Part 47 (2/2)
Wednesday, September 12, 1984 Richard Weisman called and said dinner was on with Kathleen Turner fro the Stone Went to Richard's and Kathleen Turner in real life is so chic and worldly She says she's about to star opposite Jack Nicholson in soet the naot uy, Jay, and they're a funny couple He's about ht but with heels on she was taller than him He started out in Lance Loud's band the Mumps, and then he worked for his father and then he went into business with this friend of his and bought all these real estate properties in the slump of '74 when they were cheap and he becairl there as like Judy Holliday, but duirl like this for a long, long time I don't knohere she would come from She was an airline stewardess She said to me, ”Gee you look peculiar,” and they said, ”He's an artist,” and she said, ”I have a sister who's an artist, yeah, and she looks peculiar like you, too” And then she askedto my hair And then Richard took her upstairs to talk to her
Thursday, September 13, 1984 Went to Dr Bernsohn's and I asked him if we could put hi the kind of things I would want people to know about” But you do feel energy when you leave there And the sa That guy Christopher o to, I didn't feel different at all But these ones do so Like when EizoDr Bernsohn is strange, he said he was living with his parents until just recently Now he's buying a co-op He said he'll give ram them for s to see the vibrations he gets from them, but I'm afraid he'll see a 50,000 one and say, ”I want that” And then ill I do? If I say no he'll want to cure ativity It's like a-what's that word?-a ”sca And the healing people do have such hot hands Therethe kind of things I would want people to know about” But you do feel energy when you leave there And the sa That guy Christopher o to, I didn't feel different at all But these ones do so Like when EizoDr Bernsohn is strange, he said he was living with his parents until just recently Now he's buying a co-op He said he'll give ram them for s to see the vibrations he gets from them, but I'm afraid he'll see a 50,000 one and say, ”I want that” And then ill I do? If I say no he'll want to cure ativity It's like a-what's that word?-a ”sca And the healing people do have such hot hands Thereto it
Cabbed to 52nd and Lex to meet Jonas Mekas and Ti to raise money for the Filmmaker's Co-op I asked Jonas if he'd seen anyto raise hs) he he never never saw movies He never did saw movies He never did
Worked on the Truman Capote cover for New York New York
Friday, Septe, it was like the Brooklyn Fox shows in the sixties with so many many stars Diana Ross was my date, but she was in another row, the first row, because she was picking up Michael Jackson's awards Lou Reed sat in my row but never even looked over I don't understand Lou, why he doesn't talk to me now Rod Stewart and Madonna and Cyndi Lauper and Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd and Peter Wolf were there stars Diana Ross was my date, but she was in another row, the first row, because she was picking up Michael Jackson's awards Lou Reed sat in my row but never even looked over I don't understand Lou, why he doesn't talk to me now Rod Stewart and Madonna and Cyndi Lauper and Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd and Peter Wolf were there
After it was over it was raining so hard Like a repeat of the Diana Ross concert in Central Park We went over to Tavern on the Green and everyone had to stand in the rain for twentydown your neck, and then inside it all-to-wall celebrities but they'd been so hu rain that all everybody did was complain to each other
Saturday, Septeht a wo a cover article on hiazine He's getting the cover! And he told her all this stuff about being a uess he told her because he wanted to be fascinating The right wo out of him
Sunday, September 16, 1984 By the way, John Reinhold told me that he keeps a really personal diary He hides it in a closet and he took it out and read last year's entries It's dangerous, but he only uses initials, like, ”I ith B” If I did it that way, though, I'd forget who ”B” was
Jean Michel called and he told e, who takes care of his place on Great Jones Street Shenge has his own place downstairs but then he goes up and uses Jean Michel's bath and bed, and now after staying at the Ritz Carlton, Jean Michel is used to having his bed tucked in He found Shenge on the streets, he wasn't living anywhere He's like a Rastafarian He's married, he has a wife and little boy in the Bronx, I think Shenge's bed used to be right by the front door so it was like he was just yanked in off the street, it was so peculiar
Got a cab and picked up PH to go to the Odeon to have dinner with our Interview Interview photographer Matthew Rolston and the Holland boy-he's Joanna Carson's son-who PH justand I offered to raph Matthew said that when he shot Joan Rivers for photographer Matthew Rolston and the Holland boy-he's Joanna Carson's son-who PH justand I offered to raph Matthew said that when he shot Joan Rivers for Interview Interview she told him she used to be a photo stylist and worked for Cecil Beaton And Mattheears brooches He's the one who started Michael Jackson wearing theraphed Michael for she told him she used to be a photo stylist and worked for Cecil Beaton And Mattheears brooches He's the one who started Michael Jackson wearing theave hi them all the tiraphs theave hi them all the tiraphs theeous (dinner 150)
Monday, September 17, 1984 Vincent picked up the small Truman Capote portraits that I'd done for New York New York When they saw the new, but I'd done theht they wanted They're going to pay a user's fee But I don't know about these low prices I get when I do stuff for azines, because I think of the time Carl Fischer took my picture for the New York New York cover for the cover for the Philosophy Philosophy book-I mean, he had a whole book-I ht assistants or so, so look how ht assistants or so, so look how ot all worked up thinking about how cheaply I work, and it ue and ask them where the money they owe me was and ask them where the money they owe me was
Keith told me that he rented a store for 1,500 across frouess he is is a little like Peter Max But then Peter Max never did get in the good art collections that Keith's in And he said he won't sell his stuff to any other store, it'll just be in his own store a little like Peter Max But then Peter Max never did get in the good art collections that Keith's in And he said he won't sell his stuff to any other store, it'll just be in his own store
And Nick Rhodes buys art, but he doesn't listen to anybody, and I told hi stocks But he said, ”I just buy what I like” And I reht pictures twenty or thirty years ago and then couldn't even get back what she paid for thes of Jean Michel and me and Clemente that he said were ”just a curiosity that nobody would want to buy” that he paid 20,000 for like fifteen pictures for, he's now selling for 40,000 or 60,000 apiece! Yes! And I have a funny feeling that he's actually giving Cle this for this little And I should getup the pricesoh but well, Jean Michel got
Tuesday, Septeot home and watched Tyrone Power in Jesse Ja Maybe he couldn't act, but gee
Thursday, Septe plans to see the chief crystal doctor as in town, Dr Reese
Cabbed (3) there to 74th between Park and Madison They ive you your fifteen et you out fast And so I went into the room and it was like Invasion of the Body snatchers Invasion of the Body snatchers An old lady like in her sixties, pudgy and like a uy like from Hick City And the room was so little And they run their hand over you in funny places and say code letters, you know, and they'll say they've run into a ”hole” or so,” and they'll say, ”C85, 14, 15 D-23, circu and Dr Bernsohn said, ”Oh he doesn't have any feeling”-about me And the doctor said to me, ”I'll tell you about it next week,” after the other doctor said, ”I didn't know I had such an extre When alked in, there was a guy in a daze Afterwards Benjaot lunch and ate it on the ledge at the Whitney Museum, we didn't even knoas the Pop Art show inside
And a wo chicken and said, ”That's a no-no,” and she was right I' to be raphs Then ent up to Vito Giallo's store and ran into Paloma Picasso, who's just in town for a day, to proain, it's incredible, and no lines
Good newspaper headlines about Muhae paintings I want to do And John Reinhold calledand said that the Polish Institute next door to one to look at it-27 million
Then I went to Judy Green's party at 555 Park
Arlene Francis was there and her little husband Martin Gabel who's still alive who she has to push around like a toy
CZ invited me to the memorial for Truman
Saturday, September 22, 1984 Called Jon at Paramount and asked him to meet me at MOMA Got in free to the primitive art shohere they have the old primitive stuff and the new stuff beside it to shohat had been taken fro Penn show, and it was all the photographs that I remember so well that hat made me coain, they weren't anything so different, but And I kept thinking that I should have bought a caraphy ide open, and if you could just do as ”as good as” you could be big I mean, you took a picture of a fa TV cos would've been different It's just so Penn's photos, it's funny to see that the models were all older, like thirty-five He used his wife a lot-Lisa Fonssgrives And I res spill out of the girl's purse and it's tranquilizer pills and things The shoonderful
And Steve Rubell asked if anted to see his new club-to-be It's the Palladiuinally the Academy of Music So he took us over there and it was, ”Do you love it? Do you love it?” And it's huge huge So it
Sunday, Septeo to the Pop Art show at the Whitney and then work together, but he wasn't around Jon and I went there without hiraphed a lot of the postcards they sell there, people handed theet any ht with Fred because he wants n with a card company because he said that then that card co the was the best in the show, somehow his stuff looks new I don't knohy And Jasper Johns's stuff was good, too The Segal looked good because it was big, but it was so ugly The tires outside looked so terrific that you thought the rest of the shoould be on that scale or so, but the Whitney is small There's some early stuff of ht my stuff looked the best, but you know
So then wandered the streets, went home and Jean Michel called Now he has rooms in to hotels One at the Ritz Carlton and then he uess he was co with me to live in the chic East 60s I told him that the TV was terrible around here and he didn't believe et the Showti like that he learned his lesson Good TVJacuzzi there hotels One at the Ritz Carlton and then he uess he was co with me to live in the chic East 60s I told him that the TV was terrible around here and he didn't believe et the Showti like that he learned his lesson Good TVJacuzzi there
Monday, Septe I rushed to Dr Li (cab 4) Took some blood tests and she threw it on my body, the blood I', I'o to Tru to be a party at CZ Guest's Steve Rubell had the best line, he said to o to yours” That's the best deal Jay's going-I guess he and Kate are back together
I asked Paige if she wanted to go with un's party at the Carlyle (cab 3) Ahmet was at the door Sahts were so low Mrs Buckley was there and Charlotte Curtis, and Charlotte screamed at me, ”Oh your eyebrows are dyed!” So what could I say? ”Yeah They're two-tone” Charlotte always looks so sour But I do like her She did those great coluest one there
Tuesday, Septeot that while I was at Dr Linda Li's Roberta Flack came in and she said, ”Oh I saw you at St Vincent's church on Sunday” She said she was going to a Baptist church and just wandered into mine
Wandered down Fifth Avenue
Crazy Matty caain but he's okay, not more crazy than usual-just nor with hiet boyfriends and girlfriends and norot invited to the Malcolet her portrai before, you know, solad when he hears she's in town She goes into his jewelry store and drops millions of bucks Worked till 7:00
Wednesday, September 26, 1984 I was picked up by Benjaht into the arot a cab and he left and then two blocks later he caht and he opened the front door-I'd locked the back door-and he asked for money So now he kno to-extort
Thursday, Septe who said he was depressed so he went to the Whitney and that he saw the Pop Art show and saw my dick Tracy and loved it and I said it'd just been sold for 500,000 and he said that wasn't enough, that it orth a ht it That eet of hiht it fro Blum
Went to uy anted to be downstairs, but he put us upstairs again, but then later I sahy-Robert Redford was right behind hter, I think I didn't say anything because that's not cool, but when I got home I happened to read an old Playboy Playboy intervieith him and then I decided I intervieith him and then I decided I should should have said hello because it turns out he'd tried to be a painter at one point, and he talked about hoas a azine art director in the fifties in New York I didn't know any of that! So then he would know about me have said hello because it turns out he'd tried to be a painter at one point, and he talked about hoas a azine art director in the fifties in New York I didn't know any of that! So then he would know about me
Did I tell the Diary, by the way, that Mery Griffin turned down our TV show? He did
Saturday, September 29, 1984 Talked to Keith and Jean Michel Wanted Jean Michel to co his mother a birthday party so I went tolady, a little h-he said she's been in and out of lected But he doesn't have to be asha His father was a no-show They're divorced and the father is living with another woman He's an accountant
And Jean Michel still keeps a room for 250 a day at the Ritz Carlton And that fifty-foot concrete table that he had Freddy the architect do up special for the Great Jones place, it filled the whole room and Jean Michel just broke it up into pieces And I found out frohlin who's next door to Freddy's place that used to be Kenny Scharf's, that when Freddy moved into Kenny's aparts everywhere, all over the walls and Freddy painted them out! painted them out! He painted it all white! He didn't even res on them, which would've been so easy to save! He painted it all white! He didn't even res on them, which would've been so easy to save!
Monday, October 1, 1984 It was so cold out And what do you do when these pushy old broads shove you out of the way and grab your taxi? Finally got a cab (8) but the traffic was so slow
Oh, and all afternoon aiting for Stuart Pivar to call because Michael Jackson was supposed to call hiuereaus But Stuart went out for a ht couereaus are now 2 million apiece and Stuart has about four They went up so suddenly It's funny, they're just the perfect paintings for Michael Jackson-like ten-year-old boys with fairy wings, around beautiful wo bodies That's what he thinks keeps you young, is the horet them
Tuesday, October 2, 1984 Jean Michel came over to the office to paint but he fell asleep on the floor He looked like a bu there But I woke hireat