Part 49 (1/2)
Wednesday, December 5, 1984 The Boston Museum came and looked at 100 pictures and then offered half of the asking price for one
Waited till 7:00 for the nightti's still under construction Worked on ideas, sorted through theti the bus up Madison How much is it now-90? Yeah, that would be so much easier
Thursday, December 6, 1984 Fred called and reprimanded me because I'd invited a lot of people down to the office for lunch Very grand about it, very calm: ”You shouldn't do that, you know” And I invited John sex to come and do the Liberace intervieith me Liberace wanted me to do him He seems to think we know each other, but I don't re him But he came and he was just wonderful He walked in like a butterball because of the big fat coat he earing, but he's very nor like his show-business personality, which explains why he's so big, because if he were really that kind of person he'd be too crazy to hteen houses He said he taught Elvis how to dress Badly Glenn O'Brien was originally going to do hi him for years and he came and then he just had such duoing to then go back to having Glenn do it But when John sex and Liberace saw each other (laughs) (laughs) they fell in love, sparks flew But Liberace's so normal, you can see why he won all his court cases they fell in love, sparks flew But Liberace's so normal, you can see why he won all his court cases
Sunday, Deceo down to work, but in the et the dogs, so an hour later when the bell rang I opened the door without looking and who should be standing there but Crazy Matty! God, after all theseto convince hi to tell hi house And I just couldn't believe it He laughed and said, ”You're in trouble” So then the whole day I didn't leave the house, I was too nervous
Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Got up early, talked to PH as in LA Maybe that's where we should azine She said her Harrison Ford cover interview is still up in the air, he probably won't do it but he hasn't given Gael a definite no
Interviewed Chris Reeve yesterday, Maura and I did, and he was good, he was still drunk froood attitude now, not like he had when he started Now he'll take any role
Fred's been so crabby lately We haven't been hitting it off I don't know if he's bored and wants to be a decorator or if he's just crabby He gets these attitudes And it's scary because he used to have the best memory in the world and now he says softly to me, ”Now tellabout Dawn Mello who he knows! knows! It's scary It's scary
Burt Reynolds was on Letter so straight and copying Clark Gable and then he said that he arrived in New York with George Maharis! So now I'm so surprised I never knew him in the fifties in New York and was so funny because there he was acting so straight and copying Clark Gable and then he said that he arrived in New York with George Maharis! So now I'm so surprised I never knew him in the fifties in New York
Wednesday, December 12, 1984 Went to Dr Bernsohn's and who should be there in the waiting room but the star of my movie, blowjob blowjob I never did know his naoes to Bernsohn, too
Friday, Deceone off to Europe Fred and I still aren't getting along and I still don't knohat he wants All I can figure is that he really wants to become an architect, because the only time he really likes credit is when it's for architecture I reo when I wanted Fred to direct a Jackie Curtis play and he went crazy, he literally went crazy and said, ”No no no no!” But architecture he wants to do
Saturday, Deceo to work Had Jay co the week it's i through and gawking all the tie Patch dolls on the street with their birth certificates A boy and two girls (3 X 80 = 240) And they wanted to wrap them so that I wouldn't be attacked for them on the street Got research books (180)
Sunday, Dece me up and that Sean Lennon was in the car with him So I said in an hour, but then I couldn't seem to be ready, so then I heard a commotion out in front and I knew they were there, but then I was afraid to go out
And while this was going on, the phone rang and it was Jean Michel from Sweden and when he heard these other kids were at o crazy because he's never been there But it's just that I don't like anything pre-planned If he just dropped in or so it'd be okay So finally I went out and I had a ca pictures ofand then he'd take one He got that technique from Yoko And he dissertated on how he never knehat to do when photographers were around, whether to smile or act or freeze He's so s to pick up the Mia Farrow kids who live across from the Dakota-Sean plays with them-but then they didn't come And Yoko careat-with all these famous people in it And we picked up Jon
We were thinking of a place to have lunch and I said the Odeon and she said oh yes, so it seemed like she went there a lot but then she said she'd never been, that she didn't really go go out that h I can't figure it out if it's her boyfriend or what Sauess boyfriend, although I can't figure it out if it's her boyfriend or what Sa ever happened to Sean that'd be the end of her, I think It really would And I was telling her what a wonderful host Sean was at his birthday party and she said that the first time he had to do a party he hid under the couch Yoko wanted to pay, but I did (lunch 200) Her boyfriend was very nice And Kenny's paintings are selling like crazy His wife and son were along, and they just bought a house on Suffolk Street way dohere Ray Johnson used to live Around Orchard, over there So he's being a man A provider
I dropped Jon (8) Then stayed home
Tuesday, December 18, 1984 I went to the office and went in the Interview Interview side It was busy there Gael was excited because they'd gotten 600 subscriptions that day fro that would keep up In the old days that's how et in a year side It was busy there Gael was excited because they'd gotten 600 subscriptions that day fro that would keep up In the old days that's howup with her seventeen-year-old boyfriend She's going off to Haiti
Ran into one of those kids from Harvard in the sixties, one of Edie's friends, I can't remember his name And I showed him my crystals and told hi there with his mouth open He said he couldn't believe that so in crystals after I hed at all the hippie stuff and that this is just the recycle of it But really it's not the saative He said he's developing land deals in Washi+ngton State
Wednesday, Deceht pictures in his four-year contract, but I decided he could only have twenty-five, and then I give him one for himself, so that's twenty-six This is for Jean Michel's and s he's getting for paintings he's getting for peanuts peanuts
And it's funny, because only s Even the Campbell's Soup Cans are ”out” And I really have only two collectors Saatchi and Newhouse a little bit Whereas Roy Lichtenstein and those people have fifteen or twenty I guess I'ot busy at the office Sean Lennon was coive him a Christmas present, a portrait of himself, but I don't know if it'll be done in tis I wasn't supposed to and I got scared and got pains
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Thursday, Deceood-looking lady ran out of Martha's screa my name and I looked and it was Claudia Cohen'sher dress for her wedding to Ron Pereluard because he looks a little Mafia But he owns Technicolor or so
Gerry Grinberg from North American Watches cauess people aren't buying watches He said people were buying ifts but only for themselves Bob Denison only sent me half of what he sent me the year before, but then Park Avenue does have five times more trees planted on it than last year
Eizo,him to Yoko Ono She wants to see him every day, but he can't do that, and anyway your body needs a week to rest He's doing little Sean tomorrow And Eizo's wife's poetry teacher wrote me a Pop poem that I don't knohat to do with It's like, ”I touch you and you touch ossip about everybody through this shi+atsu network Eizo told me that Yoko's boyfriend Sam has a soft body And he said Yoko's been sick and has a bad back
And then went to 990 Fifth Avenue to the party Judy Peabody was giving for Peter Allen I was talking to this art student and suddenly Peter ca ith ine? That's the first tiine? That's the first time that's ever that's ever happened to uess Peter felt silly because later he was trying to entertainhappened to uess Peter felt silly because later he was trying to entertain
Saturday, December 22, 1984 Went to David Daine's, the hair stylist Kent Klineman, Hedy's husband, was there, and all he sees in me is a tax shelter and all I see in him is a check I don't know if the deal for a Cowboys and Indians portfolio he wants to coh because I won't do it as a tax shelter We'll see
Sunday, Dece three Sundays because of wanting to avoid Crazy Matty So I peeked out and then made a dash for it It's so funny to think that Matty was married to Genevieve Waite once Are Genevieve and John Phillips still together? And I' to think, has Matty ever ever had a job? No, I don't think so Except for a few months there in the sixties when he was a vice-president or so at Fox-when all thosefreaks I re Matty back and forth froot, he was in had a job? No, I don't think so Except for a few months there in the sixties when he was a vice-president or so at Fox-when all thosefreaks I re Matty back and forth froot, he was in Bad Bad So that was a day's work I forgot he was the cripple in the wheelchair
So went to church, caot exactly one drawer done Made carrot juice andmess Watched The Jewel in the Crown The Jewel in the Crown Read an article from an LA newspaper on Ronnie Levin's murder They haven't found his body but they think this bunch of rich kids killed him and also killed the father of one of these kids-an Iranian- they found his his body in the desert and they think Ronnie's is nearby It was fascinating, read it twice body in the desert and they think Ronnie's is nearby It was fascinating, read it twice
Monday, Deces for ht they would be some kind of wild style or color, which I would have preferred-a new look But they were grey Stretch And we never knohat to say to each other, it's always aard
Called a cab and Benjamin dropped me Then called Halston and it eird, he said not to co this Christ a party for his neighbors and it sounded sort of bad Christmas parties always are Except at Halston's-they were always sort of nice Went by and rang Claudia Cohen's bell on 63rd Street because I want to get invited to her wedding to Ron Perel to be theto be I think best ht in the house was on but they weren't home Dropped their scarves off
Benjaan's, to the penthouse (cab 4) Steve's letting Bianca live there And her personal stuff was all over the roo And I gave her and Jade scarves and hers was framed, and then later I saw it on the bed and she'd taken it out out of the frame, and I don't knohy I mean, even if she didn't like it, it was art of the frame, and I don't knohy I mean, even if she didn't like it, it was art
And Dianne Brill asked uess I lied when I said yes because I couldn't remember if I really did or not Because I've read so many books about her Dianne wanted to know if it was voodoo that killed her
Thursday, December 27, 1984-Aspen, Colorado Talked to Dr Bernsohn He said that the secret to sleeping was to scratch the crystal and brush it and put it on your forehead
Patti D'Arbanville and Don Johnson gave a big party, andway from the Max's Kansas City back room days when she was best friends with Geraldine Save the best party I've been to since we've been co to Aspen She's the creah She never could Even e filmed her in Paris in our movie L'Amour L'Amour-even in Paris she had no fashi+on Jane Forth and Donna Jordan had all the style in that movie because the boys dressed thes and a white dress that didn't show off the shape of her body Don looks sort of old, not the fresh young boy I reic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart Before his co, when he wasn't actingaround withthe Jiuy who supported Carter, Phil Walden from Capricorn Records, had the whole hotel down there booked for us That ti, when he wasn't actingaround withthe Jiuy who supported Carter, Phil Walden from Capricorn Records, had the whole hotel down there booked for us That time I was there with Catherine Guinness
Monday, Deceer of Aspen, the Grand Dahs) pussy Paepcke She's eighty-two and she's very beautiful, she looks like Katharine Hepburn Her house was great, next to Jack Nicholson's and Lou Adler's An i tea, she's spry She and her husband as this big industrialist had a ranch in Denver and then they went and founded Aspen pussy Paepcke She's eighty-two and she's very beautiful, she looks like Katharine Hepburn Her house was great, next to Jack Nicholson's and Lou Adler's An i tea, she's spry She and her husband as this big industrialist had a ranch in Denver and then they went and founded Aspen
Jack Nicholson's not around this year He's fil in LA
Wednesday, January 2, 1985-Aspen-Los Angeles We're at the Mondrian Hotel And it does look like a Mondrian They've got valuable Miro paintings in the lobby and art all over It's on Sunset near La Cienega It's not Beverly Hills
You knohat's fascinating is that Hollywood's still filled with all these delicate ladies who look like they were beauties, all glued up and in their cars, driving around Not with drivers, just driving themselves And you wonder what they used to do, what star they were, what roles they had Everybody reminds me of Jane Wyatt out there Those skinny, petite beauties ear turbans and they're at prehty years old How do these ladies live? I uess one of their husbands must have been rich But wasn't that before couess you don't need much to live Like you don't pay rent if you have your own house And food, well, you can eat at McDonald's or there's always so, took a lot of pictures on Melrose Went to the Interview Interview office out there, talked to Gael and I was really upset when she told eles That's two office out there, talked to Gael and I was really upset when she told eles That's two Interview Interview editors dead of AIDS editors dead of AIDS
Thursday, January 3, 1985-Los Angeles We went over to a studio across fro Cramer's TV show Dynasty Dynasty there The there The Love Boat Love Boat writers are working onto filet scared, I don't know if I can writers are working onto filet scared, I don't know if I can go go through with it The guy was really gay And Joan Collins got done shooting and I said hi, and she said I still owed her a painting She was great And Ali McGraaved There were like 500 people there working And it's directed by Curtis Harrington as an underground filmmaker in the sixties who did voodoo kind of stuff, and now he's doing this through with it The guy was really gay And Joan Collins got done shooting and I said hi, and she said I still owed her a painting She was great And Ali McGraaved There were like 500 people there working And it's directed by Curtis Harrington as an underground filmmaker in the sixties who did voodoo kind of stuff, and now he's doing this
Then ent to the Interview Interview offices and I got excited about offices and I got excited about Interview Interview I think I do want to buy a building out there, because they'll only give you leases to rent for a fewto be the next street that's big I got excited on Melrose Jon's trying to move into production at Paraee, I can't believe that it gets dark here at the same time it does in New York It seeer I was shocked
Then ent out to the pre and it was absolutely great And you look and you think why can't they ers as reat in it The fashi+ons look like today And it was a big event Got ho and it was absolutely great And you look and you think why can't they ers as reat in it The fashi+ons look like today And it was a big event Got home around 11:30 or 12:00
Saturday, January 5, 1985-Los Angeles Did Melrose It arm and beautiful and sunny Oh, and I heard about about a way to shoplift at the super to do-switching the price stickers at the super the price stickers at the supermarket
Went to the new museum way don It was an automobile show Real cars mixed in with Ma tisses and Rosenquists And they had a painting of mine in it that they had labeled a ”Car Crash” But when I saw it, it wasn't a Car Crash it was a Disaster The one with the fireman Should I tell them? How could they not even notice it didn't have a car in it And the show's going on to Detroit In Detroit Detroit they'll notice there's no car But really, should I tell them? they'll notice there's no car But really, should I tell theeles-New York Jon invited rey day but we ate outside anyway, they put heaters all around you, so you don't know it's cold
Flew to New York And at the baggage you see how pushy people are This guy with polished nails just pushed everybody aside, and then there was a girl in a wheelchair and when her luggage caot up out of the chair and ran and got it (laughs) (laughs) That's a real scene Home at 1:30 (tip to driver 20) That's a real scene Home at 1:30 (tip to driver 20)