There is a riveting moment in “Lady Boss,” an insightful documentary about the life of novelist Jackie Collins, in which we see Collins preparing her face for the camera. She brushes her bangs a bit with her finger as if to give herself something positive to do, but there is turmoil going on behind her eyes; it looks like she is struggling to hold down enormous pain and insecurity, and this struggle is intensely active, for there was nothing passive about Collins.
Once the camera is ready for her, Collins has arranged her face into the semi-snarly made-up armor that she presented in her glamorous public life, which always included large hair, shoulder pads and a liking for leopard-print fabric. Collins was English, but her books were very successful in America because she subscribed religiously to the American urge for self-reinvention.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her movie star sister,...
Once the camera is ready for her, Collins has arranged her face into the semi-snarly made-up armor that she presented in her glamorous public life, which always included large hair, shoulder pads and a liking for leopard-print fabric. Collins was English, but her books were very successful in America because she subscribed religiously to the American urge for self-reinvention.
Collins grew up in the shadow of her movie star sister,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Jackie Collins, who mastered the art of the Hollywood potboiler, spinning tales of sex and celebrity into an extraordinary literary career, is the subject of a new documentary coming to CNN at the end of the month.
The cable news channel announced today it will premiere Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story at 9pm Et and Pt on June 27. The Laura Fairrie-directed film, world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, takes its title from one of Collins’ novels, featuring perhaps her most famous character, Lucky Santangello. Among her 32 novels, five were built around Lucky; film adaptations were made of several of them, with Kim Delaney playing Lucky in one film and Nicollette Sheridan taking the role in two others.
In all, Collins, the younger sister of actress Joan Collins, sold more than half a billion books in over 40 countries.
“Her writing boldly extolls female power, sexual pleasure, and freedom,...
The cable news channel announced today it will premiere Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story at 9pm Et and Pt on June 27. The Laura Fairrie-directed film, world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next week, takes its title from one of Collins’ novels, featuring perhaps her most famous character, Lucky Santangello. Among her 32 novels, five were built around Lucky; film adaptations were made of several of them, with Kim Delaney playing Lucky in one film and Nicollette Sheridan taking the role in two others.
In all, Collins, the younger sister of actress Joan Collins, sold more than half a billion books in over 40 countries.
“Her writing boldly extolls female power, sexual pleasure, and freedom,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The luxurious 20,000-square-foot Beverly Hills estate owned and designed by the late best-selling author Jackie Collins is on the market for a cool $30 million. The modern 8-bedroom mansion, completed in 1992, overlooks the Hollywood Hills and boasts its own screening room and a 100-foot-long art gallery. Collins, who died of breast cancer last fall at age 77, oversaw the design of her home with painstaking attention to detail. "From ceilings and sinks to shelves and phone and computer outlets, they all had to be just so," she once said, according to the Wall Street Journal. The roughly 1-acre property includes an outdoor...
- 2/10/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
The luxurious 20,000-square-foot Beverly Hills estate owned and designed by the late best-selling author Jackie Collins is on the market for a cool $30 million. The modern 8-bedroom mansion, completed in 1992, overlooks the Hollywood Hills and boasts its own screening room and a 100-foot-long art gallery. Collins, who died of breast cancer last fall at age 77, oversaw the design of her home with painstaking attention to detail. "From ceilings and sinks to shelves and phone and computer outlets, they all had to be just so," she once said, according to the Wall Street Journal. The roughly 1-acre property includes an outdoor...
- 2/10/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...
- 9/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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