My Friends' Secrets: Conversations With My Friends About Beauty, Health, and Happiness

Joan Collins

ISBN 10: 0233994947 / ISBN 13: 9780233994949

Published by Chameleon, 1999

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0233994947I3N00

Synopsis:

Selection of candid interviews with fabulous women, between 45 and 75, who reveal their secrets and advice on how to stop ageing in its tracks and how to live life to its fullest. Featuring Jerry Hall, Stephanie Powers, Ivana Trump, Bianca Jagger and many others.

Review: Those who pick up My Friends' Secrets expecting Ms Collins to dish the dirt on her Hollywood chums will be sorely disappointed. Although Collins' enviable literary career--in both autobiography (Past Imperfect and Second Act) and fiction (most recently Too Damn Famous) -- has been founded on her rich insider knowledge of that gilded cage, this, her ninth book, is a more wideranging political intervention. Inspired by the success of her personal beauty regime exposé My Secrets, Collins here delves into the secrets of almost 30 of her female peers, from Shirley Bassey to Betsy Bloomingdale--all over 40 and thus well Over The Hollywood Hill. But it's not all chitchat. Collins' introduction is a passionate polemic against cultures which sideline women beyond childbearing age--and a tirade against women who let themselves go, those "whose diet consists of junk calories and fizzy drink, and ... spend their free time .. lolling in front of a TV" (perhaps watching Dynasty?) To Collins, degeneration, infirmity, illness and declining good looks are avoidable: it just takes effort, she insists. She praises and probes her chosen glitterati with that trademark hybrid of post-war starlets who went west--half pull-your-socks-up no-nonsense austerity-era England, half psychobabbling 90s California. But the superficial among you may take heart: despite Joan's uncompromising moral, My Friends' Secrets is as stunningly photographed, gushingly gaseous and fabulously frivolous as you could possibly wish. --Alan Stewart

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Friends' Secrets: Conversations With My ...
Publisher: Chameleon
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket