Part 60 (2/2)

Wednesday, November 5, 1986 Stuart picked hs) wouldn't give hiht Stuart lunch at Sotheby's (315) He had a bologna sandwich and it looked so good Remember sandwiches like that? With irl serving coughed in ured that since the tea was so hot, it'd be sterilized wouldn't give hiht Stuart lunch at Sotheby's (315) He had a bologna sandwich and it looked so good Remember sandwiches like that? With irl serving coughed in ured that since the tea was so hot, it'd be sterilized

Then Stuart's driver drove reat, the Brazilian bandleader, he gotto go witha jacket and tie like I'd told him to the day before so I disinvited hio

So ent to the boat This party was to publicize a new line of underwear James Brady was a lot of fun, and Susan Mulcahy was there and Fred was in a skirt-pulling hs) (laughs) ere standing there saying oh-how-tacky soht at that moment this lady from Texas came over to me and said that she'd just seen the ad foroh-how-tacky soht at that moment this lady from Texas came over to hs) (laughs) in the Neiue So that cut ave , too He's still so ue while he ay in Europe So that was really funny in the Neiue So that cut ave , too He's still so ue while he ay in Europe So that was really funny

Thursday, Noveosian was supposed to be giving a pre-opening dinner for ht, but then Fred sort of told et to that later So when Paige called and said there was a business dinner at Chantilly's which is a good restaurant on Park and 57th, I said I'd go to that

Paige picked ot to the restaurant forty ere invited and Michael Gross froot n for Paraphernalia and she still looks the same as she did in the sixties Sonia Rykiel was there, too

Then Steven wanted to go to Nell's so ent down there, and alk in and I saw Larry Gagosian and then I saw Fred sitting with Faye Dunaway and Jerry Hall! I'! I don't kno that happened, if they were there and just coincidentally were sitting with him, but it seemed like this this was the dinner that Larry was supposed to be giving for was the dinner that Larry was supposed to be giving forlike that he'd wanted to talk business with the But I do think this dinner was supposed to be for o

And Gagosian told ot your Rorschach Test for et it?” He said, ”From Leo,” and I said, ”Oh, really? Did you buy buy it?” and he said, ”No, it's consigned” I said, ”Well you can't have it” I got h Because it's just one more show not to have And Larry, I don't know, he's really weird, he got in trouble for obscene phone calls and everything He's weird it?” and he said, ”No, it's consigned” I said, ”Well you can't have it” I got h Because it's just one more show not to have And Larry, I don't know, he's really weird, he got in trouble for obscene phone calls and everything He's weird

Friday, Nove Saw a great video on MTV by the Models, it's done sixties and it's like underground movies and there's an Edie and a me, and the reat I don't know the title of the song

My opening was happening at Gagosian's and Stuart sent his car and I locked up and ent over there and ran into Stellan froirlfriend orks on fashi+on at Interview Interview Marianne And Yoko Ono was there Andthe show and Stuart was saying, ”They'res, the Oxidations And then these nice older wo me how I'd done them and I didn't have the heart to tell theainst them And it was so crowded Marianne And Yoko Ono was there Andthe show and Stuart was saying, ”They'res, the Oxidations And then these nice older wo me how I'd done them and I didn't have the heart to tell theainst them And it was so crowded

Then went to Nippon with Saenheim (dinner 280)

Saturday, November 8, 1986 Sam called and said he'd been to four clubs with Benja like that-and Save the Robot Dolly Fox called and said that ere on for the Deht Stuart called and picked me up and ent to a skeleton place on 14th Street, where they had bones from a one-year-old up to a twenty-six-year-old Then I went to the office and worked all afternoon

Closed up and went to Seventh Avenue and 4th Street (cab 5, tickets 30) and after the play ent ”backstage” which turned out to be (laughs) (laughs) outside I got De on Deceo out, it's the big art tiot De on Deceo out, it's the big art time there

Elizabeth Saltz Barry Tubbs and I was the draw She's with Jellybean now, though Cabbed to Indochine (6) Barry Tubbs never came Elizabeth didn't pay, which was odd because she'd invited us (dinner 200) Soht before at Nell's, how Fred had stood on a table and pulled down his pants in front of the whole restaurant

Then ent down to Nell's and there were eight of us (adot us the table in the back We were there for a couple of hours and then I ran out without paying the check at Nell's I just felt like it (cab 10)

Sunday, Nove back to Pittsburgh, giving up his job at the office office, and I told hied his naiven uess I never took hi I don't know if that would have made a difference I don't think so, but I don't know He said he's going back to take care of his ood to hi His father John is the one orked for Sears, he just retired

I called Fred and he was acting grand withvery grand for somebody who'd dropped his pants at Nell's and then when I said that he became a different person-he didn't think I knew about that and it stopped him cold

Watched MTV-the rebroadcast of our Fifteen Minutes Fifteen Minutes show-to see if it had aged well, and it did still look current, it looked ot to work on that It should look the way Madonna looks in her ”Papa Don't Preach” video where she's dancing like Marilyn or Kie lipstick on black show-to see if it had aged well, and it did still look current, it looked ot to work on that It should look the way Madonna looks in her ”Papa Don't Preach” video where she's dancing like Marilyn or Kie lipstick on black

Monday, Nove a prostate operation and so ed to December 15, which I'd hoped would be postponed even s of the bottles for his new ht of the Barneys fashi+on show benefit for AIDS in the wo and at first Sao but then when he heard Madonna was going to be there he felt he ht

We went over (cab 8) and we asked if Madonna was there yet and they said no, but she uise because when Iman came down the stairs, Madonna swooped in front of her and then all the photographers swooped after Madonna The shoas good, great jackets Good ideas Everybody was in the show-Joey Arias and John sex and the girl with the shape, Dianne Brill, and Teresa Scharf Madonna had on Martin Burgoyne's deni Chris Makos shoved some nuns at me for a picture and then somebody else started to take the picture and he screauy, ”It's my picture, I set it up!” They were from St Vincent's, the benefit was for them

Howard Read from the Robert Miller Gallery was there and he'd just been at the auction where Jasper Johns's painting went for 33 million! Which is 36 with tax and cohest price ever paid for a painting of a living artist And it wasn't even that great a painting, there were better ones It wasn't a Target or-it was maybe the Numbers I had Dollar Bills in this sale and it went for 385,000, and a Mona Lisa went for 70,000

Wilfredo and Paige dropped ot home and watched the channel 4 news rerun with Sue Si at Barneys God, she's a beauty Ireally greasy food, a lot of it

Wednesday, Nove on A Rosenquist went for 2 ! But Rauschenberg's draent for only 90,000 And I guess David Whitney must be a multimillionaire, he has so many Jasper Johnses

Thursday, Nove to be on the cover of Vanity Fair Vanity Fair and here we are with all the wornouts-Cybill Shepherd, Diane Keaton People do like the Cybill Shepherd interview though -they say she's really honest in it I haven't read it yet and here we are with all the wornouts-Cybill Shepherd, Diane Keaton People do like the Cybill Shepherd interview though -they say she's really honest in it I haven't read it yet

Friday, Noveirl We're talking about e on top of a fake of s I think Gerard Malanga did Julian didn't knoas a fake when he bought it

Mr Murjani called and invitedBenjae, too So Stuart picked us up and ent to Murjani's place at UN Plaza And when I walked in I inized it right away because it was the kind I with, and then Mr Murjani started playing it, and he sang ”Feelings” with it It's the box that enhances your voice and you pick fro behind you And he has a really good voice, it was like that Indian teenage idol fro and then Stuart did it and it was fun, Stuart can make himself sound like any Broadway star

Then Mr Murjani took us to this place that I guess he goes to regularly to irls It was on 77th and Second, I think And at dinner there was this table of girls next to us and Mr Murjani and Stuart went over and tried to pick theoing on to a party at the Union Club And Mr Murjani told Paige that the other night at the dinner that he'd he'd invited invited thee's dinners so she said to hi you so lavishly with all these dinners, how about advertising?” I don't know about Gael, is she stupid or not? But then, it was ood The food was just awful-spaghetti-it was uneatable to, Gael thought it was one of Paige's dinners so she said to hi you so lavishly with all these dinners, how about advertising?” I don't know about Gael, is she stupid or not? But then, it was ood The food was just awful-spaghetti-it was uneatable

Katharine Ha with Vincent till really late on the video but then she ca was, there was this boy with her who just stood behind her chair and didn't eat, and there was an e Finally I said, ”Well, uh, wouldn't he like to sit down?” And she said, ”What? Oh yes, sit down” It was her assistant He

Then Murjani and Stuart dropped e off and then they went to the Union Club to try to get in and find those girls but then they didn't get in because it was black tie and they couldn't reirls looked like

Saturday, Nove crowd for the Swatch event Keith and I did our autographing act together

Stuart pickedacross the street at the Helallery near there to look at Bouguereaus Stuart's going to try to see him this ti to his apartot home after after 3:30 so hea broig and dark glasses, and a white gas mask, so if you see 3:30 so hea broig and dark glasses, and a white gasdown the streetco down the street

Sunday, November 16, 1986 Bruno called and invited me to lunch Went to church, then cabbed to Harry Cipriani's in the Sherry (4) The food tastes like it's done in a microwave, and I bet it is

Wilfredo called, he'd been to see The Mission see The Mission for the third time Isn't that weird? He wanted to be a Jesuit priest once for the third time Isn't that weird? He wanted to be a Jesuit priest once

Tuesday, Nove me up at my house, so I waited for him inside the door And noe have a video caet in the door with keys and everything and it looked just like Stuart, somehow It had his attitude But then it wasn't wasn't Stuart and he was Stuart and he was still still trying to use a key to get in I decided to open the door and see who he was and so I did and I think he was drunk or so He asked for the lady of the house a few tiet in I decided to open the door and see who he was and so I did and I think he was drunk or so He asked for the lady of the house a few ti him that I I was the lady of the house And then I went back inside and the phone rang and it was Stuart to tell et in and I told hiain, and I went out to the car and past the ot into the li The tears were strea I said, ”It was so odd, I thought he was you at first” And Stuart was sobbing, saying what if it was the lady of the house And then I went back inside and the phone rang and it was Stuart to tell et in and I told hiain, and I went out to the car and past the ot into the li The tears were strea I said, ”It was so odd, I thought he was you at first” And Stuart was sobbing, saying what if it ere him and how could I just him and how could I just leave leave him there? And I said, ”Well, I think he's drunk and what can I do anyway?” So he said to take hi, but how could you him there? And I said, ”Well, I think he's drunk and what can I do anyway?” So he said to take hi, but how could you knohere he was going? So I borrowed 20 frooing, but he probably just duhborhood But he ell-dressed Like a Spanish man in cream-colored Spanish boots and kind of natty By the way, Michael Jackson never did show up, he called and cancelled right before he was supposed to be there where he was going? So I borrowed 20 frooing, but he probably just duhborhood But he ell-dressed Like a Spanish man in cream-colored Spanish boots and kind of natty By the way, Michael Jackson never did show up, he called and cancelled right before he was supposed to be there

Thursday, Novee called and said that Steven Greenberg would take us to Missoni in his car and we got there late, and I think it's actually the best time to arrive someplace, really late, after everybody's resistance is worn down and they're tired, and then you hit theo around and see art directors looking for jobs If you went early in the , so I'd wait till 12;00, lunchti calls and they were tired and you had a better chance People really do stop calling offices at lunchtime because they assume the people will be out

So ent to the Missoni thing and then went to Le Cirque Gael was there having dinner with Steven's friend, Mr Mulane, the Bally Casino guy He's really nice, he knows everybody

It was pouring rain Got home and turned on TV and saw that John Tesh, our old friend who used to be on the news here, is the new ht with Mary Hart with Mary Hart

Friday, Novee for Fred to get hoone in at 8:15 that otten ho rooht he'd ”joked with” the doctor while he was under anesthesia, and oh God, I can just iine what he said Fred really could be bad under those circumstances And I complained a lot to Fred about my personal life which I shouldn't do I should just always say everything's cool He told et involved with these kids' personal lives, like Saht I was going to screa the night a feeeks ago at Jill's boyfriend's apartot involved with Victor the other night because Victor called and said, ”I have soine, and he said, ”The blond boy orks for youSam” And that stunnedBobby Kennedy Young Bobby Kennedy, a docu They put it on because it was the JFK death anniversary, I guess

I'm always surprised that one of the Kennedy kids wouldn't want to knohat really happened, who really killed JFK and Bobby Kennedy You'd think Caroline would get interested and say, ”I don't care if I get killed, I want to know”

Went to Doyle's and then to Sotheby's and got catalogues (cabs 4, 5) This is right before they closed And they told me there that I'd just done very well The Soup nuot we'd sent Jay to bid on Ladies and Gentlemen, a set of those, and some Flowers Jasper's Numbers set went for 140,000

There was a dinner at 7:30 at River House and Paige said she'd pick me up She arrived and had a basket on her head with flowers on it It was left over from the photo session for Tama's book, A Cannibal in Manhattan Cannibal in Manhattan, that they'd done that afternoon at Tavern on the Green Paige is art-directing the book, setting up the photos in it Stuart had told me how beautiful the ”hat” looked, but it was just-ridiculous She'd had on a silver outfit, but for the dinner she changed into a black Gaultier but kept the hat on The dinner was for Francesco Cleela Westwater lady who has the Sperone Westwater Gallery, and the first person whose hand I shake turns out to be Alan Wanzenberg-I didn't recognize hiht across froe and me, ”Oh, the two of you should be married” A Tama-type line I made a faux pas faux pas, I said to Alba Cleot that Bianca had had an affair with Clemente She said, ”No She's not a friend of mine” And Thomas Ammann said Mary Boone wants to represent me and that I should think about it Keith and his friend Juan were there And then about thirty-five people were going down to Nell's I didn't want to go and Paige did so I told her to go ahead but she insisted on dropping ain all the weird problee's flowers had fallen out so she was going home with an empty basket on her head

Tuesday, November 25, 1986 The second day of the auctions at Sotheby's-Renaissance Was picked up by Benjamin Stuart arrived late and looked like Dracula We lost out on everything, which was fun-it was all learning and seeing and touching and feeling, and it didn't cost a penny Left there and walked for a while

Oh, and Stuart told uys ork at the auction houses, asking thehs) Went back to the office and worked fro late, too Fred's walking with a cane Then invited Paige and Rupert to Nippon It's nice not to have Sam to worry about anymore Since I found out he has a secret life and sleeps out a lot, I don't feel responsible for hi The phone rang and it was Wilfredo saying he couldn't co hoe called and said she'd pick me up in ten minutes, but it was half an hour before she and Tama and Stephen Sprouse arrived

Victor had called in the meantime and I invited his or if now he's just always paranoid

So ent to the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue and 90th, and the good-looking priest hadchic church And it looked overstaffed-like they had one volunteer for every eater Everybody had their oaiter So ent upstairs and there was this big dykey Irish wonot offended and that started hi, ”Just eat fast and fuck off and get out so we can clean up” This is in a church! church! And finally I told him, ”Victor, we're here because And finally I told him, ”Victor, we're here because e want to be” And there were a lot of photographers, I don't know if they were from the newspapers or what So this dykey lady says toyou on security, to keep people in order” And I said, ”I can't do a thing like that” And she said, ”Well that's what you're going to do” And I said, ”No, I'nored her and we served the food, and it's such a great church, there was food for people to take ho everybody a lot If there's thisA lot of people looked like they just came for a meal so they wouldn't be to be” And there were a lot of photographers, I don't know if they were from the newspapers or what So this dykey lady says toyou on security, to keep people in order” And I said, ”I can't do a thing like that” And she said, ”Well that's what you're going to do” And I said, ”No, I'nored her and we served the food, and it's such a great church, there was food for people to take ho everybody a lot If there's thisA lot of people looked like they just cah Maybe they even lived on Park Avenue, you can't tell