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{{Short description|American writer}}File:Bob Colacello 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Colacello at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party]]Bob Colacello (born 1947) is an American writer. Born in Bensonhurst, New York,NEWS,weblink Bob Colacello misses the Seventies, Monsters and Critics, 26 August 2007, Stone, Martindale, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121003180934weblink">weblink 3 October 2012, 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.NEWS,weblink Of Andy and Co. there is no end, Mark, Feeney, 12 August 1990, Boston Globe, 2 February 2010, 8 June 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110608164034weblink">weblink dead,

Early endeavors and Interview magazine

Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he began publishing film reviews in the Village Voice weekly.NEWS,weblink Brigid exhibit showcases Warhol confidante, 13 February 2009, Pittsburgh Tribune, Kurt, Shaw, {{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 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.NEWS, Interview,weblink Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview, Claudia, Cohen, October 2004, 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.NEWS,weblink 23 September 2007, Horatia, Harrod, Bob Colacello: 24-hour party person, Daily Telegraph, London, 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. 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."NEWS, Gary Michael, Dault, 8 September 1990,weblink Warhol: The life and death of the party Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close by Bob Colacello (review), Toronto Star, 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.WEB, 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,weblink 2023-12-24, Artnet News, en-US,

Biographical writings

After his tenure with Interview, Colacello began writing for Vanity Fair magazine,NEWS, 4 September 1990, Catherine, Dunphy,weblink Toronto Star, Bob Colacello: Andy Warhol's mouthpiece seeks his own fame, and has been a regular contributor since, writing extended profiles on a wide range of public personalities, including Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles,NEWS,weblink Charles and Camilla begin US tour, BBC News, 1 November 2005, Balthus,WEB,weblink Bob Colacello archive, Vanity Fair, 2 February 2010, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091130130406weblink">weblink 30 November 2009, Rudolf Nureyev, Liza Minnelli,NEWS,weblink Liza sure liked to party, goes her sad little story, Spokesman-Review, 2 October 1986, 10, Estée Lauder,NEWS, 2 October 2005,weblink SAIL-ABRATION, Shannon, Donnelly, Doris Duke,NEWS,weblink Woody's "headaches", News Day, 2 February 1994, Liz, Smith, and Naomi Campbell.NEWS,weblink Vanity Fair, A league of their own, September 2008, Bob, Colacello, 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.NEWS, Raymond, Seitz, The two halves of the president,weblink 28 December 2004, London, The Daily Telegraph, 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)),NEWS,weblink 8 September 1990, Stephanie, Mansfield, Washington Post, Warhol's Soiree Sidekick; Bob Colacello and His Tell-All Memoir of the 'Holy Terror', was called the "best-written and the most killingly observed" book on the subject by The New York Times.NEWS, The Artist as Icon, Busybody and Chief Executive,weblink The New York Times, August 9, 1990, Grace, Glueck, 2008-07-15,

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).WEB, Bob Colacello is the recipient of VAEA's Páez Medal of Art 2017,weblink 2020-11-18, VAEA, en-US,

Notes

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