You totally thought I was over obits, didn't you?

From the Telegraph:

Aaron Spelling, who died in Los Angeles on Friday aged 83, was the most successful and prolific television producer in history, responsible for inflicting upon viewers such series as Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky & Hutch, SWAT, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210, all of which epitomised trashy glamour and were inordinately popular.

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The master bedroom was the size of a basketball court, and two rooms (out of 123) were reserved by Mrs Spelling for the sole purpose of wrapping presents; one Christmas truckloads of snow were brought in to cover the lawns. "Big?" Spelling said. "I'm still trying to find the bathroom."

Holy crap.  His life story ranges from soap opera-esque -- his mother's first husband was a wrestler who was killed in a knife fight -- to something straight out of Fitzgerald -- he had a nervous breakdown at age nine and spent a year at home reading.

Don't forget to read The Dead Beat.  And -- don't miss the on-going Aaron Spelling tribute at Go Fug.