THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Beauty is the hardest drug of all» I wrote after seeing Death In Venice. I devoted twenty of the forty pages, front and back covers, of the July 1971 issue of Interview to Luchino Visconti's film of Thomas Mann's novella about the old man and the tease. For once Paul, Fred, Charles Rydel, and Jerome Hill all applauded. But Andy was mad. He said there were only two pages of ads and «too many pictures of the same people looking the same, I don't even think this kid is that good-looking»

-Bob Colacello
 Holy Terror p.87