Excerpts from Carrie Fisher's new book

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/6/08 at 7:55am

My mother came to me and said: 'Dear, I thought instead of you smoking pot where you might get caught and get in trouble - I thought you and I might experiment with it together.'

Oh dear. Can't you imagine Debbie saying that like her character in Mother?

Dad ran off with Liz Taylor, Cary Grant lectured me about drugs, George Lucas ruined my life: The extraordinary autobiography of CARRIE FISHER

[timote316]

Posted: 12/6/08 at 10:01pm

I saw her one-woman show here in Boston about a month or so ago, which the book is based on (or, vise-versa... either one. Same title.), and it was fantastic. The woman commands the stage, and certainly has a story to tell. And the way she tells it? Hysterical.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 2:08pm

I loved her fiction. She has a great Dorothy Parker-ish wit.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 3:19pm

She's so friggin' funny! I love this about "Star Wars" and George Lucas:


"Shortly after I arrived, he gave me this unbelievably idiotic hairstyle. He said in his little voice: 'Well, what do you think of it?'

I was terrified I was going to be fired for being too fat, so I said: 'I love it.' Yeah, right.

When I got this great job to end all jobs, which truly I never thought I would get because there were all these other beautiful girls who were up for the part - Amy Irving, Jodie Foster, Teri Nunn - they told me I had to lose 10lb.

I weighed about 105lb at the time but carried about 50 of those in my face.

So you know what a good idea would be? Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face.

Remember the white dress I wore all through that film? George came up to me the first day of filming, took one look at the dress and said: 'You can't wear a bra under that dress.'

'OK, I'll bite,' I said. 'Why?' And he said: 'Because ... there's no underwear in space.'

He said it with such conviction. Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties anywhere.

He explained. 'You go into space and you become weightless. Then your body expands but your bra doesn't, so you get strangled by your own underwear.'

I think that this would make for a fantastic obituary. I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra."

[nygrl232]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 3:25pm

Somehow I doubt that any of the men in the movie (in other words, 99.99999999% of the cast) went commando.

George Lucas was just a pervoid.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 4:12pm

"Somehow I doubt that any of the men in the movie (in other words, 99.99999999% of the cast) went commando."

I'd imagine not, but it sure is nice to think about...

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:15pm

I'm on the floor at the thought of Lucas telling Fisher that "there are no underwear in space".

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 7:44am

She's going to be on The Today Show this morning.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 8:43am

I just saw the episode of 30 Rock with her in it last night -- "Help me Liz Lemon, you're my only hope!" SO funny.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 9:37am

On a certain rumor about mama Debbie Reynolds:

"My mother isn't a lesbian. She's just a really, really BAD heterosexual!"

[Hiram]

Posted: 12/10/08 at 10:00am

I adore this woman. Does anyone know if she's doing a book signing/discussion in New York City at a Barnes & Noble or anywhere else? Thanks.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/11/08 at 5:41pm

Her reaction to the question about her gay ex-husband..oh man.
Carrie on The Today Show

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/11/08 at 8:12pm

Her one woman show will be her in Seattle in the Spring. I was going to skip it but now I must go! That was one entertaining interview.