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Since her junior year in high school, Madhavan has been actively pursuing a chance to be on "Jeopardy!", but her postcard was not picked at random until this past summer...
...Eric is generally incredibly on top of things. He's a blast to work with--really quirky, funny, sort of random. I'm a big fan of Eric's," she said
...Evans and Random House, which had given Collins a $4 million, two-novel contract a year earlier, claimed that the actress, by turning in work they deemed below the threshold of trashiness, had not lived up to her side of the deal. The publisher sued Collins for the return of her $1.3 million advance. The actress countersued, arguing that her sweetheart contract required her only to submit a "complete manuscript," not an "acceptable" one. Since she turned in two novels, A Ruling Passion and Hell Hath No Fury, as her contract stipulated, Random House owed her the rest...
Collins had a moment of high drama late in the week while being cross-examined by a Random House lawyer. Did she not, she was asked, contend in a 1992 $20 million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid that published photographs of her topless with her boyfriend so distressed her that she was unable to fulfill her Random House contract? "Don't you have any shame?" he bellowed. Showing little of the steely resolve of Alexis Carrington, the character she portrayed in TV's Dynasty in the 1980s, Collins fled the witness stand in tears...
These names, to be sure, do not constitute anyone's idea of a celebrity A-list. It would be comforting to assume that the Collins--Random House imbroglio arose because the publisher finally felt shame at the prospect of putting out more bad prose under a big name. But it is equally possible, as Collins claims, that Random House decided the market for brand-label fiction was collapsing (or at least the market for the Joan Collins brand, once Dynasty left the air in 1989) and that the publisher could never earn back the $4 million it had promised...