Dienstag, 25.05.2021
IT SMELLED SO GOOD, THE COCOLATE ROOM.
Alle 25. Mais (nicht in Dosen) aus The Andy Warhol Diaries – Edited by Pat Hackett:
Wednesday, May 25, 1977 – Paris
Arrived in Paris around 9 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, and Elle that’d been arranged by Flammarion, our French publisher. Then it was to go to the Beaubourg to sign Philosophy books at their bookshop (cab $5).
Shirley Goldfarb came, and Daniel Templom 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 sculpure 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 cocolate room. Then we saw the Kienholz show and then the Paris/New York show opening next week and the permanent collection. This took two hours and Bob was passing out but I had energy and wanted to just rush home and paint and stop doing society portraits.
Thursday, May 25, 1978 – Zurich
Up at 7:00 craving soft-boiled eggs, tipped waiter ($2). Got some newspapers ($1). Went to the Kunst Museum for a press conference (cab $4). I didn’t have to talk, they were just taking photos. It was hard to look at a retrospective, I just pretended to look at the walls. I can’t face my old work. It was old. Had to sign a lot of Soup Cans, portfolios, stuff like that. That lasted about two hours. Peter Brant never sent his pictures.
Monday, May 25, 1981 – East Falmouth – New York
Took the plane ride back from Hyannis to LaGuardia. Everyone was eating peanuts and popcorn, and all of a sudden the plane actually really flipped over and I didn’t care if we would have killed ourselves, because I was so unhappy. I’d thought that this trip would bring some progress with Jon, but it didn’t. He’d left us to go see his family who really adore him. Oh, but from now on I can’t talk personally about Jon to the Diary because when I told him I did, he got mad and told me not to ever do it again, that if I ever put anything personal about him in the Diary he’d stop seeing me. So from now on, it’ll just be the business angle in the Diary – he’ll just be a person who works for Paramount Pictures who I’m trying to do scripts and movies with.
I gave a tip to the airplane driver ($100). And tipped the limousine driver ($20).
Got a call from Tina Chow inviting me to a party for David Bailey and his wife Marie. It turned out it was actually a big party. Marie is really beautiful, she had one of those slit dresses. Eric Boman and Peter Schlesinger were there. I told everybody how I was a male model now, I was trying to hustle work. Jerry Hall came over and told how to suck cock and lick pussy and she told some jokes and it was fun, and then David started telling jokes. Paloma Picasso was there and she gave me a big kiss.
Friday, May 25, 1984
I called and screamed about that picture of Jean Michel in the Dolly Parton issue because it was so awful – cut in that arty way. And when I screamed Gael said Fred had done it, so I called and screamed at Fred and he said it was something that he’d done especially personally.
Robert Hayes is still in the hospital. John Reinhold called him but Robert’s mother wouldn’t let John talk to him. He still had a temperature. His family’s been here for one and a half months. The hospital bill is going to be so big. I guess Blue Cross pays for 80 percent, but still. It must be like $500 a day.
Saturday, May 25, 1985
Walked to work. Kenny Scharf came by. And he said he doesn’t know what to do because he likes to feel free and do whatever he wants but he does love Teresa and the baby, but he feels he has to have that free feeling. So Kenny was there for hours and then left at 7:00.
Andy you know, in the pizza place next to the office on 33rd Street, the one that’s owned by Koreans or Chinese, it was so sad, because they were cleaning up and throwing out all the stuff from, maybe, the basement, books and things, and I wanted to go through it all but I didn’t. And this woman was holding these two big white dogs and I don’t know if she belonged there or if she didn’t. You don’t know about people. Everybody just does their own stuff on their own scale. There was a naked baby in the middle of the floor.