Sunny California

Arrived in sunny California.  Dropped Suzie Frankfurt off at the Simon’s on Sunset Boulevard in glamorous Beverly Hills.  Called the Beverly Hills Hotel but they were out of rooms so we had to stay at the Beverly Wilshire.  Catherine called her half-uncle Erskine who was in town, he’s just a little bit younger than she is.  He’s been traveling around the world all year with his cousin Miranda Guinness, the twin sister of Sabrina.  Went to Allan Carr’s.  He has a great house.  As soon as we got there he wanted us to leave because he was having a dinner and his guests were arriving and when we turned the corner Jed and Catherine almost fainted because they saw the Fonz sitting there.  Allan gave us a tour of the house, he said Ingrid Bergman built it and Kim Novak lived there after her.  Took us to every bathroom and closet, showed us how the bed went up and down like a barber chair.  Meanwhile Suzie was talking to the Fonz.  She asked him what he did, he said he was “An Olympic Swimmer,” and Suzie was so excited because she’d “never met one before” - she kept asking him what year and if he knew Mark Spitz, and everything.  By this time the Fonz sort of got annoyed and couldn’t believe anybody didn’t know who he was.  She still didn’t know who he was after I said, “He’s the Fonz.”  The Fonz talked very serious, he tries to be very heavy.  He told me how much he liked me because of “famous for fifteen minutes,” and something about closets from the Philosophy book - empty spaces and things like that. I was so excited meeting him that I couldn’t think of anything to say.

The David Begelmans arrived. We had to leave because the dinner was about to start.  There were white orchids on the girls’ plates.  Allan took us in and showed us the table and the food before he kicked us out.  That was funny.