Say Hello to Andy

Up early, beautiful day.  Went down to Subkoff’s Antiques to see ideas.  Walked over to the office.  Bob was there, looking through pictures for the photo book Bob and I are doing.  Vincent went out and got the paper, and that’s where the headline was: “MOVIE DIRECTOR CHARGED WITH RAPE.” Roman Polanski.  With a thirteen-year-old girl he took to a party at Jack Nicholson’s house, and when the police went over to Jack’s the next day after the girl’s parents called them, they searched the house and Anjelica got arrested for coke.

Victor had told me that I absolutely had to watch the Dinner with Halston show on channel 5 - Metromedia.

This is the idea that we submitted to Larry Freeburg at Metromedia and they turned down, and now they’re doing with other people.  Halston’s guests were Bianca, Joe Eula, the acupuncture doctor - Giller, Jane Holzer, Victor.  It was very boring.  They’d asked me to go on this show and I said no because they’d ripped off my idea.

It was a live dinner with a seven-second delay.  Joe Eula said “bullshit” once and it was cut.  The only real-life thing missing at the table was coke, and no runs to the bathroom.  Victor was the life of the dinner, he took his fake mustache off.  He used to have a real one but he’d shaved it off probably because he hates the acupuncture doctor who has one, but he put one on for the show.  He also had a plastic chicken with him and kept talking to it, telling it to “say hello to Andy.”  Joe Eula and Victor had a tiff at the table, something about me.  Joe told Victor, “Let Andy speak for himself, why he’s not here,” and that’s when Victor - on Metromedia - said that Metromedia had ripped me off.  So he was great.