Part 53 (2/2)

Thursday, September 19, 1985 It was a busy day at the office Fred waswith Bruno Rupert had an idea to stretch canvas over a box for the Ca doctor (cab 6)

And Ifor her Mexican artist This is the second try and poor Paige, just as it was happening they get word about the Mexican earthquake which was really bad-maybe a 78 This kid has no luck, this artist

Jean Michel picked me up in a limo and ent to Rockefeller Center to a party that this Steven Greenberg guy was giving in his office which is two floors above the Rainbow Room Two terraces, and the art orth around 10 eboy hairdo-is the one who got me the live demonstration job with the Co He's an investor, I guess Soives business advice to coot Clive Davis to use us And there were so ynous boys, just beautiful Don kids And I was just thinking if only the Rainbow Rooreat

On the way to Area we decided to go to Odeon When ere at Odeon I asked for the paper, and there in Friday's Ti headline: ”Basquiat and Warhol in Pas de Deux” And I just read one line-that Jean Michel washeadline: ”Basquiat and Warhol in Pas de Deux” And I just read one line-that Jean Michel was my ”mascot” Oh God

Friday,Septeo to, of the Reigning Queens portfolio that I just hate George Mulder for showing here in America They were supposed to be only for Europe-nobody here cares about royalty and it'll just be another bad review And I told Jean Michel not to come to this I asked hiot called my mascot, and he said no

Sunday,Septeo for five minutes Ten or fiveThen cabbed down to Sixth Avenue and 26th Street to the flea et Fiestaware cheap It never went anywhere, I guess

Monday,September 23, 1985 Benjamin passed out Interviews Interviehile I saw Dr Li She told me she'd talked to Jon Gould and that he said he had a 100 uy is giving him 50 million and that Paramount will match it while I saw Dr Li She told me she'd talked to Jon Gould and that he said he had a 100 uy is giving him 50 million and that Para, ”Thanks for being so patient” And I have no idea what thathis new secretary froood kid to go around to movies with

Tuesday,Septe-the pink one of the soup box

I had a e to call Sandy Gallin's secretary at hoot the flowers-they were the s and I just wanted to say, ”Oh cut it out and giveher job and didn't really want to do it and she kept bubbling and gave her fake speech and asked for his money back I said well sure I'd send it to hi people sometimes so uy I? And so after that I had some chocolate and watched TV and fell asleep

Friday,Septe on TV because there was nothing else to watch For some reason they decided to cancel the Today Sho and everything to bring constant storm updates and they made it sound so horrible But then it never really hit New York and everything to bring constant storm updates and they made it sound so horrible But then it never really hit New York

Sunday,Septeotten sunburn Went to 86th and Third, to Doyle's for the joint auction of Louis Ar's stuff and Jaether and every little whisk and pot and piece of sheetover theht there in the apartues (20)

Monday,September 30, 1985 nobody cared aboutthe same way, but where I was mobbed before, nobody cared It's funny, what makes some days different (newspapers 2, phone 1)?

Thursday, October 3, 1985 Ohhh, why do we have to get old? The Enquirer The Enquirer article that Frank Sinatra is suing over said that when he gets up in thethat he asks his wife Barbara, ”How do I look article that Frank Sinatra is suing over said that when he gets up in thethat he asks his wife Barbara, ”How do I look today?” today?” Oh, Frankie I reh to see hi about, and there weren't any girls there swooning I went in andwith Tooing into town and seeing him Oh, Frankie I reh to see hi about, and there weren't any girls there swooning I went in andwith Tooing into town and seeing him

Went to the Whitney I was there to ”advertise”And for all the work and publicity, I should've charged thee coetting desperate Me standing there twenty years later and still with a Ca, it felt like a New Yorker New Yorker cartoon And Rita Moreno was there, I guess she's a spokes raph me, and she said, ”But he asked me to be in the picture,” and they said, ”We only want cartoon And Rita Moreno was there, I guess she's a spokes raph me, and she said, ”But he asked me to be in the picture,” and they said, ”We only want hiory It's like when I've done the portrait of a big baseball player, they photograph Because it's just that it's a different category It's like when I've done the portrait of a big baseball player, they photograph him him and I'm shoved aside and I'm shoved aside

And I was so hurt-I saw Dolly Parton's picture in the paper, she's in town, she and Sandy Gallin went to a Broadway show, and they didn't even call otten the real story of the portrait yet I'll get it out of Steve Rubell sometime when he's drunk

All the headlines were that Rock Hudson died

Keith called to tell e at 4:00 in the et up early?

Monday,October 7, 1985 The woman in the stationery store said, ”So you're a TV star” Sheto be on The Love The Love Boat this Saturday Bought newspapers (2) They had stories about Rock Hudson that said there were two baseball stars in his life and Boat this Saturday Bought newspapers (2) They had stories about Rock Hudson that said there were two baseball stars in his life and (laughs) (laughs) forty truck drivers forty truck drivers

Tuesday,October 8, 1985 Paige and I decided that ould start having ”blind-date dinners” because that's a good way to meet new people and entertain advertisers at the same time Taet e

Steve Rubell called about the Dolly Parton/Sandy Gallin thing He said that it was really Geffen Geffen as getting the painting He said that Dolly never saw the painting, and that she didn't understand that it was going to be over the fireplace, but I said no, that she kneas getting the painting He said that Dolly never saw the painting, and that she didn't understand that it was going to be over the fireplace, but I said no, that she knew exactly exactly where it was for because she was standing right there when Sandy showed ht there when Sandy showed ine's (4) and I just had a light jacket and all these places have such strong air conditioning, it really is frightening (doorman 5, limo 25) It was a costume party and Anthony Quinn was there and Pele and Lee Radziwill, and it was an old crowd

And Mariel Heway's husband, Steve Cris hip with ers, and I said I didn't know all that hip talk, and he said oh, that he didn't really, either He talked about the Mandrexes and going to India and that type of thing

Cornelia wanted to go to the Zulu Lounge so we left and went up there Gael Love was sort of euy who's big and acts butch rites for the o-Chuck Pfeiffer Someone said he's married, but he's never with a wife and he's too-much, you know?

Tama ith Gael and she said that her romance with Bob Guccione, Jr hadn't worked out, that he was supposed to take her to LA and didn't

Wednesday,October 9, 1985 The neas all about the boat trouble, the Achille Lauro Achille Lauro seajacking in Egypt And now probably everybody will be watching seajacking in Egypt And now probably everybody will be watching The Love Boat The Love Boat this week because of it, withto watch it this week because of it, withhed and said she was trying so hard to find so a new boyfriend? But blind date dinners are are a fun idea You find soood, you just a fun idea You find so bring them and somebody may actually like them, you never know them and somebody may actually like them, you never know

And I killed a roach and it was a trau trauma I felt really terrible

So then it was ti it because I want Taet into thereat neay to s a blind date for soht Dr Bernsohn for Tama, and she's funny, like a Jewishto Mr Chow's and she had on crystal earrings so that the crystal doctor would look at the to Mr Chow's and she had on crystal earrings so that the crystal doctor would look at them But now I'et into trouble Because see, using crystals to heal and stuff isn't really legit Oh and the night before when Taht, write about Bernsohn and that he'll get into trouble Because see, using crystals to heal and stuff isn't really legit Oh and the night before when Taive her twenty ive her twenty more years and shell be Sylvia-she'd had a few drinks and her hair was disheveled

And Ta nuuy was trying to call his ex-girlfriend as getting irlfriend and he told her about what had happened, and now she's co on the date with Tama and him This is how desperate people are (cab 5, dinner 350)

And uy, oh God, I just hated hiay kid Paige had ht and he was a student at Columbia

I ran into Gerard, he works for the Parks Depart opposite 64th Street

And Dr Bernsohn was interested in Paige at the beginning, because Tama looks like his uy froyptian delegation at the UN, so you can io on duty at the last minute Andto e disappeared But she was disappointed anyway, because he was an airhead, he could only talkher facelift-yes, she had one! She's telling everyone With all her probleet a sex change, I don't think Paige dropped e dropped me off

Thursday, October 10, 1985 Yesterday was the day for reading all about Yul Brynner, theyAnd then late in the day the neas that Orson Welles had died, and they were putting them up as if they were both equal Oh, but it was such a pleasure to reat I don't overn yesterday If I were the Klinghoffers I'd just go to the trial and shoot theet off four shots in a courtrooet one I wouldn't care which one One would be enough I know, I know-yesterday I was so worried about killing a cockroach But this is different-the cockroach didn't do anything to anybody, and I didn't kill it right so it was squir Oh, listen, there's going to be a war Let's stockpile things Silk stockings Candy bars (cab 430, phone 150, newspapers 2)

The Coleco Cabbage Patch guy cae Patch dolls I did, but he's paying anyway And ere talking and he said that Peter Max was his inspiration, that he used to be an illustrator and now he's an executive He proposed that he do an Andy Warhol line of clothing with me and that we could both make lots of money He said that his co artist I told hio with clothes, Stephen Sprouse He'd never heard of hi and the T-shi+rts and Keith's store, and he'd never heard of hi about The Love Boat The Love Boat The ad for it in TV Guide only shows the Meret me on the cover? cover?

Friday,October 11, 1985 Milan the partygiver called and said he'd organized a dinner for the crown prince of Belgium at Tuileries, and that the crown prince wanted toto Mick on the phone and Mick said he'd go Worked till 8:30 (cab 5) The crown prince didn't open hisDinner ful, and everybody was all coked up They started talking about ”raphers outside and spent about two hours deciding how to get out of the place, and it was just Ron Galella! When you're not high you can't believe these people If you didn't know they were on so, you'd think it was so real

Then ent to the Palladiu to take o because it would be one more person to know and then I'd have to see her Got home about 2:30 or 3:00

Sunday,October 13, 1985 Went to Sotheby's and they hadof Ten Lizzes up It was a preview of an auction couess they stretched it to s of mine in it-200,000 or 300,000 pictures The Liz is 400,000 They're all from Philippa and Heiner Friedrich, from their Dia Foundation Ran into a lot of old ladies who said they saw me on The Love Boat The Love Boat

And then I walked home and called that kid Stephen Bluttal froht of the Lincoln Center Film Festival (cab 3) And the ether by a bird with a bell on it And it was in Italy in those beautiful empty towns they find to film in

Monday,October 14, 1985 Tae what happened and she said she didn't think they hit it off There's another blind-date night next week And they have a construction owner and a doctor for me, and I decided I don't really want toGraood time

And oh, I really missed Jean Michel sodistant or he was high I told hiuess when they break up he'll be available again

And oh, for Paige's next blind date, I said I've got a 6'3” black instructor froe h he cahs) Day and you have to Day and you have to believe believe people, don't you? people, don't you?

When I alking houard the Nixon house on 65th Street I thought he'd sold it And there were policemen nearby, and policemen always know me, so I would have asked the it, but then they would write it down that I asked, so I didn't

Tuesday,October 15, 1985 Went to Sotheby's It's so awful, you see people pulling up the upholstery on chairs there and everything, just ripping it up, and you're allowed to, to check to see things like if it's the original Ah it It's so nutty

Then cabbed to e at the office (5, newspapers 2, phone 150) And Paige and I had a big scene about these chocolates that this Neuchatel chocolate woe is just absolutely a weirdo I had a talk with Fred and he says it's not good to be so involved with people froht, because I see one side, but then there's other sides

So this wo her how e won't even have one piece! won't even have one piece! And I'e, have have a piece,” and she's shrieking and laughing hysterically and absolutely refusing, and finally I ate lots of pieces but nobody a piece,” and she's shrieking and laughing hysterically and absolutely refusing, and finally I ate lots of pieces but nobody else else would Here this woman's an would Here this woman's an advertiser advertiser and it's all these secret chocolate-eaters and they and it's all these secret chocolate-eaters and they won't touch one piece! won't touch one piece! So finally I took all the chocolate upstairs and So finally I took all the chocolate upstairs and then then Paige cae caive it to her