The 80s were just sordid. Sordid. The goddam Ozone-layer killing big hair. Philosophical emptiness. The gaudy jewels. Rambunctious materialism. The legwarmers and horrific Houston office building bizarchitecture (Averted Gaze). And Dynasty.
Remember Romina Danielson? Does that name sound familiar? It should. She was the lover of Joan Collins' Swedish "man-whore" Peter Holm (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). Time magazine wrote in 1987:
"Dabbing tears from her eyes, Joan Collins was the perfect picture of the wronged woman. "I never met a man yet who was able to take care of me," she said sadly. "I've been taken advantage of by men since I was 20." Then, staring across the courtroom at her estranged husband, she added, "Men have a tendency to change when they get married." Collins was not rehearsing Dynasty, but the lines she spoke last week sounded as if they came from a soap opera -- The Bold and the Beautiful, perhaps.
"... At the end of the third day, Collins' lawyer, well-known Palimony Specialist Marvin Mitchelson, brought in a pretty scene stealer: Romina Danielson, 23, an Italian-Iranian who said she had been Holm's lover through much of his 13- month marriage to Collins. While Collins glowered, Danielson testified that Holm had called her 'my little passion flower' and had murmured, 'You're not only sexy but young.' Having divulged her story, the little passion flower suddenly wilted and fell to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably."
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