However, by the time Carrie was around two Mike died in a plane crash, and, as Carrie put it, “Naturally my father flew to Elizabeth’s side, gradually making his way slowly to her front. Carrie’s brother Todd was even named after Mike. She jokes in Wishful Drinking that in the delivery room the doctors were so busy staring at gorgeous Debbie Reynolds and nurses so busy ogling handsome Eddie Fisher that she, as a baby, was left virtually unattended.Įddie and Debbie were best friends with fellow Hollywood power couple Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor, to the point that Eddie was Best Man and Debbie Maid of Honor at their wedding. Her father left her mother for Elizabeth Taylor in the breakup heard around the world Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynoldsīorn to America’s sweethearts Eddie Fisher (a famous singer) and Debbie Reynolds (a famous actress known for Singing in the Rain), Carrie’s life was far from normal from the get-go. Turns out, there was much more to learn :ġ. As The Washington Post argued, “Nichols is so focused on Streep almost nothing else seems to matter to him… But while Nichols is servicing his star, he lets the other areas of the film go slack.”īut what do these three different sources of entertainment tell us about Carrie Fisher? That depends on how much you already know about Fisher beforehand, beyond the big stuff like Princess Leia, her being Debbie Reynolds’ daughter, briefly married to Paul Simon in the 80s, struggles with addiction and second-act career as a writer and uncredited Hollywood script doctor (responsible for Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3, The Wedding Singer, among others). Postcards From the Edge, which Fisher adapted from her own novel, feels slightly hamstrung by director Mike Nichols’ own personal vision for the story. Wishful Drinking, adapted from Fisher’s 2008 memoir of the same name, tackles her surprisingly convoluted family history as well as the high and low points of her career and personal life, but it does so in the most ingratiating way possible, leaning on Fisher’s characteristic self-deprecating candor and exceedingly clever turns of phrase. Plus, I somehow stumbled upon an old Lifetime special called Intimate Portraits: Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher (1993).Īll three have their own inherent entertainment value, although Intimate Portraits really, really shows its age (were all TV narrators in 1993 so over the top?). I also watched her semi-autobiographical film and screenwriting debut Postcards From the Edge (1990) which more or less stars Meryl Streep as Fisher (just with a different name) and Shirley MacLaine as Fisher’s mom Debbie Reynolds (again, with a fictional name). Last night, I watched her 2010 one-woman show Wishful Drinking (2010) in which she discusses her life from a stage designed like her own living room. Carrie Fisher is gone, yet I feel as if I’m just now getting to know her.
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