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In Defense of Shameless Pleasures LACA_ 07-27-2008_ F_ 1_ F1_ LA_ 1_CMYK TSet: 07-23-2008 19:05 F ARTS&MuSIC CALENDAR CC/OC Sunday, July 27, 2008 latimes.com/arts IN DEFENSE OF SHAMELESS PLEASURES Annie Wells Los Angeles Times Olivia De Berardinis Alex Nabaum Tyrone Turner POP GOES THE QUIZ THE MODERN PINUP WHY NOT THE BEST? MORE CONFESSIONS If you know these Playboy turns to a When it comes Tribute bands playing answers, then ‘you’re self-assured woman to elitism, the arts the way they were. beautiful,’ says artist for its naughty shouldn’t have all the Self-help books. And James Blunt. Page 4 portraits. Page 5 fun. Page 8 that plucky ukulele. Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times CURLED UP WITH JACKIE By William Georgiades Stop pretending Special to The Times T’S NICE here, isn’t it?” Jackie Collins said in her you don’t read clear, measured, L.A.-by-way-of-London tone. Jack Black and Dr. Phil were sitting nearby on the terrace of the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, but it Jackie Collins. She was Collins’ arrival that created the stir. A large dia- “Imond sparkled on her left hand, enlivening her ap- has 400 million pearance in a simple, tailored black suit, offset with dramatic hoop earrings. “I like to sit here where you can see everyone.” reasons to know In person Collins is much like the content of her books — chatty, funny, irreverent and knowing. Mostly, though, she is endlessly enthusiastic — better than that. she will stop in mid-sentence to declare her various excitements over a singer (“Isn’t Amy Winehouse amazing?”), TV shows, movie stars, friends or just her lunch. She ordered the Neil McCarthy salad. “This is the most delicious salad ever,” she announced. [See Collins, Page F6] LACA_ 07-27-2008_ F_ 6_ F6_ LA_ 1_K TSet: 07-26-2008 16:10 F6 SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2008 LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR SHAMELESS PLEASURES of “Married Lovers” by touring the country in Mariah Carey’s former tour bus, in a deal sponsored by Harrah’s Casinos.) A husband’s encouragement Jackie OLLINS began life in London, where she grew up with her sis- ter, the actress Joan Collins. She was thrown out of school at 16, for smoking (“That was the C last cigarette I ever had”), and drifted into appearing in films. knows “I was never a starlet,” she said clearly. “I was always a writer, an out-of-work writer.” She married young, had one child, got a di- vorce, then married again, and it is clear that while she considers herself blessed, she has shouldered her share of tragedy. She tells cer- tain stories about her past that are more hair- how it raising than anything in her novels. “My first husband was a drug addict,” she said, “and unfortunately he overdosed just af- ter I divorced him. His psychiatrist had put him on methadone for depression, and then his psychiatrist also killed himself. A nice story. That was England in the ’60s,” she said. goes Her second husband, Oscar Lerman, was a nightclub and gallery owner. “He was 20 years older than me,” she said. “He had a lot of life [Collins, from PageF1] This summer saw experience. He saw my picture in a magazine, the publication of Collins’ 26th book, “Married and the first time we went out he asked me to Lovers,” which centers on a woman named marry him. He said, ‘I came to England for Cameron Paradise, a personal trainer, and a you.’ ” The two were married in 1966 and were trio of men: a director, a screenwriter and a together for 26 years, until Lerman’s death late-night talk show host, all set in the Holly- from cancer in 1992. wood of today. Collins credits Lerman with the beginnings It is pointed out that all the eligible men in of her career. “There was someone who really her new novel are aged 40, while the heroine is encouraged me,” she said. “I’d done these stu- 25. “Well that’s this town, isn’t it?” She pid roles in films — I was always the Italian girl laughed. “And all these women who are 40 are — and he asked me what I was doing, and I always with these guys who are 75 or 80!” told him that I was working on a book. That As she looked around the Polo Lounge, Col- was ‘The World Is Full of Married Men.’ He lins recalled the point at which she decided to read it and said, ‘This is fabulous, you have to conquer America. Twenty-six years ago she keep doing it,’ and I had already abandoned it, wrote “Chances,” the bestseller featuring because I had so many ideas that I never fin- Lucky Santangelo, the heroine who grows up ished anything. I just knew from being thrown in the mob and takes over the family business. out of school that no one would ever take me “If you wish to be successful,” Collins said seriously as a writer. But my husband did.” with the authority of an author whose books She completed the book with an act of dis- have reportedly sold more than 400 million cipline. She went to Montauk, on Long Island, copies, “there is a place you should be at a cer- with a rough draft. “I remember I wanted to sit tain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it. in the sun all the time, but I told myself I had to My books were quite successful around the write 10 pages a day before I allow myself to sit world, but I couldn’t quite crack America — in the sun. And that’s how I finished the book. they would only be on the bestseller lists for a That’s 10 pages longhand,” she added. couple of weeks. So for ‘Chances,’ I wanted to That sense of discipline and purpose has be here to promote it. And it was the 10th-best- continued. Collins writes her books right up to selling book in America that year. the production schedule, so that very little “We embarked on a tour across America — editing can be done to them before publica- me, my husband and our three kids,” she re- tion. “They made a couple of suggestions,” she called, digging into her salad with ladylike smiled. “But if you’re going to fail, you have to gusto. “We would have brought the dogs, but fail on your own mistakes. I sit down and write that wasn’t possible then. We took the kids out the book and prefer they don’t ask me any of school and everything. One of them was 9, questions until the book is finished.” one of them was 12 . oh, I’m not very good Associated Press She writes in longhand, then gives the pag- with ages, including my own — it’s all a hor- BIG TIME: A prosperous-looking Jackie Collins in 1984, post-“Hollywood Wives”-publication. es to her assistant, who types them up. “We go rible blur! back and forth like that about 10 times a day, “Anyway, my publisher was paying, be- She added, pointedly: “Most Hollywood like a little tapestry. I love it!” she declared. cause it was a promotion tour, and we started novels are written by failed screenwriters. And in New York and moved across the country. Fi- Her guilty pleasures failed screenwriters never get into any of the ‘I am not a snob’ nally we arrived here at the Beverly Hills Ho- good parties.” HE LEAD character in “Mar- tel, and after a while it wasn’t a tour anymore Many of the good parties those failed ried Lovers” is a personal and so the publisher stopped paying our hotel DVR addict: “I have six TiVos, and I TiVo screenwriters don’t attend are thrown by Col- trainer with dreams of opening bill, and we kept moving to smaller and small- everything and skim everything.” lins herself. She prefers not to go out to lunch her own gym someday. Does er rooms till we were down to just two rooms. “because I go out to dinner every night.” She Collins exercise or have any ex- And we just stayed. We lived here for about six Favorite shows: “ ‘Dexter’ — and not the mentioned one party she threw for Michael T perience with the gym world months, and then we rented a house Stevie sanitized version on CBS!” Caine’s recent birthday, at which she arranged she so ably writes about? Wonder had just vacated. And then we bought “Rescue Me” for Scarlett Johansson to sing “Happy Birth- “No,” she laughed. “I don’t work out. I swim a house, and I’ve never left!” day,” “you know, à la Marilyn.” occasionally. I have a nice pool.” She designed “The Riches” Six months ago she changed agents, and her own home and has lived there for 15 years. All those Hollywood wives “Breaking Bad” four years ago she jumped from her longtime She mentioned that her fiancé at the time, T WASN’T until her next book, howev- “The Real Housewives of New York City” — publisher, Simon & Schuster, to St. Martin’s who died eight years ago — “I can’t believe it,” er, that she became a household name. “the funniest reality TV show I have seen” Press. “You’ve got to switch up every now and she said quietly — did work out, and so she put “Yes,” she agreed. “I didn’t become es- then.
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