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06-23-2006, 11:08 PM
| | Yo Momma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines
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| | | Aaron Spelling is dead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/...v/spelling_obi
All hail the inventor of trash TV.
Now how is Tori supposed to land any parts? I guess it doesn't matter because she just inheirited a stupid amount of money. |
06-23-2006, 11:12 PM
|  | happier now i'm living | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: my home
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| | | wow. she is preggers too isn't she? (tori). |
06-23-2006, 11:23 PM
|  | Lets stay up | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by Misanthropic Superhero
Now how is Tori supposed to land any parts?
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LOL! True! That is gunna be one huge funeral though |
06-23-2006, 11:24 PM
|  | Society is a Whore | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Zen Arcade
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| | | Her marriage to Dean McDehakdhhf really was upsetting him. I knew the Star wouldn't lie |
06-24-2006, 12:02 AM
| | annoying y'all since 1962 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sunken City
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| | | Whoa!!! I guess it's a good thing Tori made up with him on Father's Day. I wonder if she feels kind of guilty.
Family shit sucks. |
06-24-2006, 12:10 AM
|  | Superpopfantasticnessity | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hometown of Reagan.
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| | | I read this and my first thought was that there will be a whole slew of E! True Hollywood Stories of his shows tomorrow. |
06-24-2006, 12:24 AM
|  | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | This means ca ching for Tori. Prayers to her and her family. |
06-24-2006, 12:25 AM
| | Yo Momma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines
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Originally Posted by punkrain I read this and my first thought was that there will be a whole slew of E! True Hollywood Stories of his shows tomorrow. | Good point. I'm sure all of the has beens from his show are jumping for joy that they might get some publicity by crying on television about what a wonderful man he was. |
06-24-2006, 12:27 AM
|  | Fucked by rock | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Peter Cook's ashtray
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Originally Posted by Misanthropic Superhero Good point. I'm sure all of the has beens from his show are jumping for joy that they might get some publicity by crying on television about what a wonderful man he was. | Shannen Doherty, HERE IS YOUR FINEST ACTING HOUR. |
06-24-2006, 12:44 AM
|  | nowurshitmakesnosensefkr | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Houston, Texas
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| | | you'll notice, in that article they left out Charmed.
not that i blame them... embarressing second half of the show that it was. |
06-24-2006, 01:23 AM
|  | Is This What My Body Said | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | I'm sure money's what she's thinking about.
Oh, wait, I'm just now in the loop. I get it. She's rich and stuff. Oh, you guys! You're so saucy. Stop. My insides. You're so right. Let me rephrase to fit your socially recorrtness.
I'm sure money's not ALL she's thinking about.
Am I moral now?
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06-24-2006, 01:47 AM
|  | G-L-O-R-I-A | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | awwwwwwwwwwww Quote: |
Originally Posted by jmr Her marriage to Dean McDehakdhhf really was upsetting him. I knew the Star wouldn't lie | is kim smelling her armpit in that one frame?  |
06-24-2006, 01:49 AM
|  | .Lady Killa'. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: arizona
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| | | Aaron Spelling Dies at 83
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(AP) Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty" to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place," died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83.
Spelling died at his mansion in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke on June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki.
Spelling's other hit series included "Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Burke's Law," "The Mod Squad," "Starsky and Hutch," "T.J. Hooker," "Matt Houston," "Hart to Hart" and "Hotel." He kept his hand in 21st-century TV with series including "7th Heaven" and "Summerland."
He also produced more than 140 television movies. Among the most notable: "Death Sentence" (1974), Nick Nolte's first starring role; "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (1976), John Travolta's first dramatic role; and "The Best Little Girl in the World" (1981), which starred Jennifer Jason Leigh.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Spelling provided series and movies exclusively for ABC and is credited for the network's rise to major status. Jokesters referred to it as "The Aaron Broadcasting Company."
Success was not without its thorns. TV critics denounced Spelling for fostering fluff and nighttime soap operas. He called his shows "mind candy"; critics referred to them as "mindless candy."
"Charlie's Angels" ushered in a genre known as "jiggle TV" for its gratuitous focus on the female form.
"The knocks by the critics bother you," he admitted in a 1986 interview with The Associated Press.
"But you have a choice of proving yourself to 300 critics or 30 million fans. You have to make a choice. I think you're also categorized by the critics. If you do something good they almost don't want to like it."
He liked to cite some of his more creditable achievements, like "Family" (1976-80), a drama about a middle-class family, and "The Best Little Girl in the World."
Among his prestige films for TV: "Day One" (1989), about the making of the atomic bomb; "And the Band Played On" (1992), based on Randy Shilts' book about the AIDS crisis.
Spelling had arrived in Hollywood virtually penniless in the early 1950s. By the 1980s, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $300 million. He enjoyed his status, working in a Hollywood office larger than those of golden-era moguls ("I'm slightly claustrophpobic," he explained.) He gifted his second wife, Candy, with a 40-carat diamond ring.
The Spellings' most publicized extravagance was their 56,500-square-foot French chateau in Holmby Hills.
The couple bought the former Bing Crosby estate for $10 million. It was leveled to the ground, along with two other houses. Construction cost was estimated at $12 million.
The two-story house reached a height of 51 feet. Among the features: a one-lane bowling alley, pool, tennis court, gym, screening room. Built on rollers, it easily survived the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The mansion dwarfed nearby estates, and the neighbors were furious. One woman won an injunction during construction, calling the place "Look-at-me-I'm-rich architecture."
Born on April 22, 1923, Spelling grew up in a small frame house on Browder Street in Dallas "on the wrong side of the tracks," he wrote in his 1996 autobiography. He was the fourth son of immigrant Jews, his father from Poland, mother from Russia. The father's name, Spurling, was simplified to Spelling by an Ellis Island official.
"I grew up thinking 'Jew boy' was one word," the producer wrote in his memoir, "Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life." He was considered strange by his Dallas schoolmates because his parents spoke Yiddish. He was subjected to anti-Semitic taunts and beatings on his way home from school.
At 8, the boy suffered what he termed a nervous breakdown, and he spent a year in bed. He later considered that period the birth of his creative urge. He fell in love with great storytellers, especially O. Henry. Of his early TV series he said, "They are all O. Henry short stories."
"I still have nightmares about being in a $6,000 house in Dallas, Texas," he remarked in a 1996 AP interview. "Wall-to-wall people, one bathroom. I was the one to go to the local bakery a block away on Saturday to get the day-old stuff."
Spelling enlisted in the Army Air Corps after graduating from high school in 1942.
After combat and organizing entertainment in Europe during the war, Spelling returned to Texas and enrolled at Southern Methodist University, where he wrote and directed plays. He continued working in local theatrics after graduating.
Finding no work in New York, Spelling moved to Los Angeles, where he staged plays and acted in more than 40 TV shows and 12 movies. His skinny frame suited him for the role of a ragged beggar in the MGM musical "Kismet." He worked for three weeks, repeating his one line: "Alms for the love of Allah."
The "Kismet" experience resulted in two decisions: he abandoned acting for the typewriter; he married a young actress he had been courting, Carolyn Jones. She became well-known, especially as Morticia in "The Addams Family" series. They divorced after 13 years, and she died of cancer in 1983.
Spelling's friendship with such actor-producers as Dick Powell, Jack Webb and Alan Ladd led to his rapid rise as a prolific writer and later producer of TV series. In 1960, Powell, head of Four Star Productions, hired him to produce shows for Powell himself, his wife June Allyson and Lloyd Bridges. "Burke's Law," with Gene Barry as a millionaire detective, became the first hit series Spelling created.
After Powell's death, Spelling teamed with Danny Thomas in a production company, scoring a huge success with "The Mod Squad," about a trio of youthful undercover cops. In 1969, Spelling began an exclusive contract with ABC, helping the network to rise from a low third place to the top of the network ratings. Former ABC programming chief Leonard Goldberg joined him as partner in 1972.
After ABC canceled "Dynasty" in 1989 and his contract with the network had ended, Spelling found himself without a show on the air for the first time since 1960.
"I was so depressed, I would have quit, but I like TV too much," Spelling wrote in his memoir. Besides, his company had started issuing stock in 1986, and he had an obligation to his investors. After a year's respite, he returned with "Beverly Hills 90210," which helped launch the fledgling Fox Network into the bigtime. "Melrose Place" gave Fox another hit.
Throughout his career, Spelling maintained the same image: the skinny frame, slightly hawkish face. He usually posed with a pipe in his mouth, a custom he adopted early after seeing stars with pipes in fan magazine photos.
Spelling and his second wife, Candy, had two children, Tori (for Victoria), who became a star on the two Fox serials ("Now I'm known as Tori Spelling's father," he said in mock lament), and Randy, who appeared in the short-lived "Malibu Shores."
Spelling set a record of producing more than 3,000 TV episodes. Besides the TV movies, he produced 10 theatrical films including "California Split," "Mr. Mom." "'night, Mother," "Loose Cannons" and "Soapdish".
| lets have this as a place to remember all the great tv shows and films he created
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06-24-2006, 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Halloween awwwwwwwwwwww
is kim smelling her armpit in that one frame? | Well, she is a SUPERSTAR!!!! |
06-24-2006, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by jmr Well, she is a SUPERSTAR!!!! | word
hey i have a question for you, since you live in long beach and all
sympathy for the record industry
4450 california place #303
long beach ca 90807
have you ever seen that building? |
06-24-2006, 01:52 AM
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| | | mergeapalooza please. |
06-24-2006, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Halloween word
hey i have a question for you, since you live in long beach and all
sympathy for the record industry
4450 california place #303
long beach ca 90807
have you ever seen that building? | It's not far just off the 405 by downtown Long Beach |
06-24-2006, 02:51 AM
| | Yo Momma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines
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| | | Wow, I had no idea he was once married to Carolyn Jones. That's actually pretty cool. |
06-24-2006, 02:53 AM
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| | | i like tori, i feel bad for hr, rest your fake tiitties on me.....
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