All that success–the Guinness Book of World Records says he created 3,842 hours of television since 1956–naturally made him a fortune. Over the years, Spelling became almost as famous for his wealth as for his programs. He would import snow to Los Angeles so his children, Randy and Tori, could have a white Christmas. And then there was the 123-room, 56,000-square-foot Holmby Hills house, complete with ice-skating rink, bowling alley and a room famously set aside so that Spelling’s wife, Candy, could wrap gifts. Tori, who arguably owed her acting career to her father’s largesse, lampooned the house this year in a comedy series called “So Notorious.” But Spelling, who grew up in Dallas the son of a poor tailor, had the last laugh. He even, finally, won a measure of Hollywood respect when he won an Emmy in 1994 for producing the AIDS TV movie “And the Band Played On.” “Once I got up onstage to accept the Emmy, I took a deep breath and just stood there for a moment, taking in the scene,” Spelling said. “It was like, ‘Hey, Hollywood, take a good look at who got your Emmy! The “Charlie’s Angels” guy!’”
