Thursday, February 2, 1978
Went home to change and then went to pick up Barbara Allen to go to a party at Diane Von Furstenberg’s (cab $2.60). I wasn’t invited— Barbara invited me as her date. Her ex, Philip Niarchos, was going to be there with Manuela. We got to 1060 Fifth Avenue about 9:00, and it was a super party. Diane has a big apartment, huge, with fabric on the walls. She has a bathroom as big as a living room. Barry Diller lives there now, too, when he’s in town. She had wood painted white and then painted wood-​grained, like Art Nouveau. I made a faux pas. I walked into the room where everyone was eating, and Carl Bernstein was talking to Helen Gurley Brown, and he looked up and said to me, “Do you think Bob Colacello is attractive?” and I didn’t know what was going on, and I guess I put my foot in it, I said, “Well, he’s not my type,” and she got up and walked away. And then he told me that she’d mistaken him for Bob Colacello, and when he got insulted she was telling him how attractive Bob Colacello was and I blew it.
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