In May 1974,Jackie Collins published a novel and Guardian writer Dennis Barker interviewed her. Two months later, Dennis Barker published a novel and Jackie Collins went to interview himJackie Collins obituaryDennis and I arranged our rendezvous over the phone. My place or his? Mr Barker claimed he had decorators in, and so my “magnified glass cistern” apartment building,as Mr Barker had previously described it, was the chosen place of location. Early morning seemed a good time for both of us, and he arrived nice and punctually and I plied him with tea and he refused a luscious piece of cake on account of the fact that he was on a diet. He didn’t gape at all like he needed to be on a diet,not one trace of plumpness could I detect.
Dennis Barker is a serious-looking man of medium height. He wears heavy glasses and is slightly balding with long sideburns which compensate nicely. I would estimate him to be in his middle thirties. I didn’t inquire of him his age in case he was embarrassed. Some people find that a very embarrassing question and lie. I don’t think Dennis Barker is the type of man who ever tells lies.
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Source: theguardian.com