D-Listed, as usual, described it the best:

http://dlisted.com/node/32271

Mother Of The Century

Candy and Tori Spelling pretty much pull out their pubic hairs whenever they think of each other. That's no secret. But Candy has upped her [!@#$%^&*] game by blaming Tori for Aaron Spelling's death.

While whoring out her book on 94.7 WMAS-FM in Massachusetts today, Candy oinked, "My daughter one day decided that she wasn't speaking to my husband, myself and my son, and that's how it's continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years. And it was sad, that's what killed my husband, actually. He just didn't want to live after that. He had just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter, and she wanted no part of him once he couldn't do anything for her."

Aaron died in 2006 at the age 83. Yeah, the fact that he was older than oatmeal had nothing to do with his death. Tori's absence obviously did him in.

After saying all that, Porky Pig's long-lost twin sister still doesn't understand why her daughter uses her picture as a dart board. Candy said, "I've always been trying to work on the relationship. I don’t know what the anger is."

Methinks Candy needs to pay a little visit to her surgeon so that he can loosen her face a bitch (typo and it stays) and let it breathe. The tightness is effing with the part of her brain that controls common sense.

Edited May 29, 200916 yr by Cat

Exactly, and some folks (like me) really enjoy apartment living. I'm not backyardsy at all really, at my friends' and family's homes for bbqs and such, absolutely, but not a prerequisite for me. I'm more at home on a balcony having a drink and a smoke (when I'm being bad) and enjoying an awesome view. I also enjoy cozier living spaces, ordering in, or zipping down the elevator and *BAM* city life. I would love to live at a Ritz-Carlton property for these very reasons, plus the fact that they are full-service buildings with access to the room service of the hotel portion. But alas, I cannot afford it (yet! wishful thinking!) and really wouldn't want to live there anyway as I find their units completely overpriced and unimaginative, some of the smallest most boring apartments you've ever seen (especially at that price point). The rationale is that most folks who can afford to live their will bring in their own decorators but's that's bull as I deserve a lot more to begin with paying that much and even a decorator can't do anything about boring floorplans and undersized rooms.

Oh my cow... I hate Ritz Carlton management with a passion. When I was 20, and in charge of the landscape design and maintinence for the Alameda Plaza hotel in Kansas City, Ritz Carlton bought the property out, and totally RUINED it. The lobby had two-sided woodburning fireplaces, a THREE STORY ceiling, beautiful mediterranean decor, three story windows to go with that ceiling that looked out on the enornmous pool and garden terrace (which was covered in beautiful flowers), a glass elevator, a third floor catwalk around the perimeter of the lobby. And Ritz Carlton spent 22 MILLION renovating a hotel that needed NOTHING. When they got through, the lobby was a single story, 9 foot ceiling... decorated like a damn funeral parlor. They closed off ALL of the windows that lookd out on the garden terrace, and all the windows that lined the front entrance. They took out the large fountain in the center of the circle drive in front that cascaded down to the ballroom entrance below... and then 5 years later the re-sold it to Fairmont. I went downstairs one day to find the Alameda's 3 story tall tapestry draperies lying in the DUMPSTER. It made me want to cry. And to add insult to injury, They thought MY SOCKS were unprofessional. At that time, I had a pair of shorts that had various colored panels on them, they were peach,gray,and blue. So when I wore those shorts, I would wear one gray sock and one blue sock... and that somehow offended them. they wanted WHITE. And the general manager came out when I was doing the spring planting, pointed at the bed and said... "Are those going to grow?" It took everything in me to not go ballistic sarcasm on his ass and say "NO, PLANTS DON'T DO THAT!!".

Edited December 14, 201014 yr by alphanguy74

LOL, that is hilarious! Oh my cow, as you said, that sounds absolutely criminal what they did to what sounds like a gorgeous property. Trump and Ritz, both love to put up big unimaginative overpriced buildings that coast on name alone.

I know where it is, I've even been there.

P. S. I'm mooooooooooore than OK with an apartment in, say, New York, but in LA... It seems bizarre.

I don't think it's bizarre for someone like Joan. She has four homes, that requires a lot of maintenance and it requires a good deal of security. She goes months on end without being in any one place so the lower fuss of a condo is great. Plus, the staff in that building, specifically, is second to none.

<span style="font-size:105%;">For Joan, right. </span>

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by Sylph

<span style="font-size:105%;">For Joan, right. </span>

Exactly, for her situation, with four homes on 4 coasts, it makes sense.

For someone living solely in LA, like Diahann Carroll...I would suggest that perhaps a low maintenance lifestyle allows for people to live within their means? As well, being a single woman, perhaps the security provided by a condo is comforting. If I was an older person, I would see the appeal of it.

We were discussing hotels on the previous page, and I just found some footage that showed our doomed Hyatt Regency right after it opened. It was part of a video on the disastrous collapse, but the first portion showed what the lobby looked like right after it opened. I thought it looked GORGEOUS. Kansas City certainly had some of the most beautiufl hotel properties, IMO.. this, the Alameda Plaza, and the Westin Crown Center with it's giant 5 story tall waterfall in the lobby were sights to behold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWFDqlSczM

Edited December 26, 201014 yr by alphanguy74

I watched this when you posted it the other day and meant to comment, I was shocked when they said so many people had perished! Naive me thought a couple of bumps and bruises, I wasn't expecting that many people to have been under there. Awful. I agree, it was a stunning layout (reminds me of the Rodeo Collection in Beverly Hills, as seen on The Colbys ) and to renovate it to only one story seems like a dumb move. But can you imagine trying to shake the stigma of this tragedy?? Geesh.

Thank you, alphan, for the Hall residence photo. It kind of looks just like I imagined it would.

Edited December 28, 201014 yr by Sylph

I watched this when you posted it the other day and meant to comment, I was shocked when they said so many people had perished! Naive me thought a couple of bumps and bruises, I wasn't expecting that many people to have been under there. Awful. I agree, it was a stunning layout (reminds me of the Rodeo Collection in Beverly Hills, as seen on The Colbys ) and to renovate it to only one story seems like a dumb move. But can you imagine trying to shake the stigma of this tragedy?? Geesh.

SFK, this video wasn't the hotel that was renovated to one story... that was the Alameda Plaza (I have yet to find a picture of that lobby) the video was of the Hyatt Regency. I was 13 when this happened, and the news coverage went on for WEEKS, litigation, investigations... 114 people killed was a pretty huge disaster. The majority of the people who were killed were standing on the second floor skywalk, and they were crushed when the fourth floor skywalk "pancaked" down on top of them. The people below in the lobby fared better as there were 5 or 6 seconds in which they could run, and in that lobby, they had a place to run TO. the lobby of the Hyatt doens't look much different today, except updated colors and such. It has a rooftop revolving restaurant called "Sky's", I went there with a date once for drinks... he had two drinks, and I had a sprite, and the tab was 27$, I was stunned. Glad HE was paying! LOL but anyway... I do have a nice overall picture of the outside of the Alameda Plaza, with a full view of the Garden terrace which surrounds the swimming pool:

And here is a picture of the lobby of the Westin Crown Center I was talking about which has the huge atrium and waterfall:

Edited December 29, 201014 yr by alphanguy74

In the first pic, I love how the garage and waterfall (which does an awesome job of beautifying it) are built into the hill with the tree-lined pool looking like it's floating. Very cool. And the second pic is also stunnng, reminds me of Falling Water (one of your faves).

I got really interested in the Hyatt Regency incident and was shocked to read that in terms of U.S. structural disasters/lives lost, it's seconded only to the WTC on 9/11.