Part 56 (2/2)
Sam and PH picked me up and ent to the Hard Rock Cafe for Paul Shaffer's live radio show (cab 7) And Paul had Christopher Reeve there, and he said he loved the Greg Gorman pictures of him in Interview Interview And Peter Frampton was there and two Grateful Deads and two Cars And we met Steve Jordan, the drummer in Paul Shaffer's band on Letterent and sexy
I was raphs and then we got a cab and I gave Sam money to drop us off (7)
Wednesday, March 5, 1986 Jay's back froood time there All the de Menil faer died (phones 2, newspapers 2)
When I got to the office I caught the tail end of a lunch for this guy na a club on East 21st Street and he acted funny and left in a weird way, so I began to think that maybe it was because I hadn't been at the whole lunch And Fred didn't understand, either, what the probleirl ith him and found out that that as the problelish But then later on he called and did take an ad the problelish But then later on he called and did take an ad
Friday, March 7, 1986 It was freezing out Went with the nutritionist I met on the blind date to see Out of Africa Out of Africa at the Greenwich Theater It o and a half hours long It's another one of thosehappens-they do this and then they do that and then they do this and then they do that, but there's no action at the Greenwich Theater It o and a half hours long It's another one of thosehappens-they do this and then they do that and then they do this and then they do that, but there's no action
Saturday, March 8, 1986-New York-New Hope, Pennsylvania-New York John Reinhold picked me up with his japanese car and ent to New Hope to talk to Rupert about art projects His house is like a stage set Rupert is the grand man around toith two Bentleys The house was a mill, it looks like old Rome with the ruins in parts Four Persian cats Fireplaces working all the tiirl, came from New York to make a cake for us and she baked bread, too, which was the best thing
New Hope is 90 percent gay We went to a place called Ra queen served us and people were there drinking at 2 PM PM Gay old guys It was too gay for ay hotel- queen looked like Rupert's mother with the blonde beehive She had on pants but a four-inch leather belt really tightening in her waist And a guy came over and said Rupert was an alien and Rupert said, ”I am not an alien I am Rupert Jason Smith” (lunch 60) And then Rupert said I had to leave the drag queen a big tip since she stayed open for us (tip 25) Gave ay sons and fat mothers Antiques places Then ent back to the house and the girl had made a dessert, and we ate lots of bread Then at 7:30 we left for New York and then after John dropped me off I remembered that I'd been invited to Chastity Bono's birthday party
So I cabbed don to Sixth Avenue between 9th and 10th, a Mexican restaurant (6) The party was in full swing Every girl was like a movie star, I wald, there were three or four Madonnas Cher didn't coht Chastity goes to the School of Perfor Arts Stayed till 12:30 (cab 7)
Sunday, March 9, 1986 In the Times Times it said that Imelda Marcos left 3,000 pairs of shoes in the Philippines Maybe she it said that Imelda Marcos left 3,000 pairs of shoes in the Philippines Maybe she as trash, Iand dining And they found porno in Marcos's rooh your apartment and wrote about it trash, Iand dining And they found porno in Marcos's rooh your aparths) in in The New York Tiood TV show ”Here are two cups that were apparently taken from the Plaza Hotel Tell us about them” They could do it in Russia In Russia they could really really do it ”So, you like wearing ladies' perfu ladies' perfume, Mr Warhol?”
Ran into Billy Boy at the fleaold bottles of Schiaparelli and Chanel perfureen coat He really puts out the money and just pays whatever they say, he spent about 1,000 I think He has a good eye, he can really pick out the good stuff
Thursday, March 13, 1986 It was raining hard Paige and I went over to the Paris Theater and saw Roo really happens, an Out of Africa-type Out of Africa-type thing, but it's beautiful Good views of Florence thing, but it's beautiful Good views of Florence
Friday, March 14, 1986 Gee, these artists who're living the life of Riley Keith's just off in Brazil and I hear Fischl's getting 100,000 a canvas now,in his li dinner And Paige was in her Chinese robe so Stuart put his on and then Dennis S book put on a caballero caballero hat with a rose in his teeth and he's Irish, so he was singing and getting ready for St Patrick's Day and that was unusual, it was fun Then hefive kids, and I don't knohat happened to the wife, so Paige had been interested, but when she heard ”five kids” that was too ent He's now looking for a hostess hat with a rose in his teeth and he's Irish, so he was singing and getting ready for St Patrick's Day and that was unusual, it was fun Then hefive kids, and I don't knohat happened to the wife, so Paige had been interested, but when she heard ”five kids” that was too ent He's now looking for a hostess
Sunday, March 16, 1986 I went to church Adolfo was in the last row Gave the doors on the way an Interview Interview, and he was black and I always feel good giving black people the azine when it's a black cover like the Grace Jones issue and the Richard Pryor one this time
And the Marcoses are still all in the news Now they've found 3,000 black panties And it's funny to hear a congressman say, ”Why did she need so many panties?” I wish I had the shi+rt that the Marcos son once gave ari bill was for a er called and said the portraits of Maria were on again
Paul Morrissey's doing movies with David Weisot dizzy I think I ot a e and Henri Bendel at a Chinese restaurant on 44th and UN Plaza (cab 5) Mr Bendel owned Bendel's till he sold out in 1955 Now he just has the handiu and he said that he had a beagle and then he alking it on the leash and it went to the curb and a cab just ran it over on the leash And he had to go back and tell his as still alive that the dog was killed He's from Louisiana
Went hoood pet tricks on and he had soood pet tricks on
Wednesday, March 19, 1986 It was a beautiful day I had awith Martin Poll and I didn't knohy I walked over to 57th and Seventh Avenue to his office and he said, ”We want to do your life story,” and he started talking about the sixties and interweaving four stories, and I told him that a wonderful movie had already been made on the sixties, and that he should just reic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart-and he said, ”I ot that he had I didn't know that He discovered Don Johnson He was going to use Richard Thoed to Don Johnson So then I mentioned money and he said, ”Money? Money? What money? It's publicity for you” So I told him he should talk to Fred, that what he should do is just buy the rights to Popism Popism and that we'd be consultants on theabout Viva and Joe Dallesandro and everything and I ran out of there (newspapers 2, cab 6) and that we'd be consultants on theabout Viva and Joe Dallesandro and everything and I ran out of there (newspapers 2, cab 6)
Went to Walter Stait's dinner party on East 57th Street (cab 6) Then took Saar enerous (25)
Got home, turned on Letteruest on, the one with the monkey with the camera, and they had Dr Ruth Westheimer on Wouldn't it be funny if Dr Ruth didn't really have an accent? and saw the show they wanted uest on, the one with the monkey with the camera, and they had Dr Ruth Westheimer on Wouldn't it be funny if Dr Ruth didn't really have an accent?
Brigid just called and said that at AA everybody in the office was there-Don Munroe, and Yoko Ono's ton and Sue Etkin and no wonder nothing gets done-we have a bunch of drunks working for us
When I called the office yesterday and asked Michael Walsh for a phone nuone two minutes and came back and told me my own nuuess hearing your name made me look up your nu your name made me look up your number”
Thursday, March 20, 1986 Si Newhouse ca the Elvis and the Tuna Fish
Monday, March 24, 1986 On the news they busted a porno ring, and they were leading the Boy Scout hs) It was odd-looking It was odd-looking
Went hoht the Acade she deserved it, and all those old ladies coht yards of material-Debbie Reynolds and Cyd Charisse and June Allyson and Ann Miller and Kathryn Grayson
Tuesday, March 25, 1986 Maria Shriver called and postponed until next week because she said she'd broken four toes
Went to the Grand Hyatt to the Emmys with Keith I told them I didn't want to say any lines, so they announced I had laryngitis and that's why I wasn't saying anything But when they announced that, souy who said he was the doctor of the Eitis, so I explained I didn't really have any
After this thing was over, walked over to the office and there was a lunch going on Mrs de Menil ith Iolas there, and Fred gave theh Iolas's bags were lost but he says he loves shopping at Alexander's to replace the things
Wednesday, March 26, 1986 Oh, these commercials on TV for the Enquirer Enquirer Carroll Baker's doing the about the book she just wrote about her experiences in Africa in 1970 I honestly think it's s happened to her Who would know? She talks about being so hungry she bit off a lizard's head and sucked out the fluid But Ia blow job in a tent and a lizard walked by and she fantasized
I'd invited Saer Fred and Ginger at MOMA I get so involved with Sam, you can waste a whole day with soet so involved with Sam, you can waste a whole day with somebody and their dumb little proble here if you're not going to be a good artist!” He doesn't like my work And I told hi kids do it better Really, what is life about? You get sick and die That's it So you've just got to keep busy
We got to thephotographed and he saw reat, he called me over and kissed me on both cheeks and introduced ood in person
Thursday, March 27, 1986 Went to Le Cirque to& Rubicam for dinner and Claire Trevor came in with Donald Brooks and she told me I onderful and I told her she was and she said, ”No, you're more wonderful,” and I said no, she was And she ate like Paulette and those woarettes and vanilla ice creaot there just as it was over (cab 6) We got there just as it was over
Sunday, March 30, 1986 Easter Sunday Woke up and it was a beautiful day again Paige called and said she'd be ready at 12:30 and then Wilfredo called-I'd asked hi up to help serve the Easter meal to the poor people at the Church of the Heavenly Rest at 90th and Fifth Avenue Picked up Paige and she said Stephen Sprouse was in the subway on his way (cab 3) It turned out ere really needed because if we hadn't been there they wouldn't have had enough helpers I never made eye contact with the people, I looked sideways and up and down It went fine And people were stocking up with oranges and apples and Easter eggs and with shopping bags, taking stuff, and so cups and even plastic knives and forks
And let's see what elsea lady had her teeth in a napkin and the guy went to clear it away and she got excited It was a lot of hard work Wilfredo was good, he handed out the ham, he worked hard They used six of those restaurant urns of coffee And the four of us prayed anda lady bring in a potted plant and trade it in for one of the better ones there A lot of the ladies looked like hts Arabian Nights, all wrapped up It was fun, had a good tiht and we ran out
And Janey died
Monday, March 31, 1986 It's funny but after seeing Dr Ruth in person at the Eic of TV is what makes her look crunchy In person she's just a normal person you want to kick around
Cabbed to the West Side (3) and Dr Linda Li She wasI don't knohat she does, but you do feel better when you get out of there (phone 2)
The Folk Art Museum kicked me off the board of trustees! It was ridiculous anyway, but I mean, they never even bothered to send me a notification! notification!
Tuesday, April 1, 1986 Stuart and I went up to see Rock Hudson's exhibit at the Willia was so nelly, not one good thing You'd like to think that a big bruterugged Knoll pieces, but it was just comfortable nelly junk from his New York apart, a wooden box that was so ugly and Elizabeth Taylor had written on it
Fran Lebowitz came by to pick up so for Interview Interview She cae Marathon Checker cab and she drove off with it
Thursday, April 3, 1986 Went right don because Maria Shriver was coood pictures She's a little heavy on the bottoe and I wanted chocolate on the way hoave us free quarter-pound bags and we just walked up Madison eating it Dr Li gave Paige some floater stuff and after she eats the candy she's supposed to say, ”I love what I just did, but I won't do it again,” and then drink the purple Flowers of Providence
Friday, April 4, 1986 Rupert oes to Princeton and this one looks exactly like him Exactly It's so odd Elizabeth Saltzman invited us to a surprise birthday party for Wilfredo out in Coney Island She had an All-City cab pick us up
It was kind of exciting out there at this place called Carolina's, a Mafia-style place Spaghetti Coney Island was closed up and rainy It was just Wilfredo and Benjaton The Italian owner found out who I was and got autographs Then the lights went out, totally, and then they ca ”Happy Birthday” and these big butch fifty-year-old waiters caned hiht by us to another table! (laughs) (laughs) It was so shocking It was like when you think you're getting an Acadeoes to soreat We couldn't believe it And then later on they did co It was like when you think you're getting an Acadeoes to soreat We couldn't believe it And then later on they did come for Wilfredo
Sunday, April 6, 1986 Jean Michel was picking o see Miles Davis at the Beacon and it was rainy and cold, and I curled up and watched TV for a while, and ate soarlic and then he called and said to meet him over there (cab 4) His cab arrived after mine and he had Glenn O'Brien with hiain BB King played first and he's just great And then Miles Davis caold lah heels Then ent to Odeon for dinner