2016 is a lethal year for celebrities.
Sure hope Reynolds pulls through.
She just completed a documentary with Carrie that will air on HBO in March. It would be tragic if they are both dead then.
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Great line from Twitter:
Now being widely reported that Debbie Reynolds has passed. Wow. Just wow.
Goddammit.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Damn myself for laughing. So funny, but it’s true.
Fuck you 2016
This just in… Yes, Betty White is still breathing.
I was watching Johnny Carson tonight with Carrie Fisher and Garry Shandling. what struck me was how old Fisher looked considering she was promoting the third Star Wars movie. I never thought she looked 19 in the first movie. How fortunate to star in a major motion picture at such a young age.
Forgot how good Shandling was as a standup comedian. 2016 took a pretty big toll on entertainers.
A 20 minute short film from 1999: “Searching for Carrie Fisher.” A couple of friends and film student make a documentary of their ludicrous quest to meet their childhood idol/crush.
Several years ago my (baby boomer) husband worked at a used record store. This was in Chicago, so think High Fidelity, only more cramped and less cool. Occasionally I’d get roped into subbing for him. I’m quite a bit younger and not quite as much of a musicologist. One day this older gentleman came in and asked if we had any albums by… some guy. Making the leap that this was probably a pre rock era singer, I said, “…Uh, maybe in the male vocalists section?” The customer gave me a kids today sort of look and said, “You’ve never heard of him, have you?” He started pulling out all these albums by various obscure male singers, saying, “And I bet you don’t know who this is, either,” and generally he was right. But I could see him getting closer to the Fs, and it was like…wait for it…and finally he pulled out another album with a flourish, and he said, “And I bet you’ve never heard of Eddie Fisher.” I said, “I have too. That’s Princess Leia’s father.” The guy cracked up and bought a bunch of albums. And that’s my Carrie Fisher story.
And Debbie Reynolds was just 19 when she filmed Singin’ in the Rain.
I caught a bit of that show as well; fascinating, knowing what was to follow.
I have a question which I hope won’t ruffle any feathers. Does anyone else see no resemblance between Carrie Fisher from the early-'80s and her more recent appearances? And I don’t mean just the way she looked. I know people age, but there’s usually something that stays familiar over the years; the contours of their smile, the rhythm of their speech, the tempo of their walk, something. I’ve been seeing pictures of Debbie Reynolds recently, and from Singin’ in the Rain up to the very recent pictures she’s still recognizably the same person. It just seems different with her daughter. If I didn’t know it was her, I wouldn’t believe it. Does anyone else feel the same; or for those who don’t is there some moment of unchanging Carrie-ness that stands out?
I know there were hard years for her, and my heart goes out to those who knew her. It sounds like she was happier in recent times, and I’m glad for that.
Debbie Reynolds was Old Time Hollywood. So I believe she had a bit of judicious nipping & tucking done from time to time. Carrie did not–and a lifetime of smoking tobacco is harder on your looks than youthful excesses. Also harder on the heart, alas…
I never really thought of Carrie fisher as particularly good looking but that’s personal preference. Clearly she’s thought of as an attractive icon. I’m just a little surprised at her age. I thought she was closer to 30 when she was 19. She just had a very mature look to her IMO. It seems surreal to have watched the original SW when I was only a few years younger than her. I was just a kid and she’s in a blockbuster movie. Yes she died young but she also had a full life. A lot of actors burn out early and never see the success she experienced.
One of her last appearances, on the 8 out of 10 Cats Christmas episode, recorded a few days before she died: - YouTube
I just finished watching the 1982 Laverne & Shirley episode in which Carrie Fisher appeared. Cindy Williams had left the show, so it was basically Laverne minus Shirley. Fisher was sexy and funny, and she and Penny Marshall had great chemistry together. Fisher also showed off her singing voice, performing My Guy. She was the bright spot in an otherwise mundane episode of a TV series that had long jumped the shark.
Looks like she’d taken cocaine, heroin and MDMA when she died Coroner Found Coke, MDMA, and Heroin in Carrie Fisher's System
That hat trick has to be hard on a 60-year-old with a history of heavy drug abuse. It’s another case of someone mixing uppers and downers, the uppers wearing off first so they no longer counteract the downers which leads to respiratory depression. That seems more plausible as a cause of death than ordinary sleep apnea.
The Force wasn’t with her.