Joan Collins

Joan Collins’s Diary: Springtime in the City of Angels

Plus: The British actors who’ve mastered an American accent, and the basements of Belgravia

Freddy Highmore and Vera Farmiga star as Norman and Norma Bates in Bates Motel [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 26 April 2014
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Ahh! Spring has sprung at last! Or has it? Leaving a warm and sunlit London last month we expected balmy weather in Los Angeles but the skies were grey and murky and, like Lena Horne sang in ‘The Lady is a Tramp’: I hate California, it’s cold and it’s damp.

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