It’s Carrie Fisher’s birthday. I saw her one-woman show Wishful Drinking on Broadway last year, and it was fantastic. Based on the book of the same name. I’ve always been a fan. I could listen to her talk for days on end. Strangely enough, there is a Cary Grant anecdote in this clip as well (like the one below with Mel Brooks).
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“Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.” That’s brilliant. She is always such a delightful interview. I think it was on the Bonnie Hunt show where she was talking about her dad leaving Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor…”when her husband died, he consoled her…with his penis.”
hahahahaha
Love Carrie Fisher. LOVE her. It disgusts me how people continue to judge her for not living up to a 30-year-old sexual fantasy (and how creepy is that?), the same fetishization that affected her so strongly in the first place. But I love her so much more now that she speaks her mind and doesn’t try to fit into a system that would just spit her out anyway. Do you ever watch her on Craig Ferguson? She’s at her absolute funniest and right on there.
Jake – I’ve never seen her on Craig Ferguson, I will have to check it out. I adore him. I love her honesty too about how mean people are – the woman is in her 50s. Should she just retire from public life because people refuse to see a woman grow old? Honestly? It’s that offensive? Doesn’t she look like people’s mothers/aunts/teachers? Do we want THEM to be embarrassed about being SEEN because they aren’t 22 anymore? It’s insidious and disgusting and I love how she addresses it – with humor, but always with that BITE.
Her show was so so good. I hope it was taped – I would love to see it broadcast on HBO or something. Maybe that’s already happened and I’m just not aware of it.
I love her words on George Lucas. She says something about how Lucas owns her image, forevermore – “So every morning when I wake up and look at myself in the mirror, I have to send George a couple of bucks.”
By the way, Jake – not to change topics – but I absolutely loved your recent review of Shirin. I avoided your review of Certified Copy because I want to see it first – but I, too, was haunted by Shirin. I had this epic response to it. If you’re interested, here’s my review: http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=26991
Thanks for your review – I haven’t seen many other reviews out there of the film (granted, I haven’t looked that much), but yours was fantastic.
I was going to provide links for Craig earlier but I realized I lost track of time and had a class so I scrammed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmWFoWDSAgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEeGgQ6dYsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NwzD2pEBQ
All of Stephen Fry’s incredible documentary on bipolarity used to be on YouTube, and I’ve found it a few places online, but his interview with Fisher can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtSVbAMrMDI
Oh, and the legendary George Lucas roast. Her comment about George Lucas’ facial expressions kills me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ97s396kb0&feature=channel