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'There may be some things wrong with her," says Aaron, "but not as far as I'm concerned'
A SAILOR is tried on by Carolyn who can afford lots of hats since her husband has become one of Hollywood's foremost scriptwriters.
"Then out of a clear blue sky," Aaron still enshrines the moment, "Carolyn looked at me and blurted out, 'Jeepers, what could you get out of it?' We'd been fighting tooth and nail, and then that! I realized that her concern was not because it was me. It just didn't seem fair to Carolyn."
That unexpected shaft of integrity — if not tenderness — about took all the fight out of Aaron. From that point on, Jones wasn't just moseying into his life. She was galloping.
BEFORE THE night was over the sworn enemies gave up swearing for endearments. Carolyn's date and Aaron's date had early calls, so she dropped them off first. As she started to take Spelling home in her car, he asked if she would mind stopping by at the drugstore at Sunset and Vine so he could get some pipe tobacco.
"We started going home," he picks it up from there, "and got to talking. We drove and drove, and finally we were at the beach. It was the first time I saw it because I'd never had a car that would drive that far. We took off our shoes, and sat on the sand, and just talked. Before we knew it, it was
6:30 in the morning! We talked about everything — dreams, families, our innermost thoughts. I'd never talked to anyone like that."
Outside his place, Aaron got out of Carolyn's car and said. "You know something? I think I'm going to marry you."
"You want to know something?" Carolyn said very seriously. "I think you will."
And so — without a cent to their collective name or a nickel's worth of future — they were married. They parlayed their love and their talent from a tiny bachelor honeymoon flat to their present brand new $133,000 mansion in Royal Oaks, which Aaron proudly quotes Carolyn describing as "Grecian modern furnished in early American money, with wall-to-wall scripts." But what has happened to Aaron Spelling since Jones came along cannot be measured in mere real estate.
At SMU Aaron was the only American college student outside of Eugene O'Neill ever to win the Harvard One-Act Plav Award for two years running. However, after the Dallas Morning News refused him a job as a college reviewer and Hollywood exhibited a disturbing determination to struggle along
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