneumonia on February 4 [Jon Gould was admitted to New York Hospital with pneumonia on February 4, 1984, and released on February 22 He was readain on March and released on February 22 He was readain on March 7 7 On that day Andy instructed his housekeepers Nena and Aurora: ”From now on, wash Jon's dishes and clothes separate from mine”] On that day Andy instructed his housekeepers Nena and Aurora: ”From now on, wash Jon's dishes and clothes separate from mine”]
Monday, February 6, 1984 Was picked up by Benjamin and it was a beautiful day This was the first of ue Vogue I', 33rd and Madison (cab 450), and Andre Leon Talley was styling the shoots and had told the Guardian Angels to meet us there and the only rooraph them in was the basement
They were all nice kids The leader, Curtis, and his ere there and they're good-looking And I guess they're still in trouble because they're accused of staging an incident and I wouldn't be surprised if they did because they are are theatrical Iabout the about them is so beautiful
I went hooo with that searching look and asking the same old questions: ”How old were you when you realized you had sex?”
Tuesday, February 7, 1984 It was so exciting being at the new building with George the super and going to the roo ballroo put in and it looks so pretty Stayed there about an hour
Jean Michel called froe is back here now and she's in seventh heaven, overfucked, I guess And now he's flying this other girl out there Paige was stupid and paid her oay-she insisted because that's the way she is-and now he's paying for this other girl He's paying 1,000 a week for this house He owes us three et Bruno to pay
Talked to Paul Morrissey a few tiain, he was sort of nore into a tuxedo and invited Benjaether and then cabbed to Halston's (3) because he'd invited o in his limousine
So we took the liht as Michael Jackson was getting an award in the center hallway And he talked and talked, it was a new personality
The crowds of kids were kept on the opposite side of the street e came in, that's hoas set up And there was nobody really there Just everybody you already knew, but nobody Just all the record-business people but in black tie Oh, and Bob Colacello was there and we finally made up Because I was drunk I'd had one drink at Halston's, and I told Bob how great his Larry Flynt article in Vanity Fair Vanity Fair was and he was thrilled I liked it was and he was thrilled I liked it
Oh and the best person at the party who I just love is Truman's niece who noorks for Interview Interview as the stylist, Kate Harrington, isn't that the greatest nahtly should have looked like And I just loved her because whatever ive theood-she styled the Goldie Hawn cover as the stylist, Kate Harrington, isn't that the greatest nahtly should have looked like And I just loved her because whatever ive theood-she styled the Goldie Hawn cover
Monday, February 13, 1984 Got up in the ue ahead of o don early toBenjarees don early toBenjarees
Got there (cab 5) and Benjareat, very fashi+onable, and I can really see why he gets so ot Lidija in the pictures, too, so it's all nobodies and the French will think they're so because the somebodies are everywhere, you're sick of them
Wednesday, February 15, 1984 Maura came by and said that she takes ho for The Ne The Ne at NBC, and that she's saving herher oing to fold fast Her brother ith her and he's a sculptor who does things with ping-pong balls for eyes, so you can iine He went to Harvard He doesn't use the na to fold fast Her brother ith her and he's a sculptor who does things with ping-pong balls for eyes, so you can iine He went to Harvard He doesn't use the name Moynihan
Friday, February 17, 1984 The W W expose on h All the old ladies will be after me, it made me seem so rich And I read expose on h All the old ladies will be after me, it made me seem so rich And I read GQ GQ and Calvin with these new ads, the perfu to be in the billions and Calvin with these new ads, the perfu to be in the billions
And Brigid, she was knitting Just Mada with you, don't look in a lass of wine and she'll tell you: 'Your wig's on crooked”
Thursday, February 23, 1984 I was picked up by Benjamin and ent out with Interviews Interviews, but I really don't like passing out this Jane Fonda issue because I just don't like the cover, it doesn't look like her and there's no black in it The one that's coh
Oh, and I ran into Bob Colacello And he asked one co-op and he said no, that it went condo
Well Jean Michel is co to Sweden on the second Just for a few days Our old friend froirls lined up waiting for him over there
Saturday, February 15, 1984 Bianca toldan intervieith Robert Wilson for Vanity Fair Vanity Fair and I said how could she do that and not for and I said how could she do that and not for Interview Interview, and she said ould Interview Interview have sent her for three weeks to japan and paid her hotel bill That enius” I did used to think he was good, too, but then that last ti It's like artists who have sent her for three weeks to japan and paid her hotel bill That enius” I did used to think he was good, too, but then that last ti It's like artists who do do things-well I don't know, ory-but they're showing theyou Rauschenberg's good, though He'll put on his ice skates in a neay fit into that category-but they're showing theyou Rauschenberg's good, though He'll put on his ice skates in a neay
Monday, February 27, 1984 I was looking at the Christie's stuff, the jewelry In every auction they have soave theuess they like to have a naether in one auction it would have just been eot another letter froovernment about permission to drill holes in pennies They'd told hi” So the govern you could drill holes in them but you couldn't deface them This is so I can make more of the penny belts like the one I made for Cornelia
Was picked up by John and Kimiko and went to the Met and the opera was Tannhauser Tannhauser by Wagner Boring There are no great singers I guess all the strong singers go into rock and roll now The opera audience is still filled with boys with older ner Boring There are no great singers I guess all the strong singers go into rock and roll now The opera audience is still filled with boys with older s in life
I was looking at soazine and there was an intervieith Joe Dallesandro, done right before he did The Cotton Club The Cotton Club-the Lucky Luciano role that PH actually got hi, ”Oh, I never never hung around with those Factory people, they weren'taround with those Factory people, they weren't my friends” friends”
Wednesday, February 29, 1984 Time sent down the picture of Michael Jackson and I was set to do the cover, but then stupid Hart upset Mondale in the New Hampshi+re primary, so they dropped the Michael cover They said maybe they'd do it another week, but I doubt it Maybe that was just a way of getting out of my price Oh, but they sent down the picture of Michael Jackson and I was set to do the cover, but then stupid Hart upset Mondale in the New Hampshi+re primary, so they dropped the Michael cover They said maybe they'd do it another week, but I doubt it Maybe that was just a way of getting out of uess a news uess
Then Liza had invited es they'd made in The Rink The Rink and then watch the perfor around the stage door for weeks with her father trying to get Liza to watch her perforht- or nine-year-old girl who'd been hanging around the stage door for weeks with her father trying to get Liza to watch her perforirl, after weeks of pleading, was late And that ht there Then she ca hair and this beautiful face It was the Debra Winger look She was Jewish And she put on the Lizathat and we sort of sat there Her father was in the background The director was really sweet And then after she did that, Liza talked to the, ”What do you want fro, and she said, ”I want to be Liza Minnelli” And ”I want to further s like that And Liza asked her what she'd done, and she said that she'd done a TV cooosebumps It was memorable One of those real scenes, it was show business but real And it was like All About Eve All About Eve or so
Then we left there and Liza's new bodyguard is the hell's Angel I met once at the Cafe Central He has a hook hand
Thursday, March 1, 1984 Jay called in theand said the Michael Jackson Time Time cover was back on cover was back on
Friday, March 2, 1984 Mick and Jerry had their baby A girl A girl named Elizabeth Scarlett
And you know, it's so funny with all these protests now about Jane Fonda at the stores where she's trying to sell her exercise clothes I don't understand why it would start now Ibusiness and her exercise video is number one- Vietnam veterans complained but nobody listened But noith the clothes it's all these protests and they're effective because Saks cancelled But why haven't they been calling theaters all these years and saying, ”We'll bomb the theater if you show her arone after her You know? Because it's all of a sudden and just focused on this one area And Iher on the Interview Interview cover? Will that be an area that's just fine, like her videotapes where she's the ” us threatening letters? cover? Will that be an area that's just fine, like her videotapes where she's the ” us threatening letters?
Monday, March 5, 1984 I read the book about Mrs Chairman Mao called White Boned Des of her It was great, about how she went frouy wrote this stuff I don't know Iback to individual days in her childhood and re if she was happy or sad, I mean, they don't even knohat happened to her mother, let alone if she was unhappy on Tuesday in May 1937! The Mrs Mao book didn't have any pictures in it so now I have to find soreat, about how she went frouy wrote this stuff I don't know Iback to individual days in her childhood and re if she was happy or sad, I mean, they don't even knohat happened to her mother, let alone if she was unhappy on Tuesday in May 1937! The Mrs Mao book didn't have any pictures in it so now I have to find some
Tuesday, March 6, 1984 Worked on the Michael Jackson Time Time cover until 8:00 Then watched some terrible TV I saw Joan Collins in some old movie like cover until 8:00 Then watched some terrible TV I saw Joan Collins in some old ot the right part and she's so good It was all just finding the right part and she was so bad, and now she's got the right part and she's so good It was all just finding the right part
Wednesday, March 7, 1984 Ran into the lady whose portrait I just did, Mrs Tisch, and I ondering why she looked so familiar She said she loves the portraits but doesn't knoto call her
I finished the Michael Jackson cover I didn't like it but the office kids did Then the Time Time people came down to see it, about forty of the that it should increase newsstand sales ”by 400,” so I guess they do think about this Then later the people came down to see it, about forty of the that it should increase newsstand sales ”by 400,” so I guess they do think about this Then later the Ti to use it I think the yellow one And I told hiet buuy calledto use it I think the yellow one And I told hiet bumped on Saturday and he said he would
Friday, March 9, 1984 Ran into Adolfo Benjanize him And Adolfo said that he sees ht next to nized him
Vic Ra, so he's bringing Matt Dillon over for lunch on Tuesday So that's soain I'ot to be it Because it wouldn't be (laughs) (laughs)to direct That would be too easy, too good to be true He asked if Paul was around and I said yes, he's around, and he said that we'd just have thisthis way and then we could talk to Paul later about this project
Sunday, March 11, 1984 I went to church and did see Adolfo next to me, just like he'd told me
Monday, March 12, 1984 Tiet bu if he was going to get a sex-change operation and he said no The cover should have had ave them some in the style of the Fonda cover I did for caet bu if he was going to get a sex-change operation and he said no The cover should have had ave them some in the style of the Fonda cover I did for Time Time once, but they wanted once, but they wanted this this style style
Jean Michel caht a rent check which was a good surprise Vincent caet tickets to the Hard Rock Cafe, that place that Dan Aykroyd has so it Eddie Murphy was supposed to be there
And I didn't tell the Diary that Michael Sklar died, did I? When I stopped in at Jean's to look at a brooch this guy there who follows o he died It said he starred in Andy Warhol's Trash Trash and and L'Amour L'Aee, Michael didn't carry on He was a hard worker
Tuesday, March 13, 1984 Matt Dillon and Vic Ra to lunch Jean Michel came by-he wanted to meet Matt because Matt had mentioned Jean Michel's art in the interview he did with us
Matt arrived first And then Vic came and he didn't like the idea of Jean Michel because in the seventies-I re this in the papers-his apartraffiti artist Vic said he still hasn't gotten the paint off everything yet
And after two hours we still didn't knohy Vic had wanted to set up this lunch Then finally Matt started to say soround filot on St Mark's Place And he was talking about Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy and i on sort of an affected accent, like British or a little like Fred when he's Mrs Vreeland And Matt has the ear to be a very good actor Vic Ra in it, putting on sort of an affected accent, like British or a little like Fred when he's Mrs Vreeland And Matt has the ear to be a very good actor Vic Raht Coho put Paul and Jed and Ultra and everybody in the party scene I wasn't in it because I was in the hospital, it was in the suot shot who put Paul and Jed and Ultra and everybody in the party scene I wasn't in it because I was in the hospital, it was in the suot shot
When I left work it was snowing and raining out The dog had peed on my bed and I beat him up Amos
Wednesday, March 14, 1984 Ron Feldman caazine ads But he wants lama ads He doesn't want the coke one, he says ould buy it
Thursday, March 15, 1984 I was violently ill I had carrot juice and soot home yesterday I felt funny And then there was a dinner at Shezan for Egon Von Furstenberg and Mrs Egon, and so I had to decide whether I felt well enough to go go,and I went-an hour late-and I was seated next to Mrs Egon, but the second I set violently ill and had to leave But I kept it down And then I got hoht, so I hoped they would pick it up and take it away froht the flu fro from him