Another excerpt from the Andy Warhol Diaries. They must have been watching a videotape:

Monday, August 22, 1977

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 for 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…. 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.

posted 28 January 2010 in Excerpts and tagged Andy Warhol, Bjorn Borg, cocaine, tennis, Vitas Gerulaitis. no comments yet