Background
Colacello, Bob was born on May 8, 1947 in Brooklyn. Son of John and Liberina (Alberino) Colacello.
(Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrat...)
Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insider's look at the "Pope of Pop Art," Andy Warhol (1928-1987), whose eclectic oeuvre is comparable to Picasso's or Pollock's in its impact on modern art and culture. While examining Warhol's personality, struggles, and achievements, this book presents its subject with a clarity that is both unsparing and compassionate, disillusioned and inspired. Holy Terror invites readers to revisit the sex, drugs, parties, discos, and New York art scene that dominated the 1970s and 1980s. Colacello's memoir is an acutely perceived portrait of the artist who radicalized the ways in which society views art.
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Colacello, Bob was born on May 8, 1947 in Brooklyn. Son of John and Liberina (Alberino) Colacello.
Raised in Bensonhurst, New York, Colacello graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969, and also has an Master of Fine Arts degree in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts.
Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he began to publishing film reviews in the Village Voice weekly. As a graduate student in the Film department at Columbia University in New York, his first publications doubled as his class essays and homework assignments. In 1970, Colacello wrote a review of Andy Warhol"s film Trash, which he hailed as a "great Roman Catholic masterpiece".
This review garnered the attention of Warhol, and Paul Morrissey, the director of many of Warhol"s films, who approached Colacello to write for Interview magazine, a new art/film/fashion magazine Warhol had recently begun to publish.
Colacello was made editor of Interview within six months and, for the next 12 years, remained directly involved in all aspects of life and business at The Factory, Warhol"s infamous studio, as he developed the magazine into one of the best-known lifestyle magazines of the time. As Colacello himself writes in Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close up (1990), Warhol suggested Colacello change his name to Bob Cola, in order to sound more "popular."
After his tenure with Interview, Colacello began writing for Vanity Fair magazine, and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Balthus, Rudolf Nureyev, Liza Minnelli, Estée Lauder, Doris Duke, and Naomi Campbell.
Colacello has also established himself as one of the most prolific biographical writers in the United States. His memoir of working with Andy Warhol in the 1970s and early 1980s, titled Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by the New York Times.
(Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrat...)