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HOLY TERROR: ANDY WARHOL CLOSE UP by Bob Colacello...
Andy would be having a fit, just beside himself. Who does Bob Colacello think he is, writing about Bianca and Liz and Truman and Yoko, as if they would have given him the time of day if he weren't working at the Factory? Sure, Jackie O. was polite that time Andy took Colacello along as his date to a Christmas party, even shared her glass of Perrier. But she didn't mean it, calling Andy the next day to complain about his bringing a gossip columnist to real people's parties. Really. At least this time he didn...
That's how Warhol remembers Colacello in The Andy Warhol Diaries (807 pages), published in 1989, which is not exactly how Colacello remembers Colacello in this 514-page nag. Dueling diaries may be the perfect '80s moment, in which two shallow people recount in mind-numbing detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better...
...Colacello's "Out" column makes the reader froth at the mouth at its name-dropping and wolverine voraciousness for The Stories about The Only People Worth Writing About. Even if one had been raised to venerate age and all that jazz it would be hard to feel any rush of attraction to this man who eyes the camera with all the vivacity of a flounder. This issue he describes "How I spent my Summer Vacation." In Harvard Expository Writing classes even freshmen flee from this uninspiring topic, but Colacello is raring...