Cruise Control Fizzles
There's some bad news for Tom Cruise. His new flick Knight & Day flopped at the box office. Ticket sales for the film's Wednesday release totaled about $4 million, which is not enough to keep him on the A List. By comparison Toy Story 3, which also had a Wednesday opened, grossed $13 million on it's first day. So that leaves Tom with Les Grossman as his motion picture fall back position! Of course he could always retire. With a 25 + movie career and an estimated billion dollar fortune he's got more money than Xenu! 3's company
There's another Hollywood personality that's having trouble making a go of it these days. Back when super producer Aron Spelling was still alive, and daughter Tori was till in his good books, it seemed like anything was possible for her. Then she hooked up with Canadian actor Dean McDermott. They met on the set of Body of Evidence - or some other B movie - while McDermott was still hooked up with his now ex wife Canadian daytime TV personality Mary Jo Eustace.if you got the money honey
Tori and Dean seemed to hit it off: Dean is a tall good looking fellow and Tori was rich as sin. So there was grounds for mutual attraction. Tori was used to geting what she wanted and wasn't gonna let a little thing like his wife get in the way. So they started getting it on, and poor old Mary Jo had to go. The next thing you know McDermott had divorced his wife and taken on Tori, who was promptly disowned by Big Daddy. Aron had no doubt that McD was attracted to his daughter; he just wasn't sure what McD found attractive about her. Aron assumed that it was probably money and so wrote Tori out.
Spelling weight loss diet - food for thought
That lead Tori on to her current path of insecurity & attention seeking. With only a million to her name, and probably doubting her husband too, Tori started pitching reality TV projects, all involving her new husband. She also started getting plastic surgery and dropping weight until she became nearly unrecognizable. The drastic weight loss even sparked concerns about the actress's health.
Tori goes Tila Tequila!
None of the actress's projects paid off. Now A professional celebrity can't allow that to continue for long. They thrive on our attention. Usually when a celeb started to fade from the lime light they can get desperate, & ridiculous, in their attempts to recapture that attention. Tori is proving to be no exception to the "look at me" rule. In an interview with Out Magazine Spelling has made a startling confession - she's been in touch with the ghost of Farrah Fawcett!
there must be an angel
The visitation from Charlie's Angel came during a session with psychic John Edward (psychic is one of the other ways to make it in Hollywood). Tori, who had been Fawcett's neighbor for years and years, claimed that Farrah contacted her with specific call outs for her troubled son Redmond. Says Tori for the incident: "It was pretty surreal. We were neighbors for years. She basically wanted me to give a message to [Fawcett's son] Redmond and to her family and she was doing these very specific call-outs for things that they would understand."the medium has a message
Tori insists that she's completely convinced that she was contacted by Farrah. Says Spelling: "If it had been some psychic that I'd walked in off the street for five bucks it would have been different. But it came through John Edward. He's a medium, so he channels people. I've been to regular psychics that turn over cards, tarot cards, and sort of read your future, that type of thing. But, with him, literally people just come to him and say things that they want the person to hear." See what i mean about making it in Hollywood - consumer spirituality a la Oprah Winfrey. Credibility - what you get when you can fake sincerity - is directly related to price too!
uncharted territori & Mis Spelling?
Of course the cynics - like The Huffington Post - have an alternate explanation. Those downers, who are bigger wet blankets than the Amazing Randi, have proposed a rational explanation. They have pointed out that Tori has a new book out called Uncharted TerriTori. Spelling is in the midst of a promotional blitz for the book. So the Farrah visitation might be only a ploy to get attention for the book.
thriller & other postmortem endorsements
I prefer to give Spelling the benefit of the doubt. She's squandered money on psychics before. For instance she's used them to contact Dean's parents - her dead in laws think that she's great BTW, and glad he finally got rid of Eustace. She's also taken the liberty of contacting bon vivant Ryan O Neal to tell him that Farrah's keeping an eye on him. She started by asking Ryan "Please don't think I'm crazy" Those who know Tori probably already think that. Besides uif she really wanted attention for her book she would've said that she'd been contacted by the spirit of Michael Jackson, wouldn't she?
