Past Imperfect: An Autobiography [Second Hand]

Past Imperfect: An Autobiography 

Now that she's a household-name in the US (thanks, Dynasty!) Joan Collins offers an updated version of her 1978 UK only memoir. Half-Jewish daughter of a top London show-biz agent, Collins attributes her lifelong man problems to a Daddy complex: he became less loving when she was about ten; thereafter she sought hard-to-get men. Serious about acting studies, Joan became a 1950s teenage starlet, Britain's ""Bad Girl"" and she married narcissistic actor Max Reed, who later blackmailed her. Then came Hollywood with many a friendly affair while filming ""turkey after turkey,"" and Joan wound up marrying workaholic Anthony Newley. The ensuing years brought two kids, infidelities on both sides and, after psychotherapy, divorce. After choosing another loser for hubby #3 Joan needed to become a breadwinner--which she did with sex-ploitation films and finally, a big success with Dynasty.