![]() Like most Collins' stories, Lady Boss is built around a strong female character. It's soooo vulgar! I want one!' I'll use that in a book someday and build a scene around it." He said, "I've seen your billboard, darling. Like the time Gore Vidal saw a billboard advertising my books on the Sunset Strip. "You have to remember very well what people say. "You have to listen to do dialogue well," she says. Collins' 14 novels, which have sold 160-million copies worldwide since she started writing in 1972. The genuine quality of what her characters say makes dialogue a strong point in all Ms. "I listen carefully like a great big fly on the wall, and then I go to the ladies room and jot it down on napkins, then I keep the quotes until I've got the proper character to be saying what I actually heard." "People say the most outrageous things at parties when they don't think anyone else is listening, things you wouldn't believe. "The real-life scenes are just like the long party scene I had in Hollywood Wives," she says. That's because Jackie Collins goes to a lot of glitzy parties, and while she's there she takes careful notes. You won't find an actual Donald Trump or a real-life portrait of financier Marvin Davis, one-time owner of Twentieth Century Fox studios, in this mini-series, either, but you will find people a lot like them, people saying the things folks like Trump and Davis and Madonna actually say at parties when they don't think anyone is listening.
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