Part 52 (1/2)
Saturday,June 29, 1985 Bianca was hit by a car in East Ha to learn how to ride a bike Gold and Fizdale hit her They're those two old dual pianists rite about cooking together now Steve Rubell sees a big settlement
Sunday,June 30, 1985 It was Gay Day parade day Got in a cab and the driver was a happy faggot, he said, ”Hi! Did you go to the parade?” and I just said, ”What parade?” ”What parade?” and he dropped the subject, talked about the weather (cab 5) And on the news the hostages from TWA 847 were free, and then they weren't free and then they were free and he dropped the subject, talked about the weather (cab 5) And on the news the hostages from TWA 847 were free, and then they weren't free and then they were free
Stephen Sprouse called and we o down to Odeon for dinner (cab 7) It was sort of empty (dinner 70) Then alked over to Area Then I remembered there was a Gay Day party at the Palladium We started to walk up Saw some cops by the stable where they keep their horses on Varick Street They were just back frohtstick pointing out fro about their experiences of the day A cute one said hi to me (cab 7)
Tuesday,July 2, 1985 It was Eirl at the office for lunch, and Emanon's so cute, he really is I think he should expand froerald I want to adopt little black kids
Keith called me and wanted to know if our date for Jerry Hall's birthday party was still on He said he'd pick me up at 9:00 Worked till 8:00 Keith picked me up in red patent-leather shoes and ent to Mr Chow's (cab 9) Mr Chow's is fighting having to unionize, because he said he needs the kind of young attractive waiters that you just get off the street I had a glass of cha And I notice that Jerry's birthday parties have gotten irlfriends and their boyfriends, but now it's heavy-duty, no model friends
Thursday, July 4, 1985 Stayed ho was sick Watched the soaps and they're all great, handsoirls, and they really kno to kiss
The Forbes boat was parked at 30th Street and the East River, not the Hudson River like I thought And when Stephen Sprouse and Cornelia and I got there there were all people on the highway screa my name as I went in so that distracted me and I didn't take pictures
Peter Brant was on the boat, he told me that he'd tried to buy the Voice Voice, that he'd really wanted it, but that he lost out when Leonard Stern paid 55 million because he'd only offered 51 million
Anne Bass was there with her husband Sid and kids, and I didn't make a fuss over them which I should have I sat with Mick and Jerry while I ate Watched the fireworks and it was like they were floating by the boat ”Suzy” was there with her son, and I didn't know she had one Then the boat left and sailed around the tip of Manhattan up to where it usually docks on 23rd Street in the Hudson Going fourteen miles an hour
And Cornelia's still with Philippe Junot and Mrs Vreeland isher life, which she is, but she says she doesn't want to get ot hoood tihs) couldn't think who it was couldn't think who it was
Saturday,July 6, 1985 Got up to get to work but decided it wasn't going to happen and I stayed in and read Tried to read Dominick Dunne's book The Two Mrs Grenvilles The Two Mrs Grenvilles but it's too boring because it's not real and it's not fiction Then I started reading the copy of but it's too boring because it's not real and it's not fiction Then I started reading the copy of Savage Grace Savage Grace that Steve Aronson autographed for me It's about the Bakelite woman and her beautiful fairy son who killed her, and it's all the real society people talking and these fascinating letters froood ood story-mothers ant their sons to be fairies so they sleep with theraphed for me It's about the Bakelite woman and her beautiful fairy son who killed her, and it's all the real society people talking and these fascinating letters froood ood story-mothers ant their sons to be fairies so they sleep with them
Told Stephen to meet e rainstorm but it stopped at 7:40 and I walked over Stephen Sprouse was already there and sweet He'd brought Mrs Vreeland some outfits I had my tape recorder on and she cahs) told her, ”A caht she couldn't see And she said, ”No it's not” So then I told her it would be like old tiirl sit in the rooe, that she would want that But then, I guess she is sick, soShe had four vodkas and she sarettes told her, ”A caht she couldn't see And she said, ”No it's not” So then I told her it would be like old tiirl sit in the rooe, that she would want that But then, I guess she is sick, soShe had four vodkas and she sarettes
Andre Leon Talley was co the next day to read the Rothschild book to her, she said She can't remember na was she said that sos for her found her birth certificate, and it was August 29th and not Septe all her life because that's when her parents had told her her birthday was So she's a Leo, she finds out
Monday,July 8, 1985 I forgot to say that over the weekend I saw an old Naked City Naked City episode from the sixties on TV that had Sylvia Miles and Dennis Hopper, and it was during the fil of this episode that I met Dennis, when Henry Geldzahler took me up to 128th Street on the East Side where they were shooting it, and I guess Sylvia must have been there, too, but I didn't know her then And she was playing old whores episode from the sixties on TV that had Sylvia Miles and Dennis Hopper, and it was during the fil of this episode that I met Dennis, when Henry Geldzahler took me up to 128th Street on the East Side where they were shooting it, and I guess Sylvia must have been there, too, but I didn't know her then And she was playing old whores already already
Fred was just back fro off Doheny and Melrose for our Interview Interview office out there It's a house, but it's zoned for business Down from a million to 500,000 And he'd said at first that it didn't need work, but now he said that it needs air conditioning and wiring office out there It's a house, but it's zoned for business Down from a million to 500,000 And he'd said at first that it didn't need work, but now he said that it needs air conditioning and wiring
Dr Bernsohn toldto Tibet with Dr Reese-for his health, uess I don't knowhe's co out there in LA I guess I'll find someone better to work on ot so involved with him, so
Anyway, Dr Bernsohn said he'd been to Sedona, Arizona, that and his back was cured I didn't know anything was still wrong with it Sedona is one of the three big points The others are the pyrale
Went and looked at the Septe on, and I didn't like the illuory-I think they should've just done a new kind of modern type, not the curlicue look And the Stallone pictures that Herb Ritts took don't look any different thanthattrunks Why didn't Ritts at least have hi on, and I didn't like the illuory-I think they should've just done a new kind of modern type, not the curlicue look And the Stallone pictures that Herb Ritts took don't look any different thanthattrunks Why didn't Ritts at least have hi, to establish that it was our picture, not just so, to establish that it was our picture, not just some still frouy frouess he has the job that everybody wants-in charge of developotten the job that Jon anting I don't know if Jon would have been good at it He never liked any of the projects I thought of, but now that he's trying to go into production, I' announced as being announced as his his new projects Like the ”Music Hotel,” that one I was doing with Maura Moynihan Jon always thinks it was his idea after the movie comes out Like new projects Like the ”Music Hotel,” that one I was doing with Maura Moynihan Jon always thinks it was his idea after the movie comes out Like Footloose Footloose He knew Dean Pitchford, the friend of Peter Allen's, and he re about it at a party once and then after Dean Pitchford did it as a movie Jon would always say it'd been his idea, too But these things are all in the weather, and it's whoever does does it that counts it that counts
They were telling me that Cosima von Bulow cancelled her shoot for Interview Interview because she got a sunburn But I mean, she lives in Newport, and she doesn't know about the sun? because she got a sunburn But I mean, she lives in Newport, and she doesn't know about the sun?
Sent Benjamin out on a siiven hie-size sculpture of the Last Supper that we'd bargained the guy down from 5,000 to 2,000 on So he went there and it wasn't there anye So then at this other place, I'd gotten the guy down frootten theht the medium one for 2,000! He didn't remember! didn't remember! It was actually the size I really wanted, anyway, but he wound up giving the second store for the e one for So this ures-a thousand dollars is a lot to waste I just couldn't believe it, after I'd haggled so hard It was actually the size I really wanted, anyway, but he wound up giving the second store for the e one for So this ures-a thousand dollars is a lot to waste I just couldn't believe it, after I'd haggled so hard
Went to Marylou's on 9th Street for a models dinner (cab 5) Joey Hunter was there And all the boy models at one end of the table were desperate that they didn't have girlfriends, and then the girl models were at the other end of the table tired and co that they didn't have boyfriends
Wednesday,July 10, 1985 I'd redone the portrait of a lady from Boston and we had lunch for them so they could see the new ones I learned a lesson: I should never show a portrait when I kno it isn't right The first time around I knew that I'd made her look like a horse, and still I showed it to the, it's just one of those people who photographs all the wrong way-all the bu places Like the bu way in pictures, and it's actually a perfect nose in life But now they loved theht The first time around I knew that I'd made her look like a horse, and still I showed it to the, it's just one of those people who photographs all the wrong way-all the bu places Like the bu way in pictures, and it's actually a perfect nose in life But now they loved them, they took three
Jean Michel caet work done before he goes away again He had Jay filling in paintings, and I' to have Jay fill in, too He tried to hire Jay away, but Jay didn't want to work for hi on TV Bobby Zareo down there, but when you're with that et any publicity Later on that night Jack Nicholson introduced Bob Dylan and called him ”transcendental” But toreal people and the aic With aht words and hs) I just never bought it
Soave ot into bed and he wasand there was another guy there doing the sa with his his limp one, and I fell asleep and when I woke up they were lihs) (laughs) still doing it still doing it
Monday,July 15, 1985 Saw Dr Li and had fun We were going to go back to the East Side but it was such awful irl ca I could do for her I guess she wanted e her life, but I ht I told her she should start going on TV shows to prolalaot her crystal The crystal in the kitchen at the office still isn't working-it still isn't repelling the roaches Vincent says the roaches even run around the clock in the stove, under the glass I'ain
Thursday, July 16, 1985 Cabbed toa solo albu him for our MTV pilot show, Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes Andy Warhols Fifteen Minutes (cab 6) (cab 6)
And there was a big rainstor We ran around with buckets, putting them under all the holes in the roof Worked with Rupert until 8:00
Then I went to dinner with Susan Mulcahy of the Post's Post's Page Six And you know, I realized watching her last night that she's gotten , but the job has put her into a power position, which is weird She does have to fill up the page and I see her becoh She actsthe idea that she's beautiful Page Six And you know, I realized watching her last night that she's gotten , but the job has put her into a power position, which is weird She does have to fill up the page and I see her becoh She actsthe idea that she's beautiful
Wednesday,July 17, 1985 Ran into Sylvia Miles and I told her that we really had to go together to the opening of Marianne Hinton's tro Tuesday because it's called ”Opening of a Loo” So then Sylvia and I can both finally say we've been to the opening of a toilet
Monday,July 22, 1985 Went up to the Kiss of the Spider Wo (cab 5) This is the movie Jane Holzer produced with that David Weisman, the Ciao Manhattan Ciao Manhattan person I can't stand hiuess people are wanting arty ht time person I can't stand hiuess people are wanting arty ht tiet home early and dye my hair because of my public appearance at Lincoln Center for Commodore Computers the next day Dyed my eyebrows, too Black I always dye it black first, and then leave so I'm artistic, sweetheart
Tuesday,July 23, 1985 The day started off with dread as I woke up froht about , to wake up and feel so terrified Had to be over at Lincoln Center at 9:00, so I was up at 7:30 (cab 4) Debbie Harry got there before I did She's a blonde again and she's lost another ten pounds And she earing the outfit from Stephen Sprouse that I've never seen anybody else wear yet-the shoes glued into the leg stocking We ran through it, and the easiest part is running through our thing for the press, that's so easy They said we had to be back there at 5:30
The whole day was spent being nervous and telling ood at stuff like this then I could make money that way and I wouldn't have to paint
Then when I went back there at 5:30 ent on and I thought I was going to pass out I forced et if I didn't Went along and the drawing came out terrible and I called it ”a masterpiece” It was a real mess I said I wanted to be Walt Disney and that if I'd had this o, I could have made it Then afterwards people saw the portraits of Debbie and thought those were (laughs) (laughs) the Xeroxes the Xeroxes
And the news is full of Rock Hudson having AIDS in Paris And now I guess people will finally believe Rock Hudson's gay When you'd tell them before, they wouldn't believe it
Thursday, July 25, 1985 The doorbell rang, it was Doc cox picking me up for the dinner at II Cantinori with Chris and some Interview Interview contest winners And I told hih I haven't been to see him for a while, I've been examined by insurance coreat until a real , and then you could see the difference and you realize that a model is a h I haven't been to see him for a while, I've been examined by insurance coreat until a real , and then you could see the difference and you realize that a model is a model
Then I took everybody over to the Palladiuet theht at the door So ent in and God I hate that place, so packed, so hot And I never sweat Never But at this thing I started to a little Every girl who said hello was an ”Edie” And soht back and dyed like a boy and really white, but they usually give the and I don't knohy They do so different that's not the way (drinks 20)
Martin Burgoyne ca in LA in August
Saturday,July 27, 1985 I called Keith to tell hi Keith's invited, too We cabbed with Paige down to Wooster and Broadway (5) It was a party for Cle beautiful loft Bianca was there on crutches so I was glad I'd sent her flowers She thankedRaraffiti artist was there and he threw reat” And I froze up He has long long eyelashes We decided to go to II Cantinori to dinner girl was giving in a big beautiful loft Bianca was there on crutches so I was glad I'd sent her flowers She thankedRaraffiti artist was there and he threw reat” And I froze up He has long long eyelashes We decided to go to II Cantinori to dinner
We got there and aiting for Jade and her boyfriend And Jade, she really has to grow another head or she's finished-you knohat I mean? She's really beautiful but she's still sirl in her class She was saying how everybody thinks she's the luckiest girl in the world for having these two great parents, but that they just don't kno hard it is She also said that she couldn't wait to get married and have a baby who'll scream ”Grandma!” and ”Grandpa!” at Bianca and Mick I told her she should marry Steve Rubell and she said, ”He wouldn't be faithful,” and Steve said, ”Well would you you be faithful to be faithful to me?” ood answer and she said, ”I'd have to think about it” Which was a good answer
Keith said he was going up to 108th Street for an acid party, so he dropped us off