14. The Factory (now Moomba), 665 N. Robertson Ave.; February 1966
“. . . Andy Warhol was introduced to Hollywood and the Factory — which he thought ‘groovy’ — by John Hallowell, who is talking his upcoming tome, The Truth Game, with the underground filmmaker, who is seeing some majors before returning to New York . . . Among those who showed to meet Warhol were the Roger Vadims (Jane Fonda), Michael Wellses (Susannah York), Michael Laughlins (Leslie Caron), Jacques Demys (Agnes Varda), Oleg Cassini and Ryan O’Neal.” (From Army Archerd’s column in Daily Variety, February 12, 1969.)
15. Gemini GEL, 8365 Melrose Ave.; February 17, 1977
Andy goes to Gemini GEL to investigate new 10-by-10-foot print possibilities. He is spotted leaving the gallery by Jackson Browne — they haven’t seen each other for 10 years, since Jackson played guitar to back up Nico in the cellar bar at the Dom. Andy accepts the invitation to watch him recording a new album in a studio across the street.
16. Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard; Saturday, February 19, 1977
“Suzie Frankfurt arrived with Marcia Weisman. They had a Rolls-Royce, so we Rollsed over to the hospital . . . lots of people waiting. I sold $1,500 of stuff for a benefit. Marcia was very pushy. If anyone took a picture they had to pay $10. If I signed a can they paid $5. She told them that my prices would go up in the afternoon to $100 a poster, when actually they were going to go down to $6.”
SUNSET STRIP
17. Brooke Hayward & Dennis Hopper House, N. Crescent Heights Blvd. (above Chateau Marmont); September 1963
Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper throw Andy a “movie star” party, with Troy Donahue, Sal Mineo, Suzanne Pleshette, Russ Tamblyn, Dean Stockwell and John Saxon showing up.
18. The Trip, 8572 Sunset Blvd.; May 1966
Andy Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” debuts (Roy Lichtenstein does the poster for the original May 3–18 engagement), featuring the Velvet Underground and Nico, whip dancers Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov, and a light show with blinding strobes atop Warhol films overlaid with multiple slide projections. Cher opines, “It will replace nothing except maybe suicide” (as quoted in Popism: The Warhol ’60s by Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett).
19. Mondrian Hotel, 8440 Sunset Blvd.; January 2–6, 1985
Andy stays here while in town for pre-production meetings about his guest stint on Love Boat, which is produced by Aaron Spelling and Doug Cramer, who buy a lot of Andy’s art.
20. Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Blvd.; October 1963
Brooke Hopper, wife of Dennis Hopper and daughter of actress Margaret Sullavan and theatrical agent–producer Leland Hayward, lends Andy and gang her father’s suite at the hotel, and they film part of Tarzan and Jane Regained . . . Sort Of in the bathtub. In 1977, when in L.A. for the premiere of Bad, Andy and company, as he notes in his diary, are checked into “the most horrible rooms” at the hotel. And in 1985, he complains to his diary that he “just hated the Beverly Hills Hotel. There were two TVs but no clickers. And the bathroom was worse than a 1950s Holiday Inn.”
21. Dominick Dunne’s apartment, 132 S. Spaulding Drive; October 1972
When Andy is in L.A. for the premiere of Heat, Dominick Dunne throws a party to introduce him and director Paul Morrissey to “young Hollywood.”
22. Mr. Chow’s, 344 N. Cañon Drive, and On the Rox, 9009 Sunset Blvd.; February 17, 1977
To celebrate Andy’s “Indians” show at Ace Gallery, Doug Christmas throws a gala dinner for Andy at Mr. Chow’s, where George Hamilton and Pat Ast sit at a table against the back wall and warble elaborate duets. “Lots of people there. Bianca Jagger, Russell Means [whose portrait is in the show], Polanski, Tony Bill, Allan Carr, Marcia Weisman, Nelson Lyon . . . Geraldine Smith was with Johnny Wyoming. Perry King, Susan Tyrrell . . . The big people, Sue Mengers and Ryan O’Neal, didn’t arrive, they told Bianca that they couldn’t ‘be seen at tacky places like Mr. Chow’s.’ Bianca took us to On the Rox, owned by Lou Adler. When we got there it was Ringo ä Starr and Alice Cooper. I’m not saying that they were the only celebrities there — they were the only peoplethere, and theywere in the john. Whoever is there is in the john taking coke.”
23. Marcia & Fred Weisman House(north of Sunset, between Doheny Drive and Benedict Canyon); February 18, 1977
Andy has dinner here: “Ryan O’Neal was there and Sue Mengers. Ryan was leaning against the Morris Louis and put a big dent in it . . . [Sue and Ryan] left early because, I think, they thought ‘nobody’ was there. Hollywood people are rotten.”
24. Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 9500 Wilshire Blvd.; November 4, 1977
After meeting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Century City, noting in his diary that Kareem “was fun and easy to photograph,” Andy checks into the hotel, which wanted to put him in the old part, but he preferred the new wing, where Barbara Hutton used to pick up gigolos in the Moroccan-style bar.
25. Fiorucci, 206 N. Beverly Drive; September 21, 1978
Andy goes to the big Fiorucci opening (they sent a limo for him) just as police are shutting the party down. He
26. Beverly Hilton, 9876 Wilshire Blvd.; March 31, 1985
“Then it was the night of the big Love BoatThousandth Guest Star party at the Beverly Hilton . . . Had my picture taken for 15 minutes with Joan Collins, who then never went in to the dinner, I don’t think, because nobody saw her in there. But it was just packed . . . They introduced a lot of stars and then finally out came Lana Turner, the thousandth guest star, who had given them a hard time by being so late, and that’s why dinner was late. And then they brought me up on the stage with Carol Channing and Ginger Rogers and Mary Martin . . .”
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