Part 56 (1/2)
Then they brought out the birthday cake And I was shooting with my camera and this person pulls down her hat and walks away and I didn't even knoho it was and I went into the kitchen and then Diane Keaton comes in and said, ”Hi kids, how are you?” And Ipictures of the I was taking pictures of the cake cake And I raphs of anybody she wants, so where does she have the photographs of anybody she wants, so where does she have the nerve nerve to act like that? And then she went downstairs and I was talking in a loud voice about how I thought she was a phony and oing to tell her off once and for all, what a big phony-baloney she is Julian had a lot of neork around He's buying back his early work that he sold for 600 or so, for about 40,000, because he knows he should He doesn't kno to deal with me and Jean Michel He owes us some pictures (supplies 1) to act like that? And then she went downstairs and I was talking in a loud voice about how I thought she was a phony and oing to tell her off once and for all, what a big phony-baloney she is Julian had a lot of neork around He's buying back his early work that he sold for 600 or so, for about 40,000, because he knows he should He doesn't kno to deal with me and Jean Michel He owes us some pictures (supplies 1)
He had a lot of Joseph Beuys stuff around Joseph Beuys just died on Friday And Tinkerbelle died It was in the Friday papers It said that she died on Tuesday when she ju one of these Afghan hats and she said that she told Diane Keaton once to ”stop wearing those stupid hats,” and then she co a stupid hat herself and runs into Diane Keaton, so she was really e up and I really have to call Eric Andersen back, he's been calling et him into the issue Interview Interview doesn't askThey used to ask me to do a person now and then Were my interviews bad, ordoesn't askThey used to ask me to do a person now and then Were my interviews bad, or
Sunday, January 26, 1986 Went to the fleaThen went over to the East Side to the armory show At Sotheby's they'd just sold a table for 12 million A record And at the armory there were all these people that I used to buy junk froht the 100 stuff, that stuff would be worth a lot now, but I bought the cheap stuff And nohat people want is only one of a kind My art is just the opposite
Tuesday, January 28, 1986 Brigid came in and said that her father had died and that she wanted to go hoe was very sy to just, you know, make it less traumatic for her
Thursday, January 30, 1986 Benjaic news that his costu into it full-tis anyht to work, which is just as well, I'll get more work done There are other possibilities of people to try out, but Benjae the secretary at Yoko Ono's called and invitedof the movie she and John made in 1972 and a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, I think for Bangladesh And there were a lot of other things to do but I decided to do that I asked if I could bring someone to Yoko's and later they called and said okay, so I asked Sa celebrities
Was picked up by Sam and we cabbed to A and I was next to Jann Wenner (cab 4) And John was such a great coe and those funny little , it was one of her early perforave us a ride in his limo Roberta Flack was there and Earl and Camilla McGrath and we all walked in and they were shocked with this glamorous place that they didn't know about Jezebel redid it and it looks cleaner now She kissed me hard on my cheek I was next to Roberta Flack and one of the Spinks brothers calas cauess I don't kno to talk to little Sean Lennon I'reat with hier?” And she said, ”Well, Sean, a torch singer is so, very softly, and with a lot of feeling” And then he felt he understood The sweet potato pie was really good and then I realized it must have had bacon lard in the crust
Afterwards Jann Wenner offered me a ride home and so Sam and I ith hiet out on 66th Street with et a cab cab home, and Jann made comments like he didn't care what I did in ave Saet a cab and I walked home (5) home, and Jann made comments like he didn't care what I did in ave Saet a cab and I walked hoe and I went to Global Furniture-they advertise There was an u we should get for the Madison Avenue part of the building so that the people across the street can't look down and see e umbrella, about 20' X 20' It's only about 800 We were there all afternoon
Sunday, February 2, 1986 I puttered around and then went to church, and while I was praying praying this guy comes over to sell me a 100 raffle ticket Can you believe that? For the church He forces this ticket on me and it's this queeny decorator and then I hear hi somebody how he just sold it to uy comes over to sell me a 100 raffle ticket Can you believe that? For the church He forces this ticket on me and it's this queeny decorator and then I hear hi somebody how he just sold it torid of his his ticket that he bought and didn't want And they're selling 300 tickets at 100 each, so that's what, 30,000? And they're giving a 10,000 cash prize, so you just knohat that means-if you win they'll want it back as a donation He said, ”I hate to disturb you while you're praying, but ” ticket that he bought and didn't want And they're selling 300 tickets at 100 each, so that's what, 30,000? And they're giving a 10,000 cash prize, so you just knohat that means-if you win they'll want it back as a donation He said, ”I hate to disturb you while you're praying, but ”
Wednesday, February 5, 1986 I picked up a copy of Status Status , all these people ere social cliazine fro, all these people ere social cli then and they still still are And Wyatt Cooper was the editor Gloria Vanderbilt's last husband are And Wyatt Cooper was the editor Gloria Vanderbilt's last husband
Paige was having a business dinner for Janet Sartin and Steven Greenberg as bringing Margaux Heway as his date He picked us up in his liaux really kissing in the car and they got embarrassedtheess Meredith was there and I sort of know hi apartment that I shared with all those kids on 103rd Street And when he was leaving he came over to say hello, and he said ”How's your ex-wife, Paulette?” I think he actually thinks that I was irl, I couldn't really see It could have been a daughter or a date, I don't know
Monday, February 10, 1986 At 7:30 the Mattel car came to takeBarbie doll exhibition was, and they were going to unveil my portrait and the portrait looks so bad, I don't like it Barbie (laughs) (laughs) has problems The fifties Barbie had a hties Barbie has a save her a smile I could never relate to Barbie because it was too puny Soer Barbie Fred said it was through Billy Boy that I got the portrait I think he asked Billy Boy to suggest it to Mattel I'll have to get this straight from Fred, it was a surprise to uess Billy Boy has a lot of great sixties stuff because all those pictures in the display cases were his-of Edie and me and all the has problems The fifties Barbie had a hties Barbie has a save her a smile I could never relate to Barbie because it was too puny Soer Barbie Fred said it was through Billy Boy that I got the portrait I think he asked Billy Boy to suggest it to Mattel I'll have to get this straight from Fred, it was a surprise to uess Billy Boy has a lot of great sixties stuff because all those pictures in the display cases were his-of Edie and s, and the Cow poster How does he have tin his jewelry? I think Bettina has done a lot for hiinal Barbie was based on I talked for a ned a lot of the stuff in the show, he's very talented things, and the Cow poster How does he have tin his jewelry? I think Bettina has done a lot for hiinal Barbie was based on I talked for a ned a lot of the stuff in the show, he's very talented
And they unveiledand the Mattel president said he just couldn't wait to see it and I just cringed
Then left and went to the Peter Allen birthday party at Bud's on Colureat The papers say he's been sick but he doesn't look it He called raphed with hi your way in
Wednesday, February 12, 1986 Paige was having a big business dinner at the Cafe Condotti Rupert gave us a ride up there, to 38 East 58th Street, and the place was cute, but kind of like a Coca-Cola stand, that size And I got a shock when I walked in and Jed was there I had e introduced ht was blond but he turned out in that light to be grey, and Bernsohn Steven Greenberg and Margaux Heway came And Bettina came with Billy Boy and she had on a black Azzedine outfit His clothes look good on her Jed designed the restaurant and he put my Grape prints on the walls
And then afterwards, Stephen Sprouse walked ive hi to do it
Thursday, February 13, 1986 Went to Martin Poll's apartment on Park Avenue for his party for Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen (cab 5) Everyone was supposed to wear red and black so she wore green Stallone used my kind of lines on me He said, ”I read about you in every paper” I told hi and he said that the Star Star was now even doing intervieith histhem That's about all he said, and that was only at the end, when they were going to the door was now even doing intervieith histhem That's about all he said, and that was only at the end, when they were going to the door
And for a present I gave Stallone one of those paintings, Be a Somebody with a Body, and he liked it a lot
Friday, February 14, 1986 Worked a little bit and then went to Fiorucci froned 185 And Billy Boy cae came and took us over to the Cafe Condotti for tea And that was fun When we sit underneath all ned 185 And Billy Boy cae came and took us over to the Cafe Condotti for tea And that was fun When we sit underneath allplace or so
Andhis one-ood as Jean Michel And Jean Michel kicked hied the locks, but then finally he let hiood as Jean Michel And Jean Michel kicked hied the locks, but then finally he let his
Monday, February 17, 1986 I screairls because one of them set off the alarm and it costs 50 every time the alarm company comes Even if you call them one second after it starts and say it was a uy already left,” and he coirls because one of them set off the alarm and it costs 50 every time the alarm company comes Even if you call them one second after it starts and say it was a uy already left,” and he comes
Rupert dropped me off Heard about the Tylenol mystery on the news I watched Letterotten too sure of hi on him He had Raquel Welch on Oh, and Sandra Bernhard was on and she had so-brand towel paper, and she said, ”Andy Warhol calls Diane Von Furstenberg and says, 'Let's go dancing,' but she says, 'No, I've got to clean up with otten too sure of hi on him He had Raquel Welch on Oh, and Sandra Bernhard was on and she had so-brand towel paper, and she said, ”Andy Warhol calls Diane Von Furstenberg and says, 'Let's go dancing,' but she says, 'No, I've got to clean up withtowel paper' ”
Wednesday, February 19, 1986 No Benja Lidija because now that she's opening her own gys, which I don't want, so I' to have to find someone else I walked to work
Went to 50/50 and then went to Speakeasy Then ent up to the office (cab 4)
Then I heard that Rupert's friend Patrick had died thata shower He was in the hospital in Maryland and he used to go to Rupert's in New Hope, Pennsylvania for the weekends And usually he had two people with him, but he decided to take a shower and he died in it He was a guinea pig for a new treatment, so they don't know exactly what happened with hiot out of the hospital Peter Wise was going over there to cook And I wish I could help hiot out
Kent Kline to Fred and
Went to the Eric Fischl show at the Whitney and it was really interesting The paintings are off, the perspectives are wrong, but soht They're like Playboy Playboy illustrations Talked to Eric Thanked Mary Boone for having us illustrations Talked to Eric Thanked Mary Boone for having us
Thursday, February 20, 1986 There was a lunch at the office for three of Paige's advertisers and also for Billy Boy to give him a Barbie portrait Bettina ith hi off to Patrick's funeral Anthony d'Offay was there from London to check on the Self-Portraits
Ended up the day watching the Letteran, Jr on and he's really changed I was surprised he was so forward And Letterot a shoith Ron Reagan, Jr on and he's really changed I was surprised he was so forward And Letterot a People People cover for her trashy book, so the whole fa cover for her trashy book, so the whole fa
Friday, February 21, 1986 Worked all afternoon Rupert didn't come because he was still at the funeral Live for today, Dear Diary Worked really late
Saturday, February 22, 1986 At the office Sam tried to take pictures of lish show, and I'd done et it right, and when Saets frustrated and quits and has sort of a tantrum and I can see why he never finished school
Sunday, February 23, 1986 I went to church I still haven't paid the guy for the raffle I didn't win, and so do you think I should uess I will
Fred called and said the Hammer & Sickles went low My prices were up until that de Menil auction and that brought them down And Tony Shafrazi's shoas bad for everyone If he'd only waited and done it this year There was no rush, and then it would've been that we'd be still painting together But then all shows are like that-you have a show and then it's over, and you've used up all your material
Monday, February 24, 1986 Cabbed to the office to meet Rupert and he was back from the funeral (5) I didn't talk about it until later that night because I didn't want to bring it up, but he said it eird And Edmund calls Rupert all the time, at all hours, because he's so nervous I invited Rupert to a movie after work
It was a busy afternoon with people co by Gael ca Gorman took for Interview Interview, and God, he's still so handsouess
Oh, and Dolly Fox is dating Steven Greenberg and asking aux is She said he picked her up at 8:00 and she ith hiain on Tuesday
Saw the Rob Lowe skating movie, then took Rupert to Serendipity for cake and the waiters sang and he felt better (20)
Tuesday, February 25, 1986 Jean Michel called and said he found a dead person in his backyard yesterday He called the police and they were in the backyard all day, and by 6:00 they still hadn't taken the body away He was from the flophouse next door And Jean Michel sent the cat that didn't catch rats down to Atlanta, he sent it on a plane for 100 down to soot taken care of-Ia cat in the hands of Jean Michel?
Tried to ith Fred and with Vincent, but my room is so filled with junk, I can't pull out of it I tried on wigs fro, too outrageous This is for the Self-Portraits Paige called a couple of ti to her The Music issue is going to cost us a lot Cyndi Lauper is the cover
Thursday, February 27, 1986 Oh and that lady Halston was supposed to bring down for a portrait cancelled, but I ot a check for 999a nervous breakdown or she's on coke
And Arnold Schwarzenegger never called back He was going to have Maria Shriver's portrait done for a wedding present and then her mother and cousins, too
Friday, February 28, 1986 Sam and I went to the Eastside Cinema to see Hollywood Vice Hollywood Vice (tickets 12, popcorn 5) The people behind us complained that they couldn't see over my hair, so that threw me and we h During the movie the Exit door opened a few tiot outside I realized that I hadn't taken one So then we looked everywhere, in all the bathroos, and in all the trash baskets, and we told the people at the theater, but it wasn't anywhere and they don't care It had bank statements and makeup and an ashtray froes, telephone bills, my Prudential health insurance cards, so every trash basket, Sa truck almost ran into us but missed us and ran into a lamppost So I went home and I felt violated They stole the monkey off my back But it's actually a relief I've decided I won't replace it (tickets 12, popcorn 5) The people behind us complained that they couldn't see over my hair, so that threw me and we h During the movie the Exit door opened a few tiot outside I realized that I hadn't taken one So then we looked everywhere, in all the bathroos, and in all the trash baskets, and we told the people at the theater, but it wasn't anywhere and they don't care It had bank statements and makeup and an ashtray froes, telephone bills, my Prudential health insurance cards, so every trash basket, Sa truck almost ran into us but missed us and ran into a lamppost So I went home and I felt violated They stole the monkey off my back But it's actually a relief I've decided I won't replace it
And my brother told h paper about getting people who knewabout me
Sunday, March 2, 1986 Went to church and saw Adolfo and felt a little hurt because he walked right by and didn't say hello In my mind I always picture him in a little Chanel-type suit I believe they should wear son
Went to Christie's and Phillips, and sincewas stolen I've had invasion dreams Nutty dreams with invasions Went home