The British novelist Jackie Collins wrote thick, steamy, devourable books that, in the 1970s and 80s, enthralled millions while threatening to topple their bedside tables.
“Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story,” Laura Fairrie’s fond and frisky documentary, sifts a vast trove of archive material to pin down this gifted storyteller.
The dishiness is fun, but “Lady Boss” is most penetrating when it lifts the carapace of glamour Collins had constructed, both as alter ego and as armor against her critics.