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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.
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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
Stori Telliing
| Customer Rating:  | | This book is just great. If you don't love Tori now, Read this book it will change your mind. |
Interesting
| Customer Rating:  | | I thought the book was interesting. You never really know what happens with stars, and Tori is so funny that it was a good read. |
Not War & Peace But...
| Customer Rating: | | It's okay. It's a really quick read and pretty entertaining. No earth shattering revelations but fun! |
Top-notch story telling. Impressive.
| Customer Rating: | | sTORI TELLING is a most enjoyable read. It is surprising as I was not a fan of Tori Spelling before I saw the book and read it. I am now. I remember her slightly on Beverly Hills 90210. I like her humbleness, how she doesn't downplay her father's wealth or high society she had living in Beverly Hills. It's the opposite of a rags-to-riches story, a riches-to-human-being story. Out of respect, I think Tori Spelling is a very kind woman and I think she would be nice to Walmart employees, etc. Of all the books I've read on famous and wealthy people, this is the best book I've ever read. I also admire that the back photo of her was snapped by Dean McDermott and not by a professional photographer. I think you have it going on, Tori. Good luck. |
sTori Telling really changed my mind
| Customer Rating: | This book shows that gossip and Hollywood hype can really do damage to a person's image. After hearing all the hype about Tori Spelling and her father and mother, my image of her was "the spoiled rich kid." Not anymore. Her book reveals the issues and life experiences that Tori had that, yes unlike mine, yet shaped her childhood and now adult life.
Read this book. My image of Tori has changed to "she is someone who I could be friends with!" |
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