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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarrie Fisher suggested a line for her own obituary. Even through my tears, she can make me smile
From her 2008 memoir 'Wishful Drinking':
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braddy
(3,585 posts)Siwsan
(26,278 posts)She was a real treasure.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)CF: "Don't all these ships have artificial gravity? There are no zero-g scenes in this script."
GL: "Ummm, we cut those for budget? But we still want 'authentic'!"
CF: "'Authentic, riiiiight."
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)when they were in the trash chute. White dresses with no undergarments and lots of water- yeah, Lucas wanted a peep show.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Gothmog
(145,376 posts)I love this story. Thanks for posting
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)I was in a Hilton Hotel executive lounge drinking wine and had to get up and leave because I was a blubbering mess of tears. I had heard she was stricken on a flight from London to LA and worried. When I saw that she didn't survive, I was a mess.
R.I.P. Princess Lea. God, 2016 will you just end already please. You've taken so many greats this year, and George Michael just yesterday. Fuck. Us. Glenn Fry was the first on Jan 18th. Fuck.
Siwsan
(26,278 posts)It isn't as if I didn't expect this - you can get your hopes up but I have enough of a medical back ground to have figured out this wouldn't end well. But that makes it no less painful.
It has just been a relentless year. David Bowie and Alan Rickman, at the beginning, Prince, my beloved Leon Russell, and now Carrie Fisher, with so many, in between.
I thought that after all of my losses in 2015, I would have time to heal. This year has been one stunning blow, right after another. I feel absolutely drained.
damnit and I've had enough of this. Florence Henderson, just to mention one of so freaking many...gaaa. make it stop.
Siwsan
(26,278 posts)So many people I spent my childhood and adolescence watching and listening to.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)lostnfound
(16,186 posts)niyad
(113,471 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Ms. Fisher was known to be a top flight "script doctor;" someone you called in when the shooting script went sideways in mid-production.
iluvtennis
(19,864 posts)...this weekend.
This is doubly sad as nature never intended for children to go before parents.
Be gone 2016....
Siwsan
(26,278 posts)But if she had gone without breathing past that small window of opportunity, she may have already suffered significant brain damage.
It is so heartbreaking to think of poor Debbie Reynolds. I'm glad she still has her son and no doubt all of Hollywood will rally around her, in support.