Part 54 (1/2)

And I finally read a Xerox of Tama's story fro all about what life was like living with Ronnie-she calls him ”Stash” in the story-and she ner and it was fun reading all about what life was like living with Ronnie-she calls him ”Stash” in the story-and she ner

And none of the people that I' Wilfredo doesn't drink and Paige doesn't And last night PH re, that I'd say, ”They think they're too good to drink,” and it's true, I did used to feel that way, but when you don't drink yourself, you sure see things differently

Thursday, October 17, 1985 Called Rupert early in theto tell Rupert he's really got to get rid of hi and a car in a settle But when you tell people, they don't listen to anything when they're in love Instead they go tell the person you're talking about what you said It's human nature They're in love and they don't see it and they blab

Vincent said the Ti to write about our TV show, Fifteen Minutes Fifteen Minutes And it got a great review in the Voice Voice this week this week

Went over to the Forbes boat for the annual benefit for Jonas Mekas's archives Jonas bought a new building I saw hihed and said his horoscope had said don't buy real estate and he bought it for 50,000 and now it's worth a ive Jonas prints of just everything everything He's one of the only people who still really cares They should just give his I can't believe that Hollywood doesn't even have one fil You'd think they could at least do that And shi+rley Clark was there looking the sao

And the returns caest seller ever

Saturday,October 19, 1985 I got a cab don (550) to meet Vincent who had opened up and his mother who's in town for a visit for teeks fro And you can't believe how energetic she is She says she's e, but she looks like she could be Vincent's sister And she does beautiful paintings, really tight, good stuff She wants to be the new Alice Neel I guess she saw her on some TV show

Ran into that artist Bill Katz who raved about the show of Jean Michel anddown this weekend Jean Michel was getting all the good press, not uess he didn't sell many They were expensive-40,000 or 50,000 It was too early, I think I's

Sunday,October 20, 1985 It's the fortieth anniversary of the UN and I think Mrs Marcos is in town It's getting so scary in the Philippines So in the US, but that could be not true, the papers can lie Our governh Like the US must have wanted the Shah to fall But let's see, did ant to lose in Vietna that's in the papers this week, I guess the Kennedys were just too busy having an affair with Marilyn to worry about Vietnam

Monday,October 21, 1985 I called Keith and he couldn't coe Condo, the artist, working there Bruno's just signed him and it turns out this ”poor artist” has a rooht all of his paintings! Like 300 (cab 5)!

Wednesday,October 23, 1985 We're calling in Europe to try to locate the Mao that Mr Choants, and it's a solid sale if we can find it, but it's one of the paintings Leo loaned out that was never sent back My deal with Leo now is that if he sells soet allery going He could've had that show of Jean Michel's and s Tony Shafrazi was the one who really wanted them

Thursday, October 24, 1985 Cabbed to the Palladiu that Jellybean produced, ”Feel the Spin” When Debbie arrived, she saw us in the balcony and cahs) (laughs) be, and then it was the place to be because all the photographers came after be, and then it was the place to be because all the photographers careat Debbie actually was the first Madonna

Friday,October 25, 1985 That receptionist Gael just hired, for the second time when I called she didn't knoho I was, and she should be fired immediately (telephone 2, taxis 3, 4)

Saturday,October 26, 1985 Keith Haring was having an opening, so cabbed to the gallery (cab 4) Keith said that when they had walked into the gallery earlier he ith his uess it must have been around noon-and thite kids threw tar and feathers at the to figure out what that meant-tar and feathers When do you do that and what kind of person would do that? What was theTV producer who's got AIDS and who could it be? I' you, I don't want to know anybody ever into dinner There's different ways to have fun, different kinds of people to have fun with I don't need romance

Monday,October 28, 1985 Puttered around, went over to the West Side (cab 4) Got a free lesson on how to stand on my toes from this lady called Ann Marie who Dr Li wants nment, 75 a lesson But I just can't see it She's fifty-five trying to look thirteen Likesomeone to care about you Got a cab (cab 550, newspapers 2, phone 2)

Went to the office I was nervous about going down to the book signing at B Dalton's on 8th Street and Sixth Avenue after what happened to Keith on Saturday

And I' that 10,000 back to Sandy Gallin I keep losing the address

Cabbed to B Dalton's (5) It wasn't a big, shoving crowd, it was orderly the whole tihetti line that lasted for two and a half hours and we sold 150 books, and Craig Nelson fro like a star Chris Makos came by and he was i at the A, ”Oh God, half these pictures were taken in book and saying, ”Oh God, half these pictures were taken in Europe!” (laughs) Europe!” (laughs) And he was so right! And it was so nice to hear hi I enjoyed it And the book costs 1695 and there was a 10 percent discount and one girl bought six copies and I had to sign long things for her like, ”Dear Harry, I hope you have a good season in the Adirondacks” And he was so right! And it was so nice to hear hi I enjoyed it And the book costs 1695 and there was a 10 percent discount and one girl bought six copies and I had to sign long things for her like, ”Dear Harry, I hope you have a good season in the Adirondacks”

I've been forgetting to say that the new ”Disco” installation at Area has et into Studio 54 It's funny

Tuesday,October 29, 1985 I broke so once a week to re from the twenties I walked on Madison and it was cold in the shade and warave me which I love, the Calvin Klein one with the hood, but the pockets aren't useful They're so big but the way they'reslips out Walked all the way down to the office and the sun was so bright in people's eyes that I didn't get recognized a lot Fred is co Nelson called a few ti him so much that I think I'll take Christopher with me to some of the cities I have to do the book tour in just to drive Craig crazy

I read in ”Suzy” about the Kluge party that I inia, everyone went to it I just didn't want to break my rut, but boy I should have-it was every portrait I should ever be doing

And Paul Morrissey'sthe thehts to Trash Trash back froo someplace and physically pick theo so Mao painting is still lost somewhere in Europe, they think Nice It's Leo's fault And Leo is getting as bad as Huntington Hartford-they say he just says yes to any girl who asks hiuess I can't put off talking about it any longer

[NOTE: For days Andy postponed giving the Diary his account of this day Finally, on Noveet it over with Wednesday The day htmare ca o to the Matsuda fashi+on show I'h this quickly because otherwise I can't face it

nobody froo with me to the Rizzoli Bookstore in Soho, but Rupert's old assistant Bernard had stopped by to visit and he said he would Rupert dropped us off The store is long and the signing was on the second floor in the balcony

I'd been signing Airl in line handed n and then she-did what she did The Diary can write itself here books for an hour or so when this girl in line handed n and then she-did what she did The Diary can write itself here

[She pulled Andy's wig off and threw it over the balcony to a male who ran out of the store with it Bernard held the female while the store called the police but Andy declined to press charges The staff at Rizzoli asked him if he'd like to stop, but there were people with books still waiting so he said no, that he would finish The Calvin Klein coat he earing had a hood, so he pulled it up over his head and kept signing]

I don't knohat heldher over the balcony She was so pretty and well-dressed I guess I called her a bitch or so and asked how she could do it But it's okay, I don't care-if a picture gets published, it does There were so many people with cameras Maybe it'll be the cover of Details Details, I don't know If I would've hit the girl or so and there would be lawsuits and everything It's getting violent out there again, like the sixties I usually stand up at those things but there I was sitting down and people were aboveand I was so worn out and hating Craig Nelson and I wasn't fast enough and it just happened so fast and Bernard was really sweet But you know, you're in this place and everybody's being so nice and you don't think anything will happen She was really pretty, a nice-looking well-dressed girl They had her cornered for a while and then they let her go It was too unusual I guess these people had gone around telling telling everybody they were going to do it, because a lot of people later said they'd heard things It was so shocking It hurt Physically And it hurt that nobody had warnedto do it, because a lot of people later said they'd heard things It was so shocking It hurt Physically And it hurt that nobody had warned ic crystal which is supposed to protectSo I was too nerve-racked, it was like in a uess, pretending that it didn't , and eventually it doesn't You have to live with it It was like getting shot again, it wasn't real I was just the co the people And it was so close to Halloween Then Bernard dropped lish arlic, and two cups of tea and carrot juice and I tried the Caood And no accessories in it

And then PH called to see what tiot off the phone fast, I didn't tell her what happened because I couldn't face it

She found out, though, I guess, because she called back an hour later and told hs) that (laughs) that sure was a first So that's that and now I never have to talk about it again sure was a first So that's that and now I never have to talk about it again

Thursday, October 31, 1985- New York-Washi+ngton, DC-New York Got up at 5 AM AM withfro me up at 7:00 I hadn't fallen asleep until 2 AM AM and I had to get up so early but soht up is so horrible without talking to the Diary for an hour or so, just quietly getting used to it But I did it and the driver Chris had gotten was nice (driver 40)

And we got to LaGuardia and Craig Nelson was standing out there (ton We were picked up at the airport by a lady who had a suy was supposed to be the neatest guy in town, and it was the ht before and I couldn't think of anything funny, and he wanted to know about the book and I didn't know anything and he said, ”I guess you didn't write the book,” and I said, ”I guess I didn't” It was one of his most difficult interviews He will re so , ”Andy and I are both interested in sex” And I', I'm not interested in sex” IAlthough (laughs) (laughs) actually they're alike They just think food food food and what they can take hoeon-toed But Christopher is finally paying his dues, co pictures and getting phone nu me actually they're alike They just think food food food and what they can take hoeon-toed But Christopher is finally paying his dues, co pictures and getting phone nu me

The lady with the small car drove us to the airport and the plane was late, left at 8:50, and we ran into Susan Mulcahy She didn't seem to have heard what had happened to uess, one in that day, so I didn't knohat to do When you're friends with the person are you supposed to tell them and are they then supposed to not write it or what? I didn't knohat you do So I didn't say anything and she was self-conscious because I'd caught her down there I guessan affair with and she was all feh with a hard day ofabout one in that day, so I didn't knohat to do When you're friends with the person are you supposed to tell them and are they then supposed to not write it or what? I didn't knohat you do So I didn't say anything and she was self-conscious because I'd caught her down there I guessan affair with and she was all feh with a hard day ofabout me, she orried about herself

And so then Chris and Craig droppedto dishpeople what had happened on Wednesday all day And I was exhausted and I ate garlic bread and went to bed at 1:00

Friday,November 1, 1985-New York-Detroit-New York Got up at 5:00, just tortured Again it was horrible having to wake up and get right up Christopher picked ot out to the airport on his own Got to the airport around 7:00 Fred's ex-secretary-Vera, the richest girl fro to Acapulco

Got the tickets and newspapers for Chris (7) And I looked at the Daily News Daily News and there in Liz Smith's column was the item on what happened to me, and it was nice, she did it in a nice way And there was a news story about the hot dogband of kids and his money was stolen and his cart overturned But the next day he was back on his corner because he had to earn a living, even though he had second- and third-degree burns and there in Liz Smith's column was the item on what happened to me, and it was nice, she did it in a nice way And there was a news story about the hot dogband of kids and his money was stolen and his cart overturned But the next day he was back on his corner because he had to earn a living, even though he had second- and third-degree burns

Got on the plane and went to Detroit There was a fat girl holding up the America America book to show she was our driver About 200 pounds Sweet And Detroit is all sprawled out It looks like LA And everybody working everyplace is black We went to the top floor of this hotel, the dining roo Detroit, and had lunch book to show she was our driver About 200 pounds Sweet And Detroit is all sprawled out It looks like LA And everybody working everyplace is black We went to the top floor of this hotel, the dining rooo to the bathroouy there so friendly, it see went to the bathroom and didn't come back for twenty-five minutes

And then ent to the Detroit Museuave that Detroit wedding ent to in the sixties came! And he had the advertisened by all the Velvets, except, I think, Lou And ned it with a ballpoint pen andthe Mick Jaggers I signed with pencil and then after that I always signed with the felt-tips

Then ent to Blooton Sold 400 books and 190 Interviews Interviews Sold everything Had to leave at 7:30 to get the 8:30 plane I think people get in line again and become repeaters And so on the way to the airport, after a whole day of nothing but signing, the girl who'd been driving the car all day suddenly caraphed! It was like a raphed! It was like a movie scene, really

Got on the plane It was a clear beautiful night e got into New York

Saturday,Novehs)nice to me nobody mentions what happened on Wednesday to me nobody mentions what happened on Wednesday

Sunday,Noveo to the office, to just stay in Stephen Sprouse called and said he'd been in LA and that there was a store there called ”Andy Warhol's Wigs” and he wanted to know if itwasfactor? My e I aht she was really old But then she didn't die until she was eighty And she had a lot of energy