Part 55 (1/2)

We went to the Lewises' house We chit-chatted and then people had to change into black tie at the Lewises' to go over to the museum I was just in a turtleneck and my coat, so all day it looked like I was about to leave My Calvin Klein with the hood But for soht it was unusual They told ot nervous about it being live But then I didn't care and I got it over with

Julian Schnabel and his wife came, they'd missed the plane, and Alex Katz had o to the bathroo now, and the bathroo to have to get over this bathroom phobia because I just feel soI mean, there was a stall but somebody was in it and I tried to wait, butAnd they said, ”Oh, you're Andy Warhol,” and I'ht after you pee they want to shake your hand

Leo Castelli was there with Toiny and she's a lost soul and he's really out of it But the horrible thing was seeing everybody looking thirty years older I' around with nineteen-year-olds At least Ivan Karp has a lot of energy and he's fun Oh, and Ivan says he's (laughs) (laughs) collecting Barbarian jewelry now, he gets it at a store in the East 90s The tribe-the original hordes collecting Barbarian jewelry now, he gets it at a store in the East 90s The tribe-the original hordes

Friday, Dece Sherlock Hol but I want to avoid that place-Jon Gould comes to to and doesn't even callbut I want to avoid that place-Jon Gould comes to to and doesn't even call me

Worked till 8:30, then went to Schnabel's at 20th and Park It was so glamorous, the Christmas tree was up Fred was there, in an art irls were absolutely all wearing the shortest shi+rts ever and then the Madonna stockings Marisa Berenson was in a black ht body Those boy asses And Schnabel's wife, too, she had one twenty inches above her knee

Sunday, Dece of going to a place uptown to get treative heroin addicts And she said she finally is completely over Jean Michel It happened to her at the Comme des Garcons fashi+on show She said he looked like a fool out there on the runwaythe clothes and that's when she finally was over hier at Morti to eat I was next to an Indian lady nauese wo to Fred who'd been to the galleries and things with Twinkle Bayoud and her husband Bradley the day before and he toldnew ideas to paint He said Roy Lichtenstein's selling every painting, that they all have red stickers on them, and they're all 200,000 or 300,000 200,000 or 300,000

Monday, Dece to tell ht with Philip Niarchos he had at Schnabel's on Friday night I guess he still remembers some funny coers into St Moritz”

The two McDer down on the Lower East Side, and since they do everything nineteenth-century style, they haven't had a phone or a kitchen, but now they're having that stuff installed in just one roo around But they were still dressed in nineteenth-century They said they had just had s at Paramount with Jon Gould and this is about those stories that I I taped theid type up Now they say taped theid type up Now they say he he wants to produce that uy wants to produce that uy

Thursday, December 12, 1985 The Boston Museu because they said the shade of red was off It was slightly different, and I told the, but they still wanted to send it back for me to think about it If they had it next to the black panel it wouldn'tBut it costs around 4,000 every ti And Fred was going to Atlanta

Sunday, Deceht before, I got up and read the transcripts of those days with Tru to the masseur, then to the psychiatrist, then for drinks, then for dinner, but by talking in them so much myself, I ruined them I should've just kept 's wonderful and everybody's wonderful-the usual I thought I could turn these tapes into plays and they'd be my little fortune, but they're not, they're just awful

Paige said that she and PH were going over to Stuart Pivar's musicale because PH wanted to cover it for the Party Party book The reason I don't want to go over there is because I just can't take hearing Archie and A in Jed's apartment next door on their weekends off Do you knohat I o over there is because I just can't take hearing Archie and A in Jed's apartment next door on their weekends off Do you knohat I mean?

PH called me afterwards and said it was the kind of event like in a coirlfriend there to prove he was sensitive, that theon the nineteenth-century chairs and things listening to the beautiful id just called on the other line and she's reading me an article in The New York Times The New York Times and I think it's about Rupert's boyfriend Hold onit says ”Patrick McAllister,” and I don't know if that's his last naive Rupert's name but it says he has a boyfriend orks for a ”famous artist” And now I feel bad because I've always been so ust-oh, but I've hated him for years But still I do feel bad now, and that would explain a lot of things that Rupert does now like going intocourses like EST and I think it's about Rupert's boyfriend Hold onit says ”Patrick McAllister,” and I don't know if that's his last naive Rupert's name but it says he has a boyfriend orks for a ”famous artist” And now I feel bad because I've always been so ust-oh, but I've hated him for years But still I do feel bad now, and that would explain a lot of things that Rupert does now like going intocourses like EST

Chrissy Berlin was at the office and she loved her portraits It was sort of busy Fred was going off to Europe to sell art

My old model date Sean McKeon's back in town, he's been away about a year doing plays in France And this girl asked ht?” And I told her yes Because I irli girli And you have to believe what people And you have to believe what people tell tell you, don't you? you, don't you?

Worked till 8:20, then walked to the Ritz Cafe, which is the new restaurant where La Coupole was I was going to e invited for me He was just back from japan and he hated it there, and it was just like listening to an exact copy of every other , eating, and hating japan But they're good-looking and that's enough The perfect nose and so much like Sean McKeon you would think they're frolasses on theuished, but they're brainless

Paige brought a black Jewish lawyer nahs) black and Jewish And Tae a novelist who's written four novels and he was jealous because Tae a novelist who's written four novels and he was jealous because Tama was in The New Yorker The New Yorker and Tama was jealous because he's had four novels published and Tama was jealous because he's had four novels published

And this was all about looking for new faces and brains and ideas We were in a booth for six people and it was fun

Home before 12:00 and didn't watch Letterman Letter init on better streets now

Wednesday, Dece Really long Maybe it's Crazy Matty He hasn't been around in a long ti to deliver chocolates Hold on

They were calling it the coldest day of the year, but it wasn't bad in the sun Went over to Dr Bernsohn's and he put ative mood He showed me this crystal and he said, ”I paid a thousand for it and it usually costs 5,000, but it's worthlike it in the world” And I said okay, thatand he said, ”A print? A print? I was thinking more like two portraits, one for my mother and one for me” He wants 50,000 worth of portraits! He said I have to let hira to call him You have to draw the line so that big article on Carl Andre and whether he pushed his wife out theor not, it's so easy to iht and she went to juot the scratches on his face ” furniture” Which he shouldn't have said I'll be disappointed if he's guilty I would think if he was that he would say so, because there's souilty why is he trying to save himself? I would be disappointed in him I would think he would just say so

And Lady Ann Lairlfriend She'd gone to the audition disguised as a punk rocker and she got the job

Tina Chow called and said there was a dinner for Jean Michel at 9:00, just really sht him a present, one of my own hairpieces He was shocked One of my old ones Framed I put '”83” on it but I don't knohen it was froinal”

You know, I heard the kids at the office talking about ossiping about id has Sam to hate, because I take him around with me, but I mean, he's just a babysitter for me And Wilfredo's really the best babysitter He's sweet but he's street-smart And he takes numbers and follows up on business contacts But he's so busy with his styling work at Interview Interview and he still works Saturdays at Armani and he still works Saturdays at Ar tip because it's Christmas (10)

Saturday, Deceotten her the earrings she was in love with and that I'd pick her up to go to Vincent's Christive thes at first, but I now think they may be Schiaparelli, I really do She was thrilled, she didn't think she'd be getting the pin, too And when she put theold that bounce around with rubies in the center

Sunday, Decee for ideas with him Went to church (cabs 4, 3) Went to the flea ht another Santa Claus sculpture I just don't knohat to paint

Fred does helpideas He really does But in the end ideas are actually just physically working it all out You'd think it's easy once you have an idea, but it's not It's just like writing Like the Truman Capote play I wanted to do-if I'd only looked at it at all before he died, I would've followed him sootten soed each other when they saw usSo alked around and people nudged each other when they saw us

Then went over to Jean Michel's birthday lunch at Mortiave Jean Michel a gift he really loved-the rhythm and blues six-albuun wrote so years Jean Michel was reading the liner notes all through lunch

And then afterwards Jean Michel wanted to go to Blooet a 3,000 gift certificate for his uy asked to see ID but the other guy nudged him and said, ”It's okay”

Monday, December 23, 1985 I asked Jay what he wanted for Christmas and he said that in February when there's business to take care of in Paris, he wants to go and do it for ood, because that will free ive-nothing attitude this year I'ive the kids at Interview Intervieho I know Keith Haring watches and autographed who I know Keith Haring watches and autographed America America books books

Worked till 8:30 Sean McKeon stopped by but these days I'm happy just with my two children-Sam and Wilfredo Benja PR for fashi+on designers But he's such a good cos he does so that he would still be working for us He doesn't want too h He's a free spirit

Saw The Color Purple The Color Purple and the men in it are so cruel to the wo reminded me so hed, just everything (tickets 18) and the men in it are so cruel to the wo reminded me so hed, just everything (tickets 18)

Tuesday, December 24, 1985 Was picked up by Benjamin It was fifty-five out, but it felt like sixty, real nice Went everywhere and had a lot of fun When we got to the office the Interview Interview party was in full swing I never went over to it, but people drifted onto our side of the building It was over right about 4:00 party was in full swing I never went over to it, but people drifted onto our side of the building It was over right about 4:00

And I told Gael to co to do a drawing of her because Fred told ood now, very thin Her hair's beautiful and her skin is strong and she doesn't wear makeup Peter, her husband, had co a pale pink leather dress and I said, ”Oh, where'd you get that pretty dress?” and the first thing she says is, ”Well, you know, I never never ever take anything for ever take anything for free free, but they sold this to me for 10 because nobody wanted it!” She was very defensive right away to tellabout all the stuff she gets for presents fro her flowers and candy and stuff I forget that these Interview Interview editors actually are editors actually are powerful powerful And I told her she should be going out to dinner with people constantly like Annie Flanders from Details Details does, and she said, ”I'm not a hustler” does, and she said, ”I'rapher from LA was at the Interview Interview party and toldrole in a new TV cop series that's starting in January Then went home and Gael and Peter droppedrole in a new TV cop series that's starting in January Then went home and Gael and Peter dropped hbor, Dr Haot so tall suddenly this year now that he went off to college He's handsome He's the one that used to play ball in the street with the father and the one who said he used to see Yul Brynner run into the building across the street to see so it took the to Nippon for Christave out the little Be Sos (dinner 280)

And then ent down to Kenny Scharf's loft on Great Jones In the bedrooinal Flintstones and Jetson cartoon drawings, and he said, ”Jon Gould got these for me” He actually said that to ot the in your house, and then suddenly they don't know you anymore but they still see all your friends I didn't know the people there, they were a bunch of weirdos

I dropped off PH and Paige and Bernard (cab 20)

Wednesday, Decee at the soup kitchen at the Church of the Heavenly Rest Episcopalian Tae was upset because she felt the food was so horrible for the people But it's just that we're used to such unusually good stuff It wasn't worse than high school cafeteria food And you see people with bad teeth and everything And we're so used to all these beautiful perfect people It's such a different world

And thea bourbon and he was really cute The church keeps about twenty people overnight and feeds theht and how they choose them Passed out Interviews Interviews

Friday, Deces frouess they don't know that one to heaven, and I look down this list of nareat, I don't know if they've shortened them or what Like Coll Or Kiss I don't knohat they made them from And then there's the Warholas and the Varcholas and the Varhols

And at Christht thing sending her back to Pittsburgh I still feel so guilty [NOTE: See Introduction] [NOTE: See Introduction]

Saturday, December 28, 1985 Susan Blond called and we made a date for dinner and by the end of the day I'd invited ten or eleven people, and I decided that Bud's would be cheaper than, say, Jae Condo cas And George and Paige were hitting it off but then Kenny Scharf had invited this actress Carole Davis, for George, and she got there late, after dinner-and she played the Jewish girl in The Flaot confused about as his date And this girl was the hit of the dinner She was really funny She just broke up with an Arenerations of noses, she said, and she talked about her chin job, but I think she's had a nose job, too She said her best scene was cut out of The Flaive Matt Dillon an ice-cube blow job She said Matt didn't relate to her (dinner 600 including tip)

Bernard dropped me off (10) And there's really no Ahanistan or so to risk their lives and Americans aren't?