Joan Collins spent a morning with the children of the first-grade class at P.S. 212 in Manhattan, reading “Hansel & Gretel.”
The children are studying Shelley Duvall’s “Faerie Tale Theatre” series, and according to Bryan Andes, the teacher heading up the program, Joan is their favorite character from the “Hansel & Gretel” episode, where she played the dual role of the wicked stepmother and the witch. The “Dynasty” star read to the children and joined them in scene re-enactments.
Meanwhile, Collins is being just as wicked weighing on the Oscar race, saying in the Spectator, “I agree with all the praise for Tom Hanks in “Captain Phillips” — but not about “Gravity,” which has the lovely and talented Sandra Bullock being pulled about in space on what looks like an umbilical cord.
It sent me to sleep . . . Sadly it was such a pretentious boring dud that we left halfway through. It amazes me that critics can be so enthusiastic about what was — we all agreed — a dull second-rate film, and yet give lukewarm and bad reviews to truly entertaining and original movies. (“Blue Jasmine” was underrated this year, for instance.)