Sobered Up

Alitalia flight.  Five and a half hours. Read the Rome Daily American, Carter inaugurated. Disgusting drinks on the plane. Airport empty, disorganized. While standing there ran into Marina Cicogna and Florinda Bolkan coming from St. Moritz. Hotel suite wasn’t ready so we had to have lunch in the dining room.  While we were there we ran into Helmut Newton and Patrick the makeup artist. And Suni Agnelli came in.

Had the suite Man Ray stayed in, he just died - he’d had a big opening in Rome right before. Fred said to forget what he’d said about me being a fading star in Germany, he sobered up, said that I didn’t have to go.