Part 44 (2/2)

Thursday, May 3, 1984 Mary Richardson called and said that the only thing that the Kennedy kid who OD'd-David -had on the wall in his apartave him-I don't remember if I drew a cock or just hearts

Everybody at Interview Intervieas thrilled that Robert's gotten better I'hter and younger-looking than ever was thrilled that Robert's gotten better I'hter and younger-looking than ever

Jean Michel called and wanted us to come down to the Mary Boone Gallery to look at his show, so I said ould So I took Jay and Benjareat (cab 5) Jean Michel was very nervous He ith a pretty Korean girl who's the secretary of Larry Gagosian, his gallery person in LA But he'll just break her heart All these pretty girls go for hi hands Then Jean Michel wanted to go to dinner, so we decided to go down to Odeon because that e'd be close to the Area party for Vincent Spano that Vic Ra (cab 6) And Robert Mapplethorpe was there and so with the way he looks now He's either lost his looks or he's sick (dinner 280)

Area was close by but we took cabs because it was raining (cab 3) And the only big draas that Matt Dillon and Vincent Spano were going to be there, and Benja for you,” but he said, ”Andy who?” And then later I did talk to hiirls He really has to get a good movie soon, he needs one badly

Saturday, May 5, 1984 It was beautiful and sunny, did a lot of work Called Jean Michel and he said he'd come up He came and rolled some joints He was really nervous, I could tell, about his show opening later on at Mary Boone's Then he wanted a new outfit and ent to this store where he always buys his clothes He had bo We alking and got to Washi+ngton Square Park where I first raffiti and painting T-shi+rts That area brought back bad h, it really was

Monday, May 7, 1984 Jonathan Scull just called to say that the lunch was cancelled at the Whitney that was going to be for hismy portrait of her to the in two places What was she doing on a ladder? And I saw her the other alking on 66th Street, going along, talking to herself, swinging her hanky

So went to the office and the office was busy Bruno was there and Jean Michel was hiding our work fro Bruno has the ones that Jean Michel and I and Clemente did, but he doesn't know about these that're just the two of us

Bob Colacello called about the party that Sao's giving for his birthday, and Brigid talked to hiid's still very friendly with him I'm invited

Tuesday, May 8, 1984 Went to pick up Benjamin and we took Interviews Interviews and went over to Christie's and the girl there was nice, she showed us the show And there's a big fake of ned it I don't knohy I ever did But it was Peter Gidal's and he'd done that book on ned it for hiether in a print, I don't think No, my Jackies were all separate and went over to Christie's and the girl there was nice, she showed us the show And there's a big fake of ned it I don't knohy I ever did But it was Peter Gidal's and he'd done that book on ned it for hiether in a print, I don't think No, my Jackies were all separate

And then we left there and passed Regine's and Benja hello and I didn't recognize him He's so suntanned And Benjamin knew I did his portrait so he pokedon TV thisHe looks a lot better now than he did then-he must have had a lot done

Jean Michel came up and was so paranoid, he sets paranoid Then he calledat auction went for 19,000 I betProbably My Liz Probably 10,000 I can just see it So his went for 19,000 And there were all these parties for the Museum of Modern Art and I was invited to all of theo to any of them Dropped Benjamin (650) Woods for dinner with Jon (100)

Wednesday, May 9, 1984 Got up early but Benja day at 860, so I wandered around alone, and it's hard, I'uard So I just fended people off by giving theot an invitation to a second Jackie Curtis wedding He'sit And Jackie's picture is so air-brushed he looks fifteen Blond hair and blue eyes

The English advertising guy, Saatchi, ants to buy the Marilyn wanted to pay for it over four years or soet uys at the new building

Oh, and Ruth Ansel called and said that Marvin Israel died, but I didn't accept the call because I didn't want to accept that he died He had a heart attack on Monday, in Texas, doing so with Avedon He was the art director of Harper's Bazaar Harper's Bazaar, I worked for him once

Thursday, May 10, 1984 I went to Sotheby's to see how s Fred had been there bidding on theot them It's all dealers who put the stuff in and bid it up It's their business All the people who have the work just bid it up Ran into Jed looking at Art Deco

Friday, May 11, 1984 I got an invitation to a show of silkscreen portraits of Francesco Scavullo photographs-done in silkscreen by Rupert Smith! And Fred says I shouldn't yell at Rupert but I bet they look just likeor he would have toldthis, I hope you don't mind”

Sunday, May 13, 1984 homas Ammann called and ent down to look at the work of the artist named Fischl who Vanity Fair Vanity Fair just did a story on He paints the things like a girl douching with another girl looking on with the pubic hair showing, and a monkey and a baby-sort of copies of Balthus just did a story on He paints the things like a girl douching with another girl looking on with the pubic hair showing, and a monkey and a baby-sort of copies of Balthus

Monday, May 14, 1984 I went over to Dr Linda Li's and she did all the right spots and o away But then in the Enquirer Enquirer I read the way you can press and do it yourself, so I don't know, and then at the end of the article they say, ”But call your physician” I read the way you can press and do it yourself, so I don't know, and then at the end of the article they say, ”But call your physician”

Wednesday, May 16, 1984 I' Rupert the cold shoulder I mean, everybody who's seen that Scavullo show he did said-well I mean, he's colored the eyes and lips and done double portraits, everything just like e for Keith Haring's party and there were kids outside selling tickets to it, although it was a free party John sex performed Madonna didn't start until so late that I only heard the beginning And that kid Bobby who lives with Madonna was there, the one I got the job for in Paul'soperation-he had his hospital bracelet on-but he snuck out for (laughs) (laughs) this party And all these kids earing Stephen Sprouse outfits, I don't knohere they get the money Keith's Juan was in Day-Glo and it was like the sixties And they have a phrase that's like ”Mark n their stuff Maybe it this party And all these kids earing Stephen Sprouse outfits, I don't knohere they get the money Keith's Juan was in Day-Glo and it was like the sixties And they have a phrase that's like ”Mark n their stuff Maybe it is is ”Markshockeroo of the day e're all at the office and it's really busy and in walks my brother who I haven't seen in twenty years Paul He came up to buy a place for his son Jairlfriend James is the artist that I wouldn't help when he came to New York He wanted to work for Interview Interview and I told hi the apart hiot a Salvador Dali irlfriend was bubbly and I told hi the apart hiot a Salvador Dali irlfriend was bubbly

And Brigid was loving it all Plus I'd just gotten a letter fro a divorce and the wife is trying to take away the business that ave him They have two kids It's a junk business You knohat I et scrap and electronics old out of it-you old floats They live in Pittsburgh And they're buying up the black neighborhoods on the North Side

And ood talker He's a big gaht a farhao everywhere and take pictures all day And he used to be a hat designer, but he went into photography when hats went out in like '64 I met him around Serendipity When hats went out his whole life disappeared And now he takes these photographs all day, I see hi people co out of Grand Central He's so meek and skinny, and he rides his bike, and you never see him eat or drink at these parties

Cabbed toout They werestuff up to 33rd Street all day Worked all afternoon Rupert came up and now he's meeker Went to meet Jon at East-West for dinner (cab 10)

Friday, May 18, 1984 Went with Benjaht the new Olympus camera that Chris told me about (410) where you can take 5,000 pictures on the battery and then it has to clear for a month They have the old Polaroid , and I should buy the on an ”Andy and Edie” show-Ann Magnuson's playing Edie

My cousins from Butler ca to New York, so I invited them She's nice I don't mind her They stayed all afternoon

Monday, May 21, 1984 Peter Beard has the greatest commercial on TV now It's for Kodak He's on the outside of a helicopter taking pictures He's got a new agent

Went to a black-tie dinner at Mortiiven by Florence Grinda And Barbara and her Polish boyfriend were having a fight that I was in thehe said she contradicted And I don't knohy And he's ended up buying a house out in Connecticut right next to Peter Brant He plays polo like Peter He has a good-looking face, like an old fairy would be good-looking like this, and he's the Joe Allen type-short and stocky with grey-black hair and I think capped teeth He knows all the right people And everybody says he bought his title, he's a Polish baron or so

I had invited Jean Michel as ht it was a girl's name Richard Gere's Silvinha ave s, and Silvinha did, too

I'ht now I don't knohat else you can do to these videos to make them different They're all the saround e and all those kids used to make

Tuesday, May 22, 1984 Benja and we dished on the phone for a while and then he came up I called the elevator man and told him about a spark I saw but he said the spark's always there, that it happens all the tio to the Doc's at 3:00 I couldn't eat because I was going to have tests But andered around and I had a lot of energy because of the vitamins

Jean Michel ca review in the Voice Voice They called hi artist on the scene And at least they didn'taround withdid

I opened up one of the boxes in the back that's being moved and it had 16mm rolls of film and letters from Ray Johnson the artist and I think my bloodstained clothes from when I was shot

I realized that the reason Tony Shafrazi hasn't gotten even one of the artists in his gallery into MOMA is because Tony's the person who defaced Picasso's ”Guernica” But that's not fair Keith Haring isn't at MOMA And they just have one one thing of mine, the little Marilyn I just hate that That bothersof mine, the little Marilyn I just hate that That bothers me

Then in the afternoon I went to Doc cox's (cab 7) and I protested over the thermometer that they used, because it just sits there in water and everybody uses it, it's not right And Rose they just throw these tests out Bubbles was tan And they have a new heart machine so now I don't have to run up and down the stairs in the hallway (laughs) (laughs) to getimprovement And Freddy won't take your blood if she doesn't know you to getimprovement And Freddy won't take your blood if she doesn't know you

We went to e and Benjamin (4) And after dinner (120) at Hisae and drinks at Jezebel's (30) ent over to Stuart Pivar's because he was having people over and I wanted to learn about art I brought a sht, three inches, and Stuart said it was a piece of junk, so tonment

And did I tell the Diary that Benjahter who's married to Anton Perrich who did all those videos and rented our old floor at 33 Union Square West emachine and I was so jealous My dream To have a machine that could paint while you're away But they said he had to be there while it painted because (laughs) (laughs) it clogs up Isn't that funny? it clogs up Isn't that funny?

Wednesday, May 23, 1984 I asked how Robert Hayes was and they said he's still in the hospital

Benjao to the Karl Lagerfeld dinner at the Museuht into the elevator with Karl, eet Wearing lipstick with his ponytail My dinner partner was Fran Lebowitz She was fun She doesn't drink or eat dessert She s out of that apartuess she lost the case She sublet it and had Jed do all that work but she never had any signed agreement with the person And I think Jed really warned her but she didn't listen So now she's ie Hall She earing black tie but without the tie

I put a laot blood on my pocket Dinner was over at 10:30

Then Jean Michel aiting down at Odeon (phone 90, cab 10) And the Fischl guy ca the house, he had the TV show College Bowl Chae Bowl Championshi+ps on, and I was the answer to a question and that the girl froot it in a second It was, ”Who painted Marilyn Monroe?” And I saw the dyke froirl froot it in a second It was, ”Who painted Marilyn Monroe?” And I saw the dyke fro an original Dollar Sign, and then in the sauy write the worst review of azine who n, and then in the sauy write the worst review of azine

Then ent over to Area and the theirlfriend Suzanne was there, the tiny makeup artist And Shawn Hausman, one of the owners-he's Diane Varsi's son-was on a ladder, I thought it was part of the exhibit but he was fixing a fuse Shawn told me that Eric Goode told hioosebuuess is having a fling with Mick Flick I guess that's how these girls get their baubles-as thank-yous after a big night

Thursday, May 24, 1984 Jay and the creereI opened a Ti it back and start looking through it Like I found soments in one and then you just wonder where the rest of the filave the with theh the theoodblack screa people Worked till 7:00 Jill Fuller picked uy perform at the Beacon Theater

And then afterwards there was a dinner that Lorne Michaels was giving at Cafe Luxe, so ent over there Henry Geldzahler and Clemente were there and I felt bad because Jean Michel and I are doing the coood, whereas the ones ere doing with hiive Cle with them He's really sweet

And Steve Martin caht that he was going with Bernadette Peters but he ith this new girl and I didn't knoho she was He has such a good body, and he's really attractive Someone started to introduce us and he said no, that we'd met already, that they didn't have to He told me he'd had a Marlon Brando of mine for two days but then had to return it because it didn't go with his place, it didn't fit The Jane Bonhairl with him ”Vicky” and then it clicked who she was! It was Vicky Vanini, who used to be married to Peppo Vanini, and now she's the actress Victoria Tennant! And here I'd been looking at her across the table and not recognizing her for an hour No wonder people think I'an to blab and that was fun

Friday, May 25, 1984 I called and screamed about that picture of Jean Michel in the Dolly Parton issue because it was so awful-cut in that arty way And when I screamed Gael said Fred had done it, so I called and screa that he'd done especially personally

Robert Hayes is still in the hospital John Reinhold called him but Robert's mother wouldn't let John talk to him He still had a temperature His family's been here for one and a half uess Blue Cross pays for 80 percent, but still It must be like 500 a day