Carrie Fisher Dead at 60

[jamo]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/carrie-fisher-dead-star-wars-actress-was-60-959097

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Carrie Fisher, the actress and writer best known for her iconic role as Star Wars’ Princess Leia, died on Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack while onboard a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was 60.

Family spokesperson Simon Halls confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter. 

"It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning. She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly," Halls' statement read. 

A child of Hollywood royalty, Fisher carved out her own idiosyncratic career, enjoying her biggest onscreen popularity as Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy before going on to establish herself as an acerbic, truth-telling writer with such books as Postcards From the Edge. Her HBO special, Wishful Drinking, in which she recounted her unusual life, was nominated for an Emmy as outstanding variety, music and comedy special in 2011.

 

[boogielicious]

Very sad. 

[iacas]

I think I saw it here in a tweet, but yeah… if you did something significant in the 80s, don't leave your house for the next week and have a team of doctors on speed dial.

[djfajt71]

20 minutes ago, iacas said:

I think I saw it here in a tweet, but yeah… if you did something significant in the 80s, don't leave your house for the next week and have a team of doctors on speed dial.

Holy crap, no kidding!  It seems like icons of my youth are dying on a daily basis.

[Yukari]

Wow!  2016 is going out with a Bang!

All these iconic figures dropping at the end of the year.  Geez!

[JetFan1983]

She was also a prolific script doctor and writer herself, editing screenplays for (from wikipedia):

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 Hook(1991), Lethal Weapon 3 and Sister Act (1992), Made in America, Last Action Hero and So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), My Girl 2, Milk Money, The River Wild and Love Affair (1994), Outbreak (1995), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), The Out-of-Towners and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Coyote Ugly and Scream 3 (2000), Kate & Leopold (2001), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), and Intolerable Cruelty (2003), which she had done a rewrite of in 1994 although it's not known if any of her work remained after the Coen brothers rewrote it. Fisher also worked on Mr. and Mrs. Smith^[26] and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).

I'll also miss her for the character Angela on Family Guy. So funny:

 

[Gator Hazard]

What a tragic year. God bless her and the others 2016 chose to take. 

[nevets88]

I never followed her offscreen life, but knew she was a very multifaceted person from the brief excerpts of interviews I watched. Putting Wishful Drinking on the queue. Looks like it's on HBO.

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WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher’s hit stage production of the intoxicating autobiographical tale of her life combines archival footage with her one-woman stage performance, which was taped in June before a live audience.

An actress, screenwriter and bestselling author (“Postcards from the Edge,” “The Best Awful” and “Wishful Drinking”), Carrie Fisher is the daughter of the late singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, known as “America’s Sweethearts” in the late ‘50s. She became a cultural icon at age 19 after starring as Princess Leia in the first “Star Wars” trilogy in the 1970s. Despite growing up with “Hollywood royalty” and experiencing early fame of her own, Fisher’s life had its challenges, as she reveals in this uproarious and sobering account. Combining wry wit and raw facts, WISHFUL DRINKING reveals her own hilarious slant on the not-so-glittering side of being a celebrity. It’s a show where she’s circling the drain singing.

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/wishful-drinking

[jbishop15]

She was a wonderful writer, and a better human being. God, what a tragedy. 

[nevets88]

 

 

[jsgolfer]

Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mom passed away a day after her daughter. 

[CarlSpackler]

5 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mom passed away a day after her daughter. 

I just saw that. Very sad. 

[Ernest Jones]

48 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mom passed away a day after her daughter. 

 

42 minutes ago, CarlSpackler said:

I just saw that. Very sad. 

Heartbreaking. 

[RandallT]

[nevets88]