For nearly two decades’ worth of the life of our culture, Tori Spelling has been apologizing for herself. The actress came to prominence on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the teen soap t…
,” on which cast members return to play themselves, is crueler to no one than to Spelling, who gamely turns in a performance as a warped sort of fame monster, unable to live outside the spotlight but so unwanted by her public that she’s run out of money or options. The show’s engine — the reason the characters reconvene — is the onscreen Spelling’s idea to revive the franchise, sprouting not out of ingenuity but the desperation of a financially strapped mom.
Attempts to self-deprecate coincided with Spelling getting deprecated by the outside world, more harshly each time. During “So Notorious’s” short run, Spelling married her second husband, a match that had been forged shortly after her first wedding; the show’s single season wrapped just before Aaron Spelling died, an event that launched a public drama over how much of his fortune the younger Spelling would inherit.
But if Spelling was expecting only to be asked about the new “BH90210,” she ought to have been prepared; the show is frank about the fictional Spelling’s finding herself the matriarch of a large family with no idea how she’ll pay for the next trunkload of groceries from Gelson’s. Spelling is a producer, here, as she was on “So Notorious” and on “Mystery Girls,” a sitcom in which she re-teamed with “90210’s” Jennie Garth to play detectives.
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