Part 45 (1/2)
Saturday, May 26, 1984 Got up early Jean Michel called a couple of tione to bed yet He wanted to go to the Jackie Curtis wedding so I got ether Cabbed to St Mark's Church on Second Avenue (9)
But the wedding was called off there because the priest was upset because Jackie had called the newspapers and done press, so he wouldn't do the wedding, and so it was moved to Mickey Ruskin's place at One University so ent over there Jackie's relatives would cos like, ”I'm Jackie's aunt from Toledo” And then Jackie arrived, so late as usual, and it's the strangest thing, she's still telling everybody that ere roo to think maybe she really does believe that Remember when he used to tell interviewers that ere roo joke? Well noonder did he believe it then, or did he start to believe it later, or did he just have a hallucination for a minute minute and it stuck? Anyway, for some reason he now really does believe it There were a couple of people there who looked like Valerie Solanis who ca a beaded cut-short dress and his teeth were so bad-looking The groo Czechoslovakian boy, maybe twenty-one or twenty-two, and maybe mentally retarded, I don't know He didn't open his e, and it was the Art Fair tiraphs and it stuck? Anyway, for some reason he now really does believe it There were a couple of people there who looked like Valerie Solanis who ca a beaded cut-short dress and his teeth were so bad-looking The groo Czechoslovakian boy, maybe twenty-one or twenty-two, and maybe mentally retarded, I don't know He didn't open his e, and it was the Art Fair tiraphs
Sunday, May 27, 1984 Went to church
John Reinhold picked me up and alked from 66th Street to 96th Street and back, and by that ti down to the Village or anywhere My bones were aching so I decided to stay in and ate half a waterood for you, that they wash out your kidneys And I still have the pain Doc cox thinks it ht be a kidney stone, he doesn't know It's like atooe instead of doing harder things should do repetitions of the same level more
Tuesday, May 29, 1984 Benjamin and I wandered and went into a japanese restaurant and called John Reinhold to ive us a table until he came Then when he caot o to Pearl's but then ent to Raga, and we go in and there's a ”hostess” who thinks she's so grand, and there's absolutely nobody in the place-eighteen erand airs, like a drag queen or so around with these sleeves And she takes a phone call and has us stand there waiting as if the phone call is more important So we ate, and it was really expensive for just as going to be a run-in-quick lunch (125, and I didn't tip ot o to Pearl's but then ent to Raga, and we go in and there's a ”hostess” who thinks she's so grand, and there's absolutely nobody in the place-eighteen erand airs, like a drag queen or so around with these sleeves And she takes a phone call and has us stand there waiting as if the phone call is more important So we ate, and it was really expensive for just as going to be a run-in-quick lunch (125, and I didn't tip much, either)
”Yes, we may may have a table for you”I mean, what are these people have a table for you”Iabout? Left there, cabbed to meet Lidija (6) about? Left there, cabbed to otten pizza but then didn't want it Then we painted an AfricanHe's better than I ah Worked till 6:30
Wednesday, May 30, 1984 Tina Choas having a lunch at Mr Chow's at 1:00 So ent over there (phone 80, newspapers andwas Jerry Hall She looked sort of voluptuous, and she had pictures of the baby who looks just like Mick And Jerry said tonext to you because you know, to open my own beauty salon/dress place, it would only cost a et all these dresses and do all kinds of beauty treative et the o out and do it on my own, so isn't it wonderful that I'h of the day-for a ive her money for
Thursday, May 31, 1984 Went over to see Victor's new apartment at the Barbizon This has a terrace and it's beautiful I guess about 20' X 20' but it costs 1,400 a week You can get a rooht Victor's almost an artist, I don't knohy he doesn't become one He saved every photo of everydisplay for Halston that he ever did
I was in pain fro on the contracts, we're selling a painting to try to get money to pay all these new kinds of bills we have with the new building I'm so sick and tired of it all
Went up to Dr Linda Li's and she did her stuff and the pain was still there but thisand said it was no good and she rejected me She raises your hand and puts the vitamins on you and she says that from how hard your hand coood or what you need Stayed there till 8:00
Oh, and did I say that I got this really serious letter froiven little Charlie Evans an interview for his high school paper and in it I said so to do with all the bad things that were said about hs) he writes me this totally serious letter about how it had been out of his hands and nothing to do with him Oh, and I noticed this ”quote” from me in he writes me this totally serious letter about how it had been out of his hands and nothing to do with him Oh, and I noticed this ”quote” fro ”perhaps,” and it looks so funny where they have”perhaps,” and it looks so funny I I don't say ”perhaps”- don't say ”perhaps”-George Pli to fake quotes from me they should know I'd say ” to fake quotes from me they should know I'd say ”maybe”
Sunday, June 3, 1984 Went to the eleven o'clock ets to the part of ”Peace, peace be with you,” and you have to shake hands with the people next to you I always leave before that Or I pretend to be praying I don't kno long they've done it because I went to the Greek Catholic church when I was young But there was a cute little boy dancing around, clapping his hands during the hy when Chita finally got her award and she didn't thank Liza I otten done without Liza And Chita didn't hter, either She thanked her otten done without Liza And Chita didn't hter, either She thanked her mother who she said hadn't seen it
Monday, June 4, 1984 I worked around the office, it got busy I had to shi+p off the Marilyn, so that was sort of upsetting To the Saatchi guy in England It'll help with e payood idea to sell it
Tuesday, June 5, 1984 Went to meet Benjamin at the jewelry auction at Sotheby's and the Sea that anted to pay like 1,000 for went for 21,000
There's a big fly in here and I' to open theto let it outthere's this black guy across the street with plastic bags going fro Could he really be a dry cleaner? One door just openedI'll wait to see if he cosbut if I pull the shade so the fly will stay out, then I won't be able to see outoh, here he co toward Park with it
Jon said there's a big shakeup today at Paraet rid of people
Poor Arthur Bell, the colue Voice died, and he had two ages died, and he had two ages The Voice The Voice gave forty-four and the gave forty-four and the Times Times said fifty-one said fifty-one
Wednesday, June 6, 1984 Rupert said that Rose heart
Oh and Keith Barish called and wanted me to do a walk-on in 9 Weeks 9 Weeks, which is with Mickey Rourke So he said 250 and then he went to 500 and then he went up to 2,000 but in the end we said no Should I do it? I don't knoas so exploited in Tootsie Tootsie They didn't even pay me a cent Oh it's not worth it, you have to sit around all day Or night I think it's a night scene
Thursday, June 7, 1984 Diane Lane was co to the office to be interviewed and so I had to meet Gael Love (phone 50, cab 5) I asked Gael about Robert Hayes and she said don't ask or she'd start to cry She said, ”After you've worked with soht and a half years ” And then I did ask and a tear started forht he had She said his sister came to see her and said there's ”always a chance”
Diane Lane came and she's beautiful and sweet, but she didn't have h-she feels that if she did a good job then it was a good movie She has to do so David King David and she doesn't want to cut her hair again, so she'll have to do the big love scenes with a wig And she said that whenever she didn't feel ”in the ave her a fatherly talk and said, ”There are no ain, so she'll have to do the big love scenes with a wig And she said that whenever she didn't feel ”in the ave her a fatherly talk and said, ”There are notoo analytical so I asked Diane, ”How's your sex life?” And she laughed and said I was just like Joan Rivers I said, ”Did you ever sleep with Warren Beatty?” And then she caone out with him and that he'd sat her on his knee and told her not to be afraid of sex, gave her ”fatherly advice” and everything She said that she was chaperoned by her father gone out with him and that he'd sat her on his knee and told her not to be afraid of sex, gave her ”fatherly advice” and everything She said that she was chaperoned by her father
Yoko Ono's having a sale at Sotheby's but it's all junk-Art Deco jewelry she's had lying around and, you know (laughs) (laughs), toilet paper that John touched
Friday, June 8, 1984 Lunch at 860 was for the dean froie-Mellon whose suit smelled ofor give ive me a chair, and this whole other stuff about scholarshi+ps for young kids, I don't know It was (laughs) (laughs) the ht years He wantsschool but then didn't make it as an actor and went back there and became a dean the ht years He wantsschool but then didn't make it as an actor and went back there and beca at ho and the TV all at the same time And we found out why the house is so hot-the heat's heat's been co this heat wave!
I talked to Rupert and he went to another doctor who said his heart isn't leaking, that there was nothing wrong with it
And I just can't face calling Robert Hayes I just can't Look, I called Henry Post and we talked and then he was dead and I don't knohat it means, it's too abstract I just can't do it And I was never really friends too much with him anyway I mean, it would be different if it were Christopher or so
PH called in the afternoon and said it looks like we'll be doing our book on parties for Crown, half pictures, half text
Sunday, June 17, 1984 Was going to go to 860 but they werea lot of stuff to 33rd Street, so went there instead And it was fun I didn't realize that our part is a lot bigger than Interview's Interview's part part Interview Interview is actually only a s with a lot of places I didn't even know about is actually only a s with a lot of places I didn't even know about
Went ho they did on me on MTV They showed Heat Heat and a little of and a little of Kiss Kiss Don Munroe talked and they had clips of the ”hello Again” video we did for the Cars And I talked and I was okay
I tried sleeping without a Valium but the wine I'd drunk at dinner drovefor me
Saturday, June 23, 1984 It was a sad day at 860 because the furniture was being packed up and shi+pped out We have the co us and they really all are Jewish boys One blond one was so cute but he's going back to Israel They all wanted books, so I gave theh one old box froe and ere the only freaks there It was Viva and twenty of us Before I was shot We really were the only freaks there These kids didn't have long hair, and yet they didn't have nor clean-cut short hair like now, either Today everybody goes down to Astor Place and gets a great haircut, but these kids didn't even have any fashi+on It e place because by '68 practically everybody did have long hair And they were pudgy Maybe ere at this Catholic college, St Paul's Maybe that was it, but it was so sad to see-and seeing these pictures of h one old box froe and ere the only freaks there It was Viva and twenty of us Before I was shot We really were the only freaks there These kids didn't have long hair, and yet they didn't have nor clean-cut short hair like now, either Today everybody goes down to Astor Place and gets a great haircut, but these kids didn't even have any fashi+on It e place because by '68 practically everybody did have long hair And they were pudgy Maybe ere at this Catholic college, St Paul's Maybe that was it, but it was so sad to see-and seeing these pictures of myself!
I ran into Bob Colacello on Friday He's like a dapper rich person now
Sunday, June 24, 1984 Well Fred is on hold at the doctor's for multiple sclerosis and I' I don't knohy they scare us like this They told Rupert he had a leaking heart and then he didn't, and Fred fell off a horse and went and had a brain scan because he has nus and now they're doing all these checks on hiht makeup at Patricia Field's (makeup 2870, cab 750) Got japanese red But I like that stuff at Fiorucci that just is a stain that gives your lips like a natural brown Because my lips used to be so full and now they're not, they've just disappeared and where did they go?
We went and watched the Gay Day parade The Gay Cops and hs) I took photos Got filents of Gay Docs and dykes, the groups froanization So sick The float that got the uys were in leather with the keys and everything All the beautiesin Soho or out on Fire Island, 'cause they sure weren't in this parade And there were guys in wheelchairs being pushed by their lovers I'm serious! It looked like Halloween but without the costu I took photos Got filents of Gay Docs and dykes, the groups froanization So sick The float that got the uys were in leather with the keys and everything All the beautiesin Soho or out on Fire Island, 'cause they sure weren't in this parade And there were guys in wheelchairs being pushed by their lovers I'm serious! It looked like Halloween but without the costu
Monday, June 25, 1984 Dr Linda Li was back in town and I had an 11:00 appointment with her So I went over there and she'd been away at a seminar or a conference, so she had sos on me and she hit me with hammers and it was fun
Oh and the office was so sad, all empty They even id wanted to buy another one for the transition period and I told her to go to hell
Grace Jones had called and invitedof Conan the Destroyer Conan the Destroyer at 6:00, so I went (cab 4), but Grace was late so it didn't start on time Richard Bernstein was there and he made me feel terrible-he said he went to see Robert Hayes in the hospital and they all had to wear ot the kind of AIDS with spots Richard said Robert looked terrible but that Peter Lester looked great except that he had a shi+rt on to cover the spots at 6:00, so I went (cab 4), but Grace was late so it didn't start on time Richard Bernstein was there and he made me feel terrible-he said he went to see Robert Hayes in the hospital and they all had to wear ot the kind of AIDS with spots Richard said Robert looked terrible but that Peter Lester looked great except that he had a shi+rt on to cover the spots
Oh and I had to call Doc cox's office to find out the results of my tests, so finally I bracedhorrible I'd just take it in stride So I called and they said nothing rong After all that dra that health sure ealth