McCartney joins 1,004 other Brits honored this year, including another composer, the commercially profligate Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, who becomes a baron (just a little touch of star quality) and gets to sit in the House of Lords. Cited for “services to drama,” “Dynasty” doyenne Joan Collins is now an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She also remains, of course, the queen of tackorama.
