Got to admit, I liked her better in When Harry Met Sally.

Little Al on December 27, 2016 at 9:14 pm

My heart goes out to Carrie’s mother Debbie Reynolds. No one should bury their own child.

Darrellhicks450@ on December 27, 2016 at 11:01 pm

I was thinking of the “live hard, die young” dictum in regards to the death, last New Year’s Eve, of singer Natalie Cole at age 65. She had done drugs big-time (including and especially heroin) at the point of her first flush of fame in the 1970’s, and though she “cleaned up” the next decade, the lingering effects of her past drug abuse ended up catching up with her and she had recurring health problems to the end of her days. And like with Ms. Fisher, given all that, it was a wonder, if nothing short of a miracle, that Ms. Cole had lived as long as she did (even though she did ultimately live some two decades longer than her late father, Nat King Cole).

It was also reminiscent of what Dawn Wells, a.k.a. Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” commented about why more viewers preferred her character over Tina Louise’s Ginger: “Ginger is a one-night stand, while Mary Ann is for a lifetime.” Reading those words brought me back to Debbie’s article and accompanying comments regarding the 2015 Miss Universe pageant where Miss Colombia was deemed “more glamorous” but Debbie predicted she’d lose her looks faster, whereas Miss Philippines was more a “timeless, classic beauty.” Looking at recent photos of the two surviving “Gilligan” cast members seems to bear out Ms. Wells’ observations: The once-and-always Mary Ann has remained a “timeless, classic beauty,” while Ms. Louise . . . well, let’s just say she looks like she’s seen better days. Not unlike Carrie Fisher in her last years.

Concerned Patriot on December 27, 2016 at 11:33 pm

Darrell, I agree. I do feel for Debbie Reynolds, who has to do the last rites for Carrie. RIP, Carrie

Infidel on December 28, 2016 at 12:00 am

Well Deb. Sometimes I forget (So sorry to say!) that you’re younger than me. Consider that a compliment as your wisdom betrays your years.

I was never a Star Wars fan. The movies were OK, but the theme was pretty much “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in Outer Space”… with a few twists in the personalities, gender, race, and all the LIB themes Hollywood force feeds us with.

The special effects were great. The action was great. The personal stories were good, but the overall background story was C-R-A-P! That told me everything I needed to know about Hollywood propaganda. I mean… come on! An emasculated robot, an unintelligible machine, an African-American analog (aka “Wookie”), a woman and ONE white guy defeat “the Third Reich in Outer Space.”

Back then, I was enjoying the brave new technology of VHS and watching MY heroes. REAL heroes named Moe, Larry and Curly. I would rather Moe, Larry and Curly run this country any day over O’Bama, Ryan, and McConnell. Our expectations of of Moe Larry and Curly would be no higher than what O’Bama, Ryan and McConnell delivered. Moe, Larry and Curly would easily out-perform today’s “Three Stooges”.

And perhaps because I’m really feeling my age these days, I still find the chicks on those Stooges flicks pretty hot. (Except for the ones who were deliberately not… and if you look real hard, some of them weren’t so bad either. OK! I told you I’m feeling my age. Hey! You started it! “It also reminds us that we’re all getting older.” Tee hee!)

Anyway, Carrie Fisher’s success and failures were hers to own. Star Wars movies were at best, fun but the story never really seized my attention.

I’d like to see Mel Brooks and George Lucas team up to make a movie. The Three Stooges go to the Moon to run away from the empire to return to the place of their ancestors. Through all their incompetent stumbling and bumbling, the Moon flourishes and becomes an impressive, affluent and livable planet. Darth Vader, Jabah the Hut, Killer Kane, Ming the Mercilless, Kahn, the Klingons, Romulans et al. are jealous. Decade after decade they wage war against the Stooges’ planet but lose every time. No matter how clumsy and stupid the Stooges are, they keep winning these wars of annihilation waged by the mighty and evil coalition of bad-guys. The action is great. The special effects are great. Each movie has the same basic plot: They tried to kill us–we won–lets eat; but the compelling personal stories are different for each movie. Children grow to adults remembering the story of how the Moon was re-born by the Three Stooges and their successors. Lucas and Brooks get rich(er) on the rights to the movies on the claim that the story is their original creation.

Happy Chanukah, Deb.

Regards,

There is NO Santa Claus (AKA TINSC)

P.S. I hope this comment is recognized as satire and that you (and your readers) don’t find it too bizarre.

There is NO Santa Claus on December 28, 2016 at 12:17 am

Carrie Fisher burned herself out and died relatively young as a result Also, she did have the problem of peeking early in her career.

Worry01 on December 28, 2016 at 9:13 am

I was surprised that feminists weren’t upset with the brass bikini or the DOG COLLAR and chains on the Princess.

I then learned that degrading nakedness is empowerment. Ha! No.

ann on December 28, 2016 at 10:25 am

I was surprised by how old she looked for 60. So sad, I feel for her Mother.

Marianne on December 28, 2016 at 12:09 pm

RIP daughter of Padme’and Darth.

Yes, in real life she was more like her father.

Panhandle on December 28, 2016 at 1:31 pm

Wow, she was only 60 when she passed? I remember when I saw “The Force Awakens” last year, I thought she was in her early 70s.

R.I.P. Princess…

Alan on December 28, 2016 at 4:39 pm

She was okay in Star Wars but let fame and fortune get to her head. It really makes me wander how Eddie Fischer and Debbie Reynolds raised her.

Star Wars was good but not great. Jim Caviezel was way better as well as other movies.

When we find out how other galaxies live, this movie will be a sham.

Confederate on December 28, 2016 at 6:37 pm

Now her mom is dead. The death of a child is a terrible thing for a parent to bear, no matter how old.

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on December 28, 2016 at 9:08 pm

Yeah, Debbie Reynolds has died as well. I had a hunch that that might happen, due to the shock. Hope that she’s re-united w/ her daughter – it’s awful that she had to go through this experience

Infidel on December 28, 2016 at 9:38 pm

Unless Carrie Fisher made her peace with G_d Almighty, she will neither rest or have peace. I hated to see her pass on, but ………

William on December 28, 2016 at 9:40 pm

The fact of Ms. Reynolds’ dying the day after her daughter, is one of those matters of timing that are eerie in one way or another. One ironic coincidence of timing occurred over Christmas Day when ex-Wham! frontman and then solo artist George Michael (who could be seen as another symbol of the debasement of Western culture, with material like “I Want Your Sex”) died, from heart failure at his home in England at age 53 – seven years and one day after same-named U.S. sportscaster (and ex-radio disc jockey) George Michael, whose syndicated “Sports Machine” was a forerunner to ESPN’s “Sports Center,” passed away.

ConcernedPatriot on December 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm

Debbie Reynolds dying like two days or so (or less) after her daughter is not a meaningless coincidence. It broke her and she died as a consequence. She did not want to outlive her daughter, and so she died.

I can’t believe that Carrie Fischer was already 60, I wouldn’t say it’s young, not old, but not young. I mean like Debbie I remember her from Star Wars when we were kids (Debbie and I are about the same age), and she was just a youngster of course, 21 when Star Wars came out. How could she be 60?!!! Where does the time go? I can’t believe people born in 1990 are already 26, doesn’t seem possible. Debbie is right, there is no time to waste.

Lawrence on December 29, 2016 at 3:12 am

‘Daughter, dear daughter,’ old Lucretius cries,
‘That life was mine which thou hast here deprived.
If in the child the father’s image lies,
Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived?
Thou wast not to this end from me derived.
If children predecease progenitors,
We are their offspring, and they none of ours.

‘Poor broken glass, I often did behold
In thy sweet semblance my old age new born;
But now that fresh fair mirror, dim and old,
Shows me a bare-boned death by time out-worn:
O, from thy cheeks my image thou hast torn,
And shivered all the beauty of my glass,
That I no more can see what once I was!

William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

I thought of poor Debbie Reynolds, and how hard it must be to lose a child when you’re that old, even before I checked the Internet news page and found out that she had died, killed by the death of her daughter. Carrie Fisher’s death didn’t bother me that much. Debbie Reynolds’s death made me want, not to cry, but to vomit.My heart goes out to her surviving family, and may she and her daughter both rest in peace.

I remember Carrie Fisher, as Princess Leia, in the first STAR WARS film, before the drugs and the nervous breakdowns and the love affairs and the illegitimate daughter. I did a paper, for a film course at college, on the reasons for the success of the first STAR WARS film. I remeber reading an interview that she did, I think for The New York Times, in which she didn’t talk about drugs or bipolar disorder or her illegitimate daughter, she talked about playing Princess Leia. She was so young, so talented, so beautiful. What a wasted life.

Miranda Rose Smith on December 29, 2016 at 5:00 am

I’d agree there was nothing coincidental in the timing of the successive deaths of Ms. Fisher and Ms. Reynolds; in the latter case, though the medical cause of her death was a stroke, some have suggested the real cause, as ‘Lawrence’ hinted, was a broken heart over the former’s. I simply said the timing was eerie, no coincidence about it. Such a phenomenon (of one relative dying almost immediately after the other) is far more common than people think, especially after they reach a certain age.

But the two different George Michaels, seven years (and one day) apart – now that’s another kettle o’ fish . . .

ConcernedPatriot on December 29, 2016 at 8:21 am

I know that I said that I’d see you guys at the beginning of the year but this post bears commenting. I’ve been a Star Wars fan since 1977 when as a little boy I went to see my first movie with the family. I thought that Princess Leia was very was a good character and for an 8 year old at the time she added excitement to the story. By the time Return of the Jedi came I found that she was very pretty and unlike Steve Martin I’m not ashamed to say it. The feminazi can go take a long hike off a short cliff for how they treated him about his tweet. And speaking of friends. If you have any or relatives that are on drugs please do what you can to get them help. Ms. Fisher had a well documented problem with drug use and it took it’s toll on her body and mind. She looked 10 years older than her 60 years at the time of her death. Drugs do you no good as I had an uncle die young because he couldn’t shake a cocaine habit. It is also said that her mother Debbie Reynolds also died not long after. She was a great star in her on right and I still have the VHS tape with her and the fabulous Gene Kelly and Don O’Connor. Back to her daughter. Ms. Fisher proved that even if you’re born with a silver spoon (in her case being acting royalty) what you do with your life is your choice. Those choices have lasting consequences and if you choose to do drugs it could ruin your life. It can also have an affect on those that you leave behind. In this case Fisher’s daughter and her brother. I do wish her God speed and that she finally rests in peace along with her mother.

Ken B on December 30, 2016 at 9:41 am

I thought Carrie looked pretty good for 60. I’m almost 66, and my friends and I are all showing the nicks and dings of life – whether we indulged in various chemicals or not.

In addition to the barely-disguised tell-all novels, Ms. Fisher also worked as a ‘script doctor’. She was more than her addiction battles, her mental health issues, or her more lurid episodes. Consider that at least some of the sexual escapades were manifestations of her emotional instability.

LindaF on January 3, 2017 at 1:18 pm

Actually Debbie, in “Return of the Jedi”, where Leia is Jaba’s “slave”, Leia has allowed herself to be captured in order to help free Han Solo.

Leia is never actually a slave nor a damsel in distress, she’s “undercover”.

You might want to rethink that part of your blog post.

FisherKing on January 9, 2017 at 1:42 am