I love Carrie Fisher.
Not for what most people love her for, the STAR WARS films, although I love those films and love her in them, but, no, I love her for her writing and her dead on, acid tongued sarcasm.
Carrie, whose parents are Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, earned the highest possible respect in my mind with her book POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, made into an hilarious film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley Maclaine. The writing is precise, funny and insightful, all within the world of self realization and self deprecation that is Fisher’s actual life. Carrie doesn’t shy away from anything in her past or present, discussing at length her somewhat sordid Hollywood family history, only to turn to the topics of her addictions, electro shock therapy and the man she married who left her for another man.
Quite by accident, I just came across WISHFUL DRINKING, which started out as a book, then became a play, which can now be seen on HBO in its filmed incarnation. (Catch a trailer for the HBO show below…) The HBO One Woman show was my introduction to this piece but I intend to buy the book and read it as well. If you have HBO I urge you to check out this brilliantly funny piece of work that brings a movie star born into Hollywood royalty directly down to earth with the rest of us.
Fisher was also just interviewed by The Advocate.
