| sTORI Telling | 
enlarge | Author: Tori Spelling Publisher: Simon Spotlight Category: Book
List Price: $24.95 Buy New: $13.75 You Save: $11.20 (45%)
New (33) Used (19) Collectible (2) from $13.55
Avg. Customer Rating: 197 reviews Sales Rank: 25
Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416950737 Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092 EAN: 9781416950738 ASIN: 1416950737
Publication Date: March 11, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Book Description She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened. sTORI Telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms. From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized--and misunderstood--"disinheritance," sTORI Telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling. Amazon.com Exclusive A Bonus Story and Family Photo from Tori Spelling
The Manor
People are always asking about my parents' mansion, which they called the "Manor," but I don't really spend much time talking about it in sTORI Telling because I didn't grow up there. After demolishing Bing Crosby's former estate in Holmby Hills, a fancy neighborhood in west L.A., they spent six years building the Manor. It's about 46,000 square feet (slightly over an acre) and has 123 rooms. Not that I counted or measured. I got those figures from the press, just like everyone else. Anyway, we moved in when I was seventeen and I only lived there for two years. In some ways the house is like a normal house, but everything is on a bigger scale. It has four floors: the basement (which we call the "Lower Level," probably because that's its designation on the elevator) and the first, second, and third floors. The first floor has a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room, an office, a family room, a living room, and a projection room. There's a grand foyer with sweeping staircases on each side. Oh, and there's also a guards' room and the staff dining room. Everyone except fancy guests comes through the service entrance into a hallway with the guards' room and the kitchen. The kitchen is gigantic, and my fondest memory of it is from when I was twenty-one and had just moved back in after splitting up with a boyfriend. I came home drunk with some girlfriends, and we pillaged the two double-sized Sub-Zero refrigerators. There was always bulk food in there for the staff. We pulled out a big vat of chicken salad and a tub of peanut dressing, both of which looked like they'd been made for giants. Somewhere in the middle of our feast we decided to have a food fight, and the five of us started flinging food at each other. Soon we were covered in peanut dressing from head to toe and the pristine kitchen was a mess. Then we heard a ding, the elevator doors opened, and there was my mother. She stared at us in silent disbelief. I said, "We're going to clean it up!" She just said, "Mmm hmm," and left the room. I felt a surge of love for her in that moment. It took us hours to clean the kitchen, but it was worth it. That moment made it feel, for once, like home. --Tori Spelling
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 192 more reviews...
Loved It!!! August 30, 2008 This was a great book. I have always been a fan of Tori's, but when you read the book it shows a whole different side of her. It was very entertaining in some parts yet raw and real in others.
Torn over Tori August 29, 2008 I enjoyed a few of the So Notorious episodes I watched on VH1 and thought how open and FUNNY Tori was. I never got really in to the whole 90210 thing, so my exposure to Miss Spelling has been fairly recent. SO I got this book, and could hardly put in down. Although I certainly understand her better, I actually like her less than when I started reading. But she is a person, and a seemingly honest one at that. (and which of us hasn't made a mistake, or a hundred mistakes for that matter) I don't really see how someone who grew up in the whole twisted surreal way that she did could have done much better. I keep feeling horrible for her first husband Charlie, even though I know he should have known better. . But she is frank and infinitely likeable, and even though she still comes across as rather entitled and selfish despite her frequent attempts at self depreciation, I still think I would like to know her. She seems delightfully neurotic and although I don't completely trust her, I think that with her lack of real spiritual direction and guidance from her parents, she is navigating this world much better than most of her peers. Her mother is meant to be villianized in my opinion, but it's her father who gets me angry. I don't think Aaron was fair to Tori, either in his will or in her career. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a glimpse into a world so foreign it's like a different planet.
sTori Telling review August 29, 2008 I think her book was well put together. I got it to read the dirt that she was to spill and I have to say I was pleased at how she dished her dirt with some class and not hatred. I admire Tori and think she is one of the only famous people that is down to earth! And Dean and the kids are precious. I love watching Tori & Dean!
I loved it!! August 29, 2008 Very good book, I didn't wanna put it down! Tori Spelling is pretty funny yet serious when she needs to be!
Tori August 29, 2008 Very good book -- I am reading it now and enjoying it very much. Tori has had a very interesting life and I'm enjoying learning about it.
|
|
|