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	Colacello at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party
Born	Robert Colaciello; May 7, 1947 (age 77); Bensonhurst, New York, U.S.
Education	Georgetown University; Columbia University
Occupation	Writer

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Bob Colacello (born May 8, 1947) is an American writer. He began his career writing for The Village Voice before becoming editor-in-chief of pop artist Andy Warhol's Interview magazine from 1971 to 1983.^[1] As part of Warhol's entourage, they collaborated on the books The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) and Exposures (1979). Colacello has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1984 and has been a special correspondent since 1993.^[2]

life and career

Robert Colaciello was born to John and Libby Colaciello in Bensonhurst, New York on May 8, 1947.^[3] He and his two sisters, Barbara and Suzanne, were raised in Plainview, Long Island.^[4] He graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969, and also has an MFA degree in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts.^[5]

Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he began publishing film reviews in the Village Voice weekly.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8] 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 studio—as he developed the magazine into one of the best-known lifestyle magazines of the time.^[7] Early on, he still wrote his name as Robert Colaciello.^[9] Colacello recalled that Warhol suggested he change his name to Bob Cola, in order to sound more "pop."^[10]

In addition to writing for Interview, Colacello traveled with Warhol, attending parties and events with the task of asking celebrities, socialites, heads of state, and princesses if they wanted their portraits commissioned by Warhol.^[9]

For a time Colacello lived with a boyfriend, Kevin Farley, who worked at Iolas Gallery in New York.^[11]

In 1983, Colacello left Interview due to tensions with Warhol. He cited not receiving credit for books he ghostwrote, and Warhol's jealousy over the attention Colacello received from Nancy Regan among the reasons for his departure.^[12] According to Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris, Colacello and Warhol's relationship deteriorated partly because Colacello had been "trying to stake a claim to an inordinate share of control over Andy Warhol Enterprises."^[13]

In 1984, Colacello began writing for Vanity Fair magazine,^[14] and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles,^[15] Balthus,^[16] Rudolf Nureyev,^[14] Liza Minnelli,^[17] Estée Lauder,^[18] Doris Duke,^[19] and Naomi Campbell.^[20]

Colacello is also a biographer. He is the author of Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980, about the social and political rise of Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan.^[21] His memoir of working with Andy Warhol, titled Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990),^[22] was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by The New York Times.^[23]

Books

Colacello, Bob. Ronnie & Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980. Warner Books, 2004
Colacello, Bob. Bob Colacello's Out. Göttingen: Steidl, 2008
Colacello, Bob. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York, New York: Harper Collins. Vintage reprint edition, March 11, 2014

Awards

2017 Paez Medal of Art, New York City (VAEA).^[24]

Notes

^ "November: Bob Colacello". November: Bob Colacello. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
^ Fair, Vanity (2007-03-05). "Bob Colacello". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
^ Martindale, Stone (26 August 2007). "Bob Colacello misses the Seventies". Monsters and Critics. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012.
^ "My Life in Parties: Bob Colacello's Off-Kilter Views of New York Society". W Magazine. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
^ Feeney, Mark (12 August 1990). "Of Andy and Co. there is no end". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
^ Shaw, Kurt (13 February 2009). "Brigid exhibit showcases Warhol confidante". Pittsburgh Tribune.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b Cohen, Claudia (October 2004). "Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview". Interview.
^ Harrod, Horatia (23 September 2007). "Bob Colacello: 24-hour party person". London: Daily Telegraph.
^ ^a ^b Colacello, Bob (1990). Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 48, 116. ISBN 978-0-06-016419-5.
^ Dault, Gary Michael (8 September 1990). "Warhol: The life and death of the party Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close by Bob Colacello (review)". Toronto Star.
^ Colman, David (2007-09-16). "Let the Music Play, or Maybe Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
^ Rea, Naomi (2023-06-13). "'You Can't Stay at the Side of a Genius For Too Long': Bob Colacello on the Ups and Downs of Life in Andy Warhol's Orbit". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ Bockris, Victor (2009-04-29). Warhol: The Biography. Hachette Books. p. 447. ISBN 978-0-7867-3028-5.
^ ^a ^b Dunphy, Catherine (4 September 1990). "Bob Colacello: Andy Warhol's mouthpiece seeks his own fame". Toronto Star.
^ "Charles and Camilla begin US tour". BBC News. 1 November 2005.
^ "Bob Colacello archive". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
^ "Liza sure liked to party, goes her sad little story". Spokesman-Review. 2 October 1986. p. 10.
^ Donnelly, Shannon (2 October 2005). "SAIL-ABRATION".
^ Smith, Liz (2 February 1994). "Woody's "headaches"". News Day.
^ Colacello, Bob (September 2008). "A league of their own". Vanity Fair.
^ Seitz, Raymond (28 December 2004). "The two halves of the president". The Daily Telegraph. London.
^ Mansfield, Stephanie (8 September 1990). "Warhol's Soiree Sidekick; Bob Colacello and His Tell-All Memoir of the 'Holy Terror'". Washington Post.
^ Glueck, Grace (August 9, 1990). "The Artist as Icon, Busybody and Chief Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
^ "Bob Colacello is the recipient of VAEA's Páez Medal of Art 2017". VAEA. Retrieved 2020-11-18.

[1] "November: Bob Colacello". November: Bob Colacello. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

[2] Fair, Vanity (2007-03-05). "Bob Colacello". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

[3] Martindale, Stone (26 August 2007). "Bob Colacello misses the Seventies". Monsters and Critics. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012.

[4] "My Life in Parties: Bob Colacello's Off-Kilter Views of New York Society". W Magazine. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

[5] Feeney, Mark (12 August 1990). "Of Andy and Co. there is no end". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[6] Shaw, Kurt (13 February 2009). "Brigid exhibit showcases Warhol confidante". Pittsburgh Tribune.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[Cohen-7] Cohen, Claudia (October 2004). "Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview". Interview.

[Tgraph-8] Harrod, Horatia (23 September 2007). "Bob Colacello: 24-hour party person". London: Daily Telegraph.

[:0-9] Colacello, Bob (1990). Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 48, 116. ISBN 978-0-06-016419-5.

[10] Dault, Gary Michael (8 September 1990). "Warhol: The life and death of the party Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close by Bob Colacello (review)". Toronto Star.

[11] Colman, David (2007-09-16). "Let the Music Play, or Maybe Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-11.

[12] Rea, Naomi (2023-06-13). "'You Can't Stay at the Side of a Genius For Too Long': Bob Colacello on the Ups and Downs of Life in Andy Warhol's Orbit". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-12-24.

[13] Bockris, Victor (2009-04-29). Warhol: The Biography. Hachette Books. p. 447. ISBN 978-0-7867-3028-5.

[Dunphy-14] Dunphy, Catherine (4 September 1990). "Bob Colacello: Andy Warhol's mouthpiece seeks his own fame". Toronto Star.

[15] "Charles and Camilla begin US tour". BBC News. 1 November 2005.

[16] "Bob Colacello archive". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2010.

[17] "Liza sure liked to party, goes her sad little story". Spokesman-Review. 2 October 1986. p. 10.

[18] Donnelly, Shannon (2 October 2005). "SAIL-ABRATION".

[19] Smith, Liz (2 February 1994). "Woody's "headaches"". News Day.

[20] Colacello, Bob (September 2008). "A league of their own". Vanity Fair.

[21] Seitz, Raymond (28 December 2004). "The two halves of the president". The Daily Telegraph. London.

[22] Mansfield, Stephanie (8 September 1990). "Warhol's Soiree Sidekick; Bob Colacello and His Tell-All Memoir of the 'Holy Terror'". Washington Post.

[23] Glueck, Grace (August 9, 1990). "The Artist as Icon, Busybody and Chief Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-15.

[24] "Bob Colacello is the recipient of VAEA's Páez Medal of Art 2017". VAEA. Retrieved 2020-11-18.

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-[[File:Bob Colacello 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Colacello at the 2011 [[Tribeca Film Festival]] ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' party]]'''Bob Colacello''' (born 1947) is an American writer. Born in [[Bensonhurst, New York]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/features/article_1347777.php/Bob_Colacello_misses_the_Seventies |title=Bob Colacello misses the Seventies |publisher=Monsters and Critics |date=26 August 2007 |first=Stone |last=Martindale |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003180934/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/features/article_1347777.php/Bob_Colacello_misses_the_Seventies |archive-date=3 October 2012 }}</ref> and raised in [[Plainview, Long Island]], he graduated from the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] at [[Georgetown University]] in 1969, and also has an MFA degree in film criticism from [[Columbia University]] Graduate School of the Arts.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDEF4B07CFB2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Of Andy and Co. there is no end |first=Mark |last=Feeney |date=12 August 1990 |publisher=Boston Globe |access-date=2 February 2010 |archive-date=8 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608164034/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDEF4B07CFB2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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+'''Bob Colacello''' (born May 8, 1947) is an American writer. He began his career writing for [[The Village Voice|''The'' ''Village Voice'']] before becoming [[editor-in-chief]] of pop artist [[Andy Warhol]]'s ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'' magazine from 1971 to 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=November: Bob Colacello |url=https://novembermag.com/content/bob-colacello |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=November: Bob Colacello |language=en}}</ref> As part of Warhol's entourage, they collaborated on the books ''[[The Philosophy of Andy Warhol]]'' (1975) and ''[[Andy Warhol's Exposures|Exposures]]'' (1979). Colacello has been a contributing editor for ''Vanity Fair'' since 1984 and has been a special correspondent since 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fair |first=Vanity |date=2007-03-05 |title=Bob Colacello |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2000/01/bio-colacello |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref>
-== Early endeavors and ''Interview'' magazine ==
-Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he began publishing film reviews in the ''[[Village Voice]]'' weekly.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/s_611240.html |title=Brigid exhibit showcases Warhol confidante |date=13 February 2009 |publisher=Pittsburgh Tribune |first=Kurt |last=Shaw }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite news |publisher=Interview |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_9_34/ai_n6213137/ |title=Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview |first=Claudia |last=Cohen |date=October 2004 }}</ref> 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)|Interview magazine]]'', a new art/film/fashion magazine Warhol had recently begun to publish.<ref name="Tgraph">{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3668115/Bob-Colacello-24-hour-party-person.html  |date=23 September 2007 |first=Horatia |last=Harrod |title=Bob Colacello: 24-hour party person |publisher=Daily Telegraph | location=London}}</ref> 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 studio—as he developed the magazine into one of the best-known lifestyle magazines of the time.<ref name="Cohen"/> As Colacello himself writes in [[Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close up|''Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up'']] (1990), Warhol suggested Colacello change his name to Bob Cola, in order to sound more "pop."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Gary Michael |last=Dault |date=8 September 1990 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472202491.html?dids=472202491:472202491&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+08%2C+1990&author=Gary+Michael+Dault&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Warhol%3A+The+life+and+death+of+the+party+Holy+Terror%3A+Andy+Warhol+Up+Close+by+Bob+Colacello+HarperCollins%2C+514+pages%2C+%2424.95&pqatl=google |title=Warhol: The life and death of the party Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close by Bob Colacello (review) |publisher=Toronto Star }}</ref> In the mid 80s Colacello left ''Interview'' due to tensions with Warhol. He cited Warhol receiving credit for ''[[The Philosophy of Andy Warhol]]'' (1975), which he ghostwrote, and Warhol's jealousy over the attention Colacello received from Nancy Regan among reasons for his departure.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rea |first=Naomi |date=2023-06-13 |title=‘You Can’t Stay at the Side of a Genius For Too Long’: Bob Colacello on the Ups and Downs of Life in Andy Warhol’s Orbit |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-colacello-thaddaeus-ropac-gallery-2317521 |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref>
-== Biographical writings ==
+== life and career ==
+Robert Colaciello was born to John and Libby Colaciello in [[Bensonhurst, New York]] on May 8, 1947.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/features/article_1347777.php/Bob_Colacello_misses_the_Seventies |title=Bob Colacello misses the Seventies |publisher=Monsters and Critics |date=26 August 2007 |first=Stone |last=Martindale |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003180934/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/features/article_1347777.php/Bob_Colacello_misses_the_Seventies |archive-date=3 October 2012 }}</ref> He and his two sisters, Barbara and Suzanne, were raised in [[Plainview, Long Island]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-04 |title=My Life in Parties: Bob Colacello's Off-Kilter Views of New York Society |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/bob-colacello-party-photographs-1970s-new-york-andy-warhol-interview-magazine |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=W Magazine |language=en}}</ref> He graduated from the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] at [[Georgetown University]] in 1969, and also has an MFA degree in film criticism from [[Columbia University]] Graduate School of the Arts.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDEF4B07CFB2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Of Andy and Co. there is no end |first=Mark |last=Feeney |date=12 August 1990 |publisher=Boston Globe |access-date=2 February 2010 |archive-date=8 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608164034/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADDEF4B07CFB2A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=dead }}</ref>
-After his tenure with ''Interview'', Colacello began writing for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine,<ref name="Dunphy">{{Cite news |date=4 September 1990 |first=Catherine |last=Dunphy |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472220501.html?dids=472220501:472220501&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+14%2C+1990&author=Catherine+Dunphy+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Bob+Colacello+Andy+Warhol%27s+mouthpiece+seeks+his+own+fame&pqatl=google |publisher=Toronto Star |title=Bob Colacello: Andy Warhol's mouthpiece seeks his own fame}}</ref> and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including [[Prince Charles]] and [[Camilla Parker Bowles]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/4394934.stm |title=Charles and Camilla begin US tour |publisher=BBC News |date=1 November 2005 }}</ref> [[Balthus]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bob_colacello/search?contributorName=Bob%20Colacello |title=Bob Colacello archive |publisher=Vanity Fair |accessdate=2 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130130406/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bob_colacello/search?contributorName=Bob%20Colacello |archive-date=30 November 2009 }}</ref> [[Rudolf Nureyev]],<ref name="Dunphy"/> [[Liza Minnelli]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LuIRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4174,762973&dq=bob-colacello+minnelli&hl=en |title=Liza sure liked to party, goes her sad little story |publisher=Spokesman-Review |date=2 October 1986 |page=10 }}</ref> [[Estée Lauder (person)|Estée Lauder]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 October 2005 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PA&p_theme=pa&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10D0DF46F4A01B60&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=SAIL-ABRATION |first=Shannon |last=Donnelly }}</ref> [[Doris Duke]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101702340.html?dids=101702340:101702340&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+02%2C+1994&author=Liz+Smith&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Woody%27s+%60Headaches%27&pqatl=google |title=Woody's "headaches" |publisher=News Day |date=2 February 1994 |first=Liz |last=Smith }}</ref> and [[Naomi Campbell]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2008/09/supermodels200809 |publisher=Vanity Fair |title=A league of their own |date=September 2008 |first=Bob |last=Colacello }}</ref> Colacello is also a biographer. He is the author of ''[[Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980]]'', about the social and political rise of [[Ronald Reagan]] and his wife [[Nancy Reagan]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Raymond |last=Seitz |title=The two halves of the president |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3633971/The-two-halves-of-the-President.html |date=28 December 2004 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> His memoir of working with Andy Warhol in the 1970s and early 1980s, titled ''[[Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up|Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990)]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72615024.html?dids=72615024:72615024&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+18%2C+1990&author=Stephanie+Mansfield&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Warhol%27s+Soiree+Sidekick%3B+Bob+Colacello+and+His+Tell-All+Memoir+of+the+%60Holy+Terror%27&pqatl=google |date=8 September 1990 |first=Stephanie |last=Mansfield |newspaper=Washington Post |title=Warhol's Soiree Sidekick; Bob Colacello and His Tell-All Memoir of the 'Holy Terror' }}</ref>  was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= The Artist as Icon, Busybody and Chief Executive  |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DD1F3EF93AA3575BC0A966958260&scp=1&sq=Holy%20Terror%20Andy%20Warhol%20Close%20Up&st=cse |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 1990 |first=Grace |last=Glueck |accessdate=2008-07-15 }}</ref>
+Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he began publishing film reviews in the ''[[Village Voice]]'' weekly.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/s_611240.html |title=Brigid exhibit showcases Warhol confidante |date=13 February 2009 |publisher=Pittsburgh Tribune |first=Kurt |last=Shaw }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite news |publisher=Interview |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_9_34/ai_n6213137/ |title=Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview |first=Claudia |last=Cohen |date=October 2004 }}</ref>
+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)|Interview magazine]]'', a new art/film/fashion magazine Warhol had recently begun to publish.<ref name="Tgraph">{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3668115/Bob-Colacello-24-hour-party-person.html  |date=23 September 2007 |first=Horatia |last=Harrod |title=Bob Colacello: 24-hour party person |publisher=Daily Telegraph | location=London}}</ref> 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 studio—as he developed the magazine into one of the best-known lifestyle magazines of the time.<ref name="Cohen" /> Early on, he still wrote his name as <mark>Robert</mark> Colaciello.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Colacello |first=Bob |url= |title=Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up |date=1990 |publisher=HarperCollins |others= |isbn=978-0-06-016419-5 |location=New York |pages=48, 116}}</ref> Colacello recalled that Warhol suggested he change his name to Bob Cola, in order to sound more "pop."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Gary Michael |last=Dault |date=8 September 1990 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472202491.html?dids=472202491:472202491&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+08%2C+1990&author=Gary+Michael+Dault&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Warhol%3A+The+life+and+death+of+the+party+Holy+Terror%3A+Andy+Warhol+Up+Close+by+Bob+Colacello+HarperCollins%2C+514+pages%2C+%2424.95&pqatl=google |title=Warhol: The life and death of the party Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close by Bob Colacello (review) |publisher=Toronto Star }}</ref>
+In addition to writing for ''Interview'', Colacello traveled with Warhol, attending parties and events with the task of asking [[Celebrity|celebrities]], [[Socialite|socialites]], [[Head of state|heads of state]], and [[Princess|princesses]] if they wanted their portraits commissioned by Warhol.<ref name=":0" />
+For a time Colacello lived with a boyfriend, Kevin Farley, who worked at Iolas Gallery in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Colman |first=David |date=2007-09-16 |title=Let the Music Play, or Maybe Not |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/fashion/16POSS.html |access-date=2024-06-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+In 1983, Colacello left ''Interview'' due to tensions with Warhol. He cited not receiving credit for books he ghostwrote, and Warhol's jealousy over the attention Colacello received from [[Nancy Reagan|Nancy Regan]] among the reasons for his departure.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rea |first=Naomi |date=2023-06-13 |title=‘You Can’t Stay at the Side of a Genius For Too Long’: Bob Colacello on the Ups and Downs of Life in Andy Warhol’s Orbit |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-colacello-thaddaeus-ropac-gallery-2317521 |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref> According to ''Warhol: The Biography'' by [[Victor Bockris]], Colacello and Warhol's relationship deteriorated partly because Colacello had been "trying to stake a claim to an inordinate share of control over Andy Warhol Enterprises."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bockris |first=Victor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRmjRcSYXlgC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA447&dq=bob+colacello+wanted+share+of+interview&hl=en |title=Warhol: The Biography |date=2009-04-29 |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0-7867-3028-5 |pages=447 |language=en}}</ref>
+In 1984, Colacello began writing for ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine,<ref name="Dunphy">{{Cite news |date=4 September 1990 |first=Catherine |last=Dunphy |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/472220501.html?dids=472220501:472220501&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+14%2C+1990&author=Catherine+Dunphy+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Bob+Colacello+Andy+Warhol%27s+mouthpiece+seeks+his+own+fame&pqatl=google |publisher=Toronto Star |title=Bob Colacello: Andy Warhol's mouthpiece seeks his own fame}}</ref> and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including [[Prince Charles]] and [[Camilla Parker Bowles]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/4394934.stm |title=Charles and Camilla begin US tour |publisher=BBC News |date=1 November 2005 }}</ref> [[Balthus]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bob_colacello/search?contributorName=Bob%20Colacello |title=Bob Colacello archive |publisher=Vanity Fair |accessdate=2 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130130406/http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bob_colacello/search?contributorName=Bob%20Colacello |archive-date=30 November 2009 }}</ref> [[Rudolf Nureyev]],<ref name="Dunphy" /> [[Liza Minnelli]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LuIRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4174,762973&dq=bob-colacello+minnelli&hl=en |title=Liza sure liked to party, goes her sad little story |publisher=Spokesman-Review |date=2 October 1986 |page=10 }}</ref> [[Estée Lauder (person)|Estée Lauder]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 October 2005 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PA&p_theme=pa&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10D0DF46F4A01B60&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=SAIL-ABRATION |first=Shannon |last=Donnelly }}</ref> [[Doris Duke]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101702340.html?dids=101702340:101702340&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+02%2C+1994&author=Liz+Smith&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Woody%27s+%60Headaches%27&pqatl=google |title=Woody's "headaches" |publisher=News Day |date=2 February 1994 |first=Liz |last=Smith }}</ref> and [[Naomi Campbell]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2008/09/supermodels200809 |publisher=Vanity Fair |title=A league of their own |date=September 2008 |first=Bob |last=Colacello }}</ref>
+Colacello is also a biographer. He is the author of ''Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911-1980'', about the social and political rise of [[Ronald Reagan]] and his wife [[Nancy Reagan]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Raymond |last=Seitz |title=The two halves of the president |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3633971/The-two-halves-of-the-President.html |date=28 December 2004 | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> His memoir of working with Andy Warhol, titled ''Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990)'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72615024.html?dids=72615024:72615024&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+18%2C+1990&author=Stephanie+Mansfield&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Warhol%27s+Soiree+Sidekick%3B+Bob+Colacello+and+His+Tell-All+Memoir+of+the+%60Holy+Terror%27&pqatl=google |date=8 September 1990 |first=Stephanie |last=Mansfield |newspaper=Washington Post |title=Warhol's Soiree Sidekick; Bob Colacello and His Tell-All Memoir of the 'Holy Terror' }}</ref>  was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= The Artist as Icon, Busybody and Chief Executive  |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DD1F3EF93AA3575BC0A966958260&scp=1&sq=Holy%20Terror%20Andy%20Warhol%20Close%20Up&st=cse |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 1990 |first=Grace |last=Glueck |accessdate=2008-07-15 }}</ref>
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