Part 51 (2/2)
Here from Dusseldorf, the partner of Hans Mayer, came to lunch at the office And Fred and I had words because he was being so elegant and grand and said to ht front of Hete, ”Why don't you tell Hete how you really feel about the gallery not paying you” You know, so I was stuck Fred really is bored He wants to do a change, I guess Like Paul Morrissey did
And then Paige picked me up, but she was only in a taxi, not a car And I said I'd said to get ”a car” and she said, ”Well this is is a car” (cab 9) Then got to the Apollo and there wereand it was benefit for the Negro College Fund Hall and Oates cae arrived with Cornelia and they were in a box and he was throwing kisses And then two of the Tereat, and you could really see that that's who Hall and Oates copied And when it was over we left and the cops were just crazy for Boy George I've never seen anything like it They just all wanted his autograph so much, and Marilyn said to one of them, ”I want to have an affair with you,” and he said, ”I have someone you'll really like” Ion with the cops a car” (cab 9) Then got to the Apollo and there wereand it was benefit for the Negro College Fund Hall and Oates cae arrived with Cornelia and they were in a box and he was throwing kisses And then two of the Tereat, and you could really see that that's who Hall and Oates copied And when it was over we left and the cops were just crazy for Boy George I've never seen anything like it They just all wanted his autograph so much, and Marilyn said to one of them, ”I want to have an affair with you,” and he said, ”I have someone you'll really like” Ion with the cops
Saturday,May 25, 1985 Walked to work Kenny Scharf came by And he said he doesn't knohat to do because he likes to feel free and do whatever he wants but he does love Teresa and the baby, but he feels he has to have that free feeling So Kenny was there for hours and then left at 7:00
And you know, in the pizza place next to the office on 33rd Street, the one that's owned by Koreans or Chinese, it was so sad, because they were cleaning up and throwing out all the stuff fros, and I wanted to go through it all but I didn't And this wos and I don't know if she belonged there or if she didn't You don't know about people Everybody just does their own stuff on their own scale There was a naked baby in the middle of the floor
Sunday,May 26, 1985 Another hot day Rode around the city and over to New Jersey with Chris and Randall Peter and Chris are trying to decide whether they should keep it together or not And Randall is a gymnast who came to New York to see the world and the first person he sees is Chris so you knohat part of the world he's seeing
Then went home and watched TV Deceptions Deceptions with Stefanie Powers I went to sleep, facing life alone with Stefanie Powers I went to sleep, facing life alone
Wednesday,May 29, 1985 Was picked up by Benjamin and there was a note froid at the office
Then cab (4) to e for her lunch at the office with soe sells so many ads is she actually enjoys the people shethem for business, which not many people can do
Then Jean Michel ca around and Paige called up to me on the phone and screamed, ”Get him out out of here!” And I just didn't knohat to say, she hung up before I could even think, and then she just left the office She was calling Jean Michel a creep and everything of here!” And I just didn't knohat to say, she hung up before I could even think, and then she just left the office She was calling Jean Michel a creep and everything
Cabbed to Canastel's (5) to Katie Ford's dinner where she said she'd have uy wanted ive us enough credit-I was going to do it with Jean Michel, but eventually the ould've been worth reat, just jaood food and stea as the main course at the Odeon Like California food
So I ith thisblack eyes, and he knew all about ”walk-ins” They're when somebody else walks walks into your body Itthis trau And you knohen I was little I remember I was really sick and didn't like school and had to be dragged there and then one day I changed-after that I loved school and everything, so I think somebody may have walked into me then I'm not clear on who the walk-ins are Souls And I'm not clear on where they come fro this trau And you knohen I was little I remember I was really sick and didn't like school and had to be dragged there and then one day I changed-after that I loved school and everything, so I think somebody may have walked into me then I'm not clear on who the walk-ins are Souls And I'm not clear on where they come from
Monday,June 3, 1985 Benjamin picked me up and ent to the West Side to Dr Linda Li She told me Fantastik is poison, not to use it (phone 2) Decided to stay out as long as possible because it'd been a couple of days of el Nosh (10) and stood in line for scras and it was so dirty but it was okay, I faced it Wandered to 46th Street Saw the sights Took pictures of drunken ladies sleeping on park benches and felt that life was just so awful And I don't knohat I try to look good for Everybody when you look at the So ani ofQueens shon on West Broadway and Greene Street This is the show that George Mulder got together So Rupert's ”wife” picked us up in the Bentley and the ot down there and parked next to Victor's liot son a paper saying he wouldn't talk about Halston ever, but I ot this wad of ot this wad of one
And I've hit rock bottoutter The rock botto an opening in somebody's rent-controlled apart a mirror! And they had hors d'oeuvres that I think they werein the kitchen And these Dutch TV people were all around It was so lon and tacky Fred wasn't there He'd already left, didn't want to facealong Christopher Street later on, on his way up to the Ballrooe We just ran into hiave him a ride
So we left there and went up to the Scavullo thing and I sat down but then Cornelia was screa that there was a fashi+on show and that I was supposed to be in it, so sorabbed me and took me to the basement, and it was every fa all over the place And I was in Stephen Sprouse, and Cornelia and I got the biggest applause And Boy George was in the audience and Marilyn, and they said let's go to dinner, they had a limo, but I went in a cab anyway, up to Mr Chow's (cab 6)
It was e and Marilyn and Cornelia and Couri Hay and they all act like horrible brats-Couri screamed across the restaurant to Dianne Brill, ”Get your pussy over here,” and this is a place with just regular people, and then Cornelia would say to somebody who'd told them to please be quiet, ”You look like a dried duck,” or so like that Just awful And then Marilyn saw Mary Wilson sitting at a table and went over and Benjaer, and then she ca to her coo (dinner 400)
And Boy George and Marilyn like s and then I'h to think of a comeback, so I'm not a threat to them
Wednesday,June 5, 1985 Picked up by Benjas onto the street and was shocked by how much there was Dr Linda Li and Dr Bernsohn both told me that mothballs were absolute poison Bernsohn said he wouldn't get within forty feet of thes And I brought up ”walk-ins” and told hiht have walked into me when I was shot, in addition to somebody maybe walked irto me when I was little But somehow these walk-in theories don't make total sense to me He said that if your body is really weak and sick nobody alk into it And then I said, ”But then people could be walking into you the rest of the tiet it yet
Cabbed with Jon who's back in town for a couple of days to 32nd Street to see Rambo And the movie was ridiculous It was like Friday the 13th Friday the 13th but with explosions but with explosions
Thursday, June 6, 1985 Went over to Macy's to judge the Madonna look-alike contest They expected 200 girls but there were only 100 They'd spent a fortune, these girls, on the clothes and jewelry It was over pretty fast, by 5:10, and it'd started at 4:30
Went to Radio City Music Hall for Madonna's concert (cab 6) And the shoas so great Just so simple and sexy and Madonna is so pretty Now she's thinner and just so great And afterwards ent downstairs where there was a private party, the level with the ladies' rooone backstage And she was fun She said she was going to the Palladiuo to Keith's dinner, and she was so sweet and nice So ent and drove to Iso on 11th Street and Second and then Madonna did arrive, she careat They were teasing her about her false eyelashes, saying they were bigger than Louise Nevelson's And everyone was so thrilled, the waiters were on the floor She was drawing cocks on Futura's pants
Monday,June 10, 1985 Theso loud and it was Crazy Matty and the neighbors are really getting upset fro around all the time When Benjamin came he went out to talk to hi as o bother Warren Beatty at the Carlyle, at 3:00 he's going to make a nuisance call to Woody Allen, then at 8:00 he has the Emmys to attend where he'll stand behind the police lines and screaave hiid at the office and divert him away from me
I just don't knohat to send Leo for the show he's doing Anything I send it'll just look like the stuff by the kids who'reit that way now, only they do it better better than me So nobody will even want to copy it And Jean Michel said he got a huge bill-like osian, for his stay there when he was living so high than me So nobody will even want to copy it And Jean Michel said he got a huge bill-like osian, for his stay there when he was living so high
Thursday, June 13, 1985 Then got a cab and the driver knew all about me, said he'd just seen Bad Bad on video and knew all about the building on 33rd Street He said, ”Youtitle on video and knew all about the building on 33rd Street He said, ”You ]: ”I ive hiht,” so I had to give hi thisfor that ”How to Paint” video thing that the computer couess I got the job I was afraid that they were going to put a spotlight on me and have me draw in front of 700 people, but it was okay It's a 3,000but can do a hundred ti Aiven hi the day before and I thought he'd be fine When I called to ask Jed to take him to the vet he wasn't in town, so I took him myself (cab 3) Dr Marder wasn't there soDr Greene, then dropped Amos back ho I told him that the crystal I'd put in the kitchen at the office to repel roaches wasn't working, that ere gettingto call Dr Reese about it, and later, in the afternoon, he called and said that the crystal was now reprogrammed to un-reverse itself, so noe'll see the proof But anyhile I was still there, thewas that he told his secretary Judy to get up on the table and pretend to be A with her and she said that she had a crushed vertebra on her left or right side And I hadn't told him! And she told him that farther down she also hadanyo back to huive A lunch at the office The Mosses were co, frooing to acting ca well I let him run around but I don't know if I should have
Ran into David Whitney and Michael Heizer and they said to co And I did and I got so jealous People can walk on it Silkscreened textures on big pieces of cardboard Big like a house And they're just going to throw it out after the show's over It's a hill formation
And somebody told me that my old friend Ted Carey who I once split the cost for a Fairfield Porter portrait with-he painted us both together-has you-knohat
I left work early (cab 6) and when I got ho she was having that night for her Mexican artist Julio Galan was banned by the board of directors of the co-op building where she was having it It was in the saraffiti artists a show I told her that she just had to buck up and reschedule the show someplace else
So I cabbed down to Indochine for a dinner for Elizabeth Saltzman Shawn Hausman had a beautiful fifties car and after the dinner he drove us over to Area where they had these kids on skateboarding loops It looks so dangerous, like a twenty-five or thirty-foot arc, fifteen feet high One kid fell when the light went in his eye
Wilfredo who used to work for Ar hiot kicked out of his apartht, and his mother's very careful and makes his brother come into the city to pick hio to all the clubs with Wilfredo So then went to the Palladium Wilfredo's brother drove Cornelia was there with Philippe Junot Stayed five minutes and went hoid a lot yesterday She threw out an important piece of artwork It was a doodle that Michael Viner wantedfor his wife Deborah Raffin
Lunch was for the Krizia people And Paige by then was a new person, coht before when she had to stand in front of the building for four hours telling people as they a rrived that the art shoas cancelled, and soe would have to say it, she'd burst out crying all over again I asked her how she was able to recover so quickly and she said it was part of her job So that was good I told her she should put her advertising commission money into a loft and have four or five art shows a year there
I decided to go to the Whitney Toedding which was at 5:00 at St Bart's Fred was an usher (cab 350)
The bride looked beautiful I was sitting next to Charles Evans Nick Love froot the style of the thirties which I think will come back sometime for actors I wasn't invited to the reception Had tennis shoes on and walked uptoith Joan Quinn
Called Jean Michel but he hasn't calledaway He used to call me all the tied into black tie before Roy Cohn's birthday party Called PH to say I was leaving immediately to pick her up but then noticed a note from Matty outside the door so I waited a few minutes and peeked out theand didn't see hiot a cab Picked up PH Got to the Palladium (cab 550) We were at a table with Vera Swift and Philippe Junot and Jacqueline Stone and sohter Kimberly and a man I didn't know and tomen I didn't know Said hello to Barbara Walters who just announced her engageood
And everybody was saying how sick Roy looked, and that he was dying Steve Rubell told me the other week that Roy had cancer and was in reular cancer He didn't look well
And Jacqueline Stone was going on, worried about her son, Oliver, who's now in El Salvador directing a movie he wrote and nobody's heard from him in a week And I remembered later that Boaz Mazor was the star of Oliver Stone's first eout poppers to the actors to help them act
And then after dinner the politicians' speeches started Stanley Friedave a speech and ht 847 and said we can't forget the trouble spots in the world like Afghanistan and Nicaragua, while we're having our nice dinner at the Palladiu all the political talk just sat there practically asleep But when somebody at the podium introduced a ”twenty-nine-year-old Donald Trump,” Philippe's head popped up and he said, ”Donald's not twenty-nine!” And then the last speaker was Roy hi blocks of TV e footage of Roy's face fro his anti-Co And they brought out a big fat cake and then a Kate S over the speakers with ”God Bless Aivers kept referring to came down and it was actually shredded red, white, and blue banners Plastic Talked to Richard Turley and the lady who invented Weight Watchers And then the dancing ot up And by this ti down from the balcony on the dinner
Wednesday,June 26, 1985 Went into the Whitney to see the Michael Heizer show because I wasn't invited to the dinner that night for the opening, which I thought was so strange, because there it wasthis whole dinner with a list and everything and I wasn't even on it And David was cool to me I mean, here's this man ants to marry me when Philip Johnson kicks the bucket and he didn't even invite ave hi anymore because he doesn't have to court ot all my old films (phone 4, cab 550)
Thursday, June 27, 1985 Stuart Fivar is casting bronzes for Stallone and he doesn't knohat to do because he just saw an original of the one he's casting going at auction for cheaper than he's casting the copy copy for Stallone for for Stallone for (laughs) (laughs), so he doesn't knohat to do, he's afraid Stallone will see it, too And Stuart's girlfriend Barbara Guggenhei art to Stallone for hours and hours when PH was trying to wring just twenty more minutes out of him for her cover interview for our Movies issue
Oh aid I forgot to say that on 45th Street I ran into a lady who said her father delivered Ted Carey and his brother and she asked hoas and I didn't have the heart to tell her he had AIDS
Friday,June 28, 1985 The doorbell was ringing and the rain had started and Benja for hs) call Warren Beatty He's really skinny now We gave hiave him an Interview Interview and he followed us to Versace and he read it outside while he aiting and he becarossed that ere able to slip past him, he didn't even see us Little did we know that he'd be waiting for us don on 33rd Street e got to the office Benja me the weekends off and he followed us to Versace and he read it outside while he aiting and he becarossed that ere able to slip past him, he didn't even see us Little did we know that he'd be waiting for us don on 33rd Street e got to the office Benja me the weekends off
Cornelia called and she tried to tell me a ”secret” but I told her don't bother, that it was so obvious that she was seeing Philippe Junot All these girls want to see what Caroline gave up