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
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.