Part 48 (2/2)
Sunday, November 4, 1984 Went to meet Alba Clemente, the beautiful wife of Francesco Cle She studied acting, she has a great laugh, and she's rich They live in India six s look the way they do, I guess Then ent to the Odeon (cab 10) It was fun, we chit-chatted about art There were big silences, though Jean Michel is so hard to talk to His thing is he's in love aitresses, so he gets quiet and watches the the children had a crush on him (lunch 90) And then ent back to her place so that Jean Michel could irl, Monica, but she'd taken the kids out And then Jean Michel was getting inspired fro himself
So ent to the studio (cab 350) and worked two hours Jean Michel was painting back in the ies he'd painted out when he was on smack and he cairl, Monica, and invited her to dinner She wanted to go to the Lone Star because her se to be there, but Jean Michel didn't want to go go there because he was afraid if there was competition that he would lose the fuck there because he was afraid if there was competition that he would lose the fuck
Tuesday, Noveton, DC
Election Day It was the worst start iinable I was up at 7:00, ready at 8:00 I called Fred and he was just out of it It droveMaybe he'd just slept for fifteen minutes, I don't know
Anyway, an hour later ere in Washi+ngton Went to the Madison Hotel Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ca, starts on Dynasty Dynasty next week and she was co down later And then some of the people went off to the White House but eren't invited so we stayed in our roo down later And then some of the people went off to the White House but eren't invited so we stayed in our rooms
So we ordered lunch and that was expensive Jean Michel ordered a '66 Chateau Latour wine for 200 (lunch 500) Then we limoed to the Sequoia Sequoia, the presidential yacht, and it was cold anddark Sairlfriend, who's so beautiful, tall and Texan, and I don't knohy she's with hi of Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate A top et her name I talked to Chip Carter while I was there
Then ent back to the hotel and Jean Michel rolled a joint Then we ordered dinner, which was disgusting (tip 5) Fred didn't realize that he had only yellow socks and brown shoes, so he couldn't wear his black suit Entertainot me on the way in and asked me who I voted for and I said, ”For the winner,” and they said, ”Who's that?” and I said, ”The winner is the winner” I don't even knohat I otten of ether they'd see that I'ot me on the way in and asked me who I voted for and I said, ”For the winner,” and they said, ”Who's that?” and I said, ”The winner is the winner” I don't even knohat I otten of ether they'd see that I'Jean Michel was so hard to deal with, he gets so paranoid This was a ”Non-partisan Party” that the Weisave a party for the De to be a Republican
Wednesday, Noveton, DC-New York I called Jean Michel's roo in one second And I went into his roo out of bed with a hard-on And then he began rolling a joint Jean Michel ordered a whole meal but it never came Cabbed to the airport (20)
Jean Michel and I went to the back of the plane and he was s joints, and I realized that he'd left his brand-new Co, and he called and I called but they'll never send it He knows just what looks good on hi
Got a cab into Manhattan (22) Then went to 33rd Street and sat in my room andin there And I want to take the key away from those two bathroooing in and out and I can't stand it, the constant production of peeing all day I'o upstairs to one of those bathroo, because ants to hear that all day kids go upstairs to one of those bathroo, because ants to hear that all day
I went to Private Eyes (cab 7) Scott was at the door, so he let us right in Madonna was on the platform and since Jean Michel had once been involved with her, we started to go up, and the bouncer said, ”Step aside for Mr Warhol,” and then tried to block Jean Michel and I said that it was okay, he ith me And Madonna kissed Jean Michel on the mouth but she ith Jellybean, who said he'd heard his pictures in Interview Interview made him look 6' tall so he was thrilled because he's 2' And Jean Michel wasand he'd lost her And Dianne Brill tried to get on the platforuy just pushed her back and I said, ”Don't you knoho that is? It's Dianne Brill,” but he still wouldn't let her up And she was so conspicuous in her rubber outfit and Frederick's of Hollywood stuff and everything, so she was really huo-you think you have solike that happens in front of your friends It's happened to me Sometime, someplace, it happens to everybody And I told her I'd talk to the PR girl but she said no, that it was okay made him look 6' tall so he was thrilled because he's 2' And Jean Michel wasand he'd lost her And Dianne Brill tried to get on the platforuy just pushed her back and I said, ”Don't you knoho that is? It's Dianne Brill,” but he still wouldn't let her up And she was so conspicuous in her rubber outfit and Frederick's of Hollywood stuff and everything, so she was really huo-you think you have solike that happens in front of your friends It's happened to me Sometime, someplace, it happens to everybody And I told her I'd talk to the PR girl but she said no, that it was okay
Thursday, Nove's and in the same little room were Bianca and her boyfriend, and Mick and Jerry and her two sisters, and everybody was trying to stand with their backs to each other And so finally to break the ice Bianca went over to Mick and said, ”Oh, you've slept with everybody in this roo, and he said, ”Oh yes, why look! There's Mark Shand! And Andy Warhol! I've had them all!” He was funny
Marina Schiano was there and Jean Michel askedqueen And Annina Nosei was there She had a gallery in Soho and Jean Michel used to do paintings in her base people down to look at him like an attraction and he would yell, ”Get the fuck out of here!” He destroyed twenty paintings once, he ripped them off the walls And after she re at this chic uptown place He's not happier now that he's uptown because it's all before him now and he doesn't knohat to do I told him, ”Look, those tantrums weren't real anyway” He's confused Stayed till 11:30
Monday, Noveer Than Paradise It isn't good
Oh and the day had started out with Eugenia Sheppard dying of cancer She invented fashi+on and gossip together I guess she started in 195 5 Is that when Princess Grace got married?
Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Went to Dr Karen Burke's new office on 94th and Park and had en treatment and it really, really hurt There's supposed to be novocaine in the stuff as it goes in but it doesn't feel like there is There must be a way to have this done without pain The last tio Fred said he screa his face done Iin your face
Cabbed to Mr Chow's for Jean Michel's party (7) And it was great I feel like I wasted two years running around with Christopher and Peter, just kids who talk about the Baths and things, when here, now, I' so much art work done, and then his party was Schnabel and Wier Than Paradise Stranger Than Paradise and Cle You” Iwith a creative crowd, you really notice the difference It's intriguing both ways, and I guess both ways are right, butand Cle You” Iwith a creative crowd, you really notice the difference It's intriguing both ways, and I guess both ways are right, but
And now Chris is thanking raphs, because he says it's made him hustle more and work harder And Bianca who I'd invited called and wasn't co, and finally she arrived, and she acted grand as if she wasn't looking for ed her seat and took Alba's when Alba went to the ladies rooh for Bianca to hear, ”She's takenlike with her husband Cle here like Bianca and Francesco didn't know each otherlike with her husband Cle here like Bianca and Francesco didn't know each other
And Jean Michel becaht He said it cost hi
Thursday, Nove video shoot to do and I said thatthe day before and he promised that he wouldn't shoot ht but Dustin Hoffman called and said he'd left tickets for Death of a Salesot to the theater and met Jean Michel there at 7:58 At intermission the people behind us tapped Jean Michel and asked if I was really who I was Dustin was actually good, but the play is so old-fashi+oned I'd seen it years ago with Lee J Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, and they were ot to the theater and met Jean Michel there at 7:58 At intermission the people behind us tapped Jean Michel and asked if I was really who I was Dustin was actually good, but the play is so old-fashi+oned I'd seen it years ago with Lee J Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, and they were more like real old people
And afterwards ent backstage and there was coffee and everything and Dustin was really up up up, he was ca, ”Andy Warhol is here! Andy Warhol is here!” And he cairl at Sotheby's as exactly like the first girl he ever fucked, and he invited her to the show and then on that exact sairl he ever fucked that she looked exactly like came to see the play And he took the two of the and one said she didn't have a place to stay and the other said she could stay with her and they went off into the sunset together They still looked alike, he said And Dustin has a sidekick rites everything down He's collecting art and wrote down Jean Michel's nu shaved off, I don't knohy he does the play in so ht And he told me that one day when he saw me on the street and we talked it was the day he'd broken up with his first wife, which I didn't know then, and he remembered every word of our conversation because it was such a traumatic day for him
Friday, Noveer singing falsetto and so they caht it was supposed to be co- but when I started to say how funny it was Fred kicked , he's supposed to be straight We were all stunned It was like the old days at the old Factory when once in a while somebody with real actual talent would shock everybody with it singing- but when I started to say how funny it was Fred kicked , he's supposed to be straight We were all stunned It was like the old days at the old Factory when once in a while somebody with real actual talent would shock everybody with it
Saturday, November 17, 1984 Got to the office by 12:00 (supplies 1196, 350, 420)
Cabbed don to Keith's (5) Madonna arrived with a black wig on Downstairs there were three li at BAM in Brooklyn Keith had done the sets and Willi Smith did the clothes I was next to Stephen Sprouse and he's so hard to talk to, but I' Stephen Sprouse It was really a great show And they had really good hair in the show Like brown underneath and red on top and they used twine I talked to Stephen about doing show-biz stuff Then that was over
We went to Mr Chow's for dinner Then ent to Area and saw Keith make dresses on John sex I asked Madonna if she would be interested in doing a movie and she was smart, she said that she wanted more specifics, that she just didn't want to talk and have her ideas taken She's very sharp She's really hot right now Stayed till 3:00, tooup to me to talk (cab 8)
Tuesday, Novedale's and this old lady next tonext to hi next to hiive her, I'd given them all out We left and I told Benjamin I'd had ot hustled into soot a piece himself, actually-it's only the second time that's happened He saw it and wanted it first I should have gotten it for him but it was too aard I re thousands of dollars' worth of clothes and didn't say, ”Do you want a shi+rt?” Years ago And I've foundthat Brigid did, I glued theiven them all out We left and I told Benjamin I'd had ot hustled into soot a piece himself, actually-it's only the second time that's happened He saw it and wanted it first I should have gotten it for him but it was too aard I re thousands of dollars' worth of clothes and didn't say, ”Do you want a shi+rt?” Years ago And I've foundthat Brigid did, I glued them onto wood and they wrinkled
Vincent just called and said there's a picture ofto star in the Evening with Andy Warhol Evening with Andy Warhol They're getting an awful lot ofyet
Thursday, Novee at the Garden with Jean Michel and Cornelia I just couldn't like him because it reminded me of what Jackie Curtis could have been, but Jean Michel really liked hie is so fat
And then Jean Michel started re for turkey and wanted to get there, so we left (cab 6)
The turkey was already put away and dessert was out Bianca started punching Jean Michel and ot a black and blueabout hoe had to contribute to the Brooklyn Academy of Music And Iartists when she should be out whoring herself to get money from rich people! Who does she think she is! I mean, she thinks she knows all about artists, and she knows-shi+t! She puts on this serious face and interviews the, I er, too, with this boyfriend, Glenn Dubin-she's always rubbing up against hi him for Maybe just a place to stay
Sunday, Nove call of the day was froed to Barbara Steele now She's not an actress anymore, she's a producer And he said he's so humiliated and embarrassed by all the stuff about him in the Belushi+ book, Wired Wired, that he can't face anybody I told hiet about it
They're selling Halston's floor in the Olympic Tower out fro when he sold his name? What should he have done that he didn't? That's what I want to know And I want to know it from him him, I want to sit down and find out what I should do if I ever sell myself Find out when and where hecorporation buy ot to be a way to do it where you don't lose all your power the way Halston did
Monday, Nove ies She said o
Had a talk with the Harper & Row editor, Craig Nelson, and had to tell hiht of what he'd written for the America America book: He can't write book: He can't write
Wednesday, November 28, 1984 Did the East Side with Benjamin Passed out the Christmas issue Went to Dr Bernsohn and he said he and Dr Reese went to the pyra crystal balls around that he'd taken with hihs) (laughs) he had one, too (cabs 4, 5, 5) he had one, too (cabs 4, 5, 5)
I went to Regine's for Cornelia's birthday Barry Landau was there Barry's as bad as Cornelia for attracting sleazes And I guess that ht in there But Cornelia's sman next to her and Roy Cohn on the other side I sat next to the guy who gives the after-hours party in Aspen after the Jimmy Buffett party And for a present to Cornelia he offered her his credit card for a couple of hours
Thursday, Noveht on top of the beautiful painting that Clemente did There was lots of blank space on it that he could've painted on, he was just being uess he was on heroin He'd bend over to fix his shoelace and he'd be in that position for fivehell day, leaving 860 Broadway forever Stephen Sprouse's friend came for the keys and I asked if I could stay and paint, and so I did, until 8:30 And Stephen Sprouse called and thankedin the s for him So then Jay dropped me off and I just stayed home, exhausted
Saturday, December 1, 1984 Picked up Jon and cabbed down to the Tony Shafrazi Gallery for Kenny Scharf's show (8) The blond kid who tells people he's my lover was there And the kid toldflowers outside my house I pretended that I didn't even know anybody was putting theoing for 30,000 and so Keith felt funny because they're both with Tony's gallery, but Keith's never wanted his prices to be too high His go for eight, ten, fifteen
Then afterwards there was a dinner for Kenny at Area The new the to take over the Lie of the Sunday Times Times ”Arts and Leisure” section is plastered with Schnabel, Grace Glueck calling him better than Pollock ”Arts and Leisure” section is plastered with Schnabel, Grace Glueck calling him better than Pollock
The dinner was fun Kenny sold all his pictures Then I went to the dance floor and toured, saw the burning crosses and things Benjaoing to do more work on their article for Interview Interview Gael told me she took out the part where Kenny asked Keith if it was true he went to to bed with Chris Makos in order bed with Chris Makos in order (laughs) (laughs) to ot to say that on Friday, Sean Lennon sent down the tablecloth from his birthday party in October for a souvenir Maybe he wants a Christet hi didn't ht it would
Monday, Dece for a full day's work No et cabs in the new area I'reat to see Brigid frazzled, not knohat phone buttons to push, really working finally-not knitting I'llout fro to do for food in this new neighborhood? I've only seen greasy coffee shops
Jean Michel had a date with Paige last night and I think they ain, which would be ato Gael, there's a thief at Interview Interview-20 was stolen from petty cash I I should do that, it's an easy way to id's wallet and take money out should do that, it's an easy way to id's wallet and take money out
Julian Schnabel called and said that Arne Glimcher has ”an empty spot” for Jean Michel andto get us away from Leo