Showing posts with label Authorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authorship. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Candy Spelling Reacts To Tori's Tell-All


"Candy’s reaction to Tori’s book…

“Look, Mrs. Spelling, your daughter is the next guest," a nurse in the pre-op area seemed to say a few seconds later, pointing at a monitor in the hallway.
Ah, that explained why my purse was shaking the locker. Whenever Tori was on TV, I got a flood of phone calls. I wanted more pre-op drugs. My daughter's book had just come out, and I had been barraged with phone calls, emails, letters and strangers in restaurants reporting what she was saying. Now I was imagining that even the hospital medical staff was talking about the book.

"Hi, Candy," my surgeon said. "Just watched Tori. She said, you and she have a good and non-confrontational relationship."
"Where's the anesthesiologist?" I asked. "Something is wrong with the anesthetic. It's not working."I thought I heard someone say something about why Tori thought she could get an inheritance when her mother was still alive. "Kids don't get inheritances until both parents pass, and the mother looks quite healthy," one of the operating room experts declared to another.
More drugs. More drugs.

I saw lights, heard muffled voices, a nurse came over, and someone said the surgery was over. I fell back asleep and was moved to my room.
"Mrs. Spelling, look. Isn't that your daughter on television?" a disembodied voice asked.

Sure enough. I opened my eyes, and there was Tori on another talk show.
"My mother is a great grandmother," I think she said. "Our relationship is fine."I knew that. I had just seen my grandson, and we were already becoming great buddies. I was excited that Tori is pregnant again, and I'd be a grandmother of two soon.

"Mrs. Spelling, would you like some water?"
"Yes, please."
"Here. You were in surgery for a while, so I'm not sure if you know your daughter was on TV this morning. She has a new book, and she showed pictures of birthday parties you and your husband gave for her."


"Uh, huh. May I have more water, please?"

I learned another lesson today. Even surgery doesn't shield mothers of famous children from their escapades. I wonder how isolated wilderness camps really are. I could probably still answer questions on my website, as I've been doing since the book came out, if the wilderness wasn't too isolated. I'll have to ask my doctor when I can travel.
Deep…

Monday, March 17, 2008

Jim Carey: Self Help Guru


Jim Carrey is the latest celebrity to take on the role of author. Carey is set to pen a self-help book about battling depression.

He says, "I dealt with depression for a while by medicating with Prozac and although it was good for dealing with the problem there and then, I wasn't getting to the bottom of my anger and frustration…I think we have a real problem these days in that everything is treated with a drug. I think there's a whole new way of healing depression that doesn't require drugs, and I'm writing a book about it. Who better than a comedian to talk about depression right?"

It’s about time someone in tinsel town spoke the truth! Celebs often gobble down prescription drugs like candy. There are so many unscrupulous doctors that are more than willing to write a prescription to someone not even suffering from depression if the price is right. Hopefully Jim’s book will be helpful in preventing more celeb addiction and even death.