Just a Simple Girl with a Dream

*Is that what this show is called?  (I’m sorry, I’m in a terrible mood; read the post above this one).

You all know how much I love STORITelling so I was all about the new season of Tori and Dean: Come Fly with Us or whatever they’re calling it now.  Let’s be honest, my life is in shambles and it’s summer so all I have to watch are my stories and Dean and Tori house hunt.  Previously, Tori and Dean ran Ye Old Plot Contrivance Inn, a charming bed and breakfast away from the big city, but now they’re back in Hollywood to make the big bucks.  That brings me to a good point that I always like to make when people dismiss Miss Spelling: the girl knows how to hustle.  Seriously, she may not be cranking out bad Movies of the Week anymore, but she works it.  She’s got the jewelery line, the reality show, the book, the dreaded 90210 spinoff and countless other side projects plus the $50 she inherited from Aaron.  And Dean…well, Dean scuba dives and makes movies with Ving Rhames.  For those of you that watched this (I’m looking at you JMTIV), how many times did Dean say some variation of “I’m making a movieWITH VING RHAMES!!!!” The sad thing was is that it took me a while to realize he said “Ving Rhames” and not “Vin Diesel”.  For real, the “Ving Rhames”, star of all the Mission: Impossible movies and the guy who gave his Golden Globe to an embarrassed Jack Lemmon. 

Anyway, Tori, Dean and Little Liam are living somewhere in Los Angeles, which could mean anywhere from Marina del Rey to the Hollywood Hills.  In this particular episode, we learn that the lease on their home is up in 30 days and they can either buy or move out.  Since Dean is filming (you guessed it! A MOVIE WITH VING RHAMES), Tori goes into meltdown mode since she has to find a new house on her own while pregnant.  To compound matters, her friend Suzanne comes over and tells Tori that Candy Spelling and Tori’s ex-husband Charlie may not be happy with the way they are portrayed in Tori’s book.  (Seriously people, this book is gold.  I read it two days!  Again, not enough 90210 gossip which disappointed me at first, but I loved the Tori and Dean romance.  Sure, a lot can be made out of the fact that they were married to other people, but since I have no love life and love romance novels and soap operas, I totally bought into their “truly, madly, deeply, made for each other” business. ) 

I’m getting ahead of myself, let’s go back to the landlord business.  The whole thing very much reminds me of when I lived in Los Angeles (with LB, Lance Woodward Spencer and Dr. T. Lex Rutherford, Esq) and our landlord would come over constantly and show our townhome.  He was so slimy and sleezy and would always say things like “it’s so nice that you’re such great tenants because I could get so much more money for this place!” Of couse, after a year and a half he sold the building and no, not to Amanda Woodward and her crooked father, Palmer.  So we were unceremoniously kicked out and I began what I like to call my “Self Pity Tour” which is currently on it’s second state.  Back to Tori.  Suzanne thinks it’s unfair that the landlord is only giving T&D 30 days to move and asks if he has another tenant in mind.  Oh snap!  So long story short, they don’t have the cash to buy the place and have to move for the sixth (sixth!) time in two years. (Again, this is detailed in her book. And worth every penny.)

Oh I almost forgot!  Tori goes to the doctor and finds out she is having a girl…which is anticlimactic since Tori gave birth like a week ago.  Still, this was a very emotional experience for her since she has a very troubled relationship with Candy.  A complicated relationship that involved lots of Madame Alexander dolls (I always hated those!) and gift wrapping.  (Again…in the book!)