Know as a great singer, for leaving Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor (who left him to marry Richard Burton), and father of “Princess Leia” Carrie Fisher.
ooooh. I just bought Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” and got a kick out of her nickname for her father. I’ll give you a quote from her book:
My father is beyond likeable (sic). I mean you would just love him. My father also smokes four joints a day. Not for medical reasons. So I call him Puff Daddy. But he is just adorable.
RIP.
He was very big during his time. He was a very good singer.
He was a big personality in his day.
My 1 degree of separation: One time I sold him a videotape of one of his own 50s variety shows. I got $25 for it in the 1980s, though it was by mail and I didn’t get to meet him!