During the seventies, portrait commissions became Warhol's chief source of income. At every reception or dinner party, every premiere or visit to a club, he looked for a chance to "pop the question," as he put it. Usually he was too edgy and awkward to get to that point. Popping the question became the delicate task of Fred Hughes, who was at ease with such dazzling and useful people as the de Menil children, Jack Nicholson, Angelica Huston, and the fashion designer Halston.