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P-Obit-Aaron Spelling URGENT

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A publicist for Aaron Spelling says the
pioneering television producer has died at age 83.

Wow Sail on..

Oh my..........sail on.........

ragtopW wrote:Wow Sail on..

i heard he had a stroke.......sail on!!

A huge loss to the entertainment world.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/06/23/s ... index.html


Sail on.

Aaron Spelling (Born April 22, 1923 in Dallas, Texas, died June 23, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.) was an American film and television producer.

He had worked in some capacity on almost 200 productions including Starsky and Hutch, Family, Hotel, Daniel Boone, The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Vega$, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, The Colbys, T.J. Hooker, Twin Peaks, Nightingales, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, and Charmed. He also produced the NBC TV series Titans with Yasmine Bleeth in 2000 and Summerland in 2004. Certain sources list him as the world's most prolific or successful television producer.

Aaron attended Forest Avenue High School. After serving with the USAAF, he graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1945. He went to New York and found some work as an actor. He married actress Carolyn Jones, in 1953, and they moved to California. He had his break as a writer, selling his first script to Jane Wyman Theater in 1954. He went on to write for Dick Powell, Playhouse 90, and Last Man, amongst others. He joined Powell's Four Star Productions. After the death of Powell he formed Thomas-Spelling Productions with Danny Thomas. Their first hit was The Mod Squad. In 1972, he created Aaron Spelling Productions and another co-production company with Leonard Goldberg. His company went public in 1986 as Spelling Entertainment.

He divorced Jones in 1965 and in 1968 he married Carol Jean Marer (aka Candy Spelling). He was father of the actors Victoria Davey Spelling (Tori Spelling) and Randall Gene Spelling (Randy Spelling). He lived in Los Angeles; his home is the largest single-family dwelling in California.

Spelling also produced the NBC daytime soap opera Sunset Beach from 1997 to 1999.

Despite his many accomplishments in life, Spelling continued to emphasize that his favorite project of all time was 7th Heaven. The success of this "little drama that could", and the fact that it had been the WB's most-watched series since 1998, was beyond belief to him.

In January 28, 2006, he was sued by his former nurse who seeks unspecified damages for ten claims, including sexual harassment and discrimination, retaliation, sexual battery (for making "contact with the plaintiff's intimate parts"), assault, wrongful termination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

On June 18, 2006, he suffered a stroke at his home in California and died June 23, 2006 in Los Angeles at the age of 83.

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He came out of poverty, and became an incredible success.

Sail on.........

Sail on, Aaron.....

Sail On Aaron.....

This man can be credited/vilified for the state of TV today... hmmmm





she-spawn bee-yotch Tori says...KA-CHING

Sail on!

Lightning Bolt wrote:This man can be credited/vilified for the state of TV today... hmmmm





she-spawn bee-yotch Tori says...KA-CHING

was thinking just that too. Incredibly prolific, but not one solid/enduring quality show until 7th Heaven after he went out on his own. Most of his stuff was/is dated even before it ends his run.

as for his working his way out of nothing, yeah he did. Have to admire the work ethic he had.

On the other hand, he inflicted Shannon Doherty and Tori Spelling upon the world and insisted on casting and recasting the latter in one of the better/worst examples of nepotism in Hollywood lately because if she had to make it without the Spelling name behind her, she be starving and/or face down in a gutter somewhere in Hollywood after another long night of hitting up tourists on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for "little party, Joe? You wanna party with me?"...

Like everyone, he has his good and bad features. Sail on.

Sail on, Mr. Spelling . . .

I loved almost all his television shows. Sail on, Mr. Spelling.

Wonder what Tori will do with that nice 120 room mansion she's now inherited.

AdamBomb8 wrote:Wonder what Tori will do with that nice 120 room mansion she's now inherited.

Did it go to her? Or his wife?