Now actors and actress wrote books, an act you gotta seat on your butt for a long time, habit not much in their blood. With $1 billion gross-income from Star Wars VII, force awakens, I read about Carrie Fisher, being surprised to see she wrote five books.
I contributed that $1B Star Wars The Force Awakens
1) Though I's warned that beloved character Han Solo (Harrison Ford, my favorite) got killed, I's still shocked by the scene, over the bridge, Han Solo was lightsaber-sword-through-heart by his-and-Princess-Leia's son, Kylo Ren. in particular in soul-warming atmosphere Dad Han Solo walked on the bridge showing love to his son and asking him to come back to Dad and Mom. So sad and shocked by dark force.
2) I couldn't match the handsome face Han solo on aged face Harrison Ford, although still in good shape at 85. Neither could I find any reassemblance of beautiful young face of Princess Leia, on whom many my boomer friends had crusch growing up, with current Carrie Fisher act.
3) As in the end, Rey follows with R2-D2 and Chewbacca to an island on a distant planet. She finds Luke and offers him his lightsaber, signalling next episode, Luke will train Rey to be a Jedi. More lightsaber fights to be seen.
This is just wonderful to watch. What an incredible moment in time this video captured - Carrie Fisher is so young but you can totally see her sharp wit and intelligence peeking out that now defines her. Thank you for posting this! THIS is why I luvs the internet :-)
Carrie Fisher poses for photographers with a dog upon arrival at the European premiere of the film 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' in London, Dec. 16, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
12/30/2015
Carrie Fisher of Star Wars Responds to Criticism on Twitter
AmericanactressCarrieFisher is mostfamous for herrole as PrincessLeia in the StarWarsmovies. During the 1970s and 1980s, she starred in the filmsalongsideactorsHarrisonFord and MarkHamill.
This year, the threereunited for StarsWars: The ForceAwakens.
Fans of the filmseagerlyawaited the trio’s return to the bigscreen. Fans and moviecriticshaveapplauded the latestStarWarsfilm. But on socialmedia, a majortopic has been CarrieFisher’s physicalappearance in the film.
Fisher was only 21 when the firstStarWarsmovie was released in 1977. She is now 59 yearsold. On Twitter, somefanscriticizedherappearance in the latestmovie, and said the star had not “agedwell.”
On Tuesday, Fisherresponded to the criticism. She tweeted: “Pleasestopdebatingaboutwhether or not I agedwell. Unfortunately it hurtsall 3 of myfeelings. Mybody hasn’t agedwell as I have…”
She alsoretweeted a message from a supporter that read: “Men don’t agebetterthanwomen, they’re justallowed to age.”
Fisher’s ownresponse to the criticism has been retweetedmorethan 38,000 times.
Fisherspeaksoftenabout the difficulties of aging in Hollywood. In an interview this yearwith a Britishmagazine, she said, “I'm in a businesswhere the onlything that matters is weight and appearance. That is somessedup.”
SupportershaveappreciatedFisher’s honesty in recentinterviews and on Twitter. TwitteruserJCKNNwrote: “Everyinterview I'veseenwithCarrieFisher for The ForceAwakens has been puregold. She's just the best.”
? And that’s What’s TrendingToday.
I’m JonathanEvans.
AshleyThompsonwrote this report. HaiDo was the editor.
When Fisher was two, her parents divorced after her father left Reynolds for her best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, the widow of her father's best friend Mike Todd. The following year, her mother married shoe store chain owner Harry Karl, who secretly spent Reynolds's life savings. Fisher attended Beverly Hills High School, but she left to join her mother on the road. She appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973), which starred her mother.
In 1973, Fisher enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months. She made her film debut in the ColumbiacomedyShampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant and Jack Warden as her character's parents. In 1977, Fisher starred as Princess Leia in George Lucas's science-fiction film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.[5] At the time, she believed the script for Star Wars was fantastic, but did not expect many people to agree with her, and though her fellow actors were not close at the time, they bonded after the commercial success of the film.[6] The huge success of Star Wars made her internationally famous and the character of Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; small plastic action figures of the Princess were in toy stores throughout the Western world.
In April 1978, she appeared as the love interest in Ringo Starr's 1978 TV special Ringo.[7][8] The next month, she appeared alongside John Ritter (who had also appeared in Ringo) in the ABC-TV film Leave Yesterday Behind, as a horse trainer who helps Ritter's character after an accident leaves him a paraplegic. At this time, Fisher appeared with Laurence Olivier and Joanne Woodward in the anthology series Laurence Olivier Presents in a television version of the William Inge play Come Back, Little Sheba. That November, she appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV film, Star Wars Holiday Special, and showed off her singing talent in the last scene.
Fisher later appeared in The Blues Brothers film as Jake's vengeful ex-lover; she is listed in the credits as "Mystery Woman". While in Chicago filming the movie, her life was saved by Dan Aykroyd when she was choking on a Brussels sprout and he performed the Heimlich maneuver on her.[9] She appeared on Broadway in Censored Scenes from King Kong in 1980. That year, she reprised her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and appeared as herself with her Star Wars costars on the cover of the June 12, 1980 issue of Rolling Stone to promote the film.[10] She also appeared in the Broadway production of Agnes of God in 1982.
In 1987, Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge. The book was semi-autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized and satirized real-life events such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s and her relationship with her mother. It became a bestseller, and she received the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel. Also during 1987, she was in the Australian film The Time Guardian. In 1989, Fisher played a major supporting role in When Harry Met Sally, and in the same year, she appeared with Tom Hanks as his wife in The 'Burbs.
In the film Scream 3 (2000), Fisher played an actress mistaken for Carrie Fisher. In 2001, Fisher played a nun in the Kevin Smith comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. She also co-wrote the TV comedy film These Old Broads (2001), of which she was also co-executive producer. It starred her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as well as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Shirley MacLaine. In this, Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds's character, an actress, that she was in an alcoholic blackout when she married the actress's husband, "Freddy".
Fisher also voices Peter Griffin's boss, Angela, on the animated sitcom Family Guy and appeared in a book of photographs titled Hollywood Moms (2001) for which she wrote the introduction. Fisher published a sequel to Postcards,The Best Awful There Is, in 2004. In August 2006, Fisher appeared prominently in the audience of the Comedy Central's Roast of William Shatner. In 2007, she was a full-time judge on FOX's filmmaking-competition reality television series On the Lot.
Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play Wishful Drinking at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from November 7, 2006, to January 14, 2007.[18] Her show played at the Berkeley Repertory Theater through April 2008,[19] followed by performances in San Jose, California, in July 2008, Hartford Stage in August 2008[20] before moving on to the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., in September 2008[21] and Boston[22] in October 2008. Fisher published her autobiographical book, also titled Wishful Drinking, based on her successful play in December 2008 and embarked on a media tour. On April 2, 2009, Fisher returned to the stage with her play at the Seattle Repertory Theatre with performances through May 9, 2009.[23] On October 4, 2009, Wishful Drinking then opened on Broadway in New York at Studio 54 and played an extended run until January 17, 2010.[24][25] In December 2009, Fisher's audiobook recording of her best-selling memoir, Wishful Drinking, earned her a nomination for a 2009 Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.[26]
Fisher joined Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne on Saturday evenings for The Essentials with informative and entertaining conversation on Hollywood's best films. She guest-starred in the episode titled "Sex and Another City" from season 3 of Sex and the City with Sarah Jessica Parker. This episode also featured Vince Vaughn, Hugh Hefner, and Sam Seder in guest roles. On October 25, 2007, Fisher guest-starred as Rosemary Howard on the second season episode of 30 Rock called "Rosemary's Baby", for which she received an Emmy Award[27] nomination. Her last line in the show was a spoof from Star Wars: "Help me Liz Lemon, You're my only hope!" On April 28, 2008, she was a guest on Deal or No Deal. In 2008, she also had a cameo as a doctor in the Star Wars-related comedy Fanboys.
In 2010, HBO aired a feature-length documentary based on a special live performance of Fisher's Wishful Drinking stage production.[28] Fisher also appeared on the seventh season of Entourage in the summer of 2010.[28]
In August 2013, she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.
In June 2014, she filmed an appearance on the UK comedy panel show QI. It was broadcast on December 25, 2014.[29] In 2015 she starred alongside Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe, a six-part comedy series for the British Channel 4[30] that aired in the UK from 19 January 2015.
In an interview posted March 2013, Fisher said she would reprise her role as Princess Leia in Episode VII of the series, "Elderly. She’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle."[31] After other media outlets reported this on March 6, 2013, her representative said the same day Fisher was joking and nothing has been announced.[32]
On January 21, 2014, in an interview with TV Guide, Carrie Fisher confirmed her involvement and the involvement of the original cast in the upcoming sequels by saying "as for the next Star Wars film, myself, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are expected to report to work in March or April. I'd like to wear my old cinnamon buns hairstyle again but with white hair. I think that would be funny."[33]
In March 2014, Fisher stated that she was moving to London for six months because that was where filming would take place.[34]
Fisher dated musician Paul Simon from 1977 until 1983. In 1980 she was briefly engaged to Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd, who proposed on the set of their film The Blues Brothers. She said: "We had rings, we got blood tests, the whole shot. But then I got back together with Paul Simon."[35] Fisher was married to Simon from August 1983 to July 1984, and they dated again for a time after their divorce. During their marriage, she appeared in Simon's music video for the song "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War". Simon's song "Hearts and Bones" is about their relationship.[36]
Subsequently, she had a relationship with Creative Artists Agency principal and talent agentBryan Lourd. They had one child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992). Eddie Fisher states in his autobiography (Been There Done That) his granddaughter's name is Catherine Fisher Lourd and her nickname is "Billy". The couple's relationship ended when Lourd left to be in a relationship with another man. Though Fisher has described Lourd as her second husband in interviews, according to a 2004 profile of the actress and writer, she and Lourd were never legally married.[37]
Fisher also had a close relationship with James Blunt. While working on his album Back to Bedlam in 2003, Blunt spent much of his time at Fisher's residence. When Vanity Fair's George Wayne asked Fisher if their relationship was sexual, she replied: "Absolutely not, but I did become his therapist. He was a soldier. This boy has seen awful stuff. Every time James hears fireworks or anything like that, his heart beats faster, and he gets 'fight or flight.' You know, he comes from a long line of soldiers dating back to the 10th century. He would tell me these horrible stories. He was a captain, a reconnaissance soldier. I became James’s therapist. So it would have been unethical to sleep with my patient."[5]
On February 26, 2005, R. Gregory "Greg" Stevens, a lobbyist, was found dead in Fisher's California home. The final autopsy report lists the cause of death as "cocaine and oxycodone use" but adds chronic, and apparently previously undiagnosed, heart disease as contributing factors. Media coverage of an initial autopsy report used the word "overdose," but that wording is not in the final report.[38] In an interview, Fisher claimed that Stevens's ghost haunted her mansion, which unsettled her: "I was a nut for a year", she explained, "and in that year I took drugs again."[5]
Fisher has described herself as an "enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God".[39] She was raised Protestant,[2] but often attends Jewish services, the faith of her father, with Orthodox friends.[40] She was a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, Inc. television ads that aired in January 2011.[41]
Fisher has publicly discussed her problems with drugs, her struggle with bipolar disorder, and her overcoming an addiction to prescription medication, most notably on ABC's 20/20 and The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive with Stephen Fry for the BBC. She discussed her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking and various topics in it with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on December 10, 2008, and also revealed that she would have turned down the role of Princess Leia had she realized it would give her the celebrity status that made her parents' lives difficult.[42] This interview was followed by a similar appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on December 12, 2008, where she discussed her electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments.[43] She has said that she receives ECT every six weeks to "blow apart the cement" in her brain.[44]
While she was in Sydney, Australia, Fisher revealed in another interview that she had a cocaine addiction during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back, and also survived an overdose. "Slowly, I realized I was doing a bit more drugs than other people and losing my choice in the matter", she said in an interview.[45][46]
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