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NEWS ABOUT: Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher stories: 5 news summaries
FUNNYWOMAN PROFILE

Just Being Carrie Fisher Is Super-Weird

'You’re supposed to be unusual' in Hollywood: Wishful Drinking author

Sep 28, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carrie Fisher’s shrink told her, “If you worked in a supermarket they would’ve institutionalized you at 20,” she recalls. Not so in Hollywood, where the erstwhile Princess Leia suffered through drug addiction, manic depression, and failed relationships—her own and her parents’. But electroshock therapy helped... More »

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 Jacko Was Devoted 
 Dad: Carrie Fisher 

He was not capable of 'what they accused him of doing'

Jul 8, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was a very good father, though “he was a child himself,” writes friend Carrie Fisher on her website. His kids “are very well behaved, respectful children, who seemed content in Michael’s company.” And though he may not have been a “conventional” parent,... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Star Wars • Michael Jackson • Carrie Fisher • Prince Michael Jackson • Paris Michael Jackson • Blanket Jackson • celebrity death • Prince Michael Jackson II

MOVIE REVIEW

 Women Has Little to Like 

Stale stereotypes abound in update of '30s satire

Sep 12, 08 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - The modern update of 1930s socialite satire The Women is meeting scorn from critics. Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the big-name cast do their best, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone, but they struggle "with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century." More »

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movie review • movies • Carrie Fisher • chick flicks • Meg Ryan

 Leia & Solo's On-Set Romp

Carrie Fisher admits to on-set romance with Harrison Ford

Apr 29, 08 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Princess Leia has finally 'fessed up to some off-camera laser-play with Han Solo during the filming of Star Wars, the Sun reports. "I went on the film saying ‘I’m going to have an affair,’ like it was a kiwi, an exotic fruit," Carrie Fisher tells... More »

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affair • romance • Star Wars • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher

 Talk-Show Format Gets a Bath 

Rub-a-dub-dub with Malkovich just tip of Craig Bierko's Web interview series

Mar 25, 08 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Actor Craig Bierko, in an interview with Newsweek, says his strange, and strangely riveting, web video—in which he gives John Malkovich a sponge bath while engaging in "silly chatter"—is about exposing the weird artificiality of the talk-show format. "It sort of turns up the fake... More »

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online videos • John Malkovich • Craig Bierko • Carrie Fisher • Bette Davis • Unhitched

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