Part 53 (1/2)

Asked Wilfredo to the dinner that Paige was giving at Texarkana for advertisers (cab 5) This is part of Paige's new strategy because she got so sick of all the under-people stalling for so long about ads that she decided to only invite the presidents of the companies out, and it turns out a lot of ti to do, they're bored, and they're just dying to go out

Dropped Wilfredo (cab 10) And then I got home and watched some Letterman Letterman, and he had on Eddie Murphy as cool and casual, and then dick Cavett ca and -acting, and Letterman was nervous because Cavett was so funny, he just sort of faded out of the picture dick was really working his ass off, using funny intellectual words and ot to the Meadowlands for the Springsteen concert and it was so exciting, a sea of people We had tickets for the press room, but we stayed out on the floor Dolly Fox and Keith couldn't believe how n for the Jersey kids

The concert was long, from 7:00 to 11:30 The Boss talks dumb and he's a Deetting jobs back for the steel s He's a real little fireball And the choreography, well, if this is choreography, then I can do choreography And by the way, slaood at I really do think so Bruce's laugh is the cute thing, he giggles And he's gotten good-looking He wasn't good-looking when he was younger And then we came back to the city and went to PJ Clarke's Got home about 2:00 (dinner 110)

Tuesday,September 3, 1985 Benjamin arrived and we ran into Crazy Matty and I said why didn't he go bother Greta Garbo over on East 52nd Street, so he took down the address And I can just see it in the papers now after he kills Greta Garbo: ”Andy Warhol gave me the address”

Oh, you knoas talking to sosteen really does give a lot of his et hi to publicize Far at this girl in the movie with this hooked nose and I realized it was Jennifer Grey I ot himself a new nose and didn't send her for one Isn't that o to the movie for the nose-you have have to see it And for Kevin Costner, he'll have a big career The ood to see it And for Kevin Costner, he'll have a big career The ood

Wednesday,Septe and which nights he hasn't I don't know if he's grand when he drinks or grand when he doesn't It's like he thinks he's Conde Nast or so And I said that the Stallone issue of Interview Intervieas great, but that I can't see it paying for itself And he said yes, yes, that he knew very well howAnd I said, ”Oh, well, okay if you know everything, you know everything But I re debt nobody knew about, but if you know everything, that's great” was great, but that I can't see it paying for itself And he said yes, yes, that he knew very well howAnd I said, ”Oh, well, okay if you know everything, you know everything But I re debt nobody knew about, but if you know everything, that's great”

Went to Keith's party in his new loft (cab 3) And Keith had a good group, too, a lot of girls Martin Burgoyne was there and he told raph the paintings Keith and I gave her for a wedding present They'd called me and I said no but then I told them that if they wanted to try Keith they should just call him So Martin said Madonna hates us for that and I told Martin he should've ave her for a wedding present They'd called me and I said no but then I told them that if they wanted to try Keith they should just call him So Martin said Madonna hates us for that and I told Martin he should've made her not hate us

Thursday, Septeo with us to see Susan Blond's act, Luther Vandross, at Radio City Music Hall (cab 3) And a black girl said she'd show us to our seats, and she took us down an aisle and hadthere and then I realized she had just wanted an autograph, that she wasn't even an usher That was funny But I ht aisle, anyway So we found our seats and Eddie Murphy they said was somewhere but I didn't see him aisle, anyway So we found our seats and Eddie Murphy they said was so and his songs were all long long stories But very good, the audience loved him Then we cabbed to Area (7)

And Lester Persky was there, drunk, kissing everybody, saying how I'd picked hihs) I guess I've told him that so often that he's started to believe it And he wanted to e, so he had uess Boy George lost interest because Lester cauess I've told him that so often that he's started to believe it And he wanted to e, so he had uess Boy George lost interest because Lester came over and wanted to be reintroduced

And Lester's friend Tommy Dean was there who I just can't stand I reive us the ly Oh, I re

Benjamin walked me to a cab and I went uptown (8)

Friday,September 6, 1985 Jean Michel came in and our show is on Saturday But really, the shows that get noticed are in October and November, so it's still kind of early, but it'll be okay, just a little thing And in his stupor Jean Michel knocked paint onto the Dolly Parton portrait andhe wants it right away, and I wish they wouldn't rush ood and it's not ready

Saturday,Septeen but it was too hot out and I didn't want the pain

Wilfredo came by the office and helpedMadonna for the Christmas cover She'll be interviewed by Sean Penn and another person I gotback fro prints for me now, and Madonna really kno to do her reat Hollyay Somebodypainted just perfectly Sean's going to be the new Dustin Hoff Madonna for the Christmas cover She'll be interviewed by Sean Penn and another person I gotback fro prints for me now, and Madonna really kno to do her reat Hollyay Somebodypainted just perfectly Sean's going to be the new Dustin Hoffo to the Pyranuson She does ”Edie and Andy” and ”Gala and Dali” and ”Prince and Fallopia” Like Apollonia, get it? The intellectual girl of don She wasn't funny, but she's a good actress and she's a hard worker-there's so there

Monday,September 9, 1985 Today on Donahue Donahue they have Betty Rollin killing her mother She and her husband told the mother what pills she could use to kill herself in what combination and how many, and they sat in a room with her while she did and now Betty Rollin has written a book they have Betty Rollin killing her mother She and her husband told the mother what pills she could use to kill herself in what combination and how many, and they sat in a room with her while she did and now Betty Rollin has written a book

Had calls about the Dolly Parton portrait-”Is the beauty mark in or out?” I'd taken it out and they want it in, so I called Rupert and told hie over to La Colonna because Estee Lauder has a new perfu ht ahat it is Like Giorgio It's a status thing Isn't that interesting? I was next to the editor of Elle Elle, and I'd bought a copy the other day and it's good

Went home and called PH to tell her about ether, and we had great ideas for na for three different smells

Tuesday,September 10, 1985 Chris sold a picture of azine which has an interview inside He'd sell you to a gutter I'n releases for hiazine which has an interview inside He'd sell you to a gutter I'n releases for him to specify that it's only for the one occasion

Sandro Chia came by to visit, he was really sweet And the neas that Carl Andre the artist may have pushed his wife out thein the apart headline said that he was suspected, but then the article was all about how she'd probably fallen And Sandro said, ”Good, good, they should kill all wo divorced from his wife

Wednesday,Septeht and so me from LA about were they ready were they ready, and they wore me down so I finally just said yes, they're ready But I could've done better

Thursday, September 12, 1985 Pete Rose is on Donahue Donahue I wish I could do another portrait of hiood nose and good hair-1 could do a really good one of just his head

Jean Michel called and I'ht he'll pick with s at the Shafrazi Gallery The opening's on Saturday

Oh, and I'd given a 1,200 bid to the girl at the auction place for a bracelet, and so after the auction she called to say that it went for 850 but that she just didn't get reat” I mean, I can live without it, because I can live without anything, but it was nice And I keep going to that lady who has the earrings thatdown on the price, she's going up up all the ti in their head She's stubborn I should try to get her on a day when she has to pay her bills all the ti in their head She's stubborn I should try to get her on a day when she has to pay her bills

I called Stephen Sprouse to have dinner at II Cantinori (cab 6) And then Paloma came in with Fran Lebowitz and with her husband And I said to them, ”Why don't you join us?” And Fran piped up with, ”No! We're waiting for someone” And they weren't No one ever showed up So I think Fran is just horrible because they could havewhile

Friday,September 13, 1985 Jean Michel called and said he was invited to the MTV awards thing Keith called, saos for them And Keith was upset because his tickets were up on the mezzanine Jean Michel arrived in a lio with Keith because Keith was too pushy And it did get sick later on-Keith just wanted to be photographed so badly And he wanted to go with ot to Radio City and it was just the biggest mob there, but the TV cameras had already left so Keith was really upset

My date last year was Maura Moynihan She's in India for eight ot an Indian boyfriend and Sa low-it sounds awful

Eddie Murphy's act was cute, he said ”piss” and ”shi+t” a lot and he went to the ladies' roouest host You know, the Letter But it was boring It wasn't young enough

Then it was over and ere starved We went down to the Odeon But Keith wanted to go right to the Palladium because he didn't want to ot to the Odeon and he was iry, he said, ”I've already eaten,” but we knew he hadn't, because we'd all been together not eating for hours I uess because nobody drank (135)

Then ent in the limo to the Palladium Stayed an hour or two The only person I saas David Lee Roth

Saturday,September 14, 1985 One of those abstract days you just want to block out Worked until 7:00 Called Jean Michel and said I'd pick him up and did

Went over to the Tony Shafrazi Gallery (cab 5) and it all to wall They had a Danceteria doora asked raph Taylor Mead was there Rene Ricard The paintings looked really great, everyone seemed to like them Iman was on the scene, she's broken up with her husband Tony had people downstairs for chane, but it was the same old people and the same old talk My dates were two stores- Lee from Matsuda and Philip from Fiorucci plus Benja clothes Fred had Sabrina Guinness bring David Lee Roth

I earing the Stefano jacket with Jean Michel's picture painted on the back, but I've decided I can't wear odd things, I look like a weirdo I' to stay in basic black

Monday,Septe on Doheny fell through, they couldn't get the zoning changed And the new issue of Interview Interview caer cover which I love, it has the comic-book look And the whole issue I like It looks the way caer cover which I love, it has the comic-book look And the whole issue I like It looks the way Vanity Fair Vanity Fair should look Just the right aht a down her daughter's stone steps But she never advertised I was just thinking about these English people who just take take take and never do anything for you We never got a thing from Fred's best friend, Lord Jerer prints that the Heskeths were going to duht them back and now they're the

Paige had people for lunch and I was looking at their jewelry and thinking it was costu (laughs) (laughs), ”Gee, that's like what the real real stuff costs” And actually it stuff costs” And actually it as real real

And Gael took the Jewish holiday off although she's told me she's Catholic and then once she said Episcopalian

Tuesday,Septe Indian show Millions of things I missed Kenny Lane's lunch for Jackie O, some maharani's in town and Jackie did the India book It was a busy day

Worked till 7:30, was late

Went down to Pier 17 for a party where all the rock and roll kids were going to be (cab 7) This new, huge restaurant on the water, a whole block long The party was just sort of ending Jellybean was leaving Matt Dillon was drunk with his friends, and he showed off for the ave me a kiss

Wednesday,Septeuard, Matty I handed him a dollar and told him to beat it, but he didn't, he stayed withand was li the streets too much And then I went to Dr Bernsohn's

I was in there a long ti out Judy the secretary wouldn't coht Dr Bernsohn crying because the force was so strong And they said he shouldn't have called the ghost because he's Jewish, that Judy should have done it because she's Catholic andyou some phony stuff I mean, ould they make this kind of stuff up? It mustbe real So I left there And Matty was still waiting

I told Matty he should go to et a job at one of these places and stop being on the outside and he had a long answer for that-so in on Madison Avenue and killing the Jews He was talking about that a lot The thing is, we have the sa how attractive I aazines and newspapers 4) (azines and newspapers 4)

And the Ca they commissioned It turns out they wanted exactly what they'd said-a painting of their new box I'd tried to do so clever and make it ain

And the horrible news of the day was that finally after not hearing from Sandy Gallin about the Dolly Parton portraits, I called, and the secretary got on and said, ”Ohhh, Sandy's soooo e that it just doesn't look like my art Sandy just doesn't like the pictures, she said And after fifteen et his 10,000 back And I said, ”Well, sure, you know but doesn't he want ht it would be more colorful, more Pop But I mean, I should have known, because it all started out so strange, with Dolly calling and saying that she was the one anted to buy it-as a gift for Sandy-and then that was just so they could get a better price, I guess, because when I said, ”Well, I'd like to give you one, Dolly, for being so nice to Sandy to give these to hi to give a free one, why not just knock down the price instead?” You know? Hollywood Well, I've learned things Next ti to make them work for it, like co every single step of the way-make them work hard Oh, and then they even said that I could try to sell it They said they'd give ”permission” So that was horrible