Part 44 (1/2)

Gael's been doing double work since Robert Hayes has been out And the kids say that they think it's o over to see hi ti And three weeks is a long time to have a cold, isn't it?

Friday, April 13, 1984 We photographed the street people in front of the Public Library and it was fun One e (2) and then people were interviewing et photo releases, but I think I'll start carrying some with me every day Worked till 7:00 7:00 Then had to meet Jon, dinner at Woods (80) Then ran up to see Friday the 13th Friday the 13th on 86th Street (cab 3) and it was the most peculiar mix of a crowd-rich preppie kids and black kids and the whole theater was a constant screa up and down It was the weirdest experience ever And the ruesome I want to do a movie called on 86th Street (cab 3) and it was the most peculiar mix of a crowd-rich preppie kids and black kids and the whole theater was a constant screa up and down It was the weirdest experience ever And the ruesome I want to do a movie called Stalk the City Stalk the City where there's a murder a minute This movie opened in 1,500 theaters It's where there's a murder a hs) (laughs) a Paramount picture a Paramount picture

Sunday, April 15,1984 It was aaround so that wasn't too peaceful I stayed horeat People sleeping and fires and murders and sex and violence I want to do these kinds of pictures so ure I can just do setups-use plants in my pictures: I want to throw Benjamin in front of cars

Monday, April 16, 1984 Jean Michel was at the office, he brought his lunch and he was on the floor painting and not talking ht and so that was his bedtime Rupert came by and told me about the show at PS 1 where they created a replica of the old 47th Street Factory They had a silver roo around

And Robert Hayes is now in the hospital with pneumonia But I don't think he has what he's afraid he has I think he's just run-down and scared because that's what Cisco has I mean, I don't think you can catch it that easily

I did a Dog painting in five minutes at five of 6:00 I had a picture and I used the tracing e onto the wall and I put the paper where the ie is and I trace I drew it first and then I painted it like Jean Michel I think those paintings we're doing together are better when you can't tell who did which parts

Then the streets were deserted and we finally figured out it was Passover Dropped Benjamin (7)

Tuesday, April 17, 1984 It was a beautiful day Took pictures of the street people, of about eight artists ere doing portraits of people on the street And there was a black ventriloquist with a crowd around hiet the picture but the dummy saw me and yelled n autographs Took pictures of a couple of preachers, too

Stopped at a japanese place just to get solish but she wantedin japan (75) We had drinks, my first time in weeks, so that made life more bearable And called John Reinhold The 860 office said that Jean Michel aiting there, but I went to the new office and since I was high I terrorized everybody

Walked down to 860 and as we passed the new chic food place on 23rd Street a couple of black truck drivers yelled, ”Hey faggots!” so that got me down Especially because truck drivers are usually the ones who're cheerful and recognize ots themselves

Got to the office and called Jean Michel and he ca that I did, and I don't know if it got better or not

Dropped Benjamin (6) Glued myself, and cabbed to a dinner at Club A (4) I was at a heavy-duty table next to Diane Von Furstenberg who's having Michael Graves do her new store that's next to Vieille Russie And I told her not to count on a May opening, I told her how long it took Michael Graves to do John Reinhold's apartment and I said he'd probably take her little store and divide it into fifteen rooot scared And she talked about a party she was giving for Michael Graves, but she didn't invite me

Wednesday, April 18, 1984 I'm just on the phone with Christopher Robert Hayes is in intensive care, hisfor weeks and pneuo just like that Before he went into the hospital he was home for weeks, he said froh, and I asked Gael why he had round little bandages on, and she said he'd just had moles removed, and that sounded reasonable

Then there was a lunch at the office for Charles Jourdan shoes (cab 6) Jay ca, he's in love with our fashi+on editor, Kate Harrington And I said I thought she was going with John Sykes of MTV, and Jay said, ”Listen, she broke up with hiet into that that Kate has eyes for everyone She's so bubbly, so pretty Let's hope Jay stays in this good mood And Jean Michel was after Kate, too-she styled an Interview Interview shoot of him and de Antonio in Armani clothes and he left five joints for her shoot of him and de Antonio in Armani clothes and he left five joints for her

Victor called a couple of tierous and he alwaysat the Barbizon now, he said Halston's changing the locks He thinks Victor's stealing his Peretti candlesticks, but actually he just borrowed theave me two at Christmas, but that ith Halston there and it was only on the condition that Halston could get ive them back But Tiffany does does have more of them-I checked have more of them-I checked

Sunday, April 22, 1984-New Hampshi+re-New York I was up in New Hampshi+re just over the Massachusetts border in Hampton Beach with Jon's old friend Katy Dobbs, near where Jon's family has a beach house Katy talks a s easier It was so beautiful up there, I want to get a house there, too It's like Montauk On the ocean But they've put in bigger s so the whole view is aAnd they're winterizing the houses up there And it was too hard to put the curtains down so I left the really early I was reading the Ned Rorem diaries while I was up there From the sixties to '71 He h- he was back in the elegant forties and fifties still He puts h- he was back in the elegant forties and fifties still He puts uess

It was Easter and ent to see a friend of Katy's Fred, her boyfriend who's on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel, was in Tennessee for a whistling contest He's so talented and cute They call him ”Andy” because he looked likehow old I actually am, now they call hireot 500 a day That's not remlins are forty ot up at 4:30 to go, but I couldn't go I didn't want to go because I would feel too peculiar in a church where theyway, I cross the Orthodox way And they would be looking

Then when they came back we took a ride and then went to Jon's family's house for lunch They had about ten people Lunch was outside They have Christmas-tree kind of trees The twin brothers, Jon and Jay, were both wearing bright green pants They're all macho but they like to freak for the weekend The brother just broke up with a beautiful model who lives in New York who I met once He's in his father's business Insurance He just bought a house of his own up there

I haven't heard anything about Robert Hayes

Ned Rorem met Anais Nin just so he could be in her diary and she could be in his And I want to do that, too-I want to find somebody else who does a diary noe can be in each other's And also in thethe Easter Bunny caet a ride to Boston and get the shuttle to New York (tickets 171, azines and newspapers 5)

Monday, April 23, 1984 There was an earthquake Sunday night at 8:40 in New York And we had one last year, too It's really scary I thought Manhattan was built on the stuff that wouldn't have it

So oing to church on Easter And I was supposed to go on Monday, but then I went to Seaman Schepps instead To look at a bracelet Benjamin and I wandered around in the rain and the Interviews Intervieays look so ahen they get wet always look so ahen they get wet

I still have a pain in ed my appointments with Dr Linda Li to Tuesday so I won't have that and shi+atsu on the saone to Doc cox yet about the pain because I', but if it's not, I'oner

Cabbed don (7) Called Jean Michel and he came up and ordered Chinese food fro wanted ot shi+pped out, because he said I influenced hi on canvas now So we ate Chinese food and things from Pie in the Sky

Victor called and invited me to a small birthday party for Halston's niece, and it's Halston's birthday, too

And Robert Hayes is a little better, his teot dressed, then (laughs) (laughs) crashed a dinner It was for shi+rley MacLaine and I crashed a dinner It was for shi+rley MacLaine and I thought thought I was invited but it turns out I wasn't I id call and she said, ”cocktails at 7:30 and dinner at 8:30” So when I got to the Liht at 9:00 (cab 6) the doorman said, ”Oh my, you're awfully early, aren't you?” And I said, ”But I'm invited to dinner,” and he said, ”Oh, oh, sorry” And then ent in and dinner was just starting The guy said, ”Excuse ,” and then he caht” So I still didn't knoas crashi+ng But Ithe idea, because it was I was invited but it turns out I wasn't I id call and she said, ”cocktails at 7:30 and dinner at 8:30” So when I got to the Liht at 9:00 (cab 6) the doorman said, ”Oh my, you're awfully early, aren't you?” And I said, ”But I'm invited to dinner,” and he said, ”Oh, oh, sorry” And then ent in and dinner was just starting The guy said, ”Excuse ,” and then he caht” So I still didn't knoas crashi+ng But Ithe idea, because it was really really inti was there and later on Iris Love and Liz Smith came in The theme of the party hite” and Liz was in a white tuxedo and Iris talked to s because that's all we have in common, and I just had a white turtleneck on but everybody else was in white tuxedos And the food was really good Exotic A vegetable that I never saw before that looked like crinkled-up green beans And soave speeches I was the only one who didn't give a speech inti was there and later on Iris Love and Liz Smith came in The theme of the party hite” and Liz was in a white tuxedo and Iris talked to s because that's all we have in common, and I just had a white turtleneck on but everybody else was in white tuxedos And the food was really good Exotic A vegetable that I never saw before that looked like crinkled-up green beans And soave speeches I was the only one who didn't give a speech

And her daughter was sort of pretty, shi+rley's, she looks like Penelope Tree sort of, and she gave shi+rley a kiss on the lips And Bella got up and ot up and then a three-tier wedding cake caave her dramatic speech And then there was coconut ice cream And shi+rley ca and said, ”hello there, Andy” Then finally it was tio to Halston's

Cabbed up to 63rd Street (8) Halston's niece is really pretty now And Halston handed me a piece of paper in the shape of a boat and I was so thrilled, I kneas the rent check for 40,000 So that ifts with me so I wrote an IOU to Halston and Victor and the niece ”IOU One Art” Liza said that Mark's only doing his artwork now, that he's stopped producing plays and now he's just working at his studio on Prince Street So I guess hean affair down there She said he's almost ready to have a show

So anyway I went home and I opened up the paper boat and instead of a check, it was just nothing-like ”Happy Birthday” or so It wasn't a check and it should have been a check All done up like a boat It should've been a check

Tuesday, April 24, 1984 I had an early appointment with Dr Linda Li (cab 450) This is all to keep myself beautiful for business Linda Li with her secret powers, it's all too crazy And I can see why these Chinese women make out It's all sex She puts her hand on her cunt and pokes h to the other side, and throws my whole body around She said she's never dropped a patient, but I could've been the first She has control over your body She's not bad-looking So I was there for a half-hour being tossed around Then phone calls (50)

Jay's still cheerful, so I guess his affair with Kate is still okay I went over to Yanna's for further beautification I went past the cops at the Police Acadeirl cops are cute, they're not like dykes now

Wednesday, April 25, 1984 The Kennedy kid, David, was the big headline He's dead, and they put out an extra edition and they were screa newspapers fast He was the one that everyone thought -he didn't have those teeth And this e on for fifteenhe screaraphs now And Count Basie was on for half an hour because he died

Monday, April 30, 1984 Victor ca Jean Michel why he's hanging around with ether to Victor's to look at sos that I did yesterday

Then Jean Michel called uess he's nervous Sent out for lunch (4425) And the gossip is that Julian Schnabel left Mary Boone for Pace because they gave hioodaround for a mover to help us move completely out of 860 and up to the new place

Oh and in Ned Rore so terribly in love with hie anonymously, let her see how it feels to be put down in print I think I will

Tuesday, May 1, 1984 Got up early Benjamin picked me up and ent to the Calvin Klein fashi+on show We were late, but they'd saved my seat up front (cab 6) Nan Kempner didn't say hello, probably because she didn't invite uess she was embarrassed But maybe it was my fault, because when you're late you rush in and you don't knoho to look at first because everybody's there, so you're aard And Calvin's stuff was like Perry Ellis with touches of YSL I guess Marina Schiano puts in her two cents The colors were all soreys

It was a beautiful day, and I wanted to get out of the office but never did Jean Michel came by and orked Went to the Coe Kerr Gallery for the Ja Wick, and talked to Ted Kennedy, Jr Jean Kennedy S Jamie invited me down to the far

Cabbed to the Ritz (4) with Jon, ent in to see the Stephen Sprouse fashi+on show It was early but it was one, so I took Charivari's Teri Toye the transvestite was in the show And everybody was saying it was like the sixties The shoas great, really the fashi+on is so good again with these disco kids, they have a real look Like the boys with the straight cut over one eye So extreme now

Wednesday, May 2, 1984 It looked pretty out but then it was sort of windy Was picked up by Benjahways and byith our Interviews Interviews

And John Reinhold called and said he was leaving town on a trip and wanted to tear a dollar in half like we do and then when he coether and spend it

And Woody Allen won his suit against the look-alike just like Jackie Onassis did against hers So now the poor Woody Allen look-alike can't work in cohs) he beca he couldn't pose for ads Isn't that so? But I mean, why can't they just put ”Model Joe Schht for so? But I mean, why can't they just put ”Model Joe Schmo” (cabs 3, 5)

And I just hate the Truht my Trump Tower portraits And I also hate thely Hyatt Hotel just back up traffic so badly around Grand Central now and it takesreally well, he's recovering, it was double pneu scene with Gael, told her that he'd been doing too et run-down and that he'll never do it again and that he was going to write me a letter So it was double pneumonia, not AIDS

Jean Michel was there but he was nervous about his show and I had to push his hand around the canvas For the first ti slow (cab 7)

Then went hoave Jon and me our shi+atsu treatments And my pain went away Watched Dynasty Dynasty, and it was the first tiood What a canes and out-caviars her-”This chane is 'burned' It's been frozen at one point”

I'ging more home Just white walls and a clean floor, that's all I want The only chic thing is to have nothing I ? It's really so stupid anything? It's really so stupid