Worked very late, a little after 8:00. I was going to the movies but then it got too late. Wound up taking the dogs for a long walk with Jed up to 80th and back down, had a good time.
Tuesday, April 12, 1977 Mick wants me to do the cover on his next alb.u.m. I"m trying to think of ideas, how to do "Rolling Stones," one of those little plastic games where you have to roll the stones into the holes.
Victor called and said that it was getting too heavy at Halston"s and that he was was moving into the loft on 19th and 5th, renting with an option to buy. Until he moves in in May he"ll be sleeping around, he said. moving into the loft on 19th and 5th, renting with an option to buy. Until he moves in in May he"ll be sleeping around, he said.
Wednesday, April 13, 1977 I was going up for c.o.c.ktails and then dinner for Jean Stein at her sister Susan Shiva"s apartment in the Dakota. I thought it couldn"t be anything great so I was forty-five minutes late ($3). The first person I saw when I walked in the door was Jackie O., looking beautiful. Then Norman Mailer. Jackie was talking to Jean"s boyfriend who works for the Smithsonian. Delfina Rattazzi who still works for Jackie at Viking was there with such a complete new look I didn"t recognize her-curly hair and a s.e.xy dress.
Sue Mengers was there, and she came over to me and said her knees were buckling, that she"d never been to a party like this. Babe Paley and her chairman-of-CBS husband went by, and later when I saw Sue and Paley sitting together I remembered what Sue had told me in California, that the only job she ever wanted was Paley"s.
I told Norman Mailer I loved him on the Academy Awards and he said he"d just seen a video of how fast he"d come down the ramp-Billy Friedkin had told him to do it that way. Renata Adler who writes for the New Yorker New Yorker was there with Avedon. She said she"s going to law school now at Yale but she thinks she"ll maybe drop out. She says it"s so hard, and that she can"t remember anything. was there with Avedon. She said she"s going to law school now at Yale but she thinks she"ll maybe drop out. She says it"s so hard, and that she can"t remember anything.
I had the first really nice talk with Jackie O. but I don"t remember too much what it was about. The Magic of People in the Movies, or something. Sue Mengers was running around this party bragging the same thing that she always brags-that she could offer President Carter a three-picture deal at $3 $3 million a picture and that he"d take it, because million a picture and that he"d take it, because everybody everybody wants to be in the movies. So I pointed at Jackie and told Sue to go prove it, but she was afraid, she wouldn"t go over to her and make the offer. Andrew Young from the U.N. and another black guy were there. Sue was thrilled to meet them. wants to be in the movies. So I pointed at Jackie and told Sue to go prove it, but she was afraid, she wouldn"t go over to her and make the offer. Andrew Young from the U.N. and another black guy were there. Sue was thrilled to meet them.
Dennis Hopper told me he"s directing Junkie Junkie, the William Burroughs bio, and I made a faux pas faux pas by telling him he should use Mick for the star because then Dennis said that by telling him he should use Mick for the star because then Dennis said that he he was the star. was the star.
A son of Nick Dunne was there, trying to be an actor now. Then Earl took me into the back rooms of the house, and there were ten girls around seventeen or eighteen, full-grown, the age of Jean"s daughter who"s in college, and they were like having a slumber party, guessing at who was out there at the "grownup" party! But these girls were so old, it was funny. They were thrilled to see me, I signed the TV, the armoire, their hands, everything. Every half-hour they"d let one girl out and into the party.
Dropped off Nick Dunne"s son on 90th and Central Park West (cab $5).
Friday, April 15,1977 We had our first nut at 860 yesterday-Diane Coffman came up. We"ve had nuts before but not one that we knew. She was in our play, Pork Pork, in "70 or "71. The director, Tony Ingra.s.sia, must have discovered her. She kept saying, "You know how to spell Coffman? C-O-F-F-M-A-N." Had to give her money ($10).
Lunch was for Diana Vreeland and an Argentinian woman, and Bob had invited Michael and Pat York. Carole Rogers and Sally from Interview Interview had invited a hi-fi girl to try to sell her ads. The girl was impressed with Diana and the Yorks, she thought she was just going to have lunch with Carole and Sally. Diana was saying that she"d discovered the museum had turned the lights up and the music down on her Russian costume show-they said it was because some people had complained they couldn"t see anything and the music was too loud. Diana said that you don"t go change something because somebody asks you to, that that"s the trouble with this country, they want to "give the public what it wants." "Well," she said, "the public wants what it had invited a hi-fi girl to try to sell her ads. The girl was impressed with Diana and the Yorks, she thought she was just going to have lunch with Carole and Sally. Diana was saying that she"d discovered the museum had turned the lights up and the music down on her Russian costume show-they said it was because some people had complained they couldn"t see anything and the music was too loud. Diana said that you don"t go change something because somebody asks you to, that that"s the trouble with this country, they want to "give the public what it wants." "Well," she said, "the public wants what it can"t get can"t get, and it"s up to museums to teach teach them what to want." And she said that"s the trouble with them what to want." And she said that"s the trouble with Vogue Vogue magazine and all the other magazines today-except for magazine and all the other magazines today-except for Interview Interview, she said.
Sunday, April 17, 1977 Went to church and while I was kneeling and praying for money a shopping-bag lady came in and asked me for some. She asked for $5 and then upped it to $10. It was like Viva. I gave her a nickel. She started putting her hand in my pocket. She looked like an older version of Brigid with straight hair.
Gave autographs outside. Cabbed down to the office ($4). While I was at work Diane Coff-man called and I told her I was the janitor and she believed me. After I gave her the $10 on Friday, incidentally, she went out and bought some stupid flowers with it. She came back and showed me.
Read lots of old Vanity Fairs Vanity Fairs for ideas, they looked so beautiful. for ideas, they looked so beautiful.
And Fred has been much busier than me-after the big de Menil party on Sat.u.r.day he went to Lally Weymouth"s party which was for lots of heavies, and I was complaining that I wasn"t invited and Fred said, "You "You didn"t sleep with her." didn"t sleep with her."
Wednesday, April 20, 1977 On the way downtown I ran into Lewis Allen, who invited me to the opening of Annie Annie, and then ran into Alan Bates who"s been in town for a couple of months to work on a Paul Mazursky movie. I always say to them that I"ll call them and interview them, but I"ve got to stop staying that because it"s ridiculous-like I"m so sure they want to be interviewed.
At 8:15 went to the Iranian emba.s.sy (cab $3). Hoveyda seemed nervous. It was a party for a man who used to be the chief editor of Newsweek Newsweek, Osborn Elliott. I was next to Mrs. Astor, and on my other side Frank Perry. Mrs. Astor said she wished she had a tail so she could shake hands with people and hold c.o.c.ktails and put on lipstick all at once.
Thursday, April 21, 1977 Went with Bob to pick up Bianca to take her to a dinner that Sandy Milliken was giving at his loft in Soho and Jade came downstairs and said, "Andy Warhol, you never come to see me anymore." Jade asked us if we wanted something to drink and we said, "Two vodkas on the rocks," and she said to the Spanish maid, "Dos vodkas con heilo." "Dos vodkas con heilo." I wanted her to sing, and so she did "Frere Jacques," and I asked her to sing "Satisfaction" and she"d never heard of it. She sang "Ring Around the Roses" but she said, "Tissue, tissue, all fall down." I asked her to make up a song about her day and she started to sing: "I invited another child at school to come for dinner/ But they wouldn"t come/They think we"re crazy/But I wanted her to sing, and so she did "Frere Jacques," and I asked her to sing "Satisfaction" and she"d never heard of it. She sang "Ring Around the Roses" but she said, "Tissue, tissue, all fall down." I asked her to make up a song about her day and she started to sing: "I invited another child at school to come for dinner/ But they wouldn"t come/They think we"re crazy/But they"re they"re crazy." crazy."
Bianca came down in a white cotton skirt and blue blouse, but then looked at us dressed so formal and went back up and put on a gold and black lame dress and gold shoes.
As we were leaving, Jade said, "Now Andy Warhol, I want you to visit more often." Then she kissed everyone but she forgot about Bianca, and Bianca said, "What about me?" and Jade crawled over on the floor and kissed her, too. Cabbed to 141 Prince Street. Very fancy loft building. I got jealous that I didn"t buy more buildings down there when they were cheap-lots of them.
Monday, May 23, 1977 Tina Fredericks called and said that Tommy Schippers wouldn"t be renting our place in Montauk. His wife died of cancer and now he has the same kind same kind and that scared me-I guess you and that scared me-I guess you can can catch it from other people. catch it from other people.
Wednesday, May 25, 1977-Paris Arrived in Paris around 9 A.M A.M. Went to Fred"s apartment on Rue du Cherche-Midi.
All Fred"s chic antiques are looking more and more like just junk covered in rags.
William Burke arrived with breakfast.
Did interviews with Le Monde, Le Figaro Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Elle Elle that"d been arranged by Flammarion, our French publisher. Then it was time to go to the Beaubourg to sign that"d been arranged by Flammarion, our French publisher. Then it was time to go to the Beaubourg to sign Philosophy Philosophy books at their bookshop (cab $5). books at their bookshop (cab $5).
Shirley Goldfarb came, and Daniel Templon came, he"s giving the Hammer & Sickle show next Tuesday, and about 100 dirty kids in punk clothes.
Pontus Hulten, the director of the Beaubourg, showed up and took us on a tour. First we went into the big Tinguely sculpture being constructed in the middle of the ground floor. He took us to a storeroom stuffed with chocolate and gave us some. It smelled so good, the chocolate room.
Then we saw the Kienholz show and then the Paris/New York show opening next week and then the permanent collection. This took two hours and Bob was pa.s.sing out but I had energy and wanted to just rush home and paint and stop doing society portraits.
Thursday, May 26, 1977-Paris-Brussels Went to lunch with Clara Sant of Yves Saint Laurent and Paloma Pica.s.so at Angelina. Clara looked good, thinner, and Paloma, too. Clara"s suffering through the marriage of her boyfriend Thadee Klossowski to Loulou de la Falaise. She first found out by an official notice in Le Figaro Le Figaro placed by Thadee and Loulou. She"s getting her sense of humor back now so she"s getting over it. I said Clara and I should announce our marriage in placed by Thadee and Loulou. She"s getting her sense of humor back now so she"s getting over it. I said Clara and I should announce our marriage in Le Figaro Le Figaro to outdo them. to outdo them.
Cabbed to train station ($8). Had our own compartment. Fell asleep. Arrived Brussels at 7:00. Mr. LeBruin, the art dealer showing my pictures, greeted us with a couple of hippie boys. Checked into the not-chic Hotel Brussels. We all had duplex suites which was crazy, because whenever the doorbell rang you"d be upstairs in the bathroom and you"d have to rush down the floating staircase to answer it.
Rushed to Galerie D. A mob scene. Stuck in a corner signing autographs and books. Sold 120.
The kids here were cute, sort of hippie. Around 9:00 made a fast chic exit through mob into our chauffeured Chevy and expected to be whisked away but then we saw that there was n.o.body in the driver"s seat. A kid offered me an ice cream cone and I said no, so he splattered it all over the roof of the car and it dripped down the windows. The kids started laughing at us, just sitting there for twenty minutes. Finally the chauffeur arrived and said he"d been peeing.
Stopped at Leon Lambert"s. He lives in the penthouse of a ten-story building above his bank. The place is unbelievable, so simple and so much art from Van Gogh to Pica.s.so to-Warhol. Saw his bedroom behind a bookcase in the library. Secret apartment with two bedrooms, one for his regular boyfriend, one for one-night stands. After dinner in a little bistro in the Galleria we walked down the arcade. Stopped at a gay bar and Bob asked the most beautiful boy in Belgium to dance so they did, but when Bob gave him a peck on the neck and that led to the lips Fred and I got embarra.s.sed because everyone said boys don"t do that in public in Brussels-even in gay bars! gay bars!
Friday, May 27, 1977-Brussels-Paris Slept on train. Rented a car ($20) to take us to William Burke"s gallery where he was having a show of photos of me and also a book signing. Paloma was waiting in the alley for us. Nico [see Introduction] [see Introduction] was there with a young kid with a big bulge in his pants, she asked Bob to photograph him. Bob already had. Nico looked older and fatter and sadder. She was crying, she said, because of the beauty of the show. I wanted to give her some money but not directly so I signed a 500-franc note ($100) and handed it to her and she got even more sentimental and said, "I must frame was there with a young kid with a big bulge in his pants, she asked Bob to photograph him. Bob already had. Nico looked older and fatter and sadder. She was crying, she said, because of the beauty of the show. I wanted to give her some money but not directly so I signed a 500-franc note ($100) and handed it to her and she got even more sentimental and said, "I must frame this this, can you give me another one, unsigned, to spend?" spend?" ($100, cab to Regine"s $4). Barbara and Philip were there, Regine and her husband. Then Maria Niarchos arrived. Regine was all excited by the success of her punk party the night before, said she served chocolate mousse in dog dishes. Got tired of waiting for Bianca so we sat down to dinner around 11:00. Dinner was crayfish, goose, fruit plates-very good. A beautiful English girl was putting down Maria as "amoral" because she was showing off her cleavage where I"d signed it. Fred was very drunk and started defending Maria and saying, "What is morality anyway?" and they fought for the rest of the night. It was so French. ($100, cab to Regine"s $4). Barbara and Philip were there, Regine and her husband. Then Maria Niarchos arrived. Regine was all excited by the success of her punk party the night before, said she served chocolate mousse in dog dishes. Got tired of waiting for Bianca so we sat down to dinner around 11:00. Dinner was crayfish, goose, fruit plates-very good. A beautiful English girl was putting down Maria as "amoral" because she was showing off her cleavage where I"d signed it. Fred was very drunk and started defending Maria and saying, "What is morality anyway?" and they fought for the rest of the night. It was so French.
At 3 A.M A.M. just when we decided to leave Bianca called and said to please wait for her. She arrived a minute later looking great and the party started all over again. She was wearing a beautiful Faberge amethyst. Around 6:00 when the waiters started sweeping up we left.
Sat.u.r.day, May 28, 1977-Paris Went out to dinner at Monsieur Boeuf. When Bianca arrived she pa.s.sed out some Locker Room poppers and Barbara Allen didn"t want Philip Niarchos to take any so she hid them and later when Bianca ran out of them she begged Barbara for them back. Meanwhile some creepy girl recognized me-we were dining al fresco al fres...o...b..cause it was a beautiful night, clear sky and big moon-and she started screaming in French that she loved me but that I abandoned the underground and that she was a necrophiliac just released from a mental inst.i.tution. It sort of ruined dinner. Fred was tired and went home. We dropped Philip and Barbara at the Ritz, Bianca had a car. In the car after we dropped them Bianca said she didn"t know what to do, because Barbara had asked her if she knew if Philip slept with any other girls when he was down in the south of France last week. Bianca told us he"d been with Anouk Aimee"s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, and Bianca didn"t know whether to tell Barbara the truth and hurt her, or lie and have her find out from someone else and then think that Bianca wasn"t her real friend. Barbara had refused to go to the south of France with him because she had a "screen test" with Jack Nicholson. because it was a beautiful night, clear sky and big moon-and she started screaming in French that she loved me but that I abandoned the underground and that she was a necrophiliac just released from a mental inst.i.tution. It sort of ruined dinner. Fred was tired and went home. We dropped Philip and Barbara at the Ritz, Bianca had a car. In the car after we dropped them Bianca said she didn"t know what to do, because Barbara had asked her if she knew if Philip slept with any other girls when he was down in the south of France last week. Bianca told us he"d been with Anouk Aimee"s daughter, Manuela Papatakis, and Bianca didn"t know whether to tell Barbara the truth and hurt her, or lie and have her find out from someone else and then think that Bianca wasn"t her real friend. Barbara had refused to go to the south of France with him because she had a "screen test" with Jack Nicholson.
Monday, May 30, 1977-Paris Dead in Paris, it was Pentecost. Got up to meet Bianca to go to the tennis matches. Bob and Fred were in the crabbiest moods ever.
Fred called Bianca and she said she was running late, so we ran late but we were still early when we got to the Plaza-Athenee (taxi $4). James Mason was in the lobby.
Then Bianca appeared in white slacks, black halter top with an amethyst pinned to it. She said she had been up until 5 A.M A.M. at the Sept just talking to the tennis player who never makes it with anyone but his wife. She said he wanted to make it with her but she hates affairs because they get "too complicated." Who"s she trying to kid?
Tuesday, May 31, 1977-Paris Cabbed to Plaza-Athenee ($ 5) to meet Bianca to interview Ungaro. Bianca had a small but beautiful suite with a terrace facing the courtyard filled with geraniums and red umbrellas. Read an English newspaper. Ate an orange that was there while we waited. She was looking all over for her Faberge amethyst and when she couldn"t find it she said she couldn"t do the interview with us and she ran out to Castel"s to crawl on her hands and knees looking for it-she thought she lost it there the night before.
Bettina was the first to arrive for lunch so we interviewed her her. She works for Ungaro now. She was wearing a Bulgari snake watch and white Ungaro suit. Then Ungaro finally arrived. He was wearing a white suit, too.
Then went to his place. Princess Grace and Caroline of Monaco ran out of Ungaro Couture when they heard we were next door at Ungaro Homme. Bob bought a suit. Then we went to the Rue Beaubourg for my Hammer & Sickle opening at the Galerie Daniel Templon. All the same punks were there plus So Schlumberger in a blue Givenchy. She was on her way to Florence Van der Kemp"s dinner in Versailles.
Barbara Allen came early and told us all her own gossip-she and Philip Niarchos had a big fight last night. He accused her of having affairs with Jack, Warren, and Mick. She didn"t deny it even though she says she hasn"t. He admitted to her his affair with Manuela Papatakis in the south of France plus one other plus three hookers. In three weeks. They made a pact that when they are together they are "together," but when they"re not, they"re "not."
Some punks had a fight and a tooth got knocked out. They started screaming my name loudly so I was locked into the office. Then it was time to leave for dinner. On the way out a drunk creep kissed me smack on the lips and I almost fainted.
Oh, and Bianca was in a great mood because they"d found her amethyst. She had threatened to bring in private detectives. So they questioned the help-they"ve all worked there for years- and the oldest man was the one who"d found it when he cleaned up and kept it.
Wednesday, June 1, 1977-Paris Barbara Allen called and said we were invited to meet at the Brandolinis" for drinks. Then Maria Niarchos called and said she wanted us to see her father"s palace (cab $3). We walked in through the garden and went into the marble foyer then down the gold-on-gold-on-gold hallway and into a salon covered in great Impressionist paintings, all lit in the dark-they almost looked fake. Maria made us drinks and then we toured the grand bathrooms and bedrooms and sitting rooms and Philip"s office, which is so grand in order to scare the people he does business with. Then we cabbed to the Brandolinis" ($4). Everyone-except me-went into the bathroom all at one time. Bob will probably say that I had a little bit of c.o.ke, too, but I did not not. But I did kiss Roberto out on the balcony overlooking Van Cleef and (laughs) (laughs) he said, he said, "Please "Please, I"m married and have a kid." Got home around 4:00 (cab $3).
Thursday, June 2, 1977-Paris Joel LeBon was shooting me for the Facade Facade cover with Edwige, a girl punk (cab to the studio in Trocadero $8). It took Joel three hours to do one shot under very hot lights. cover with Edwige, a girl punk (cab to the studio in Trocadero $8). It took Joel three hours to do one shot under very hot lights.
At night I stayed home. Bob escorted Bianca to Castel"s where he said they ran into Maria Niarchos and her youngest brother Constantin, who"s sixteen, losing his baby fat, and he"d been to his first wh.o.r.e that afternoon-Barbara told them that but said not to tell. She said that Philip sent the wh.o.r.e from Madame Claude"s, the best place in Paris. The girl was not too tall, not too short, not too light, not too dark-all on purpose, so that Constantin wouldn"t get stuck on any one type.
Friday, June 3, 1977-Paris We went to Castel"s (taxi $4). The same old crowd was there, having Caroline of Monaco"s secret engagement dinner to Philippe Junot. We weren"t asked.
Sunday, June 5, 1977-New York Made lots of calls around town, catching up. Vincent was in Montauk showing Louis Malle the place, hoping for a rental. We"re trying to rent the main house for $4,000 a month during July and August-$26,000 for six months. Two thousand a month for the small cottages, but we"ll deal. Mr. Winters wears his Bad Bad T-shirt and his Rolling Stones denim jacket while he takes care of the place. He needs a new Jeep-he has a door hinge for an accelerator pedal. He handed Vincent a magazine clipping that said I buy a new car for myself every year, to help make his case for a new Jeep. T-shirt and his Rolling Stones denim jacket while he takes care of the place. He needs a new Jeep-he has a door hinge for an accelerator pedal. He handed Vincent a magazine clipping that said I buy a new car for myself every year, to help make his case for a new Jeep.
Tuesday, June 7, 1977 Dennis Hopper and Caterine Milinaire and Terry Southern and a photographer from Time Time came by. Her job was to follow Dennis around, and he wanted to come to the Factory and have her follow him there. There was just an article in came by. Her job was to follow Dennis around, and he wanted to come to the Factory and have her follow him there. There was just an article in Time Time or or Newsweek Newsweek on the on the Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now movie that Coppola is finishing. Dennis is playing a crazed hippie photographer in it. The photographer from movie that Coppola is finishing. Dennis is playing a crazed hippie photographer in it. The photographer from Time Time took pictures of Caterine taking pictures of Dennis taking pictures of me taking pictures of Dennis. took pictures of Caterine taking pictures of Dennis taking pictures of me taking pictures of Dennis.
Chris Makos brought down a "landscape" but then Victor brought down two and he made me do his first. Chris"s was from the Harvard Drama School.
Dennis Hopper came and was watching me photograph the nude boy, but Victor didn"t know who Dennis was and threw him out.
Thursday, June 9, 1977 Got to the St. Regis at 11:30 for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League testimonial to Elizabeth Taylor. Liz and Halston weren"t there yet. I met the president of Cartier. Eugenia Sheppard was there. Hermione Gingold was there. A woman who didn"t even have to say she was Bob Feiden"s mother came over to me and said that, because she looked just like Bob Feiden but with jewelry. John Springer and Liz and Halston arrived. There were two or three Liz lookalikes there, one introduced herself to Liz.
I was next to Mary Beame, the wife of Mayor Abe Beame. There were a few anti-defamation people on the dais, and Hal Prince and Mike Todd, Jr. Liv Ullmann led the prayer, and Diane Von Furstenberg was there. Livia Weintraub who was good-looking gave a speech about being in a concentration camp, and she ended it with a plug for her new perfume, "Livia." She gave Liz one of the first batch of 50. Dore Schary was there, he founded the league. It was rotten food- gold salmon.
Then they gave Liz the plaque which had raw amethyst all over it-the stuff ashtrays are made of-it was of Mt. Sinai and at the top in gold was the Ten Commandments. Liz was in river purple, she got up and gave a little speech, very breathy and sincere, like, "I"m just like all of you-when I care about something, I do something about it, we"re all like that, thank you so much." John Warner was there. Then she and Halston got up off the dais to make a trip to the bathroom and one of the ladies at Bob"s table wondered, "Why are they both both going to the bathroom?" And another lady said, "Maybe she ripped her dress and Halston"s going to sew it for her." going to the bathroom?" And another lady said, "Maybe she ripped her dress and Halston"s going to sew it for her."
Cabbed downtown because we had to meet Bella Abzug at the office to photograph her for the cover of Rolling Stone Rolling Stone ($4.25). ($4.25).
Bella was there with her daughter, (laughs) (laughs) another d.y.k.e. Oh I"m kidding, but you know what I mean-a chip off the same block. I took pictures of Bella smelling a rose. Jann Wenner came down. another d.y.k.e. Oh I"m kidding, but you know what I mean-a chip off the same block. I took pictures of Bella smelling a rose. Jann Wenner came down.
Cabbed to La Pet.i.te Ferme, a little restaurant in the Village where George Mason was having a dinner for me. Catherine and her brother Valentine were waiting for us out in the rain. All the boys in the family are raving beauties, but the girls are like Catherine-just cute.
Then I talked everybody into going up to Studio 54 for the party for Beatlemania Beatlemania. Aerosmith was there, and Cyrinda Foxe from Bad Bad who used to live with David Johansen but now she lives with one of Aerosmith. She said that a picture of me with a Campbell"s Soup Can was in the light show of who used to live with David Johansen but now she lives with one of Aerosmith. She said that a picture of me with a Campbell"s Soup Can was in the light show of Beatlemania Beatlemania.
Sat.u.r.day, June 11, 1977 Most of the office went to Montauk. I"m going to try to arrange for a Toyota for Mr. Winters, so Vincent is happy that he can tell him the good news. Mrs. Winters is trying to get him to move down to Florida, and Vincent is scared we"ll lose him.
Looks like the place won"t be rented until maybe August if Bianca wants it. People don"t like it that all the rocks make swimming difficult, and that Montauk is so far away. It"s not for sissies.
Thursday, June 16, 1977 I waited for Fred to pick me up to go over to Sloan-Kettering to see Dr. Stone to go under the knife for a biopsy. No, Dr. Strong. I got local anesthesia. They did it for half an hour, and then they said to go to work. I"m still worried, they don"t know what it is. You get up your nerve to go for a test-you pop the question-and then pretty soon it can be all over, they give you the answer and you pop off. So I"ll let My Dear Diary know soon if the days are numbered.
Went to the office ($4) with a bandage on my neck. Bob was interviewing Barbara Allen, the next Interview Interview cover girl, on Men, Women, and Love. Tom Beard cover girl, on Men, Women, and Love. Tom Beard [a member of Carter"s inaugural committee] [a member of Carter"s inaugural committee] brought a really interesting guy called Joel McCleary, who"s the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and he"s around thirty-five. He was the national finance chairman of the Carter campaign. He"s trying to get the Dalai Lama back into this country. He said a lot of Tibetan monks work in a prophylactic company in Paterson, New Jersey, that they take the bus and go make prophylactics. And Barbara Allen said, "You know, that"s true, a lot of prophylactics brought a really interesting guy called Joel McCleary, who"s the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and he"s around thirty-five. He was the national finance chairman of the Carter campaign. He"s trying to get the Dalai Lama back into this country. He said a lot of Tibetan monks work in a prophylactic company in Paterson, New Jersey, that they take the bus and go make prophylactics. And Barbara Allen said, "You know, that"s true, a lot of prophylactics do do say "Made in New Jersey." " say "Made in New Jersey." "
Went over to visit Victor at his new loft, which just has a bed in the middle with big jars of different kinds of Vaseline around it-he"s so much like Ondine.
Sat.u.r.day, June 18, 1977 Victor said that it was a good day to go around looking for ideas, so we went down to the Village. But it was like Suddenly, Last Summer Suddenly, Last Summer-I was his prop to go cruising, the boys would come over to talk to me and Victor would get them. We sat at the Riviera Lounge for four hours having coffees and teas ($7).
Went home, called Julia Scorsese at the Sherry Netherland-she"d called me-and she said to hold on and then she was gone for ten minutes. Then she came back on and said to hold on some more and was gone for another ten minutes. Then Liza Minnelli got on the phone and said, "This is Liza, let me have your number and she"ll call you right back." And then Julia called and said to come over for dinner. I said I was with Catherine and her brother that evening and she said to bring them.
Cabbed to Sherry ($2). As we were going in, a guy with a beard was getting into the elevator. Mr. and Mrs. Scorsese, Martin"s parents, were there. They"re taller than he is, which is unusual, because kids are usually taller than their parents. There were a couple of agents. His parents live downtown right below Ballato"s. There was a nurse with a beautiful baby. It was a nurse that Julia had just hired, and she"d gotten lost in the airport so Julia was worried that she wasn"t a good one. There was a Negro girl with a baby, too, and the guy with the beard turned out to be Bobby De Niro and this Negro girl was his wife, Diahnne Abbott.
Marty"s skinny now, he"s been on a diet. Jack Haley was running around. Liza was wearing the dress Halston made out of fabric based on my Flower paintings. Marty came out in a white outfit and then changed into a black outfit. Everyone went downstairs to eat. Roger Moore was with them, and a girl from U.A. who was doing publicity, she was kissing Roger.
Roger Moore was wonderful and charming. He showed us what he called his three expressions: "worried," "eyebrow up," and "eyebrow down." He"s been married three times, he"s married to an Italian woman now.
Bobby De Niro came in after dinner with an agent with funny gla.s.ses, didn"t say much. Marty"s parents were there really late.
Everybody got really really drunk. They were wanting me to make a toast, and I was so drunk I actually stood up and said something and it came out right I guess because everybody kept saying how moving moving it was, but I was so drunk I can"t remember what I said. Liza kept saying, "I"ll tell this to my grandchildren-and I"ve forgotten it was, but I was so drunk I can"t remember what I said. Liza kept saying, "I"ll tell this to my grandchildren-and I"ve forgotten everything everything else!" else!"
It was the best party. I stole a copy of the record alb.u.m of New York, New York New York, New York because Valentine wanted it, and Roger Moore had written backwards on it, and then I felt bad because they saw me do it. I was popping painkillers because of the neck operation from last week, the biopsy. I haven"t found out yet. When we left the Sherry it was dawn outside, six o"clock (cab $3.50). because Valentine wanted it, and Roger Moore had written backwards on it, and then I felt bad because they saw me do it. I was popping painkillers because of the neck operation from last week, the biopsy. I haven"t found out yet. When we left the Sherry it was dawn outside, six o"clock (cab $3.50).
Sunday, June 19, 1977 Victor and I went down to have drinks at Windows on the World (cab $5). Drank and talked and looked out the window ($180). It was beautiful. Then we walked around the Village. In the old days you could go over there on a Sunday and n.o.body would be around, but now it"s gay gay gay as far as the eye can see-d.y.k.es and leather bars with the names right out there in broad daylight-the Ramrod-type places. These leather guys, they get dressed up in leather and go to those bars and it"s all show business-they tie them up and that takes an hour. They say a few dirty words and that takes another hour. They take out a whip and that takes another hour-it"s a performance. And then every once in a while you get a nut who takes it seriously and does it for real and it throws it all off. But it"s just show business with most of them. Dropped Victor off ($5), stayed home and watched TV. Thought about the whole Scorsese scene. They"re riding high, they"re really riding high.
Monday, June 20, 1977 I called the doctor and he said to come by at 12:00. I was late because I was nervous. It was good news, it wasn"t what they thought it might be. But now my neck is swollen and it hurts, I guess I shouldn"t have had it done. Right after the doctor"s office I went to church to thank G.o.d.
Then I went to Tony the florist to send flowers to Liza and Julia for the fun time on Sat.u.r.day. I wanted to buy this one tree that looked beautiful, and at first they said they wouldn"t sell it to me because it would only live one more day, but I said that was all it had to do-I knew Julia and Liza wouldn"t be in town long.
Cabbed downtown and then walked to office ($3.50). Julia Scorsese called to say thanks for the wonderful tree, she said it was their most memorable evening, too. She invited me to go up to their room after the New York, New York New York, New York screening. screening.
Picked Catherine up and her brother, and the three of us went to the Ziegfeld ($2.75). Sat up front. Catherine and Valentine thought the movie was boring, but I liked it, thought it was one of Liza"s best movies. Bobby De Niro"s wife is in it. She sang a song and looked beautiful, but it didn"t belong in the movie, had nothing to do with it.
Went to the Sherry and the party was jammed. Every time we wanted to leave, Julia said to stay. She was saying things like, "Please be Martin"s best boyfriend because he doesn"t have friends." Somewhere in his New York days Martin must have gotten something into his head about me, because it seems to mean something big to have me there and be together, it"s like it symbolizes something, but I can"t figure out exactly what yet.
We"d told a friend of Valentine"s to meet us at the party but he never showed up, so we took a cab to the Stanhope to find him ($2.50). Room 15-something. We knocked on the door and he said, "I"ll be there in a minute." This went on for a while. The room is 2" X 2" 2"". Valentine was getting so nervous he was beating his head. We decided to leave. The friend never made it to the door (cab $3, dropoffs).
Tuesday, June 21, 1977 Robert Hayes came in saying that he thought Diahnne Abbott should be the cover girl, and we called and asked her. She said that she was thrilled, but she"d need "a day to think about it," so I guess she thinks Bobby might give her a hard time.
Later that night I went to the premiere of New York, New York New York, New York and seeing it the second time I fell asleep around ten times. Victor was taking c.o.ke in the seat next to me, though, so that woke me up at the end-a little of it drifted over. Walked over to the Rainbow Room. and seeing it the second time I fell asleep around ten times. Victor was taking c.o.ke in the seat next to me, though, so that woke me up at the end-a little of it drifted over. Walked over to the Rainbow Room.
There was a black guy at the door of the Rainbow Room who didn"t know me and wouldn"t let me in and then another guy came to the door and it turned out to be this guy who always tells me that he wants his lobster pot back. He came to my house with a bunch of people once and says he brought a lobster pot that he cooked in and then he says it"s still at my house and I don"t ever know what he"s talking about. I go crazy every time this guy starts up because it"s always the same routine! If he sees me in thirty years it will still be: "Give me back my lobster pot." So he came out and said, "Oh, come right in, Mr. Warhol," and at first I didn"t recognize him and as soon as we got in the door he turned on me and said, "Where"s my lobster pot!" and I thought, Oh this just can"t be happening to me again. Oh no, oh no no no no no no.. Oh this just can"t be happening to me again. Oh no, oh no no no no no no.... Then the guy had to go back to the door and we got away.
We didn"t go into the main room because I didn"t know what happened to it, I didn"t see it. We went into the side room and then Julia Scorsese came over and said, "Hold on to me, grab me, talk to me," like come here/go there/turn around/don"t leave me-she"s just like Susan Tyrrell and Sally Kirkland, sort of that type.
Then she said, "Don"t look now, there"s Martin"s first wife, and I just get crazy when she"s around." And the girl was very beautiful. I didn"t know that Martin had been married before, I was surprised because he"s so Catholic and always has the priest around and everything. The girl said, "You don"t remember me, but I met you when I was the head of the Erotica Gallery." Then we left her and I introduced Julia to Earl Wilson.
I noticed that in the movie were lots of the people who actually work for Marty. Like the woman in the car who has the fight with Bobby and Liza is the wife of the agent. That"s why it"s good-the parts were written for the people.
Julia asked me to sit at the main table with her and Marty, but there was a big crowd and noise so I sort of pretended I didn"t hear that because I wanted to slip away-it wasn"t my my night, it was night, it was their their night. night.
Victor left and I was so worried about him, he was strange, and seemed bored, and for the first time since I"ve known him he seemed real. Like he was very tired and a normal person and wanted to go home. And he did.
Went over to Studio 54. The band struck up "New York, New York" and they carried Liza in. Halston did photos with her. Then a little later they played "New York, New York" and Martin walked in, and I think maybe they carried Liza in again or picked her up again, but I was leaving. Dropped Valentine ($3). It was 3:00.
Thursday, June 23, 1977 Went to the dentist. Asked Dr. Lyons not to take X-rays and he got mad. He said that I hadn"t had one in ten years.
Then went down to the ninth floor to see Dr. Domonkos the skin doctor. Kitty Carlisle Hart was coming out in a sort of disguise and I asked the doctor why she was there and he said he was sending her somewhere else, so I don"t know what that that meant. Had a pimple squeezed. He told me to come back next week. meant. Had a pimple squeezed. He told me to come back next week.
Cabbed to Sloan-Kettering ($2.50) and the waiting room there freaked me out. People with noses cut off. It was so shocking. Dr. Strong took the st.i.tches on my neck out.
Talked to Jamie Wyeth who said we could go late to the president"s fund-raising thing at the Waldorf. When we got there, there were picketers outside and it was like a bad movie. If you saw it in a movie you wouldn"t believe it. They had sections for gay protest and sections for abortion. And they had a garbage can with abortions in it.
We were up in the balcony. When the president came in he went around and shook every single person"s hand in the whole place and that took a few hours. Ann Landers was kind of nutty-acting. She told me that her daughter had a lot of Warhols and she wishes she"d gotten on the bandwagon early, too. The president made speeches and he had a good writer because the jokes were all good.
"I want my vice-president to be an active one, so if any of you have questions on"-he gave a list-"abortion, gay rights, downtown parking, Northern Ireland, the Concorde ... just write him letters and he"ll be happy to clear it up."
Is that the first time a president has ever said the word "gay"? It may be-because of Anita Bryant.
Andrew Young told me he"d seen me the day before walking along Park Avenue.
Then we left and went down to see Bryan Ferry at the Bottom Line. Then everyone went to Hurrah"s for the party for Bryan Ferry that Jerry Hall was having. Ronnie was there with a date, and Gigi was there with a date, and that was a drama. Ronnie said later that Gigi threw a drink in his face and he swears he hadn"t said or done anything to her, but that then he retaliated by ripping the front of her dress.