The Andy Warhol Diaries Part 24

I forgot to say that I keep running into the Robb girl, the LBJ daughter, the tall one. Lynda Bird. She could be a raving beauty but she doesn't want to be, I guess, because she wears gla.s.ses and a funny hairdo.

Liz Carpenter brought about eight people. Nancy d.i.c.kerson was there. And Wilson Kidde brought his friend from Princeton, Matt Salinger, the son of J.D. Salinger, who we've been trying to get for Interview Interview but he turned us down. He said it would just get too complicated to give an interview and it was just easier not to. He's really good-looking. but he turned us down. He said it would just get too complicated to give an interview and it was just easier not to. He's really good-looking.

And William Blair called and couldn't come to lunch and said that his father didn't want him to be in Interview Interview and we can't understand it. Lunch was for Pat Ast, and we stuck her next to the Salinger boy so she had a good time. I gave a speech and I gave out and we can't understand it. Lunch was for Pat Ast, and we stuck her next to the Salinger boy so she had a good time. I gave a speech and I gave out Philosophy Philosophy books. I told them I didn't believe in art, that I believed in photography. Oatsie Charles was there and she gave me a Mondale scarf. And little William Mondale was cute, he stayed through the whole thing. I asked him about the Secret Service and he said they cramp his style. He's so pretty. books. I told them I didn't believe in art, that I believed in photography. Oatsie Charles was there and she gave me a Mondale scarf. And little William Mondale was cute, he stayed through the whole thing. I asked him about the Secret Service and he said they cramp his style. He's so pretty.

Painting with a sponge mop at 860 Broadway. (photo Christopher (photo Christopher Makos) Makos)

Andy never kept phone numbers organized. He scribbled them on sc.r.a.ps of paper, stuck them in his pockets, and used them until he either memorized or lost them. (photo Ralph Lewin copyright 1989) (photo Ralph Lewin copyright 1989)

The sunny front of the third-floor offices at 860 Broadway. Andy did most of his artwork in the back areas of the loft, but some art in transit was usually stacked out front, by the doorway to the elevator and to Interview Interview magazine's area. magazine's area. (photo Mark Sink) (photo Mark Sink)

Victor Hugo, John Lennon, and Rupert Smith. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Vincent Fremont. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Top: Robyn Geddes and Brigid Berlin. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol) Bottom: Jade Jagger in Andy's painting area at the back of the loft. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Henry Geldzahler posing on top of the radiator grillwork. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

"860".

Top Right: At twilight, just before leaving the offices. (photo Mark Sink) (photo Mark Sink) Middle Left: The view from 860 Broadway, looking down Union Square West. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol) Middle Right: Lou Reed and Ronnie Cutrone at the front of Andy's offices. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol) Bottom: The "conference room" where lunches were served to guests. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

At Halston's Olympic Tower showroom. left to right: left to right: Benjamin Liu, Martha Graham, Jane Holzer, and Liza Minnelli. Benjamin Liu, Martha Graham, Jane Holzer, and Liza Minnelli. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Gigi and Ronnie Cutrone. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Suzie Frankfurt (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Andre Leon Talley and Maxime de la Falaise McKendry. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Brigid Berlin at the height of her weight, in character as "Estelle," on the set of Bad in 1976. With her are brother Richard E. Berlin, Jr., and co-star Susan Tyrrell. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett)

Barbara Allen. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Halston at home on East 63rd Street with Diane de Beauvau and Bianca. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Richard Weisman with Catherine Oxenberg and her mother, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Top: Iranian amba.s.sador to the U.N. Fereydoun Hoyeyda (left), Marisa Berenson, and Lester Persky. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol) Bottom: Bianca Jagger and Diane de Beauvau. (photo Bob Colacello) (photo Bob Colacello)

John McEnroe and Catherine Guinness. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Dinner with Mick Jagger and William Burroughs. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Halston. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Pat Hackett with twin brothers Jay (left) (left) and Jed Johnson, and Jed Johnson, (photo Patrick McMullan) (photo Patrick McMullan)

Martha Graham. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Baryshnikov. (photo Andy Warhol) (photo Andy Warhol)

Top Right: With John Samuels IV (a.k.a. actor John Stockwell) and Calvin Klein at Studio 54. (photo Patrick McMullan) (photo Patrick McMullan) Middle: With Jack Nicholson in New York, 1974. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett) Bottom Left: With Steve Rubell and Peter Allen. (photo Patrick McMullan) (photo Patrick McMullan)

With Martin Scorsese, Catherine, Guinness, and Robbie Robertson in Scorsese's suite at the Sherry Netherland on May 11,1978. (photo Christopher Makos) (photo Christopher Makos)

With James Curley. (photo Patrick McMullan) Patrick McMullan)

Kissing John Lennon, February 1978. (photo Christopher Makos) (photo Christopher Makos)

With Mick Jagger and Archie, 1975. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett)

With Hollywood agent Sue Mengers. (photo Bob Colacello) (photo Bob Colacello)

With Diana Vreeland in 1975. (photo Bob Colacello) (photo Bob Colacello)

Left: When Andy's Philosophy Philosophy book was published in 1975, artist/window dresser Victor Hugo (on book was published in 1975, artist/window dresser Victor Hugo (on floor) floor) "tiled" the floor of designer Halston's "tiled" the floor of designer Halston's (standing) (standing) showroom window at Madison and 68th Street with copies of it. showroom window at Madison and 68th Street with copies of it. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett) Right: At the White House in 1977 with his drawing of Jimmy Carter. (photo Bob Colacello) (photo Bob Colacello)

Right: With Mick Jagger in 1975 at 860 Broadway, co-signing Andy's Mick Jagger portfolio prints. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett) Left: Walking in the Village with Jed Johnson (left) (left) and Paul Morrissey in 1972. (photo Pat Hackett) and Paul Morrissey in 1972. (photo Pat Hackett)

Andy with his dachshund Archie in the entrance hallway of his house on East 66th Street, (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett)

Getting dressed at his house. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett)

On one of his daily runs up and down Madison, stopping in stores both to shop and to encourage store owners to advertise in his magazine, Interview Interview. (photo Pat Hackett) (photo Pat Hackett)

Top: Nico in 1966, singing with the Velvet Underground, (photo Billy Nome) (photo Billy Nome) Bottom: Andy at his 1971 retrospective at the Whitney Museum with (left to right) (left to right) Geraldine Smith, Ultra Violet, Andrea Feldman, Jane Forth, and Donna Jordan. Geraldine Smith, Ultra Violet, Andrea Feldman, Jane Forth, and Donna Jordan. (photo Richord Bernstein) (photo Richord Bernstein)

Top: Andy in the sixties with (fop to bottom) bottom) Mary Woronov, who appeared in his film Mary Woronov, who appeared in his film Chelsea Girls; Chelsea Girls;Nico, wno sang with the Velvet Underground, and International Velvet (Susan Bottomly), who was a Warhol Girl of the Year, (courtesy of Whitney Film Archives) (courtesy of Whitney Film Archives) Bottom: Warhol superstars Viva and Brigid Berlin (a.k.a. Brigid Polk) in Andy's 1967 film Tub Girls, (photo Billy Name) Girls, (photo Billy Name)

Shots taken in 1968 on the set of Paul Morrissey's Flesh Flesh, starring Jackie Curtis (with cigarette), Joe Dallesandro, and Geri Miller, (photo Jed Johnson) (photo Jed Johnson)

Body-painting a model in the sixties with Gerard Malanga and Ultra Violet.

Andy talks on the sprayed-silver payphone at the original Factory on East 47th Street in 1964. (photo Billy Name) (photo Billy Name)

Top: Andy's mother, Julia Zavacky, (top left corner) (top left corner), in Czechoslovakia before her marriage to Andy's father, Andrew Warhola. With her are Zavacky family members and in-laws. (courtesy of Amy Possarelli) (courtesy of Amy Possarelli) Bottom: Andy's mother, Julia, with two of her three children, John (left) (left) and Andy. (Her other son, Paul, is not shown.) and Andy. (Her other son, Paul, is not shown.) (courtesy of Amy Pa.s.sarelli) (courtesy of Amy Pa.s.sarelli)

Andy on the lawn of Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, 1948. (photo Philip Peorlstein) (photo Philip Peorlstein)

Rupert came up and I did some drawings and paintings. Hans Mayer called from Germany and I have to do one of the portraits over.

Bob picked up the phone and called California and to tell them I'd agreed to do a poster of Reagan just because of some offhand kidding comment I made and now I'm having nightmares that I'll get pushed into really doing one. Those things get so tricky. Bob gets so crazy wanting to be an inside Republican.

Friday, August 15, 1980 Got up and pa.s.sed out Interviews Interviews, now I carry a lot more with me. I leave them in cabs. And it's so easy to get away from people in the street when they stop you if you give them an Interview Interview. They think they're getting something, a drawing or something. Vincent was saying the other day that I should start actually selling them instead of giving them away, that it would be more fun for me.

Tuesday, August 19, 1980 Bob was in a cranky mood all day. I told him we had to do Patti LuPone on the cover and he went into a tizzy screaming. He said it looked too similar to Paloma. They're both Latins. But oh, Bob is so immature. He does a baby tantrum when he wants something and then he does his guilty thing. It's just so predictable. Bob thinks he has too much to do. He thinks he has no personal life. He said he doesn't like going around with these old ladies, that he just does it for me, but then he admitted that he didn't mind the trips sometimes, that he doesn't mind the old girls sometimes, but that he'd rather be with his own friends. Which friends? I don't know. People he's met from work! And then on these scenes Fred is always called in, and after his own night of binging then he has to act mature and be the know-it-all and straighten Bob out.

And after weeks of Princess Holstein asking to help me I finally told her she could help me trace, and then she disappeared for an hour and I had to do it alone, and when she came back I asked her where she'd been and she said she had a phone call. She's becoming Ronnie's a.s.sistant-she sits and talks to Ronnie because he doesn't have anything to do. And then Robyn spends his days calling up his friends to look up who the princess's relatives are. So that's the state of the office.

Wednesday, August 20, 1980 Bob was acting a little better, he apologized for being nutty the day before. I met him for dinner to discuss the Patti LuPone interview, and I invited Rupert, too, because we had to discuss the Florida trip with Ron Feldman. We met at Le Relais (dinner $130).

When I got home I called Bob and we talked until 3:00 in the morning because I was waiting for Jed to get home. He was having dinner with Alan Wanzenberg the architect-he's working with Jed now on the Brants' house in Palm Beach.