#pat hackett

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Pat Hackett

1971 Andy Warhol & Jack Nicholson

The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989)

Edited by Pat Hackett

Got up really early. The paper had me as the big star at Swifty’s. Got picked up to go to The Love Boat set. Had to do my “Hello, Mary” line, and the gay director is saying, “Give it some pizzazz—Hel-lo, Ma-ry!” And I say, “Hel-lo, Ma-ry.”

PH met me there and we sat in the dressing room for a couple of hours while they rearranged the lights or whatever they do. My Stephen Sprouse jackets were there on the wardrobe rack and when I wear them, I think I finally look like people want Andy Warhol to look again, and now I’m thinking I should’ve worn the silver one the night before to Spago and that when I’m out of New York I should forget all this black-tie stuff.

PH met me there and we sat in the dressing room for a couple of hours while they rearranged the lights or whatever they do. My Stephen Sprouse jackets were there on the wardrobe rack and when I wear them, I think I finally look like people want Andy Warhol to look again, and now I’m thinking I should’ve worn the silver one the night before to Spago and that when I’m out of New York I should forget all this black-tie stuff and just go for flash. Talked with PH about movies and abstract ways to do scripts.

Made a phone call to Jon and he said that Shirley MacLaine was trying to call me because she was really upset about the little banner headline on the interview he did with her in the Health issue. It said: “Metaphysical Madam.” And Jon shouldn’t have gone over to her and said, “It’s not my fault,” because that’s the wrong negative thing to do. She never would’ve even noticed it or thought about it, probably, and now she’s up in arms. I don’t even know why. What does “Madam” mean? I mean, it’s just a regular word. And the introduction I guess Gael wrote, and it’s just all stuff from other places. Jon wrote one and they didn’t like it, they said it had too much of himself in it—Gael told him, “You are not Arianna Stassinopoulos."

Went back to the Bel Air and had dinner there with Vincent and Andrew Friendly, Fred Friendly’s son, who’s trying to sell our TV show. And he talks about his “lady” and who in their right mind would talk that way. It was a good dinner and he paid.

And Joanna Carson came over to say hello and she’s so beautiful. We talked about her son and his career.