Signed, Holy Terror: Any Warhol Close Up (Truman Capote, The Studio 54 Years)
[Signed by Bob Colacello] 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 Jonathan ****, Thanks for making me look so good! With admiration, Bob C., Sag Harbor, August 2016.”
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. He eventually became its editor and one of Andy’s three indispensable men, but then abruptly 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. There is much on Truman Capote in his exile years, when he wrote for Interview and was taken in by the Factory and Studio 54 crowds. Unfortunately for Truman, those social circles overlapped with the contingent of New York society still fuming over "La Côte Basque," and there is much on how Capote’s banishment played out in the cutthroat Manhattan social scene.
“Leading this Park Avenue posse was none other than Andy’s new best friend, Jerry Zipkin, who told Liz Smith, ‘Truman is ruined. He will no longer be received socially anywhere. What’s more—those who receive him will no longer be received.’”
--Bob Colacello