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Why I was labelled a bitch: Joan Collins remembers the old Hollywood days

It was because she refused to be ‘nice’ to the studio heads, she claims. But it’s her fellow actors who are most mocked in her Unapologetic Diaries

Joan Collins in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000). [Alamy]
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  • My Unapologetic Diaries

    Joan Collins

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 384, £20

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