On the Beach

Doug Christmas’s P.R. woman, Esther, arrived from church with an autograph from Jane Wyman, she’d asked for it while Jane Wyman was kneeling.

First supposed to have lunch with Bianca Jagger, but Wendy Stark said we could all have lunch at Coco Brown’s and I didn’t want to but Fred thought it was a good idea.  The first car left, we were in the second, and we had a house number 36912 in Malibu.  When we got there we couldn’t find it, but then the first car came along with Richard Weisman in it and he went to knock at 36910 because there was no 12, and the person who opened the door was “Mary Hartman,” with her funny braids on.

She said she’d have a party for us if we couldn’t find the party we were going to.  But just then Coco Brown came by in another car with Wendy Stark and they said it was just down the block, that Wendy’d got the number wrong.

We got to the house and Bianca was there.  She’d had a fight with Mick and he’d left that morning for New York - she’d accused him of an affair with Linda Ronstadt.

Walked down the beach with Bianca past the house of Larry Hagman, and he was standing on the beach in a funny uniform like a foreign-legion outfit, doing funny hand things, and I guess he’d gone off his rocker.  While we were going by the sea came up and wet my shoes.

Spent three hours trying to make dinner plans, Bob Ellis, Diana Ross’s ex, and Alana Hamilton seemed too drunk.  Bianca didn’t want to be with Miranda because she was the sister of Sabrina, Jed said he was hungry and he’d eat anywhere, and Wendy wanted us to go to Max Palevsky’s because she thought it would be good for us - he was going to have us over to see his art collection.

And so finally when we got together we went to a restaurant called Orsini’s, Italian food.  Fred screamed at Catherine and told her how rude she was to him in front of everybody.