Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood’s Glamorous Side, Dies at 77
Source: New York Times
Jackie Collins, the best-selling British-born author known for her vibrant novels about the extravagance and glamour of life in Hollywood, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 77.
The cause was breast cancer, her family said in a statement.
“It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today,” the Collins family said. “She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words.”
Ms. Collins wrote more than 30 books, many of them filled with explicit, unrestrained sexuality, and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. Her first novel, “The World Is Full of Married Men,” was published in 1968. Australia and South Africa banned it because of its frank depiction of extramarital sex. Other early works included “The Stud,” in 1969, and “The Bitch,” ten years later.
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Nice picture of the two sisters at the link...
When they pull it all too tight, and that chin dimple is what used to be a belly button, it just doesn't work, but if they do it carefully, it can be OK. Kenny Rogers and Tom Jones got some bad plastic surgery--they look like Asian celebrity imitators!
Tom Jones looks a little better since he let the hair go gray and the surgery kind of fell a little bit. Time does fix some of the mistakes.
I couldn't imagine letting anyone knock me out to cut on me--aside from the pain of recovery, and the fact that no one would know me if I got rid of my crusty old exterior, the amount of work I'd need would probably take a small fortune and a crew of dozens!!!
One of the people who astounds me in terms of 'the knife' is Barbara Walters.
She always gets filmed through a horse blanket, and she uses that makeup they use in European tv (they have c-r-u-e-l high definition, and the make-up kind of diffuses the worst of the craters/wrinkles) but still--whoever chopped on her is an artist. Just enough, not too much. She looks really good--but not freaky weird-- for eighty five, IMO:
I think after she had that heart thing, she said screw it, she didn't want to go through all the nipping and tucking anymore, so she'll just do the last chapter 'au natural.' After all, she's not on TV all the time, and it's amazing what they can do with tape to create the appearance of a temporary facelift.
that would be a supreme compliment for Ms. Collins 
