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Sunday, December 26, 2021

Sisterly Struggles of Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins

Sisterly Struggles of Jackie Collins

Filmmaker Laura Fairrie and the author’s daughter, Rory Green, on Lady Boss, which chronicles Jackie Collins’s remarkable rise—and her complicated relationship with her glamorous sister, Joan Collins.

BY JULIE MILLER

June 10, 2021

Jackie Collins was capital-F fabulous—arriving to Beverly Hills lunches in stretch limousines looking as glamorous as the characters in her romance novels.

“You think of her with that big, powerful image: the leopard print, the shoulder pads, the big hair,” says filmmaker Laura Fairrie, who profiles Collins in the documentary Lady Boss (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday). But Fairrie’s filmmaking quest was to crack that larger-than-life facade. “My immediate instinct was to try and look behind that, and find out what it was that made her write the books that she wrote. To look for that untold, private story. I had no idea that what I would find would stand in such brilliant contrast to the public persona.”

Jackie Collins remembered by her sister, Joan

‘Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust’: Jackie Collins in New York in 2008.
Photograph: Lucas Jackson

Jackie Collins remembered by her sister, Joan

4 October 1937 - 19 September 2015
The bestselling novelist was a generous champion of equality, whose raunchy, page-turning books gave readers access to life in Hollywood

Joan Collins recuerda a su hermana Joan

Joan Collins
Sunday 27 December 2015

She was more than a sister to me. I considered her a true and wonderful friend (whose advice I didn’t always listen to, unfortunately, and to my disadvantage). She and I understood and empathised with each other more than practically anyone I know and I felt her loyalty to me was unbounded and her love was unconditional. We shared so many of the same memories and confided in each other without fear. We gossiped and giggled when we were together and loved to go see the latest movies at weekend morning showings at our favourite Los Angeles shopping centre.

QUEENS OF THE ROAD

Hollywood sisters Jackie and Joan Collins are the ultimate triumph of the immigrant. They landed from London and carved out separate kingdoms of glitz. Jackie was the Queen of Dish and Joan was the Queen of Soap. Then Soap dished. DOMINICK DUNNE reports

MARCH 1988 DOMINICK DUNNEANNIE LEIBOVITZMARINA SCHIANO

Just when you thought you knew all there was to know about the highly publicized Collins sisters, Joan and Jackie, or Jackie and Joan, comes the news that big sister Joan, the soap-opera superstar, whose divorces and romantic exploits have been making tabloid headlines for thirty years, has turned literary in her fifty-fifth year and is moving in on the printed-page turf of her little sister Jackie, the superstar novelist, whose eleven-volume oeuvre has sold 65 million copies in thirty languages throughout the world over the last two decades. Yes, friends, Joan Collins, between takes as the beloved bitch Alexis Carrington Colby on Dynasty, has written her own novel, called Prime Time, about a top-rated soap opera on American television, with eight or ten characters, all of them actors and actresses, and a leading lady who has overcome obstacles, both personal and financial, to regain her stardom.

Jackie Collins in 2008. The younger sister of film star Joan sold 500 million copies of her 32 novels.
Photograph: Lucas Jackson

Jackie Collins: the reality of life in Joan’s shadow

Vanessa Thorpe

Sunday 13 June 2021

The bestselling author cultivated a confident image. But it belied a personal life dogged by self-doubt, as a new documentary reveals

Obituaries / Jackie Collins

Vanessa Thorpe
Sun 13 Jun 2021 12.59 BST

Three sisters suddenly inherit a lucrative international business that trades in dreams of power, sex and glamour. So how will they all handle their extraordinary legacy?

It sounds like the plot of a Jackie Collins pool-side bestseller. But the truth is better than that, for this is the real inheritance of Collins’s three daughters, who are now planning the future of their late mother’s racy fictional characters while they prepare to celebrate her life and career with the release of a new documentary. Called Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story, it has unexpectedly delighted critics at the Tribeca film festival in New York this weekend.

Joan Collins / 'I just gave them a knee to the groin. It's hardly suffering'

Joan Collins

Interview

Joan Collins: 'I just gave them a knee to the groin. It's hardly suffering'

Joan Collins on abuse in Hollywood pre #MeToo, staying relevant at 85, and why she suspects her sister Jackie might have returned as a fly...

Sophie Heawood
Sunday 2 December 2018

hen I go to meet Dame Joan Collins at her luxury condo in Beverly Hills on a bright November afternoon, I am told to wait for her publicist Jeffrey in the lobby, so when a male voice approaches me I turn round to greet Jeffrey. Alas, it is in fact Dame Joan’s husband Percy, the famous Percy, who is suntanned, jolly and very amused that I have mistaken him for the PR guy.

Joan Collins

St. Joan the Divine: An Exclusive Interview with Hollywood Legend Joan Collins

The 87-year-old ’Dynasty’ star unpacks how she lost the role of Cleopatra by refusing to sleep with a studio chief, her romance with the then-unknown Warren Beatty, and her date rape by her future first husband—all before she’d turned 30

Andrew Goldman

October 26, 2020

Those who only began paying attention to Joan Collins in 1981 after she landed her career-defining role as Dynasty’s ne plus ultra bitch, Alexis Carrington, have been deprived of one of the most sensational show-business stories ever told—one recounted in dribs and drabs over decades in tabloids, but more completely set out by Collins herself in numerous memoirs, beginning with 1978’s shocking autobiography, Past Imperfect. Collins shares tales of her raping, shakedown-artist first husband; handsy studio heads; an illegal abortion with Warren Beatty; an affair with a dictator’s son; and penury narrowly averted, thanks to The Stud—a soft-core film adaptation of one of her late-sister Jackie’s novels. Collins’s personal saga and career, however, never stopped unfolding. In 2015, recognizing Collins’s charitable works, Queen Elizabeth made her a Dame Commander of the British Empire, and, just a couple of years back, Ryan Murphy showcased her over-the-top gifts in what became her latest scenery-chewing comeback in his eighth season of American Horror Story. On a recent morning in her swanky Beverly Hills apartment high above Wilshire—with her handsome, much younger, fifth husband, Percy Gibson, nearby—Dame Joan shared the highs and lows of her 87-year personal journey to goddesshood.

Joan Collins

LIFE AND STYLE
From the archive: Joan Collins and the Oxford don, 1990

Peter Conrad meets the Dynasty star as she prepares to return to London

Chris Hall

Sunday 19 September 2021

Peter Conrad’s interview with Joan Collins was presented as a meeting between low and high culture (‘Joan Collins and the Don from Oxford’, 29 April 1990), which rather sold Collins’s obvious intelligence and sense of humour some way short.

‘It was presented as a meeting between low and high culture, which rather sold Collins short’:
Joan Collins meets Peter Conrad. Photograph: Terry O'Neill/

Having recently finished her decade-long stint as Alexis Carrington Colby in Dynasty, Collins was returning to England to be in two Coward plays, Easy Virtue on TV and Private Lives in the West End. ‘You don’t dare make jokes here,’ she said. ‘They all take everything so seriously. I’m too cynical, and too incendiary. That’s why I long to get back to the theatre, where everyone sends everyone up all the time.’

Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli / Quotes

Joan Rivers

by Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli

Quotes

"I spit on education. No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card."

"I bought a pedigree dog for $300. My friend said, "Give me $300. and I'll shit on your carpet."

"Joan Collins lies about her age so much we should have her body carbon-dated."

"Gay marriage - I am so against it because all my gay friends are out. And if they get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts."

"When I saw her sex tape, all I could think of were Paris Hilton's poor parents. The shame, the shame of the Hilton family. To have your daughter do a porno film... in a Marriott hotel."

"I blame myself for David Gest. It was me who told Liza Minnelli to find herself a man who wouldn't sleep with other women."

"Rihanna confessed to Oprah Winfrey that she still loves Chris Brown. Idiot! Now it's MY turn to slap her."

"Congratulations to Adele on the birth of her 68 pound 8 ounces bouncing baby boy."

FICCIONES
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Éxito
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Mi obstetra
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo II
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Sexo I
Casa de citas / Joan Rivers / Ayer es historia

DE OTROS MUNDOS
Joan Rivers en coma

DRAGON
Joan Rivers/ Constantly in the limelight and pursued by controversy
Joan Rivers / A life in pictures
Joan Rivers, pioneering comedian and entertainer, dies aged 81
Joan Rivers / Joan Collins, Adele, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Liza Minelli / Quotes
Joan Rivers / Lenny Bruce
Joan Rivers / I was talking about my mother
Joan Rivers / Comedy

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Roman Polanski writes foreword to book about murdered wife, Sharon Tate

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate

Roman Polanski writes foreword to book about murdered wife, Sharon Tate

Jane Fonda and Joan Collins also contribute to volume about actor, who was killed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969

Ben Child
The Guardian, Tuesday 27 May 2013

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate in 1969, the year she was killed at her LA home by members of Charles Manson's 'family'. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski has written the foreword to a forthcoming book about the life of his murdered wife, Sharon Tate, reports the New York Post..

Tate was killed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969, along with three friends who were staying with her at the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband. The 26-year-old actor was due to give birth just two weeks after her death.

Polanski, who was out of town when the attacks took place, writes in the foreword: "Even after 40 years, it is difficult to write about Sharon. It is impossible, of course, to imagine what might have been if Sharon had lived. But this book allows me to remember what was."

The book, titled Recollection, has been put together by Sharon's sister Debra and will be published in the US next month. It also features contributions from its subject's co-stars on the 1967 cult drama Valley of the Dolls, Patty Duke, Joan Collins and Jane Fonda. The last writes: "She was very pregnant the last time I saw her at that house and turned down a joint that was being passed around."

THE GUARDIAN