Andrew Orr’s sales agency Independent has taken over international sales duties on Joan Collins comedy “The Time of Their Lives,” replacing Fortissimo Films, which went out of business in August.
Independent will screen first footage from the movie at the American
Film Market in Santa Monica next week. Collins plays a former Hollywood
star who’s on her way to crash her ex-husband’s funeral with a friend,
played by Pauline Collins. The film also stars Franco Nero, is directed
by Roger Goldby (“The Waiting Room”), and is produced by Sarah Sulick
and Azim Bolkiah.
Lyricist Tim Rice,
most famous for writing musicals “The Lion King” and “Evita,” is an
executive producer and will be writing a song for the film. Music is
being composed by Stephen Warbeck, whose credits include “Shakespeare in
Love” and “Billy Elliot.”
As previously announced, Universal Pictures will distribute the pic in
the U.K., Australia, France and Nordics, with Vertigo Releasing serving
as co-distributor in the U.K.
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Says Bedi, “I met Joan, my Dynasty co-star after 15 years. She looks
absolutely beautiful. It’s amazing how well she has kept herself. When
we were chatting, she told me she is very keen to do a Bollywood film.
She is familiar with Bolly films and since she is a very good dancer,
she wants to do a film where she can dance.”
Says Kabir Bedi, who caught up with his Dynasty co-star after 15 years at the Art for Charity event in London
Kabir Bedi was recently at the Arts for India charity event in London, a
fundraiser held in association with the British Film Institute at BAFTA
(British Academy of Film and Television Arts). Bedi gave a speech to
honour the contribution of the late filmmaker Richard Attenborough. BFI
also conferred Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dame Joan Collins and
yesteryear Indian actress Mumtaz.
As for Mumtaz, Bedi says he has always “adored the actress and found
her films with Rajesh Khanna entertaining”. He meets her every three
years when she comes to India from. “I have a lot of love and respect
for her,” he says.
The event, says Bedi, was held to honour great talents, celebrate
India and it was also for a good cause. “An auction was held and all the
money raised from it will go to underprivileged young Indians who are
training in the creative arts — films and fashion.”
The actor was recently seen in the film Mohenjo Daro in a pivotal
role. The film did not do well at the box office, but Bedi maintains
that its recent telecast on a channel received a good response. “A lot
of people liked it,” he says and the actor has also tweeted about it. As
for his next project, it’s an English film Broken Key, directed by an
Italian filmmaker, which has him playing a professor of antiquities. “I
am also shooting for a Telugu period film Baahubali-style in which I am
playing an emperor,” says Bedi..
Joan
Collins Timeless Beauty Collection had a lot of coverage when it first
launched and rightly so, it’s beautiful. The collection has gone from
strength to strength this year, with lots of new releases becoming
available. Now, Joan Collins and her fabulous beauty team are thinking
Christmas, with lots of pretty products and top tips, to ensure you look
your best. If you’re looking for some top tips for looking great for
the upcoming festive parties, you’re in the right place!
Joan Collins Timeless Beauty
To kick things off Joan Collins Beauty have released two fabulous new products for Autumn/Winter. The first new product is the ‘I Am Woman Dry Oil Body Polish’
– which comes in a substantial glass pot with pretty black lettering,
it certainly looks extravagant on the bathroom shelf. Inside the pretty
pot there is a mixture of rich minerals and fruit seeds. Together these
gently exfoliate the skin. There is also a mixture of five plant oils,
which leave the skin looking smooth, whilst feeling hydrated. This body
polish is particularly good if you’re wearing a dress, as it leaves your
legs looking beautiful!
Joan Collins Timeless Beauty – I Am Woman Dry Oil Body Polish
The
Joan Collins Beauty team emphasise that it’s important to still use an
SPF, even though the sun is disappearing. A good SPF followed by a
fantastic base and amazing makeup will help you from looking tired. They
also recommend blending your makeup with good quality brushes, which
helps the makeup last but also helps it stay ‘photo-ready’.
If you’re going straight from the desk to a party, Joan Collins recommends refreshing your makeup with a bold lipstick. The ‘Divine Lipstickin Alexis’
is a beautiful Autumn shade and it will carry you all the way through
to Christmas. Joan recommends blotting your lips after application to
ensure the lipstick outlasts your cocktails. If you’re stuck for space
in your clutch bag, Joan’s team recommend using your lipstick as a
blusher and blending it onto the apples of your cheeks.
Joan Collins Timeless Beauty Divine Lipstick
Joan Collins Timeless Beauty Divine Lipstick Alexis Swatch
The second new product is the ‘TEN EFFECTS Skin Treat & Makeup Fixer’
which you use when you’ve applied all your makeup – it’s the perfect
way to finish your makeup routine! It’s made with seven different active
ingredients, which aim to plump, rejuvenate, tone, hydrate and minimise
pores. It’s a delicate mist which suits even the most sensitive skin
and it has a delicate rose scent.
Joan Collins Timeless Beauty
If you’re looking for something for your nails the ‘Nail Lacquer in Evelyn’
from Joan Collins Beauty is exquisite. First of all, let’s talk about
that packaging – it’s incredible! These polishes are available in 17
different shades, designed to be quick drying and fuss-free. The long
handle is very easy to hold and it gives you a lot of control on the
nail. Evelyn is a lovely pink hue and it applies like a dream.
Arts for India charity and Mr. Satish Modi hosted a
Benefit Gala dinner on Wednesday, October 19th, 2016. This event
posthumously honoured the late Lord Richard Attenborough and confered
Lifetime Achievement Awards upon Dame Joan Collins and Mumtaz Madhvani.
This event was hosted at the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts (BAFTA) in London and is supported by the British Film
Institute (BFI) , Pinewood Studios and the Columbia University School of
the Arts together with other benefactors.
Mr. Kabir Bedi the renowned Indian actor noted – ““Lord
Attenborough remains an iconic figure in world cinema. I first met him
at the London Press screening of his Oscar-winning “Gandhi”, where I
bowed and touched his feet, Indian style, as a mark reverence. I salute
BAFTA and Arts For India for honouring a great British actor, producer
and director for his magnificent contributions to the world of films.”
Mr Satish Modi, the founder of Arts for India charity added ” We are
very honoured that Lord Attenborough made the film on the father of our
great nation, Mahatma Gandhi, and no one could have done a better
job than Lord Attenborough in the making of this epic film”.
AFI is also conferring Lifetime Achievement Awards upon two living
legends – Dame Joan Collins and Mumtaz Madhvani – the latter of
Bollywood fame.
Dame Joan Collins added : ” I am delighted to accept this
honour and would like to wish Arts for India the best in their very
worthwhile endeavors to establish a TV and Film Institute in India”.
And Mumtaz Madhvani added –
“Thank you very much Arts for India. I am very lucky that I have been given this award. I really feel honoured”.
This stunning shot features Joan wearing the creation 'Judy' from her bestselling 'Joan Collins Wig Collection'.. Named after Joan's good friend Judy Bryer, who I look forward to seeing next week when I hit the bright lights of Vegas! THE JOAN COLLINS DYNASTY WIG COLLECTION! ORDER HERE!!
This shot features Joan on the set of the 1971 sci-fi drama 'Quest For Love' where she played two characters in two different dimensions! One of which was an air hostess... On set were kids Tara & Sacha, not sure who the other girl is..
This super shot features a wonderful group of British gals who made it big in Hollywood.. With Joan are Jane Seymour, Juliet Mills and Samantha Eggar.. All flying the flag for England!
This super shot from 1989 features Joan at the launch of her then Jewellry Collection which was available at Harrods and other good department stores..
Jewels, turbans: inside the charity shop where you can try Joan Collins's wardrobe on for size.
Annabel Venning gets to grips with Collins's
Back in 1986 when I was a gawky
teenager, my favoured look – and that of my friends – was a drab
combination of baggy jeans, cardigans that came down to the knees and
clumpy Doc Marten boots.
A 'going-out’ outfit would be pretty much the same, with the addition
of frosted pink lipstick and heavily back combed hair. Not that there
were many places to go out, when you boarded at an all-girls school in
Dorset - it was hardly worth putting your lippy on for a trip to the
Spar.
But on Friday nights, a shot of
glamour beamed its way into our boarding house. Fifty of us crowded
round the one, tiny television, sitting cross legged on the floor, for
our weekly visit from another world of big money, big hair and big shoulders: Dynasty.
The author tries a turban and kaftan comboCredit:
Christopher Ple
The scheming and seductions, the
betrayals and tragedies, the glorious Colorado backdrops and the
mega-mansions that gleamed with marble and gold: all these we thirstily
lapped up.
But the star of the show, the real reason why we all staked our claim
to the pole position in front of the telly, was of course Alexis
Carrington, the gloriously bitchy femme fatale, played by Britain’s most glamorous export, Joan Collins.
Her sequinned gowns, shoulder pads the size of breeze blocks, OTT
jewellery, killer heels, crimson lips and nails were the perfect
antidote to our boring wardrobes and humdrum lives. Forget the gritty
grey realism of Eastenders, it was escapism we wanted and Joan -
alluring, dazzling, jewel-laden Joan - provided it in (ice) buckets. The author tries a turban and kaftan comboCredit:
Christopher Pledger It was a sad day when Alexis left our screens in 1989; Friday nights were never the same, but Joan herself glittered on.
Now in her eighties, undimmed by the decades, she still wears
miniskirts and plunging necklines, her hair is permanently coiffed in
the luxuriant waves she adopted post-Dynasty, and her lips remain resolutely red.
She has written books giving style advice and last year brought out
her own clothing label, Jackie Palmer. Dress for your body, not your
age, is her mantra.
But as every woman knows, now and then a wardrobe audit is required, and where better to send your cast-offs than a charity shop?
Dame Joan is a patron of Shooting Star Chase, a Surrey children’s
hospice charity that cares for children and young people with
life-limiting conditions. She often visits the two hospices and it was
in recognition of this support that she was made a dame in 2014.
So it was natural that their Guildford shop should be the lucky recipient of her latest clearout: more than 150 items, from Manolo Blahnik shoes to a John Galliano ensemble and colourful vintage kaftans and turbans galore.
“She’s been incredibly generous,” says Ruth Shaw, the charity’s retail manager. “She’s got a heart of gold.”
I couldn't resist visiting the shop this week to view the Joan
Collins collection for myself - and to slip into Alexis’s shoes for a
moment or two. The entire shop window is devoted to Joan’s donations and
there is a buzz of excitement as customers peruse the silky camisoles,
kaftans, jewellery and jackets filling the rails.
Business has been brisk, Denise Stenning, the shop manager, tells me.
They have been fielding enquiries from fans as far-flung as Miami and
shipped £400 worth of clothes to Germany, while one diehard Dynasty fan travelled the 100 miles from Dorset to splurge £700 on items once worn by their icon.
Some shoppers maintain the items are presents for their mothers; one
man came in and bought jewellery for his wife to wear to Joan’s
one-woman show, which has just finished its run across the country.
“It’s not often you get a chance to buy something that a real,
genuine Hollywood superstar has worn,” points out Denise. “And there is a
huge range , from designer clothes to more down-to-earth items.”
Some of the items in store were worn by Collins during her time on Dynasty
I spy several tops from Zara - who knew Dame Joan hit the High Street?
- and skirts from her own Jackie Palmer label, with prices ranging from
£10 to £350. There is even a nightdress, though the accompanying
dressing gown has already gone.
Some of the items are being saved for a silent auction that ends
tomorrow, for which the shop has been taking telephone bids from around
the world. Among the auction items are those Manolo Blahnik shoes, an LK
Bennett signed by Joan, a Chanel handbag with a reserve of £500
(apparently, Chanel have yet to confirm it’s genuine, but I can’t
imagine La Collins having a fake), an Alexander McQueen bracelet and a
Tiffany necklace.
The charity hopes to raise £10,000 in total from her donations, on
top of the £2000 raised last month when a gown she wore as Alexis was
sold at auction.
My eye is caught by a large pair of glitzy clip-on earrings that are
also in the auction with a £350 reserve price. Joan wore them as Alexis –
there is an accompanying photo to prove it.
Some of Joan Collins's trademark turbans are on sale at the Guildford shopCredit:
Christopher Pledger
I try these on with a silky blue
and pink kaftan (£125) and one of Collins's trademark turbans, together
with some white wedges, and am transported briefly away from a grey
October day in Guilford to sunny St Tropez. I can imagine Joan wearing
this poolside and purring to Percy, her fifth husband, three decades her
junior, to "be a darling" and fix her another cocktail.
Though only 43 myself, I’m not brave enough to don the black swimming
costume or tropical print bikini top that once enveloped an embonpoint
impressive enough to have enraptured Warren Beatty, among her other
conquests.
My eye is caught by a pretty, floaty cream chiffon top with
embroidered butterflies (£60), a zebra print skirt from Joan’s own label
(£100) and a turquoise shirt-come-jacket (£50). However, it’s not
really modern Joan, Queen of the Cougars, that I want to channel, but
Eighties, Alexis-era Joan. So I pounce upon a Dynasty-style
black jacket with silver thread (£150) and a satin pencil skirt with a
zip up the back split (£60) and team it with the Manolos.
For a moment or two I’m back in the Eighties:
when Joan Collins was not a national treasure or grand dame, but a
scheming, sultry femme fatale who convinced us that we too could smash
the glass ceiling – and maybe seduce a hunky oil man or two – if only
our shoulder pads were sharp enough. To bid in the silent auction, which ends at 4pm on Saturday, telephone: 01483 304 696 www.shootingstarchase.org.uk
This classic shot of Joan featured in her bestseller 'Joan's Way' features her wearing on of her stylish turbans.. Many of which can now be bought at The Shooting Star Chase Charity Store in Guildford as part of a large consignment of items donated by Joan to raise funds for the childrens hopsices.
This super pic features Joan with her 'The Royals' co-star Elizabeth Hurley and the wonderful Frances Barber, whose upcoming film 'Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool' was a project which Joan was due to star in as the legendary Oscar winning Hollywood star Gloria Grahame.. Joan was up to play the role in the early 90's but the project fell through.. Annette Bening plays the lead as Gloria in the upcoming release, which is produced by Barbara Broccoli of Bond fame... Frances co-stars with Julie Walters & Vanessa Redgrave.. The film is due out in 2017!
Legendary actress is patron of Shining Star Chase children's hospice and gave 150 items to the charity's Guildford shop in Surrey..
Charity shops might not be known for their glamour but all that changes when a certain Dame Joan Collins gives a donation.
The Dynasty actress, who is patron of the Shining Star Chase children's hospice, gave 150 items including designer clothes, shoes and jewellery to the charity's Guildford shop in Surrey.
The
rack of exciting fashion finds has attracted a host of visitors
including one fan who travelled all the way from Dorset and spent £700
while a customer from Germany spent £400 over the phone.
The charity hopes in total they will raise £10,000 to help terminally ill children and their families.
Volunteer Valerie Talbot, from Guildford said: "There's lots of
things you might wear on the beach in St Tropez but maybe not on the
high street in Guildford. Actually a lot of those clothes are very Joan
Collins."
The shop is running a silent auction for some of the
most iconic items which include a Chanel handbag, a pair of Manolo
Blahnik shoes, a Tiffany necklace and an Alexander McQueen bracelet
which closes tomorrow.
Also on offer is a signed copy of her
book, a signed pair of LK Bennett shoes and a pair of earrings worn by
Joan when she played Alexis Colby in Dynasty.
But there are also bargains to be had among the array of glamorous
kaftan-style tops, wide-brimmed sun hats and chunky necklaces with
prices starting at just £5.
Assistant Manager of the shop Sue Hamblett said: "There were about 150 items in total, it was two huge suitcases full.
"It's
been great some people have come all the way from the coast, a few
people have come because their mums love Joan Collins and they want to
buy them something.
"I've been tempted by some of the jewellery, I put a bid in for the Chanel bag but I'm pretty sure I haven't got it."
Mirror reporter Nicola Bartlett exhibits some of Joan's items
Maggie Walsh, who was browsing the rail of glamorous clothes had already bought one of the items.
She
said: "I own Joan Collins's coat. I bought it about ten days ago - it's
a winter coat, it's black wool. I came in looking for a coat and there
it was."
Zosia Zacharia, from Epsom, shopping with her one
year old daughter Annabelle was tempted into the shops by a pair of Sam
Edelman leopard print shoes with a gold block heel.
She said: "I don't even live nearby, I live in Epsom but I always find goodies in here.
"I think having those leopard print shoes in the window was a great idea."
Shooting
Star Chase is a children’s hospice charity caring for babies, children
and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.
They
support families from diagnosis to end of life and throughout
bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical
care.
Joan Collins's donation coincided with her visit to G Live in
Guildford where she performed her new show Joan Collins Unscripted and made time to visit the charity's Christopher's
hospice who were celebrating their 15 years where she had tea and cake
with some of the children and their families.
Joan was born in Paddington and brought up in Maida Vale but was moved around because of the Blitz.
Joan
describes her house in London's Belgravia as her proper home but she
also has places in LA and New York and a villa in the South of France.
The glamorous star may need those earrings back as it has been
announced US TV network CW is planning a Dynasty revival - although it
is not yet clear whether or not the British actress will be involved,
although she has spoken many times of her desire for a new generation to experience the show .
This rare shot features Joan, always the emperess of style and glamour arriving at Liberties of London for a book event in 1980 for her bestselling 'The Joan Collins Beauty Book'..
In between shows of 'Unscripted' Joan took time out to visit with friend Ivan Massow, who threw a christening for his child Theo at his London apartment..
I was asked if I had any full length photos of Joan in her 1st act outfit at The Palladium.. What a great success the whole tour was for Joan.. Heres to more of Joan's sensational show!
Joan & Percy caught up with singer/actor Lucas Alexander before the Brighton performance of 'Unscripted' .. Joan has known Lucas for many years, as I have and as you can see from this super shot, it was a wonderful night!
This feature appears in the latest issue of 'Scottish Woman Magazine' available now!
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Says Kabir Bedi, who caught up with his Dynasty co-star after 15 years at the Art for Charity event in London
Mr. Kabir Bedi the renowned Indian actor noted – ““Lord Attenborough remains an iconic figure in world cinema. I first met him at the London Press screening of his Oscar-winning “Gandhi”, where I bowed and touched his feet, Indian style, as a mark reverence. I salute BAFTA and Arts For India for honouring a great British actor, producer and director for his magnificent contributions to the world of films.”
Dame Joan Collins added : ” I am delighted to accept this honour and would like to wish Arts for India the best in their very worthwhile endeavors to establish a TV and Film Institute in India”.
This shot features Joan on the set of the 1971 sci-fi drama 'Quest For Love' where she played two characters in two different dimensions! One of which was an air hostess... On set were kids Tara & Sacha, not sure who the other girl is..
This classic shot of Joan featured in her bestseller 'Joan's Way' features her wearing on of her stylish turbans.. Many of which can now be bought at The Shooting Star Chase Charity Store in Guildford as part of a large consignment of items donated by Joan to raise funds for the childrens hopsices.
This super pic features Joan with her 'The Royals' co-star Elizabeth Hurley and the wonderful Frances Barber, whose upcoming film 'Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool' was a project which Joan was due to star in as the legendary Oscar winning Hollywood star Gloria Grahame.. Joan was up to play the role in the early 90's but the project fell through.. Annette Bening plays the lead as Gloria in the upcoming release, which is produced by Barbara Broccoli of Bond fame... Frances co-stars with Julie Walters & Vanessa Redgrave.. The film is due out in 2017!
