# Eddie Fisher dead at age 82

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 24, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871 "2010-09-24T13:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871/1 "2010-09-24T13:27:36Z")

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[Cite](http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1648615/20100924/story.jhtml)

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.

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**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871/2 "2010-09-24T14:07:38Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871/3 "2010-09-24T23:45:39Z")

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He was very big during his time. He was a very good singer.

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eddie-fisher-dead-at-age-82/554871/4 "2010-09-24T23:53:02Z")

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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!