Part 47 (1/2)

Oh, and Dotson Rader is doing a book on Tennessee Williams and he interviewed Chris for it Chris used to work for Tennessee-he got 400 a week for taking care of his dog, he says Remember, I first met Chris at ht hiust 3, 1984 Went to Bernsohn, the crystal doctor, and he worked on ust 4, 1984 Worked all afternoon till 7:00 Susan Blond called and said that we could go to maybe meet Michael Jackson in a hotel room before his concert at Madison Square Garden So we cabbed to the Penta Hotel (5) It's the hotel that was called the Statler Hilton until last week or soo near the place because of the mobs for Michael, so he let us off and we had to walk

Finally we found the place, we got Elevator B and went up, and Calvin was there, and he was mad that he'd coirlfriend Kelly And Rosanna Arquette, the actress, came up and was so sweet, and I asked her if we'd ever done anything on her in Interview Interview and she said, ”No, and you've just and she said, ”No, and you've just got got to!” But then I remembered that we to!” But then I re-but just a ”First I And then this apparition appeared and it was Michael Jackson done so-but just a ”First I And then this apparition appeared and it was Michael Jackson

Susan Blond pushed me into his arave hi everybody and then I was pushed back at him and it was anticlimactic and then it was over I shook his hand and it was like foalove, it's like a catcher's e

We went to the show and it was laser beams and a movie where a sword had to be pulled out of a stone and Michael pulled it out Bianca arrived late and the Jackson father was in her seat and she didn't knoho he was and tried to kick hiave her her her seat seat

And then after the concert we called Mr Chow's to see if they'd be open and they said yes, that they had leftover food And at Mr Choere next to Anthony Quinn and he said hi and I didn't know if I should go over to his table, I never know, so I played it shy, but then when he was leaving he caed me, and I remeust 5, 1984

Jean Michel wanted to go to the Jerht So ent down there (cab 7) And it was one of those parties where the bouncers were all duuys who didn't know anybody Jean Michel took us to the wrong section and they told us to beat it, and he said, ”Now you see how it is to be black” And all the people who I don't know, Jean Michel's just sitting there and then he'll say, ”Hi,He told me he went to a school in Brooklyn, St Ann's, that's sort of chic because you had to pay And then he said that when his father lost money he had to be bussed to a public school that was a lot of Italians and the boys there used to beat hiood, though, and that's why he's sot to the VIP room and it was like a remake of an old party Janet Villella was there and Linda Stein, and it was free drinks (tip 10) Then they caet out because Jer in, and that we could cohs) some of us would be selected to co queens there with jewelry on, and so we all had to get out, it was so stupid And you have to walk for a block to get to the next roo me, they don't even say hi anyhs) some of us would be selected to co queens there with jewelry on, and so we all had to get out, it was so stupid And you have to walk for a block to get to the next roo me, they don't even say hi anyee, that was Benjaht and they heard I was in the VIP rooet in but couldn't And-this is funny- he said that there were three Olyuess those those were the ones I thought were drag queens with jewelry! Gee were the ones I thought were drag queens with jewelry! Gee

So anyway, Jean Michel wanted s down on Great Jones Street, so ent there and it's a pigsty His friend Shenge-this black guy-lives with hi care of the place, but it's a sty And the whole place just ss to work on Left there (cab 8)

Monday, August 6, 1984 The unmentionable day I'd told everyone I didn't want to hear the word ”birthday” Benjamin picked me up and we cabbed to 70th and Broadway (4) Dr Li said that she'd been at the Michael Jackson thing and I was surprised Then I put it together-Benjamin had said he saw Roberta Flack at the concert, and Dr Li has a picture of Roberta Flack in her office, so I asked her if she ith Roberta Flack, and she said yes So now I'ure out if they could be dykes

Then cabbed to the Whitney where there was the lunch for the presentation by Ethel Scull of the portrait of her that I did in the sixties (cab 4) They were serving lunch in front of the painting

Ethel hadn't arrived yet and when they called her she was in the bath, she thought the lunch was Tuesday Finally she arrived in a wheelchair and a hat with the big cast on her leg It was so sad Like a 's not very good, even It was just-I don't know And she said all these things about how I'd wanted 1,200 cash for the painting In cash, she said, and I mean, I don't remember that-I wouldn't have even discussed , ”I want 1,200 cash” It must have been one of the Bellaot paid And she said she came to my house and my mother answered the door, but ouldsoht there I don't know, it was nutty

And I ran into one of the old kids from Max's and they told me they finally read Edie Edie over the weekend and that they weren't shocked by the drugs or anything anybody said aboutthat I over the weekend and that they weren't shocked by the drugs or anything anybody said aboutthat I sold sold some of my early films to so them for myself But, see, I some of my early films to so them for myself But, see, I didn't didn't really really sell sell theuy's contract expired now, the guy's contract expired

Oh, it's all Fred's fault that I'm in that book He kept after me to talk to Jean Stein Because she was ”social,”to her made it look like I sanctioned her book

So it was so boring and gee it's such a sad faave us a tour of the Fairfield Porter show, though, and I looked at Mondrian, and he just took tape and painted it and then Sidney Janis owned these things and it became a business

Then at 3:00 went don (cab 6) Drue Heinz called to wishtwelve-foot weed froe picked out a place to have dinner and I invited Jay but then he called back and Benjaht Kate Harrington, and I didn't say anything, and then he asked Benjamin, ”Did Andy just make a face?” He just wanted to start trouble He does these things so people will feel guilty when he doesn't want to coreat, he just said, ”Here's the address-if you want to come, come” And I would would have yelled at Kate if she came, since she'd left work at have yelled at Kate if she came, since she'd left work at Interview Interview that afternoon saying she was sick that afternoon saying she was sick

Well, ent to 79th and Lexington to this place called Jao by all the time and never kneas there, this chic place It was expensive, but the food was so good The whole thing was like the Four Seasons used to be when the guy was there who used to grow the garden stuff in his own patch in Connecticut The dessert was incredible Jean Michel ordered a lot of chane and he said he'd pay for it but I wouldn't let him (dinner was 550) It was underplayed, nobody said ”Happy Birthday” and it went se had a strapless pink dress on and she took her camera into the kitchen to dowith Jean Michel didn't bother Paige tooo fuck her I told hiain I told hiirl who ever really helped hiave his And she never would let hi her own fare to Hawaii and things like that, and I don't knohy he never liked that, somehow

And it was nice to to see little Suzanne the et stuck with hiet away for a change see little Suzanne the et stuck with hiet away for a change

Tuesday, August 7, 1984 Went to see Dr Bernsohn I told hin He was sort of putting down Dr Li She sent oing to stop taking the David Whitney and Philip Johnson for dinner at the Four Seasons Invited Keith and Juan and Jean Michel Philip goes to bed at 9:00, so he wanted to have dinner at 6:30 but I ood food, I'd been spoiled by Jaht before, but the food was terrible Doc cox was there I'd put on my Stephen Sprouse neon tie I really looked like the sixties

Helen Frankenthaler was at another table with Andre E an eye on hioes into the archives Everyone was sort of quiet, not ot drunk and started what he always starts when he's had a few drinks, that when Philip kicks the bucket he'll o to Rounds, the gay place at 53rd and Second, and I didn't, so I said I'd never been there because I hadn't in five years, and so alk in the door and the first thing the waiter says is (laughs) (laughs), ”Mr Warhol! It's so nice to see you again!” Jean Michel wouldn't go to Rounds He called thisand told me that in the old days when he didn't have any et 10 and he didn't want to remember that

So Jean Michel went doith Keith I walked the Doc uptown and he kissed ust 8, 1984 There were eighteen trucks parked on uy fro and he said, ”Brewster's Millions” ”Brewster's Millions” And then he said he was Carol LaBrie's half-brother-Carol, our star of And then he said he was Carol LaBrie's half-brother-Carol, our star of L'A truck near us and there was Richard Pryor And he was a lot better-looking than I remember when I last met him Actually handsome With this blonde I don't know if she was in the y in the truck, the air conditioner wasn't working too well, and I was going to invite the there wasn'tit, really I was And it was hard to hear because the air conditioner in the truck was going He said he'd just seen Bad Bad a couple ofwas his own or for the old cross he earing was his own or for the ust 9, 1984 Cornelia called while the auction for her debutante book that she's doing with Jon and another person was going on, and it first enty-eight, and then it was thirty-seven with a ser percentage

Went to the movies with Keith and Bobby, Madonna's ex-boyfriend who's sort of Keith's friend now I had to sign autographs and they were amazed that so many people yelled my name and would know an artist I should have asked the people who yelled if they knehat I did for a living All the blacks know me, I must be in their consciousness It's the white hair

It was almost empty in the theater but it should've been co Story,hit in Gerness The nothingness is taking over the planet It was like Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland and and ET ET and ”Rumpelstiltskin”

Then afterwards Bobby knew all the places in the area, because Madonna had taken him to all of them So ent to Jezebel's and then Jezebel came over and she was this fancy black lady And then in walked guess who? Mickey Rourke Who PH just interviewed for the cover of Interview Interview But he didn't see ust 13, 1984 Jane Fonda called and I took the call and that was du It's funny the way she just calls people and asks theo up to Boston with the paintings I did of her, which she never even bought-she borrowed one but it's back, and the prints were n-but he can't be running again, can he? That was just last year, wasn't it?

Tuesday, August 14, 1984 Brigid's pug walked across the painting I'd just done He had orange and purple feet Madao to dinner with Edmund Gaultney and the people ant to do a portfolio Hedy and Kent Klineet this feeling about it: People finance a portfolio and then start to get nervous and dump all the prints (cab 7)

Hoood They always give the

Wednesday, August 15, 1984 I' for ideas This fall it'll be a whole new look, new people Because five years into the decade is when it really beco over all the people and picking the ones frohties people It's when the people from the first five years will either become part of the future or part of the past

Worked till 4:30 Cab to the crystal doctor and this time it was a real experience This session was like an exorcism He had me lie down on his table and close my eyes, and then he asked , ”Well what do you , ”Do you knohere you are?” And I kept saying, ”What do youon his table and he said, ”Oh, I thought you ht not know because your eyes were closed” And he would touch me here and there and when I wouldn't have any reaction he said that I wasn't in touch withBut he said it was because I wasn't sensitive to the pain yet and that I would have to become sensitive to it And he took ? One minute? Two minutes? One hour? One day?” And at four days the crystal told hi to take for this crystal to be prograet another one that'll be ready sooner He said no So I' to wait four days and then I have to have it with me always and not more than ten feet ahen I'm asleep I really do believe that all this hoku And it's why people wear gold and jewels It does does have so And if you wear pearls around a stone it have so And if you wear pearls around a stone it does does do soative powers inI would have to come to him and he didn't tell et out do soative powers inI would have to come to him and he didn't tell et out

And the funniest thing was I picked up soazine and Jack Nicholson, our Interview Interview cover boy, was on the cover of that, too Standing with this chiropractor to the stars cover boy, was on the cover of that, too Standing with this chiropractor to the stars

I had a fight with Fred His attitude is so-it's like he's a azine-editor-on-the-phone And I don't know if he's on the ball or not I know he's doing his best, but

Thursday, August 16, 1984 DeLorean got freed, he's thanking the Lord

Monday, August 20, 1984 Jean Michel called at 7:30 AM AM from Spain but I was in the shower and I missed it He was in Ibiza and now he's in Majorca, he's the new darling of the Bruno set And I' his, rip the Oh and Keith told me that the name Jean Michel used to use, SAMO, stood for ”Saest influence on the new artists

Cabbed to Jams to meet Philip and David and Keith and Juan (6) The food was so good, fish cooked with the right spices, coriander or sage-it ht with spices

I tried to get a design out of Philip for a one-room house They cried poor I cried poor Keith cried poor It was everybody crying poor So crazy David had three martinis but was normal, somehow We were there from 7:30 7:30 to 10:00 I asked Philip hoas to be in an airplane crash and he said exciting This was about seven years ago He was the only one not hurt They landed in cherry trees (dinner 400) to 10:00 I asked Philip hoas to be in an airplane crash and he said exciting This was about seven years ago He was the only one not hurt They landed in cherry trees (dinner 400)

Philip's having dinner at the Newhouses' and Sandy and Peter Brant will be there, too, and Si Newhouse has the Natalie picture there and we're just hoping he buys it And with that group there it could go either way Because Peter and Sandy ht just try to sell him one of mine that they have instead Or else they could want him to pay a lot for the Natalie so that it would o up I have another Natalie so from the Factory I mean it must be around somewhere rolled up And if Newhouse doesn't buy it I think I should write a letter to Robert Wagner I think they're bringing his series up I have another Natalie so from the Factory I mean it must be around somewhere rolled up And if Newhouse doesn't buy it I think I should write a letter to Robert Wagner I think they're bringing his series Hart to Hart Hart to Hart back because people have been writing in back because people have been writing in

Wednesday, August 22, 1984 Gael Love called and said she signed the deal with the Swatch people where if you buy two subscriptions to Interview Interview you get one Swatch and if you buy tatches you get one subscription She thinks it'll bring in 30,000 new subscriptions you get one Swatch and if you buy tatches you get one subscription She thinks it'll bring in 30,000 new subscriptions

And thisI woke up to The Toy The Toy with Richard Pryor and it's funny I asked PH to write hi that I wanted her to do the first part of an intervieith him when she's in LA next week, and that I'd then do the second half ned the letter and sent a with Richard Pryor and it's funny I asked PH to write hi that I wanted her to do the first part of an intervieith him when she's in LA next week, and that I'd then do the second half ned the letter and sent a Philosophy Philosophy book so we'll wait to hear book so we'll wait to hear

Tuesday, Septeot back from LA The Richard Pryor people told her Richard was ”in seclusion” in Hawaii and that they were going to ”wait to give hiets back in October” She was out there trying to get a screenplay she wrote sold-Coppola's Zoetrope studio had it for two years and didn't get it financed and then they went bankrupt While she was out there she wrote up the treatment I asked her to about a sixties ”Girl of the Year” because I want to show it to Jon and ood thing she's back because she was about to get fired froone Truot 600,000 and was carrying the ashes in a golden book with ”TC” engraved on the side And Brigid figured out that Kate ”Harrington” isn't Truhter of Tru Island and had a wife and lots of kids And I'hter of Tru Island and had a wife and lots of kids And I's now of Truazine

So Jean Michel just calledall the time at the Ritz Carlton instead of down on Great Jones, and his roo Jay's on jury duty and Kate broke up with him and I don't know, he seems sort of relieved

I read the article in the Times Ti Para 30 million So Jon will probably noork for Frank Mancuso there at Para It'll actually be better for hih

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