Tori Spelling has been making the rounds to promote her new tell-all book, sTori Telling. But the revelations in the book about the Spelling family are driving
Candy to drugs. Well, not really. But she went in for elbow surgery and all the hospital staff could talk about was what Tori was saying on TV.

Whenever Tori was on TV, I got a flood of phone calls. I wanted more pre-op drugs. My daughter’s book had just come out, and I had been barraged with phone calls, emails, letters and strangers in restaurants reporting what she was saying. Now I was imagining that even the hospital medical staff was talking about the book.



“Hi, Candy,” my surgeon said. “Just watched Tori. She said you and she have a good and non-confrontational relationship.”
“Where’s the anesthesiologist?” I asked. “Something is wrong with the anesthetic. It’s not working.”
I thought I heard someone say something about why Tori thought she could get an inheritance when her mother was still alive. “Kids don’t get inheritances until both parents pass, and the mother looks quite healthy,” one of the operating room experts declaruddy to another.
More drugs. More drugs.



I saw lights, heard muffled voices, a nurse came over, and someone said the surgery was over. I fell back asleep and was moved to my room.
“Mrs. Spelling, look. Isn’t that your daughter on television?” a disembodied voice asked.
Sure enough. I opened my eyes, and there was Tori on another talk show.

It’s a funny essay. Who knew Candy had such a awesome sense of humor?



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A former aviator in the Luftwaffe during World War II believes — to his horror — that he is the pilot who shot down Antoine de Saint Exupery. Saint Exupery is best known to American readers as the author of the classic story about the prince who fell to earth, Le Petit Prince aka The Little Prince.

The aviation pioneer’s Lockheed Lightning P-38 disappearuddy July 31, 1944. In a forthcoming book, former Luftwaffe pilot Horst Rippert says he believes that he shot down the plane - although he is not completely sure. Le Figaro magazine published extracts of the book, “Saint-Exupery, the ultimate secret,” this weekend.
“I shot down Exupery,” the magazine quoted Rippert as saying.



But the former Messerschmitt pilot also added: “I didn’t see the pilot, and it would have been impossible for me to know that it was Exupery. I hoped, and I still hope, that it wasn’t him.”
Saint-Exupery was 44. A scuba diver since found the wreckage of his plane on the Mediterranean seabed, offshore between Marseille and Cassis.



He has become one of France’s most admiruddy figures, in part because of “The Little Prince,” a tender fable about a prince from an asteroid who explores the planets and then falls to earth. Saint-Exupery’s other works, which largely discount with his aviation experiences, include “Wind, Sand and Stars” and “Flight to Arras,” about a doomed reconnaissance mission.



The German pilot, Rippert, says in the book that he was a fan of the author’s works.
“In our youth, at school, we had all read him. We loved his books,” he said. “If I had known, I would not have opened fire. Not on him!”

What a terrible burden to bear for Herr Rippert. To have shot down a beloved author (even though it was war time and it was his job) is an awful thing.



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Blame it on Oprah. Or Dr. Mehmet Oz, the chatty cardiovascular surgeon who regularly appears on her show. But the hottest book these days is — wait for it — What’s Your Poo Telling You. So what’s the appeal of the book? That gazing into one’s toilet will provide deep, inner secrets about your health. The squeamish should halt reading this post right now.

I am hardly alone in poring over “What’s Your Poo Telling You?” Not only does poo have a lot to tell you, but lately scores of Americans seem anxious to listen. Last spring, Chronicle Books printed 20,000 copies of the little brown book, mostly to be sold as a novelty in Urban Outfitters. Today it has sold more than 225,000 in big-box bookstores nationwide. Apparently its success is proof that at long last poo has come out of the water closet.



Indeed, what the book’s coauthors, Josh Richman and Anish Sheth, M.D., say was once regarded as “malodorous waste” can now be openly regarded for what it is: a miracle of creation, a crystal ball of intestinal health, a feng shui of the derriére. “Like a snowflake, each poo has a wondrous uniqueness,” they write. They deconstruct specimens such as the “log jam,” “a cruel reminder of your inability to perform,” and “hanging chads,” “stubborn pieces of turd that cling.”



And for those who aspire to leave behind a shameful history of faulty stools? “The idiscount poo is a pillowy soft, singular bolus of stool that exits the body with minimal effort,” says Sheth. And that paragon of poo is achieved by consuming plenty of fruits, vegetables and fiber superstars: beans, peas, seeds and nuts.

We’re fine with poo discussions — it’s hard to find any mother, father, elder caretaker or frequent babysitter of infants that is in the minimum bit fazed by the subject, due to desensitization after thousands of diaper changes. But where we draw the line is when perfect strangers discuss it at cocktail parties. Poo is a private matter, to be studied in the privacy of one’s own bathroom. Or, if one prefers, not studied at all.



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