Jackie Collins her novels) for the film "Yesterday's Hero" (1979). In the 1980s, Collins and her family moved to Los Angeles on a full-time basis, where she would continue to write about the "rich and famous". She said, "If you wish to be successful, there is a place you should be at a certain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it." Her next novel was "Chances" (1981). It introduced one of her best-known characters, Lucky Santangelo, the "dangerously beautiful" daughter of a gangster. While living in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, Collins collected the knowledge and experience to write her
Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica Sean Connery's character explains "The Chicago Way" to Kevin Costner's character. The church was designed in an Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style by Henry Engelbert, John F. Pope, and William J. Brinkmann. It features a barrel-vaulted ceiling that wraps around a high altar made entirely of Carrara marble. It was declared a basilica by the Vatican in 1956. Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica is featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, most notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004). Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica is also in a number of books devoted to