Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight enters the diary as both a new television opportunity for Bob Colacello and a platform for covering the celebrity world around Andy Warhol. The surviving references place the show at the intersection of television employment and the public display of fashion, fame, and cultural events, without detailing its format or the content of its reports.

Identity and Media Context

Entertainment Tonight is identified as a new Paramount television show. Its mention sits within a diary attentive to the movement of celebrity culture across media: by 1976, Interview had become a glamorous magazine that celebrities wanted to appear in, and Andy Warhol’s promise of a magazine feature had displaced his earlier promise of a movie role. The entries do not describe Entertainment Tonight’s editorial approach, but they show it as another professional setting in which public figures and their images were presented to an audience.

Bob Colacello’s Appointment

Bob Colacello received the job after trying out for the show. Barry Diller called to tell him the news, making the appointment a personal and professional milestone recorded in Warhol’s account. The diary does not specify Colacello’s title or duties, so the significance rests on the concrete fact that a close associate from the Interview world had secured a role on Paramount’s new television program.

Celebrity Coverage at the Museum

At a museum gathering attended by Halston and ten of his models, with six limousines carrying the party, Marisa Berenson was doing a segment for Entertainment Tonight. Photographers were also present, while fashionable guests—including Brooke Astor and Enid Haupt—wore glamorous dresses. The entry captures the show within an already camera-filled social scene: television coverage joined photographers in recording an event whose public image was built from famous attendees, fashion, and spectacle. Raquel Welch, described as sweet and pleased by her success in Woman of the Year, further connects the gathering to the performance and reception of celebrity, although the diary does not say that she appeared on the show.