Monday, August 22, 1977
Cabbed to Chembank ($3.40). Walked over to University Place to look for things to paint. Then cabbed to Richard Weisman’s with Susan Johnson and Jed ($4.50). Susan needs a new man—the Billy Copley affair didn’t work out. When we got there, everyone was already watching the Wimbledon match between Bjorn Borg and Vitas Gerulaitis. Those last two weren’t there yet, they were having dinner together. The match went on three hours, and somewhere in there Vitas came in with a girlfriend but Bjorn had gone home from dinner. The joke is always that Bjorn sleeps for four hours then plays tennis for two, and that Vitas plays tennis for two hours then discotheques for four. Now Vitas has just discovered New York/New York. Susan Johnson was hurt, all the butch athletes had girls that were tall, slender, blonde, long-​haired. She’s just cute and little and brown-haired. There was a lot to drink, no cocaine. Everyone teased Gerulaitis that he was wearing his gold coke-​cutter razorblade around his neck in the match. He’s in training now, he left early and only ate a plum.
Excerpt from The Andy Warhol Diaries © The Andy Warhol Foundation. Used with permission.