Blogging Andy Warhol

'Warhol of America' Bill Pocock, 2006

I check in once in a while over at I Blogged Andy Warhol to read the diary entries of the man. Here's a funny installment from when Andy went to a Hollywood party. Andy & Co. was in town to promote his Roger Corman production of 'Bad' (rated 'X' because a baby was thrown out a window):

"Fred and I went back to the hotel to get ready for Sue Mengers’s dinner party in Bel Air. Picked up Diana. Ryan and Tatum were at Sue’s, and Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters. Diana went over and told Barbra off about something. Candy Bergen and Roman Polanski were there. It was a party for Sidney Lumet. He hates me and his wife Gail doesn’t know whether she does or not, but she follows what her husband does so she’s cold. Sidney runs around kissing everybody and then stops when he gets to me. Film directors used to be such macho guys, and now they’re these little fairy-type guys running around French-style double-kissing but still thinking they’re macho." - Andy Warhol (Friday, March 25, 1977, Beverly Hills, CA)

Does 'fairy' mean Sidney Lumet was homosexual? Nah, Andy means Sidney resembles a mythical faerie. Like this...