Everyone Was Drunk

Suzie Frankfurt arrived with Marcia Weisman.  They had a Rolls Royce so we Rollsed over to the hospital, Cedars-Sinai.  Lots of people waiting, I sold $1,500 worth of stuff for a benefit.  Marcia was very pushy.  If anyone took a picture they had to pay $10.  If I signed a can they paid $5.  She told them that my prices would go up in the afternoon to $100 a poster, when actually they were going to go down to $6.

Dropped back at the hotel.  Picked up by Doug at 1:30 and a camera crew filmed us in the limo on the way out to Venice for my opening.  Before the opening we went to see Tony Bill’s apartment, he bought a building across from the Ace Gallery with the money he’s making from either Taxi Driver, The Sting, or Shampoo.

The Ace Gallery was very crowded, people around the block waiting to get in.  Russell and I signed the Russell Means posters.  Viva and Paul Morrissey were there.  There were a couple of other people from the old days - Cockettes.

I got so tired of signing posters all afternoon that I skipped out at 5:00 to the limo.  Suzie invited us along to have a drink in Bel Air at her model friend Cheryl Tiegs’s and her husband Stan Dragoti, who works for Wells Rich Greene.  Fred was bitten by a big dog when he opened the wrong door when he was looking for the bathroom, but he didn’t say anything about it until there was lots of blood coming down his leg.  He just put some alcohol on and then we left at 7:30.

In the lobby ran into Annie Leibovitz and Jann Wenner.  Susan Blond left a message saying she was with Michael Jackson at Top of the Rox.  Jann and Annie had just gotten back from there, the Grammys had just finished up, so everyone was drunk.  A couple of boys in the lobby tried to pick me up.