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Bob Colacello:

"Andy gave everyone Electric Chair prints, which were worth about $200 each then. I gave Andy my Beales tape from that afternoon at Grey Gardens, the one Lee [Radziwell] told Fred [Hughes] she'd rather we didn't run. Andy was thrilled - 'Gee, what a great present, Bob' - and put it in a time capsule with everybody else's presents, which were mostly jokes in any case...

Andy gave himself a dog for Christmas, a black dachshund puppy he named Archie after Archie Bunker... He carried it around in his arms at the office party, whispering into its ear 'Talk Archie, talk. Oh, Archie, if you would only talk, I wouldn't have to work another day in my life...' The funny thing is, I think he was really serious...

Archie went everywhere with Andy, to work, to dinner, to parties, and to Europe [on his Hermes leash]... Later, Andy got a second dachshund, named Amos, and Archie stayed home. " (BC144)

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