The Andy Warhol Diaries Part 32

Worked on the Andrew Carnegie portrait for Carnegie-Mellon. Jon was going off to Cincinnati to a Ragtime Ragtime sneak, and then to someplace like South Carolina for the same thing. The reopening party at Studio 54 got absolutely no publicity. The sneak, and then to someplace like South Carolina for the same thing. The reopening party at Studio 54 got absolutely no publicity. The Entertainment Tonight Entertainment Tonight people had come but hadn't seen any celebrities there. But actually there were low-key stars like the B-52s there and-oh did I say that Tony Curtis came up to me and said that his new career was doing collages? people had come but hadn't seen any celebrities there. But actually there were low-key stars like the B-52s there and-oh did I say that Tony Curtis came up to me and said that his new career was doing collages?

Sunday, September 20, 1981 Cab to Mortimer's for the dinner Nan Kempner was having for Ungaro ($3). I said to Diana Vreeland, "Have you seen Mommie Dearest?" Mommie Dearest?" And she said, "Have I And she said, "Have I seen seen it?! That was my life! That was the closest thing to me when I get mad, I really tear into people and that's not entertainment!" Two hours into the dinner I could hear Fred's voice so loud sounding like Diana. I call him "Dr. Hyde and Mrs. Vreeland" when he drinks. it?! That was my life! That was the closest thing to me when I get mad, I really tear into people and that's not entertainment!" Two hours into the dinner I could hear Fred's voice so loud sounding like Diana. I call him "Dr. Hyde and Mrs. Vreeland" when he drinks.

Tuesday, September 22, 1981 I'd gotten up really early so I wouldn't be late for my appointment with Nelson Lyon at the Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live place. Cabbed to 30 Rockefeller Center ($4.50). Had trouble because the 6' blonde girl downstairs didn't know who Nelson was, didn't know who I was, and didn't know what place. Cabbed to 30 Rockefeller Center ($4.50). Had trouble because the 6' blonde girl downstairs didn't know who Nelson was, didn't know who I was, and didn't know what Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live was. She was very beautiful but really dumb. So finally I got there. We met in this big office with the producer and the director, Jean Doumanian. They wanted me to do something one week, but I told them that if I couldn't be a regular I wouldn't do it. Nelson thinks I should do something political. was. She was very beautiful but really dumb. So finally I got there. We met in this big office with the producer and the director, Jean Doumanian. They wanted me to do something one week, but I told them that if I couldn't be a regular I wouldn't do it. Nelson thinks I should do something political.

And then the meeting ended Hollywood-style-that's where the meeting's suddenly over and they ignore you and talk about other things. They don't say, "Thank you, it was nice of you to come." Suddenly they just drop you, only you're still sitting there, so it's like you're invisible. It's kind of great.

Then afterwards Nelson and I went downstairs in the elevator and I was telling him about the beautiful 6' blonde girl who didn't know who he was or me either, and he made fun of how I always get things wrong-he said it was probably a 2' black black girl down there, and then we got downstairs and by then it girl down there, and then we got downstairs and by then it (laughs) was (laughs) was a black girl. So we were really laughing and I said no no no, that it really a black girl. So we were really laughing and I said no no no, that it really had had been a big blonde before. been a big blonde before.

Wednesday, September 23, 1981 I had to meet Peter Brant for lunch at the office. Also there was a woman who'd called me, she brought a portrait back because a little girl threw an apple at it and I have to fix it. So Peter Brant came and he was just awful. He picked out some prints, and now we're all settled with him on the money he invested in Bad Bad and he never has to come back. Good. and he never has to come back. Good.

Christopher picked me up and we went to my modeling job at Saks (cab $7). Took Rupert with us and they thought he was a messenger. Two of Halston's models were there-Alma, who was nice, and a blonde one who ignored me. These models are funny, I guess they think I'm taking their jobs away by being a model.

Monday, September 28, 1981 Got up early and was still half an hour late for my Janet Sartin appointment. And I noticed a pimple on Janet's face so I questioned her about that.

Made phone calls to the office before I went to my exercise cla.s.s at Lady Sharon's. When I got there she was still in bed. Had an hour of exercises. I'm so tired from them that I really do sleep at night, and I get hungry from them so I eat more, too.

The office was really busy. Lucio Amelio was there. Vincent was working things out with the Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live people: The deal is we're going to get $3,000 for the first week's one-minute thing and if that goes well we'll do more. We have to send them some people: The deal is we're going to get $3,000 for the first week's one-minute thing and if that goes well we'll do more. We have to send them some Philosophy Philosophy books. books.

Tuesday, September 29, 1981 I got up early because I had a yoga cla.s.s at 9:30. And I'm so surprised I never took yoga years ago. It's just so nothing, just sitting and stretching. And that's why I gave up Martha Graham years ago-in Pittsburgh I took a cla.s.s from one of her teachers who was married to an Indian.

And Nelson came down, he said he'd been up for forty-five hours, and he was trying to do dialogue for my spot which we have to film on Friday morning. He wanted me to talk about the old Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live show. I said I never watched it. Belus.h.i.+'s staying at his apartment in Los Angeles. show. I said I never watched it. Belus.h.i.+'s staying at his apartment in Los Angeles.

Took my vitamins. Felt like I was flying all night.

Wednesday, September 30, 1981 Nelson came up with the script for Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live and I was getting cold feet about the thing. and I was getting cold feet about the thing.

I made an appointment to see Dr. Rees the plastic surgeon. I stopped taking the vitamins and I feel much better.

Thursday, October 1, 1981 Got up early, still was late, got to Janet Sartin's at 9:30. Then ran to yoga cla.s.s but since yoga is calming, I didn't want to really rush, so I ran, but calmly, but by then the girl had gone.

I was seeing Dr. Rees at 2:30. I called the office and told Brigid to meet me at Tiffany's and we would shop until my appointment.

Got to Dr. Rees's on East 72nd Street and I had to fill out forms, and I saw the doctor and he was dying to do my face. I told him what I really wanted was a few mini-lifts, that I just wanted to go in for a little bit on different days. But he said he'd have to do it all at once, that he would cut all around the ear, and he showed me how it would look. He said I'd be black and blue for a while and I'd have to stay in town for two weeks. So I told him I'd think about it.

Cabbed to meet Don Munroe ($6.50). He and Vincent were setting up to shoot me for our segment on Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live. We did our lines and I was terrible, I don't think it's funny-three reels, an hour and a half of work. But then later Vincent said they really liked it and I asked if I had to go down to do any more on it and he said no. I'm scared about this Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live thing. Jon thinks I shouldn't be doing it, because if it's bad, so thing. Jon thinks I shouldn't be doing it, because if it's bad, so many many people will see it, so I'm hoping they don't use it after all. people will see it, so I'm hoping they don't use it after all.

Friday, October 2, 1981 Went over to my exercise cla.s.s at Lady Sharon's. Sharon doesn't do the cla.s.s with me.

Diana Ross came at 3:00 and she loved all the portraits, she said, "Wrap them up," and they all fit in the limousine, and she had a check at Bob's place by 5:00. And she wants me to do the cover for her next alb.u.m.

Sat.u.r.day, October 3, 1981 Called Vincent to see if he'd heard anything about Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live and he said that he had, that yes, they were going to use it, that they were really happy with it. They still didn't have a guest host. and he said that he had, that yes, they were going to use it, that they were really happy with it. They still didn't have a guest host.

Jon picked me up in his car. Made a lot of phone calls trying to find the new Maud Frizon shoe store ($.60). And then we found out it was on 57th between Madison and Park (cabs $5, $6, $3, $4.50). Still we couldn't find it and there was a crowd of people in the street and I asked one of them if they knew where the Maud Frizon store was and they said that that's what the big crowd was looking at. They said, "Cher's in there." So everyone was looking in the store at Cher trying on shoes. So we went in and I was too embarra.s.sed to look at her. And Sonny Bono was there, too with his girlfriend, Susie Coelho, who's really beautiful.

And I guess these people just buy clothes and shoes all day, because Rupert told me he saw Rod Stewart in Parachute buying a few thousand dollars' worth of clothes and reading Interview Interview. And Sonny and Susie were trying on shoes, and Sonny had on the exact same leather Armani jacket that Jon had on, but his was in brown and Jon's was in black. And the shoes Jon liked they were out of, they said Rod Stewart had bought ten pairs the day before.

So then we were leaving and a boy who worked there asked if we wanted to go out the back door and then he said, "Cher said that she would be honored if you did her portrait," so that was great, and Jon said I should go back inside, not let that slip through my fingers. So I did, and we talked, and she's at the Pierre.

Sunday, October 4, 1981 So many people must see Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live, because instead of people on the street saying, "There's Andy Warhol the artist," I heard, "There's Andy Warhol from Sat.u.r.day Night Live!" Sat.u.r.day Night Live!" They'd seen my first segment on it the night before. They'd seen my first segment on it the night before.

I read The New York Times The New York Times. They still haven't reviewed my Myths show. They're ignoring it. Roy has a show now at the Whitney. I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's good, though, he's my favorite painter after Rosenquist. Then cabbed to Jon's to work on making a play-a musical-out of the tape transcripts. We now have enough dialogue but I wish I could think of a strange story to use it in.

Monday, October 5, 1981 I had a fight on the phone with Ron Feldman, he's so awful, he didn't want to take the whole series of Myths, he only wanted to take the specific images that are selling the best and I thought he was just awful, and I wound up yelling and I hate to yell on the phone.

Tuesday, October 6, 1981 So many people keep saying they saw me on Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live. I guess people do stay in, I don't know, I'm surprised.

Thursday, October 8, 1981 I had a fight with Jon so I wasn't taking his calls.

Rupert came up with some Dollar Signs, but they were looking like Jasper Johnses, sort of. Vincent had gone up to Sotheby's to the auction where they had some of my portfolios and he bought them back. Some Campbell's Soup Cans and some Maos. But not the Marilyns because the Marilyn prices have stayed up, they're around $3 5,000 apiece now. Mrs. Castelli's having a prints show soon, so Vincent was bidding against Castelli Graphics and I guess Leo was mad, but ...

Nelson came down and wanted to work on the Sat.u.r.day Night Live Sat.u.r.day Night Live thing. I think for my next show I'm going to paint and talk about painting. thing. I think for my next show I'm going to paint and talk about painting.

Friday, October 9, 1981 I finally took a call from Jon and said we could talk about the script at Joe Allen's restaurant before going to see Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby (tickets $200). (tickets $200).

Paul Morrissey was at the office talking about the Montauk property-about Halston and Lauren Hutton wanting to buy land, and he's trying to work out some things.

Leo Castelli came with his girlfriend Laura de Coppet and he was drinking and they were hugging and kissing and I just can't believe this old man. This is the girl who gives Jackie Curtis money. Leo's commissioning a portrait of her.

Sat.u.r.day, October 10, 1981 I wanted to see Duran Duran at the Savoy because their videotape was so good, it's called "Girls on Film." When I got there the first band was still on. Duran Duran are good-looking kids like Maxwell Caulfield. And then afterwards they wanted to meet me so we went backstage and I told them how great they were. They all wore lots of makeup but they had their girlfriends with them from England, pretty girls, so I guess they're all straight, but it was hard to believe. We went to Studio 54 in their white limo and Steve Rubell was really nice to them. He took them to the booth and gave them drinks. Ran into old friends, met a bunch of new kids and got home at 5:00 (cab $5).

Wednesday, October 14, 1981 Bob warned me that when we go to Was.h.i.+ngton to interview Nancy Reagan for the cover I couldn't ask her any "s.e.x questions." And I just couldn't believe him. I mean, I just couldn't believe him. Did he think I was going to sit there and ask her how often do they do it? And then Bob told me that I look like a fool on the runway doing my modeling jobs. I told him I didn't care, and he said that he he cared, that it made his job harder if I looked like a fool. Worked till 7:00. cared, that it made his job harder if I looked like a fool. Worked till 7:00.

Thursday, October 15, 1981 - New York-Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.-New York We were early getting to the White House, we got in and then Nancy Reagan came in and we were in the same room. And a waiter brought in four gla.s.ses of water. Doria was with us. We talked about drug rehabilitation and it was boring. I made a couple of mistakes but I didn't care because I was still so mad at being told by Bob not to ask s.e.x questions. She had an a.s.sistant who sat there and took notes, and they said they weren't doing their own tape of the interview but I'm sure they were. Bob had his tape recorder and I had mine. I took four pictures. Mrs. Reagan gave Doria a piece of Tupperware, not wrapped or anything, and she gave her three boxes of socks for Ron. Bob was telling Mrs. Reagan she was such a good mother. He asked what they were doing for Christmas and she said they were going to stay at the White House because n.o.body ever stays at the White House. At 4:30 the interview was over. She and Doria talked for about fifteen minutes while Bob and I waited to the side. Then we got a cab to the airport.

Got to New York, called Jon at the office. Gave Doria $20 for the cab after she dropped me. When I walked in the door the phone was ringing and it was Brigid asking me what kind of tea Mrs. Reagan served us and then I started thinking and I got madder. I mean, she could have put on the dog-she could have done it in a good room, she could have used the good china! good china! I mean, this was for her daughter-in-law, she could have done something really great for this interview but she didn't. I got madder and madder thinking about it. I mean, this was for her daughter-in-law, she could have done something really great for this interview but she didn't. I got madder and madder thinking about it.

Friday, October 16, 1981 I told Janet Sartin that Doria and I had just been down to Was.h.i.+ngton to interview the First Lady and she said she's just dying to do Nancy and the president. She said she can stop his skin from sagging.

Brigid got me upset, she was transcribing the interview with Nancy Reagan and she said it was awful, and so we went in and asked Doria wasn't it peculiar that we weren't offered tea or anything and that we were treated just like anybody, and Doria said she thought it was the secretary that was really the awful one, that Nancy probably was going to do it upstairs and then the secretary had her change it.

Monday, October 19, 1981 Had to go close on the building and we had to drink some champagne with the people.

Thursday, October 29, 1981 Christopher is having his photo show out in California and it's going to highlight his photographs of me in drag, so just when we finally get Mrs. Reagan this is going to be publicized, Time Time and and Newsweek Newsweek will probably pick it up and my whole reputation will be ruined. Again. Talked to Jon in L.A., he'll be coming back on Sat.u.r.day night. will probably pick it up and my whole reputation will be ruined. Again. Talked to Jon in L.A., he'll be coming back on Sat.u.r.day night.

Sat.u.r.day, October 31, 1981 We went to the Village to see the fourth annual Village Halloween parade and it was just great, so much fun. It started at 6:00 on the nose and it went from Westbeth to Was.h.i.+ngton Square, and it was the funniest group of people, one was dressed as a table and lamp.

Picked up Jon (cab $7.50), he was cutting holes out of a hanky to make a mask. Went to Studio at 2:00 and it was the best party they've ever done. They had girls with live snakes, and a haunted house and I didn't see Steve Rubell at all. Chris was a doctor and Peter was a nurse. Robin Williams was there.

Sunday, November 1, 1981 Slept late, till 12:00. Went to meet Jon. Went to the laundromat on Columbus with him to do his laundry.

Tuesday, November 3, 1981 It was Election Day so Jon had the day off but he'd lost his address book and couldn't remember my number so he couldn't call.

Wednesday, November 4, 1981 Chris woke me at 7:15 to turn on the TV to the s.p.a.ce shuttle, so I did and they stopped it after thirty-one seconds. They had oil clogged in the valves and so they're not going up for a week at least.

Then we went to our new building on 33rd and Madison ($4). It was a beautiful sunny day and on the way up all the buildings looked great in the sunlight. Made two calls ($.20). We got to our building and it was just sensational, so beautiful, you just can't believe it. And the neighborhood has everything, all coffee shops, all the homemade Puerto Rican kind of food that Ronnie and Robyn like, and Jean DeNoyer is opening a new restaurant, La Coupole, on 32nd Street, and the whole area is great. There's a beautiful hotel across the street with wh.o.r.es that they're trying to get out. We went into the building and the best thing is the roof terrace, it's like a terrace for a beautiful, glamorous apartment.

Monday, November 9, 1981 Got into black tie for the queen of Thailand dinner for the Save the Children Fund. I didn't wear a coat because I wanted to leave early so I could meet Jon. Cabbed to the Waldorf ($4). I missed Imelda Marcos who they said had been there, she'd crashed, she was staying at the hotel. And Paloma was there talking with Clare Boothe Luce and Clare didn't recognize me at first but then she said, "You're losing weight and why are you doing that?" so I went through my modeling lines. She looks very old, but it's like a young person dressed in old drag, it's a very strange look. The food was good, the best dinner I've had there. The queen of Thailand was on the dais. I could only think about her jewels.

Wednesday, November 18, 1981 I bought three National Lampoons National Lampoons because they parodied because they parodied Interview Interview. ($6) Went to my modeling job for L'Uomo Vogue L'Uomo Vogue (cab $7) on West 21st Street. Way Bandy was there and a hairdresser named Harry, an English kid, just funny and cute, and Way was wonderful, we talked about health foods and he doesn't wear too much makeup for day. He looks very good, he's had a lot of facelifts and we talked about that. He goes to bed at 11:00 and gets up at 5:00 and spends two and a half hours doing his yoga and everything. Way and the hairdresser each get $1,000 a day so I'd like to hire him twenty-five times a year to make me up for special occasions, but he says he can only fit me in six times. And then they left and two (cab $7) on West 21st Street. Way Bandy was there and a hairdresser named Harry, an English kid, just funny and cute, and Way was wonderful, we talked about health foods and he doesn't wear too much makeup for day. He looks very good, he's had a lot of facelifts and we talked about that. He goes to bed at 11:00 and gets up at 5:00 and spends two and a half hours doing his yoga and everything. Way and the hairdresser each get $1,000 a day so I'd like to hire him twenty-five times a year to make me up for special occasions, but he says he can only fit me in six times. And then they left and two other other people came to do me up people came to do me up punk punk-a black guy and a hairdresser named Mary Lou Green. And they had a Blondie wig so I would look like a girl, and then they made me up like Ronald Reagan, too.

Friday, November 20, 1981-New York-Toronto U.S. and Canadian Customs are the worst. Conrad Black had sent a limo for us, it took us to the Four Seasons Hotel and I had suite 2910 overlooking all of Canada. I got cleaned up and dressed and we went to Mr. Black's office. It was a post-modern building, the kind with the big columns, and there was an old-fas.h.i.+oned lady with her hair up at an old-fas.h.i.+oned switchboard.

Mr. Black had read Popism Popism the night before, he'd done his homework, and he reminded me of Peter Brant, but nicer. He was about thirty-seven, and sort of heavy, very nice, and a nice fortune-they have mines and supermarkets and newspapers. the night before, he'd done his homework, and he reminded me of Peter Brant, but nicer. He was about thirty-seven, and sort of heavy, very nice, and a nice fortune-they have mines and supermarkets and newspapers.

Then I dressed for a dinner Mr. Black and his wife Lisa were giving for me, at the museum. And Gaetana Enders's husband, Tom, who's the Under-secretary of State for Latin American Affairs was going to be there with Gaetana-he used to be the amba.s.sador to Canada, and he's 6'6" and Gaetana's 4'4".

I called the office in New York and I got mad because I was trying to get Jon invited to T.T. Wachtmeister's party for the king of Sweden and they said there wasn't any more room.

We met Gaetana in the lobby at 7:00 and cabbed to the museum. They had a little TV crew there, and we were putting down publicity until we found out that Mr. Black owns the TV station. And they had a cardinal there, who's just had a stroke so half of him was there, only, and Mr. Black had him saying grace. Bob was having a good time at this, finally. He's been so grouchy lately but the room full of billionaires perked him up.

So we're at the dinner and they introduced me to the cardinal and he said, "I hear you have a nephew who's a priest," and I said, "Oh yes, but he just ran away with a Mexican nun." And when I said that, Fred yanked me away and was screaming at me how could I do that to the cardinal when he was half-gone and there were only twenty cardinals in the world, and why couldn't I have just said, "Fine," and let it go, and the cardinal could hear Fred yelling at me and then they took him away and put him in a car, and he rolled down the window and said, "Andy Warhol is such an honest person, he could have lied to me and said his nephew was fine but instead he told me the truth and I love his art and I know he goes to church every Sunday."

And then I was given a tour of the Gauguin to Moore exhibition. Henry Moore gave this museum all these plastic things, n.o.body knows why he gave them so much. Really impressive. Like forty figures, gigantic. I mean, my work looks like nothing compared to that stuff. Oh, I'm getting to hate my-I must be-all I do is tour, everybody else works. I have to get back and do do something. I might be well-known, but I'm sure not turning out good work. I'm not turning out anything. something. I might be well-known, but I'm sure not turning out good work. I'm not turning out anything.

I didn't have that much to drink. Drinking does put on weight and I've got to stop it.

Sat.u.r.day, November 21, 1981-Toronto-New York Customs was disgusting again. Cabbed into town ($20). We made it to the office by 1:00. Finally T.T. Wachtmeister said I could bring Jon to the dinner for the king of Sweden at Reginette's. So then I called him and he wasn't sure if he wanted to go. I was getting nervous and drinking coffee-I had an opening at 4:00, a retrospective of prints, down at the Castelli Gallery. Leo called and asked when I was coming down, he wanted to show me a photograph of me by Hans Namuth, which did turn out to be beautiful.

I hated the show. And Ethel Scull said, "Do you remember me?" (laughs) (laughs) And Lester Persky invited me to his c.o.c.ktail party before the king of Sweden party, but I couldn't go because the only way I could get Jon to come to the king of Sweden dinner was by first taking him to Giorgio Sant'Angelo's surprise party for Marina Schiano.

Oh, and I'm forgetting the most glamorous thing of my opening. Warren Beatty walked in with Diane Keaton and I made a faux pas faux pas by saying, "I just read that article about you in by saying, "I just read that article about you in Playgirl," Playgirl," and they said, "Oh my G.o.d!" and ran out. I don't know if they were interested in buying art or if Diane Keaton wanted to take pictures, but anyway they made quite an effort to come to this crowded thing, so that was nice. and they said, "Oh my G.o.d!" and ran out. I don't know if they were interested in buying art or if Diane Keaton wanted to take pictures, but anyway they made quite an effort to come to this crowded thing, so that was nice.

So later at Reginette's I really liked dinner, it was fun. The cute girl next to Jon was an Argentinian, a Ford model, and she was cute because she ate the bread that I'd autographed. And (laughs) (laughs) the king of Sweden was there. Bob said that a few months ago Diana Ross's P.R. guy wouldn't say if she would come or not to this dinner, that he the king of Sweden was there. Bob said that a few months ago Diana Ross's P.R. guy wouldn't say if she would come or not to this dinner, that he (laughs) (laughs) asked Bob, "Well who asked Bob, "Well who else else is going to be there besides you, Andy, and the king of Sweden?" is going to be there besides you, Andy, and the king of Sweden?"

I got home and went to bed and the alarm went off at 3:30 and I was scared and Aurora was there and we went around the house together holding hands and it was a false alarm, we didn't find the bogeyman.

Sunday, November 22, 1981 Decided to go up to see the Roy Lichtenstein show at the Whitney, and I called Jon and asked him if he wanted to go. Walked up Madison (tickets $4). Saw the show and it was great, I was so jealous.

Tuesday, November 24, 1981 Got to my exercise appointment at Lady Sharon's by 9:50 and had a good time, did a whole hour. The trainer, Lidija, was wearing Revlon Moondrops lipstick, pink, and Chris had been telling me that my lips are too pale, so I went to Bloomingdale's right after paying her ($30) and got some lipstick ($3.75).

I worked, painted for a while, and then after Vincent had had time to set up, went over to Larry Rivers's where Vincent was videotaping (cab $5). And Larry gave a good interview. It was weird, he said he had his eyes lifted and that he'd had a scar removed, and I just couldn't believe it, I said, "Well then why didn't you get your nose nose done?" And he said because it would have changed his character! And Larry was talking about getting old and I told him to just not think that way. He said he had to sleep with John Bernard Myers to get shown in his gallery, and gee, he's done so much, he was Frank O'Hara's boyfriend, too. Larry gave us a good video interview, but now I have to do one for him in return. Larry's strange, he's sort of a good artist but such a nutty person. done?" And he said because it would have changed his character! And Larry was talking about getting old and I told him to just not think that way. He said he had to sleep with John Bernard Myers to get shown in his gallery, and gee, he's done so much, he was Frank O'Hara's boyfriend, too. Larry gave us a good video interview, but now I have to do one for him in return. Larry's strange, he's sort of a good artist but such a nutty person.

Then decided to have Thanksgiving dinner at home two days early because all my friends are leaving town on Thanksgiving day. I told Jon and Christopher and Peter to come at 8:00. Peter makes the best pies. And we played Christmas tapes, and we overate. And then we went upstairs and Chris pushed the furniture around and we played Charades.

And then around 10:30 we decided to go to Studio 54 for Bob's party for Sao, and we found a parking s.p.a.ce and got there before Bob and Sao, and I went on the dance floor and danced every dance and the reason I've now just begun to dance is because I finally realized that n.o.body really notices you. I mean, I watched Jon go out there and jump and bounce and I thought, Well, I can do that, too Well, I can do that, too. It's one thing I've picked up from him, I might as well get something something out of it. So now I'll be dancing. And then I heard that Jed was there so I guess he saw me dancing. He could have gotten me dancing, all those years, that's something he could have done for me. And I wasn't drunk at all, either. I was just miserable because things don't turn out like you expect them to, I was in sort of a horrible mood. I had a sip of champagne, that's all. And then I danced with Gaetana and with Sao and with PH, and I just never knew I could do it before. out of it. So now I'll be dancing. And then I heard that Jed was there so I guess he saw me dancing. He could have gotten me dancing, all those years, that's something he could have done for me. And I wasn't drunk at all, either. I was just miserable because things don't turn out like you expect them to, I was in sort of a horrible mood. I had a sip of champagne, that's all. And then I danced with Gaetana and with Sao and with PH, and I just never knew I could do it before.

Thursday, November 26, 1981 Well, got up, depressed, had a lonely day. No calls from Jon. Ate some Bill Bla.s.s chocolates. Ate leftover turkey. I called Halston but got the wrong number. Finally at a quarter to 6:00 I walked to Liza's. It was really homey. It was Liza and Mark Gero and his mother and father and uncle and three brothers and a Polish girl and Halston and Victor Hugo.

The dinner was in the hallway with all my portraits of Liza. It looked really beautiful. And I said to Mark, "I think I've seen this apartment in some magazines," and he said, "Yeah, Batman Comics." He was funny. And he's the best-looking of the brothers. Liza got the cream. And I figured out that the mother is, I think, Polish, so that's why they have that big Polish-Italian look. One of the brothers is a teacher at Harvard.

And I was really crazy, I was nutty, plus I was drinking good red wine from the Napa Valley. I said, "So now that we've got the whole family here, which one is the fairy?" And the Harvard one did a fairy voice and said, "Mommy, which one's the fairy?" It was funny. The mother is beautiful.

Martha Graham was there with her boyfriend Ron Protas and his boyfriend.

Sat.u.r.day, November 28, 1981 Worked all afternoon. The Du Pont twins called and invited me to Cornelia Guest's eighteenth birthday party that Nikki Haskell was giving for her at Le Club. I said that I had a date with Peter and Christopher and they said to bring them.

Then they talked me into going to the Underground, the disco on the first floor of 860, which I never wanted to do. I went with Cornelia because she wanted to be photographed with me, and Peter and Chris went separately. We got there and I met the Mafia-looking guys and they were so scary. Ethel Scull was there and she couldn't believe I was dancing and making a fool of myself, and so she invited me to her birthday party the next night so I could make a fool of myself there, too, and I said yes but I knew I wouldn't go. The people who run the place brought out the Dom Perignon for us. And Cornelia's friends were so cute, so many cute girls in jewelry, all eighteen. A juggler was juggling for Cornelia and he gave me one of his juggles.

The Underground was doing very well when Studio 54 was closed but now Studio's open again....

Sunday, November 29, 1981 Fred was supposed to go to Jackie O.'s party for John-John but sixty-five people arrived at his house and he couldn't leave, and then it was Xenon, the Underground, and Paul Garcia's new place that he opened on 12th Avenue and 25th Street. Oh, and there's a new place downtown called AM/PM. I saw in the paper that Caroline and her new boyfriend Edwin Schlossberg went there the other night. And I remember our old friend Roberta from the sixties who was the Supremes groupie who taught art at Columbia saying, "Oh you've got to meet this absolutely brilliant boy, Edwin Schlossberg, he's so brilliant brilliant brilliant." Caroline likes funny people. He probably was babbling intellectually and she got fascinated, he was probably saying strange peculiar quotations or something.

Monday, November 30, 1981 Earl McGrath was having a fiftieth birthday party at Trax and he was nervous. John Belus.h.i.+ gave a speech, he said that Earl had given him a helping hand-"not like that f.u.c.king Laurence Olivier who never did a thing for me." He was funny. I talked to Isabel Eberstadt who's just finished her novel, and it's going to be hot hot hot, it really will be, I just know it.

Wednesday, December 2, 1981 Laura de Coppet called and I don't know, she was telling me this song and dance that one of my portraits of her that Leo commissioned had been destroyed by a lover-cut into strips. And I said, "Well why are you telling me this?" And she said, "Because it's yours." I said, "No, it's yours." And she said, "Well, do you want me to send it up to you?" and I said, "No. You figure it out with Leo and tell me."

Sunday, December 6, 1981 I lost my contact lens and then found it an hour later on a piece of soap, it looked like a bubble. And so I had one lifetime lens in and one overnight lens in and, actually, I saw very well.

I picked up Jon and went to the Rainbow Room to get an award from The Best The Best magazine (cab $7). It was jammed with TVs and cameras. Lost Jon in one second. Ma.s.simo Gargia, the man who started magazine (cab $7). It was jammed with TVs and cameras. Lost Jon in one second. Ma.s.simo Gargia, the man who started The Best The Best, said that since I was so late to accept, mine was the only blank award, it didn't have my name on it, and I said that was perfect. The award was crystal and p.e.n.i.s-shaped with a chain around it that looked like it was gold, and I asked Ralph Destino the president of Cartier if it was was gold-because it said "Cartier" on it-and he gold-because it said "Cartier" on it-and he (laughs) (laughs) said, "Think of it as gold." said, "Think of it as gold."

Monday, December 7, 1981 I'm doing a fold-out page for Artforum Artforum. They asked me to, and I was considering a fold-out drag queen or a fold-out advertis.e.m.e.nt for my modeling career but decided on a dollar sign, since Leo already took an ad out for it. And Leo called and said that the portrait of Laura really was destroyed, and I just don't know what to say to that. I'm not going to give them a free replacement. If they want another one they'll have to pay for it. It's not my problem, it's their problem.

Fred was out all day helping Diana Vreeland because I guess she was nervous about her show that's opening at the Met.

Halston had ten of his models and six limos and so we all got in different ones and it was fun. At the museum, Marisa Berenson was doing a thing for Entertainment Tonight Entertainment Tonight so we went into a room for photos. There were lots of photographers there. Every snazzy lady in town-Brooke Astor, Enid Haupt-everybody in glamorous dresses. And Raquel Welch was really sweet, she's so happy because she's a hit in so we went into a room for photos. There were lots of photographers there. Every snazzy lady in town-Brooke Astor, Enid Haupt-everybody in glamorous dresses. And Raquel Welch was really sweet, she's so happy because she's a hit in Woman of the Year Woman of the Year.

The costume show was eighteenth-century clothes. The kind of dresses with the wide wide skirts so you couldn't fit through the doorways. What is the reason for them? Was it to go to the bathroom and n.o.body would see you? That's what Patti LuPone told me once.

Oh, and I talked to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and that was fun, he's really handsome.

Tuesday, December 8, 1981 At lolas's opening I met Werner Erhard who was with the Sta.s.sinopoulos woman, and he's so handsome! He's so handsome! He should be a movie star. And I hope his portrait comes through because then I'd get a lot of his EST disciples, they'd all want portraits.

Friday, December 11, 1981 I went to my exercise cla.s.s ($30) at Lady Sharon's apartment. And Lidija said that she heard from Sharon's maid who wasn't supposed to say anything that Sharon might be about to evict us. So we're just hoping that she doesn't decide to really tell us. Sharon's in England now, but when I rode down in the elevator with her the other day she didn't seem happy. Or maybe she wanted me to go out with her more. I don't know. She's putting on weight.

Fred was invited to Mrs. Marcos's house on 66th between Madison and Fifth, the one she bought five years ago. She's in town now giving lots of parties in it. It's on my street and we got there and it's a house twice the size of mine, and she had a Christmas tree on every floor and a disco on the top floor, but there was no central heat so they had to put heaters in every socket. And that's when I remembered that I'd actually been getting the Marcoses' Con Ed bills at my house, with a notice saying they were going to turn off the electricity if they didn't pay the bill. It's something about the way the address was written, it would always come to me at 57 East 66th and I opened them. The maid gave me a tour and it was funny, security people and people in furs huddling around the heaters. Such rich people. Such grand people. All in New York. What does it mean? It's scary. It's really scary. Maybe they're here because it's Christmas, but oh it's scary.

The Cristina Ford lady was there, so grand, and Imelda was dancing with Van Cliburn. They were serving champagne like water. I heard that Imee Marcos is seeing Lupo Rattazzi again. Said goodnight to Mrs. Marcos. Then I walked home.

Sat.u.r.day, December 12, 1981 Halston called and invited me to dinner for Jade Jagger. Brought Jade a Dollar Sign painting. Bianca is trying to be a Communist, she's a Nicaraguan guerrilla now. Halston was funny, telling her how beautiful she looked and how rich her clothes were, and I told her I'd just been to see Mrs. Marcos and she said how could I, and I said that if the Marcos regime fell it'd just be another Iran.

Steve Rubell was there and Ian came, and Ian is having an affair with Jane Holzer, which I didn't know about, but he thought I did so he was talking as if I knew, trying to pump me about Jane. But he was after Bianca, too, he wanted to drop her off. Calvin called a couple of times for Steve. Calvin's kind of great. He does anything he wants-he takes ads in Interview Interview and in WWD, and he goes to 54 and to Xenon-he doesn't let anyone push him around. and in WWD, and he goes to 54 and to Xenon-he doesn't let anyone push him around.

Bianca's going down to testify about Nicaragua in Was.h.i.+ngton, I just don't know what she's thinking she's doing.

Sunday, December 13, 1981 Cabbed to Jon's apartment but his fuse had blown and so we went out looking for fuses because we wanted to work on scripts, and then cabbed ($4.50) to my place and watched Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now which looked really good on TV-and on a small screen Dennis wasn't so bad and neither was Marlon Brando. Jon left at 11:00. which looked really good on TV-and on a small screen Dennis wasn't so bad and neither was Marlon Brando. Jon left at 11:00.

Monday, December 14, 1981 I'm just starting to get a good body. I wish I'd started exercising when I was young, I could have had a good body all my life.

It was snowing hard. I went in to Interview Interview and stood there finding typos in the Nancy Reagan issue. I just don't see why there should be even one. And it's something people really notice. It's like that secretary from and stood there finding typos in the Nancy Reagan issue. I just don't see why there should be even one. And it's something people really notice. It's like that secretary from Interview Interview saying she saw me in the laundromat on Columbus Avenue with Jon doing his laundry. It stands out, so people remember it. saying she saw me in the laundromat on Columbus Avenue with Jon doing his laundry. It stands out, so people remember it.

Tuesday, December 15, 1981 I took a Vibromycin and later at my beauty cla.s.s I got nauseous, so I had a cracker and water. It was raining out, really messy and wet. Met John Reinhold and we went to our regular place which is called Think Thin. We talked about designing jewelry.

And Bob is trying to find out who to have interview Farrah Fawcett. Gore Vidal wouldn't do it, he said, "I don't do do interviews-I interviews-I give give them." them."

Bob Denison sent me this great cheese and bread from E.A.T., I've been eating it. He told me that Fred made a scene at Donina Cicogna's silver and white party, but he wouldn't tell me what it was-something about Pat Buckley's t.i.ts.

Wednesday, December 16, 1981 Got up early and went to Christie's and pa.s.sed out Interviews Interviews. They were having an Indian jewelry exhibition and gee, that stuff is so expensive now. I guess it was Ralph Lauren who drove the prices up to $15-30,000 a belt, some of them.