Sisterly Love: Joan Collins’ new novel, “Love...

Sisterly Love: Joan Collins’ new novel, “Love and Desire and Hate,” is out, but she swears she isn’t trying to outdo her sister, writer Jackie Collins. “I’ve always written,” Joan said in People magazine. “We love each other, but we’ve never been close. We never discuss writing or very personal things.” The actress is keeping company with British art dealer Robin Hurlstone: “It was the first relationship I’ve ever had with a man where we became friends before we had anything else.”

Out of the Lineup: Donald Trump, he of the messy divorce and the heavy debt, has an insult added to the injuries: Someone has stolen his picture from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Hall of Fame. Trump, a 1968 graduate of the Philadelphia business school and one of 16 alumni with portraits in the hall, said through a spokeswoman that a new portrait is on the way.

Read All About It: Playwright Arthur Miller spoke to an unlikely Manhattan audience recently--30 adults learning to read by using his “Death of a Salesman” and other works. “My father was mostly illiterate,” Miller told them. “He never read a book in his life, and he lived into his 80s, but he was good at faking. He had people read to him.”

Green Party: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and her German-born husband, Prince Claus, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Sunday but turned down any pomp or circumstance. Those who want to show “their cordiality and kindness” should plant trees to make it “a silver wedding anniversary with a green lining,” the queen said. The royal family regularly gets together Sundays, when he cooks and she sculpts.