Daddy's Girls

Two little girls of a doting mumsy grow into a Hollywood starlet and randy novelist but ever-bitter rivals for the affection daddy withheld. They spend their entire adult lives searching for and, despite all their fame and fortune and good times, finding unfulfillment from what their womanizing father never gave them.

It should be a trash novel; no, it should be a made-for-tv movie. Oh, hell, given the people involved it will be — perhaps already has been — both.

"Joan Collins: Biography of an Icon," by Graham Lord — author of various other gossipy looks at Brit celebs — is available in the U.K., but the depiction of novelist Jackie and actress Joan struggling for the love of theatrical agent Joe Collins is now available everywhere.

** Sometimes there's no doubt where daddy's little girls first went wrong. **