This Is Joan Collins

I grew up in the Dynasty era Joan Collins and knew very little about her other than her role as Alexis Carrington. 'This Is Joan Collins' gives us a very candid view of this amazing star. No one can deny Joan's stunning beauty and amazing, enviable figure, and this programme is full of films and photos from throughout her life. She is the ultimate superstar!

Joan is an honest narrator and admits to her misdemeanours as well as her successes. She has certainly led a full and exciting life, full of ups and downs. Joan was a revolutionary, standing up for women's rights, getting the wages she was due, standing up to the fat cats in Hollywood.

By the end of this programme, I love our Joanie and I am so pleased she found true love- a love which is reciprocated- with Percy Gibson.

Fun documentary about Joan Collins, who, 30 years after entering films became one if the biggest stars in the world as Dynasty's Alexis Carrington.

We see Joan in the beginning instructing the camera on the light - "see, this light is much better." And she should know!

Joan narrates her own story here with bluntness and a lot of humor, including a story about her appalling first marriage to actor Maxwell Reed. On a talk show, she said he had been her favorite actor. When asked what happened on her wedding night, she said, "not much." Four marriages and three children followed.

Joan's affairs, her marriages, her children, her work - she goes through it all in lively detail and great footage.

You come away with knowing she loves being Joan Collins. It's definitely been a blast.

Joan Collins is fun. She is also a survivor. She survived the studio system, the casting couch, many career and personal ups and downs and several relationships with men who were not nice.

Of course this is about her and from her perspective only. She seems pretty open about her foibles, her mistakes and her actions.

Joan is as fun as she is on the screen. She has a sense of humor about herself and her life.

This was surprisingly uplifting and inspirational. If glamorous, charismatic, fiesty and talented Joan Collins has to face life's constant punches, you realize everyone does. Don't take is personally just soldier on the best you can.

Well, that was nothing but fun! And considering that the subject of this most entertaining of show biz docs never came close to making a great film and damn few good ones, while competing for 80s TV schlock monarch with Larry Hagman, the reason must lie not with Ms. Collins' career, and certainly not with her four rather schlubby ex husbands, but with the amusing, chatty, occasionally bitchy, more frequently insightful and blessedly unpretentious personality of the dame herself. Give it a B.

Top 5 tidbits/anecdotes (in no particular order):

1) RFK propositioning her 2) Marilyn M warning her away from Zanuck 3) John Forsythe insisting in his contract on center billing on all "Dynasty" PR shots 4) Brando having no respect for his craft (somehow, I always suspected this) 5) Richard Burton as the mother of all skirt chasers.

Self promoting from end to end.

It is interesting to see what she has done in her career.

However, as I thought, these kinds of documentaries about people still alive will never be impartial when they talk about people they have met or had some sort of interaction with. Same goes for the work they have done over a career.

Lots of naming of famous people again and gain, where she is the most important of course.

The worst with this Documentary is simply the fact is sounds like Joan Collins has herself written the entire script, edited and directed the entire work.

It often sounds embarrassingly amateurish when she reads the comments and tells about this and that, or he or she.

If this had been more a interview style documentary, it would have been very enjoyable.

Stay clear! Stay clear.