Finding the silver lining

Press, 14 May 1987, Page 19

Finding the silver lining

By

MARGO MILLS

The producers of “Dynasty” are searching Tinsel Town and Broadway looking for a young actor who could make his name among the feuding Carringtons. He is required to play a fictional character, based on the Swedish businessman Peter Holm, former husband of Joan Collins. Soap Queen Joan (now 53 and 14 years the elder) is prepared to reveal intimate anecdotes about her disastrous fourth marriage. She put the idea to the Dynasty producers, who are desperately thrashing around for a solution to the flagging viewing figures. A real-life link with Joan’s stormy love life may be just what is needed to stop the washed-up soap continuing to nose dive. Close friends of the star have disclosed that Joan decided that the best way to put the last 13 months behind her was to act it

out on television. “Information from her will be combined with fiction so the story of the Carringtons can be fleshed out more fully,” says an insidet

Alexis will meet a dashing handsome and younger man in the new true-story plot She falls for him and in the following episodes, he will be seen to be taking over her life; monitoring her phone calls, opening her mail and dealing with her business affairs.

Finally poor old Alexis will find she has lost control of nearly all her money and he has taken over her financial empire. She will be placed in fear of her life, after being threatened by her lover.

If it all sounds familiar so much the better. Joan is at present locked in one of Hollywood’s most sensational divorces for years but “Dynasty” executives are sure the truth behind this unhappy union will be a ratings winner. —DUO copyright