Jackie Collins Is Dead at 77

Sad to hear, another loss to breast cancer. RIP, Hollywood Wife. 

Best bit from hew obituary in her The New York Times, where she ruled the best-sellers list:

Her first novel, “The World Is Full of Married Men,” was so steamy that for a time it was banned in Australia and South Africa after its publication in 1968. Ms. Collins gleefully recounted in a magazine interview a confrontation with the romance writer Barbara Cartland, who called the book “filthy and disgusting” and blamed her “for all the perverts in England.”  

“Thank you,” Ms. Collins said.