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| • | She took a cigarette out and was preparing to light it herself when Merv leaned over, took the lighter out of her hand and lit her cigarette, promoting her new movie, "The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones.", Merv Griffin Show, mid 70's |
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| • | "smoking was the only thing keeping her going" after her daughter was badly hurt, People Magazine , c. '81 |
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| • | "she lost her temper only once, when she couldn't find any 'fucking matches' to light her cigarettes, but a lighter turned up and she calmed down ... 'I've smoked a joint, but it has a very bad effect on me. Of course, I wouldn't today--I'm terrified of getting herpes. I never smoke a cigarette from somebody's lips or even drink from someone's glass anymore'", Playboy , Apr. '84 |
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| • | "she grabbed a cigarette", Los Angeles Times , May 12, '85 |
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| • | "She crosses her legs and reaches for a jeweled cigarette case ... She sips coffee from a glass cup and takes out another cigarette", Bergen (N.J.) Record, Sep. 15, '85 |
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| • | "lighting a cigarette", Bergen (N.J.) Record, Nov. 9, '86 |
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| • | shown smoking during behind the scenes of Dynasty segment, Entertainment Tonight, c. '87/'88 |
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| • | "Her hand reaches for a cigarette, what she calls her real vice", Toronto Star, Oct. 23, '88 |
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| • | "Joan Collins is smoking a Marlboro, skin tone be damned", Chicago Tribune, Mar. 29, '89 |
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| • | "lights a cigarette", TV Guide, Apr. 15, '89
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| • | "she does not smoke during the interview, but a cigarette habit has leached her once-perfect skin", Chicago Tribune, Nov. 22, '89 |
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| • | "she smokes a cigarette during the interview. 'I don't really smoke, but I have to smoke during Private Lives, and I can't get nauseated onstage,' she says", Arizona Republic, Nov. 21, '91 |
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| • | "she smokes avidly between scenes", The Independent (UK), May 8, '93 |
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| • | "she smokes five cigarettes a day", Scotland on Sunday (UK), May 23, '93 |
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| • | "I smoke a little", Entertainment Tonight or talk show?, c. '93 |
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| • | "Collins gets out a cigarette and a waiter hovers by her with a box of matches. 'What are you doing?' she barks, as if he were preparing to administer colonic irrigation with a garden hose. 'I was going to give you a light,' he says limply. 'Oh, go on then'", The Guardian (UK), Jan. 21, '94 |
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| • | "She eats well, smokes five cigarettes a day and generally seems to live life to the full ... 'I have got to a stage in life when I think, I'm English, I want to stay in England. You can drink and smoke cigarettes here without causing comment'", Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 27, '94 |
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| • | "I smoke", Healthy Eating Magazine, Jun. '94 |
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| • | "I eat chocolate. I drink wine. I even have the occasional cigarette", CBS This Morning, Jan. 24, '95 |
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| • | "cigarettes are OK if you keep them to a half-dozen daily", USA Today , Jan. 27, '95 |
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| • | "A minion gladly accepted her half-used cigarette -- 'Where can I put this? I don't like John Forsythe to see me smoking'", Dallas Morning News, Nov. 16, '95 |
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| • | "She rifles through her bag in search of cigarettes: 'She forgot to put them in -- hopeless!' she says. I offer her mine and she smokes three in an hour. 'Which', she says later, 'is not too bad at all'", Courier-Mail (UK), Oct. 30, '96 |
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| • | "Collins, blowing smoke from only her second cigarette of the day ['I'm trying to quit'] at her New York book party at Mortimer's", USA Today , Oct. 10, '97 |
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| • | "'I drink wine. I stay up late, eat chocolate and smoke cigarettes.' (A doctor told her that five cigarettes a day was no more toxic than living in a major city.)", Telegraph (UK), Jul. 11, '00
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| • | "she does normal things like drink, smoke and eat chocolate", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 5, '00 |
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| • | "an assistant lighted her cigarette", South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Feb. 12, '01 |
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| • | "Joan smoked a cigarette", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 18, '01 |
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| • | "she likes to drink, smoke, stay out late", Independent on Sunday (UK), Apr. 22, '01 |
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| • | "She also smokes", "she lights her second cigarette", The Sunday Telegraph (UK) (Review supplement), Oct. 14, '01 |
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| • | "There is nobody who looks better sitting on a couch and languidly smoking a cigarette than Joan Collins", Daily Telegraph (UK), Oct. 17, '01 |
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| • | "She was appalled when photographers tried to snap her smoking a cigarette. 'I don't like being seen with a fag in my hand' ", Daily Express (UK), Oct. 24, '01 |
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| • | "She tucks into her food with gusto, lights up her Marlboro Lights, insisting I smoke hers rather than mine", The Times (UK), Oct. 27, '01 |
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| • | "a fur-clad, bejewelled woman given to smoking, partying, flirting, flouting the rules and falling in love with men half her age", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 13, '02
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| • | "'What's your biggest vice?' 'Chocolate. After that maybe the five or six cigarettes I smoke a day'. ... 'Have you ever tried to give up fags'? Every time I was pregnant I gave up, but a doctor told me once that smoking less than seven cigarettes was the same as breathing in the exhaust fumes of all the lorries on the streets. So stay indoors and carry on tabbing then. ... I smoke a bit like Bette Davis. I smoke half a cigarette, I don't inhale much and then I put it out'", Independent on Sunday (UK), Mar. 17, '02 |
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| • | "cigarette in hand" w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 27, '02 |
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| • | "sashayed into the Dorchester hotel on Monday night for the FiFi awards - the fragrance industry's Oscars - puffing on a cigarette...when told her gracious attendance would benefit a cancer charity, she snapped: 'Yes that's why I'm blowing smoke in everyone's face!'", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 24, '02 |
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| • | "I do smoke, but in extreme moderation - fewer than three cigarettes a day. I usually smoke only in the evening and rarely at home. I try not to inhale or wrinkle my lips, and I smoke less than half the cigarette - a habit I picked up from Bette Davis when I worked with her. When (and if) my husband gives up, I will, too", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 1, '02 |
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| • | "Miss Collins, 69, then adjourned to a corner with husband Percy Gibson for a surreptitious drag on a Marlboro in the No Smoking spa and in doing so got her friend, celebrity jeweller Theo Fennell, into trouble. He innocently followed suit, but was spotted and ordered to extinguish his gasper", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 16, '02 |
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| • | "Joan Collins telling onlookers at Ferragamo on Fifth Avenue, 'I smoke and drink every day and I still look fabulous!'", New York Post, Oct. 29, '02 |
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| • | "She also smokes, takes 'a ton of vitamins' and exercises relentlessly", The Star (Clove), Jan. 2, '03
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| • | smoked in "Ruby Wax with...Joan Collins", BBC1 (UK), Aug. 4, '03 |
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| • | "She was lighting a cigarette when Ruby [Wax] called over one of the crew to light it for her, Hollywood style. Joan said 'No!' so forcibly that Ruby backed off again. 'That I Hate. You are sitting at a dinner party and you take out a cigarette and your silver or gold Cartier lighter and some schmuck next door takes it from you like you are not able to do it yourself. Your Own Lighter. If it's his lighter, that's different.' Now there speaks a woman who has bought her own gold Cartier lighter", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 5, '03
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| • | "I would sit down rebelliously or insist I had to have a cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 7, '05
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| • | no - "I've never taken drugs, I drink in moderation and I don't really smoke", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Sep. 11, '05 |
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| • | "doesn't 'really smoke'... So the woman spotted in fashionable London restaurant Joe Allen the other night, wearing a large hat, answering to the name of Joan and not 'really smoking' was clearly an imposter.", Mirror (UK), Sep. 14,'05 |
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| • | "I don't smoke, well hardly, I might smoke one or two a week.", Manchester Evening News (UK), Dec. 13, '05
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| • | "I remember leaving Katy's hospital room, chugging a bottle of wine, smoking a dozen cigarettes and watching an episode of Dallas on the telly, thinking 'God, it would be nice to have a show like that'", Toronto Star, Aug. 26, '06
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| • | quit - "Joan quit smoking and says she hasn't had a single puff since. 'I stopped because I thought it's so undignified to have to go outside a restaurant to smoke a cigarette,' she says. 'Now I just can't stand the taste'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Dec. 23, '07
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| • | "most people smoked then, including myself", The Times (UK), Mar. 27, '08
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| • | "smokes despite everything...plays up to the role of sophisticated femme fatale by lighting cigarette after cigarette, even if she knows perfectly well that smoking promotes the appearance of numerous wrinkles" w/pic about to drag, Revue du Liban, when?
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| • | "Stefanie [Powers] lit up a small cigar, I a Marlboro", "My Friends' Secrets: Conversations with My Friends about Beauty, Health and Happiness " by Joan Collins, when? |
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| • | "[Steven Berkhoff and Joan Collins] smoke avidly between scenes", The Independent (UK), when?
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