Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Jackie Collins: nothing’s shocking
But these days, people don’t have to read a novel to see inside Hollywood: they can watch videos of lunch at the Ivy shot by paparazzi on TMZ. Anybody can catch a celebrity’s racist rant on video and soon we’re all watching. Shock, sex and Hollywood are served up in daily doses online by Perez Hilton and a fleet of other celebrity bloggers.
Can Jackie Collins compete? She tries for shock, opening with a physically perfect, surgically enhanced Hollywood madame admiring her naked self in a mirror. But Heidi Fleiss was busted 17 years ago, her story played out on the daily news; even Hollywood prostitution is tired. That same year, our reviewer found Collins’ latest book — “American Star” –
“chock
full of all the expected plot twists” and “fabulous cliches.”
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