Posted on 06/23/2006 7:44:25 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
LOS ANGELES (AP) A publicist for Aaron Spelling says the pioneering television producer has died at age 83.
Actually, I think Knots Landing Donna Mills was the best bitch on tv, beautiful, with those innocent looking big blue eyes, but oh watch your back. I think she was a more dangerous bitch than Joan Collins, lol.
Sorry to hear about your visual impairment.
Ah, the fallacy of the false alternative. Nice try.
No, you don't have to call Helen Thomas a sexpot. How about criticizing her ideas or policy positions?
"Same with Mariette Hartley and James Garner on those commercials they used to do..."
Polaroid SX70
She looks like a video game character in that picture.
Okay, fine. As long as she agrees to wear a paper bag over her head! :)
Friggin' lol!
I couldn't agree with you more, BruceysMom!
He was a poor skinny Jewish kid in Dallas! No fooling!
The memory of living in a $6,000 house with one bathroom was a big motivation for him.
Amen to Hart 2 Hart - outstanding.
I think she is actually the spawn of Marty Feldman...................
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
You forgot the $1 mil+ first wedding that lasted 1yr? and now new love. I bet the old 90210 cast don't dis her now.
Never in a million years would I have thought of Aaron Spelling as being from Dallas, much less being one of my fellow SMU alums, but there it is, bigger 'n Dallas (and the house to match). Never.
I was in film school there and TV broadcast - wonder why he didn't support us like so many other TV people did, hardly any of 'em had ever attended school there - gee, Bob Hope gave us a theater. I'm still scratching my head.
Now, Carolyn Jones, she's Texan that I knew was a Texan - from Rte66, no less - in Amarillo. I thought she was in a lot more movies than that bio named and a lot fewer TV shows.
She played one of my favorite characters in one of my all-time favorite movies "back in the day" and it wasn't even mentioned. Most people thought Edna Ferber novels were schlock, I guess, but I ate them up like candy. All those swwwweeeeeping epic sagas of families down through the generations ... loved them.
This particular one was Ice Palace, about the guys who went to Alaska, mostly from Seattle, and those who were already there, to work in the canneries and fish the "big waters" for big fish. The scenery was magnificent, even if the plot was non-existent (the book, of course, was 1000 times better - but you didn't get to see all those glaciers!).
She played Bridie and there were two men in her life - she was in love with one guy more but wouldn't show it, and they both loved her. They all started out young and poor together, then the men grew into captains of industry up there on the tundra, always trying to outdo each other, because of the rivalry that started with the competition for Birdie's affections.
It was all drama and love lost and taking care of the Eskimo baby of the Aleut wife of one of her lovers. (Well, it was 1960 and I was young - they weren't "lovers" - they were her best friends, lol.) One was Robert Ryan and the other was ... Richard Burton. I thought he was so much *dreamier,* I couldn't understand why she didn't pick him!
Anyway, it's funny I didn't think of her with Aaron Spelling, I guess because they were already split before we ever knew who he was - but both of them have/had "Bette Davis eyes."
Aaron Spelling, dead at age 83
And I thought he was dead at age 53....
He has made a huge impact on television.He will be missed.
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