One Night With the Grand Dame of Divas, Joan Collins

Nov. 18, 2010 — -- The convention in Hollywood these days is that it's considered uncouth to speak frankly, to pull a Kanye, to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Joan Collins doesn't care about that -- on stage, anyway.

The grand dame of divas launched a one-woman show in New York City this week to dish about her career, her many men and what she thinks of today's most-coveted actresses. But following the Tuesday premiere of "One Night With Joan," she was markedly more reserved than her "Dynasty" alter-ego, Alexis Carrington-Colby. While that shoulder-pad clad scheming shrew might have torn into Kate Middleton, the common gal Prince William finally put a ring on, the British-born Collins cooed.

"I am so thrilled, I cannot tell you," she told ABCNews.com "I think it's the best thing that's happened Britain since Princess Diana got married. I think it's going to give everybody in England a really good boost. Everybody is very depressed there because of the recession and there's a tremendous amount of people out of work. I think she's a lovely girl, I think he is great. I think it's fabulous."

What of the fact that he proposed with the late Diana's sapphire stunner?

"I think it's so wonderful. It made me cry," Collins said. "And I loved Diana. I knew her, she was a great humanitarian, she was a great person, and the fact that he said with the ring that he wanted her to be part of this relationship, I thought it was just so touching and wonderful."

When Collins was asked to pick a favorite among Hollywood's current crop of fierce femmes -- Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, et. al. -- she wasn't nearly as loquacious.

"All the actresses are fabulous," she said. "Totally beautiful. Every single one of them."