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...In Los Angeles, a squat, faintly Art Deco style desk in ebonised birch at which Jackie Collins wrote many of her wildly popular raunchy novels, sold in 2017 for £5,500 — more than twice its lowest estimate...
...In 2012 The Scotsman newspaper described her books as “Jackie Collins . . . with a smart and sophisticated edge”....
...Old Hollywood has a telling cameo in Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story, a fond, witty documentary portrait of the late novelist....
...Standard Chartered has appointed former Standard Life chief financial officer Jackie Hunt as an independent non-executive director....
...“When I think of what we do — from John Bridcut’s [direction of] Schubert’s Winterreise in the Alps, to Joan and Jackie Collins — I can’t think of anything that has that kind of range.”...
...The BBC’s other literary offering this week is Lady Boss (October 15), a documentary about bonkbuster novelist Jackie Collins....
...In 2017, Putnam hired Katherine Collins to lead a new sustainable investing unit....
...The wine list includes the Rotters’ “house” Vinho Verde “Chin Chin”, starting at £3 per glass and rare selections from producers such as Ulysse Collin and Jean-Marc Roulot.2 Greek Street, London W1 (noblerot.co.uk...
...Just what can be achieved with mosaics in a modern setting can be seen at London’s Corinthia Hotel, where the colourful walls of its garden room were designed by David Collins Studio and mosaic artist Mathilde...
...But to get across the line to an SNP majority, Sturgeon may need to win marginals such as Dumbarton, where Jackie Baillie, the deputy leader of Scottish Labour and a popular constituency MSP is defending...
...She is currently developing a television series based on sisters Jackie and Joan Collins, the former the prolific author of romantic thrillers, the latter a Hollywood actor....
...In 1978, which novel by Jackie Collins (above) was adapted into a film starring her sister Joan? Which long work, first performed in 1876, begins with the villainous Alberich stealing some gold?...
...These include Susan Collins, the senior US senator from Maine (age 67), Jackie Speier, the US representative for California’s 14th congressional district (age 69), Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Collins and Michael Crichton....
...Jackie Collins (1937-2015) was the author of 32 racy novels, often set in Hollywood and featuring the affairs of the rich and the attractive....
...The piece, delivered by Michael Collins and his son, Johnny, at the New Theatre, is more oral testimony than drama, but still it poses the questions: who do we remember, and why?...
...In the early 1960s, Jackie Kennedy had Zuber’s 1834 Scenes of North America (Niagara Falls, Native Americans, West Point . . .) recreated for the White House’s diplomatic rooms....
...Enough: William Morris and Andy Warhol, Modern Art, Oxford William Morris designed tapestries and stained glass depicting medieval legends; Andy Warhol silkscreened portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins...
...William Morris & Andy Warhol, Modern Art, Oxford Morris designed tapestries and stained glass depicting Sir Galahad and Tristan and Isolde, Warhol silk-screened portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins...
...Plots hurtle forward in the style of James Patterson, romances sweep like Jackie Collins and chapters cliff-hang like Dan Brown....
...Jackie Wullschlager Architecture Imaginary Cities, by Darran Anderson, Influx Press, RRP£12.99 A compendium of fantasy cities that takes its cue from Marco Polo via Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this...
...The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth, by Tom Burgis, William Collins, RRP£20/PublicAffairs, RRP$27.99 The book’s thesis is conveyed by its subtitle...
...A magnificent innocence endures, though, in this year’s outstanding installation, “Derek Jarman’s Garden for Peckham”, created by landscape designer Dan Bristow and Keith Collins, Jarman’s last partner and...
...But Collins has found support in basketball....
...Also on show is a Hirst flayed cow’s head vitrine, a copper-rose Judd stack and a Warhol silkscreen of Jackie Kennedy....
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