Holy Terror, Andy Warhol Close Up, Signed to Sylvia Miles
[Signed Presentation by Bob Colacello to Sylvia Miles] Colacello, Bob. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. First Edition. 1990. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is warmly inscribed, “To Sylvia, my first star friend, with much love, Bob.”
We might be living in the 21st Century, but as this intimate biography/memoir makes clear, Andy Warhol got there first. Bob Colacello began working for Warhol in the early 1970s as a film reviewer for Warhol’s just-launched magazine, Interview, eventually became its editor and one of Andy’s three indispensable men, and then departed in the early 1980s (much to the dismay of Warhol, who tried repeatedly to lure him back). Colacello kept a diary, which he references throughout, adding credibility to a book filled with verbatim conversations and intriguing details. It’s a heady time, a drug-and-alcohol fueled social whirl with New York City and Andy Warhol at its center. How lucky Colacello was there to record it, offering deep psychological insight not only into Andy Warhol but into the gestalt of an era (soon to come crashing down). Sylvia Miles, to whom this copy belonged, makes numerous appearances in the book (not always flatteringly).
“The real point was that Sylvia [Miles] had done what Andy wanted, even though he was quite sure what that was himself. That’s how Andy worked. He prodded and he poked, he nagged, turned cold and mean, dropped hints and clues-until the actor … figured out what Andy wanted to express but couldn’t.”
--Bob Colacello