Ever since I devoured his brilliant book Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, I’ve read everything under Bob Colacello’s byline—from his years writing about society types for Vanity Fair to his smart and gossipy biography of the Reagans, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House--1911 to 1980. From his days as Andy Warhol’s right-hand man and editor of Interview magazine, Colacello has been an art world and society fixture (just…do a Google image search), somehow inhabiting both the role of active participant and skeptical chronicler.

At the beginning of the summer, after a few dinners during which I peppered him with annoying questions about Warhol and the Factory, I demanded that Bob invite me to his Hamptons house and submit to a recorded interrogation. He obliged.

This is the result.

- From Bensonhurst to the Factory

- Andy gets receipts

- Valerie Solanas wanted to “cut up men”

- "I Shot Andy Warhol" was a disgrace

- “We were bodyguards as well as salesmen”

- Liberals and the Iranian embassy

- Why Bob didn't like Netflix's "Andy Warhol's Diaries"

- "Through a queer lens, darkly" / Confusing nonchalance with denial

- Andy Warhol didn't believe in causes

- "Mystery lends itself to fame"

- A Republican in the Factory

- King Charles Loved Joan Rivers

- Andy loved Big Macs

- In Moscow with Paul Morrissey and Bridget Berlin

- The day Andy died

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